Chapter 31: Bad Movie
After the premiere, the screening of "Dream Chaser" finally began.
Fang Bo sat up straight, ready to concentrate on watching this movie.
People's character and ability are not completely commensurate, some people have bad character, but their ability is very outstanding, and some people are just the opposite. Although Wu Xiaofei has occupied the road to shoot, maybe his movie is very good?
After all, Wu Xiaofei's name is very loud, so aside from him as a director, Fang Bo's expectations for "Dream Chaser" are still very high.
At the beginning of the movie, a man and a woman run hand in hand on the beach.
But as soon as the picture turned, it immediately became a shot of the male protagonist's urban drag racing.
Although the two people running are handsome men and beautiful women, and the scenes of drag racing are also fast-paced, and the two scenes are very good to look at separately, but the problem is that the plots before and after the two scenes are not connected, and the picture style is very different.
Just when Fang Bo was puzzled, the camera actually switched away again, this time it was a dozen people standing on the beach dancing, dancing for a while, the camera switched again, cruise ships, sports cars and helicopters appeared one after another.
Fang Bo was confused, he really didn't understand what this series of fast-switching shots was trying to express?
Arranging a flashback scene at the beginning of the scene in order to quickly attract the audience's attention is a common narrative method in movies and TV series.
But the flashback didn't pour so many hands!
switched four or five shots in a row, without explaining the background at all, and the characters passed by in a flash, what use could this be in addition to dazzling the audience?
Fang Bo frowned, secretly wondering if there would be any deep meaning in it, but no matter how he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong, so he had to hold back his doubts and continue to read.
But the next plot development was even more unexpected to him.
In less than ten minutes after the opening, there were more than a dozen supporting characters with names and surnames, all of whom were handsome men and beautiful women, and almost none of them had any background introduction and character characteristics.
So much so that if you don't look at the name given in the subtitles, Fang Bo can't tell whether this person is a new character or has already appeared.
What he didn't expect was that the characters in the movie were already so outrageous, and the direction of the plot was even more outrageous!
The actor took the script he wrote and wanted to attract investment, but he was humiliated by a rich man on the street, and the depressed male protagonist just returned home, and his girlfriend directly brought his new boyfriend to him to break up, what a tragic word.
I haven't explained it clearly here, and the movie began to introduce other characters, anyway, each character lasted three or five minutes, just one on the left and one on the right, and it took more than half an hour to show the background of the dozen or so people dancing at the beginning.
Can a movie still be made like this?
After watching the first half of "Dream Chaser", Fang Bo didn't know what to say to the plot in the clouds.
He was clearly not the only one who felt the same way.
"What's this shooting?"
A female audience member sitting next to her whispered.
Not only the ordinary audience sitting in the back rows, but even the reporters, film companies, and film critics in front of them are confused.
It may be an exaggeration to say that there are countless films, but they have seen a lot of movies with unique narrative methods, but they have never seen such a unique movie, and they don't even know how to classify it.
Let's say it's a commercial film, although Fuhuadao is well-made and the movie picture is very good, but the pace is slow, more than half an hour has passed, the story is still in the early stage, and the plot has still not unfolded.
Let's say it's a literary film, so many handsome guys and beauties are stuffed in, and it's all about derailment, car accidents and other bloody things, I really can't see what deep thoughts the director wants to express.
Wu Xiaofei has a huge reputation, and finally made such a movie?
The publishers looked at each other and looked at each other for a few times, and they reached a consensus at this moment.
The copyright of "Dream Chaser" can't be bought!
Reporters and film critics charged Huanyu Film and Television's "carriage fee", even if they pinch their noses, they will tout the movie, but distributors are different, they want to support a movie, not only can't receive money, but have to take out the money.
Before Huanyu Film and Television spent money on publicity, the momentum of "Dream Chaser" on the Internet is very huge, and Wu Shaolin has the title of a producer in the crew, the box office appeal of the big director is still there, and everyone in the circle can see the box office potential.
Although the domestic distribution of "Dream Chaser" belongs to Huanyu Film and Television, there are still foreign markets, especially the United States, as the largest foreign market for Chinese films, distributors want to win the film's screening rights in the United States.
So when it was screened, a group of distributors naturally flocked to it.
But when the screening began, after seeing the finished film of "Dream Chaser", the distributors suddenly had no idea in their hearts.
No one's money is blown by the wind, if you spend money to buy the copyright of such a movie, isn't that equivalent to taking money to waste?
But then again, "Dream Chaser" was filmed like this, anyone with a discerning eye can see the problem, and Wu Xiaofei is a fan of the authorities, so Huanyu Film and Television shouldn't have found it?
The publishers continued to read with doubts in their hearts.
No matter what, it's coming, Huanyu Film and Television and Wu Shaolin's face still has to be given, at least the surface work must be done enough.
But they can endure it, but the ordinary audience in the back row can't sit still.
The screening of "Dream Chaser" entered the second half, and I don't know why, the actors' performances became more and more exaggerated, their body movements and facial expressions were more exaggerated, and the performance traces were very heavy.
Finally, an audience member couldn't stand it anymore and left the venue early before the screening was over.
With the one who took the lead, the rest of the audience followed suit.
One, two, three......
After a while, except for Fang Bo, the audience in the back row or two was almost finished.
The reason why Fang Bo didn't leave was because he wanted to stay and see what kind of ending such an outrageous plot would have, so he should satisfy his curiosity.
At the end of the movie, the actor finally fulfilled his dream and became a big star after experiencing various bloody events such as breakups, car accidents, and unspoken rules.
When the end credits appeared, the filmmakers and reporters invariably breathed a sigh of relief and applauded against their will.
Fang Bo didn't know what to do at the beginning, it was clearly a big bad movie, what do you mean by applauding?
But when he turned his head to look at the empty seats in the back row, he understood.
The goal of those people in front of them was not to watch the movie, no matter how bad the quality of the movie was, it would not prevent them from acting as an atmosphere group, only those ordinary viewers who bought tickets in the back row would be disgusted by the bad movie and leave the venue early.
Thinking of this, he shook his head and smiled.
In the past, he was still angry about the shooting of the road, but now that he thinks about it, it is pointless to deal with someone like Wu Xiaofei, it will only affect his emotions in vain.
In the applause of the front row, Fang Bo quietly got up and left.