New Age Artists

Chapter 36 Incredible Movie

"Don't have any expectations. You can't have any expectations."

Guo Fan shuddered when he thought of the bad memories.

Domestic films are really not good. Guo Fan is not saying that he is biased against domestic films, but this is the fact.

I was very disappointed after watching Feng Xiaogang's "A World Without Thieves".

It's funny, but awkward.

It's not Feng's comedy, it's simply a scam.

Starting with "Cell Phone", Feng Xiaogang wanted to find some social significance.

But "A World Without Thieves" has no depth.

For the sake of his own mental health, Guo Fan dared not have any expectations.

Even though many people were discussing it heatedly, he was prepared to be eye-catching.

When the time came, I went to the cinema with my girlfriend.

I didn’t buy a seat in the best viewing area, the second row, near the front.

After observing the audience, I found that they were basically young people, more girls but also quite a few boys.

Guo Fan listened to the discussion, talking about online movie communities and the Dongtian website.

I was a little curious and just wanted to ask something when the theater went dark.

The movie begins.

The patch advertisement also appeared on the Dongtian website, an online home for film, television, drama and book lovers.

With the appearance of the dragon mark, the screening permit number.

Beep, beep, beep. Three whistle sounds startled Guo Fan.

The screen showed an animation of a train entering a tunnel, making a rumbling sound.

Then the words "Locomotive Film Studio" appeared in large letters.

A few more words flashed by: China Film Group, co-produced.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!
There were seven consecutive beeps, and seven large characters appeared on the screen: "Director Shen Santong's work."

Guo Fan couldn't help but concentrate.

The opening animation of the Locomotive Film Studio and the appearance effect of "Director Shen Santong's work" made him look forward to it.

Mainland film companies nowadays don’t do this. For example, China Film Group Corporation just puts a few words on the screen.

Even before the main film begins, this opening is extraordinary.

Gives the audience a feeling of imported film.

"Don't have any expectations, don't have any expectations."

Guo Fan muttered a few words silently, but still didn't dare to have any expectations.

If my defense is broken, I can't help but curse director Shen Santong.

My girlfriend is a fan of Shen Santong, and it will be difficult for her if she makes a fuss.

The movie finally started.

He Sanshui (Xu Zheng) appears on the screen, wearing a suit that is not too appropriate, but very clean, and washed so clean that it looks white.

The camera zooms out and shows him in the lottery station, holding a notebook in his hand and muttering to himself.

He calculated the lottery model very seriously, as if he was doing some profound research.

Then I bought a lottery ticket and found that I had no money.

In a conversation with a lottery station employee, He Sanshui complained that he had lent the money to his useless young cousin, who was cheated and lost the money.

He Sanshui was heartbroken because he had no money to buy lottery tickets. He thought of the female supermarket owner who had defaulted on his lottery winnings and gnashed his teeth: "Wang Sufen, it's all your fault. You cheated me out of my lottery money!"

He Sanshui was going to the supermarket to ask for money, so he rushed out of the lottery station. The camera focused on his feet as he stepped out of the door.

The camera turns from He Sanshui's old but well-polished leather shoes to Tire's earthy rubber shoes.

The camera pulls up and Tire (Wang Baoqiang) appears on the screen, in an office building.

The man came to ask for money for the tire, but the agent cheated him out of his money in the name of introducing a job.

In just a few words, the quarrel between the tire and the agency employees revealed the cause and effect of the matter.

Shen Santong’s handling is different from the original “Night Club”, the agency did not run away at all.

Why run?
You signed it in black and white, and I will introduce you to a job.

The job was introduced, in a KTV, drinking and chatting with guests. The KTV staff in charge of the connection continued to ask the tire to pay more, as if he had to go out into the society to do something for his brother.

After Tire paid for a pack of cigarettes from the so-called manager, he started working.

Instead of serving guests drinks and chatting, they clean up first.

After chatting with the people who were working with me, I learned that the longest time they worked was only a week.

No one ever got paid.

I asked the store manager and he said it was a probation period.

If you pass the test, you will be paid, two hundred a day, six thousand a month. Work hard.

If you do a good job, you will be promoted, chat and drink with customers, get commissions, or even be arranged to be a manager in other stores.

At this point, Tire realized that he had been cheated.

Shen Santong's handling of the matter is a very common intermediary scam. People don't have to run away and they are not afraid.

The intermediary cheated the money, and the KTV that they connected with could get both a reward and free labor.

If you can open a KTV, there will be a lot of gangsters and ruffians.

I lied to you, so what?

After an argument, the employee of the agency called security, sneered at the tire and said that he was stupid, and stated that his company was legal and compliant.

Tire asked angrily why he lied.

He clenched his left hand and pressed his right hand on the hardwood table.

There was a close-up, and the knuckles turned white due to the force.

The tires were so angry that they exploded, but no action was taken.

The master who taught him martial arts told him that those who practice martial arts must uphold justice.

Tire believes that attacking people who don't know martial arts is unjust.

Tire walked out of the agency with a lonely back.

The camera was directed to the table, leaving fingerprints, indicating that Tire was a person with real kung fu skills.

The camera was aimed at the fingerprint, slightly raised, and then moved to the desktop.

Then he lifted his head from the table and the face of the supermarket owner Wang Sufen (Yan Ni) appeared.

The small room was filled with smoke and Wang Sufen was playing mahjong.

Through the conversations with her card-playing friends, it was revealed that she was a compulsive gambler who could easily lose all her money.

The camera was focused on the smoke exhaled by Wang Sufen.

The smoke rose and the face of the robber (Zhang Jiayi) appeared.

He was in a small, dirty room, with information about the wanted man playing on TV.

The robber proudly said that the police would never find what he had stolen because he had put it in a place no one would expect.

The camera focused on the TV screen, zooming in on the close-up until only a spot of light remained.

Then the camera retreated and another screen appeared.

However, it was not the TV screen that the robbers were watching, but a computer screen.

The supermarket's purchasing clerk was playing games in the Internet cafe. When the time came, he drove the truck back to the supermarket leisurely.

Passing by the front door of the supermarket, the film gives a two-second close-up of the supermarket with soothing background music.

The language of the shot suggests that the supermarket is important.

The purchasing clerk continued driving, parked the car in the parking lot, walked into the supermarket warehouse, lay down inside, and fell into a deep sleep.

The camera walked along the warehouse shelves and came to the supermarket lobby.

Walking through the hall, the camera focused on two employees at the supermarket entrance, Li Junwei (Shen Santong) and Tang Xiaolian (Tang Yan).

"So high-end."

Guo Fan was shocked and could hardly believe that this was a domestic film.

The information density of shots in general domestic films is very low. However, this film only opens for two or three minutes and yet so many characters appear.

The information density is extremely high, and every shot throws out information.

This amount of information is simply unbelievable, unlike anything a domestic film can contain.

(End of this chapter)