For the Chinese media, it is very novel to gather with top Hollywood film critics for the first time to participate in the preview screening, and they must understand the language and culture of Europe and the United States, otherwise they will not even have English subtitles, and in the end they will not understand anything.

Warner Bros. has high hopes for Life of Pi, and they made a special trip to release it on a large scale at the end of the year, on the one hand, to avoid the competition in the summer slots, and on the other hand, to win something during the awards season.

The film screening cycle of the awards season is very long, maybe from the end of October this year to the beginning of April next year, as long as the word of mouth is still there, everything is promising.

Xie Yunfei looked at several elderly white gentlemen in suits around him, his tourist outfit seemed a little out of place, fortunately it was only a test screening, otherwise he would have made a fool of himself!

The IMAX theater was huge, and more than a hundred of them sat in the middle of the best viewing area, and the story began when the Warner Bros. logo skimmed across the screen.

The movie starts with the legendary experience that the writer who is looking for inspiration hears from the mouth of the middle-aged Pi Patel, and the actor who plays the young writer is actually an actor Xie Yunfei is very familiar with!

"Hu Ge? it's actually him!"

In the preface to Life of Pi, Zhang Chu fictionalizes the image of a depressed young writer who has written a book without splashes, and when he is traveling in India, an old man gives him a phone number and tells the writer that there is a story that can make people believe in God, and that story begins with the local governance of India and ends in distant Canada.

The film doesn't have such time to be verbose, and directly from the time when the writer finds the middle-aged school in Toronto, the whole film begins a first-person flashback of reminiscences, but this narrative self-perspective appears in the voice of the middle-aged school.

Xie Yunfei didn't know that Hu Ge actually made a cameo appearance in this movie, and there was not a trace of information leaked in the previous publicity and press release, until he saw the young actor talking to the middle-aged faction in English on the screen!

"It's so hidden, I guess I'm going to be prepared to wait until the movie is about to be released!"

As a young actor, Hu Ge's reputation and popularity in the hearts of the audience are quite good, Xie Yunfei doesn't know when they colluded well, and they actually appeared directly in Hollywood's top blockbusters!

This span is indeed a bit large.

Many book reviewers and readers think that the depressed young writer in the preface of "Life of Pi" is actually Zhang Chu who is creating his own template, and in the story, the writer writes the whole book of "Life of Pi" through Pi's story.

So when Li Yan was filming, he was going to look for a Chinese actor in Hollywood, but after thinking about it, it was better to find a pure Chinese actor, which was closer to Zhang Chu's image.

To be famous, can speak English, have a good image and temperament, and his acting skills can't be too miserable, so Hu Ge, who happened to study in the United States, became the best candidate.

Many people think that the Chinese actors in the movie have an accent when they speak English, and they all feel that the accent is not good, and they must speak a fluent London accent, which is extremely wrong!

What directors want is an accent, and it is not good to have one! The accent is a part of the character's personality and image, and you can simply speculate on the background of the character.

For example, if a character from Spain can't hear the Spanish flavor in the actor's accent, it's an omission.

If a vulgar cowboy in the southern countryside of the United States said his lines with an Oxford accent, it would probably make the critics spray indecently and completely out of place!

But ordinary audiences and people who think they have strong English skills can't see this, Xie Yunfei is very happy to be able to get this role by a Chinese actor.

I don't know if the writer only appears at the beginning or will appear frequently later, but it's a good thing that the scene is more or less.

"Speaking of which, in the past two years, there have been very few Chinese actors going to Hollywood, and there are not many commercial films and literary films. Fortunately, now that there is Zhang Chu, there are still some roles in the several books he has written that can be given to Chinese actors. I hope Hu Ge can seize the opportunity this time and enter the film industry in one fell swoop!"

Xie Yunfei silently gave Zhang Chu a thumbs up, which was really good.

Hollywood doesn't provide good roles for Chinese actors, so just do it!

This writer character is quite average, after all, the protagonist is pie.

But the completed "Da Vinci Code" movie is different, it is a blockbuster produced by Disney, filmed at the Louvre, and directed by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard, but the starring role is Tony Leung, one of the four kings of Hong Kong!

In the new edition written by Zhang Chu, the protagonist is no longer Robert Langdon, a professor at Harvard University, but Professor Yang from Yenching University in symbolic cryptography.

People are still personable and knowledgeable in middle age, and it is quite appropriate to give this kind of role to Tony Leung.

Professor Robert Langdon in the previous life was a classic image, and he was completely changed to Chinese.

Disney people have wanted to bleach the protagonist more than once and let a white actor play it, after all, there are a lot of such bleaching things, such as the heroine of Ghost in the Shell has changed from Asian to white!

It's just that Zhang Chu didn't agree, and he couldn't even use Chinese actors, so he had to choose Chinese actors.

If it weren't for the author's insistence, "The Da Vinci Code" would probably have to be changed back to the original time and space.

Such a writer is really fortunate for those self-motivated Chinese actors, so that they will not lose sight of the way forward!

In the theater, Xie Yunfei was already immersed in the movie in all directions, and he had no time to think about too many questions.

Pie's father opened a zoo, and because of this special living environment, the boys had their own views on faith and human nature, and believed in three religions at the same time. When he was 17 years old, he planned to immigrate to Canada with his family because of livelihood problems.

On a ship bound for Canada, a storm in the middle of the night turned into a catastrophe that engulfed the cargo ship in an instant. Pie miraculously survived, drifting in a lifeboat across the Pacific Ocean, accompanied by three animals, including a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, who was eventually rescued after 227 days.

At the end of the story, Pie's experience doesn't convince the shipwreck investigators, and he tells another version of the story. When the truth is revealed, those film critics who are still immersed in the beautiful picture will usher in a head-on blow!

There is no doubt that "Life of Pi" is full of all kinds of foreshadowing, true and false, false and true.

His father once said that the picture in the tiger's eyes was Pi's emotional reflex, and the tiger had a vision of his mother when he looked at the sea, the priest said to Pi, "You must be thirsty", and the tiger's name Richard Parker was thirsty, and when Pie was drifting, he said "Welcome to Noah's Ark", and in the story of Noah's Ark, the day the flood receded was February 27th, which happened to be the time he was drifting on the sea!

The critics in the audience were immersed in contemplation and reminiscence, and did not want to miss any foreshadowing.

"God, I should have watched it again!"

This sentence has been repeatedly mentioned by different film critics, before and after, you will only know the meaning of the front shot when you see the back, and you will miss a lot of information if you only watch it once!