Chapter 155: Monkey Trick!
Since the beginning of November, the industry and fans have been waiting for the screening of "Moon". Prepare to see if this is what Li Qian said, a real science fiction movie.
But, wait, wait, wait.
The waiting flowers are all gone, more than a week has passed, and there are only less than 20 days left before the release of "Moon", and there is still no news of the movie screening.
""Moon" is false publicity, science fiction is just a gimmick, Li Qian is weak and dare not screen it!"
After the first questioning voice came out, other media immediately followed suit.
The film market itself is an off-season, although "007 Quantum of Solace" broke 10 million at the box office on the first day, and it is likely to break 100 million, but it is a Hollywood movie after all, and there is no topic.
"The Chinese New Year is approaching, and many movies will usher in a box office war, but "Moon", which was hyped in the name of domestic sci-fi blockbusters, suddenly became low-key when it was about to be released, and the large-scale screening of Li Qian's last movie "Frequency of Life and Death" is nowhere to be seen, it is understood that "Moon" has not held any viewing party, such a degree of secrecy is diametrically opposed to the previous movie, it is very likely that the quality of the movie is poor, maybe it is not a science fiction movie at all, just to avoid goofs!"
"Jiang Lang's talent is still short-lived, and the cutting-edge director Li Qian's new work "Moon" is reluctant to show his true face, and the content may disappoint the audience!"
""Moon" doesn't dare to see people, the sci-fi genre is pure hype!"
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This is a little mild, and some media and some film critics directly labeled Li Qian as deceiving the audience and criticized him.
As the pioneer of the Chinese New Year file and the most watched movie in November, the news of "Moon" immediately became the focus of discussion among the audience.
However, the audience who couldn't wait for the screening for a long time became more and more disappointed, and then looked at the news on the screen, and couldn't help believing these words.
"I'll just say it, 30 million to make science fiction movies, liar!"
"Alas, disappointed, I didn't say that he must shoot sci-fi, any genre is fine, there is no need to hold the banner of sci-fi to deceive people there. ”
"I've waited for so long, but there was no screening, it won't be a fraud of money, let's trick people into the cinema first!"
"It's not like that, other movies have not been screened on a large scale, last year, "Frequency of Life and Death" was screened four times in my city, and "Vote for the Name" and "Assembly Number" did not have a single one, so it's not strange if it's not a movie. ”
"It's not strange that he didn't screen it, but he did it on a large scale before. Now I don't dare, it must be that the movie is not good. ”
"That's right, if the movie is good, why don't you dare to screen it, if the reputation of the screening is good, you can still promote it, isn't it better!"
"No, Li Qian's three films are very good, this "Moon" will be bad for no reason, I guess it's just not a science fiction film, I'm afraid of revealing it. ”
"I can't figure it out, the title of the film is "The Moon", and the scene on the poster is also on the moon, what would this not be a science fiction film?"
"Anyway, I still believe in Li Qian, the three movies in a row are all so good-looking, I am willing to support this!"
"Yes, compared to other movies at the end of the month, it is better to watch "The Moon", with his previous three movies, it should not be bad. ”
"Haha, I don't dare to see anyone, I still want to fight with Brother Cheng Kai!"
"Brother Cheng Kai should be careful of himself, don't shoot another steamed bun, tarnish Mei Lanfang's wisdom, be careful of the lawyer's letter sent by the descendants!"
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The audience had different opinions, but gradually some people were affected and became suspicious of "Moon".
Now the vast majority of movie screenings are basically just a few, invite film critics and media, and then find a group of specific audiences who will never give bad reviews to watch, and then send some red envelopes and small souvenirs when they are finished.
If it's really a large-scale screening, then it can't be controlled, without absolute confidence, it's impossible to do this, and you can't control the audience's evaluation of the movie at all.
Even, some movies have been screened, and ordinary audiences will not know about it.
It is the norm not to screen it, but Li Qian's last "Frequency of Life and Death" was a large-scale screening across the country that lasted for half a month.
And the scale of the screening of "127 Hours" is also not small, which makes the audience feel that "Moon" should also be screened this time, and if it is not screened, there is a problem, I have no confidence, and I am afraid of revealing my stuffing.
If there is a topic, the media will hype it, and several of the most direct opponents of the Chinese New Year file, the producers and distributors of films such as "Mei Lanfang", "Love Call Transfer", "Tough Guy", "Peach Blossom Luck", etc., are also willing to add fuel to the fire.
The doubts about "Moon" gradually increased, but Guangxian did not let these news spread, and began to publicize.
On November 14th, the fourth poster was released, as well as the first trailer.
Not only posted on the four major portals, but also the three major video websites directly added "Moon" to the scrolling promotion at the top of the homepage.
Although it is not an online broadcast, but now the topic is so high, Guangxian has also given publicity money, and the three major video websites are also willing to help.
Three days ago, the video website predicted that today was the time to release the first trailer, and some loyal fans who had nothing to do clicked on it as soon as possible.
As a loyal fan of Li Qian, Lu Chao also appeared in front of the computer on time.
Open the video Wangshan, and the new poster of "Moon" is scrolling just above the homepage.
"The trailer will be previewed three days in advance, playing monkey!"
secretly complained, glanced at the mediocre poster, and clicked directly on the trailer.
As a loyal fan of Li Qian, the previous three movies gave him enough confidence, and I believe that Li Qian will not disappoint him this time, and he is looking forward to it more and more.
However, the trailer still has a 90-second commercial.
I rushed to the membership!
Lu Chao was stunned for a moment, looked at the account, and then remembered.
He rushed the members of the three video sites.,One yearly.,The other two are monthly.,If you don't particularly want to see it.,I won't rush it.。
This time it's a penguin video, which is flushed on a monthly basis, and it's been a week since it expired.
Although the three major video websites have trailers, Lu Chao still rushed to a member in a hurry.
crossed out the ad, and looked forward to the trailer to surprise him again.
rushed the members, and the penguin penguin video was also very face-saving, and the trailer was played immediately.
The eye is a dark starry sky, full of stars as an embellishment, under the darkness, but there is a deeper feeling.
It's sci-fi!
Lu Chao smiled with satisfaction.
Immediately after the picture descends, there is a panoramic view of the surface of the moon.
Zooming in on the base, the camera suddenly turned to the interior of the base.
On the hospital bed, Huang Bo had just opened his eyes.
"What's wrong with me, where is this?"
A robot next to him made a magnetic voice, "This is the moon base, and you've been in a coma for seven days." ”
Huang Bo looked pensive, recalling something.
Immediately afterwards, the camera turned to the surface of the moon, where Huang Bo drove the lunar rover, encountering bad weather, strong winds, and sand all over the sky.
With a bang, it crashed into an automatic mining vehicle nearly ten meters high.
Huang Bo's eyes darkened.
The camera pans to the base again, repeating the scene just now.
Huang Bo, who was injured, woke up on the hospital bed, lay on the bed, twisted his head, and looked around with a confused expression.
The camera is everything, and Huang Bo, who is intact, wakes up from the hospital bed.
Again, Huang Bo, who was still intact, woke up from the hospital bed.
With Huang Bo's confused face, the picture went black.
The trailer ends.
Finished?
That's it?
Lu Chao moved the mouse down, and the trailer was only 58 seconds from beginning to end.
"I wipe it, it's only 58 seconds, and the commercials are 90 seconds, and the feature film is not as long as the commercial, do you have a little conscience!"
Black-hearted penguins!
Lu Chao slapped the mouse, and some regretted charging the money.
Rushed 15 pieces, waived 90 seconds of ads, and watched a 58-second video.
15 yuan watched for 58 seconds, which means two cents and five cents a second!
Grab the money!
Don't think about the old paper to charge you with money in the future!
Lu Chao, who was angry in his heart, hated the penguin video.
The key is to spend money, and I haven't seen any useful information yet.
He looked at the trailer carefully, but still didn't see anything new, and then looked at the new poster.
"This poster is weird. ”
The poster is based on pure black, and the middle is a circle formed by a circle, as if using a white pen to draw circles on black paper, from small to large, one circle after another, a large circle wrapped in a small circle, a smaller circle in the small circle, and a larger circle outside the big circle.
And Huang Bo held the helmet on the spacesuit in his hand and stood in the middle of the circle.
In the upper left corner is the character played by Huang Bo, Gao Bo's name, and there are gradually blurred ghosts.
In the lower right corner is the movie title "Moon", director Li Qian, starring Huang Bo, and there is a paragraph on it: 400,000 kilometers away from home, the most difficult thing to face is yourself.
This sentence is easy to understand, Lu Chao has checked the data, and the distance between the moon and the earth is close to 400,000 kilometers.
In other words, this sentence is about that on the moon, the most difficult thing for the actor to face is himself?
What do you mean?
But what made him even more puzzling was the pattern above, what it meant to circle and circle.
The trailer has just been released, and the comment section below is not very useful.
Daddy, you're making a fool of yourself here!
It's the routine before the launch of "Jaws" again, and the shark in the trailer doesn't show up, and it is cut off at a critical moment every time.
Selling off the guanzi aroused my curiosity and tricked me into going to see it.
There has to be a limit to playing monkeys!
Lu Chao, who lost 15 yuan in vain, was very unhappy, even though he was a fan of Li Qian.
"I definitely won't go to the cinema this time, and the video site will be almost online in a month!"
......
A teaser that people can't understand and a poster that is also incomprehensible have once again caused a burst of discussion among fans.
"Has anyone watched the trailer of "Moon", why did Huang Bo get up from the hospital bed four times in a row?"
"I thought it was stuck at first, but I watched it twice, and it was really the same shot several times in a row, what's going on?"
"And three times, the robot next to him said that this was a lunar base, and he had been in a coma for seven days, and the second time Huang Bo was injured. ”
"I guess I was injured in an accident, I guess it wasn't a crash at the beginning. ”
"But the other three times I woke up, I didn't talk the same way. ”
"It's so troublesome, I can't understand it, but there was a car accident on the moon, and that moon base, and even robots came out, maybe it's a real science fiction movie. ”
"And that poster, the most difficult thing to face is yourself, what does it mean, and what does that picture represent?"
"I don't feel like it's a science fiction movie, it's more like a suspense movie, and it looks like it's going to be more brain-burning than the previous "Frequency of Life and Death". ”
"Will it have something to do with traveling through time and space, similar to "The Frequency of Life and Death", the male protagonist can travel through time and space, start over again and again, and then escape on the moon?"
"It's the same as playing game saves, and then you start over after you die?"
"Damn, it's very likely, or he wouldn't have woken up from the same hospital bed three times, and the robot always said he was in a coma for seven days. ”
"I still remember the second poster, on which Huang Bo looks a lot older, very weak, just like he was about to hang up, it is estimated that he died at that time, and then I don't know how to travel back to when I just woke up and start again. ”
"Interesting, such words are repeated constantly, there should be some shots repeated, I guess that's why the cost is so low!"
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A puzzling trailer, coupled with envy, and spontaneous publicity by various media, the popularity of "Moon" has always been high.
The next day, the prepared "Nightclub" held a small-scale film press conference, and Li Qian, as an investor, also attended the press conference for the purpose of helping the film publicize.
However, the media is more concerned about "The Moon".
In the face of repeated questions from the media, Li Qian could only emphasize again and again.
"I've repeated it many times, 'The Moon' is a movie that takes place on the moon, it's a real science fiction movie. ”
"Actually, there is a lot of important information in the previous posters and trailers, which may not have been discovered by everyone, and we will release some trailers one after another in the future, I hope you will pay more attention. ”
Important information?
There's a message from a hammer.
The reporters present have all watched the short 58-second trailer, and Mao can't see it, and he is confused.
However, under their questioning, Li Qian still didn't say anything.
Li Qian didn't lie, the poster and trailer do have a lot of information.
There are several ghosts in the name of the male protagonist in the upper right corner of the poster, which indirectly indicates that he is a clone.
Although three of the four waking up shots in the trailer are the same, each Huang Bo's expression is slightly different.
Although they are all clones and have the same memories, the personalities of these clones are different, and you can see the difference if you look closely, but the audience doesn't think about it in any way.
couldn't ask anything, and the reporters could only report Li Qian's original words.
Undoubtedly, it caused a lot of complaints again, because after they went back and watched it again, they still couldn't see anything.
In the next ten days, some posters and trailers were released one after another.
However, most of them did not reveal any important information.
The more this is the case, the more it makes the audience's hearts itch, and they can't wait to see what kind of movie this is.
On the evening of November 25, two days before the movie was released, "The Moon" released the final trailer.
In the trailer, for the first time, two Huang Bo appeared in the same frame, although it was only three seconds, but the impact was greater than any previous trailer.
"! Why are there two Huang Bo, who have been playing monkeys for so long, and they are finally coming to dry goods!"
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