Chapter 197: The God of Medicine (2)
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Before the feature film is screened, there will be a commercial. Apex Fiction X23UOM
It's a normal thing that theaters make money, in addition to making box office, advertising is also one of the big heads.
If the surrounding area develops again, the theater will make more money, so Wanda is desperately building a cinema line, in addition to wanting to control the right to speak in the terminal, the most important thing is, of course, because of making money!
In addition to advertisements, there are also trailers for some movies, and Bai Xiaofei saw the trailers of "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and "Jiupin Sesame Official".
Before the release of any movie, a trailer will be released in theaters and on the Internet, which is one of the routines of pre-promotion.
There are two trailers for "Jiupin Sesame Official" released in theaters, which are intercepted by Bai Xiaofei's Bao Longxing for a minute practicing mouth cannon and practicing acrobatics, and the one put into this screening hall is exactly one minute of practicing mouth cannon...
"I'll go, is this Bai Xiaofei?"
"It feels so funny, I want to see it!"
"It's only in December, it's early!"
The audience whispered, and Bai Xiaofei in the last row heard it and smiled.
ββ¦ You're making movies too fast! β
The young lady sighed in a low voice.
"It's not particularly fast, is it..."
"Three of them this year!"
ββ¦ Well, I'll refrain from it..."
"Riding the Wind and Waves", "I Am the God of Medicine", "Jiupin Sesame Official", from the beginning of the year to the end of the year...
Give people a way to live!
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The big screen darkened, and the movie officially began.
I don't know when it began, a group of directors always like to have something like a wedge before the movie starts, or related to the theme of the movie, or related to the background of the movie, and then show the title after the introduction.
This should have come from Hong Kong movies, mainland directors, especially novices, especially like to learn Hong Kong films, and they haven't learned anything else.
can directly put the title at the beginning of the movie and directly enter the plot, and the only thing in my impression is "Pure Heart Chasing Dreams in the Showbiz"...
Of course, "The God of Medicine" is a movie that can be written into contemporary film history, and "Pure Heart" probably only has a bunch of complaints about the official account and online articles.
'2002, Shanghai * Shanghai'
The timeline is clear.
The camera first focuses on a computer, which shows Spider Solitaire...
Then cut out, 'Prince Indian Divine Oil'...
"The landlord called me and asked me to push it, so pay the rent quickly!"
"I can't hand it over, I don't have any money!"
Cheng Yong, played by Xu Zheng, showed his face at this time.
With a cigarette butt in his mouth, his face is greasy...
At the beginning of the movie, the audience can see that Cheng Yong is a middle-aged greasy man who is living a scorched life, selling Indian divine oil, his business is bleak and he is being urged to rent, his wife is divorced, he wants to take his son to immigrate, and there is an old father who is bedridden and can't take care of himself at home.
By the way, feeding the old father is a scene that cannot be ignored, and his patience shows that he is a filial son.
A small boss who sells Indian divine oil of unknown origin, has a dismal business and is being collected by the landlord, has a history of domestic violence and is divorced, and his son wants to emigrate, these miserabilities cannot win the favor of the audience, at most they are sympathetic.
But the movie must be favored by the protagonist at the beginning, just like a thief who throws a coin at the beggar after he gets his hands on it, the audience can immediately establish a good impression of the thief, this is a kind-hearted person, he must have his reasons for stealing.
This is a commonly used routine in the movie, called "saving the cat", and Cheng Yong's feeding his father is a "saving the cat" scene.
The emotions of the character and the audience are firmly established, because he has a problem but is kind in nature, just like us, so we want him to change his fate, just as we think about changing fate all the time.
This is how the complicity between the film and the audience is formed, the audience participates in the creation with their own expectations, and then completes the ritual of watching the film together.
At this time, Cheng Yong had not yet reached the end of the mountain, although he could not make a fortune, he could not starve to death.
In the seventh minute of the movie, Lao Lu played by Wang Chuanjun appeared.
ββ¦ But this is a business opportunity, 371 bottles of genuine medicine in China, 2,001 bottles of pirated drugs in India, and the effect is the same! β
"The efficacy of the medicine is exactly the same, and the price difference is twenty times? ..."
Cheng Yong didn't believe it at all...
The pressure valve of the story has not yet ended, at this time, the father's hemangioma broke out, and he had to wait for death if he had no money for surgery, and at this time the character's needs were the most primitive, and he wanted to save his family.
The more primitive the characters' needs, the more convincing the actions, and the more resonant they are, just to pay the rent for the god oil store and take risks, which is not strong enough.
But going on an adventure to save a family is very convincing, and the audience wants to see such a story.
At the same time, of course, there was a joint protest of patients on the big screen against the exorbitant price of 'Glenin'.
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There are viewers who whisper to discuss the plot.
"What is Grenin?"
ββ¦ I'll look it up... It is used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia. β
"Are you stupid and don't do your homework before watching a movie? The prototype of this story is Lu Yong's purchasing case, don't you know? β
ββ¦ Do you need to check the information to watch a movie? There's something wrong with me! β
Judging from the current situation, the movie is still quite attractive, because the plot is really good, and there are a lot of jokes in the first half.
In fact, many stories based on reality are far more interesting than those adapted from and IP...
The most interesting is of course the dialogue between Cheng Yong and Indian Ah San.
"Okay, you're an Indian Ah San, a dead fat man, fatter than Zhu Bajie, and you're actually good at learning!"
Cheng Yong successfully brought the medicine back to Shanghai, but he encountered problems in selling the medicine.
Lu Yingfu suggested that he could find someone to help.
The two of them came to the bar, and the person who danced the pole dance on the stage was the person Lu Yingfu was looking for, called Sihui, she was the owner of a hospital patient group, and she basically knew the other patient group owners in Shanghai
"She's a sick person, isn't she?"
"She's not, her daughter is!"
After that, it's the plot of the official establishment of the healing team.
There is a segment in the middle, which is a clip of Sihui leading the leader of the patient group to greet Cheng Yong.
"I said, can you take off your masks?"
Sihui said carefully: "Brother Yong, there is a bacterial environment here, and they are not very convenient..."
Cheng Yong's expression was a little disdainful: "Okay, then wear them all!" β
Everyone saw Cheng Yong's dissatisfaction, Lu Yingyi took the lead in taking off the mask, Sihui signaled with her eyes, and the patients also took off their masks.
Cheng Yong also relented, and at the same time extinguished the cigarette in his hand...
This clip is very important, showing that Cheng Yong is not the kind of scumbag who doesn't care about the lives of others...
The business of the healing team is going very smoothly, and Cheng Yong is also making money!
At this time, the second paragraph of the story begins, and Cheng Yong's transformation from an illegal drug agent to a god of medicine, from human nature to divine Nirvana, must be completed in the second act.
Storytelling is about telling a turning point. A scene, if there is no turn, it is a waste play, and the empty mirror does not count.
The story must move forward with conflict and crisis, Cheng Yong makes a lot of money, but the illegal crisis is always there, the crook Zhang Changlin appears at the right time, under his coercion, Cheng Yong transfers the agency, and he betrays the other members of the team.
The film begins to sink from the emotions that rise all the way, which is the midpoint of the film, from which the film can be split in two.
From here, the bad thing comes, the mood has to go all the way down, according to Snyder's plot beat table, to enter the two beats of nothing and soul night in turn, and this is indeed how the movie advances the story, strictly following the narrative rules.
Snyder's plot beat list is the most suitable script writing method for current genre films, Snyder is the screenwriter who writes scripts according to the specifications in Hollywood, and he gives a beat list for screenwriters of all genres as a reference comparison template in "Save the Cat".
He reduced a 90-minute film to a 110-page script, and then divided the 110-page script into 15 key beats. Looking at this beat chart, it's easy to see if the rhythm of the script is appropriate, and whether a certain beat is too procrastinated or rushed.
The script of "The God of Medicine" was written according to this rhythm!
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