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With a score of 77 points in the media's comprehensive evaluation, Sin City has handed over a satisfactory answer sheet.

Comparing works of the same type horizontally, Kill Bill 1 scored 69 points, Kill Bill 2 scored 83 points, Seven Deadly Sins scored 65 points, and A Clockwork Orange scored 78 points . It can be seen that Sin City is a work between A Clockwork Orange and Kill Bill 1, especially considering its absurd scene of one hundred and zero flying together, this data It's even more incredible.

At the same time, the popular media on Rotten Tomatoes also expressed their opinions. An incredible 245 media outlets uploaded their scores, which once again proved the degree of attention of Sin City, whether it is because of Lance's appeal, or because of the influence of the huge publicity campaign in the past month, such a sensational debut is eye-catching.

Among the 245 media outlets, 190 gave Fresh Tomatoes favorable reviews, and only 55 media voted for Rotten Tomatoes. The favorable rate reached 78%, and the average score reached 7. 4 points, such a result is almost the same as the comprehensive score of the authoritative media, which proves that the overall direction of the media is still consistent.

On the other hand, theater scores and IMDB scores don't have much reference value during the opening weekend. After all, the number of viewers is very limited so far, and it will inevitably fluctuate due to the increase in the number of viewers in the future. But even so, the current two scores also show a gratifying trend.

The theater score reached B+, among which the popcorn index reached 82%. On the whole, the audience still responded to the criticism, which coincided with the media's comprehensive evaluation again; as for IMDB The situation is even more astonishing. At present, more than 8,100 viewers have scored 8.6 points, ranking strongly among the top 30 on the IMDB list of 250 best films.

Even though people knew that this score would change in the future, they were still amazed.

Among Lance's three current works, City of God has accumulated more than 300,000 votes, and the score remains at 8.7 points, ranking twentieth on the list. It is also a foreign language The highest-ranked production of the film, this production deserves its name as Lance's blockbuster debut.

After Borrowing a Knife won the Oscar for the best actor statuette, the number of IMDB ratings has risen sharply. At present, it has accumulated 250,000 votes, and the score is temporarily settled at 7.9 points. 50 on the list, but such a result is still eye-catching.

Now, Sin City is out again, temporarily ranking 25th with an evaluation of 8.6 points, with The Usual Suspects in the front and Life is Beautiful in the back. The classic works after time has settled down, and Sin City appears high among them.

IMDB is not the most authoritative list, because this is a website voted by the audience, it is very likely that there will be works with inflated ratings due to fan fanaticism, and there may also be unknown high-cold art works that are tragically ignored. But it is undeniable that this list reflects the audience's comprehensive evaluation of a work to some extent.

During Lance's short director career, two works appeared in the top 30. Such a strong appeal and influence are staggering.

Before the first week of April 2005, there were only four directors with two works in the top 30 on the IMDB 250 list: Steven Spielberg, Snyder Le's List and Saving Private Ryan; Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather 1 and The Godfather 2; David Fincher, The Seven Crime and Fight Club.

Now, another addition to the list: Lancelot Strelow. Although it is still unknown whether Sin City will stand the test of time, no one should forget that this is only Lance's fourth film work, and it has achieved such achievements quietly. No amount of exaggerated praise is enough to describe people's pursuit of him.

What's more, among the four works of Lance, a crime trilogy was created. As Roger said, Lance has always been exploring the balance between art and commerce, and the crime trilogy has clearly seen some of them. way. Although it is still not perfect, for example, City of God is too artistic, while Murder with a Borrowing Knife and City of Sin are more commercial; but no one can deny that Lance has taken the lead on this road Many people, given time, maybe he can really become a generation of masters, with the appeal of Steven, Francis and others, and shake the wind and rain in the North American film market.

The IMDB score reflects the audience's trust and appreciation for Lance, which is precisely a talent that is hard to buy.

Before Sin City was released, this work had already become the focus of attention. On the one hand, it was because of Lance's appeal. The box office has exceeded 200 million, and he has won the Oscar for Best Director nomination for two consecutive years, and he has also pushed Tom to the throne of actor. This 32-year-old director has too much halo, no matter whether he continues to create Brilliant, or encountering a Waterloo-style fiasco for the first time, this is enough to make Sin City attract enough attention.

On the other side is the huge success of the Welcome to Your Sin City campaign, which not only attracted a large number of participants, but also continued to be hotly discussed, turning a movie campaign into a A true work of art, and a feast for the cinephiles. People's concern and expectations for the event naturally extend to the movie itself, and they are curious about what kind of work Sin City will be and what kind of trend it will trigger. What kind of form is incorporated into this work.

The explosive reaction at the premiere is the most direct proof. As the first work released by Chaos Films, due to the lack of needles from the distribution department, they originally planned to reduce the scale of the premiere, focus on the interaction with the audience, follow the route of killing people with a knife, and drive the box office with word of mouth. After arriving at the scene, I found that things were getting out of control bit by bit. A small premiere gradually turned into a grand grand premiere. On the night of the first week of April, the instant viewing of the summer frenzy was born. feel.

This is just the beginning.

After the premiere, the news media couldn't wait to fight each other, scrambling to set up banners, draw boundaries, and express their positions. The mighty momentum has continued from professional media to mass media, and then to movie audiences and Internet users. , spread endlessly, polarized opinions sparked incredible controversy, even radio stations and TV shows couldn't help but start jumping in, and everyone had their say: love it or hate it , or for or against, the topic of Sin City spread like an overwhelming spread.

Unknowingly, the development of the matter has been completely out of everyone's control. Chaos Films cannot control it, the news media cannot control it, and even ordinary people cannot control it. Sin City has become the most popular in the first week of April. A hot topic, even if you are not interested in this work, at least you have heard of the chaos it caused. If you have never heard of it, you will obviously be completely blocked by your circle of friends, and you don't know what it means.

Even if it is a summer project, it is not so easy to create such a situation, and it may not be able to reach such a height after spending 20 million publicity expenses. But now, after a series of careful planning and several mistakes at important turning points, Chaos Pictures only spent less than five million dollars in publicity costs, reaching the level that all film companies have. coveted heights.

Movie-watching frenzy, Sin City really triggered a movie-watching frenzy, people can't wait to go into the cinema, watch this movie for the first time, and then join in this rare heated discussion, share own opinion. On April 1st, Friday, Sin City made $17 million at the box office in just one day!

After the data came out, there was an indiscriminate exclamation. Maybe, the single-day box office of 17 million won't even make it into the top 30 in the film history list, and it is far behind the 28 million score on the day of the premiere of The Day After Tomorrow, but no one It should be forgotten that this is April, at the tail end of the spring season - The Day After Tomorrow achieved such success in the summer holiday season, and now it's only the first week of April, and Sin City has achieved such success Unbelievable results, easily broke the 15 million single-day box office record created by Anger Management in the second week of April 2003.

It is worth mentioning that the single-day box office of Ocean's Twelve was 15 million, while Murder with a Borrowing Knife was 12 million.

It took only one day for Sin City to declare its dominance, especially in the midst of the media's polarized treatment, sparks of terror burst out, and the audience walked out of the warm room in the cold winter and went to the cinema , with an attitude of welcoming summer and enjoying spring, joined this movie-watching tide.

Even the sagacious media dared not predict that Sin City would get off to such a strong start in April - indeed, the media's box office predictions for the film were hit by a double fire even before Sin City was released. God's treatment, such a situation is so familiar, it makes people laugh and cry, and it also makes the sense of expectation soar.

Everyone can feel that the upsurge of the summer file has arrived ahead of schedule with the strength of Sin City, but the question is: how high can this movie reach? What kind of results will the premiere box office create? It seems that Lance's miraculous journey has just been unveiled.