Hong Kong Entertainment: Kung Fu Superstar 1981

Chapter 281 Shock from across the ages
10 minutes later, the theater gradually filled up with people.

Bowen, Samantha, Zhang Yang, and Lewis were arranged to sit in the back corner of the theater.

Just like the midnight premiere on Hong Kong Island, here they can pay attention to more audience reactions.

However, unlike Hong Kong Island, the premiere venue on Hong Kong Island will directly face the audience. On the American side, the first hurdle that the film needs to pass is the internal test screening, followed closely by the talent show. It is a review in front of the media, reviewers and senior movie fans.

Although judging from various feedbacks, "John Wick" performed extremely well at Warner's internal preview screenings.

But when it comes to the film festival, especially when facing many film critics in the United States, there is no room for carelessness.

Thanks to the rapid development of the American film industry since the 60s and [-]s, American film critics can now be said to be the most picky and difficult to serve.

Like Pauline Kael, a well-known film critic in the United States.

She has criticized famous films such as "Star Wars" and "The Godfather" one after another. Especially when commenting on "Star Wars", she directly said that watching this movie is worse than going to the circus to watch the circus. Obviously It's a piece of garbage, it has the audacity to pass off as an intergalactic epic, the film's director, George Lucas, is just a toy dealer, and other harsh words.

Even this kind of film cannot get praise from these film critics. Zhang Yang doesn't expect a purely commercial film like "John Wick" to get any good reviews from them. Zhang Yang doesn't even expect them to get above the passing mark. As long as they can honestly put forward the advantages of the film's action scenes, he will be satisfied.

However, these prior guesses are meaningless until the results appear.

Zhang Yang could only sit quietly on his chair, waiting for the film to start.

Soon, the lights in the theater dimmed and the movie officially started.

As Zhao Weike appeared on the stage, there was a slight commotion among the crowd who came to watch the movie.

Obviously, for American Pictures at this time, movies with Asian faces as protagonists were somewhat unfamiliar. After all, Cheng Long had not yet become famous with "The Red Zone" at this time, and Jet Li had just entered the Hong Kong film industry. , the entire American film industry's impression of Asians is still limited to the Kung Fu films of the Republic of China from Shaw Brothers and Li Xiaolong's series of films.

Like Zhao Weike, played by Zhang Yang, the Asian protagonist in a suit and leather shoes with a strong sense of being a spy is really novel.

Amid the whispers, the plot of the film continued to advance.

The opening of "John Wick" is relatively calm. The audience's interest is basically held by the melancholy temperament exuded by Zhao Weike played by Zhang Yang. Most of the reasons why they are sitting here are Out of curiosity, I wonder in what direction the film will continue to develop until Zhao Weike's identity is revealed and Zhao Weike breaks through the floor and takes out the gun.

The elite team sent by the black boss broke into the villa, and the epoch-making action scenes officially began to be performed in front of this group of American audiences.

As Zhao Weike gradually emerged from the shadows, and after knocking down three people one after another with extremely clean and neat methods, the auditorium finally erupted with exclamations that seemed to be out of control for the first time since the beginning of the film.

"Wtf? Hey, did you see how he did it?!"

"Wow! God, this guy is definitely a born killer!"

"As I've said before, man, that's where Li Xiaolong was born. Watching action scenes in Hong Kong movies is a joy!"

"Now that I think about those tough guy movies I watched, fuck, why did they make the action scenes so childish!" "Shh! Can you please stop arguing and let me continue watching?"

As the fans in the cinema were in an uproar, Zhang Yang suddenly realized the crux of the problem.

Why is it that a purely commercial film like "John Wick" was able to achieve excellent results at internal previews?

Why are Warner executives so confident in this film?

Why does Samantha still remember Zhang Yang so clearly after watching this movie?

Yes, "John Wick" is a purely commercial film. If you look at the plot alone, it is at best on the passing line, but the problem lies in the time point in which he appeared in this film.

This is 87!

Originally, "A Better Tomorrow" only appeared at this point in history.

The so-called gun fighting in the film industry has not even begun to take shape now.

The action scenes in "John Wick" would be like a dimensionality reduction attack in the Hong Kong film industry at this time, let alone in the United States at this time!
The action scenes in American movies during this period were still limited to the level of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

They have not experienced the action era of Lian Chenglong and Jet Li, let alone the action movie style of "John Wick" that has gone through several rounds of changes and eliminations in history before it was finally formed!

And more importantly, "John Wick" perfectly integrates action and martial arts scenes with gunfight scenes. This is undoubtedly the best sensory experience for the American local market, which prefers gunfight movies to action movies. Experience!

How have these senior movie fans and critics who participated in the film review meeting experienced this level of action drama?

For them, this is not only a sensory shock, but also a cognitive shock!
How could a gun battle scene be filmed like this? !

And this kind of continuous impact, the first villa battle, is just the beginning.

As the film progresses, the battle in the nightclub has raised the excitement of the audience to another level. In the face of such exquisite action design, the old American action movies they once watched are at this moment. It's all tasteless.

As the subsequent content of the film continues to be played, fans have gone from being surprised at the beginning to silence.

This kind of silence is not dull, but all the audience are staring at the big screen attentively, for fear of missing any details of the action.

Although with their current vision, they are still unable to judge the various prototypes in a series of action scenes, they can clearly feel that the appearance of "John Wick" will bring great changes to the entire American action film market. What kind of impact is coming.

Finally, as Zhao Weike completed his revenge and walked out of the pet clinic with his new pet dog, the audience at the scene all had excitement and excitement in their eyes and kept giving warm applause.

Several film critics even wrote the same sentence in the notebooks they carried.

A new era of action movies has arrived!
(End of this chapter)