Chapter 690: The Vulgarest Part of Human Nature
Vampire-themed films are not uncommon in Hollywood, but now, when the whole of Hollywood is "dramatized", a theme with gold-absorbing potential like vampires, except for the B-grade film "Legend of the Night", which has an extremely limited impact, has not yet been made into a series of products, which is really a matter of common anger.
Therefore, under Matthew's investment and operation, "Twilight" came into being.
Created by an ordinary American housewife in her spare time, this set is not fanatically sought after for its otherworldly portrayal of vampires, but on the contrary, it is characterized by the fact that it encompasses all the characteristics and clichés of vampires.
This is in line with Matthew's usual routine business thinking.
If he could, he could make "Twilight" a romantic version of "The Lord of the Rings in the vampire world."
Serialized movies can maximize his benefits.
If you want to maximize the benefits, then you need the film to be completely bloody...... No, it's romantic to the extreme.
Even the most inconspicuous lines have to make those little girls scream and go crazy.
Therefore, Isabella's love words will give goosebumps to twenty-seven or eighteen-year-olds like Matthew and David Ellison, but they will make little girls obsessed to the point of madness.
"There are three things I'm sure of. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him — I don't know how much that part played a role — that was desperate for my blood. Third, I fell in love with him unconditionally and incorrigibly. ”
This is a line that Stephanie Mayer designed specifically for Isabella.
Time magazine once said of Stephanie Mayer and the "Twilight" series: "Full of love-hate tension, but elegant and refined like Jane Austen, it has reached the ultimate in romance." ”
As a PG-13 movie, the male and female protagonists in "Twilight" are so elegant and simple in their actions, and the most intense physical contact between the two parties is just kissing.
Stephanie Mayer is a super genius when it comes to writing romantic lines.
The sensual lines in the film are basically from the original author.
"Even if you are not human, I still love you so much that I am not afraid of death."
Here's Isabella's line, and look at Edward's classic confession: "I love you more than I put all the things in the world together!"
Matthew hasn't watched Qiong Yao, and Qiong Yao's drama is limited to Gege, so the effect of "the mountains are boundless" is estimated to be like this.
However, the shortcomings of this film are also obvious.
Because of the cliché plot, calm and slow style, lack of humor, and failure to create a complete and detailed magical world and complex character relationships like in "Harry Potter" or "The Lord of the Rings", the film completely stays at the level of youth films, and it is difficult to reach the height of super commercial blockbusters.
Due to budget reasons, the pile of unrefined special effects can also be said to be a failure.
Also, Sofia Coppola is very bad at handling action scenes, but wherever action scenes are involved, the film is obviously degraded, when Edward jumps from one location to another to show his over-human power, or when Bella is tied behind him and shuttles through the forest quickly, the camera looks a little unreal and unrealistic.
But none of this is a problem.
The female audience at the premiere screamed incessantly, a hundred times more excited than the most hardcore tightrope to see Optimus Prime and Megatron on the big screen.
The poignant love story of a vampire and a human is bound to drive countless female audiences to the theaters, and the young girls who "take the Twilight series as much as the Bible" will empty their wallets for the film's box office and beyond.
Matthew believes that they will become the super nymphomaniacs of "Twilight": the little sisters will applaud and cheer and be smitten when the books are sold and the movie tickets are sold......
No one can deny that any woman will be a nymphomaniac, even if Karolina Kokova chooses clients, appearance will become a necessary hard condition.
That's why a good-looking person like him is so popular.
They like to see all kinds of beautiful men, like to fantasize that these men are only interested in themselves, and like to conceive and spend a variety of beautiful times with them, but their fantasies usually stop at the skin, and they are satisfied at once, and they do not have a deep understanding of men, thinking that in love, everything revolves around them, and the relationship is natural, and after the canal, they will be relaxed and happy.
Most little sisters have had such a stage: full of relatively pure fantasies about love.
"Twilight" is essentially a product of this fantasy from the beginning of the movie, and now it is reinforced by this fantasy.
In this movie, in fact, nothing happened, and Sofia Coppola just made a story of nothing happening very romantic.
After watching the movie, Matthew's impression is basically that some beautiful boys and girls are walking around, eyebrows and eyes, eyes shining, red lips talking about fluttering vows.
There are also a lot of big close-ups, boys and girls are very good-looking, and more close-ups are a plus.
Even the bad guys are beautiful epiphany, and they only appear once, but they are stunning.
Vampires live in noble homes in the mountains, and the sun sparkles like diamonds, which is simply the setting of the girls' favorite Barbie games.
In order to cater to the preferences of the little sisters, Sofia Coppola has really achieved the ultimate in needs.
Sofia Coppola once told him in post-production that because she had gone through that kind of nymphomaniac stage, she knew what those little nymphomaniacs wanted to see.
Female directors have a natural advantage in this regard.
It is precisely for the needs of that vampires have changed from the original monsters to the handsome guys they are today in the history of literature and film.
It's hard to trace who started with vampires who became a male-known industry, and the early vampires in the film were the equivalent of thinking zombies, common villains who set off the positive protagonists, and their faces were extremely hideous.
Since then, as the vampire has evolved into the protagonist, the appearance setting has gradually improved, adding a bit of evil charm, and in the era of "Interview with the Vampire", the only intersection of the two most famous beautiful men in Hollywood in this life has made the vampire instantly synonymous with handsome guys, and the remnants have not been dispersed since then......
From a physiological point of view, vampires are often short of blood, resulting in perennial pale complexion and grotesque descriptions, which happens to coincide with today's prevailing Gothic aesthetics; from a genetic point of view, most vampires are of noble birth and have excellent genes, coupled with hundreds or even thousands of years of tempering, it is not uncommon to be rich in beautiful men.
In addition to these traditional requirements, Stephanie Mayer gave the vampire Edward a perfect model: pale and handsome, elegant and depressed, and of a gorgeous and noble birth, he has lived in this world for hundreds of years like most other vampires, with the difference that he will stay forever at the age of seventeen, which is enough to establish the selling point of "Twilight".
However, because the original book depicts the role of Edward too incomprehensibly, some people will definitely not buy the image of the male protagonist, after all, there are a hundred Hamlets in the hearts of a hundred people.
In addition, the background of vampires is also conducive to making ** romance.
As we all know, in movies and literary works, the creation of vampire love should not be underestimated, their passion and wildness and what they do at every turn involve life and death, so that vampire love has a heart-warming effect that is difficult for mortals to achieve, plus love usually occurs between vampires and humans, and the difficult coexistence of attributes makes the love under the taboo more moving.
Throughout the works of the last 20 years, vampires, whether good or evil, are mostly amorous seeds that are difficult to find in the world, and a relationship can always linger until the sea is dry, and in "400 Years of Vampire Horror", even if the lover has turned a few lifetimes and several eons, she can still be reawakened, resulting in vampires' love rivals often becoming the most unlucky people in the world.
The movie "Twilight" is naïve, and even Matthew can't deny it, but many naïve films often achieve great commercial success.
If a fantasy genre like "Harry Potter" still needs to be seen with the brain and felt with the heart, then "Twilight" is a work that can be seen only with the eyes, and the brain will be affected by it, and it will be surrounded by it.
A girl's heartburst girl will definitely do this kind of super Mary Sue.
Matthew was once puzzled, why Jin Yong and Qiong Yao were popular? Now that I think about it, the answer is not complicated, men love to fight and kill, and by the way, they pick up girls; women love Qingqing and me, and the male protagonist should be handsome, and it is better to be rich.
This fits the most vulgar part of human nature.
At the end of the premiere, Matthew was full of confidence in "Twilight" in the face of anyone and the media, and these confidence was not only based on the film itself, but also from the market.
Since the end of last year, there have been some big changes on the Hollywood screen, which is mostly occupied by male films: "Enchanted" and "Juno", which are the primary consideration of female audiences, have been screened one after another, achieved good box office results, and shined at the Oscars; this year's "27 Marriage", "Mamma Mia", and "Youth Musical" have sold well and are full of stamina; not to mention the romantic comedy premiere record created by "Sex and the City" in May, 57 million are almost all contributed by women!
From these so-called Chick. With Flick — a men's scornful term for women's films — Hollywood studios have realized that women are making up more of the film market than they expected.
On the one hand, the huge potential of female audiences has led to a significant change in the direction of Hollywood's filmmaking, and on the other hand, it is also the inevitable result of the feminist movement and the increasing status of women in society.
Therefore, the emergence of "Twilight" is also in line with the current social situation.
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