I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 386 [This doesn’t seem to be a horror movie]

"Oh my god, this is my new work after two years, I can't wait."

"No, I was watching a horror movie. You are so..."

"I haven't been startled in a long time."

……

In the dark theater, the audience's emotions were inexplicably high.

Small discussions often occur.

Compared to a horror thriller, the atmosphere on the scene gave people a feeling of watching a comedy.

Lu Zhengyi was also among the crowd, sitting in the last row.

He hadn't felt this familiar position and angle for two years.

No, to be exact, it was a year and a half. He had been to observe Li Chuanxin's Pen Fairy before.

"Director Lu, why do they seem to... not be able to see us?"

A voice sounded beside him.

Li Chuanxin looked at the others nervously. When he heard that Lu Zhengyi was not going to contact the theater in advance to request a special viewing seat, but would directly buy a ticket to watch the movie, he was prepared to be watched.

But in fact, it seemed as if other people around them could not see them.

Whether entering the venue or sitting here now, Coach Lu, who is so conspicuous in terms of his physique, now seems like a transparent man, ignored by everyone.

"After what you've seen, is this something surprising?" Lu Zhengyi looked at him. "You have to learn to accept new things."

“…But this is too new.”

Li Chuanxin picked up the fruit tea next to him and gulped down several gulps.

Is this the world of these people?

The people around had clearly passed by and seen it with their own eyes, but they seemed to be unable to see it, as if there was a layer of cloth blocking this different perception.

Perhaps, it was not until that day when I went into the mountains that I came into contact with these special things.

Maybe I had similar experiences a long time ago, but at that time I was just like these invisible people in the cinema, I was blinded.

"here we go."

Seeing the advertisements and fire warnings appearing on the cinema screen, Lu Zhengyi signaled him to focus on the movie.

Since going up the mountain a few days ago, Li Chuanxin has stayed in Beidu temporarily.

He gave up the option of forgetting those bizarre experiences, but it would take time to adapt to them.

He couldn't stay at Lu Zhengyi's house forever, so he chose to live in a nearby hotel, slowly adapting to and accepting those extraordinary cognitions.

And since he stayed in Beidu and they were both directors, Lu Zhengyi invited him to come to the premiere.

As a work that was produced two years later, the audience's expectations and enthusiasm for Terror Cruise are quite high.

Lu Zhengyi could feel it from the subtle discussions among the audience when they entered the venue.

Logically speaking, for horror and thriller films, such enthusiasm and excitement will affect the viewing experience to a certain extent.

For an extremely excited person watching a horror movie is like a person who has run more than ten kilometers in the hot summer and is exhausted and out of breath, but is asked to pick up a book and read.

Can you read it? Generally speaking, few people can read it.

But with the murmur of a girl, the restless emotions of the people present gradually calmed down.

"La la la la la..."

Empty, sad, helpless...

This female voice contains so many emotions that people will be infected just by listening.

No, it’s more accurate to say that my emotions have become depressed rather than stabilized.

This voice seemed to carry some kind of magic, making people feel a little depressed.

"This……"

Li Chuanxin couldn't help but speak, but he stopped talking halfway through, "Director Lu, other people shouldn't be able to hear us, right?"

"Can't hear it."

Lu Zhengyi replied, "For this sound effect, the post-production team spent a lot of energy and money, and finally restored the picture in my mind."

That was my feeling when I first saw this movie, I don’t know how long ago.

When he first opened this film and heard the female voice whispering at the beginning, he was still deeply impressed by the suppressed emotion he felt even after so long.

He even forgot how long it had been, but he still remembered the emotions he felt at that moment.

"This sound effect is indeed..."

As a director, Li Chuanxin could not find any flaws in the whispering sound at the beginning.

“Is this also caused by those things?”

He asked again, analyzing Lu Zhengyi's films from various angles.

"No, this is the sound made by a normal person." Lu Zhengyi shook his head, "How can there be so many... He is just an ordinary person."

Originally, he wanted to explain to the other party as he had done in the past, that there were not so many practitioners.

But if you think about it, it's not more than ten years ago now.

As time goes by, some things are changing.

However, this change is very slow, and people of Li Chuanxin's generation may have few opportunities to come into contact with and understand it.

The discussion between the two directors at the beginning of the film did not affect the viewing of other people around them.

The atmosphere at the scene gradually calmed down with the whispers, and the audience's attention gradually became focused.

When Yu Wenxiu appeared as the heroine of the film, her acting skills took over the baton very well.

She can play any role well and break the old impression. This is her unique characteristic since she started practicing.

Traditional actors, after playing an outstanding role, are always likely to have their impression of them affected, but this never happened to her again.

Yu Wenxiu, who is already in her forties, is not playing the role of a mother for the first time.

She has appeared in Lu Zhengyi's crew alone.

However, this time, she still brought a brand new feeling to the audience, and did not leave people with a confused impression because of the image of Li Ruonan or other mothers who played roles outside the Meilimao crew.

From the furnishings at home, to the care for her son, to the crisp movements, sweat, and ponytail...

Many details enrich the audience's impression of her new role, a mother.

In the film, Yu Wenxiu tied her hair into a single ponytail, neatly tying it up.

The thin black vest only covers the shoulders, and on the two exposed arms, muscles appear and disappear with the slight force when carrying things.

From time to time, sweat dripped from his muscles and splashed onto the grass.

And on the exposed abdomen, there are several abdominal muscles that appear without any need to tense.

As a Dongzhou native, Yu Wenxiu's hometown is in Shancheng, an area where the north and the south meet.

But her appearance and figure are more like those of the south, relatively petite and lovely.

But now, Yu Wenxiu's body shape does not affect the character creation required by the horror cruise script.

Even though she was not as tall and strong as the northerners of the Tang Dynasty, she exuded a capable aura from her clothes, the muscles in her arms, and the sweat flowing down her face.

In addition to her identity as a mother, Yu Wenxiu's role in this play is not that of a petite, clingy, or weak-willed person.

From the muscles and body fat percentage of the characters, to the on-site environment and the expressiveness of the camera, to the placement of props, all convey a sincere work to the audience. Among them, the second collaboration between Yu Wenxiu and Liu Baoning is also a small easter egg.

The mother and daughter who were once under a curse met again on the horror cruise crew.

After that, other characters appeared.

When Jason's face appeared again in Lu Zhengyi's film, the audience was not too surprised.

What was once a highly publicized "international superstar" has now become a "should-be" status.

No one thought how amazing it was that Lu Zhengyi's crew once again invited an international superstar, and no one thought how honored it was for Jason to be able to star in the film.

The social status of both parties has unknowingly become equal.

What's more, in the hearts of the Tang audience, Lu Zhengyi's social status is far higher than that of Jason, the veteran international superstar.

Of course, this is the perception of the general public.

Get on the boat, fight, repeat...

There are no ghosts, and no sudden scary scenes.

Judging from the plot, this doesn't seem to be a horror movie, but a thriller.

Yes, in terms of the plot.

"Logically speaking, the plot is more like a suspense and action movie." It was not until the film gradually came to an end and the subtitles of the main creative team appeared that Li Chuanxin spoke again, "But..."

Inside the theater, other audience members did not leave.

They were all sitting in their seats, seemingly reminiscing about something.

Their faces were no longer as pale and uncomfortable as before after watching a movie, but they all had stern faces and looked a little serious.

“It’s a bit depressing.”

Li Chuanxin was silent at first, and then gave his evaluation, "I feel a little uneasy, and there is a subtle... no, a very long-lasting fear in my heart."

In terms of plot, Terror Cruise is definitely not a horror thriller.

Described in words, it is more like a suspense film. Jesse is a single mother who has an autistic child. When treating her child, she can't control her emotions and her behavior is relatively violent.

Originally, she was going to take her child to meet her boyfriend, but a car accident happened on the way.

After the car accident, her soul met the god of death, who gave her a chance to go to the port to say goodbye to her boyfriend as promised.

However, when she arrived at the port, she did not choose to say goodbye to her boyfriend. Instead, she wanted to escape death and boarded the cruise ship with her boyfriend, officially entering the cycle.

After going through the cycle on the ship, she returned home.

But the timeline at this time is the timeline before the car accident.

There is not only myself from another timeline at home, but also children from another timeline.

Seeing his other self using violence against a child, Jesse blamed himself and killed himself.

She wanted to live on in place of herself in this timeline and carry the child from this timeline, but on her way to leave the town with the corpse, she had another car accident and met the god of death once again.

This time, Jesse also asked to go to the port to see her boyfriend again.

Once again, she thought she could escape death.

But compared to the beginning, this time she still had the obsession to save her son.

Then, they boarded the cruise ship and forgot the memory of death, forming a cycle again and again.

Only a small part of the plot is shown in the entire film, and the larger part was not filmed, giving the audience a lot of room for imagination and compensation.

But from the text description, this is undoubtedly a puzzle, suspense, and action film.

Even though it's wonderful, it doesn't fit the category.

"But……"

Li Chuanxin was speechless.

Lu Zhengyi and his crew captured a feeling that was completely different from the description in words, so much so that the category of this film changed from suspense action to horror thriller.

The scope of horror movies is actually very broad.

Not only films with ghost or magical elements can be called horror films. Only films that can put pressure on people's psychology and bring negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, and confusion can be called horror films.

As for the audience, few left until the lights came on and the credits ended.

The theater staff had been waiting at the door with trash cans for a while, but still not many people left.

"Let's go."

Lu Zhengyi stood up and planned to leave first with Li Chuanxin.

From the audience's reaction, he has seen the desired results.

Although they did not express their feelings about how good the film was, nor did they use body movements or expressions to express their fear, they already felt satisfied just by sitting there for such a long time after the film ended.

The two people's departure, just like their entrance, did not attract anyone's attention.

Until leaving the theater, Li Chuanxin was recalling the contents of the film just like other viewers.

The content hidden behind the plot contained too much information, so he needed to sort it out and think about it more accurately.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt an indescribable discomfort.

Discomfort with predetermined fate, discomfort with reincarnation, discomfort with time...

“Is fate unchangeable?”

He suddenly asked such a question.

After watching the film, Li Chuanxin felt a lot of emotions, but he didn't know how to express them in words.

Out of the unwillingness of ordinary people, under the vague-sounding words like time and fate, there is a sense of helplessness, anger and powerlessness.

These are obviously some unfounded questions, and as an adult, it's funny to ask them.

But after watching this movie, I still couldn't help but ask.

"..."

Lu Zhengyi didn't laugh, he just remained silent.

He didn't know the answer to this question.

Even he couldn't say anything confidently when faced with these questions.

"But I feel the gap between us."

Facing Lu Zhengyi's silence, Li Chuanxin did not continue the topic, "I mean...directing ability."

"I originally thought that the difference between you and me was only in the assistance of some special events. If I could have some cognition beyond reality and invite some special ghosts and gods to assist in filming, I could also create works like you."

"But now I feel that even if I could invite ghosts and gods, they might not be able to be the same as you."

A film that only scored an eight point based on the script was raised to a level of ten or even higher.

And in terms of category, it has been redefined.

If Li Chuanxin had not seen the film in person but heard other people's description, he might have thought that the film was just like that. But when he watched it with his own eyes and felt every detail of the film, the atmosphere brought by the plot, pictures, music... made him feel that "this is indeed a horror film."

“Rather than my directing ability, it should be attributed to the efforts of our entire crew.”

However, Lu Zhengyi did not take all the credit for himself.

The bigger reason why this film can have such an effect is the team rather than individuals.

(End of this chapter)