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Chapter 417 Box Office on First Day

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The three said, sitting together on a sofa in the background.35xs

Brian de Palma continued the topic just now: "Simon, Bob and I have been talking about this project in recent days. I probably understand that you asked me to direct this film to make the plot look even more Suspenseful tension. However, both I and Bob believe that although the theme of "Peachy Deal" is contrary to mainstream morality, the core of this story should be love. In the case of love movies, it is not a subject I am good at."

Simon heard Palma's euphemistic refusal. Although regretful, he didn't have any problems.

After thinking about it, Simon felt that Parma's analysis was actually very reasonable, so he said: "Since this, I contact other people to see. In addition, Brian, do you have any other interesting scripts recently?"

Brian de Palma smiled bitterly on his face and shook his head: "Not yet, but I think I should go back to what I am good at."

In recent years, Palma has made a total of two films, a Vietnam War theme film "Vietnamese War Trauma", and a satirical comedy "Vanity Bonfire". Both films are trying to get rid of his previous style, and the results are also based on Failure ended.

It is not difficult to understand why he rejected "Peachy Deal".

If it continues to be tepid, the drop in coffee is still second. It is not so easy to get a good project again.

"I'll take care of you," Simon said, looking at Robert Redford: "Bob, wouldn't you be interested in Peach Deal?"

Robert Redford nodded: "I can try."

"Then I will arrange a formal meeting as soon as possible."

While chatting, some guests who arrived greeted Simon, and Palma and Redford smiled and got up and walked away.

"Hi, Cindy, long time no see."

Simon also got up and greeted Cindy Crawford in a black low-cut evening gown.

At the 20-year-old birthday party, Simon gave a promise to the four models who came to join the show. It was originally said that they could make them a guestwoman of Bruce Wayne in "Batman: Moment of War", just because of the plot. Can make a trip, but this time it was successfully fulfilled.

However, for the time being, only Cindy Crawford was honored.

Cindy Crawford listened to Simon's words. While taking the initiative to hug Simon, he murmured half-truth: "It's really been a long time, Simon, it's not easy to see you."

Simon felt the fragrance of Nephrite's light and light fragrance on the girl in the moment, and then noticed that she didn't seem to have a male partner and asked with a smile: "Here he came alone?"

Cindy Crawford let go of Simon, but kept a short distance from the man. She looked over and said, "Yeah, so, Simon, can you take me back to the hotel in a minute?"

"Unfortunately, I have shadows on places like the hotel, and I usually don't come closer than 50 feet. 35xs"

Cindy Crawford's eyes moved, and his words seemed bolder: "So, just send me wherever you want."

Janet has recently begun to show her pregnancy, and her morning sickness reaction is a bit serious, so she did not attend today's premiere.Simon didn't plan to stay home at night, so he turned away from this rather awkward topic: "I remember you had a boyfriend, that, um, Richard Gere?"

Cindy Crawford did not shy away, with some regret in his expression, explaining: "We broke up last year."

Simon was a little surprised, but quickly figured out the joints.

Richard Gere, who became famous in 1982 with "Military Officer and Gentleman", has been on the decline since the late 1980s.

Originally, Richard Gere finally returned to the top with the 1990 "Wind Moon Beauty", and then married his girlfriend Cindy Crawford, who had been with each other for several years. In fact, both parties needed their own.

Things are the same as the old cloth married Demi Moore Lightning during "The Gallbladder". As a very conservative society, the American audience does not like that the perfect man on the screen is still a single tramp in private.

Out of this consideration, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sylvester Stallone and even Tom Cruise, no matter what they do in private, will seem to maintain a marriage as much as possible.This is actually another form of'political correctness', which was gradually no longer obeyed by stars after the new century.

Richard Gere was a gentle gentleman who captivated thousands of female audiences on the screen, but he was also a big-hearted man in private, and he had a fight with the little Li Zi in the original time and space. He had never been married before the age of 40. And I only like supermodels with tall faces and exquisite faces.

Now, I have missed "Wind Moon Beauty", and in recent years there have been no other blockbuster films, and even reduced to the situation of appearing in TV movies. Richard Gere, who is over 40 years old, is completely out of breath.

In this case, naturally there is no need to maintain a'political correctness'.

Moreover, Cindy Crawford, who is only 25 years old at the age of Fenghua Zhengmao, is also not easy to think. After the early rise of his position as the girlfriend of Richard Gere, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the current career, of course it is impossible. Then tie yourself to a dead old tree.

After just a few words, Cindy Crawford took the initiative to turn the topic to the experience of the guest "Batman: The Dark Knight", and expressed the hope that more attempts will be made in the future. Enter Hollywood for a while.

The female assistant came with her girlfriend Lisa Collins.

Sensing that Simon's attention was shifting, Cindy Crawford gave way a little, but did not walk away. She nodded politely to the two women Jennifer. She knew Simon's assistant.Flash Dance Novel Network is in New York because of her career focus. She also knows that the Rebold family has been hot in Manhattan in recent years because of Simon.

"Simon, it's not easy to see you."

Lisa Collins opened the first sentence, obviously with a small grudge, and made Cindy Crawford almost laugh.

Simon gently hugged Lisa and smiled, "Well, it seems that I am really a rare person."

Lisa Collins had always wanted to see Simon himself again after watching Madonna's concert with Simon cameo last year.

Unfortunately, I never found an opportunity.

It’s no wonder that in the past more than a year, except for the honeymoon after the wedding, Simon was basically busy non-stop, flying around every city almost every week, it is impossible to put too much attention on private affairs on.

After a few minutes of entertaining, the staff came to remind that the premiere was about to begin, and everyone entered the hall of the auditorium one after another.

The opening session was simple. After the host made a speech, the movie screening officially began.

After the animation of the logos of the studios of the two companies, accompanied by a dense siren sound, the picture gradually turned to a highway.

The opening is a hot car chase.

The car chase scene in Hollywood has a long history, and most action movies will almost arrange one or two car chases.However, in recent years, the most impressive thing is undoubtedly the car chase scene in the final stage of "Batman: Moments of War".

As a result, "Batman: The Dark Knight" opened, and it immediately reminded the audience of the blood and amazement of the "Batman: Moment of War" chasing the car scene on the big screen a year and a half ago.

Although it was the opening, a short wedge of car chasing did not disappoint the audience.

In the face of a pair of drag racing criminals unscrupulously heavy fire, Gotham police were severely suppressed and suffered heavy damage.

In the eyes of everyone, the bat fighter arrived, and after using the cannon to destroy several Hello vehicles, Batman used the catwoman in the first song to drive the bat motorcycle in the same way as the bat fighter from the automatic flight. A heavy truck guarded by a car.

The opening wedges were naturally carefully designed to ignite the audience's passion for the film as soon as they started.

Even the details of choosing to chase cars and the details of Batman driving the bat motorcycle from the sky, also carefully considered the audience's psychology, directly let the fans who have seen the first song recall the kind of stunning feeling in the first part.

Then, in a thrilling confrontation, Batman wiped out all the cars. Bat Motor turned around and rushed towards the heavy truck that had just been left behind.

The hearts of the audience were raised.

Looking at the bloodthirsty and crazy eyes of the driver in the driver's seat of the truck, he was curious about what Batman was going to do. He died with a heavy truck. Then,'theend'?This is certainly not possible.

At the moment of contact between the two vehicles with huge differences in size, the bat motorcycle suddenly fell short and passed directly through the bottom of the heavy truck. At the same time, a shot of the rope shot from the bat motorcycle nailed into the head of the heavy truck appeared.

What is this for?

It is not realistic to drag a tens of tons of heavy truck with a bat motorcycle that is only a few hundred pounds?

If there is an audience in the lobby who has the same'experience' as Simon, one of the scenes in the Nolan version of Batman: The Dark Knight in memory can be immediately remembered.

However, this time the plot is even more cool.

The bat motorcycle passed through the heavy truck and did not wrap around the roadside lamppost like the original, but stopped quickly.

The cable connecting the heavy truck and the bat motorcycle is still elongating. Batman presses a button on the bat motorcycle, then raises his hand to fly out with a hook lock, and crosses an advertisement on the roadside.

In the middle of the road, the bat motorcycle was actively deformed, and two huge wheels tilted down, embedded in the ground like two extra-large screws, and at the same time, eight hook locks flew out of the motorcycle, like a cobweb or nailed or entangled into the road. Light pole on the side of the fence.

Zheng!

After the trembling sound that caused the heart to tremble, the heavy truck like a giant suddenly stopped in the camera.

then.

Under the influence of great force, the huge body appeared a 180-degree flip.

boom--

"Wow……"

"so cool!"

Various exclamations suddenly sounded in the hall, and some people began to applaud.

Some filmmakers sitting near Simon, once again feeling that the movie could still be made like this, could not help but realize that it was all money.

Most filmmakers, even if they can think of it, simply can't afford it.

After the opening wedge and the opening title, the official film officially entered.

The wedge of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is still closely related to the original story, not just the 007 series, which is just a handsome first.

The opening of the film soon revealed the reason for the wedge.

Gotham City Police and Batman are investigating an arms smuggling leader named Penguin. When Gotham City media reported on Batman's deeds and punishment for evil, another new star in Gotham's political circle has also risen. It was jealous that the public prosecutor Harvey Dante stated in the media that he would send all criminals in Gotham to prison.

With media reports, Batman and Harvey Dante gradually have two titles of "Dark Knight" and "Light Knight".

At the same time, as the heir of the Wayne family, Bruce Wayne also had to face a little trouble in life.

Catwoman Selena Kyle failed to walk with Bruce Wayne in the last episode, and has always been concerned about the inheritance of the Wayne family's housekeeper, Afu, who continues to arrange a variety of blind dates for Wayne.The plot in this respect is in the same vein as the first episode, so most of the laughs gathered are also contracted.

Cindy Crawford's guest appearance was one of Bruce Wayne's blind dates.

Of course, the girl did not appear as her supermodel in the film, but a strong woman who was too busy with her career to care about lifelong events. She was also forced by the family to make a blind date. She was straightforward and admired Batman very much. · Wayne has just inherited the family's huge wealth and uselessness.

Especially after carrying out a small act of courage in the face of Wayne, he noticed that Wayne'backed up' in that small incident, and looked down on the other party even more.

When the two were in a vain confusion, Cindy's role quickly dumped Wayne.

Of course, in accordance with the beginning and end of the plot, things will definitely reverse.During the First World War, Batman accidentally rescued the role played by Cindy. The strong woman also doubted Batman's identity. She seemed familiar, but things did not break through.

Back to the main line.

Batman and Harvey Dante teamed up with each other in tacit agreement, causing the Penguins to suffer heavy losses.

During a court trial, the mad penguin sent his men to openly throw sulfuric acid on Harvey Dante's face in the court, causing Dante's face to be disfigured.

As a strong person in the bone, facing the exclusion and sympathy of the people around him afterwards, Harvey Dante gradually went to extremes.

In order to punish the penguins for their bad deeds, Batman destroyed the penguin's old nest with violence and sent a lot of myself to the hospital.

Harvey Dante, who entered the extreme, placed a bomb in the hospital where the penguins gathered, and declared the birth of the "double-faced man" in a big explosion that destroyed the entire hospital.

That's right.

In this episode, Simon once again referred to the shot of the clown blowing up the hospital in the Nolan version of "Batman: The Dark Knight", but this time the villain was replaced by a double-sided person.

Penguin people are still at large.

Batman had to fight the other two villains together.

Perceiving Batman's obstruction of his'extension of justice', Harvey Dante teamed up with the Penguin, but in private, he wanted to get rid of the Penguin and Batman together, because he stubbornly thought that he was the embodiment of justice. The entire Gotham City, neither Penguin nor Batman, should exist.

As it happens, the penguin people are trying to smuggle a dirty bomb enough to destroy a city.

The two-faced people who have been frustrated in succession have gone to the extremes of craziness, and further believe that the entire Gotham city that abandoned it should not exist.

then.

Gotham City is facing an unprecedented crisis of destruction.

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The three said, sitting together on a sofa in the background.35xs

Brian de Palma continued the topic just now: "Simon, Bob and I have been talking about this project in recent days. I probably understand that you asked me to direct this film to make the plot look even more Suspenseful tension. However, both I and Bob believe that although the theme of "Peachy Deal" is contrary to mainstream morality, the core of this story should be love. In the case of love movies, it is not a subject I am good at."

Simon heard Palma's euphemistic refusal. Although regretful, he didn't have any problems.

After thinking about it, Simon felt that Parma's analysis was actually very reasonable, so he said: "Since this, I contact other people to see. In addition, Brian, do you have any other interesting scripts recently?"

Brian de Palma smiled bitterly on his face and shook his head: "Not yet, but I think I should go back to what I am good at."

In recent years, Palma has made a total of two films, a Vietnam War theme film "Vietnamese War Trauma", and a satirical comedy "Vanity Bonfire". Both films are trying to get rid of his previous style, and the results are also based on Failure ended.

It is not difficult to understand why he rejected "Peachy Deal".

If it continues to be tepid, the drop in coffee is still second. It is not so easy to get a good project again.

"I'll take care of you," Simon said, looking at Robert Redford: "Bob, wouldn't you be interested in Peach Deal?"

Robert Redford nodded: "I can try."

"Then I will arrange a formal meeting as soon as possible."

While chatting, some guests who arrived greeted Simon, and Palma and Redford smiled and got up and walked away.

"Hi, Cindy, long time no see."

Simon also got up and greeted Cindy Crawford in a black low-cut evening gown.

At the 20-year-old birthday party, Simon gave a promise to the four models who came to join the show. It was originally said that they could make them a guestwoman of Bruce Wayne in "Batman: Moment of War", just because of the plot. Can make a trip, but this time it was successfully fulfilled.

However, for the time being, only Cindy Crawford was honored.

Cindy Crawford listened to Simon's words. While taking the initiative to hug Simon, he murmured half-truth: "It's really been a long time, Simon, it's not easy to see you."

Simon felt the fragrance of Nephrite's light and light fragrance on the girl in the moment, and then noticed that she didn't seem to have a male partner and asked with a smile: "Here he came alone?"

Cindy Crawford let go of Simon, but kept a short distance from the man. She looked over and said, "Yeah, so, Simon, can you take me back to the hotel in a minute?"

"Unfortunately, I have shadows on places like the hotel, and I usually don't come closer than 50 feet. 35xs"

Cindy Crawford's eyes moved, and his words seemed bolder: "So, just send me wherever you want."

Janet has recently begun to show her pregnancy, and her morning sickness reaction is a bit serious, so she did not attend today's premiere.Simon didn't plan to stay home at night, so he turned away from this rather awkward topic: "I remember you had a boyfriend, that, um, Richard Gere?"

Cindy Crawford did not shy away, with some regret in his expression, explaining: "We broke up last year."

Simon was a little surprised, but quickly figured out the joints.

Richard Gere, who became famous in 1982 with "Military Officer and Gentleman", has been on the decline since the late 1980s.

Originally, Richard Gere finally returned to the top with the 1990 "Wind Moon Beauty", and then married his girlfriend Cindy Crawford, who had been with each other for several years. In fact, both parties needed their own.

Things are the same as the old cloth married Demi Moore Lightning during "The Gallbladder". As a very conservative society, the American audience does not like that the perfect man on the screen is still a single tramp in private.

Out of this consideration, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sylvester Stallone and even Tom Cruise, no matter what they do in private, will seem to maintain a marriage as much as possible.This is actually another form of'political correctness', which was gradually no longer obeyed by stars after the new century.

Richard Gere was a gentle gentleman who captivated thousands of female audiences on the screen, but he was also a big-hearted man in private, and he had a fight with the little Li Zi in the original time and space. He had never been married before the age of 40. And I only like supermodels with tall faces and exquisite faces.

Now, I have missed "Wind Moon Beauty", and in recent years there have been no other blockbuster films, and even reduced to the situation of appearing in TV movies. Richard Gere, who is over 40 years old, is completely out of breath.

In this case, naturally there is no need to maintain a'political correctness'.

Moreover, Cindy Crawford, who is only 25 years old at the age of Fenghua Zhengmao, is also not easy to think. After the early rise of his position as the girlfriend of Richard Gere, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the current career, of course it is impossible. Then tie yourself to a dead old tree.

After just a few words, Cindy Crawford took the initiative to turn the topic to the experience of the guest "Batman: The Dark Knight", and expressed the hope that more attempts will be made in the future. Enter Hollywood for a while.

The female assistant came with her girlfriend Lisa Collins.

Sensing that Simon's attention was shifting, Cindy Crawford gave way a little, but did not walk away. She nodded politely to the two women Jennifer. She knew Simon's assistant.Flash Dance Novel Network is in New York because of her career focus. She also knows that the Rebold family has been hot in Manhattan in recent years because of Simon.

"Simon, it's not easy to see you."

Lisa Collins opened the first sentence, obviously with a small grudge, and made Cindy Crawford almost laugh.

Simon gently hugged Lisa and smiled, "Well, it seems that I am really a rare person."

Lisa Collins had always wanted to see Simon himself again after watching Madonna's concert with Simon cameo last year.

Unfortunately, I never found an opportunity.

It’s no wonder that in the past more than a year, except for the honeymoon after the wedding, Simon was basically busy non-stop, flying around every city almost every week, it is impossible to put too much attention on private affairs on.

After a few minutes of entertaining, the staff came to remind that the premiere was about to begin, and everyone entered the hall of the auditorium one after another.

The opening session was simple. After the host made a speech, the movie screening officially began.

After the animation of the logos of the studios of the two companies, accompanied by a dense siren sound, the picture gradually turned to a highway.

The opening is a hot car chase.

The car chase scene in Hollywood has a long history, and most action movies will almost arrange one or two car chases.However, in recent years, the most impressive thing is undoubtedly the car chase scene in the final stage of "Batman: Moments of War".

As a result, "Batman: The Dark Knight" opened, and it immediately reminded the audience of the blood and amazement of the "Batman: Moment of War" chasing the car scene on the big screen a year and a half ago.

Although it was the opening, a short wedge of car chasing did not disappoint the audience.

In the face of a pair of drag racing criminals unscrupulously heavy fire, Gotham police were severely suppressed and suffered heavy damage.

In the eyes of everyone, the bat fighter arrived, and after using the cannon to destroy several Hello vehicles, Batman used the catwoman in the first song to drive the bat motorcycle in the same way as the bat fighter from the automatic flight. A heavy truck guarded by a car.

The opening wedges were naturally carefully designed to ignite the audience's passion for the film as soon as they started.

Even the details of choosing to chase cars and the details of Batman driving the bat motorcycle from the sky, also carefully considered the audience's psychology, directly let the fans who have seen the first song recall the kind of stunning feeling in the first part.

Then, in a thrilling confrontation, Batman wiped out all the cars. Bat Motor turned around and rushed towards the heavy truck that had just been left behind.

The hearts of the audience were raised.

Looking at the bloodthirsty and crazy eyes of the driver in the driver's seat of the truck, he was curious about what Batman was going to do. He died with a heavy truck. Then,'theend'?This is certainly not possible.

At the moment of contact between the two vehicles with huge differences in size, the bat motorcycle suddenly fell short and passed directly through the bottom of the heavy truck. At the same time, a shot of the rope shot from the bat motorcycle nailed into the head of the heavy truck appeared.

What is this for?

It is not realistic to drag a tens of tons of heavy truck with a bat motorcycle that is only a few hundred pounds?

If there is an audience in the lobby who has the same'experience' as Simon, one of the scenes in the Nolan version of Batman: The Dark Knight in memory can be immediately remembered.

However, this time the plot is even more cool.

The bat motorcycle passed through the heavy truck and did not wrap around the roadside lamppost like the original, but stopped quickly.

The cable connecting the heavy truck and the bat motorcycle is still elongating. Batman presses a button on the bat motorcycle, then raises his hand to fly out with a hook lock, and crosses an advertisement on the roadside.

In the middle of the road, the bat motorcycle was actively deformed, and two huge wheels tilted down, embedded in the ground like two extra-large screws, and at the same time, eight hook locks flew out of the motorcycle, like a cobweb or nailed or entangled into the road. Light pole on the side of the fence.

Zheng!

After the trembling sound that caused the heart to tremble, the heavy truck like a giant suddenly stopped in the camera.

then.

Under the influence of great force, the huge body appeared a 180-degree flip.

boom--

"Wow……"

"so cool!"

Various exclamations suddenly sounded in the hall, and some people began to applaud.

Some filmmakers sitting near Simon, once again feeling that the movie could still be made like this, could not help but realize that it was all money.

Most filmmakers, even if they can think of it, simply can't afford it.

After the opening wedge and the opening title, the official film officially entered.

The wedge of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is still closely related to the original story, not just the 007 series, which is just a handsome first.

The opening of the film soon revealed the reason for the wedge.

Gotham City Police and Batman are investigating an arms smuggling leader named Penguin. When Gotham City media reported on Batman's deeds and punishment for evil, another new star in Gotham's political circle has also risen. It was jealous that the public prosecutor Harvey Dante stated in the media that he would send all criminals in Gotham to prison.

With media reports, Batman and Harvey Dante gradually have two titles of "Dark Knight" and "Light Knight".

At the same time, as the heir of the Wayne family, Bruce Wayne also had to face a little trouble in life.

Catwoman Selena Kyle failed to walk with Bruce Wayne in the last episode, and has always been concerned about the inheritance of the Wayne family's housekeeper, Afu, who continues to arrange a variety of blind dates for Wayne.The plot in this respect is in the same vein as the first episode, so most of the laughs gathered are also contracted.

Cindy Crawford's guest appearance was one of Bruce Wayne's blind dates.

Of course, the girl did not appear as her supermodel in the film, but a strong woman who was too busy with her career to care about lifelong events. She was also forced by the family to make a blind date. She was straightforward and admired Batman very much. · Wayne has just inherited the family's huge wealth and uselessness.

Especially after carrying out a small act of courage in the face of Wayne, he noticed that Wayne'backed up' in that small incident, and looked down on the other party even more.

When the two were in a vain confusion, Cindy's role quickly dumped Wayne.

Of course, in accordance with the beginning and end of the plot, things will definitely reverse.During the First World War, Batman accidentally rescued the role played by Cindy. The strong woman also doubted Batman's identity. She seemed familiar, but things did not break through.

Back to the main line.

Batman and Harvey Dante teamed up with each other in tacit agreement, causing the Penguins to suffer heavy losses.

During a court trial, the mad penguin sent his men to openly throw sulfuric acid on Harvey Dante's face in the court, causing Dante's face to be disfigured.

As a strong person in the bone, facing the exclusion and sympathy of the people around him afterwards, Harvey Dante gradually went to extremes.

In order to punish the penguins for their bad deeds, Batman destroyed the penguin's old nest with violence and sent a lot of myself to the hospital.

Harvey Dante, who entered the extreme, placed a bomb in the hospital where the penguins gathered, and declared the birth of the "double-faced man" in a big explosion that destroyed the entire hospital.

That's right.

In this episode, Simon once again referred to the shot of the clown blowing up the hospital in the Nolan version of "Batman: The Dark Knight", but this time the villain was replaced by a double-sided person.

Penguin people are still at large.

Batman had to fight the other two villains together.

Perceiving Batman's obstruction of his'extension of justice', Harvey Dante teamed up with the Penguin, but in private, he wanted to get rid of the Penguin and Batman together, because he stubbornly thought that he was the embodiment of justice. The entire Gotham City, neither Penguin nor Batman, should exist.

As it happens, the penguin people are trying to smuggle a dirty bomb enough to destroy a city.

The two-faced people who have been frustrated in succession have gone to the extremes of craziness, and further believe that the entire Gotham city that abandoned it should not exist.

then.

Gotham City is facing an unprecedented crisis of destruction.