The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 472 This movie is very cool
"Sicario" is officially released in the mainland, Hong Kong Island, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand on March 26th.

Both Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand rely on Shaw Brothers Cinemas.

There have been no Hollywood blockbusters recently, and "Sicario" easily won the highest ranking.

In front of a Shaw Cinema in Po Village, two middle-aged women were eating ice cream and making faces.

One of them is Zhang Ziyi's agent Ji Lingling, and the other is Ji Lingling's good friend named Chen Ming.

Both of them have passed their forty years, neither is married, and has no children, but they have high incomes, cars and houses, and belong to the leftover fighters.

At this age, Ji Lingling no longer hopes for love, she just wants to make money and live her life happily.

She rarely cares about other people's opinions in her life and does whatever comes to her mind.

Just like now, two middle-aged aunts are eating ice cream and winking, but they actually feel like they are pretending to be young.

But she did just that.

"Watch a movie. I invite you to watch the movie, otherwise there will be no one to watch with you."

Ji Lingling finished her ice cream, threw the wrapper into the trash can, and then invited her friends.

Chen Ming rolled his eyes at Ji Lingling, "Movies nowadays are so ugly. I feel like going to the movies is a waste of money. I might as well go home and watch the disc."

"Stay with me, Ziyi's new movie is released, I haven't seen it yet."

"What kind of movie?"

"Oh, a gangster movie."

"It's a police and gangster movie again. Hong Kong movies will always be gangster movies. It was the same 30 years ago, and it is still the case now. I have had seven or eight boyfriends from a young girl to an aunt, and I always watch police and gangster movies."

Ji Lingling laughed loudly, "It's not from Hong Kong Island, it's from the mainland. Come on, come and have a look with me."

Although "Sicario" won the Jury Prize at the Las Palmas International Film Festival, Zhang Ziyi and her assistant said that the film was very good.

But Ji Lingling still intends to see for herself, is it really as good-looking as they say.

From the perspective of Zhang Ziyi's agent, she naturally hopes that the movie will be good-looking and have a good reputation, so that Zhang Ziyi can earn some popularity.

Next, Zhang Ziyi breaks up with the white guy and finds a high-quality mainland male star to fall in love with, which may be able to greatly redeem the previous negative evaluation.

Ji Lingling has already thought of several plans, all based on the word-of-mouth box office of "Sicario".

According to different situations, try to restore Zhang Ziyi's popularity as much as possible.

After a while, the two people entered the cinema. They found that the attendance rate in the theater was quite high. There were about 300 people sitting in the 70-seat middle hall.

Ji Lingling was very surprised. She even doubted whether these were temporary workers hired by the cinema.

Po Village, where Chen Ming has been living, knew a little about the situation here and whispered: "You don't need to underestimate Li Shengyao, he has a good influence here."

"His previous TV series had good ratings in Po Cun, and the movie reputation was very good. I heard that both Po Cun and Malai are Lee Sheng Yew's fan clubs, with tens of thousands of members on Facebook."

Some great directors have fans, like Nolan and Quentin.

Ji Lingling was a little surprised. She didn't expect Li Shengyao to have such fans.

Three minutes later, the movie officially started, as Ji Lingling learned, this movie was a police movie.

It's a genre that girls hate.

If it hadn't been for Zhang Ziyi, Ji Lingling would have turned around and left in less than 3 minutes.

At the beginning, Zhang Ziyi led his team members to raid a drug den. The team was very professional, clean and neat, and very comfortable to watch.

Until later, two team members opened the lid of a basement, detonated a bomb, and died in the line of duty.Except for the sacrifice of the two policemen at the end, this plot was very satisfying and the mood was always upbeat.

The movie does not describe the relationship between the heroine and the two subordinates. It jumps directly to the heroine who is very depressed and wants to avenge the two subordinates. She wants to destroy this group of drug dealers.

Chen Ming nodded and said in a low voice, "When I saw this, I knew it wasn't a gangster movie on Hong Kong Island."

"Oh, you understand again?"

"Of course, do we all know the routines of Hong Kong police movies? It's either about brotherhood or about women. The police and the bad guys get together and get entangled. This movie is much more refreshing and skips it directly."

Next, the heroine joins the anti-narcotics special operations team, and they go to the border city of Laos and Myanmar to escort small drug dealers. The escort scene lasts for twelve minutes.

Chen Ming's eyes widened and he couldn't help but say: "This director is really great. This scene is so exciting and cool."

The twelve-minute escort scene has a very long foreshadowing, and the subsequent conflict is very short. There are enemies from three directions, drug dealers with a car on the left and right, and a sneaky old Burmese policeman.

The protagonists did not waste any nonsense or hesitate. When they found something suspicious, they immediately opened fire and struck preemptively.

Then comes the third battle scene. The camera is always on the heroine's side. When the protagonists are ready, they go straight to it.

There are no emotional problems, no hesitations, no hesitations, no contradictions, no Madonnas.

Everyone just does it when faced with drug dealers.

Po Village also prohibits drugs, and it is very strict. The overall view of the people in this regard is similar to that in the mainland.

They believe that drug dealers are heinous people and there is no need to be moral to drug dealers.

Even if Ji Lingling and Chen Ming are women, they don't think the movie's treatment is too cruel.

Chen Ming was completely immersed in it at this time, "It's so cool. This movie is really cool. It's completely different from the previous Hong Kong police and gangster movies."

Most of the Hong Kong police and gangster films like to set up two heroes. The protagonists and villains have similar roles, and their conflicts and bonds must be described.

The handling of this aspect of "Sicario" is much simpler.

"Sicario" either focuses on the heroine or the male protagonist, and there is very little portrayal of drug dealers.

The audience doesn't even get to know the character of the drug dealer.

But is it important?
Of course it doesn't matter, as long as you grasp the selling point, you can shape the plot in the direction you want.

Why must we describe a flesh-and-blood drug dealer?

Hong Kong police and gangster movies spend a lot of scenes just to set up a big boss to make the final showdown more interesting.

But this set of plot settings is obviously outdated.

"Sicario" has almost no description of drug dealers, it just kills them all the way, attracting the audience with exciting battle scenes and exciting rhythm.

The same is true for Hollywood's "John Wick" later. There is no need for any drama between two heroes, just crush them all the way.

In 2010, the setting of "Sicario" was relatively new.

Chen Ming and Ji Lingling, two women who usually don't like to watch police and gangster movies, were very fascinated by it at this time.

After the movie ended, Chen Ming still said: "This movie is really cool. I haven't seen such a cool movie in many years."

Ji Lingling glanced at Chen Ming and breathed a long sigh of relief.

She understands that Chen Ming, an old woman, is usually very fussy and finds it difficult to like a movie. Even a woman like Chen Ming finds it cool. Ordinary audiences should like it more.

In this case, there is no need to worry too much about the box office of "Sicario".

(End of this chapter)