On April 20, the Hollywood blockbuster "True Lies" was released in Beijing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lin Zixuan and Mu Shanshan went to watch a movie together, and the screening hall was full of audiences, mainly young people, and everyone was very excited.

To be honest, the ticket price of 20 yuan is a little expensive for domestic audiences, but it can't resist the attraction of Hollywood blockbusters.

It's a standard American blockbuster that celebrates individual heroism, showing the theme that good will triumph over evil.

The movie features a lot of car chases, intense firefights, and even thrilling scenes of planes sweeping through the glass walls of the building, even in Hollywood blockbusters, which are among the top productions.

This brought a strong shock to the domestic audience, and exclamations were heard in the theater from time to time.

The whole movie puts the audience in a state of excitement from beginning to end, not blindly fighting, but also mixed with American humor, which makes people laugh.

After watching the movie, Lin Zixuan and Mu Shanshan walked out of the theater and heard the people around them talking enthusiastically.

From the plot of the story to the thrilling scenes, it is basically a one-sided positive review.

After watching "The End of the World", they felt that this was already an authentic American blockbuster, but after watching "True Lies" today, they realized that they were still too naïve before, this is the real blockbuster.

"100 million US dollars, Americans are really willing to spend money, but it's worth the money, watching this film and then watching a domestic movie is like eating a delicious meal and then going to gnaw on the nest." Mu Shanshan commented.

From the audience's point of view, this is quite a pertinent evaluation.

$100 million is enough for Lin Zixuan to shoot 100 "See You or Leave", but this Hollywood blockbuster reflects not only the problem of funding, but also the shooting techniques and special effects technology.

In the production of such high-tech blockbusters in the future, special effects will occupy an increasingly heavy proportion.

Domestic films lag far behind Hollywood in the production of commercial blockbusters, both in terms of shooting concepts and technology.

The next day's newspaper reviews of the film "True Lies" were polarizing.

One group of people criticized it, and the other group praised it, as if they were not watching the same movie.

Needless to say, the critics are still academics, who think that this kind of American-style individual heroism is to advocate violence, and one person can do everything, so what do you need the police to do.

They also elevate Hollywood blockbusters to the level of cultural invasion, arguing that such films promote the idea of American supremacy and are suspected of inducing young people in China.

Those who praise it feel that such a movie is a real entertainment film that can make the audience feel thrilling and exciting.

As for individual heroism and cultural invasion, these are all old concepts, and now that the country is open, we must have the courage to accept new things and recognize the gap in order to catch up.

No matter whether the newspaper criticizes or praises it, it can't stop the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie.

Everyone is immersed in the carnival brought by Hollywood blockbusters like the New Year, and even if the ticket price is fried to 60 yuan by the ticket seller, it is still in short supply.

Lin Zixuan looked at the long queue outside the theater, when would domestic movies also have this kind of influence.

"I have to say that this guy named Cameron is a cow, he knows what the audience wants to see, the rhythm is very smooth, and there is nothing impatient from beginning to end." Feng Xiaogang praised.

"It's good-looking, it's just that I feel like something is missing, I think it's good when I watch it, and there's nothing worth remembering after reading it, and I forgot about it after a few days." Ge You pondered.

"It's called a popcorn movie, and it's standard to watch this kind of movie abroad, eat popcorn and drink Coke." Lin Zixuan explained, "After watching the movie and eating popcorn, it will be over, entertainment films are just pastimes, and there is no connotation." ”

"I think it's too wasteful to spend $100 million on a film that is such a simple pastime. The total box office of our country's movies last year was only more than one billion yuan, which is not enough for people to make two American blockbusters. "Will they be able to recoup their costs?" ”

"People are looking for the global box office, and now it's all about globalization. This kind of film can be understood by people all over the world, there are no cultural differences, even if there are no subtitles, just watching the fight scenes is enjoyable. Feng Xiaogang introduced, "The reason why our "Party A and Party B" has a low box office in the south is because of cultural differences, think about it, there are cultural differences between the south and the north of a country, and Lao Mei's films are stunned to lose this difference, isn't this great?" ”

"Brother Feng is right, this time "See You or Leave" was filmed in the United States in order to win the box office of major cities in the south, so that the audience in the south can gradually adapt to Beijing-style movies." Lin Zixuan planned.

Not only the three of them, but most of the people in the domestic film industry in China are discussing this movie.

When it was asked when we would be able to make such a big-budget movie, or how far we would be from a Hollywood blockbuster, the outcome of the discussion was not encouraging.

Everyone put forward various possibilities and found a lot of reasons for themselves.

It is generally believed that China's film industry is backward, and it will take years to make up for the gap with Hollywood.

When "True Lies" was popular, Lin Zixuan saw another situation.

He saw a pirated version of the "True Lies" video, which was sold on the streets of the capital.

In 1995, more than a dozen factories made VCD players appeared in southern China, and under the cruel market competition of these manufacturers, the price of VCD players dropped from 3,000 yuan to 800 yuan.

This price is enough for the average townsman to afford to buy this electronic consumer product.

Last year, VCD players, which were not well known, began to enter thousands of households, and with them all kinds of pirated CDs.

These CDs came to the mainland from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and the price was cheap, and you could watch a movie for five or six yuan.

In the past, everyone may have bought a video recorder, but they couldn't afford to buy a video tape, a box of video tapes cost dozens of yuan, so they all rented video tapes to watch, which led to the inability of foreign movies to be popularized in China.

Of course, the quality of this pirated disc is very poor, which is commonly known as the gun version.

It's someone who takes a camera and shoots it directly in the cinema, quickly rips it and sells it, and you can still hear the audience's laughter in this gun version of the disc, and some people even flash in front of it.

However, because of the cheap price, it is very popular with the common people.

Think about it, it costs 20 yuan to watch a Hollywood blockbuster in the cinema, and it costs less than 10 yuan to buy a disc, and you can watch it repeatedly, so naturally the latter is more cost-effective.

At this time, domestic audiences will not pursue higher viewing quality, and price has become the standard for measurement.

This has created a peculiar phenomenon in which some viewers run into the cinema to experience the shock of American blockbusters, and some people watch the gun version of the movie around the VCD player at home.

They watched the same movie and watched it with the same relish. (To be continued.) )