Chapter 127: The Best Stir-fried Shredded Potatoes
Of course, if it's not funny, you will refund the ticket or something, Wang Wei will just talk about it in front of Lao Wang.
Anyway, he resolutely took a vacation and did not waver, and he had no intention of "making noise and stealing the master" at all.
Lao Wang could only adjust the Spring Festival file strategy while slandering, but this did not affect the movie to be released as scheduled.
So, on January 31, "Charlotte's Troubles" was officially released nationwide.
At 8:15 p.m., a cinema in the capital.
Critic Charlotte entered the room and sat down.
This is a medium-sized screening hall with about 120 seats, and while the lights are still on, he subconsciously glances left and right back and forth, and finds that the attendance rate is quite low, and at most a quarter of the seats are filled.
Not surprising at all, he even felt that the attendance rate of a quarter was beyond expectations.
First of all, the name "Charlotte Troubles" is not very attractive.
- He definitely didn't complain because the protagonist bumped into his name, in fact, he thought it was at first, "Charlotte, troubles". As a result, after watching the trailer, I realized that it was "Charlotte, Troubled", and the protagonist had the same name as him.
The sentence in the trailer, "It's just that you TM is called Xia Luo", if he hadn't maintained a good relationship with Dunhuang, he would have thought that he was deliberately targeting him Xia.
Secondly, today is the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, everyone is either busy going home for reunion, or busy preparing for the New Year's goods.
If he hadn't been asked by the newspaper to write on the first day of the new year, and estimated that there was a high probability that he would not be available after the year, he would not have chosen to watch the movie today.
Well, as an industry insider, he can more or less guess why Dunhuang chose to release it before the official Spring Festival holiday.
——Before the festival is the time left for word-of-mouth fermentation, and after word-of-mouth fermentation opens, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the curtain of the Spring Festival stalls will really be opened.
"It seems that Dunhuang and the theater chain have a lot of confidence in this movie!" Charlotte muttered to herself.
You must know that many people in the industry believe that the impact of this wave of movie ticket price increases may last for several months before dissipating - after all, after the Spring Festival every year, until the summer season warms up in May, it is a cold period in the market.
As far as Charlotte himself is concerned, he hopes that there will be a movie that will bring the market to the market - the market has always been so deserted, whether it is sprayed or blown by film critics, few people care.
It was in this mood of anticipation that the lights went out and the movie began.
Then, Charlotte was pleasantly surprised to find that the film grabbed the attention of the audience almost from the first shot.
For film critics who have read countless films, the plot is easy to guess -
The protagonist Charlotte accidentally travels through time and space and returns to the classroom when she was a student, beats the teacher, chases the goddess angrily, and her life changes dramatically, but her heart is becoming more and more empty...... In the end, Huang Liang had a dream and woke up.
Just by looking at the beginning, you can guess this routine, after all, movies are the art of routines, and most movies are following a few routines to move forward; If a movie doesn't even have a routine, it's a failure in ninety percent.
Charlotte will not be disgusted or tired of the film itself because he guessed the general plot trend, what he values more is whether the movie can always attract his attention under the premise of "guessing the routine".
Of course, for comedy, the most important thing is whether the jokes can be naturally integrated with the plot, rather than deliberately creating embarrassing jokes or piling up cheap jokes.
There's no doubt that the film does an excellent job at this point!
Creators know how to set up jokes that keep the audience laughing – verbal, situational, and even visual, and the whole movie is full of laughs.
For example, Charlotte's most impressive soundtrack "A Cut of Plums".
This is obviously an adaptation, but I have to say that the effect of the adaptation is super good.
In the movie, every time Yuan Hua is hit, such as the magical "A Cut Plum" pinching point, and finally, as soon as he sees the image of Yuan Hua, film critic Xia Luo automatically resounded this melody in his mind, interrupting his train of thought again and again.
In addition, the magical lines are endless.
"Let's talk about each other, you call me Dad, I call you Brother", "What is Ma Dong, what is Dongmei, what is Ma Mei", ......
The laughter in this film is so dense that if you dare to linger on the last laugh, you will definitely miss the next one.
Charlotte had wanted to count the number of times the audience burst into laughter.
This is the best criterion for judging the quality of comedies - the audience laughs, and laughs at every turn, it is best to laugh from beginning to end, then such a comedy, word-of-mouth and box office must be no different!
In the end, though, he gave up on statistics because it didn't make sense.
The audience was laughing like crazy!
During the whole viewing process, there are countless unstoppable laughs, which make the audience uncontrollable "hahahaha"!
Even in some very tragic or tragic moments, the audience laughed even louder!
Xia Luo saw that when Yuan Hua was under the phone booth, looking up at the sky with tears in his eyes at a 45-degree angle, and shouting "no", the music started, the snow flew, "the snowflakes fluttered in the north wind Xiao Xiao", the spoof was to the extreme, and the laughter also reached the highest point of the audience.
The two female audience members sitting in the row in front of him were already laughing completely out of control, they were shaking each other's bodies wildly, and the popcorn buckets they were holding couldn't withstand the madness, and the popcorn was spilling out, but they couldn't stop at all.
Charlotte is older after all, and he has a high laugh, so he is not so crazy, but he is infected by the atmosphere, laughs naturally, and unconsciously sees the end of the movie.
It wasn't until the end credits came out that Charlotte resumed thinking -
In fact, the subject matter of this film is very cheesy, and the plot is cliché.
But none of this can hide the excellent nature of the work.
Most of the jokes in comedy are born from absurdity, and even blossom on top of pain - and pee fart is also a kind of absurdity, the key is to grasp the proportion of and pee fart, and not blindly stay in the lower body.
The film is very well controlled on this, and there is no obvious fall into vulgarity.
Each joke is natural but full of jokes, and every sarcasm is light but endless.
Charlotte doesn't feel like it's all the credit of the actors and directors.
At least, half of the credit is in the script, in the screenwriter Wang Wei!
This once again confirms one of Charlotte's thoughts - he thinks that Wang Wei's screenwriting ability even surpasses his directing ability!
As she thought about it, the lights came on, and Charlotte immediately took out her laptop and jotted it down.
After a pause, he continued to write—
"It's not difficult to cook well with good ingredients, but it's rare to use the most ordinary ingredients to make delicious dishes that are full of praise.
This movie is not a big fish and meat, but it is undoubtedly the best fried shredded potatoes I have eaten this year, which is very suitable for the Chinese New Year......"
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(End of chapter)