Chapter 945

The summer of 1994 was always shrouded in a dry heat. From the summer season of the film market, to the four-yearly World Cup, to the endless classic masterpieces, there will be exciting news almost every week. The third week of August is no exception.

After its release, "Forrest Gump" returned to the top of the North American weekend box office chart for the second time, and the cumulative box office has exceeded 200 million US dollars, making it one of the most king-like masterpieces this year. Different from "Pulp Fiction", "Speed ​​of Life and Death", and "Monster in Disguise", "Forrest Gump" and "The Lion King" are both absolutely orthodox kings, so these two works It also undoubtedly triggered a frenzy in the entire North American film market, and its influence even surpassed the "Schindler's List" at the end of last year, and achieved the glory of 1994.

However, the biggest news this week is not "Forrest Gump", but the best news of MGM's restart of the "007" series. Unsurprisingly, the dinner party at George Lucas' Malibu home was exposed by the paparazzi.

Looking at the guest list of this dinner, you can see that the news cannot be hidden. Unless the paparazzi and media reporters in Los Angeles are in a collective shock, the exposure of the news is a certainty. But the problem is that the paparazzi sneaked into the mansion without inquiring about any news. Almost all the waiters and all the service staff firmly believed that this was just a private dinner for George.

But if the paparazzi give up on this, it would be too "journalistic ethics". So, after digging deeper, they came to this surprising conclusion.

George was with Barbara and Michael the whole night, and they talked to countless people, but there were a few male actors who had significantly longer conversations, including Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Hugh Grant, Rain The four male actors, Guo Lancaster, stand out the most because they are all recent talking points—Pearce because the conversation was the longest, lasting nearly twenty minutes.

After that, the paparazzi found Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, and several other third-rate actors who were not at this level but were able to attend the dinner - including Pierce, so the answer is Stand out, even if they don't know what other actors on the scene are participating in the audition, but obviously this is the selection meeting of the new "007".

The news was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, confirmed by The New York Times, and spread across the country in an instant.

Almost everyone locked the news with the sentence, "Hugo becomes the new James Bond candidate". There is no doubt that there is no actor who can compete with Hugo in terms of momentum in the near future. The big media have also adopted such eye-catching headlines. When Hugo and James Bond met, there was a strong chemical effect that brought countless people into the discussion.

I have to say, MGM made a good move.

Regardless of whether Hugo eventually becomes James Bond, or whether people agree that Hugo, a young man under 30, will play James Bond, at least the topicality has occupied the commanding heights. It is conceivable that the new An episode of James Bond is bound to attract countless eyeballs.

The third week of August was buzzing with "Forrest Gump" and "007," but just as the week was drawing to a close, on Sunday, August 21, EMI announced that the 2nd The album will be released on August 25th. This news completely ignites the tail of summer, making people clearly feel the extremely hot and dry summer.

Now, when people talk about glory to death, the first thing that comes to mind is the splendor and splendor of the "Road to Glory" tour, and the second thing that comes to mind is "Don't feel sorry for the past (Don't. Look. Back)" .In.Anger)", and the third person to emerge is Hugo.

It can be seen that Glory to Death has gradually got rid of Hugo's personal influence, relying on a tour and a single to establish its own image, which also means that Glory to Death really has a place in the rock circle.

So, when EMI announced that the second album of Glory to the Dead was about to be released, the entire music market was on fire.

At this time, less than ten months have passed since the release of "Almost Famous", and the second album will be released until Glory dies. Although the interval is relatively short in terms of time, it is normal. The most important thing is actually Or the quality of the second album, which is what everyone is most looking forward to: Can Glory to Death continue the outstanding performance of "Almost Famous"?

The pair of "rotation" David Marches and "alternative" Vincent Brook apparently collided again.

Although "Alternative Choice" has also said good things about Glory to Death before this, in fact, Vincent still does not think that the music of Glory to Death should be regarded as rock and roll.

In Vincent's view, the music style of Glory to Death actually only has rock elements, and in order to win the favor of the market, he shamelessly mixes different musical elements, which is an absolute insult to rock. And in this case, the second album of Glory to Death is bound to decline in quality, become more and more cliché, and become more and more mediocre, "They will immerse themselves in the 'new metal rock' music they do, and then Drunk and dreaming, but they don't know, they're like those drug addicts who sleep in the rubbish on the poor street thinking they're billionaires."

Vincent firmly believes that with the development of the music style of glory to death, the quality of music will get worse and worse, and the technology that rock bands are proud of will gradually become mediocre, and eventually become drool music and be submerged in the music market. . Glory to Death's second album will prove his point.

If Hugo had read Vincent's comments, he would have applauded. Although Vincent's words were very ugly, he accurately predicted the future of new metal rock. In fact, this is also the biggest difference between Glory to the Dead and new metal rock in the later period: the members of the Glory to the Dead band have never given up on their skills, and their pursuit of music quality has not been relaxed with a little achievement. alert.

But objectively speaking, Vincent is indeed powerful. There are reasons why "alternative options" can win the support of rock fans and endure for a long time. It's admirable simply from Vincent's horribly accurate predictions.

Relatively speaking, David Marches is a staunch supporter of Glory to Death. He believes that judging from the five tracks Hugo has released during the "Road to Glory" tour, the album is not only lacking in quality. The decline, on the contrary, is a comprehensive upgrade, and you can clearly feel the rise in the strength of the members of the Glory to the Dead band—including Hugo himself.

In David's view, Hugo, as a lead singer, is also growing. From the initial greenness to the now full control, Hugo's growth is not only rapid but also amazing; and as a creator, he It's even more amazing to keep staying alive, as long as Hugo can keep a clear head - Glory has not burst to the death so far. poison. Scandal, even in rock circles, and Glory to Death can perpetuate this strength.

David and Vincent have their own opinions. In fact, this is also the state of rock fans. The debate that continued from the end of last year has not reached a conclusion. In fact, this will never come to an end, even if Twenty years later, there are still rock diehards who refuse to admit that new metal rock is a part of them. And this time, there's one more item in the debate: what will be the quality of the second album of Glory to the Dead? Can they continue the "almost famous" strength?

Especially now there is one most important thing: a generation of genius Kurt Cobain has disappeared, Nirvana Band has been like a mess of sand in the past few months, Nirvana, which has lost its soul, can no longer glow with vitality, although Pearl Jam, Ellie The trash band headed by the Silk Prisoner is still strong, but now the entire rock market is constantly innovating - the new generation of bands headed by Smashed Pumpkin and Glory to the Dead are constantly attacking, so the next rock market trend is also confusing.

In fact, the release of Glory to Death's second album was nearly two months later than expected. When the "Road to Glory" tour entered the second half of early July, the media actually began to report that the band was about to release a second album. The news was out, and there was a lively discussion at the time.

People thought that EMI would strike while the iron was hot, but they didn't expect that the news had been hyped for more than a month, and the summer was coming to an end, and the news of the second album was "long overdue". But it still caused a huge storm. "Life and Death" passed the threshold of $200 million, and Hugo recently made a date with Cameron, and what he and James Bond had to say The story, so, took the North American continent by storm as soon as the news came out.

There are people watching the excitement, people watching good shows, people looking forward to the album, people who are crazy about the band... With the approaching of August 25th, the entire North American market is warming up. In order to welcome the arrival of the second album of Glory to the Dead.

On August 22, there were two groups of fans on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles and Times Square in New York, probably less than 200 people, all of them wearing black plastic raincoats, with a bulldog printed on the back, and the bulldog was holding a dick in his mouth. Wearing a Bauhinia crown with the words "D.O.G coming back soon" below, these people did nothing but just stood there, so many pedestrians stopped to watch, they stood there for nearly an hour, and even caused It caused quite a stir, and many people thought it was performance art, which ushered in heated discussions among tourists and pedestrians.

It quickly became known that this was not just a performance art, because on August 23, two more groups of fans showed up at the same time in Seattle, Chicago, Houston and Miami, this time around three hundred people, also wearing black plastic Raincoat, the pattern on the back is exactly the same!