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It's not without reason that Nicholas of the Los Angeles Times picked Hugo and Brad as opponents in his report.

It is also involved with Tracy, and also participated in the audition for "Love in the River" and "The Hero of the Sea of ​​Righteousness". These can only be said to be subjective reasons. More importantly, Hugo and Brad are both tall and handsome. And there is sunshine and justice in the temperament, but Brad is more unruly, and Hugo is warmer. You must know that in the actor industry, the competition between similar types of actors is very cruel, and often there can only be one winner. The reason why Hugo and Brad met in the audition of two works in a short period of time is that one irrefutable evidence.

Therefore, when Nicholas listed these two people as opponents, many people expressed surprises - after all, they had not had any head-to-head confrontation before, but they had to agree with them. So, when "Love in the Big River" and "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" were released one after the other, people couldn't help but get excited.

"Love in the River", which was released last week, has achieved a good reputation, with 68 points in the media's comprehensive evaluation and "B" in the theater. The review performance is also very good. As for Brad's views, they all focus on his innocent smile. They think that he has the style of director Robert Redford when he was young. The nickname "Redford Successor" has spread like wildfire. Brad's popularity soared again, continuing the positive impact of the previous "Crazy Flowers".

At this time, Brad is still a complete newcomer. Whether it is "Crazy Flower" or "Love in the River", he is an absolute supporting role, and there are not many scenes, but in these two works, Brad De's performance has won a lot of praise, which makes people think of Hugo when he first debuted.

The media comprehensive review of "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" released this week scored 72 points, and the theater score was "B+", which can be said to be slightly ahead of the performance of "Big River Love". In the evaluation of Hugo, praises such as "playing opponents with Al do not fail", "renewed the light of acting talent", "dedicated wonderful performances" and other praises occupy an absolute advantage, especially "Hudson Eagles" "The negative impact brought by this wonderful performance has been diluted a lot, and people have remembered the good times of Hugo in "Dead Poets Society" in 1989.

In the head-to-head confrontation between Brad and Hugo, it is clear that Hugo is receiving more attention. Because Hugo's rival actor is Al, and Al has contributed a hall-level performance in the movie, under such pressure, Hugo still does not fall behind, which makes Hugo even more outstanding.

"U.S. Weekly" joked with great interest in the comments written, "In the face of Brad's menacing challenge, although Hugo lost the audition for 'Love in the River', he used 'Smell' The wonderful performance of "Scent and Knowing a Woman" gave a blow back, which is really worth pondering, I wonder if Brad will regret that he didn't get the audition for "Scent and Knowing a Woman"?"

Brad got irritated when he saw this review in Us Weekly, and last week he was complacent because of the praise of "River Love", but now Hugo gave him such a wonderful performance A bucket of cold water, which really made Brad hold his breath hard, not knowing where to vent.

First, he lost the audition for "Yihai Xiongfeng", and then the advantage of "Dahelian" disappeared in front of "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman". Recalling his self-confidence after the audition for "Dahelian", Brad felt more and more Cheeks are hot.

"Brad, don't you..." Agent Martin Baum looked very calm after going through countless storms. In fact, he was constantly rolling in his heart, but he just didn't want to show it. In Martin's view, although "Scent and Knowing a Woman" performed very well, "Love in the River" performed well, and Brad was not a failure at all.

But the young and vigorous Brad couldn't listen to these advice, and interrupted Martin's words directly, "Nothing? Don't be angry? How is it possible! Don't you see the comments from those media? They always call me Comparing it with Hugo, it is almost a shame not to directly say that I failed miserably! A shame!"

Martin opened his mouth and swallowed the phrase "Aren't you voluntarily trying to compete with Hugo?" in his throat. It's definitely not a good thing to stimulate Brad at this time. There also seems to be a problem with Lacey Jacobs, and if he adds fuel to the fire now, things will get out of hand.

So Martin's words to his lips became, "Recall what the media said about you, it was full of praise, no one said your performance was bad, no! Did the media forget about your praise? It's just rain now. If your performance returns to normal, you start to panic, get restless, and worry, isn't there a way for your brain to calm down?"

This series of words from Martin made Brad dizzy. In fact, he didn't hear the content clearly. He only knew that Martin kept emphasizing the media's praise for him before, which made Brad a little calmer.

"However, the box office of his movie is also better than mine!" Brad was still not fully awake, he suddenly thought of something, the box office of "Big River Love" last week was 25,000 US dollars, which is not as good as "Smell Love". Fragrance Knows a Woman"; and this week's "Dahe Love" single-house box office was 19,000 US dollars, and was defeated in a head-to-head battle with "Scent of a Woman". It's sad enough for an art film to lose word of mouth, but it also gets beat at the box office, which really makes Brad very concerned.

"So what? It's only the first week, and it's no use getting mad." Martin looked at the smashed coffee cup on his carpet and couldn't help sighing, if it weren't for Brad's promising future Next, Brad broke his coffee cup because he was too excited when he heard the box office results of "Scent of a Woman". He should have gotten angry, but Martin still forcibly endured it.

Martin turned his gaze back to Brad, who was still indignant, "Not to mention that I don't know the next box office trend, even if the performance of 'Scent of a Woman' is better this time, you still have countless numbers in the future. Opportunity, isn't it? You are on the rise now, and Hugo has only recovered once, and the future is still uncertain, you will still have opportunities to compete with each other, and you can win it back then."

This time Brad finally calmed down and listened quietly to Martin's words. Martin struck while the iron was still hot and said, "Don't you have confidence in yourself?"

"Who said that!" Brad immediately frowned and said excitedly with a blushing face, "Next time, next time I will definitely win!"

Thinking of Tracy's joking joke with director Robert after the first batch of comments on "Scent of a Woman" came out, "What would the effect be if Hugo played?" Although it was just a joke, Robert also laughed. He replied, "More handsome than me?" It wasn't serious at all, but even so, Brad still remembered it in his heart.

Thinking of this, Brad clenched his teeth and clenched his fists, "Definitely!"

However, Brad's wish was doomed to fail this time, because in the head-to-head confrontation between "Love in the River" and "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman", the latter took the lead with an absolute advantage.

In the fourth week of October, "Love in the River" took the lead in expanding the scale of its screenings. 130 theaters received a weekend box office of $1.58 million, ranking among the top ten in the weekend box office rankings and ranking ninth. ; And "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman", which still sticks to the 20 theaters and continues to show, under the promotion of excellent word of mouth, the box office of the single hall has not dropped but increased, and the single hall data of 30,000 US dollars has made the film's weekend box office come At 600,000, it ranks fourteenth out of seventeen films on the list.

Even so, the single-hall box office of "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" surprised everyone.

In the fifth week of October, "Scent of a Scent and Knowing a Woman" also expanded its screenings in an all-round way with its excellent reputation. It was released on a large scale in 1,110 theaters across the United States. From this expansion data, it can be seen that Universal Pictures has High confidence in the film. The performance of "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" also paid back the trust of Universal Pictures. It won the box office of seven million US dollars in three days over the weekend. In the eyes of everyone surprised, it actually won the box office in North America this week. The title of the leaderboard, which really made countless people fall through the glasses. Even the most daring box office forecasters didn't anticipate what's happening now!

It also makes this week's North American box office charts a strange situation.

"Under. Siege", which won three consecutive championships, was pulled down and took the runner-up position with a figure of 6.1 million US dollars; At the weekend box office of $4.2 million, it rose to the third place.

Such a list is really unexpected, not to mention that the art film "Love in the River" jumped to the third place, behind it there are many similar to "Candyman", "The Last Mohican ( The.Last.Of.The.Mohicans)" such a work with box office strength; just say "Scent of a Woman", a work that does not have any box office competitiveness, has achieved unexpected success and beat the list The above series of works with strong performance, especially after the three consecutive championships, the accumulated box office has reached 50 million US dollars. "Qianlong Xingtian" was replaced, and "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" won the weekend box office championship. This is definitely called It was a surprise.

At this time, the three-week release of "Scent of a Woman" has accumulated a total of 9 million US dollars at the box office. The book cost has been recovered, and it does not seem to be a problem to achieve profitability. Coupled with the excellent word of mouth, the film will be awarded at the upcoming major awards. The ceremony won a nice spot. It can be said that Universal Pictures' investment this time is really wise.

Don't say that there was a lot of mourning from the media before the movie was released. Even Universal Pictures was quite critical about director Martin Brest's choice of Hugo. They couldn't put enough trust in the Golden Raspberry Award winner. . But what about now? This looks like an excellent choice.

Amid the exclamations of the media, the magical journey of "smell the fragrance and know a woman" is obviously still not over.