The version of "Painted Skin" released is much less than the full version, reducing the bloody shots, yellowed shots, and some unnecessary shots that were deliberately subtracted in order to shorten the screening time and make the movie look refined, so when watching it, you need to reminisce from time to time to understand how you jumped from this shot to that shot and what was missing in between.

In addition, "Painted Skin" uses a lot of flashbacks, first appearing in the later plots, and then completely restoring them through a series of side plots such as the characters' memories or background music, the characters' acting skills, etc.

One of the most obvious places is after Wang Sheng came back with Xiao Wei.

The last shot is Wang Sheng taking Xiao Wei back to the city from the desert, and then Wang Sheng and Pei Rong are intimate and explain Xiao Wei's origin; The next shot suddenly jumps to the night, where Wang Sheng and his subordinates are running around the city in armor, holding weapons to hunt down a missing heart-digging thief.

In the middle, the plot of the appearance of the heart-digging thief is missing.

It wasn't until the daytime that someone was dug out of their hearts and died, and then the characters said lines like "The heart-digging thief appeared again", and the audience understood that it was the heart-digging thief who appeared, so Wang Sheng took his subordinates out in the middle of the night to track and arrest him.

As for who the heart-digging thief is, what is used here is not a flashback, but a camera switch, turning to Xiao Wei, and then a lizard spirit who can "stealth technique" appears to take the heart of the person who has been cut into slices to give Xiao Wei to eat, and it is clear who the "heart-digging thief" is.

There are also flashbacks of Pang Yong's origins: first Pang Yong appeared, and then Wang Sheng recalled; Pei Rong suspected that Xiao Wei was a monster: first Pei Rong told Pang Yong about her suspicions, and then recalled all kinds of strange things about Xiao Wei......

This technique must be edited accurately.

Too many cuts, the plot is easy to lose, and the film is fragmented. makes the audience not understand and understand what the film is about, and then they will think that this is a bad movie with a trick.

There are fewer cuts, too many plots, and it seems to be more long-winded, like an old woman. The audience didn't like it either.

The original version of "Painted Skin", Stephen Zhao watched it twice, and in terms of editing and plot processing, he thought it was still in place, neither giving him a tricky pretending to be a fan, nor making him feel verbose, just right. So this time Zhao Xiaogang's version of "Painted Skin", Stephen Zhao simply asked Zhao Xiaogang to deal with it according to his feelings, and only did special treatment in a few subtle places.

November 14th. The night of the simultaneous release of the whole country.

Just when Chen Zhaoguo led his girlfriend and the animals in the same bedroom into the movie theater to watch "Painted Skin", Zhao Xingchi, who was far away in the magic capital, took Qian Minli and two bodyguards and also walked into the movie theater after dressing up. One is to watch a movie with Qian Minli, and the other is to see the reaction of "Painted Skin".

The cinema that Stephen Zhao walked into is the five-star flagship store of Huayi Cinema Line in the magic capital, and the tickets he bought are tickets for the IMX hall.

As soon as they entered, a total of 345 seats were filled with people, except for the empty seats for their group of four.

Be booked up!

Stephen Zhao was secretly delighted.

Qian Minli was also happy for him next to him, and whispered in his ear and laughed: "Look at this way." "Painted Skin" should have made a good start, and the box office results will not disappoint us. ”

Zhao Xingchi nodded desperately in his heart. But he said: "It's too early to say this, and I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”

Yesterday, that is, on November 13th, "Painted Skin" held a grand premiere in the capital, and during the day today, he flew back to the magic capital with Tang Xinya and Chen Riming. The three of them are responsible for the publicity of "Painted Skin" in the magic capital and other first-tier cities in the southeast, and then Mazu Island and Xiangjiang.

"Tang Xinya, this girl, I don't know if Lu Dao also sneaked to the cinema to find out the situation?" Zhao Xingchi thought crankily in his heart, then took Qian Minli's hand, walked to the edge of his seat and sat down, quietly acting as an ordinary person watching the movie.

"Painted Skin" has just begun to be screened, and the audience in the theater has received almost no reaction. It was only when Xiao Wei appeared on the screen in a demonic and sexy appearance that the audience had a lot of reactions, without exception, there was a long "oh", and then Stephen Zhao felt that the breath of many people became heavy. At the same time, an icy aura of slaughter began to permeate the theater.

It's a man who emits a heavy breath!

It is a woman who exudes a murderous aura!

Zhao Xingchi was clear at a glance, because he clearly felt the slightest "evil qi" on Qian Minli's body, and he also heard her snort in his ears.

As the plot progresses to the point where the lizard spirit comes out of nothingness, the audience's reaction is obviously much greater than when they entered the theater, and the theater begins to surge with a warm atmosphere, mixed with excitement, excitement, shock, and fear.

"It seems that the reverse order of the previous version of "Painted Skin" is still good here." Zhao Xingchi breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's actually a lizard spirit, I really didn't expect it, and it will be invisible."

"Shouldn't the desert be called lizards, right? It should be called a chameleon, and the chameleon's ability is to change color, and it is the same color as the surrounding environment anytime and anywhere. I have to say, this lizard, no, it should be a chameleon spirit, the setting is very good, from the color change to the invisible, the connection is very natural, not abrupt at all. ”

"Lizard Spirit? No wonder! No wonder I think when I am in the desert, how can a lizard appear in the camera, it turns out that the reason is here. ”

……

In the theater, many people exclaimed in low voices.

By this time, the setting and core problems of the monsters in "Painted Skin" had all appeared.

The core problem is to paint the skin, it turns out that the reason why Xiao Wei digs people's hearts and eats people's hearts is to keep the human skin not bad and maintain the human form.

Monster setting,One is a little Wei who paints skin.,The other is a lizard spirit who can stealth a heart.。

The above are the highlights of the film, before Wang Sheng led his subordinates to fight with robbers, Pang Yong single-handedly challenged hundreds of robbers, Wang Sheng led his subordinates to search and arrest in the city, and other action scenes, although they are wonderful, they are not brilliant, and the audience is not cold, because the action scenes have developed so far and are very mature, unless you play some fresh tricks and play something exciting, don't want to get praise from the audience.

A fight scene in which Pang Yong chased the lizard spirit on the roof made many viewers addicted, and the shooting was amazing: "This is a man's bloody battle!" ”

As for the fact that any monster can be cultivated into a human form, the combat effectiveness is so low, and the obvious BUG of a tie with humans is automatically ignored by many people.

There are two reasons, one is that the current magic blockbusters are deeply influenced by the West, and the Western magic blockbusters are so speechless in terms of combat effectiveness. Not to mention the little meaning of the fact that the monster and the human are tied, that is, the brain-dead setting of "humans can defeat the gods after physical training" can appear in a grand manner, and it is also very popular.

Another reason is the traditional Chinese cultural factor.

In traditional culture, whether it is a god or a demon, in fact, it must be subject to the jurisdiction of the government, and the gods and immortals must be officials, and demons and monsters cannot harm the upright people and the people of the government, because the emperor is the true dragon son of heaven who inherits the mandate of heaven and obeys the hearts of the people in the world, and has nine dragons to protect the body, so the court has dragon energy to suppress it, and all evils are easy to dispel!

As for fierce generals like "Pang Yong", generally speaking, they are all stars in the sky, seven kills, broken army, greedy wolf, kill wolf or something, not to mention dealing with small demons and small beasts, even if it is easy to deal with devils and big demons. (To be continued......)

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