Chapter 865 Full of Awe

Today, Nolan has become a golden signboard for high-end commercial films.

With "The Dark Knight" and "Inception", Nolan has become a god in the hearts of countless movie fans.

Nolan can be said to be a typical star director of this era. Together with Martin, the leading actor, they are praised as the golden combination in the film and have great market appeal.

Since mid-June, the main creative staff of the crew, including Martin and Nolan, have frequently been interviewed on TV or magazines.

The title of "the annual sci-fi brain-burning masterpiece" has also been hyped up in publicity notices.

At the same time, the so-called viewing strategy has also been widely circulated.

Similar to "Inception" that year, "Interstellar" has not yet been released, and related physics popularization and expert analysis have been bombarded on major online platforms at a pace of screen-sweeping.

The promotional video of "Interstellar" rarely shows the scenes in the movie.

In the last trailer released in July, Martin's voiceover was accompanied by a large number of real space archives from NASA and SpaceX, which also attracted a large number of space fans.

Warner Bros. is confident in the combination of Nolan and Martin. As the film approaches its release date, all aspects of publicity for the film are overwhelming.

"Nolan and Martin's new film creates a cosmic wonder!"

"In Interstellar, the black hole wonder is presented to the big screen for the first time, creating the most breathtaking visual effects in film history!"

"Martin, who was rescued in space last time, shoulders the fate of saving mankind this time, performing a rational and rigorous romance!"

After the Independence Day holiday, Warner Bros. held a grand premiere for Interstellar in Los Angeles.

There were crowds of people in front of the Dolby Theater.

In order to create topics and to show their uniqueness, at Nolan's suggestion, Martin, Nolan, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain walked on the premiere red carpet together.

The fans were almost crazy shouting everyone's name. When the four stood in the media area, the flash on the camera turned the sunset into the scorching sun at noon.

Jessica Chastain turned her back to the camera, showing off her beautiful white back.

Martin suddenly found that Anne Hathaway looked older than Jessica Chastain, who was actually older.

Especially when she smiled, her crow's feet were too obvious.

After taking the photos as usual, Martin and Nolan walked in front and entered the Dolby Theater together.

As they walked, they talked about some things about Oscars.

As for Oscars, Nolan was no exception, so he chose the very politically correct theme of Dunkirk for his next project.

"I heard that the post-production of your first film has begun?" Nolan asked.

Martin said, "Louise is in charge of the post-production."

Nolan became interested and said with a smile, "Maybe one day, we will become rivals in the Oscars."

Martin thought about it and said, "Chris, the gap between you and me in directing is too big."

Although he learned a lot from Nolan, he only learned a small part of the directing ability at most. On the contrary, Martin learned 70% to 80% of Nolan's marketing master side.

If this happens, Martin may not even be Nolan's rival if he only competes in movies.

Nolan came over and asked, "What about the next project you will direct? Do you have any plans?"

Martin only told Louise about it, but when Nolan asked him, he said a few more words: "If you don't direct "Joker", I plan to try it myself."

Nolan said seriously: "The Dark Knight Rises is my last superhero movie."

Martin was not surprised and did not continue the topic.

The group entered the VIP room. Daniel, the president of Warner Pictures, greeted Nolan and immediately came to Martin: "Let's talk alone."

Martin went to a place with fewer people.

The two had experienced cooperation, split and then cooperation. It can be said that they were so familiar with each other that they couldn't be more familiar. Daniel asked directly: "Are you not going to cooperate with Nolan in his next film?"

Martin said: "His next film is about the Dunkirk evacuation. There is no male protagonist, and the main roles are all planned to use British actors."

"Is that so." Daniel was a little worried about the market prospects.

Movies about World War II have not performed well in Hollywood in recent years. It seems that the audience no longer buys the so-called humanistic care and reflection.

Hollywood's reflection method is not very useful in North America.

Especially in recent years, there are more and more opinions that "Saving Private Ryan" and "Schindler's List" are overly sensational.

Daniel roughly guessed Nolan's idea: "For the Oscar?"

Martin smiled: "You can talk to Director Nolan about it. Warner is still his first choice."

Daniel nodded, but frowned when he left, because this type of film does not have a good market prospect, even if the director is Christopher Nolan.

He wanted Nolan to continue to work with Martin and continue to shoot science fiction movies, even original science fiction movies.

But when a director reaches Nolan's level, just like when actors reach Martin and Leonardo, the production company can no longer force them.

Hollywood is no longer an era of one company dominating.

The fat white man Musk, who had been waiting for a long time, saw that there was no one around Martin and came over.

The woman holding his arm was neither Amber Heard nor Talulah Riley, who remarried him, but a stranger.

Musk didn't mean to introduce him, but spoke directly to Martin: "Dude, congratulations on your "John Wick 3" North American box office of over $500 million. If I had known it would be so popular, I would have played a cameo villain."

This guy has many fans online and acts very high-profile. Martin continued his words and said: "The next film in the series, "The Continental Hotel New York", will start shooting soon. If you are interested, you can go to the crew to make a cameo."

Musk was very interested: "Leave me a contact number."

Martin left Chad Stahelski's contact number and said: "Tesla is very popular recently, and the stock price has risen very fast."

"What does this mean?" Musk is never lacking in confidence: "I have a good management!"

He smiled so hard that his face was shaking: "I promised you that I was right? Every dollar you invested in Tesla has achieved at least tenfold growth!"

Martin said: "I hope it can grow tenfold again."

Musk vowed: "I will."

Martin deliberately acted like he believed in him.

When Martin invested in Tesla in 2012, Tesla's market value was only $3.2 billion.

What about now? The market value has reached nearly 33 billion US dollars.

Martin has invested 50 million US dollars in Tesla twice, and with the stocks bought in the secondary market, the lowest investment increase has exceeded ten times.

The two chatted about investment for a while, and a staff member came to remind them that the premiere screening was about to start.

Musk left the lounge first with his female companion.

Martin joined the main creative team of the crew and followed Nolan and Emma Thomas into the screening hall.

Although "Interstellar" is an original movie with a hard science fiction style, the Dolby Theater was full tonight under the influence of Martin and Nolan's strong market appeal.

In the entire Hollywood director circle, Nolan's fans are absolutely the most crazy, and no director can match him.

From the crew entering the theater to everyone sitting in the front row, the thunderous applause in the Dolby Theater has never stopped.

The theater was quiet until the lights on the ceiling went out.

Perhaps in order to create a sense of reality, the beginning of the film adopts a pseudo-documentary approach, with some old people describing the crisis encountered by the earth.

The earth is experiencing extreme climate, food crisis and large-scale plant death caused by blight. The end of the world is coming. The only remaining team of NASA and SpaceX found the male protagonist and asked him to lead the last team through the wormhole near Saturn to find a planet with habitable possibilities.

At first glance, this is an interstellar adventure science fiction epic.

From time to space to wormholes, everything shown in the picture gives people a sense of shock.

But in essence, it still belongs to Hollywood clichés.

For example, family and family affection.

The result is naturally that love saves everything.

This point cannot be said to be good or bad, but under the shocking picture, it is such a cliché theme, which will definitely cause some controversy in the film.

Of course, Nolan insisted on using IMAX cameras to shoot and refused to 3D the picture. The effect is really good and can be called "one of the most beautiful space pictures in film history."

The picture effect and the gimmick of the black hole are enough to attract many viewers to go to the theater to watch this space blockbuster.

Another point is that time, space and thinking logic have always been one of the selling points of Nolan's films. This time, he threw his ambition for time and space directly into the vast universe.

As for the true and false physics and space theories, it is hard to say how much the audience can understand.

Experience over the past few decades has shown that the more difficult it is for the majority of audiences to understand a movie, the worse its commercial performance tends to be.

Some movies, even if they are praised by some groups of fans, still take more than ten or twenty years to recover their costs.

When the screening of "Interstellar" ended, applause rang out like thunder.

In fact, many viewers did not understand the things in space at all.

But most of the people who attended the premiere were die-hard fans of Martin and Nolan. Even if they did not understand it, they would still say that the film was well shot and very exciting.

Even those who dared to express their opinions that they could not understand it or were deliberately mysterious would immediately be sprayed as brainless, stupid and idiotic, saying that these were problems with your IQ, not the film.

Especially Nolan's die-hard fans.

A similar situation has occurred three times in the IMDB war and social media war of "The Dark Knight", "Inception" and "The Dark Knight Rises".

Nolan took Martin and other main creative staff to the stage to take a bow. In addition to the warm applause, they also won cheers.

The premiere ended, and the main creative staff left first.

In the lobby where the audience was leaving, several staff members of Warner Pictures conducted a random questionnaire survey.

Nolan's fans spoke enthusiastically, and in the questionnaire feedback, they expressed their love and admiration for Nolan's movies.

"It's so magnificent, I can't describe it in words, I burst into tears at the end."

"Can you give it 100 stars? Can I give Interstellar 100 stars? I am full of awe, for the universe, for the movie, and for Director Nolan!"

"My friend asked me why my knees hurt, because I watched the whole movie on my knees!"

"I am so shocked that I don't know what to say now."

Just as Nolan's fans expressed their excitement, some fanatical fans passing by shouted at them: "God-like Nolan!"

"Nolan, you are my faith!"

Facing Nolan's films, the fanatical fans seemed to have lost their minds.

Perhaps there are directors in Hollywood who have more fans than Nolan, but they definitely don't have as many fanatical supporters as Nolan.

Not to mention the director, even Martin's fans are not so fanatical.

This may also be related to the fact that Martin does a lot of shabby things in his daily life. He keeps breaking the filter of creating gods.

There were rumors about Martin everywhere, and the asshole trio was notorious...

Just like no one would worship Leonardo and Nicholson as gods.

Soon after Martin left the theater, he received a message forwarded by Thomas, and the audience scores compiled by Warner Bros. were released.

As expected, it was "A+".

In addition, there was one more number - an average of 97 points!

Such statistics also gave Warner Bros. full confidence, and it lifted the ban on the reputation of "Interstellar" that night.

The next morning, the IMDB score was released, starting with an astonishing 9.6 points!

This is better than the starting scores of "The Dark Knight" and "Inception"!

It just shows that Nolan is being deified.

In sharp contrast, Rotten Tomatoes, which collects column reviews, has a freshness of only 78%!

This number is not bad, but compared with the Rotten Tomatoes reputation of Nolan's previous films, it can only be said to be average.

The Hollywood Reporter said: Martin Davis' performance is as good as ever, and the Oscar nomination for Best Actor is beckoning Martin again, but director Nolan is lost in space, the plot of the film lacks appeal, and it is completely supported by the high concept and Martin's performance.

"Empire" believes that Nolan's new film is too much bound by secular emotions, resulting in the story and theme being vulgar, too many plot holes, and insufficient overall tension.

Some media and film critics even said: "Interstellar" is a rotten heart movie wrapped in colorful and beautiful sugar coating.

Compared with the criticisms of the film and Nolan, Martin's performance is still highly praised.

"Martin interprets the role of a father who puts family affection first very well, and several emotional scenes are really tear-jerking."

From the premiere to the public release, the reputation of "Interstellar" has shown a trend of differentiation.

Movie fans enthusiastically give high scores, while the media and film critics believe that compared with Nolan's past few films, "Interstellar" is of mediocre quality.

But the atmosphere of the market has been set off by fans.

"To say that Interstellar is a masterpiece is the greatest compliment to the word masterpiece."

In the fanatical atmosphere created by Nolan's fans, the film opened smoothly.

On Thursday night, the midnight screening began. Among the same 3,600 midnight screenings, the attendance rate of Interstellar was far less than that of John Wick: Chapter 3, the sequel to the blockbuster movie.

The box office of the midnight screening closed at $9.67 million.