The Best Director

Chapter 224 Losers only play slot machines

Not two days after the crew of "The Girl Wears Prada" returned to Los Angeles and disbanded, the World Health Organization announced the lifting of the travel ban in Beijing. So far, all Chinese cities that have been advised to travel due to the r epidemic have lifted the ban, and China's inbound tourism has resumed. open. This is good news for the implementation of the "-21-em" overseas promotion plan in China.

On the entertainment section of many Chinese-language portals such as .com and Sohu, there have been more and more news reports about "Wang Yang coming to China in August". Itinerary, I hope that Chinese movie fans can get to know him well", and wish the patients suffering from r a speedy recovery.

If there is no audit accident, "-21-em" will be released in mainland China on August 16th, Beijing time. There will be no violence, sex, politics and other issues in the audit, but the theme of gambling is considered a taboo in radio and television. The popular "God of Gamblers" and "The Gambler" have never entered the mainland market.

In the beginning, China Film was not sure about the introduction of cooperation. Under the policy market, even if the film and television companies across the country clamored to watch the movie, the radio and television would not be moved, and on the contrary might. However, with the birth of the first Chinese Oscar-winning director, and with the change of the positioning and promotion of "-21-em" in mainland China by the flame movie, this card-counting movie is finally expected to be on the big screen in China.

It didn't use the word "gambling film", but a plot biopic, MIT geniuses and female detectives... Even the advertising slogan of the poker posters just said "Adapted from real people, A hearty duel of geniuses!", "The latest work directed by Oscar-winning director Wang Yang!" and so on, all of which do not involve gambling at all.

In North America, Europe, Hong Kong and Taiwan, several posters of "-21-em" have the main slogan "If you have to gamble, how can you win?" This is the recruiting slogan of the blackjack group in reality , and "Las Vegas is losing a lot of money!", "Losers play slot machines, big winners play blackjack.", "The Genius Corps will take you to Las Vegas!" and other slogans in different regions ...

As for whether the radio and television will use the scissors when it comes to review, it is still unknown, although Huomo Films expressed a strong willingness to "not cut with a single knife". But in the United States, the film still has not been sent to m for rating.

"If you have to gamble, how can you win?", "There is no winning in gambling."... "Why do you do that?" In the dimly lit projection room, the film is playing on the screen on the wall, Wang Yang, Margaret - Goodspeed, Christopher Baker, Walley Pfister and other main creators sat in chairs, quietly watching the final film, the soundtrack played from time to time, or the cheerful country atmosphere of the university campus, or full of vitality and explosive force Wild rock and roll.

Under Wang Yang's suggestion, Christopher Baker,

Flame Movie and Columbia Records also reached a cooperation agreement, and finally selected some songs of /d band for the soundtrack, such as ". n ..", "--11" and so on.

"dn, dn, dn——" With the sound of explosive music, there is a fast-moving scene on the screen that advances the story time. Wu Yanzu is sitting at the gambling table and looking in one direction with a smile. The card counter over there is Alek Sith got up, Natalie sat down, she smiled and looked aside again; the next scene, the layout of the casino is different, Wu Yanzu has also changed his costume, and the chips on the gambling table are constantly increasing in the changing scene Then, they became mountains...

"-yu! -yu! -yu-dn!——" Hearing the hoarse shout of /d, watching the people in the 21 o'clock group on the screen get up and leave with a smile, Wang Yang couldn't help but let out a satisfied laugh. Nodding in praise: "Wow! Really exciting! Awesome...you know frb1e, nderfu1!"

Brilliant is a common Chinese slang term in Joss Whedon's "Firefly" script. I have seen it a lot during this time, so he sometimes speaks it naturally now.

Wang Yang turned his head and looked around the crowd, and said with a confident smile: "Unless my aesthetics become non-human, otherwise, everyone, why is it not good-looking?" Marigot groaned, nodded slightly and said: " It’s indeed more exciting now... this music is crazy.” Christopher Baker, who composed the soundtrack, is also full of confidence and appreciation: “But nderfu1!”

"The editing of this scene is wonderful." Ware Slant also praised it. There was no such feeling of sweeping Las Vegas during the filming on the set, but after the series of editing, coupled with this noisy scene The soundtrack, however, works very well, and has the emotion of "full of excitement and sense of accomplishment" that the director said on the set.

"I still think it's too fast, in many places..." Marigot adjusted her glasses thoughtfully. Looking at the drag racing scene on the screen, Wang Yang suddenly smiled and said, "It's out of the program, right?"

That "Decisive Blackjack" is a very Hollywood stylized movie. It seems that the producer just wanted to make a well-behaved commercial film from the beginning, with love, betrayal, friendship, dreams and confusion, and family affection... I moved all the official "Hollywood Commercial Film Element Table" into it, and wanted to get a touch of everything, but in the end it crappily disintegrated into a pile of ruins, losing the original charm of the story.

Only if the original charm and temperament of this story are filmed, and if it is filmed well, will this movie have the potential to become a classic. What is the initial charismatic temperament? Mathematics theory, card counting skills and teamwork, technology; stories of rebellious geniuses, a group of characters with a strong school spirit. Popular fist action movies can be seen on the big screen of theaters almost every day, but "intelligent action movies" are not.

This theme provided such an opportunity, "Decisive Blackjack" completely missed it, Wang Yang did not allow himself to miss it, and did not allow any of the same mistakes to be made.

Those boring and wordy "love, betrayal" and other elements are all unnecessary, and "friendship and team loyalty" do not need to be hypocritically expressed, sometimes only an intimate shoulder; Operation is exactly where he spends his time, trying his best to show these original charms. Of course, Wang Yang also understands why "Decisive Blackjack" is so obsessed with those offshoots.

Because this legendary story needs to be animated, they feel that card counting cannot support a movie, and it is impossible to repeatedly film the protagonists winning money at the gambling table, so their method is to increase clue details. But his method is to fight wits with the detectives. The first half of the story focuses on Jeff Ma joining the team to bring about qualitative changes and make money; the second half focuses on how the female detectives catch them. There is nothing wordy except for the two lines.

And in order to be more dynamic, the scenes were quickly edited, sharp and fast lines, hot soundtrack, and some garish scenes such as "driving fast" such as unrivaled action scenes...to capture those rebellious, those young and frivolous.

"That's it!" Hearing Wang Yang said that he was out of the program, Marigette nodded quickly: "Yes, that's it! It's not programmed, which should be good, but is it too thorough?" In the u1 film, one camera switch is crazy fast, but there are many long shots and slow motion, and there is also a u1 film in which the two-line structure is reversed by using flashback montage, parallel montage and other techniques.

Now with the music, she also understood what he meant when he said, "This movie is rebellious!"

Christopher Baker next to him also thought about it and said: "It's really special! There are no action scenes, but when the music is played, I always have a hot feeling." He thought of those beautiful and delicate pictures again, and couldn't help laughing. : "Sometimes it's very peaceful and comfortable."

"Thank you! That's the lens, the psychological atmosphere created by the lines... This is it." Wang Yang smiled, leaning on the back of the chair with his hands folded; everyone continued to watch the film quietly, after all, no matter what, here One-step "acceptance" will basically not change anything.

The pictures on the screen on the wall are still fast, and the voice continues to come out from the speaker: "Ms. Ms. Ms.! Please stop...I already know, it's you!", "nn-i-que11-e- "..."The game is over!"..."That's all! Therefore, the losers will play the slot machine." Natalie on the screen smiled and pulled down the joystick: "Then try gambling!"

The sound of ding ding ding has not stopped yet, Qingnet's passionate song and music have already started, and the credits are displayed on the projection screen: "Director: yung-ng; Screenwriter: yung-ng, Ben Mozrich ; Producer: yung-ng... Starring: Daniel Wu - Jeff Ma, Natalie Portman - Amanda Cardeny, Rachel McAdams - Beverly Kay you……"

"Who knows if there are any swear words in the last lines?" In the projection room of the m headquarters, the ten rating members who participated in the review looked at each other, some shrugged and shook their heads, as if to say "no" or "I didn't hear clearly"; With a bang, he said, "I need to take a break." Todd Morris picked up the remote control and turned it back, and said, "Look at it again, I don't remember it."

Immediately, a quick and clear male voice sounded again in the screening room, and everyone was sure after watching it, no.

"Oh!" Karin Wald, who was tidying up her notebook, laughed emotionally. She seemed to have a lot of knowledge in her heart that was still excited, and she couldn't recollect it quietly for a while. She smiled and said, "That guy Miracle Yang Always amazing! It's all Las Vegas, but there's such a cheesy and funny The Hangover, and this...smart and funny movie, I just love him so much!"

"You're a fan." Brett Carlyle, another rating member, tapped his pen on the book and commented with a shrug: "I don't think so, it gives me a feeling of arrogance, both the director and the characters, as if Said 'You are all stupid!'" Karin Wald said nnn in disapproval, and Matt Stark also participated in the discussion: "This movie, how should I put it... I am very satisfied after watching it."

He saw everything he expected, and he didn't expect to feel so good, as if everything was just right, and he was now filled with a sense of relief that he wanted to drink to his heart's content. Thinking of this, Matt Stark smiled and said: "That line is still entangled in my mind, inner-inner, ien-nner."

"I always think of that sentence." Karin Wald said with a smile: "beue-e-n. Haha! I think young people will like it, very cool..." Brett Carlyle said immediately: "That's me Say it yourself!"

"The loser only plays the slot machine." Todd Morris said softly, looking at the review records in the notebook in his hand, and said after a while: "G-13!"

"-21-em", which cost 10,000 yuan in production and lasted 125 minutes, passed the M review with a g-13 rating in North America. Children under the age of 13 especially need to be accompanied by their parents to watch. At the same time, countries around the world, which will be released in August, have also successively passed the review of this film, and Flame Films has already started copying work with the copy company, preparing to send the reels of film to many theater companies.

In addition to weekends during the summer vacation, there are also a lot of people who go to the cinema to watch movies every night. There are new battles every day during the intense summer vacation.

The perfect "Finding Nemo" has received close to 300 million in the North American box office, and the fast-paced "Speed ​​and Passion 2" has received a lot of criticism from film critics and audiences. Rotten Tomatoes has a 36% public freshness rating and 59% audience favorite rating. , although the North American box office has reached the high popularity support of the first film. Now facing the situation of word-of-mouth failure, the producer Universal Pictures has intentionally found a new director, screenwriter and other production team for "Degree and Passion 3" to create a new story.

The industry's rare follow-up to flame movies, and the drag racing action movie "Furious Speed" suddenly seemed to lack confidence. If it was a stock, the bad news of "Speed ​​and Passion 2" has already dragged it down by more than half. Although the long list of producers has Miracle Yang's name, the director is Justin Lin, who has not yet proven that he has the ability to direct commercial films.

Especially now that the stock of "Chinese directors" is currently in a sharp decline.

Last year, "Wind Talker" directed by John Woo, with a production cost of 115 million yuan, only received 070 million global box office in the end. The producer, MGM, was hit hard because of this and had to reorganize the top management. It is still in the quagmire. This incident once made The stocks of "Chinese directors" plummeted. However, John Woo hasn't completely screwed up the signboard yet. Paramount has invested in Wan's sci-fi action film "Memory Rift" and it will be released this year during Christmas.

This is Wu Yusen's last stand. If the action movies he is best at do not have a decent box office and reputation, then basically no Hollywood film studio will dare to give him tens of millions or 100 million at the helm.

The reason why the stock has plummeted now is because of Ang Lee. After winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and excellent box office results in 1 year with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Ang Lee became the object of competition among many filmmakers. He chose Universal Pictures' "Hulk", a special effects blockbuster with a production cost of 137 million, a huge cost of overwhelming publicity, and an ambitious start.

But the ending was not so good. After the show week from June to 26th, it scored 81.74 million at the box office, but because of the unsatisfactory word of mouth, the box office dropped in the second week and 12.21 million in the third week... 34 on Rotten Tomatoes. % of audience likes, 55% freshness of well-known film critics, "heaviness is only for the art of pretending", "overrated Ang Lee", "a huge disaster", "Ang Lee made it like a horror movie Disturbing"...

Although there are also voices of praise, and praise for Ang Lee's contribution to a distinctive superhero blockbuster, the psychological portrayal is as delicate and high-level as ever; but it is a fact that it did not handle the rhythm of the first half of the movie well, and it is also an irreparable defeat. The box office is stagnant at 120 million, and it seems difficult to break the 100 million overseas box office. Ang Lee, "Hulk" and Universal Pictures have all suffered disastrous failures.

The stocks of "Chinese directors" plummeted, and Ang Lee's value and the trust of the film studio plummeted to an unprecedented low. No Hollywood film studio would dare to touch this bad luck, and Ang Lee seemed to have no chance of turning around.

The box office performance of "Charlie's Angels 2" released on June 27 is only average, with only 10,000 in 3 weeks, 54% of the audience like it and 44% of the freshness of the film critics. The poor reputation makes it recover 120 million of production costs from the screen alone. It is difficult; "Terminator 3", which was released on July 2, did not get any good looks, and only 54% of the audience liked it. % Likes...

The audience is very difficult to serve, and it is even more difficult to get the audience and film critics to praise it. The time has come to mid-July, this year's summer vacation has entered the last one and a half months of competition, and several movies will be released in the future. If the "Chinese director" stock exists, it will definitely be absorbed by many investors when it plummets , because this summer there is also a magical Yang, and a "-21-em".

However, except for a small number of gamblers and investors, few people will buy heavily. This movie has many unstable factors, such as gambling themes, Chinese male protagonist... There is even a curse theory "Win the Golden Globe Award With the Oscar for best director, Wang Yang encountered Waterloo like Ang Lee?"

Die-hard movie fans naturally dismissed it, especially Chinese movie fans all over the world are full of confidence in Miracle Yang, and believe that he will definitely let the "Chinese director" stock sweep away the depression of "Hulk" and rebound eagerly soared