Tokyo Literature and Art Times

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"Absolutely cool! Absolutely!"

"Haha... But what you said is too absolute."

"Because it has to be so absolute!"

Good guy, this guy Franzes has now given full play to his 'Internet celebrity' qualities and started his talk show tour again.

It's just that this time he emphasized one thing, "Breaking Bad Season [-]" will surprise people.

Well, when chatting with the host, I definitely use this word too much.

However, anyway, this second generation of the mafia still thinks so.

This time "Breaking Bad" is absolutely awesome!

That's all for the big talk, and Franzes doesn't see any risk at all.

It's amazing, is this TV show really that powerful?

No matter what, Netflix members in the United States are now waiting for this TV series to come out and rent it directly.

And now, it's September.

In September, this is obviously a sign that autumn has entered, yes.

At least that's basically the case in the northern hemisphere.

In other words, the best schedule... and there is such a small tail.

Yes, strictly speaking, the summer holidays have actually passed. You know, the summer holidays in the United States start in May.

It's been 4 months, and it's almost enough.

However, there is still a little tail.

This year's summer file, the biggest winner is "Forrest Gump"!

This movie is really awesome. Basically, almost all the filmmakers in the world are talking about this movie.

"Forrest Gump" doesn't talk about the artistic aspects of this movie, it's just the box office, so it's too strong to have no friends.

The North American box office alone exceeded 3.3 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office has won a total box office of nearly 7 million U.S. dollars.

This alone has already made people sure that this movie will achieve high achievements in the future Oscars.

You know, even a phenomenon-level commercial blockbuster like "Terminator 2" is not so high.

What's more interesting is that Zemeckis, the director of this movie, is actually a technology enthusiast, and he is a person who likes to use new technologies very, very much among the directors.

Therefore, this movie looks like a feature film, but it uses a lot of computer special effects.

It's like the feather that slowly falls at the beginning, that feather, just doesn't exist.

Of course, the most important thing is that this movie is a feature film.

Such an excellent movie, is there no rival?

Yes, but that movie wasn't a live-action movie, it was Disney's true revival of The Lion King.

That's right, this film is indeed very similar to Mr. Osamu Tezuka's "Jungle King", anyway, it is almost the same.

Of course, Disney will not admit it, in short, it just doesn't admit it.

However, the box office is also a real deal.

In the North American market, "Forrest Gump" was slightly lost, but on a global scale, it has won.

At present, "The Lion King" is still in theaters around the world, and the box office has exceeded 9 million US dollars.

This number is really amazing, and even this box office has completely driven Disney crazy.

They saw the future of animated films, and they saw the future of their own entertainment company.

Originally, Disney was not that powerful, but now, they have the opportunity to grow wildly.

But no matter what, this is also an animated movie, and it won't perform too well in terms of Oscars.

After all, the Oscars still focus on live-action movies.

In this way, the 1994 North American summer film can be regarded as very successful. Two movies with more than 3 million US dollars, this scene was extremely rare before.

A few years ago, breaking [-] million was the box office champion.

All of a sudden, the North American film market is booming!

So, at the end of the summer vacation, will there be any accidents?

A very mysterious, yet seemingly star-studded movie, ready to go online.

……

"Pulp Fiction? What movie is this?"

"I haven't really heard of it before, but with Bruce Willis, it shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"I tell you, this thing is a piece of shit, it's just a bunch of boring Hollywood marketing gurus scamming money!"

"Whether it's shit or not, the cast is pretty good."

"That Takeshi Iwata, that Japanese director, unexpectedly came to play a guest role!"

In the United States in 1994, the Internet already had a certain scale.

Maybe it's not very big, maybe the number of people surfing the Internet is not that many, but there are indeed a considerable number of netizens right now.

Everyone chats on the Internet, does various things, posts Yi Meier and so on.

And now, the fat Cuban is also staring at the computer screen, looking at the various comments of these netizens.

Let's put it this way, it's quite a sand sculpture.

Of course, Cuban still can't understand the word sand sculpture, he just thinks it's fun.

It should be said that the money that Takeshi Iwata gave out before was great!

Cuban has completed the construction of the sports broadcasting network. At present, the members on the network are short.

However, he is not in a hurry, because a few buddies have already found a very, very good broadcast partner.

NBA?

Nonono! NCAA, yes!

It may be God forbid that in the past two years, a very, very attractive small group has emerged.

Where is the best basketball team right now?

Of course the Chicago Bulls.

In the NCAA, there is also a team from Michigan, and there are five people in this team, and the style of play is very attractive.

They are known as the 'Five Tigers of Michigan'.

These five tigers have been widely reported, they are really good, very popular.

Cuban, this guy intends to start with the five tigers, and his broadcast network will stare at these people.

Cuban doesn't know yet, his actions are the way to create Internet celebrities in the future.

Almost exactly the same.

But the current situation...

The basketball broadcast network is OK, where is Mr. Iwata?

The movie "Pulp Fiction" is being promoted, and so far, it has attracted a lot of attention.

However, the film is not without its antagonists.

From the current point of view, the strongest opponent is "The Departed", yes, Martin Scorsese has finished filming, and this movie is going to be released.

The time was set so late?

It's very simple, because the movies around November are actually the movies that really hit the Oscars, which is a routine.

"Pulp Fiction" has been confirmed to be released at the end of September, and "The Infernal Affairs" is in early November. It seems that there is no conflict, but this movie is adapted from Takeshi Iwata's work!

Therefore, some people soon compared the two movies.

Of course, it's blowing Martin, blowing Iwata Takeshi.

In addition, there is another movie that is very interesting.

Of course Cuban didn't see the movie, he didn't know what it was about, but the movie's schedule was interesting.

"The Shawshank Redemption".

Yes, this is the movie.

Why do you say her schedule is interesting?

Because the movie is scheduled to be released at the end of October.

What is this schedule?

Halloween schedule!

To put it simply, the investors of this film wanted to use the name of the film's novelist, Stephen King's "King of Horror", to sell tickets.

And this movie, although the feeling given in the promotion is the taste of a horror movie, but as long as you have read this novel, you will know that it is not a horror movie at all.

But what can be done?

Cuban thought it was interesting that there was going to be another competition in this movie.

At this moment, he received a call.

"Iwata-san, it's so late, what's the matter?"

"I'm not going to mince words, what's your take on movies and the Internet?"

"Ah? This..."

Cuban doesn't quite understand, what does this mean?

Could it be that the movie is going to be on the Internet...it's impossible!

Yes, at the moment Cuban still feels that this is simply impossible.

However, Takeshi Iwata said something that made Cuban want to laugh.

"Do you think, a lot of guys that are on the internet, don't they like to comment on movies?"

This……

What a coincidence!

Could it be that the boss is spying on my screen?

But Cuban immediately gave his answer.

"Yes, there are a lot of guys who like to criticize movies."

It was very straightforward over the phone.

"So, how about we make a website? Let these people rate movies."

"what?"

Cuban was dumbfounded at the time, but thought the idea was great.

So, how should it be scored?

"When you watch a movie, what do you want to do if it's bad?"

"I'll scold Falk!"

"We are civilized people, you have to be more qualified."

"Okay, then...throw rotten eggs?"

"What if the eggs don't stink?"

"Then throw rotten tomatoes!"

"Well, this is good."

And thus, Rotten Tomatoes was born...