Chapter 296 Ridiculously Long Shot
Zhang Chen didn’t plan to hold a party or dinner, but he still had to have posters and the like.
Currently, there are already many Hollywood movie posters in the streets and alleys of Venice.
Some arthouse filmmakers are dissatisfied and think that Hollywood has brought bad habits to film festivals, but this is the trend.
Posters of "Hurricane Rescue" also appeared at various intersections.
In this regard, "Seven Swords" takes advantage.
As the opening film, he received a lot of attention. After all, he is a well-known director. Zhang Chen did not receive such treatment.
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While Zhang Chen was busy in Venice, domestic reporters suddenly discovered that they could not find Zhang Chen.
At the end of August, "Seven Swords" and "The Stone" were released simultaneously.
The final box office of "Seven Swords" was 101 million and "The Stone" was 147 million.
The sixth billionaire director in Chinese film history was born, but there was no reaction from the outside world.
The breakthrough of "Seven Swords" over 100 million was achieved purely through time.
It took a month and a half to get this result after it was released. Strictly speaking, everyone doesn’t recognize it.
There is another thing, which is the sale of "Wulin Gaiden".
The sale of a sitcom is actually nothing, but what people pay attention to is that the show was sold after Zhang Chen posted a blog.
An insider analyzed the whole thing from his own perspective. He claimed that Zhang Chen’s approach subverted the way TV dramas are bought and sold in the industry.
In the past, buyers and sellers of TV dramas relied more on relationships, and the producer’s position in this process was weaker than that of the TV station.
Even big producers are the same, but they have a better relationship with the TV station and can't show it.
But this time, Zhang Chen directly used his influence to bring all the TV stations together and then made a secret bid.
It has largely subverted the previous model.
In this situation, the strong position of the TV station has been weakened.
There is another point that the media is paying attention to, which is blogs.
At this stage, although the Internet has risen, the mainstream is still traditional media. At most, the Internet only has a certain influence among young people.
But this time, the protagonist is the blogger.
Zhang Chen relies on his blog to sell his dramas.
Looking back at his past experiences, the last few events, such as the activities with Mango Channel, were all done through blogs.
This is a little different.
In the past, if a star wanted to make some noise, he would definitely have to contact the media and ask reporters to help build momentum...
But now, a blog can do it.
Moreover, Zhang Chen likes to blog very much. He will post an article whenever he has something to do. For example, now, everyone knows that this guy went to Venice again and complained about the prices in Venice for a long time.
At this stage, Zhang Chen is considered a blogger.
The second and third ones are Xu Cainv and Han Han.
Of course he has such a status because of his label as a big troll.
Feng Xiaogang is also a big troll, but since he doesn’t write a blog, he doesn’t have that much influence on the Internet.
Zhang Chen is different. This guy almost writes his blog as a diary. Sometimes he records his mood, sometimes he promotes movies, and sometimes he just wants to scold...
The result is that many media do not even There is no need to interview him, you can directly grab the material from his blog. For example, people know that "Taken" will premiere in Venice tomorrow.
Movie fans who are not short of money have already bought plane tickets and flew to Venice just to see it.
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On September 1st, the film festival opens
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chinese cinema, and the festival is very proud to have "Seven Swords" as the opening film.
Although there is only one Chinese film shortlisted for Venice this year, "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", there are more than ten films shown, including many blockbusters, such as Xu Ke's "Seven Swords" and Zhang Chen's "Rescue" and "Myth" by Cheng Long.
It can be said to be the best of all previous Venice Film Festivals.
No wonder Marco Muller wants to set up a Chinese film review section at the film festival.
In order to celebrate the centenary of Chinese cinema, there was even a fireworks show at the opening ceremony, and there was even a dragon and lion dance.
It feels like this is not the Venice Film Festival, but the Chinese Film Festival.
"Taken" is scheduled to premiere in the afternoon, later than "Seven Swords".
I don’t know if the publicity was not good enough, but there were only a dozen people in the screening room ten minutes before the show started.
It was a bit embarrassing~
At this time, several figures suddenly appeared at the door, Cheng Long, Tang Jili and Guan Jinpeng were all here.
When Cheng Long came in, he saw Zhang Chen and others sitting behind him and waved. Just as Zhang Chen was about to stand up and say hello, Cheng Long waved his hand and found a place to sit down.
His arrival naturally attracted media attention, and many reporters also followed.
Cheng Long is an international superstar, and his every move attracts media attention.
As a result, many more ordinary spectators came in.
At the beginning of the film, a frustrated but extraordinary middle-aged man remarries a rich man's ex-wife, a rebellious and troubled daughter.
In just a few shots, the characters are clearly introduced.
Among the three, Cheng Long has read the script of "Hurricane", Tang Jili heard about "Hurricane" from Cheng Long, only Guan Jinpeng knew nothing about it.
He came here today not only to support Liang Jiahui, but also to see what a movie that slaps Wu Yusen in the face would look like.
Seeing this beginning, I already understood in my heart: "It's another mid-life crisis opening, a standard Hollywood template. It seems that the story of "Taken" is nothing special. Just look at the beginning. I can think of the plot behind it, where the daughter rebels and the father rescues her. I don’t know how many stories like this have been filmed in Hollywood. The husband saves the wife, the father saves the daughter, the brother saves the sister..." The movie continued, and the daughter saw her best friend being arrested. Terrified and helpless.
The old father on the phone was calm and calm, teaching her how to deal with it and taking out professional equipment at the same time.
But after his daughter hid under the bed, he told her in an almost callous tone: You will definitely be captured by them!
One sentence broke the last bit of luck my daughter had left, and was completely beyond the expectations of all the audience at the scene.
"Kimmy, concentrate, this is very important, throw the phone on the ground, you have five seconds, or ten seconds, time is running out, concentrate, say everything you see, Hair color, eyes, height, scars, etc., did you hear everything you saw?"
"Dad, I think they might...ah..."
When my daughter was suddenly pulled out from under the bed, her voice was so hoarse that anyone could hear the fear in her heart. But what she shouted was not a useless cry for help, but: "Beard, 1.8 meters, with a moon and a star on her right hand." Star tattoo..."
At this moment, people felt that there seemed to be something different, but they had no time to think, and the plot continued.
After the sound of glass breaking, the daughter's voice suddenly stopped. She was obviously under control, but a man's voice came from the other end of the phone. Apparently, the phone was also found.
Everyone thought that the male protagonist could only be incompetent and furious, but at this time, the father was unusually calm, and even his eyes did not change.
He issued his threat in a calm voice: "I don't know who you are or what you want, but I have some skills..."
It doesn't sound intimidating, but it seems to be full of intimidation.
There was obviously no emotional change, but the audience could hear that after these words, a demon was released.
At this moment, Guan Jinpeng finally felt that this movie was somewhat interesting.
He makes literary films, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand commercial films.
The opening rhythm of Hurricane Rescue is so well controlled and very gripping.
Liang Jiahui flew to France on his daughter's stepfather's private plane, and then walked the route his daughter had taken again, and the case repeated itself...
Then he found Huang Xiaoming through clues.
Is this an agent?
This makes Guan Jinpeng feel like watching "The Bourne Supremacy". "The Bourne Supremacy" is like this. The protagonist always uses the simplest method to achieve his goal.
The same is true for Liang Jiahui in "Hurricane", as if every move he makes is unnecessary.
Then at the airport, the clues that were finally found were cut off after Huang Xiaoming was hit and died. When everyone was worried about the protagonist, the protagonist found the chicken coop through other clues.
Liang Jiahui found his daughter's clothes, rescued the girl wearing her daughter's clothes, and killed one against ten!
The battle in the chicken coop showed the protagonist’s force value for the first time.
His fists and kicks are crisp and clean, and he is also a handsome shooter.
Guan Jinpeng can still vaguely find the shadow of "The Bourne Supremacy" in the action scene, but I really can't understand this shootout.
That kind of chilling style was completed in one go. Looking back on the past, Guan Jinpeng felt as if he had never seen a similar movie.
Is it Zhang Chen’s original creation?
At this moment, he suddenly felt a little worried about Wu Yusen.
Finding the girl wearing her daughter's clothes, Liang Jiahui wanted to take people away, but when he came outside, he found that he had been surrounded by police.
During the breakout, the mysterious man Ali appears, and a classic street fighting scene appears.
The street fight in "The King's Bodyguard" will still be a classic even ten years later.
Zhang Chen transplanted it into the 2005 "Hurricane", which was simply a dimensionality reduction blow.
The sound of gunshots echoed in the screening hall. Guan Jinpeng was so focused on watching that he was so nervous that he didn't even want to blink, for fear of missing any shot.
“On the gun fight scene, Zhang Chen beat Wu Yusen ten blocks away...”
This is Guan Jinpeng’s true thoughts at this moment.
Then he immediately discovered that he had reached this conclusion too early.
Through the clues obtained from the girl, Liang Jiahui found the trafficker's lair.
Disguised as a police officer, Liang Jiahui breaks into the tiger's den alone.
The fierce gunfighting style appeared again. Guan Jinpeng did not know that this was called the Mozambique shooting method and the CAR central axis gun holding system.
The gun battle design is so tense that people dare not take a breath, and the sound of the gun knocks people down, which is extremely close to reality. Guan Jinpeng has never seen this kind of shooting method, which gives people a refreshing feeling.
There were more than twenty kidnappers. Except for one leader who was left behind to question the whereabouts of his daughter, the rest were all killed.
Just when he wanted to take a breath, the next chase at the station made his heart skip a beat.
The six and a half minute long lens almost blinded Guan Jinpeng’s titanium alloy dog eyes.
How was this shot taken?
From the car chase, to abandoning the car and escaping, and then entering the slums, Liang Jiahui led the leader of the human traffickers to kill and chase, all in one shot.
Guan Jinpeng felt that this was simply an impossible task.
Intuitively, he felt it was impossible.
It’s so easy to shoot with a long lens.
Since editing is not possible, every long shot must be strictly calculated and perfectly controlled. If you are not careful, everything will be lost.
Because it is difficult to shoot, whether you can shoot long shots well has become an important test paper to measure the director's skill.
Last year, Johnnie To's "The Big Deal" featured a 7-minute long shot, which included two camera lifts and a 360-degree rotation. The police, gangsters and reporters intersected in an orderly manner on a street. The entire fight scene was complex and complex. Dazzling, but not messy.
For such a shot, even the photographer of "The Lord of the Rings" made it clear that he couldn't take it.
Although Zhang Chen's current long shot is not as long as the one in "Big Event", its complexity is several times that of the latter.
That’s why Guan Jinpeng felt it was outrageous.
Tang Jili also found it outrageous.
(End of this chapter)