[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

At this time, far away in the Paramount headquarters in Los Angeles, senior executives are reviewing Joey's "Ghost in the Shell" film.

The high-level executives who came to watch this time included almost all the high-level employees of Paramount, because this "Ghost in the Shell" is very important.

Paramount put all its hopes of elation on Joey.

God knows what Paramount has experienced in the past few years. The other six major film companies either own the copyright of comic characters, relying on comic movies to make a fortune. The "series and a series of excellent animations produced by Illumination Entertainment, which was acquired by its subsidiary, made a lot of money.

Then look at Paramount, what's left?Not to mention the "Mission: Impossible" series, Tom Cruise and Summer Raystone have had a long-standing grudge, and it is still uncertain whether there will be a sequel.Then there is only the "Transformers" series, but the reputation of the "Transformers" series is going from bad to worse in the hands of Michael Bay...

The executives of Paramount are introspecting every day, what do they rely on to turn around?

"Ghost in the Shell" is a good choice. If it is done well, it may be made into a series to make money.And the joining of Joey Grant gave Paramount a shot in the arm. I didn't expect to be able to invite Joey Grant. It's really...unbelievable...

Why do you say that... because of the feud between Joey Grant and Paramount, which has a long history...

Look at Hughes Redstone sitting in the seat at the moment and the elegant lady next to him, Hughes' mother Grace, and look at Grace's ugly face at the moment, and you can probably know what the grudge is.

At this time, everyone had finished watching the finished film of "Ghost in the Shell", but the scene was still silent.

On the one hand, the minds of the executives are still wandering about the pictures and connotations of the movie, and even the face of Jennifer Lawrence is in their minds.

On the other hand, they didn't know how to express their thoughts. Although their minds were full of countless praises for this big movie, they still held back because of the presence of Grace.

But I couldn't help it in my heart. These high-level executives were all seasoned filmmakers who had read countless films, but at this moment they just wanted to say——Maybe it's time for Paramount to turn around.

Joey Grant is really amazing, she is about to create another pinnacle of a manga movie, and has nothing to do with Marvel and DC, it is a Japanese manga movie, which will lead to another manga trend?Japanese manga movie?

They didn't show much, though, as if they wanted to wait for Grace to speak first.

Grace sat there quietly. She was wearing a lace-trimmed white shirt for an elderly person, dressed like a professional elite. She glanced at everyone present from the corner of her eye. She knew that they were waiting for her to speak. It was for her face. , she said slowly with a professional smile on her face, "Based on my more than 40 years of experience in the industry, this movie is excellent."

The others present were also relieved to hear Grace's positive comments. It seems that this proud lady did not intend to incorporate personal grievances into her work.

Grace's bright red lips opened again, "I think this will be an excellent Japanese manga adaptation that can compete with Disney's Marvel and Warner's DC. diffuse oriental philosophy."

At this time, other high-level executives also commented: "Yes, I really haven't watched such an enjoyable cyberpunk movie for a long time."

"Whether it is the scene structure or the narrative structure, they are all excellent."

"The most rare thing, I think, is the connotation of the story. This movie is very philosophical, and it has the style of "The Matrix" back then..."

"After all, "The Matrix" was a movie ten years ago, and now technology has improved a lot, so the visual effects of "Ghost in the Shell" cannot be better."

Grace didn't say a word amidst the lively discussion, she glanced at Hughes who was also silent at the side, and said, "Hughes, do you have anything to say?"

Hughes had a silent smile on his face, "Everyone here is an old man with decades of experience in the film industry. Compared with them, I think I am not qualified enough to speak."

Grace's tall eyebrows trembled slightly, "How did you convince her to direct this movie?"

Hughes lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, "I didn't say anything to impress her, because she herself is very interested in the movie "Ghost in the Shell"."

Grace stared at his face for a few seconds, then turned to look at the crowd without saying a word, while other high-level executives were still talking about the movie.

"I think the finished film is almost perfect, there is nothing that needs to be changed."

"I think the color tone is a bit dark, and the audience may not be able to see some scenes at night. Especially, many remote movie theaters often do not adjust the screen brightness to full level in order to save power."

"This seems to be the style of Joey Grant. He often makes some dark and messy pictures. I think it's quite artistic."

Grace spoke again, "I think this movie is already perfect, there is basically nothing that needs to be changed, what do you think?"

"Yes, I agree. In fact, I really look forward to the audience's reaction after watching this movie. Will they be convinced by the philosophy of this big movie?"

"Okay, that's it."

Then, several high-level executives also agreed with Joey's previous opinion, that is, to hold a private screening meeting in Japan, just one, strictly guarding against any leakage of film sources.

Then look at what the 15-year diehard fans in Japan have to say about this film. If there is any dissatisfaction is reflected, it can be processed again.

If the audience is very satisfied, then the first batch of word-of-mouth can be released in this way to create momentum.

After discussing these matters, the top executives of Paramount left the meeting room one by one.When they left, they all shouted in their hearts - fu, ck, this woman is really a genius.

Just like "Time" said, there is only one Joey Grant in an era, and there will only be one Joey Grant in an era.

Hughes chose to break up with Joey only after his brain was shot.Grace used to have her brains shot open to gloat over Hughes and Joey's breakup.

After they all left the meeting room one by one, only Grace and Hughes were left.

Hughes didn't look up, but habitually raised his eyes slightly to look at Grace, "Aren't you going?"

Grace held a pen in her hand and didn't put it down for a long time. She thought she might be crazy. At this moment, she actually felt that Hughes had given up on Joey, which was a loss.

It's ridiculous, if 7 years ago, she would never believe that she would have such an idea, even 4 years ago, she would not, but now she has such a ridiculous idea.

Obviously, Paramount needs Joey, and the Redstone family needs Joey, even if they once regarded him as an ant.

She suddenly said, "Do you know what's going on with this woman?"

Hughes looked at Grace with unpredictable eyes, "What do you mean?"

Grace went on to add incredulously: "I mean, this Joey Grant seems to be a completely different person. It's all incredible."

Hughes opened his lips and brought out an elegant smile, "Because she is alone and without any help, she can only rely on herself. And she has such amazing talents, it is difficult for her not to succeed."

Grace looked at her son with deep eyes, "I have always had a question. Did you break up with this woman 7 years ago on purpose?"

The corners of Hughes' mouth closed into a smile, and his lips remained in a straight line, "What do you mean by that?"

Grace's words cut to the point, "You still like that woman, don't you?"

Hughes didn't show any expression, but his eyes were very arrogant, "When did you become like this? You took it out and asked others without complete confidence in your guess."

Grace pursed her bright lips, "I'm asking my son a question. What kind of confident conclusion do I need? Hughes, although I don't like to interfere in your private life, you still miss her after all these years. Have you ever thought about her?" Pass……"

She paused, then took a deep breath and said seriously: "Have you ever thought about chasing her back?"

Hughes didn't know why, but after hearing Grace's words, he smiled instead. It was an arrogant and elegant smile, with a casual irony towards Grace, which seemed to be ironic about Grace's inconsistent attitude towards Joey .

Then he said slowly, word by word: "In fact, I have exactly that intention."

Grace frowned slightly, "When did you start thinking like this?"

His answer was simply one word, "Recently."

*******

The old fans of "Ghost in the Shell" in Japan have been doing one thing crazily recently, that is to keep refreshing Paramount's official website to see if they have been lucky enough to be the only one in the world who is located in Paramount's lottery. The audience of Japan's advance screening venue.

However, the result may disappoint most people, because there are nearly 100 people competing for a total of 10 places, which means that at least 99.9% of people will return disappointed.

Paramount also immediately announced the list of the 100 lucky fans.

Isamu Kondo is one of them. He is 38 years old this year, but it is undeniable that he is a 15-year-old fan of "Ghost in the Shell". , Gundam and other works of die-hard fans.

From the works he likes, it can be seen that he is a first-class dead house, and he is still unmarried and living with his mother.

Before he learned that "Ghost in the Shell" was going to be a live-action movie, he didn't even know who Joey Grant was, and he didn't watch Hollywood movies at all.

However, for the masterpiece "Ghost in the Shell", he paid special attention to it, and even watched the trailer!

Then he boiled, this your sister is Suzi in his mind!This is your sister's world of "Ghost in the Shell" in his mind!

This female lead actor, this female director, these two people completely managed to restore the masterpiece in his mind!

So, when he walked into this movie theater with the admission ticket sent to him by Paramount, one can imagine how... surging his heart was!

I'm about to see the full version of this magical movie. For a Japanese man who never watches Hollywood blockbusters, the scenes in the trailer, the editing, and the sparkling special effects completely overwhelm him. Blind.

Then he walked into the screening room.

From the moment you enter the screening hall, it seems that the atmosphere is filled with a sense of ritual of kneeling.

Everyone who came here had flushed faces, impulsive eyes, and trembling limbs. They... were all agitated and abnormal.

But all of them were wearing sweatshirts with Suzi’s head print, with Suzi’s stickers on their faces, and even Suzi’s purple wigs.

This gathering of 15-year-old fans is just crazy.

After everyone sat down, the movie screen lit up, oh!This is the beginning.

How to describe this feeling, as if waiting for the descending god to come.

A line of words was printed on the black screen:

"The film is about to begin"

And then—the movie begins.

It was silent for a moment, so quiet that you could hear the unnaturally held breath.

The screen was completely black, and then the night view of the city appeared in front of my eyes.

The entire screening hall fell into a huge silence and emptiness, and everyone watched the movie with the mood of treating rare treasures.

Then, Isamu Kondo discovered that this director named Joey Grant seemed to like the angle of the big panoramic view.

Helicopters circling at high altitude, forests of steel, and reflections in the water just seen by people walking past the ground.It was as if the whole city had been suppressed.

Those scenes have a romantic atmosphere of prosperous machines, white planes skip over huge building forests, deserted and long-abandoned factories in the Far East, Chinese-style sacrificial ceremonies in dark alleys, building projections and cloud shadows filled with water vapor.

All of this seems to be showing off a director's unique aesthetic and color.

The audience is placed under such a scene, as if the huge city on the big screen is right in front of their eyes and oppressed above their heads, a kind of immersion close at hand, full of oppression and weight.It seems that in the sky of the movie, the cold, decadent, and gloomy sunlight falls from the huge sky, and will pour down on people through the screen at any time. This illusion is so strong that it makes people afraid.

But these shots are not the most shocking and amazing.

The most amazing thing is that Jennifer was driving on the road, and the camera slowly zoomed out until she overlooked the entire bridge.The audience will see countless lights on the bridge spread out on the ground like spider webs without limit.Gradually, they extended into an infinitely broad network space.

This scene is in line with Jennifer's inner thinking: "The network is infinitely vast, where should I go?"

All other scenes aside, Joy Grant was able to design this scene, and Isamu Kondo would call her a genius.

So-he-damn amazing!

This film is full of decadent and icy tones, even the sun is dusk and decadent.

At the beginning of the title, Jennifer's classic jump, behind him is a cloudy and rainy atmosphere.It's just that Isamu Kondo didn't expect that the whole film has always maintained this style from beginning to end, and Joey Grant didn't even give a bright and bright scene.

During the day, it is a cloudy sky, and at night, it is a miserable green scanning field of vision, gusts of wind, drizzle, sea surface with dim lights, and abandoned factories with cold moonlight.

Joey Grant didn't intend to create a pleasant and relaxed movie-watching atmosphere for the audience from the beginning.

Isamu Kondo couldn't remember anything at the moment, his brain was in chaos, and the afterimage in his retina was mixed with the reverberation he had just watched in his brain.

He has forgotten the artistic conception of the original work, and has completely entered the world created by Joey Grant for them, a new world.

And in that new world, she is the God of Creation.

Occasional rippling water, Western-style buildings, and stained glass in churches.On the dark sea, large groups of seagulls flew up.

Pedestrians are lonely and lonely, and the decadent yellow sun shines on the top of the bridge.

This world seems to be in chaos, but it seems clear.

But besides that, Kondo soon made new discoveries.

He originally thought that Hollywood blockbusters are visually awesome and have a tight rhythm, but this movie is not.

Joey Grant's movie has no rhythm as a whole, or it can be said that her habitual character chatter caused the lack of rhythm.

Joey Grant played a complete philosophical system in the movie, which resulted in a large amount of information, so all the characters became talkative, and the dialogues were almost all obscure and philosophical dialogues.

But when you connect these obscure dialogues with philosophical thinking throughout the movie, it has a deafening effect!

You will find that this is simply an encyclopedic sci-fi movie, covering topics including politics, technology, morality, human relations, crime, and ideology. The content is so rich that it is unimaginable, unimaginable, unimaginable How did Grant pack so much information into one movie.

Isamu Kondo was already sweating completely on his seat at this moment, he admitted that this is a masterpiece through and through.

He will never admit that he switched between half-kneeling and full-kneeling positions at any time while watching this movie!

The so-called masterpiece, the first level of meaning, is that it has an unparalleled style in terms of imagination, world view, music editing, and narrative.

The second level of meaning is that such works are mostly unfriendly and difficult to get close to, and can make people feel incomparable pleasure in constantly refreshing their cognition and denying themselves.

This "Ghost in the Shell" did it.

Joey Grant created a new world goddess - Jennifer Lawrence through countless "street parade shots" and slow-motion close-ups.

This is a prime that is difficult to describe in words, with a gorgeous smell of wind and dust in the ethereal.

She is taciturn, calm, violent, and thinking... elusive.

The most important thing is that she always has an expression of nothingness, yes it is nothingness, and Isamu Kondo can't even know how Jennifer Lawrence put on this expression.

Ordinary actors can't do it.

She is like a shadow of nothingness everywhere, staring at you everywhere, and seems to be annihilated in the huge online world at any time.

A lonely man, living in a lonely movie.

Her existence is cruel, or Joey was cruel to her, and she disappeared in the end. This is precisely Joey's deepest and cruelest understanding of Suzi, and others may not be able to adapt.

But in the end the audience will understand, and it's all in Suzi's last words, "Bart, remember. Whenever you're connected to the Internet, I'm by your side.

"Then, I'm leaving."

This is what Isamu Kondo and everyone likes.

And then, the movie is over.

The ending was so tragic that everyone present almost cried.

Boy, this story is amazing.

All moviegoers and fans of the original work present fell into a frenzied silence.

At this moment, a voice erupted from Isamu Kondo's mouth and resounded throughout the auditorium, "It's a well-deserved cross-age masterpiece!"

This movie is completely an intangible cultural heritage of mankind!

There is no way to explain it clearly with just two words, and it is impossible to let the world know how explosive this movie with profound metaphors decorated with sci-fi is.

This film contains many topics that can be detached and thought about in isolation.Huge and abundant thinking even takes up the entire time of watching the movie.

Impressive.

Although Isamu Kondo only started to know Joey Grant from the live-action movie "Ghost in the Shell", he seemed to be able to see the grand occasion when the world bowed at the feet of Joey Grant after the movie was released globally.

How big is this woman to shoot such a big cross-age masterpiece!

The advent of "Ghost in the Shell" is bound to herald a strong invasion of the Japanese manga adaptation film in the global market. The shell of Hollywood's powerful industrial system and the integration of oriental philosophical temperament are almost a perfect fusion.

However, not everyone can do it, so far, only Joey Grant has done it.

She is the God of Creation of the New World!

Isamu Kondo and other moviegoers reluctantly left the screening hall.At this moment, everything is chaotic, the sky, thoughts, steps, sight.

The staff who were waiting for them to come out with questionnaires went up one by one and handed them questionnaires, which they had to fill out before they could leave.

But the staff was dumbfounded, because the audience in front of him seemed to have lost their souls, and they all burst into tears, wishing to pierce the questionnaire with a ballpoint pen and tell Paramount how bad this movie was.

The staff is unbelievable, there are really many audiences who cried in public... It's just a movie, but they made them cry. How awesome is this movie...

However, the staff would not understand that this 15-year-old fan finally saw his favorite animation being adapted into a live-action movie on the big screen, and then it was such an explosive masterpiece, he cried bitterly on the spot It is the lowest form of expression.

It is impossible to express their emotions at the moment without crying bitterly, and it is impossible to express their admiration for Joey Grant.

Unexpectedly, another person in this world who can give this work a profound soul like Mamoru Oshii is a young woman on the American continent far away from the ocean, which is incredible.

And then—the first batch of word-of-mouth for this movie on the Internet came out, and it exploded!

Of course the media did not see this movie, but they will reprint and summarize the comments of the 100 viewers who watched the screening, and then the word-of-mouth evaluation of "Ghost in the Shell", which has been highly concerned by the Japanese society, is also official. out of the oven.

"Enough movie to break the heart of most critics."

"It's not uncommon for the concept to be high, the key is whether the high concept can be expressed with a high degree of completion."

"Joey Grant has won again!"

Look at the evaluations of those die-hard fans who went home to write movie reviews. Most of these dead houses don’t even know Joey Grant very well, but from today, this name will definitely be remembered in Japan .

Isamu Kondo tried to pick up his pen to write a few strokes of this cross-generational masterpiece, but found that he couldn't write a word. The film is full of gleaming void, chaos, and organic texture.

Whether it's the prelude at the beginning, the dreamy sex in the middle, the weird style of children's singing and singing, and the intermittent memories of colorful totems, they all remain in his mind for a long time.

Exquisite and delicate pictures, extremely explosive shots, Joey Grant is not making a movie, he is simply expounding a nihilistic philosophical dream.

The whole movie conveys a feeling of emptiness, and after watching it, you will be surrounded by a strong sense of emptiness and loneliness.

Can't comment at all!

If you have to write something... Isamu Kondo finally wrote such a sentence on his Twitter, "A masterpiece, a masterpiece of Joey Grant showing off his extraordinary thoughts. Bo Yun is treacherous, gorgeous, tragic, and desolate , it’s worth it to see such an ethereal film in this lifetime!”

"Don't watch it with the expectation that this is the live-action movie version of "Ghost in the Shell", because this movie has long been born out of the shadow of the original work and has become an independent individual of a cross-age masterpiece."

That's right, Joey's live-action version and Oshii Mamoru's animated theater version are no longer in the same category. They are completely different in terms of style, connotation, and feelings.

This version of Joey has been completely reborn from the original version of Mamoru Oshii. She made a new world masterpiece that only belongs to her and can only be achieved by her.

Her "Ghost in the Shell" is nothing like the original, it's not the same at all, but that doesn't make it any less awesome, awesome, or supernatural.

Even before "Ghost in the Shell" was released, the extraordinary word of mouth has already exploded like a flood, surging in.

This made all the fans of Ghost Shell and Joey go crazy.

Paramount looked at this posture, well, don't collect opinions and modify it, and release it quickly. If it doesn't release it, the Paramount Building will probably be flooded by these fans.

The promotion of "Ghost in the Shell" began to spread overwhelmingly.Paramount hadn't planned to spend so much money on publicity, but firstly, Joey saved them a whole 1 million in cost, and secondly, now that the word-of-mouth has exploded, no one in Paramount believes in this movie. Will smash the pot.

Paramount was so excited that it planned to spend 1 million publicity fees to promote the movie, but was stopped by Joey.

Joey is helpless, is the director of Paramount's marketing department out of his mind and never thinks rationally? She still thinks that the cost should be controlled within a rational range, so she thinks that 5000 million publicity expenses will be about the same.

In fact, 5000 million is a lot, okay, for a movie that costs only 8000 million.

"Ghost in the Shell" has a very weak fan base in Oubei, after all, this IP is still relatively popular in Asia.So the main gimmick in Europe and America is science fiction.

Cyberpunk; the most brilliant sci-fi blockbuster of the year; a sci-fi masterpiece directed by the god-level director Joey Grant himself; the most philosophical Japanese-style movie from the East; the mother of "The Matrix".

Almost every gimmick available to Paramount has been used.I just ask everyone to pay attention and send money.

And as far as it is concerned, the attention of this movie is high enough, because Joey is born with attention.

Especially after the unprecedented success of her first two comics, people have almost the first-class confidence in Joy's comics.

Even most movie fans believe that Joey's production must be a boutique.Especially manga movies, she is the only most successful manga movie director in the world.

So even fans who are not familiar with the IP of "Ghost in the Shell" are still looking forward to Joey's movie, and the reputation has already exploded.

Paramount is full of confidence, maybe now they can finally feel proud!Sony, Fox, Warner, Disney, you have manga changes?I have it too!And even better than you!Just ask if you accept it or not!

The executives at Paramount are laughing in their dreams, and when Ghost in the Shell becomes a box office hit, they're going to have to laugh at them hard.

Therefore, "Ghost in the Shell" was released with great vigor at 12 o'clock in the morning on a certain night at the end of the year.

Just the midnight show was overcrowded.

It’s not just the die-hard fans of the original who come here because of the fame. After all, in Europe and the United States, the original version of “Ghost in the Shell” doesn’t have that much mass base, but Joey Grant does.

Most of the people who walked into the cinema were passersby and Joey fans, and there were also a small number of "Ghost in the Shell" fans.

Then, there is basically no need to repeat the whole movie watching process, it is nothing more than that movie fans sometimes half kneel and sometimes fully kneel.

This movie is like a work of art, meticulously crafted.Joey Grant, who grew up in the West, actually created the pinnacle of Eastern cyberpunk.

Use virtual reality to conduct hard-core blood plasma combat, and continue to explore the philosophical definition of what makes a human being.

Is there a more sci-fi movie than this?Do you dare to say that this movie has no possibility of surpassing "The Matrix"?

In fact, the vast majority of viewers think that Joey's "Ghost in the Shell" is even more sexy and flavorful than the "Matrix" back then.

Joey Grant is the most powerful one who can make science fiction films so grand and philosophical.

In the process of watching this movie, everyone will be replaced by Joy's philosophy, and they will constantly ask themselves.

who are we?We are human beings.So, what is a human being?Human beings are creatures, higher creatures, and living beings that exist.What is life?Life is a process that includes birth, reproduction, and death.

But why reproduce?Isn't simple copy better?

Well, at this point, many viewers may have realized that they can no longer answer this question.

If you can't answer this question, then you may not be able to answer the final question that Joey throws next.

When machines learn to think, who decides what is human?

If the world we live in is really like the world of "Ghost in the Shell", what is the difference between humans and machines?

Regardless of whether the audience can think about this philosophical torture of Joey when watching the movie, at least when they walk out of the theater, they will think about it in the future, in the future life, when they calm down and think alone. This philosophical question, and then they will meditate.

This is the biggest difference between excellent content movies and those popcorn commercial movies.

And this is not the most desperate thing, the most desperate thing is when the excellent connotation movies also have the gorgeous visual effects of popcorn commercial movies, this is the scariest thing.

A movie like this, it's almost invincible.

Or, he is invincible.

On the day of the premiere, the box office of [-] million in North America was the best praise that fans gave back to this movie.

It has a 97% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 9.3 IMdb score.

It must be mentioned here that the highest-rated movie "Shawn's Redemption" in IMdb history has a score of 9.3 points, and "Ghost in the Shell" is tied with "Shawn's Redemption".

What a boldness this is.

"Ghost in the Shell", which was simultaneously released in 81 markets around the world, terrified the global film market, and made countless passers-by who had never seen the original work kneel and worship.

This movie is the crystallization of Hollywood visual effects magic and a technically overwhelming victory, and it is also a sublimation of Joey Grant's personal godhead.

With this film, Joy Grant will definitely get a greater sublimation, and she has become a philosophical film director with a divine personality.

How amazing is she?

The global box office of 2 million on the premiere day is the best evidence that this "Ghost in the Shell" will definitely be recorded in history!