Chapter 42 Wang Huanian
Wang Huan remembered that when Yao Ming was at its peak, someone filmed a documentary called Yao Mingnian. Although he was not very good-looking and had poor grades, he could at least reflect his popularity at that time. He thought he could give himself something called Wang Huanian.
First of all, the release of the soul catcher filmed by Lao Touzi. The film was completed in just two months. This is the result of Lao Touzi's literary temperament exerting his instinct to strive for excellence, otherwise there would be no problem for a month. After all, this movie does not require special stunts, does not require too many scenes, and is more about the scenes of the protagonist and his psychologist playing with each other, which contains the mystery of human nature and psychology. If you don't watch it carefully, you will definitely think that this is a boring movie.
In Wang Huan's opinion, "The Spirit Catcher" must be able to achieve the combination of art and business, and the coolness of the protagonist Will, the superb IQ and terrible reading volume and the ability to understand. Will plays all the objects he wants to play with, but he also has great weakness in his heart. The second point is that it requires the love drama to be more real and interesting, and his lover must at least have enough ability and acting skills to support this movie. The original "The Spirit Catcher" basically messed up the relationship, and the love between the protagonist and the heroine was inexplicably not touching at all. This led to the protagonist's ending of pursuing his love after untiing his knot in the end, which was so nonsensical, just like making everyone feel that he was leaving. This love is not worth cherishing.
So this movie did not choose Minnie Drifer as the heroine, but chose Jennifer Anniston, who had good acting skills, who was the actor of Rachel in Friends. This was chosen by Wang Huan. He knew that Brad Pitt's ex-wife's acting skills could definitely be supported and would not be ignored by the acting of the two men in this movie.
The modified soul catcher has greatly improved, and he has neither lost his connotation and thinking as a work of art nor the elements in commercial films. Love and high IQ are both good things to attract audiences, especially Wang Huan turns the heroine into a smart, cute but mature and charming character and even has a little bit of a naughty belly. Her skillful instructor, Love Will, lets him experience the value of love, and even uses emotional means to tease him to fight back the embarrassment brought to her by his genius brain. Don’t say that the increase in love scenes will damage the connotation of this movie, this is a complementary approach.
So when the movie was released in mid-April, the students were lukewarm at the beginning after they were all in the off-season for the exam, Lionsgate Film Company was a little disappointed. Five hundred theaters had only a box office of over 10 million in a week, but in the second week they were shocked to find that the box office had not dropped but rose, and it actually reached a level of over 15 million. The next time it continued to increase slowly, and there was no way to see the decline in the box office at all. It was simply a horse.
The reputation of this movie is really good. The ranking of the soul catcher is soaring on the most famous film review website in the United States and the Internet movie database. The ranking of the soul catcher is soaring. The score soon reached the high score of 9:2. This is rare. Shawshank's redemption is only 9:6. Wang Huan knows that the Shawshank's redemption ranked first in later generations was 9:3. The soul catcher and even the top dozens could not see him. This shows how weak this movie that Oscar admires very much. If he hadn't improved the commercial means of emotional dramas and high IQ teasing geniuses a lot, how could this movie be successful?
The soul catcher, who has been released for twelve weeks, is a box office of thousands of miles. The box office in North America exceeds the original box office of more than 100 million yuan, and will have a certain profit after winning the Oscar. The global box office is also more than 200 million yuan. This is not comparable to the box office of more than 80 million yuan at the time. A small-produced film that is both business and art has made the Lionsgate laugh and made Hollywood companies completely notice Wang Huan's excellence.
But this is just the beginning. After May, it will be a summer vacation that American teenagers like. Is there a three-month period? Paradise! For Asian children, Midi is simply their paradise. There is basically no need to go to school for the first half of the year.
So the summer vacation of these three months is also a must-fight movie season in Hollywood, especially the animated films of Denis. The box office of the Lion King and Toy Story is quite amazing, not to mention the future Monster Shrek series, Kung Fu Panda, Robot Wallet, and Ice Age. So animated films are quite marketable. Unfortunately, in 1997, it was a blank period for animated films in Hollywood, and even in 1998, and in 1999, a Steel Giant was still a fair result.
So when Wang Huan's Dragon Ball animation, "The Great Adventure, The Whereabouts of Dragon Ball", you can imagine that Dragon Ball has a large number of fans in the United States. With the blank period of animation, teenagers and families who want to watch animated movies in the United States have no other choice. The animation produced by celluloid and other means and the digital computer production in the United States are two different styles. It is too new for the Americans, so the box office of 67 million in the first week caused a shock to the media in the whole country, which is simply crazy!
You should know that Toy Story's box office in North America is only about 190 million, and Wang Huan's animation costs are far less expensive than him, and the producer's lineup is even worse, but this terrifying box office is simply scary. After analyzing the box office, Wall Street predictors definitely came up with a box office of 250 million in North America's box office of at least 300 million. Although it is not as good as the Lion King's box office, it is definitely the second strongest animated movie.
But the combat effectiveness of this animation next tells them that the Lion King's throne may be out of stock. The box office of 70 million in the second week shows that the number of viewers has increased sharply after the reputation has been booming. This animation has made children and adults in the United States crazy.
In the end, the combined global box office and North American box office were astonishingly 750 million yuan, firmly ranked second in animated movies. Below this figure is Wang Huan's other animated movie, Football Dream. Although the box office in North America is only about 150 million yuan, it has more than 400 million yuan in Europe and 680 million yuan in global box office. Not to mention these two animated movies, Wang Huan made the one billion club in the position of director.
In July, the man in black, edited and produced by Wang Huan, director John Woo, and co-starred by Jackie Chan and Will Smith, was released. The movie was criticized by all media. Fortunately, John Woo and Jackie Chan were criticized so much that they were speechless. They didn't believe that a Chinese director and actor could make a Hollywood commercial blockbuster, but when the audience finished watching it, they were crazy. Chinese Kung Fu once again staged a craze in the United States. John Woo was so easy to shoot such a gunfight film, and there were many artistic conceptions that the original version did not have, which made the critics not criticize like the original version. In the end, the global box office was 660 million, which was much more than the original version.
In August, Haibian King was released. A plot full of spoof spirit and black humorous elements are so cool that it is fighting and gunfighting. Wang Huan specially got Natalie's gunfighting technique. Anyway, the original gunfighting film tearing the doomsday script is still unknown in that person's mind. Natalie Portman is known as the new generation of fighting goddess, and is also Lolik's favorite. The wonderful performance brought them rich returns. The box office was extremely good, reaching an excellent number of 400 million yuan in total overseas and North American box offices.
The final highlight of the Titanic, which should have been released this year, was not released. It turned out that the movie had been filmed for five years, but this time, with sufficient funds, there was no need to modify the script. Cameron Tyrant said that it could be completed around the end of 1998 and could be released in the summer vacation of 1999. However, Saving Private Ryan caught up with the final release time at the end of the year, which was more than a month faster than the original. It was another masterpiece that sensational across the United States, starring Tom Hanks, director of Spielberg, and script by Wang Huan. If you don’t watch this movie, the audience in the United States would not agree! Moreover, the global box office reached 600 million, which is much better than the original.
In the end, the total box office number of movies related to Wang Huan reached an astonishing number of more than 3.6 billion. The top ten in the North American box office list and the global box office list that year occupied the top three, and the other movies were also among the top fifteen, which was simply a bug-like existence. Hollywood media crazily yelled the slogan that 1997 was Wang Huan's era.
Chapter completed!