The box office easily broke 100 million on the first day!

The main reason is that there have been no good disaster movies in the past few years, and the special effects are becoming more and more shocking, and this result is expected.

Sure enough, until the next global box office was 500 million, it was basically qualified.

"This book must be taken!" Ding Cheng just finished reading the script he sent, and said excitedly: "It is worthy of being the screenwriter of Breaking Bad!"

Su Yao smiled and went to arrange, Ding Cheng sighed, after mixing so many Hollywood dramas, he finally met a high-IQ one!

Knives out!

A light-hearted and witty suspense comedy, compared with the traditional Agatha's classic British reasoning, although it does not seem to be brain-burning, the screenwriter arranges the plot to be interlocking, and it can even be said that basically the process of the case is presented in front of the audience in the first 1/3 of the movie, but allows the audience to appreciate the whole detective process from the perspective of God.

It's a bit like werewolf killing!

The most wonderful thing is that God's perspective will not destroy the entire suspense atmosphere in the slightest, creating a new style of suspenseful reasoning. Coupled with the comedy positioning, it creates a series of cheerful and ingenious stalks, which is really a rare excellent reasoning film.

Enter the system and prepare in advance, the detective you will be playing, although British, must speak with an authentic Kentucky accent.

There is also regional discrimination in the United States, most commonly because of Southern State accents. Because most of the southern states are mainly agricultural, the economy is underdeveloped, and the level of education of the people is also low, so they have long been discriminated against by other regions.

The screenwriter's arrangement not only gives this gentleman detective a sense of contrasting cuteness, but more importantly, it is a satire of the white elite in American society.

I love it!

Another thing that is expected is the villain, who actually found the American team with a face full of justice?

Playing a cunning and shady gentleman, full of swear words in the face of his family, it's simple!

Full of anticipation to join the crew, filming officially started, the old man of the well-known detective writer celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday, and the whole family came from afar to congratulate.

At the beginning, it was to show all kinds of tearing, first of all, the eldest son-in-law's extramarital affair was discovered by the old man, and he threatened either you to confess to her yourself, or I said it for you, and this sentence was also heard by outsiders.

The old man also took out a whistleblower envelope and threatened the eldest son-in-law with evidence in this letter and asked him to leave the family.

The Internet celebrity's daughter-in-law went to ask the old man for living expenses. The old man said that you asked me to send living expenses to the school on the surface, but in fact, the school will give you another sum of money alone, and has been stealing money from me for four years, $100,000 a year. This is the last time I'll send my granddaughter's tuition, and you don't want to take any more money from me.

In the evening, everyone ate cake and ate together, and there were a few more quarrels.

quarreled with his son, who was incapable of running a publishing house, and the son wanted to sell the copyright to make a lot of money, but the old man wanted to fire the scrap.

quarreled with the eldest grandson of the American team, and scolded him for burning the family's money all the time. Even shouted that the will has been written, and it will not be distributed to you at all, all for the little nurse Marta.

The American team completely broke away and left the villa.

The little grandson, who was keen on politics, was squatting in the toilet of his room with his mobile phone, and just happened to hear the two arguing.

The first twenty minutes complete all the foreshadowing, so that the audience understands that everyone has a motive to kill!

This is when his detective role officially debuts, calmly observing everything in front of him, this is a modern murder suspense film that pays tribute to the world-recognized mystery queen Agatha Christie, and places the background in a large family that is warm on the surface but is actually falling apart.

As the audience expected, the patriarch died mysteriously, and the detective intervened in the case, through a series of questions and flashbacks, and finally made a summary statement to find out who the real murderer was.

Slowly unfolds through the perspective of the little nurse Marta, and as the plot develops, it also makes the audience emotionally identify with her, and then achieves the purpose of setting up suspense to attract the audience.

The audience will stand in her position and hope that her affairs will not be exposed, just like in "Psycho", Norman pushes Marianne's car into a swamp, and the car slowly sinks and stops halfway, and the audience will stand in the murderer's position, anxiously hoping that the car will sink quickly.

This is the empathy given by the clever script.

Of course, there is also a benefit, which helps to exaggerate the badness of all the family members, the deceased is a rich patriarch, and the relatives around him are people who need money, and they tear off the mask of hypocrisy after the death of the patriarch.

In Ding Cheng's view, his role combines the characteristics of several detectives, the appearance of a gentleman can be said to be as charming as Sherlock Holmes, and the southern accent and the way of questioning and summarizing are incompatible with this big family, just like the classic protagonist of Grandma's pen, the Belgian detective Poirot.

Especially if it is obviously sluggish, most of the time he may not be sure what he is doing, or just waiting for the right time, waiting for the murderer to go wrong and fall into his hands, which is the style of Detective Colombo.

Each cross-examination is ridiculous and comical, allowing not only to get to know these people, but also to explore how they feel about each other. It was discovered that each family member had their own knots about the deceased, and they all had vague alibi.

Ryan is also a master, having played this narrative technique in the previous game Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi. Having the characters tell three versions of the memory story is called the Star Wars version of Rashomon.

All the suspects, except for the little nurse, are constantly lying to themselves and the police, but Flashback is always telling the truth, and this unreliable narrator completely plays with the audience.

And his own reaction to each new piece of information will make the audience suspect that the detective is not as smart as we think. In addition, it also focuses on the reactions faced by the characters when they get close to the truth, and several characters are playing a game between light and dark.

The script repeatedly hovers between suicide and murder, fighting a roundabout war. The cause of death at first appeared to be suicide, but murder was suspected......

Later, the old man committed suicide to protect the little nurse, and finally found that it turned into a complicated murder ......

As the doughnut hole outside is revealed, the audience can't help but wonder, why does the story continue?

This shooting is refreshing to me, and I have filmed a lot of excellent suspense reasoning before, but I finally understand the essential difference between reasoning and suspense!

Brothers who seem to be often linked together are actually very different. Reasoning is an intellectual process, such as solving a mystery by finding out who did it. However, suspense is basically an emotional process, and the audience must be provided with certain information in order to unfold the suspense element.

There are many movies with mysterious plot developments, and the audience doesn't know what is going on, why did that person do this or that?

When I finally understood what the hell was going on, the movie was already a third of the way through, and it was a waste of negatives, because there was no emotion in it!

The audience can't resonate emotionally!

Therefore, reasoning does not arouse people's interest, it is all suspense for the sake of suspense.