Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian didn't care too much about the audience's reaction. Even if the audience called the film a bad one, wouldn't Jia Hongjian stop cooperating with Nolan in the future?He has seen Nolan's talent before, so naturally he is not worried about the situation on the scene.Focusing on the movie for a while, Jia Hongjian found that this movie was slightly different from the "show-off" image in his impression.Specifically, it is all kinds of complicated editing, all kinds of narrations that deliberately disrupt the timeline, and it is hard to say that Nolan is playing tricks and deliberately showing off his skills.If it sounds good, it can be said that Nolan deliberately used this kind of editing to reproduce the fragmented life of the protagonist on the big screen-every day when he wakes up, he only remembers the time when his wife was killed Son, I forgot about the rest, isn't this a fragmented life?Isn't it all kinds of confusion?

So, to put it bluntly, Nolan is using his editing to let the audience in front of the screen feel the confusion and fragmented life of the protagonist!Is this cool enough for a master?But the problem is, it’s like using a hand-held camera to deliberately shake the chase scene to show the tension. At best, it’s to convey the rush, but it’s really unpleasant to use too much.As for Nolan's editing, to be honest, he deliberately cut all kinds of bells and whistles for the sake of showing off his skills, as if he used too much camera shake.

Of course, although Jia Hongjian didn't like this way of showing off his skills very much, he couldn't say that he hated it. After all, the director Nolan was only 30 years old this year.This age can be regarded as a young director?It's normal for people to show off their skills a little bit.After all, what is the essential difference between 30 years old and [-]** years old?If it is said that a [-]-year-old genius director has made a small literary film with various skills.Everyone can understand it.

I believe that this kind of brilliance will gradually disappear as Nolan grows older, just like in the Batman series, Nolan didn't narrate various stories that disrupted the timeline, right?The whole thing still follows a linear narrative, right?In "Inception", although there are designs that seem to disrupt the timeline, more of them use the design of the story itself, and shape different times and spaces through so-called different dreams. There is no deliberate ostentation.

anyway.The whole film is played up to now.There were not many people walking in the theater, only one or two people left, and the others were still watching from their seats, but they were watching their backs.It seemed that a dozen or so people were about to fall asleep.for this audience reaction.Nolan was obviously a little nervous and at a loss.After all, Nolan in this era is only 30 years old.Although the technical level has entered the first-class level, but the psychological level is still a little inexperienced.

From Jia Hongjian's point of view, if he is Nolan.After knowing that the cost of my film is 500 million, and at the same time knowing that what I am playing is not a typical commercial film, but a literary and artistic film that shows off skills, then obviously I can't expect the audience to react too strongly, and I can't expect the box office to be a hot mess ,right?So if it was Jia Hongjian, he would definitely be in a mess of peace of mind right now—anyway, he has the boss Jia Hongjian next to him to support him, and anyway, he already has a movie with an investment of [-] million US dollars in production, so why should he be afraid?Even if the box office of such a "Memory Fragment" is now zero, will Jia Hongjian temporarily disqualify Nolan from directing "Tang Monk's Fantasy Journey"?Obviously impossible!This is a taboo on the battlefield!

So when there is a big project at hand, what are you afraid of not doing well?Even if it's embarrassing now, if we finish the big project later, won't everything be brought back?Of course, in some respects, Jia Hongjian is relatively old-fashioned. If he said it, he would definitely think it doesn't matter, and then he would be as shameless as if nothing happened, and then turn around when working on big projects. Kind of desperate.But it seems that Nolan is obviously a little bit younger, maybe because he has been immersed in the ocean of art, so he is not as experienced as Jia Hongjian, so he has not honed his thick skin. Now he is obviously I'm still a little thin-skinned, and I can't stand this kind of stimulation!

As the movie progressed, no more viewers left or fell asleep, at least those who stayed awake in the auditorium were still watching seriously.After all, they also bought tickets to come in, and before coming in, they could guess that this might be a small production of literary film after reading the brief introduction of the story written on the posters, so they were mentally prepared accordingly.At this time, Nolan closed his eyes and made ten with one hand, as if he was praying that no audience would leave.

Seeing this, Jia Hongjian took advantage of Nolan's prayer and patted him on the shoulder, "Dude, take it easy, no matter how bad the box office is this time, I won't let you direct "Tang Monk's Fantasy Journey" Yes, the $[-] million movie is yours anyway. You are talented, and I believe in you. So it doesn’t matter how bad the performance of this kind of small movie is, just relax!” To be honest, Jia Hongjian’s words were like giving Gained the biggest guarantee for Nolan!Generally speaking, the boss may not give this kind of guarantee, because they may feel that the employees will lose their "motivation to do better".But Jia Hongjian was not worried about this, so he gave Nolan protection.

Nolan was moved when he heard this. "Really?" He seemed to be in disbelief, "Thank you so much Mr. Jia... I... thank you so much!" After all, our current era and atmosphere is not an atmosphere where one can calm down and watch art. So it is understandable that the audience did not react very well at first. But I believe in the quality of your film, I believe in you This movie will gradually gain word of mouth, don't worry..." Jia Hongjian continued to comfort Nolan.

"Thank you..." After being persuaded by Jia Hongjian at this time, Nolan felt much more at ease.Indeed, his film can be said to be the first public release of the film. The previous "White Night Chase" film is an independent film. To put it bluntly, it is similar to an underground film. It could be released to the audience during the exhibition of independent films in various film industries.So such a "Memento" is actually his first public release film, which is why he tried every means to show off his skills - because he lacked confidence, and he was afraid that if he played less tricks, he would not be able to attract the audience!

While Jia Hongjian was comforting Nolan, the plot was advancing little by little, and soon the movie was coming to the end.As the stories of the two different timelines of color and black and white are getting closer and closer, some viewers who were sleeping before can't help being attracted after waking up.In the finale, when the protagonist finds out that he is the murderer who killed his wife. It turned out that he killed his wife to cheat insurance, and the person he always thought was a murderer and wanted to kill him was not a bad person at all!It's just that the protagonist thinks that the other party may know that he killed his wife to cheat insurance, so he wants to kill him to silence him!

This kind of magical ending is like Nicole Kidman's "Small Island Cry", it is definitely a magical reversal!In "Small Island Cry", Nicole Kidman felt as if their house had been haunted by ghosts, but finally realized that it was not that there were ghosts in the room to disturb Nicole Kidman and the children, but that Nicole Kidman and the kids are ghosts!After Nicole's husband died in battle, the whole family committed suicide together!It's just that after becoming a ghost, I forgot about the fact that I committed suicide, and lived a normal life as if I had never committed suicide!Then they couldn't see the new residents who moved in, but thought that the sounds and movements made by these residents were ghosts!

This kind of magical ending of chasing the murderer all the time, wanting to bring the murderer to justice, but finally discovering that he is the murderer, really shocked the audience!All of them were still a little bit overwhelmed after the movie ended!After waiting for about ten seconds, when the audience regained their senses, although they didn't stand up and applaud, they got up one by one and walked out slowly in admiration. Everyone is still talking to each other!

Seeing such a scene, Jia Hongjian knew that the film's reputation would definitely rise.Even if there is no big scene, even if there is no way to achieve the magical result of hundreds of millions of box office, but Jia Hongjian said, the achievement of tens of millions mentioned by Spielberg should be achievable?After all, the word-of-mouth has grown, and American youths will also come to see it!For example, the ticket price of a movie in the United States is generally around 10 US dollars in this year, which is really not expensive.Although it's not during the prime time of summer vacation, after gaining word of mouth, it should be possible to avoid one-day trips to theaters and the like.Even slowly accumulating word-of-mouth has turned into a long-tail effect, which is not impossible!

Soon, when the data of the first day of the show came out, it was indeed found that although the number of people watching on the first day was not large, the number of people watching on the second and third days gradually increased.The number of people is so large that almost half of the seats can be filled in each game!In this way, basically theaters are not good at taking movies offline in a few days and a week. After all, such movies can make them a little bit of money!Of course, it's just to make a little money. It's still impossible to want such a movie to be released in prime time and occupy several auditoriums at once... (To be continued...)