"Invite the North Shore Regional Junior Surf Champion to receive the award, Bethany Hamilton!"

The podium on the big screen was jubilant and the audience was delighted, and the surfing competition was only a few minutes long, and it was more of a character show than a sports competition, and everyone in and out of the play saw Bethany's talent, talent, and great future.

Bethany stood in the middle of the podium, holding the trophy high with her right hand, and her left hand was also flamboyant, smiling brightly amid applause and cheers!

In Toronto, the audience in the screening room was half full, and Nina, who came to watch the movie with her parents, gave two thumbs up, not for Emma but for Bethany, who is also an athlete, and she thought she probably understood all these feelings and knew how amazing it was.

When you lift the title, it feels like you've won everything you can so far, and you're going to win more......

In Los Angeles, 33-year-old young screenwriter Eric Guggenheim is a little confused, there is no opponent to set up!NYU School of the Arts screenwriter, who has been the sole screenwriter of the sports film "Miracle on Ice" based on real events (80% freshness, 90% favorability, IMDb-7.5), knows how to run.

Maybe no story needs to have an opponent, but how can there be no sports story involving the struggle to win? Like the young U.S. ice hockey team in "Miracle on Ice" facing the four-time champion Soviet Union in the Olympic final, no one is optimistic about the U.S. team, and when the dark horse defeats an impossible opponent, an exciting miracle happens.

If the film is going to be an opponent, obviously this scene is the best time to appear, Bethany can win or lose, can connect with the second or first opponent, and continues until the end of the story, when there is more tension in how to deal with it, a miraculous champion, or a defeat and a friend, will stand together on the championship podium and make a touching speech.

It's a common theme and theme in competitive genres, even Sandra Bullock's action-comedy Pretty Undercover (2001), and even more broadly with a commendation scene, as in Star Wars 1.

But now Bethany has no rivals! Not even a sign of that.

Without any disputes, Bethany won the championship, Alana was second, and another brunette girl was third, and there was a lot of harmony. What was Ye Wei thinking?

The Guggenheim looked at the happy and excited Hamilton family on the screen, and couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Brother Tom, your daughter has what it takes to become a pro. Ben, a middle-aged Hawaiian man on the tournament judging team, laughed with Tom and Sheri, "Her aura, her will, she has a bright future." ”

Both were smiling proudly, and Tom was particularly proud, looking at Bethany on the podium and saying, "She's a natural champion." ”

The close-up shows Colin Firth's Jackie Chan look in full on the screen.

Julia Roberts couldn't help but admire, Feith did this so well! Emma really should learn something.

LMS and SS are both expected to be Jackie Chan's fathers, but the psychology, behavior and performance are different, LMS's Richard's relationship with success and failure is not just the expectation of his daughter, it has become his philosophy of life, the way he treats everyone, and because of other life pressures, Richard is very serious and irritable, and occasionally funny.

And "Tom" is very joyful and kind, occasionally serious, it is the little seriousness that is inadvertently revealed that completely exposes the pride and expectation in his heart, which is not his philosophy of life, but he has such a daughter, he has become a proud father.

Richard Bar expects Oliver to succeed and Bethany's success makes Tom want her to be more successful, and that's the difference between the two. The same is that Hanks and Firth both portrayed a father vividly, and did not hide the brilliance of other actors, but drove the group drama, and they are the best actors.

This pride is also manifested in Cherry, Noah and Timna, and the whole family is immersed in the joy of the championship. When Uncle Ben told them that a professional surfer agency was going to sign a contract to sponsor Bethany and Alana, they and the Blanchards and Bethany came over, and everyone was pleasantly surprised.

Two girls are jumping and screaming wildly, and they are entering the professional players!

Interested?

"Yes, yes, yes!" they cheered, and both families rejoiced.

The audience who invested in the story off the screen was also happy, and at this time, the camera was everything, and the close-up on the right side of the frame was the black-haired girl who won the third place, holding a surfboard, looking at Bethany and others in the distance with a blank face, and the large depth of field made the smiling faces of everyone and the agent very clear.

It's clear that no agency has taken a fancy to her, and she doesn't seem to have a chance to become a pro.

The Guggenheim suddenly became intrigued, this girl is actually the opponent? In a reverse shot on the screen, Bethany in the left close-up saw the dark-haired girl in the distance in the middle of a smile, her smile changed slightly, and she noticed that only the first two were sponsored.

It's not like you're building up an opponent......

"Hey, Ashley!"

In the beachside parking lot on the screen, the brunette girl Ashley is leaving, and Bethany's call sounds, and Ashley looks back. Over-the-shoulder camera, Bethany ran closer, "Can we talk?" Ashley asked suspiciously, "What are you talking about?"

In the transition between the single shots, Bethany and Ashley talked about the game just now, she revealed the secret of winning from her father, gave her own advice, and finally made an invitation: "Usually Alanna and I are trained by our parents together, why don't you join us?"

Ashley was touched by her sincerity and enthusiasm, and a smile appeared on her cold face, "No, thank you, I have other training arrangements." ”

"That's fine. Bethany nodded and said with a smile: "Next time we will compare." ”

"Well, I won't let you. Ashley laughed.

"Neither will I. ”

In the only side double shot in this conversation, Bethany on the left stretches out his left hand, Ashley on the right stretches out his right hand and holds the surfboard in his left hand, and the two laugh and slap their palms and become friends!

Guggenheim gasped, and the average viewer didn't know what that meant, but he did.

Ashley isn't a bad guy opponent, maybe an adversary friend, but it's a friend. In this story, Bethany will have no opponent! Ye Wei declared this in the most high-profile and unambiguous way.

The emotional effect of a friend-like opponent is different from that of a friend-like friend, why do the protagonists always have opponents? Because this is the most primitive story, people always have opponents, school, professional life, etc., everyone has had opponents, won and lost.

When the most powerful villain looks like a protagonist confronts the protagonist, and has a mocking face of "you are a trash, see how I clean you up", this will produce the most primitive, simplest and easiest emotional resonance, which onion is this hateful guy? Whether they agree with the protagonist or not, the audience will stand on the side of the protagonist, because they agree with one thing, quickly clean up this villain, and stop letting him be arrogant there.

Although the opponent is not necessarily so typical of the bad or evil, and it is not necessarily hateful, it must be the opposite of the protagonist, which is why there is a conflict.

Bethany's opponent is himself? This is what the Guggenheim was even more surprised about, disaster is not an opponent, he is not an opponent, he should not be ......

Again, the reason lies in the emotional resonance, and while the inner world of any character caught up in a struggle with self is bound to struggle, in the absence of a clear antagonism from the outside world, such a protagonist is prone to annoyance, because no personal problem is universal.

When the protagonist's problem is blamed on himself, the protagonist is painful, and some viewers will empathize, while some viewers not only do not feel the pain but also feel that the protagonist is hypocritical, just because they do not necessarily have such emotional memories and bonds, they do not understand, and they cannot experience an emotional journey.

So it's better to build a villain that provides external confrontation power, a taunt, and everyone has emotional resonance.

But...... There are no absolutes, not just because the personal problems of few stories will have universal attributes, but also because it is too difficult to portray such protagonists in any case.

Is Bethany's story universal? In a few thoughts, Guggenheim suddenly woke up, can she blame herself for the broken arm? This is an absolute injustice, this is a universal emotional bond for the audience, and Bethany will not only have inner pain, but also an external antagonistic force - her body.

But it's still too hard for the audience to follow Bethany all the way, can you have enough dramatic tension as an opponent? Think about the long second act......

Can Ye Wei do it? Guggenheim looked at Bethany's left hand on the screen, and his heart flashed and asked how he felt at the moment, that is...... She's a good girl like an angel.

Bethany is so nice!

In the quiet screening room, many viewers also shared this feeling, kind, enthusiastic, considerate of others, warm and sweet smile, really a good child of God. But at the same time, the uneasy undercurrent grew stronger and stronger, and it seemed that the more I liked Bethany, the more I felt worried about her.

As a die-hard VIY fan, even though last week's "Carrie" was a big disappointment, Claire still came to the theater to watch SS for the first time, and when she saw this scene, her heart ached faintly, as if she had become an accomplice to that shark.

"Haha!" In the hotel suite, Gia suddenly lost her smile, Jennifer and Alicia both glanced at her, as if to say, "This is all laughing?" Gia and them have a hard time explaining, "Amanda Ashley" is a fictional character, which was not called this in the script at first, and suddenly changed its name during the filming on the set, revealing that it was Anastasia Ashley.

Maybe that kid was trying to have fun at the time, in order to pick up girls, it was okay at the time, but now that Lily sees it, will she think about it? Someone is in trouble, hahaha!