The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 236 The Film Critic's Toxic Milk
In this era of rapid development of special effects technology, the pursuit of new technologies is endless.

Luo Jianzhou's sci-fi film released last year was once hailed as a "master of special effects and new technology", but "Jurassic Park" that Wang Wei is about to shoot will definitely challenge this status.

It is also because this is the most application of new technology since Wang Wei made a movie, so he has to be more cautious in preparation, and the progress has slowed down.

Of course, there are also a series of movies about to be released, which involves part of Wang Wei's energy.

For example, "Crazy Stone", which started in the summer file.

On Wednesday, July 7th, an unremarkable day, this black humor movie was officially released.

——"Crazy Stone" was completed earlier than "Tang Bohu", but its release date is much later than the latter, largely because of the post-production, especially the editing, which took a lot of effort from director Zhuang Geng.

From the rough cut version to the current release version, Zhuang Geng cut it again and again, and Wang Wei also watched one version after another—Zhuang Geng is the director, and he is also a director that Wang Wei values ​​​​very much, but he still No right of final cut.

How to make this movie is Zhuang Geng's business. What kind of cut will be shown to the audience. In the end, Wang Wei, the first producer, will be in charge of making decisions.

In this case, looking sick is not an exaggerated description.

Because of this, Wang Wei is very sure that this is an excellent movie, a good movie that is not inferior to the original.

——Well, to be fair, Zhuang Geng's version of "Crazy Stone" is definitely far better than the original in terms of overall texture.

After all, the "Stone" crew of that time and space was so poor that in order to make a good movie within a limited budget, the crew even had to choose a large number of "sloppy" scenes to increase the amount of information on the screen and reduce the audience's attention. feel of the play.

Dunhuang’s budget for Zhuang Geng is sufficient, but in terms of camera control and narrative ability, the fledgling Ning Hao is definitely not as good as the experienced Zhuang Geng.

Coupled with Wang Wei's strong guidance of "standing on the shoulders of predecessors", Zhuang Geng succeeded in finding the most expressive picture, the strongest sense of plot rhythm, and the most emotional to the audience through many attempts in post-editing. The impact is also the strongest combination.

Therefore, Wang Wei's original filter is really just a preconceived relationship.

For all audiences in this time and space, Zhuang Geng's version of "Stone" is their first impression of this story and this movie.

——The beginning is very unusual!
Xie Xiaomeng was trampled on for molesting a girl, Bao Shihong's car window was smashed by a coke can that fell from the sky, the gang of thieves pretended to be a moving company but were caught by the traffic police and asked to issue a fine, Siyaner wanted to buy a factory, Bao Shihong's car hit the four-eyed luxury car on the ramp without the handbrake...

In just a few minutes, several vivid characters appeared intensively. At the same time, the events related to the characters were laid out so intensively. The plot was compact and coherent, and it also had unexpected entertainment and laughter. The whole story has made a nearly perfect and clear foreshadowing.

This is power!

With the full development of the movie story, the plot seems quite complicated at first glance: a piece of jade was found in a factory facing demolition, so the jade guard team headed by Bao Shihong, the trio of Dao brothers, and the real estate boss hired An international thief, the son of the factory director who wants to pick up girls, and various forces are entangled with each other because of Jade...

There are a lot of characters, and it is a multi-line narrative. It is obviously a messy relationship. When watching it, the audience can understand it directly without using any brains;

And the whole emerald-stealing process of "taking fake jade and substituting real ones - taking real gems thought to be fake stones and substituting fake ones - finally the fake was stolen, and the real gem was taken away by the security guard as a fake" was full of embarrassment. The wonderful collisions of all kinds of mistakes can easily make the audience laugh.

Superimposed on the wonderful "catalyst" dialect in the movie-Dao Ge's Hebei dialect, Mike's Cantonese, Hei Pi's Qingdao dialect, plus the local Chongqing dialect, all kinds of dialects are stewed in one pot, greeting the audience The auditory nerves make people laugh so hard that they can't stop.

At least in the premiere, the audience burst into laughter almost every 2 minutes.

Especially in the last scene of the movie, Hei Pi, played by Zhou Qiming, crawls out of the sewer, black and smelly, tired and hungry, grabs food and runs away, and then the food stall owner chases him all the way on a small motorcycle, hammering him all the way. When he said, "Hey, you can run! I let you run!", bursts of laughter burst out in the auditorium.

Obviously, the effect of the movie is superb.

Although talking about the original works, there is always the controversy of imitation, or even "plagiarism" of "Two Smoking Barrels", but Wang Wei always believes that these two films are classic films of the same level.

In the current time and space, there is no "Two Smoking Barrels". As the first "Crazy Stone", it will only appear more classic.

This can be seen in the tangled mentality of film critics——

Before the release of "Stone", the film critics who collectively lost face on "Tang Bohu" were gearing up to give a good review of this movie.

however……

After the film was released, although many film critics firmly criticized it as "a boring popcorn movie with no intention", more film critics could not hide their appreciation for this unique film.

Of course, it is absolutely impossible to praise Wang Wei.

As a result, the film critics were extremely tangled, um, or a scene of schizophrenia appeared:

Youdang Wang Wei does not exist—"Very avant-garde editing, smooth and refined matching transitions, and a few seemingly unrelated things are pinched together in three or two lectures. Director Zhuang Geng is really a genius!"

There are overt praises and understatement-"The control of multi-clue narrative, and the perfection of rhythm...Compared with those spoof and vulgar comedies, this is the real comedy, and it is a work that the audience loves to see..."

There are even those who directly sow dissension-"The plot, casting, filming, and editing are all excellent. I think this is the pinnacle of Chinese comedy. Obviously, this has nothing to do with someone who can only be funny, but relies on Famously stealing director Zhuang Geng's limelight..."

When Wang Wei saw such film reviews the next day, his first reaction was not to be angry, but to have a bad feeling——

"Wan Duzi, these guys are poisonous, who wants their poisonous milk!??"

Soon, Wang Wei's words became a prophecy!
Although it started on a working day, the single-day box office of "Crazy Stone" exceeded 2000 million the next day. According to this momentum, it is still very hopeful to win the box office championship next week.

But on July 7th, a big production of Pearl Films was released, and they collided head-on. The midnight show and two-day weekend directly parachuted to No.7 in the box office rankings of the week!
——The thing that Dunhuang was most worried about just happened.

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(End of this chapter)