If Dewey pointed out the value of my movie from a macro perspective, the second article, "A Masterpiece of Psychology" by the famous American psychologist Thorndike, made a symbolic analysis of "Lust and Caution" from a professional perspective of psychology.

Thorndike started from his profession and verified the characters of Dietry and the rare characters in the movie, pointing out that these two characters are the types of characters that have never appeared in all American movies. They are the first person to awaken themselves on the Silver Tomb. The movie shows a world full of symbols and metaphors, in which almost every shot has rich potential content.

He praised my movie like this: "This masterpiece of psychology by Andre Corleon makes us professional psychologists ashamed. It can be said that it has solved many problems that have been troubled by academia for a long time. The inspiration it gives us is huge. I think the entire history of psychology should remember this movie, and I can only feel sad for those who regard it as a dirty and dirty work."

At the end of the review version, there is an article titled "Is this a movie?!". The author of it turned out to be Mike Senate, who is known as the King of Comedy and Chaplin!

Mike Senate scolded my movie from beginning to end, saying that my movie destroyed all the ready-made rules and narrative structures of the movie. The characters in it are deformed, terrible, dirty, and dim. The camera either sways or emphasizes the impact of close-ups, or suddenly becomes a long time of depression and dullness (that is probably talking about my long shot). Such a thing can be said to be a novel made in the Victorian era (the notoriously the period of yellow swaying in British history) on the screen.

"Andre Corleon's eyes only have one thing, and he pursues only one thing, that is money. In order to achieve this goal, he added all the things that stimulate the audience's lust, without taking into account the inherent rules of the movie. I am a person who has been engaged in the film industry for many years and guaranteed with the reputation of an actor that Mr. Corleon's freak is not a movie, but a disgusting garbage with a stinky smell! As for him, he is a fake director who knows about the obligations of film and film creation!"

It can be said that things have developed to this point and have become completely hot.

As one of the largest and most authoritative newspapers in the country, the influence of the New York Times is beyond doubt. The reputation of Dewey, Thorndike and Senate is even more well-known. The articles of the three of them have strange and completely opposite views. This book does not make me feel strange. After reading these three articles, I felt a little joy in my heart. After so many days of storm, most of the opinions are criticizing and protesting "Lust and Caution". But today, there are actually shouts of cheers over opposition, and it is in the most authoritative "New York Times", which has added me endless confidence.

With the support of Dewey and Thorndike, "Lust and Caution" has almost been a foregone conclusion to receive praise in the academic world, but as for the film industry, it has far from seeing the light. Senate is considered a film master in Hollywood, and even people like Chaplin respect him very much. His opinions will definitely make everyone in the film industry sentence me to death.

For me, the quality of my reputation is not important at all. The most important thing is to run DreamWorks to make money to make movies and to make the company bigger. Now DreamWorks has put all its assets on "Lust and Caution". If it appears, I will basically be done. Let's take a step back. Even if the film industry sentences it to death, as long as its box office is popular, I am not afraid. After all, outside the film industry and in the academic world, "Lust and Caution" has been recognized. It has made money and expressed my film philosophy ahead of time and has received certain praise in the academic world. This is the result I want to get the most.

As for "Lust and Caution" being accepted in the film industry, I don't have any excessive fantasies.

The worst result for me was that after the film industry convicted "Lust and Caution" and jointly boycotted it to enter the theater. In that case, DreamWorks had to go bankrupt and I had to leave.

Fortunately, Lao Ma and I signed a screening contract in advance. After the information feedback these days, the cinemas in Los Angeles were crowded with audiences in the first two days. Although the following days were affected by public opinion, especially the Catholic Church's call for the audience was greatly reduced, it also maintained at least two-thirds of the attendance rate. In another week, it should not be a problem to recover the cost.

However, there was a shadow that always condensed in my heart and could not dissipate for a long time. That was when Marskolov, Fox, Lemmer, Jack Warner and others appeared in my company in the past few days, and they had never called me. They seemed to have evaporated from the world. This strange appearance made me feel uneasy.

On the evening of June 30, when I was lying in bed and about to go to bed, I was startled by a fierce sound of raiding the door. When I opened the door, the fat man fell in.

"Boss, it's not good, something big is not good! We're being fooled!" The fat man screamed in an anxious voice, panting, and it seemed that he was jogging all the way.

I helped him into a chair, poured him a glass of water, and asked, "Aren't you sent to Oregon and Washington as a representative of our company to monitor the release of the film for two weeks? Why did you run back!?"

The fat man took a sip of water and shouted: "Boss! Don't mention it. First National Film Company, Bivograf, MGM, and other companies in Oregon and Washington have not screened a "Lust Caution" at all!?"

"What!?" After hearing the fat man's words, my eyes turned dark and I almost fell.

Oregon and Washington are two weeks old and are the No. 1 National Film Company, the main screening location for several film companies such as Wograf, MGM, and Fox. The No. 1 National Film Company alone has 2,000 cinemas in two states, and there are quite a few cinemas in several other film companies. How could it be that there was no screening in a single film?!

Moreover, they all signed a contract with me!

"Fatty, what's going on!? Explain it clearly to me!"

The fat man looked at me with a sad face and shouted, "Boss, when I arrived in these two states, the theater managers of these film companies were either missing or missing out on the excuse, but just arranged me to wait for notifications in the hotel. Later, I felt strange, so I ran out and entered several theaters by myself. It turned out that the movie theater was not our movie at all, and there was no promotional poster. I secretly asked their projectionist, and they said they had not received any posters at all!"

The fat man was anxious and annoyed, his face turned pale and he was about to faint.

"Have Gans been back?" the fat man asked me.

"Not yet, he is in charge of the states of Nevada and California." I replied absent-mindedly.

The fat man stood up, walked to the window and walked over, like an ant on a hot pan: "Boss, I have a premonition that Gans is probably coming back soon, and he will definitely bring bad news."
Chapter completed!