Reborn Japan for entertainment

Chapter 647
All the major film critics who entered the theater noticed a phenomenon.

That is: most of the people sitting in the auditorium are young people, and the ratio of men to women is about 7:3.

Throughout the theater, the voices of Yingying and Yanyan's conversation kept ringing.

It can be seen that Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN have a huge influence among young people.

However, such a scene made many film critics scoff.

Judging from the movie-watching group, we can know that the movie directed by Kiyoshi Sakamoto for the first time is mainly aimed at young people.

In their view, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is just using his popularity in the music world to attract fans to watch the movie. . .

That is to say, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is only consuming his fans, but changing the consumption of goods from music to movies.

This made film critics feel that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's purpose in making this movie was just to take the opportunity to make a fortune and empty the pockets of fans.

This kind of misunderstanding has made many film critics firmly believe in the bottom of their hearts: this movie must be very shoddy!

After all, this is a movie supervised by a 20-year-old rookie.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto knows more or less what film critics think of "Those Years".

But even if he knew, he didn't care at all.

The comments of film critics are just an accessory to the value of the film.

Whether there is or not is not much different.

Appreciative film reviews will of course increase the word-of-mouth of the film, thereby achieving the effect of attracting audiences;

However, if there are good reviews, there will naturally be bad reviews.

The power of bad reviews is a very powerful influence in this Japanese society where people follow others and the herd mentality is very serious.

Seeing the comments of film critics belittling the film as worthless, to a large extent, will affect the audience's choice.

Unless the movie really reaches a new level of badness, like the god-bad movie "Room", it may make people curious, "How bad is this movie?!"

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "Those Years" does not belong to the ranks of bad movies.

. . .

"Then, next, please enjoy the movie quietly."

Amid the high expectations, the main creative team finally ended their interaction with the host and walked off the stage.

The theater lights dimmed suddenly.

The movie has officially started!
Everyone present here, film critics, general audience, and invited artists, cheered up and prepared to welcome this movie that has attracted much attention since the filming started.

At the beginning of the movie, it was the logo of the production company.

In addition to the familiar logo of the distribution company Toho, there are also the logos of TV Asahi and SME with the name of the producer.

At the beginning of the film, what appeared in front of the audience was not the hero, but an apple.

The camera slowly began to move, graffiti notes, school uniforms with blue dots, and men tying ties in front of the mirror.

"This is?" Just as the audience was guessing whether this man was the actor played by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the man's identity was immediately revealed.

The man who is seriously polishing his shoes is none other than Kiyoshi Sakamoto!
With a mop of curly hair, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's leading man is well-groomed and appears to be going on a very important date.

At this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in the screen.

Two figures, one fat and one thin, appeared in the picture.

"Hurry up, today is a big day!"

"You want the bride to wait for you alone?!"

From the words of the two, the audience guessed a message: the male protagonist is the groom, and he is going to attend his own wedding!
Even Takeshi Kitano, who sat in the back row and watched the movie with all his attention, thought so. . .

In fact, this information is what everyone who watched "Those Years" for the first time thought of immediately when they saw this passage.

But, unfortunately, these people guessed wrong!
It wasn't until the end that the audience suddenly realized, and said "So that's how it is!"

With Kiyoshi Sakamoto's evil smile, the camera suddenly turned, and a man wearing earphones, listening to music and riding a bicycle appeared.

That was Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

On the screen, a few words appeared "2000, Yokohama."

Sakamoto Kiyoshi's magnetic voice, acting as the background narration, sounded at the right time.

"In 2000, that year, I was 16 years old. In that year, in the Japanese music scene, the confrontation between "TSUNAMI" and "Sakurazaka" made people talk about it; Became the idol of all men in Asia; Keizo Obuchi fell ill due to cerebral infarction, and the "Prime Minister of Mortals" withdrew from the stage of history; Microsoft released Windows 2000 system..."

"That year, those years..."

The story of "Those Years" is told in the words of Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

"Is it a self-reporting beginning? It's quite satisfactory." Watching the first 10 minutes of the movie, Takeshi Kitano also bowed his head in thought and made a preliminary evaluation.

"He's smart and doesn't do things beyond his ability. It's just that the movie is a little too straightforward."

That's right, the story of "Those Years" is an ordinary love story that happened on campus.

Many trivial matters are the main elements that constitute campus youth.

Among them, keywords such as exams, love, friendship, etc. are included.

In the first half of the movie, "Kosuke Mizushima" played by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, stimulated by "Mae Ai Hayase" played by Rena Nonen, turned from a bad student who didn't like studying to a good student who loved learning. process.

However, apart from the celebrities and entertainers, the reaction of the ordinary audience was not calm.

Because, all kinds of scenes in the film are very close to the actual scene.

In reality, real things happen.

Most of the young audience present are at the age of not long after leaving school, and they really miss the campus life, and they also resonate with these beautiful youths in the past.

Judging from the fact that the audience laughed out loud because of the stalks and funny clips in the film from time to time, they can know that this movie is very suitable for them.

For a good-looking movie, the audience will naturally follow the plot in the movie and express their emotions.

Sometimes the audience is not even willing to give a little reaction to a bad movie.

The audience's reaction is undoubtedly the most authentic feedback to a movie.

It can be seen that the first half of the movie "Those Years" has been recognized by the audience in this regard.

This surprised the professional Takeshi Kitano and many film critics.

In their eyes, the plain plot turned into knowing smiles of young audiences.

"Could this be the reason why he chose to make youth campus films?"

(End of this chapter)