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Chapter 553 First Day
After turning on the computer, Ning Cheng raised his hand and looked at his watch while waiting for it to start up. It was past eleven o'clock in the evening.

After waiting for more than a minute, the computer turned on.

Ning Sheng opened the browser, entered Douban, and began to check the audience's comments on "Rage Rescue" - he had been thinking about this in bed.

8.7 minutes

Ning Cheng rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had read it wrong.

After another glance.Still 8.7 points.

Ning Cheng stared blankly at the score.I didn't speak for a long time.

He has known for a long time that the evaluation score of "Rage Rescue" will not be low. After all, the original version of "Rage Rescue" in another time and space is a high-scoring work, but this somewhat exaggerated score still caught him by surprise - he originally estimated that "Rage Rescue" The score of "Rage Rescue" is between 7 and 8 points. After all, a film like "Farewell My Concubine" is only 9.2 points.It is already very good to get 8 points, and it is an absolute word-of-mouth masterpiece!Moreover, the original version of "Fire and Rescue" only scored 8.1 points in another time and space, but I didn't expect that the new version, which is more commercially oriented after the adaptation, would be such a completely unreasonable score of 8.7 points.

Of course, this does not mean that "Fire and Rescue" is really that much better than other movies-it is only the first day, and there are not many people who rate it, generally speaking.Anyone who starts to evaluate a movie on the first day can be regarded as a fan of the director of the movie.Emotionally, there will naturally be a bias, so the evaluation scores in the first three days have never been credible.It will be much higher than the normal score that the film should have.Only when the number of screening days is extended, the number of viewers will increase.The more and more people evaluate, the evaluation score will be objective and true.

But even so, a score of 8.7 is still a bit scary for a commercial film.No matter how much you lose in the future, it is not too difficult to stay above 8 points.

Ning Cheng took a sip of water, calmed himself down, ignored the score, and began to check the movie reviews below.

"Hello, I'm Everyone's Favorite Little Lolita!", "Going Home", "Cold Blood or Warmth", "You Give Me Love, I'll Give You Life"——
Unexpectedly, there are so many movie reviews on the first day. After looking at the statistics of movie reviews, I found that there are already 57 long movie reviews, and more short movie reviews, more than 500.

Ning Cheng slowly read one movie review after another.

These people on Douban really pay attention to personalization. Someone wrote it before, but they don’t want to write it again. They insist on finding a new angle. There are so many angles, but without exception, basically everyone gave good reviews and high scores. Ning Sheng searched for a long time, but found that no one said that the film was bad.

He found that the one with the worst evaluation was also given three stars, with 6 points, and then one sentence of the film review was "It seems that many people think it is very good, but I don't feel much."

This is already a polite way of saying it. Ning Cheng thinks that the audience may even think this movie is quite boring, and they may have fallen asleep while watching it. scored a 6 points.

Ning Cheng shook his head: If you want to score 1 point, then do it, why bother to be so timid, isn't it the same as in the movie.

He thought this way, and then, just as he was about to close Douban, a new movie review appeared, with a score of 1, and the review was simple and direct, "Bad movie!"!
Ning Sheng looked at it and smiled, then he closed Douban, took out his mobile phone and tried to call Zhou Wei who was in charge of the distribution of "Rage Rescue" at Han Tang Film and Television, and wanted to ask about the general situation of the national premiere tonight .

The call went through, and the workaholic from a big company was still awake.

“Overall the situation is very good!”

Zhou Wei’s voice came from the other end of the phone, sounding uplifted, with a trace of deliberately suppressed excitement: “The average attendance rate of the first-tier movie theaters in the first-tier cities reached 75%. The attendance rate is also 70%. And according to the survey, most of the audience like this movie very much, and their satisfaction is very high.”

"But it still can't keep up with "Pen Fairy 5"."

Zhou Wei's words stunned Ning Sheng, and only then did he realize that the manager of the distribution department was still worried about the competition between other films and "Rage Rescue", and even sent someone to do market research for "Pen Fairy 5" in his spare time. .

"We conducted a survey of 5 samples of "Pen Fairy 5", and the data were all from the same first-tier cities. The survey results showed that the average attendance rate of the first show of "Pen Fairy 5" reached 98%, and the second The attendance rate was 86%, higher than ours, but not as good as ours in terms of audience satisfaction, and some surveyed audiences even thought that the movie tickets were not worth buying, and this sentiment did not appear in our audience.”

This result was both within Ning Sheng's expectations and beyond his expectations. Japan and South Korea co-produced the sequel of an excellent thriller series, and there are so many first-line stars from the two countries joining in. Although the production cost is not as good as "Rage Rescue", the promotion The cost is higher than them, and in order to please the Chinese audience, the filming location was deliberately filmed in China. Ning Sheng is not surprised that the attendance rate of "Pen Xian 5" is higher than that of "Rage Rescue". This is normal. The first four films The audience and word-of-mouth accumulated by the film will be concentrated during this period of time to watch, but the audience satisfaction is not as good as them-could there be an accident in "Pen Fairy 5", and this series will come to an end?

"So have you done any research on those other films?"

Ning Sheng was both surprised and amused by Zhou Wei's investigation of "Ben Fairy 5", so he couldn't help but make a joke.

"No,"

Zhou Wei's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Others are unnecessary."

There was confidence in his words.

He used to think that if Ning Sheng made a movie completely from a foreigner's perspective, starring foreigners, and filmed in foreign countries, it might not be as popular in China as his previous works, but today's premiere gave him hope. —— Judging from the situation on the first day, "Angry Rescue" is the type that is well-received and popular, while "Pen Fairy 5" is not well-received. Therefore, "Anger Rescue" may really be able to compare Pen Fairy 5" Get Down!So now "Pen Fairy 5" is their biggest opponent. As for the other small fish and shrimps such as "Return to the Wolves" and "Psychological Crime", he doesn't pay attention to them at all.

It's just that this is only the situation on the first day after all. How the specific situation will be and whether it will still be the same as the first day of the premiere depends on the next two days of the weekend and the upcoming summer vacation.

In the movie theater, as the leading actor hanged himself on the big screen, the screening of "Pen Xian 5" came to an end soon, and the audience in the theater began to leave. The young couple Zhang Fan and Bi Shao also laughed and left.They all think that the movie is pretty good, and the horror elements and horror atmosphere are very good; but the formula is obviously clichéd, those horror elements and scary methods have been played in the first four movies, this one is like a gas tank without much fuel, most Time seemed tired and uninteresting.

Especially after watching the American "Return of the Clown" last year, they, like many people, feel that these thrillers and horror films are a bit outdated and lack surprises.So what about tonight's release of "Rage and Rescue"?

Bi Shao looked at his watch, there was still time tonight, and she still couldn't let go of Ning Sheng, a talented director. Due to the difference in film length, it seemed that there were still more than ten minutes left for "Rage Rescue" to finish. Bi Shao Thinking about it, he asked, "Zhang Fan, shall we continue watching Ning Cheng's new movie?"

"Well, I don't know, you decide." Zhang Fan shook his head hesitantly. They were very interested in the film's kidnapping content and bodyguard theme, but the heroine was a foreigner. Let them choose to watch "Pen Fairy 5" first, and then decide whether to watch "Rage Rescue" based on the evaluation.Watching people coming in and out, buying tickets and leaving the cinema, Bi Shao said, "Wait a minute, I'll go and get my makeup done."

Going to the bathroom to fix up makeup, seeing that it was almost time, Bi Shao took out his mobile phone, dialed a sister who had already said that he wanted to watch the first scene of "Rage Rescue", and asked with a smile: "Hey, Pixie, you watch "Rage Rescue" Is it? How is it good-looking?" Immediately there was a sighing girl's laughter: "Oh, it's indescribable! Absolutely beautiful, you really didn't watch it? Haha, you must regret it——"

Meanwhile, in North America!

"Oh my God! You didn't go to see it tonight? It's a pity for you. Of course it looks great, and Emma is so cool!" In the elegant girl's bedroom, Lawrence looked at the computer screen, with his right hand controlling the mouse and clicking; his left hand held the phone The microphone, sighed: "After watching "Rage Rescue", I really want to learn Chinese Kungfu now, and then make a boyfriend who is a soldier, hahaha——"

She said with a smile, and logged on to the imdb website to open the main page of "Rage Rescue", and rated it with a score of 10 without hesitation. After scoring, the total score was still 8.5, and she wrote a short comment "It's so cool that I almost fainted! "

Then Lawrence smiled into the microphone, "It's Emma's role, it's so cool!" She has a lot of questions now, especially whether Mexico is really as messy as it is said in the movie, and the kidnapping case is really so serious. much?She was excitedly looking for the answer on the Internet!
In the suite bedroom of the Caesar Hotel, Julia slept soundly, her breathing could be faintly heard.Although there was a celebration banquet after the premiere, Emma, ​​who was lying sideways next to her, was very energetic. She propped her head up with one hand, turned away from her aunt, and browsed the comments on the Internet.

After all, this is the first movie of her comeback, and Ning Sheng filmed it for her, she really wants to read every review side by side!

The number of people rating on imdb is increasing, and when the next day it quickly rose to 91, 163 users participated in the rating, and the main page score stabilized at 8.2/10, which is already a very high score in the scope of gangster movies.

The power of the "star couple" and the quality of the movie have long been fused together. Many fans of Ning Sheng and Emma have praised this movie, but there are several other well-known statistics that fans will not score. The metacritic website rated A score of 80 is the same as "Face Changing".

And Rotten Tomatoes audience likes it 89%. Although it is not as good as the original 91% of "Face Changing", the audience's comments are also full of praise. "Cool!" seems to have a herd effect, appearing in the list of comments on every page, and there is an official comment on Rotten Tomatoes, "Emma Roberts in Rage and Rescue is the coolest and most likable female character this year! .”

"This movie is so reckless! This is not a derogatory term, it makes every audience who has watched it applaud!"

User Bieber seemed very excited. He rated it five stars and wrote a long comment: "Using violence to control violence is somewhat of a Chinese meaning of "returning the other's way to the other". Putting aside good and evil, when Killing people also kills tricks, so this technology has undoubtedly become noble, and it is obviously full of a philosophical flavor. Just like the line in "Rage Rescue" "A woman can become an artist in anything, such as food and more.It depends on how proficient she is with the object.Nia's art is death".

"There are many movies with such themes as using violence to control violence and justice for the sky, including Huaxia and Hollywood. Most of them are about police and criminal crimes. They don't go into a tiger's den alone to fight against powerful enemies, and finally end up in the explosion of fireworks and billowing smoke. , walk out of a lonely hero; or fight against all kinds of injustice with a sick body, and try to save the lost lamb under the ultimate test. The bloody, strong and fighting scenes of the former can indeed bring strong emotions during the viewing process. It is a visual stimulus, but after watching it, it is like that, and it becomes a cloud after a while, but the redemption element of the latter makes people have a lot of room for aftertaste. The movie "Rage Rescue" just has the above two kinds of viewing As a result, the art of death of Hollywood actress Emma Roberts and the emotional interaction with the little girl to the process of mutual redemption make the film give the audience a visual impact and at the same time, it seems to be more thought-provoking. Although not very brilliant, but It is also enough to stand out from other mediocre commercial entertainment films."

"The film can basically be divided into two parts. The first half is redemption, and the second half is revenge. The story is actually very clichéd. A veteran female soldier who is full of guilt and betrayed by her lover collides with an innocent and cute little girl, and the story is completed. Mutual redemption. It is interspersed with underworld forces and government law enforcement officers in collusion. Obviously, the whole story has both emotional and delicate interpretations, as well as real guns and tricks. It can be described as both hard and soft. The first half is similar to "This Killer Is Not So Cold is somewhat similar, and the scene between Emma Roberts and Mackenzie Foy is no less exciting than that of Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. The focus is on warmth, while "This Killer Is Not So Cold" has some humorous elements. The revenge in the second half is a bit vulgar, but as a commercial entertainment film, after all, it is the primary consideration to adjust the taste of the public as much as possible. factor."

"The picture of "Rage and Rescue" has a bit of an oil painting texture. Whether it is the rendering of a warm atmosphere in the first half with heavy ink and heavy colors, or the depiction of the gloomy sky in the second half, it brings great visual enjoyment to the audience. The The film's soundtrack is also a highlight, the melodious and bleak female voice singing pushes the sad atmosphere of the protagonist's revenge alone to a climax."

(End of this chapter)