Chapter 461： What is feminism

On the first day of the show, "The Matrix 2" with a box office of 39.51 million US dollars, easily overwhelming the US$15.6 million of "The Bourne Shadow 2", airborne box office champion.

And this first day's box office results also made people see the possibility of the box office exceeding 100 million in the first weekend.

Just as there has never been a non-sequel original movie with a North American box office that can exceed 100 million, there is no R-rated film in North America that has a box office that exceeds 100 million in its first weekend.

"The Matrix 2" made people see this possibility.

However, contrary to everyone's expectations, the reputation of "The Matrix 2" has seriously declined.

Just one day after the film was released, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes dropped to 76%. If Rotten Tomatoes and film critics have limited influence on the summer film, the IMDB score for ordinary fans is only 7.4 points.

Ordinary commercial movies, with such word-of-mouth data, are completely saying the past, but this is a sequel to a god-made!

How many of them are still affected by the classic predecessors?

The first film of "The Matrix" has a very strong response in the United States, because this is the first time that cyberpunk has been expressed in a movie in such a complete or even perfect manner, and the action design, special effects, and lens of the entire movie The editing is very classic and fashionable, so many people and advertisements began to imitate the classic lens of The Matrix.

In the second part, these are still there, but the plot, editing and lines, etc., are too unfriendly to the audience.

The Cinema theater audience of "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" scored only "B" on site, and most of the fans mentioned a problem: obscure!

The first one is really good-looking, cool action, compact plot. The extreme development of science and technology has brought endless disasters to mankind. The struggle to free mankind from the enslavement of computers is very lofty.

The second part is simply a disaster...

Faced with a reputation far inferior to the first film, many die-hard fans of the Wachowski Brothers emphasized that "The Matrix 2" actually discussed philosophical issues.

The philosophical speculation after the first film of The Matrix was once praised by film critics. Perhaps the Wachowski brothers were affected and plunged into the ditch under the misleading of professional film critics and never climbed up.

Returning to the movie itself, the movie is about storytelling after all. The director can use cool audio and video and high-powered shooting skills to let the audience listen to you tell the whole story in the process of being pleasing to the eyes and wanting to stop.

Even for commercial films, expressions like Michael Bay far surpass the story itself, and are more interesting than the philosophical speculation of Shinto.

In the hearts of many movie fans, "The Matrix" has one and only one, and the latter two are the other two unrelated stories, which are protracted and dull and tasteless. Moreover, the dialogue is half-half-la-la vague, and it always makes the audience bother to guess riddles.

As far as the movie is concerned, no matter how complicated the content is, it is proud to make the audience see it simple and easy to understand. After all, the method of telling the story, half and half for the purpose of confusing the audience is just to conceal the paleness of the plot.

Because the film itself is too unfriendly to the audience, coupled with various negative word-of-mouth and the first day of the release of a lot of sequel movie energy, the box office of "The Matrix 2" plummeted on Saturday, with a single-day drop of nearly 20%, and only got it. 30.31 million US dollars.

In contrast, the second week of "The Bournemouth 2" rebounded strongly on Saturday, earning $19.54 million in a single day.

It seems that a part of the audience who should pay attention to "The Matrix 2" shifted their attention to "The Bournemouth 2".

It can only be said that the overall reputation of "The Matrix 2" in North America is not bad, but compared to the first one, it is still far behind.

After the first week of the North American screening, this film not only won the box office championship with $86.2 million, but also set a new record for the opening weekend of the R-rated film!

But the film’s sharp drop on Saturday and the unsatisfactory audience reputation made everyone understand that the North American box office of "The Matrix 2" could not reach the $300 million expected by Warner Bros.

Cinema’s latest forecast indicates that the North American box office of this film may be around US$270 million.

In any case, "The Matrix 2" is still a successful movie.

Ranked second this weekend is "The Bournemouth 2". The release of "The Matrix 2" has a far less impact than expected. "The Bournemouth 2" has maintained a healthy and stable box office trend. , The next weekend’s box office fell only 42% from the first weekend, ranking second in the North American box office rankings with $49.1 million.

"X-Men 2" slipped to third place.

Ten days after its release, the North American box office of "The Bournemouth 2" has reached $163.93 million.

Also this weekend, the film began to be released overseas. The first regions to be released were still Latin America, Western Europe, and Australia. The overseas box office also earned US$51.2 million in the first weekend.

The global box office of "The Bournegro 2" is smoothly exceeding 200 million US dollars.

Perhaps it is because the CIA and the reckless hegemonic behavior of the United States in other countries is somewhat offensive. Similar to when the first film was released, the response of "The Bournemouth 2" in overseas markets is not as good as in North America.

By the third weekend of "The Bourne Shadow 2" was released, that is, the fourth weekend of the North American summer vacation, "Fake God", produced by Universal Pictures, was released hotly, with a $67.95 million opening weekend. Stealed the box office champion from "The Matrix 2".

In 2003, it can be called the big year of North American movies. The summer file squeezed a large amount of first-line productions with an investment of about 100 million US dollars, and the overall box office results were good, which also led to the situation where the box office champions took turns.

For example, one weekend after "Fake God", which is the traditional Memorial Day holiday in North America, "Finding Nemo" produced by Pixar Studios and released by Disney hits.

This animation production is bound to become the new North American box office champion.

"The Matrix 2" lost the box office champion, and the box office trend of the next weekend was not particularly satisfactory. It was down 60% from the first weekend and ranked second with 34.1 million US dollars.

"The Bournemouth 2" slipped to third place, but the box office of the third weekend was close to that of "The Matrix 2". The box office score of 28.2 million US dollars kept the film healthy in the North American film market. Stable trend.

In addition to the previous four working days, the North American box office of this film broke the 200 million US dollars mark, reaching a total of 210.21 million US dollars.

As the film was released in more overseas countries and regions, the global box office totaled nearly 300 million US dollars.

""The Bournemouth 2" shouldn't be worse than "The Matrix 2", right?"

In the post-editing room of the Warner Studios office area, Jessica Felton, dressed in dark professional attire, asked Ronan: "According to the current box office trend, "The Bournemouth 2" is over 250 million US dollars. Big."

Ronan shrugged slightly: "The higher the box office, the better."

Both of them are old friends, and there is no need to hide their true thoughts: "I also hope it can get one billion dollars in the world."

This is of course a joke.

Jessica Felton smiled, and threw the ponytail that had fallen to her shoulders behind her head, causing the entire chest to tremble, as if a magnitude nine earthquake had occurred.

Ronan turned the subject and pointed to the glasses on her face: "Why did you suddenly wear glasses?"

Jessica Felton said directly: "I'm short-sighted."

Ronan is not surprising. A technical madman like Jessica Felton will find her sooner or later with myopia.

"Pay more attention." Ronan said concerned: "Pay more attention to rest."

Jessica Felton rolled her eyes reluctantly, and said: "I also want to take time to rest and vacation, but I just finished the post-editing production of "Pirates of the Caribbean", and you let me be the "Summer of Jeans". The post-producer of, and then there is a "Mean Girl", where do I have a break."

Ronan scratched his head and said, "Jesse, you are the one who can do more."

Jessica Felton murmured: "I knew it, I would be an actor."

Ronan shrugged: "It's not too late."

As a woman with a breast bigger than Salma Hayek and a face comparable to Jessica Alba, she is an ideal actor for vase roles.

Jessica Felton turned back to the topic: "You just watched the final edited sample of "Summer in Jeans". Are you satisfied?"

Ronan nodded: "You did a great job, a very girly movie."

Jessica Felton said with regret: "It's a pity that many of the things I studied were not useful."

Ronan thought for a while and said, "Jesse, you have been a post-producer in three consecutive films. If you have the right opportunity, you must be prepared to be a producer."

Jessica Felton asked: "You let me be in charge of the film project independently?"

"You already have this ability." Ronan said: "I will start a lot of female film projects next."

Jessica Felton said: "I know, when you called me last time, you mentioned that feminist awakening."

Ronan laughed: "The so-called feminist awakening in this movie is actually just a fake feminist which has no practical significance at all."

In fact, Hollywood’s feminist rights are more formalized. Are menstrual aunts following a bunch of women as so-called feminist rights?

"What is true feminism?" Jessica Felton asked curiously.

"You are true feminism." Ronan said seriously: "Jesse, just like you said, you are single with technology and strength, you do not rely on any ability, you can achieve success by your own ability, and It’s not the sympathy of others, you are the true feminist."

If Jessica Felton is not a representative of feminism, few people in Hollywood can be called feminism.

Ronan encouraged: "Jesse, keep working hard."

All the post-production of "Jeans in Summer" has been completed, and there is no problem in itself. Ronan and Jessica Felton discussed the next post-production of "Mean Girl" and left Warner Studios.

Later, he will rush to Cannes, France to participate in the premiere of "Lost in Tokyo".