The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 537 Sending "Stars Difficult to Make Money"

""Matrix III" achieved three consecutive championships, and the cumulative box office has reached 38.4 billion, and the 40 billion mark is close at hand!"

""Matrix III" has surpassed the sci-fi animation masterpiece "WALL-E" and ranked second on the box office list of Chinese movies. "WALL-E" official Weibo released a congratulatory poster!"

"DreamWorks has applied for an extension of the key to launch an attack on "Spike II", but the Spring Festival is approaching, which may become a hindrance."

""Star Wars 9" strongly ended the consecutive championship of "Matrix III".

"The box office of the final chapter of "Star Wars" is soaring, the word of mouth collapses, the polarization is serious, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 60%, the MTC film critics score is 53, and the imdb opens with a score of 6.5. The series is the worst!"

"The final chapter of "Star Wars" and the final chapter of "The Matrix" have a strong word-of-mouth comparison. The worst in history vs. the best in the series. "Matrix III" is hard to beat at the box office, but the word-of-mouth has won a lot. Web Reviews"

"The global box office of "Matrix III" has exceeded 12 billion US dollars. Box Office predicts that the global box office is expected to hit 15 billion US dollars, becoming the highest-grossing movie in the history of China."

"The TV series "Once Upon a Time on Earth" released a concept poster, which is full of mystery. Netizens have interpreted it one after another. When it will be finalized is still undecided."

"The film "Once Upon a Time on Earth" has been filed, and Chen Jingxing boldly said to create a science fiction world that is not inferior to "Matrix"!"

Northeast Anton, inside a temporary house.

Because there is no heating, and there is no insulation layer, so even if several high-power air conditioners are fully turned on, the indoor temperature is not high, and it can only be said that it is barely cold.

On a table in the middle, there is a huge model.

There are miniature buildings, as well as reduced mountain terrain.

This is the prefabricated model of each scene of the "[-]" movie by the model team of DreamWorks. Basically, it accurately restores the real scene and scenery, or some scenery, such as buildings, are made according to the model.

Because long shots are too difficult to shoot, it is necessary for the film crew and actors to repeatedly arrange and deliberate on the actor's position on the model, and the camera's movement channel, so as to achieve seamless continuous shooting.

A great understanding of the layout of the scene is required to design the performance of the actors and the scheduling of the scene in a shot within a specified time.

"Star Wars" diving again?" Qin Zhonghe asked aloud while sitting on the chair.

Chen Jingxing put down his mobile phone, which was browsing the news, nodded and said: "It seems that even the pious American people can't tolerate the bad performance of "Star Wars 9."

"Star Wars 9" created the worst reputation of this IP series, and it coincided with the appearance of "Matrix III"-although there was a gap of more than half a month between "Matrix III" and "Star Wars 9", "Matrix III" The word-of-mouth of Matrix III has really affected the harvest of "Star Wars 9".

As a result, "Star Wars 9" also encountered a rare big dive at the box office. The box office received 9000 million US dollars on the first day, reflecting the unrivaled religious attributes of "Star Wars" in North America.

On Saturday the next day, it was directly cut in half, only 4500 million US dollars.

On the third day, Sunday, it dropped again to 3300 million.

Although it earned $1.7 million at the box office within three days of its release, making it difficult for "Matrix III" to hold a candle to it, this drop can already be regarded as abnormal performance for "Star Wars 9".

You must know that "Star Wars 7" earned US$9.4 million in the single North American market.

And the box office statistics platform's box office forecast for "Star Wars 9" has dropped directly to 4.1 million US dollars, which is a great shame for the IP of Star Wars.

But to Chen Jingxing, this was good news.

This means that "Matrix III" will have no problem breaking through 3 million US dollars. It can even make a small wave of "stars are hard to make money" with the help of online public opinion, and the box office may be even higher than Universal's optimistic prediction.

The so-called deep love and deep responsibility, "Star Wars 9" disappointed the "believers" and naturally there is backlash, especially "Matrix III", which is called the best series of movies in history. strong.

The Douban score of "Matrix III" is still maintained at 9 points, ranking second in the trilogy, higher than the second one.

On Rotten Tomatoes and MTC, it is basically the same as the first one.

The imdb score also reached 8.9 points, even higher than the 8.8 points of the first part. Of course, as time goes by, the score will definitely decrease.

The reason why "Matrix III" is so popular with the audience is mainly due to the fast-paced and high-information output in the first half of the plot, as well as the tragic color created by Dafa Bento.

Paraphrasing a movie review that Chen Jingxing silently praised with a trumpet:
[…… The main credit for the success of "Matrix III" is not the profound philosophical thought in the mouths of movie fans and fans, such as human completion plans and artificial intelligence completion plans.

These are actually just icing on the cake, greatness is the finishing touch, but the foundation is not in the eyes, but in the body of the dragon.

Director Chen is well versed in this. Whether it is "Inception" discussing illusion and reality, or "Matrix" discussing the human cognitive revolution, these so-called connotations are perfectly combined with narratives that stimulate the senses and the brain. of.

For example, the first half of the film has a four-line narrative that is almost more intense and exciting than "Inception", and the sense of crisis is always there, and the director did not follow the routine to let the audience rest for a while after the "last minute rescue".

Instead, it followed a series of high-energy reversals and thrilling fights, and boldly distributed lunch boxes to the main characters during the reversal, so as to quickly create a tragic atmosphere again after the thrilling action, allowing the savior to transition from the first part to the second part. The irony of the second part sublimated into a real hero in the tragic part of the third part.

Afterwards, whether it was the high-energy dialogue that revealed the truth of the matrix, or the epic pretentiousness of the male protagonist, and the fight from the earth to the moon at the level of natural disasters.

These high-energy plots of audio-visual and information are interspersed in a tense and comfortable rhythm, and finally wrapped with the profound concept of the completion plan of machine civilization, thus completing the perfect integration and sublimation of audio-visual language and philosophy!

If you just want to preach to the audience, just to express some profound thoughts and principles endlessly, "Matrix" will definitely not reach such a height.

The extremely high level of entertainment is the reason for the real success of "Matrix III", and it is also the value of Chen Jingxing, a genius.

Putting ideological content above entertainment is putting the cart before the horse. Only when the entertainment of the film is done well, and profound meanings and connotations emerge from it, can this be an excellent commercial film.

Director Chen undoubtedly knows what is the root and what is the end. It is unbelievable that this young director was not overwhelmed by the success of "Matrix". He always remembers that entertainment is the foundation of commercial films. The place where the master is truly admirable. 】

"Matrix III" is indeed a profound implementation of Chen Jingxing's idea of ​​carrying forward the entertainment of the film to the end, so that the audience can give it no less praise than "Matrix I".

In fact, in the same way, "[-]" Chen Jingxing is also mainly entertaining, which determines the presentation method of the fake one shot to the end.

"Director Qin, Director Chen, the sun is covered by clouds!"

Just when Chen Jingxing and Qin Zhonghe were talking about the Waterloo of "Star Wars 9" in the North American film market, and what advantages "Matrix III" could get from it, the scene manager hurried into the room to report the weather conditions.

Without further ado, Chen Jingxing got up immediately and ordered: "Hurry up and gather the crew and actors, hurry up and start shooting!"

"6" is almost all outdoors and is shot on location, plus the long shots that span several scenes for five, six, seven, and eight minutes, which means that there is no way to properly light it. .

Actors move in a large range in the scene, and they often make 360-degree turns in front of the camera, and there is no way to turn on the lights anywhere.

So rely almost entirely on natural weather and light.

For the best film rendering effect, we can only shoot on cloudy days all the way.

If the sun is slightly dazzling, it is impossible to shoot, and you have to wait for the clouds to cover the sun.

Of course, this is a daytime scene, and the nighttime scene doesn't have to be so dependent on the sky, but there are other difficulties. It can be said that "[-]" is indeed the most difficult film that Chen Jingxing has ever filmed.

Watching Chen Jingxing's hurried figure, Qin Zhonghe, the chief producer who came to follow up with the filming in person, could only helplessly shake his head: "It really doesn't keep up with the times, it's still young people who dare to think and do it."

Of course, not all young people dare to think and do, and they can overcome all difficulties and come up with various wonderful ways to realize a crazy idea.

He had never seen such an outlier like Chen Jingxing before.

He is also fortunate that there is such an outlier in the Huaguo film industry today.

(End of this chapter)