Laila chuckled, "Of course, I feel so honored to be invited by Roy, who is ranked first in the world for being the sexiest and most hug-worthy man."
"Oh, so you saw that magazine too." This surprised Roy a bit. "I thought you never read those kinds of magazines."
Laila smiled without saying a word. What she didn't say was that she not only read them but also bought several to collect. He looked so sexy on the cover that even she felt her heart racing, let alone others.
In the days that followed, Laila continued to work hard on the post-production of the next two films in "The Lord of the Rings."
After the first film brought in nearly $1.4 billion in global box office revenue for her, it finally finished its run in theaters around the world.
The final box office of $1.389 billion surprised countless people. Even those who were already optimistic about the movie's box office potential from the beginning were amazed when the "good" turned into nearly $1.4 billion. It felt like the world had gone crazy.
During an interview, Laila candidly admitted that she was pleasantly surprised by this box office result, but she didn't think that all of this success was solely her doing.
"If it weren't for Tolkien's classic masterpiece, I wouldn't have been able to capture such a grand and charming world on camera."
Her words received agreement from many fans of the original books, as well as their respect. Many of the fans who had vowed to boycott her specially went to her Facebook account to apologize. They felt very ashamed for saying irresponsible things without watching the movie.
Some people believed that they had been misled by some bad media. If they hadn't constantly said that Laila had made many mistakes, they wouldn't have done such irrational things.
To those apologies, Laila didn't say anything harsh and accepted them, promising not to disappoint their expectations and to make the next two films even better.
After all, she was also a public figure. Even if she was really angry about the boycott, she couldn't argue with those people. In the first place, she didn't care about the boycott and even thought it was a good opportunity to create publicity for her movie. How could she make things difficult for those fans?
As for the boycotters...
In fact, the boycott ended halfway through the movie's run.
Unable to continue, one batch after another left. When there were still more than two hundred people left, some were pulled away by their families or friends, feeling very embarrassed. Some people who came to boycott for money couldn't stand the ridicule around them and would rather not earn that money than stay any longer.
When there were only a few dozen people left, they were all bought off for a large sum of money.
Someone paid, so naturally, they continued to boycott as before. Even a few dozen people were people and would attract attention, right? With attention, it would affect the movie and cause trouble for Laila, which was what the employer specifically requested at the beginning.
However, they didn't expect that what they thought would be an easy job would become increasingly difficult.
When they took on this job, they thought the biggest difficulty would come from Laila. After all, they were boycotting her movie, so it wouldn't be strange if she retaliated a bit. But they soon discovered that things were completely different from what they had imagined. Laila had never had any contact with them, neither openly nor in secret. There was no indication that she had specifically targeted them as if this boycott didn't exist at all.
The biggest difficulty they speculated about never happened, which made those involved in the boycott quite happy, thinking that they were earning the money too comfortably. However, as the movie became more and more popular, they realized what kind of hell was waiting for them.
With fewer and fewer people, not only that but every time they gathered in the square for activities, the eyes of the people around them looked at them as if they were looking at something filthy. In the end, many people even stopped and pointed at them, taking pictures and videos.
If they were photographed because of boycotting the movie, it wouldn't be a big deal, and it would even increase their influence. But those looks were obviously mocking, and the comments posted online were mostly "Look at these idiots acting stupid again."
Being treated like this day after day, even the most determined hearts would be shattered.
So, before the movie finished its run, the so-called boycott activities announced bankruptcy due to the lack of participants. This matter ultimately appeared in the news in a corner, not wasting their months of hard work in boycotting.
During this time, Nolan was also not idle, occasionally showing up in front of Laila to show his presence. I don't know if he already considers himself one of her people, but he's becoming more and more rude when asking questions.
Before, he mostly asked questions about movies, but later he started asking about other things. For example, what books she liked to read and what she usually did, as if he wanted to understand what kind of person she was and how she could make so many popular movies at such a young age.
Laila couldn't answer such questions. Could she say that she was reincarnated and had thoroughly studied all the money-making and award-winning movies from her past life? If only asked about movie-related matters, she would also share some of her experiences from her two lifetimes with him. Although she achieved such success because she knew the future trends and knew which movies would be popular, without her solid foundation from her previous life and without a certain stable foundation, she would not have been able to make movies better than the original versions in her past life.
Nolan asked the most about "The Prestige," sometimes puzzled by a certain scene or dialogue, and would come to Laila's company to discuss it with her. He didn't directly incorporate her opinions into the script but digested her ideas, understood them, dissolved them, and then integrated them with his thoughts.
What is genius? Laila felt that whenever someone used this word on her in the future, she would push Nolan out for them to see. She had studied for so many years in her past life and combined it with her understanding of this life, but he had digested most of it in just a few months.
Sometimes she felt that she had created a great enemy for herself, but when faced with the questions he handed over, she really couldn't refuse. After all, who asked her to take away the second part of Batman, which should have been his breakthrough film? Although he forcibly handed it to her, it still ended up in her hands, didn't it?
She didn't like owing anything to others, so since someone had sent such a good opportunity to her, she could only compensate him in other ways.