This director needs to apologize

Chapter 33: Film critics ripped apart Gu Yuehe and was criticized

On November 11, Monday, Chen Yiming entered the company at noon.

He was lazy for two days on the weekend, stayed in the rented house, ate and slept, and enjoyed himself a lot.

As soon as Xiaomei, who was left behind, saw him, she followed him into his office with her notebook.

"In the three-day preview screening on May 8th, the lowest attendance rate of "Holiday in Magic City" was over [-]%."

"Very good, send me the detailed form for review, and send it to the reporters later."

"Manager Lu from Golden Eagle Cinema in Lingcheng asked about Guyuehe or Lily-Collin's road show schedule, saying that it's Lingcheng's turn in the last two days. Director Ma asked me to ask you."

"Contact Wei Ziyue and ask Lao Gu to make a trip."

"Fu Ruixiang didn't agree to visit two cities, Sichuan and Chongqing, tomorrow. She said one of them must be cancelled."

"Tell her that she can either finish her run tomorrow and call it a day, or run an extra day the day after tomorrow. The plane tickets have been booked and let her choose."

"The articles by the film critics were sent out one after another over the weekend. The summary form has been sent to your email. There is also an interesting video, which I have also sent to you."

"Okay, I'll look back."

"I want to take a vacation! 007 is here for seven days in a row. I want to nourish my skin, hydrate, and do my hair!"

"Okay, okay, I'll give you a vacation as soon as the movie is officially released."

After sending away the angry Xiaomei, Chen Yiming collapsed and turned on his phone, raised his legs on the desk, and checked emails one after another.

So far, "Holiday in the Magic City" has been rated by over 5 people on Broadou, and the total number of long and short reviews has exceeded 1. This ratio far exceeds the average ratio of [-]:[-] on Broadou.

After all, the main players at the test screening are die-hard pho and forum water gods. The activity of these two groups of people is not comparable to that of ordinary audiences.

Thanks to their support, professional film critics with mixed reviews were unable to score "Holiday" down, and it was still teetering on the 9-point line.

Chen Yiming couldn't help but laugh and cry because he was facing an enemy. He overestimated the influence of Broad Bean ratings, overestimated the influence of film critics, and even more underestimated the influence of "Holiday in the Magic City".

All in all, he just takes himself too seriously.

Therefore, he was somewhat uninterested in film review articles and could read them absent-mindedly.

These film critics are all public figures, and their past personas and butts are clear at a glance. Their opinions on "Holiday" do not deviate from Chen Yiming's basic judgment.

You Shuren's review was titled "A Parody, a Bad Holiday."

As a professional who came from a major and stayed in school to teach, Mr. You has a good knowledge of film history and accurately attributed "Holiday in the City" to the Hollywood masterpiece "It Happened One Night" produced in the 30s.

"The male protagonists are all poor reporters, the heroine in "It Happened One Night" is a wealthy daughter, and the heroine in "Holiday" is a royal princess.

"It Happened One Night" is the only Grand Slam film in Oscar history, winning five awards in 1935: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Best Screenplay.

Such a classic is not so easy to learn from!
It is common practice for newcomers to the industry to imitate classics, but Director Chen Yiming chose the wrong target. He should reduce the difficulty and requirements based on the classics, not the other way around.

As a movie that also follows the three laws, "It Happened One Night" focuses on the depiction of the emotional changes between men and women. The form of a road movie further enhances the audience's emotional involvement.

However, "Holiday in the Magic City" deviated from the emotional axis and added too many elements of scenic films unnecessarily, which in turn weakened the emotional connection between the male and female protagonists.

So when we see the end, there is still a question: did these two people fall in love? If they did, how did they fall in love?If you didn't fall in love, why were you so reluctant to let go in the end?
Separation, this is how I felt after watching the entire film, and I believe this is the same feeling for many people. "

Teacher You's comments were quite spicy. Apart from expressing his appreciation for Lily's performance, he basically had no good words.

But Chen Yiming was not touched by this. Movies are very subjective, and no movie can be liked by everyone.

What's more, there is no need for Chen Yiming to refute Teacher You himself. He can completely leave it to classmate Pang Jin.

The title of Pang Jin's film review is consistent with his usual style, technical and neutral.

"Holiday in Magic City: Old Times and Naturalism."

"This is a love sketch based on "It Happened One Night". The plot is simple, the twists are smooth, and the logic is smooth. The theater where I was in was always laughing.

In this sense, "Holiday in Magic City" is at least worth the price of admission.

How to express the beauty of characters in romance films is the primary issue that genre film directors must face.

Director Chen Yiming gave an answer that surprised me, and it was also an answer that was helpful to film creation.

That is, naturally.

After watching the entire film, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought, how should I define the movie "Holiday in the City".

First of all, this is an urban scenery film, and the entire filming process cannot be faked.

Secondly, it is a period film. The background and presentation of the film are not separated. It is easy for the audience to understand that this is a story that took place in the magical city more than [-] years ago.Thirdly, it is a romance film. The middle-aged version of Gu Yuehe is handsome and charming, Lily is infinitely youthful, and the male and female protagonists completely match my yearning for a beautiful love.

Using the real scenes of the contemporary magic city, it shows the temperament of the old days 20 years ago.

Use naturalistic and simple brushstrokes to outline a vivid emotional exchange.

There are precedents to be found in just one example. The former is like "Back Alley" directed by Wang Jiawei, and the latter is like "Water Town" directed by Xie Jing.

But what if we want to merge the two into one?
"It Happened One Night" is a sample of Hollywood love movies, which has profoundly influenced the creation of this type of movies until now.

Highlights and colors, flawless whiteness, using extreme light and shadow to place the characters on a gorgeous stage.

However, the significance of samples is not imitation, but breakthrough.

Since movies can break away from the shackles of stage plays, they can also break away from the meticulous shroud of light and shadow and restore the original appearance of the characters.

I was very happy to see that the characters in "Holiday in the Magic City" did not have soft light filters or light cages. They spoke, laughed, sang and danced naturally like in real life.

This doesn’t stop us from being enchanted by the princess’s charm.

The so-called parody argument made by some people is simply trying to make a fool of themselves and is not worth refuting.

As long as you have a basic appreciation of movies, you can appreciate the different cores of "Holiday" and "It Happened One Night".

I'm looking forward to discussing the technical aspects with director Chen Yiming, especially knowing that the film was shot entirely with digital cameras. "

Regarding the last paragraph of Pang Jin's article, Chen Yiming laughed it off.

He didn't really understand Mr. Pang's film review. If he really wanted to communicate, he should talk to the great master Lin Xiaolin. That was the right person to discuss XXism.

Several other film reviews are similar. If the reviews are converted into broad bean scores, they basically hover between 2-4.

It can be regarded as achieving Chen Yiming’s original intention of finding film critics.

Even after it was officially released, it still maintained high ratings, which surprised AIA. With these low-scoring reviews from professionals, at least half of the suspicion of brushing up can be eliminated.

After reading the movie review, Chen Yiming opened the last link in the summary report and jumped to a video page on Station P.

While the video was loading, Chen Yiming briefly browsed the page.

The account that posted the video is called "the only one feeding you#本尊", and the avatar is a cartoon character holding a bowl in one hand and picking noodles with the other.

The title of the video is very provocative, "Gu Yuehe! Who gave you the courage to sing a love song duet?"

It seems that the number of clicks has exceeded 10.

Huh?This is somewhat interesting.

At this time, the video was loaded and started to play automatically. Chen Yiming lowered his legs and straightened his back with great interest.

The video starts with a black screen for 5 seconds, but a song comes out, which is the theme song of "Holiday in the City", "Tonight I Celebrate My Love".

Chen Yiming immediately recognized that it was the studio version of Lily and Gu Yuehe. This version was used at the end of the movie, with each person having two sentences at the beginning.

After singing 4 lines, the screen ended with a black screen, and then it cut to the scene of Lily standing in front of the big screen in the theater singing.

The background music also seamlessly switched to Lily's live singing at this time.

After two lines of lyrics, the scene changed to the scene of Gu Yuehe's first Tianlu singing.

The background music also changed to Guyuehe's live solo version.

Chen Yiming immediately spat out the tea in his mouth. He wouldn't know if he didn't compare it, but it would make him pee.

It was a public execution.

Chen Yiming endured the stomachache and watched the entire video. This "only one who feeds you" couldn't be Guyuehe's anti-fan.

However, the author made Guyuehe look very handsome, and there is nothing slanderous about the picture materials used.

Or are there already fans who are so deep that they are naturally black?
He plugged in his headphones and listened carefully again.

The author is very professional. He has done a remarkable job in track cutting, dry sound separation, and secondary mixing, and has strong technical skills.

Of course, professionalism also invisibly amplified Gu Yuehe's poor singing skills. Not only was Lily instantly reduced to scum, but several broken notes and out-of-tune vocals were also caught.

Such a comparison, the video title is so apt that every pho will be speechless.

(End of this chapter)