I’m in Hollywood

As a very common entertainment activity in life, Americans have a very mature movie-watching mentality. They only choose to watch movies based on their personal hobbies and movie reputation. The key factor in the success or failure of a movie at the box office is always the quality of the movie, which has little to do with whether the production budget is huge. Throat Island, Future Water World and other films, despite spending jaw-dropping production budgets, still suffered from box office fiasco.

Before the release of Titanic, although there was no lack of positive comments, the media was almost one-sided about the film's box office prospects, which subtly created a feeling in the public's mind that this is another movie as worthless as Future Water World. A latent impression of an expensive, crappy movie to watch.

The $1.56 million midnight opening is only one-third the size of last month's Mission: Impossible 2 and even less than Paramount's Star Trek: First Contact a week earlier. There is no doubt that the tepid pre-screening word-of-mouth and the lengthy length of the film have prevented most interested audiences from braving the deep winter cold and staying in the midnight cinema for three hours.

However, the next day, although there was no dramatic reversal in the media's reputation for Titanic, audiences who were interested in the film gradually began to enter the cinema.

Manhattan, New York.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Simon Peck lined up in the box office of the Paris Cinema on 58th Street near Central Park, listening to the crowd around him who also came to watch the movie whispering about the latest release.

Simon Peck is not a movie fan, he doesn't even like watching movies very much, or rather, doesn't have that time. As a professional elite who just jumped to Lehman Brothers as a financial analyst, he came from a low-level family in the United States, and in order to get rid of his poor life, he devoted almost all his energy to his studies and work in these years, even at this time, because of the Colombian businessman. He also has more than 30,000 US dollars in student loans from the bank.

However, after jumping from the original private investment company and taking a position with an annual salary of $68,000 at Lehman Brothers, the pressure on him has finally eased over the years. A few months ago, he was introduced by a friend. A good girlfriend named Charlotte Davis, who was pulled over today by this girlfriend who likes to watch movies.

When it was his turn, Simon Peck handed over the change, asked the conductor for a movie ticket for Titanic, turned and walked towards his waving girlfriend.

Hey baby, I just heard people talk about it, this movie doesn't seem to be that good, and it's too long, three hours, Simon Peck raised to Charlotte, who was holding two buckets of popcorn. With the movie ticket in hand, he said with a bit of exhortation.

Charlotte Davies also doesn't like disaster movies, but who makes this a movie that Eric Williams strongly supports.

That chance encounter was the deepest little secret in the hearts of Charlotte and her best friend Alice, and neither of the two girls easily told others. However, because of the chance encounter that year, the two of them will always subconsciously pay attention to Eric's various trends in Hollywood, and will also subconsciously support the films that Eric values. So far, she has not been disappointed, so, occasionally Disappointment once is a good experience.

Just in time for the Christmas holidays, Alice returns to Colorado to spend Christmas with her parents, and Charlotte can only watch the movie with her new boyfriend.

At this moment, listening to Simon Peck's words, Charlotte rolled her eyes gently, with a smile on her lips, and asked, Then, what movie do you think we should watch?

Simon Peck opened his mouth subconsciously, but did not name any movie for a while. Charlotte knew that her new boyfriend was almost a movie idiot, so he laughed, ignoring his embarrassment, The bucket of popcorn stuffed into his arms and said, Okay, let's go in, it's about to start.

Although it was prime time and it was the first day of the release of Titanic, the auditorium still seemed a little deserted. In the end, less than half of the auditorium that could accommodate 100 people was seated. Charlotte brought her own The movie idiot boyfriend chose the seat and sat down. The audience around them were chatting softly. They could also hear the girl in the front row of a couple who looked like middle school students complaining to her boyfriend that he should not choose this movie. The boy seemed to be Die-hard fans of the Terminator series, when talking to the girl, said that this is just to support their idols.

Charlotte can imagine that most of the audience in the screening hall at this time was either to support a big director like Cameron, or because of the $215 million investment in the film, or simply because of the overwhelming publicity of the Firefly Group. I just chose this movie. Maybe, the people who are really interested in the movie are not even one-third.

Most movie theaters will have a trailer of about fifteen minutes before showing the feature film. But it may be because of the long duration of Titanic itself, this time the trailer is only five minutes, and the animated logo of the firefly girl releasing fireflies soon appeared on the screen.

The film begins with treasure-hunting explorer Brock Lovett's scavenger hunt for the Titanic, and most viewers are immediately aware that the film uses flashbacks.

Westerners generally have a very strong treasure hunt complex. Therefore, this plot did not arouse too many people's disgust. Most people in the screening hall watched it with relish, and almost no one thought this plot was redundant.

The grey-haired old Rose appeared on the treasure hunt boat and recalled the long-cherished past. When the Titanic appeared in the port of Southampton, England, everyone let out a faint exclamation. .

Simon Peck, who didn't expect any expectations and was just spending time with his girlfriend, could not help straightening his back at this time, and said in surprise: Is this true, it's too surprising, I don't know how it was made.

Charlotte was very satisfied with Simon Peck's response and explained with a smile: It is said that James Cameron completely restored the Titanic model on the film set in a one-to-one ratio.

Looking at the busy scene of Southampton port perfectly restored by James Cameron on the screen, Simon Peck couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: No wonder it will cost 215 million US dollars, this money is enough to build a real giant cruise ship already.

In the next hour, Jack and Rose met, knew each other, and fell in love. From the perspectives of the two protagonists, the film gave a panoramic view of all aspects of the Titanic, the luxury, arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy of the first-class aristocrats, and the low-level civilians' Simple, cheerful, humorous, optimistic, although there are obviously some prejudices, it also caters well to the minds of most audiences.

As a veteran movie fan, Charlotte can feel that the emotional scene between Jack and Rose is a little jerky, and many of the plot dialogues in the first half seem to be completely unnecessary. However, with Jack and Rose 'flying' on the bow, it is beautiful The scene, and what followed, after the night fell, the crew member on the watchtower shouted 'Iceberg is ahead', and the impatience in most people's hearts disappeared again, silently waiting for the disaster to come.

Perhaps, no one has noticed that after the film's meticulous and detailed description of the passengers of all classes on the Titanic, their emotions have been unknowingly controlled by this big ship, knowing that silence is inevitable and disasters are bound to happen. , some audiences are still subconsciously looking forward to some impossible miracles.

The miracle never happened.

After hitting the iceberg, the Titanic began to flood and entered a countdown to sinking.

The passengers in the first class began to evacuate, and the civilians in the lower class were abandoned. The kindness and tolerance, the ugliness and despicability of human nature, at the moment when the disaster came, they were displayed in front of everyone.

If the plot of the sinking of the big ship only affects everyone's hearts, the last ten minutes of the movie will completely turn on the tear-jerking mode.

Listening to Jack's words of encouragement to Rose to live bravely, until she closed her eyes and could no longer speak, and finally sank into the abyss quietly, everyone in the auditorium felt a piercing pain in their hearts. , even after Rose was rescued, this feeling of worry did not dissipate.

Charlotte had obviously heard the faint sobbing in the screening room, and she herself could not help but feel tears streaming from the corners of her eyes. She wiped it a few times, but she couldn't wipe it off. She also subconsciously leaned against her boyfriend beside her. go.

Simon Peck didn't speak, with red eyes, stretched out an arm and quietly wrapped his arms around his girlfriend.

Until the old Rose returned to the year in the dream, the music at the end of the film sounded, and everyone's emotions did not ease.

After three hours, if it was another film, perhaps most of the audience's first reaction was to get up and leave the cinema in a hurry when the end credits were raised, but this time, no one got up, everyone was silent. Sitting in your own seat, let Celine Dion's sobbing voice reverberate in the theater.

It was already eleven o'clock after leaving the screening hall. The hall of the Paris cinema was still brightly lit. Charlotte leaned softly on Simon Peck. , and found that there were actually a lot of couples who were huddled together with red eyes like them. For some reason, this situation triggered some nerves in Charlotte, which made her laugh a little, and then she started again. worry.

Originally, she had no expectations for Titanic, and just wanted to purely support the movies that Eric values. However, at this time, she realized that the previous media criticized Titanic. It's just nonsense, and while there are some flaws, there is no doubt that this is a very good movie, and it definitely shouldn't be given the snub now, by no means.

She made up her mind, and Simon Peck drove her back to the apartment in Midtown. Although her boyfriend had some expectations in his eyes, Charlotte rejected her boyfriend's wish to stay tonight, and sent her away with a gentle word. Lot returned to his apartment, picked up the cordless phone and dialed Alice's best friend in Colorado, and turned on the computer in the living room.

Hey, Alice, did you go to see Titanic? The call was connected, and Charlotte was operating the computer mouse while going straight to the subject. She said a few words over there, and Charlotte couldn't wait to say: No, you have to watch this movie, it's definitely a great movie, do you remember what the New York Times said about Titanic some time ago, I can tell you now with great certainty, It really is a masterpiece comparable to Gone with the Wind.

The two talked and hung up the phone. Charlotte turned her gaze to the computer screen. She had already opened the discussion area dedicated to Titanic on the Yahoo Forum.

At this time, the discussion area was also hot. Unlike the unanimous criticism expressed by the media who had not even seen the film, most of the Yahoo Titanic discussion areas were viewers who had seen the film. The reaction of this group of people Also more realistic and intuitive.

Oh my god, I actually cried for such a bloody movie. Oh my god, this shouldn't be true.

Rose is so beautiful, why haven't I heard of this actress named Rachel Weisz, does anyone know what movies she has acted in?

The ending song is really good, and, did you notice, that song was written by Eric Williams himself.

I've already bought tickets for tomorrow night, and I want to watch it again.

The shot of Jack and Rose standing on the bow is really dreamy. I really want to collect such a poster. I don't know if the fireflies will come out like this in the future. Well, maybe I can sneak in with the camera next time, Take a picture.

Take two and give me one.

Take three pictures and send me one.

Take four pictures and send me one.

...

Charlotte browsed the posts on the page. She was also impressed by the shot of Jack and Rose flying on the bow of the boat. She noticed the above theme, so she clicked and clicked in. Looking at the neat and uniform replies below, she couldn't bear it. Zhu smiled, looked at the number of replies, and typed a few words on the keyboard with fun: Take one hundred and nine pictures, send me one.

After exiting the topic and returning to the main page, Charlotte browsed through the posts on the previous pages. Most people praised Titanic, and some posts criticized the film, which caused fans to be one-sided. crusade.

After a little reasoning, Charlotte logged into her Yahoo account, opened the post page, and began to consider her own movie viewing experience. Although she did not have the talent to write movie reviews, at this time, she still wanted more people. You know, how good this movie is, no one should miss it.

Before watching this film, I also had doubts about the three-hour length of the film, and did not understand why Firefly would let James Cameron make a commercial blockbuster like this.

However, at this time, I suddenly understood a lot of things. Every minute of this film is indispensable. Although the shipwreck scene only accounts for one-third of the entire film, James Cameron is very good at it. We created a perfect 'you're there' atmosphere, taking us back to the epic ship of the year through an hour-long panoramic view of the various characters and scenery on board after the Titanic. Unconsciously immersed in it, so when disaster strikes, we will also more delicately and deeply experience the life and death of all the characters in the film, the joys and sorrows, which is why many people are deeply moved after watching the film.

The disaster scene in the second half of the film is even more impressive. Jack's simple and sincere farewell is tear-jerking, and Rose's gaze at the sky is even more distressing.

The handsome Leonardo DiCaprio and the beautiful Rachel Weisz gave us a very good performance, they are both very good actors, especially the naturalness of Rachel Weisz. Her aristocratic temperament makes people wonder if she was originally from a British aristocratic family.

Finally, that song, 'My Heart Will Go On,' Celine Dion's celestial voice is so captivating, I even think that Eric Williams went out of his way to support James James just for this song. Cameron splurges on the budget to create a perfect, sad dream.

For this movie, I can't give more praise. I just sincerely hope that everyone can give up the prejudice caused by the media before this movie and go to the cinema. Believe me, you will never be disappointed.

Checked the general, clicked to send the post, Charlotte refreshed it several times, and soon a series of echoing replies appeared under the topic.

At this time, the entire United States was deeply fascinated by Titanic after watching it and couldn't wait to recommend it to her. There are not many fans who have promoted it and recommended it to those around them.

With the large-scale release of Titanic, a large number of North American media no longer grasped the topic of the film's high budget, but turned their attention to the quality of the film itself.

While the film spread by word of mouth among fans who have watched it, the film's reputation has also begun to pick up.

First of all, I have to admit that I went to see this movie with a strong prejudice. I always felt that Hollywood has gone too far in investing in big-budget movies. Although after watching this movie, I still insist on This kind of point of view, but I have to say, James Cameron is really a genius, Titanic is almost harsh in detail and perfectly restores everything about this huge ship back then, and brings us a soulful And a tragic love story.

The so-called tragedy is to break the perfect thing for people to see. James Cameron did it perfectly in three hours, but at the same time, he did not take away all our hopes. In the film , Old Rose's life details, those photos, that tank of goldfish, are showing us her deep love for life.

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Long Island, at Southampton Manor.

Eric ignored the various changes in the outside world's attitude towards Titanic, and spent the coming Christmas with the women and children at ease.

It's just that on the white writing board in the study, one more number appears every day.

19th: $1.56 million (midnight show)

No. 20: $8.65 million.

No. 21: $9.67 million.

No. 22: $9.3 million.

In the first three days of the first weekend, Titanic accumulated a total of 29.18 million US dollars at the box office. (To be continued.)