On National Day, My Motherland and I was released in a big way. Seven major directors joined forces and dozens of stars joined the cast, instantly becoming the most beautiful kid in prime time.
After all, it is a gift film, and all theaters gave it a thumbs-up. On the first day, 60% of the films scheduled were outstanding, while several other competitors were trembling.
From Su Ze's point of view, in fact, expectations for movies with the main theme, especially movies with a strong emphasis on completing tasks, are really not high.
The common way of filming movies with the main theme, represented by "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" and "The Founding of the Party", is to re-enact some important historical processes and add celebrity faces to attract traffic. In fact, the story and characters are very dry, and it was just okay at first.
As time went on, the audience gradually stopped buying it.
Although he has not seen the finished film, Su Ze is more optimistic about the works of Guan Hu and Ning Hao. One is The Eve of Cooperation with Huang Bo, and the other is Uncle Ge's Hello Capital.
I didn't attend the premiere this time, I just went to a few symbolic road shows. After all, there are too many stars, and I am not the least of them.
I didn’t watch the premiere immediately. Even if it’s a big platter, the dozens of big and small stars are definitely worth the price of admission. No matter how bad it is, it won’t be any worse.
The goal will be achieved if the box office exceeds one billion.
Sure enough, the news came the next day that the box office of My Motherland and Me easily exceeded 100 million on the first day!
Su Ze also breathed a sigh of relief. It was far better than expected. At this pace, it is possible that the box office could exceed 2 billion. In fact, for actors, the atmosphere among the seven directors is even more intense.
The size of a short film is easier to grasp, and coupled with the form of a propositional composition, it reflects the creator's skills under certain constraints. No matter how much effort the director puts in, when the length and presentation method of the work are so fixed, it will inevitably be easy for people to grasp.
Feel.
Assemblage movies naturally have the attribute of completing a task, so whether the effect of this kind of random film is perfunctory or an accidental success depends entirely on the director's own attitude and level.
Especially for works that appeal to commercial gains and political missions, such as My Motherland and Me, they all invite directors with a certain reputation, and it seems that they are trying to compete with each other.
"Brother Ze, look at this!" Xiaotong hurried in, opened her laptop, and showed: "This is the latest movie review."
"Wang Xiasi?" Su Ze frowned and asked, "Who is he?"
"He is known as a well-known film critic and is well-known in the circle." Shishi came over and explained: "I like to have a sharp tongue, I am not afraid of offending people, and I am good at sensationalizing."
Su Ze nodded. He rarely reads so-called film reviews. Aesthetics are very personal. Some people like and criticize even the greatest works. How can such nonsense be praised?
Douban is different. It is a spontaneous and non-profit review by the audience. After all, people spend money to buy tickets, so they have to say something about whether it is good or bad, right?
But film critics?
hehe!
"This guy scolded Zhang Yibai to death!" Xiaotong watched the excitement and said, "I scolded Su Xi for being re-elected."
Su Ze frowned and started to read the movie review: No matter how good Su Ze's performance was, he could not save this extremely failed work. Zhang Yibai seemed to have been stuck in a quagmire of blood and could not extricate himself, and could not see any possibility of self-innovation. He was very interested in youth films.
The desire for understanding and aesthetic creation has come to an end, and the height of career basically stops here.
Especially the laboratory setting and lighting at the beginning of the short film are like a crude B-level movie from the 1970s and 1980s.
If you want to highlight the sense of time, you can learn from the recent American TV series "Chernobyl" and see how the interior scenes are structured and the camera positions are determined.
The long shot on the bus is the worst long shot I have ever seen, with no scheduling and no tension. The long-winded dialogue is included in the depth of the camera movement, but it is not as watchable as the front-reverse shot.
If it weren't for Su Ze's dramatic eyes, his performance would have been wasted by a long period of wrong scenes!
Let’s talk about Ren Suxi as the opponent. I was quite optimistic about it in the past. After all, there were outstanding performances by Donkey De Shui and The Unknown. But this time, no matter the tone, tone, or even behavior, it basically does not conform to the characteristics of the times.
It even feels like the more she talks, the more the performance gap between her and Su Ze is revealed!
At the end of the film, is there a superfluous scene of Min watching TV many years ago?
Awkward!
After watching Encounter, I can only say that Su Ze is a talented actor. His eyes are shocking and unforgettable.
What really obscures the brilliance of his acting skills is not the mask, but the camera directed by Zhang Yibai.
The mask is not an obstacle, but is Su Ze's magic weapon. The most exciting close-up in the film comes from the moment when he takes off the mask in the crowd, but this has nothing to do with the director, it is the actor's own achievement!
If Encounter can only give four points, Zhang Yibai deserves a lot of credit as the director!
"Isn't this Wang Shusha too venomous?" Seeing Su Ze finish reading, Xiaotong scolded: "Should I sue him?"
"Sue someone?" Su Ze curled his lips, why should we sue?
"If you want to sue, it's Zhang Yibai's sue. Why are we getting involved?" Shishi retorted: "To be honest, the reputation of Encounter is not very high. The reputation is barely passable."
"Of course I have one-sided praise for your acting skills, Brother Ze, but the more this happens, the more worried I am..."
"Pleasing them to death?" Su Ze smiled and said indifferently, "Or are you trying to stir up dissension?"
"It's impossible to praise him. He's not a good film critic at all. I'm afraid..." Shishi is no longer the innocent person she used to be. She analyzed: "Zhang Yibai and even Su Xi may have other ideas."
"Yes, it's very possible." Xiaotong added: "It was so easy for me to make a gift film. Who wouldn't be angry at the guy who was scolded in the end?"
"It's not like he's a bloody head, but his directing skills are indeed not good." Su Ze interrupted Xiaotong and said casually: "I knew this before filming."
"Not only Zhang Yibai, but also Wen Muye." Su Ze secretly went to the theater to watch it last night and commented: "It's almost a recombination of the montage of Top Gun, doubled in length, and the usual Hollywood military and commercial films.
Camera angles and editing methods, coupled with powerful background music..."
"A large music video with flashbacks and reality constantly interspersed?"
"What a waste of Song Jia's acting skills!"
There were many things that Su Ze did not continue. To be fair, out of the seven platter works, I was most satisfied with two of them, and the others were about the same.
The so-called return means that the subject matter adds a touch of realistic expectations to people. This is an excellent opportunity to respond to the chaos through film art, but the result is quite disappointing.
Uncle Hua, played by Simon Yam, as a mainlander drifting from Hong Kong, has more to explore. There are many things that require one or two lines to point out the pain of a certain era, but in the end it is just a glimpse of the water?
Hui Yinghong should have had her own arc, but it was messed up in the poor editing. As a result, the very touching moment of changing the police badge was passed over because of the failure of the character and the overall structure?
As for Du Jiang?
Just don’t say it!
Xu Zheng's victory was not satisfactory either. He used almost all the techniques of children's TV movies in the 1990s, including a hazy and slightly dreamy tone, childish technical transitions, adult assumptions about the emotional relationship between two children, and excessive