“Hey guys, let’s go to the movies today. ”
“See what?”
“The Matrix!”
“Please, you’ve watched it twice, haven’t you seen enough?”
“Of course it’s not enough, no matter how many times I watch it, I don’t think it’s enough, it’s the coolest movie I’ve ever seen. ”
…………
In front of a movie theater.
A reporter interviews a young white man who is queuing up to buy a movie ticket.
Reporter: “What movie are you watching?”
White Youth: “The Matrix, of course, it’s so cool. I watched two of them yesterday and I’m going to watch another one today. ”
Reporter: “Is this dress of yours a Neo style?”
White youth: “Yes, that’s right, I bought it yesterday in the merch store, isn’t it cool.” ”
In Los Angeles in April, the temperature has reached more than 20 degrees, but it doesn’t seem to have any effect on him.
The young man was dressed in a black trench coat that was exactly the same as the “Savior” in the movie, with the same black sunglasses, a pair of thick black leather boots on his feet, and a white Apple MP3 stuck in his belt, as if Neo had jumped out of the movie screen – well, if you don’t look at the looks.
Reporter: “It seems that you like The Matrix very much?”
08 The white young man’s eyes widened, and he asked in surprise: “Of course, is there anyone who doesn’t like it!?”
After taking the remote control, Roger Ebert turned off the TV and sat back on the couch, his eyes once again falling on the North American box office statistics in the newspaper in his hand.
This is yesterday, that is, Friday’s single-day box office statistics, and there is no suspense in the first place, but the numbers are much higher than any expert expected.
“The Matrix”, 3,122 theaters, 21.67 million US dollars in a single day on Friday, and a total of 29.82 million US dollars in North America.
The single-day box office of “The Matrix” once again broke the single-day box office record for North American R films.
Roger Ebert doesn’t know where the final box office will go.
But judging from the news I got from yesterday evening to this morning, the peripheral products of this film are very popular, and they can even be comparable to Disney’s “The Lion King” that year, ranking first among live-action movies, surpassing “Jurassic Park”.
If this development continues, Meyers Films will only rely on the peripheral income from cooperation with various manufacturers, and I am afraid it will be able to recover its costs!
Roger Ebert looked aggrieved.
On the one hand, I regret coveting Harvey Weinstein’s 100,000 dollar slash and saying bad things about “The Matrix”.
On the one hand, I am not angry, my influence is so low that I can’t affect the box office of a movie at all.
“No, you can’t just throw in the towel, otherwise—”
Roger Ebert couldn’t help but be clever, once those Hollywood studios knew that he had lost his influence on the film, then his future income would inevitably shrink significantly.
Roger Ebert got up from the couch and decided to continue his critique of The Matrix, this time not for Harvey Weinstein, but for himself.
Roger Ebert picked up the phone and dialed several numbers.
“Hi Brant, I need a little favor from you…”
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“Hello, Creechell, I’m Roger… We critics must unite…”
“Turan, have you noticed that the influence of our film critics has declined, and we must reshow our strength…”
…………
Day 2.
Jeff Raymond came to the office, and the secretary had already sorted out today’s newspapers and placed them on his desk, and each newspaper had been turned to the entertainment section in advance.
Jeff picked up the top newspaper and read it, then sat up straight and his expression became serious.
“With a thin plot and naïve theories, this film makes people wonder if this is really a film written by Martin himself?”
“A film of no sincerity, we don’t see anything of value except for the special effects, except for those few actions and explosions, and I can totally consider it a failed work, it doesn’t have any themes to think about, it’s no different from other popcorn movies. ”
These newspapers have carried a lot of negative reports from film critics.
Although Meyers Films did public relations, it was impossible to reach all film critics, and that would be too expensive.
There’s no way any Hollywood studio would do that.
Generally there are some more influential PR people – such as Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun, Pauline Kyle of Entertainment Weekly, etc.
Generally speaking, as long as these famous film critics set the wind for the film, other minor film critics will follow suit, and only a few mavericks will disagree.
But this time, it seems that all the little critics are criticizing “The Matrix,” which makes Jeff Raymond smell of conspiracy.
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After a few phone calls, Jeff Raymond thought with a frown.
It’s Roger Ebert’s old thing again, we don’t seem to have offended him, do we?
Jeff hesitated, but finally dialed Martin’s phone.
“Martin, we’re having a little problem…”
Martin’s uncaring voice came from the earpiece, “Don’t worry about these guys, traditional film critics have declined, now is the Internet era, as long as we control the evaluation on the Internet, we don’t have to care about these guys.” Also, I’ve found out who is behind this incident – Harvey Weinstein, pay attention to him and his film. ”
Martin’s words brought back the confidence in Jeff’s heart.
He nodded and said, “Understood.” ”
Despite how the 923 critics jumped up and down in the newspapers to criticize “The Matrix,” the praise on the Internet was not affected at all.
With the prosperity of the Internet, there are more and more young people who don’t care about the voices of these traditional film critics.
The Internet is a free carrier that allows them to make their voices heard and their opinions expressed.
There are even quite a few fans of “The Matrix” who went to the websites of the media that criticized the movie, leaving a sentence of rebuttal or ridicule.
“The Matrix is naïve? I really don’t know what your criteria are? I’m twenty-seven years old, and I don’t think this movie is naïve, but there are many food for thought…”
“Haha, do you guys really know what a good movie is? Are movies that make people sit in the movie theater and fall asleep are good movies? I’m sorry, but I’m going to support the movies that you think are bad…”
“Film critics are getting more and more idiots nowadays, my father used to admire Roger Ebert, but now he also thinks that Roger Ebert’s views are outdated, because he loves “The Matrix” to death, and the two of us bought the same trench coat together, haha, my father and I haven’t been so close for a long time, thanks to “The Matrix”…”
(Brothers, please take care of it, evaluation, flowers, collections, and rewards are all here, thank you.) ）。 []
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