When it was released in the United States, it had a strong reputation and almost all kinds of exciting scales.
Although it was regarded as an overseas film and introduced to China after a series of cuts and rectifications, the inherent prison elements and slightly distorted values still made the officials very cautious.
It is impossible for the official to promote this work as much as "Armageddon", and some potential elements are subtly suppressing it. This results in "Saw" being almost invisible on the Internet, giving people a feeling that the movie is about to be rushed.
The illusion of being in the street.
However, the number of members in the "Saw" forum had already exceeded 100,000 when "Saw" premiered.
Even because the friends discussed it too enthusiastically and the things they discussed touched red lines, the post bar was banned dozens of times in less than a month, and many even used the word "chainsaw" on it.
All posts have been reviewed and blocked, and will only be released after they are confirmed to be correct...
but!
It cannot stop the enthusiasm of movie fans from all over the world.
The "Chainsaw" post bar was blocked, the "Chainsaw" post bar made a comeback, the "Chainsaw" bar was blocked, the "Saw" bar was alive, the "Saw" bar was blocked, the "Saw" bar instantly went from being an unpopular post bar to becoming an unpopular post bar in an instant.
It has become a lively forum with more than 400,000 people. In addition, various forums such as "Horror" forum and "Hollow Finger" forum are full of a group of fans discussing "Saw". They continue to learn from various
Obtaining various resources through channels, we even learned a lot about the leading actors of "Chainsaw". Of course, the scale of the discussion began to be slightly smaller. From the previous "bloody and violent overseas "Chainsaw" screenshots
"It turned into part of the text description, and then slowly the text description changed..."
Wild fire, in spring!
After the appearance of panic, there is a group of movie fans who are sharpening their knives and can no longer contain their excitement and anticipation!
……………………
On the morning of January 22nd.
Zhao Sicheng walked into the screening room of "Saw".
He originally wanted to see a joke.
He had a distrustful attitude towards the pre-sale tickets for "Saw", and even thought that Zhou Yang bought all the pre-sale tickets with his own money, preparing to save face and create a false prosperity!
However……
The imagined scene of depression, emptiness, and fragmented movie fans did not appear.
When he saw that the seats were packed, he was in disbelief and at the same time, his heart was filled with an unprecedented sense of shock.
It doesn't look like a request, let alone an invited actor.
Under a dim light, he watched the Chinese premiere of the movie "Saw" officially begin!
There must be some illegal scenes!
After Zhao Sicheng experienced a brief disappointment, this idea appeared in his mind. Then he turned his head and looked at the film critic Ba Liming, who was close to him, and said: "Watch the movie carefully and see if there is any teaching in this movie."
Bad teen stuff…”
Ba Liming is a very famous film critic in China, with great influence and even greater lethality. Even Chen Kai's "Tianji" was pushed to the forefront because of his article "Blood Eucalyptus Caused by a Splash of Urine", until
Now he is still being ridiculed to the point of being bloody by netizens.
"Okay!" Ba Liming nodded, with a serious expression and his eyes seriously staring at the big screen.
The Chinese version of "Chainsaw" finally kicked off its Chinese premiere amidst bursts of weird music.
Lights flicker, darkness and coldness intersect...
The scene of struggling in the water, the helpless and frightened protagonist Adam...
Lights come on one after another, the bathroom is dirty, messy, and smelly, and the two protagonists are imprisoned in a secret room and are at a loss...
It is exactly the same as the opening of the American version of "Saw".
Zhao Sicheng was very excited. He had naturally seen the American version of "Saw", and he understood even more clearly that in the American version of "Saw", any scene could make the entire movie banned.
However, his excitement only lasted for a few seconds. After a few seconds, he discovered that the Chinese version of "Saw" was completely different from the American version of "Saw".
The same scenes, the same dialogue, some bloody scenes were deleted, but more character expressions and superb lens language were filled in. This lens language made the whole movie more compact.
The style of the movie is also due to the change of lens language, from the American version's bloody and realistic style to the Chinese version's suspenseful style...
The movie plays from the beginning to the middle...
Ba Liming looked at the Chinese version of "Saw" in disbelief. Although it has the same plot and the same main line, the entire movie can completely change from a "thriller" movie to a mystery escape movie.
The extraordinary acting skills of the actors, coupled with the plausible clues, and the emotional exaggeration of the plot, create a special rendering of human nature in desperate situations.
“These shots don’t have it!”
"You can't see this shot without a copy..."
"And this lens!"
"And the scene where Adam bangs his head against the water tank..."
"..."
What shocked Baliming even more was that "Saw" contained many scenes that were not available in the American version.
Although these scenes are not bloody and terrifying, they depict human nature vividly, making it easy for people to become involved in it, and it makes them feel depressed and desperate.
The shocking amputation scene is still retained, and there is also some blood, but there is no shot of Dr. Edward's feet like the American version, only the look of Dr. Edward when he is ferocious.
The final ending is still shocking!
When many people saw the body suddenly getting up from the ground, moviegoers in the screening room burst into panic and screams.
The protagonist Adam's despair strikes everyone's hearts over and over again in the darkness, getting lighter and lighter...
Ba Liming admitted that his heart was trembling with a sense of despair.
This touching feeling doesn’t even seem like an act!
The movie seems to be over.
After deleting part of the plot and adding part of the plot, "Saw" is still a little shorter than the original version.
Ba Liming felt a little unfinished.
He saw the words END on the screen.
Just as he was about to stand up and leave the screening room, he suddenly realized that the lights in the screening room did not seem to be on.
"Peng!"
The originally dark screen suddenly lit up.
Shocked everyone!
At the same time, a strange atmosphere and tone suddenly appeared on the screen where it was supposed to end.
"Director, director, damn it, let me out. You are making a movie. Are you serious?"
"let me out!"
"Damn it, this movie is over, it's over completely, let me out!"
In the lit bathroom.
Lying on the ground, "Adam" yelled crazily at the camera. Blood-stained notes fell from his body, which vaguely seemed to be lines...
The movie camera suddenly quickly turned around in a montage to the details of "Adam" looking for lines in the movie.
The rotation is very fast. If you don't have very sensitive vision, you will not be able to understand the meaning of this scene.
In the end, the scene freezes with Adam staring closely at the camera in detail.
The lights suddenly dimmed again, then came back on.
"Doctor, doctor, damn, where is the doctor!"
"God, what are you doing? I really got cut. Take me to the hospital quickly..."
"Help!"
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
"Photographer, photographer, stop taking pictures, save me, save me, save me quickly...save me quickly!"
"damn it!"
"Where are the people!"
"..."
Doctor "Edward" who escaped was dragging a long trail of blood and yelling. He was crazy and covering his feet frantically!
He's facing the camera!
His expression was nothing but horror!
On the blood-stained road, there was a piece of shredded paper, and there seemed to be letters in the middle of the mold.
It seems to be a line from a movie too?
The screen went black again.
The lights in the screening room suddenly turned on!
Ba Liming stared at the big screen in disbelief.
Is this an Easter egg in the movie, or is it a scene within the movie?
Or...
Is this a real movie shooting scene? The director is doing some experiments on human nature in the name of shooting?
The montage clip, in just over ten seconds, actually released more than thirty shots, with an average of three shot clips per second...
Ba Liming had a very good memory. After combining these shots and inserting them into the plot of the movie, he was horrified when he thought about it carefully. The more he thought about it, the more horrified he became...
In the screening room, he shook his head violently.
Later, I wanted to watch the Chinese version of "Saw" for the second time!
I even want to take that set of montage shots and combine these movies...
"How's it going? Did you find anything inappropriate?" Zhao Sicheng's voice sounded in Ba Liming's ears, and his voice was slightly expectant.
"..." Ba Liming did not answer Zhao Sicheng's call, but shook his head.
As a film critic, he naturally has to find fault with "Saw".
If you look carefully at "Saw", there are naturally many shortcomings!
but!
As a filmmaker who has been immersed in the film industry for many years, even he feels that these problems are irrelevant and will not affect the premiere of this film in China at all!
"You... don't think the core idea of this movie, I think we can start from the core idea..." Zhao Sicheng looked at Ba Liming.
"Why would you want to accuse me? Director Zhao, forget it. It's rare for a Chinese director to produce such an excellent movie. You can't blame him without conscience..." Ba Liming continued to shake his head. Although he had a close personal relationship with Zhao Sicheng,
Good, but he doesn't want to turn good into bad.
He is Chinese and has his own rules.
"Oh." Zhao Sicheng nodded very disappointedly, his expression inevitably very ugly, and he left the screening room.
However!
He found that Ba Liming did not follow him, but went to the ticket booth.
Could it be that this guy didn't get enough of watching it once and wanted to watch it again?!
……………………
Early morning of January 23rd!
The opening box office results of "Saw" and "Armageddon" have both been released.