Chapter 318: Ice and Fire (4)
The movie is still going on, but most of them are postscripts, easter eggs and the like, but fortunately, everyone knows the rules, so they all continue to watch it politely. However, many people who need to be busy are already absent-minded, and some have even started to work directly.
At the very least, many reporters have already taken advantage of the faint light on the screen to revise their manuscripts, after all, it is still early today, and many entertainment websites need to post manuscripts immediately, so it is necessary to take the opportunity to check for mistakes and polish.
And to be honest, the last 40 minutes gave these reporters a completely different view of the movie than the first 70 minutes, and the first 70 minutes allowed them to position the film as a mediocre youth idol movie, but now, the dazzling performance in the last 40 minutes of the movie can even be called amazing, so these people almost have a consistent opinion, that is, Jin Zhongming is really a pity this time.
That's right, this group of reporters and Zhang Dongjian are the same idea, Kim Jong-ming has indeed shown his own directing skills, and the actors' feelings have burst out, but they have been ruined on the mediocre script, or rather, on Kim Jong-ming's own screenwriting level. The structure of the film is obviously a little unreasonable, with too few highlights in the first half and even a bit of vulgarity, and almost two people in the second half, which makes it seem that the film is commercially difficult to find. After all, if you have already annoyed the audience in the first 70 minutes, then whether you can watch it in the next 40 minutes is two words, and you may just leave the show. And this is not nonsense, in today's difficult situation of Korean films, the audience's pickiness is called a ruthless, and there are often collective halftime departures.
So, in the two screening rooms filled with media reporters in the second half of the time, the rustle of pen tips on paper and the slight sound of keyboard buttons could be heard everywhere. This is because many people are not only correcting typos and sentences, but also revising and organizing the entire article.
A Yahoo Korea reporter is seriously revising his article, and he is writing a comment about Kim Jong-myung, and the text is to the effect of 'that...... In a word...... It's a pity'.
This is also the attitude of most journalists.
Of course, there are not without journalists who particularly like this movie. For example, the female reporter of "Seoul Sports" who deliberately made things difficult for Eun Jing's acting skills before, she is nearly in her thirties, and she appreciates and likes this movie very much. Instead, she liked it wholeheartedly, so she was still silent and didn't come back to her senses.
In addition, there is a group of reporters from the print media, who seem to be more comfortable. For example, the "Chosun Ilbo" reporter who changed the manuscript once just now, at this time, he directly tore up the current manuscript again, then rubbed it and stuffed it into his pocket, and secretly got up and went to the screening hall full of actors, where he was going to block the interview, and then write a new manuscript again.
Well, there were all sorts.
At this time, various actors' names began to flash on the screen. The final theme song has also been played, and then the lights come on, and the movie is officially over!
And at this moment, whether it was a screening hall full of actors, or a screening hall full of idols, or a screening hall full of students where the three directors were, there was a sudden burst of warm applause.
The actors are perfunctory, and they are selling good to An Shengji, who is sitting here in the town.
Idols are a little better. There are indeed some people here who really like this movie, but most of them are actually showing favor to the main creators sitting in the front row or making a mistake to Jin Zhongming.
In both venues, the media reporters were clapping in a formulaic or courtesic manner. In short, it's still quite lively.
However, after the applause subsided, the atmosphere in the two screening halls was not right compared to the students who began to leave the venue normally.
The actors giggled and left, it was still early in the night. Since it's rare to meet artist friends who are usually very busy, do you want to socialize and have a drink together? So everyone went up to greet each other, and the reporters at the door and behind them flanked back and forth, so this screening hall was very lively for a while, and then it took five or six minutes to leave.
But. At this moment, the "Chosun Ilbo" reporter after interviewing Jang Dongjian suddenly made a new discovery, and when he glanced into the screening hall with the idea of trying it out, he actually found that there was still a person left in the seat!
Are you asleep? Watching a movie, falling asleep?' A well-known actor fell asleep watching Kim Jong-myung's new movie, which is big news. Why don't you stay here and wait and see how this person will react when he wakes up? At this point, the reporter no longer hesitated, he walked over directly, and then sat down next to him, anyway, his press release should be handed in before 2 o'clock tonight, and he didn't care about the time he was waiting.
However, the screening room next door full of idols was a little flustered after the applause, because many reporters who rushed over to prepare for the interview and the idols who were originally going to come forward to say hello were speechless to find that Jin Zhongming was gone!
I don't know when, the soul of this movie actually left the audience, artists, media, and crew colleagues here and ran away alone! Anyway, now under the bright screen, only Yoo Dehwan, Han Eunjing, Jang Geun Suk and others are left here to bow their heads and thank them one by one, and what other things do they give or the like.
However, the most critical Jin Zhongming has disappeared, what are you talking about?
And at the same moment, in the screening hall full of students, the three great directors were still expressing their thoughts.
"It's still hard to understand. Choi Dong-hoon frowned and looked at the smiling students who were leaving, feeling very puzzled. "The response of this group of students is good, and it is indeed a good source of movie tickets, but the group of students or students after this year's college entrance examination is still not enough to meet the box office gap, how much can this group of students bring to the box office of this movie? One million? Two million! The students' consumption is really limited, and this is definitely not enough to satisfy Jin Zhongming's commercial ambitions. The three of us have used him, and you two should know about his ambitions, right?"
"There's a big problem with the structure of the movie!" said Lee Jun-yi unceremoniously. "The second third and the first two-thirds don't match at all! From the perspective of film art, or from the perspective of film professional language, I can only give him a score of 75! The script and the long and verbose narrative in the front have seriously dragged down and caused irreversible hard damage. Giving 75 points is still based on the face of his outstanding soundtrack. ”
"That...... Director Bong Joon-ho?" Choi Dong-wook and Lee Jun-ik looked at Bong Joon-ho in the middle speechlessly after speaking, the top director of Korean cinema almost didn't go crazy in the first half of the first half, but I don't know what's going on, he has been sparing words like gold in the second half of the movie until now.
"Not necessarily!" Bong Joon-ho suddenly spoke, but what he said made the two people next to him scratch their heads.
"What may not be?" Li Junyi asked directly, relying on his age.
"The first 70 minutes weren't necessarily that bad. Bong Joon-ho replied to Lee Jun-ik. "Director Lee Jun-ik has you thought about it, just like Dong-hoon said. The three of us have all used Jin Zhongming, and we all know something about him, so we don't need to say much about his ambitions, right?"
"That's nature. Li Junyi laughed dryly. "He wished everything was his. ”
But his talent is also unquestionable. Bong Joon-ho continued. "He really can't see such an obvious bruise?
"But ......," Li Junyi stopped talking.
"There's a kid over there who is looking very seriously. Bong Joon-ho's speech was too jumpy, but the other two still followed the direction of his finger and saw a young college student who was sorting things out on his seat, very immature, he should be a freshman, in fact, they had already discovered that most of the students in this screening room were freshmen and sophomores.
"Maybe he's really serious. Li Junyi asked speechlessly after taking a look. "But what does this mean? The last 40 minutes are very good, especially in the last 10 minutes, don't many girls be moved to tears? It is natural that some people are trapped......
"From where I sat while watching a movie. It's hard not to notice that he happened to be in the light of the screen. Bong Joon-ho continued to explain seriously. "Plus he's been very interesting, so I've been watching him for a long time. ”
The other two were interested.
He didn't really have the slightest interest in the film at first. Bong Joon-ho continued. He didn't even hide his disgust when he was handjob and eating at home in his pants. However, I remember very clearly that when the hero and heroine talked about the topic of ghost movies, he was immersed in the movie all of a sudden, and since then he has watched it very seriously, and finally laughed and cried with the plot, so he is here to sort out his emotions......"
"You mean......" Choi Dong-hoon asked tentatively. "People of our age find this play boring and rough. For the real audience of this movie, it is a place that can touch their hearts? I'm going to ask!"
Choi Dong-hoon just asked. He got up and went down to chat with the student who had just wiped his tears, and came back in a few moments.
"How's it going?" asked Li Junyi impatiently.
"The student, Park Sang-myung, said that he and his cousin used to scare girls with scenes from ghost movies when they were in middle school......" Choi Dong-hoon recounted. "So he said that at that moment he remembered a girl he had forgotten about the same, and even her face was very clear, and then he ......"
"The film...... Isn't it really for us to see?" Bong Joon-ho said softly. "So. The seventy-minute description of the youth in high school and college is to cast a net on a large area at the beginning, using all kinds of real youth scenes to lure this group of young people into the hook, as long as there is a scene that evokes the memories of this person, you can stick to each other, and then you can use the following thirty minutes of continuous climactic scenes to entangle each other again, and then use the last amazing ten minutes to completely capture the other party......"
Li Junyi's face next to him was blue and white. He is the oldest of the late bloomers, and he is already fifty years old this year, so he is particularly sensitive in this regard.
What does he feel like now? It's like a student who thinks he can score 100 points in the exam this time, but when the results come out, he finds that he only took a duck egg, so he also goes to the teacher to ask for an explanation, but in the end he finds that he even forgot to write his name, so it is natural that it is a duck egg!
That's right, Li Junyi has already figured it out. I am not qualified to rate this movie, I didn't have it in the first place, and the 75-point statement is even more bullshit, because this movie is not for him, a fifty-year-old man, to watch at all!
"Even so, I don't think a student's spending alone is enough to satisfy his business ambitions. Choi Dong-hoon is sticking to his own opinion, speaking from a business perspective. He's the best of the three!
Two minutes later, Lee Jun-ik and Choi Dong-hoon had both left, and Bong Joon-ho also found his notebook that had fallen under the front seat, and then silently left the already empty screening room.
However, as soon as he left the screening room, he heard a few idols waiting for people near the lobby of the business district downstairs talking about something:
"Why did Zhong Ming run away in the end? I thought he would stand up arm in arm with Enjing, and I even thought about coaxing them to kiss one on the spot!" A female idol said excitedly while her legs were bouncing, and she was very familiar with the male and female protagonists.
"Zhaoyan, save it!" replied a beautiful girl with a faint beauty mole on the tip of her nose. "The president is watching from the sidelines, how can you have the guts to do that?" In addition to Jin Zhongming's disappearance, Baolan seems to be ...... Lost. ”
"Sister Baolan, she's going to reflect!" replied a tall girl who looked a little similar to Kim Tae-hee. "She cried a lot after reading it, and when she cried in my arms, she seemed to have transformed into an Enming party, but after crying, she regretted it, and now she is fighting ......in the bathroom."
"Anyway, I have a problem. The girl named Park So-yeon spoke again. "Why do you two 86-year-olds cry when you watch a movie? I think it's good, but I'm ......."
"That's because your high school years weren't complete. The beautiful girl with a mole on the tip of her nose replied with emotion. "Only people who have gone through their high school and college years in their entirety, but have just lost these things, can understand the value of the details of this film. You see, among the people who came today, people like the two of you who left school very early or whose school life was incomplete didn't react much......"
"Is Sister Jihyun crying too?" a girl who had just run over interrupted the girl's narration excitedly. "Big news! Sister, you will cry too!"
Several girls made a fuss. Bong Joon-ho was stunned, he seemed to have grabbed something. So I desperately want to verify it with Jin Zhongming.
Taking out his mobile phone, Bong Joon-ho contacted Kim Jong-myung, who told him that he was in screening room No. 5.
Bong Joon-ho immediately followed the sound and pushed the door open, and Kim Jong-ming was the only one sitting in the middle of the last row in the huge screening hall.
"What are you doing here?" Bong Joon-ho was amused by the other party's appearance.
"I'm ...... Express your feelings!" Kim Jong-ming replied calmly. "Look, director Bong Joon-ho. I think my commercial film is destined to be a success, but in South Korea I can't learn to shout at the camera like Hollywood and say that I'm God or something, but I really want to shout like that, so what should I do? ”
"That's really ...... I have seen it for a long time. Bong Joon-ho walked over and sat down side by side with the other party.
Suddenly. He turned to Kim Jong Ming and asked, "What's the reaction in this screening room? I mean, how many people are crying? How many people are applauding?"
No one applauded. Kim Jong-myung took a deep look at the best Korean director. No one applauded. There were three or four percent of the people who cried, and most of them were silent for a while and left. ”
"And who are you in this screening room?" Bong Joon-ho continued to ask.
Of course, they are all students from the School of History, Seoul National University. Jin Zhongming took out a piece of gum from his arms and chewed it.
"I mean age groups. "Bong Joon-ho is unrelenting. "The screening room where I was was was obviously full of freshmen and sophomores, so everyone's reaction was very intense, there were many people laughing, applauding, and a few tears, but there were very few silent people......
"This screening room is full of my classmates. "It is necessary to avoid someone who already knows something, so Kim Jong Ming is very honest. "There are people who are about the same age as me, or a little older, some of whom are graduate students like me, and some of whom have already graduated from undergraduate and are working, and they are invited by me to call one by one. ”
"That's why it works so well?" Bong Joon-ho sighed. "So this play is not for the elderly at all, nor for the people who are still in the agitation of adolescence, this is actually for people who have just lost their youth. The tireless youthful realism in the first 70 minutes is actually the essence of this movie, right? They can make people bring themselves into the work, and once a person brings himself into a work, then this person is destined to worship the work...... Anyway, congratulations. ”
Kim Jong-myung laughed dryly: "You are the best director in Korea, naturally whatever you say is what you say......"
"Zhong Ming, I'm forty years old, even if I'm a very good director, I'm still very ignorant in the face of this kind of youth issues that have nothing to do with me. Bong Joon-ho replied frankly. "I only realized this when I heard a few young audience members talk about the movie. ”
Jin Zhongming nodded convincingly.
"Then again. Speaking of this, Bong Joon-ho suddenly sighed. "In fact, this movie can only be made by you, because the other directors are all too old, they don't understand it at all!"
Kim Jong-ming was noncommittal.
"One more thing. Bong Joon-ho continued. "I only felt it when I just came in and saw you. ”
"Speak, please. Jin Zhongming was really puzzled at this moment.
"Your movie, on the one hand, is of course seriously talking about the purest and most beautiful love. But you're also talking about ...... Talking about the strength of Kim Jong-ming. It's like in the movie, 'I like to like yourself too', what you really want to praise is actually Kim Jong-ming's calmness and strength, right?"
"I just want to make the audience feel more immersed. Jin Zhongming looked at each other deeply again. Maybe some viewers are very narcissistic, or maybe there is no first love at all, in that case, what can make him feel brought in is not his Han Enjing, but the Jin Zhongming who represents himself. ”
"Oh, I see. Bong Joon-ho nodded, and then said something abruptly. "I have to apologize to you!"
Jin Zhongming looked at the other party puzzled again.
"You've done a good job. Bong Joon-ho replied by standing up. "People who do a good job deserve respect, you're a great director, and I shouldn't have treated you like an ordinary actor before. ”
Kim Jong-ming nodded seriously, and then watched the other party leave, on the one hand, he was calmly accepting the other party's apology, on the other hand, this person is the best director in South Korea, and his praise and recognition are indeed a high honor that deserves to be taken seriously.
Leaving the No. 5 screening room, Bong Joon-ho opened his notebook and wanted to write something as he walked out briskly, but as soon as he was not careful, he bumped into another person who was also holding a notebook but still carrying a lot of things on his back, and all kinds of cameras, laptops, microphones and other things were scattered all over the ground.
"I'm so sorry!" Bong Joon-ho apologized embarrassedly as he helped the other party pack his things, there were very few people in the theater at this time, and he didn't expect to bump into someone.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. The other party obviously knows Bong Joon-ho. "Why is Director Bong Joon-ho only going back now? Oh, I'm a reporter, a reporter from Chosun Ilbo......"
"Chosun Ilbo?" Bong Joon-ho looked at the other party in surprise, and after a little thought, he asked a question. "Do you receive movie reviews? I happen to be preparing a movie review about Kim Jong-ming here!"
"Of course!" the reporter was stunned for a moment, and then there was a burst of ecstasy, he thought that the harvest of waiting for half an hour tonight was already great, but he didn't expect that there was a bigger pie waiting for him here!
Sure enough, God rewards hard work!
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