With the stars in the night sky and the moonlight falling, movie theaters across North America are seeing another summer rush of attendance, with moviegoers laughing and laughing as they buy tickets, spray buckets of popcorn and Coke, and walk into the screening room, while those who arrive late are frustrated.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Anyway, the theater owners smiled, and the "savior of the film market" magically came!

"50 years later, when you look back on today, don't you regret that you didn't have the courage to get into this car?" The PG-13 sci-fi action film "Transformers", which cost 150 million to produce, landed in 4011 North American cinemas, and the screening hall was full of youthful heat, and the handsome and deformed Bumblebee on the big screen, the hot and sexy Meghan Fox all dazzled the audience, with special effects, popularity, LOSER, beauty, and defeating the big bad...... Despite the fact that there is a masterpiece like "Iron Man" in the past, it is still a blockbuster summer vacation blockbuster, with an average story and average characters, but the adrenaline is soaring again and again! Coupled with crazy publicity and countless long-awaited Autobot fans, "Transformers" is definitely not only B in combat.

At the same time, perhaps right next door, a chill flowed silently between the packed auditoriums, most of whom were expressionless and nervous, and only moved when they occasionally ate popcorn, and the PG-13 sci-fi thriller "I Am Legend", which cost 180 million to make, debuted in 4,015 theaters.

On the big screen, there is a barren wasteland world, the streets of Manhattan, New York are overgrown with wild grass swaying in the wind, the buildings on both sides are covered with a layer of dusty and broken, and "Neville" played by Will Smith walks on the empty street with a rifle, accompanied by the dog Sam, and there is silence.

"......", "I like it. "Shhhh

"Shhhhh

Since setting up the handsome Charlie Film Company at the beginning of the year and directing a 20-minute short film, "Eve," for next month's Venice Film Festival, Natalie has become more aware of how hard it is to be a good director. In addition to liking that guy more, she let herself learn more, look at and consider things as a director and producer, and she can better understand how crazy that guy is.

The filmmakers are well aware of this, and only the magic Yang dares to do it when a blockbuster like "I Am Legend" is released in the hot and exaggerated summer!

After the conventional development and changes, the audience's viewing mentality is different throughout the year, which affects the schedule selection of a blockbuster, and it is obviously not good to have enough popcorn in the summer vacation, such a story as "I Am a Legend", especially Wang Yang is likely not to create a simple summer blockbuster of "superheroes killing zombies to save the world", but like "The Rest of the Desert Island", it is more suitable to be released on Christmas files, because the audience at that time is calm, and the weather, awards season and festive atmosphere will make them want to see some artwork.

A few years ago, "District 9" was still located in August, which was closest to the cool autumn, and now "I Am Legend" is directly in July in the middle of summer, and it is hard to compete with "Transformers".

Smart and clever like Wang Yang wouldn't know this, but he still did it, and the flame movie was still arranged like this, so everyone vaguely knew that that guy might have done it on purpose, and he did it on purpose.

Of course he is qualified, this is the thing, if "I Am Legend" is on top of other people's signs, maybe the audience will not be able to sink down to appreciate it, the signboard is magical Yang but it is completely different, to put it bluntly, even if he casually shoots something to make up a 90-minute image to be released, some people will have a lot of insights, and some people will applaud, and there is no logic to find logic, because it was filmed by Wang Yang.

Kirk Honeycutter, Peter Howell, Kyle Smith, Roger Albert and other film critics sighed, the film has been screened for more than ten minutes, it has created an almost perfect sense of isolation and loneliness, a picture of the post-apocalyptic era is slowly unfolding, because of Sam's existence, the atmosphere is not too depressing, on the contrary, there is always some fun and warm feeling.

"Hey, good morning, Maggie. Good morning, Fred. What are you doing so early? That dress looks good, Fred, don't crumple it. See you inside. ”

On the big screen, Neville opens the door of the video store and talks to the two dolls placed in the doorway, and as Sam barks in front of him, he walks into the quiet video store.

Looking at Neville's daily life, many viewers began to understand why Wang Yang called it "open-ended thinking", after he said in an exclusive interview with the media: "You know that it will not be less entertaining, you don't need to worry, and it will definitely have some thinking, I think it is open-ended, most of the time the film will not tell you any truth, or even ask questions, but you will think that when you are in a specific environment, you will think." All we have to do is build a real post-apocalyptic wasteland world on the screen. ”

What if you were the last man on Earth like Neville, with murderous mutants hiding all over the city?

"It feels awesome. "Interesting. Seeing Will Smith shopping by himself, the audience laughed, and some fans felt that this was not self-entertainment, just like the volleyball "Wilson" in "Desert Island", which is a kind of spiritual sustenance under the long-term loneliness and depression.

In fact, if a person does not speak or talk for many years, he is likely to go crazy or commit suicide. Nancy, who was watching the movie, knew that Wang Yang and Will Smith had studied together, and they had communicated with real former prisoners of war, thus finding how to behave when a real person was only with herself.

One of the things you have to do is plan, like "clean your nails" or something, you can spend two hours cleaning your nails, it's the only way to stay sane and live, you have to train your brain to do the day, and you have to learn to talk to yourself, if you don't have external stimuli, you get used to no one talking to you, you lose the stimulus response. One prisoner of war said that he sat in his cell and spent four hours trying to remember the names of things, but he just couldn't remember them.

If it weren't for the film's vague expression through some details, where would ordinary audiences know about these sciences, and film critics can see that these details should involve "science and anti-science", which is one of the themes of the original work of "I Am Legend", and it seems that Wang Yang is finally going to show it off for the third time adapted into a movie.

As a film of the same type, it is difficult not to compare "I Am Legend" with the model "28 Days of Shocking Change" in recent years, if the magic Yang spent 180 million yuan and couldn't make a better and more shocking film than the 8 million production fee, not only Yang fans were disappointed, but they would definitely be ridiculed by Yang Hei: "It's better to release "I'm the Last One" directly!" But what makes Yang fans relieved is that it seems to be no problem at present, it is worthy of being a big production, and it is worthy of being a big director! The shots, scenes, special effects, etc. it shows are not at all "" 28 Days of Shock", "28 Weeks of Shock" and other films can be compared.

I don't know if it can win in the end, but a few years ago, "28 Days of Shock" won a 7%/82% Rotten Tomatoes index, one of the reasons is that it broke away from the B-grade category of general apocalyptic zombie films, and made a good discussion of human nature.

Now the apocalyptic realism of "I Am Legend" is chilling, and it is different from the rhythm and mode of similar films in the past, and Will Smith and Sam's acting skills are very skillful, post-apocalyptic movie fans and audiences have nothing to like, and non-fan audiences also enjoy it, completely opposite to the noisy "Iron Man", "I Am Legend" seems to be a cold winter snow to cool down, and the common point between the two is...... It's all that cool.

Continue to watch Neville search for survivors again, look for drugs to support his healing serum research, watch TV shows, and the Great Evacuation clip flashes...... Rachel fully entered that world, her eyes did not blink, and she felt that it was much better than "Iron Man".

It seems that there really are no other survivors! Seeing the surprise note of the owner of the apartment when he searched the apartment, Neville's eyes moistened, and the audience in front of the big screen was nervous, no matter what...... Evelyn has a good reason, he's not a 21 or 22-year-old guy, his daughters are over 1 and a half years old, he doesn't want to scare the kids, does he? "District 9" is R-rated, "I Am Legend" is PG-13, and she believes it has a good ending.

Claire doesn't think so, Wonder Young's movies have always been different, he has always influenced the audience, no Oscar for Best Director has been filmed like that before, and now he holds one in each hand, what "surprise" will he bring?

Seeing Neville playing golf on the aircraft carrier Intrepid was a fun time for the audience, and they would really have fun with themselves! These details can be trivial, but they can also be interesting and impressive. Film critics such as Richard Roope and Jack Matthews nodded silently, and Marvelous Young's skills in handling literary dramas have always been very profound, not dull at all, but fascinating, and while showing more of the apocalyptic life, it is also laying out the plot and building the theme little by little.

......Of course, it can't be enjoyed by everyone, there are always people in thousands of theaters who yawn, and thought it would be as good as "Firefly", who knew that only Smith was walking around, a fan-exclusive movie? I already knew that I would go to watch "Transformers", what kind of shit did Wang Yang do!

However, the tension then came, as Sam ran into the dark and dangerous factory warehouse after chasing the deer, and Neville frantically shouted after him: "Sam, Sam! Sam......"

Everyone's hearts were suddenly clenched!

(To be continued)