Chapter 425: An Escalating Visual Feast
Although affected by the Wenchuan earthquake, the domestic film market has experienced a decline in the box office for a period of time after mid-May, but as the time enters June, in addition to the people in the disaster area, people in other regions have come out of their grief one after another, and their lives have returned to normal.
At this time, "Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape Race" was grandly released, Lin Yuquan's influence was originally incomparable to any star artist in China, coupled with his previous great contribution to earthquake relief, as well as the eye-catching factors and publicity offensive of the film itself, it is not difficult to imagine that "Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape Race" was popular in China at this time.
While the audience in each theater was immersed in the fierce and bloody war scenes, in the waiting area, ticket hall and outside the theater outside the theater, there were countless audiences who were waiting for the next or even the next screening of "Wild Tales: Rise of the Apes".
Due to the popularity of "Wild Tales: Rise of the Apes" and the slightly longer 150-minute film run, the theaters under each theater chain have greatly adjusted the screening time this night in order to show more screenings and meet the demand in short supply.
Generally speaking, most theaters will choose to open the evening show around 7 p.m. after the afternoon screening, but tonight and for the next period of time, the theater will show consecutive afternoon and evening screenings, and 3 evening screenings at 5:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., and 11:30 p.m.
For the audience who had to wait outside, the waiting time was undoubtedly as difficult as a year, especially those who opened at 11:30, which was extremely tormented and depressed. Just because the movement is a little slower. As a result, I didn't grab tickets for the first two games. I can only suffer myself again and again when others enjoy the movie.
At half past eight o'clock, there were many middle-aged audiences waiting for the audience, and at half past eleven o'clock, because the screening time was too late, almost all the waiting audiences were young people, but there were also middle-aged audiences, because tomorrow was a weekend. Even if it's late tonight, it won't affect work.
And young people don't care, even if tomorrow is not a normal working day, they will not choose to watch tomorrow night, for this reason, they have waited too long, they don't want to wait any longer, a few hours is enough to suffer, let alone a day.
On the big screen of the theater, the wonderful fighting scenes continue. But for the tens of thousands of apes who serve as cannon fodder, this is a crisis related to the survival of the race. Adult male apes have basically come to the front lines of the war, and once these apes are killed in battle, the situation of the apes will become even more difficult.
It was also at this time that Caesar, who had been practicing the exercises for the past few months, showed his might, killing the powerful warriors of the Rock Clan who were fighting with the ape clan one after another, thereby reducing the casualties of the ape clan and saving the lives of many ape clans.
In the end, the Giant Clan and the Golden Lion Clan did not fight, but chose to withdraw their troops to end the first battle of the war between the two sides.
After the brutal fighting, what was left behind was a bloody battlefield full of corpses, blood, and broken weapons, and all subordinate races suffered serious casualties, and a solemn and mournful atmosphere filled the camp.
The brave Caesar naturally won the heroic courtesy of the ape tribe, and the warriors of Halle and other tribes patted Caesar's chest to express their recognition of his bravery.
War is always cruel and heavy, and after the excitement, the audience's emotions calmed down a little, listening to the sad soundtrack and witnessing the scenes on the big screen, and many viewers thoughtfully realized this.
The same is true of Caesar, as a hero, who, in front of several of his friends, for the first time uttered his ideal, that he wanted to make the apes no longer enslaved, no longer cannon fodder, and win true freedom.
In the theater of a theater in Kyoto, Zhang Qiuyu, a reporter for the "Kyoto Evening News", has an admiring smile on his face, and Lin Yuquan's portrayal of the protagonist is very good, fully highlighting the psychological changes in Caesar's growth, and throwing out the theme of the film through Caesar's mouth, fighting for racial freedom. Life is precious, love is more valuable, if it is for freedom, both can be thrown, seemingly empty freedom has unimaginable meaning in the history of mankind, from ancient times to the present, countless people have fought for freedom to the end, without regrets, even at the cost of sacrifice.
Because of its extraordinary significance to human beings, there are countless films on the theme of freedom in the history of cinema, including classics, such as "Braveheart", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Truman's World", "In the Name of the Father", "Bloody Sunday", "The Brave", "Schindler's List"
It can be seen that Lin Yuquan has great ambitions for this movie, so this movie is really good, it is not the kind of simple popcorn carnival commercial movie, although the theme of the film is told in the form of a dialogue, the expression is very direct, and the level is not deep enough, but a good movie does not need to deliberately pursue obscurity, and the most important thing is to be understood by the audience.
"Titanic" is a movie about the eternity of love, "The Saint of Gambling", "East Becomes West", "Truant Dragon" is for fun, "Truman's World" is to show people a contradictory world under the accusation and creation of ** by media directors by satirical means, and "Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape Race" is about the racial struggle under oppression and enslavement, which does not need to be deliberately complicated, and a simple and ordinary story is already the greatest success.
Obviously, after a series of foreshadowing, so far, the film has just rightly conveyed the theme of fighting for racial freedom to the hearts of every audience.
Of course, as ordinary viewers, they don't have to think about it so much, at least not in the movie, now is the moment for them to enjoy the excitement of the movie, and they have to think about it and reminisce after the film is over.
As the next day comes, the war becomes more and more intense, and the subordinate races belonging to the two races are all fighting for the continuation and survival of their respective races, this is the battlefield, either you die, or I live, for the continuation of the race, all you can do is to kill your enemies, which also presents more amazing war fighting visuals, in slow motion. You can clearly see the body split in two from top to bottom. Head and stump with a parabolic trajectory drawn in the air. Sprinkled blood.
The atmosphere in the theater was rising again, too many audiences looked at the screen excitedly, clenched their fists excitedly, waved in the abdomen in small and fast movements, and from time to time sounded uncontrollable soft exclamations, which were too exciting and bloody.
"Oh, why did Brother Yuquan shoot such a bloody scene." Liu Yifei covered her mouth lightly. Slightly tilted his head, a little afraid to look, but his eyes fell on the big screen uncontrollably.
"It's shocking, it's not easy!" Chen Kaige sighed again, this is the first time he has watched the movie several times, Lin Yuquan is worthy of being a kung fu superstar and the best action director in the world today, Weta Digital is also worthy of being the world's top special effects company, as a director, a director who uses a lot of special effects in "Wu Ji", he knows how difficult it is for CG characters to achieve this amazing fight scene. The difficulty is far greater than the live-action war scenes in "Red Cliff", but Lin Yuquan and Weta Digital have done it.
In the midst of a fierce fight. Gradually, the subordinate race to which the Giant Clan belonged began to gain the upper hand, and they were pressing towards the camp where the Golden Lion Clan was located.
Seeing such a shape, the Golden Lion Clan issued an order for the subordinate race to retreat, and as the Golden Lion King's arm waved, the Golden Lion Clan warriors who had been prepared for a long time pounced on the subordinate race to which the Giant Clan belonged like a tiger descending the mountain.
The Giant King, who had always looked indifferent, finally showed a smile on his face, but the smile was extremely hideous and cold.
The audience in each theater all held their breath and stared at the big screen closely, everyone knew that there was another good show, the battle between the giant clan and the golden lion clan was really exciting.
A more passionate soundtrack also sounded at the right time, as if a hungry tiger broke into the flock, as the giant race of the ruling class, the Golden Lion Clan fully demonstrated its powerful combat effectiveness, although the subsidiary race of the Giant Clan was almost crazy to attack and resist, but in the face of the unrivaled strength of the Golden Lion Clan, it was easily defeated.
"Wow, that's fierce." The audience's eyes lit up and they praised one after another, yes, in the face of the subordinate race, the domineering and fierce of the Golden Lion Clan could be seen at a glance.
On the big screen, in the face of the golden lion clan who came over as if they had entered no man's land, with a cruel smile on their faces, Caesar's body swelled with a strong fighting spirit, and then fearlessly met the golden lion clan among them, it must defeat the other party and all the golden lion clans that killed the ape clan, otherwise the ape clan will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
"Oh." Caesar vs. the Golden Lion Clan, how can such an exciting scene not excite the fans and audiences.
"Boom", after the collision of the earthquake and the mountain, Caesar and the golden lion each took a few steps back, and after glancing at each other, they roared at the same time, facing each other more fiercely.
"Boom", "boom", "boom", the collision of more powerful forces than the beginning between Haller and the ironclad beast produced more powerful and amazing visual effects, and with the passionate music, all the audience in the theater were set on fire.
"It's too tough, beat it, beat it." There was a lot of admiration and cheering in the theater, and the audience who substituted themselves on the side of the ape clan from the beginning and substituted for Caesar naturally hoped that Caesar could defeat the golden lion clan.
"Boom", with Caesar's fierce offensive becoming more and more courageous, the golden lion clan who fought against him gradually couldn't resist despite the fierce eyes, and then took two steps back, dropped his weapon, and turned into a majestic and domineering golden lion, and pounced on Caesar with a desire to devour.
The intensity of the special effects scene has been escalated again and again, making the audience addicted to watching, and Caesar did not live up to the audience's expectations, after the fierce battle, killed the golden lion clan who fought against him, and immediately cheered in the theater.
Caesar didn't stop, catching a glimpse of the people suffering heavy casualties under the attack of the Golden Lion Clan, and his eyes were tearing down on a raging Golden Lion Clan.
Seeing that the casualties of the subordinate race had reached a certain level, the Giant King smiled coldly, and then ordered the subordinate race to stand back, so that the warriors of the Giant Race, who were also ready and had been waiting for a long time, attacked.
As hundreds of giant warriors attacked at the same time, the ground suddenly trembled violently, and the giants went on a rampage, not caring at all about the subordinate races that were just on the way forward, and many of the subordinate races were directly knocked into the air, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
What is arrogant, what is fierce, this is, the male audience is enthusiastic, and on the other side, all the golden lion clan turned into mighty golden lions, and no longer attacked the subordinate races of the giant clan, after the giant warrior approached, the fierce god pounced on the giant warrior.
In addition to stronger strength, the Golden Lion Clan who turned into a Golden Lion also has faster speed, while the Giant Clan has strength, strength, or strength, the power to the extreme, which is a contest of strength and speed.
As mortal enemies, there are many fights between the Giant Clan and the Golden Lion Clan, and both sides know each other's situation well, and this is destined to be extremely difficult, bloody and cruel.
Stimulated by the more thrilling battle scenes, the fiery atmosphere in the theater is rising, even if the audience has been excited by the shocking scenes again and again in the previous movie, but at this moment, they are still surging and uncontrollable, just the war scenes of "Wild Story: The Rise of the Apes" are worth the ticket price.
Not only ordinary audiences, but even the most discerning film critics can only be impressed by Lin Yuquan's well-designed battle scenes, only with the world's unique action design and special effects design, the action commercial film directed by Lin Yuquan can be invincible at the box office, such an amazing audio-visual effect, the audience is really irresistible.
It's like Michael. Bey, it's been 20 years since "Jedi Men", and his tricks are still the same, abusing slow motion, abusing wide angles, abusing explosions, people can always see endless explosions in his movies, "Jedi Men" explosion, "Death Island" explosion, "End of the World" explosion, "Pearl Harbor" explosion, "Escape from Clone Island" explosion, "Transformers" explosion dazzling action shots, sharp editing style, hot special effects scenes, his movies are pursuing big scenes, big explosions, Very direct display of violence. As for the rest, the story is perfunctory, the characters are face-painted, and there are a bunch of logical loopholes, but these do not prevent his movies from getting high box office, so domestic netizens have given him the homophonic nickname "Selling Copies", that is, they don't care about the quality of the movie, and are responsible for selling copies and box office.
Of course, Lin Yuquan's advantages in all aspects will definitely make him better than Michael. Bei has achieved greater commercial success, and his attitude of caring about the quality of the film will not make him unpopular in the critics' circle, and fall into the vicious circle of high box office and low reputation.
As mortal enemies, the Golden Lion Clan and the Giant Clan have a lot of experience fighting each other, and therefore, no one can help anyone after countless encounters before, and finally after paying heavy casualties, they chose Mingjin to withdraw their troops and end this brutal war.
By once again showing his might and saving the lives of countless people, Caesar succeeded in winning the fanatical respect of the apes, and at this time, he also put forward his own ideal, it wanted to lead them to fight for the freedom of the apes, so that the children and grandchildren of the apes would no longer be enslaved by the giants.
The great sacrifice of the tribesmen in this war, coupled with the call of Caesar as a hero, the apes are burning with a fierce fighting spirit, and they will fight for the freedom of the apes.
After returning to the ape tribe, due to the large number of ape followers, Caesar successfully persuaded the ape elders to give the black iron plate cultivation exercises to the apes, and at the same time led the apes to the forest to sharpen and become stronger, and also let the elders go to persuade other slave races to fight for the freedom of their respective races.
Finally, the new ape-man warriors led by Caesar have joined up with the other subordinate races and marched like a tidal wave towards the giants, and the final battle is coming.
"Oh", in the theaters where "Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape Race" is being screened in major cities across the country, Liu Yifei, Liu Shishi, Chen Kaige, Jiang Yan, Wang Luodan, Zhu Yawen, Xiao Yang, Gao Xixi, Liu Ye, Jiang Qingqing, Luo Jin, Ning Hao Almost all the audience sat up straight, their eyes firmly locked on the big screen, and everyone knew that the most exciting part of the movie was about to begin. (To be continued......)
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