""Fortress" has been officially launched so quickly. If you need help with special effects, just come to me. The digital field can still help in this regard."
There was no quarreling, tit-for-tat, just a few casual conversations. Li Qian also expressed his support for domestic science fiction.
However, Huang Zhonglei and Teng Huatao were not here just to be polite to Li Qian.
Huang Zhonglei squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "Director Li seems very surprised. There is no shortage of visionary people in the industry. There are so many people queuing up to invest these days. We all have a headache. Do we still accept those people?"
What about capital investment?”
Hearing the hint of showing off in his words, Li Qian was speechless. He was not a young man, so why was he so childish?
Li Qian just smiled and said nothing.
This was not a routine move, and Huang Zhonglei, who was waiting for Li Qian's counterattack, didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Don't bother Director Li, we hired world-class Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital to do the special effects." Teng Hua rejected Li Qian's kindness politely.
This tone, this expression...
Li Qian stopped pretending. He smiled and said, "Then I wish Director Teng a smooth filming. I hope to see a good work in three years."
After saying that, he turned around and left without having any time to deal with them.
Staring at Li Qian's back, Teng Hua blurted out a sentence.
"Director Li will have to take a good look at it in three years!"
After saying that, Teng Huatao felt a little excited and anxious, staring at Li Qian's back.
However, to his disappointment, Li Qian did not pause at all, and went directly to the front seat, chatting and laughing with the people next to him.
It’s this feeling again!
Teng Huatao felt extremely familiar, and others didn't take him to heart at all.
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The premiere ceremony at the Olympic Sports Center was much larger in scale, and in terms of the movie and director, it was definitely worthy of this size.
Since the premiere, the audience's response has fully demonstrated that the movie version of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" can afford such a big battle.
Different from the plot of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: Looking for the Dragon" in Li Qian's impression, this first film is basically based on the first story of the original work, and the overall plot also follows the routine of a standard commercial film.
Previously, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" had a mediocre box office, but this time Xu Ke was much more secure. The overall plot and narrative were treated as ordinary commercial films. Anyway, the most important thing is not the plot, but the special effects and the suspenseful atmosphere.
Accompanied by more than a minute of narration and quick flashes of supernatural scenes, Fatty Wang said "Old Hu...Old Hu", pulling Hu Bayi back from his sleep.
The scene cut to the train, and the roaring sound and various noises in the carriage also brought the audience back to reality.
Hu Bayi, played by Liu Ye, was dozing off and dreaming of his grandfather Hu Guohua, holding an old book in his hand.
"Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", the camera shows a close-up.
During the chat between the two, their identities were also revealed to the audience.
Hu Bayi, who is going to the vast world to practice Hongxin, and joins the team in Inner Mongolia, and his buddy Wang Kaixuan, who is a bit whiter and fatter than ordinary people, is nicknamed Fatty Wang.
A group of six educated youths, four men and two women, got off the train, and the village where they jumped in line also sent someone to pick them up.
However, when Hu Bayi and the others saw each other, they were shocked.
The forty-year-old man had a large piece of flesh missing from the entire left side of his face. He had no glasses or ears, and his nose and mouth were crooked, leaving only half of his face.
When the camera showed this person, the scene also recalled the exclamations one after another. They were all frightened by this middle-aged man with only half a face.
That's all, half of his face was gone. The remaining half of his face and one eye were always gloomy. His expression only softened a little when another little girl Yanzi who was traveling with him called him uncle.
However, on the way back to the village, a few people who knew about it still didn't dare to approach.
In the evening, when they were passing by a forest, maybe it was too quiet, so the little girl Yanzi who came to pick them up started talking about the middle-aged man.
It turned out that he met a man-bear when he was a child, and was licked by a man-bear. The man-bear's tongue was full of barbs, and half of his face was licked off in one sip. Thanks to Yanzi, his father arrived in time and saved him.
"We were in this forest at that time, right uncle." Yanzi said with a smile to the middle-aged man.
The half-faced middle-aged man didn't have any overreaction when talking about the past. He just replied quietly, "It was here."
After saying this, Hu Bayi and the others immediately felt that this deep forest was a bit strange.
"Woof! Woof woof!!!"
Suddenly, the hound brought by the swallow barked wildly and rushed forward.
"Fuck!"
Fatty Wang was startled and immediately jumped back.
Several other insiders, especially female educated youths, simply hid behind the male insider.
The girls trembled and chanted the word "human bear", but the audience at the scene was in high spirits.
"coming?"
Although it has changed from a supernatural movie to a suspenseful adventure movie, the audience, whether they have read the original work or not, are looking forward to such thrilling scenes.
However, the human bear they were expecting did not appear, but the hound found the prey and caught a cute snow-white rabbit.
Making a fire and peeling off the skin, there were sincere tears on everyone's lips.
Eight people shared a rabbit, plus the dry food they brought, and they ate with gusto, so much so that the audience unconsciously reached out and grabbed a handful of snacks and threw them into their mouths.
Watching the big screen eating meat, everyone munched on various snacks.
After eating and drinking, we continued on our way. It was already evening and the road was still long. We had to get back to the village before it got completely dark.
The camera slowly pulled up, giving an aerial shot of the forest at dusk, giving people a dark and deep feeling, as if something might happen at any time.
However, the exciting scene still did not appear, and they continued on their way. On the way, Yanzi told Hu Bayi and the others about the village and surrounding things, including an ancient tomb in the mountain, antiques fished out of the river, haunted mountains, and all kinds of strange things.
Weird things.
Talking about this in the dark forest, he was quite frightened without taking any action, but Hu Bayi retorted carelessly, "Communist materialists should not believe that there are any ghosts in the world, whether they are ghosts, savages, or bears, let
It's bad luck if I meet him. If I'm lucky enough to catch him alive, I'll have to take him to the capital and give it to ***, who will be very surprised when he sees him!"
The plot of the first ten minutes is relatively dull, but the environment in the evening, the middle-aged man who had half his face licked off by a bear, the sudden barking of the hound just now, and the things Yanzi said still made the suspenseful.
The atmosphere was also created.
The previous plot is basically based on the original work. At this time, Hu Bayi was still a staunch materialist, carefree, and didn't take seriously those supernatural stories.
The educated youths returned to the villages successfully and settled down in the villages, but the informed people from the cities were also restless.
In the words of the village party secretary, since the arrival of the educated youth, the hens have stopped laying eggs.
A hornet's nest was built in the forest, and all the wasps were burned to death, leaving no descendants.
Being chased by wasps, he fled into the river and picked up a fragment of blue and white porcelain, which he threw away.
The man-bear that the audience had been waiting for also made his debut. At the critical moment, Yanzi saved one of them and blinded one of the man-bear's eyes with a shotgun.
Taking this opportunity, they all climbed up the tree. Hu Bayi was congratulating himself on his quickness in reaching out, and was still laughing at Fatty Wang because he was too fat to climb a tree.
However, the man-bear identified him, and the key was that he could climb trees.
Hu Ba suddenly stopped laughing and his face froze.
"Hahaha..."
Seeing this scene, the audience laughed out loud.
However, the human bear was still shot in the shoulder by Hu Bayi, fell down, and then began to hit the tree with his huge body.
With a body like a heavy tank and the poor little tree crumbling, it's only a matter of time.
Hu Bayi was not a coward. Before he died, he shouted at the top of his lungs to Fatty Wang and Yanzi, "It seems I'm going to see Marx. I'm sorry, comrades. I'll go ahead and help you occupy your seats. If you
If you have anything you want to say to the revolutionary leaders, let me convey it to you!"
On another tree not far away, Fatty Wang's plump body clung to the trunk of the tree and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Don't worry, Comrade Hu, one more for you is not more for the revolutionary cause, and one less for you is not more. When you get there,
We must study revolutionary theory carefully and say hello to the leader for us!"
At the moment of separation between life and death, a touching drama was supposed to be staged to move the audience, but the conversation between these two living treasures almost made the audience burst into laughter.
"puff..."
"I'm sorry, this plastic brotherhood."
"It's so cool, these two live treasures."
"This is not a comedy, it's too funny!"
...
In fact, this section in the original work was even funnier. The two of them called Max "Lao Ma", but when the script was handed in, they were killed and there was no warning not to mess around.
Nowadays, the general film review only requires a script outline, but for a subject like "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", a complete script is required, otherwise I don't know if it can be fooled.
It lasts nearly half an hour. As a suspense adventure movie, it is relatively relaxed overall. The two protagonists are both funny.
The character of Hu Bayi is very different from the film and television dramas in Li Qian's impression, including the previous TV series "Jingjue Ancient City" starring Pan Yueming.
This is also the character that was created for the entire series after discussing it with Xu Ke.
In the first film, Hu Bayi has not yet joined the army. It is different from joining the army after joining the army. If he leaves the village where he joined the army and joins the army, and then continues the subsequent plot, there will be a sense of fragmentation in the movie.
This is different. Movies have limited time after all.
In the first part, Hu Bayi has not yet joined the army, so in terms of character, he is a carefree young man from the capital city who is both coarse and fine.
He can make people laugh, but he can also be calm at critical moments.
Liu Yehe cannot achieve 100% compatibility, but there is no one more suitable than him in this regard.
Among the actors who have played this role, no one can play the carefree Hu Bayi. Liu Ye, a tough guy, is just right.
According to the expected setting of the entire series, Hu Bayi's character will change in each part. Try not to make the protagonist in each part the same. That would be too boring and the audience will be bored.
This is a male protagonist whose personality will change and grow as the series progresses.
A distinctive and charming male protagonist supports the entire series.
This also means that the actors in this series will not be changed, and the risk is still very high.
After all, Liu Ye will turn into a greasy uncle if he is not careful.
Fortunately, Liu Ye promised that as soon as the filming of the movie starts, he will get his appearance back even if he is exhausted in the gym.
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The first thirty minutes are all about informed life, and the overall style, although sometimes the atmosphere is weird, is generally relaxed.
Next, the discovery of the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army really entered the rhythm of a suspense and adventure movie.
Movies cannot have ghosts, only monsters. There is a secret experimental base in the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army. Later, for some reason, the animals and people used in the experiments mutated.
Science can explain it, and that's enough.
The various dangers and monsters in the underground fortress also pushed the atmosphere in the theater to a climax, making the audience hooked.
The discovery of the underground fortress also attracted a professional archaeological team. Of course, everything inside must be handed over to the state. Hu Bayi didn't even get a single banner.
However, after the professor who led the archaeological team saw Hu Bayi's ability, he invited him to follow the archaeological team to Xinjiang to protect the ruins of the Western Regions in the Taklimakan Desert.
Protecting relics, not tomb robbing, is reasonable.
The adventure in the Zagrama Valley is the last half hour of the movie, and the heroine Shirley Young also arrives belatedly.
As the team grows stronger and there is an official team, the difficulties and dangers faced become greater and greater.
There are not only various monsters, traps, but also man-made disasters. With the discovery of some ruins in the Western Region, more and more illegal tomb robbers and cultural relic dealers are active here. The archaeological team sent by the state has had trouble before.
However, to the audience, these tomb robbers and robbers are not important.
The red crocodiles in the Yerengou Ancient Tomb, the prairie ground otters, the overwhelming desert army ants, the black-eyed monster snakes in the Zagrama Valley, and the swarms of giant rats in the underground rivers are all the monsters that exist in this place.
As well as the various mechanisms that Xu Ke himself joined, the monsters and mutated corpses that guard the tomb of Queen Jingjue.
Of course, there is also Queen Jingjue and Corpse Fragrance Konjac.
It was extremely thrilling on the big screen, and the reaction of the audience was not calm. Although I tried not to be too scary, but after all, it is this genre, and it should be scary.
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The premiere ended successfully with the applause of the audience.
In fact, it can be regarded as a relatively mediocre commercial blockbuster. It is quite satisfactory and does not have many shortcomings. It has done everything it should do and has everything the audience wants to see.
Xu Ke seeks stability and does not make many breakthroughs. After all, it is the first film.
If it sells well at the box office, Xu Ke can do whatever he wants later.
After leaving Olympic Sports, he happened to run into Huang Zhonglei and Teng Huatao. Li Qian thought that Teng Huatao had something harsh to say, but he took a look at himself and didn't say anything harsh.
Thirty years of Hedong and so on.
Li Qian shrugged, as if he had done something wrong.
Seeing as Teng Huatao has made 200 million for himself, he doesn't bother to care about it, let alone arguing with a person who is about to rush to the street. When the three-year period is up, when "Fortress" is released, he
I guess I don't have time to complain, and I don't even have time to cry.
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The release of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" officially kicked off the summer season. The previous films "The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain" and "I Am a Passerby" were appetizers.
Although there were many other movies released on the same day, such as "Tiny Times 4", "Gardenia Blooms", "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage", "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" still dominated the summer season with a box office of 143 million on the first day.