How to make a good sequel has always been one of the biggest problems in the industry.
Even in Hollywood, where the film industry is industrialized, there is no way to avoid the problem of one sequel being worse than the last.
Any sequel that can maintain the quality of the first part, or even surpass it, is a classic.
For example, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the "Batman" trilogy.
They all have one thing in common: they are stories of continuity, not stories that are forced to be continued for the sake of making money.
However, even if the sequel and the previous film are both continuing stories, it is not easy to film well.
Usually the protagonist in the first part is a rookie. As the story develops, his mind and body gradually become stronger. As he grows up, the audience can sympathize with him.
Just like the Internet, you first cultivate in the human world, then ascend to the fairy world, and then ascend to the divine world.
This is a continuous story, but usually it becomes less interesting towards the end, because what the protagonist does is repeated over and over again. It just changes levels, and the villains change their names and identities. Everything else is
almost.
"Jaws" is also like this. It seems that the first part kills the shark father, the second part kills the shark mother, and the third part kills the shark son. It is a series of stories.
However, the ultimate goal of each part is to kill the shark.
But there are only those means and methods. What should be used has been used before. No matter how you do it later, it will be the same.
This can easily cause aesthetic fatigue in the audience.
However, this third part is a little better. The protagonist is replaced by a student who has just entered college, and his helpers are also students. He is absolutely vulnerable when facing the sharks, and there is no one else on the shore.
This contrast between strengths and weaknesses makes it even more interesting. Otherwise, if the protagonists of the first two "Double Killing Shark" films continue to play the role in the third film, there won't be much to watch, and it will just repeat the same thing.
But this was not enough. Han Yan also strengthened the shark. After the shark attacked the boat, the shark did not rush to attack. Instead, it swam in the sea, waiting for its prey to enter the water, and destroyed them one by one.
Adding IQ to the shark is like becoming a spirit, and it also adds difficulty to the protagonist.
Moreover, the biggest benefit is that the audience's tension will be stronger.
The movie was still going on, and the two sides had been confronting each other for a while. The remaining six people on the boat were close to collapse, but no one dared to go into the water, whether it was to swim to the seaside or pick up the oars.
Time passed little by little, the sun seemed to be going down, and the sky was getting dark.
Just when everyone was about to reach a desperate situation, a turning point occurred. While the boat was drifting, it passed a rock that was large enough to accommodate six of them.
However, the direction of the current is not towards the reef.
After struggling for a while, they decided to swim towards the reef before the boat drifted far.
More than ten meters away, it seems very close.
They had no choice and missed the reef. If the shark collided with the boat again, they would have no place to hide.
So, six people formed groups of two and swam towards the reef from three directions.
The moment they resolutely entered the water, the great white shark that had been lurking underwater immediately targeted Peng Yuchang and Tang Yixin who were nearest.
The calm sea suddenly boiled, and the six people swam desperately toward the reef, with the sharks chasing the civilians behind them.
The audience watched this scene with anxiety. They couldn't help but feel worried for the people in the movie and cheered for them in their hearts.
However, some people are cheering for the shark and can't wait to see the shark kill three times.
"ah!"
With a scream, Tang Yixin's body suddenly twitched, and the shark bit her thigh.
The audience's hearts immediately lifted, but fortunately, with the help of Peng Yuchang, he broke free from the shark's mouth.
The total distance was only more than ten meters. At this time, the other four people also swam up the reef. At the critical moment, they pulled the two people up in time. At this time, they were only one step away from the great white shark's bloody mouth, and its huge body was only one step away.
Neng had no choice but to hit the rocks.
"call!"
The six of them breathed a long sigh of relief, and then they tore off Zhao Liying's one-piece swimsuit and skirt with their teeth, and bandaged it briefly for Tang Yixin.
Sadness spread among the six people, and they cried for a while. As night fell, they fell asleep on the rocks after being in fear for most of the day.
The audience finally felt a little more relaxed, but although it was quite exciting just now, something was missing.
Li Mengqi also found it a little strange. In this section, only one person was injured and no one died. It was completely inconsistent with the characteristics of this movie, and it was not even as exciting as the previous section.
Is the director out of stock?
However, the scene changed to the next morning, and the next scene made her immediately take back what she had just said.
The wound on Tang Yixin's thigh was too long and deep. It was soaked in sea water and was bandaged with the cloth torn off from her swimsuit.
They actually used earrings and necklaces to give Tang Yixin stitches!
"Holy shit!"
Li Mengqi, who was dressed like a lady, couldn't help but curse.
When Peng Yuchang took the earrings and necklaces that several girls had taken off and was about to do something about it, Li Mengqi involuntarily covered her eyes, not daring to look at this horrific scene.
Even so, the audience couldn't bear the swearing, which also let her know how terrible the scene was on the big screen.
"Fuck!"
"Awesome!"
"Nima, pervert!"
Hearing the whispers of curses coming from all around, Li Mengqi couldn't help but open her fingers.
"hiss!"
He quickly blocked his eyes again, not daring to look.
Although there were no shots of stitches on the wound, Peng Yuchang's trembling movements of holding the necklace and earrings, pricking and pulling them, as well as Tang Yixin who had fainted, allowed him to imagine in his mind what this would be like.
scene.
Amidst the exclamations from the audience, most of them still held their eyelids open and watched the suturing process completely.
"hiss!"
Li Mengqi also squinted her eyes for half the time, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in her arm, which scared her so much that she almost jumped up.
In a blink of an eye, he saw that it was his best friend who was holding her neighbor, leaning sideways and burying her head on her shoulder.
"Mengqi, have you finished sewing...?" her best friend asked tremblingly, not daring to raise her head.
Li Mengqi looked back at the big screen and gave a close-up of Tang Yixin's thigh.
The nearly 20-centimeter wound occupied almost half of the thigh, and the necklace was sewn on the wound in circles.
Originally, the slender and white thighs, both men and women, couldn't help but stare at them, but now they looked like an ugly centipede attached to them, hideous and terrifying.
"Hiss... cluck, clack, it's over... it's over!" Li Mengqi stuttered and said to her best friend.
"Then what's wrong with your teeth?" My best friend still didn't raise her head.
"I have a toothache!"
.....
After this shot passed, there was a slight discussion in the screening room that had been silent for a long time.
"Damn it, this director is so perverted that he even thought of using earrings and necklaces to sew wounds. That's not how horror movies work!"
"There's a shadow, I just kept pressing my thigh!"
"I almost spit out my coke. This director is really a talent."
"What a beautiful pair of long, white and thin legs, but they were ruined by the director!"
...
This is the scariest scene in the movie. Li Qian borrowed it from another movie and added it.
Just based on the audience's reaction, the evaluation will not be low. For the third part of the series, it is enough.
The next scene was almost as expected. Six people were trapped on the reef by sharks. They tried various ways to escape, but after paying two more lives, they still failed to escape.
In the end, the defenseless people killed the shark in a very clever way.
Movie is over!
Although it fell into a bit of a cliche later on and had a lot of similarities with the first one, it was still a very good horror film overall, and the part about stitching the necklace with stitches scared them.
"Snap, snap, snap!!!!"
The entire audience spontaneously gave this wonderful movie a sincere round of applause.
Li Mengqi clapped along with the crowd and smiled at her still a little scared girlfriend next to her, "Are you going to the beach next week?"
"Go to hell!" my best friend rolled her eyes.
.......
The premiere of "Jaws 3" was perfect, at least it was good enough for a sequel.
The next zero-point screening, due to the natural advantages of horror films, did not have the 3D ticket price advantage of "Painted Skin 2", but the zero-point screening also sold 8 million, breaking the zero-point box office record set by "Painted Skin 2" a week ago.
During the day, the news about the record-breaking was still a part of the audience, and the media's comments had already appeared on major websites.
Professional film critics' evaluations are slightly worse. After all, most of them follow the same old routines as the first film. In their eyes, this is just a pretty good horror film.
However, the audience's reputation is very good. Although it is not as good as the first one, it is much better than the second one and much better than most horror films.
"Honestly, "Jaws 3" is definitely the best horror movie in recent years!"
Movie reviews like this are not good online.
The scene that made the most noise was the scene where Peng Yuchang used earrings and necklaces to help Tang Yixin sew the wound on her leg, which even overshadowed the discussion of the plot.
Use earrings or necklaces to sew?
Audiences who didn't go to the premiere or midnight show were all confused when they saw this sentence.
A necklace is so thick and made of iron. How can I sew it up?
I was confused, but my curiosity was also aroused.
"Painted Skin 2" was released for a week, and its reputation was mediocre, and the hype was over. As soon as "Jaws 3" was released, it had a very good reputation among the audience and the shocking topic of necklace stitches, and it also had a zero-point failure.
With the blessing of the record, it immediately became equal in popularity.
The summer season has come to a point where two tigers are competing against each other!
...
"snort!"
Huang Zhongjun was unhappy to see the news that "Jaws 3" broke the zero-point record of "Painted Skin 2".
However, I didn't take it too seriously. After all, it was a horror film, and it had a blessing at zero o'clock. During that time, horror films usually sold better than other types of films, but it was different when it was officially released.
However, one day later, the first-day box office results were released.
"Jaws 3" won a super high box office of 54 million with nearly 40% of the film schedule!
Although it was 16 million lower than "Painted Skin 2", Huang Zhongjun couldn't laugh anymore.
This is a 2D movie. Apart from the ticket price advantage, the actual advantage of "Painted Skin 2" is less than 10 million.
The all-star cast was only so far ahead of the previous movie, which had nothing but the reputation of its predecessor.
Looking at the box office of "Painted Skin 2" on this day, affected by the release of three new films, it was only 25 million in a single day.