Chapter 2012: 2012 Dark Fairy Tale
No one will forget that the era of blockbuster movies officially began with "Independence Day", and the subsequent "Titanic" only further pushed this wave to its peak; but no one will forget that the Oscars not long ago In fact, the two works of "As Good as It Gets" and "LA Confidential" are precisely the biggest resistance against "Titanic".
Now, a "Truman Show" alludes to the sorrow and cruelty of entertainment to death, and pushes the era of commercial blockbusters led by "Titanic" to the judgment stand!
This is not only a continuation of the recent frenzy among reformers and conservatives, but also a true and ironic presentation of the status quo of entertainment to death with the story of "Truman Burbank". The cruelty of human soul and blood erupted unreservedly, showing the controversy after the arrival of the blockbuster era in a complete and comprehensive way.
This is a very interesting thing. Truman Burbank itself is an entertainment product. He was adopted by an organization and became a commodity in the image of this organization. He carefully crafted the packaging, hoping to attract more benefits for himself. In fact, this is the same as the movie , the film company is responsible for the production and distribution, seeking word of mouth, awards, and box office, and the ultimate goal is to win profits.
Therefore, the program group in the movie has always built Truman according to the commodity. They control Truman's life curve, control Truman's emotional direction, control Truman's life development, and even control Truman's ideology. Let the product really impress the audience. It's like shooting a movie, treating all the characters as puppets, and then setting off the atmosphere from multiple angles such as scenery, lighting, photography, clothing, makeup, etc., and finally achieving the purpose of attracting the audience into the cinema.
But the program team overlooked one thing, the most important thing: Truman is not only an entertainment product, but also a living person, a fresh life with self-thought and self-soul. This is also a part that the program group has no way of controlling at all, and it is also a part that determines the quality of "commodities".
Just like a popcorn commercial blockbuster, when the crew controls the film from all aspects, but loses focus on the most core, most important, and most connotative part, the story is reduced to only visual effects, explosion effects, and magnificent pictures. The carrier, from "Independence Day" to "Titanic", and gone on this road forever, lost the meticulousness of "LA Confidential", lost the delicate truth of "As Good as It Gets", lost Without the spiritual power of "Forrest Gump", the pioneering innovation of "Pulp Fiction", and the historical reflection of "Schindler's List", these commercial blockbusters will gradually become empty shells. Like the walking dead, it is not only difficult to impress the audience, but will gradually be lost in the long river of history.
Truman-Burbank is actually a reference to movie products, and the dilemma Truman faces in the movie is the confusion and dilemma that the movie industry is currently facing at the crossroads of entertainment and death.
In fact, this is not just a controversy between progressives and conservatives in recent times, it can be traced back to the beginning of the frenzy of commercial genre films such as "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and so on , The film industry has always been controversial about this-the essence is the paradox of finding a balance between commercial films and art films.
Then at the end of the 1980s, after the brokerage company increased the actors' remuneration by a large margin, the cost of the film rose rapidly, and the debate reached a new peak; now with the impact of "Independence Day" and "Titanic" on the box office market. The potential was tapped, and the focus topic erupted like a volcano.
In "The Truman Show", Peter Will ended with Truman's going out, but he didn't really show the picture behind the ending, because Peter knew clearly that challenging the unknown is very scary, and everyone is afraid of change , but if you refuse to change and just stick to your own safe field, then the arrival of demise is only a matter of time. Therefore, Peter hopes that Truman will go out—just like the audience in a movie theater, so can commercial blockbusters in the real world "go out"?
There is no doubt that "The Truman Show" presents the two topics of entertainment to death and freedom to death in the form of pornography, absurdly and weirdly, and it deeply and strongly expresses The tragedy of this absurd reality was conveyed, and the frenzy of heated discussions that had been temporarily slackened by the Oscars was revived once again.
Under such circumstances, the media's comprehensive evaluation reached an incredible 96 points, and the opinions of the film critics can also be seen from the side. The development trend of the film industry is always the same: whether it is a commercial film or an art film, it is most important to concentrate all energy on the work itself in a down-to-earth manner. The spirit of entertaining to death will only make the movie go to death step by step.
With a super high score of 96 points, it not only satisfies this year's classic comedies such as "Slim Daddy" and "Grandmaid in Disguise", but also makes well-known comedies in film history-such as "Modern Times", "Urban "The Light of the Tiger", "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth" - far behind, even among all types of movies, they also rank high in the forefront, all of which make "The Truman Show" advance into the classics of film history ranks.
The excellent performance of the media comprehensive evaluation represents the attitude of the film critics, while the theater score represents the feedback of the audience.
However, since this is only the premiere, less than 1,000 viewers were able to watch "The Truman Show" live, so the theater scores are not universal. After the quantity, this score can have reference value.
But even so, after the premiere of "The Truman Show" reached the theater score of "A+", everyone was shocked, which almost means that the audience gave the film the highest praise, and the media's full score of 100 Points don't make any difference. As a comedy movie - even if it's just the premiere, it can be said that it is the highest praise that cannot be duplicated.
It has always been the most difficult thing to make the audience laugh. What is even more difficult is that after making the audience laugh, they can also impress the audience and make the audience give a thumbs up to the work. In the long history of film and television, there will never be more than one work that can win such an honor.
Now, "The Truman Show" has done it again. This work, known as "**********", has won word of mouth and praise. Of course, the current statistical sample is only less than 1,000 people. With the full release of the movie, theater scores are bound to decline, but in China. After the premiere at the National Theater, a very interesting statistic appeared: the number of people who inquired about pre-sale tickets for "The Truman Show" unexpectedly reached an incredible 20,000 people!
Of course, "The Truman Show" does not have pre-sale tickets, and now there are only a handful of works in Hollywood that allow movie theaters to sell pre-sale tickets. Even "Independence Day" and "Titanic" do not have pre-sale tickets, only "Jurassic" "Park 2: The Lost World" is a film with a series of works that allows theaters to sell advance tickets.
The main reason is that commercial blockbusters are still not rising across the board, and the concept of "advance tickets" has not been fully popularized. People don't think that there is a movie that needs to buy tickets in advance, and it is enough to buy tickets on the spot on the day-"Independence Day "Such a scene where thousands of people are empty and tickets are hard to find has only appeared once so far.
In the next few days, more and more people asked about the pre-sale tickets of "The Truman Show". According to the box office statistics, the pre-sale box office of "The Truman Show" has already reached 800,000 U.S. dollars. Now, it is not only unbelievable, but also a situation that no one can imagine.
Although theater scores are still not universal at present, the non-existent "advance tickets" prove that "The Truman Show" has an irreplaceable important position in the audience's mind.
At the same time, the combination of "The Truman Show" and the hot topics in the past few months has once again reached its peak, and it has caused countless audiences to have great enthusiasm for this movie, which makes people's enthusiasm for this work The box office results in its opening weekend were met with great anticipation.
In contrast, "The Perfect Murder", which premiered on the same day, fell into a predicament of being completely ignored. In the relevant media reports on June 2, "The Truman Show" fully surpassed There are more than four hundred articles, and the news of "Super Perfect Murder" is less than one hundred-and this is still under the situation that Warner Bros. is doing its best to promote it, which can almost be described as deserted.
The propaganda power of Warner Bros. far exceeds that of Paramount Pictures, but the momentum presented by the two films has completely switched positions. In the case of "Super Perfect Murder" full of confidence and ambition, this result can It is unacceptable to say.
What's even more frightening is that the media reviews and theater scores of "Super Perfect Murder" are very poor, although many people expected such an ending-wanting to be comparable to the works starring Hugo Lancaster, This can definitely be said to be a low-probability event; but the media review of "Super Perfect Murder" with only 50 points is really too bad, not to mention comparing it with "The Truman Show", even for the work itself It is an unacceptable evaluation, especially under the cover of such a strong cast of the film, this achievement is even more incredible.
The theater score is only a barely passing "C", which also proves that the audience has no interest in this work.
Under such a situation, the box office prospect of "Super Perfect Murder" on the opening weekend has become precarious, not to mention confronting "The Truman Show", it can even be said that it is difficult to protect itself! Now, Warner Bros. can only hope that the appeal of Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas can make the film's premiere box office burst into more potential.
In the first week of June, the North American box office is coming!