After three months of filming and post-production, "Killer Leang" is about to be released.

In this era, because of the crude production of films, the production cycle of films is relatively short, some short films can be completed in a few days, and 60-minute feature films can only take two to three months.

A movie like "Journey to the West" that requires martial arts and special effects will take about half a year.

The movie "Killer Li Ang" does not have too many big scenes, especially during the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War, it is impossible to have a big explosion in the Shanghai concession, which will cause panic among the citizens.

Therefore, the main plot of the movie revolves around the killer and the little girl.

Because it is necessary to get foreign screenings, the technicians of Star Film Company can be said to strive for excellence, striving to keep up with foreign blockbusters, and cannot smash the company's signboard.

Lin Zixuan held an internal test screening.

He invited the owners and managers of theaters in Shanghai, as well as the news media, to watch and hear the opinions of all parties.

He has seen the movie himself, which is a bit strange from the perspective of later generations, especially when compared with the original "Killer Leon", this Republic of China version of the killer story is quite weird.

Judging by the costumes, the killer is wearing a caftan, and the little girl is wearing the uniform of a girls' high school.

During the Republic of China, the uniform of girls' schools was generally wearing a moon-white cloth gown on the upper body, a knee-high black skirt on the bottom, linen gauze socks on the feet, and women's leather shoes.

In this era, it is synonymous with foreignness.

In the thirties, the uniforms of many girls' schools were changed to cheongsams or Western-style dresses.

Ruan Lingyu has two sets of school uniforms in the Chinese and Western Girls' School, one is Chinese-style, which is the combination of cloth gown and long skirt. There is also a set of Western-style sweatshirts that I wear when I am exercising.

During the filming, he asked Hong Shen and others for their opinions.

Everyone else thinks it's okay. They don't think it's incongruous to dress like this, but think it's a way to show their identity.

Lin Zixuan realized that he was influenced by the original movies of later generations. What is in line with this era is the best.

Another problem is Martina's character, she doesn't like school, she will quarrel with her sister and be disappointed in life.

In the eyes of Chinese parents, this is a typical bad child, disobedient to discipline, and this is okay.

In a family where this feudal ideology dominated during the Republic of China, this kind of girl will not be loved by the older generation of audiences, who like well-behaved children.

If it's an ordinary Chinese girl, after the tragic death of a family member. She would definitely cry and ask for help from her relatives, but Matina was calm, she mixed up with the killer and wanted to avenge her family.

This kind of personality setting is different from most girls in China, and it is very eccentric.

Lin Zixuan was worried that the Chinese audience would not accept Martina's character, so he first held a test screening to see the reactions of foreigners and Chinese.

Of course, he wasn't worried that the film would lose money.

Just by virtue of his charisma, he can make a lot of money. In Shanghai, he is no worse than Mei Lanfang's fame.

Moreover, the movie was shot very well, showing the strength and confusion of Martina, a little girl, vividly. It can be said that Ruan Lingyu alone can hold up the whole movie.

Many plots can be tear-jerking, and the performance is impeccable.

Zhou Shoujuan is a movie enthusiast, and this kind of movie-watching activity is indispensable to him.

Lin Zixuan also wants him to give free publicity to this movie. Zhou Shoujuan's film reviews in "Declaration" are very popular with readers, and he himself is also keen on translating and introducing foreign films.

From the very beginning of the movie, he felt that this movie was different from previous domestic films. There is a sense of freshness.

The opening scene of "Killer Leon" shows Leon's elusive killing methods, and he accepts the task of a gang boss in Shanghai. Drive another gang boss out of Shanghai.

Li Ang simply killed the big guy's men and forced the big guy to leave the country.

There are very few lines in the whole process, but it looks full of momentum, making the audience feel that this is what a top killer looks like.

Next, the movie introduces the daily life of this killer.

Like ordinary people, Li Ang lives in Zhabei District, is a neighbor with ordinary people, likes to listen to dramas, just like a friend living by his side, and he can't see the appearance of a top killer at all.

But the appearance of the little girl Martina changes Leon's life, and the two influence each other and change each other.

Zhou Shoujuan guessed that this script must have been written by Lin Zixuan, he had contact with Lin Zixuan very early, and always felt that Lin Zixuan's novels and articles were out of place in this era.

Taking the early "Quest for Qin" as an example, other literati in Shanghai could not think of this kind of "crossing" to write.

and those whimsical stories published in the "Popular Fiction Daily", I am afraid they are all from Lin Zixuan's hands.

He knew that Vientiane Bookstore had a huge group of writers composed of more than a dozen people, specializing in writing, and many ideas had a great impact on the Shanghai literary scene, and some writers of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School were imitating it.

It can be said that Lin Zixuan has changed the creative direction of Shanghai's literary circle, and he can always think of ideas that others can't think of.

This "Killer Li Ang" has an obvious Lin Zixuan style, which is very different from the current domestic movies.

Especially this little girl named Martina, she has an indescribable temperament all over her body, that is, she feels that she is different, and she is very different from the Chinese girls of this era.

If in the future life, this indescribable temperament will be expressed as "cool", and the audience will say that this girl is really cool.

Just like the girl in the American movie "King Haibian", she is very cool.

But during the Republic of China, it can only be said that this girl is very different.

At the end of the movie, Leon dies with the gang's killers in order to save Marjana, and Martina returns to the girls' school and plants the pot of pothos on the campus of the girls' school.

It's a heavy and heartwarming ending.

At the end of the screening, most of the foreigners present applauded, the French reacted more enthusiastically, and the Chinese media were more cautious and only applauded in agreement.

The storyline does not quite fit the theme of the reunion of the Chinese, just like "Sunrise", and the genre of killer films has not appeared before, so they don't know how to evaluate it.

Zhou Shoujuan felt that this movie contained profound meaning.

Whether it is Leon or Martina, both of them do not integrate with this society, they are both lonely people, and two lonely people meet together and accept each other spiritually.

Is this just attachment, or is there a hazy relationship between the two.

The film arranges the death of Leon with great meaning, and this hazy relationship is interrupted, so that Martina can live a normal life, but can the little girl who has experienced all this really forget everything and start over?

Zhou Shoujuan's heart was quite melancholy.

It's like watching "Shanghai Holiday", seeing that the princess and the news reporter are in love and can't stay together, they can only be separated from each other.

He found that the movies starred in by Lin Zixuan were different from ordinary entertainment films, which could make people have endless aftertaste.

The movie "Killer Leon" will be a classic whether it will be a big hit or not.

Walking out of the screening room and looking at the sunshine outside, he hoped that the little girl named Martina could grow up in a normal life in the girls' school and have a bright future. (To be continued.) )