Chapter 111 Watching Movies (5/6)
Lu Xiaoran’s biggest wish is of course to create his own film universe!
The target is Marvel!
Marvel is really awesome. Even Lu Xiaoran himself has to admit that life can only live for those decades. No matter how beautiful the decades before or after, the most unforgettable thing is that everything in the decades in the middle is for us Chinese movie audiences now. There will definitely be a place for the term Marvel in these decades.
As for why Lu Xiaoran believes that Star Wars will not be successful?
Because Disney can't promote another niche IP that is ahead of Marvel!
No matter how powerful Disney is, it is impossible to create something like the Marvel Universe...
Later, in order to promote "Star Wars" in China, Disney found Mr. Jiang Wen, who played the main role, but still lost...
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The attendance rate of the screening room is about 80%, after all, it is Lu Xiaoran's movie!
Of course, it is not the first time Han Mingming has watched Lu Xiaoran's movies, and it's not like he is talking about it!
At the beginning of the movie, the vast Mekong River was like an oil painting, but Han Mingming always felt that this shot was very... It was very cunning. The shot was aimed at the sunset. A minute later, a group of gunmen directly killed all the workers on the entire ship, and then threw the body into Hanoi...
Han Mingming felt the horror...
Including the subsequent aerial photography of Bangkok, it was not a simple and direct shooting, but the camera always lifted the lens up a little, so that the focus seemed to be on the sky rather than the ground...
The thick black clouds in the sky indicate the grief of the tragedy!
Han Mingming didn't understand these things very much, but he could feel that this movie was different from the texture of the past...
He didn't read enough movies, but the film critic Zhou Liming had enough movies. He watched "Operation Mekong" at the Wukesong Cinema next door. Just five minutes into the plot, he understood the most awesome things about this movie: atmosphere, rhythm, composition and photography skills...
The biggest problem with domestic movies is that they don’t feel the movie right!
Lu Xiaoran used to think that he would tell stories well when he made a movie. Who is photography?
Is photography important?
Whoever takes a horse as a photography is a story!
However, "Gravity" allowed him to see the awesomeness of top photographers. This time, Roger Dickins invited by the Mekong River shocked him again...
A seemingly ordinary conversation, different photographers can really bring different effects!
For example, when composition, photographers generally choose to play forward and backward.
Roger would place the camera between two people, take photos from the middle position, and use a wide-angle lens to give a deeper depth of field, allowing you to see the position and relationship of the characters in space, and even body language other than the face can be well displayed.
He also likes silhouette lenses...
Especially at sunset, there is a scene of explosive photos. A wide-angle lens, the protagonist's shadow slowly lengthens, the camera gradually goes further, and the lonely shadow of the world is for me...
OK, after praising the texture of the camera, how is the story told?
Operation Mekong is about undercover + blasting...
A typical three-paragraph narrative.
From the beginning of the main film to the establishment of a joint task force between China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, and the construction stage of the plot is completed within nearly 20 minutes of destroying some drug manufacturing dens during the early activities.
During this stage, the central theme and sufficient preliminary preparation were quickly explained, and the second part was opened in a continuous manner.
The "confrontation" stage was a long time, and it was composed of several tug-of-war plots such as saving Yandoupa, assisting the escaped informant Gong Chai, and leading Mr. Sha, Zhan Peng and Pier in the Central Square and setting up a Hongmen Banquet in the Central Square, killing Zhan Peng and capturing Natu alive and being suicide attacked by the four-country joint operation command post. After two more tense actions in the early stage, the narrative rhythm slowed down and was linked together, making Natu and Zhan Peng play a significant role in promoting the narrative and providing support for the improvement of the characters' personalities.
In the second stage, the backbone of the anti-root forces was explained at the beginning, and the character relationship network was gradually extended in the subsequent plot progress.
After the command post was attacked by suicide, the operation team quickly formulated a plan and went deep into the dense forest to fight fiercely with drug lord Nuoka and his forces, Song Ge and the mysterious behind-the-scenes "Boss".
In the end, Fang Xinwu and the anti-drug dog Xiaotian died, and Nuoka was escorted back to China...
The plot nodes are set quite obvious: such as the connection point between the second and third acts, Gao Gang took a selfie with Fang Xinwu and sent it to his daughter.
This plot plays a role in softening the overly rigid personal heroism of the two protagonists, and also makes the audience understand the efforts of the drug police more. The character introduction will be summarized in detail later.
Never deviated from the main line: The Mekong River tragedy occurred and the planners escorted the murderer back to China for the pursuit of Nuoka...
At the end of the movie, Han Mingming left the cinema with satisfaction...
Zhou Liming wrote and painted on the dot notebook he carried with him...
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Original time and space, "Operation Mekong" can be said to be a manifestation of the return of the movie's value, because in the same period, I encountered "Jade Trace", "Passing by Your World", "Ace Teasing Ace"...
In the end, Operation Mekong successfully won the championship with its strong reputation and a number of bad movies and young actors!
But today, there is no such great responsibility. The director of this movie is Lu Xiaoran, who has been favored by many viewers from the beginning.
Director Lu never missed his move!
Han Mingming posted on the group as soon as possible: "Operation Mekong, no urine points throughout the whole process, Lu Xiaoran is awesome (breaking sound)....”
In comparison, Zhou Liming directly wrote a 5,000-word film review in his column to praise "Operation Mekong" and Lu Xiaoran's progress, and the words used are:
‘The atmosphere of the whole film should be "master-level". From the beginning of the film to the last minute of the end, I was so nervous that I was so nervous. I was so nervous.’
‘Five minutes into the opening, I was completely stunned. I opened with a very thrilling and creative rhythm, with a precise grasp of the rhythm. The first scene set the tone for the whole film.’
‘You can draw a conclusion. The plot, composition and directorial level of "Operation Mekong" are all masters’…
Let’s see how others praise it, Mingming, learn a little!
Douban Film Review: The script can only be considered passing, but the shooting is very high, and some people above are different. I saw a little bit of foreign actions. The enemy was very cunning, and our side suffered heavy casualties. Every little justice was exchanged for blood.
‘The domestic films are absolutely the best, vigorous, jumping, and adrenaline-prone. The boy scout is afraid, the dog injured, the gun is in real ammunition, and the work of sincerity!’
By the way, the first day of this movie was 160 million...
Most fans are still a little resistant to the three words "Theme" of the main theme...
Chapter completed!