Hollywood Drawing

"If Wayne Greenberg is an alternative in the highly homogeneous Hollywood assembly line, then "Joker" is the most ambitious and sincere masterpiece among genre films. It is definitely not an exaggeration to say that this is a dark epic!

Looking at the entire film, in terms of script writing, performance, direction and conceptualization, it has exceeded the social height that a comic book movie should have. You can even understand all the social problems in North America just from this movie!

Although this DC comic masterpiece planned by Wayne Greenberg has a villain as the protagonist, there are almost no positive characters in the entire film. But it fully demonstrates the indifference and hypocrisy of the upper class and the cruelty and ignorance of the lower class.

This tells us that all people who have been insulted, mutilated, bullied and exploited may become "clowns" once they become twisted and crazy! Therefore, this film is also a warning to North American society! "---"Chicago Sunboard" Roger Ebert.

This leading film critic, a former Pulitzer Prize winner, not only gave "Joker" a perfect ten points in his column, but also gave him the iconic thumbs up!

And these film critics' columns in the media are only a small part of the various praises. Starting from Saturday morning, "Premiere", "Los Angeles Daily Entertainment", "Hollywood Reporter", "Movie Weekly" and other professional film magazines have also received overwhelming praise!

"It's not a superhero movie at all. You can think of this as a crime movie with a low-level citizen as the protagonist. This is definitely the one with the most profound analysis of human nature among comic-book movies." - "The Washington Post"

"The film has an excellent atmosphere of Gotham City, with dark and damp roads, rubbish-strewn streets, and the imminent smell of riots. Such an environment, coupled with a tragic life experience and a bad day, are enough to drive an honest poor man to Moving towards the abyss, from rational and kind-hearted to numb and crazy, every step of the transformation is real and believable." - "Film Weekly"

"This film continues Wayne Greenberg's consistent filmmaking style, with gloomy and twisted human nature, ups and downs of the story, and characters full of struggle, madness, and accusation. This two-hour film will appeal to every movie fan It will be thought-provoking if you read it..."--"ABC Daily News"

During the day on Saturday, after yesterday's widespread praise from movie fans and the unanimous praise from various media outlets early in the morning, "Joker" far surpassed "Jumanji", which opened at the same time, in terms of attendance and number of viewers. There is no suspense whatsoever. became the most popular video this weekend.

Movie fans have a herd mentality. The more popular a movie is and there are long queues, the more it will arouse the herd mentality and curiosity of ordinary movie fans, and then they will buy tickets and queue up to find out.

As the reporter who has interviewed Wayne Greenberg the most, Bella Grant rushed out a special report overnight and successfully published it in the Los Angeles Times where she worked.

This special report, which is similar to a movie-watching guide, is extremely provocative. Its fundamental purpose is to arouse public curiosity and get more people to go to the theater and buy tickets to watch...

For a movie that has been a hit since its release, it is important to attract as many viewers into the theater as possible, but it is equally important to guide viewers who have watched it into the theater repeatedly and give them a sense of participation in gradually interpreting the film series.

Warner Bros. has done a good job of guiding public opinion from the beginning. They have not relaxed at all in publicity and marketing. On the second day after the film was released, they began to throw out suspense through the media, seducing fans who have watched it to look for answers again...

By lunchtime on Saturday, all the statistics that had been compiled were sent to New York via fax, and were handed over to Wayne through his agent Jimmy.

After seeing this simple two-page printed paper for the first time, not only Wayne himself, but also Halle Berry and producer John, who were running the promotional work together, knew that although this film caused very little publicity, There is some controversy, but the overall reputation is rising all the way, and the box office shows a trend of high opening and high growth!

No matter how you look at it, it indicates that Wayne will create a big summer bomb this time. At least in North America where it has been released, it will definitely crush all the movies released in the same period!

"The box office on the first day was 39.35 million U.S. dollars. Oh my God, Wayne, even God can't stop us now!" Halle Berry opened and closed his mouth unconsciously in surprise, looking at him with a dull expression.

"In a random survey by Warner Bros., more than 96% of the audience gave a rating of A or above. Such a terrifying public reputation indicates that the film will definitely have a strong box office trend. Wayne, you have succeeded again, this time It will be more intense than all previous successes!”

Warner Bros. production manager John hugged him. The information expressed by these data had already made the publicity team's emotions soar!

Looking at the excited people around him, Wayne's hand holding the fax was shaking with excitement. In this era, this achievement is definitely an unprecedented bomb.

As for the fact that there will be no successor, Wayne can't even think about it. There will be another box office bomb at the end of this year. By then, the dinosaur and his clown will really have to compare their talents. Know.

"Okay, friends! There are still many promotional activities waiting for us. It's too early to be happy now!" Thinking of the next series of activities, Wayne immediately felt a headache and calmed down.

Flying to one city or even two cities a day, almost as soon as they get off the plane, there are endless interviews with reporters, interviews with local TV stations and fan meetings. Even sleeping time has to be put on the plane. This is the test they will face during this period. .

Therefore, it is never easy for a movie to successfully achieve high box office.

The good news will certainly make people happy, but soon afterwards Wayne and the others appeared in a theater in New York. This was a fan meeting and the last stop of the New York promotional event for "Joker".

Faced with the siege of reporters after the event, Wayne could think that it would be more difficult for Nicolas Cage and the others. After all, he is the leading actor of this film and the most popular one.

"Director Greenberg, both his previous two films and this "Joker" are full of black attributes."

Just after Wayne left the theater door, a fat reporter stopped him, raised the recorder in front of him and asked loudly: "Since you appeared in Hollywood, all the films you have shot are black films. Does this mean that if you leave this kind of dark story, you won’t be able to make movies normally?”

"There are already many directors who shoot sweet shots of society! I want to try to reflect some real social issues in the film. This has nothing to do with whether I like dark stories or not."

The main purpose of his trip is publicity, and of course he is willing to cooperate with the media and give them something to promote and hype. Wayne looked at his agent and found that Jimmy was not urging him, which meant there was still enough time to catch the plane.

So he took the reporter's recorder, thought for a while and asked: "The core of the black story is just a way of expression in the movie. Judging from the feedback from the box office, the public movie fans can also accept such a serious pastime. You Don’t you think film noir is also very elegant and beautiful?”

Without waiting for reporters to ask more questions, Wayne continued: "Noir films have never lacked audiences, and they have never lacked classics. Roman Polanski's "Chinatown," Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard," John -Houston's "The Maltese Falcon". I was just following the path of those masters and wanted to make a film like this.

The artistic expression of film noir is as elegant and charming as the black pearl next to me. It explores the darkness and evil in the depths of our human nature as its main controlling thought, and explores how the real society overwhelms and swallows up the good side of human nature. "

Feeling that what he said was a bit difficult for reporters to understand, he added another sentence. “Film noir can allow the public to understand the darkness of human nature in reality, and it can also allow movie fans to enjoy the exquisite storytelling and discover and understand the evil in human nature and the darkness of society. For me, this is a kind of enjoyment! "

It has been more than 20 years since Wayne came here. He is very lucky that he has watched so many genre films on the other side of the Pacific where there is no room for noir films.

On the contrary, films of this nature have never lacked audiences in the mature film market of North America. Even around the world, this type of film has no shortage of crazy fans.

The reporter obviously didn't like his expression and continued to ask: "As far as I know, many movie fans have become very negative after watching "Joker" and have lost hope of working hard in life. What do you think about this matter? What do you think?"

"How fragile are those people who have lost hope in life just because they watched a movie? And as far as I know, there are more movie fans who have obviously lost hope in their lives after watching "Joker" Life becomes more cherished, and many people have been inspired by Arthur’s experience!”

After saying this, Wayne stopped answering reporters' questions and hurriedly walked to the car, preparing to rush to the airport to fly to the next city, Boston.

"Joker"'s first-day box office numbers and explosive audience reputation will inevitably be used as a publicity stunt by Warner Bros., which will arouse the curiosity of more passers-by and let them enter the theater.

Audiences who have watched the film spontaneously made various comments in their circle of friends, and more and more people began to enter the theater and queue up to watch this film, which became a hot topic in society as soon as it was released.

At the same time, black communities like downtown Los Angeles also experienced another moviegoing craze. Black people lined up and began to line up into theaters to buy tickets to watch movies. The last time this happened was in "Escape" a year ago.