573 "Mythology" North American Premiere (5)
When "Star Wars" was released last year, the visual and spiritual shock brought to the audience is still vivid, Lucas with his rich imagination for the American audience to present the vast and mysterious universe territory, people flying and fighting in the universe in spaceships, warplanes, once many Americans after watching "Star Wars" after collecting Hasbro production of robot models and spaceships, fighter models. 【Reading.com】
Since then, the American people have thought that they are the best nation in the world because their spacecraft went to the moon, because their country is getting richer and stronger, because their technology is on top of the world, because
Because they have Hollywood, they have George. Directors with super imagination like Lucas, they have a visual feast like "Star Wars", they are proud, they are proud, they occupy the pinnacle of world cinema, looking at the films of other countries with a bird's-eye view.
It is this kind of national superiority that makes them have an inseparable feeling for movies, even if the television industry is developing rapidly, the charm of movies still has not subsided, and countless families enter the theater every day to support their country's films, and they like to enjoy their country's movies in the theater, which is an indispensable patriotic act for Americans.
Just when Americans were complacent, a movie called "Myth" suddenly appeared in 900 theaters in North America, and in the first hour and a half of the film, they suffered a lot, because the director from the East used several montage scene transitions, so that they could not find the most basic main line of the film.
Fortunately, as the film progresses, they gradually find the main line of "Myth", this movie is about a young archaeological student named Tiger when he was in China about the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, and saw those unearthed cultural relics and had a lot of strange thoughts, these thoughts became clearer and clearer, more and more familiar to him, he walked in the underground palace full of organs, and he could always avoid danger with those familiar feelings.
And there was always a woman in white calling his name in a dream, and the deeper he walked into the imperial tomb, the more urgent the call became, the clearer it became, so he quietly left the archaeological team, through the winding passage, was washed down the waterfall by the water, and rushed into another magical place.
When he was unconscious, melodious music slowly sounded, and under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes in the Chinese theater, a white dot gradually appeared on the pitch-black screen.
When this white dot appears, it gives people a strange feeling, and then they hear the voice of the woman singing, and then they see the person wearing a "wedding dress" (Americans can't explain the Han Dynasty straight saw robe, it can only be understood as a wedding dress. The woman "flew" in the void.
No, floating, to be exact!
The appearance of the woman floating in the void is stunning and romantic, giving people the feeling of an angel descending.
When everyone saw that amazing face clearly, they suddenly exclaimed, this, isn't this the princess of 2,000 years ago? How she's still alive!
The brains of the American people began to turn a bend, they were dumbfounded, what is going on, can anyone really live for more than 2,000 years?!
You just live for 2,000 years, and you still maintain the beautiful appearance of more than 2,000 years ago, and now the American people can't figure it out, do you often do beauty for 2,000 years?
The sound of muttering sounded, and at this time they felt that the plot was too absurd.
The overseas Chinese sitting among them are unwilling, this is called absurdity, so "Star Wars" is not absurd?
So the overseas Chinese made cameos as the class leaders of the literacy class and told the Yankees: The princess has taken the elixir, do you know what the elixir is?
The Yankee shook his head, and the overseas Chinese smiled and said: This medicine can slow down your metabolism by taking one pill, increase your life cycle by hundreds or even thousands of years, and your face remains the same, you are 50 years old this year, you will become younger after eating, and you will remain young in the future.
The Yankees nodded at this time, and began to ask where this elixir of life could be bought in China.
When the overseas Chinese heard it, they grinned and said that you can't buy this medicine even if you spend no money, because there is no such thing in reality, it is just a mythical story.
What is the myth? The foreigners asked again.
The overseas Chinese returned to Tao very patiently this time, mythology, is an existence like "Star Wars", it is a legend, and it is imagined out of thin air.
The foreigners shook their heads and didn't believe it, because it was already said in the "Myth" just now that the terracotta warriors and horses were unearthed, and then the group of archaeologists went on an expedition
Yes, these foreigners completely take the movie as real, and they can't explain it clearly, who makes the Yankees sometimes love to drill the horns.
However, overseas Chinese are very happy, after all, the Yankees have begun to be interested in Chinese culture, which shows that the influence of movies on the cultural communication of a nation is still very strong.
This question-and-answer activity didn't end until the piano accompaniment of "The Beautiful Myth" sounded in the theater, and everyone locked their eyes on the big screen again.
In a very delicate carriage, Tiger and the princess are finally reunited after two thousand years, the princess tells of her lovesickness, tears of joy at Meng Yi's promise, and Tiger finally believes that everything in the dream is real.
The audience gave them a round of applause and their best wishes for their reunion, and then the audience watched the princess take Tiger by the hand and get out of the car.
"Wow!!"
"Oh God!"
"They're floating in the void!"
"Are they on the moon?"
If the princess can float because the American audience defines her as an angel, then Tiger can also float in the void, which is greatly beyond their comprehension, this is incredible, is there no earth's gravitational effect in this space?
The romantic version of "Beautiful Mythology" sung by Wang Xiaohu and Zhao Yazhi sounded in the theater, and in the elegant and beautiful songs, Tiger and the princess danced in the suspended heavenly palace.
The dark sky is full of stars, and they shuttle among tens of thousands of Qin Dynasty terracotta warriors, and tens of thousands of Qin Dynasty terracotta warriors and horses float quietly in mid-air, colorful and colorful.
They stood silently, as if they had been fighting here for decades and would continue to do so forever.
It seems to become the only witness of this pair of lovers who have been waiting for 2,000 years!
In the terracotta warriors, there are also a number of chariots, their shapes are exactly the same as the ones just seen, and the door curtain shown in the lens is windless and automatic, and it seems that people will come out of it at any time
"Oh my God, these things are so realistic!"
The American audience has their eyes wide open, eager to get into the screen to see it clearly, to touch it, to knock it.
"It's God's handiwork!" Finally, an attentive audience shouted, and more people found that these solemn and vivid terracotta warriors and horses were actually surprisingly floating in the air according to the sequence!
In the American theater with the rapid development of technology, the "Floating Sky" set that the "Myth" crew spent more than a year building finally broke out with amazing deterrent power!
The realistic and mysterious terracotta warriors and horses are suspended in an orderly manner, where humans can enjoy space walking, jumping and dancing like astronauts on the moon, you can walk sideways, you can also walk backwards, and even complete all kinds of high-difficulty actions, compared to "Space Walk 2001" released a few years ago, it is simply pediatric!
And this was not enough, when the princess and Tiger on the screen hugged each other and flew down on the square made of white jade.
The camera looks out of Tiger's line of sight, and the long staircase is close in front of him.
After 3,000 steps up the stairs and through an arched door, the magnificent palace loomed in front of the eyes of the American audience, leaving only two words left in everyone's minds: shock.
On the top of the palace, there are two large characters written in Qin seal that Americans can't read: "Heavenly Palace".
"Mythology" has brought them too many surprises tonight, powerful Chinese soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, mysterious and strange mechanisms, weightless space that is not constrained by any gravitational force, and now, the appearance of this palace has shocked them to the point of dumbness.
Not only the American audience, but also overseas Chinese felt that their eyes were not enough when they saw this, and they were dumbfounded.
At this time, Professor Gu's appearance did something they wanted to do but were embarrassed to do, Professor Gu stumbled to the entrance of the "Suspended Heavenly Palace", he was stunned when he saw the magnificent scene in front of him, and then he knelt down and bowed down for the magnificent scenery in front of him.
Yes, at this moment, anyone will sigh at nature, no, it is the stroke of the Creator!
If "Star Wars" is a cosmic science fiction staged ancient Roman war and played with the concept of "second-hand future", then "Myth" is a thorough organic combination of ancient and modern, showing the people of the world a mysterious and bizarre underground world belonging to the East.
Professor Gu finally tore off his disguised Sven mask, he broke the couples who met after a thousand years, and asked them to hand over the elixir, and Tiger righteously refused: "This place belongs to China, you don't have any right to take it for yourself!" ”
The sonorous and powerful sentence attracted warm applause from the overseas Chinese in the audience, yes, whether it is the Terracotta Warriors or the Qinling Underground Palace, they all belong to China, and no country or individual has taken it as their own.
A simple sentence reminded many overseas Chinese of the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when the eight-nation alliance army entered Yanjing to burn and loot, and I don't know how many Chinese treasures were robbed and placed in their own country's museums, and as a Chinese, you must buy tickets to appreciate the cultural relics that originally belonged to your own country, how sad it is!
The Americans, naturally, did not react in the slightest to this phrase, because they were used to it, and they did not take it seriously.
After the negotiation between the two sides failed, a wonderful and exciting fight followed, the princess held the two-moon scimitar, and Tiger fought Professor Gu with his bare hands.
In the suspended space without gravity, the fight scenes of the three people can be said to subvert everyone's understanding of Chinese kung fu, yes, they think that the Skywalkers with lightsabers in "Star Wars" are already exciting, but they are so powerless under Professor Gu's Tai Chi, the princess's double knives, and Tiger's free fighting scenes.
It's not that the action designed by Yuan Heping and Sammo Hung in "Star Wars" is not eye-catching, after all, the last fight scene in "Mythology" is an action designed by the top martial arts instructors in Hong Kong.
"Cool!" Boxing champion Ali clenched his fists and said eagerly: "Tiger, is that kind of soft boxing really so powerful?" ”
"Of course." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "This is Tai Chi, which is a wonderful skill in traditional Chinese martial arts. ”
Just as Wang Xiaohu said to Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung, Yuan De, Yuan Kui and other top martial arts instructors in Hong Kong, if you want to show Chinese traditional culture in the movie, Chinese kung fu and traditional martial arts are an indispensable part, because the action is not international, it does not need language explanation, only body language is displayed, and any nation in the world can understand it.
Obviously, Wang Xiaohu's plan succeeded again, and the Americans squatted in the theater to enjoy the Chinese kung fu show that was very exciting and surprising for them, and they remembered that the Chinese kung fu used by the villain professor was amazing, and it didn't seem to take much effort to knock people away, and his Tai Chi movements were somewhat similar to the logo of Concord.
No matter how powerful Professor Gu's Tai Chi kung fu was, he couldn't defeat Tiger and the princess who worked together, and finally he took out a pistol and aimed at Tiger, and at the moment he pulled the trigger, the princess blocked the bullet for Tiger, and blood flowed down the princess's white robe, and the angry Tiger rushed up desperately, punching Professor Gu into the abyss of the void.
When Tiger turned around, the princess was gone, Tiger stood in the wide square and shouted the princess's name, but no sound answered him, and finally a disheartened Tiger left the "Suspended Heavenly Palace" and reactivated the mechanism in the secret passage.
Returning to land, Tiger did not mention anything to anyone about the affairs of the Heavenly Palace, he lied to the leaders that he had fallen into a trap as soon as he entered the Underground Palace, and the archaeologists thought he was dead and continued to move forward, and then he finally climbed up from the trap with all his strength.
Later, under the leadership of Tiger, a Terracotta Warriors and Horses No. 1 Pit of Qin Shi Huang that had been buried deep in the ground for 2,000 years was unearthed.
A few years later, Tiger became a professor of Qin and Han history, promoting the powerful culture of the Qin Dynasty around the world
This is the end of the film, when the word "end" appeared on the screen, the China Grand Theater, which has a capacity of 2,000 people, fell into a deathly silence, and then, all the audience stood up and gave warm applause to the main creative staff of the crew, in the applause, Wang Xiaohu, Lucas, Grant, Spielberg and others walked on the stage, the lights were focused on Wang Xiaohu, he had a confident smile on his face, and the applause lasted for fifteen minutes before stopping-
Keep pulling your throat to ask for a recommendation ticket!
(To be continued)