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After the start of a new week, Gravity ushered in the test of working days. Although the box office of the film was excellent in the first week, if it wants to finally get an excellent box office data in North America, it needs a stable enough trend, and a stable box office The trend is also closely related to word of mouth, which is conducive to the use of films to win awards.

Facts have also proved that the good audience and media reputation accumulated in the early stage of the film, coupled with the diamond signature created by Duke with more than a dozen films, have directly transformed into commercial appeal.

On Monday, the first working day after Gravity was released on a large scale, the box office on that day was only 42% lower than last Sunday, ending the day's screening with a score of 14.95 million US dollars.

Tuesday is the traditional discount time for theaters in North America. This has also caused the box office of many films to become the highest in the weekday box office.

But on Wednesday, the film's box office inevitably fell by 20 percent, earning $12.97 million for the day.

Combined with Thursday's $13.05 million, Gravity took in $145.9 million from North America in the week after its extended run.

Starting from the second weekend, the film will be widely screened overseas.

Gravity is currently in theaters, and the voting for Oscar nominations that started on December 31 last year is also in full swing. The ballots mailed by the academy to each member will not be returned until early February, and the judges have enough time to carefully consider. , This is also the best opportunity for each film studio to publicize their films.

A judge casts a vote for a certain film or corresponding actor when nominating. If the film and actor finally appear on the nomination list, the probability of the judge making the same choice in the final vote is often more than 90%.

And once the list of nominations is announced, a lot of public relations work cannot be carried out as blatantly as it is now, especially some actions to discredit competitors.

Annual awards season. There will always be situations where many films attack each other, especially those popular films, which are often the focus of the attack. For example, Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain was smeared by countless TV media and industry insiders a few years ago. had a promising Best Picture award.

This is a circle entangled in the struggle for fame and fortune. This year is no exception. Gravity, which is currently being screened and received quite a good response, has inevitably attracted some offensive remarks.

Gravity, a shallow technical work full of countless flaws!

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Since Gravity was released, many people have praised it as a masterpiece. They think that the film is a masterpiece. There are no more than the following: good technology, good story, good performance, strong sense of experience, thoughtfulness, Artistic.

In all fairness, it is within the normal range to give high marks to it because of its good technology. Although the visual effect presented by the special effects technology of this film is not as good as that of Avatar, it can be considered that this year can still see some investment. But to say that it can match the 3D effect of Avatar is beyond the understanding of ordinary people.

The visual effects of Avatar and even the blades of grass in the distant view are very fine and textured. When the gunpowder smoke fills the air, I feel that my body may be covered with dust. What about Gravity? Except that you can see it when satellite debris strikes Click on the 3D effect, and the rest is just a tablet. When I watched it, other audience members said that there was no 3D effect when they left. I really don’t know how people who say that the 3D effect is good can see the 3D effect and the exquisite and profound visual spectacle?”

The story is good, right? To be honest, it's really easy and effortless for a prisoner to make this kind of argument. What is a story? Something is not a story. The significance of a story lies in the description of the process of things. What is a good story? It is the process of things ups and downs. Ups and downs, full of tension, coherent and vivid, with a beginning and an end, and can explain a certain truth or sublimate a deeper meaning.

What kind of story does Gravity tell? A story of survival. The core of the story is survival, that is to say, the protagonist survives by overcoming various difficulties, so most of the time is spent watching the heroine drifting past, almost Didn’t catch it, floated back, caught it this time... this one didn’t work, changed another one, floated over again, almost missed it, floated back, caught it this time...is this the so-called good story?

Besides, since it is a movie in which the heroine is the sole protagonist, there is basically no suspense about the fate of the characters. Of course, you may say how do you know she won't die? I can only tell you that normal humans don't think like this, very Sudden gameplay can be done occasionally, but survival movies actually watch the process of escaping. Maybe some people watch the tablet space screen for half an hour after the heroine dies halfway, but Duke Rosenberg like A dull director obviously wouldn't take that risk.

This story is as tedious as a child learning to walk after falling down and then standing up again. After repeated several times, he finally learns to walk. Gravity became dregs in seconds. People who think this film has a good story will probably wake up every day and find that they are still alive, and they will praise God with tears in their eyes.

A good performance? Let's not say that a movie without a story and a lack of lines limits the actor's lack of acting skills. Judging from the movie, Scarlett Johansson has been acting for the sake of acting from the beginning to the end, with empty expressions and artificial performances. , You can’t see the panic from your heart when you are in distress, you can’t see the sadness and pain when you lose a colleague, you can’t see despair when your first hope is shattered, and you can’t see loneliness when you finally bark like a dog.”

Scarlett Johansson's performance is absolutely catastrophic. She has big eyes and no personality. She screams and gasps for oxygen. Sometimes she can't tell whether she wants to live or die. Don't take it. She was too frightened and mentally numb as an excuse, and I guarantee that Alessandra Ambrosio would be better than her.

What is the sense of experience? Due to the planarization of visual effects and the lack of emotional foreshadowing of the characters, you can neither feel the magnificence and vastness of the universe, nor feel the sense of weightlessness and loneliness in space. In addition, the story is thin and boring. It makes people completely unplayable.”

As for what is thoughtful and artistic, I will let you go, because you are hopeless. When will Duke Rosenberg's film have anything to do with these two things?

Although movies will lead to personal sublimation due to subjective understanding and feelings, they still have relatively rigid creation rules and standards. A good movie must stand the test of wisdom and time, like Gravity This kind of barely-there commercial movie can’t be stuffed into the hall of gods by relying on pale and empty applause and mindless interpretation of fans.”

The media can always influence the choices of many people, especially some judges who don't watch movies very much. The influence of Hollywood Reporter on the industry is beyond doubt.

On the other hand, in the history of Oscars, except for the special Lord of the Rings trilogy, there has not been any unrealistic film that can win a big victory. Many people are concerned about the authenticity of Gravity I worked hard.

A former astronaut named Scott Palazsky accepted an exclusive interview with the media. He has completed seven spacewalks, including seven hours spent dangling on the robotic arm of the International Space Station. Repair his solar panel array which could happen at any time by accident.

When he was interviewed, he pointed out all kinds of common sense mistakes in the movie.

The first thing that caught my eye was three men walking outside the pod and only one of them was actually doing the work. Poor Scarlett Johansson was doing all the work, while the other two men were doing nothing: one of them was tossing The space shuttle payload bay is loaded with cargo, and George Clooney is wearing a turbocharged jetpack, in the movie you see him use the jetpack to approach the Hubble space telescope, if you do, you will hit the Solar arrays, causing the cells to bend and making them useless. So it's all wrong and even ridiculous.

Let's talk about the rationality of Scarlett Johansson's role. She should be very inexperienced. She said that after six months of training, this is her first mission, flying a simulator while training on the ground Unable to successfully land. With this level of training and experience, it is impossible to assign her a mission. She calls herself a mission expert, but she is actually what we call a 'payload expert': someone who because of a very specific skill , you may be sent on a space mission to do a specific mission or experiment. What I want to say is that it takes at least two years of basic skills training to become a spacewalking expert. We never send a payload expert to go to space. walk.

There's also a gross misrepresentation where Scarlett Johansson's not wearing a hydronic suit or diapers is a spacewalking blunder in the film.

In the end, the former astronaut said deliberately humorously, However, this is a science fiction film that is not based on reality, and we cannot look at it with a professional eye.

This interview was just broadcast on TV, and Duke saw the relevant content. The other party's intention was quite obvious, that is, to eliminate all possible reality-based content in Gravity, so that most people will naturally It is summed up in the ranks of science fiction films similar to Star Wars.

As we all know, this type of film has never been Oscar's dish. (to be continued ~^~)

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