As a professional film critic, Song Mingyang naturally will not miss the premiere of "Avatar", which is a key point he will write next.

Like Chen Wanxian, before watching the movie, Song Mingyang had habitually made a lot of guesses about the movie, including good guesses and bad guesses - unlike fans like Chen Wanxian, Song Mingyang is more accustomed to looking at each movie from an objective point of view.

Among them, a good guess is that the offline of this movie should be very high, after all, the scale of investment in this movie is so terrifying.

Although the quality of the film is not completely proportional to the scale of investment, the larger the investment, the greater the probability and degree of rottenness, which is always smaller than those with a small investment, and this movie is still produced by the Hollywood creative team with Shen Huan as the core.

Because of "Charlotte's Troubles" a few years ago, Song Mingyang is still optimistic about Shen Huan's ability to direct, and with the escort of a mature Hollywood team, even if it is really unfortunate, it should not be rotten, and the offline should be quite high.

This can also be seen from the trailer, the shots and special effects are very good, and they shouldn't be bad.

And the good guess is that the launch of this film is difficult to say, because it is a multinational team production.

Hollywood's mature film industry system, there is nothing to say, Shen Huan's directing ability, Song Mingyang is also optimistic, but it is difficult to say what kind of fireworks will collide when the two are combined. After all, one side represents Western culture, and the other side represents Eastern culture, and the gap between culture and thought may make the effect of 1+1 less than 2, or even less than 1.

In fact, there are quite a few such examples, and the forms are also different: there are directors who have made great achievements in China and go to Hollywood to make movies, and there are domestic crews and dramas that invite Hollywood screenwriter teams, transplanting Hollywood model stories, there are domestic crews inviting a Hollywood star to star, etc., etc., in various forms, but the results of these forms of cooperation are not good, and the things that are filmed are often not good or western, so that foreign countries can't appreciate them, and China doesn't know what it is, and the final box office is dismal, and the evaluation is also very low.

This is probably the most superficial and in-depth form of cooperation that is the most successful, which has led to many people like Song Mingyang forming such a concept: when the Eastern and Western cultures have not found a suitable way to integrate, the more in-depth the cooperation between the two, the more tragic the result.

In "Avatar", the depth of cooperation between the two can be said to be unprecedentedly deep......

It's no wonder that Song Mingyang is worried about this.

However, this worry became a shock less than two minutes after the opening of "Avatar".

How can a movie be like this?!

When the flying lens gradually dimmed and disappeared into darkness, this was the only thought in Song Mingyang's mind.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of the 1896 "Platform".

It is a black-and-white silent film with a total duration of just over 1 minute, and the plot can be described as extremely simple and boring, that is, to shoot various scenes on the platform of a train entering the station and the platform.

Today, from the current point of view, this is simply a boring thing that can no longer be rubbish, and it is not even interesting to make people look at it, but back then, it caused a sensation all over the world, allowing such a new thing as "movie" to enter people's lives and open up the history of film to this day.

As a professional film critic, Song Mingyang has naturally watched this ancient god film, and can imagine the sensation at that time, and now, although "Avatar" is only two minutes away, it has already given Song Mingyang such a feeling that "it will open the curtain of a new era of film".

The most wonderful thing is that the two also have a trace of mystery in common in some small details: in the "Platform" back then, when the train was moving towards the camera from a distance, it seemed to be about to penetrate the screen and run over, and the moviegoers at that time were so frightened that they got up and fled, and in "Avatar", when Song Mingyang was "flying" just now, as the camera flew lower and lower, Song Mingyang also had an urge to shrink his feet.

The two have a strange similarity in this point, which seems to be a hint from God.

Then, Song Mingyang thought of the cinema again.

With the increasing popularity of the Internet and the launch of Blu-ray DVDs, the survival of movie theaters is being greatly challenged: audiences can see movies on the Internet and in front of the TV set at home, and the TV screen is getting bigger and bigger, the format is getting clearer and clearer, and it is not much different from the movie theater, and it is cheaper and more convenient than the movie theater, so why go to the movie theater?

Cinema industry practitioners are feeling more and more pressure, but a new dawn seems to be emerging.

Because of the appearance of this "Avatar".

In order to popularize this kind of movie-watching effect among most families, what age can it be realized? Only in the cinema can we enjoy the perfect movie-watching experience, which gives the audience a reason to come to the cinema.

For this alone, this movie may become the best friend of the theater owners, and get the most powerful and selfless resource tilt.

Because it may be the savior of the theater, and the savior, naturally, should be radiant, so that the world can be saved.

……

"But you always wake up to a moment. ”

The movie is still being screened, and the actor of the movie, Shen Huan, finally appeared in front of the audience.

Shen Huan's camera language is clean and neat, and he explained the identity background and character of the actor named "Jack" he played in a short time: This is in a future world, Jack is a veteran who is paralyzed in the lower half of his body, has no money for surgery, and needs to walk in a wheelchair.

In the process of showing Jack, Shen Huan also slowly presented a future world in front of the audience in the form of a background: the urban public transportation here is an aerial subway hanging in the sky, and the advertisements on the street here are in the form of stereoscopic projections, and there are still many people here, even more and denser than the current world......

As before, the images are still detailed and realistic, surrounding, and the audience feels as if they are walking into the screen to watch it, rather than watching it from a distance like traditional movies.

It's a strange and shocking feeling.

At this time, Song Mingyang also came back to his senses from those thoughts, and watched this movie seriously like never before, or enjoyed it. It's just that while enjoying it, he still can't avoid habitually making evaluations in his heart.

Great control, well done!

For the vast majority of audiences, this part of the plot seems lackluster, but Song Mingyang has seen many ways and the director's profound skills, especially in science fiction films.

In recent years, with the take-off of the Chinese film and television industry, the genre is also expanding more and more, and it has begun to involve the field of science fiction films, but there are no successful science fiction films for the time being. The hottest sci-fi film so far is probably last year's "The Last Yanjing".

It was a blockbuster with an investment of more than 200 million yuan, known as three and a half years of polishing, and the publicity was also very powerful, and it was called "the hope of Chinese science fiction films", which made the Chinese audience who lacked the benchmark of science fiction films in China look forward to it.

Song Mingyang naturally watched that movie at that time, and he also posted an article and made a summary afterwards.

In Song Mingyang's view, there are too many problems with that movie: the actors' basic performance skills are not up to par, the story rhythm and plot are problematic, the shots are fragmented, the expressiveness is too poor, etc., and among these problems, there is a very important problem that the director will not make science fiction films.

In "The Last Yanjing", the director has used a lot of dialogues to introduce some so-called sci-fi concept items unique to the film, which is like TV shopping, but in fact, it is some Hollywood concept that is rotten, but it is regarded as a treasure by the director.

It's different here in Avatar.

Shen Huan didn't specifically introduce this future world at all, he just "leaked" those sci-fi future things in the plot in the form of background details, and his narrative firmly revolves around the male protagonist Jack, this kind of shooting method makes those sci-fi concepts not only expressed, but also made the audience aware of them, and at the same time very natural and real.

"The Last Yanjing" is like a "future world" that is propped up with a few points and the director pulls your ear to tell you loudly, "This is the future world!", while "Avatar" is a future world that uses a lot of details to lay out the structure in front of your eyes, and the director does not say a word to make you feel that "this is the future world!"

From this point alone, the difference in skill between the two was clear in Song Mingyang's eyes.

……

Chen Wanxian, who is thousands of miles away, doesn't think as much as Song Mingyang.

She was just looking at Shen Huan lying in the sewage on the ground in front of her, and she had a strange feeling in her heart.