Several days ago, overseas, in Massachusetts.
Alfred Reek was one of the senior department heads responsible for importing movies at AMC.
He was the supervisor of Thomas Lee.
"The Christmas slot? What on earth is Lee thinking?"
Reek looked at the report on his desk and felt that his subordinate was becoming more and more troublesome.
Here, the Christmas season was akin to the combined holidays of Chinese New Year, Christmas, and New Year's Day, when major shopping malls launch promotional activities. The streets bustled with people, malls were packed, and film revenues soared. It was the season second only to the summer and the golden week of May.
Typically, just as most films shown during the Chinese New Year cater to family-friendly, festive themes, movies around Christmas are also dominated by light comedies, romances, and animated films.
Yet Thomas Lee had submitted a war movie for consideration.
And it was a foreign language film.
