Chatty Hollywood

? “I feel...cold.”

With the first words after the restored human body, Captain Barbossa fell.

After this, the pirates who were no longer immortal were naturally suppressed.

However, Jack, who is also a pirate, did not run away.

- He was sentenced to hang.

Of course, as Jack's adventure companions, Will and Elizabeth did not give up on him.

They planned a rescue.

Will tries to save Jack and elopes with Elizabeth.

However, surrounded by the Royal Navy all over the port, they ultimately failed.

But their emotions moved Brigadier Norrington.

The Brigadier was finally willing to give up Elizabeth and let her become a couple with Will.

As for Jack, he also took the opportunity to escape.

The captain returned to the "Black Pearl" again, holding his compass that could guide him to the destination in his heart, and started a new journey...

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"That's quite a story!"

Even after watching it once at the preview screening, Kenneth Turan still enjoyed it very much.

On the one hand, after Charlotte sped up the early narrative pace, strengthened the special effects scenes, and optimized the soundtrack, "Pirates of the Caribbean" has indeed become more beautiful.

On the other hand, on the second viewing, Kenneth also discovered more details.

As a commercial film that is essentially a popcorn movie, Charlotte added a lot of details to "Pirates of the Caribbean"——

Just like Captain Jack once mentioned the famous ghost ship "The Flying Dutchman" and hated octopuses...

Kenneth, the second brusher, noticed these details and guessed that there seemed to be something hidden in them——

"Maybe some clues for the sequel?"

Kenneth guessed.

certainly,

Even if these details are completely ignored, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is still a very interesting story that viewers who watch it for the first time will not be confused.

However, those who are careful enough, or those who know more about the history of pirates in the Age of Discovery, will find more interesting details.

——These contents are enough to support their second or even third brush.

"This can be regarded as Charlotte Booth's consistent style!"

While thinking about it, Kenneth sighed.

"Although this guy basically only makes commercial movies, he always does the details very well and tries every means to make interested audiences watch the movie a second time or even a third time. In addition, there are always some in his movies that make people excited and want to watch them. A wonderful scene to watch several times..."

Anyway, even including the preview screening, Kenneth Turan has watched it twice, but he still plans to buy a ticket and watch it a third time later.

And the box office of Charlotte movie is accumulated bit by bit like this...

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In fact, there are not a few people who hold the same idea as Kenneth Turan.

Most of them rushed to the ticket office as soon as they came out of the screening room, preparing to buy second tickets.

Of course, there are also some "smart people" who have the idea of ​​just sneaking in and watching it again...

This is related to the movie theater screening habits in the United States——

In order to reduce the cleaning time after the screening of some popular movies, they often screen them continuously, sometimes without carefully checking the tickets in the hands of the audience.

In this way, some "smart people" have the opportunity to take advantage.

——As long as they don’t leave the screening area of ​​the cinema, then go back and find an empty seat, they can watch another show.

Of course, American theater operators are not unaware of this.

But on the one hand, this is just like credit card fraud and counterfeiting, it is not a phenomenon that is easy to manage.

In particular, in small-town movie theaters outside of a few major cities in the United States, the audiences are often regular customers, and operators are generally not willing to offend them by tightening inspections too much.

What's more, if you want to strengthen inspections without reducing the efficiency of screening, it means increasing manpower. In the United States, where labor is expensive, if the theater's operating conditions are average, it may not be worth the gain.

On the other hand, even if some viewers can pay just once to watch a movie in a theater for a whole day, the theater will still be profitable.

——Unlike in China, which are always paired with shopping malls and actually often serve as a tool for shopping malls to attract customers, in the United States, many movie theaters exist independently because of their relatively large population and sparse population.

This means that audiences often can only buy food and water in the cinema.

Therefore, even if the audience does not spend money to watch the movie, as long as they stay in the cinema for a long time, they will eventually contribute to the cinema's income.

After all, you can stay away all day and watch movies, but you can't go without eating or drinking.

In fact, considering that the price of movie tickets in the United States is only less than five dollars, which is quite cheap and has not changed much in decades, the bulk of the income of many movie theaters is not movie tickets at all, but food, water and other peripheral income. .

——Good movies are actually just tools for attracting customers in American movie theaters.

It is not wrong to say that these cinemas are movie restaurants.

——Although the food provided in this restaurant is only popcorn and other kinds of food.

Of course, when some special movies are released, the income from other "peripheral" items will also be very good——

Just like when youth sex comedies such as "American Pie" are released, the sales of complete sets in theaters are very good.

After all, among the hundred small challenges in life that young Americans want to complete, taking a shot in a movie theater is an old option.

With this idea in mind, if you watch some movies that make people want to get excited, it will naturally make the sky thunder and the earth angry...

This is why many movie theaters in the United States are adjacent to hotels...

In short, American movie theaters don’t just rely on movie tickets to survive.

In fact, some smart bosses will launch package tickets during the off-season, deliberately encouraging viewers to spend a few dollars to watch a movie for a day.

- They will make the money back by selling food and water.

Of course, this is all relative.

From the perspective of capital seeking profit, no movie theater wants audiences to watch this kind of Overlord movie.

However, when it comes to "Pirates of the Caribbean" or Charlotte's movie, the situation is different——

Since "Sleepy Hollow", Charlotte's movies have always been popular in the North American film market, especially in the first two weeks of release, where they are often sold out.

In this case, it will be more difficult to watch the Overlord movie——

After all, the audience entering behind you will not easily let you occupy his position.

This is especially true for the midnight premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" -

Because of Charlotte's past exaggerated record and Disney's vigorous promotion, the occupancy rate of most theaters was 100% at midnight after the movie was released.

——This is after the premiere screen of "Pirates of the Caribbean" exceeded 3,000 yuan.

Therefore, the midnight box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" exceeded 18 million U.S. dollars, directly jumping to the top midnight box office in North American film history, which is very normal...