Chapter 70: A Midfield Full of Surprises
The collapse when Di lost all his money and still owed a lot of debts, the shaky camera appropriately made the audience feel like the sky was spinning.
This set of rotating close-ups was a cool shot, at least most of the new line executives in the office thought so, but everyone still frowned.
Such expressions are often present in the first thirty minutes of the movie, but at this moment they are different.
None of you are a layman in terms of film, and they have already seen some hints of "Pulp Fiction" in the film's complex and ingenious narrative threads.
The narrative structure of the two films is very similar, they are all the kind of seemingly unrelated lines, and in the end they are cleverly screwed together.
But unlike Quentin's circular narrative, the film seems to adopt a new narrative approach, with multiple story threads running in tandem and several gangs dramatically intertwined to form a series of interlocking plots.
Realizing this, everyone put away their previous contempt and began to look at the film from a more professional perspective.
The wonderful narrative structure of the movie is surprising enough, but the actors' performances don't seem to be as bad as they thought at first, there are no big names in it, several of the leading actors belong to the second-tier and not popular second-tier actors, and there are many non-professional actors, but each actor's performance is in place, gangsters, gamblers, addicts, thieves, robbers, debt collectors, shooting...... It's like a true performance, which makes people wonder if the director really found such a group of people to star.
Among the people present, Shay White knew the most about the details of the film, but he did not focus on acting from others, and he was most concerned about the two non-professional actors Jude hired - Winnie Jones and Jason Statham.
The performance of the gangster killer played by the former in the movie is impressive, and it is related to his various behaviors on the court, which is also satisfying, not to mention that many people now know that there is a movie like "Two Big Smoking Guns" because of those two beating incidents, and it is not too much to say that he is the "number one star" of this movie, of course, if Jude is not counted together.
Of course, Shay is more interested in Jason Statham than the guy who has caused headaches for the whole of British football and has a first-class ability to cause trouble.
has the potential to become a star, and in the scene at the beginning of the film selling small goods on the street, if you don't deliberately point out his true identity, I'm afraid few people will think that he is a non-professional actor.
Whenever these two people appear on the projection screen, Shay can't help but think, Jude asked Winnie Jones to star in this movie, more likely to use Winnie Jones's reputation as a gimmick to promote his own movie, although what happened later was somewhat beyond Jude's expectations, but the final goal was achieved, but what made Shay couldn't figure out was why Jude asked Jason Statham to star, because he was optimistic about the other party's potential?
Shay always felt that Jude's purpose would not be so simple, but he couldn't understand the mystery, so he finally had to write Jason Statham's name in the notebook at hand, and then crossed it around, indicating that he would include this person as the focus of observation in the future.
Of course, in addition to the structure and acting, the dialogue of the film is also interesting.
At first, no one noticed this, and it wasn't until halfway through the film that an assistant behind a senior executive was spotted with a smile and attracted everyone's attention to him.
Shay paused the film and demanded that the senior assistant explain why he was laughing.
It's a line from the movie, and it sells big. The FUCK tone that the hemp mob boss just said is so funny, I promise that as long as you are familiar with British slang, you will definitely laugh out loud when you watch this movie. ”
The assistant's answer made the executives at the conference table look at each other.
"You're British?" Shay then asked.
The assistant nodded, then explained that he had been born in England and had only immigrated with his family when he was sixteen.
"Can you tell us a little bit about the lines in this movie that you find funny?"
As soon as Shay said this, the assistant immediately realized that this was a great opportunity to show himself, gathered his thoughts a little, and then said loudly:
"British humor is well known, but not many people really understand, especially the black humor in this movie, and I bet the director must be British, a real British."
"Is Jude British?" Shay turned his head to ask his assistant Lisa, who had asked him to look into Jude's background.
Lisa recalled: "His grandfather was a Chinese British, and there is no other information about him being related to the British. ”
Shay was not surprised by this answer, but looked at the assistant who had just insisted that Jude was an Englishman with a slight regret.
"As far as I know, the director of this film has little to do with the UK, except that his new girlfriend is British."
The assistant looked incredulous and said, "How is this possible! ”
"Okay, now is not the time to dwell on this issue, you still go ahead and tell us which dialogues in this movie make you find interesting, of course, from an Englishman's point of view." Shay's later deliberately emphasized sentence reminded the other high-level executives present that the film is expected to have a great response when it is released directly in the United States, but if it opens up the situation in the UK first, and then introduces it, the effect will definitely be much better.
Thinking of this, everyone's eyes became more eager when they looked at the British assistant.
"The dialogue throughout the film is actually quite interesting, the opening scene of Bakken selling fakes on the streets, and the big London slang he says; the dialogue between the four male protagonists in the kitchen; And Eddie hit back the love. The words of the owner of the store of toys; Beacon, Tom and Soap ordering a drink at a Samoan bar; The words that the boss said and so on, it seems like there are a lot of swear words, but it is precisely because of those ubiquitous FUCK that the plot is more real and funny. ”
As soon as the words ended, a senior executive directly asked: "If it is accompanied by subtitles so that everyone knows what they are talking about, do you think the American audience can laugh out loud?" ”
Because of the misjudgment of the director's identity just now, the British assistant's answer became a little more cautious.
"Most of the jokes should work, as long as people really understand the movie."
The senior who asked the question before turned his head to look at Shay and suggested, "Maybe we should wait for the subtitles to be ready before watching this movie, which will give a more objective evaluation." ”
"In that case, everyone will have to wait until after Christmas to see the film again, are you sure everyone wants to do it?" Shay looked around the office and noticed that many people had hesitant expressions on their faces, "It seems that I'm not the only one who wants to watch the whole movie, so let's get on with it." ”