Martin’s praise of Quentin’s film and talent was not a polite one.
This guy who likes to lick the feet of beautiful women is really talented.
In Martin’s eyes, Quentin Tarantino may not have reached the level of a master, but he is undoubtedly a movie genius.
This guy is very good at telling non-linear stories, with unforgettable dialogue and bloody scenes, and carries forward the black violence style of American B-movies.
What’s interesting is that Quentin’s works are never perfect. Not only do they have clear edges and corners, but there are also various bugs and logical problems that emerge one after another, which gives people a feeling of being too high.
But this high feeling allows movie fans to experience unprecedented excitement and pleasure.
Especially the various violent scenes in this stylized work will definitely make CULT movie lovers want to watch it.
What this guy likes to do most in movies is to be peaceful and peaceful one second, and then bleed like a river the next. This sudden contrast makes the audience secrete a lot of dopamine.
And no matter how violent and cruel the process is, the final outcome of the story is still that the hero gets his revenge and the beauty returns home. This is the usual idealism and romance in Italian Westerns.
Another characteristic of this guy is that he doesn’t like to follow a linear narrative when making movies, and he always comes up with various tricks.
Godard said:”A story needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in this order.”
Quentin has practiced this sentence many times in his movies.
The movie”Inglourious Basterds” is a typical Quentin work.
But this is another atypical Quentin work.
Because Quentin rarely tells a story well.
Of course, it also contains Quentin’s usual formula – revenge plots of murder and gunfights, several battles between ambition and traps, you sing and I come on stage, and for whom did I make the wedding clothes in the end?
He once again stuffed his mind full of chaos, disorder and violence into his works.
This time, even Adolf Hitler was shot for no reason and was easily sent to hell by the Jewish girl.
If Kill Bill is a stew of Eastern and Western violent aesthetics, what”Inglourious Basterds” may want to express is that no one can escape from the chaos of hatred.
The ending of the movie subverts historical facts and makes people laugh and laugh – the assassination plan strictly controlled by the British and American military failed inexplicably, the villain suddenly defected to the Allies, an ordinary Jew’s brutal revenge succeeded, and the Nazi leader was easily killed by a The woman was exploited and shot dead, Hitler died in embarrassment, and the rebellious German colonel was engraved with an indelible Nazi mark.
What makes Martin most interesting in this movie is that although this guy follows a formula similar to that of World War II movies, he depicts the ugly faces of some German officers.
But what makes this guy more prominent in the movie, that is, what is heavily depicted, is the positive image of another group of German officers, the core of which is Colonel Hans.
Colonel Hans, for his part, was almost as tall as a hero, shrewd, elegant and full of historical responsibility, and he acted at a human level.
The image of the Americans in the movie is just the opposite. They act dirty, bloody and barbaric, and go back on their word. There are no real advantages in them. Remove the unique advantage of being anti-Nazi, and the rest is almost complete. Negative image.
In the dark theater, Martin couldn’t help but laugh. No wonder people say Quentin is a genius, he is so willful.
He retained the only bit of historical stance, and swapped all the remaining German and American characters, creating such an interesting group of characters, which is really a bad taste.
A ghost, a ghost, means a ghost knows what he is thinking, right?!
After the movie, Martin congratulated Quentin
“Man, your movie shouldn’t do badly at the box office, I’m telling you.”Martin set a FLAG. (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
In fact, Quentin has no need to worry about the box office of his movies. This guy’s special style has already formed a niche fan base for him. This group can basically guarantee the basic box office of US$50 million. It can only attract a few more”off-market” movie fans, and the investment in the movie will be recovered.
This is why Quentin has been very confident in his movies in the past. Because of that.
But this time it is a little different, because the investment in”Inglourious Basterds” is the highest he has ever made in a movie – the production cost is 75 million U.S. dollars. Including the additional publicity and distribution expenses in the later stage, the investment exceeds 90 million.
Moreover, Martin’s”Joker” is so popular that its crazy tendency to rob the box office almost gives people the feeling that it will swallow up all the box office during its release period. Even a lunatic like Quentin can’t stand it!
But now After the movie was released, his mentality stabilized. Anyway, it mattered whether he was alive or dead………..
“To paraphrase a Chinese saying, I would like to lend you some good words, Martin.”Quentin smiled and said something blunt in Chinese.
Four days after the opening weekend, the atmosphere in the Universal Pictures conference room was solemn.
Karl Streiner, the director of the distribution department, pointed his finger at the table with”Inglourious Basterds” on it.”First Week Box Office Report
“The box office in the first weekend was US$22.62 million. From this point of view,”Inglourious Basterds” will at least not make a loss, it is just a question of how much profit it will make.”
To be honest, this is much better than they expected. When”Joker” was first released, it really scared them. They thought it would suck up the box office potential in the same period. In terms of investment, this movie The film’s box office figures are definitely qualified. It should be no problem if it exceeds 120 million in North America and 300 million globally.
“Then will we launch a follow-up plan to suppress”Joker”?”The director of the publicity department asked the female vice president sitting at the top.
The female vice president frowned, thought for a moment, and said,”Forget it, using the shooting to report negatively on”Joker” is of no use at all. Instead, it brought new popularity to the movie.”
Speaking of this, the female vice president sounded a little unhappy. Originally, Universal wanted to use the opportunity of the shooting to suppress the 0.1 box office of”Joker”. Unexpectedly, it was self-defeating, and instead caused the other party’s box office to go against the market and have a surge.[]
This can be regarded as using Universal’s money to advertise a competitor’s movie, and I must be unhappy.
After attending the premiere of”Inglourious Basterds”,”Joker” began to be released in European countries, and Martin also began his Europa promotional tour.
The first stop is London.
Yang Mi and Emma Watson came to pick up Martin at the airport.
That’s right, Yang Mi did not return to China.
After finishing the filming of”Inception”, this little girl stayed in Los Angeles for a while, then flew to London to visit her”good bestie””——Emma Watson.
It happened that Martin was coming to London for promotion, so she and Emma came to pick him up at the airport.
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Way to go Martin