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Forty media outlets gave Fruit Candy a comprehensive media rating of 78 points. Strictly speaking, this score is not high, and it cannot be compared with Murder with a Borrowed Knife. It is only better than Sin City It's just one point higher, and this is not a commercial film, this is a work of art, such a score seems to declare that it has missed the awards season. But no one should forget that this is a thriller movie, and critics are always of the harsher, stricter genre.

In film history, the well-known horror films generally receive low reviews from the media. The Sixth Sense of Psyche scored 64 points; The Shining scored 61 points; The Exorcist scored 82 points; Alien, 83 points. The main reason is that the core theme of horror and horror movies is to scare. It is difficult to dig out human nature and theme while creating a fear effect, let alone the completeness of the story and characters. Among them, The Sixth Sense of Spirituality and The Exorcist are two of the only four thriller horror works in film history that have won Oscar nominations for best film criticism.

It is worth mentioning that many film critics compared Hard Candy with A Clockwork Orange, and the latter scored 78 points in the comprehensive media review.

It can be seen that Hard Fruit Candy has an important position in the minds of professional film critics, especially considering the average effect brought by the two extreme reactions, the final media comprehensive evaluation can still reach 78 points, which is really impressive. With admiration. This also made people realize that the love-hate relationship between New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and other sneak reviews is not only not to discount the quality of the film, but also direct evidence of the film's excellence. Many people began to hope to be able to enter the cinema to enjoy this cult classic with slanting swords.

As a result, the next week's box office of Hard Candy once again became the focus of attention.

In the three days of the weekend, this unique style of work actually earned 1.05 million US dollars in box office data, and it rocketed into the top 15 weekend box office, hanging high at the 14th place. Among the top 50 works on the list, the only one whose screening venue is still in single digits; what is even more incredible is that the single-venue box office of 150,000 once again shocked the world and blinded everyone's eyes.

For the first time, there are two theaters, with a single box office of 168,000; the next week, seven theaters, with a single box office of 150,000. Such an outstanding box office performance does not need any extraneous words at all. It is just a set of data, and you can clearly feel the enthusiasm for Hard Fruit Candy since it was screened, especially the hunger and thirst marketing of Chaos Films. , coupled with the media's comprehensive reviews fanning the flames and netizens' enthusiastic reviews, this work has become the well-deserved king of focus in the past two weeks.

Even Chain Saw 2, which won the weekend box office champion with 30 million this week, seemed to be overshadowed. You know, with only a low-cost investment of 4 million U.S. dollars, this work swept 30 million in its premiere weekend. Lionsgate also appeared in front of North American audiences for the first time. However, compared to Hard Candy, Chain Saw 2 is still hard to match.

With the promotion of two-week screenings, the discussion of Hard Fruit Candy began to spread, and more and more viewers joined the discussion, including the news media who expressed their opinions unwillingly. It seemed that all questions were answered. The clouds have been cleared.

Behind the excellent script of Good Night, Good Luck, Lance is the biggest contributor, not only because the first draft of the script circulated on the Internet proved that this version of the script is the closest to the final version; The profound skills can be clearly felt in the dialogue lines, and the neat and full character creation left a deep impression. As a screenwriter, Lance once again proved his ability after City of God and Murder with a Borrowing Knife.

The unsolved case of Good Night and Good Luck seems to have finally been settled, but at this moment, no one is willing to mention this work, not only because Lance almost refuses to mention it in public, but also because a reporter in Hard Candy After the screening, I asked Lance related questions, but Lance changed the topic and avoided answering. It can be seen that on the surface, a reconciliation was reached, but in private, the friendship between Lance and George could never return; also because Such an excellent work has been involved in the plagiarism scandal, how enthusiastic people are for George's praise, how turbulent the humiliation and shame are now, it seems that mentioning this work only makes himself more embarrassed.

Unknowingly, hard candy has replaced good night, good luck and has become the focus of people's attention recently. As for Good Night and Good Luck, thick dust fell slowly and gradually disappeared in the hustle and bustle of Hollywood. No one knows when it will see the light of day again.

On the other hand, Mad Max 4 has surfaced again. Hard Candy is not just a slanted sword, it can be said to have broken the speculation and plans of all types of Hollywood films, and turned out with a diametrically opposite attitude, but the depth of discussion of this work is in the crime 3 One step closer to the basics of the trilogy, which makes people wonder whether Mad Max 4 will glow with new vitality in Lance's lens, presenting a movie in a way that runs counter to the day after tomorrow Maverick outstanding works, and then bring unparalleled shock again?

Just a week ago, people were questioning what Lance's choice of Mad Max 4 might have seemed like an insane decision; now, people are starting to hesitate, really? Lance, who seems to be wandering on the edge of his personality and has repeatedly made amazing adventures, has always been able to fight back powerfully with practical actions. This is true of City of God, Murder with Borrowing Knife, and City of Sin , Hard Candy is true, so... Mad Max 4 is also true?

The popular Fruit Candy has shaken all the established opinions, not only because of the frenzy of the media's comprehensive reviews, but also because of the second week's single-screen box office miracle, but also because of the audience's enthusiasm for this movie. The frenzy of the movie is step by step beyond the expectations of the media.

On top of IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, the discussion heat has been rising all the way. The number of people who rated the former exceeded 3,000, and the latter also received comments from as many as 169 mass media—this was actually only held in seven theaters. The achievements made after the screenings are not inferior even to the opening weekends of summer blockbusters, and more importantly, the results presented are also very gratifying.

The IMDB score has reached 8.3 points, and it has broken into the top 100 of the 250 classics in film history. This is also the work directed by Lance after City of God and City of Sin. This is the third time that it has reached such a high level. Although it is said that with the increase in the number of ratings, the score will inevitably change, but the current position of 89th has aroused a lot of voices, especially considering the nature of this work that is both love and hate. , which is even more rare.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes has also reached 74%, and the public media score has reached 7.2 out of 10 out of 10, which is almost the same as the media's comprehensive evaluation; the popcorn index has reached an astonishing 100. 84 out of 10, this is really a huge surprise, after such a tortured viewing, so many viewers think this work is worth watching and recommend it, even surpassing the Sin City premiere. The Popcorn Index after the weekend!

As for the scores of theaters, currently there are only seven theaters that have ordered screenings, the data does not have much reference value, so it has not been announced for the time being, but Landmark Cinemas said that judging from the current statistics, the audience's reaction information and the media , Netizens basically maintained the same.

In every sense of the word, this hateful yet lovable work emerges proudly. This makes people involuntarily think of Lance himself. You can't love him unless you loathe him utterly. This is a comment from The New York Times, Lance always does, it makes people hate him, but no one can refuse him, knowing that it is a nightmare , but still devoted himself to it willingly.

As it is with Lance, so it is with Hard Candies.

The box office performance of Hard Candy in the next week also proved this point. Not only did the weekend box office achieve a good result, but the mid-week box office performance also became the most important supporting evidence. It came to 2.8 million US dollars. Before the expansion of the show started, the film has successfully recovered the cost, and it will officially enter the profit stage next week.

Although the investment cost of Hard Candy is only 900,000 yuan, with the blessing of the name Lancelot-Strello, the cost recovery is not a problem at all; but within the two-week screening time frame In fact, the fact that the movie has already accomplished this feat is not only shocking, it can even be called a myth.

People always complain that Hard Candy will be Lance's worst box office performance so far, worrying that this work will become a turning point for Zhong Yong; but at this time people suddenly find that Hard Candy It is very likely that it will become Lance's work with the highest rate of return so far. During the screening period, the cost will be recovered, and the profit will explode during the expansion period. Judging from the current enthusiasm of film critics, audiences, and netizens, it seems that the North American box office of 20 million is not at all. Any question, such profitability is truly staggering.

More importantly, as an experimental film, without any ambition, the eyes of the awards season were involuntarily shifted, and once again, Lance became the focus of attention of the academy judges!