Chapter 2038 2040 [Iron Man]

  Because of the addition of IMAX3D technology, "The Hobbit 2" is more immersive for the audience. The process of watching the movie is more like following the adventures of Baggins and his gang, with an immersive dreamy feeling.

  Therefore, even the original, **** love of elves and dwarves in the film has become less irritating. The audience is no longer picky because they enjoy watching it.

   As a result, "The Hobbit 2" exploded at the box office, and finally earned 950 million U.S. dollars in the global box office. Such a result is even more popular than "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers", which is enough to satisfy Universal Pictures.

  …

  In October, Universal Pictures released the superhero movie "Iron Man" starring Robert Downey Jr. and Cobie Smulders.

   This movie is also the first movie after the launch of the Avengers, telling the birth of Iron Man.

  Different from other superheroes, Iron Man is the first superhero to disclose his identity, while other superheroes are basically incognito, wearing helmets, using aliases, fighting for justice and fighting crime.

  So Iron Man can enjoy the scenery of being a superhero alone. Unlike Spider-Man, who has saved so many people and is not profitable, he is so poor that he sells money by taking pictures of himself.

   And no one knows his true identity, even he has to hide it from his relatives and lovers, so that Peter Parker is always bullied no matter in school, in love, or in the workplace.

   So Iron Man is different. He is not only an unrestrained playboy, but also an infatuated man who is full of affection. He is a cynical yuppie and a very responsible superhero. The combination of these contradictory personalities makes him a very charismatic person.

  Compared to the tradition of the American team, the low-key of Hawkeye, the beauty of Black Widow, the arrogance of Thor and the brutality of Hulk, Iron Man is naturally more popular.

   Therefore, it is not surprising that he will become the core of the Avengers.

  But Xiang Nan is not going to hand over the core to Iron Man.

  Because he is already very attractive, if he is taken as the core and focused on building, then the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe will revolve around him.

  In this way, once the character of Iron Man leaves, the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be bleak. This will greatly affect the subsequent development, so Xiang Nan has to weaken the role of this role.

  It's like Rodin's statue of Balzac, because the two hands are so well done, they have to be cut off.

  Iron Man serves the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not the Marvel Cinematic Universe serving Iron Man, so we must distinguish between the important and the minor.

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  However, even if the characters were weakened, once the "Iron Man" movie was released, it still won strong support from fans.

  On the one hand, boys all have mecha feelings, who hasn’t played Transformers when they were young, and fantasizes that they can wear mechas and soar into the sky;

   On the one hand, girls like Robert Downey Jr. handsome, unrestrained and uninhibited. In terms of appearance, he can be regarded as a leader in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

  Furthermore, the story of the prodigal son returning to the gold has always been very popular. Therefore, "Iron Man" was a big hit at the box office, with an investment of 114 million US dollars, in exchange for a box office of 670 million US dollars.

  As soon as Iron Man came out, he became the best-selling superhero, and Xiang Nan couldn't help feeling his great charm.

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  In November, Universal Pictures launched the romantic comedy "The Devil Proposes", which can be regarded as a change of mind for the audience. After all, the audience will get bored if they always watch superhero adaptations and fantasy movies.

  "The Demon Proposing" tells the story of a female lead who, as a senior executive of the company, is busy with her career and never considers her personal feelings. She received a notice from the Immigration Bureau that her visa was about to expire and she was about to be deported.

  In order to keep her career, she had to fake marriage with her subordinates. But the Immigration Bureau will not let her go easily. In order to avoid being debunked by the immigration bureau as a fake marriage, the two were forced to return to the hero's hometown to hold the wedding.

   It turned out that the male protagonist who had always been low-key and bullied was actually a rich second generation. And the arrival of the heroine and heroine also made this wealthy family very excited.

  So a series of erroneous, ridiculous stories began to be staged.

  The story of "The Devil Proposing" is actually very old-fashioned, and it is comparable to Hollywood romance movies in the 1950s and 1960s.

  The hero and heroine are a pair of happy lovers, but they have to be together for some reason, but the two people who don't like each other end up falling in love with each other for a long time...

  But as the saying goes, bridges are not afraid of the old, the most important thing is to accept. The reason why this kind of movies that make friends happy is not uncommon is that the more they dislike each other and the two people who don't call, the more touching they are once they have feelings.

   Therefore, after the release of "The Devil Proposal", although the word-of-mouth received positive and negative comments, and some media commented that the routine was outdated, it still earned 350 million US dollars at the box office, making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy in the past ten years.

  The CP composed of Jennifer Aniston and Ryan Reynolds in the film, although there is a seven-year age difference, is still loved by fans as the best screen couple of the year. It is so sweet.

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  In December, Universal Pictures launched the long-lost "Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stormy Tides", which tells the story of Captain Jack, Blackbeard, and Barbossa fighting for the Fountain of Youth.

  This film has been in preparation since 2006, and the reason why it is only released now is mainly because Johnny Depp's schedule is not easy to adjust.

  With Captain Jack, Johnny Depp has become Hollywood's chief box office superstar, but he himself does not want to be bound by this role.

Therefore, after filming the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, he once rejected and resisted acting in similar films. For this reason, he made films such as "Sweeney Todd", "Public Enemy" and "Deadly Companion". In , the characters he plays are very different from Captain Jack.

   After two or three years of precipitation, he finally agreed to take over the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 4".

   After all, he spends too much money. Hiring private bodyguards and maintaining private jets cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. It is normal to have fun with friends and give hundreds of thousands of tips a night.

  Helping a funeral for a friend, according to the will of the friend, shelling out the ashes of the friend, it cost 3 million RMB. There are also expensive sports cars, private jets, private yachts, limited-edition guitars... It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy wine every month.

   According to this profligate method, even if he can make a lot of money every day, it will be useless.

  So although he really made a lot of money with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, he spent it all in a few years.

   This is not unusual in Hollywood.

  After many celebrities become popular, they have no concept of financial management at all, and spend their money recklessly, causing their income to be squandered quickly.

  (end of this chapter)