Chapter 895: You must keep this top, dont be afraid of others
The song "Thieves of Time" was not the theme song of the movie "Thieves of Time" in the original version. The song was several years later than the movie.
The original theme song was "The Years Are Frivolous". In fact, both songs are very nice, but in the end, Li Yi still chose "The Years Thief" as the theme song for the first trailer.
Because the theme song has the same name, and the song "Thieves of Time" has once hit the Internet in my memory, and it is paired with the movie of the same name, I think the publicity effect should be very good.
Facts have proved that this is indeed the case.
Many movie fans reacted very enthusiastically after watching the MV trailer of "The Thief of Time".
"Can I say that I cried when I listened to the song?"
"You laugh and cry, but people who laugh all the time don't understand!"
"Watching the trailer made me feel lonely, but it made me cry when I listened to the song!"
"Time is a journey with no return, both good and bad are scenery, tears! I think of the woman she once was!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the dog director has set the hook again. The short trailer almost broke the news. It's a pity that the movie will have to wait for a long time!"
"The lyrics touched my tears. It reminds me of my grandma, woo woo woo!"
"The most important thing is to keep this top!"
"As a human being, you must believe, even with tears in your eyes! I cried!"
"Life is a difficult step, a good step, and so on again and again! Oh!"
After the song of the same name was released online, this song that anyone could resonate with began to spread across the Internet like a virus.
In just a few days, it went straight to the top of the list, and then it got out of hand.
Many people joked that they didn't know how the movie was going, but the songs were really good. For a while, it was said that the songs were more popular than the movies.
However, this is also part of the movie's promotion. Because it is the song of the same name, people who have listened to "The Thief of Time" will naturally know the movie "The Thief of Time".
Time has arrived in August amid all the turmoil.
The Venice Film Festival is coming soon.
"Thieves of Time" will premiere during the Venice Film Festival, while domestically it will premiere later in the evening, and it will most likely not be officially released until after the Venice Film Festival.
Li Yi is no stranger to the Italian water city. "Thieves of Time" was not unexpectedly shortlisted for the main competition. However, Li Yi knew that this time it was completely different from the previous "Cinema Paradiso".
Although both movies are said to be part of the "Once Upon a Time" series, "Thieves of Time" is just a story about Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong.
This movie comes here more for gold plating. If you want to win an award, maybe there is still hope based on the quality of the movie and Li Yi's fame, but it is almost impossible to win a big award.
The main battlefield of "Thieves of Time" is always domestic, and it is always the Hong Kong Island Film Awards.
However, it still attracted many domestic tourists and movie fans from far away.
At the same time, because Li Yi is a Grand Slam winner at the three major European film festivals and a Gold Slam winner, his film is also one of the films promoted by the organizing committee of this Venice Film Festival.
In comparison, "Sister Tao" directed by Mu Qing did not receive such good treatment. Although it was also shortlisted for the main competition, its probability of winning the award was even lower than that of "Thieves of Time".
"Thieves of Time" premiered at the Palais des Festivals, with Li Yi's reputation as a Grand Slam director and one of the festival's main recommended films.
Therefore, the premiere venue was packed with people. Of course, more of them were film critics, media people from China, and some supportive filmmakers.
The result is very interesting. After the movie was screened, many Chinese viewers had red eyes, but the reaction from the outside audience was more average. This is also a flaw of regional movies.
Domestic movie fans have long been waiting for "Thieves of Time".
Film critics and media people, as well as self-media film critics and movie fans from China, immediately returned to their residences after watching the movie and started writing movie reviews.
In fact, they were not the first audience to watch the movie. Many film critics also attended the special screening on Hong Kong Island.
However, because "Thieves of Time" was not officially screened earlier, it was difficult for them to send out a review even if they wrote it.
But now that "Thieves of Time" has been released at the Venice Film Festival, they also immediately released the film reviews they had written long ago.
Hong Kong's veteran film critic Zhou Bin immediately published the film review he had written earlier in his personal column.
He has two film reviews, one of which can be said to be a popular science piece.
"I think some people may say that after watching "Thieves of Time" it is the best Hong Kong film in the past 20 years, but there will also be people who think they can't understand this film.
Because this is a movie that describes life in Hong Kong in the 1960s, some of the historical backgrounds in it will indeed be difficult to understand.
First, there are two era backgrounds. The two most important backgrounds in Hong Kong in the 1960s were the "prevalence of corruption" and the "June 7th riots." There was no Independent Commission Against Corruption at that time, and the corruption in Hong Kong Island society was the highest in history. If it were not
In order to collect "tea money", hospitalized patients could not even drink water. The most extreme situation at that time was that the fire brigade had to charge "opening fees" to put out fires, otherwise they might watch the fire burn everything.
So when I saw the video, when I was hospitalized, I had to pay for boiling water and taking an injection to draw blood. The intensity of the needle injection by the nurse was inversely proportional to the amount of money given.
If you don't understand the background of this era, you may find it awkward and strange, but as long as you understand it, you will understand that it was the society at that time.
The "June 7th Riots" were social events that had a great impact on Hong Kong Island. At that time, there were explosions, car burnings and other extreme behaviors in the streets. Affected by this, many people from the upper class of Hong Kong Island began to immigrate overseas.
Secondly, Diocesan School for Boys. The movie shows a lot of the "Diocesan School" where the eldest son of the Law family (Luo Jinyi) attended. This English missionary school in Kowloon was founded in 1869 and has trained many political and business celebrities.
The male Diocesan excelled in academics, sports and music. Knowing this, it will be easier for you to appreciate the nostalgic feeling in the movie when you watch it.
Because for a low-income family like the Luo family in that era, having a child admitted to Diocesan Boys' School was tantamount to reaching the sky in one step.
The irony is that it is almost difficult to see such "poor students" in today's Diocesan Boys' School in Hong Kong!
Again, I have to mention the mooncake party. In that era, offering mooncakes was like offering a house, but the period was only one year. Giving out mooncakes every Mid-Autumn Festival was a big deal, but poor families couldn't afford it, so they had to offer it.
.I like to eat double yolk lotus seed mooncakes, so I secretly kept them for two months. Later, when I ran out of money, people came to my house to ask, so I helped them. I was very poor at that time and had no money to buy food. After eating the sesame buns, we
Take pictures of the table and eat the sesame seeds from the cracks in the table. The details in these videos are all real.
Finally, what my father said, "You must keep this top, don't be afraid of anything else", and what your mother said, "As a human being, you must have faith." These are all expressions of the positive spirit of Hong Kong people. Hong Kong people pay attention to self-rescue and survive in difficult situations.
We have the courage to overcome everything. In the face of disasters and misfortunes, waiting for help from others is the worst option. When faced with the hurricane that hit his home, Dad Luo desperately wanted to hold on to the roof because in the eyes of Hong Kong people, the roof is the sky.
, If you keep your head, the sky will not fall. If you keep hope, you will have the courage to stand up and start over.
The self-confidence of Hong Kong people is often expressed more clearly in these people at the bottom. Moreover, life has never lost hope, and the Luo family has always believed in hope."
