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After major theater chains learned that "Alive" was successfully selected, they stepped up publicity in a cycle.
Being officially recognized by the General Administration of Culture is not something that ordinary movies can do...
The General Administration of Culture has held similar events before, and the films that stood out in those events all had extremely high box office sales and won many awards.
Now that "Alive" can also be recognized by the General Administration of Culture, it means that "Alive" will definitely be the winner of this National Day prime time.
As movie theaters stepped up their promotional efforts, more and more viewers began to enter the screening hall of "Alive", wanting to find out more about the movie that was personally approved by the General Administration of Culture.
After a movie is released, it is necessary to pay attention to the brewing of the movie's reputation. Of course, it goes without saying that for a good quality movie, the movie's reputation will not be too bad. Of course, a movie with poor quality will also suffer a collapse in reputation.
During the period when a good-quality movie is gaining reputation, it must interact well with fans. This task is tedious and inconspicuous, but if done well, it will have a very positive impact on the growth of the movie's box office and the continued fermentation of the movie's reputation.
Therefore, not only did the cinemas further expand their promotion of "Alive", they also held interesting activities related to giving away movie tickets for "Alive"...
Everyone also liked the interesting activities organized by the cinema, which made a big contribution to the box office of "Alive".
Subsequently, many netizens who had not watched "Alive" rushed to buy movie tickets to see what happened.
In addition to those who were watching the movie for the first time, there were also many viewers who had already watched "Alive" for the first time and went into the theater again to watch the movie for a second or even third time.
The reason why some people are willing to watch "Alive" a second time or a third time is entirely because the movie shot by Yang Bei is different from the previous movies of the era. "Alive" is a very down-to-earth movie.
In other words, "Alive" is like a documentary about ordinary people, showing how individuals make choices and live in the face of the torrent of the times and the tricks of fate.
Therefore, this is a movie that belongs to ordinary people, or more precisely, to most ordinary people.
I don’t know since when, people no longer like movies about personal heroism, but instead became interested in movies that focus on ordinary people’s perspective.
With the increase of experience, people no longer blindly believe in the changes that heroes bring to the world. Instead, they believe that most ordinary people are the masters of the fate of this world.
Even if everyone is nameless and has no status or identity, it is these tens of millions of ordinary people who constitute the real fireworks in the world.
After watching "Alive", many people felt greatly inspired, and their expectations for "living" were ignited in their hearts.
In the eyes of the audience, this is a movie full of hope.
Yang Bei saw the audience's praise and enthusiasm.
Yang Bei saw that the popularity of the movie "Alive" continued to rise, and he immediately thought that he might as well take this opportunity to write another book about "Alive".
Maybe the book "Alive" will make more money than the movie...
Yang Bei's idea just flashed through his mind, and it suddenly occurred to him when he was browsing netizens' reviews of "Alive".
The reason was that Yang Bei saw a comment: The movie is really too short, and it feels like it is full of words but has endless meaning, which makes people feel unsatisfied... It would probably be better if there could be a TV series or something!
It was after seeing this comment that Yang Bei suddenly recalled that "Alive" in the original world was originally a movie adapted from a novel. Now that he has filmed the movie "Alive", he will write it in turn.
A detailed novel "Alive", why not?
After having this idea, Yang Bei almost didn't think too much and started to implement the plan directly...
Although "Alive" has been shown to everyone in the form of a movie, the movie of "Alive" is different from what is written in the book, so Yang Bei was motivated to write a novel.
The difference between the movie and the novel is not the slightest.
First of all, in terms of prop symbols, the most important prop symbol in the film is not the shadow puppets that the audience repeatedly appreciates, but an ordinary wooden box, a wooden box used to place shadow puppets.
This prop symbol, which is easily overlooked by the audience, has an implicit intention of referring to the concept of family. It is not until the end of the film that the audience pays attention to it.
The film’s visual transformation of the novel’s historical implications.
The novel "Alive" tells the details of life events and their impact on the family. The film unfolds the metaphorical level in the scripted narrative to present the truth of historical speech.
And structurally, they are also different.
The novel has a dual narrative structure. The narrator is listening to the memories of an old man. This structure also strengthens the meaning of "saving trouble".
In the movie, this dual narrative structure is cancelled.
Once you enter the movie, you will immediately feel the distinct difference from reading a novel. The narrative perspective of the novel is objective, while the film's presentation method is subjective. The film abandons the "double narrative" in the original work and interprets the entire story.
The reconstruction reflects the distinctive artistic characteristics.
Fugui's life in the novel is a life of drifting, and some plots are still "rigid". However, due to the "memory" structure of double narration, it can be understood as a structural response to the author's situation setting in the novel.
But it cannot be solved this way in movies, because movies present the entire story from a synchronic narrative perspective, and the plot must be compact and concentrated.
A clear example in this regard is the origin of Fugui being captured as a young man. In the novel, the army went to the streets of the city to capture young men directly to pull cannons, while in the movie, Fugui went to various places to tour shadow puppet shows and met homeless people in the countryside.
If the military was arrested, the circumstances would be much more reasonable.
From the shadow puppet master Long Er in the casino who swindles money to the end of the movie when Fugui puts the chicken into the already empty shadow puppet box for his grandson, the shadow puppets are the epitome of destiny, and the living testimony is inseparable from the entire movie.
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What is consistent in the novel is the publicity of a life attitude and emotions. Compared with the movie, the situation faced by people seems to be more cruel, but there is a tendency to stay away from the life of the times. The double narrative structure itself creates a distance in the language.
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It was also because Yang Bei understood this that he started writing the novel "Alive" without hesitation...