Since it is relatively successful as a stage play, "Hairspray" does not lack an audience base, and the Embassy Film Company has also done a lot of work in its promotion.

For example, play John Waters as well as possible.

As a recognized "trash pope" in the North American film industry, John Worst is somewhat well-known among movie fans, especially "Pink Firebird", which is a typical example of the more banned movie fans become more curious.

The song and dance film directed by "Pink Firebird"? This gimmick still attracted the attention of many passers-by.

Those who don’t understand the opera “Hairspray” will be very curious. The style of “Pink Firebird” and “Hairspray” are completely incompatible.

Ronan agreed to the project of "Hairspray" because the stage play itself has considerable influence, and the song and dance films are in a brief period of revival, and the investment of $20 million is not high.

But if you really want to say how optimistic about this film, it is not worth mentioning. Ronan doesn't remember any information related to "Hairspray".

During the internal preview of "Hairspray", it was beyond Ronan's expectations that he scored nine points directly.

Of course, these nine points are measured from the perspective of the commercial market and have nothing to do with the artistic considerations of the film itself.

The theme of the film is in line with the increasingly popular black equality movement. The beautiful and beautiful singing and dancing scenes and the singing and dancing like chicken blood will not only not make the film appear heavy, but will instead make the audience fully experience the joy.

Black people were slaves in the United States, but now the racial problem still exists, but it has long since become different from the past.

The movement against apartheid in the 1960s was vigorous, and countless movements were staged in that rebellious era, and influenced them to this day.

The setting of the heroine being a fat man is also unique. Fatness is considered ugly. Women's topics are always inseparable from losing weight, even if most women are healthy and well-proportioned.

Another thing that cannot be ignored is that the heroine Adele's acting skills may be average, but the film's singing and dancing ratio is extremely high, which is exactly conducive to Adele's professional singer performance.

The plot and other things are actually downplayed in front of singing and dancing. To be precise, "Hairspray" is a large-scale mtv connected with twenty songs, including Adele, and has performed at a very high level.

Adele's several singing performances were the best in the audience, adding a lot of color to the film.

Song and dance are a big meal, and they are also excellent as other scenes as auxiliary materials.

Floral shirt, Elvis head, evening dress with sequins, brainless princess dress, America in the 1960s, is an inexhaustible treasure for fashionists.

As a musical and dance film, the viewing must be the first priority. Therefore, "Hairspray" is extremely clever to downplay the authenticity of the plot, and the authenticity of some sensitive topics involved, such as "obesity" and "race", has been alleviated.

Originally, this kind of commercial song and dance movie is lively, and it is revealed that the audience is full of soreness, so why bother?

The final film can be said to have exceeded the expectations of many people in Relativity Entertainment, including Ronan, and it also believes that this film can achieve good results in the North American film market in March.

Although he did not participate in the premiere of "Hairspray", Ronan has been paying attention to the market trends of the film.

The story of "Hairspray" is definitely not novel. It looks at the apartheid movement through the perspective of a fat white girl who dreams of a star, and integrates it into a relaxed and pleasant environment.

Moreover, the film always explains a view on "aesthetics". Adele plays a fat girl, a character who seems to be doomed to fail, but eventually wins the TV draft, and helps black girls win a championship that only whites have always reached the top.

This ending is also very in line with the needs of the general social trend.

"Hairspray" is not a comedy film with shit, urine, and there is almost no special funny content in the film, but the film is like a machine that always creates a smile, which will make the audience's mouth crack from beginning to end.

Even if someone has no interest in the story of the film, the songs and dances of the film can be repeatedly appreciated.

Naturally, Hair Spray achieved success beyond the outside world's expectations.

On the first day of its release in North America, the film received 14.33 million US dollars in 3,780 theaters, which surprised many people.

The best thing about "Hairspray" is that while using equal rights as the theme, it uses singing and dancing to reduce the heaviness, making people feel more joy.

Movies are not good medicine and cannot help others get anything done.

However, movies can be used as a spiritual support and sometimes as a spiritual food to fill the audience's empty spiritual world.

A good movie does not necessarily make people feel comfortable, but a movie that is popular among the public can make people feel happy physically and mentally. "Hairspray" undoubtedly belongs to the latter.

In the first three days of North America's first weekend, "Hairspray" earned 34.69 million US dollars in 3,780 theaters, surpassing "Sniper Life and Death Line" which opened on the same weekend, and won the weekly championship in the North American box office list.

The latter was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Although Mark Wahlberg joined, it still reached the ending of most sniper movies in recent years. The painting weekend in North America earned only $14.25 million.

Compared to the film's production investment of up to $65 million, Paramount Pictures has a long way to go to recover the cost.

In recent years, movies like snipers and air combat have been similar to war epics. Most of them ended in failure, and few successful ones have been.

The war films that were once popular in the 1990s have an overall market response that is not even as good as the song and dance films that have been briefly revived.

On the first weekend of North America, the box office revenue of "Hairspray" has exceeded the production cost, which has also brought great surprises to Relativity Entertainment.

The film was a big box office, and in some ways it also gave John Waters confidence. He brought a friend he met in Europe with a common hobby to find Ronan's office in the Relativity Building.

In the reception room on the top floor of the building, John Waters introduced to both parties: "Tom, this is Mr. Ronan Anderson, the boss of Relativity Entertainment Group. Mr. Anderson, this is Tom Hicks, a director, screenwriter and producer from the Netherlands."

The man's name is very strange. While Ronan shook hands with him, he also looked at it.

Tom Hicks looks about thirty years old in a beige casual suit and a cowboy hat of the same color.

"Hello, Mr. Anderson." Tom Hicks was polite: "It is my honor to know you."

Ronan smiled politely, nodded, greeted the two of them to sit down, and asked, "Does director Hicks just come to North America or have been working hard in Hollywood?"

Tom Hicks quickly replied: "I just came here early this year." He glanced at John Waters and said: "I met John in Europe two years ago. The common interests and hobbies have made us good friends. John has always wanted me to come to Hollywood to develop, and I finally made up my mind to come here this year."

John Waters added: "Hollywood is highly competitive, but there are many opportunities."

Ronan doesn't know much about European directors, but he also knows that as long as he is not the paranoid art directors, many people still hope to develop in Hollywood.

Not to mention anything else, shooting a movie in Europe, just one funding may take years to raise it.

There are even examples of well-known European directors who spent twenty years raising funds from their father to their son in order to make art films.

Such a directorial spirit is worthy of respect, but the films made lack audiences.

John Waters said at this time: "Mr. Anderson, Tom came to Hollywood from the Netherlands this time and brought a script he wrote."

Tom Hicks opened the briefcase and took out the file bag: "I really hope to have the opportunity to shoot the script into a movie."

Luo Nan nodded slightly and said, "Can I read the script first?"

John Waters winked at Tom Hicks, who opened the file bag, took out the bound script copy, and handed it to Ronan with both hands.

Ronan was not polite, so he took it and took a quick look.

This stack of manuscripts is not only a copy of the script, but also a few concept drawings on the top. The drawings are simple sketches and are not particularly clear, but you can also see the outline of a person lying on the ground.

Tom Hicks said at the right time: "This is a horror type of subject."

Luo Nan frowned slightly at the drawing. The three figures on the drawing were lying on the ground, tightly connected, and the face of the person behind seemed to be on the buttocks of the person in front.

He took the drawing aside and went to read the script behind it. The plot began with a typical American brain-dead young man’s trip in the middle school. Two American girls drove through Europe on a trip, and then met a crazy surgeon.

The retired surgeon is best at performing segmentation surgery on conjunctival babies, but this time, he will try the opposite of three "patients", including two girls, that is, to "connect" them together through an unusually terrible operation.

He plans to use the circulation and digestive system inside their body cavity, and then stitch their bodies one after another, thereby realizing his crazy and morbid so-called "lifelong dream" - the human centipede!

Ronan once watched the first part of this series because the film is famous in some aspects. He also knew that he had filmed a trilogy, but he had never watched the last two parts again.

With the usual style and style of Western horror movies, the sequel is definitely more absurd and disgusting than the first one.

There are only three human centipedes in the first part, but there are still more than a dozen or twenty people in the latter two part, right?

Ronan looked up at Tom Hicks, and then at John Waters.

The latter filmed and produced "Pink Firebird". Although the latter did not recognize him, he is probably the author of "Human Centipede".

I can only say that even if they are separated by an Atlantic Ocean, these two people have many common topics.

"Human centipede?" Luo Nan said softly.
Chapter completed!