On the afternoon of August 6, at the AMC Times Square Cinema in New York, USA, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was being screened. Hall 1 was already packed, chatting and bragging, waiting for the movie to be shown.

"I bet this film is definitely not as good as the old version of "Battle of the Planet of the Apes"." A young red-haired young man shouted.

"What kind of bet are you making without even watching it, Shao Shuaijun is a very powerful director, and he will definitely not shoot badly." Another yellow-haired young man next to him said.

"Please, what's so powerful about that Chinese guy, except for a "Inception", there is nothing eye-catching. can still be called Hollywood twin stars with Nolan, are our media brains in water? ”

"To be honest, I don't think Nolan is necessarily as powerful as Shao Shuaijun, Nolan's output is not high, and the subject matter is also biased towards the dark department. Shao Shuaijun is one or twenty years younger than Nolan, and he has directed almost twice as many movies as Nolan, and except for one "Night Watchman", which lost money because he just came into contact with Hollywood, the rest of the movies are very blockbuster. ”

"There's not even a billion-dollar movie, which is also a blockbuster?"

"Do you have to be a billion dollars to sell out? "Teddy Bear" cost less than $50 million, and $613 million worldwide, setting an R-rated comedy box office record, isn't this a blockbuster. "Inception" is a non-sequel and non-prequel, with $922.5 million worldwide, isn't this a blockbuster? There's also a so-so Chinese film, "Oldboy," which costs $321 million worldwide and breaks a number of box office records in Asia. "500 Days with Shamo" and "Heartbeat" are all small productions with a cost of tens of millions. "Source Code" and "Painted Skin" are also small and pitiful costs, and there is also a "Buried Alive", do you know, it was filmed for 10,000 US dollars and won more than 20 million US dollars at the box office. The yellow-haired young man gushed.

The red-haired young man glared exaggeratedly: "Please, you have been brainwashed by the Chinese Yankees, and you really believe that Shao Shuaijun is the representative of the American dream?" Shit, journalists are raised by female cousins, the Chinese give money, they wag their tails like dogs! ”

"Your preconceptions about China are too deep, and movies know no borders. A good director deserves our liking. Bill. Gates also has the care of his wife. Shao Shuaijun is completely self-made, and he can use his talent to conquer any problem, whether it is business or film. ”

"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, you're too deeply poisoned."

"If you don't believe us, we'll bet. Can this "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" surpass its predecessor! As long as it doesn't lose to its predecessor. You will admit that Shao Shuaijun is an excellent director. If it's not as good as the previous work, I think I'm blind, how about it? ”

The red-haired young man snorted coldly: "Bet on it." Still, how can you prove that it lost or won? ”

"At the end of the show, listen to everyone's applause, warm applause is success, sparse applause is failure, how about it?"

"Good! You just wait to be blind! ”

The two of them whispered a bet, and at this time the movie began to be released.

After the logo of Summit Entertainment passed, it was a shot of an aerial forest, and the big screen was quiet at first, a peaceful picture. Then the camera looks down, a group of orangutans walk through the forest, and suddenly, a large group of birds flies by, and an orangutan looks up curiously, with innocent eyes.

In the next second, a scene of humans hunting orangutans was staged, the chimpanzees fled blindly, but finally they were arrested one by one and put into an iron cage, the plot suddenly became fierce and intense, the chimpanzees struggled and roared in the iron cage, and several escaped chimpanzees watched from a distance as the cages were loaded into the car and drove away.

And in the window of the cage, the eyes of a chimpanzee who don't know what kind of emotions they have.

The close-up of the eyes is magnified, and it suddenly occupies the entire screen, and the impact is shocking.

The movie theater, which was still noisy, also fell silent with the arrest of the chimpanzee.

The red-haired young man snorted disdainfully.

In the shot, the black pupils envelop the entire screen, and then the close-up slowly pulls away, and it has become the eyes of another chimpanzee. The chimpanzee with a collar chain is playing a game of Luxta, and the chimpanzee magically follows the rules and successfully completes the Luxsta.

Looking at the vivid chimpanzee, a small audience member was surprised: "Where did you find an orangutan to be an actor, so smart?" ”

No one answered, everyone was concentrating on watching the movie.

Dr. Weir invented a drug called ALZ-112 that can help restore brain health, and they experimented on a chimpanzee and helped a chimpanzee increase his IQ dramatically. So it was decided to experiment on humans, and while Will was giving a presentation to the boardroom, the chimpanzee suddenly went berserk and disrupted the meeting.

The security guards shot the chimpanzee to death, declaring the drug program bankrupt, the entire experimental program was axed, and the president ordered the lab to euthanize all the chimpanzees.

While packing up, the researchers were surprised to discover that the chimpanzee went berserk because it gave birth. Will's assistant couldn't bear to kill the baby chimpanzee and couldn't find a place to put it, so he asked Will to help take care of it for the time being. Will then took the baby chimpanzee home.

Will's father liked the little thing so much that he named it "Caesar", but he suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which is why Will wanted to study "ALZ-112" in the first place. It can be said that the whole beginning is not amazing, but the chimpanzee image created by special effects, as well as the fast-moving plot, still successfully captured the hearts of the audience.

Then the camera advances faster and more cheerfully, Caesar has gradually grown from a small little to a big guy, and his intelligence has also improved by leaps and bounds, all kinds of performances make the audience exclaim, laughter and exclamations are full of a plot.

"Caesar is so cute, it's so fun, I can't believe it's made by special effects, it's really no different!"

"It would be nice to have an orangutan."

But the plot didn't keep the audience happy for long, Will's father got worse and worse, and Will couldn't bear to see his father suffering from illness, so he stole a few "ALZ-112" from the laboratory and injected his father. Young Caesar, saw the whole process.

Later, Will's father miraculously regained his health and his intelligence greatly improved, which made Will overjoyed and decided to renew his research on ALZ-112. By this time, Caesar was no longer satisfied with staying at home and wanted to sneak out to play, but was considered a danger by his neighbors and injured him.

"It's over, Caesar will definitely hold a grudge, humans don't treat it well, and it will definitely rebel in the future!" An audience member said worriedly that it can be seen that it is completely substituted into the plot of the movie.

The audience happened to be sitting next to the red-haired youth, and the red-haired young man nodded unconsciously: "That's right, Caesar will fight against humans in the end, this is the trigger......" Suddenly remembered something, and said sourly, "But I feel that this way is a bit sloppy and not new at all." ”

But when he said sourly, the audience next to him didn't hear it at all, and they were grinning.

Because in the movie, Will took Caesar to bandage his wounds, and Caesar actually helped Will to pick up the girl, which was also the first time the hero and heroine met. Then, with Caesar's facilitation, Will and Caroline are really together. At Caroline's suggestion, Will decides to take Caesar to the park's mangrove forest to let Caesar play freely.

Caesar hesitated when Will untied Caesar's chain, and with Will's father's encouragement, Caesar crouched down and spread his palms to Will. This is a petition gesture from a chimpanzee, meaning a desire to be allowed. Will ran his hand across Caesar's palm, and Caesar ran to the mangroves.

"Cool!" Some viewers exclaimed.

There is even cooler below, Caesar climbed the tree, jumped around on the tree, spring, dawn, autumn and winter, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the four seasons of cold and summer, Caesar grew up like this, wearing a red T-shirt, squandering his youth. The whole shot is Andy. Serkis acted indoors, and CG effects were combined with background shots to create a spectacular image.

"That's cool!"

"Handsome!"

"Caesar is so handsome!"

"This shot is definitely the coolest shot of the year, and I never felt that an orangutan was more handsome than a human!"

The exclamations in the cinema came and went, and even the red-haired young man couldn't help but clench his fists, completely forgetting his contempt for Shao Shuaijun, and exclaimed with the audience. In particular, Caesar stood in the sun, standing in the treetops, looking at San Francisco in the fog in the distance, and the smoky Golden Gate Bridge, and the camera was full of majestic atmosphere.

It is impossible not to follow the camera and vent the emotions in your heart.

Five years later, Caesar seemed to feel a sense of loneliness and inconsistency as he watched the intimate movements of Will and Caroline under the tree. Especially when they were leaving, the family came to play with a dog that barked at Caesar, who noticed that the dog had a chain around his neck, and that he had a chain around his own neck.

In the cinema, the audience lowered their breathing, as if they were worried about Caesar's discovery. The audience who rushed to watch "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" for the first time were basically fans of the old version of "Planet of the Apes", they knew the finale of the whole story, and knew that Caesar and humans would go to war sooner or later.

Seeing such a footage, the audience seemed to be breathless.

And then Caesar no longer sat in the trunk of the car, but sat in the back seat, asked Will in sign language if it was a pet, and even asked where its mother was, which made the audience depressed and worried, and the theme of the movie was also here, gradually sublimated. Caesar has a personality, he is no longer "it"!

"The movie is here, and it's finally going to be fascinating." The film critics in the movie theater couldn't help but be excited, put down their notebooks or something, and began to watch movies intently.

When a movie conquers the book of film critics, then, the movie is not far from success! (To be continued......)