Chapter 200: The Year
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Those who are familiar with red wine must know that the 1982 red wine is the best.
It was the best year of the last century, with rainfall and temperatures ideal for grape growing, so this vintage is very valuable.
fite Rothschild can be fried in the market for nearly 40,000 bottles, tsk!
In the film industry, there is also such a tall year.
Someone exaggeratedly said, "This year, God wants to watch a movie!"
Someone analyzed it and said: "This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of film, and many filmmakers want to be in the limelight this year!"
Others disdainfully said, "It's just a coincidence!"
Data doesn't lie.
Looking at the rankings of films on the IMDB list, four of the top 50 are in this year, and three are in the top 20 this year.
Whether before or after, there has never been a year when there are so many movies on the list that have managed to occupy a seat in the front row.
If these movies were placed in other years, they should be the undisputed first, but in this year, they met like Mars hitting the earth, and they fell into many regrets.
Forrest Gump and Shawshank will always be together, like twin brothers born on the same day, and like shampoo and shower gel bundled together in the supermarket, the two movies have never been far from the public eye for two decades, driven by the war of words between fans on both sides, they are each other's old enemies, and they are each other's hosts.
It's hard to say that Forrest Gump is better than Shawshank, but one thing is quite clear, Forrest Gump's themes are more in line with the tastes of ordinary people, love, life and wisdom, and these positive energies inspire generation after generation, like Forrest Gump, never look back and run forward, so Forrest Gump has won more box office.
Before this year, Jim Carrey was still a small role, but this year, "Detective Plane Head" overnight made the audience fall in love with Jim Carrey's exaggerated comedy style, and then he starred in the cartoon comedy film "Strange Jack in Disguise", in which he played Mr. Yes Stanley, setting a box office record of $23 million in the opening week, and in the same year, the Farrelly brothers' "low IQ funny" film "Dumb and Dumb" Once again, it was a huge success, with a box office of $16 million in its opening week alone, and the three comedies greatly boosted Jim Carrey's popularity, establishing Jim Carrey as an ace comedy star in the eyes of audiences.
This year, Stephen Chow filmed five movies such as "Journey to the West" Moonlight Treasure Box, the Great Sage's Marriage, "Domestic Lingling Paint", "Jiupin Sesame Official", and "The King of Destruction".
This year produced two works that also tell the killer, "Natural Born Killer" and "This Killer Is Not Too Cold". A rebellion full of violence, experimentation, and system, killing, killing, and taking you to hell. Another incarnation of warmth, love, and justice, Kill, Kill, Kill, and Kill will take you to heaven. Two outlaw couples, one in prison and the western desert, and one in an apartment and warm city, stage two killer movies with completely opposite looks and feels.
This year, Zhang Yimou was nominated for Best Film at Cannes again with "Alive", Ge Wei won the Best Actor at Cannes, and a wave of Chinese films came to a small high dynasty, officially announcing that the fifth generation of directors had reached the peak - there are three candidates for the Cannes Palme d'Or, "Alive", "Vulgar", and "Scorching Sun". The pre-selection was conducted first, and "Alive" got eight votes, "Vulgar" got eight votes, and "The Scorching Sun" had five votes. In the second round, "Vulgar" had four votes, and "Alive" and "Scorching Sun" each had three votes. In the third round, only a simple majority was taken, with five votes for "Vulgar", three votes for "Scorching Sun", and two votes for "Alive". The judges had a big fight, especially with their own supporters not winning, and some were upset, but Eastwood was happy because the film he was supporting won. In this way, "Vulgar" beat "Alive" and "Sun Scorching" to win the Palme d'Or, while "Alive" won the Silver Palm.
This year, two films grossed more than $300 million in North America: "Forrest Gump" at $329 million and "The Lion King" at $313 million. It is the first time in the history of cinema that two super-grossing movies were released at the same time. After several re-releases, both films have reached $7.8 billion, and as of Li Qing's rebirth, the box office of these two films is still at the top of their IMDB rankings.
This year, China introduced the Hollywood blockbuster "True Lies", which grossed more than 100 million yuan, you must know that this was 1994.
In the same year, Li Qing and the team he formed went to Hollywood without hesitation to compete with outstanding filmmakers from all over the world!
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Mexico is one of the richest countries in the Americas in terms of history and natural beauty, and it is home to the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations.
The Mayan Pyramid of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and there are magnificent Mayan ruins in the surrounding areas of Tulum, Mérida, and Palenque.
At this time, on a winding road, next to a tank truck that has been lengthened and lengthened and lengthened.
Li Qing first explained his desired effects and precautions to all relevant personnel in Chinese, and then explained his desired effects and precautions in English.
After arriving in Miami, Li Qing temporarily changed his mind and used the beginning of "Fast and Furious 4" as the beginning of his "Fast and Furious", for which Li Qing even hired Lin Yibin, the director of "Fast and Furious 4" and studying film at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as his assistant.
The reason why Li Qing temporarily changed his mind was because the opening he originally thought, that is, the opening of "Fast and Furious 1", was not burning enough to capture the hearts of the audience at once.
You know, he is nothing in Hollywood, if he can't catch the audience's attention as soon as he starts, many viewers may watch the beginning and leave.
And if the best opening in the "Fast and Furious" series is chosen, then the opening of "Fast and Furious 4" will undoubtedly be firmly in the top spot.
However, this opening scene is good, but it is really difficult to shoot, Li Qing has gathered countless masters around him, as well as Lin Yibin, who created this set of shots, but when filming the set of shots of Dominic and Letty being trapped on a cliff and having no way to retreat to face the tumbling and burning giant tanker truck, everyone, including Lin Yibin, shook their heads, saying that this could not be done at all.
In the end, Li Qing could only find the people of Industrial Light and Magic, and then the person who directed Industrial Light and Magic synthesized this clip with special effects.
Now, Li Qing wants to shoot Vin Diesel and Yang Ziqiong stealing fuel tanker trucks.
This set of shots is a real shot.
By the way, Li Qing combined the seven "Fast and Furious" together, and the plot designation could not be very ingenious, which is also a common problem of the "Fast and Furious" series - beauties, fragrant cars, sensational motors, mythical drifts, cold handsome guys, eye-catching and exciting, as for the plot, the right should be ignored, if you really think about it, there are a lot of loopholes, but then again, with so many highlights, who cares about the plot?
Li Qing's "Fast and Furious" actually worked the plot - because he was afraid that he would not adapt to the soil after going to Hollywood, after Li Qing finished writing the script by himself, he deliberately found a Hollywood script team to revise it for him.
But even so, it can only be said that it is not bad, and there is really nothing new to say.
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