Chapter 169: Breaking the pinnacle of domestic suspense dramas
"Classmate Qin Feng, why do you want to apply for the Criminal Police Academy?"
"Is this question difficult to answer?"
"If you fail the exam once, I will take the exam twice. I will buy you a plane ticket to go to Thailand for a week. He will receive you..."
The scene in the picture changes from the conference hall to Qin Feng's home. Through a few lines from the supporting characters, the background of the entire movie story is explained, and the identities of Qin Feng and Tang Ren are introduced.
As the music played, the title "Exploring Chinatown" appeared, and the camera suddenly turned to Tang Ren.
The image of a greasy uncle with gold teeth appeared in front of the audience.
Even if the audience here has seen the trailer, they all know that Tang Ren, played by Wang Baoqiang, is the comic actor of the protagonist duo, but after seeing his image and exaggerated accent, they still can't help but laugh out loud.
Tai Kun, played by Xiao Yang, and Huang Landeng, played by Chen Chichi, also appeared one by one and began to investigate a golden murder.
The appearance of this scene seems to directly tell the audience that the protagonist duo will be involved in this golden murder.
This kind of shooting technique has its advantages and disadvantages, but in the shooting of suspense films, it will undoubtedly affect the audience's expectations.
As expected.
After portraying Tang Ren's greed for money, lust, deception, and Qin Feng's talent in detectives through some trivial plots, Tang Ren was unsurprisingly accused of being a murderer.
What follows is a chase scene.
Different from the chase scenes in other movies, in the movie "Tang Detective", the chase scene not only did not bring any tension to the audience, but was full of jokes in the plot design.
Until inside the police station, several plot twists occurred one after another, making the audience laugh out loud.
Kuntai, who was still saying that Tang Ren was his son a second ago, immediately said that he did not know Tang Ren after learning that Tang Ren was the murderer. But as soon as he finished speaking, Tang Ren called.
Ask the other party to come to the police station to surrender, and at the same time help Tang Ren tell him the escape route.
This self-revealing speech made the audience forget that this was a movie with suspense elements.
After seeing the reaction of the audience present, Xiao Yang, who was sitting in the front row, was extremely happy.
The audience's laughter is the greatest recognition of his performance.
However, he also knew in his heart that Lin Yuan played an indispensable role in this scene having such an obvious effect. However, now was not the time to be grateful. He was also following the crowd to watch the film's debut attentively.
As the screen switches, another force looking for gold appears.
The story of the movie finally began to develop in a non-linear narrative way, and from here on, the movie finally began to have a bit of a suspenseful feel.
As a comedy, judging from the first thirty minutes of the movie, it is undoubtedly qualified.
But as a suspense film, the first thirty minutes of the film, apart from explaining several forces, contain almost no useful information and leave no so-called clues to the audience.
This kind of performance can't help but make some professional film critics present a little worried, worried that the film will end up showing a "top-heavy" effect. The comedy aspect is not handled well, and the suspense effect is not achieved. Wanting both, in the end it is both.
Unpleasant.
Fortunately, as the plot of the movie progressed, the reasoning progressed like an avalanche. Only then did the audience discover that many foreshadowings and hidden threads were hidden in the first half of the movie, which seemed to be hilarious.
If the first half of the movie is a complete comedy, then the second half of the movie starts to develop towards a standard suspense movie.
There are obviously fewer funny plots in the second half of the movie. More often, the funny clips appear to act as a lubricant to ease the audience's mood. While the audience is using their brains to think about the plot, they can also get a moment of relaxation.
After Qin Feng pointed out the murderer and Sinuo's adoptive father committed suicide out of fear of the crime, the audience thought the movie would end here.
However, what appeared was not the list of actors, but the same-sex bar that Songpa often went to. Only then did Qin Feng realize that there might be something fishy in it, so he returned to Sinuo's ward and explained his reasoning again.
After Qin Feng said this, Sinuo showed the weirdest smile in the whole film. This smile actually made the audience present feel a little creepy.
"No, the adoptive father is not the real murderer?"
"The murderer behind the scenes is actually a little girl?"
"Damn, this smile is so scary. I always feel like someone is blowing cold air on my back."
"That's because you have the air conditioner on in the back, idiot."
At this moment, the audience was completely involved, and they could no longer keep quiet while watching the movie.
They could understand that the murderer was Sinuo's adoptive father, and it was expected by them. But when Qin Feng finally said that the murderer was Sinuo, they had only one idea in their minds: to watch the movie again,
Find the clues in the movie again!
Apart from shock, what else can they say?
Until the end of the movie, Tang Ren and Qin Feng appeared in a technology laboratory in New York. When they looked around, they seemed to see a scene that shocked them, and they took off their sunglasses in unison.
What exactly the two saw was unknown to the audience. Only the clips on the big screen told them the fact: the movie ended here.
...
The venue for the premiere of the movie "The Adventure of Eucalyptus" in Shanghai's Chinatown.
Amidst the thunderous applause, Director Chen led the leading actors and his group to the center of the stage. The applause lasted for nearly two minutes. Director Chen then signaled everyone to quiet down. It was obvious that Chen Sichen was very satisfied with the audience's response.
"Thank you for your applause and thank you for taking the time to come and attend this premiere."
After Chen Sichen finished speaking, he led the leading actors such as Lin Yuan to bow to the audience and thank them. After all, after today's premiere, we have to ask people to help promote the movie, so we still need to be polite.
After bowing to express his gratitude, Chen Sichen picked up the microphone and said: "I am very satisfied with this movie, whether it is the shooting, the actors' performances, the post-editing, or the soundtrack. I have to admit that this is my first time filming this type of movie."
It may have many problems in the movie, but I believe the audience present has to admit that it is indeed a masterpiece."
After Chen Sichen said these words, the audience also applauded to show their approval.
Although this movie is a bit stiff in the combination of comedy and suspense, it can indeed be called a comedy suspense film, and it is also a very qualified comedy suspense film.
The audience recalled the plot of the movie just now. The whole movie lasts about 135 minutes. The first 30 minutes is a standard comedy movie with frequent jokes, but there are some foreshadowings in the suspense movie.
Ignore it, until Tang Ren and Qin Feng decided to find the murderer and clear his name, then they officially entered the rhythm of the suspense film.
This is obviously closely related to the fact that director Chen Sichen directed this type of movie for the first time. As the plot of the movie progresses, Chen Sichen becomes more and more comfortable in handling the two elements of suspense and comedy.
Fortunately, Wang Baoqiang and Lin Yuan's acting skills have always been online. When it transitioned from comedy to suspense, it did not make the audience feel too abrupt. Instead, the atmosphere began to heighten the tension, directly involving the audience.
Enter the movie world.
When Chen Sichen was saying polite words on the stage, the audience in the audience had already had their own thoughts.
Now they just want to go back and quickly write a review for this movie while they still have a clear picture of the plot and story in their minds.
Other movies may be flattering casually, as long as they are worthy of the organizer's red envelope.
But this movie is different. There are so many things to write about in this movie, whether it’s the performance of the leading actors in the movie, the completeness of the entire suspense story, or the beautiful performance of the new director Chen Sichen.
Turnaround...
Fortunately, Chen Sichen didn't talk for too long. Ten minutes later, the premiere officially ended.
They have done everything they need to do, and they can only wait and see what the box office will be next.
...
Time passed quickly.
Early the next morning, Lin Yuan woke up from bed in Mimihuhudi.
I drank with Chen Sichen until midnight last night, and I still have a headache now.
He adjusted his pillow, leaned directly on the bed, and picked up his phone to read the online discussions about "Tang Detective".
As soon as you open your mobile phone, Weibo, Tieba, forums, and major entertainment websites, there are almost many topics about the movie Tang Detective, and each post has a lot of clicks. The movie is so popular, for Lin Yuanlai
I don’t think it’s strange at all. Such a result can only be said to be reasonable after so much effort in publicity.
Very quickly, he found a related topic with the highest number of likes and clicked on it.
When he clicked on this topic, Lin Yuan still had an expectant smile on his face, but as he read more comments, the smile on his face gradually solidified.
How should I put it, before the movie Detective Tang was released, its reputation has already "exploded".
Before eight o'clock in the morning, the online reviews of the movie "Tang Detective" were all positive. Various media, famous film critics, Weibo influencers, and almost all the viewers who watched the premiere yesterday were not stingy with their praises.
words, praising the merits of this movie online.
The quality of domestic suspense films has always been worrying, and comedy suspense films are even more difficult to produce.
Under such circumstances, as Detective Tang is one of the best comedy suspense films at present, these media reporters and film critics naturally want to praise it mainly. As for the innocuous flaws, they often choose to brush it off.
When the audience saw that the media and film critics praised this movie so much, they also expressed their expectations for this movie.
But after there were too many compliments, some people naturally came out to sing the opposite, as if everyone was drunk and I was alone.
This phenomenon has always been seen on the Internet, but Lin Yuan did not expect it to be so exaggerated this time.
Even if they were not invited to the premiere and have not seen the full movie, this does not prevent them from picking apart the trailers.
Bai Yun Yi You You: ""Tang Detective" is a complete imitation of the foreign movie "Three Idiots", which mixes farce and comedy. To say that such a movie is not novel at all, I really don't know what to brag about. of."
Sorry, sorry: "Wang Baoqiang's acting skills are as bad as ever, he can only make babbling noises, and his appearance is not good-looking. I really don't know why I chose him as the leading actor. Lin Yuan plays a young man with all kinds of magical reasoning abilities. I am not convinced at all." Li, if he plays a killer, I might even go and watch it."
Back to Earth: "I'm sure these media and film critics must have been paid. They all received good reviews. It seems that Director Chen hired a lot of trolls. There were not many reviews for other films in the same period. The film "Tang Detective" It’s already been posted all over the place, so I’d better watch the movie Dream Partners.”
After seeing these comments, Lin Yuan's current expression can only be described in three words: subway, old man, mobile phone.
If these people watched the complete movie and found out the problems in the movie, Lin Yuan wouldn't find it strange. But the problem is that these naysayers are completely negligent, but there are still many people who like it.
The media and film critics are also innocent.
They did receive a red envelope from the organizer, but which media reporter invited to the premiere did not receive a red envelope?
If the movie "Tang Tan" was really a bad movie, it would be fine if they were scolded, but they just expressed their true thoughts after watching the movie, and ended up being scolded by those netizens. Anyway, wait. After the movie is released tonight, I will scold you after watching it!
As the evening of the 30th approaches, the premiere of Detective Tang is getting closer and closer.
Discussions on this topic online have become increasingly intense.
Some netizens directly listed the top five box office-competing movies released on May 1st this year, and rated these five movies based on their feelings after watching the trailers.
One of the film critics who claimed to have attended the premieres of five movies, "What's Good to Eat Today", also gave his own ranking. Since the movie has not been released, netizens have not watched the whole movie. , this film critic’s ranking has also received praise and heated discussions from many netizens.
"First of all, what I want to say is "BJ Meets Seattle: Love Letter". I believe everyone has seen the previous movie of this movie. I can only say that this movie is more exciting than the previous movie. This is the most similar movie I have ever seen. It is a drama movie with a lot of monologues. Two people use a lot of imaginary dialogues and monologues to compose love songs instead of pen and paper. It can be said to be a masterpiece among literary films in recent years. I can give it a 9.5 point rating. I personally predict this movie. The box office should be able to surpass the previous film and become the box office champion in this May Day period!"
"The second-ranked movie is "Dream Partner". Although the story of "Dream Partner" is slightly inferior to "Chinese Partner", it is already considered a good masterpiece among this year's May Day movies. In addition, there are Stars like Yao Chen, Li Chen and even Aaron Kwok star in the show. If I give it an eight-point rating, it should be in second place at the box office."
"The third ranked film is the imported film, "The Jungle Book." I feel that it is brainwashing me. Yes, it is brainwashing. Although the story of this film is average, what are the advantages of foreign commercial films? The special effects! The visuals of this film The effect is explosive, and it is adapted from a classic fairy tale. I believe it will attract a lot of audiences. It scored 7 points and ranked third at the box office."
"..."
"Finally, let me talk about the movie that I am most disappointed with. It can be said to be the least recommended movie during this May Day period, Chinatown Detective directed by Chen Sichen."
"I don't understand. An actor has to make movies. Even if "BJ Love Story" has a bad reputation, he still wants to make a comedy and suspense movie to prove himself. Let me tell you how I feel. The comedy effect is not as good as Thailand.
, let alone suspense, there are currently no good suspense masterpieces in domestic films.”
"I can understand Wang Baoqiang starring in this movie, but I really don't understand that Lin Yuan, a new actor, stars in such a bad movie. But after this movie is finished, I believe Lin Yuan and Wang Baoqiang's next salary will probably be straight.
It’s a lot lower. If you don’t believe it, you can buy tickets tonight to witness how exaggerated this bad movie is. I just hope that you won’t feel bad about wasting dozens of dollars later.”
"Finally, to make a summary, the other four movies all have good points and are worth watching, but a hodgepodge movie like Detective Tang, with a luxurious cast, was chosen to be released on May Day. I believe everyone knows the reason.
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This topic received a large number of reposts and comments, and quickly reached the top of the hot search list.
Even the popularity of "Tang Detective", a movie premiering tonight, can only be ranked behind this topic. After seeing this topic, many netizens couldn't help but click on it.
Looking at the well-founded comments made by this film critic, it really seemed like he had been invited to attend the premiere of five movies. After seeing the comments on each movie in the topic, netizens couldn't help but hesitate for a while, even those
Netizens who had grabbed tickets to the premiere of Detective Tang at first didn’t know whether they should resell the movie tickets before the movie was released.
But what no one knows is...
Seven hours later, when the movie Tang Detective was officially released, netizens searched for the user "What's good to eat today" again, only to find that the person shown in front of them was Cha Wu.
There is no doubt that the film critic who claimed to have attended five movie premieres deleted his account and ran away...