new kung fu king

Chapter 401 News events caused by "Jaws"
Wang Xiaohu cleared his throat, looked at the expecting audience, smiled and said: "Hey, guys, we haven't seen each other for more than a year, let me think about it, the last time I came to Los Angeles was last year When "Rocky II" was released in November, I was really happy and gratified that you didn't forget me for such a long time."

The audience off the stage laughed, and Wang Xiaohu still kept smiling and said, "You must be cursing me in your heart, because you were frightened by Steven's movie tonight, right?"

"That's right!" many people responded loudly.

"It's okay!" Wang Xiaohu nodded, shook the microphone and said, "I believe you will not forget me for a long time after tonight. I am very satisfied with "Jaws" as a whole, Steve Wen is working hard on filming, and all the crew members and actors who participated in the filming are also working very hard. For a year, they have been engaged in filming under unimaginable pressure. Tonight they are the real protagonists. As for me, I am Come make soy sauce!"

Many foreigners don’t understand the meaning of the word soy sauce, and think that Wang Xiaohu is saying some witty words that they don’t understand. He laughed, and Wang Xiaohu shrugged and said, “Before handing over the microphone to Steven, I want to May I ask everyone present, whose name is James Cameron."

"I!"

"I!"

"I!"

Immediately there were more than a dozen voices in the theater, Wang Xiaohu frowned, and had to add: "He is now a big truck driver!"

"I! I am the truck driver, I am James Cameron!" A young man standing closest to the edge of the stage raised his hands and shouted.

"Very good, truck driver Cameron, you and your partner Andri will each get a free movie ticket, and you can get it from me later!" Wang Xiaohu left the stage after saying this, leaving The next group of spectators staring, they don't understand why the truck drivers have such good luck, especially those people named James Cameron, if they had known that there were free movie tickets, they would have pretended to be Get off the truck driver.

At this time, Spielberg on the stage finally had room to play. He said enthusiastically: "If you are frightened by Bruce, please don't blame me. You should blame my boss Tiger. To turn Benchelli's novel into such a successful film, without his script guarantee and financial investment, I would still be a nobody!"

Spielberg said he was tired of life at sea, and it turned out that the shooting process of the film was not smooth. "Just let them practice for weeks.For months, they had had enough of the weeping noise from the internal air compressor trying to imitate Jaws, and they thought about throwing Spielberg overboard once the last shot was taken .

"It took me a while to wake up after the shoot, and I just felt like I had just had an electric shock, so I even swore I would never shoot movies on location again. At this time, my assistant told me: Hey, Steven, they're going to throw you in the ocean to feed the sharks, guess what I did?"

Everyone's ears were pricked up, listening to Spielberg's revelations with curiosity, because they were so interested in how "Jaws" was filmed.

Spielberg mocked bitterly: "I escaped in a small boat by myself. When the boat gradually drove away, I stood on the boat and imitated General MacArthur to announce: I will never come back."

The very funny words and the behind-the-scenes revelations made all the audience feel the hardships of filming "Jaws". They deeply realized the hardships the crew had suffered at sea this year. At this time, Spielberg's The testimonials seemed to have turned into reminiscing bitterness and thinking sweetly to report work, and all the crew members ran up to complain a few words.

In the backstage of the theater, Wang Xiaohu took out more than a dozen movie tickets and handed them to James Cameron and Andry, saying: "Young man, I overheard your conversation. I am sorry that you lost your lunch because of watching my movie." , I am very sorry, this is your compensation!"

"God, Tiger, you are definitely a good person!" Andri excitedly grabbed those movie tickets and kissed them vigorously. Of course he was excited. With these movie tickets, he could keep his lunch in the future. Of course, if If he can sell these movie tickets, not only will his lunch tomorrow be settled, but he can even improve it. "Thank you!"

Wang Xiaohu said in his heart that I should still thank you. If it wasn’t for your conversation that let me know Cameron’s name, I might have missed a future Hollywood prodigal director. Of course, he can only say these words in his heart , looking at Cameron right now. At this time, Cameron was wearing a very rustic, denim outfit that had been washed many times. This outfit seemed to be more in line with his identity as a truck driver.

While Wang Xiaohu was sizing up Cameron, Cameron was also sizing up Wang Xiaohu. His mind was muddled, to be precise, he was too excited. He never thought that Wang Xiaohu would shout his name loudly on the stage. After they looked at each other for a long time, he smacked his lips and asked, "Mr. Tiger, do you know me?"

"I didn't know you before this." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile, "As I said just now, I just happened to be sitting in front of you, and I happened to overhear you making a bet with your friend. I just wanted to redeem some of your friend's little regrets."

Cameron grinned and said: "I believe this is God's arrangement. I'm very glad to meet a great director like you. To be honest, I like your movies very much. I watch every movie you have shot in the past few years. Is your loyal fan."

"I also believe that this is God's arrangement." Wang Xiaohu smiled, handed over his business card and said, "James, if you want to do something about movies one day, remember to give us the contact information above. I call."

Wang Xiaohu did not directly invite Cameron to come to the company as a handyman. In fact, the success of some directors or stars is not a coincidence, but has experienced many hardships that others cannot know. There is no interest in movies at all, just like Cameron now, he is satisfied with being a truck driver now, and has not shown the slightest sign of interest in movies, at this time, he is just a Wang Xiaohu Die-hard movie fans.

Sometimes, if he thinks about it seriously, Wang Xiaohu feels that his luck is very good, so good that it is so good. Whether it is Zhao Yazhi or the new Seven Little Fortunes, when they meet him, they are always suspicious and hesitant about the movie. It was my unremitting efforts to persuade them to embark on the path of movies. According to the butterfly effect, their lives have undergone tremendous changes due to my intervention, and I can only re-plan their future trends.

Sometimes it is a good thing to overthrow the seedlings, but sometimes it may not be a good thing.The reason why Wang Xiaohu got up early to do this is very simple, because he had just been reborn, he was afraid that his own strength was too weak at that time, and he would take care of many people and things, so he went to make friends with a star or director, for fear that he would be robbed by others if he was too late. Walk.

But the situation is different now. Wang Xiaohu already possesses good strength, and has become a giant in the Hong Kong film industry. He no longer has to take the initiative to find those stars, but uses another method to attract them to join. There will be fewer adaptations of stars, and the future will basically develop according to memory, so that the situation of losing control will not happen.

The success of the premiere of "Jaws" not only frightened many audiences, but also terrified other Hollywood colleagues. In just one week of its premiere, it earned a box office of 890 million U.S. dollars, firmly leading the box office this year. In terms of distribution, we must first expand the number of theaters for the premiere, and this number will gradually increase from a few hundred to 1000, then climb to 2000, and then 3000, or even more.

From the first day of the success of "Jaws", Hollywood has been completely changed.All businessmen start to learn new business lessons from it.Furthermore, television advertising has become a very important regular promotion method-both measures will greatly increase the distribution cost of the film, and film reviews are becoming less and less important to box office revenue-at least for certain genres such as horror, action, comedy, etc. This is true for the film.With the soaring cost, risk avoidance is particularly important. Hollywood has begun extremely complicated international capital operations, and has begun to rely more on big stars to play and create visual spectacle.At the same time, the huge profits brought by "Jaws" also stimulated the studio's preference for "blockbusters". The bosses wished that every film would be "Jaws". '

"I think this is a classic movie that creates fear in my heart. There is no particularly bloody scene in the movie. I don't even have much fear when the great white shark opens its bloody mouth and bites with sharp teeth. On the contrary. The music that followed after the small triangular fins appeared on the screen made me tremble in my heart. The brain began to receive the signal of sharks coming, and the sharks coming, threatening myself." --- "Los Angeles Daily"

Some media also expressed objections. The "New York Times" said: "It is nothing more than a repetition of the old "Black Lake Monster"."

At that time, there were not a few B-level movies like "Jaws". Why did Jaws stand out?

Everyone is praising how scary the great white shark is and how good the leather is. Didn’t other movies at that time make people scary?At least in my eyes, it is difficult for me to connect such a movie that feels easily drowned in the sea of ​​​​shadows with a box office miracle and a movie that everyone acclaims.

What are the factors, and what reasonable explanations can cause this miracle?
Could it be that "Jaws" is indeed a good subject, it catered to the holiday habits of Americans at the time, and was full of realism, which made the great white shark scare many people. At the same time, with a little artistic temperament, it won reviews and box office at the same time?Or, before the appearance of the great white shark, there were no similar b-movies at all?Jaws is a pioneer?
This is really a problem.A question that has made all Hollywood colleagues think about it for a long time. Tiger Wang returned to Hollywood after a year of silence, and threw them a big question that was hard to understand!
Dane Jacobs, a well-known Hollywood film critic, supported the "New York Times", saying: "It's as if Picasso suddenly realized that he should paint Excedrin-commercial after painting Guernica."

But another film critic, Pauline Kael, wrote: "Jaws reveals in many ways that if Einstein hadn't locked himself in, he would have."

The journalists were rowdy, and the public was surprisingly unanimous: just look at the queues circling the building in front of every movie theater where the film was shown.

Yet no reaction pleased Wang Xiaohu more than a taunt from Cuban President Fidel Castro.

The lovable president said in the newspaper: "This commercial disaster thriller that shocked all audiences with stunning special effects, sharks leave an indelible impression on people. Sharks are fierce, but scarier than sharks. , is the ugliness of human nature, the temptation of money, and the greed and conspiracy under the shadow of interests. "Jaws" shows us that the capitalist system in the United States will go far only to protect a profitable project Far."

When everyone was discussing "Jaws", something more interesting happened to Wang Xiaohu. Dozens of travel agencies in the United States jointly issued a statement, asking Tiger Wang to compensate them for their economic losses and strongly urging the government to stop Play Jaws.

What happened was that the day after the premiere of "Jaws," the tour companies received calls from hundreds of families who said they wanted to drop their reservations for beach vacations, citing concerns about the sea. There are sharks that eat people.

Although the employees of these travel agencies tried their best to explain on the phone, the tourists insisted on rejecting the appointment. In the end, these people went door-to-door and told how their beaches were safe and that there were no great white sharks, but no one bought it. They said : It has already been performed in the movie, your tricks have been seen through, we will not be fooled again!
The resolute attitude and tough tone made this group of travel agencies suffer, so they united to protest.
This proves that "Jaws" is not just a blockbuster movie, it is a remarkable news event.

In 1975, Wang Xiaohu made a plate of fish for his audience, which was spicy but delicious.

(End of this chapter)