0665 The first marionette movie
Yanjing, Shuangmu Cinema.
Yi Jianmei took her little notebook to find the best viewing position in the theater and sat down with great satisfaction.
A group of young people were chatting and laughing around, looking for seats to sit down. Gradually, the screening room was filled up?
Yi Jianmei looked back and found no empty space.
The subject matter of this movie is quite unpopular. It can be said to be the world's first puppet movie. Although you can find many videos of puppets on the Internet, those videos cannot be regarded as movies at all. They are nothing more than traditional puppet movies.
The puppet show was just recorded.
Marionette puppets are actually a bit unfamiliar to people like Yi Jianmei who have reached the age of hair loss, let alone these young people. So seeing so many young people in the cinema really surprised him.
But I soon figured it out.
There are no popular movies released on May Day this year, but a movie produced by Tomahawk Pictures suddenly appeared, which is naturally very popular among movie fans.
And based on Han Lan's appeal, the film's box office on the first day is definitely guaranteed. As for subsequent performance, it depends on the quality of the film.
When the time came, the lights in the screening room also dimmed, and the originally noisy auditorium also became quiet.
The classic golden dragon appeared on the screen, followed by the logo of Tomahawk Entertainment and Tomahawk Pictures.
Many people like the beginning of movies produced by Tomahawk Pictures. There are three, five or even seven or eight factory logos that appear before the start of other movies. Although the short films with these factory logos are designed to look better than the last one, it doesn’t matter if you watch too many.
Annoying.
In comparison, the films produced by Tomahawk Pictures have much fewer labels. Basically, they only have two of their own labels. The investment, production, and promotion of the film are all taken care of by themselves, so naturally there will be no other labels.
The company's logo. But along with it, Tomahawk Entertainment has to bear the risks of the movie alone.
This is something that many people admire about them. Apart from Tomahawk Pictures, no one dares to make independent films these days.
Yi Jianmei and others in the circle of film critics like to call the movies produced by Tomahawk Pictures "dog gambling movies". Every time a movie is made, it is almost a gamble worth hundreds of millions.
But for now, it seems like they haven't lost yet.
"Dong——"
A dull ancient bell pulled Yi Jianmei back into the movie.
The equipment of Shuangmu Cinema is very good. The sound of the bell just now seemed to make even the seats vibrate.
On the screen, what caught the eye was the dark blue night sky. As the screen moved, a damaged stone tablet appeared in front of us, with three large characters engraved on it: Lanruo Temple!
In the cold wind, the withered yellow leaves quietly fell. The painting followed the withered leaves past the two statues of gods that had stood silently for hundreds of years, and hit the paper window of the temple attic, opening a hole.
Yi Jianmei heard the chubby guy sitting next to him swallow quietly, obviously being drawn into the weird atmosphere in the picture.
However, Yi Jianmei was more concerned about these scenes. He could not tell whether these scenes were shot in real scenes or produced with special effects.
It wasn't until the screen changed, and a young scholar holding a book and studying hard appeared, that he suddenly realized: It was actually a miniature model?
In fact, miniature models are not difficult to see in movies, especially in some lighthouse blockbusters, but many people do not recognize them. Some paranoid directors may not use CG special effects in order to pursue realism. But in order to reduce costs, many
Large scenes cannot be built in real scenes, so there are miniature models that are between CG special effects and real scene construction. They are more realistic than CG special effects and more economical than real scene construction.
But it was much more troublesome when shooting, because the model was very small and it was impossible to manipulate the camera in various ways like in the real scene.
Especially the long shot just now, Yi Jianmei couldn't imagine how the crew filmed it.
Back in the movie, compared to the scene, the model shocked Yi Jianmei, but the puppets inside made him a little disappointed. The puppets were very exquisite, even more exquisite than those he had searched online before, and even
The lines were also erased in the later stage. But the puppets are puppets after all, and the difference between them and real people can still be seen at a glance.
However, the scholar in the movie just sat there silently holding his book, which didn't look very rough and was acceptable.
When the scholar started to turn the pages of the book, Yi Jianmei heard the audience next to him couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.
They knew it was a puppet show before they came, so they were mentally prepared for the performance of the puppets in the movie. They also knew that they would not be as flexible as real people. But the scholar's movements were somewhat beyond their expectations. They were too delicate.
Bar?
According to some production behind-the-scenes released in previous trailers, the puppets are not very big, about the height of an adult's arm. They were deliberately made large for movie shooting, so that some details could be added, such as movable fingers.
But did they really not expect that they could even do such a small action as turning a book?
That book is scaled down! How to open it?
Aren’t the puppet’s fingers too flexible?
Just as everyone was marveling, the candlelight in the picture seemed to be swayed by the wind, and a wisp of gauze passed through the camera and fell in front of the scholar. The scholar looked up and saw a girl in white dancing gracefully.
Compared to the scholar, this girl is much prettier.
Perhaps puppet theater is good at this kind of classical dance, and it is very beautiful to dance.
Although she can still recognize it as a puppet, this puppet is very delicately made and has a very enchanting figure. The white gauze covers half of her face, but it fails to cover her pair of jade feet.
Yi Jianmei clearly heard the chubby guy next to her swallow again. This time... he probably wasn't scared.
Young people are full of energy.
Not only the little chubby guy, but also the young scholar in the movie couldn't help but hold the veil and gradually walked up to her. He was so passionate that he held the girl's hand tightly.
Yi Jianmei noticed that the chubby guy next to her also clenched her hand. She probably was thinking: let go of that girl... right?
"Dingling bell~"
The bell on the girl's hand was accidentally touched, and the sound made the atmosphere weird.
Lightning and thunder outside the window illuminated the faces of the statues. Only then did people notice that the faces of the two statues had cracked at some point. They must have been in disrepair.
The scene returned to the attic, and the scene that made the little fat guy swallow his saliva continued.
Suddenly, the scholar's eyes widened, as if he had seen something terrifying.
"Ah——" This sudden scream startled many people in the theater.
The scholar's legs were twitching and struggling, as if he was trying to push away the beauty pressing on him. However, the camera only captured the lower body, and could not see what happened to the upper body or what he saw.
The candle on the desk went out.
The scholar's struggle also stopped.
Chapter completed!