Chapter 169: Grand Introduction: Magical Director Wang Yang

"Okay, very good, handsome..." In the photography room, accompanied by the sound of clicking, photographer Mike Gliff pressed the shutter of the camera, and Wang Yang, who was standing in front of the white background board, adjusted his expression according to his requirements. Mike Gliff turned his head and looked at the staff beside him and said, "Move that camera next to Yang and take a few more photos."

Soon, Wang Yang put on the black camera with one hand, looked at the camera lens, and smiled and said, "Mike, I'm shooting you." Mike Gliff pressed the shutter and said, "Come on, hey Yang, can you be more serious? You know that you and "Then you" and "The Ninth District" are very serious recently."

"I don't think so. I've been very funny recently." Wang Yang shrugged with a smile. He just didn't want to be so serious, so he asked not to wear a suit this time. Now he was wearing a young and fashionable dress. Mike Gliff smiled and said, "That's cool, cool!" Wang Yang still lowered his face according to his requirements. After all, in the flat photos, Mike is a professional, and said lightly: "Okay, I like cool."

This is taking a cover photo for Time magazine two weeks later, and it is also his second time to appear on the cover of Time magazine. When he received this invitation, Wang Yang was a little surprised. If it was People, it would be normal for entertainment magazines such as Vanity Fair, but Time magazine has always treated him "cool". Why this time? "The Ninth District" is expected to become the most popular R-level movie in history? It makes many people have nightmares at night?

In any case, he agreed, which was a good opportunity for the post-promotion of "The Ninth District".

However, in the eyes of Mike Gleaf and others, it is normal for Fantasy Young to be the cover character of "Time", otherwise it would be a strange thing. He first appeared on the cover of "Time" in September 1999, because of the huge success and social effects of "Singing and Dance Youth". He was also praised as a "phenomenal magic director". At that time, the cover slogan of "Time" was: "The next 'king of the world'."

Now three years have passed, and the former DV boy has already proved that the public has also reached this consensus. He will not be James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemegis... He will only be another big director, the everlasting magic director Wang Yang.

In three years, whether it was the classic biopic "When Happiness Comes Knocking the Door" at the age of 20, "Juno" that caused another phenomenon in the same year, or the youngest Golden Globe Awards nomination for Best Director, etc., it was enough to be on the cover of "Time", but it was not at that time.

And now the appearance of the magical work "The Ninth District", which has left the entire earth in a state of depression, has "disappeared" for two years and has returned strongly. The terrible profound meaning, the most popular R-level, the great movie... The editors of "Time" can finally no longer sit idly by, otherwise how can this publication be called a historical library?

"When was the first time I was filming something?" In the reception room, the interview reporters Dennis Waller and Wang Yang were both sitting on the sofa. He was interviewing this young director for the second time, but compared with the last question "Mentality after success", "Outlook for the future", etc., this time he seemed particularly interested in Shen Qi Yang's childhood and growth experience, which was also a biographical interview.

Wang Yang was immediately excited and was the first time to take pictures. An old black and white scene flashed through his heart. A guy was walking around with a small camera... Thinking of the interesting things in the past, he couldn't help but smile. How could he forget it? Looking at Dennis Waller, he smiled and said, "At the age of 12, I used a super8 camera to take a piece of pedestrians walking around the street."

"There was no mini-dv at that time, so I was actually called super8-boy at the beginning." Hearing him say this, Dennis Waller laughed, and those who know about magical Yang would not know about the DVD movie and "Ghost Records". These are his two labels, "magic Yang"'s first performance. He quickly recorded it on paper with a pencil, and said with a smile: "It seems that this is the cover slogan of this issue."

After picking up a cup of coffee and taking a sip, Wang Yang raised the corner of his mouth with a memory and smiled: "I had been dreaming of directors for several years at that time. I bought that super8 at the flea market, nizo-148xl, white shell and black lens, which was very cool; I also bought two plates of 8mm film. Oh my God! At that time, they spent all my savings, $300."

Wang Yang smiled and shook his head, remembering the excitement at that time, and said, "I feel that I have been cheated now, but I was very, very happy and excited at that time, wow!" He made a gesture holding the camera and said, "With this thing, I can be a director, I can make a movie! All my savings and thoughts are put in, I want to do a good job! I thought about the story, I called a few classmates, and then..."

"What's the result? The camera is broken?" Dennis Waller asked with a frown. Wang Yang nodded helplessly, saying, "It took a few days to shoot, and it suddenly jumped and broke. I think it's always been bad. I'm lucky enough to play for a few days." Dennis Waller asked with a very regretful smile, "What do you do? Take it for repair, or ask your parents?"

"No, I don't like asking for help from my parents and family." Wang Yang smiled. He was really annoyed at that time. He was hit with enthusiasm. He exhaled and said, "I have no money anymore, so I decided to repair it myself. I think it will be better if I take it apart and clean it up. As a result, it gets worse and worse, which is really sad."

Dennis Waller asked with interest: "Is that super8 camera still there? And those two films with your real debut? They are all so precious." Wang Yang smiled and nodded, "It's all in San Francisco. Although I hate it, I won't throw it away." Dennis said while recording quickly, "So you started shooting very early."

Wang Yang nodded again and said, "After that time, I would get a super8 for whatever I wanted to shoot, and I would use a rental method to get back and shoot some 8mm short films." He shrugged and said, "Then it's "Ghost Records".

"How would you describe your childhood?" Seeing that the topic ended, Dennis Waller asked a new question.

Wang Yang rolled his eyes upwards and thought, "Well, my childhood? Childhood refers to before the age of 12? That's when there is no super8 incident, haha!" He laughed a few times before saying, "It's great, carefree, practicing kung fu, watching movies, football games, playing, and fighting every week. You know there are always a few bullies in the school, but sorry, I'm not afraid of them."

"When I was in school, those annoying guys often patted my head." Dennis Waller sighed unbearably and asked, "So you spent your childhood in happiness?" Wang Yang glared, looking in disbelief, "How could it be possible" and said, "There will always be some childhood worries and regrets, and I am no exception. But I can be said to grow up in happiness."

"Okay, then..." Dennis Waller nodded, then asked with a gossipy tone: "What kind of role does Jessica play in your childhood?" Wang Yang told the relationship between the two when he was a child for the first time. At that time, everyone thought they would break up soon, and now it's more than three years. Now he's giving Wang Yang a second cover interview, and he doesn't forget to ask this question.

"Oh!" Wang Yang shouted like an electric shock, sat upright seriously, and said, "What role? I don't know, I have to think about this question carefully, and I can't make her angry or disappointed. Guy, don't remember this sentence!" Dennis Waller immediately smiled and raised his right hand holding the pen, and said, "Don't worry!" Wang Yang thought for a while, and said, "A very critical role is that she gives me more opportunities to fight, and I love her."

Both of them laughed. Wang Yang pointed to the notebook in Dennis Waller's hand and smiled and said, "Just write it up. Also, Jesse was my best girl friend at that time. We talked about everything, but later she transferred to school and left. I was very annoyed at that time." Thinking of the misunderstanding that she did not regard herself as a good friend, he couldn't help but frown and said, "How can she leave? But she suddenly disappeared, never told me, and didn't leave a word."

There is something like this? Dennis Waller asked curiously, "What's going on?" Wang Yang spread his hands, and there was a bitch, and smiled, "It sounds like Wiggs and his wife. In fact, she left me a goodbye letter, but the letter was stolen by a bitch and I didn't see it. Then I kept misunderstanding her, 'What did that girl treat me like? An irrelevant passerby? A fool?' This is one of the things that I was very unhappy in my childhood."

"So we know why you deal with Wiggs and his wife like this?" Dennis Waller asked with a frown, and the ballpoint pen kept writing quickly. Wang Yang shrugged and smiled, "Maybe, but Wiggs is much worse than me." Dennis hummed, looked at him, and asked a key question seriously: "What impact do you think childhood has on you?"

He sighed with emotion and said, "Apart from magic, we don't know how to define you. You can shoot "Singing and Dance" full of passion and youthful sunshine; "When Happiness Comes Knocks" that never gives up on your dreams and "Juno" that are so happy! But "The Ninth District" is as depressed as a nightmare; "The Ghost Record" can scare people to death..."

"In fact, everyone is not easily defined. They are complex complexes. Facing different things, they also have different moods. And you think so when you were 20 years old, but they have changed again at the age of 25 and 30." Wang Yang thought for a while and continued, "I like to experience it in different stories. This sounds a bit like an actor, right? Ha! What a happy and beautiful childhood brings is that you in life is a person who is more optimistic than pessimistic."

After Wang Yang accepted the cover interview of "Time", the screening week from August 9 to 15 ended a few days later. In the second week of August, four new movies were released, Sony's 70 million-dollar action crime film "Extreme Agent", independent film Dimen Pictures' 38 million-dollar action comedy "Very Little Agent 2", and Warner Bros.'s 50 million-dollar action crime film "Blood Type Puzzle".

Three new action films were released in one go, with 3374, 3307, and 2525 theaters also appearing ambitious and seemingly going to capture the end of this hot summer market. Their premiere received 35.21 million, 15.75 million, and 8.94 million box office respectively in the weekly premiere, ranking second, fourth and sixth. The fifth place is the 10.44 million comedy "Ace Spy", and the third place is the 20.85 million "Tianzhao".

In the past two weeks, film critics and fans like to use words such as "censored, dull, boring" to give new movies, including three new movies this week; they also like to use words such as "novel, amazing, and great" to give a movie.

That is, the North American box office weekly champion, strangling three new films in 3,758 theaters, which are classified as science fiction/thriller/drama/action/magic Yang. This week, its number of theaters released increased by 208, and continued to sweep the entire North America with a storm, causing more viewers to yell "fuck!". There are also imdb and rotten tomatoes on the landing for ratings, which is still 8.9/8.8; the audience's preference dropped to 87%, and some angry and crazy movie fans have smashed the spots.

"I really regret watching this movie so much! It feels like eating an apple that rotted maggots. The most terrifying thing is that those damn maggots are still stirring in their stomachs!" Allen K commented like this; and Ian W, who beat one, directly bombarded the gunpowder at the director: "Shen Yang wants the whole world to accompany him to taste the taste of jail! What a surprising bastard!"

Amid the praises and scolds, the second week of "The Ninth District" swept 74.38 million US dollars in box office! The total box office in North America rose to 205 million, which also made it jump to the fourth place in the overall R-level movie box office rankings. The top three numbers are 2.34, 2.32 and 2.16 respectively. According to the current situation, "The Ninth District" will inevitably become the new most popular R-level movie in history, and only needs another weekend.

The number of reviews of the film critics on Rotten Tomatoes has increased to 240, and 10 reviews have chosen to rot. 230 fresh articles have reduced the freshness of the film critics to 95%, while the well-known film critics are still 95%.

"I don't like "The Ninth" because its world looks terrible and ridiculous, not novel, and the humans and aliens are just as stupid as aliens! Also, if this happens, Fantastic Young, who lives in Beverly Hills, will be the first guy to spit on the shrimpworm man." - Michael Fox, The Baltimore Sun; "The Ninth District is like a monster with eight legs, which seems to say everything, but ends up saying nothing. This is a comedy that can't find any fun." - Kyle Smith, The New York Post...

But the admiration that had an absolute advantage completely covered up the ridicule like a mosquito.

"After watching a summer, "The Ninth District" is a very timely antidote." - David Hoffman, San Francisco Chronicle; "The most heartbreaking and convincing classic science fiction fable. I'm talking about "The Planet of the Apes" in 1968, and "The Ninth District" in 2002." - Scott A-Mantiz, "Visit Hollywood"; "If you're looking for a movie that makes your heart and soul tremble, humans, it's." - Ken Hank, "The Cinema Signal"...

The overseas box office of "The Ninth District" naturally came out in the second week. Audiences from more than 40 countries and regions spent another 104 million US dollars. In two weeks, the total overseas box office reached 291 million; the global total box office was 496 million! This also broke Wang Yang's personal global box office record. The highest in the previous four movies was "Singing and Dance" of 411 million, and this number will continue to increase.

In addition to joining the "global box office total of 2 billion clubs", Wang Yang soon had to have more director titles and records, such as "the youngest single film is 500 million", "the youngest single film is 600 million"... There are also many media shouting "the youngest Oscar nomination for best director".

"The Ninth District" is popular in the critical circle, and everyone can see these praises. These praises are published in media newspapers. Then another topic of concern has emerged. What will the masterpiece "The Ninth District" perform at the 75th Academy Awards next year? But first of all, as a cult movie, what will it be nominated for?

Best visual effect? ​​Best sound editing? Best audio? Oscars have won these technical awards and have sent out many excellent science fiction films in decades. Is this the foreseeable fate of "The Ninth District"?

But the media, who said last year that "I'm afraid the next chocolate is not the best director, and it's already a miracle to be nominated" now have completely different voices: "The Ninth District will definitely be the biggest hit for the Oscars next year, and it has the qualifications and rights!"

"The soundtrack of sadness, tension and sadness is excellent. Can't the old ears of the Oscar judges move? Can't the tears of Robert Downey Jr. make the old eyes moist? Can't the wonderful script of Oscar's "Metamorphosis" be moved by a sad and exciting script that is modified from Kafka's "Metamorphosis"? Can't the old heart be touched?"

As for the best film and the best director of "Fantasy Yang Booking", Yahoo Entertainment seems more excited and has a very rational analysis. There have indeed been many masterpieces in science fiction films over the years, and their system settings are of great significance and far-reaching influence to science fiction films, such as "Terminator 2", "The Matrix", etc.

Some of them are commercial films, and it is normal to be rejected by Oscars; while "The Matrix" discusses illusory reality, etc., is not a mainstream topic that is favored by various awards.

However, although "The Ninth District" is novel and unique, it has a lot of mainstream topics. The whole movie discusses human nature, including good and evil. It can also be regarded as another Oscar favorite project, anti-racial discrimination; there are also traceable deep meanings such as human social habits, freedom, anti-war, etc. When they all add up, they produce an indescribable shock and sadness.

"The Ninth District is like a hearty buffet, you can try humanity, you can also try anti-racism, and all kinds of delicious foods." - Charles Hewitt, Empire magazine; "How about my suggestion? Everyone has to go to the cinema to watch The Ninth District, in order to make the world a better place." - Chris Bambray, "Movie Mall".

Yahoo Entertainment's editorial commented: "There is no doubt that "The Ninth District" is great enough to get the nominations it deserves, and I'm talking about Best Picture and Best Director."

It's just a pseudo-documentary shaking the camera, crazy B-level films, bloody violence, science fiction movies... No matter how excellent it is, these "Oscar taboos" still exist. So can it help science fiction films return to the list of Oscar nominations for the 20-year-old Oscar nominations for the sci-fi film after "e.t." in 1983? Can the 23-year-old Fantastic Young be the fourth place to win the Oscar for the Best Director for the Science Fiction film after Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg?

"Life is like a box of chocolate, you will never know what the next one is." Yahoo Entertainment ended with Wang Yang's words last year and Forrest Gump's mother's words.

However, seeing "The Ninth District" is about to become the box office champion of R-rated movies in North America, the global box office is also as fierce as a super-selling commercial blockbuster. Some media joked, but they said factally: "As we all know, Oscars don't like movies with too high box office. If Shen Qiyang wants to win the best director, "The Ninth District" will be offline immediately!"

This is naturally impossible. Summer days pass quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the screening week from August 16 to 22 also came to an end. As some schools start new semesters, the total box office in North America this week fell by 23.5% from last week, only 162.17 million US dollars.

Among this big cake, the fewest share is the 1952 Italian film "Candle Tears" re-released by Lilla Film Company. One theater received US$653, ranking 125th; the first place is "The Ninth District", which is still screened in 3,770. It continued to dominate the film market in August with a box office of 48.67 million. From August 2 to 22, it has won the box office for three consecutive weeks.

The second one is "Extreme Agent" for 20153,400 yuan and the newly released "Bihai Baby" for 19.948,700 yuan. This 25 million-dollar romance film is starring Kate Potsworth, Michelle Rodriguez and others. As a good friend, Wang Yang also sent Michelle to congratulate him; then the fourth one is "The Heavens" for 15.67 million yuan.

48.67 million US dollars increased the total box office of "The Ninth District" to 253 million! It also officially surpassed the 234 million "Beverly Hills Police Detective" and became the most popular R-rated movie in North America history! Of course, if it is converted by inflation, "The Ninth District" is not legitimate at present, but it has only been screened for three weeks.

Professional evaluation analysts of Flame Film predict that its final North American box office should be within the range of 320 million to 350 million; but "Beverly Hills Police Detective" does not have a three-week overseas box office of 358 million, and its total overseas box office is 81.6 million.

The overseas box office of "The Ninth District" in the third week was 67.12 million US dollars. The overseas box office and the North American box office combined with the 358 million and 250 million US dollars, its global total box office has reached 608 million! Perhaps in the near future, the shrimp man will reach the height of the total box office of 700 million US dollars. This is also the market analysis of flame movies, competitors, and good movies + viral marketing once again achieved a comprehensive victory.

22 years old, with a maximum box office of 608 million yuan, and the total box office of five directed movies totaling 2.1 billion yuan, with an average of 420 million yuan per movie... These crazy data add up to a magical sensation. His fans naturally soared rapidly, and the blog click rate is rising rapidly every day. The IP address comes from all over the world, and messages in various languages ​​have also been generated: "youre-so-amazing!", "i-love-your-movie! can-you-give-me-a-kiss?i-love-you!!", "tu-eres-grande!", "あなたはGreat!"...

While entertainment media were also rushing to report on this kind of "miracle reality show", the latest issue of Time magazine was put on the shelves, and the person on the cover was Wang Yang wearing a shirt and jeans and a camera with one hand. After thinking about it, "Time" finally chose the nickname that the public is most familiar with, as the introduction slogan on the cover: "mr. magic-young".

Jessica leaned against the fabric sofa, holding a copy of "Time" in her hand, looking at Wang Yang's interview with relish. She suddenly saw the content about herself, her eyes lit up. After reading it, she looked up at Wang Yang who was playing with Danny over there, and asked happily, "Yang, were you very angry at that time? I mean I left suddenly."

"What?" Wang Yang turned his head and glanced at her. Seeing that she was smiling brightly, he couldn't help but smile, frowned and asked, "Are you happy?" Jessica turned her eyes playfully before nodding, "Yes, I'm very happy!" He was angry and showed that he cared; if there was no such thing, then what did he treat her? She smiled curiously and asked, "Have you ever scolded me?"

"Haha, it seems that someone else wants to be scolded by others?" Wang Yang smiled and patted Danny's head, then walked towards the sofa, and said, "Well, maybe, I forgot it. But when you said it, I remembered it again. At that time, I scolded 'that damn j-ass-ica!!'

Jassica? Jessica was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help laughing. She held Time magazine and patted Wang Yang who was sitting down next to her and said, "You are so stingy! But haha..." She finally held back the laughter and gritted her teeth and laughed, "I have scolded you a lot, that damn... Um!"
Chapter completed!