Chapter 767: A Thousand Miles of Dragons
Although Li Mo is not very well received by people in the Xiangjiang circle, for the majority of movie audiences, Li Mo's movies are much more reliable than "Legend of the Gods".
Although even Wang Xiaoming can only get a cameo in "Legend of the Gods", Jet Li's Jiang Ziya is actually a supporting role as the protagonist, and casually mentioning that a person may be a certain star, but I have to admit that Xiangjiang movies have indeed not produced reliable works for a long, long time.
Especially this kind of movie, where everything is a star, and any shot is comparable to a star's skewer.
Doesn't this year's "Macau Fengyun 3" make everyone have a good appetite.
The more stars, the worse the movie, which has almost become the consensus of most audiences on domestic movies in recent times.
Although it really wants to be said, there are not a few 'stars' on the side of "Book of Swords and Enmity", but from the trailer released in advance, everyone can see that the so-called "stars" are more of the "ballast stones" of the movie, and the main actors in this movie are basically new faces.
From the time crossing so far, Li Mo has really played the main role of Li Wen in "Wushuang", but his edge in that movie has been overshadowed by Zhou Runfa most of the time, although it is nominally a setting of two male protagonists, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the real heavy scenes in "Wushuang" are on Zhou Runfa;
Tong Liya previously played the heroine in "Beijing Love Story" (movie version), but there were 4 relationships before and after that movie, eight actors, although Tong Liya is called the heroine, in fact, there are not many scenes,
Not to mention "Detective Chinatown".
Ah Xiangmei is beautiful, but who can say that the plot of "Detective Chinatown" is developing around her?
As for Fat Di......
In addition to playing Liu Yifei's best friend in "Get Out, Tumor", the titular second female lead, her most well-known roles so far are Xue Shanshan in "Shanshan is Coming" and Gao Wen in "Carat Lovers......
As for the resident MC of Let's Run?
I'm sorry, that kind of thing might be very helpful in boosting popularity, but for directors in the film industry, it's really no different from air.
In short, in the eyes of most insiders, she is still a TV café.
If it were another director and used such a lineup to shoot "Book of Swords and Enmity", it can basically be said that half of it has collapsed before it was released, that is, Li Mozhi has a good record so far, so some people still have certain expectations for him......
After the Q&A session, the lights on the ceiling of the screening hall went out, and the hall, which had been a little noisy just a moment ago, gradually began to fall silent.
Although it was only a premiere, because the electronic copy used was the version that was officially released, the first thing the audience saw was the familiar dragon logo.
…… What is a little embarrassing is that because the company emblem of Molong Media is still a dragon, Li Moqing clearly heard the audience muttering something behind him.
"Is there any mistake, the premiere copy can actually have problems......"
Damn, why didn't you find this kind of thing so embarrassing before?
Fortunately, the company emblem thing can only be regarded as an episode, and the movie begins quickly.
Since there is no movie in the original time and space, Li Mo naturally has nothing to learn from the original movie in this "Book of Swords and Enmity", what Li Mo can do is to use his own understanding of the movie to put himself in the perspective of an audience to think about what kind of movie can make the audience buy.
After carefully considering the common points of many successful movies in the original time and space, Li Mo finally chose to make "Book of Swords and Enmity" into a skin and story that uses Jin Yong's original work, trying to maintain the original style, but in terms of narrative rhythm, it adopts the oldest-fashioned Hollywood commercial film routine, and it is also the most accepted and widely recognized three-stage narrative mode.
Unlike Chen Jialuo in Jin Yong's original book almost one-third of the first volume, the first scene in the movie "Book of Swords and Enmity" is the heroine Huo Qingtong bidding farewell to her father, leading elite warriors, leaving her hometown, and going to regain the holy relics of her own clan - a dagger that has been passed down for generations and is said to contain a great secret.
The reason why the manuscript scriptures in the original book were changed to daggers was on the one hand to make the scene of the dagger gift more affectionate after Huo Qingtong and Chen Jialuo met later, and on the other hand, it was naturally to avoid some minefields.
After all, in Li Mo's version, the things that are too strong in dynasties and nationalities have been deliberately avoided by him.
has changed a lot, and most of the audience will complain: "Is this Tama still "Book of Swords and Enmity"?"
If you change too little, it will be a trouble to get the 'dragon mark'......
Although audiences who are familiar with Jin Yong's works can inevitably see some shadows of the original settings from the names and costumes of the characters, Li Mo's changes happen to be stuck on the audience's psychological bottom line.
Although Huo Qingtong, played by Fat Di, wore a veil for the first time just at a glance, the stiff nose bridge and sassy heroic posture were still imprinted in the hearts of the audience.
After Huo Qingtong appeared, the camera turned and jumped to the obviously palace-like building.
Yu Wanting, played by Zhao Wenzhuo, is talking to a man.
"Do you know your true origins?"
"I inherited the throne passed down by the first emperor, and I am naturally the son of the first emperor, where is the real life experience?!"
"Hmph, son of the first emperor?
"Is it because I'm obsessed or are you...... Obsessed, for the sake of your kindness to me, I forgive you for the sin of gibberish, and you will have long nights and dreams, you ...... Let's get out of the palace quickly. ”
“…… Farewell!"
Although I didn't see the man's face, it could be inferred from Yu Wanting's words that that man must be the Qianlong Emperor.
According to the original setting, Yu Wanting has been a servant in the Chen family for three years in order to protect the woman he has a crush on, and he watched Qianlong be born, so it stands to reason that his age should be much older than Qianlong, but Zheng Shaoqiu has played the Qianlong Emperor many times, and his appearance is too classic, so Li Mo thought about it again and again, and finally decided to retain this classic role, which can be regarded as subtly influencing the audience from another angle, so that they can ignore this version of "Book of Swords and Enmity" as much as possible deliberately modified in order to pass the review of the film.
Just when the audience was still speculating about how the Red Flower Society led by Yu Wanting was entangled with the imperial court, the first high dynasty passage of the movie came.
In the heavy rain outside the palace walls, the Honghua Society was surrounded and suppressed by the masters of the Great Interior, and Zhang Zhaozhong, the firearm judge played by Wu Jing, suddenly made a move at the last moment and single-handedly hit Yu Wanting and Wen Tailai, the two masters of the Honghua Society......
In this scene, Li Mo played a trick.
He used montage to combine the bloody battle outside the palace with the restlessness of the Qianlong Emperor in the palace, creating an impression to the audience that the Qianlong Emperor was waiting in the palace for the master he sent to report the results.
"I knew that the emperor must not be well-intentioned, and the Red Flower Society people are too stupid. ”
Some viewers are already muttering quietly.
Hehe, if my layout is so easy for you to guess, how can you read it next?