Chapter 512 Nolan’s Another Road
On the eve of the Super Bowl, the latest video sharing website developed by Watermelon Company controlled by Gilbert Jr. was launched.
This video sharing website is similar to YouTube and Bilibili in the previous life, but now the functional interface is still very simple, and the highest video playback resolution is only 720P.
Even so, after the launch of this video sharing website, it has become the largest video sharing website in the United States through watermelon and banana search engines, as well as portal websites.
According to the plan discussed by watermelon CEO Mark Ruhl and Gilbert Jr., the video sharing website named Grape will also add many features in the future.
For example, purchase copyrights online and screen movies. There are also functions such as live streaming and gift giving.
However, these are all plans for the future. Currently, due to hardware equipment and network speed limitations, it is still not possible to achieve such stable real-time transmission of images and stable high-quality performance.
But this does not prevent little Gilbert from posting the movie trailer on Grape. While promoting the movie, it can also attract traffic to Grape.
Dante Cortez is a huge fan of Batman and has read almost all of them, from comics to anime to movies.
But the version of Batman starring George Clooney in 1997 broke his heart, and he never read any comics or animated movies about Batman again.
But there was news before that the famous director Gilbert Jr. took over the "Batman" movie series, which gave Dante Cortez a glimmer of hope again.
If it were little Gilbert, he might be able to save Batman.
Hearing that the latest trailer for Batman could be seen on a video website called Grape, Dante Cortez immediately turned on his computer, found the website from Banana's link and clicked on it.
Sure enough, among the recommended videos on the homepage of the website, there is a picture of Batman with his back turned and his head turned, and there is a play button in the lower left corner.
Dante Cortez was looking forward to it, clicked in immediately, and then got stuck in a long loading process.
Dante Cortez was helpless. Every time he watched a video on the website, it always looked like this. There was a long waiting and loading process at the beginning, so he was a little impatient.
But this time, Dante Cortez endured it for Batman.
After a long wait, probably more than five minutes, the two-minute trailer finally loaded. Dante Cortez couldn't wait to click play, rubbing his hands together with great anticipation.
The trailer begins with a group of bats flashing past, vaguely forming a giant bat, with a somewhat dark tone, which seems to represent the heavy theme of the film.
"Why do we fall, Bruce? To get back up."
In conjunction with the music and lines, the screen began to flash, followed by a series of mixed cuts. Learning martial arts on the ice field, Batman stood on a tall building overlooking the city in the dark.
The Batmobile, which has been unveiled a long time ago, is rampaging like a beast. Its dark body and domineering lines make people shout how cool it is.
Finally, with the voice of Henry Ducard in the film, the title of the film appears, as well as the release date.
Dante Cortez was dumbfounded when he saw it. Although the picture quality was not as clear as in the cinema, the grand sense of epicness and fate immediately hit Dante Cortez's heart.
"It seems...it seems pretty good!"
Dante Cortez has seen both of Joe Schumacher's Batman films, and in his opinion, those two films are the best. "Batman & Robin," in particular, is like a child's play.
But little Gilbert's version of Batman, although he only saw a short two-minute trailer, seems to be of pretty good quality.
Thinking of this, Dante Cortez heard from several friends that Warner Pictures would hold several preview screenings, and he quickly called his friends.
"Hey, Matt, didn't you say you have tickets for the preview? Are there any more? What? No more? Forget it."
Dante Cortez put down the phone. He was not a fan of Little Gilbert. Although he had seen a few of his movies in the cinema, he was a passer-by audience.
Unexpectedly, the preview screening of Little Gilbert's movie would be so popular, and the tickets were quickly sold out.
However, this also gave Dante Cortez a little more confidence in the movie. He wrote down the release date of the movie on his calendar and prepared to watch it then. In addition to the trailer released on the video website, Gilbert Jr. also specially prepared a thirty-second trailer for the Super Bowl.
This year's Super Bowl was not as exciting as last year's. Maybe something happened and it seemed a bit satisfactory.
However, the commercials that Gilbert Jr. shot for Lamborghini and the trailer for the Batman movie were all featured in the Super Bowl advertising show, which really showed off.
After the Super Bowl, these two advertisements and trailers were successively placed in commercial plazas, TV program advertisements, and video websites in various places.
A week after the Super Bowl, Gilbert Jr. also completed the post-production of "Batman Begins" and the film officially entered the promotion stage.
But before that, another movie starring Christian Bale is released.
This film is the suspense film "The Prestige" directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman.
Little Gilbert specially attended the film's premiere to support the review.
It can be seen that director Nolan has mastered the use of time and cross-flashbacks. Watching this movie has a puzzle-like pleasure, and it is absolutely wonderful to be immersed in it.
Little Gilbert also spoke highly of it: "When we were filming, I thought this film was extraordinary. Now that I have seen the finished film, my thoughts have been confirmed.
Director Nolan's grasp of suspense and plot setting are quite excellent.
The performances of the two actors are also great and add a lot to the film. "
After the premiere, Scarlett, who participated in the filming, pestered little Gilbert and said, "Why don't you praise me?"
"Are you there?"
"Of course there is me. I am the most beautiful and beautiful person in the film."
"I see, why did I see you in the cast list..."
Before she finished speaking, Scarlett turned her hand 180 degrees around little Gilbert's waist: "I'll twist you to death..."
"Ouch, it hurts so much." Little Gilbert shouted: "Okay, okay, I saw it, you performed very well, better than Bell and the others."
"That's pretty much it." Sijia stopped.
Little Gilbert rubbed his waist and asked Scarlett: "Did that David Ellison bother you again?"
"Hmph," Sijia said arrogantly, "Does he dare? Next time it won't be just a few big spiders, but dozens of big spiders."
Little Gilbert shuddered when he imagined that scene. He couldn't stand scenes with too many spiders and had a bit of trypophobia.
Although the film "The Prestige" is very good, it is the kind of film that only niche film lovers will appreciate.
Coupled with the fact that it was released in the unpopular spring season, the film only took in a box office of 32.35 million US dollars in its first week, and it still easily won the North American weekly box office championship.
Nolan's initial achievements were not as extraordinary as those of Gilbert Jr. He started with "Memento" and "Insomnia" and worked his way up step by step.
As a B-level film director, Nolan's quality is already quite good.
But little Gilbert knows that Nolan's potential is more than that, he has greater potential to tap. After the success of this film, Nolan will be able to get more opportunities.
(End of chapter)