Chapter 370: To North America
The final cut out of the movie release version of "The Three-Body Problem" is 140 minutes, which is about the same time as "Avengers 1 and 2", and 10 minutes less than "Avengers 3".
Although such a length of time will bring certain disadvantages in terms of film scheduling, fortunately, the book "Three-Body Problem" has a grand content, cuts off other side plots, and closely revolves around Luo Ji. Looking at the "Three-Body Crisis" from a relatively ordinary person's perspective, it makes the audience feel quite immersive.
The sense of substitution is a very important issue, whether it is a movie or not, the key lies in how the director or author deals with it.
For example, the contradiction between the property security guard and the owner often occurs in today's society, saying that one night, at the gate of a community, an owner had an argument with the security guard of the security booth over the problem that he could not drive into the community late at night.
Then the two got into a fight, and later other security guards came to help, and the three of them pressed and beat one of the owners.
Others have seen it, if they don't know the inside story, they are actually just watching a lively scene, there is no special emotion, the key is to see how to report.
If it is a report from the side of the owner, it is late at night in winter, a certain owner wants to go into the community to pick up his family, and the domineering property is not allowed to enter the car, and after a few words, he calls his accomplices to commit violence .......
But if you stand on the side of the security guard, it may also be an old man in his fifties with a difficult family, doing a low-paying janitor security job. A certain owner violated the rules late at night and tried to force himself in and out, and after being refused, he scolded him as a watchdog and insulted him for half an hour.
The old security guard was unbearable, and he was so angry that he couldn't defeat him, but fortunately, his colleagues came to the aid of .......
For the same thing, different reports will give different emotions to onlookers. The reason why many blockbusters can't infect the audience is that they can't be emotionally substituted.
For example, in "The Great Wall", do you say that the audience is describing emotions into Matt Damon, who came to China to steal gunpowder, or Miss Jingyan!
And Xing Ye's past movies can infect generations of audiences, and it is very important that almost all of the films he made were the sadness and struggle of the little people.
Although time has changed, the sadness and hardship of the people at the bottom are almost the same!
After the film ended, many viewers wiped the tears that had not dried up in the corners of their eyes, and immediately applauded.
Because compared with the cheerful plot in the first half, the second half has twists and turns, but it is constantly sadistic. Fortunately, it finally frightened the "three-body man"! Luo Ji became a "sword-wielding man", and there was a feeling that the low-level little people were crowned kings.
What's even more awesome is that the special effects of the film are perfectly combined with the story, unlike "The Alliance of Gods", because it was born from "Ten Cold", although the special effects are not bad, but the story content has been criticized by many people.
Although "The Alliance of the Gods" is the first relatively successful Chinese-language science fiction movie, in front of "The Three-Body Problem", it is nakedly ignored.
A number of institutions and groups starting with "China" and "country" jointly declared that the movie "Three-Body Problem" opened the first year of Chinese science fiction films.
Lu Lin felt strange when he heard it, because in another time and space, the movie "Three-Body Problem" was difficult to deliver, and it was "The Wandering Earth" that won this title and was reported by Xinhua News Agency. In this world, it was "The Three-Body Problem" that won this award.
For this reason, Lu Lin secretly decided to make "The Wandering Earth" more shocking.
He has seen this movie before, and it is generally very good, the script is solid, and there is a feeling of progression. It can be unexpected and reasonable.
For example, at the beginning, the protagonist rescued the "planetary engine" of Lin'an Station, but he kept "upgrading the target" in the operation, which makes people feel that the original target was very small when they look back and look back.
Especially in the end, the ignition of the Jupiter project and Wu Jing's choice is really shocking and moving.
If there's any downside to this film, it's that the footage of Jupiter being ignited and propelled the Earth out of the solar system with an exploding wave of air is not shocking enough. If this set of shots can be longer and more shocking, it will be quite refreshing compared to the audience.
After the premiere, Lu Lin did not return to the hotel or return to the crew of "The Battle of the Deer", but took the nearest flight to Los Angeles with Jing Yan and Gai Erjiaduo. Get ready to attend the North American premiere of the film from Warners.
Because the other actors in the film have little box office appeal and popularity in North America, there are only three of them together. As for Shake Sen, who played Evans, he didn't attend the premiere here because he was busy with work.
On July 5, local time in Los Angeles, Lu Lin, Jing Xiang and Gai Erjiaduo stayed in a star-rated hotel in downtown Los Angeles under the arrangement of Warners after a long-distance flight.
The one who came to pick up Lu Lin's old acquaintance, Richard Fox, because of the vigorous introduction of Lu Lin's special effects blockbusters in the past two years, the old guy's reputation in Hollywood is not very good, and he is quite known as "Hollywood beauty rape".
However, because of the global distribution of Lu Lin's films, which brought continuous and stable income to Warner, his position in Warner was very stable.
It's ridiculous to talk to capitalists in most cases, they only care about how much you can bring them.
A big director like Lu Lin, who can continue to make blockbuster blockbusters and has not yet missed, is a guest of honor for film companies and investors wherever he goes.
The old guy Fox was very enthusiastic, and it was a warm hug when he met Lu Lin at first sight. and praised Jingyan for her extraordinary beauty, the few flowers in Hollywood can't be compared with her at all, and it is quite embarrassing to call Gai Erjia on the side.
In the hotel where he stayed, a presidential suite was arranged, if it weren't for Jing Yan's presence, it is estimated that it would be possible to arrange two girls.
At dinner, Fox said that the president of the company was on a business trip, but he would definitely attend the premiere on the evening of the 5th.
"How is the publicity campaign doing, and what is the response?" Lu Lin asked.
In his mind, there is no need to worry about opening a theater or something, first, he has cooperated with Warner many times, and he is now a regular fan in North America. Although it is a bit niche compared with local American directors, it has popularity and fans after all.
The only thing to worry about is word of mouth!
Fox smiled awkwardly and said, "Our publicity efforts are very large, but the media is not very optimistic!"
"Why?" Jing Yan couldn't help but ask. In her mind, "The Three-Body Problem" is very good, and don't Americans like science fiction movies!
Lu Lin could roughly guess what was going on, and said with a smile: "They think we Chinese can't make good science fiction movies?"
Fox nodded and said: "Let's just say that, Hollywood movies can have today's achievements, science fiction movies are indispensable! And this genre can be said to be the forbidden of many Hollywood film companies."
Now that Longlin Pictures has stepped into this field and distributed it globally, it has indeed attracted a lot of hostility. To be honest, it's hard for us at Warner!"
The tone and demeanor are just like Ding Xiu in "Embroidered Spring Knife", "This person is my beloved relatives and friends, siblings, I have to add money!"