Cultivate a male god: After listening to persuasion, I became a top-notch

Chapter 534 This movie is so exciting!
This time's announcement for "Buried Alive" is different from Li Youzhi's previous films.

Like the previous "Dear", "The Wandering Earth" or "Nezha", the promotion point of the movie mainly revolves around the movie itself. But this time, because of Leziren fans, the publicity point for "Buried Alive" mainly centered on the topic of "Li Youzhi's Olympics."

Before the premiere ceremony, Li Youzhi actually wanted to take a precaution when he said these words to the audience present, the entertainment media, and some film critics in the audience.

What kind of vaccination?
It’s not the inoculation against not getting an Oscar, it’s the inoculation about the political part of the film!

Don't say that Li Youzhi is unfounded. Over the years, there have been eight hundred if not one thousand films exported from China. However, the content of the films is either singing, dancing, romance, or some so-called literary directors under the banner of literature and art. Deliberately making some small moves to please the white masters in the Western film and television industry with the so-called reflection of social reality.

According to Li Youzhi's understanding, this is definitely the first time for a subject matter like "Buried Alive" to be directly in-your-face and not shy about political content.

Of course, what we are talking about here are personal works, not including the national team.

But the more this happened, the more Li Youzhi felt that he needed to remind him.

Now I have enough things to do, and Leziren netizens have caused a lot of trouble for themselves. Don't let Gao Hua, a group of well-known celebrities in China, get in trouble and have surgery on himself when the film premiere is over. How can I have time to deal with such stinky shit?

After the opening of the premiere ceremony, Li Youzhi returned to the backstage with the support of the on-site staff.

Because it was the last stop of the promotional tour and the home venue of Qiang Sheng Film and Television, a film agent and distributor, the premiere ceremony in Shanghai was relatively meticulous.

There were interviews with the media and Q&A sessions with the audience before and after the premiere. Even if it lasted for several days, Li Youzhi had to wait patiently in the lounge for the movie premiere to end.

Seeing Li Youzhi sitting on the sofa, looking very relaxed, even ignoring the hum of high-power speakers coming from outside, squinting his eyes and preparing to squint for a while, Liu Yun, Tu Zheng, and Heguang Culture Shanghai completed Zhou Yuan, who was decorated by the Hai Branch Company and made a special trip to accompany Li Youzhi to attend the premiere, was overjoyed.

This is not the first time that Li Youzhi premiered at the Shanghai Dawan Film and Television Center. The premiere of "Dear" was also held here, and even the lounge for the creative team to rest was also here. .

It's just that at that time, Li Youzhi was extremely excited and not as Buddha-like as he is now.

Seeing that his virtue was as relaxed as in the bedroom at home, Zhou Yuan said happily: "Brother Zhi, what you said just now are to avoid the dark? After all, you are a veteran, now you know how to add buffs to yourself in advance?"

"ha,"

Faced with Zhou Yuan's joke, Li Youzhi, who was lying on the sofa, grinned.

"It's okay if you don't add it. Damn, you're famous now, and every move you make is watched by people. It's a big deal at first, but people will make a fuss about it at any time, which will make you annoyed. It's better to do it in advance. Let’s make it clear. Don’t waste any more public resources when the time comes.”

"You kid, I just wanted to praise you for knowing how to be tactful now. After doing this for a long time, you are still too lazy to be afraid of trouble!"

After hearing Li Youzhi and Zhou Yuan's explanation, Liu Yun smiled and reached out to tap him.

Tu Zheng also laughed, but after seeing the fatigue in Li Youzhi's eyes, he still waved his hand.

"Okay, let him sleep for a while. He has run more than a dozen road shows these days, and has a lot to say to deal with the media every day. Let him recuperate for a while and do this last one well."

Feeling Tu Zheng's care, Li Youzhi smiled faintly and took off his windbreaker to cover himself.

After a while, he fell asleep in a daze.

Just as Li Youzhi was drifting off to sleep, the plot of "Buried Alive" was advancing rapidly in the screening room;

Through Li Youzhi's breathtaking performance in the first part of the movie, the audience already knows the reason why the protagonist Paul is trapped in the coffin, the motivation of the kidnappers, and the general relationship and status of the US officials.

After this part of the foreshadowing, the real "motivation" and the core content of the film are revealed - individual rights are not worth mentioning in the face of group interests!
If Li Youzhi's performance in the first part made the audience feel discomfort and suffocation on a physical level, then starting from this part of the movie... it squeezes the audience's senses and spirit from all aspects of the psychological and physical levels;

From the CRT company where the protagonist works, in order to get rid of the relationship and responsibility, instead of providing rescue help, it induced the protagonist Paul to terminate the contract, to the US government's clear-cut attitude of not negotiating terms with the KB elements, and the "Schrödinger-style" swing of the hostage rescue team. Rescue operations……

Trapped in a box buried deep in the ground, making calls that consumed the precious battery of the cell phone left behind by the robbers, the only good news that the protagonist received for sure was that the robbers, considering his situation, The original ransom of five million was reduced to one million...

Any matching action value cannot be separated from the words "cost" and "benefit" - even if it involves a living life.

These pressures from the social level are like pieces of spiritual gravel, swallowing up the protagonist's already fragile life little by little.

Li Youzhi's performance in this part also focused on the transition from the superficial tension and anxiety to the transition of hopes being raised and frustrated again and again.

The anger and powerlessness are hidden behind the body movements and lines, and the focus is on shaping psychological activities.

These things are invisible and intangible from the performance, but through the almost shocking lens of "Buried Alive", they are extremely contagious!
"Hey, hey! Listen, calm down Paul. We're doing our best to try to get you out..."

"No you haven't! I've been here nine months and I've seen and heard what you guys do. You don't care, you damn guys sitting in the office, you only care about your secret plans and backdoor policies, If I were a diplomat, or a high-level executive, or the CEO of a company, I'd be out by now! But I'm not, I'm just a damn truck driver, so I can only lie in this damn box! Here, shut my mouth and wait for death.”

"OK, OK! Paul, I need you to focus."

"FKU, Dan. FKU,"

"Paul, listen, finding you is our top priority. For us, finding you is no different than finding a four-star general. But you must first calm down and hold off those KB elements, do you understand?"

"Dan, I want to ask you a question, how many people have been kidnapped? I mean like me..."

"Since I've been here? A lot of...journalists, contractors, military, a bunch of people have been kidnapped here, and IMHO this is the only functioning business in this damn place."

"How many people have you rescued?"

"...a small part."

"Tell me their names, anyone. Make me believe you really care about them."

"Mark White...a 26-year-old student from New Hampton, came here to help rebuild the local medical aid station. He was kidnapped two weeks ago, and we successfully rescued him."

"How is he doing now? Where is he now?"

"I don't know, maybe he returns to school happily and tells his new girlfriend what happened two weeks ago. Who knows? Paul, don't worry about that. You need to help me hold off those KB elements now. Understand ?"

"I have to die Dan! The robbers sent a video... No, no, no! Damn it, no!"

In the cinema screening room.

Looking at the big screen, the man who received the video from the robbers and learned that the colleague with whom he had the best relationship had been executed had to follow the robbers' request and filmed the blackmail video. There was no more hysteria or sealing fear. Paul was just calm. Lying in the coffin, the look in his eyes gradually disappeared, as if his soul was dissipating, and the atmosphere in the screening room was extremely depressing.

It was as if everyone's breath had stagnated, and it was as heavy as attending a person's funeral in advance.

Wrapped in such an atmosphere, Liu Xin, who was sitting in the back row, shivered violently!

As a Leziren fan who has followed Li Youzhi since the "Dear" era, even if "Buried Alive" has not finished playing, it is enough to subvert Liu Xin's perception of Li Youzhi!
The Sanjin Brothers: "Damn it, brothers, any of you are watching the premiere in the cinema right now? Why is there no one talking today?"

Carefully adjusting the brightness of his phone to the lowest setting, Liu Xin sent a comment in Li Youzhi's shaking hands fan group.

Unlike in the past, messages in the fan group would be replied to instantly. This time, he waited for several seconds before finally popping up in the group with a few people who were usually very chatty.

Three shorts and one equals two: "Who the hell is still thinking about talking! I'm watching the premiere, this movie is... amazing! I thought the live broadcast part of the younger brother was the most suffocating part, but now it's getting more and more... The more terrifying I feel, watching a person being swallowed up by despair is even more uncomfortable than killing him directly! Damn it, I haven’t felt this uncomfortable watching my brother’s self-isolation challenge before, but I still want to see what he does. Get out!"

It’s Mr. Min: “This movie is really...I personally think it is the pinnacle of his acting skills. Maybe his subsequent movies will still have outstanding acting skills, but I think it is unlikely to surpass this movie. Before. I’m just kidding, but after watching the movie, I really felt that my acting skills are so good!”

Dude: "Brothers, it seems that this time the joke has gone serious. You are all bragging about my acting skills. Haven't you noticed that the script and filming are also amazing? Under the gravel. The coffin, the mobile phone that is about to be powered, the lighter that has burned out of kerosene, the thin and turbid air, the frustrated man... With these elements, I am so convinced that the story can be told like this! Big scenes, special effects, it seems like the film and television industry can’t tell stories other than these, and this script is awesome! Damn it!”

Theater.

Liu Xin felt comfortable looking at the large rainbow farts in the group that he had drawn out.

Satisfied that his concept was recognized, he carefully turned off his phone and returned his gaze to the screen.

The movie at this time has entered the second half;

Just when Paul witnessed the death of his best friend at the gunfire of KB elements, and he was so desperate that he could not help but hysterical, a desert venomous snake slipped into the coffin through the crack on the side.

His survival instinct cheered him up again, and he used a lighter to expel the deadly creature from the gap, temporarily saving the day.

But so what?

Paul, who originally had a glimmer of hope for life, is now hopeless and exhausted.

People are always extremely vulnerable when they are in despair. They can escape the attack of poisonous snakes but cannot escape the unpredictable nature of human nature. The fastest way to destroy a person's will is to make him gain hope in a hopeless situation, and then take it all away...

The only faith that supported Paul's survival was actually not much left after repeated phone calls.

Only the student named Mark White, who was successfully rescued two weeks ago by Dan, the liaison person of the hostage rescue team, still kept him alive with sporadic hope.

I hope that I can be successfully rescued like that lucky man and return to the United States to tell my wife, children, relatives and friends about the desperate moment I am experiencing now.

It was this faint hope that made him calm down, find some clues from the surrounding environment, and report them to Dan.

However, what he was waiting for was not a rescue, but a bombing.

The plane roared past and exploded violently, triggering tiny earthquakes. Quicksand sloped down from the broken coffin lid, and when it was about to be filled with quicksand, the head of the hostage team called urgently.

He told Paul that he had found the burial location from the captured kidnapper and would rescue him immediately.

Paul, who had been waiting to welcome death, was once again "given" the dawn of life. He waited with the final hope for the moment when the rescue team opened the coffin door.

Like the hourglass counting down his life, as the quicksand continued to fill in and bury him bit by bit, he finally heard the sound of gunshots on the phone and the sound of digging in the sand.

However, at the last second when the yellow sand completely swallowed him up, he heard the rescuer's curse on the other end of the phone.

Because the kidnappers misreported the wrong location, they dug up another hostage - the dead Mark White, the "lucky guy" the rescue director Dan had mentioned to him on the phone.

in the cinema.

Unknowingly, the movie that challenged the psychological and physical limits of the audience every minute came to an end.

Looking at the coffin filled with quicksand, suffocating Paul's mouth and nose, and burying this man who tried his best to live under the desert of a foreign land, all hopes and longings disappeared with him, and the screening room was silent. . It was not until the scene was completely dark, until the short list of credits for "Buried Alive" appeared on the big screen, that the audience realized that the story was over, and finally recovered from the shock.

But the entire screening room was still quiet.

hiss~
Standing in the background, Li Youzhi, who had already had a good night's sleep to catch up on his sleep, blinked.

He smacked his lips as he looked through the gap in the soundproof door backstage at the projection hall that seemed to be enchanted.

Is this movie... so exciting?
Where's the applause?
It’s okay if there’s no applause... Where’s your stunning value?

What the hell is going on?
With your emotions like this, Brother Zhi doesn’t know what expression to make right now!

boom.

As the white font of "THEEND" appeared on the big screen, the basic lighting of the screening room turned on, and the beautifully dressed host walked to the big screen.

"Okay friends, the two-hour movie has now been played. Next, we will once again invite the film's director, screenwriter and starring Li Youzhi and Xiaozhi to come on stage to talk about the movie with our audience and media friends. welcome……"

Hearing the host's warm-up, Li Youzhi took a deep breath.

Mom, I don’t care!
Pushing open the backstage door, facing the incoming searchlight, he entered the stage from the guest aisle.

Just as he took the microphone and thought about how to open up the situation, someone stood up from the audience first.

Snapped……

With a crisp sound, in an instant... thunderous applause!
Beep!
Received cumulative amazing points, 5012890 points!
Looking at the audience standing on their feet, listening to the thunderous applause mixed with a few broken words of praise, holding the microphone, ready to quibble... Ahem, how to explain the long words of Li Youzhi in this movie? He breathed a sigh of relief.

Damn it... please don't have such a long reflex arc, Hun Dan.

Brother Zhi thought that you were used to watching the commercial films made by Brother Zhi, and that you were incompetent when it came to such dramatic films, so you were thrown into the street!
I'm scaring you all, this drama is more frightening than a thriller!

(`^)σForget it this time, but not next time!

Putting his hanging heart down, Li Youzhi bowed deeply to the audience.

Under the maintenance of the on-site host, the completely out-of-control order finally returned to normal after a lot of effort.

"It can be seen that everyone loves the movie "Buried Alive". So next, we will give the right to ask questions to the audience. After watching the entire movie, everyone can ask Xiaozhi if they have any questions. Communicate. So...that gentleman sitting in the back row is you."

As the host warmed up, the question-and-answer session had just begun, and a fat man sitting in the last row got the chance to ask questions.

Taking the microphone handed over by the on-site staff, Liu Xin was trembling with excitement.

Although he is a long-time fan of Leziren, this is the first time he has had such close contact with Li Youzhi.

"Brother, my name is Liu Xin, I am from Lezi."

Standing in front of the big screen, Li Youzhi smiled lightly as he looked at the fat man in the last row whose voice was trembling slightly and who was obviously extremely nervous.

"Then you must have given me a lot of rubbish advice."

哄、

A lot of fans came to the scene today. When they heard Li Youzhi's frequency, the scene immediately burst into laughter.

After grinning a few times, Liu Xin, who felt a little more relaxed, picked up the phone.

"When the filming of "Buried Alive" started, you were shaking your hands and said that this film was originally scheduled to be released in Waguang Audio-Visual. It would not be released in China and was only targeted at the American market. Now I have watched the whole film, and through the character Paul in the film Character, I noticed that you made a very bitter satire and criticism of the American system, and I just wanted to ask... Although this film and TKTK did not premiere online due to conceptual issues, it is also available in American theaters. Aren't you afraid that after it is released, the film and television studios and audiences in the United States will cause trouble for you and block you?"

"Hahaha……"

Hearing Liu Xin's question, there was another burst of laughter.

Li Youzhi also laughed.

However, he felt that the question raised by Liu Xin was still very representative.

Just now when the host announced the start of the Q&A session after watching the movie, he had already seen some media reporters ready to move, and they probably were concerned about this issue.

Facing the question, Li Youzhi pondered for a moment.

Then he picked up the phone and smiled.

"Actually, I think China is developing very well now. So in the field of literary and artistic creation, as cultural creators, we don't need to deliberately please anything, nor do we need to deliberately avoid anything. You see Hollywood is the most glorious In that era, that is, in the 1990s, there was a very clear spirit in their films. What spirit? They just didn’t think about anything but a good, wonderful story.

I think most audiences around the world, when they spend money to go to the cinema, what they hope to see is not political correctness, but just a good story. I think if the story is well shot, audiences around the world will like it.

In fact, the question you asked today is a very good one. I believe that after the premiere, many media and film critics will question me and the film itself on this issue. So I would like to take this opportunity to declare in advance that as Chinese filmmakers in the new era, we should change our approach to overseas productions. A few decades ago, Western audiences liked to see us lagging behind because they felt they were superior. We ourselves feel very inferior. But now the situation has changed, and we should look at the world head-on and break through the inherent ideas of creating cultural works. Why can't we take pictures of their bad parts?

Similarly, during that period we liked to watch beautiful and handsome men in high-rise buildings in Hollywood movies. That is also because we are not as well built as they are and we want to learn from them. Now that our infrastructure, communications, public security, and living standards have improved, why do we show these in our external works? Maybe people abroad now want to understand us and learn from us through film and television works?

Times have changed after all. "

In the screening room, listening to Li Youzhi talking about this shocking argument without hesitation, several film critics looked at each other.

Before they could finish expressing their surprise to each other, the scene was once again engulfed in applause!

Beep!
Received additional [Inspiration] amazing points, 41209 points!
Received amazing points from the United States, accumulating 3012907 points!
Listening to the applause and the two amazing value-deposit notifications ringing in his ears, Li Youzhi smiled and took out his mobile phone.

"Xiao Zhi-san, what a great film! I'm really not complimenting you. In recent years, has the acting, script and camera been so well-balanced in such a perfect film?"

"Brother, I'm not afraid of you being proud... This may not be a good commercial film, but this movie... is awesome!"

"The second ticket purchase is ready. If you don't bring water next time, maybe the immersion will be stronger. I'm going to fucking blow this movie!"

"Super super super super! What I said after watching the Shanghai premiere at the Shanghai premiere must be another hot topic! Brothers, cheer up!"

Looking at the rainbow farts that spring up like mushrooms from netizens who had already watched the premiere in the dynamic comment section he posted in the morning to canvass for "Buried Alive", Li Youzhi chuckled, opened WeChat and pulled out Subona's avatar.

The domestic situation should be stable.

Whether Brother Zhi can get Oscar tickets... depends on his performance overseas.

........................

Subona was laughing wildly when he received Li Youzhi's WeChat message!
In North America, because "Buried Alive" mainly has B-category theaters, the number of partner theaters is relatively large, and the scale is relatively small, so it is not easy to conduct data statistics.

Although at this time, the first screening of "Buried Alive" in various theaters has ended, the relevant attendance rate and comprehensive box office statistics will not be completed until the afternoon of the next day.

But that's not important!
From just now, before the movie premiere was over, he had already received calls from theaters one after another.

Why are these theaters calling so late at night?

Weighted, renewed!
Foreign theaters don’t sign up for movie screenings like they do in China, especially this type of B-type theaters. Many theaters sign up for the first week when talking about screenings. The meaning is obvious, it is to see how the first seven are effective, and if the audience responds well, then continue to sign for the second phase.

Moreover, these short-term screening contracts also have weight differences. For example, some small theaters only sign up for evening shows, so they can get more box office share.

But now, the first show on the first day of the first seven days has received so many renewals and all-day licenses... Even Harkins Cinemas, which has always been famous for selling popcorn drinks, called to ask for stills licenses for "Buried Alive" , it is said that it will be printed on Huggins’ large glass of juice as a linkage advertisement, which explains the problem very well;

Premiere, it must be a hit!
"Boss, I heard that you like others to give you advice. There is a Chinese idiom that says to do what you like, so I have to suggest you...open an international account as soon as possible to store U.S. dollars! Lots of U.S. dollars! Before two o'clock tomorrow afternoon, I will give you a summary of the US box office results, I believe it will be a surprise for you and me!”

He looked at the voice message sent by Li Youzhi asking for box office data. Subona, who was in ecstasy, calmed down his emotions and pressed the voice button.

at the same time.

TKTK branch is located in the US headquarters building in Los Angeles.

"Wendy, this is our most recent operational data. The user increment part you want has been specially marked by the team."

"Okay, put it there, I'll use it later."

"Forehead……"

"What else?"

It was late at night, but the lights in the CEO's office on the top floor of the building were still on.

Seeing that the person in charge of the operations department seemed to have something to say, Wen Ting, who felt dizzy after a busy day, raised her eyebrows.

"That's Waguang Audiovisual. We said before that we wanted to open up the data. We specially allocated manpower to form a maintenance team. But now there are problems with the progress of the cooperation. I want to ask you how we deal with this team? We don't have enough manpower on the operation side. of……"

"Then let's disband first. Do you still need to ask about this kind of thing? We can't let them sit in the office drinking coffee and chatting with a salary of two thousand dollars a week, right? I don't think Waguang Audiovisual will do it in a short time. Is there any possibility of getting through the situation, so that the group can do whatever it takes after it is disbanded..."

After waving to the person in charge of the operations department, Wen Ting raised her head again.

"I heard that the movie "Buried Alive" was released in theaters. Do you know the screening status of this movie?"

"I don't know, I've been working overtime for two days in a row. I heard from my colleagues that the tickets for that movie are not easy to buy. They are all shown in B-class theaters far away from the commercial center. It should be...not good. After all, Those theaters are popcorn and drink theaters, and the box office of movies released in those theaters is never high. "

Hearing what her colleague said, Wen Ting nodded.

It seems that the situation...is pretty much what I expected.

(End of this chapter)