Taking a sense of nationality and mystery as the breakthrough point of "Mulan" in Cannes is a specially planned plan for Wang Xiaohu when he decided to participate in the film festival. [No pop-up novel network]

Wang Xiaohu knew that he was not a material for art films, so he adopted some tricks in publicity.

For example, in the trailer, he focused his publicity on Mulan, played by Lin Qingxia, and used the oriental version of Joan of Arc as a publicity stunt, which left a very deep impression on the French who like romance.

In terms of the content of the film, he takes the pure "Chinese style" national characteristics as the focus, explores war and peace, focuses on increasing the strength and barbarism of Rouran, and sets up elements such as being betrayed by the general and suffering from the enemy on the back of Hua Mulan to win the sympathy of the audience.

The plot is not mixed with too many political factors, and all the plots are mainly selling points in order to create the mysterious beauty of oriental female surnames, and feminism and a touch of personal heroism are highlighted on the side.

A movie, through different editing and combinations, can produce two or even more than three different plots and meanings, which is also Wang Xiaohu's original intention to use "Mulan" as an experiment.

After all, he knows a clear plot for all the works he was born to shoot, and there are no too many branches and side branches, which has also become the main reason why every movie of Concord Company is inlaid with a strong commercial atmosphere, and it is also a powerful weapon for Wang Xiaohu's works to dominate the box office list for a long time.

I have to say that Wang Xiaohu's experimental work this time is relatively successful, at least now "Mulan" has been shortlisted for the main unit of the competition, at least tonight's screening hall is crowded, at least the strong Chinese style shown by the film from the beginning did not make the audience feel bored and boring.

This was indeed the case in the screening hall, and after the initial discussion, everyone closed their mouths and quietly watched the plot of the film unfold. At the same time, the content of the trailer is constantly circling in their minds, they are waiting, waiting for the place they think is the best in their minds to arrive!

But as the film continues to play, they find that the waiting process is full of fun, such as Mulan will make some jokes from time to time in order to make herself more like a male soldier, such as at the beginning she is not as strong as in the trailer, especially when training, as a woman, she is definitely not as good as a man in terms of physical strength, so Mulan often drags her feet and is ridiculed by the recruits.

In the silent night, Mulan hid by the river and cried secretly, she remembered the treatment she received in the new barracks, in this cruel environment, she felt very lonely, she remembered her hometown, but she couldn't go back now, how pitiful and pitiful it was to be alone, and all of a sudden the audience's sympathy overflowed.

"Hey, she's a lady! You rude men! Wang Xiaohu, a female audience member in the front seat, finally couldn't help but scold.

"Oh God, this director is simply abusing women, how is it possible for a woman to do all that heavy work, our poor Joan of Arc."

"Don't worry, she'll be stronger!"

Mulan looked at the starry sky, she thought of her elderly father, remembered the purpose of this trip, after wiping her tears, the expression on her face became more resolute and firm, clenched her fists, gritted her silver teeth, and when she stood up, the episode of "Mulan Star" slowly sounded.

The song is full of emotion, like a girl's gentle sigh, singing the mood of Mulan alone in the battle, and singing a woman's determination and confidence for her father, in the middle and late part of the song, the music began to become excited, and at this time, Mulan was already refreshed and devoted to recruit training.

In the sound of passionate music, Mulan practiced horseback riding, in order not to brush off the horse, she asked Fei Xiaolong to tie her legs, in order to be able to shoot the bull's-eye, she held a longbow and stared at the target dozens of meters away, even if it was because she didn't blink her eyes and caused tears to flow, she didn't care, in order to let herself win in the comrade-in-arms training, she gave up the strength she was not good at, but with flexible pace and skill

Although they couldn't understand the content of the lyrics, the audience could feel the song with their hearts, and the singing made them see a growing Mulan, a Mulan who struggled for her father, and a strong Mulan.

"The women of the East are really different, who would have thought that their weak shoulders could bear so many burdens!"

"Seeing the way she grows, I feel a very clear inspiration, yes, it's like China that is steadily rising, although they were weak before, but now they are standing up, just like they won the anti-fascist war decades ago."

There are constantly media reporters writing the above content at this moment, and they think that the first half of this movie is profound, they not only see the growth of Mulan, but also see the microcosm of China in the reform and opening up.

"Hey, Ah Hu, why is the plot shown now different from the version we saw before?" When Lin Qingxia saw the present, she suddenly discovered the strangeness in it, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"Huh." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "Do you still remember why the filming progress was so slow at the beginning? Sometimes we have to shoot five or six times, or even seven or eight times, at that time I wanted to show a real Mulan through various aspects, and then I found that the films I cut out could be recombined and edited to form another style, which is the version of this literary and commercial surnames that we see now. ”

Lin Qingxia nodded thoughtfully, and after a long time, she looked at the screen and said, "I like this version very much, it makes me feel the growth of my acting skills." ”

"Actually, the commercial version is not bad, at least I watch it with relish." Wang Xiaohu said: "In the literary version, you are more delicate in the portrayal of female characters, but these delicates will become a drag plot in the commercial version, and audiences who like my directorial style will jump to ask for a refund." ”

"I can't imagine you have so many ideas." Lin Qingxia said with emotion.

The film in the screening hall continued to play, because Fei Xiaolong's revenge kicked the battalion commander's nephew's jade pendant into the river, the nephew went to the barracks to complain, and Stephen Chow looked for the jade pendant in the river, which made hundreds of audiences in the screening hall praise each other.

"The actor's acting skills just now are amazing, I actually saw multiple complex meanings in his eyes, there are remorse, anger, anxiety, self-blame, and pleading, God, is he the actor of the East? It's so dedicated! The young man beside Wang Xiaohu muttered to himself.

"Poof!" Wang Xiaohu laughed, and the young man threw him a reproachful look, "Hey, you are also from the East, don't you think your compatriots' acting skills are very good?" ”

Wang Xiaohu hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, I admit that his acting skills are very good." ”

When the young man heard this, he frowned and said, "Since you agree with his acting skills, why do you still laugh?" ”

"I'm not laughing at his acting skills, but at what you just said, he is actually not an Oriental actor, just an ordinary actor!"

After Wang Xiaohu explained with a smile, the young man's mouth suddenly grew: "What, you said that he is just an ordinary actor, oh God, this is incredible, an ordinary actor's acting skills are so superb, it's hard to imagine, are all Orientals actors!" ”

Wang Xiaohu shrugged and didn't say anything, in fact, he was complacent in his heart at this time, Xingzai, if you knew that you were called the actor by foreigners in Cannes, you would definitely laugh, right?

"That foreigner is really funny, if he knew that Xingzi almost collapsed from exhaustion more than a dozen times for this plot, I'm afraid he wouldn't have said such a thing." Zhao Yazhi also said with a smile on the side.

Lin Qingxia also smiled bitterly when she heard this, "I'm afraid that there is only Ah Hu in the world who hones apprentices like Ah Hu, and even if Xingzi is more able to endure hardships, if he were someone else, he would have been scared away." ”

Anyway, through the display on the big screen just now, everyone recognizes Stephen Chow's acting skills very much, especially those foreigners, they first secretly admired the director of the film, because this director actually let a quasi-actor actor play a supporting role in the film, which is incredible!

After all, in the eyes of foreign audiences, based on just one shot just now, Stephen Chow's acting skills have surpassed the acting skills of the actor Chow Yun-fat, which is a very strange phenomenon, they don't understand.

Seeing that Mulan's identity as a woman dressed as a man on the big screen was about to be revealed, the audience was nervously sweating, coupled with the sound of music that was pressing step by step, they all shouted in their hearts what to do, what to do!

Because they know that if Mulan's identity is revealed, it will not only be a simple military punishment that will greet Mulan, but even hundreds of villagers in her hometown will be brutally slaughtered, and they have fully integrated with the plot of the film at this time.

They are anxious for Mulan, worried about her, nervous for her.

This complex feeling makes them immersive and exciting.

"Mulan, why don't you take off your clothes?" The battalion commander's nephew said loudly: "You didn't steal the thing!" In the film, all the soldiers' eyes are focused on Mulan's body.

Just when Mulan had to suffer an injustice for her identity, the role played by Stephen Chow suddenly stood up: "I took the thing!" ”

“good!”

"I love this actor to death!"

"What's his name, I want his autograph!"

There was warm applause in the screening venue, for Mulan, for Stephen Chow!

(To be continued)