Chapter 727: Reviews Are Better Than Movies
"In terms of technology, although the "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" uses the most mature blue-green screen and CG computer technology in the industry, it is a relatively simple multi-layer picture synthesis, and the complexity is not the same as that of "King Kong". The frequent use of fast and slow motion is also a technique used by MV directors, and directors in the film industry disdain to play with such frivolous techniques."
With the development of the Internet, film critics naturally will not ignore the extremely important position of the Internet, this is Roger? Albert's long-form film review, published in his web column.
"Many people know that the so-called green screen and blue screen are when the characters perform in front of the screen during film and television shooting, and the post-production processing can be done through guò, so that the captured actions can be placed in front of any background. "Spartan 300 Warriors" is the result of pushing blue screen technology and computer animation technology to the extreme. Before the film was released, I watched the filming footage, a bunch of shirtless rough men, fighting in the studio, comparing the finished product with the real situation when it was filmed, which is definitely a great irony in the history of cinema. ”
"I believe that the blue and green screen plus computer CG animation will occupy more and more Hollywood screens, and the historical connotation of movies that we see in the future will be gradually emptied. In fact, not only history, but also the elements of reality will be gradually emptied, and if there is anything terrible, then this is the most terrible. ”
"In fact, history is never just history, history is a reality that was once vivid. The reason why we shoot and watch historical films is not because we love to watch things that have been frozen, but because people in the past have been excited, dull, sad, and happy like us, because they have a blood relationship with us. ”
"The trend of blue-green screen and computer CG animation is ostensibly the arbitrary development of visual imagination, but if you think about it, these imaginations have no foundation, these imaginations are detached from the real environment, and they have no resonance with real human life."
"That's what films like Spartan 300 teach us – when we seem to see a kind of 'hyper-reality'. We actually just see 'zero reality'. That is, sometimes, 'hyper-real' is equivalent to 'zero real'. The blue-green screen plus computer CG animation continues to move forward, and the film's perception of the external world will also fall into the abyss. ”
"Why do moviegoers always talk about old black and white films? I'm afraid it's not out of pure nostalgia, because the audience wants to see more movies that are intimately connected to the real world, rather than sensual films that attract attention in a way that is both weird and ridiculous. ”
Originally, Ryan didn't pay much attention to Roger for a long time? Albert and others commented professionally, after all, their influence is getting smaller and smaller, and he also cut off half of his mouth a few years ago, and he himself has cancer. Whether or not you have watched those movies reviewed or not, perhaps only God knows.
Besides, since he and Disney led Hollywood to cancel some of the cooperation with film critics, the income of the veteran film critics who directly directed zhì has been greatly reduced, except for a few films that must maintain the same views as mainstream society, the other party has not had anything good to say about the films he starred in and led in recent years.
With different positions and different interests, Ryan simply can't see it. Half of the other party's eyes can see God, and he can't really blatantly suppress him.
If Nicole hadn't read it to him, Ryan might not have known about the movie review for a week, a month, or even a long time.
"Sandy, mom is angry."
Holding my daughter. Ryan said to Nicole, who was sitting in front of the computer in the distance, "Okay, Nicole, why care about their comments. ”
"They just open their mouths. "Write ......," said Nicole, pouting, "or with a few keystrokes and veto in vicious language the hard work of others for a year, two, or even years." ”
Her voice rose abruptly. "This is a bunch of despicable parasites!"
"Honey, be quieter." Ryan quickly made a shut-up gesture, "You're going to scare Sandy." ”
"Sunny ......" Nicole said her daughter's nickname, looking at this side gently, "you don't care about your mother's voice, do you?" ”
Even if the little guy cared, he couldn't object, just stared at the pair of beautiful blue eyes and spun around.
Nicole got up and walked into the dressing room next to her, changed her clothes, came to Ryan's side, took Sandy, and kissed her gently on her tender little hand, "I'm going to feed my daughter." ”
She pointed to the computer over there, "When I was leaving, someone seemed to be posting against Roger?" Albert, can you go over and read it for me? ”
"This ......" Seeing Nicole's pale blue eyes, Ryan had no choice but to walk to the computer, sit down, refresh the web page, and take a closer look, "Wow, sure enough, the reviews are more exciting than the movie." ”
Nicole lifted her clothes, stretched out her free hand, and made a gesture of please.
"Why do moviegoers always talk about old black and white films......"
Ryan read the first reply screenshot of Roger? After Albert's last paragraph, he unhurriedly repeated those on the Internet against Roger? Albert's film review reply, in fact, does not need him and Nicole to stand up, Internet users, who are mainly teenagers, will respond for them.
Like he said, the reviews are better than the movies.
"Come on, who says audiences like black and white films? Love old movies? Please don't speak for all the audience, I know a hundred friends and classmates, and more than half of them like to watch movies, but I have never heard that they like to watch black and white movies. ”
"Can you keep up with the times? If you can't, please stop making some inexplicable comments. ”
"It's enough to watch a movie to get what you want, what I watch is the scene, it's a blood-pumping feeling. I'm happy, then this is a good movie, you can't ask every movie to reflect real problems, right? We just want simple entertainment. ”
"I don't understand what this person thinks? I just accidentally clicked into here? Could it be that the person who made the comment is an old guy? Then don't just comment on movies made for young people. ”
This one is more simply, don't know Roger at all? What is Albert.
"Like Roger? Albert is famous? ”
"I don't know, I googled the news of "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta", and I just got here."
"It doesn't matter who makes the comment, as long as you like it, it's a good movie for you."
"The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta has beautiful pictures, shocking music, passionate stories, and people who watch it are thrilled and excited, this kind of visual blockbuster is a good movie for me!"
In fact, this is the epitome of the response of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta".
The film received an excellent response in the market, winning $71.65 million at the North American box office in its first three days, crushing a series of competitors such as "Jurassic Park 3" who inevitably fell at the box office due to time, and sat on the top of the North American box office charts.
However, in the eyes of the film critics with eyes on the top of their heads, this film is an operatic feature-length MV, in addition to the connotation and special effects, they also criticized the indiscriminate falsification of history, such as pointing out that there could be no rhinoceros or elephants in the Persian army, and the Persian king Xerxes I was actually a bearded man who had been sitting on the king's chariot to watch the battle, not like the bald head with a metal ring as portrayed in the movie, and still having fun on the battlefield.
The summer file is coming to an end, and Hollywood has recently lacked enough hot topics, in order to attract attention and the film's public relations, the latest release of "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" has become a hot spot in the entertainment media, and they are skillful and flexible, and they are very tacitly divided into two factions.
Today, Disney's print media has just criticized the film for not respecting history, and the online media represented by Yahoo has refuted that this is normal artistic processing.
For example, Xerxes sent a letter to the Greek defenders, saying that the Persians were too numerous to count, and that the arrows alone could cover the sun, while the Spartans laughed and said, "That's great, let's kill in the shade" - this is copied from the history books.
As the driving force behind the scenes, Ryan watched the box office of "The Three Hundred Spartans" climb steadily, and it took only ten days for the film to exceed $150 million at the North American box office.
This figure is not comparable to "Iron Man" and "Jurassic Park 3", but the investment in the film is also low, the production cost is only 65 million US dollars, even if you add marketing and other expenses, the total investment is only 110 million US dollars.
Questions about the history of the film, which lasted for almost a week, quickly calmed down.
On the one hand, text is always weak compared to images; Compared to legends, the truth is always weak. There was history in the world, but when there are more people who change, there is no history.
In other words, history loses its truth from the moment it happens.
Are there still fewer movies in Hollywood that falsify history? Do Hollywood studios care about falsifying history?
The media hype is nothing more than the publicity promoted by Ryan and brought up by the joint public relations of Jenkins Films and Kidman Studios.
On the other hand, someone has finally challenged North America in terms of public opinion, and perhaps the North American media will be noisy over a trivial matter, but when a foreign enemy appears, the mainstream media will definitely turn their guns together.
"The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" appeared in overseas markets one after another, and when the film was released in the Arab region of the Middle East, the Iranian government once again reacted strongly. (To be continued......)