Chapter 184: Guess Wrong!
As far as the whole country is concerned, the equipment of the major cinemas in Shuntianfu must be top-notch, compared with the top cinemas in Europe and the United States, it is not bad, but the current domestic cinemas, most of them are still the old pattern, generally small, and the newly built cinemas in Shuntianfu in recent years are slightly better, and the larger cinemas can accommodate more than 300 audiences, but the smaller ones are more than 100 seats. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
At 3:40 p.m., Qin Jingjing and Liao Min checked their tickets and entered.
This is a small and medium-sized theater with about eight or nine rows of seats, more than a dozen seats in each row, and the movie starts at 3:50, and the people at the check-in place should be almost inside, and there can be twenty people sitting down - this is the first day of the release!
I remember that on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, "Hello Woman!" was released on the first day, it was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and it must be one of the least few days of the year when people will go to the cinema to watch movies.
In the next few days, as the annual leave slowly ended, when I came to see it yesterday, the ticket was in Hall 1, with about 200 seats and about 70 or 80 people!
In this comparison, the opening results of the movie "My Sassy Girlfriend" are not good!
Qin Jingjing is paying attention to this, and Liao Min is naturally paying attention to this.
After checking the number of people, Qin Jingjing felt a little careless, but she was calm, but Liao Min was a little worried, she didn't even eat much popcorn, and turned her head to look at the entrance passage from time to time.
It's a pity that the ads have already started to be played, so only one person has come in!
During the same time period, in a movie theater in Guangzhou Prefecture, Lu Ping and his party of four have also bought tickets to enter the venue, and the start time of "My Sassy Girlfriend" over there is 3:45.
Everyone sat down, the screen started to play ads, and soon, the ceiling light was completely turned off.
In three minutes, the six advertisements ended, and the big screen went black.
The theater was relatively quiet, but there were still people whispering, and the sound of popcorn eating was clearly audible.
Soon, the screen lit up again.
Everything else is a usual routine, but the opening animation of Minghu Culture Company is a little fresh, after all, although it is the second movie produced by the company, but before Jin Han's "On the Road", to be honest, the box office was too poor, and few people saw it- A lotus, slim and elegant, behind is the lotus flower in the infinite blue of the lotus leaf, suddenly, a stone piece from the water surface, hit a water drift, ripple in a circle, and then the lotus is harvested, cut out from the surface of the lake, the whole picture is a black, only to see a water drop on the lotus crystal dripping, next to the flash of a line of letters: Minghu culture.
Then the picture turned, and a line of big characters appeared: Director Li Qian's work.
It's as simple as that, and the names of the other cast and crew of the film don't even appear, and then, the movie officially begins.
From the first shot, it's a mountaintop, a tree, and then, a person.
Zhou Aniu's lines, the tree, the secret pit piled up with stones next to the big tree, and the person who made an appointment to come but didn't come in the lines...... It seems that from the very beginning, it was foreshadowed that this movie would be a tragedy!
Then, through the perspective of the male protagonist Zhou Aniu, the story began so plainly.
Zhou Aniu, who graduated from college and was admitted to graduate school, received a call from his aunt when he took a graduation photo, and then began to introduce himself through a photo of wearing women's clothes when he was a child: he was raised as a girl by his parents who liked girls since he was a child, so that he always thought he was a girl until he was seven years old, and was even forced to go to the women's bathroom to take a bath, usually wear clothes, and of course women's clothes......
Right here, it seems that the introduction of a very ordinary monologue at the beginning, and even this technique seems a bit old-fashioned at the moment, but on the contrary, there were suddenly a few low laughs in the movie theater!
Not only in the cinema hall of Shuntianfu, not only in the cinema hall of Guangzhou Mansion, in every cinema hall that broadcasts "My Sassy Girlfriend" across the country, this beginning of the actor's monologue has already made some people with low laughter can't help but snort and laugh out loud!
Even hearing that line, even Qin Jingjing couldn't help but grin.
Zhou Aniu said: Even at that time, I once thought that as I grew up, the little cock would become smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely...... But realistically, it's the opposite!
Hearing such lines, even Lu Ping subconsciously showed a smile on his face.
Well, that's quite an interesting monologue!
The phone call of my aunt when I took the photo, there must be a follow-up, it is definitely not useless, the tree in the first shot, those few monologues, should be the main line of the whole movie.
These things should be the stalk that supports the whole movie, but they are explained in an extremely concise and bright manner, without dragging the mud at all, which shows a certain skill of the director!
And Zhou Aniu's monologue concisely points out his growth environment, to a certain extent, this should be regarded as paving the character of the male protagonist! Thinking of the name of this movie called "My Sassy Girlfriend", Lu Ping vaguely guessed something in his mind......
However, he still can't help but hesitate a little in his heart: the male protagonist is weak, the heroine is savage, such a misplaced character and ability, it can make a lot of jokes, but in the current social background of rampant machismo in China, it is not easy to make jokes that this kind of film has, and at the same time can be generally accepted by male audiences!
Then, the class reunion, bragging, but a few short lines of dialogue, still closely following the line of "the male protagonist is very girly and weak", and the male protagonist even bragged about the theme of wanting everyone to think that he is already a real man!
Then, the heroine flashed through the glass window of the hotel.
The male protagonist shows his heart: he likes such a girl.
Then, the mother called to urge Zhou Aniu to go to her aunt's house to see her, and here is another explanation, the aunt's son died last year, and the male protagonist is very similar to his deceased cousin, and the aunt wants to introduce a girlfriend to the male protagonist.
Ordinary movie audiences, of course, don't pay much attention to these details, and if they explain it in the movie, the audience knows it in their hearts, that is, they won't think about the meaning behind these confessions.
And these things together, that is, a two- or three-minute plot, accompanied by such a little joke that the actor is relatively weak, was quickly explained clearly in a few words, and then it was brushed aside, which really did not attract the audience's extra attention.
But Lu Ping is a professional filmmaker, and he is also a film director with a very high level, of course he understands that these things must be an important foreshadowing of the whole movie!
Ordinary rookie directors like to show off their skills the most, Lu Ping himself has seen I don't know how many such films, and a lot of verbose at the beginning can't get into the topic! As far as he knows and sees, at least eight of the ten newcomers died on this!
But Li Qian, as a rookie director, made his first shot, but he was able to do such restraint and simplicity when explaining the background of these stories, using shots and lines, it was like gold, and even such a restrained explanation of the plot was unfolded in a little joke, so that ordinary audiences would not pay special attention to this point if they did not pay special attention to it - this is not a simple effort!
It's hard for others to say, just this short three-minute opening has made Lu Ping put away the contempt for Li Qian in his heart because of the news just now, and subconsciously began to sit upright.
Just rush to this beginning...... Although Lu Ping has not guessed the idea of this movie, and until now he also thinks that it is very difficult to solve the problem of the jokes caused by the weak men and the strong women and the conflict with the inherent concepts in the hearts of the majority of male audiences, but it is enough for Lu Ping to correct his attitude and face up to Li Qian, the opponent, and this movie called "My Sassy Girlfriend"!
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The film continues.
Before that, including the opening animation, only four minutes have passed, with four simple sets of shots, two monologues and a few dialogues, the shots are simple and restrained, but they clearly outline a relatively weak male protagonist, and the background of the whole story.
Then, after attending a class reunion, the male protagonist waits for the subway to go home, and his love monologue pulls away the long-haired girl who is standing very far away before the train comes, and the girl is obviously drunk...... A few more unusually simple shots, and the story unfolds so quickly.
As one of the most important scenes in the whole movie, the story in the subway brings together the most important and most part of the jokes in the whole movie, and when the movie starts to go on for only five minutes, this first joke on the subway begins!
The footage of a drunken girl forcibly driving a male passenger to give up his seat for the old man shows the toughness of this girl's character for the first time - it can even be said to be tough!
But, that's right, she is not offensive when she is on the side of morality!
Then, the drunk girl was disgusted and wanted to vomit, and the male protagonist looked at her and followed the scene of nausea and vomiting, which made people feel disgusted and want to laugh.
At this moment, in the movie hall, you can hear a lot of low laughter, and many small noises - especially some girls, who should be expressing their disgust.
However, it's not about disgust or disgust, it's just that the heroine looks like she wants to vomit, and it's just a little disgusting.
Then, the girl really vomited and spit out the old man in the wig, but this pot was transferred to the male protagonist by the old man!
Then, the weak male protagonist was forced to carry this pot that did not belong to him.
When this matter is dealt with, late at night, the male protagonist carries a beautiful girl who is unknown because of drunkenness...... That's a huge bargain!
At this moment, many people sitting in the movie theater, especially male audiences, almost subconsciously thought that they had guessed what the next story would be!
But obviously, the vast majority of people guessed wrong!
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