"Oh, Netflix. ”

Walking through the theater's screening hall, Bendtner sees familiar signs everywhere: "Netflix commercials everywhere." ”

Rosicky, a friend next to him, said: "Netflix and Embassy Pictures, which distributed "Spy Shadow", seem to belong to the same group company, and it seems to be called ......" He thought for a while: "Yes, it's called Relativity Entertainment Group." ”

Bendtner followed the flow of people and asked, "Last time we registered Netflix users together, have you used it?" ”

Rosicky glanced at a girl crowded behind him and said, "I have used it, it is very convenient, I only need to click a few times with the mouse, and the selected film will be in the mailbox the next day, which is much better than queuing up at Peskind or something." ”

"I know. Bendtner couldn't tolerate his friend's teasing, saying, "I rented seven films on Netflix last month, and only two from Pepsi. ”

Rosicky said strangely: "I also went to the Pescard store a few times last month, have you noticed? ”

Bendtner thought for a moment and said, "It seems that the queue is significantly shorter. ”

Rosicky remembered one more thing: "By the way, I saw an announcement on Netflix that their website will launch some new features in the second half of the year. ”

Bendtner nodded, "I saw it too." ”

The two of them followed the flow of people into the screening hall, and the theater, which can accommodate thousands of people, was full, and those of them who came late could only sit in the corners of the back rows.

It's late and I can't grab a good seat, but it's also a bit of a benefit, and I don't have to wait too long to see the film.

The first thing that appeared was not "Spy 2", but a patch ad for another movie, with a rousing background music, a peculiar pirate captain swaying like a willow in the wind, and a muscular swordsman who can crush eggs with his chest......

This obviously magical roll ad made a deep impression on Bennet and Rosicky, and they unconsciously remembered the release time.

In a sequel movie like "Spy 2", which is bound to attract attention, the advertisement of "Pirates of the Caribbean" can undoubtedly play an excellent promotional effect.

It is also one of Hollywood's most primitive and effective means of publicity.

Ronan believes this will allow Pirates of the Caribbean to increase its popularity even further.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" was released the weekend after the Independence Day holiday, and the pre-screening publicity had already begun.

Subsequently, the feature film began to be screened.

The story of "Spy 2", two years have passed since the thrilling killing in the first part, Bourne, who lives in seclusion in India with his girlfriend, is still entangled by vaguely emerging memory fragments, and a bombing in Berlin shocked Bourne's whereabouts and pulled him back to the CIA's attention again.

The CIA's top officials are involved in corruption and try to blame Bourne in order to cover up their crimes.

They first instructed the Russian oil giant to hire hitmen to kill all the agents sent by the CIA and the informants who traded with them, leaving Bourne's fingerprints, and then went to Goa, a remote town in India, to assassinate Bourne, so as to cause a headless case with no evidence.

In order to avenge the tragic murder of his girlfriend Mary, Bourne has traveled around many places, finally defeating the CIA ghosts and hired killers, and at the same time, the mystery of his nightmare has finally been revealed.

And at the beginning of the film, there was a jaw-dropping plot reversal.

Just when the audience thought that Mary would be Bourne's "spy girl" like 007 or Spy, the film arranged for Mary to die early.

The plot that follows is carefully designed to be a two-way street: on the one hand, how Byrne uncovers the inside story of the CIA and clears his name, and on the other hand, he further clarifies the lingering shadow memories surrounding him.

This film is certainly not a story of simple revenge for his girlfriend.

In fact, except for a fight with CIA agents in Munich, Germany, where he was forced to strangle him to death in legitimate defense, Bourne never killed a single person in the entire episode, and always remembered Mary's instructions to him: "You must have another choice but not to kill." ”

From this, the whole story eventually becomes a process of self-redemption.

At the end of the film, Byrne says in front of the orphan daughter of the Naiskis: "Your parents didn't die like that, I killed them, I'm sorry." This unloaded the heavy psychological baggage.

Compared with "Spy 1", the rhythm of the second part is brighter.

Director Paul Greengrass gave Ronan a statistic that the average shot length of "Spy Shadow" is 2.6 seconds, and on "Spy Shadow 2", the average shot length is only 1.9 seconds!

The high-speed editing creates an exceptionally exciting visual climax.

It can be said that Paul Greengrass has given the film a lot of new forms of expression.

But as a typical commercial film, it still follows the most basic Hollywood model in terms of plot setting.

The opposition between good and evil between the protagonist and the villain is very obvious, and it runs through the confrontation between Bourne and CAA, and the person in charge of the "Stumbling Block" plan is not dead, and Bourne is hunted down by the CIA again.

Then there's the typical three-act structure.

The first act is bound to explain the characters and background: Bourne is on the run, and the CIA's keyboard warriors and turtleneck sweaters initially formulate a strategy to deal with Bourne; in the second act, the conflict intensifies, Bourne establishes contact with key teammates, and the CIA first sends minions to explore the way, and then sends killers who are evenly matched with Bourne to block it, during which there must be a car chase scene, a tracking and anti-tracking scene.

The story of the third act reaches its climax, Bourne's existential crisis is lifted, the CIA high-level is subdued, and Bourne comes with his own BGM and leaves the scene gorgeously.

Of course, as an orthodox commercial film, there are also mainstream values that will never go out of style.

At present, the script of "Spy Shadow 3" has been completed, including the first two, at the end, the CIA high-level executives who were careless about human life either died unexpectedly, or committed suicide by swallowing a gun, or left a stench for 10,000 years, or sat in prison.

This is in line with the audience's expectations for mainstream commercial genre films - evil does not prevail over good, and evil people have evil retribution.

At the end of the day, these are some of the rules that make it easiest for business to succeed.

Those who comply have the highest chance of commercial success, and those who do not do not necessarily fail to succeed, but the odds of success are much smaller.

At the end of the screening, there was extremely warm applause in the theater, and the applause lasted for several minutes, especially in the audience sitting area in the back row, when the applause in front had fallen, there was still thunderous applause.

It seems that only in this way can they express their love for the film.

A popular film that can be loved by the majority of the audience can easily be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

After the premiere, Ronan didn't stay too long, called Anne Hathaway, took her to the car, and returned to Beverly Hills.

Anne Hathaway has been gently pressing her eyes since she got into the car.

"What's wrong?" Ronan asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Anne Hathaway turned her head and smiled at Ronan and said, "It's okay, the movie lens is shaking too much, and the camera is switching too fast, which may cause visual fatigue, just rest." ”

Ronan patted her hand lightly, "Close your eyes and rest for a while." ”

Anne Hathaway closed her eyes, leaned on Ronan's shoulder, and said: "The style of this film is very unique, especially with the action design, the action shots are too sharp. ”

Ronan said: "This is also the selling point of the film. ”

Anne Hathaway opened her eyes: "It's too unfriendly to viewers who get tired of their eyes easily. ”

Ronan laughed dumbly, in fact, there are many people who don't like the "Spy" series, and the biggest reason is also the style.

Fortunately, this is ordinary 2D, not 3D, otherwise it would not be eye fatigue, but many people will spit it out.

But there are still many people who appreciate this style, after all, a similar style has since become the mainstream of Hollywood action movies.

In this era of unprecedented development of CG technology, any star can dodge and play a hero on the screen, but the audience has long been tired of this kind of aesthetic fatigue.

Therefore, when Jain Bern, who was moving against the tide, appeared on the stage, he dragged the increasingly virtual figure of the screen agent back to the ground, and used a realistic style and fierce posture to make a solid punch and kick, which immediately shocked everyone.

In the past seven or eight years, with the latest CG technology, science fiction films and disaster movies with increasingly turbulent visual effects have frantically encroached on the territory of traditional action movies, and action movies have been forced to go the other way, relying heavily on explosive flames and crowd tactics, blindly competing with opponents on the scene, which can be said to be a major reason for the gradual decline of traditional action movies.

Once in the lonely depression of action movies, "Spy Shadow" is tantamount to the existence of the world, and the "007" series borrowed Bourne's inspiration to regain its life, which can be regarded as injecting a stimulant into the action movie market, and many subsequent action movies have embarked on Bourne's characteristic route.

The straightforward and effective fist strategy of "Spy Shadow" has been emulated by action movies, while the dancing and kicking of "Thunderbolt Angel" with a tightrope volley has become an obsolete commodity that no one cares about.

Even the "Mission Impossible" series, which has always been free of high-tech, later learned from Bourne, a civilian agent, Ethan Haunt made a move to control the enemy with three punches and two feet, and there was no romantic freehand and lengthy entanglement of "Mission Impossible 2".

If you want to say that the culmination of the action path of "Spy Shadow" has been thoroughly understood, it still belongs to the "Hurricane Rescue" series, a retired agent with unique skills is alone against the evil group, and the narrative goes straight to the point, chasing without CG help, fighting, gunfights and explosions, high-speed editing, and rapid soundtracks, all of which are learned in style.

Of course, the current action design of "Hurricane Rescue", even including action editing, etc., is also learning the style of "Spy".

The "Spy Shadow" series has left a strong mark in film history.

What Ronan expects is that while the film is well received, it will also be popular.