After the release of the second trailer for "In the Mouth of a Madman," the Internet went silent for a short time.
Because it’s too fast!
Originally, everyone thought that the first trailer released by Lu Jian was so short, and the preparation for the feature film had just begun. The actors may not have been found yet, and the seeds of the film were still being sown.
But I didn’t expect that in less than a month, the second trailer of Lu Tian’s update would have such a high degree of completion.
The first three monologues of this trailer are similar in style, but the frightening aspects shown are different.
The first one is the shadow. Dark places always make people instinctively afraid. No matter who you are, you may have fantasized about a hand or something else suddenly appearing in the shadow when you were a child, because darkness represents the unknown.
, so it is human nature to be afraid of the dark.
The second is color. If pure darkness brings unknown and uneasiness to people, then colors that are too bright and unique and do not belong to nature will give people a sense of danger, just like poisonous mushrooms and poisonous insects.
Use bright colors to protect yourself, and the weird portrait brings such primitive terror to people.
The third one is bugs, spiders, centipedes, and centipedes. These creatures with more than four legs are usually accompanied by highly poisonous ones. There should be only a few people in this world who are not afraid of spiders. But when you see spiders crawling out of human bodies, they are densely packed.
The look simply gives people goosebumps.
Moreover, Lu Jian's movies themselves have some kind of power beyond reality. When you see the monster in the dark, it seems that there is something in the shadow around you ready to move. When you see the oil painting with the strange monster, that
Things seem to be crawling out of the screen, and when spiders crawl all over the body of the person on the screen, the audience will also feel the immersive feeling of being crawled around by bugs.
As for the subsequent scenes, it can be regarded as a standard part of an adventure and suspense movie, with some big scenes, some personal shows, some gags, and the final thrilling scene.
These combinations create a chemical reaction under the special effects of Lu Jian's film. To put it simply, it is very good.
In a discussion group on the movie rating website Doudou.com that gathers many people in the industry, the discussion about Lu Jian's new film also increased with the release of the second trailer.
[Actor Zhao Kuo]: Director Lu’s second film seems to have used actors from the previous one. Can any of you get in touch?
[Film Maker]: What do you want to do after I contact you, poach others?
[Actor Zhao Kuo]: No, don’t you think it’s strange? The acting skills of Lu Tan’s actors are all top-notch. The girls are beautiful and the boys are also very suitable for their roles. For example, in "The Crying"
That dean looks like a really crazy doctor. Such a character has not appeared in other movies. This is unreasonable!
[Hengdian Xiaozhi]: How is this unreasonable? There are so many actors that you don’t know about. There are so many supporting actors across the country. Even Hengdian has hundreds of newcomers every day. Lu Tian probably has some special channels.
Can you find actors suitable for these roles?
[General Screenwriter A Xiang]: Indeed, sometimes the more powerful directors like to use newcomers, such as So-and-so, So-and-so, Lu Jian, etc. I guess there are quirks in hiring people.
[Yannan Xiaoliu]: Speaking of which, I was running for a group recently, and one of the supporting actors in the group was a rich second generation who brought money to join the group. He was originally a variety show person, but his acting skills were terrible, but I didn’t know how to find him later.
I met Lu Jian, and it is said that he provided guidance and teaching. Now I feel that his acting skills are off the charts. I guess you will be able to see that frightened expression after a while, hey, it is just like seeing a ghost!
[Bean Paste Popsicle]: Is this Lu Zhen so powerful? It feels like he was just an ordinary rookie graduate a year ago. Is there someone behind this who is creating the character?
[Movie Brick Man]: Speaking of this, I laughed to death. A buddy of mine told me while drinking a few days ago that in March or April last year, a handyman handed him a horror movie script.
He rejected it without even looking at it. But now when he looked back, he said, good guy, that handyman is Lu Tan. What do you think is a coincidence?
[Ordinary screenwriter Axiang]: I should really thank your friend. If he had accepted it at that time, there would probably be no Lu Jian. Ordinary directors in China really can’t handle Lu Jian’s shooting style and special effects.
When the time comes, we'll find a young actor to make a cameo, and some traffic-hungry actor to be the protagonist, and this movie will be a hit.
The discussion about Lu Jian and his "The Mouth of a Madman" skyrocketed with the trailer. This second trailer exceeded 30 million views in just one day. On the film and television website, "The Mouth of a Madman"
The expectations for "口" were immediately raised, ranking at the top of the list, and its popularity far exceeded the sum of the remaining second to tenth places.
Some people in the industry have noticed that if "The Crying" is a pure horror film, from the background to the story, it is a classic horror film routine, then "In the Mouth of a Madman" is obviously following the path of a thriller adventure film, like this
Movies are more popular, with adventurous and funny scenes, as well as thrillers and exciting plots. Although the audience is still not as big as serious family movies or war blockbusters, it is already much larger than the pure horror movie "The Cry".
In addition, this is the first official movie of the Silence Project, and people are even more curious about what kind of world view it will show.
However, everyone is doubtful about Lu Jian's production capacity.
After all, even if the preparatory work for a movie has been completed, it will take several months from the start to the end of shooting and post-production of special effects, and it will be gone in less than half a year from the time it is finalized and announced.
Not to mention the previous videos, Lu Jian has actually officially entered the production of major movies since "One Hundred People", and there was less than two months between "One Hundred People" and "Crying". Now, is it possible that "Madman"
"The Mouth" has been filmed and produced within four or five months?
There is even a Spring Festival in between.
No, doesn’t Lu Tan have a holiday and rest?
There are many directors who make good movies and are box-office hits, but they usually only make one movie every two to three years, but this Lu Tan, three movies a year?
This is like an era when everyone on the Internet updates 4,000 words a day. There is a person who writes very well and updates 20,000 to 30,000 words a day. It is completely overwhelming.
Is this going to cause the film industry to also undergo involution?
Film and television practitioners are worried about whether the landing will bring changes to the industry.
Various film and television companies are also busy producing their own horror films, preparing to make another profit by taking advantage of the popularity of "The Crying".
However, before the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday in April, the Film Administration in Yannan received a copy of the film master tape.
The name of the label above is "In the Mouth of a Madman".