Chapter 997 "Earth Fire" Released (14)

Shen Xudong has nearly 35 million Weibo fans, ranking among the top 20...

He has never bought fans and rarely promotes advertisements, so each post has tens of thousands of comments and an astonishing number of retweets.

Tianmei Media's promotional resources are very powerful, coupled with Shen Xudong's deliberate guidance, "Fire" has become the 'first domestic heavy industry film'...

The trailer of "Ground Fire" is very well edited. The director played by Chen Daoming is in charge of the swarming crowd: "In the past hundred years, our mine has experienced so many catastrophes. Who can still remember them? This time has not passed. Short, comrades, four or five generations! After such a long time, we should always remember something and learn something. If we really can’t remember anything or learn nothing, we should always write down and learn the same thing. , that is - the sky cannot fall!"

The next second, after switching to a black screen of the disaster, the sound of a helicopter cuts in, giving a close-up of a large number of planes entering the source of the hellish scarlet disaster - the whole city is on fire!

Traffic was paralyzed, causing a large number of residents to flee on foot. Officers and soldiers distributed respiratory masks at every intersection. Even so, some people still covered their mouths and noses with clothes.

The scene shifts to the People's Liberation Army marching in the opposite direction to the flow of people.

The camera cuts again, Liu Xin played by Deng Chao...

He sat motionless.

"You can't repay this sin." After saying that, Wu Jing led the few remaining caretakers and left.

The rapid footsteps echoed in the empty waiting room, gradually decreased in volume, and then disappeared...

Deng Chao raised his head. He had lost a lot of weight. The big dark circles under his eyes highlighted the sunken eyes. He was almost inhuman...

December 30th - "Fire": shocking release!

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No. 30, Shanghai.

At the end of every year, there are a bunch of activities in the circle, a variety of forums, seminars...

Zhou Liming had just finished attending an event. He checked the time and saw that it was 2:30 in the afternoon. He simply went to the nearest cinema to the venue...

He has always been interested in "Fire" - a domestic science fiction disaster film!

Zhou Liming is a well-known film critic in Mainland China.

In fact, mainland film critics are quite embarrassed, because mainland film critics do not have an accurate standard. For film critics, only the number of movie viewings is used as a standard. This standard is obviously too low.

I have watched a lot of movies, which may only mean that I waste too much time watching movies.

The attitude of some film critics is less like criticizing or appreciating a film, and more like judging it.

Later, under the guidance of Internet traffic being king, the once serious movie reviews became web articles with pictures and texts. Because many WeChat accounts were raised, there was also the pressure of 100,000+...

In the original time and space, compared with the surging criticism of "The Great Wall", in front of "The Death of Romance", the critics were collectively silent - because scolding "The Great Wall" has traffic, but praising "The Death of Romance" few people are willing to watch it !

Even a bunch of UP owners at Station B will say good things without conscience just to make money...

Generally speaking, it is not easy to promote a bad movie as a good one, but there are many people telling lies with their eyes open...

"Dream Showbiz" can be a success - with neither strength nor experience, just making a living in this medium.

As a result, although the film and television review systems at this stage include BJ Film Critics Association, Shanghai Film Critics Association, etc., they are basically untrustworthy!

However, after the debate with "Tiny Times", Zhou Liming became famous and made a program "Human Movie Cannon" with several film critics. PPTV will broadcast it, but the click-through rate is not good - it is too dry!

Bringing it back, I arrived at the cinema and saw a group of people queuing up... to get tickets - Maoyan terminal...

After thinking about it, I took out my phone, clicked on the cat's eye, and looked at the price - 19.9...

Forget it, let's wait in line to buy tickets, and then the conductor advised him to 'place the order directly from WeChat, and then go to the terminal to scan the code...'

WeChat?

I quickly clicked on WeChat, and sure enough, there was a cat's eye logo on the nine-square grid saying "Movies, Performances and Entertainment". When I clicked on it, the home page directly read ""Earth Fire" is currently showing"...

The ticket price is also 19.9…

By the way, I took a look at the ticket prices of other movies... They are basically around 25 yuan...

Gee, the competition between platforms for the market ultimately benefits the audience!

Oh, some time ago Maoyan announced financing news: Maoyan received a strategic investment of 1.5 billion from Tencent. After the investment was completed, Tencent became the second largest shareholder of Maoyan Films. Maoyan’s valuation has exceeded 12 billion...

There is not much discussion about this matter in the circle. Mainly people are envious and sigh with emotion. Those who work on the Internet are rich!

After collecting the tickets, I queued to enter the cinema...

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At the beginning of the movie, there is a narration: Coal miners, this type of work is the oldest type of work that started with the industrial revolution, and it is still fulfilling its mission today!

Liu Xin's father is a coal miner...

Zhou Liming immediately realized that this was a structure of narrative and discussion!

——Narrative and lyrical blend together.

Generally speaking, a movie with this kind of narrative is inevitably accompanied by a lot of pauses - it will stop from time to time in the narrative to let you appreciate the environment around the characters and let you feel the inner emotions of the characters.

Then the screen opened, with a yellowish white tone, the hospital, Liu Xin knelt beside the hospital bed, and the person who played his father was Wu Mengda... The father struggled to speak...

"What dad? What did you say, dad?"

The father's protruding eyes were fixed on his son, and the murmur of his dying breath repeated more rapidly... Liu Xin screamed at the top of his lungs again.

The narration sounded: "Liu Xin entered a trance. He didn't know how his mother fainted in front of the hospital bed, nor how the nurse took the oxygen tube from his father's nostrils. He only heard the noise echoing in his mind, Every syllable was etched in his memory as accurately as on a record... He stayed like this for the next few months, until his mother told him, 'It's time for you to pick up your dad's class!'"

The screen switched. Liu Xin took the lunch box to the mine, changed into work clothes, and followed a group of workers to the dark wellhead...

He suddenly woke up and heard his father's last words: "Don't go down the well..."

I immediately went to see the mine manager.

"We have two places in the mine to go to college. Otherwise, you can go to college!"

"University?"

"right!"

The title sequence ends - the title of "Earth Fire" appears...

Zhou Liming decisively became interested because the film's images, photography, and transitions were so great, giving it a... Hollywood movie-like quality!

It's hard to say what the quality of the film is, but the director of photography for "Groundfire" is Roger Deakins...

That’s right, Roger Deakins’ compensation alone was $5 million!

What Shen Xudong wants is a naturalistic image style - to put it simply, the logic of the light source. For example, Japanese movies cannot have multiple shadows, and the picture must not be soft flat light or butterfly light...

The US$5 million is mainly used to arrange for photographers to study with the group...

Documentary style!

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