Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 187: Clown Whirlwind Sweeps Records
It ranked first on imdb250 and broke all box office records on the first day of its release.

The villain JOKER in the film has almost become a cultural symbol.

That’s where The Dark Knight is after the weekend.

That’s right, when Chen Nuo was still accompanying Lori Eisner on a roadshow in Nanjing and Guangzhou, China, in just three days, T-shirts with his portrait printed on them, which were among the peripheral products of “The Dark Knight” prepared in advance by Warner, were sold out in the European and American markets.

Warner's marketing department was so happy. Two hundred thousand T-shirts, who would have thought they would be sold out in a few days? They immediately called the Yiwu factory in China and asked for another two hundred thousand.

From New York to London, from Paris to Vienna, fashionable young people wearing clown T-shirts can be seen everywhere.

Although Chen Nuo gained 20 pounds, his face, covered with chalky foundation and a big red mouth, looked so hideous.

But they walk around the streets wearing T-shirts and don't think there is anything wrong with it at all.

because,

"Why so serious?"

It is destined to be the hottest buzzword among young people this summer.

There is no doubt that the subtle differences in performance between Chen Nuo and Heath Ledger have created a whirlwind of clowns that is even crazier than its predecessor.

He removed the only trace of exaggeration in Heath Ledger's performance and added a more three-dimensional form of expression.

Simply put, if a professional film critic traveled back in time like Chen Nuo, he would find that the Joker played by Chen Nuo this time is a hybrid of Heath Ledger, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and played the Joker in the movie "The Dark Knight", and Joaquin Phoenix, who won the Oscar for Best Actor and played the Joker in the movie "Joker".

At least in this era, it is unprecedented to see a villain with such inner depth, expressiveness, and personality.

This not only left the most demanding European critics speechless, but also completely opened up the market among the most avant-garde and rebellious young European and American literary and artistic people.

These people have always been the most difficult position to conquer in commercial films.

The benefits after conquering it are also astonishingly great.

It’s so big that the Joker will stand in the same hall with characters like the Terminator, Forrest Gump and ET.

French newspaper Liberation said: "The Cannes jury let Nochen miss the Cannes Best Actor award last May. This undoubtedly shows the rigor and pickiness of Cannes, as well as its well-deserved status as the top of the three major film festivals. When the cultural storm brought by JOKER swept the world, we should not forget that it was Cannes that first discovered the rising star Nochen."

Faced with the shameless French, the serious Germans almost burst out laughing. Just the next day, the headline of the second page of the German newspaper Die Welt on July 7 was written in super bold bold letters: "The winner of the Silver Bear Award at the 17th Berlin Film Festival, Chen Nuo, conquered the world with the role of JOKER"

Even the subtitle is "The Dark Knight Shatters Box Office Records on Opening Weekend."

After raking in 14 million U.S. dollars on the opening day of the North American market on the 7141th, The Dark Knight staged an incredible box office trend on Saturday the 15th.

This really surprised HBO's Rafi Clausen and ABC and NBC's box office forecast experts, who almost wondered if they were no longer qualified to be box office forecast experts. Because as a comic book adaptation that is part of the fan economy, this trend is not scientific at all.

Unless it has already broken out of the framework of fan economy and comic-adapted movies.

Because on the second day of its release, "The Dark Knight" only showed a negligible downward trend of -3.8%, which was even smaller than the stock market fluctuations on Wall Street.

Michelle Barry, who once called for holding Warner stock in the Wall Street Journal, has now told his blog readers that they should buy Warner Bros. shares on the dip in the market on Monday.

The next day, The Dark Knight raked away $6869 million from the pockets of American moviegoers. On the third day, Sunday, its box office trend finally showed a decent decline, and the 28.9% drop also gave box office experts a little respite.

However, the opening third day's box office of 4833 million and the final three-day weekend cumulative North American box office of 1.88 million not only broke the first weekend box office record of 3 million US dollars previously held by "Spider-Man 1.511", but also broke the record for the fastest cumulative North American premiere box office revenue.

Everyone who saw the number gasped.

4367 theaters took in $1.88 million in three days over the summer weekend. Just use the calculator and you'll know that the average box office for each theater is $43050.

This is the first time in the history of the film industry that a single theater has earned more than $4 at the weekend, which is equivalent to every theater being 8% to 9% full when the Dark Knight movie is shown.

This is the statistic of more than 4000 theaters across North America, from the most developed states of California and New York to blue-collar redneck states of Georgia and Montana!

The Dark Knight traveled across America in an invincible manner, firmly grasping the title of the new champion of opening weekend in film history.

与此同时，黑暗骑士也成为有史以来七月份暑假档和pg-13级等开幕周末的新冠军，还把最快到1亿美金（2天）、最快到1.5亿美金（3天），这两项票房累计纪录刷新到让人望而生畏的地步。甚至最快到2亿美金（4天）也几乎是板上钉钉。

Warner executives led by Michael Slan have already opened champagne, Barry Meyer is smoking a victory cigar in the Caribbean, and Nolan, Bale and others are still traveling around, working hard for better box office trends.

Everything seemed so good, but starting from the fourth day, calls to Warner's customer service department never stopped.

"Hey, I say, is there something wrong with you guys? Where's JOKER? I want to see him, got it?"

"FUCK YOU! Get that sissy Bell out of here as far as you can. Where is that Chinese guy? I want to see what he looks like!"

"Warner, you are a bunch of idiot sons of bitches. What game of hide and seek are you playing? I don't have time to play with you. Let the Chinese come to NY, OK?"

"When exactly are you going to let the clown appear? What show are you going to be on? Can you give me a time?"

"Tell that old guy Barry Meyer that he either lets me see JOKER or lets me smack his asshole!"

It's not just the phone calls. Nolan and Bell are also under increasing pressure from publicity. Almost every host and even celebrity they meet asks the same question: Hey, where is that JOKER?

When Nolan attended a movie studio roadshow and was booed by the audience and heard various weird shouts asking for the Joker to appear, he knew that the problem had reached a point that had to be solved.

In fact, after Michael Slan opened the champagne, he began to regret it, feeling that the habit of opening champagne at halftime was really harmful.

Because the head of the customer service department has complained to him three times, and if he doesn't add more people, he should quickly bring this damn clown to the United States.

Similarly, colleagues from the media department came to report that there have been some posts on the Internet recently that have begun to incite that Warner is racist and deliberately prevents the Chinese actor who plays the Joker from participating in the North American promotion.

There were also some posts saying that maybe Warner Bros. wasn’t aware of everyone’s love for the Joker, so why not just go and hold a sit-in protest in front of Warner Bros. tomorrow?
But most of the inflammatory posts said that if you can't see the Joker, you shouldn't go to the cinema to watch The Dark Knight.

Michael Slan swore that if the other five major film companies were not involved in this, he would eat his own fist.

Not only external pressure, but also internal pressure.

For example, now, Nolan came directly to him and said seriously: "Michael, I don't quite understand. With Chen's performance, it is almost certain that he will be nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor this year. If he wins the award, it will also promote the movie. I don't know why you are so reluctant to lobby for him?"

At the same time, Nolan seemed to be half-joking and said, "Michael, you don't still hate Chen, do you?"

When Michael Slan heard these words, he immediately understood the emotions in Nolan's heart, a typical British gentleman. He probably thought that the emotions had reached a point where they were about to explode.

Otherwise, I would definitely not say such a thing.

But he also has his own difficulties.

It would have been easy if Chen Nuo had just offered to lobby for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar on his behalf, but now this guy has also tied up Lori Eisner.

He was the culprit who transferred Lori Eisner to Singapore because he was asked by someone in the Eisner family to let this woman stay in Singapore for five years.

"No no no, Christopher."

Michael Slan thought it through and decided to delay it. Anyway, the movie box office was booming right now and it didn't seem like he needed any shot in the arm for the time being.

But before he could finish his words, the phone rang again.

Barry Meyer's tone this time was not as good as last time. The old man's words were like rolling dark clouds over the Caribbean Sea, and thunder was about to strike in the next second. "Michael, what did I tell you last time? Why hasn't that damn clown appeared in Los Angeles yet? Have you read today's Wall Street Journal? Michelle Barry, that son of a bitch, said that the clown hasn't appeared in North America now because there is a conflict between him and us Warner. Michael, is this true?"

Michael Slan stood by the window, looking at the tall buildings outside, sweat on his vest, and explained: "Of course not. It's just, Barry, like I told you last time, he has some requirements for us."

"any request?"

"He asked us to do his PR for this year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor."

When Barry Meyer spoke, it was as if the thunder in the sky finally fell: "Oscar for Best Supporting Actor? Are you fucking kidding me, Michael? Doesn't that boy deserve it? Don't care if he is black or yellow, even if he is blue. If we at Warner Bros. don't do our best to help him this year, how will others see us in the future? Besides, can we get any awards this year? So shut up and invite him back to Los Angeles. OK?"

Michael Slan wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Okay, Barry."

Barry Meyer said coldly, "Mark my words. Don't let me see that son of a bitch in the Wall Street Journal saying that we have any problems with that Chinese boy. Got it?"

Michael Slan sweatdropped and said, "Okay, Barry, I understand."

At 7:20 p.m. on July 8, outside a high-end restaurant in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea.

News vehicles were parked on the roadside, stretching for more than 50 meters. Reporters and photographers, armed with cameras, were standing by the restaurant entrance.

There was a beautiful female reporter on the side of the road, holding a microphone for the MBC News column, and said to the camera: "Good evening, audience friends, I am Choi Soo-yeon, a reporter for MBC Entertainment News. Behind me is a restaurant in Gangnam. Tonight, most of our country's top filmmakers gathered here. Among them are Jeon Do-yeon, Bong Joon-ho, Choi Min-sik, Lee Chang-dong, as well as Song Kang-ho, Song Hye-kyo, Kim Tae-hee, Jun Ji-hyun, Lee Byung-hun, and Sol Kyung-gu."

"These stars gathered together to entertain a distinguished guest from afar, the Chinese talented actor Chen Nuoxi, who plays the Joker in The Dark Knight. We all know that The Dark Knight has been popular all over the world in the past few days. In my country alone, it has attracted more than one million viewers in the past few days. Chen Nuoxi came to Korea to promote this Hollywood movie produced by Warner."

At this moment, in a private room of a barbecue restaurant somewhere in Jiangnan, the same news was being broadcast on the TV on the wall.

Every time the reporter said a name, several girls in the box would exclaim together.

“Jeon Do-yeon!” “Director Bong Joon-ho!” “Teacher Song Kang-ho!” “Teacher Choi Min-sik!” “…”

"It's so awesome! I feel like all the top stars in South Korea were there." said a cute girl with round eyes.

A girl with blond hair said, "Of course, that's a clown! Lee Sunkyu, didn't you go to the movies?"

"No. Taeyeon, did you go to see it with Yoona and Sooyoung? Was it good?"

"Super good-looking." Kim Taeyeon looked at the TV and said curiously, "You guys think he's so scary in the movie, what does Chen Nuoxi look like in real life?"

Choi Sooyoung said nonchalantly: "I saw that he was quite fat in the movie, so he should have a beer belly in real life."

Lin Yuna nodded and said, "It should be the type that will scare people when they see it."

"Eh~~" Lee Sunkyu was startled, "Really? Don't scare me."

Lin Yuner said seriously: "Really, he was very scary in the movie. After I watched the movie that night, I went home and had a nightmare."

Another blond girl with big eyes said, "Do you know how popular Chen Nuoxi is in the United States? I heard from my American friends that the Oprah show is preparing to invite him!"

Kim Taeyeon was shocked, "Really?"

"Otherwise, why would so many big stars in our country go to dine with him?"

"It's really exaggerated." Choi Sooyoung shook her head and said, "I feel like all the top actors in Chungmuro ​​have been there. Xuxian, do you want to go and see it too?"

A baby-faced girl looked at the TV with longing on her face and nodded.

At this moment, the picture on TV began to change. One after another, big stars or directors walked out of the restaurant.

"Song Kang-ho, Lee Chang-dong, Song Hye-kyo, Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik..." Choi Soo-young, who is most familiar with the Korean entertainment industry, looked at the faces appearing on TV and called out their names one by one.

At this time, the ratings of this temporarily launched MBC live news program began to soar.

Surrounded by their agents and assistants, the stars got into their own nanny cars one by one.

Until the end, three people walked out together.

Choi Soo-young said: "Director Bong Joon-ho, Kim Tae-hee unnie..."

After she finished speaking, her tone suddenly became sharp, "Who is the boy in the middle? He's so handsome!"

Her voice immediately attracted the attention of the group of girls who were eating meat.

They all started chattering immediately.

"Really? He's the same type as Won Bin!"

"I think she looks better than Won Bin!"

"What is he talking about with Director Bong Joon-ho? No, he looks so young. I think he is about the same age as us."

"Yes, yes, could it be Kim Tae Hee's boyfriend?"

"How is it possible! How could Sister Tae Hee bring her boyfriend to a place like this and be photographed by reporters?"

"Then why is Kim Tae Hee so close to him?"

At this time, Lin Yuner suddenly shouted: "Could he be Chen Nuoxi who played the clown? He is Chinese. The person next to him seems to be a translator, and he is talking to him and director Bong Joon-ho."

"what?"

A group of girls were stunned and wanted to get closer to see more clearly, so the short Lee Sunkyu had to stand up.

At this moment, the boy on TV seemed to have noticed the presence of the camera. While listening to what the translator next to director Bong Joon-ho said, he raised his eyes and looked towards the camera.

The night is as dark as ink and the stars are sparse.

He was wearing a well-tailored dark suit with smooth lines that highlighted his tall figure. The collar of the suit was slightly open, revealing the white shirt underneath. His hair was also perfectly styled, with a few strands of hair swaying gently in the breeze, but not looking messy.

The boy has a handsome face, with three-dimensional and deep features, a straight nose, and slightly upturned lips, which form a perfect arc towards the camera.

This smile was neither exaggerated nor artificial, but just right. In the eyes of these SM trainees who had not yet debuted, it seemed to reveal a faint halo.

Choi Sooyoung murmured, "Is this really a clown? Why do I feel like it's a prince? I'm almost dizzy."

……

……

No one, including Chen Nuo, had expected that he would become an internet celebrity in Korea just because of this smile before his one-day and one-night trip to Korea even began!
God is my witness, he had no intention of showing off at the time, he just found what the translator said a little funny.

Bong Joon-ho was making arrangements with him for next year's schedule and invited him to star in his new film, playing the role of a mother's mentally retarded son.

Chen Nuo thought it was impossible since they couldn't speak the same language, so he just smiled. That was all.

As a result, his expression was screenshoted and made into a GIF, and was voted by countless people on Korea's NAVER as the most handsome smile in 2007.

(End of this chapter)