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Chapter 594 Another Box Office Champion

The movie is a dream, but Nolan brings the audience into a dream within a dream, and Martin is the pioneer of dream stealing.

He plays the dream stealer Dom Cobb, who is best at sneaking into other people's dreams and stealing valuable information and secrets from their subconscious. If necessary, he will perform further memory transplants and tamper with the other person's memory.

A creative concept and theme, a simple story, but Nolan once again uses relatively complex narrative techniques.

Even so, the film is not difficult to understand at all.

Hollywood has proven time and again over the decades that overly complicated movies will only drive away audiences and shut themselves out of the market.

Nolan also uses a lot of visual spectacle shots that can attract passers-by.

In dream scenes, there is no need to respect the physical laws of the real world. All kinds of space reversals, seawater backflow, city collapse, etc. can be fully played out.

The only things that can limit a movie are its budget and its imagination.

When the subtitles on the big screen of the Kodak Theater ended and the ceiling lit up, the audience burst into warm applause.

If "The Matrix" created a new realm of "pretentious movies", then "Inception" pushed it to a new height.

The whole audience was applauding, and Nolan and the main creators of the crew went on stage to take their bows.

Tom Hardy had been quietly observing Martin, watching Martin standing with Nolan and enjoying the craziest admiration from the audience.

Thinking about everything he had endured for Martin, he couldn't help feeling unbalanced.

The greatest injustice and suffering fell on him, while the benefits, money and glory went to others.

Following the main creative staff of the crew to take their bows, Tom Hardy did not feel any excitement or excitement, only depression and sadness.

After finally making it to the end, he came out from the backstage and reunited with his agent.

The two of them walked out together.

Tom Hardy asked: "When Inception just started filming, Director Nolan told me that he wanted me to play Bane, the villain in The Dark Knight Rises. Why did someone else get the role?"

The agent said, "The crew gave us feedback that you're not big enough."

"They are talking nonsense!" Tom Hardy didn't believe it: "If that was the reason, Director Nolan wouldn't have invited me."

The agent was silent for a moment, then said, "Before the shooting, when I communicated with Emma Thomas, Nolan's mind had not changed. But shortly after the shooting... before the crew went to Paris, when I asked again, Nolan said that inviting you was just a preliminary idea, and that the details would be determined after Bain's audition."

Tom Hardy couldn't help but say: "Another shooting!"

The agent didn't want his client to think he was incompetent, and since he had a ready-made excuse in front of him, he simply pushed it onto his boss: "The shooting incident had a huge impact on you. Everyone thinks you did it. No one is willing to defend you. Director Nolan also overturned the idea of ​​asking you to play Bane."

"I know." Tom Hardy asked, "I wasn't their target originally."

The agent nodded and responded, "According to Brad Pitt's confession, he was instructed by Harvey Weinstein to target Martin Davis."

He consoled: "Harvey Weinstein will soon be severely punished!"

Tom Hardy didn't say anything, thinking that the culprit was not Harvey, but Martin.

Harvey was far away from him, but Martin was close.

But Tom Hardy kept all of this in his heart. That bastard Martin was not someone to be trifled with.

On the other side, three bastards, Martin, Leonardo and Nicholson, got into the same car and prepared to go to the nightclub to wash their faces.

The topic of the three people is still the party prepared by Leonardo.

Leonardo has been checking his phone, saying the latest news: "In addition to the models, there will be several Russian and Ukrainian actresses who want to break into Hollywood."

Martin suddenly remembered Catherine the Great who often appeared in short videos on the Internet in his previous life. Unfortunately, he only remembered that she played such a role but didn't know her name.

Nicholson said: "Russian and Ukrainian actresses, Milla Jovovich who is in Hollywood, are not counted. I only know one Yelena Kolikova. When she was developing in Hollywood, I talked to her, but unfortunately she returned to Russia later."

Martin asked, "Jack, when you say chat, do you mean a serious chat?"

Nicholson spread his hands: "Isn't it normal to have a deeper conversation after chatting?"

Leonardo shrugged and said to Nicholson, "You will be disappointed. Yelena is too old. The actresses who come will be similar to models. They won't be very famous. After all, this is my first time organizing a party there, and I haven't figured out the route yet."

Martin suddenly thought of a question: "Leo, is Yan Zi one of the people you invited?"

Leonardo has heard of it: "KGB swallows? Don't worry, there won't be any. It's not easy to train swallows, each one is very precious, and it's impossible for them to be used on us."

He said carelessly: "Even if there is, what can we do? I will hire the most professional security guards to conduct inspections, and they will just become prey if they come in!"

Nicholson became interested: "I've heard so many rumors about swallows, but I've never seen one, let alone caught one."

Martin's naked revelation: "Because you are worthless!"

"Yes, you are valuable." Nicholson countered: "After killing so many Russian spies, the Swallows will definitely calm you down completely..."

Leonardo deliberately asked, "How can you be calm?" Nicholson pulled out with one hand and gestured with the other hand to cut with a knife: "Of course it is like this!"

Martin knew very well that he had never killed a single Russian spy, and it was all framed by the LAPD and the FBI.

Leonardo pressed Martin's shoulders and said, "Hey, you're not going to be a wimp anymore, are you?"

Martin would of course not admit it: "Are you kidding? I've always been the toughest one!"

The three of them washed their faces, feeling refreshed, and then went to Avalon to have a few drinks before going home.

There was an extra text message on Martin's phone, sent by Thomas. Warner Bros. conducted a questionnaire survey at the premiere and the audience responded very well.

The next day, the ban on media reviews of "Inception" was lifted.

Kenneth Turan, a film critic for the Los Angeles Times, gave the film great praise: "Inception's anti-physics exploration, exciting action scenes, impactful emotions, and Martin Davis's astonishing performance as always, all make people indulge in it."

It also received rave reviews in other media.

"Martin Davis once again proved his excellent eye for film selection. Inception, a collaboration with director Christopher Nolan, is a fascinating sci-fi dream journey."

On the website, it is a carnival for movie fans.

"One person has many faces, which is exactly what Martin is like. Although both are commercial films, the characters he portrays show completely different temperaments. In John Wick, he almost performed the action scenes to the extreme, and in Inception, he showed elegance, humor and wisdom..."

As the film's reputation was lifted, various statistical data were released. The Rotten Tomatoes freshness was 94%, the IMDB average score was 9.2 points, the MTC media score was 83 points, and the CS live audience's overall score was A.

"Inception" has received rave reviews.

Of course there are negative reviews, for example, some groups are targeting Martin.

"Martin's films are always very messy, full of violent elements such as explosions, gunfights and killings. These have nothing to do with art. He is as far away from being an artist as New York is from Los Angeles."

Apart from money and gold, who else can make everyone like him?

There is Martin pink, and naturally there is also Martin black.

Martin is still relatively okay, but Nolan has a large number of haters because of the battle for points for "The Dark Knight" on IMDB.

As soon as the premiere of "Inception" ended, many one-star negative reviews appeared in the relevant column of IMDB.

"This movie is pure garbage, one of the worst movies ever made. I know that my comments will inevitably be attacked by Nolan's crazy fans, because I see through the essence of "Inception" - bullshit!"

Similar comments were quickly drowned out by wildly positive reviews.

But for this mega-production with a production budget of $1.6 million and a total publicity and promotion cost of $8000 million, the only thing that really determines its success or failure is commercial returns.

Among all commercial revenues, box office revenue is the most basic.

Commercial screening means that online advertising consumers have given the advertisement a lot of bad reviews, which will definitely affect offline sales.

By Thursday night, "Inception" was released early in 1800 theaters in North America.

Because of the original film, the midnight show only grossed $412 million.

"You're not going to pounce, are you?"

Bruce, who received the report from the previous night in the manor, frowned: "This number is a bit low."

Martin was calm and reminded: "The midnight box office of Avatar was only 353 million US dollars. Original films have a natural disadvantage."

Without his and Nolan's fame, it would be good for this movie to have $200 million at the midnight show.

Martin asked, "What about The Last Airbender, which is scheduled for the same period?"

Bruce said, "275 million dollars, but this is an animated film." He suddenly changed the subject: "But the film has a very bad reputation, the IMDB score is not over 6, and the CS live audience score is only B-."

Martin said: "After today, success or failure will be determined."

This year's Independence Day falls on a weekend, so Americans have three days off. Starting from July 7, "Inception" will be released in 2 theaters in North America.

The film did not adopt the strategy of simultaneous global release. Even in markets such as the UK, Mexico and Brazil, it will be released at the earliest next weekend.

Even though "Inception" has Martin and Nolan in the lead, the inherent high risks of original films still make many people full of doubts.

Countless box office stars and big-name directors in the past have failed because of their original films.

In just one day on Friday, "Inception" earned 2654 million US dollars, taking the number one spot on the box office list.

"The Last Airbender", which was released at the same time, only earned $1557 million.

The former has received extremely good reviews from both the media and the audience, indicating that it will have a very stable box office trend.

The latter has a terrible reputation.

(End of this chapter)