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Since it is relatively successful as a stage play, Hairspray does not lack an audience base, and Embassy Pictures has also done a lot of work in publicity and promotion.

For example, play the John Waters card as well as possible.

As the garbage pope recognized by the North American film industry, John Wurster is somewhat well-known among movie fans, especially Pink Firebird, which is a typical example of movies that become more and more curious as they are banned.

A musical from the director of The Pink Firebird? This gimmick still attracted the attention of many passers-by viewers.

Those who don't know the musical Hairspray will be very curious, Pink Firebird and Hairspray are totally different styles.

Ronan initially agreed to the establishment of the Hairspray project. First, the stage play itself has considerable influence. Second, musicals are in a short-term revival period. Moreover, the investment of 20 million US dollars is not high.

But if you really want to say how optimistic you are about this film, that's not to say, Ronan doesn't remember any information related to Hairspray at all.

During the internal preview of Hairspray, it was beyond Ronan's expectations, and he directly scored nine points.

These nine points are of course measured from the perspective of the commercial market, and basically have nothing to do with the artistic considerations of the film itself.

The theme of the film is in line with the black affirmative movement, which is getting louder and louder today. The melodious singing and dancing scenes and the singing and dancing like chicken blood will not make the film heavy, but will make the audience fully experience the joy.

Black people used to be slaves in the United States, and racial issues still exist today, but they are not what they used to be.

In the 1960s, the anti-apartheid movement was vigorous. In that rebellious era, countless movements were staged, which have influenced today.

The setting that the heroine is fat is also unique. Fat is considered ugly, and the topic of women is always inseparable from weight loss, even though most women are healthy and well-proportioned.

Another point that cannot be ignored is that the heroine Adele's acting skills may be mediocre, but the film has a high proportion of singing and dancing, which is just conducive to Adele's performance as a professional singer.

The plot and the like, in fact, a certain amount of downplaying has been done before the singing and dancing. To be precise, Hairspray is a large-scale MTV with 20 songs connected in series, and the singing and dancing performance of the leading group including Adele , performed at a very high level.

A few verses of Adele's singing,

It is the best in the audience and adds a lot to the film.

Singing and dancing is a big meal, and the other scenes as supplementary materials are also very well done.

Floral shirts, Elvis heads, evening dresses studded with sequins, princess dresses without brains, the United States in the 1960s, the inexhaustible treasures of the so-called fashionistas.

As a musical, it must first pay attention to viewing, so Hairspray extremely cleverly downplays the authenticity of the plot, and the authenticity of some sensitive topics involved, such as obesity and race, has also been alleviated.

Originally, this kind of commercial music and dance film is lively, and the audience is sour, so why bother.

The final film can be said to have exceeded the expectations of many people in Relativity Entertainment, including Ronan, and also believes that this film can achieve good results in the North American film market in March.

Although he did not attend the premiere of Hairspray, Ronan has been paying attention to the film's market dynamics.

Hairspray is a story that is by no means novel, looking at the desegregation movement through the lens of a fat white girl with dreams of stardom, and fitting it into a light-hearted setting.

Moreover, a point of view on aesthetic beauty is expounded all the time in the film. The fat girl played by Adele, a character who seems to be doomed to failure, won the TV draft in the end, and helped black girls obtain a traditional beauty. Only white people can reach the top of the championship.

This ending is also in line with the needs of the general trend of society.

Hairspray isn't a shit comedy, and there's almost nothing deliberately funny in it, but it's a perpetual smile-making machine that will leave viewers mouth-splitting from head to toe.

Even if someone has no interest in the film's story, the film's songs and dances can be enjoyed repeatedly.

Naturally, Hairspray has been a success beyond expectations.

On the first day of its release in North America, the film earned $14.33 million in 3,780 theaters, which surprised many people.

What Hairspray does best is that while taking equal rights as the theme, it uses singing and dancing to lighten the heaviness in it, making people feel more joy.

Movies are not medicine for getting anything done.

However, movies can be used as a kind of spiritual support, and sometimes a kind of spiritual food to fill the empty spiritual world of the audience.

A good movie does not necessarily make people happy, but a movie that is popular with the public can make people happy physically and mentally. Hairspray undoubtedly belongs to the latter.

In the three-day opening weekend in North America, Hairspray earned US$34.69 million from 3,780 theaters, surpassing Sniper's Line of Life and Death, which opened on the same weekend, and won the weekly champion of the North American box office chart.

The latter was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Although Mark Wahlberg joined in, it still came to the end of most sniper movies in recent years. The opening weekend in North America only earned $14.25 million.

Compared with the film's production investment of up to 65 million U.S. dollars, Paramount Pictures has a long way to go if it wants to recover the cost.

In recent years, movies such as snipers and air combat are similar to war epics. Most of them end in failure, and very few succeed.

The war films that were once a hit in the 1990s, the overall market response was not even as good as the short-lived revival of musical films.

In the first weekend of its release in North America, the box office revenue of Hairspray has exceeded the production cost, which also brought some surprises to Relativity Entertainment.

The film sold well at the box office, which in some ways also gave John Waters confidence. He took a friend who met in Europe with a common interest, and found Ronan's office in the Theory of Relativity Building together.

In the reception room on the top floor of the building, John Waters introduced the two parties: Tom, this is Mr. Ronan Anderson, the owner of Relativity Entertainment Group. Mr. Anderson, this is Tom Hicks, a man from the Netherlands. Director, Writer and Producer.

This person's name was very unfamiliar, Ronan shook hands with him, and at the same time sized him up.

Tom Hicks, wearing a beige slack suit and a cowboy hat of the same color, looked to be in his mid-thirties.

Hello, Mr. Anderson. Tom Hicks was very polite: It is my honor to know you.

Ronan smiled politely and nodded, beckoned the two to sit down, and asked, Did Director Hicks just come to North America, or has he been working hard in Hollywood?

Tom Hicks quickly replied: I just came here at the beginning of this year. He glanced at John Waters and said, John and I met in Europe two years ago, and our common interests have made us good friends. John has always wanted me to come to Hollywood to develop, and I finally made up my mind to come this year.

Adds John Waters: There's a lot of competition in Hollywood, but there's also a lot of opportunity.

Ronan didn't know much about European directors, but he knew that as long as they weren't those paranoid artistic directors, many people still hoped to come to Hollywood to develop.

Among other things, shooting a movie in Europe may take years to raise funds alone.

There are even examples of well-known European directors who spent twenty years raising funds from father to son in order to make art films.

Such a director's spirit is worthy of respect, but the films produced lack audiences.

John Waters said at this time: Mr. Anderson, Tom came to Hollywood from the Netherlands this time and brought a script he wrote.

Tom Hicks opened the briefcase and took out the file bag: I really hope to have the opportunity to make the script into a movie.

Ronan nodded slightly and said, Can I read the script first.

John Waters winked at Tom Hicks, who opened the file bag, took out the bound copy of the script, and handed it to Ronan with both hands.

Ronan was also polite, and took it over for a quick look.

This stack of manuscripts is not only a sub-draft of the script, but also a few concept drawings on the top. The drawings are simple sketches, which are not particularly clear, but you can also see the outline of a person lying on the ground.

Tom Hicks said at the right time: It's the horror genre.

Ronan looked at the drawing and frowned slightly. The three figures on the drawing were lying on the ground, tightly connected together. The face of the person behind seemed to be attached to the buttocks of the person in front.

He took the drawing aside and read the script behind it. The plot started out as a typical journey of American mentally disabled youths in their second year of middle school. Two American girls drove across Europe to travel, and then met a crazy surgeon.

The retired surgeon is best at splitting conjoined twins, but this time, he is going to do the exact opposite for three patients including two girls, that is, through a horrific method. surgery to link them together.

He plans to pass through the circulatory and digestive systems inside their body cavities, and then stitch their bodies one by one, so as to realize his crazy and morbid so-called lifetime dream-the human centipede!

Ronan once watched the first part of this series, because the film is famous in some aspects, and he also knew that he had filmed a trilogy, but he never watched the last two.

In the usual style and style of Western horror films, the sequel is definitely more absurd and disgusting than the first one.

There are only three human centipedes in the first part, why should there be more than ten or twenty people in the next two parts?

Ronan looked up at Tom Hicks, then at John Waters.

The latter filmed and produced Pink Firebird. Although the latter does not know him, it is estimated that he is the author of Human Centipede at present.

It can only be said that even though they are separated by an Atlantic Ocean, these two have many topics in common.

Human centipede? Ronan said softly.

Tom Hicks continued: Actually, I'm going to call the project The Human Centipede.

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