Wolverine, Piracy and Cinema

/ bocabit / cine-y-series , internet

I suppose that many of you know, but if I don’t tell you, the last blow that the film industry has suffered in terms of piracy was approximately 15 days ago, specifically on April 1, curiously enough the day of the Anglo-Saxon Holy Innocents, when a pirated copy of one of the most anticipated film releases of the season, XMen Origins: Wolverine, mysteriously jumped onto the Internet, which is what the adventures and misadventures are. of Wolverine before his time in the XMen trilogy, telling the origins of such a famous character from the Marvel factory. twentieth_century_fox The reactions have not been long in coming, and from the production company itself, Fox, which says be using all the means at their disposal to be able to find the person who posted the film on the Internet, even Hugh Jackman himself saying that he terribly regrets the event and that his heart broke (yes, literal), much has been written about such a regrettable fact, but what would happen if this were not an act of piracy without more, but something more elaborate?

Since the end of the filming of the film, its director, Gavin Hood, came out railing against Fox, because throughout the filming the executives were meddling in his work, not allowing him to give him the dark and spooky look that he had in mind for the character (and let us remember that he had been hired for that, not for the subsequent changes), trying to soften anything that did not finally give a PG-13 rating, because a more adult rating would clearly take away from the final viewers on the weekend. of the premiere, which is where the profitability of the project is really at stake, with two parts in the air pending the performance of this film and another spinoff based on Massacre if the secondary character likes it. The fact is that they finally shot about 20 more minutes to give a little more content to the film, which in the first screenings had not been as well received as they expected and with that another attempt at bossing around by a production company was concluded, not in search of quality, but to get the Blockbuster of the year.

Everything was calm until the aforementioned date, when a working copy, without special effects, without OST and without mixed sound, apart from those 20 extra minutes shot, jumped onto P2P networks. The result? The film has more than a million downloads and a whole succession of reviews of the film have been leaking on the Internet, and it must be said, not very negative, saying that the film is entertaining and urging on many occasions to check directly in the cinema if those 20 minutes are going to raise the bar until it becomes a very good film. As for statistics, which the big studios love that, the prospect of seeing this film in its theatrical release has grown in the US between 40% and 60%, which indicates that they are attracting potential customers for the blockbuster that may be brewing. XMen Origins: Wolverine Many people, based on all this are beginning to think and say with a small mouth that this is a risky move by Fox, which prevents a failure of the movie they decided to carry out this experiment 2.0?, and put the honey in the mouths of the fans and then promise them that if they really like what they have seen, they will leave the cinema amazed with those new 20 minutes, which I suspect will be 2 more fights and four silly dialogues that will not influence the entire plot, you will tell me how 20 minutes improves an hour and a half, but once the blockbuster is achieved the apologies will come with full pockets and the promise that in the second part they will include what they lacked in the first… In sight we have the fiasco of the Dragonball movie, from the first moment the criticism was fierce and after its premiere this past weekend, the disaster has been considerable, entering directly into eighth position.

In short, a round move for Fox, which on the one hand if the film is a fiasco they will say that it was the fault of Piracy, thereby covering their backs, and if the film is a success it may be because of this ā€œdemoā€ version of the film that improved the expectations of the fans, everything will be known if more working copies mysteriously sneak onto the Internet, but, let’s not fool ourselves, the one who loses is the viewer due to this alarming lack of creative ideas in the cinema.