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Chapter 18 Another Invisible Slap in the Face

"Who is the most compelling male face in Hollywood this year?

Is it Brad Pitt who cut off the head of the sun god in "Troy"?Or Ryan Gosling, who brought in a "The Notebook" that provided the must-have textbook for teens in their first love throes?And Spider-Man 2's Tobey Maguire, dubbed a community hero?Or, in The Aviator, Martin's choice as the center of Hollywood glitz?

Maybe they are all, but I believe that when you see the charm of this blond aristocrat named Kyle in "The Duchess", you will give me another answer, yes, that is Alex Poulin -"

"The Duchess", which has been praised by film critics at the preview, finally ushered in its public screening in November.It was screened in 11 theaters, with a opening score of 1800 million on the day and a box office of 580 million at the weekend. The freshness on the film review website Rotten Tomatoes reached 1500%, and the overall score of MC authoritative media was 90.Not only is the box office momentum strong, but the media evaluation can be described as quite good.

First of all, the "Chicago Sun Times" highly recommended: "The film is first-rate in terms of rhythm, music and editing. Before Natasha Normanoff won the Oscar, she proved to everyone that she is an excellent filmmaker. Ability.", and "USA Today" further praised: "The film focuses on serious drama, but it is not flashy at all. Under the superb acting skills of the actors, it deeply induces thinking."

Compared with the reservedness of the first two media, the "Wall Street Journal" no longer hides it. They praised the excellence of the whole film as usual, and then they couldn't wait to focus on a certain actor: "The famous actor The actor named Alex Pollin, his performance in the film is astonishing, this young man has a kind of breathtaking magic under the camera." At the same time, "Indiewire", which is regarded as an Oscar outpost, also spoke , but they have always been aloof, but they are not so nasty: "We can see the shadow of many talented actors from Alex Pollin. This movie is just his first, and he has already stood at a very high level."

In addition to the high evaluation of "The Duchess" by the media and film critics, after the first week, the box office trend of the movie did not fall but rose. Following this momentum, "The Duchess" will soon recover his investment amount, start to make profits, and even The box office exceeded [-] million.Yes, a literary film with a box office of more than [-] million - this is the best evaluation of it by ordinary audiences.

In Hollywood, everyone knows that it is difficult for a literary film to be well-received and popular at the same time. If you look at the movies on the current box office charts, they are usually big-budget series released by big companies, or action movies or comedies. There are thrilling scenes, tense plots, and the blessing of big-name movie stars, so that more audiences can be attracted to the cinema.

After all, to put it more simply, life has made people feel a lot. Busy work and study, difficult family and friendship, and various interpersonal relationships. Ordinary people are struggling to live every day. It is rare to have time to go to the cinema. , they'd much rather hold their popcorn and Coca-Cola and watch a movie that makes them laugh and get them excited, rather than one that's dull, deep, tells serious themes and tries to expose the world in ways you don't understand The cruelty to your literary piece.

Therefore, at the beginning, neither the main creators nor the media people paid much attention to the box office performance of "The Duchess". Desperately working on public relations for the upcoming Oscars, while they were busy, someone brought the opening results of the first week. Natasha's agent, Krum, was still on the phone, and he just responded casually. , Then when that number really formed a concrete concept in his mind, his eyes widened quickly, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart—when did literary films start to make money?

There are many people who have the same reaction as Bloom. Now, some people start to analyze that the reason for the strong box office is the appeal of Natasha, who is the "prospective actress" of the Oscars. Some people say that this is invested by Caesars. Movies, as a big Hollywood figure, Caesar has no projects that are not profitable, but some people think that "The Duchess" paid a high cost for publicity and distribution.

However, when someone took out a new questionnaire, the above questions were similar to those at the preview meeting, but the number of people surveyed this time was even larger, and the answer they counted the most was that most people wanted to come Theaters are looking at Alex Pollin, they've heard he's doing really well in the movie.

At the same time, some people took out the network data, and Alex Pollin, as a hot search word, has maintained the number one popularity in the past two weeks since the movie was released. On imdb-related movie websites and Facebook, there are endless posts discussing Alex, and people are eagerly paying attention to him, even beyond this movie.

Seeing Alex's pretentiousness, even Natasha must admit that she is really jealous, but she is still very satisfied with the result. This time her performance can be praised by the film critics, which is also a good thing. Thanks to the sparks between Alex and her in the scene, she was infected by Alex's acting skills and played extremely well. At the same time, it was she who strongly advocated keeping Alex in this role. The role, yes, Natasha has already forgotten about Steve, and Alex's excellent performance also proved her vision as a producer. Of course, in the end, Natasha couldn't help but look at the rising box office. Raised the corner of his mouth and called Alex——

And Alex on the other end has just experienced a disaster.

It's like the creators of "The Duchess" didn't expect the box office, and Irving, the agent who followed Rocky's orders and was in charge of Alex, didn't expect the former's rapid rise to popularity.When some websites discovered that posting photos of Alex could get them more traffic, a large group of paparazzi began to pay attention to Alex.

Unfortunately, Alex had a muscle strain in last week's riding class, so his teacher advised him to rest this week, so when Alex, who had been at home for a week, walked out of the house, he had been waiting for a long time. The hungry paparazzi rushed forward without hesitation.

Even though he was wearing sunglasses, Alex was still a little apprehensive about the flashing lights in front of him. These paparazzi surrounded him, and the snack shop that he usually only took 10 minutes to walk to was still stuck in the road. Of course Alex called Owen, and asked helplessly, "Can someone help me?"

It’s just that when Irving handles all of this for Alex, and after the dedicated driver is matched with bodyguards, contact those gossip websites, and reach a certain agreement with them, Alex will regularly give them some street photos, but the premise It's that they can't deliberately post some ugly pictures on the website.

However, even if Owen made the quickest reaction, a video was uploaded to the website, and it was widely disseminated. The number of viewers exceeded [-] million times in a short period of time. The main character was of course Alex.

This is the third time that Anna went to the cinema to watch "The Duchess". When she got home, she originally wanted to put on a mask and go to bed, but before that, she still had to go online to check it out. Just in time, she found After viewing this video, Anna opened the video with excitement——

The camera in the video was very blurry and was still shaking, but Anna could tell at a glance that the person in the middle wearing a black coat and sunglasses with a strong British look was Alex , at this moment, he was leaning towards the camera, and said to a paparazzi who kept approaching him in front of him: "Hey, don't lean in, you can only shoot my nose like this, and it will be very Shrek-- "

The paparazzi on the scene laughed a lot, but they still didn't stop taking pictures, but it seemed that they and Alex were quite familiar. Anna took a closer look, and it should be where Alex lived. Nearby, but there are very few pedestrians at the moment, they are waiting for a long red light.

In the video, Alex took out his mobile phone and lowered his head slightly to look at it. It was just such a simple action, but Anna felt that he was really handsome. In addition, those annoying flashes continued, but Ya Alex didn't look angry at all, and Anna felt that she seemed to like Alex even more.

Then, without any warning, there was a commotion in the video. First, Alex put his phone back in his pocket, and the paparazzi surrounded him. The nearby paparazzi pulled aside vigorously, and Anna couldn't help but clenched her hands in front of the computer and prayed: "Don't, don't let something out of control hit you—"

So, because of Alex's actions, the paparazzi also fell into panic, they stopped pressing the shutter one after another, and with Alex's anxious and forceful "run—", the paparazzi subconsciously ran away On, the camera shakes very badly, there are only footsteps and blurred ground on the screen, but, after a while, the camera slowly stops, accompanied by the photographer's violent panting, he first turned the camera to Alex The direction I saw and issued a warning just now, but there was nothing there except the inexplicably stopped colleague.

Everyone realized that they had been tricked. At this time, the camera started chasing Alex again, but it could only capture the back of Alex who had just thrown off the paparazzi. Alex can be heard jumping over a roadblock saying, "--run, a comet is going to hit the earth!"

At this time, Anna also heard the paparazzi who took the video chasing and panting viciously: "Damn it, this is the third time this week, we, we shouldn't believe him, but this kid, his acting skills It's so fucking good—”

At this point, Anna, who was still wearing a mask, laughed and burst her mask.

"ifyoucan—?" Hanks read the news title with doubts, then clicked on the video, and within a few seconds he quickly closed it again, and he couldn't help raising the volume to his agent , "Why is this all on the Internet now? What about Caesar? Caesar why didn't he see me? And about Alex Pauling, shouldn't it be time to put his scandals? He's gay, his cult parents, those websites even And charged us so much money—"

The agent sighed: "Listen, Hanks, we did do this, but have you forgotten? Alex signed with Ala, and his PR has done all of this for him, and those movie reviews were If I call back, I will not be boarded. Jill, who is good with us, resists the pressure and publishes a film review condemning Alex, but he is ridiculed by his peers. He even called me yesterday to complain - those websites are not allowed Can get the news, Alex's agent is Irving, Irving has the means to solve all this—”

Hanks froze on the spot. Of course he knew ala. In Hollywood, if you sign ala, it means that you have a lot of resources to tilt towards you. You are even one step closer to the Oscars. All the agents there have Extraordinary means, not to mention Irving whose office is only downstairs from the president's office, but Hanks still doesn't understand why—why Alex has such good luck, he refuses to accept the reality: "No, I I still have to go to Caesar, what about this afternoon, is he free this afternoon?"

"Stop! Hanks—why do you keep trying to find Caesar, you are an adult, and Caesar is not your nanny, no one—please do your own work first, can you?" Agent The tone became serious.

"Okay, I see—" After a while, Hanks calmed down, "Yes, the audition, is the audition in the afternoon right? I'll do it well, and I'll go now—"

But the manager didn't move at all. Under Hanks' uneasy and even panicked expression, the manager sighed helplessly: "No audition, listen, Hanks didn't have an audition—why? Because they saw Aya Alex is in the movie, so want him to try, they already handed the script to Owen, canceled the open audition, Hanks, you don't have a chance, Alex has left you far behind."