You can't imagine the happiness of the group performance

Chapter 321 This movie, I want to blow it up!

Regarding the film industry, we have to start with a North American movie called "The Blair Witch".

In the original time and space, this film grossed 6 yuan, and the global box office was close to 2.5 million yuan. It created a precedent for "pseudo-documentary" horror films. Later, there was another "Ghost Story" with a similar theme, which also had a huge return rate.

This is a film shot in July 98.

It was officially released in North America on July 99, 7.

Now in less than a month, the box office in North America is close to [-] million.

Although the announcement and release of this film cost 2500 million yuan, the producer also devoted a lot of energy to making a website for publicity before it was released.

But with a cost of 6 yuan and a profit of more than a hundred times, such a gimmick naturally attracted a lot of attention, so "The Blair Witch" set off various trends this August.

The first is the "pseudo-documentary" shooting trend. It is said that in the original time and space, the hunters could hardly hunt in the hunting season. They were all sand sculptures who went to the forest with DV players to imitate filming, scaring away all the prey. .

The other is the wave of supernatural horror films, the most direct impact of which was the box office hit of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", which was released after it.

Although "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" itself has the potential to explode, it is undeniable that people have indeed caught up with this trend and the box office has increased much more than expected.

In addition to these two trends, the film market has also set off a wave of gold rush for "low-cost masterpieces".

With a cost of [-] and a box office of [-] million, how much can you earn?Who is not jealous?

In addition, after all, the plot of "The Blair Witch" is really not good, but the audience loves to watch it so much, so film critics and various film and television companies are also thinking, is this a new situation in movies, or is it the mainstream taste of future audiences?
As a result, various "low-cost masterpieces" advertised as "undiscovered treasures" have gradually increased in the market.

And film critics and various speculators are also happy to pan for gold in the market.

What if they get another copy of "The Blair Witch", wouldn't it be a huge profit?
It was at this time that "The Man From Earth" just entered the disc market.

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Stephen is a senior film critic.

"The Blair Witch" became a hit, and many film companies approached various film critics to call their "low-budget masterpiece".

Stephen has taken a lot of orders these days.

But anyway, it's all Shet.

In fact, in the final analysis, although the plot of "The Blair Witch" is average, it is a pioneer after all, and the audience is also directed at the "pseudo-documentary" and supernatural. The so-called ultra-low cost is just one of the gimmicks, not the most important. the elements of.

But the people in the film company don't think so, or they just want to catch a wave.

Regarding this, Stephen also felt that it didn't matter. Anyway, he was taking advantage of this trend to have a meal. Whether the film is good or bad, just tell the truth.

If it is really good, he is also willing to strongly recommend it to the audience.

But the probability of this is very small.

Hollywood has been around for so many years, which of the ultra-low-budget films are really good?

So after being fed several stomachs of shit these days, he decided not to continue.

He needs to relax his mind.

However, at this moment, a poster in the video store caught his attention.

"The Man From Earth", released by Warner Bros., a "masterpiece" costing 20 yuan, directed by Quentin.

Another "good work", Stephen felt sick when he saw this.

A company as big as Warner actually caught up with the trend?
But looking at "Quentin" again, this made him interested again.

Quentin naturally knew that this was a genius director.

Perhaps, this is indeed a masterpiece?
Stephen thought about it and decided to appreciate it.

If it's still Xie Te, then Quentin will wait for Lao Tzu to fully fire!
So he bought the disc without hesitation and went straight home.

Half an hour later, the video starts playing.

. . . . . .

At the beginning of the film, the hero resigned from his job as a university professor and was about to leave here for an unknown place, and many companions came to see him off.

In the seemingly simple house of the hero, there are Van Gogh paintings, medieval bows and arrows, and prehistoric stone axes. Everything gives people a strange sense of suspense.

And this also made Stephen slightly attracted by this sense of suspense.

He felt that the beginning of this film seemed to be different from other bad films known as "low-budget masterpieces", at least in terms of production and shooting, it was unprecedentedly excellent.

The characters also seem to have deep meanings. Among the people who saw him off were historians, religious scientists, biologists, psychologists and other knowledgeable people.

Instinctive sense of smell told Stephen that this script seemed quite interesting. Although they were talking all the time, even though they were talking about trivial stories in a very peaceful tone as usual, a sense of progression gradually appeared in the whole plot.

The protagonist looks so surly, he probably hasn't appeared in other Hollywood movies, but his acting skills are very good.

In fact, the protagonist is played by Quentin's friend Stim, who is not famous at all, because acting is just his hobby, and his real identity is a university professor.

And the hero of the film is also a professor, so the two are quite compatible in terms of image and temperament.

That's why this can fully interpret a person with a secret.

At the same time, the cooperation of other actors is also very good. Although everyone is a group performer, there are also masters among the folks. What's more, this is Hollywood. Quentin is going to make a film. How many people will compete for a role?So the whole movie looks like, all the actors don't say their acting skills are superb, but compared with those bad movies, they are naturally much better.

The movie continued, as the friends of the protagonist in the room asked the reason for the protagonist’s departure like a decryption, so Van Gogh’s paintings, medieval bows and arrows and other things began to become strange hints, as the plot gradually developed. , this suggestion became stronger and stronger, stronger and stronger. . .

Seeing this, Stephen's expression was a little astonished.

This is definitely different from other Xie Te who are under the banner of "low-cost masterpiece".

Maybe, this will be another "The Blair Witch"!
Thinking of this, Stephen couldn't help sitting up straight and paying attention.

. . . . . .

The screen continues.

In the movie, the stove is burning.

As if with a different light.

The hero stands by the fire and announces a startling story.

He comes from a world 14000 years ago.

The audience in the room was stunned, and so was Stephen.

And the tone of the whole plot seems to start from your words, moving in the direction of suspense. . .

"No matter how long a man lives, he cannot outlive his time. He cannot know more than the best of the race..."

"Although I have lived for 14000 years, it does not mean that I am a genius, all I have is time..."

"I'm always annoyed by people repeating stupid mistakes."

The male protagonist sometimes sighs and sighs, sometimes shakes his head and sighs. Faced with these people's questioning and suspicion, he slowly responded to the past in an understatement process.

The plot gradually began to become depressing and tense. No one knew how far the plot would go, and the seemingly absurd trend was so irrefutable.

Stephen seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat, and he was completely attracted by the hero's words and such an absurd story.

However, all this is just the beginning, and what the actor said next made everyone feel a sense of complete subversion.

Yes, a sense of subversion!

And the plot gradually began to move toward a climax. . .

. . . . .

"I met someone, got his name, said a few words, and he died."

"Others are like ocean waves, which come and go, and like wheat waves, which float with the wind..."

The protagonist in the movie talks about death.

It is also true that after living for 14000 years, death is an inevitable occurrence.

And such words, combined with Stim's natural acting skills and vicissitudes of life, make people feel very substituting.

The plot continued to advance, and then the contradictions began to gradually arouse.

The psychiatrist who just arrived seems unable to bear the pain of subversion. As a psychiatrist, when he draws a conclusion with a professional eye that the protagonist is not lying, should he doubt his profession at this time, or believe that this is really a living thing in front of him? A 14000-year-old monster?

So he suddenly drew his gun and pointed at the hero, feeling extremely excited!
He found it all absurd and nonsense.

However, the more ridiculous thing is still to come, because everyone talked about religion later.

So the words of the male lead gradually changed to another level.

The male protagonist slowly unraveled the cocoon of religion, as if slowly expounding the absurd facts.

Everyone in the movie is staring at the hero.

He thought the actor was crazy.

"When did you start believing that you belonged to Jesus?"

"When did you believe you were a psychiatrist?"

A very simple question and rhetorical question contains crazy things!
The male protagonist told everyone that he is Jesus Christ, he integrated the thoughts of Eastern Buddhism into Judaism, people adapted his experience, and only then did the Gospels come out!
The audience thought he was crazy and tried everything to start contradicting him, even trembling and angry.

One of the old ladies began to feel that her world view had been subverted, and the circles of her eyes gradually began to turn red. . .

The protagonist reveals a lot of content in the Bible, and many of the remarks seem absurd, but in fact they are so creepy and reasonable.

"He even claimed to be Jesus!"

Stephen outside the movie also thinks this person is crazy, and he, like the audience in the movie, has been completely immersed in this unimaginable world.

At first, he wanted to see how bad this bad movie with such a small investment could be, and then criticize Quentin and Warner Pictures.

However, he found that he was wrong.

At least the movie is not a bad movie until now, and it can even be said to be a real masterpiece.

He is eager to see the follow-up.

He longs to see the end.

Even, eager to see the truth of the world!

. . . . . .

In the following plot, everyone raised a lot of doubts in a panic, and several people have already begun to believe the words of the hero.

The hero turned on the light, but was stopped, they asked the hero to turn off the light.

They seemed to feel that the light of the stove gave them some inexplicable sense of security, or a sense of weird atmosphere.

They're caught up in this story that they don't know if it's a hoax or not. . .

At the same time, one person can no longer bear it mentally and has begun to fear.

After the man asked whether it was a hint of questioning, or the final torture-like words, the male protagonist realized that things might go wrong if things went on like this, so he went along with the flow and said that he was actually a prank, but in fact it was a fake !

Fake?This is him. . .

Just when Stephen thought such a hasty ending was the biggest failure of the film.

The movie ushered in the real ending.

The old psychiatrist found out that what the hero said was true, and what shocked him even more was: the hero is his father!

Then he couldn't stand the blow and died of a heart attack.

The screen gradually came to an abrupt end. . .

. . . . . .

The film ended, and the end credits played on the TV in the dark room.

Stephen, on the other hand, sat on the sofa with dull eyes.

This state lasted for a long time.

It wasn't until the end of the film that the subtitles were all finished, and Stephen sat up abruptly.

Watch it again!
Then write a movie review!
This film, am I going to blow it up!

(End of this chapter)