The day after "Wushuang" was released, Sang Shaolong was finally able to walk into the theater to watch Xu Ji's movie.
Twenty-four hours after their release, the first-day box office numbers of "Wushuang" and "The Legend of Demons of the Song Dynasty" were also released, as well as the ratings on Huaban.com.
Sure enough, as many people predicted, although the reputation of "The Record of Demons of the Song Dynasty" is not very good, it still succeeded in getting a terrifying box office of over 200 million.
As for "Wushuang", with such a low film schedule, it only earned more than 40 million at the box office.
However, "Wushuang" scored a high score of 8.7 on Huaban.com
"The Record of the Demons of the Song Dynasty" is only on the edge of passing 6.4 points.
It is very likely that it will fall below 6 points before it is completely released.
This score is expected for Sang Shaolong, who has already watched the movie.
Even in his opinion, telling such a story with such a high investment budget is obviously a failure, and the current score seems to be high.
As for "Wushuang", Sang Shaolong can only make his own evaluation after watching it.
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When he walked into the theater, he was a little shocked by the attendance of "Wushuang".
It seems that the film schedule is indeed too small, everyone can only buy the same show, and the venue is almost full.
The attendance rate for this game even reached over 90% based on the naked eye.
Sang Shaolong didn't like to eat or drink much when watching a movie, so he didn't bring anything with him. After sitting down, he quietly waited for the movie to start.
Not long after, the lights at the scene dimmed.
First, the logo of the producer of Tongji Entertainment appeared.
The beginning of the movie is a scene in a prison somewhere abroad.
In such a difficult environment as a prison, the male protagonist played by Wan Rongli actually used leftover fish bones as a pen and the ash scraped from the wall as paint to draw a stamp that looked real.
After drawing the stamp, he secretly mailed the letter with the help of his fellow inmates.
And somewhere at this time, a woman opened the letter, and inside there was only a thin piece of paper and the location of the prison.
Soon, a team of Hong Kong police officers rushed abroad and rescued the male protagonist Li Wen, played by Wan Rongli.
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The beginning of the movie is actually the place where it is easiest for the audience to ignore key information.
After all, no one has officially entered the plot at this time, and they don’t know what kind of story the movie will tell.
But Sang Shaolong is different. As a professional film reviewer, he started watching movies very seriously.
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It can be seen that the male protagonist Li Wen played by Wan Rongli was obviously arrested and imprisoned in a foreign prison.
The reason why he sent a fake mail was naturally because he hoped someone would save him.
It is very likely that she is the woman in the letter, but for some reason, it is not a woman who comes, but a police officer from Hong Kong City.
At this time, the plot continues to develop.
Li Wen was brought back to the port city and began to be interrogated at the same time.
His identity and background, as well as the reasons why the Hong Kong police attach so much importance to him, began to slowly emerge.
He is the painter's subordinate, and as for the "painter", he is the famous boss of the counterfeit banknote group.
Li Wen seemed very excited and was obviously very afraid of his boss, the painter.
I keep stressing that I can’t say anything, otherwise many people will die.
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge explosion occurred at the police station where Li Wen was interrogating.
At the same time, the screen went dark, and the movie title "Wushuang" appeared on the big screen.
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"The protagonist is going to die now?"
Sang Shaolong was stunned for a moment.
But soon the development of the plot made him realize that the explosion just now was just Li Wen's imagination.
Li Wen didn't speak, but soon someone came to bail him out.
The other party is Li Wen's girlfriend Ruan Wen, and he has brought a very powerful team of lawyers.
Sang Shaolong also quickly noticed at this time that the woman named Ruan Wen, played by She Yue, was not the person in the painting that Li Wen sent before.
And it sounds like he’s not here to rescue me.
"As long as you tell me about the painter, you can leave."
"The person I love most was killed by a painter, do I have the right to know?"
Under such circumstances, Li Wen began to recall the story of when he became a painter's subordinate.
It was only then that Sang Shaolong realized that the movie seemed to be a flashback.
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Many years ago, Li Wen and Ruan Wen were a down-and-out literary couple abroad.
He was so poor that he couldn't even pay the electricity bill.
However, Ruan Wen's paintings were later recognized by agents and he successfully opened his own art exhibition.
But Li Wen still can only make a living by imitating famous paintings from around the world.
At the art exhibition, Ruan Wen put out Li Wen's paintings and exhibited them together.
But I didn't expect to be insulted by a man who suddenly appeared at the art exhibition.
He also asked whether the name of the painter of this painting was called a copy machine. It was all imitation and reproduction without any content of his own.
The whole painting is pieced together.
Ruan Wen angrily threw wine at the other party and kicked the man out, while Li Wen rushed out to apologize for his girlfriend.
Unexpectedly, the other party came for Li Wen.
This person is the painter played by Wei Yifa.
He invited Li Wen to join his counterfeit banknote group.
After Li Wen struggled, he didn't want to continue to fail like this, so he resolutely gave up love, burned his paintings, and became the painter's subordinate.
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The next plot trend begins to revolve around how to make counterfeit banknotes.
The artist was inspired by the fact that Chinese paintings can be unfolded into three pieces, and he came up with the idea of merging three pieces into one and sandwiching the watermark in the middle.
At the same time, three problems need to be solved: printing press, acid-free paper, and color-changing ink.
I went to buy a printing press that was scrapped by a certain country’s government.
They found that acid-free paper, a raw material for printing money, was used in address books in the United States.
Although two items have been solved, there is nothing we can do about the most critical color-changing ink.
All we can do is grab it.
It was during the robbery that Li Wen saw the painter's ferocity and killing without batting an eye for the first time.
He scared himself quite a lot.
"I took you on this stage. Not only do you have to be the protagonist, but you also have to be the protagonist of Miss Ruan!"
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Up to this point in the film, the overall process seems to be very smooth, and there are no obvious loopholes in the plot.
The most important thing is that the process of making counterfeit banknotes is fascinating to watch.
Sang Shaolong's evaluation of "Wushuang" is also very good at this time. So far, it can be regarded as a very exciting commercial film.
And although Xu Ji is making a movie for the first time, his grasp of the rhythm of the plot gives people a very smooth feeling.
It's not sloppy at all, unlike some directors who originally made TV series but couldn't change their old way of telling stories in a leisurely and meticulous manner after making movies.
After all, movies are only so long and cannot be compared with the length of TV series.
But the difficulty has not decreased at all, but has increased.
But if that’s all, this movie doesn’t deserve the high score of 8.7 on Huaban.com, right?
Sang Shaolong feels that the subsequent plot will probably have unexpected twists and turns and become more exciting.
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Sure enough, with the success of counterfeit banknotes, the painter's business around the world began to boom.
Three generations of the painter's family have been working in this industry. In addition to Li Wen, the team also includes Uncle Xin, a veteran who follows the painter's father. He has a happy family, and he and Li Wen have a good relationship because of their work.
Li Wen also began to slowly integrate into the team.
Soon, the last piece of business arrived.
In a certain triangle, the painter brought Li Wen and others to see the general.
And in the middle of this, Li Wen finally figured out how to mix color-changing ink.
At the same time, I met a special woman, Xiuqing.
Sang Shaolong was very keen at this time and saw that the Xiuqing in front of him was the person in Li Wen's painting at the beginning.
The business didn't seem to be going well. Not only did the general go back on their word, but they also wanted to force them to stay with them, and they could only leave after teaching the general's people how to make counterfeit U.S. dollars.
But in fact, the general is the painter’s father-killing enemy, and this time the painter is here to take revenge.
He directly took Li Wen and others to kill all the generals.
This shootout scene made many people in the theater feel soaring with adrenaline.
In particular, Wei Yifa was famous for his gun fight scenes in Hong Kong movies. This time the movie gave the audience a good time and full of emotional attributes.
During this process, Li Wen also rescued Xiu Qing and repaired her burned face with plastic surgery.
The painter also agreed that Li Wen would take Xiu Qing with him and gave Xiu Qing a fake passport.
Changed Xiuqing's name to Ruan Wen, which is the same as Li Wen's ex-girlfriend's name.
Obviously the painter wanted to keep Li Wen, so he found a replacement for him, Ruan Wen.
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For the next whole year, the painter's team disappeared and spent money everywhere.
However, two unexpected things happened along the way.
The first is that Xiuqing discovered that Ruan Wen was actually Li Wen's ex-girlfriend, and realized that she was just a substitute for him.
Second, Uncle Xin, an old man in the team, was almost discovered because he secretly used counterfeit money to buy antiques. He violated the rule that you cannot use your own U.S. dollars, and was directly executed by the artist.
Business rules are business rules. When he heard that the painter actually planned to attack Uncle Xin's family, Li Wen finally couldn't bear it anymore.
But obviously he is no match for the painter.
Next, the painter set up a trap to kill the police who had been chasing them.
He also told Li Wen that he was ready to hand over everything to him and quit the business.
He also helped kidnap Ruan Wen and his current fiancé. As long as he kills Ruan Wen's fiancé, he can become the protagonist of his life.
But Li Wen didn't do anything, and instead pointed the gun in his hand at the painter.
The painter stared at each other.
"Brother, you pointed a gun at me?!"
The sudden fire caught people off guard.
Members of the painter's team shot each other to death, and even the painter was shot several times in the chest by Li Wen himself, apparently dead.
Li Wen and Xiu Qing fled to the villa that the painter had bought for them.
But I saw the news that Uncle Xin’s family was killed.
Yes, the painter is not dead.
The other party would definitely kill Ruan Wen to silence him, so Li Wen left Xiu Qing in a hurry.
Unexpectedly, he was reported to be using counterfeit money and was caught midway.
When he was arrested, he saw a legendary painter who had come back from the dead.
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Li Wen's story has been told, and the story of the other party drawing stamps in prison has continued.
But at this time, Sang Shaolong vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Li Wen must be hiding something.
But for a while, I couldn’t think of anything unreasonable.
Although the memories are over, the plot still continues.
According to Li Wen's description, the police station in Hong Kong City quickly drew a portrait of the artist and began to issue a wanted order.
As for Li Wen, he was successfully released on bail by Ruan Wen.
A man who looked exactly like the painter and was wearing a police uniform was caught on the spot.
"Sir, I am Wu Zhihui, the commander of the substation with the number 28818!"
Hearing such words, everyone around them with guns and ammunition was stunned.
At this time, everyone in the theater was also a little unresponsive.
However, Sang Shaolong felt a sudden realization at this moment.
Sure enough, the next scene flashed back into the story Li Wen recalled, and some of the things in it did indeed happen.
But in fact, the so-called painter is none other than Li Wen himself.
There is no so-called other person at all. Li Wen is the unparalleled painter who is good at forging and concealing facts.
Everyone was fooled by him!
He made up such a story, making himself the so-called person threatened by the painter.
The most exciting twist in the film follows, that is, after Xiu Qing was burned and disfigured, Li Wen had plastic surgery to look like Ruan Wen.
In other words, the person who came to bail Li Wen before was actually not Ruan Wen at all, but Xiu Qing.
No wonder Li Wen wanted to send that letter to Xiu Qing. He only met Xiu Qing twice, but he could still clearly remember Xiu Qing's original appearance.
Li Wen is indeed gifted and has a photographic memory.
It's like the portrait of the artist he created, which he only saw once, as the driver escorting his vehicle. It's completely logical.
Sang Shaolong didn't expect such a big twist at the end of the film, and he was obviously deceived by Xu Ji.
I didn’t even doubt that the story Li Wen told was false.
Of course, the end of the story also leaves a lot of room for interpretation.
For example, the dialogue between Li Wen and Xiu Qing is very interesting.
Xiuqing asked Li Wen why he could remember his past appearance so clearly after seeing him twice.
Li Wen replied: "Maybe it's talent, otherwise what is it? Is it love?"
Also because of Li Wen's words, Xiuqing felt that she was still a substitute, so she chose to die with him.
Subsequently, the police found the real Ruan Wen and told him that the painter who killed his husband had been arrested. However, when police officer He Weilan took out Li Wen's photo and asked him about it.
Unexpectedly, Ruan Wen was not very familiar with Li Wen at all.
Not even the former boyfriend and girlfriend Li Wen mentioned.
She only vaguely remembered that this man used to live next door to her many years ago.
What is true and what is false really makes people feel sad.
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The movie was completely over, but at this time, Sang Shaolong stayed in his position until the lights came on completely before he came back to his senses.
This movie is really not that simple.
The reversal in the plot really makes people feel like they are filming.
And he also felt that he had overlooked many details.
I didn't pay attention at the time and passed by at a glance.
At this time, Sang Shaolong has already determined his plan. He must read Xu Ji's "Wushuang" twice and three times to find the overlooked details in it.