Chapter 910: Honest Man

Compared with Dan Brown's original novel, the scale of the film is actually much smaller. If it is placed in the Middle Ages, including Dan Brown, all the crew members count as one, and they will definitely be burned.

The premiere of "The Da Vinci Code" was huge, attracting hundreds of media reporters as countless pairs of curious eyes around the world waited to see what the film adaptation of the 40 million-read novel would look like .

Once, when Ronan watched this film, he just felt inexplicable.

In the East, where there is an extreme lack of religious background, it is understandable that the audience would react when half of the show got up and left.

The real selling point of this film is the popularity of the religious content and the original work, and even Tom Hanks can't be a selling point.

Instead, it became the object of complaints from fans.

Bearing huge pressure from public opinion, Tom Hanks actively lost weight in order to get closer to the character in appearance, while changing his perennial brush hair into "flowing" long hair.

But viewers who have watched the preview of "The Da Vinci Code" are still critical of Big Tom's faux-scholar hairstyle, calling it "a bald forehead with a duck tail on the back of his head"!

As for the content, this kind of novel is really not very suitable for film adaptation.

The decryption that unfolds when expressed in words,

The attractiveness of the video has been greatly reduced. This is not only a problem of film shooting, but also the audience is used to the eye stimulation that commercial films will inevitably bring.

Even another controversial religious film, The Passion of the Christ, used controversy to attract audiences to theaters, and used the torture of flogging Jesus to retain audiences.

For the movie "The Da Vinci Code", it cannot be said that Ron Howard is not capable enough. After all, this is one of the directors who have achieved a better balance between art and business in Hollywood. Christmas is a big-selling commercial film, and it won the Oscar for Best Director with "A Beautiful Mind".

Ron Howard spent a lot of effort on how to use pictures to express some boring historical and theoretical passages in the book, which caused the time for the movie to be explained, and lost energy in promoting the tense plot; visual processing In terms of work, he has many magical touches, such as the superposition of shots that span history, and the processing of oil painting textures on the pictures of historical legends.

As for the denial of religion, such a huge investment in the film determines that it must be released on a large scale and needs to be compromised on scale.

This is not a loss of art, but a clever circumvention.

Therefore, the original book's various religions are transformed into a line from Tom Hanks in the movie. Jesus is a man or God. Isn't there not enough people who have died for this problem?

Inevitably, when the plot of the novel is unfolded on the big screen in pictures, that kind of spiritual thrill is lost.

Ronan still remembers the night when a roommate who knew the history of Western religions hid under the covers and read the original work all night when he was in college.

According to my roommate, when I saw how Dan Brown subversively explained the Last Supper, the hairs on the entire back stood up-it was not a mystical thriller from ghosts or death, but facing myself When the usual historical common sense is completely subverted, at that moment, the fear of weightlessness comes from the spiritual level.

He even said that although this kind of fear is only for a moment, it is enough to surpass any horror world created by Stephen King.

But Ronan watched the movie shown on the big screen, using the pictures to show all kinds of things about Jesus and the feminine Peter. After watching it, he could only let out a sigh of relief, far less than the kind of horror that his roommate once said.

This seems to be a common problem or a natural defect of movies adapted from novels with suspenseful themes.

It seems that no matter how good the film adaptation is, it will be inferior to the reasoning text.

As for the ups and downs that Tom Hanks' crew has had with the Vatican since its establishment, it is actually not difficult to understand.

After all, the original book and the film contain a lot of jokes, and now even a word of criticism of a popular singer idol will be criticized by fans, let alone the serious Jesus Christ?

After the premiere, when Ronan left the theater, some reporters came to interview him, but they were all stopped by bodyguards.

Although you don't believe in religion, it's best not to speak up when it comes to religious beliefs.

"How was the film?" Ronan asked Connie, who had accompanied him.

"Hmm..." Connie thought for a moment and said, "I've read the original book, but the movie... how should I put it, I don't think it's as attractive as the original book."

Ronan nodded slightly, "Notify the embassy film industry, and prepare for a sharp drop in the box office next weekend."

Connie first responded, and then asked, "Do you want the Embassy Films to make some news?"

Ronan waved his hand, "No, Tom Hanks and Pratton Pictures will definitely take action. Only when the controversy of this film is louder, will it be possible to get more income."

Facts are just as Ronan expected. Since its release on Friday, many religious groups have protested in front of Preton Films. Even Tom Hanks’ house has gathered some conservative believers.

On Friday afternoon, several members of the "Peace and Mercy" women's association knelt in front of the regional archbishop's office and asked the regional archbishop to protest against the "Da Vinci Code" film.

The regional archbishop had to back down and on Saturday denounced the novel and film as "very far-fetched and full of heresy".

More protests are also emerging, and even albinism organizations have come out to speak out.

In order to better play the albino killer Silas, Paul Bettany was not satisfied with the pale skin unique to albinism only when he was wearing makeup. He even dyed his blond hair white and changed his dark blue eyes to blood red.

However, this image caused great indignation from the American Albinism and Pigmentation Organization. The organization believed that such a description followed the vilification of albinism and homosexuality in many Hollywood movies, and publicly issued a statement of protest.

Protests will bring pressure to the film and the producers. As long as the pressure can be resisted, the pressure brought by the protests will often be transformed into an argumentative momentum.

This is a commercial society, and protesting won't make the film go down, or even reduce the theater schedule.

As the protests became more and more popular, the number of audiences walking into the theater to watch "The Da Vinci Code" continued to increase.

Thanks to the great influence of the novel and the controversy caused by the film, the embassy film industry won 4,180 theaters. On the first day of its release, "The Da Vinci Code" received a box office of 31.99 million US dollars from North America.

This created a single-day box office record in the North American film market in February!

Director Ron Howard even boasted in an interview that "the best way to fully understand this film is to watch it for the second time."

Preton Pictures put in all its efforts to create momentum for "The Da Vinci Code".

The original novel sells well all over the world; the Holy See of the Vatican publicly accused the content of being absurd and untrue; Westminster Abbey declined heretical filming; the Louvre opened its arms to welcome the crew to move in; The material has been aroused in North America and even the entire Western world.

Hollywood movie promotion is always full of tricks, and even "honest people" like Tom Hanks will also play tricks on promotion.

And it was a huge success.

However, the word-of-mouth of "The Da Vinci Code" is not so good. People who have read the original work generally think that the film adaptation is not as exciting as the original novel, and they will inevitably be disappointed.

Most people who haven't read the novel don't know much about religious history and don't have a cold, so they are at a loss when they enter the theater.

Even if it is only released for one day, the score of "The Da Vinci Code" is only 66 points on the D score of fans.

This is very rare in all the movies starring Tom Hanks.

Many people are saying that Tom Hanks is getting old, and he is no longer as aggressive as he was when he was young, and he is more concerned about how to make money for retirement.

The film's Rotten Tomatoes rating is only 25%.

In the face of the film "The Da Vinci Code", film critics are full of resentment against past favorite Tom Hanks, and they are indisputable.

"As a performance artist, Tom Hanks, how can you become a philistine producer like Ronan Anderson?"

These film critics would not have imagined that Tom Hanks, whom they demanded with strict artistic standards, was already negotiating with Dan Brown to adapt another religious novel "Angels and Demons".

However, Preton Pictures has made it clear that it will no longer cooperate with Shahai Entertainment on this film.

Ronan does not intend to continue to participate, and "Angels and Demons" will inevitably be affected by this "Da Vinci Code".

You don’t need to care about the Rotten Tomatoes index, but the audience’s reputation must be considered. The outbreak of “The Da Vinci Code” is actually consuming the audience’s interest in Dan Brown’s novels and religious themes.

But in a short period of time, "The Da Vinci Code" exploded rapidly in the North American film market.

In the first three days of the weekend, the film earned $82.17 million at the box office among 4,180 theaters in North America.

This is also the highest weekend box office record in the history of the North American film market!

However, "The Da Vinci Code" received a score of only "" from the ca&nsp;&nsp;sr theater audience, and the North American box office is expected to be around 240 million U.S. dollars.

Affected by the audience's poor reputation, the North American box office of this film experienced a nearly 60% drop in the second weekend!

However, the $34.12 million box office harvest, combined with the weekday earnings, was enough to push the film's North American box office to $141.12 million.

The controversy caused by "The Da Vinci Code" quickly spread overseas, affecting the viewing choices of many Western audiences.

This weekend, the film was released in many western countries, with a total box office revenue of 94.87 million US dollars in the first weekend.

Embassy Pictures made a prediction based on the feedback from overseas markets, and the overseas box office of "The Da Vinci Code" will be at least twice that of North America.

From a certain point of view, the unusually large number of "Bible" readers may become consumers of the film.

The "Bible" is said to be the best-selling book in the world, surpassing the Little Red Book.

These have provided a huge guarantee for the film's box office success.