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Spielberg felt it was the best Clare he'd seen in so many films.

He sighed: "Whether it is the composition of the picture or the use of the lens, I can't find any unnecessary mistakes."

The two-hour movie ended quickly, and Spielberg felt that he had been baptized.The picture was completely dark, and the cinema was silent. He couldn't help but took out his glasses cloth and wiped his foggy lenses.

He recalled the first meeting with Claire: "When was the last time I was so moved? In addition to seeing Claire's movie for the first time, it was also in "The Shawshank Redemption." In many of his interviews, he talked about It was this movie that I liked the most, and I liked it so much that I watched it countless times.And today Claire added another one to his list of favorites.

He doesn't feel that his evaluation is too high, because the core of this movie is really touching.He has read countless films, and naturally grasped the core at the first pass. Claire is discussing the issue of "institutionalization", which is exactly the same as Shawshank's redemption.

The Shawshank Redemption uses prisoners in prison to embody the core.

The prisoner in it can best explain it in one sentence: "When you first came to this prison, you hated him, and slowly you began to adapt to it, and finally you couldn't do without him."

Spielberg still remembers the feeling of waking up while watching The Shawshank Redemption.When he saw a 20-year-old prisoner who had been imprisoned for 50 years and was released from prison, he was out of tune with the life of the outside world: "I have been imprisoned for 50 years. Small cars, but now the streets are full. I have acquaintances and status in the prison. Outside, I am just an old man with rheumatism who is disliked by the boss. I think I can commit another crime and be locked up. But I'm too old to mess around." The prisoner hanged himself not long after.

There are so many systems around, visible and invisible, even the most hated and most unwilling places you can adapt to and to the extent that you can’t do without, how ridiculous.

After two hours of screening time, the movie is over, but the people watching the movie have not moved for a long time, some are still thinking, some are choked up.After a long time, until one person stood up and applauded, and then everyone followed that person's approach, the applause lasted for a long time, and there were endless praises.

"New York Daily" quickly updated the film review: "This is a first-class director, a first-class script!" They used this sentence as the headline of the headline.

"The whole picture is bright and natural, and every frame is beautiful and detailed. The author is overwhelmed by the director's ability to compose the background of the picture. Everywhere shows the director's aesthetic skills. These two hours made everyone present accept an audio-visual enjoyment .Because the audience receives more and more information and the threshold is constantly increasing, large-scale productions with special effects are becoming more and more popular now, because this can stimulate the audience. But after such an experience, the author feels that various 3D large-scale productions are not necessary. Fighting is the only way to win. Slumdog Millionaire did more than these elements without using these elements. The reason is that the crew has worked hard and the director’s aesthetic skills. This is indeed an inspiration to Hollywood. .”

"The Times" discussed more about the core of the slums: ""Slumdog Millionaire" and "Shawshank Redemption" both discuss institutionalization, but the director of the former uses a more direct method. People use the word millionaire in connection with money to make this question more direct, because no one wants money to be more! And slum millionaire said more things, in this movie you can find Why can't you be a rich man!"

Claire soon learned about the positive reviews of the film from the major media, but the data has not yet come out. These positive reviews cannot represent the data. It is common for the ratings to be overwhelmingly positive, but the data to hit the street is dismal.

The next day, Lily quickly brought over the report she had printed.

She exclaimed: "I calculated that Slumdog Millionaire got almost 92 percent of the audience on the first day of its release. This number is too high and terrible!"

Lily took out her computer and refreshed the webpage: "It's out, it's out, now Rotten Tomatoes is 99% fresh, IMDB has a score of 1000 out of 9.5 people, my God! This number is too high, and the comments below are almost all positive reviews... "

"We did it." Claire, who had been very nervous, said happily with a sigh of relief.

The subsequent development surprised Lili even more. The situation was so good that it exceeded her imagination. The attendance rate was as high as 92%. However, this figure still has a slight upward trend.This is really abnormal, and the general attendance rate will only get lower and lower.

She did some research and found that it was driven by good reviews.Through word of mouth from the audience, many people walked into the theater next to their home and saw that the screening hall of "Slumdog Millionaire" was almost full, and it was even hard to get a ticket.

This kind of situation has hit the films of the same period. The screening rate of "Slumdog Millionaire" was not high at the beginning, because it was a Lunar New Year file full of blockbusters, which made the filming schedule tight. The screening rate of major theaters was only 15%. Left and right, among the movies gathered by the great gods, the film scheduling rate is considered to be medium or low.

But what is surprising is that Slumdog Millionaire actually counterattacked. In the first week, with only about 15% of the films, it got about 50% of the market share, which surprised everyone. Theaters are increasing their screening rates.

The imdb score of "Slumdog Millionaire" stabilized at around 9.2, a word-of-mouth dark horse was born. Movies with an imdb score above 9.0 can be called must-see movies, and they are all worth watching repeatedly. An inspiring video.

Slumdog Millionaire has grossed $5 million in its fifth week, three times as much as the second-best and best-selling Martin Scorsese's The Departed.

And "The Departed", like many films, has reached saturation in the tenth week, and the weekly box office began to decrease.However, the box office of Slumdog Millionaire is still growing in the tenth week. Due to the excessive praise and spontaneous promotion by fans, many people watch it repeatedly, and the theme is also very suitable for the whole family to watch at Christmas, so the box office has been until the 15th week. There was a state of weakness.

Subsequent to the announcement of the Oscar nominations, "Millionaire" has maintained a good weekly box office, and even experienced several big increases.In the end, it was not until the 25th week that the line-up was withdrawn, and all the previous periods left in a hurry 15 weeks ago because the box office fell to the bottom.

According to statistics from the Motion Picture Association of America, the final box office of "Millionaire" reached 14.61 billion U.S. dollars, proudly suppressing all the box office nearly doubled in the same period.

Oscar nominations have also been announced amid a continued run at the box office.

"Slumdog Millionaire" also led the Oscars with 11 nominations.

There wasn't a single person in Phoenix who wasn't delighted that the first time the name change had been such a success, there wasn't a single person who could say, "It's just a startup" anymore.The way to increase employee enthusiasm is to give them a bright future.

The industry elites Claire recruited looked at her as if they were looking at young Buffett and Soros.In the United States, where money is paramount, there is no better word to praise its earning power.

Lili, who graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Stanford, and who has held important positions in many Wall Street investment banks and major Hollywood film companies, feels lucky like them.It is a beautiful experience to have a boss who is extremely profitable.

There are differences in taxes in each state of the United States. Los Angeles and New York are the cities with the highest taxes in the United States.After paying all the taxes, Claire has $8 million deposited with American Express. According to the legend, the black card of China Express Bank can stop the train and make the plane turn around. The most unique thing is that the black card does not accept application for the card, and can only be processed by the invitation of American Express.The regional vice president of the American Express Bank in Los Angeles also came to the door and presented this centurion black gold card for such a big fund.

Claire hired some experienced venture capitalists with perfect resumes from several good headhunting companies to use in the angel investment department that Phoenix is ​​preparing to provide personnel support for her previous investment plans.

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