From Flower Vase to Film Emperor in Hollywood

“Time Magazine”, 100 points!

“The Wall Street Journal”, 100 points!

“The Washington Post”, 100 points!

“Vanity Fair”, 100 points!

“Chicago Tribune”, 100 points!

Full marks, full marks, full marks continuously dominated the screen, and the overwhelmingly positive reviews detonated the market.

“Chicago Sun-Times”, Roger Ebert also gave his praise without exception.

“Like David Lean, the film achieves a magnificent epic while still retaining the glimmer of humanity, and in a great way reminds us that a great action movie is not simply about destroying and exploding buildings, but deeply brings audiovisual shock through the scheduling of scenes and images, feeling the roar in the depths of the soul.”

100 points!

Comprehensive praise, an outpouring of accolades.

Not just simple praise, but a unanimous full score is absolutely spectacular.

Could it be that—

Anson has succeeded again?

No wonder 20th Century Fox is so confident. Obviously, the rave reviews from internal screenings have strengthened their judgment and filled them with expectations for this work.

They are aiming for the box office, they are aiming for the Oscars, they are preparing to sweep the holiday season, grabbing both box office and awards, and they want to be tough on both fronts.

Don't forget that epic movies like "The Lord of the Rings" and "Gladiator" are the most popular and highly anticipated works in the past two years. "Master and Commander" is not competing with "Pirates of the Caribbean", but with the Oscar-winning film that has swept the box office.

Sure enough!

As soon as it debuted, "Master and Commander" swept up praise.

20th Century Fox: Even if the premiere tricks of "The Butterfly Effect" are novel, so what? In the end, it still depends on strength.

Strength, indeed it is strength. Roger Ebert actually used David Lean as a benchmark to praise Peter Weir and Russell Crowe's collaboration this time—

David Lean, a British director, director of legendary classics such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago", and "Brief Encounter", winner of two Academy Awards for Best Director, the Palme d'Or, and the Golden Bear, is known as one of the greatest directors of all time.

Undoubtedly, Roger Ebert did not hide his love for "Master and Commander" at all, and a full score of 100 points was not enough to express his enthusiasm.

Moreover, this is still not all.

Forty-two media outlets, thirty-four positive reviews, seven mixed reviews, and one negative review, overwhelming praise, and finally a media score of 81 points.

So, "81 points", what level is this?

Horizontally compare it to Russell Crowe's own works.

"Gladiator", 67 points.

"A Beautiful Mind", 72 points.

Crystal clear!

Russell has made a name for himself in Hollywood, with a double harvest of box office and awards, and is continuing to rise. Relying on the explosion of "Master and Commander", he is aiming for higher goals. He is ready to welcome a new breakthrough in his career.

Boom, boom boom.

A shock!

Before the release of "Master and Commander", there was a sense of joy within 20th Century Fox, and industry insiders had already foreseen that the film might usher in an explosion; but they did not expect it to explode so much. It can definitely be called the number one seed in this year's awards season, emerging with a destructive attitude.

"The Butterfly Effect" is in danger.

After the schedule was arranged, there was an uproar in the industry, sweating for "The Butterfly Effect", and they couldn't believe that New Line Cinema would choose to confront "Master and Commander" head-on. The situation was not good.

On the premiere day, "The Butterfly Effect" managed to win back a city with Anson's whimsical ideas.

According to incomplete statistics, after the interview session of "Master and Commander" ended that day, at least 100 reporters left the Chinese Theater and went to the Wilshire Theater. Even 20th Century Fox could truly feel the loss of reporters, which led to many discussions after the premiere.

Although 20th Century Fox was full of confidence, and although Russell was determined to win, no one could underestimate Anson's strong rise.

However, this "craze" only lasted for less than twelve hours.

First, the headlines of major news media entertainment sections, "Master and Commander" strongly dominated the screen, and then there was a series of good news about the media score of "Master and Commander".

Russell Crowe is indeed determined to win!

So, what about "The Butterfly Effect"?

Even media reporters began to worry. After a rough scan of the media score of "The Butterfly Effect"—

The situation is not good.

There are often differences in the order of media reviews from major media outlets.

To give a simple example, the premieres of "Master and Commander" and "The Butterfly Effect" were held at the same time. Roger Ebert was unable to be in two places at once. He could only go to one premiere, and as for the other movie, he could only wait until the movie was released before watching it, and then update his review.

Of course, a media outlet like "Chicago Sun-Times" cannot have only one film critic. They can still send another film critic to go to the two premieres separately, and watch the premieres of the two movies respectively, but the media score updated at the first time will not be Roger Ebert.

If Roger is interested in the other movie, he can still wait for the movie to be released, and he can still publish comments on his professional film review website, but these comments will not affect the media score.

This time, the situation is slightly special—

“Chicago Sun-Times” did not send another film critic to the “Butterfly Effect” premiere.

The reason is very simple, Roger personally is interested in “The Butterfly Effect”. He will watch “Master and Commander” first, and then he will watch “The Butterfly Effect”.

“Chicago Sun-Times” did not send an additional film critic to the scene.

As a result, when the first batch of media scores for “The Butterfly Effect” were released, there was no “Chicago Sun-Times”. Roger still chose “Master and Commander” first.

Because of this, the first batch of media scores for "The Butterfly Effect" only had twenty-three.

Far inferior to "Master and Commander", almost half the difference.

This small detail can show that there is a clear gap between the two movies in terms of popularity and importance among the media.

An unfavorable start.

It is rare for this to happen to Anson, who is currently very popular. It can only be said that Russell Crowe's momentum is not weak, and with 20th Century Fox's decisive move, he finally successfully suppressed Anson—

At this time, the media has something to say: People have been discussing Anson's market appeal. Now it seems that Anson's foundation is still unstable and slightly inferior.

At the same time, among the twenty-three media scores, there were ten negative reviews.

Ten!

A full ten, strongly dominating the screen, shocking!

A sea of red, not good, not good, the situation is really not good. Even if it doesn't need to be compared with "Master and Commander", such a situation is worrying.

“The Wall Street Journal”, ten points, “A terribly bad life, a terribly bad movie.”

“Vanity Fair”, twenty points, “It's like receiving a box of surprise Valentine's Day chocolates, but it's strawberry-flavored. Ugh.”

“Los Angeles Times”, twenty points, “An immature exploration of chaos theory. The presentation, planning, and thinking for each plot twist are like those of a middle school student, green and naive, taken for granted, but cannot stand scrutiny.”

Oh, no!