Chapter 283: First Victory
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"Congratulations, Brother Hao, I think you've succeeded again, it's the best comedy I've seen this year." Lin Yuquan said with admiration, the last time he watched "One Night with a Big Belly", he just felt relaxed and funny, but this time he had a sense of unfinished, and he had no such feeling.
"Thank you, but the result still depends on the audience's support for the film, after all, our film is a commercial film, and the success of the box office is the biggest success." Ning Hao smiled, squinted, and enjoyed the applause and cheers of the audience in the theater.
"Haha, that's right, we're commercial directors, and we're making commercial films." Lin Yuquan also smiled.
When Lin Yuquan, Ning Hao and others expressed their gratitude to the audience in the theater, more than 600 theaters across the country, among the more than 1,000 theaters where the lights had already been lit, a 102-minute movie full of joy ended like this, with a strong sense of unfinished meaning, the audience walked out of the theater excitedly, laughing and talking about the impressive scenes and characters in the movie, two clumsy thieves, and the sad cyclist Geng Hao, encountered the Thai drug lord and killer Chachai who was even more tragic than Geng Hao, the unscrupulous profiteer Li Fala who was good at playing clever and eventually lost his life, the reckless Taiwanese gangster foursome brother, and the funny lines, scenes of laughter, this movie has too many things that make them excited.
And then this excitement was unreservedly reflected in their film reviews of the film, and the first to be detonated was the major online forums. Countless viewers have vented their feelings here.
Tianya Forum: "I just watched "Crazy Racing" and went home. Laughed for an hour and a half. I feel like I'm about to get wrinkled, and because my laughter is too exaggerated, I am despised by other people around me, but I can't help it, the film is so funny. "Haha, I just finished watching it, and I agree with the landlord very much, it's hard to see a movie that I can't be distracted from the whole time. To Ning Hao, praise one. "Heh, when I watched it, I despised a woman next door who laughed very loudly, I don't know if it's the landlord, Yan zhòng affects my mood when watching movies." "It's funny, after the end of the film came out, everyone habitually left the scene, but suddenly the ending was put on, so everyone stood there and watched, and then the director came again. Let everyone wait after the actual screening. I can only say, Director Ning, I have served you. ”
mtime: ""Crazy Stone" has given us a taste of Ning Hao's black humor, while "Crazy Racing" is more thoroughly crazy and black! The whole film is full of black humor from beginning to end! It's really a really good film! "A particularly humorous and witty movie, even I, a person who is not smiling, laughed like everyone else in the theater, the narrative is tight, the thinking is clear, and the multi-line narrative technique of Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" is followed, and the seemingly complicated lines and characters do not seem chaotic at all, but like peers, in general, this is a black comedy full of laughter."
"It's hard to imagine that in just two years, Ning Hao has made such great progress, after watching "Crazy Stone" two years ago, the first thought in my mind was, how could such an outstanding young director suddenly appear, but I am still worried about whether he will be short-lived and quickly fall silent, who knows, last year's "Love Call Transfer" was amazing, and I also knew that he could still make such a great romantic comedy, and now, Ning Hao has returned to madness and blackness again, and it is even more than that, I can't wait for his next film right now. ”
And that's just the beginning of Crazy Racing's madness.
The next day, the front page headline of Nanfang Daily read, "'Crazy Racing,' the new classic of domestic comedy." "If you've laughed so hard when you watched 'Crazy Stone' and 'Love Call Transfer' in theaters two years ago and a year ago, you're going to get the same or more laughs from 'Crazy Racing.'" Fast editing, shaky shots, dialects from all over the world, a serious humorous dialogue, multiple lines go hand in hand, intersect with each other, and those unstoppable scenes and characters in the movie, no matter in all aspects, "Crazy Stone" deserves to be a new classic of domestic comedy. ”
"The Times" also put the premiere of "Crazy Racing" on the front page, the article mentioned: "A misunderstanding around money, drugs *, and ashes brought several groups of people together, director Ning Hao used fast editing techniques to tell the seemingly absurd story smoothly and naturally, with a compact structure, and in one go, at the same time, many coincidences arranged in the film are also logical, not abrupt and blunt at all, coupled with the continuous funny and humorous plot, this qiē is a qiē, It's hard not to make this dark humor movie full of unique wit a comedy classic. ”
How could the Kyoto Daily, which is in Kyoto, not have a reporter to report and watch the premiere of "Crazy Racing": "There are no big scenes, no big-name actors, no dazzling stunts, no handsome guys and beauties, and no bed scenes that sell meat, some are just athletes engaged in aquatic product transportation after the ban, unscrupulous profiteers, drug lords, killers, hairy thieves, underworld figures, strokers, bloated rich women, ordinary policemen, ordinary characters or marginal characters who are always ignored by us, but it is such a movie that gathers from the grassroots." , without giving the audience any respite and distraction, from the very beginning everyone is immersed in the fast-moving pace of the story and the endless coincidence jokes. ”
The famous film critic Zhou Wen's evaluation is the most pertinent and summarized: ""Love Call Transfer" is not counted, the greatest significance of "Crazy Racing" to director Ning Hao himself is that he spent more than two years pushing his black comedy style of multi-threaded crazy narrative to a new level, transcending the full imitation of Guy Ritchie, and truly establishing his own personal style. At the same time, the significance of "Crazy Racing" also lies in the fact that it has a heavy reference role for the development of existing domestic films. Stop making excuses for your inferior films, such as funding, censorship, distribution channels, etc. Sincerity and talent are the most important things. Don't indulge in the amazing eyeball effect of piling up blockbusters with investments and stars, the audience is not stupid, and in the same way, sincerity and talent are the most important things.
In addition, the investment of "Crazy Racing" is only 30 million, compared with the more and more domestic films with an investment of more than 100 million, this is an out-and-out low-cost film, but the excitement brought to us by this film is no less than that of blockbusters such as "Painted Skin" and "Night Banquet". It doesn't have any stunning, flashy visuals. It's all about the funny story, the humorous lines and the characters with strong personalities, and here, it once again proves to us the importance of a good script to a movie, and there are as many as seven screenwriters in the credits of "Crazy Racing", which has to be said to be a manifestation of the power of collective intelligence. ”
And like "Crazy Stone" and "Love Call Transfer", the characters with distinctive personalities in the film have been unanimously praised by media critics, especially Wang Shuangbao and Bado, who play the first and second thieves, are the most outstanding, and the black skin played by Huang Bo in "Crazy Stone" is the same, the two can be called the biggest living treasures of the whole movie. All day long, he put the mantra of "doing things professionally" on his lips, and every time he blurted out "do a line of love, love a line", it caused the whole theater to burst into laughter again and again. And more than half of the stupid things in the film are also done by these two people.
The line "do a line of love and love a line" is even more determined to be like "what is the most expensive in the 21st century, talent" in "There are no thieves in the world". and "Crazy Stone" in "I'll give you a lung." "The most popular line of the movie of the year.
"Yo, that's good!" In the conference room of Shuguang Film Company, Lin Yuquan put down the newspaper with a smile on his face, and it was rare to be in China, so he was ready to use this opportunity to hold a collective meeting of Shuguang's companies, on the one hand, to understand the situation of each company, and on the other hand, to formulate the next development plan.
Before some people arrived, he and those who had already arrived chatted and read the newspaper in the conference room, and it was not surprising that the media critics praised "Crazy Racing", which was a movie that made him feel unfinished, and in recent years, there are very few movies that can make him feel this way, that is, very few.
At the beginning, when Ning Hao showed him the script, he was still a little worried, because there are more clues and characters in the story than in "Crazy Stone", it is not easy to go hand in hand with multiple lines and tell the whole story interspersed. The story of coincidences was sorted out by him, and he did this successfully in the actual shooting.
"Yes, Director Ning's movie this time is a big hit, but there are too few actors in our Yuquan family, only Huang Bo and Xu Zheng, and Xu Zheng doesn't have many scenes." Chang Jihong, who came to the meeting, said with a smile.
"No way, of course I want everyone to act, but who made the actors of our Yuquan family almost all handsome men and beautiful women, only the two of them are more crooked melons and cracked dates, which is barely suitable." Ning Hao had a smile in his eyes.
"Haha." Wang Wanping, Liu Meng and others in the conference room all laughed out loud.
"That's right, to the point! But I think they both disagree. Lin Yuquan laughed.
"It's not just that I don't agree, like Huang Bo has always regarded himself as a handsome guy, so please everyone, don't sue them, otherwise they will find me desperate." Ning Hao said solemnly, making everyone laugh.
"By the way, Director Ning, your new movie script is ready, are there any roles suitable for our own actors." Chang Jihong asked with concern.
"Needless to say, Huang Bo and Xu Zheng will definitely star in it." Lin Yuquan chuckled.
"Okay, there are indeed the two of them, and there is also a female character, I haven't decided on it yet, you can help me refer to it when the meeting comes." Ning Hao said without thinking.
"Oh, there's finally another character, that's good news." Chang Jihong smiled.
"It depends on whether they are willing to act, and the roles in my movies are not so easy to play." Ning Hao said.
"What kind of character is it?" Chang Jihong asked.
The others on the side also suddenly became interested.
Ning Hao smiled brightly: "Prostitute." ”
"Is there any very revealing footage or something?" Chang Jihong immediately asked.
"It's not true, just show your shoulders and look charming."
"That's nothing. I don't think anyone would want to act. ”
While everyone is chatting. Everyone is arriving. Including the main management of Shuguang Film Company, Yuquan Family, Shuguang Network, and Shuguang Cinema Line, the directors and screenwriters of Shuguang Film Company currently in Kyoto, according to the practice of previous meetings, each company first introduced the current development situation, including the achievements made, the difficulties faced, and the next plan.
Lin Yuquan nodded approvingly from time to time while listening, in general. All companies are in a state of steady and rapid development, such as the dawn network has begun to implement commercial advertising display charges, officially take the first step of self-sufficiency, he mentioned the annual micro film plan is being jointly promoted by the dawning film company and the dawning network, the dawning cinema line has opened 10 theaters, and so on in October, the 15 theaters that began to be built last year will all be opened, and in December, two more theaters built at the beginning of this year will be opened, The Yuquan family recruited Jiang Qingqing to join.
After everyone introduced, Lin Yuquan based on what he heard. talked about his own construction one by one, and the most important thing he paid attention to was of course the start of the filming plan of Shuguang Films, Film and Television Dramas.
"Ok, the next one is Brother Hao, your new movie. Tell us about the movie! Lin Yuquan looked at Ning Hao with a smile.
Ning Hao nodded, and after handing the brief script to Lin Yuquan, Ding Zhi, Qiu Qingyi, and He Liwen, because everyone here was from his own family, he didn't shy away from it, and said directly: "The new movie I shot this time is called "No Man's Land", which is a western road movie, the story is about the cutting-edge lawyer Pan Xiao who went to the northwest to help the falcon boss who drove and killed the policeman to win the lawsuit, and on the way back from driving the car that the falcon boss was forced to mortgage to him, he was chased and killed by the falcon boss and the killers he hired."
Lin Yuquan listened to Ning Hao's narration while flipping through the script, which is also black humor, but it is completely different from "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", "No Man's Land" is no longer a multi-line crazy narrative, but adopts a more traditional linear narrative, with the protagonist Pan Xiao as the center, and the genre mode of the road movie cleverly runs through all kinds of characters in the no-man's land, revolving around the contradiction between human society and animal nature, like dominoes to produce a chain reaction. It forms a strong thread of dramatic conflict. tells the story of a civilized person who walks into a no-man's land where the law of the jungle prevails, and in the constant struggle, he directly attacks the selfishness and cruelty of human nature.
Compared with Ning Hao's previous films, the world of "No Man's Land" is undoubtedly much more cruel and heavy, there is no law, no morality, no kindness, no creed, everything revolves around money, power and desire, like many Westerns, in such a world, the best way to solve the harm of violence is violence, and the way to dig out the hope of human nature is also violence, the protagonist Pan Xiao began a struggle of humanity when he faced extreme danger to his life.
Very good subject matter, the only concern is that it seems too extreme.
"Any thoughts?" After Ning Hao finished speaking, Lin Yuquan looked at the others.
"The story of the movie is quite exciting, but whether it is too violent or not, there are many places where it is difficult to think about censorship in the future, such as the image of the police." Qiu Qingyi immediately said.
"I'm also worried about this, there is no film classification in our country, if the film is too violent and bloody, after the film is filmed, it will either be changed or there will be no chance of release." Ding Wei shook his head and said.
"Yes, it's a very black story, and I like it, but if you really want to shoot like this, you can imagine the consequences." Liu Mengdao.
"Well, I know that, but if I change it, it won't be the same." Ning Hao sighed: "Yuquan, what do you say!" ”
Lin Yuquan exhaled, a little headache, this decision is not so easy to make, he knows Ning Hao's thoughts, but he also knows what difficulties this movie will face in the future if he does it according to his ideas.
"Change." After thinking about it, Lin Yuquan gritted his teeth and said, maybe this is a compromise, but deep down, he prefers to see a good movie that can be seen by people, rather than a good movie that can only be circulated in people's mouths.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Yuquan followed and said in a deep voice: "But it's not a simple change, I know you want to explore human nature, but you are not enough in the excavation of the complex process of human nature, and the display of the profound plot is not enough, and the plot cannot withstand repeated scrutiny in many places, the purpose of our change is to pass the trial in the future, and the other is to better excavate human nature."
After the morning meeting, everyone ate together at noon, and after lunch, Chang Jihong, Liu Ran and others went back, while Lin Yuquan and Ning Hao returned to Shuguang Film Company with Ding Value, waiting for the box office of the premiere of "Crazy Racing" together.
"Oh my God, 8.75 million." The voice of Ding in the call suddenly rose up, and he was indescribably excited and excited.
"Whew." Ning Hao breathed a long sigh of relief, although he has always been very confident in his movies, but before the box office comes out, it is difficult to put his mind at ease, sometimes quality is not equal to the box office.
"Yo, the box office on the first day is 8.5 million, so the box office on the first six days can't be lower than 30 million, Brother Hao, it seems that you will be congratulated in advance on entering the 100 million yuan box office club." Lin Yuquan said to Ning Hao with a smile.
"Don't, it's only the first day, what if the box office dives later, this kind of thing hasn't happened before, you better wait for me to really enter the day and then congratulate me!" Ning Hao smiled.
"Huh." Lin Yuquan chuckled, waited for Ding to hang up the phone, and then said to him: "Tell everyone the news, in addition, book a hotel now, we will celebrate in advance, we will get off work early, and I will rush to the airport in the evening!" ”
"Okay." Ding nodded and walked out of the office, and soon, the entire Shuguang Film Company was filled with laughter. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! (To be continued......)
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