China Entertainment 1997.

The protagonist group of "You Now You See Me" staged a total of three large-scale magic tricks in the movie.

The first is to evacuate the bank, and the second is to send the balance of a black-hearted insurance company rich man to all the victims who were hacked by this company.

This magic is very simple, and it was foreshadowed in the previous movie. The four knights pretended to bet with the rich man on the plane, kept cliche, the hypnotist read the mind, and finally got the security question of the rich man's account, which is the secret security.

Knowing the secret security, the rich man's account is equivalent to opening the door to the four knights, who can deal with it casually.

And in the section of pitting the rich, it also points out that the bandits are doing justice for the heavens, robbing the rich and helping the poor, which consolidates the concept and tone of the entire movie.

After all, the film may not be allowed to be shown in many countries just for piracy, but if the addition of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is added, the review conditions will be much looser and the audience will not be disgusted.

Also after the second magic, Now You See Me and detective Mark Ruffalo and police flower Gal Gadot officially began to confront each other.

The former first gave the police detective a bad start. When the magician played by Cao Xuan was flirting with the police, he quietly replaced his mobile phone with a mobile phone equipped with a tracker to monitor the other party's actions.

So after the second magic show, facing the arrest of police detectives and police flowers, they retreated calmly.

But soon, the police detective and the police flower also discovered the tricks of the mobile phone, and they used their tricks to track back and find out the stronghold of the four knights.

The FBI immediately carried out an arrest operation, and the four knights fled in a hurry. During the arrest process, Unlock King (Captain America) accidentally died in a car crash and was buried in a sea of ​​flames.

However, the police detective still got the information and learned of the next plan of the four knights, which was to rob a safe warehouse containing 5 million cash.

The first two magic tricks made the four knights famous and made the FBI lose face. In any case, no mistakes can be made.

The police detective immediately launched an operation to guard the safe, and arrived at the destination in a very short time, but it was still a step too late, and the warehouse was already empty.

At this time, they found a truck pulling the safe and hurried to arrest it, and finally forced the truck to stop in a parking lot.

As a result, they found that the person who came to pick up the truck turned out to be a black old man, and there were not banknotes in the truck, but a bunch of balloons.

Faced with the police detective's suspicion, the black old man said that he was here to help the police.

At this time, the remaining three knights continued to perform the last magic trick. In front of the FBI, they jumped from the tall building, turned into rain of money, and left calmly again, making a perfect curtain call.

The FBI also found that the banknote rain was not genuine, and soon found a large amount of banknotes in the black old man's car.

Appeared at the "joint" place, there was dirt in the car, the old black man couldn't argue with it, and was formally arrested.

The black old man insisted that he was framed, and said that there was another mastermind behind the four knights, who had been helping them from the side.

The FBI was eager to find a scapegoat and didn't care what the old black man said. Only the police detectives were willing to chat with him alone.

The black old man said that he had been pondering in prison for the past few days, and finally found out how the Knights stole the banknotes.

After all, the time from when the warehouse was ready to load the car to when they found out about the Knights’ plan and came to support them immediately was very short. Even if the Knights could hypnotize the warehouse staff, it was impossible for the Knights to transfer 5 million banknotes without any disturbance. get away.

The black old man revealed the secrets of the knights' practices, and also reversed the previous plot.

First of all, there is really no way for the Knights to get away with 5 million banknotes in such a short period of time.

So they hypnotized the warehouse employees, and then they built a huge mirror, and left the warehouse empty. In fact, the safe was hidden behind the mirror.

This method of concealment is very risky. If the police detectives investigate carefully, they can easily find flaws.

But they were shocked at the time. On the one hand, the safe was stolen, and they subconsciously believed that the safe was not in the warehouse, so they didn't think about checking the warehouse.

On the other hand, he was busy arguing with the hypnotized employee and was attracted to the attention, and then immediately found the escaped truck and hurriedly chased it.

After a series of steps, they were led by the nose, and no abnormality in the warehouse was found at all.

And when they found out that the truck was fake, and saw the three knights preparing for magic tricks, everyone's attention was once again attracted.

At this time, the reversal started again, and the Unlocking King, who had been hiding in the sea of ​​flames before, was not dead at all.

Among the four knights, there is an escaped master, a master of escape magic. It is not difficult to fish out people on the road with heavy traffic, and then cause a car accident and explosion.

As for the corpse, with the skills of the four knights, it was easy to get one out of the morgue.

When the attention of the FBI and the black old man was all attracted by the truck and the three knights, the dead lockpicker "resurrected" and came to the empty warehouse, opened the safe, and calmly removed the banknotes inside. And put it in the black old man's car.

Perfect for crime and framing!

The black old man has no evidence to prove his innocence, so he hopes that the only police detective who believes in him will help him clear his suspicions.

At this moment, the biggest reversal of the whole movie comes.

The man who was analyzing the case with the black old man just now suddenly appeared outside the cell, looking at him calmly.

The old man was confused at first, then gradually came to his senses, and smiled bitterly in despair: "Are you the fifth person?"

The detective was silent, then nodded.

Then the whole movie theater exploded. Except for a small number of smart audiences who had some vague guesses, most of the other audiences were stunned by this reversal.

"Fuck!"

"Fuck, Infernal Affairs."

No wonder everyone was making a fuss, because the most vicious fight with the four knights before was the police detective, who tried his best to arrest the other party and brought him to justice.

And at this time, many mysteries were solved.

For example, why can the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse be replaced with an identical mobile phone? It must be provided by the police detective.

The various actions of the FBI are led, of course, because of the exquisite layout of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but also because the commander is the boss.

And with the police detective's confession, the camera flashed back, telling all the causes and effects before and after.

It turned out that the police detective's father was a magician, and he was a partner with the black old man in the early years. Later, in order to become famous, the black old man did the work of revealing secrets, and he was the first to attack his old partner.

Because he did such a great job, he basically cleaned up all the work, so that the police detective's father could only think of new magic tricks, but he died because of a technical error.

It can be said that the old black man was the murderer who indirectly killed the police detective's father.

Not only the revenge of killing the father, but also the revenge of killing the mother.

Because the police detective's father was in an accident, the police detective's mother wanted to claim compensation from the insurance company, but was hacked by the insurance company boss, so that she lost hope and committed suicide.

And the owner of this insurance company is the rich man who was robbed of the rich by the Four Horsemen and gave to the poor, and the stolen Paris bank is not innocent, it is the guarantee institution of the rich insurance company.

The police detective's family was ruined, and he devoted himself to research for many years, and found a magician played by his friend Cao Xuan. The two cooperated to organize the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and launch a grand plan of revenge.

At this time, the camera came to the very beginning, that is, the figure outside the magician's window, who took off his hood, was the police detective.

The black old man fell!

The detective thanks the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and resigns to join the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

In the last scene of the movie, the policewoman appeared on a bridge, and Cao Xuan went to tease her flirtatiously. The policewoman angrily said that she would bring him to justice next time.

"I look forward to that day coming soon."

Cao Xuan waved his hand and left, Jinghua just turned around, but there was an extra card in his hand, with the picture of Cupid on it, and the two words [Thank you]. Jinghua smiled, put away the card, and left the bridge.

Now Now You See Me movie ends here.

The audience left one after another, and many people were discussing the plot just now, and Liu Tianxian and the two were no exception.

"What does the last thank you mean? Is the policewoman also with them?"

"It's not a group, but it should have noticed something, but it didn't interfere, so thank him."

"Look at this, is it going to be the next one?"

"It's hard to say, but from the perspective of plot setting and logic, it is indeed possible to make a second part."

When Liu Tianxian said this, he couldn't help but sigh a little. Although looking at the roles and emotional lines, the police flower is more like the heroine, but the degree of color is indeed better than that of the big honey. The only disadvantage may be that the single-person shots are slightly less and the group play more.

But this character is really pleasing, whether it is the magic ability in it, or bickering with Cao Xuan brothers and sisters, or teasing the other two teammates, it gives the audience an excellent impression.

At least Liu Tianxian asked herself, after watching this movie, compared to the policewoman who has more roles in the movie, she remembers the role of Da Mimi the most.

"It's troublesome now."

Liu Tianxian knows what to do. It doesn't matter how many roles a movie has, what matters is whether the characters are good or not. This is the biggest increase for actors.

In the movie "Now You See Me", Cao Xuan, the leader of the knights and the big villain, the black old man, should be the best. The role of the police detective was originally quite satisfactory, but the big reversal at the end added a lot of highlights.

After these three roles, it should be Damimi and Juanfu. Considering that Damimi is a few flowers in the green bushes, the ranking should be a little higher than Juanfu.

A supporting role in a big production is nothing, but it's hard to say if it's a good one.

Especially in China, several other actors are not in the limelight at all, aside from Cao Xuan, they are big honey, and now they are performing well, and they are likely to gain the benefits of the protagonist as a supporting role.

Liu Tianxian doesn't know which one has the biggest gain between his "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" and Da Mimi's "You Now You See Me".

But what she can expect is that she has accumulated these advantages with great difficulty, and now she is being chased and wiped out very quickly by Da Mimi.

Right now, the only hope is that "Now You See Me" is a hit and a mediocre box office.

But soon, Liu Tianxian's hope was shattered.

The release times of "Now You See Me" and "Transformers 3" are staggered. There is almost 20 days between the two sides, and the peak periods have basically been completely staggered.

The only two movies that can play in the same period as "You Now You See Me" should be "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and "The Overheard 2".

The former is the final chapter of the "Harry Potter" series. Considering the accumulation of popularity over the years, it is still somewhat threatening.

As for "Eavesdropping 2", it is not within the scope of consideration of "You Now You See Me".

After all, the box office of the first part of "Eavesdropping" has not yet surpassed Billion Valley. Although President Gu and Liu Qingyun are gradually becoming representatives of the Mesozoic generation in the Hong Kong circle, their box office appeal is just that.

At this time, President Gu's philanthropy has just started, well, it's not to the point where everyone owes him a movie ticket.

And if you really want to use this marketing, it's okay to meet other people, but you will be humiliated if you meet Cao Xuan.

With Cao Xuan's charitable capacity, it is estimated that many people still "owe" him a few movie theaters.

However, Cao Xuan is unwilling to make similar publicity. To be honest, he is very disappointed.

If it is reasonable to say that Master Xing played like this, there were indeed many people who watched pirated versions back then. If they had money, it would be okay to support their childhood feelings.

Even so, it aroused the resentment of many people, and it could only be used once. Later, Cheng Long followed suit and was ridiculed.

It is even more ridiculous to use charity as a cover. Let alone whether there is any problem with the donation, even if it is donated to the school and not to the audience, why should people owe you tickets.

As for watching movies to support charity, you must know that this movie ticket has to be divided into several aspects, even if the producer takes all of it, it is only a little more than 1/3.

That being the case, why wait a few more hands, it is better to open an account and everyone donate money directly.

So it's very simple, charity belongs to charity, movies belong to movies, don't confuse them.

Because of charity, it has gained a good popularity among passers-by, and many people like it and are willing to support it. This is no problem, but when morality kidnaps other people, and even rises to a certain height, one must consider the ensuing backlash.

So Cao Xuan would not consider using charity as a publicity gimmick, nor would he use other off-market tricks such as selling miserables.

Let’s not talk about whether to lose or not. The key is to overdraw your own credit. It may work in a short period of time, but if you suffer a loss, it will be more difficult to get support next time.

However, as of 2011, the film "Eavesdropping 2" is really good, but with its size and appeal, it is destined to survive only in the cracks between the two blockbuster films.

"Harry Potter and the Part of the Deathly Hallows" was released in the first few days. The box office on the first day was nearly 4000 million, and the box office in the first week was over 2 million. The figures are quite good.

However, this movie is more popular with fans. After the initial box office bonus, it collapsed badly.

The box office in the first three days was nearly 1.4 million, with an average of 4600 million per day. On the fourth and fifth days, the average box office dropped to 2500 million in a single day, which was directly cut in half.

On the seventh day, the box office dropped to 1400 million. Of course, there are reasons for this, but the trend is hardly normal.

But even if the trend of this movie is normal, it is probably not the opponent of "You Now You See Me".

Because the box office performance of the latter is too violent.

Leaving aside the previous point screenings and zero screenings, plus pre-sales on the day of the premiere, the box office totaled 1.14 million.

Not only broke the box office record on the first day, but also the second movie after "Transformers 3" with a box office of over [-] million in a single day.

The box office fell back to about 7000 million, then 5000 million, and finally stabilized at 4000 million. Although it has slowly declined, the trend is still normal, and it will rise again on weekends.

In the end, "Now Now You See Me" had a box office of 3.8 million. Although it lost to "Transformers 4" which broke 3 million, it was still very eye-catching.

Although the word-of-mouth is not as good as many classic movies, it is not bad among commercial blockbusters. Mtime.com scored 7.5, and netizens also gave certain objective evaluations.

[A rare cool movie that cleverly blends magic, crime, and plot development together, making it very exciting to watch]

[The rhythm is fast, there is almost no urine point, and the climax is constantly reversed. I personally give it 8.5 points]

[Pirates have their own way, very good idea, magic is wonderful]

[Although some magic tricks are a bit outrageous, I also watched Cao Xuan's interview beforehand, considering that it is a film and television creation after all, it is understandable]

[The last reversal made me dumbfounded, I really didn't expect it]

[Recommend to go to the theater to watch, don't read movie reviews, it is easy to spoiler]

[The Apocalypse Knight is so handsome, he is handsome and beautiful, and has a temperament, and he appears together with the BGM, which is very touching]

[The combination of plot and magic is very good. Although there are some flaws in some places, as long as the film is not particularly demanding, you can watch it]

[Cao Xuan is so handsome when he is ruffian, a magic thief with a heart vs a capable policewoman, I love this CP]

[Is no one praising Yang Mi? It's not a vase. What happened this year?Xianmi is about to take off]

[Indeed, I thought she was holding Cao Xuan's thigh and going to Hollywood for a tour, but I didn't expect her performance to be pretty good, not inferior to the other leading actors]

[I am big honey's body fan, so beautiful, so big]

[As a fan of Deyun, seeing the fate of the black old man, I really want to say that you deserve it and let you live]

[It’s not bad if you don’t watch it with your brain, but I still hope that Cao Xuan will make more in-depth movies like "New World" and "Let the Bullets Fly". It’s too wasteful to make these entertaining movies]

[Standard commercial blockbusters, I am more optimistic about its box office, at least 6 million+]

【…】

Generally speaking, the word-of-mouth is not good, and it is incomparable with those classic movies, but it is also well-received and well-received.

Not only in the mainland, but also in North America, and the reputation is even better.

After all, Cao Xuan is the number one player in Chinese, and even the number one star in bad movies. Many audiences have very high demands on him, even to the point of harshness.

If you want to wear its crown, you must bear its weight!
With his name, Cao Xuan can earn hundreds of millions more at the box office and countless attention, so naturally he has to face double criticism and scrutiny.

For the same movie, other actors may score 80 or 90 points, but in his case, it might be a pass or above average. If the standard is slightly lower, Cao Xuan will be useless.

To be honest, it means that his peers set off well, otherwise Cao Xuan would not be able to withstand such a great pressure.

In North America, Cao Xuan's box office appeal is small, and the expectation threshold is naturally lower than that in the mainland.

"Now Now You See Me"'s word-of-mouth reputation in the mainland is barely above average, but in North America, the praise has increased significantly, with an IMDb score of 7.3.

Among several movies in the summer vacation, it is considered relatively high, such as "Captain America" ​​with only 6.9 points, "The Hangover 2" with 6.4 points, "Thor" with 7.0 points, and "Transformers 3" with 6.2 points.

On the other hand, its direct competitor, "Harry Potter and the Part of the Deathly Hallows" scored 8.2 points. Not only did it score the best in the summer, but it also showed a dominant performance at the box office.

It grossed $1.7 million in its first weekend and nearly $2.2 million in its first week, which is ridiculously strong.

And "Now You See Me", which suppressed "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in the mainland, came to North America, the situation was completely reversed, turned around and was beaten by others,
The box office of the first weekend was only 3600 million US dollars, including the box office of the remaining four days, and the accumulated box office was 5400 million US dollars.
The difference between the two sides is nearly four times!
But still the same sentence, the "Harry Potter" series eats fans, eats them in China, and also in North America.

Although the stamina is better than that of domestic football, the downward trend is still stronger than that of "Now You See Me", and the gap is also narrowing bit by bit, at least it is not as exaggerated as four times.

Although "Now You See Me" was overwhelmed by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", compared to the same period, it still firmly occupied the second position.

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "Cowboys and Aliens", and "Crazy, Stupid Love" were all firmly held down.

According to the estimates given by the North American theaters, the North American box office of "Now You See Me" is expected to be 1.6 million to 2 million US dollars.

This data can even compete for the top ten in the North American annual box office list...