hollywood draw

"Nami, don't judge the movie by your likes and dislikes!"

With a click, Wayne leaned against the sofa and lit a cigarette. He didn't even look at the newspapers and magazines piled up on the coffee table. He picked up the coffee and took a big sip, raised his wrist and looked at the time, and asked, "Nina, haven't you come yet?"

"Not yet, but it should be soon." The assistant lady pushed her glasses and shook her head gently. "Time is still urgent. Do you want to eat something first?"

Wayne crossed his legs and looked at the bright sunshine outside the floor-to-ceiling window. "Forget it, I don't have much appetite."

While the few were talking, the butler Hela walked down from the upper floor, dragging a huge suitcase in his hand. Just like countless trips in the past, Wayne's personal belongings had to pass through the butler's hands, and then Nina arranged them when using them.

The promotional activities of "The Instant Walker" will be carried out by Wayne, and it is expected to fly across major North American cities in two weeks and then fly directly to Europe.

"There are reviews of David Denby here. Do you want to listen to them?" Naomi Wattsqing leaned against Wayne, shook the New Yorker in his hand, and then turned the newspaper to the stroller beside him, and said mischievously: "Look, Little Fendi, your father's movie is released again. Do you want to hear it? Do you want your mother to read it to you?"

"Hey, she can't understand this now."

Wayne rolled his eyes and glanced at his daughter playing with her fingers in the stroller. He felt that his heart was about to melt. The little guy widened his eyes and grinned at his father.

Australian actresses ignored the sweet interaction between their father and daughter and deliberately cleared their throats. ""Walking in the Stop", this is a complete Greenber-style movie. Here I would like to remind the majority of movie fans who have movies that we cannot ignore the religious level for most Greenber-style movies, otherwise there must be a lack of understanding.

Greenberg maintains his usual realistic style. From the rough fighting documentary at the beginning and Castro's narration, you can clearly understand the unique immigration culture of Boston, North America, and bring out the regional and social descriptions of characters such as racial conflicts, gangs, violence, etc.

Here I want to emphasize one thing first, realism does not necessarily mean being close to reality. It should be said that it has a more realistic feeling than other styles, but no matter how close a movie is to reality, it does not mean that it is good. Similarly, without sensationalism and lack of melancholy feelings cannot mean that a movie is not good.

To measure whether an artistic form is outstanding, we should not just look at how many techniques and creativity it is worth showing off, but we should look at whether it can become the most appropriate form and style that reflects a specific theme and content, thereby reflecting value.

Let's think about what kind of story style can express Greenber's gangster characters more effectively than the realist style? Like Quentin Tarantino's "The Dog of the Water", "The Walker" is a stylized gangster movie, with characters' dialogues as violent as their behavior.

The taste of the whole film is violent, cruel and sad. Such tone is extremely honest in formal aesthetics, which is close to the purpose of the film's reality in the eyes of ordinary people. So in fact, the characters are more faithful to themselves than to be vulgar for the sake of vulgarity.

I have to say that this is a typical violent aesthetic gangster film. Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather", taught many people how to be a man. Wayne Greenberg's "The Walker of the Skies" is telling you how cruel the struggle between men is.

As a conscience production that is highly anticipated this summer, Wayne Greenberg did not disappoint. This "Walking Walker" can score 9 points here. It is recommended that all gangster fans or all men go to the theater to watch this great work.

Missing "The Walker of the Skies" will be your biggest loss this summer. ----David Denby."

"Wow."

The assistant lady exaggeratedly, looked at Wayne and raised her eyebrows, teasing: "Boss, look, you patiently accepted the guidance of this film critic. It's really a big deal. In my memory, David Denby rarely gives a movie such a high rating, right? What's more, he also highly recommended your movie to the fans!"

Until now, Nina still remembers that last night, this famous film critic talked endlessly about how his boss made a movie at the cocktail party. Although it seemed ironic to outsiders, the effect was particularly good. Look, early this morning, the film critic began to praise him impatiently.

In fact, both women present knew that if it weren't for the professional rating of "The Walker" during the awards season, Wayne would definitely not bother to listen to each other's chatter.

To be honest, let alone a small film critic, the whole world is not many people who can teach him when making movies. He can pinch his nose and listen to the other party’s self-feeling conversation for a long time, which is a very compromise result.

"Well, although I need them to say good things for me now." Wayne shook his head to twist the cigarette butt into the ashtray. "But, in my heart, my opinion of them has not changed."

In his heart, he never valued or recognized the profession of film critics. These people each have their own newspaper columns to recommend movies to fans in the name of guiding the film industry. In fact, none of them can guide them.

The art that this group generally recognizes is almost contrary to popular movie fans, as if they do not, they will not reflect their unique art.

Can a group of people with only a few hundred people in North America represent the real needs of movie fans? They can't, a group of people who only know how to watch movies and then use sarcastic language to attract attention. Can they guide the director of movies? They also can't.

In Wayne's heart, he has never caught a lot of colds about this group, because he knows that as long as more than ten years pass, this group will disappear into the Internet wave, and it is difficult to have as much voice as it is now.

When ordinary people can find channels for voice, everyone can express their opinions at that time, and everyone is a film critic. The Internet will severely pull off the last fig leaf of this group.

"Crack.Crack."

The sound of the fax machine rang out at the right time. Before Nina could react, Naomi Watts stood up and walked over. In the morning, the data statistics Wayne had been waiting for finally arrived.

Compared with those stupid film reviews and media reports, this is what he cares most about.

"Yes, the statistics sent by Warner Bros."

After being together for so long, Naomi Watts understood what Wayne cares most about. After sitting back on the sofa, he immediately looked at the fax paper and started reading.

"Warner Bros. commissioned a third-party survey company to issue a total of 20,000 questionnaires last night. In the collected questionnaire, the positive rate of audience apps in advance last night was 78%, and the overall audience rating was a."

The Australian actress's voice became smaller and smaller. She looked up and secretly observed Wayne's face. She found that he did not reveal obvious dissatisfaction, but just lit a cigarette again, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

The reason is very simple. This "Walker" is the lowest-reputation among all Wayne's works after his first film "Happy Death Day". His movies have always relied on strong storylines to empathize with the audience. Even if there are large-scale shots, many viewers have never expressed dissatisfaction.

"Let's talk about the box office first." Wayne leaned on the sofa relaxed and said: "Have the box office performed as expected?"

"The three major theaters, led by AMC, Imperial Cinema and American artist chain theater companies, have opened about 3,200 advanced games for "The Walker". After preliminary statistics, the film received a box office of about 6.54 million US dollars in North America, which has exceeded the 5.5 million US dollars expected by Warner Bros.."

"Well, it's not bad." Wayne nodded slightly. Although he knew that the box office in advance was affected by many off-site factors, this number could at least ensure that the first day of the film's box office would not be too ugly. "It's much higher than what I expected."

Starting this morning, the film officially entered a large-scale release. In the entire North America, most of the fans who could enter the theater last night were probably fans of the three male protagonists and supporters of Wayne's own fan organization.

This group of people who are willing to watch the movie in advance will not be willing to give the film a low score, so this data statistics report can only be used as a reference. The specific market potential of the movie will still have to wait until the box office on the first day to be seen.

Seeing that Naomi Watts was relatively satisfied, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and he could not help but guess that Wayne, a film mainly used for Olympics, had a deep expectation for the market, and his heart was not as high as his other works.

"What about other specific statistics?"

The Australian actress quickly looked at the fax again and continued: "Warner Bros. Distribution Department analyzed that "The Walker of the Insular" has a tendency to have polarized audience reputations. They specially checked the opinions of movie fans on multiple questionnaires."

"Is it polarized?" Wayne let out a large cloud of green smoke helplessly. He also expected the result. After all, the scale of the film was there, and some fans would definitely not be able to accept it.

"Yes, in the collected questionnaire, it was shown that about 78% of the movie fans gave the film a score of more than a, and the remaining ones were more than 15%, and the film was scored below c and c. The Warner Bros. Distribution Department analyzed that this is a typical love that is until death. Those who don't love even develop disgust because of the film's too large scale."