In this era of rapid development of special effects technology, the pursuit of new technologies is endless.

Luo Jianzhou's sci-fi film released last year was once hailed as "the master of new special effects technology", but Wang Wei's "Jurassic Park" will definitely challenge this position.

is also because this is the most application of new technologies since Wang Wei made a movie, so he has to be much more cautious in his preparations, and the progress has slowed down.

Of course, there are also a series of movies that are about to be released, which involves part of Wang Wei's energy.

For example, "Crazy Stone" at the beginning of the summer file.

On Wednesday, July 5th, on an unremarkable day, this black humor film was officially released.

- "Crazy Stone" was completed earlier than "Tang Bohu", but the release date was much later than the latter, largely because of the post-production, especially the editing, which took a lot of effort from director Zhuang Geng.

From the rough cut version to the current public version, Zhuang Geng has cut it over and over again, and Wang Wei has also watched version after version - Zhuang Geng is a director, or a director that Wang Wei values very much, but he still does not have the right to cut it.

How to shoot this movie is Zhuang Geng's business, what kind of cut it will be taken out to meet the audience, and in the end, Wang Wei, the first producer, will be responsible for making the decision.

In this case, it is not an exaggeration to see vomit.

Because of this, Wang Wei is very sure that this is an excellent movie, a good film that is not inferior to the original.

- Well, to be fair, Zhuang Geng's version of "Crazy Stone" is definitely far better than the original in terms of overall texture.

After all, the crew of "Stone" in that time and space was poor, and in order to make a good movie within a limited budget, the crew even had to choose a large number of scenes that looked "sloppy" to improve the amount of information in the picture and reduce the audience's feeling of playing.

Not to mention the sufficiency of Dunhuang's budget for Zhuang Geng, but in terms of camera control ability, narrative ability, etc., the fledgling Ning Hao is definitely not as good as the experienced Zhuang Geng.

Coupled with the guidance of Wang Wei, who "stands on the shoulders of his predecessors", Zhuang Geng successfully found a combination with the strongest picture expression, the strongest sense of plot rhythm, and the strongest emotional impact on the audience through many attempts in post-editing.

Therefore, Wang Wei's preconceived relationship with the original filter is really just a preconceived one.

And for all audiences in this time and space, Zhuang Geng's version of "Stone" is their first impression of this story and this movie.

- The beginning is very unusual!

Xie Xiaomeng's teasing sister was stepped on, Bao Shihong's car window was smashed by a Coke can falling from the sky, the thief Brother Dao's gang disguised as a moving company was caught by the traffic police to issue a ticket when stealing, and Siyaner wanted to buy a factory, Bao Shihong's car hit Siyan'er's luxury car without pulling the handbrake on the ramp......

In just a few minutes, several characters with vivid images appear intensively, and at the same time, the events related to the characters are so densely laid out, the plot is compact, coherent, and unexpectedly entertaining and laughing, and it also makes an almost perfect and clear foreshadowing for the whole story.

This is skill!

And as the story of the movie is in full swing, the plot seems to be quite complicated at first glance: a piece of jadeite was found in the factory facing demolition, so the jade guard team led by Bao Shihong, the trio of Daoge, the international thief hired by the real estate boss, and the son of the factory director for the pickle girl, all forces are entangled with each other because of the jade......

There are a lot of characters, and it is a multi-line narrative, which is obviously a messy and intertwined relationship, and the audience can understand it directly without spending any brains when watching it;

And the whole process of stealing jadeite is full of all kinds of wonderful collisions of inconsistencies and mistakes, and it is easy to tickle the audience's laughter.

Superimposed on the wonderful "catalyst" dialect in the movie - Brother Dao's Hebei dialect, Mike's Cantonese, Heipi's Qingdao dialect, plus the local Chongqing dialect, various dialects are stewed in a pot, cross-greeting the audience's auditory nerves, making people laugh so hard that they can't stop laughing.

At least at the premiere, almost every two minutes, the audience burst into laughter.

Especially in the last scene of the movie, the black skin played by Zhou Qiming crawled out of the sewer, black and smelly, tired and hungry, and ran away after grabbing food, and then the food stall owner chased him all the way on a small motorcycle, hammering him all the way: "Yo he, you can still run!" I'll let you run! There were bursts of laughter in the screening room.

Obviously, the effect of the film is superb.

Although when it comes to the original work, it is always impossible to avoid the controversy of imitation and even "plagiarism" of "Two Big Smoking Guns", Wang Wei always believes that these two movies are classic movies of the same level.

In the current time and space, there is no "Two Big Smoking Guns", as the first "Crazy Stone", it will only be more classic.

This can be seen in the tangled mentality of film critics-

Before the release of "Stone", the film critics who were collectively embarrassed on "Tang Bohu" were gearing up to comment on the movie.

However......

After the film's release, although many critics took a firm stance to criticize it as "unintentional, a boring popcorn movie", more critics could not hide their appreciation for this unique film.

Of course, it is impossible to praise Wang Wei.

As a result, the film critics can be called extremely entangled, well, or a schizophrenic scene appeared:

There is no such thing as Wang Wei - "Very avant-garde editing, smooth and concise matching transitions, pinching together several seemingly unrelated things, Director Zhuang Geng is really a ghost!" ”

There are overt and covert - "the control of multi-clue narrative, and the perfection of rhythm...... Compared with those spoofed and vulgar comedies, this is the real comedy, and it is a work that the audience likes to see......"

There are even those who directly sow discord - "The plot, casting, shooting, and editing are all excellent, I think this is the pinnacle of Chinese comedy, obviously, this has nothing to do with someone who can only be low-level funny, but he steals the limelight from Director Zhuang Geng by virtue of his name......"

When Wang Wei saw such a movie review the next day, his first reaction was not to be angry, but to have a bad premonition-

"Finish calves, these guys are poisonous, who wants them to poison milk??"

Soon, Wang Wei became a prophecy!

Although it was a weekday opening, the single-day box office of "Crazy Stone" exceeded 20 million the next day, and according to this momentum, it is still very promising to win the weekly box office championship.

But on July 7, a big production of Pearl Pictures was released, and it collided head-on, and the midnight show plus two days of weekends directly landed at the top of the box office list of the week!

——What Dunhuang was most worried about happened.

……

(End of chapter)