"Soul Surfer is a fascinating, hands-on film that's more plausible, advanced, and moving than what we usually see in Hollywood pop sports movies because of the believable adaptation, effective acting, and extremely successful director. —3.5/4, Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

At breakfast on Friday morning, Lily read the SS reviews from the newspaper and couldn't help but laugh at it, and the word Gangbusters made her laugh out loud.

Gangbusters is a portmanteau of gang (gang of criminals) and busters (saboteurs, nemesis), the nemesis of bad guys, meaning those who are extremely successful, effective, resolute, and powerful. This not only praises the director's success, but also symbolizes the righteousness of SS, but the director is a little rascal.

That little rascal succeeded again!

She sent him a text message to share the fun of this movie review, and she was overjoyed. This kind of mood is not the mood when LMS is TET success, not "Tarzan of the Apes" many years ago, and it is not, just like the joy of "The Wedding is Coming" at that time, and the exact feeling of "this is my thing".

"Woooo......oo

Was it caught in a police car, right? Haha.

After the pleasant morning, Lily didn't get obsessed with it, she went to school with peace of mind, but how much she wanted to give Duoduo a birthday present, and what she wanted to dress up for Halloween. However, it is expected that W'sB will finish on the 30th, and if he can return on the 31st, it will be their first Halloween together in love.

These days are coming in the blink of an eye, but she hasn't made plans yet, and she has to go shopping for new clothes on the weekend to prepare for Duoduo's birthday party.

At noon, I was in the school cafeteria and suddenly learned about the new situation of SS. VIY's influence is still present on campus, and he has become a celebrity from time to time, and his gang members are not less, and she and a few friends are picking up meals when they hear another group of people talking indignantly about SS's critics' evaluation.

"How hard do you think you have to be to say 'it's too sentimental'?"

"I think the most ridiculous thing is that there are still people who think that VIY writes the lines too smartly, do you want to listen to some nonsense in life?"

"I bet if Brother Wei wrote that, the guy would think the lines were too clumsy. ”

"No matter what they say, it doesn't change the fact that it's a classic. ”

Lily looked at the group of boys who had taken the meal and walked away with some confusion, "They"? Why do you say that there are many film critics who have given bad reviews?

......

"It's good to be relentless in the face of life's setbacks, but the film tells the story a little bit piecemeal. —2.5/4, Selma Adams, USA Weekly

"It's like an inspirational movie for money, the real information is basically constructed, but it feels like a montage after another. - 2/4, Matt Pace, RedEye

"The film was supposed to have a fighting heart, but it ended up relying on a piece of cheese. - 2/4, Alexandra Carvallo, Boston Phoenix

What does cheese mean? What is sweet?

After lunch, while it was still X time, Lily went to the library to check SS's film reviews on the Internet, and was stunned, in her heart, there is no doubt that SS is a good movie, but is it not enough for the critics?

But I feel that it doesn't make sense......

"Soul Surfer describes too little about that disaster and the Christian worldview, what is Ye Wei afraid of? - 2/5, Mark Sovero, The Austin Chronicles

"The religious mood of this film is greater than the real emotion, and the director Ye Wei is so busy setting up touching moments, but he forgets to give the original pain of the story to the audience. —2.5/4, Jason Heck, Kansas City Star

"In a cliché pop sports movie, Ye Wei's connection between the sea and Bethany's relationship with religion is very false. —1/4, Glen Heath, Jr., Bias's Magazine

......

Ye Wei spent the day busy on the set, and in order not to affect the filming status, he had already ordered no one to tell him SS results in any way during working hours. Of course, the eldest lady is not Everyone, but Onlyone, she can say whatever she likes, and the praise of the Los Angeles Times in the morning also makes him happy, Gangbusters is a good word.

He's in luck, and even though the crew has to start work tomorrow Saturday, the $5 Friday game that should be played still has to be played. The host of the game, Gia, drew his one from the pile of money in the hat, because his new film was released today, and he didn't draw or treat him again in order to keep his luck.

Everyone knows the rules of superstition, and there is no whisper. In fact, he is not superstitious, sports are also a place where all kinds of superstitious rituals are breeded, but he never has so much to do before the competition. But who doesn't want the winning money? This is not the income of SS, so let's buy birthday gifts for Duoduo, hundreds of dollars.

Ye Wei took the crew's car back to the hotel and talked a lot with the makeup team.

A scene where Rui was beaten up will be filmed next week, and this scene is a watershed moment in the filming plan. The total scope of the filming location is not large, and the actors' costumes and spirits are very different, so even if it is a scene in the same scene, it is filmed separately before Rui was beaten and after he was beaten.

But now there is a problem, the makeup team is not very good with Jennifer's makeup to dissolve her nose and swollen face, he was not satisfied with it before, and it has not been solved to this day, it is not natural enough.

He gave a death order to do it this weekend, or he might have to come and punch Jennifer and beat her up. It wouldn't be unbearable to do that, but I don't know if she can continue filming, and he should really be arrested in the police station.

After returning to the hotel, to solve the problem of hunger first, Ye Wei called Mike Cahill and Britt Maling, the assistant director couple, to the restaurant for dinner.

Things always come so suddenly, and halfway through a good dinner, I saw Gia hurriedly looking at her.

"You don't know?" she asked, as she approached, with a terrible seriousness.

"What?" Ye Wei was shocked, and instantly prayed, "Please, don't be the bad news related to your life." Maling and Cahill are also in doubt.

"The film critics are going to scold you!"

Ye Wei was stunned, he imagined that the film critics would not like it, most likely for emotional and religious reasons, "How bad is it?" He thought how could he have a 70% freshness, and he was surprised to hear Ji Ya say "35%" naturally with a share of "Are you joking with me?"

There is also a popularity of 93%, IMDb-7.7 points, and the midnight box office loses to "Cursed 2" in second place...... It's okay, it's really okay, SS with a predominantly family audience isn't the best and hottest option for midnight shows, tonight will be different, it's going to win.

But what's the deal with movie reviews?

"They better convince me. Ye Wei said in a deep voice and continued to deal with the steak, "I'm fed up with those clichés. ”

......

"As inspirational as expected, my only question is, isn't there anything better than a cliché?" —2/5, Gray Drake, Movies.com

"It would be a lie to say that 'Soul Surfer' wasn't a clichéd sports movie. —2.5/5, David White, Movies.com

"A series of exciting clichés. - 2/5, Trevor Johnston, Time-Out

......

After dinner, Ye Wei returned to the suite, because when it was non-working hours, both mobile phones had some new messages, and the text messages of several close friends were comforting him in anger.

He took his laptop to his desk and sat down, turned on the Internet to figure out the situation first. There are no Roger Albert film reviews yet, there are Kirk Hornickett, Christy Lemill, Claudia Pugh, Lou Ramnick, Moira McDonald......

After reading one bad review after another, and seeing one cliché after another, Ye Wei suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahahaha! It's really a cliché, hahaha!"

Almost instantly, he clarified a lot of things in his heart, as if he had been empowered and figured it out:

"Soul Surfer" is a good movie, a good movie with the spirit of independent cinema!

These scoldings made him realize another reason for his dissatisfaction, not that he did not do well, but that he was afraid of the situation in front of him, SS did not meet the aesthetic standards of the film critics, and lacked the protection of political correctness, which made a large number of confused and mediocre film critics so exposed.

Not to determine one's own rightness, but to identify theirs.

Many of these are not film reviews, but just nagging caused by a mixture of pure personal emotions and external factors.

And these nagging have repeatedly offended him and ruined the original glory.

"Hahaha. The laughter gradually stopped, Ye Wei looked at the list of short movie reviews, and the undercurrent of anger finally came up, and it couldn't be just left to go.

He picked up his phone and called Lily, who said, "Hey." Her response came from her phone: "Hey. He said very seriously, "Lily, we need to talk." ”

"What about film reviews?" she asked, apparently knowing as well.

"Yes, I'm looking at it, I'm very dissatisfied, it's a bit too. Lily, because you don't like high profile, I've put up with some things lately, and if I don't I will defend Carrie, it's just that it did mess up, and I don't want the media to orchestrate me and Nina, so I put up with it. But not this time, the movie didn't mess up! Gangbusters is a good description of it. ”

As soon as Ye Wei's words fell, Lily on the other end said: "I know that managing love requires mutual accommodation, but, however, I don't want any of us to endure this feeling, I don't like it." Also, what I want to be low-key is in my private life, not to be wronged and not to speak, you can say whatever you want. I'm very unhappy!"

"Haha!" he couldn't help laughing, and a lot of thoughts came to his mind, since this is the case, let go of his hands and feet.

She asked slightly, "What's interesting?"

"It's not interesting yet, it's coming soon. ”

"But do you want to ask the PR and film distributors before you respond? I'm afraid the media will say that you are angry and don't admit it. ”

"I'll confess, no matter what, I'm going to give myself a fair life, and a fair review of the movie. Don't worry, when have I ever lost a war of words? ”

Lily suddenly smiled: "That's too, it seems that I'm looking forward to it." ”

"And laughing. Ye Wei snorted coldly, "I thought of two jokes. ”

"What if I'm already laughing?"

"No, it's serious. ”

"Still laughing... Not...... Alright, come on!"

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[Two jokes:

①

Once upon a time, Ye Wei's new movie was released, and a group of film critics published film reviews and appreciated each other after watching it, among which the second most popular one had only two words "Oh, yes", and the most popular one had only one word "What"

②

One day in the future, Ye Wei's child asked him: "Dad, what is a film critic?" He replied: "Child, film critics are people who have been good and bad since they were born, and have been scolded for being a waste, you are going to be eliminated by the times, you are about to die, but you have been living a good life until now." The boy listened and asked, "Isn't that you, Daddy?" and he replied, "No, there are women among them." ”

If you want to see more, check out the LA Times' VIY op-ed, "Death of a Film Critic," on Monday, October 16.

-- Ye Wei's blog, Facebook post, "Two Jokes," October 14, 2006