Chapter 1109： Leap of faith

Perhaps it is true that the film is a spiritual sustenance to escape reality.

The economic crisis in the United States has intensified. The Golden Gate Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge have rained on human dumplings, but the North American film market has ushered in a very successful summer vacation.

Not only Relativity Entertainment, but also blockbuster films launched by other companies have achieved good results.

Twentieth Century Fox is certainly not among them.

Compared to other industries, although the film industry has also been affected, life in Hollywood is pretty good, at least few people commit suicide.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" someone shouted in the restaurant, "Someone jumped off the building again!"

This is the restaurant on the first floor of the Theory of Relativity Building. Many people went out to watch the excitement. Even Ronan and Jessica Felton, who were sitting by the window, looked over there.

On the building opposite the Theory of Relativity Building, someone can be seen standing outside the top-level guardrail, and there is a tie fluttering in the wind, like a blessing from death.

Jessica Felton put down the knife and fork, looked over there and said, "I can't think about it."

Ronan picked up a tissue and wiped his hands, and said, "We will face huge debts while we are alive, the house will be taken away, the car will be taken away, and even his wife will run away. If he is dead, he will be dead."

After all, Jessica Felton grew up in this country and didn't have much sympathy. Those who were forced to jump off the building were all ambitious speculators.

Unfortunately, the results of failed speculation are often miserable.

Ronan sighed softly, "How many are you this month?"

"I can't remember." Jessica Felton shook her head slightly and said, "I heard that in the building opposite, most of them are companies that play stocks and bonds."

Ronan understands something: "Yes, so when faced with an economic crisis, this group of people can't hold it up."

Jessica Felton suddenly thought of something and said to Ronan, "Your side..."

Although this was not finished, Ronan understood what it meant and said, "Relax. Cherish life and stay away from financial drugs."

"You." Jessica Felton didn't know what to say, seeing a police car parked in front of the building with its siren flashing, and said: "The police are here."

Ronan glanced at the police car and couldn't help shaking his head slightly.

The police in the United States have no duty to rescue. The more widely circulated operation is to prevent suicides from committing suicide by shooting them directly.

The tie fell on the ground, and then the leap of faith appeared...

Ronan pulled Jessica Felton and told her to turn back and said, "Let's go, let's go back, it's time for work."

Jessica Felton did not want to watch the miserable scene of falling to the ground, and followed Ronan directly through the side door of the restaurant and returned to the front hall of the Relativity Building.

Maybe too many people have committed suicide recently, and there are not too many messy sounds outside, maybe many people are used to it.

For onlookers, under this terrible economic crisis, maybe they will become the next person to launch the "leap of faith."

This is not the first time Ronan has seen a "suicide wave". He experienced it once when the Internet bubble burst.

It can only be said that the ability of Americans or their families to resist risks is generally lower.

The economic crisis triggered by the real estate market and financial industry finally exploded like a powder keg.

Although the Washington authorities came to rescue the market in person, they provided limited help to ordinary people, and the real benefits fell to those on Wall Street.

However, Wall Street has also been hit hard, and the conditions of major companies are generally not good.

In this environment, no one on Wall Street can stay aloof.

But some companies are able to survive the most difficult stage, and after retorting their words, they start to make a fortune and finally become relative winners.

There will naturally be losers if there are winners.

Some companies have come to the end of history.

Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy after the Fed refused to provide financial support assistance, and on the same day Merrill Lynch announced its acquisition by Bank of America.

The world’s largest insurer, American International Group AIG, is also unsustainable. While choosing to take over AIG to stabilize the market, the U.S. government has expressed “unhelpful” to other financial institutions.

This is only part of the outbreak of the crisis. The stock market has begun to fluctuate under the influence of the financial market.

By mid-September, the two remaining investment banks on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, had to apply to the Federal Reserve Bank of America to transform into a bank holding company to avoid risks.

With the transformation of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley into commercial banks, the traditional term ‘Wall Street Investment Bank’ disappeared as a historical term.

The federal government and the Federal Reserve have proposed a series of rescue plans, but they have aroused public dissatisfaction.

The ordinary American people strongly opposed the government’s aid plan. They believed that the big banks first advocated a capitalist-style laissez-faire expansion. Now that something went wrong, they asked the capitalists to save the big banks with socialist funds. Unemployment, credit bankruptcy and loss of house.

This also laid the groundwork for the future occupation movement.

It is a pity that this is a country of capital, and the movement of Occupy Wall Street will not play much role.

You can't expect the conscience of Wall Street capitalists to discover that it is better to expect Ronan to help the people of the world.

In Hollywood, although the film market has performed well this year, it has been dragged down by the economic crisis. The stock prices of major Hollywood listed companies seem to fall above a waterfall, falling continuously, and there is no end in sight. The six major Hollywood companies The market value has shrunk a lot, and it is shrinking continuously.

Relativity entertainment that has not been listed has a relatively small impact, and the good news continues.

For example, after nearly four months of screening of "Avatar", the North American box office totaled $731.2 million, and the global box office exceeded $2.5 billion. It is not a problem to reach the previous height.

The box office share of this film has been received one after another. The box office has not only recovered all the investment, but also nearly 300 million US dollars in profit.

Since the screening has not yet ended, it is not impossible to achieve a box office profit of 500 million US dollars.

But with the big sales of "Avatar", the inevitable bad things that Hollywood popular movies will encounter once again appear.

The science fiction writer Bryant Moore from the state of Marila sued Disney and James Cameron in the Maryland District Court for plagiarizing two of his scripts on "Avatar" and charged James Card with breach of contract and fraud. Mellon and producer Shahai Entertainment have filed a compensation claim of up to US$300 million.

This makes people very speechless. Behind every big-selling movie, there are always countless "plagiarists" appearing.

Nor can it be said that these people are all fake. After all, similar situations such as "The Matrix" and "Inception" are borrowing from other works, and they also happen in Hollywood.

Not to mention the "Hunger Games".

Relativity Entertainment responded with a consistent attitude. James Cameron was very concerned and even accepted a video interview on the scientific research ship in the Pacific Ocean: "Since the success of "Terminator 2", I have seen too many people like this. Matter. I said long ago that "Avatar" is my most valuable asset and a project that I cultivated by myself. It took me decades from the beginning of this idea to the actual concept and development of a movie. "

It doesn't matter whether this statement is true or false, because whether it is true or false, Relativity Entertainment will take it as true.

James Cameron is not empty words, he released a draft of the 90s artwork, one of which is a sketch during the shooting of the ship. The big tree painted on the picture is infinitely close to the prototype of the tree of life on Pandora.

In fact, the development of Hollywood movies up to now, in any movie, if you look carefully, you can always find specious shadows of other works.

On the third weekend of September, the second film of Relativity Entertainment’s second movie universe "Horror Universe" was officially released.

"The Soul" directed by James Wynn opened in 3560 theaters in North America.

Because of the connection of "Latent", this film has a stronger audience base than the previous one, and after the release of "Latent", the Warrens became star-level figures.

This is good, and the gimmick adapted from reality is conducive to the promotion of "Calling the Soul".

There are also disadvantages. People questioning the Warrens are endless.

Many people call the Warrens two scammers, because few of the cases they investigated were tenable. Many people under investigation sued the couple afterwards, saying that they made up a bunch of stories about themselves to make money. Several of those who did not prosecute had a history of drug use after investigation, and the testimony of this kind of "witness" was not credible at all.

There is also this house in the "Call of Souls" propaganda. The prototype is now inhabited, and there is nothing good.

The so-called real adaptation, the reality is only 20%, and the remaining 80% depends on the adaptation.

How good is the propaganda naturally?

Compared to "Blair the Witch" and the like, the propaganda of "Calling the Soul" is definitely far above the line of conscience.

"Hunting" belongs to a typical haunted house horror movie Haunted house and exorcism are the two pillars of horror films, which can be called the immortal source of horror films, and the haunted house can naturally transition to ghost possession or something. , It is easier to attract the audience.

In order to create the effect of the adaptation of "Real Events", echoing the Easter eggs in "Latent" and the third work leading to the "Horror Universe", "Calling the Souls" came up and took a few minutes to tell the truth about "Annabel". The doll,

What follows is completely another story. Annabel's "real" doll story for a few minutes is used to pave the way for the subsequent "unreal" stories and make them look more real.

"Calling the Soul" implements the director James Wen's philosophy of fusion of horror cultures between the East and the West. The whole film is full of retro taste, there is no plasma, no reversal, no surprises, even the grimace is vague, only dark and closed. The space and sound effects create a sense of horror that is more real, and is completely in the 70s.

This film also paved the way for the subsequent development of the horror universe, such as the "Annabel" doll that was featured in several close-ups, and the weird music box.

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