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With the end of the opening animation, the screen suddenly emptied, and the five big characters "Wang Zijun's works" were reflected in the center.
It's not English, it's not Hanyu Pinyin, it's five boxy Chinese characters, and there is no translation under the Chinese characters. Looking at these five Chinese characters, most of the people present couldn't understand what it meant, but those Chinese viewers couldn't help but applaud.
At the beginning of the film, the camera wanders in the house where the actor is about to move in, and the names of the main actors come out first. Seeing Aida and Quinton with their names on the screen, they were very excited.
After the names of the people behind the scenes, such as photography and makeup, were revealed, and those who looked carefully at the subtitles were shocked-planner: Zachary. King; Producer: Zachary. King; Screenwriter: Zachary. King; Music: Zachary. King; Editor: Zachary. King; Director: Zachary. King; Even, he is also the leading actor, and he also participated in art design, action direction, photography, etc.
"Oh God, is this man from Mars?". Film critic Litport exclaimed.
Jose said, "I think I know Audrey. Why did Hepburn favor him. He's talented, isn't he? ”。
"I'm also very talented, haven't you noticed? Ms. Jose. Litport smirked.
Jose grimaced, "But you're laughing like an idiot right now." ”
"Okay, let's watch the movie first." Litter laughed awkwardly.
On the screen, the plot unfolded smoothly. Sam and his girlfriend Audrey played by Wang Zijun. Hepburn moved to a new house, and Carl, a good friend played by Quinton, helped them clean and decorate, a beautiful picture of love and friendship.
In order to cater to the aesthetics of American audiences, Wang Zijun slightly modified the appearance in the film, which has a bit of Eurasian mixed taste. After all, Bruce Lee is just fighting, but Wang Zijun is going to fight with Audrey, the angel in the world. Hepburn loved to death. If you don't deal with it, the devil knows what some viewers will do in this era of racism with a lot of remnants.
Sam and Carl feign illness in the elevator room and help them decorate their new home, all of which speaks to their friendship. But the plot of asking for a password casually pointed out in the office has already faintly revealed the information.
Senior film critics like Steve, Litter, and Jose immediately felt that this plot should be foreshadowing, otherwise such an inconsequential plot would not have happened.
And then there's Audrey. Hepburn couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, got up to make a clay pot, Wang Zijun also came from the bedroom, and the two began to make love in the music of "Unrestrained Melody". Journalists, film critics, and audiences at the scene were all amazed, because these shots were except... Except for what is not exposed, everything that can be revealed is revealed.
Especially with the soulful singing, moviegoers can easily be infected by the atmosphere.
The sudden intimacy scene lasted for three minutes, but no one felt abrupt, and no one felt **, but felt that everything went naturally. Whether it's Wang Zijun or Audrey. Hepburn, in which his acting skills are almost impeccable, as if they themselves are a couple who love each other deeply.
In major movie theaters in the United States, many couples are attracted by the advertising slogan "movies for couples". At this moment, the sound of kissing and wheezing faintly sounded in the corners of many theaters. And those single viewers are envious, jealous and hateful.
Diggs said to his wife, Rayla, "It seems that we chose to watch a movie for our wedding anniversary, dear. ”
"Yes." Rayla leaned over and kissed her husband on the lips, and the two quickly embraced.
At this moment, everyone was amazed by Audrey. Hepburn's age and beauty, and that unnamed interlude music.
"Bang" a gunshot rang out.
The male protagonist who fought with the robbers fell, but quickly stood up.
Just when people thought that the male protagonist Sam was not dead, Sam turned to look back, only to see the female protagonist Molly holding a corpse and crying loudly.
The corpse looked exactly like Sam standing on the ground.
Sam called Molly's name, but Molly didn't respond, reaching out to push her, but the hand went straight through Molly's body.
"Sam is dead," one viewer exclaimed in surprise, only to remember that it was a psychedelic movie.
The audience in the cinema was also amazed, because when the ghost Sam's hand passed through the heroine's body just now, the picture was so realistic.
A beam of light falls from the sky, enveloping the male protagonist in it, and at the same time the theater also plays a mass, Sam jumps out of the beam. ,
"That is the light that ascends to heaven. Amen," a faithful believer with a cross on his chest.
As the plot progresses, the hero's ghost gradually adjusts to his state and discovers that the black robber who killed him is stealing something while his lover is away. He wanted to tell Molly, but Molly couldn't feel him at all.
Finally, Sam discovers the black psychic Oldmei.
"Hahaha" burst into laughter again in the theater.
Ever since the appearance of the black psychic, every time he appeared, the audience would burst into laughter.
In addition to being a bridge between the hero and heroine, black psychics are here to be funny.
When the hilarity is over, the plot begins to become tense and depressed, and Sam discovers that his best friend Carl is the culprit in order to get the password in his hand. He used his position to launder money for a drug gang, but Sam inadvertently obstructed him, and was eventually killed by robbers when he hired someone to steal the password.
Moreover, Carl not only killed the male protagonist, but also took the opportunity to passionately pursue his best friend's fiancée.
Seeing that his fiancée is about to fall into the hands of a bad person, Sam has nothing to do, because his fiancée does not believe in the existence of his ghost at all.
In the theater, the audience gradually entered the plot, hating Carl, who killed his friend and polygamy, and was entangled in the situation that the male protagonist could not make it powerful.
Sam then goes to find the ghost on the subway, because the ghost can move objects with telekinesis, and he has to learn this ability.
"Oh, how did he do it, how did he shoot it?" When they saw the hero's soul running in and out of the Mercedes-Benz subway, everyone burst into exclamations.
Not only the general audience, but even the industry people who attended the premiere were surprised.
As everyone knows, just these few seconds of footage, it took more than half a month to shoot before and after, and it took another two months for post-processing and synthesis.
When Sam finally learns to control things with his mind and kicks the can out of the floor, there is a burst of cheers in the theater.
"Oh, that's cool, go kill that Carl and kill him," a young man said, dancing. He liked Wang Zijun's rock and roll to watch the movie, but now he is completely attracted by this movie.
After the actor gained the ability, he commanded the black psychic Odemei to cleverly withdraw $4 million from the bank in advance. Carl, who got the password, had to hand over the money to the drug trafficking gang the next day, but found that the money in the account was missing, and he was so anxious that he almost collapsed.
Seeing Carl's anxious appearance, the audience laughed gloatingly.
Steve ticked out the words "the performance is very good" on the actor's notebook, and said to himself: "Where did Wang find so many actors with superb acting skills?" ”
The next episode thrills the audience, the male protagonist Sam uses the ghost's powers to scare the dead robber to the death, and finally flees to the street in despair and is hit by a car and killed, and then the hellish Grim Reaper drags his ghost away.
Although this plot is exciting, the realistic death is too terrifying, and with the screams of ghosts, suddenly, it really scares many people.
"Mom, do you want to go to hell if you do something bad?". A little girl asked, trembling all over.
The middle-aged man next to the little girl complained, "I said I shouldn't have brought Kumar." ”
"It's not my fault, it's the ones who rated the movie that went wrong." The little girl's mother said.
"Mom, do you want to go to hell if you do something bad?" The little girl asked, still apprehensive.
"Yes, Kuma, so you must not do bad things in the future." Mom comforted.
"Whoa...... "Whoa," the little girl cried as she trembled, "Mom, I broke that cup yesterday, not Angela." I don't want to go to hell. ”
Angela is a pet dog.
Husband and wife: "......"
The plot continues, and before the decisive battle, Sam finally convinces his fiancée of his existence through an ancient coin, and Sam uses Oldmei's body to communicate with his fiancée.
"I love you, Molly. I will love you forever. ”
"So is my heart."
Seeing that the lovers who had gone through hardships finally recognized each other, "Unrestrained Melody" sounded again, and in the affectionate singing, the hero and heroine hugged again. It's like the moment at the beginning of the film, except that now one of the two is a human and the other is a ghost
"Gela, will you ever love me?". A female viewer suddenly asked her boyfriend next to her.
"Yes, so is my heart, even if I die," the male viewer affirmed.
The female audience suddenly burst into tears and threw herself into her boyfriend's arms: "Jera, let's get married." ”,
The touching melody and love that transcends life and death finally made some female viewers cry.
In the final battle, Carl dies in an accident in his panic, and after the hero's affectionate confession, he ascends to heaven in the tears of his fiancée.
Sensationalism, this is what Wang Zijun is best at.
From lines, music to the capture of eyes and expressions, Wang Zijun filmed this parting scene to the extreme, and countless people's tears fell down in an uproar.
At the end of the film, the audience couldn't help but stand up and give warm applause.
The two film critics who sat next to each other, Libert and Jose, realized that their hands were held together for some time.
Jose turned red and tried to pull away, but was caught by Litter.
"Jose, I love you until I die." Litport confessed.
"Idiot, let go," Jose scolded.
"Promise to go to dinner with me, and I'll let it go." Liberty said.
"Let go, I promise you." Jose said.
"yes" Lipbot laughed, "I think I like this Chinese kid, his movies are good." ”
In major movie theaters, the attendance rate of "Ghost Love" is very high, with an average of only about 70%. But the women who walked out of the theater cried one by one with red eyes, and there were often men around them comforting. comforted and comforted, and hugged each other excitedly.
After the premiere, the reporter interviewed the male audience on the spot: "Hello, what do you think after watching this movie?" ”
The male audience laughed and said, "That's great, that's a superpower, if only I had a superpower." Haha, you can control items remotely, you can also pass through walls and houses, bank fresh-keeping doors or something, you can't stop me at all. ”
The reporter was embarrassed, and then asked a female audience: "Hello, do you like watching this movie?" ”。
"No, I hate the movie, I hate the director" the girl said angrily.
"Why?" The reporter felt that things were not going well for him today.
"Because it made me cry several times, I hated it," the girl said. Where do I go to find a boyfriend like Sam in the future? ”
"Uh, thank you for your answer." The reporter said.
After the premiere, Wang Zijun immediately called > contacted Flac: "How did the other theaters react?" ”
"The response was very good, and the vast majority of viewers who watched the movie said they liked it very much." Frank said, "Attendance on Murder on the Orient Express was a little bit better than ours, probably close to 90 percent. However, as far as the audience's reaction is concerned, it is not very strong. I think we won. ”
The Hollywood Reporter the next day: "I watched a total of two movies yesterday. One is "Murder on the Orient Express" by a British director, and the other is "Ghost Love" by a Chinese director.
First of all, let's talk about the movie "Murder on the Orient Express", which is a novel based on a real case, and then adapted from the novel into a movie. From the director's point of view, the use of shots and the control of the atmosphere are in place, and there is indeed a feeling of gripping people's hearts...... The actors are worthy of being big stars, and they acted flawlessly. Thereinto...... Overall, this is a successful commercial expression of detective suspense elements. But I have a feeling that when I watch it, I am very nervous and hearty, but I forget most of it as soon as I get out of the cinema.
As for "The Love of People and Ghosts", hell, it almost made me cry, this Chinese director is very sensational. In terms of storyline, it is actually not complicated, and the cast is not complicated except for Audrey. Except for Hepburn, the rest are all raw faces. But the creativity of this movie is so amazing, it perfectly combines the elements of the supernatural and the love to create a love myth that will last until death...... It's amazing to say that except for Audrey. Except for Hepburn, the acting skills of all the other important characters are very good, I don't know where the director found so many newcomers with superb acting skills...... What impressed me the most was the theme song, if I'm not mistaken, it was the theme song of a prison-themed movie twenty years ago, and it seems to have been covered by a singer later. But what I heard yesterday is clearly the best version. If the movie itself can only score five, then with the addition of this song, the movie will add at least three points...... It is highly recommended for couples, and should not be brought in with children. Damn, this movie is actually PG-13 grade, and the intimate scenes in it almost made me have a nosebleed. Hepburn can be so sexy. ”
"Entertainment Weekly's Steve" is more in terms of special effects: "...... There's no doubt that our Chinese kid has a unique penchant for special effects. The almost chaotic special effects shots in the movie are tantamount to a visual feast for audiences who like this aspect. Until now, I still haven't figured out how they managed to get the shot of the car going through the speeding subway. Heard about Zachary. Wang founded a company specializing in film special effects, staffed primarily by people from the pre-20th Century Fox special effects department. I believe that 20th Century Fox will regret it very much after watching this movie, in order to reduce expenses, they actually cut the entire special effects department and lost a group of elite special effects ......",
The entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times reported: "I have to admit that Zachary. Wang was a very talented young man. He holds so many roles in the film that I almost forgot that he was in his early twenties. This is a genius director. ”
The San Francisco Chronicle commented: "A superb film, sincere and spiritual, with a flawless performance by four main actors, and a gripping story." The graphics have a soft, rich quality, and it's a mythical tale that you'll want to believe, and it's not overshadowed by the comedic component of the gags. ”
The unanimous applause of these media immediately aroused the curiosity of countless people. Those media who did not send people to watch this film have remedied it one after another, and they have made capable forces to go to watch.
"It's amazing, it's a great movie, I'm going to take my friends to see it." Los Angeles TV got this answer when it interviewed a viewer who walked out of the theater.
One black audience member said, "I love Oldmei, she performed amazingly. ”
A Chinese audience member in Chinatown said: "Wang Zijun is our pride, he is a great director and actor like Bruce Lee. ”
In the face of applause, by the third day, the number of theaters in which "People and Ghosts Are Not Over" continued to increase, but the attendance rate remained above 90%. And "Murder on the Orient Express", there is some tragedy, as the critics said, this is a good commercial movie, it is very cool when you watch it, and you almost forget it when you come out, it is a good thing to pass the boring time.
A few days later, Time magazine did not hesitate to praise: "The love affair between the hero and heroine in 'The Ghost Love' will move everyone, and its appearance can be said to be a major event in the Hollywood film industry, because it makes the American audience addicted to bloody violence and disordered sexual disorder feel refreshed, and perhaps people should re-examine their own side or their own ongoing love." ”
Of course, in the applause of the sky, there are also bad voices.
An ethnic newspaper was the first to put forward the opinion: "This Chinese kid is playing racial discrimination, the male protagonist in the movie is yellow, the main supporting role is black, but the villain is a white man, clean up all bad things." Zachary. The implication of the king is that only Chinese and blacks are good and possess the bodies and minds of beautiful women, while white men are the big bad guys who deserve to go to hell. ”
As soon as this argument was put forward, many racists jumped out to support it, and there was even a phenomenon of white people sit-ins in front of the theater at one point.
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