Chapter 910: Honest man

Compared with Dan Brown’s original novel, the scale of the movie is actually much smaller. If it is placed in the Middle Ages, including Dan Brown, all the crew members will count as one, and they must be put on the torture frame.

The huge premiere of "The Da Vinci Code" attracted hundreds of journalists, because there are countless pairs of curious eyes around the world waiting to see what this novel with 40 million readers would look like in a movie. .

Once when Ronan watched this film, he only found it inexplicable.

In the East, which is extremely lacking in religious background, it is understandable that half of the audience has got up and left.

The real selling point of this film is actually the popularity of the religious content and the original book. Even Tom Hanks cannot be a selling point.

Instead, it became a target for fans to complain.

Tom Hanks, who is under tremendous pressure from public opinion, in order to move closer to the role in appearance, while actively losing weight, he has turned the perennial brush head into "elegant" long hair.

But the audience who watched the preview of "The Da Vinci Code" still criticized Big Tom's imitation hairstyle, calling it "a bald forehead and a duck tail on the back of his head"!

As for the content, this kind of novel is really not a very suitable object for film adaptation.

The deciphering shown in words is greatly reduced after imaging. This is not only a problem of filming, but also the eyeball irritation that audiences are used to commercial films.

Even the other controversial religious film "The Passion of the Christ" used the controversy to attract the audience into the theater and retain the audience with the torture of whipping Jesus.

The film "The Da Vinci Code" cannot be said to have insufficient abilities. After all, this is one of Hollywood’s best directors that balance art and commerce, including "Apollo 13" and "How the Grinch Steal A big-selling commercial film like "Going Christmas" has won an Oscar for Best Director with "Beautiful Mind".

Ron Howard spent a lot of effort on how to use pictures to express some of the boring historical and theoretical passages in the book, which led to the lengthening of the time for the film to explain and the loss of energy in the intense plot promotion; visual processing On the above, he has no shortage of magical touches, such as overlapping shots across history, and processing the texture of oil paintings on the pictures of historical legends.

As for the denial of religion, such a huge investment in movies determines that large-scale releases are inevitable, and a compromise on the scale is required.

This is not the loss of art, but clever avoidance.

Therefore, the original book turns into a line of Tom Hanks in the movie about religions. is a man and a god. Isn't there not enough people to die for this problem?

Inevitably, when the plot of the novel is shown on the big screen in pictures, the spiritual thriller is lost.

Ronan still remembers the night when a roommate who knew the history of Western religion hid in bed reading the original book all night when he was in college.

According to a roommate, when he saw how Dan Brown subversively explained the Last Supper, the entire back hairs were erected-it was not a mystic thriller from ghosts or death, but facing oneself When the common sense of history was completely overturned, at that moment, it came from the fear of weightlessness on the spiritual level.

He even said that although this fear is only a moment, it is enough to surpass any horror world created by Stephen King.

But Ronan watched the movies shown on the big screen, showing various scenes about and the feminine Peter. After watching them, he could only make people wonder, far less than the horror that the roommate once said.

This seems to be a common problem or natural flaw in the adaptation of movies from novels on suspenseful themes.

It seems that no matter how good the film adaptation is, it will be inferior to the reasoning text.

As for the ups and downs between Tom Hanks and the Vatican since its establishment, it is not difficult to understand.

After all, the original work and the film have a lot of jokes. Nowadays, even the criticism of popular singers and idols will be criticized by fans, let alone such a serious Christ?

After the premiere, when Ronan left the theater, some reporters came over and wanted to interview, but they were all stopped by bodyguards.

Although you don't believe in religion, but when it comes to religious belief, it is best not to speak.

"How does this film feel?" Ronan asked Connie who was accompanying him.

"Um..." Connie thought for a moment, and said, "I watched the original, and the movie... how to say it, it always feels less attractive than the original."

Ronan nodded slightly, "Notify the Embassy Pictures to prepare for a big box office drop next weekend."

Connie answered first, and then asked, "Should Embassy Pictures make some news?"

Ronan waved his hand. "No, Tom Hanks and Pretone Pictures will definitely take action. Only when the controversy is louder in this film can it be possible to get more income."

The facts are as expected by Ronan. Since the release on Friday, many religious groups have protested in front of Pretone Pictures. Even in front of Tom Hanks's house, some conservative believers have gathered.

On Friday afternoon, several members from the Women's Association of "Peace and Mercy" kneeled in front of the office of the regional archbishop and asked the regional archbishop to protest against the film "The Da Vinci Code".

The regional archbishop had to make concessions and publicly criticized the novel and film as "very far-fetched and full of heretics" on Saturday.

More protests are also appearing, and even albinism organizations have come out to speak out.

To better play the role of the albino killer Silas, Paul Bettany is not satisfied with the pale skin unique to albinos that is only available during makeup, and he does not hesitate to dye his blond hair white and dark blue eyes to blood red.

However, this image has caused great indignation from the American Albinism and Pigmentation Organization. The organization believes that this description follows the uglification of albinism homosexuals in many Hollywood movies and has publicly issued a protest statement.

Protests will bring pressure to the film and the producers. As long as the pressure can be resisted, the pressure of the protest will often turn into a controversial motivation.

This is a commercial society, and protests will not degrade the film, or even reduce the number of movie theaters.

As the protests became more and more popular, the number of viewers who walked into the theater to watch "The Da Vinci Code" continued to increase.

Thanks to the huge influence of the novel and the controversy caused by the movie, Embassy Pictures won 4,180 theaters, and "The Da Vinci Code" received $31.99 million in box office from North America on the first day of its release.

This set a single-day box office record for the North American film market in February!

Director Ron Howard even praised Haikou in an interview, "The best way to thoroughly understand the film is to watch the movie for the second time."

Pretone Pictures put out twelve points of effort to create momentum for "The Da Vinci Code".

The original novel is best-selling worldwide; the Vatican has publicly accused the content of being absurd and untrue; Westminster Abbey declined heretical filming; the Louvre opened its arms to welcome the crew to enter; the original author Dan Brown was entangled in infringement lawsuits... a series of religious controversy and gossip It is expected that there is a lot of hype in North America and the entire Western world.

Hollywood movie promotion is always full of tricks, even "honest people" like Tom Hanks will also play tricks on promotion.

And it was a huge success.

However, the reputation of "The Da Vinci Code" is not much better. People who have read the original generally think that the film adaptation is not as exciting as the original novel, and they will inevitably be disappointed.

Most people who have never read a novel do not know much about religious history and don't catch a cold, and they are confused when they enter the theater.

Even if it was only released for one day, the score of "The Da Vinci Code" was only 66 points on the d scored by fans.

This is very rare in all the movies starring Tom Hanks.

Many people are saying that Tom Hanks is old and no longer forging ahead when he was young, and more thinking about how to make money to provide for the elderly.

The freshness of rotten tomatoes in the film is only 25%.

In the face of the film "The Da Vinci Code", film critics were very angry and angry with their darling Tom Hanks.

"As a performance artist, how can Tom Hanks become a cheap producer like Ronan Anderson?"

These film critics would not have thought that Tom Hanks, who had strict artistic standards, was already in talks with Dan Brown to adapt another religious novel "Angels and Demons."

However, Pretone Pictures has made it clear that it will no longer cooperate with Shahai Entertainment on this film.

Ronan does not intend to continue participating, "Angels and Demons" will inevitably be affected by this "The Da Vinci Code".

Don’t care about the Rotten Tomatoes Index, but the audience’s reputation must be considered. The outbreak of "The Da Vinci Code" is actually consuming audiences’ interest in Dan Brown’s novels and religious themes.

But in a short period of time, the "Da Vinci Code" has exploded rapidly in the North American film market.

In the first three days of the weekend, the film won $82.17 million in box office in 4,180 theaters in North America.

This is also the highest weekend box office record in the history of the North American film market!

However, "The Da Vinci Code"'s ca&nsp;&nsp;sr theater audience scored only "", and the North American box office is expected to be around 240 million US dollars.

Dragged down by the poor reputation of the audience, the box office of this film in North America dropped by nearly 60% the next weekend!

However, the box office gain of $34.12 million, plus the workday income, is enough to push the film's North American box office to $141.12 million.

The controversy caused by "The Da Vinci Code" quickly spread overseas, affecting the viewing choices of many Western audiences.

This weekend, the film was released in many Western countries, and the first weekend grossed 94.87 million US dollars in the box office.

Embassy Pictures predicts that the overseas box office of "EbookFREE.me~Da Vinci Code" will be at least twice that of North America.

In a certain way, an unusually large reader of the Bible may become a consumer of the film.

The "Bible" is said to be the world's number one selling book beyond the Red Book.

All these provide a huge guarantee for the film's box office success.