The Best Director

The North American weekend box office rankings on December 12-14 made many people happy. Those media talked about it, but in the end it was my dear Miracle Yang! Disappointed too much! Hell, it's that damned Wang Yang again! It also surprised many film critics, dark horse? Can you use the word dark horse?

Newly released in 56 theaters, "The Devil Wears Prada" sits firmly at the top of the charts, taking in a wild $51,357,400 at the box office, accounting for 45 percent of the $112 million North American weekend. Market share (a total of 128 movies), people walked into the cinema, 45 people watched "d", % of people expressed their likes on Rotten Tomatoes, and countless female audiences expressed their mad love on various websites.

The best movie about fashion on the planet! Not the best row, but the best.

"D"'s big opening victory resulted in no room for negotiation in the rankings. "Love is a Compromise" in the second place with 2,677 theaters only received 60,000 opening scores; Fox Corporation became one of the losers of this Christmas file; Warner Bros.' "Love is Priceless" also only had 6.31 million. Of the four films that were released on a large scale, "d" swept everything.

The weekend box office of "-21-em" in August was 49.67 million, and "The Hangover" in the same period of 2 years was 55.73 million. What kind of Waterloo did Magic Yang encounter?

This result made Jessica and others jump up and down with excitement, even more exciting than when "High School Musical" set off a nationwide frenzy; Wang Yang did not have any surprises, all of which were expected. Look at the opening results of the O6 version of "d" in the July summer vacation. 2847 theaters received 27.53 million box office. The problem is that Fox, as a giant company with sufficient resources, only has the widest screening of "d" in 2847 theaters. Known as an upset, dark horse at the box office, non-global simultaneous or similar releases.

It is enough to see that Fox does not take "d" so seriously, and of course this is also reflected in its production cost of tens of thousands, so that it has to be rushed when filming in Paris.

Although a large part of the extra 20 million yuan in the o3 version cost is returned to Wang Yang's own pocket as a film salary; but in addition to the higher and more refined quality of the film itself, what is more important is that the flame movie did not include "d "Tag it as a "possible dark horse", but treat it as a god, and it will definitely be a big box office bomb.

This is the difference between cloud and mud. From the purchase of the adaptation copyright at the beginning of the year to the release at the end of the year, Xun's flames have been promoting it for more than half a year, including 11ge website, blog and other viral marketing, as well as the fame of the magic; and arranged "d" It will be shown in Christmas and New Year files around the world. The advantage of doing this is to strike while the iron is hot. At the same time, there will be no version or version on the Internet; Easily hand over the Christmas and New Year schedule to "d".

The o6 version of "d" is a dark horse at the box office, and it is also a model of overseas popularity over North America.

Even though the main box office is almost 3 or 4 months late, it still raked in 100 million overseas box office.

Wang Yang believes that under the current conditions, the overseas box office potential of "d" is far more than 200 million. He had this emotion very early on. Maybe "21" is a glass of red wine with a unique flavor, which is memorable; maybe "d" "is a glass of iced mint water in hot summer. It doesn't have so much aftertaste, but it will be more popular because it quenches the thirst of a larger audience.

He believes that there is no distinction between high and low demand. Not every drink should be made into red wine. If anyone thinks that red wine is better than iced mint water and is the best, what else can he say? The experience of growing up in the kitchen told him that when a person likes it, different foods will give the same satisfaction, and now he wants to make a glass of iced mint water in the hot summer.

""D" won the championship this weekend without any difficulty. Although the film critics did not have a good reputation, Wang Yang let everyone see the great power of fashion themes, and saw that he is still the amazing Yang." Yahoo Entertainment's review reported this way: "According to According to the final show data released by the theater chain, 55% of the audience of "Devil" are young people under the age of 25, and the ratio of male and female audiences is %:%, fashion and famous brands have made women go crazy."

"It's worth noting that the opening weekend score of $51,357,400 is the best ever for Meryl Streep, previously set at $30,000 in 1992's Fantastic Young idol Robert Zemeckis. The highest-grossing work of her acting career in North America was "Kramer and Mrs. Kramer" in 1979, with 6.2 billion; now "d" is almost certain to break this figure."

This really makes those who want to see Wang Yang dazed and lost, the magical Yang seems to be resurrected! The question is, did he die? In fact, this result is not a strange thing, as ordinary netizen Jason-e said: "I don't care about those film critics, Miracle Yang is special."

In the hearts of movie fans and audiences who have a good impression of Miracle Yang, young people who "grow up with him" and "grow up together", his reputation is not comparable to those of film critics, and they have their own judgments.

The fact is that film critics are evaluating every week, and they have opinions that they agree with or disagree with; Magic Young's 7 consecutive movies are crazy, so they are more willing to believe that the film critics are "high-profile" or that Magic Young is "before the era" , Of course, the excellent audience response gave them confidence.

The influence of film critics has never been dominant, and the even worse-known "Chain Saw" also received close to 10,000 North American box office. The number of die-hard fans increased in groups, and the latest commercial miracle was released; not to mention some special circumstances. (such as "Transformers"), audiences don't care about the saliva of film critics, but now after watching "D", 90% of people's evaluations are above "good", not very good but worth watching; there are many A hardcore female audience.

"A truly amusing, rare masterpiece that far surpasses the quality of its source material. Demons reveals the story of the New York fashion scene with a witty, lighthearted approach, with a Meryl Streep at her best, and More Jessica Alba than yourself." - Rotten Tomatoes.

Not all film critics bad-mouthed "D". The attitude of the film critics has evolved into two opposing factions, and the moderate voice of the middle school has been ignored from the beginning. Those who praise think that "d" is above the standard and give two thumbs up; those who criticize continue to dismiss it, believing that its box office will be weak in follow-up, and now these are just the "survival" of Mi Yang!

To be on the safe side, some media shouted "sensibly": "No matter how high the box office is, it can't change the fact that "d" is a mediocre work. Wang Yang's attitude towards movies has changed. He asked Andrea to choose sweater, but he chose the tux himself."

"Jan, Last year 'The Hangover' got a lot of blame; but now it looks like 'Demons' is going to be your first movie that really gets bad reviews and everyone is blaming you, what do you think?"

Wang Yang and Jessica have already returned to Los Angeles, as part of the follow-up publicity, and they are box office champions, so there will be no shortage of media interviews. When Wang Yang was interviewed by the "Los Angeles Times", the reporter asked about the hottest topic about "d" and Magic Yang.

"I don't agree with the 'everyone' you said. As far as I know, most of the audience and many film critics agree that "Devil" is a good movie, and I agree with them." Wang Yang smiled, thinking of those It was a ridiculous film review, and I couldn't help shrugging and laughing: "Haha! I just hope that some people should be more serious when accusing others! Stop talking about those funny reasons."

Under the excited swipe of the pen by the reporter, Wang Yang stopped smiling and expressed his thoughts very seriously: "You can't say it's 'bad' just because it's a light comedy, not a serious drama; anyway, if you can't Accept that it's a light comedy, then you're not qualified to judge. You can't say it's a giraffe, if it's a horse it's fine; it's a giraffe and it's bad."

"Some people like extremes very much. It is true that it will be particularly impressive, such as extreme horror and extreme comedy. But I have to say that directors can have their own style preferences, and make a genre, a sensory experience, and martial arts. The king made the holy king, the king will kill the gods at night, the throne of the gods, and the throne of the gods will be the strongest. The throne seeks the devil, the most arrogant, and the strongest abandoned young man of the Zhou royal family. God-made general night kills the gods. The seal of the throne seeks the devil. ; But judges and film critics are not good, their thinking must be broad and objective, strong in acceptance, and can be brought into various subdivided film types without prejudice, and their appreciation ability should be better than that of directors and the public."

"The film critic circle is neither big nor small. Some people can do it, and some people can't. Why is this movie not good? You look for the reason in that genre, not at the beginning, 'it's too flat compared to the "movie" so that Vote it. One guy is funny too, because Andrea has a personality change, so this light comedy is not good. Oh! Why is that? Because it's not his taste. I can't control that, no one else method, every movie can't satisfy all tastes of all people."

Wang Yang shook his head and continued: "At the same time, there are many people who like to see an Andrea with a change in human nature in a light comedy. Why? I mean, as a film critic, you evaluate a movie The reason why the movie is bad can't be simply because you don't like it!"

"Your casual sentence, it will be published in newspapers and magazines! It has the influence of leading the public! When you control the media's discourse power, you must analyze it objectively, because your inadvertence will obliterate a Team effort, it's so funny! If you say 'I'm just an audience, I can say whatever I like.' Well! Then you're not an authority, why should I care so much?"

After expressing his heartfelt words that would cause a war of words at any time, in order to avoid being misinterpreted by the media as "bombarding the entire film critic circle", he didn't have this intention and didn't need to. You must know that many film critics are in his camp. Wang Yang Added: "But I sincerely thank those objective film critics, as well as my fans and the public, I care about their voices."

Da da da da, the latest issue of "Los Angeles Times" is on the shelves, and an exclusive interview with Wang Yang appeared on the entertainment section: "Magic Yang mocked some film critics for being ridiculous!"

Fantastic Yang v Film Critic!

Directors, producers, actors, and film critics in the media will quarrel with each other from time to time. These wars of words usually erupt from exclusive interviews and comments on online forums. The most common saying is: "I have so many audiences supporting me. , Why do you care what hundreds of film critics say? Why do you want to please them?", "Film critics will brag and don't understand anything at all! Can they make movies?", "They are a bunch of mean sluts!" ...

Now Miracle Young is pointing the finger at all the film critics who have smashed Rotten Tomatoes for "d", thinking that they lack objectivity and are unfair, and it can be said that they are provoking a problem in the film critic circle; Free-Westhoff, calling it ridiculous.

"Haha! This guy is crazy, the film critics should curse him to death!!" Mahoney, Sampson and others who wanted Wang Yang dead were very happy. This is indeed the first time Wang Yang expressed his gratitude to the film critics. Criticism, of course, had no chance before. However, Sampson and the others were too happy too early. This was a personal grievance, not to bombard the entire film critics. The % film critics who praised "D" would not speak out.

But the counterattack of the % film critics who were bombarded came immediately. Newspapers don't have so many pages, but now there are blogs on the Internet, many film critics immediately satirized and criticized Wang Yang on their personal websites and b1gger's blog; and the Internet media also followed up and reported.

"I saw a clumsy commercial hype." Alan Dell, a well-known blog and film critic, mocked him. He said that it would be better for "d" to be filmed with a serious tone, and he was also one of the film critics specifically pointed out by Wang Yang. , naturally not polite: "I am really very sad to see that magical Yang who was once modest and sunny has become a lunatic. The vulgar Hollywood has successfully transformed a person who was originally full of talent. Why did Wang Yang make such remarks? ? This is his hype! For the follow-up box office of "D", he is afraid."

According to his counterattack log analysis, Hollywood's publicity strategy is that a movie is not afraid of good scandals and scandals, but it is afraid that there will be no news and no attention! Now, Wang Yang, who is considered by movie fans to turn publicity into a game and never hype, suddenly made a statement, and it is this kind of statement that is guided by the audience's psychology of "going to the cinema to judge for yourself"? Wang Yang is hyping, because he knows that "Lord of the Rings 3" will be released soon, and the box office of "d" will not be good.

"I think Fantastic Young has died from laughing." The same well-known blog film critic Clare is a staunch supporter of Fantastic Young. On the site of b1gger, she started a scolding war with critics: "Is this called hype? Then you I must have never experienced the "Ghost Story" incident in 1998, the campus song and dance boom in 1999, I don't know "Juno said it", I don't know "Aliens are banned", and I don't know "D"'s 'Prada world's only limited edition handbag', 'makeup tips'..."

Her pen is very sarcastic: "You must not have a girlfriend, so I don't know that it has long been famous among women. Almost every young woman is looking forward to its release. Wang Yang's hype is too much! Now he just said After a few words, expressing opinions as before, you will become lunatics, sad!"

Whether it's hype or not, Wang Yang didn't show a little bit of fear in the interview with the "Los Angeles Times". He gave a clear answer: "I have full confidence in its box office, and those who want to see me encounter Waterloo will be disappointed. But more people will spend a happy Christmas and New Year with it."

"Wang Yang is just talking hard. It's really disappointing!" Jeffrey Westhoff of the "Northwest Herald" is also a user of b1gger. Protocol "" his blog, and that's fun! However, it turns out that there is no such thing, and his counterattack log, which has created a new record for a single blog post, is still hanging high:

"Just as Andrea didn't know about her progressive mentality change, Wang Yang didn't know about his own change, he became an arrogant, ignorant, spoiled idiot! His film reviews are not objective enough, he does not want to admit the fact that he made a mediocre work, is "d" a horse? Is it a giraffe? It is a monster with the limbs of a horse, the body of a zebra, and the head of a giraffe , this is the most objective review."

Jeffrey Westhoff said excitedly: "This kind of monster will not be remembered, will not be liked, and will only be thrown into the trash can! It's a pity for Meryl Streep's great performance. Wang Yang's head full of arrogance knows this, so he makes news. But it's too late! "d" will not be a miracle, no amount of box office can make up for its shallowness, Wang Yang, a confused kid, needs to grow up Otherwise, even if "D" can't get the youngest raspberry worst director, "Firefly" will accomplish this feat."

"There is no doubt that "D" is a masterpiece." Christie Lemire, a female film critic of the "New York Times" who highly admires "Devil", joined the duel. She also posted a discussion article on her blog: " Sometimes harshness can deceive a lot. People are too harsh on the 23-year-old Wang Yang. There are no surprises, no surprises... What is a surprise? People are happy to see new and unique things. , Fantastic Young can always bring these new and unique, slightly gentle "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has also become great because of his age."

Her comment made people see the delicacy and rationality of the female film critics of the big newspaper: "However, when people get used to this kind of surprise and win the Oscar, everything changes, becomes stricter and requires more Surprise! Fantastic Young, 23, pops out of a modest flick and dies. Meryl Streep surprises, Jessica Alba surprises, Emily Blunt surprises ...This really has nothing to do with Miracle Yang, is "d" really a mediocre work?"

"It's not," Christie-Lemire wrote: "When I watched the movie, I didn't think about who the director was or how it would be better. I just let myself throw myself into it, and then I saw a superb performance; Solid, deep, and often flashing camera language; relaxed and entertaining stories; a well-controlled rhythm; sexy and beautiful pictures of Taobao Women's Clothing Tmall Taobao Mall Taobao Women's Winter Coat M; interesting and meaningful lines, a pleasing process and a vivid ending .”

"I can't take my eyes off the screen at all. Is this called mediocrity and no surprises?"

She finally wrote: "They just want to know what exciting new ways to play with Yang, but they forget that light comedy is like this, fashion is like this, and now a 23-year-old young man executes them very well. , made one of the best dating movies, but suffered a lot of unreasonable accusations, if you ask me 'are they not being objective?' I think so. But time will give justice to "d" and Wang Yang."

"Toppled skyscrapers?" Yahoo Entertainment published a special report on this character. After all, Wang Yang lost all his talent and became a A vulgar and arrogant lost youth; or maintaining a high level as Christie Lemire and others say?

Yahoo Entertainment puts forward an interesting counterpoint, with Fantastic Young facing the "law of the office building." This law is a management law proposed by the British historian Cyril Northgood Parkinson. The more perfectly designed and luxuriously decorated the office building of a commercial or government organization is, the closer the organization is to disintegration. And the examples of many enterprises have proved this rule.

Parkinson's scientific speculation is that the organization is often busy during the exhibition period, and everyone puts time, energy, and enthusiasm into the work; however, when a certain achievement is made and the organization starts to build a building commensurate with the achievement, everyone All the time, energy, and enthusiasm are concentrated on superficial skills, how the building should be designed, how the office should be decorated... and the perfect building means a foregone conclusion, and a foregone conclusion means an end.

If the opposite view is true, what is the reason that "d" is full of fatigue and lost its magic and talent?

He is the youngest billionaire, and won the youngest Oscar for best director. Compared with the total box office and age, he is unrivaled. He is about to meet his childhood sweetheart, Jessica, one of the most beautiful women in the world. Marriage; besides the big screen, he also created miracles on the small screen, so proud of himself, he was satisfied. And Yahoo Entertainment said: ""Firefly" is probably the building that Wang Yang is building, the second science fiction film, the largest investment, and a supporting role by Ellen Page, which made him admire unprecedentedly...it is the magic Jan's most likely nightmare."

Yahoo Entertainment did not doubt the box office power of "D", and said: "Waterloo of Magic Yang is not here."

What if the affirmative view is established? Magic Young is still that Magic Young. So what is there to say? The feature wrote about this: "Now the film critics who cursed Wang Yang are waiting for the revenge of "Firefly"."

Amidst the clamor of the battle, December 18 quietly arrived, the day when the 61st Golden Globe Awards announced the nomination list.