Compared with the two tigers in the Christmas season of "Shushan" and "The Rich Train" in Hong Kong, North America is a battle for the great powers.

There are as many as 7 new films that premiered on December 20 alone. In addition to "Shushan" and "Out of Africa" ​​invested by Kang Jianfei, there are also "Purple Sun" by Spielberg, "Nile Gem" directed by Lance Teg, etc.

In the week before this, four new films were released one after another, among which "Bald's Business Travel" released by Warner Bros. performed particularly well, with a box office of up to 8.61 million US dollars in three days, winning the North American weekly box office championship last week.

"Bald's Business Day" and "Purple Sun" are both produced and released by Warner Bros. After the first week of "Bald's Business Day", Warner Bros. increased the number of theaters released by the former. In addition, Warner had another movie released at the same time. The number of theaters for Spielberg's "Purple Sun" premiered was reduced, and the tragedy was only divided into 192 canvases.

The experience of "Shushan" is similar to "Purple Sun". Since 20th Century Fox was about to release "Out of Africa" ​​and "Nile Gem", after some consideration and negotiation, the premiere canvas of "Shushan" was cut to only 447 yuan, while the number of premiere theaters of "Out of Africa" ​​was cut to 735.

I have to say that the Americans are just cheating on their fathers.

...

Chicago, Chinatown, USA.

Ang Lee walked into the vegetable market with a basket of vegetables. Many Chinese people in the market greeted him with a smile, but there seemed to be a different meaning in his smile.

"Mr. Li, come to buy vegetables again."

"Yes, I'm just free."

"Your wife is so happy. My husband never buys vegetables or cooks. I have to do everything alone."

"Haha. Your sir is so lucky."

"Mr. Li, you haven't found a job yet?"

"It's almost done."

"The Fu'an hotel on the street was run by my nephew. Why don't I introduce you to be a waiter."

"Thank you, no need."

“…”

Half an hour later, Ang Lee walked out of the market with a basket of vegetables. The smile on his face disappeared instantly, replaced by shame and anger.

Ang Lee obtained his master's degree from New York University last year, and his graduation work also won the New York University Wasserman Award for Best Director and Best Picture. Unfortunately, these honors did not help him much.

After graduating from his master's degree, Ang Lee lost his job. He was discouraged and prepared to return to Taiwan half a year ago, but his graduation work "Division Line" was actually broadcast on TV. Ang Lee finally dripped his face and was signed by William Morris' agency as a director.

Ang Lee thought he was working in time, so he went to Hollywood for a while, but the result was that he spent all his money back to Chicago in shame.

Now Ang Lee is an unemployed vagrant. In addition to watching movies and books every day, he buys vegetables and does housework. He relies on his wife Lin Huijia to make money to support his family, and Lin Huijia himself is just a doctoral student who is half-working and half-study.

What Ang Lee is most annoying now is to go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. He is already famous in the nearby Chinese circle. Everyone knows that he is a master's student who relies on his wife to support him. But Ang Lee has to go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables because the vegetables there are much cheaper than in the supermarket.

Carrying the food back to the rental house, Ang Lee saw his wife's shoes behind the door and said, "I'm back so early today."

"The laboratory ended early today." Lin Huijia said while lying on the sofa.

"I bought two fish." Ang Lee picked up the vegetable basket and said.

Lin Huijia got up and put the items in the vegetable basket into the refrigerator. She said, "Let's go out to eat today. I just received a bonus. I celebrated it and went to see a movie after dinner."

"Okay." Ang Lee agreed with a smile. Although he watched movies every day, he was rented videotapes, and at least he hadn't been to the cinema with his wife for a year.

The two chose a Chinese restaurant for dinner, and then walked to a cinema in Chinatown.

Ang Lee looked up at the cinema's schedule. He originally wanted to watch "Purple Sun" and "Out of Africa", but when he bought the ticket, he said inexplicably: "Come two "Shushan"."

When he walked into the screening room, the movie was about to be screened in only two minutes. Ang Lee looked up and scanned the screening room and found that about 70% of the audience seats were sitting. However, most of the audience were Chinese, which made Ang Lee unable to use this to evaluate the popularity of "Shushan".

To be honest, Ang Lee, who is a master's degree in film production at New York University, looks down on Chinese films quite a bit. Even if there are one or two outstanding ones occasionally, Chinese films are still too far behind Hollywood.

If it was the work of the internationally renowned director Kang Jianfei, Ang Lee might have attached great importance to it, but the nameless Xu Ke is not in Ang Lee's eyes - even if "Shushan" won the Silver Lion Award in Venice.

Ang Lee, who was sitting in the seat with a thorny attitude, sat in a casual position at the beginning, sat up straight with a serious expression after half an hour, staring at the big screen with his eyes motionless.

In Ang Lee's opinion, the 120-minute theatrical version of "Shushan" is still a bit fast, but as a commercial blockbuster, it is qualified and can especially please ordinary audiences. This can be seen from the surprises and laughter that come one after another in the screening room.

After a movie ended, Ang Lee and Lin Huijia walked home silently. On the way, Ang Lee suddenly said: "Hui Jia, I want to go to Hong Kong."

"Go to Hong Kong?" Lin Huijia said in surprise.

Ang Lee nodded: "Yes, it's useless to stay in the United States when I stay in Hong Kong. No company will ask me to make movies. It's better to go to Hong Kong to develop. Even if this "Shushan" is in Hollywood, it is a first-class level. Since Xu Ke can make such a movie in Hong Kong, why can't I?"

If you hadn't signed a contract with an agency, Ang Lee would have been in Taiwan half a year ago and would not have to be the husband of the family for the past few months.

Lin Huijia thought for a while and said, "Since you want to go to Hong Kong to develop, then go, I support you."

...

"Shushan" caused a great sensation in the Chinese circle in North America. The Hollywood special effects and the hot mountains of the motherland, and the theme is a swordsman that everyone likes to watch, which will naturally arouse the pursuit of Chinese in North America.

However, other races in North America, except for Chinese, seem to be not very interested in "Shushan" - there are so many good movies to choose from during Christmas, why should whites and blacks watch a Chinese-language film?

Everything has its pros and cons. "Shushan" was screened in Christmas, which seemed to be a big advantage in the golden period, but it was completely covered by the light of other Christmas blockbusters. It would be better to be screened in off-season.

Let us take our eyes back to Hong Kong, 9 hours before Ang Lee and his wife watched "Shushan". Zhou Huimin held a bucket of popcorn and stared at the big screen, completely unconsciously stuffing popcorn into her mouth one by one.

"Wow, those pools are colorful, the sun is so beautiful."

"I don't know where it was taken."

"The TV promotional video says it's Jiuzhaigou."

"I must go to Jiuzhaigou when I have money."

“…”

The sound of the guqin sounded in the theater, and the strong wind blew the bamboo forest to form a bamboo wave. Swords flew across the bamboo forest and magic weapons were handed over. Although the fight was fierce, it seemed like a poetic and picturesque and intoxicating.

The whole movie shows a poetic and picturesque all the time, and the shot is used more like a Taiwanese art film from the 1970s, rather than a fast-paced Hong Kong commercial film.

As the theme song created by Lu Guanting for "Shushan" sounded, many viewers spontaneously gave applause and stood up until the behind-the-scenes footage was played.

Just as everyone was about to leave, a film suddenly started to be played on the screen. I saw a drop of blood suddenly started to flow slowly on the grass after the war. The drop of blood suddenly flew up and penetrated into a passerby's body. A strange expression appeared on the passerby's face.

"Hahaha..." The passerby began to laugh wildly, and the laughter belonged to the villain Deng Yin, who was killed by the protagonists.

"Deng Yin is not dead."

"He has become the Son of Blood God, and of course he doesn't die so easily."

"There is definitely a sequel."

"I don't know when the sequel will be filmed, I really want to watch it right away."

"It's worthy of being a blockbuster with an investment of 80 million yuan, it looks really cool."

“…”

Zhou Huimin's ears were filled with the audience's discussion. Although she did not join the discussion, after watching the movie, she was still shocked by the gorgeous visual effects.

The Jiahe Cinemas across the street had just finished a "Fugui Train" and the audience who came out of the theater were also having a lot of chatting.

"Haha, it's so funny. The part when Zeng Zhiwei jumped off the car almost made me laugh to death."

"It's funny that the train is shackled."

"The funniest thing is the affair between the two, Yangtze River 1 and Yangtze River 2, hahahaha, now I feel so sad when I think about it."

"Fortunately, there are no tickets in "Shushan", otherwise I would have missed such a good movie."

"Yes, "The Rich Train" is definitely the best comedy."

“…”

In the following period, fans who have watched "Shushan" strongly recommended "Shushan" to their relatives and friends, while fans of "Fugui Train" believe that "Fugui Train" is better, so there are all those who have conflicts and quarrels.

As for the other two films in the Christmas season, "The Journey of Christmas" and "The Treasure Hunt" were completely ignored by everyone, because the attendance rate was too low, the number of scenes was constantly reduced, and the ordinary films that were replaced were also cannon fodder characters.

It is hard to say whether "Shushan" is better or "The Rich Train" is better.

Because one is a special effects swordsman blockbuster and the other is a comedy full of stars, each with its own merits and cannot be compared at all.

The quality of the film cannot be compared, but the box office of the film is comparable.

After the first weekend of the two movies came out, Hong Jinbao, Zeng Zhiwei, Mecca, Zou Wenhuai, Chen Rongmei and others were all stunned. The box office gap between the two movies, which were so popular, actually reached a considerable gap, and the winner was naturally "Shushan". The promotion for several months was not in vain.
Chapter completed!