"My surname is Shamon, it sounds like 'Salmon', and my name is Susie. ”

A crisp and soft girl's voice resounded through the Kodak Theater, and none of the 3,400 first-time viewers of the film in the full room could have imagined the opening scene. Readers of the original book didn't expect that the book wasn't like that, and the actors didn't expect that the script wasn't.

It's not the opening words, it's not Susie's past, the screen image synchronized with the narration is Susie in heaven!

Even with a little psychological preparation brought by the trailer, the readers of the original book are still surprised.

The snow was falling, and a young girl in a royal blue hooded coat and yellow bell bottoms, and a pompom-pom multicolored hat stood in the snow, her long brown blonde hair in her shawl and a pair of braided string bells on either side of her hat were blown by the cold wind, Susie Shamon.

In the medium shot, she looked around with a puzzled expression, reached out to catch the falling snowflakes, and looked up at the sky slightly.

At the same time, the camera zooms out, and Susie appears smaller and smaller, and not far behind her stands a dilapidated Victorian double-storey house, and a flock of crows flying off the rooftop. When the image became a large panorama at an overhead angle, I saw that the small round snow where she and the house were located was surrounded by a dense and dark forest, and the giant trees spread endlessly, filling the whole world, and the sky was full of ghostly green auroras, gloomy and eerie.

The loneliness of the chiseled heart, the coldness of the chiseled heart, and the confinement of the chiseled heart.

Inexplicable fear.

Is this heaven or hell?

At the beginning, in a scene of about ten seconds, the audience's hearts twitched slightly, and some indescribable perceptions arose. But whether it is Spielberg, or Peter Jackson, or knowledgeable fans, they know that this worry is nothing else, it is the tone of the film.

A good movie usually does a lot of things in the opening scene, and it has a lot of effect on the audience's subconscious - where the invisible hand is going to lead them.

Peter Jackson also didn't expect Ye Wei to be so neat, at the beginning of the film, the audience has to unconsciously define its tone, direction, narrative scope and inner world: what kind of mentality should we look at it, what should we expect, what should we expect, and what is possible and impossible about it?

The director should tell the audience these answers as soon as possible to help the audience establish the most suitable viewing mood.

Although Jackson and Ye Wei have huge differences in adaptation, they know that what he said is not unreasonable, effective emotional unity is what any film needs, and the construction of the beginning is already the top priority. Ye Wei told the audience neatly this time "What you need to know about watching the movie":

Susie is a storyteller, and she is in a place full of fantasy, where all kinds of surreal things can happen on screen.

This movie will be very sad and sad, you have to watch it quietly and feel it carefully.

You can also be wondering: where is Susie, what's wrong, what's going on? What's going to happen next? You can be amazed -- "There's such a place." "There can be an expectation of destruction—" Susie would get there. "There can be a story target-" Susie had to get out of there, as she was clearly imprisoned. ”

When the audience knows the ending or even the plot early, it is very difficult to create suspense. Ye Wei did it, through a top-notch opening scene.

Through "Paradise". The paradise on the screen is completely different from the free and freewheeling paradise in the original book, and Ye Wei has turned it into a visible cage and a story goal. From the beginning, the audience had a thought in their hearts, looking forward to seeing Susie's paradise no longer so terrifying, and expecting her to break through the dark confines and regain her freedom. They refused to leave the field until they saw it, and they were hooked.

This hook makes the tension of the story not only about the capture of Mr. Harvey, but also about the development and change of the characters.

Jackson had that idea, but not to that extent, he thought about heaven as in the original, and the goal was whether Susie could get somewhere, like the olive tree where the victims gathered. And Ye Wei said that it would be ineffective, when Susie could do whatever she wanted in her own paradise, why did she need to go to the target place? Heaven must not be a display frame for imagination and special effects.

However, he felt that it was feasible to adapt the plan based on the central axis of his case, and Ye Wei's plan was ...... Thinking of the scripts I've read, there's no doubt that this paradise is made for this movie. Ye Wei said, "There is no heaven there, only a prison." "This bastard genius boy does have some talent.

The average viewer didn't know that there was so much behind this heartbreak, and watched the light and color of the screen image brighten up, and followed Susie's narration to an elegant study room in the style of the 70s: "When I was a child, I had a lot of toys, and I will never forget that snowflake glass ball. ”

In the panoramic shot, behind the desk on the left side of the frame, a handsome and friendly middle-aged man is busy making a boat in a bottle, and on the right side of the ground is full of children's toys, a four- or five-year-old blonde girl is playing, her eyes suddenly look at the snowflake glass ball on the desk, put down the building blocks in her hand and walk.

The scene lens makes it clear that there is a penguin with a red and white striped scarf around the glass ball, and then the close-up shot of the oblique side captures the chubby face of little Susie, her innocent and pure blue eyes looking up at the glass ball. This look made the audience feel that their hearts were warmed.

In between a few shots, Jack walked over and picked up little Susie and sat down. Little Susie wiped her teary eyes and said sadly, "It's so lonely." Jack picked up the crystal ball and flipped through the snowflakes and smiled: "Susie, don't worry, it's doing well in it, it's a perfect world to encircle it." ”

Little Susie continued to look at the glass orb, with a lovely smile on her face.

"At the time, I really believed it. The calm narration made the atmosphere in the theater sink even further.

Whether it is the Michaka sisters or the media, everyone can see the connection between the two scenes in the opening scene, heaven is the snowflake glass ball, and Susie is the penguin. Jack's words were wrong, it was lonely, it wasn't doing well in there, it wanted to get out of there.

"I have a younger sister who is a year younger than me, Lynsie. My dad said that when Lincy was born, I was very jealous of my sister, and he witnessed a stinky thing I tried to do, and from then on whenever someone came to the house, he would talk about it with a show......" Susie's voice was a little lively, and she was a little helpless at the end.

The synchronized screen image is the living room of Shamon's house with a panoramic shot, Big Susie, Clarissa and Little Lincy sitting on the sofa, Jack and Abigail standing on the couch, and Jack is frowning and saying, "Clarissa, guess what? Susie climbed on top of the cradle and wanted to pee on Lincy's head!"

In the three-person shot, Clarissa in the middle of the sofa suddenly laughed, Susie on the left was speechless, and Lincy on the right sighed: "She still wants to do this now." Susie instantly retorted, "You're still sleeping in the baby's bassinet." The two sisters glared at each other.

In the double shot, Jack hugged Abigail, and the couple were smiling.

The blind man can see that this handsome and beautiful couple is very affectionate, and they love the family very much, look at their smiles and eyes! And the fans of the book noticed that without Buckley, this should be the scene before he was born, and everyone's makeup and clothes are trying their best to look smaller, Abigail is wearing professional clothes, and she is full of spirit, like a working woman.

The atmosphere in the theater is warm again, Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz are still so well matched! Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie also look very good.

"Actually, we sisters have a deep relationship, and because Linxi wants to be a psychiatrist and I want to be a wildlife photographer, we don't have anything to fight about except for clothes. ”

A lot of the audience was smiling, and it was getting brighter and brighter.

On the side of the bed in a cozy girl's bedroom on the screen, Susie, dressed in white pajamas, was pleasantly surprised to hold a black Kodak point-and-shoot camera, and she hurriedly loaded the film. The narrator also became happy: "My parents gave me one of the best birthday presents this year! ”

As soon as Susie loaded the film, she began to take selfies and blind shots, posing at the point-and-shoot machine with all kinds of POSE and expressions, smiling, expressionless, beautiful, grimacing, laughing, with the click sound, one photo after another freezes on the screen. The narrator excitedly says, "I love to use my camera to capture the moment when the camera flashes! And these images are all mine! No one can take them out of my hands. ”

At this time, she took a selfie by the window, suddenly saw something outside the window, and immediately rushed out of the room with the camera.

In the editing room, Susie rushed down the stairs and rushed out of the living room of the house, in the living room, Lincy was reading the newspaper, a little boy of three or four years old was playing with toys, Abigail looked at Susie who rushed by, obviously loved and was not angry, look at this wild girl!

"That's Grace Tarkin, who lives across the street! I'm going to be tracking wild elephants and rhinos when I grow up, so let's do her now. ”

Susie's subjective shot, a woman in sportswear in her twenties doing morning exercises on the front lawn of the house across the street. After the camera reversed, Susie sneakily hid behind the bushes in her front yard, pretending to be a wildlife photographer, holding the camera with one hand and taking one photo after another.

Grace Tarkin ran and ran down the street towards the upper right of the frame. Susie hurriedly bent down and followed quickly, taking pictures while following, looking very happy, in this long shot of the front shot backwards, her eyes suddenly widened slightly, and her face was full of panic for a moment, and she hid in the oak tree in the front yard of the house next to her.

She put her hands down against the tree, and looked secretly.

The subjective camera saw a tall and handsome black-haired Asian boy riding a red bicycle towards this side, he said hello to Grace Tarkin and looked mature and confident.

"He's Ray Sheen, and it's been almost a year since his family moved into the community last year. His father was a history faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, and he ...... "Susie's narration was a little soft, revealing the admiration of a girl." In the image, she dodges around the tree, and when the thunder passes, she has slipped to the other side of the tree, her eyes are confused. The narrator continues, "Ray is so well-informed and knowledgeable, he seems to be eight hundred times smarter than us small-town kids. ”

Susie withdrew her gaze, looked at the camera in her hand, and walked away from the tree to go home.

Seeing this, it is hard for the audience not to dislike this quirky, beautiful girl who is just beginning to fall in love, her every expression is so cute, her words are bright and interesting, she is kind, she is clever, she is perfect!

It was Olsen's surprisingly good performance that brought "Susie" to the screen.

Is she really the sister of the Olsen sisters? Many media people have this problem, Ao Mei's acting skills are much higher than her two sisters, full of aura, and definitely one of the best screen debut beginnings. The Olsen family is really going to have a movie star.

One thing is already certain, none of the ten winners of the VIY draft will be parallel goods, Susie is amazing, and Xiao Linxi is also vivid.

Emma looked a little stunned, her proud heart was being hurt, as if it wasn't the same thing at all...... If she is asked to play Susie, it is hard to say whether she can have this performance.

There are many people who are surprised, Vanessa and other girl stars who help the girl really see the gap, is this the "heroine of a genius director"? How can this be called "clumsy acting badly"? Of course Olsen was lucky, as the agents said, the movie failed, and Susie will not fail.

While the audience silently applauded Olsen's performance, the leading girls sitting in the front row area silently high-fived and celebrated, and the performance time had just begun!

However, where did Ye Wei go?

VIY has also appeared on the screen, in addition to a cameo, his last acting was "The Wedding is Coming", and this time it is more like his true colors. A group of fans are looking forward to his role, and the most anticipated is naturally the kiss scene. Alice Siebold is smiling, no matter how many times she looks at it, it feels incredible, and that is Susie and Ray.

"I don't know if my four-year-old brother Barkley will grow up to be smart, he always does stupid things, and that one was really scary a year ago. ”

The screen image has changed, Susie in different shapes is sitting on the porch in the backyard of the house, slowly applying toenail polish, and as soon as the narration with a slight sigh ends, an anxious child's voice sounds: "Susie, Susie!" She looked up and hurriedly got up and ran.

The atmosphere became tense, and in the double shot of the two children, Barkley was lying under the tree trembling all over, and Knight, another little boy standing, said urgently: "Barkley swallowed a branch!" Susie in the close-up shot suddenly changed her face, panicked for two seconds, and immediately picked up Barkley, shouting while running: "Linxi!!!

Bang! In the garage, a flower pot is smashed, a spare key is pulled out of the mud with one hand, a red Mazda classic car pulls out of the garage, Susie is behind the wheel, Barkley is lying in the back seat, and the car is driving onto the road and hurtling away.

"Be careful!" Susie exclaimed, the car ran on the street of the town, she urgently pulled the handbrake, and a car next to her also stopped suddenly, she panicked and apologized: "Sorry!" and immediately stepped on the accelerator, and the car ran again. The chickens and dogs jumped on the road, and the passers-by on the side of the road looked sideways, obviously Lei who had just come to the town was also there, and he looked at the flying girl running by in amazement. After a while, Jack and Abigail, who were apparently hurrying home, were dumbfounded when they looked out the window of a Volkswagen at Mazda running by outside the window.

The car rushed to a stop outside the hospital gate, and the prepared medical staff carried Barkley out of the stretcher car and rescued him, and the brisk soundtrack faded away.

What a witty and heroic girl! This paragraph made the Kodak Theater burst into laughter from the audience, and the fans were satisfied, and it was great, the original book was on the screen.

Everything in the camera, in the hospital ward, the Shamon family is there, Barkley is lying on the hospital bed, Susie and Lincy are sitting on the left, and the doctor in the close-up view on the right is talking to the Shamon couple, and the two of them are listening with palpitations. Grandma also came, wearing heavy makeup, electric curly hair, and an old mink coat that was obviously second-hand.

Susie narrates, "The doctor said that if I hadn't been rescued in time, Barkley wouldn't have been saved. And Lynn's grandmother said......"

The doctor turned and walked away, and the grandmother said loudly, "Susie, the Buddha said that saving a life is better than building a church, and you will live happily for a hundred years!" Everyone smiled. In the close-up shot of the single person, Susie's pretty face also shows a happy smile.

"As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong. ”

The scene shifts to a sinkhole that serves as a landfill, and the five members of the Shamon family laugh and work together to kick an old refrigerator down. When the old refrigerator fell into the sinkhole, fell into the bottom of the hole and was swallowed by the mud, the three siblings cheered, and Jack high-fived them one by one, a happy family.

The rising camera rises to the sky, and Susie's voice has a sad one: "On December 6, 1973, I was only fourteen years old when I was killed. ”

Less than 10 minutes into the film, there was a sudden silence in the theater, and the faces of the audience who were still smiling just now were expressionless, and their hearts were chilling.

I don't know who sighed, and I don't know who has moist eyes.

Peter Jackson with his hands on his chest, the story starts with a good shot, just introduce Susie to the audience, and then what about the more and more clues, more and more complex structures, and heaven...... It can crash at any time. Boy, can you shoot from start to finish?