Section 467: Opening
The projection equipment of Ganglong Poly Theater can be regarded as the top and most complete in Shanghai, which can be seen from their No. 8 hall, where they use a 21.3-meter IMAX digital metal screen, which is also the hall where Chen Wanxian and the movie tickets they bought are located.
IMAX screening halls, for many small backward theaters to have is not easy to have, but in fact, the same IMAX screening halls, there is also a gap between each other, which is reflected in many aspects, curtains, is a very representative aspect.
IMAX Digital, IMAX Film, Dual 3D, XPAN-D, Metal Screen, White Screen......
There are too many combinations of IMAX, and the cost and viewing effect are naturally different.
Generally speaking, the effect of IMAX digital/film, dual-camera 3D, etc. with metal screen is better, of course, the cost is relatively expensive.
Hall 8 of Ganglong Poly Theater uses IMAX digital + metal screen configuration, and it is a 21.3-meter metal screen, which ensures that the audience in the screening hall can enjoy the best viewing effect of the film under the existing industry technology.
However, for these, Chen Wanxian, who has been seated in the No. 8 seat in the seventh row at this moment, is not clear.
In her eyes, being able to distinguish between IMAX, 3D, and 2D is already all she knows about this, and this is also the knowledge range that most viewers have.
"There are a little fewer people than you think. ”
Chen Wanxian sat for a while, looked around for a while, and then said to Sang Yangdi beside her.
Seeing the overcrowding outside, she thought that it wouldn't be full after the entrance passage opened, after all, the tickets seemed to be sold out. But in fact, until now, they have only half of the seats in the hall.
Of course, with seven or eight minutes to go before the movie starts, having such an occupancy rate already shows that the tickets are selling well.
"It's likely that you won't be satisfied with the screening, and if the scalpers are ruthless, they may not be able to scatter all the tickets. ”
Sang Yangdi moved his buttocks in his position, adjusted his sitting position, and said.
Chen Wanxian thought for a while, nodded, and wanted to say something more, but she didn't know why, she looked at the big curtain in front of her, closed her mouth again, and quieted down in the seat, just quietly looking ahead, thinking about her thoughts.
Chen Wanxian is not ignorant of this movie that has been hyped for several months: in the process of publicity, many things about "Avatar" have been learned and become topics, but before it is released and the viewing effect of the final film is not out, no one can imagine what the final presentation effect represented by those terms will be.
In this regard, the trailer of "Avatar" can be regarded as revealing something in advance.
The Chinese trailer of "Avatar", Chen Wanxian naturally has also seen it.
To be honest, if you throw away that layer of fan filters, the trailer of "Avatar" seems to her to be a bit off to expectations.
Judging from the trailer, the special effects of "Avatar" are really well done, absolutely the top level of Hollywood, but "Avatar" is not the only one that shows this level of special effects in the trailer. The special effects shown in the trailer of "30,000 Leagues of Mars", which was also released in this summer, are not much worse than "Avatar", and judging from the trailer, the trailer of "Storm Man: Reborn from the Fire" is cooler than "Avatar".
Of course, this is not to say how bad "Avatar" performed in the trailer war, if you compare several Hollywood blockbuster trailers in this summer's file, "Avatar" is definitely the first gear. In fact, when the trailer of "Avatar" came out, many audiences in the Western world had increased their expectations for this movie.
The reason why Chen Wanxian felt that she did not meet her expectations was just that her expectations for Shen Huan were too high.
Such a movie that was shot with a huge amount of money and made Shen Huan willingly dormant for several years has invisibly raised the expectations of fans like Chen Wanxian.
Shen Huan took the time to "shoot casually" a "Charlotte Troubles", which is already one of the top three of her favorite domestic movies, what kind of big production should Shen Huan make so seriously?
It is precisely because of such high expectations that she is a little disappointed with the effect presented in the trailer.
However, as a die-hard fan, she still believes in and is willing to believe in Shen Huan in general.
Shen Huan should bring her a good movie-watching experience in the feature film, after all, the trailer is really nothing.
No matter how bad the film is, it is often presented in the trailer very exciting, but in fact, the feature film will be miserable, and in the final analysis, you still have to watch the feature film.
But she still had some worries in her heart after all.
……
The movie started quickly.
In response to Sang Yangdi's previous prediction, Hall 8 was still not full at the beginning, and there were still a few empty seats, and I don't know if it was still in the hands of scalpers, but on the theater's ticket sales system, all the tickets for this show were sold out.
Chen Wanxian has already put on her glasses and obediently waited for the movie to start.
The lights in the hall were all extinguished, the curtain was lit up, and after a while, the familiar opening of Meigao Pictures appeared, and the music of this film was heard correspondingly in the strong and real surround sound around the hall.
At the end of the opening credits of Meigao Pictures, after a brief period of darkness, music plays.
It seemed to be the shouts of primitive people during the sacrificial rites, and then, music came in, and a strong drum beat intervened, and the whole rhythm was intense and tense, and became more and more rapid and tense.
The whole music gives the feeling and is full of raw wild flavors.
And in this kind of music, what catches Chen Wanxian's eyes is a forest.
She was looking down from above on an endless dense forest, with blurred mountains in the distance, clouds and mist in the sky, and the whole world was gray and gray, except for the forest below which was a relatively vivid green.
Of course, that's not the point, the point is, she's flying above this forest.
There were no planes, no flying machines, and it was as if she was using her body to dive above this forest!
She didn't feel like she was watching a movie, but like she had really come to such a world.
The movie-watching experience is no longer estranged, distant, and flat, but immersive, and she even has the illusion that this forest is under her feet!
"As I lay in the veterans' hospital, facing the greatest misfortune of my life, I began to dream of flying,"
Shen Huan's voice came from his ears.
Well, it's Chinese, and "Avatar" has done a fully adaptable Chinese dubbing.
"At that time, I was free. ”
With Shen Huan's narration, Chen Wanxian's heart gradually rose.
Because she seemed to be speeding faster and closer to the forest below, there were times when she even felt like she was going to crash into it, and it really made her feel a slight sense of fear for it, as if she was driving a car past a tree at such a fast speed that she was almost about to crash into it.
But just when she saw that she was about to rush into the forest and hit those dense trees, Chen Wanxian unconsciously leaned her back against the back of the chair, as if she could escape the fate of crashing into the forest, her eyes suddenly darkened.
This made Chen Wanxian breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, her eyes were different, and she was mixed with excitement and excitement.
This is not the first time she has experienced this feeling, she has also experienced it during a tour of a high-tech museum, and that feeling she still remembers. But in the cinema, in front of a movie, there is such an experience......
She really didn't expect this at all.
She had already had great expectations and guesses about what Shen Huan said about 3D, but she didn't expect Shen Huan to do this in "Avatar", just a beginning shocked her.
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In Rongcheng, thousands of miles away from Shanghai, film critic Song Mingyang was also in the theater, watching the premiere of this movie.