Chapter 158: Impact
"Okay, the following is the link of "This Week's Focus Movie", everyone look at the poster behind me, which is this "F&Q Movie", which has been very controversial recently, Mr. Shi, what do you think of this movie? To recommend or not to recommend? β
"First of all, I watched the media preview of this movie at 12 noon on August 17, and after the official release, I went to the cinema to watch it again out of my own pocket...... On the one hand, I appreciate its style, which is very unique, with a strong personal and humanistic temperament, which is rare in current Chinese films. On the other hand, I am very disgusted with the atmosphere and content it expresses, and I want to explain that my disgust is not to say that I hate it, but it is a kind of resistance, just like the feeling caused by seeing blood, corpses or some uncomfortable pictures, or the tone of the first half of the film is too negative and too cold, which makes me subconsciously resist. β
"Do you recommend it or not?"
"It's still recommended, double thumbs, it's highly recommended to watch, what to say about this movie, watching it may make you uncomfortable, but this is an uncomfortable that can make people reflect, just like traditional Chinese medicine, bitter, not good to drink, but after drinking it, sweating, getting sick, and then people are really comfortable. In fact, it doesn't matter if I recommend it or not, this movie has a score of more than 8 points on garlic and watch movies, which is a rare high score for domestic movies, and any movie that has passed 8 points must be worth going to the cinema to watch again...... Xiaoguan, what advice do you give? β
"I also recommend it, but only give a thumbs-up, why? I agree with Mr. Shi's evaluation just now, this is a rare movie in the current Chinese film industry, and it can even be said to be a unique movie. But some of its details are too rough, the movie tells the story of 12 lonely people, but in the end, only 6 people have told the story completely, and 6 have a head and no tail, and that's it...... There is also the fact that the transformation of emotions before and after is not smooth enough, and the first half is indeed as Mr. Shi said. It's too cold, the second half is more warm and gives people hope, but the transformation of this mood in the middle, only one English song is used, I'm not very satisfied, the trailer uses 6 MVs, but there is only one song from beginning to end in the movie, it's too perfunctory! In his own words. It's just insincere...... Anyway, I think this movie could have been made into a classic work that will be watched ten years later, but it only turned out to be a good movie, and it was still a little bit short of a classic, so I only give a thumbs up recommendation, and there is also a very personal reason, I am a fan of the queen of permission, and I ended up watching a movie. I was stunned and didn't see where the queen was, and I was very unhappy. β
"Hahaha. Permission appears very hidden, you have to look carefully to see it, and I'll tell you where she appears...... The movie does have flaws in some places, but they are all minor faults, and the overall quality is still very high, as for the 12 people. 6 happy endings, 6 have a beginning and no end, I think it is a deliberate metaphor, that is, fate is not only determined by heaven, but also by oneself to take the initiative to find it. The 6 happy endings are all actively changed, and the 6 have a beginning and no end, and they are all obsessed with the past...... Fang Xiao was a director for the first time, and it only took more than ten days of hard work, and to be able to shoot like this, it can already be called amazing, and it is more than ten streets away from Director Wang. β
"If it were another rookie director, I wouldn't be nitpicky, but the director of this movie is Fang Xiao! Fang Xiao, who is omnipotent, how can he ask him like an ordinary person. β
"People are people, and movies and music are two different things."
"Okay, let's not talk about what happened to Fang Xiaoren, let's talk about this movie...... This movie is a hodgepodge, with a total of 12 short stories, Mr. Shi, which one do you like the most? β
"How to say it, if you talk about charm, of course it's 023, that is, the role played by Fang Xiao himself is the most flavorful, but if you like it, my personal favorite is Xiaoqing's story, which is the lovelorn girl who talks to herself with soap and towels. I think this story is ironic, you see, we now have mobile phones, computers, micro-messages, and of course, eye&me, and we can chat with hundreds of people anytime and anywhere, but when she is sad and lonely, she can only talk to soap, towels, and other things that can't speak...... This is a very strange thing, but if you think about it, we are usually like this, usually with this and that, we seem to talk about everything, but when we really have something on our minds, we can't find someone to talk to...... I think this is a social phenomenon worth paying attention to, Fang Xiao keenly grasped this, I like it very much. β
"I am also very impressed by this story, but my favorite is the Xiaolan played by Lan Xiaoxi, she likes to go to the funeral home to participate in various funerals, observe people's views and attitudes towards the deceased, from beginning to end only said one line, that line is actually quite ordinary, but it is particularly touching in the movie, that is, Xiaolan asked an old woman begging at the door of the funeral home, 'Is life like this?' The old woman replied, 'That's it's,' and I was in tears, and I couldn't control it at all, I just wanted to cry. β
"That's why I said before that I was very conflicted, loneliness, loneliness, sadness, hardship, etc., these negative emotions are like a cold virus, no one likes them, everyone avoids them, we go to the movies to drive away loneliness and loneliness, to have fun and enjoyment, right? As a result, Fang Xiao is like doing a medical anatomy, showing the negative emotions to the audience, no matter if you are rich, poor, healthy, or sick, no one can escape, it is not a movie that is very cool to enjoy, but it is a movie that you will remember for a long time after watching it, if this movie is released on CD, I will collect it as soon as possible. β
"I will also collect it, but the premise is that Fang Xiao must not make another gold-absorbing thing like a half-life, then I can't afford to collect it, hahaha...... So Mr. Shi, how much box office can you get in the end for Fang Xiao's debut novel? β
"F&Q Movie" was released on Monday, today is Friday, according to the information I saw, it has received nearly 350 million box office, of course, we all know that a large part of these 350 million miles are pre-sale tickets. I estimate that the box office will fall more sharply next week, and the final box office may exceed 500 million based on the month of release, which is already a very good box office for a small-budget art film. β
"That is, it is said that the filming cost and publicity cost of this film combined are less than 10 million. If it can harvest 500 million at the box office, Google will make more money, and I remember that no local Chinese literary film has ever exceeded 500 million at the box office, right? β
"No, the current highest "Camellia Love" is less than 200 million."
"That Fang Xiao accidentally set two more records, one is the highest-grossing literary film in the history of the Chinese film industry, and the other is the small-budget film with the highest return on investment in the history of the Chinese film industry."
"Actually, this movie really has to be talked about. The cost is definitely more than 10 million, Fang Xiao is writing a song now, and he can't get it without 500,000, I read a report last week that the crew of the "Poppy Beauty" TV series opened 1 million to ask Fang Xiao to write a song, and opened another 5 million to ask permission to record the ending song, at this price, the 6 promotional MVs are worth tens of millions. Also, someone else makes a movie. If Fang Xiao is invited to be the starring role, the salary will be at least 30 million, and you also know that 30 million is the lowest price for a superstar, and if you add up the costs of director, screenwriter, etc., the cost of Fang Xiao alone will be fifty or sixty million. Google said that the cost is low, that is because Fang Xiao is the major shareholder of Google, and he works voluntarily, he doesn't want money, and others are embarrassed to ask for more money. The cost was pressed down all at once. β
"Teacher Shi said this, I suddenly felt that in the movie, the queen orchestra only came out of Qiao Yadan and Lan Xiaoxi, and the others were gone, probably to save costs? Many netizens on the Internet also angrily scolded Fang Xiao for being completely insincere, the title of the film is called "F&Q Movie", but after watching a movie, I only saw Fang Xiao, Lan Xiaoxi and Qiao Yadan, and the license, Arlene and Wheat were completely missing, Mr. Shi, you went to see it twice, did you find Arlene and Wheat? β
"Let me tell you, the reason why I went to see it a second time was to reminisce and to find the members of the Queen Band. Mai Jiexin appeared at the earliest, at the beginning of the movie, 023 was buying beer in the school commissary, there was a girl behind him who was buying a diary, that was Mai Jiexin, only showing a side face, and then there was a scene, 023 picked up a letter with words written on it from under the desk when he was in class, and the signature on it was Mai Jiexin......"
"When Arlene appeared for about ten minutes, Xiao Qiao, played by Qiao Yadan, went to work in a fast food restaurant, passing by a food stall, Arlene was holding a beer bottle in the food stall and fighting with a boy, and once, Xiaolan took the bus to the funeral home, and Arlene could be seen sitting behind her and talking on the phone from the rearview mirror."
"The permit also appeared twice, the first time was when Xiao Xue was playing "Little Bird" in the shared house, there was a dancing shadow in the residential building opposite the window, and that shadow should be the permit, because there was a scene of permission to dance in the window in the promotional MV, and the second time appeared when 023 and Xiao Qiao were shopping in the mall to buy shoes, the two passed by a shop window, and there was a model in a red dress in the window, that model was the permit, but it was gone after a flash, and I really couldn't notice it if I didn't look carefully."
"It's still Teacher Shi who is careful, and he can actually find their existence, the time for these three queens to appear is probably less than three seconds, and it will pass in the blink of an eye."
"So Fang Xiao said that he was insincere, Xu is the vice president of Google, he is very busy, Mai Jiexin is going to fly out of the album solo, Shi Lilin went on a trip, and then he used Xiao Qiao and Xiao Xi to make a perfunctory movie, and he flew to the United States for three days to play haha."
"I'm just very unhappy with Fang Xiao's point, perfunctory can be perfunctory into such a strange movie, if you shoot it well, what will it look like?! It's a pity that the theme is good, the creativity is good, if this film is carefully filmed, and I will go to Europe to participate in the three major film festivals next year, I may be able to win a lot of awards. β
"The three major film festivals in Europe are indeed very attractive to ordinary filmmakers, but for Fang Xiao, it may not matter, his main business is music, and movies are just playing tickets, you see that he didn't even open the premiere of "F&Q Movie", as soon as the finals of "Original New King" ended, he went directly to the United States to release a new album, that album has a total of 12 songs, and only uses three chords at most, which stunned foreigners, and the talkbook is full of exclamations and praises, and the Grammys may be able to win a lot of awards next year."
"I can only describe his English album in four words: five-body throw...... Okay, that's all for today's "Weekly Film Talk", I hope Fang Xiao can play more movies in the future and give you more surprises. β
ββThe famous online movie review program "Weekly Movie Talk"
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"A chord, nice; Two chords, good; Three chords, perfect; Four chords, are you kidding? Three chords are enough for a genius! Fang Xiao from China, who used three chords to explain to the world what a musical genius is, is the most fascinating and admired musician in the world since Mozart......"
"This "1,2,3......" album begins with a song "rock-around-the-clock", which is a cover song, a cover song from the father of rock music Bill-Haley released in 1954, this song is recognized as the originator of rock music, it is the first rock music to break into the mainstream music market, the cover is a tribute, but also sets the tone for the whole album, that is, each song never uses more than three chords, Because this classic song by Bill-Haley only uses three chords: E, B, and A. β
"And then there's 'bourine-man,' a simple three chords with brilliant, easy-to-understand lyrics, it's an unbeatable and surprising song, and I put it on my phone to my grandfather β he was a music broadcaster on a radio station in New York in the '60s β and he immediately fell in love with it, and was adamant that it was Bob-Dylan's work, that he had heard it when he was younger, and that he loved it, but in fact, Bob-Dylan had never written it. Because this is a new song that was only released on August 20, 2014! A faraway Oriental, who could imitate Bob-Dylan and American rock music of the 60s, so realistically, God, how did he do it? β
"The third song, 'Heroin,' is a magical and great song, and it's a very controversial song, it only uses two chords, but it has eight-minute lyrics, it's a drug-related song, it's psychedelic, it's weird, it's wonderful, it's depraved, it's like America in the early '70s, the pale words can't describe my love for this song, I want to say that if I'm dying, I'm willing to listen to this song and die. Hearing that China's drug surveillance is very strict, and Fang Xiao himself has never been exposed to drugs, how he wrote such real and illusory music, just like how he simulated the American style of the 70s, is a mystery......
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"The last song, "If-You-Anna", since human beings have ears, since human beings know how to appreciate music, music composed of simple chords based on the root sound of c, f, and g has always been ridiculed and looked down upon, but look at it, Fang Xiao used such a simple three chords to break the inherent barriers and write a very powerful indie rock music."
"Throughout the album, Fang Xiao used two or three chords to not only write beautiful and wonderful music, but also echo the historical era, from the 50s, 60s, 70s to the 21st century, with 12 songs, compose a chronicle of rock music, this is a great album, these are twelve great songs, let us bow to Fang Xiao from China with the most pious respect!"
ββAuthoritative pop music magazine "Rock Guide"
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ps: Writing here, the protagonist is already omnipotent, the shelf of the entertainment empire has been built, the breath of life is getting weaker and weaker, and the overhead world lacks a sense of substitution, and it is impossible to depict the refreshing feeling of success, although you can keep singing and filming to soak up girls, but I don't think it's interesting, I struggled for two weeks, and decided to end it like this......
Thank you for your support and love, I'm very sorry that it's been unfinished again......