Chapter 344 Chinese Science Fiction Goes Global

Chapter 344 Chinese Science Fiction Goes Global

Chapter 344 Chinese Science Fiction Goes Global

"Hubby, you're so awesome!"

When Jing Tian shouted this, the two were in the most luxurious hotel room in Beverly Hills.

At that time, Wang Hao had just finished a day of promotional activities and returned to the hotel, when he met Jing Tian who had flown to New York from Beijing.

"Why are you here? Why didn't you tell me in advance so that I could arrange someone to pick you up?"

Wang Hao looked at Jing Tian who was flying towards him, opened his arms and hugged her in his arms, then couldn't help but complain.

"It's very chaotic here in the United States. Even with an assistant by our side, the two girls are not safe."

Jing Tian couldn't help but pout.

"People come all the way to see you, and you criticize them as soon as you meet them.

I just saw that my husband's movie was a great success, and I wanted to come over and share this joy with you.

If you think that my presence here is a delay in your relationship with those Hollywood actresses, then I'm leaving now."

After saying that, Jing Tian pushed Wang Hao dissatisfiedly.

But her small arms and legs made it impossible for her to push away, and she was still held tightly in Wang Hao's arms.

"Okay, okay, we haven't seen each other for such a long time, I'm so happy, how could I let you go?

Let's go back to the room first. Your husband has become famous in Hollywood recently. If you keep going like this, the paparazzi might come over soon."

Although the two are just boyfriend and girlfriend now, they have long been calling each other intimately and are not embarrassed at all when talking about it.

As for what they would say and do after returning to the room, that is not something that outsiders can tell.

Anyway, a long separation is better than a new marriage. Wang Hao even turned down the promotional activities for the next day and stayed in the hotel with Jing Tian the whole day.

There is often a joke on the Internet: if you were asked to spend three days with a certain female star, where would you take her?
Wang Hao didn’t know how others answered, but he did have the opportunity to stay in the same room with Jing Tian and enjoy their own world.

After spending a day to dispel his loneliness and accumulated energy, Wang Hao participated in two or three days of promotional activities for his new movie in North America.

At the same time, in the past few days, the global box office information about "Inception" has been summarized here every day.

Early in the morning, Jing Tian crawled into the blanket to wake up Wang Hao, and the relevant information was sent to his mailbox.

It is now the sixth day since Inception was released. Yesterday, which was the fifth day of the film's release, although the box office in China had declined slightly, it still managed to break 100 million.

At the same time, the overseas box office on the same day reached 6123 million US dollars. This figure is relatively stable compared to the previous day. At the same time, it is foreseeable that this figure will remain stable in the next few days.

After all, there are no Hollywood blockbusters in January that will compete with Wang Hao's "Inception".

Seeing that the box office performance in North America was stable, Wang Hao and a group of crew members immediately flew to Europe on a special plane for promotional activities.

During this process, Jing Tian, ​​who had nothing to do, naturally stayed by Wang Hao's side, and the promotion in Europe was not the end.

After traveling to London, England, Paris, France, Berlin, Germany, Athens, and Vienna, Wang Hao and his team returned to China.

During this global promotion process, the global box office of "Inception" increased significantly almost every day.

At the end of the second week of the film's release, the total box office performance of "Inception" in China was 5.73 million yuan, which has exceeded half of the total box office performance of last year's box office champion "Transformers 3", which can be regarded as a complete good start for the Chinese film market.

As for the overseas box office, with Leonardo's box office appeal and Sony Pictures' publicity and distribution channels, "Inception"'s box office performance in its second week is still very strong.

In North America, the total box office performance in the second week was 2.09 million US dollars, and the film's performance fell by only 7% in 27 days, which is still quite good compared with other commercial films.

In other countries such as Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia, the total box office performance of "Inception" is 1.73 million US dollars. This figure is actually delayed to a certain extent due to communication reasons, but it is roughly the same.

According to these statistics, the global total box office of "Inception" in its second week is 4.73 million US dollars. Combined with the 0.877 million US dollars in the first week, the global total box office of "Inception" has successfully exceeded 5 million US dollars, reaching 5.6 million.

This news was reported to Galaxy Group almost immediately.

When Wang Hao and others' plane landed at Shangjing Airport, the media reporters who had already received the news and were waiting there in advance immediately rushed over and pointed their cameras at him.

"Director Wang, what do you think about the fact that the box office of Inception in mainland China is about to break 7 million? Do you have the confidence to break the box office record of 13.78 billion set by Avatar?"

"Director Wang, I heard that your Inception has almost reached $6 million in global box office. Does this mean that your film has already recouped its cost?"

"Director Wang, do you have anything to say about becoming the number one Chinese director in the global box office rankings?"

"Director Wang, during the promotion of this movie, someone noticed that Ms. Jing Tian was always by your side. Are you two dating?"

Many reporters present almost subconsciously looked at the colleague who was asking about gossip.

They came here not just to chase traffic this time, especially those official media, most of them came with publicity missions, but I don’t know which young man dared to ask such a question.

Naturally, Wang Hao would not pay any attention to such a guy. He picked a few media reporters who looked pleasing to his eye and with whom he had a good relationship, and selectively answered a few questions.

Less than an hour later, news about famous director Wang Hao returning to China to participate in film promotions appeared on major portals and Weibo forums.

Fans who had become fans of Wang Hao because of the movie in the past two weeks were happy but also a little complaining.

Because that means if they want to meet Wang Hao and Leonardo DiCaprio who are promoting the movie, they have to buy movie tickets again.

Before that, many of them had already completed the second or even third viewing.

However, even if they have watched it several times, there are still many fanatical movie fans who are willing to pay for it again.

That's Leo, Leonardo Dicaprio. Hollywood stars of this level rarely come to China and rarely have close contact with fans.

Now we have this opportunity. After the promotional schedule of the main creators of "Inception" in China was announced on Taopiao.com, the movie tickets for the day in cinemas along the route were sold out immediately.

After more than two weeks of spreading and brewing, the praise and admiration for the movie "Inception" on the Internet and traditional media can almost be said to have finally reached its peak.

First of all, on the traditional media side, the film channel with which they had the deepest cooperation directly sent a professional editing team, who had been with Wang Hao and his team since the film's premiere in China. Afterwards, the editing team of this film channel also flew with them to North America and Europe, and CCTV-6 also had a special report on "Chinese Science Fiction, Going to the World" that was broadcast for more than ten days.

In addition to the six princesses, other related entertainment magazines and newspapers have also been reporting extensively on the achievements of "Inception" around the world.

Especially regarding the global box office of the movie, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the popularity of "Inception" in China is unquestionable, and its performance will inevitably set a new record.

So everyone is more concerned about what kind of results "Inception" can achieve internationally.

It's not easy. Ever since the release of imported blockbusters in 1994, the Chinese film industry has been under pressure from Hollywood films.

True Lies, Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Transformers trilogy, Harry Potter, 2012, Avatar…

These blockbusters are like huge mountains, pressing down on Chinese filmmakers and the hearts of Chinese movie fans.

Many movie fans even think that we are not suitable for commercial blockbusters and do not have the relevant film fantasy culture, so we can only make love movies, or costume, martial arts, or action movies.

Until now, there has been a director like Wang Hao who focuses on science fiction films and has an excellent grasp of both artistic and commercial aspects.

From small investments to large productions, step by step, Chinese science fiction films and visual effects blockbusters have been put on the right track.
Finally, we have "Inception".

Although the actors are still mainly Hollywood stars, there are rich Chinese elements from the director to the behind-the-scenes team, as well as many supporting roles and movie scenes, so this can also be considered a Chinese movie.

The fact that this Chinese science fiction film is now "setting sail" also symbolizes that after a decade of development, Chinese films have finally begun to demonstrate their strength and prove their existence to the world.

Such an extraordinary and good thing, symbolizing the development of the country's cultural undertakings, would surely attract the attention and attention of the traditional media dominated by the official authorities.

Compared with traditional media's attention to the great significance of "Inception", emerging media represented by the Internet are focusing on the entertainment significance brought by "Inception".

First of all, thanks to the extremely high quality of the movie, as well as its suspenseful and brain-burning attributes, the first posts that appeared on major movie websites, forums, Weibo and other platforms on the Internet were plot analysis posts and content deconstruction posts about "Inception".

[The spinning top is the totem of Cobb’s wife, not Cobb’s own totem!

Director Wang Hao played a trick in "Inception", making everyone think that his totem was a spinning top, but in fact Cobb's wedding ring was the key.

If you watch the movie carefully, you will find that Cobb wears a ring in all his dreams, but not in all realities.

So at the end Cobb didn't care whether the gyroscope stopped or not, because he didn't wear the ring when he left the airport, and he already knew that he had returned to reality. 】

[There are actually seven levels of dreams in the movie. When the protagonists return to the train at the beginning, they are still in the first level of dreams.

Later, on the plane, I was preparing to enter the dream of little Fisher, which was also the first level of dream.

However, in this plot, director Wang Hao cleverly edited the scene where Shi Qiang and Cobb formed a team in real life to after Saito gave the protagonist Cobb a task.

This has misled many people, making them think that the previous and later plots are the same as the real-life scenes and are all taking place in the real world.

But the two are actually different. The normal rhythm of the story should actually be:
1. Shi Qiang finds Cobb and asks him to help him carry out the dream stealing mission on the condition of helping him go home, to steal the information about the ETO organization in Saito's mind, and by the way, to implant the idea of ​​cooperating with the official in Saito.

2. Cobb and others enter Saito’s dream on the plane, and receive Saito’s task in the dream, asking them to enter Fisher Jr.’s dream. This is the first level of the dream.

3. Cobb and others entered Fisher Jr.’s dream on the plane and kidnapped him from the streets of New York. This is actually the second level of dream.

4. Cobb and others enter Little Fisher’s dream in the van and arrive at the hotel, which is the third level of the dream.

4. Cobb and others fall asleep again in the hotel room, enter the dream of the Godfather disguised by Yin Xiu, and appear in the dream of the Snow Mountain Fortress. This is the fourth level of the dream.

5. Saito and Fisher Jr. died, and they fell into the "Lost Zone" together, which can be regarded as the fifth level of dreams.

6. If we add the real world, then the whole movie has six worlds in total. The story of "Inception" is about going deeper and deeper into these six worlds and then coming back. 】

[Who is Little Fisher in the dream?
The little Fisher in the dream is actually Shi Qiang. As Qin Yanni’s teacher, Shi Qiang himself is an extremely powerful dream builder and pretender.

I suggest that viewers who have just started to watch the film "Fatal Call" directed by Wang Hao. That film can be regarded as the prequel to "Inception" and can help you better understand this movie.

In addition to disguising himself as Little Fisher, Shi Qiang actually made quite a few appearances in the first dream.

On the train where Cobb and his friends woke up at the beginning, the attendant they passed by when they got off the train was actually Shi Qiang.

The camera just swept across it at the time, but it can still be recognized if you look closely.

In addition, when Saito approached Cobb and his team, the pilot of the helicopter was actually Shi Qiang. There is a shot outside the helicopter in the movie, and you can see it clearly through the cockpit window. 】

What is the ending of "Inception"?
I suggest that people who have finished reading this post should read it again and point out any mistakes. After all, I dare not say that I am right.

Many people say that "Inception" is still in a dream and is a tragedy, while many others say that it is an open ending created by director Wang Hao.

But in my opinion, the ending is actually that Cobb returns to reality, two pieces of evidence.

Evidence 1: Cobb could never forget his wife, and he kept dreaming based on his memories, recalling his wife and children.

Cobb has flashbacks several times, and the child has appeared in his dreams many times. Look carefully at the child's back. At the end of the film, look carefully at the child and you will see that the child looks back. This is one point.

The most important point is, haven’t you noticed that your child has grown up?

It turns out that the child Cobb saw was always in his memory, so the child at that time was actually the one when he was with his wife a few years ago. And if you look closely at the child at the end, you will find that the child has grown up.

This means that this was not his dream. He returned to reality and saw his children who had left him for several years. The children had grown up a little now.

Evidence 2: Why do you say the spinning top didn't fall over? In fact, the spinning top spun slower and slower and shook a bit, but it ended right after the shaking. But did you hear a loud "ding" sound at the end? Maybe that's when the spinning top fell over.

Evidence three: the ring. This has been pointed out by many viewers online. Cobb was always wearing a wedding ring in his dreams. I didn’t look at it carefully, but in his dreams he almost always wore the wedding ring on his hand. But at the end, when the spinning top was spinning, it was gone, which means he returned to reality.

Director Wang Hao cleverly used these loopholes to make everyone think it was an open ending, which was more memorable, but his details proved that the ending returned to reality. I believe Director Wang wanted us to discuss it non-stop after watching it. It can be said to be a disguised hype, but his use of it was very clever.

Wang Dao also told many people that sometimes dreams may be reality, reality may be dreams, true and false, false and true, who can resist the temptation of all the perfection in dreams and recognize whether it is reality or dream? 】

(End of this chapter)