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Chapter 140 "Crazy Stone"

Cheng Yu'an is very self-aware, he knows that even if he wins the best director in Venice, he will not be as popular as Andy Lau.

The original time and space "Crazy Stone" had Andy Lau's platform, which drove a lot of box office.

But now, "Crazy Stone" is a long-distance single, and it has not been distributed to anyone. He is not sure that "Stone" can achieve the original 3000 million box office.

Therefore, the promotion of "Crazy Stone" started remotely a month in advance.

Smashed 200 million pushes.

Cooperate with Focus, and spread advertisements in major cities and theaters.

As of June 6, "Crazy Stone" will be screened first in Shanghai.

Cheng Yu'an stood on the platform in person.

Invited Mr. Zhou, Xia Yu and his wife, Huang Xiaoming and other friends to help out.

Mr. Han also came to cheer in person: "Ning Hao is a frequent visitor to international film festivals. "Incense" and "Green Grass" are selling well abroad, and "Crazy Stone" is Ning Hao's first show in the mainland market. We are very willing to help people like him excellent young director."

Whether it is or not, it is true anyway.

And Zhou Gongzi and other supporting stars said: "We believe in the vision of director Cheng Yu'an. He told me that although "Crazy Stone" is not expensive, it is definitely the most interesting movie in the past few years. , very good, I believe the audience will like it."

Director Ning Hao said: ""Crazy Stone" is a film that expresses different behaviors and mentalities in scrambling and obtaining. The filming work of the film was all completed in the mountain city, and a large number of dialogues use the mountain city dialect."

Ning Hao believes: "Mountain City is a developing new city, and it has a unique urban character that is both public and restrained!"

"Crazy Stone" adopts a multi-line parallel narrative that is rarely seen in domestic films at present. Viewers who have read enough films may say that it plagiarized Guy Ritchie.

But there is no such thing as plagiarism in narrative techniques.

You can use multi-line narrative so I can't?

"Crazy Stone" uses Guy Ritchie's multi-line narrative, but the story and jokes are original.

Comedy films in recent years can be roughly divided into two categories. One is Hong Kong films that are nonsensical and pushed to extremes, using exaggerated body movements to make you laugh, and the other is Feng Xiaogang's Beijing-style comedy, which wins with witty lines.

But "Crazy Stone" is not like this. It relies on exquisite narrative structure and dramatic conflict.

Of course, the interestingness of the lines is not weak.

This "novel" comedy form that breaks through the two also brings certain risks.

Because it has not been tested by the market, the main creators are worried that the audience will not accept this form.

In the first few minutes of "Crazy Stone", there is a lot of information. All the major protagonists appear on the stage, and there is no connection between the major characters. It is easy for the audience to be confused.

But fortunately, Ning Hao controlled the rhythm very well, connecting the characters and the story together through a small incident.

Brother Dao and his group pretended to be a moving company to smuggle furniture, but were blocked by the police. Seeing that the matter was about to be exposed, they took out the black leather hammers and prepared to do it. A loud noise not far away attracted the attention of the police. Left to deal with the car accident.

As soon as the camera turned, the four-eyed secretary played by Wang Xun drove a BMW car and parked on the side of the road, took out self-spray paint and drew tear-down characters on the wall, while spraying and cursing: "If you don't see the coffin, you won't cry, tear you down!"

What's interesting is that the four eyes didn't write a complete "demolition" character, but also wrote the word "repudiation" next to the handle of the word "arrangement" of "arrangement" on the wall.

Then a van ran into his BMW.

"Gou Ri Le!" Four eyes scolded.

Then the camera turned again, and Lao Bao was driving the van in the factory to practice his craft, when a can of Coke fell from the sky and smashed the windshield.

Only then did the audience realize that this can of Coke was the one that Xie Xiaomeng dropped when he hooked up the girl in the cable car.

Then Lao Bao and the two who got out of the car to check the situation scolded the cable car in the sky, and found that the van hadn't applied the handbrake and was already sliding down the small slope. Duang slammed on the front of the BMW.

At this time, the two lines meet, and the four eyes here dedicated a classic line: "Gou Ri is high-tech, driverless! If you don't see it, don't touch me!"

Only then did the audience have a feeling of sudden understanding, it turned out to be like this!
It was also at this time that for the first time, laughter broke out neatly in the theater.

The industry insiders who watched the movie also understood at this time that the characters and stories that were previously scattered and did not build up to each other were subtly connected because of this car crash.

Two words: advanced!

The story of "Crazy Stone" mainly revolves around a jadeite obtained by accident, three forces: the factory security department led by Lao Bao, the thief trio headed by Brother Dao, and the international thief Mike from Hong Kong Island.

At the end of the film, the famous international director Mike and Feng Dong died together, Dao's bamboo basket was empty, and the real jade was hung around his girlfriend's neck by Lao Bao as a counterfeit souvenir.

Heipi, who had nowhere to go, knocked on the window of the bakery with a hammer and snatched the bread, and was chased by the bakery owner on a motorcycle:
"Run! Steal bread and run! Run, it's 60 miles!"

While running, Hei Pi gnawed at the bread, vaguely wondering if he was swearing or what.

The whole film comes to an end in Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker"!

Accompanied by the applause of the audience, the main creators came to the stage to share.

Cheng Yu'an was sitting under the stage. He was the producer, so there was no need to go on stage to grab the limelight.

"Brother Hu, can you say another line of that line?"

Brother Hu plays Mike in it.

"what?"

"Just that sentence, I will give you a lung."

Brother Hu satisfies the reporter's request and uses Hong Kong Pu to reproduce the lines in the film: "I'll blow your lungs!"

"Hahaha!"

There are no big names in "Crazy Stone", and the biggest name is Brother Hu.

Speaking of interesting things about the crew, Ning Hao first "fired" at Cheng Yu'an in the audience: "Actually, I wanted Yu'an to play Mike at first, but..."

"But what?"

"Let Director Cheng speak for himself."

The microphone was passed to Cheng Yuan who was in the audience: "Do I have to say this myself?"

"want!"

"Okay," Cheng Yu'an stood up and said to the audience, "I really tried Mike's section, but... how should I put it, I remembered a comment from my teacher, Professor Hou Keming: 'Throw a bone, even a dog Smarter than you!' Anyway, I won't act in the future."

It was the first time outsiders heard Cheng Yu'an say that about himself.

Hou Keming, who was sitting beside him, said softly: "I didn't expect you to hold grudges. I remembered this sentence for so long."

Needless to say in the following interviews, guests from all walks of life expressed that this was the funniest and most interesting domestic comedy they had ever seen.

Even Lu Chuan had to admit: "This is the biggest surprise of domestic comedy films in recent years."

Yes, Lu Chuan is here too.

Cheng Yu'an didn't know him, but Ning Hao did.

During the period of "Incense" and "Green Grass", the two met to go to the international film festival together.

Now that "Crazy Stone" is of such high quality, I don't know how Lu Chuan feels about it.

I want to make an art film, but I can't sell it at the box office, and I want to make a commercial film, but I can't get rid of it hypocritically.

The reporter finally asked Cheng Yu'an: "Does Director Cheng have any expectations for the box office of "Crazy Stone"?"

"It's good to get back the money." Cheng Yu'an usually doesn't predict the box office, but only laughs.

After the interview was over, the reporters walked out slowly, and a soft call came from nowhere: "Liu Yifei is here."

There are surprises! ! !

(End of this chapter)