This director is very reliable

Chapter 556 Bad News (24)

In the past, after the movie was released, it took a while to ferment.

Now, there is no need for this!
Even before the movie was released, there were already a bunch of rhythmic praise posts.

It's called marketing...

The major platforms and websites are overwhelmingly filled with news related to "The Wronged Man".

Especially on Douban, the first short comment on the front page is "Unexpectedly, in my lifetime, I can see Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao appearing in the same movie, Ye Qinghui!" '

The second one is 'Hurry up, "The Emancipator 2"! '

Obviously, this thing is marketing and the water army is doing things.

Changlin Film and Television Navy is very powerful, and its marketing force is also the first in the industry, just like the sun at noon...

The audience gradually formed the concept that Changlin's products must be high-quality goods.

This thing pays attention to step-by-step, once a deep-rooted cognition is formed, then... when there are new films released in the future, there is no need to brag about it like now, and there will be plenty of tap water.

Zhou Liming wrote a long comment: "I haven't seen such an action movie for a long time. It has a taste of a hero punishing rape and eliminating evil. Shen Changlin said he wanted to make a taste of ancient dragons. I think this movie has the taste of ancient dragons!"

There are no special words for chivalrous characters in the Western world, but they also have legends such as knights and Robin Hood.

The so-called so-called cutting the world's injustice with the sword, drinking alcohol to solve the world's clueless knowledge
The whole film feels like reading a novel by Gu Long.

"You came"

"I am coming"

"You shouldn't be here"

"I've come!"

The whole movie does not rely on spectacle-style action scenes and pure sensory stimulation to please the audience, but instead relies on the fascinating atmosphere, complex and changeable scene scheduling, highly strategic narrative skills, and unusual methods of character creation to guide the audience to achieve Emotional resonance and catharsis.

Analyzing the first action scene, he broke into the gangster's lair single-handedly. When the external pressure gave him the greatest moment, his explosion only happened within a dozen seconds.

A relatively large space is used to render the process of increasing pressure, including Jackie Chan's main point of view of observing the environment, small movements of placing toys in the house, and so on.

The design criterion for the confrontation scene between the two sides is to constantly mobilize, strengthen, stimulate, and impact the audience's attention and endurance.

The obsessive-compulsive Jackie Chan even shuts the door three times, but this repetitive action takes on a ritualistic meaning in this tense moment.

This is the appearance of the master before making a move.

In just eighteen seconds, seven people were dealt with!
It feels a bit like the violent duel scene in the movie of Takeshi Kitano and King Hu, the static confrontation, the rich meaning of demeanor, the extreme violence in an instant, real, tragic, and life-threatening.

I love this play.

It can be seen that Shen Changlin's control of action scenes is more mature...

In addition, let me tell you something, back then, director Luo Wei took the fledgling Jackie Chan to visit Gu Long, hoping that he could write a script for Jackie Chan.

As we all know, Gu Long loves wine like his life, but Jackie Chan can't drink enough, but in order to make Gu Long happy, Jackie Chan can only bite the bullet and keep toasting Gu Long wine.

For this reason, Jackie Chan drank until he vomited, but Gu Long kept looking at him coldly and refused to speak for a long time.

It wasn't until the end of the banquet that Gu Long said slowly: "My script is not for him, but for handsome guys like Dillon and David Jiang. With his big nose and small eyes, he can't shoot my work."

But now, Shen Changlin has filmed Jackie Chan with an ancient dragon-like story, and it's pretty good..."

Zhou Liming gave it four stars.

Most of the other well-known film critics are four-star, of course there are some who can't get used to it--the action design is too bad, the scenes are also small, and it is only at the level of a TV series!

How should I put it, except for two explosions, there are basically no close-ups of major scenes in "The Wronged Man", which is really not exciting enough...

However, the attention of netizens is all about Easter eggs, that is, the three brothers Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao gathered together...

A bunch of people brush what' for the easter eggs, I also buy tickets! '

……

The publicity before the film is released is different from that after the film.

Before the release, because I hadn’t seen it, I could only ask some questions about the filming anecdotes, thoughts on the cooperation between the actors, entertainment gossip, etc. It was an awkward chat.

After it was released, it mainly focused on the plot of the movie.

"Do you think the scale is a bit big?"

Shen Changlin nodded: "It's a bit bloody, but this theme and the story determine that it is impossible to make a family carnival... In fact, we have done a lot of processing for the version released in China, and deleted many scenes that made people feel uncomfortable!"

"The ones released in the U.S. have not been deleted?"

"Yes, given the R rating, the psychological endurance of foreigners is relatively high."

Well, the death of 1 million people is nothing.

"Na's death isn't enough for Jack to take revenge?"

"He is a killer...Although he has a sense of justice, he follows the principle that people will not offend me, and I will not offend others. Besides, he has already taken revenge. He taught those pimps a lesson... After returning home, he found his dog dead. Two things added Together, he can't hold back!"

"Brother Jackie Chan originally wanted to change Jack's identity to a retired agent, but agents use guns more..."

"Easter egg... I originally thought to take my time, add Mr. Yuen Biao to the second part, and add Sammo Hung to the third part, but when we made "The Evil Man", we invited Mr. Sammo Hung and told him about it. I disagree, and I said, "If you want to shoot, you better hurry up, otherwise if I die, you won't be able to find me if you want to find me"... So, I changed the easter egg and changed the trilogy into two..."

"A sequel will definitely be done."

"We should continue to direct. After all, the three are big names. I won't be the director. Others may not be able to control the crew..."

very real...

If the series of "The Wronged Man" continues to be filmed, the directors of the sequel, except Shen Changlin, will not be able to support it at all.

……

On the 13th, night.

Shen Changlin arrived in Wuhan with Naza.

They had just finished a road show and were resting at the hotel exhausted.

Wuhan is almost the largest ticket warehouse city in the country, and no movie will ignore it.

Of course "The Wrongdoer" didn't dare to...

I was still in Beijing in the morning, and arrived in Wuhan in the afternoon. I will run for half a day tomorrow morning, and go to Changsha in the afternoon...

That's the schedule for promotional time!

Shen Changlin was really tired, he had no interest in applauding or anything like that.

Push him away, ready to wash up...

"Dong dong..."

Someone knocked on the door, Shen Changlin thought it was a food delivery person, and opened the door...it was actually Yang Fan!

"How did you come?"

Shen Changlin was quite surprised...

"The North American word-of-mouth of "The Emancipator" has come out..."

"How about it?"

Yang Fan shook his head: "Not very good!"

On Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, the two most important film critic rating websites in North America, the average score of "The Emancipator" did not exceed the passing score of 6 points.

The main complaints from critics who gave negative reviews were that the film was more style than meaning and too violent.

And the narrative is too routine!

How should I put it, there are too many types of this type of countering violence with violence, and film critics have seen enough!
"What did Warner Bros. say?"

Yang Fan's expression was a bit strange: "They are very happy..."

"Ok?"

"China's first-day results came out, 1.9 million, converted into US dollars, close to 30 million!"

(End of this chapter)