Two Hundred and Eighty One - Baoxia Cinema
The Chinese Theater in Hollywood was filled with applause, cheers, whistles and cheers.
The whole film lasted for nearly two and a half hours, and no one among the hundreds of people left their seats to go to the restroom during the screening. Fans rarely made any noise during the screening. They were all concentrating on watching the movie, not to mention that fans left the show early because it did not suit their taste. .
Although this premiere was very grand, no celebrities were invited. The only "outsider" was Nicolas Cage.
Therefore, when the fans were unwilling to leave for a long time, everyone in the crew gave four curtain calls with continuous applause before the satisfied audience lined up to leave.
"Although this film is definitely destined to be a hit, I still have to congratulate you on a job well done."
Nicolas Cage waited for the audience to begin to leave, and was the first to walk up to Wayne, hugged him, and said politely. "This is definitely a work that is not inferior to "Joker". It simply takes into account both commercial selling points and artistic connotation."
Wayne patted the other person on the back, let him go and said with a smile, "Thank you."
Afterwards, Nicolas Cage sent blessings to the photographers and lighting technicians who were familiar with him, and then he reluctantly went to the party hotel prepared by Warner Brothers under the leadership of the staff.
To be honest, since "Joker", although he has not lacked filming, it is difficult to achieve higher achievements. In the past two years, it can be said that he has been taking advantage of Arthur's success.
The reason why I happily agreed to Warner Bros. this time was because I wanted to test Wayne. If Batman were to film a second film, no one would be more suitable for the role of the Joker than him.
But through a simple chat before the screening, Nicolas Cage understood that in Wayne's heart, he was definitely not an irreplaceable candidate. After all, the Joker had absolutely no plans to make a sequel.
Since he has filmed DC character movies and achieved enough success, he has deliberately learned about these comic characters.
Although the Joker is very good, if Warner Bros. wants to continue making movies, there are too many characters and heroes to choose from, and they all have advantages over the Joker.
The independent films of the three justice giants alone may take many years to film, and the love and death between the three giants is definitely not lacking in drama.
Therefore, the Joker role in the next Batman is an opportunity that he must strive for, which will once again take his career further.
Through today's "Batman Begins," Nicolas Cage understands that Wayne Greenberg's shooting technology and market insights have been steadily improving, and the next one may be better.
Especially the one I watched tonight, the dark and serious story is both easy to understand and discusses many social issues.
For example, the lightly mentioned law enforcement issue, does Batman really have law enforcement powers? There are also some issues that constantly reflect reality, which are all mentioned in some depth.
While watching the movie, Nicolas Cage once tried to use his own imagination to remove the aura of Bruce Wayne, that is, remove the DC comic elements. He found that this is a classic crime police film. Even if the protagonist is not Batman, I am afraid it will will be successful.
At this time, only the core creative team and main actors were left in the theater. From the performance of the audience watching the movie, they knew that the performance of this film was definitely not bad.
The only one with an unattractive face, oh no, I can't say that he has an unattractive face, after all, he is a black man, it's just that his facial expression is more complicated.
"What happened to Samuel?"
Naomi Watts stood next to Wayne, looking at the fans exiting in an orderly manner, and asked softly.
Wayne shrugged and leaned closer to her ear. "In Die Hard 3, our main competitor, Samuel L. Jackson also participated in the performance. He shot the film first, so now he is competing with himself."
However, he can be sure that the focus of this motherfucker's work is still on "Batman Begins". After all, the role in this film is more important than that of "Die Hard 3" many.
Therefore, in subsequent promotional activities, he will also tour the United States with the crew here.
"Nina." Wayne called the assistant behind him, and when she came to him, he asked: "It should have been over at the Temple Theater long ago, right? Is there any news?"
He just saw that Nina received a call. He guessed that Warner Bros. had sent over the premiere status of the other party. That film was purely commercial popcorn, and even for the sake of theater scheduling, the duration was not too long.
"In the opinion of Warner Bros.'s investigators, the quality of the other party's film is very good, and it has all the necessary elements. If there is no competition between us, the box office will not be less than 100 million US dollars."
The assistant lady talked about the investigator's analysis, then glanced at her boss, and continued: "There is another situation that needs attention. According to the investigator's words, the purpose of this film is very clear, it is a pure summer release. For a commercial film, at least he went to the bathroom twice in the middle and continued watching without delay when he came back. The storyline is relatively weak."
This is the characteristic of summer commercial blockbusters. All story logic can be appropriately ignored, and all these must make way for elements that movie fans love. Action fighting, explosions, gun battles, etc. are the themes of the film.
Especially for this kind of commercial film with huge investment, Hollywood production companies will strictly control the script time when editing. A conflict will occur in a few minutes, the conflict will be resolved a few minutes later, and a fighting scene will appear in a few minutes. These are all strictly controlled. This is the safest way to make commercial films.
"Everything still depends on the box office. At least we can get preliminary results today." Even if Wayne knew that the other party's film was of excellent quality, he did not have any worries. It is too difficult to overturn "Batman Begins" until now. .
At the same time, when the premiere at Hollywood's Chinese Theater ended and the first batch of fans had already left, nearly a thousand fans had already gathered in the lobby of an Imperial chain theater in Burbank.
These people lined up neatly, preparing to enter different theaters to watch the same movie "Batman Begins."
Even if everyone looks happy and excited, the police on duty are as if they are facing a formidable enemy. Too many people have gathered together. Even with the slightest incitement, uncontrollable accidents will occur. Mass incidents have always been sensitive to the government. point.
"Are these young people crazy? Casey." A tall and fat police officer, whose large police uniform could not hide his bulging belly, looked at the people coming in the hall and looked at him with some annoyance. The partner complained.
"I don't know what these young people are thinking. It's just a movie. Why do they have to gather together to watch it? Can't they wait until the weekend and watch it by themselves? Damn it, we are still required to work overtime here to accompany them. I said, this is definitely an illegal assembly!"
The detective named Casey Jackman is used to facing complaints from his partners. Hector Hal is just a bit of a mouthful, but he is not a bad person.
"Hey, hey, Heck." Casey patted his partner on the shoulder, pointed to the crowd and said, "Don't you usually watch movies? This is Wayne Greenberg's Batman. If you don't need to work overtime, I think I will join them too.”
"Actually, I don't like his movies very much." Hector Hal's eyes changed when he saw his partner, and he explained helplessly: "But it's not up to me. I have already promised to the little boy at home that I will spend the weekend with him. And his mom would take him to see Batman.”
No matter what type of movie it is, there will always be people who don't like it, and that's normal.
This is the case for police officer Hector Hale. He likes simple and rough gun fight movies, the kind of movies that can fully relax and entertain him, rather than Wayne's movies, which are dark and bloody and require you to use your brain when watching them.
But his son, who is in 11th grade, likes it and has rented several videotapes directed by Wayne through him. The videotapes market for R-rated movies is not so strictly regulated.
This time, Wayne Greenberg's Batman is rare and not rated for those over 18 years old. Many teenagers are going crazy, including Hector Hal's son, Little Hal.
Moreover, his son said that more teenagers in the school have been looking forward to this film for months, and most of them have already made appointments and are ready to watch it together on the weekend.
"Quiet, quiet down!"
Suddenly a shrill female voice came from the hall. It was Daisy holding a loudspeaker, standing directly on the ticket counter, shouting loudly to all the fans.
"Gentlemen and ladies, everyone should know me. I am Daisy, the organizer of this event. I'm sorry, because it was the first time to organize so many people, so I was not well prepared for emergencies. Now we have been delayed by one hours, so listen to me!”
This group viewing of Wayne's die-hard movie fans was not as simple as Daisy imagined. A total of more than 900 people signed up. After confirmation, she booked the entire theater cheaply through Warner Bros.
But when the movie was about to start screening, she discovered that she and several organizers were caught off guard by various situations such as late arrivals, temporary delays, and temporary attempts to join.
Moreover, nearly a thousand people gathered together, almost a thousand people with common interests. Everyone was so excited that she was worried that something unexpected would happen.
Now everyone finally arrived. Through statistics, she found that there were more than fifty people, almost all friends who were fans of the movie.
"We will enter the theater immediately. The movie will start in fifteen minutes. Everyone, don't mess around. We don't need movie tickets. Everyone enters the theater in an orderly manner. When it is full, go to the next one.
Also, for the dozens of extra friends, please give me your activity funds. Since you also like Wayne Greenberg’s movies, then we are one of our own, and the IMDB Wayne discussion group also welcomes you. . "
When Daisy finished speaking and saw the crowd queuing up and starting to enter the theater one after another under the organization of the theater staff, she was truly relieved.
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