[US Entertainment] 1994

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 4 stars, calling it a "fun, fast-paced" film worth seeing.

The film critics of "Variety Show" gave the evaluation immediately after watching the movie, thinking that it is a novel and exciting action movie:

"Different from ordinary action movies, "Speed" does not blindly pursue excitement. The communication between the protagonist and the bus passengers is full of warmth. The protagonist is not a hero who saves the world. He exists in reality and may exist. around each of us."

"Entertainment Weekly" magazine recognized Josh's performance in the movie, but for the movie "Speed", this media that particularly prefers Josh also believes that the success of the movie lies in the uniqueness of the screenwriter Graham Yost. Director Jane de Bont's control over the rhythm is also an important reason for the excellent effect of the film.

Undoubtedly, many authoritative magazines in North America have expressed their appreciation for "Speed", and to some extent, the film has already achieved half the success.

However, the success of a commercial movie is always determined by the box office. No one can predict whether the box office performance of "Speed" will be good or bad.

What followed was a particularly rough weekend for Josh.

Although he repeatedly reminded himself not to be nervous, his heart was beating uncontrollably. This feeling was even more difficult than the moment when he was waiting for the result of the Oscar award.

Restless and uneasy, Josh couldn't help laughing at himself: "It's like a death row prisoner waiting to be sentenced. The result is actually not that important. The process is the most uncomfortable."

Josh simply went downstairs to buy a few newspapers and read them carefully.

The movie sections of the major media are naturally focusing on the new movies released this week. In addition to "Speed", "Urban Hillbilly 2" also received some good reviews, but it is not as good as "Urban Hillbilly 1" with more than 1 million views. Compared with the outstanding performance of $2000, the performance of the second part is obviously a bit weak. Even compared with new films like "Speed", the quality of "Urban Hillbilly 2" is inferior.

Josh dropped the newspaper, heard a knock on the door, and jumped out of bed.

Seeing him in bear pajamas, a pair of slippers on his feet, and a small half of his hair sticking up in the air, Carlos couldn't help but flash a smile in his eyes: "I guess you must be sleeping at home, and I guessed right."

Josh rubbed his hair and argued, "I was just lying on the bed, I didn't fall asleep at all..."

"Waiting for the result?"

"Of course." Josh sighed, "It's only now that I realize that it's not so easy to be a leading role, and it's not so easy to be a big star."

In the eyes of ordinary people, big stars are glamorous, always living under the spotlight, and luxury cars and famous watches are standard equipment, but in fact, big stars have much more troubles than ordinary people, such as starring in movies, serving as When playing a supporting role, Josh never had any troubles. He only needed to play his role dutifully and cooperate with the crew to do publicity.

But now that he has become the protagonist, box office and word-of-mouth pressures follow. It can be said that if "Speed" is a bad movie that can't be smashed any more, no film company will invite Joe in the next few years. Even if he starred in a commercial movie, even if he won another statuette, it would not help.

Even if "Speed" is doing well at the box office, even if Josh will star in several movies that are doing well at the box office in succession, once he starred in a movie that cost the film company nothing, he will soon withdraw from the ranks of first-line stars. The ranks were excluded by the entire Hollywood.

In the early 90s, Kevin Costner has always been a first-line actor in Hollywood. The director and starring "Dances with Wolves" won a big win at the Oscars, and "The Bodyguard" co-starred with the queen Whitney Houston was a big hit at the box office. , and has been shortlisted for the Golden Globe Awards for several consecutive years, but a disastrous "Future Water World" directly kicked Costner out of the circle of first-line actors.The film invested more than 1 million U.S. dollars, but the final box office was only 7500 million U.S. dollars, which directly cost Universal Pictures nothing.You know, in North America, where US$8800 million can rank among the top ten annual box office, a loss of close to US$1 million is a terrible thing.

It can be said that the money lost by "Future Water World" is enough for Universal Pictures to make three more "Schindler's List", and the latter's box office alone has exceeded [-] million, let alone shine at the Oscars. The number of sales must be considerable.

In addition, MGM's ambitious masterpiece "Wind Talker" in 2002 directly pushed MGM to the brink of bankruptcy. The film invested 1.1 million U.S. dollars, but the box office was only a meager 4000 million U.S. dollars. Nicolas Cage became famous as a box office poison for this, and the film director John Woo completely left Hollywood because of this, although before "Wind Talker", he also contributed "Mission: Impossible 2" with a box office of 2.1 million US dollars. "Mission: Impossible 2" is even the highest-grossing movie in the "Mission: Impossible" series.

Of course, the cost of "Speed" was not high in the first place. Even if the film's box office was not as good as expected, the impact on Josh was not as great as expected. Moreover, as a low-cost film, it was simultaneously released in more than 2000 theaters across the United States Under the premise of this, the movie's box office will definitely not be too bad, and it will definitely be possible to recover the cost. Josh also has such confidence.

But Josh has ambitions, inflated ambitions.

Just like after he won the Oscar for supporting actor, he couldn't help coveting the Oscar-winning actor statuette. Since he wants to become a top-notch actor, an excellent box office must be standard.

"So you understand?" Josh stared at Carlos with azure blue eyes, "I really hope it will work."

"It will." Carlos shook Josh's hand back, "It will."

"Ah~~~" Josh, who was serious for less than three seconds, threw himself on the sofa, pulling Carlos to sit with him.He dug out a huge cardboard box from the back of the sofa, which contained a bunch of colorful snacks, and Josh dug out a pack and handed it to Carlos.

Carlos said helplessly, "So that's how you spend your weekends?"

"I've been waiting for the box office results for the past two days, and I have to go out to promote it in two days." Josh opened the potato chips and chewed them loudly, "Now we will watch the first week. If the first week's box office is good, all People are very motivated.”

"If the box office is bad..." Josh shrugged, "You should know better than me."

Although Josh didn't understand why Carlos had so much free time, he would be a real fool if he didn't understand that the other party came to accompany him specially. Therefore, during the two days of the weekend, Josh happily spent time with Carlos After chatting, the two of them lay down on the bed and fell asleep together, and they didn't talk about topics related to the movie box office at all.

Josh even thought that a person's room seemed a bit too narrow, and it didn't matter if he lived here, but after Carlos came in, the space that wasn't wide enough to begin with immediately became cramped, especially the kitchen. If Carlos made dinner, Joe Shi can only stay on the sofa obediently, and getting in is just in the way.

There is no fun in the kitchen play at all.

During this time, Bell was filming outside and never came home, but Josh didn't want the presence of Carlos to embarrass the other party. He had to start thinking about buying a big house.

Of course, what made Josh really make up his mind was his guess about Carlos' thoughts - although the other party always had a cold face, Josh could easily detect the other party's mood swings after getting along.

For example, he didn't really like Josh's mention of Sandra Bullock's scene in Speed.

The two had met before at the Oscars, and Carlos had a good impression of Sandra, but this time, Josh found that every time he mentioned Sandra, Carlos didn't avoid it. The topic was perfunctory coping, so he guessed that dear Carlos was probably jealous.

The most important reason is his super-long standby kiss scene with Sandra in "Speed".

Besides, maybe it's because his current roommate, Christian Bale, is a man, and he's also very handsome?

During dinner, Josh couldn't help but mention the matter of buying a house.

Carlos snapped his fingers. Although the movement was small, it was still caught by Josh.

Carlos then asked casually, "Where do you want to buy? Beverly? I have two villas there, and you can buy one to be my neighbor."

Josh tilted his head and thought: "Isn't the house there very expensive? I'm afraid I can't afford it."

"It's not expensive. If you really plan to buy it, I can give you a discount."

Josh still frowned: "But if you change houses, you won't be able to be roommates with Bell. He is really a good friend. He is very talented and hardworking..."

Carlos' fingers froze again: "You didn't consider buying a house at all? Well, then I should sell my house to someone else..."

Before the words finished, Carlos saw Josh crossing his arms, his eyes were slightly bright, and he was looking at him slyly.

"Can't you just say you're unhappy?" Josh's smile was extraordinarily bright at the moment, and there seemed to be a flash of light in his eyes. Carlos couldn't help being slightly startled, as if he couldn't say anything that was brewing in his heart. of.

In front of such a sincere Josh, he couldn't say what he meant, and he couldn't lie.

But getting Carlos to directly admit jealousy is a bit embarrassing for a person of his personality. He can only keep a cold face, eat the food on the plate in silence, and refuse to say a word.

Josh sighed: "Actually, I don't really want to buy your house..."

The cold face suddenly became colder, and the frequency of eating food was significantly accelerated, so that the plate was almost emptied. Carlos was still tirelessly fighting against the empty plate with a knife and fork, as if he wanted to poke a hole out of the plate .

"Oh." Josh's sigh suddenly became louder, "Actually, I would rather live in a room and bed with you, but you seem to be very unhappy..."

"just forget it!"

The author has something to say: Josh said that Carlos is boring and needs to be treated.