People are really weird sometimes, like this time.
Xu Feng's words didn't sound like he meant to touch Li Yi, but in fact, he dropped a hint.
That is, suspense and mystery-themed films are difficult to make because they require a very strict logical closure. In order to make such a film, he specially invited top mystery novelists to serve as screenwriters.
Although "The Invisible Guest" was not mentioned, the problem is that who doesn't know that most of Li Yi's movies are written by himself.
You may not feel much about it at first, but you will soon start to think about it and discuss it.
"That seems to be the case. Although Director Xu Feng seems to be suspected of being a porcelain director, there is indeed nothing wrong with what he said. A truly wonderful suspenseful mystery film does require very strict logic. "The Invisible Guest"
Li Yi wrote the screenplay himself, so why am I a little worried? After all, he is not good at movies with this theme, right?"
"Isn't "The Sixth Sense" also a similar type of movie?"
"The Sixth Sense is suspense at best, and doesn't have much reasoning elements at all, right?"
"After checking, it seems that this is indeed the case. Many suspense and mystery films, which are well made, are either adapted from some well-known works or adapted from real events. Although Li Yi is indeed very good at screenwriting, is it true?
Is he even good at reasoning?"
"What he is good at is tear-jerking and sensational, and whimsical creativity, reasoning, and peeling off cocoons. It seems that he has never done any filming before!"
"..."
For a time, many movie fans couldn't help but become a little suspicious.
Because the facts are before our eyes.
At first, it was just a discussion among some netizens, and soon the media also joined in.
Li Yi didn't have much reaction to this.
However, Li Yi's old friends were a little unhappy with Xu Feng's use of this method.
In fact, in the eyes of many people in the industry, Xu Feng is just cheating. Of course, the methods are higher than ordinary cheating.
In the eyes of people close to Li Yi, Xu Feng's behavior seemed a bit unkind. After all, he was an old man, so it was a bit boring to do this.
So, very quickly, Chen Wen and others started speaking out to support Li Yi.
""The Invisible Guest" will definitely be an amazing suspenseful mystery film with an onion-peeling structure. When Li Yi told the story, everyone present was amazed! Yes, maybe Li Yi
He hasn't shown his talent in this type of film before, but you can't just think that he's not good at it, right?" Chen Wen said in an interview with the media.
Zhou Guo also said on his official Weibo: "We should be the first to know about the concept of "The Invisible Guest". I remember that we were discussing the topic of suspense and reasoning films at that time, and then he told us the truth of the case first.
, ask us again, if we were the people involved in the case, what would we do? I can only say that this is definitely a wonderful story that you can’t expect, and, at least, I didn’t find any logic in it.
Of course, if you want to find fault with the issue, just pretend I didn’t say it!”
Chu Xuexiang was also at the same event. When being interviewed by reporters, she said with a smile: "The heroine in "The Invisible Guest" will definitely surprise everyone. I won't spoil it, but what I want to say is
, you can always trust Director Li Yi, his works will never be mediocre!"
Chen Wen and Zhou Guo can be said to be the top actors and actresses in the country, and their words have great influence.
Moreover, if it was purely to help Li Yi promote the movie, there was no need for them to say so much.
Therefore, Li Yi's fans and even some mystery fans became more and more concerned and curious.
On the other side, Xu Feng's side felt a little headache.
Why?
Because he has also worked with actors like Chen Wen, he naturally knows what kind of people they are.
Therefore, seeing their support for Li Yi, I couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Although the publicity has worked, and will definitely continue until the two movies are released, if Li Yi's new movie is really as "amazing" as Chen Wen and others said, then I'm afraid it will really cost him face this time.
No longer guaranteed.
If he himself hadn't spoken, then everything would have been purely commercial, but the point is, if he had spoken, it would be different.
Many directors, when promoting their movies, can say that there is nothing wrong with how high they expect the box office of the movie to be. Even if it cannot be achieved, it is still an expectation after all, and it is not something that can really be calculated.
However, if you involve someone else, and this person is more famous than you, that is a mistake.
The direction of public opinion quickly changed.
"Brother Wen actually used the adjective "amazing". This is really rare. He is not the kind of person who talks big. What story did Director Gou come up with this time?"
"Isn't it? He's so good at reasoning, how can he let other screenwriters live? Is the dog director really that all-powerful?"
"You can't say he's omnipotent. He rarely makes real blockbusters, right?"
"Anyway, I am looking forward to it more and more. After all, a story that can be described as amazing is worth watching!"
"I'm afraid that the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment!"
"No, no, no, Chu Xuexiang is right, you can always believe in a movie directed by a dog!"
The filming of "The Invisible Guest" is proceeding in an orderly manner.
If the filming of this kind of movie goes smoothly, the progress will naturally be very fast. Of course, if it gets stuck on a certain scene, the progress will also slow down.
Soon "The Invisible Guest" was announced to be finished.
All in all, it only took less than three months. In fact, the actual shooting time of many movies is not too long. Of course, some directors who are more "artistic" and "personal" are another matter.
In fact, some movies take a long time to shoot, which is not the real shooting time.
For example, the plots in some movies require a specific scene, such as a field of sorghum, which has been planted in advance, but has not yet reached the usable level, so the filming may need to be temporarily stopped. At this time, the filming is not actually taking place.
It's waiting.
Most of the movies that really take a long time to shoot are actually special effects movies.
Most of the time, the preparation time and waiting time for a movie are actually miserable, and the actual shooting time is actually very short.
After all, the movie itself only has that content, and no matter how much material is shot, it won't take that long.
Therefore, when promoting, at most they only talk about how long it took to prepare the movie, but not how long it took to shoot, because the shooting time really doesn’t take too long.
A movie is said to have taken several years to produce, but in fact the shooting time only takes up a very small part of it.
This is why many Hong Kong films seem to be shot very fast, but in fact, what surprises everyone is not the speed of shooting, but the speed of the entire movie production.
On the other side, the filming of Xu Feng's "Death Overlook" is still in progress. However, his shooting speed has always been very fast. In addition, it is not a special effects blockbuster, so it will not take too long.
Do the post-production.
The post-production speed of "The Invisible Guest" is also quite fast. After all, Li Yi knows all about his movies and he doesn't have too many wasted scenes.
Soon, this much-anticipated film was submitted for review, and it passed the review without any cuts and received the Dragon Award.
...
Unlike several of Li Yi's past literary and artistic films, this time "The Invisible Guest" obviously does not follow the route of a literary and artistic film, so it is still necessary to invite theater representatives to attend the film viewing party.
Although with Li Yi's usual performance, theaters will not be bad at arranging films, but if you want more support from theaters, you have to look at the quality of the movie.
As for the viewing parties of Li Yi's movies, it is impossible for those theaters not to give face to them, so all the important people came. In fact, the theaters also attach great importance to this movie.
Li Yi's past movies, as long as they are commercial in nature, are definitely the most profitable projects for theaters.
"Mr. Li, are you here in person?"
"It's natural to support Director Li's movie, right?"
“I hope it won’t be an art film this time!”
"Who says it's not the case? He could obviously make a lot of money, but he chose to make art films. Although his art films were good at the box office, they still lacked the fun!"
Basically all the top ten theater chains in the country sent people over, and the principals in charge of several theater chains were personally present.
This is actually the basic treatment for major domestic directors.
As some people say, drinking and socializing until you vomit in order to get a movie schedule really doesn't exist if you put it on Li Yi's movie.
Because there is no need for it.
In terms of cinema chains, it is up to others to release the films. If you, an unknown director, make a movie and expect the cinema chains to arrange more films for you, then you naturally need to fight for it yourself.
However, Li Yi's movies have attracted enough attention, and coupled with his past achievements, it is naturally much easier for the distribution company of his movies to do their work.
Many times, it's even the other way around.
Theater chains have a strong say, but that doesn't mean they don't want to make money and bring them high-box office movies. Sometimes, it's the other way around.
For example, temporarily increasing the number of shows. In many cases, there is no need for the distribution company to say anything, and the theater chain will make adjustments on its own.
And as representatives of several theater chains said, as long as Li Yi's movies are commercial films, even if they are not that exciting, there will definitely be no shortage of them.
Soon, the internal film screening officially began.
"Director Li Yi's work!"
Many people smiled instantly.
No matter what the outside world says about Li Yijiang's talents, they, those in the theater chain, know best the influence of these words.
Simply put, even if it is a literary and artistic film, as long as it is directed by Li Yi, the box office will be higher than that of ordinary movies.
The movie starts quickly.
The first shot is a shot overlooking Hong Kong Island at night, and then the camera pans downwards. A taxi drives to the door of a hotel, and a well-dressed woman with serious makeup gets out of the car.
She walked into the hotel lobby with a briefcase in her hand. The camera was switched using a mirror-within-a-mirror method to show that she walked into the elevator. In the elevator, she put down her briefcase and arranged it in the mirror inside the elevator.
Got dressed.
Arrive at the target floor and press the doorbell!
For everyone, there is nothing to say in the opening paragraph. Of course, it does not prevent everyone from guessing the identity of this woman.
The answer was soon revealed. She was a barrister and came to see a client.
The two parties introduced each other, then entered the room, and once again explained through the news the background of the character played by Chen Weijie and the cases he was involved in.
Let everyone know some information. The male protagonist is Chen De'an, a well-known entrepreneur in Hong Kong Island, who was suspected of murdering his lover.
But he argued in this case that he was an innocent victim of conspiracy!
Immediately afterwards, barrister Goodman told Chen De'an that a new witness had appeared, and it was very likely that he would be a witness who could turn the situation around.
For viewers who don't know the plot, they won't find anything wrong with the lawyer's words.
Soon, the plot progressed through the dialogue between the two.
The lawyer hopes that Chen De'an will tell more details about the case because details are needed for his confession to be credible.
So, Chen De'an began to tell the story of the incident.
The interesting thing here is that at this moment, the audience does not know whether Chen De'an is the real murderer.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! For this reason, the first version of the incident unfolds in Chen De'an's narration.
The camera switches to another scene.
The first version of the case: Someone wanted to use Chen De'an's affair to blackmail him for 100,000 euros. He and Laura waited in the hotel for two hours. Then he received a text message from the blackmailer on Laura's mobile phone. He knew
The blackmailer had already obtained Laura's cell phone. Just as he was about to leave with Laura, he was knocked unconscious by the blackmailer hiding in the room. When he woke up, Laura was already dead, and he was subsequently arrested by the police.
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Because the version he said is shown through pictures, the audience will subconsciously take this version as true.
In this version, Chen De'an has always cared about Laura very much, which also made the audience curious, who killed her?
Here the movie begins to create suspense for the audience, why did the murderer kill?
If it was just for blackmail, why did he kill? And it was his lover who was killed, not himself?
At this time, the lawyer began to ask for more details. The police report showed that the handle of the hotel window had been removed, so it could not be opened at all, and there was no case of a broken window! And after inspection, it could not be found at all.
Any suspicious signs!
Simply put, this is a locked room murder case!
So the murderer just disappeared out of thin air?
What Chen De'an meant was that the murderer had already been in the room, but the lawyer continued to ask: "Even so, he must enter the room first, right?"
According to the hotel attendant, only Chen De'an has the key to that room.
Chen De'an rubbed his brows: "The murderer designed the crime scene to frame me!"
"Who designed it?"
"I have no idea!"
Here, the audience does not know the complete plot, so what they are curious about is actually what the movie deliberately shows them.
Who wanted to frame him? Who was the murderer? How did he commit the secret room murder?
