In fact, regarding the box office of "Taken" in North America and Europe, Li Yi was almost entirely Chinese in the setting of the movie!
For example, the female star, the background, the male protagonist and his daughter, etc. So at the beginning, he actually didn't have much expectations.
Although it is said that good movies do not respect national boundaries, in fact, filters are really crucial.
It can be said that if it had been starring a white man, the movie would definitely be much more favorable in Hollywood's traditional box office areas than "Taken" starring a Chinese actor.
In the beginning, it was actually what Li Yi thought. Although this movie received rave reviews in China and Southeast Asia, it was hailed by many as a benchmark for "action movies".
However, in Europe and the United States, there is a somewhat cold trend.
Compared with other domestic films, the box office is actually quite good, but compared to Li Yi's past films that focused on the global market, it is far behind.
Li Yi had expected this!
But in the third week after the movie was released, Xu Nannan from North America suddenly called Li Yi excitedly and told Li Yi: "It exploded!"
"What exploded?"
"The box office of "Hurricane Rescue" was a hit!" Xu Nannan said excitedly.
"What's going on?" Li Yi was a little confused.
"To be precise, the movie is reflected in reality, or the real-life version of "Hurricane Rescue" happened here, and it also caused huge controversy and discussion!" Xu Nannan said.
"I'll send you the news link! You can read it yourself!" Xu Nannan added.
Soon, Xu Nannan sent relevant news links.
Li Yi clicked in and took a look. Good guy, it really felt like a "realistic version" of hurricane rescue.
It's just that it's different from the movie. The final ending of the real-life version of "Taken" is completely different from the movie.
In "Taken", you can say: "I will find you and kill you." It has become a classic line of the heroic father in people's hearts.
This is true even in Hollywood and Europe and the United States.
But reality is often more magical than movies, and reality is always reality.
Just two days ago, a piece of news broke on the Internet in the beautiful country!
This news is very similar to "Taken", except that a father who rescued his daughter from the X-slave trade was charged with first-degree murder for killing the kidnapper, which set off the Internet.
The reason why this news has set off the Internet is that in the movie "Taken", the male protagonist, the father, can be said to be a murderer. He can be said to kill one person in ten steps, leaving no trace in a thousand miles, and in the end he brings his daughter back.
Home.
But the biggest problem is that when people watch movies, few people actually think about whether it is a crime or not that the father did what he did. But the reality is different.
In reality, the father who rescued his daughter was charged with first-degree murder!
The story started in October a year ago, when the father's daughter suddenly disappeared in Spokane, Washington. In November, his daughter's 19-year-old boyfriend also mysteriously disappeared. His information was listed on the missing persons website, but since then
No trace of him was found. It was not until today, a year later, that the truth about the two disappearances came to light.
At the end of October, someone discovered a new-looking car in a remote suburb north of Spokane. The car had obviously been abandoned in the countryside. The strange thing was that the car performed well and could start completely. It was abandoned in the countryside.
There seems to be no reason here.
Perhaps wanting to keep the abandoned car as his own, the man drove the car away. But on the way back to the city, he kept smelling a stench coming from the car.
The man finally parked the car at a corner of Everett Avenue. He rummaged through the car to find things he could take away, but the stench kept him from leaving in a hurry without even approaching the trunk. (Not for the time being.
know who he is)
A man named Amber is a resident near Everett Avenue. He and his friends noticed this strange car. It had been parked there for so many days without any trace of movement. When approaching the car, there was an obvious smell.
The stench is getting worse as time goes by.
Finally one day, she saw a group of police officers appearing in front of the car and looking around. The police received a report that there might be a body in the car. Following the smell, they opened the trunk.
"There is a body," Amber, who was standing among the onlookers, heard the police say.
It was a highly decomposed corpse, and it was difficult to identify his age and identity from his appearance. The police had to take him back to the forensic doctor for several days of testing. The test results were somewhat surprising - exactly one year.
The 19-year-old young man who disappeared before, the young man who kidnapped his girlfriend in this case, was confirmed to have died of homicide.
Police investigation revealed that the young man named Simon’s girlfriend’s father, Ike, had had a fierce conflict with him. Ike was arrested on October 29. The 60-year-old father had no excuse and voluntarily confessed the whole story of the murder.
It turned out that in October last year, Ike found that he could not contact his daughter. She was still in school and had no conflicts with her family, so it was impossible for her to run away from home for no reason. The father named Ike went deep into his daughter's social circle and discovered to his horror,
The person who took her daughter away was her boyfriend Simon.
Simon lured his girlfriend to visit Seattle, but actually secretly sold his girlfriend to a brothel controlled by a Seattle gang, hoping to obtain a reward of US$1,000 by selling sex slaves.
Girls who are sold in the past are usually unwilling to become sex workers. J institutions will use very extreme methods - confiscating their belongings, beating them and even injecting them with D drugs to control their behavior. Ike's daughter was trapped as a result.
There's no getting away from it in Seattle.
Isn't it very similar?
After inquiring about his daughter's whereabouts, the father rushed from his home in eastern Washington to Seattle on the West Coast overnight, and successfully rescued his daughter from the sex trafficking organization. But after he sent his daughter home safely, the father still
Unable to tolerate the bad behavior of his daughter's boyfriend, he decided to confront the culprit Simon personally.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But Simon's whereabouts are mysterious, and his father spent a lot of effort to learn from the informant that the man may appear near Airway Heights in the suburbs. Get
The father who heard the news immediately drove there and ambush Simon nearby before he arrived.
During that confrontation, the father tied up the man and stuffed him into the trunk. Some people speculated that the father might have wanted the man to admit the crime he had committed against his daughter, but the man was unwilling to admit guilt and started a fierce fight with the father.
.Finally, the father picked up a coal brick and hit the man on the head. In anger, he completely lost control and stabbed the man repeatedly with a knife.
When the father regained consciousness, the man was already dead. He put the man's body in the car in horror and abandoned the car near the crime scene. After the murder, the father suffered at home every day, waiting for the police to find the body, but he did not expect
This process took 1 year.
After being arrested, police found that he had no violent or criminal record. The father was charged with first-degree murder and was held in a local jail on a $1 million bail.
Ike's family knew that he had rescued their daughter, but they never thought that he would use such extreme means to avenge their daughter. Now, whether it is the fact that Ike was arrested, or the bail amount and legal fees, it is all about Ike.
Ke's family couldn't bear it.
Ike's family is a reorganized family. His stepdaughter also supported Ike online, confirming that he had never had a criminal record before and that he was a good, qualified and caring father. She hoped that the jury would take into account his reasons for his daughter's death during the trial.
If the person loses control due to an encounter, a lighter sentence will be given. Otherwise, first-degree murder, as the most serious form of homicide, is likely to receive a long prison term.
Many netizens said they could not accept this result. They believed that Ike only hurt the man to death out of the anger of a father, and that the charge of first-degree murder was too serious.
Some netizens complained: "He sold someone else's daughter and still wants to come back alive?"
"By killing that man, the father potentially saved many girls who might have been trafficked."
"I understand that the law is the law, but if I were a member of the jury, it would be very difficult for me to convince myself that he was guilty."
"There is judicial justice and realistic justice here. In my opinion, my father's execution of that garbage is realistic justice."
But others explained that as an angry father, the best way to solve the matter was not to fight violence with violence, but to call the police and take legitimate legal channels. Because the abuse of lynching eventually led to the change of Ike's family.
How unfortunate.
It just so happened that "Taken" was in theaters, so it naturally added an extra level of drama to the incident. Some netizens said: "He saved his daughter in the same way as the father in the movie "Taken", but it was different from the movie.
The thing is, you can't kill your daughter's boyfriend after saving her. As a father, I sympathize with him and I will even donate money to him, but his behavior is wrong."
"The underestimation of the value of human life in these comments is disturbing. What if that man wasn't really a trafficker? You can't judge everything based on one person's word. That's why we need a justice system with due process. And
Even if what he said is true, the punishment for sex trafficking is not even death."
"The tragedy of Ike's family is worthy of sympathy but not worthy of imitation. He is reminding us that reality is not a movie, not filming "Taken". When anger exceeds the bottom line of the law, everything will get out of control. It will create a hateful population
The trafficker became the victim, escaped punishment, and turned the victim's father into a criminal and was imprisoned.
If he had chosen to call the police instead of being impulsive, he might have had a different ending. But no matter what, Ike was able to do his best to save his daughter, and he is still a father worthy of respect..."
Li Yi didn't need to think about it to know that the uproar over this incident must have a lot to do with Dean Pictures.
He made a phone call, and sure enough, James Dean smiled and said: "This is a very rare opportunity, Lee, don't tell me, do you think I shouldn't do this?"
"Of course not, I just want to know, what else do you think?" Li Yi does not have a holy mother's heart, nor does he have any moral obsession, not to mention that this is something that happened in the beautiful country.
And to be honest, he also sympathized with the father.
But if it doesn't involve the movie, he won't care too much, but since it helps the movie, he doesn't mind what James Dean did.
"This case won't end so soon! We have found the best lawyer for Super Daddy. It may be difficult to succeed in the innocence defense, but the time will at least be extended until the movie is released!" James Dean
Said with a smile.
This is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for "Hurricane Rescue".
In fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon in Hollywood, and this kind of publicity is also a good thing for the father named Ike. The money from the lawsuit, millions of dollars, is a good thing for Ike and his family.
, is of course an astronomical sum, but for Dean Pictures and the movie "Taken", it is really not much when converted into publicity expenses.
"I've already had people contact Ike, and he agreed to cooperate in promoting our movie! I believe this will be a very good stunt!" James Dean said extremely happily.
Soon, the news spread to the country.
It caused a lot of discussion.
In fact, some things are actually common.
In fact, are the people in this beautiful country really interested in the story of the Chinese father and his daughter in "The Rescue"?
It’s not necessarily true. Similarly, Chinese people tend to pay more attention to news about Chinese people studying abroad. As for what foreigners do, do they really care that much?
For example, this time around the real-life "Hurricane Rescue" that took place in the beautiful country, people actually didn't care that much about it, and more of it led to a discussion of an issue related to the movie.
That is: Is the father in "Taken" legally responsible?
Some netizens said: "His opponent is the underground order outside the law. What a coincidence, my father is a former agent and he is also outside the law!
Tell me, what legal liability do you have to bear?"
"First of all, what I want to say is that it is not illegal to kill bad people, but it is illegal to destroy innocent people. But Dad can't care about it.
Before watching the movie, my father was polite to his colleagues, his ex-wife, and his daughter's stepfather.
Although he has a good kung fu, he is definitely a tolerant and gentle person.
But this gentle man completely changed his face the moment his daughter was kidnapped.
The ex-wife accused the father of not being able to sacrifice for his daughter, and he replied, "I can sacrifice everything for her."
It can be said that he tried every means to save his daughter by hook or by crook, and killed numerous people during this adventure. He was so ruthless and vicious that not only did he not make people think he was cold-blooded, but I could see his love for his daughter more deeply.
This is the truth. He knows that if he kills one less person, it may hinder his action to save his daughter.
Every time he attacked anyone who hindered him from saving his daughter, he would be cruel, twisting the neck, hitting the throat, and causing fatal attacks. Even old friends from the past didn't even bat an eye after his father found out that he had collected illegal money from human traffickers.
He shot the man's innocent and kind-hearted wife in the blink of an eye. This kind of pleasure of punishing evil people can be seen in movies. But, on the other hand, I think this is the so-called "sacrifice". It is not just about risking your life for your daughter.
He made a sacrifice, but to save his daughter, he, who was originally gentle, was able to break free from the shackles of his values and use evil to fight evil."
