Chapter 549: It's time to start

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The film was screened for more than two hours, and Billy? Emerson had lost count of how many yawns he had, and if it weren't for the occasional explosion, he might have fallen asleep, while his two companions, one bored playing a mobile game with his head down, the other simply concentrating on Coke and popcorn, were clearly not interested in the movie being shown. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As a lover of air combat films, Billy? Emerson is one of the very few people around who can stick to the movie, and although the film is not as boring as "Heavenly Dynasty" that can make the audience exit early, it is really mediocre to watch.

For Billy? For Emerson, after more than two hours of long suffering, there was nothing but disappointment and disappointment.

As the screening draws to a close, I look back and think about what I've seen before, Billy? Emerson couldn't help but pout, there are very few things to like in the whole film, but there are countless things to hate.

For example, some plots and lines, although the screenwriters try their best not to use the lines and mannerisms of the post-80s new humans to package the characters belonging to their great-grandfather's generation in the film, but in the film, regardless of the protagonists and supporting roles, positive and negative angles, the handling of characters and related plots is either too old to lose teeth, or ridiculous to the point of ridiculousness, it doesn't look like an air combat film about courage and daring, but a hodgepodge of Westerns, science fiction and cartoon elements.

In Hollywood, a hodgepodge is often synonymous with bad movies.

For example, the first actor in the film, James? The various performances of Rollins, the pilot played by Franco, make people feel that "Air Combat Heroes" is actually a western.

This bad boy escaped to France on the other side of the ocean with a record of absconding with a beating case, and also brought the free and loose style of cowboys to the "Lafayette Air Force", which should respect the uniformity of military orders.

He can ride, no...... drove a fighter plane to go on a date with a French girl, and then smuggled the girl and her three nephews and nieces out of the German-occupied area, but the commander would easily let him pass; He was able to calmly land the plane on the battlefield that should have been ploughed into a sieve by the artillery fire of both sides, and he rescued his comrades who were trapped in the crash in the distance unscathed, making people feel that they were not facing the German army equipped with a large number of Maxim machine guns and heavy artillery. And just Indians with throwing axes and bows and arrows in their hands.

As for the scene where he finally kills the German pilot with a pistol at a high altitude, it looks like a cowboy playing tricks on horseback, except that his crotch is a biplane fighter with a speed of 100 miles per hour, and the classic laws of physics and mechanics will not have any effect on such a ruffian and scientifically blind cowboy.

There is also the bleak obscurity of the actors' performances, which is also obvious.

Although "Air Combat Heroes" should have been a group drama. But except for the male number one Franco, all the other pilot shots are pitiful, and the portrayal of the characters is insufficient, so it is natural for the group scene to become a scene.

It's just the male number one James? Franco clearly lived up to the director's high expectations, and his performance was hard, albeit hard. But still superficial, and Joseph, who played with him? Fiennes looked bitter and hateful, and his face was full of the heaviness and gloom of war, but it was a pity that he stood with the ruffian cowboy Franco, and no matter how he looked at it, it was like throwing a freshly lit match into a nitrogen cylinder, and he couldn't react.

Of course, Billy? Emerson doesn't deny it, James? Frank's appearance in the film is indeed handsome, but even if he becomes more than Leonardo? DiCaprio is more charismatic and can't save the boredom of this film alone.

During the screening of the entire film. David? Ellison was a little restless, and from time to time he would look back to see if this was the first work he financed to shoot, or a big production with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, and it must be fake if he wasn't nervous, but what reassured him was that from the screening to the end, he didn't see a large-scale exit of the audience like the premiere of "Heavenly Dynasty".

That's a good thing, isn't it?

Perhaps this is the beginning of success.

Just in David? As Ellison thought this, the subtitles slowly fell, and he turned his head slightly to look behind him. His eyes were full of anticipation.

The expectation is naturally applause, the kind of applause that is as loud as thunder and continuous as the tide of the sea.

David? Ellison had heard a lot of people talk about, Duke? Rosenberg's film premieres and even at the end of the screening. It always attracts spontaneous applause from the audience, and the applause can even last for nearly ten minutes.

He also wants applause, which at least means that the premiere audience recognizes the film.

However, the subtitles have fallen, and the buzz can be heard in the theater, but there is no David? Ellison's expectant applause rang out.

David? Ellison frowned slightly. But there is no hurry, it is said that after many wonderful films are screened, they can always attract the audience to keep reminiscing, and the applause is inevitably late.

He believed that the applause would ring out spontaneously.

Time passed second by second, and the discussion in the theater became louder and louder, attracting David? Ellison couldn't help but look back, and many of the audience had already stood up and were ready to leave, but they didn't mean to applaud.

"This is ......," he chuckled in his heart.

At this moment, sparse applause suddenly sounded from all parts of the theater, and this applause seemed to remind the audience that clapping after the premiere was a kind of viewing etiquette, and they finally clapped their palms, but this applause was not loud no matter how it sounded, and it seemed to be a routine.

The loudest applause still came from the first few places, and from the seats where the guests in the front row were seated.

David? Ellison's face became a little difficult to look at, the front row was occupied by the VIPs attending the premiere, how could these people be rude in public, and the applause that rang out at the beginning was not an ordinary audience at all, it was arranged a long time ago!

Driven by To, the applause is still so low, is the film ......

Thinking of this, David? Ellison shook his head, and an idea naturally jumped into his mind, it was just a premiere and didn't tell the story, did it?

"David, it's a wonderful movie."

"David, well done."

"This movie is sure to be a big hit."

In the midst of applause, many people came over with bright smiles and asked David? Ellison sends congratulations, David? Ellison also cheered up and thanked him with a smile on his face.

Maybe it's the sincere praise on these people's faces, David? Ellison gradually regained his confidence, and so many people praised the film, which shows that "Air Combat Heroes" always has its merits.

"What do you think?"

Get up from your seat, Erin? Lauder asked Duke, "Is it a threat?" ”

"What do you think?" Duke asked rhetorically.

Erin thought for a while and said, "The special effects are very good, but I can't hide the flaws in the plot, there are so many special effects films now, and the audience will not necessarily buy them." ”

When she finished speaking, she stared at Duke.

Duke understood what his friend meant, so he had to say, "My personal opinion, the film is of a medium to low standard. ”

"Lower-average?" Erin tilted her head and walked forward beside Duke, "To David?" Ellison, a recent investor and producer in Hollywood, your medium evaluation is nothing short of a compliment. ”

In the film industry, even if you count him as a cheater, there are very few directors and producers who can succeed in their first work, even if it's James? Cameron, there are not very brilliant entry-level productions like "Piranha 2".

In Duke's eyes, "Air Combat Heroes" seems to be full of various elements that the audience likes, such as the cowboy who triggers nostalgia, such as the battlefield full of personal heroism, such as the protagonist who coaxes the cow, such as the idealization of the air combat of World War I to bring a sci-fi style, but the combination of these elements will not please the audience.

The simple reason is that in nearly two decades of Hollywood's history, a hodgepodge of films has never really been a big hit.

Maybe others don't know this, but Duke knows very well that among Hollywood's A-list productions, the only truly successful hodgepodge movie is "The Avengers", and how many years and how many films did this film's success take to pave the way?

In fact, after seeing the messy style of the film, Duke knew that this film might have a certain box office appeal, but imagine David? The super big hit that Ellison and Walt Disney expected was very, very difficult, and even required a miracle to happen.

While a lot of people are looking to David? Ellison and the others walked away, but Duke was not interested, he had already seen the film with his own eyes and learned what the competitors really looked like, and there was no need to go over and taunt each other.

Even if you taunt a few words, it is estimated that it is of little use to these people in the Ellison family, and the other side of arrogance is often cheeky.

Besides, words are the least powerful way to fight back.

What he has to do is to use various means to crack down on "Air Combat Heroes" in the market, so that the two fathers and sons, who don't seem to care about money, can experience the taste of flesh pain.

Even though the Ellison family is rich, even if the film was financed and filmed through various channels, but David? Ellison certainly didn't put a lot of money into the project, and if it was a box office hit, the loss figures would definitely annoy the father and son.

Compared with the salty and non-salty ridicule in the past, the counterattack in this way is more powerful.

Out of the theater, Irene? Lauder and Duke got into the car one after another, the car started in a flash of flashing lights, Duke looked in the rearview mirror, and some of the paparazzi had already followed, obviously trying to see if Erin would get out of the car.

Duke whispered to the driver, "Go to the Upper East Side." ”

He has no plans to go back to the hotel, and wants to send Erin first? Lauder went home, and then went to her mother, who was now in Europe, but when she came to New York, she had to go home to see why.

Rolls-Royce gradually picked up speed, Duke took out his mobile phone, dialed a number, and said lightly, "It's ready to start." (To be continued.) )