Electro-optical Phantom [Entertainment]

Huo Bijun is famous for being an idol player. He has acted in a lot of love movies in his early years. He is the dream lover of many female fans. The characters played are similar in character, so he has not been recognized by mainstream authoritative awards in the industry.

He doesn't seem to care about it. He used to compare himself with Leonardo in Hollywood. People with good looks are always more bumpy on the road to winning awards.

After falling in love with He Chenying and marrying, he won the Golden Phoenix Award and Huading Award for his role as a double actor, but many people said that his double actor is too moist.

After breaking up with He Chenying amicably, he became a director, and the director's talent was affirmed earlier than his acting skills.

Although there are only two works, he directed, acted and edited himself, and he is the best commercial film director in the industry in terms of reputation and box office.

"Huo 3" (later renamed "Long Night") could be seen by Venice Film Officials, but Huo Bijun did not expect it. Recalling that the first film was invested by himself and his friends, the second film was invested by Yaowei Media-the box office of the two films. The word-of-mouth is good. After the third script of his was polished out, several companies that had originally planned to invest in declined.

The reason is that it is not easy enough and too heavy to be optimistic about its market.

Huo Bijun originally wanted to find a big company to invest, but the producer had to change the script as soon as he saw it. He was reluctant, so he bit the pressure and, together with his friends, spent a lot of effort to convince the investor of the second part, Yaowei Media, to invest in the third part again.

When choosing the heroine, he deliberately made a lot of noise, and met all the Xiaohuadan under the age of 28 in the circle. On the one hand, he gave Yaoweisai the face of the inconsistent producer and satisfies the other party. The psychology of selecting "actresses", on the other hand, also took the opportunity to create some pre-publicity enthusiasm.

He was very satisfied with the heroine Xiang Xiaoyuan, and it was even more surprising to be able to invite Zeng Li.

After the filming was completed, the budget exceeded a little, and Huo Bijun was confident in the quality of the film, so he started looking for a distributor. It didn't take long for his character to explode. Luan Hua took a fancy to his film and wanted to cooperate with him to become the exclusive distributor. Huo Bijun had always wanted to cooperate with Luan Hua, but this time he was really hit by a pie.

Luan Hua is responsible for the promotion of the film, scheduling, and buying advertisements. There are theaters under its umbrella, and it is a one-stop package and service.

Luan Hua also became a co-producer with Yaowei. Lu Hua recommended "Long Night" to participate in the Venice Film Festival, and finally entered the non-competitive unit after evaluation by Venice experts.

This is not an ordinary pie, this is a super luxurious golden pie, which made Huo Bijun dizzy.

After the movie went to Venice, Yaowei couldn't restrain his inner ecstasy. Before it was released in China, he eagerly issued some press releases in conjunction with some miscellaneous marketing accounts, predicting that "Long Night" would sweep the major domestic film awards. Any actor or actress will take it casually, and Xiaoyuan will show off other actors and the like.

These drafts and Lu Huading’s marketing strategy were not the same, and the two parties also had a dispute.

One side belongs to Yaowei, the investor who first supported his production, and the other is the joint producer and publisher Fang Luanhua, with a strong financial situation and his own royal marketing and publicity department. Both Huo Bijun are not easy to offend people. He agrees with Luanhua’s publicity strategy. But he didn't think there was anything wrong with Yaowei's "Title Party" marketing strategy, he could only mediate from it, and he was most worried about Luhua's letting go.

To his surprise, even though Luan Huafang was angry, he still spoke very well.

He had dinner with Luan Hua’s distribution director and publicity director in private. The two directors were drunk and revealed some insider stories-our boss attaches great importance to the project of "Long Night", so please put your heart in your stomach, and ah , The heroine, we will not hype up any scandals, there is no discussion on this point.

Huo Bijun always felt that the gold content of this big pie was too high, and he couldn't detect what was wrong. Anyway, he was in the middle of it, so why not do it?

On the day of the screening ceremony, he wore a new tailor-made suit, full of spirits, and talked to the crowd of media reporters, movie fans, industry colleagues, and lucky audiences.

Duo Miao Jiang, as the big V of the film and television bloggers, the B station celebrity, and Lao Zhang as the senior fan column writer, both received the invitation from the film party to watch the screening.

Duo Miaojiang whispered to Lao Zhang: "Fortunately, the host persuaded our director of'Hua Peacock' in time, otherwise I don't know when he is going to talk about it."

Lao Zhang replied: "That shouldn't be possible, he knows the process, so he's more proud."

"Too proud, haha." Duo Miao-chan put on his glasses, "My psychological expectations for this movie are now extremely high, and I am worried that I will be disappointed in the future."

They all knew before watching the movie that this is a suspenseful revenge story, and the story is based on real cases.

The beginning of the film cuts into the "Yang Yi case" in which a teacher molested and raped multiple female students. The pace is very fast. The female Duo Miaojiang and Lao Zhang, the father of two daughters, soon feel uncomfortable. From the beginning, frowned.

When Xiang Xiaoyuan's appearance, the audience was brightened, and then a feeling of distress arose.

She was wearing a pink sweater, white pants, and her half-length hair draped over her shoulders, and she couldn't help but sit in a wheelchair.

The movie was shot for a minute or two in her daily life. She wakes up, eats breakfast, brings a lunch box, pushes her wheelchair out, locks the door, and slowly pushes to the library of the neighbouring community to go to work. She met her acquaintances saying hello to her. Smiling, more often than not, she is lowering her eyes, as if she has infinite thoughts.

The case seems simple, the suspect is also very clear, and the narrative method of small cuts is adopted to solve the case with the audience, which is very immersive.

This is different from the tone of the previous two films. Most of the previous investigating audiences used God's vision to solve the problem. This time everyone has been preconceived and sympathizes with Meng Xiaozhou, played by Xiang Xiaoyuan.

What is wrong with the victim? The perpetrator destroyed so many families and was sentenced to five years. The injured girls have to be in the shadows all their lives, accepting strange eyes and pointers from others, especially Meng Xiaozhou, who first reported on Yang Yi. But she suffered the most. She was scolded and beaten by the parents of other girls who were victimized. Her father left. She was not in good spirits and had a car accident. Her mother was overworked to take care of her and died.

The audience had already sympathized with Meng Xiaozhou and identified her as the suspect. This contradictory mood made the atmosphere extremely quiet.

However, following the police's perspective, Meng Xiaozhou did not know how to walk, and he did not seem to be a suspect. The evidence chain was insufficient, and his attention was always followed closely, just waiting to see how she murdered.

Then came the "Xu Qiang case". When it was revealed that Xu Qiang's security had molested several young boys, Duo Miaochan sighed deeply, feeling that Lao Zhang's fists were squeezed beside him, and there was a man in the other row. Uttered "cao!"

When Huo Bijun, the police station consultant, tried to interrogate Meng Xiaozhou several times, you came to me. Detective Huo defrauded and confessed, and used high-pressure psychological warfare to force Meng Xiaozhou. The audience almost gritted their teeth. , Silent.

"Why should I report her on behalf of those parents?"

"Why should I still do this?"

"Why should I still do this?"

When she said these lines, there was endless sadness in her eyes, and her expression was weird neurotic.

Duo Miao Jiang calmed down, a burst of goose bumps ran across her arm, and the adrenaline rushed for acting control.

After Zeng Li's father played for several minutes, the audience exclaimed, "Ah, Zeng Li, my God, I didn't recognize it."

"Yes, I would never recognize him if I didn't know he was inside!"

…

The honest and unsophisticated decorator father Ji Hongfeng played by Zeng Li was too vivid and looked like he couldn't do bad things. When he surrendered, the audience was shocked.

His confrontation with Huo Bijun is undoubtedly the climax of the film. Those monologues with blood and tears made Lao Zhang's eyes flushed. He took off his glasses and handed over a tissue with a tear-stained face.

This is not a difficult case to detect.

At this point, the audience knew that Xu Qiang was killed by Ji Hongfeng, but Meng Xiaozhou must have something to do with it. The case is very simple. It is not easy to create the suspenseful atmosphere in the simple case and always hold the hearts of the audience. It depends on the acting skills of the actors.

Consultant Huo arranged two interrogation rooms opposite to the door, and Meng Xiaozhou and Ji Hongfeng came out to meet each other.

There was slow motion when the two passed by, and when Ji Hongfeng was interrogated, they left a blank shot on the cigarette case for a second.

As well as the faintly intertwined relationship between the two before, and traces of life, it always implies that the two are not strangers.

Ji Hongfeng surrendered and was imprisoned.

The two cases were closed.

But consultant Huo knew that Meng Xiaozhou was not innocent.

He went to find Meng Xiaozhou again one day.

For more than an hour before the film, the pictures were dark and heavy, either cloudy or rainy. And on this day, the sun is shining, cloudless, the background music is brisk, the old ladies come back to the alley to chat with hearty smiles, young mothers walk their babies, and the intermediary office at the gate of the community is negotiating with customers...

The audience saw this from Huo Bijun's perspective. The tone of the first half of the movie was heavy. At this time, they felt a pleasant and peaceful atmosphere, and they couldn't help but feel as relaxed as the protagonist.

Then the corners of Detective Huo's slightly cocked mouth froze, and his pupils shrank slightly and looked ahead—

Take the lens over—

The breath in the audience was almost frozen.

Meng Xiaozhou stood at the door of his house, holding scissors, and was cutting off the branches from a pot of flowers on a chair.

She looked at it, moved her steps, looked at the flower from another angle, and swayed, looking relaxed and contented.

She-can-go-now?

To be honest, at the end of the movie, many people guessed that Meng Xiaozhou was able to go. The question is how the director handles the plot that she can go.

When Meng Xiaozhou was suspected of being a suspect, the police officers stared at her for a long time and found no flaws. She fell down once and couldn't get up by herself, so she got up by the passers-by.

The audience thought there would be a gorgeous design, who knew it would be presented so directly.

The editing contrast of this shot was completely caught off guard, and it was really creepy for a while.

Meng Xiaozhou didn't seem surprised to see Detective Huo at all. She wore a white and new skirt with light makeup. She was completely different from the previous introverted and melancholic image, and she had a quiet and delicate beauty.

Smiled at him and invited him into the house.

Detective Huo entered the room and sat down, with a slightly complicated look in his eyes, taking the water glass that Meng Xiaozhou came over and handed her, and glanced at her leg several times.

Consultant Huo took a sip of water, smiled, and told her his guess.

The evidence chain of Xu Qiang’s case points to Ji Hongfeng, who has all the evidence and material evidence, but it was Meng Xiaozhou who invited him to dinner first and had a conversation with him before. One of Xu Qiang’s obscene little boys often reads in the library and talks with him. She also has a good relationship.

However, Ji Hongfeng and Xu Qiang have no such intersection.

There is also the case of Yang Yi, although Ji Hongfeng admitted that he was also the one who killed him. A week before Yang Yi was released from prison, Wu Qianli, a previously victimized girl, committed suicide, and Ji Hongfeng was her biological father.

"Back then, you reported on Yang Yi and was beaten by Wu Qianli's mother, Wu Huiyun. Later, you were unsure and had a car accident. Ji Hongfeng has always been very guilty of Wu Qianli's mother and daughter, so I want to have atonement for you."

"Actually, you killed both Yang Yi and Xu Qiang?" Consultant Huo asked softly, with a glint in his eyes, "You can always walk, right?"

The audience was silent.

"I said when you asked me before. After the operation in the car accident, the doctor said that I had recovered, but I could not go. After my father left us, my mother did not give up and insisted on taking me for rehabilitation. I have also seen a psychiatrist...These hospitals have records," Meng Xiaozhou did not see Consultant Huo, but kept looking at the potted flowers.

Indeed, the hospital has records.

More than two years of records.

It's really unnecessary to pretend for so many years.

Later, after her mother died suddenly from overwork, she didn't go for rehabilitation.

Consultant Huo stared at the scissors she placed on the table, her pupils shrank, and then asked, "Then you can go now?"

Meng Xiaozhou looked straight over and smiled softly, "The bad guy who caused me has finally died. Now I don't need to be afraid, I can leave."

Advisor Huo and her eyes met in the air.

"That's... that's great." Consultant Huo smiled.

The smile on Meng Xiaozhou's lips was a bit subtle, his eyes staying in the void, and then falling on the floor.

Suddenly, there were a few piano sounds from the back.

When the camera on the floor transitioned, Meng Xiaozhou, dressed in a white filial attire, lay on the floor with his eyes frozen. The camera patted her sideways, motionless.

The background sound stopped abruptly, replaced by low and dense human voices, like buzzing flies.

"Her mother is dead, she is disabled, what can we do?"

"Her father left early and didn't send any money. He must have married someone else early."

"It's just a burden, who cares about her..."

From day to night, Meng Xiaozhou has been lying on the floor, her eyes frozen, losing her color, as if she was also dead, all in darkness, only a little light stayed on her cheeks, the lens was zoomed very close, it was okay to be close. Seeing the vellus on her profile and her unblinking eyelashes, the light gradually faded.

The night turned into day, a little sunlight fell on her eyelids, and her eyelashes finally moved.

"Yes, great." Meng Xiaozhou whispered, the smile at the corner of his mouth was like a layer of paper crumpled on the water, thin and fragile.

The camera cuts back again. Meng Xiaozhou, who is wearing a filial dress on the ground, finally moved. She began to squirm step by step, rolling down her hands, elbows, tears drop by drop, and finally with her knees...

Duo Miao-chan in the audience burst into tears unknowingly, and many sobbing sounds could be heard in the front and back rows.

Meng Xiaozhou's eyes condensed, walked to her small desk, opened the drawer, and took out a pack of cigarettes.

Consultant Huo looked at her with complicated eyes, and when he moved his eyes to the cigarette case, his eyes were startled again!

Meng Xiaozhou sat on the desk paper, took out a cigarette, lit it skillfully, bit by his red lips, and the hair on his forehead was scattered, which could cover an eye, her face was filled with charm in the smoke screen. .

In the smoke, the camera transitions—

Yang Yi was asked to go to a nightclub for a drink. He looked surprised at first, and then jokingly looked at the woman sitting on the sofa with his back facing the camera. The audience did not see her face, only the smoke.

And on the abandoned construction site, the private person on the ground, Ji Hongfeng took the cigarette from the slender finger next to him, took a sip, and the smoke that came out intersected with the woman next to him.

The camera went on little by little, revealing Meng Xiaozhou's face, and she curled her lips into the camera and smiled.

It was exactly the same as the smile at Consultant Huo at this time.

With five minutes left in the film, Meng Xiaozhou's image was completely reversed.

There was a loud noise in the audience.

Finally, Consultant Huo walked out. Suddenly, he turned his head. Meng Xiaozhou stood at the door, waved to him with a smile, and continued to cut her flowers with scissors.

The sun is just right.

The lens gradually darkens.

Meng Xiaozhou's voice sounded, "Mr. Huo, I think the sky is always bright, what do you think?"

When the list of protagonists and creators scrolled on the big screen, the audience just woke up like a dream.

Even if everyone knows that Meng Xiaozhou, who played Xiang Xiaoyuan, is one of the suspects, and feels that the movie is nothing to reverse, just wait to see how it ends. Everyone sympathizes with her and wants to take care of her. But I didn't expect that in the last ten minutes of this series of editing, the actor completely performed the other side, and the goosebumps were frequent, and the applause was thunderous.

Lao Zhang and Duomiaojiang also clapped vigorously.

This is not a suspenseful story that is difficult to guess. The first half of the story was too realistic because the case was too realistic. The middle half was crying with empathy for the actors' superb acting skills, and finally there was an editing to reveal the reversal.

At the end, it seemed that nothing was explained, but nothing was explained.

It's really exciting!

A good movie is not all over when it is over, and it will bring endless discussions.

After that night, many viewers were still discussing the plot of the movie as they walked.

"So Meng Xiaozhou killed it in the end, right?"

"The director didn't say it clearly, but all hinted that the cigarette she smoked was from the father who played the role! Also on the construction site, the two of them are not in the same frame together!"

"Yes, yes, yes, you remember the autopsy before, saying that the wounds of the teacher who raped the female students are a bit different from Xu Qiang's. I suspect that it was the scissors that Meng Xiaozhou held in his hands!"

"Fuck! Absolutely! Yang Yi was killed by Meng Xiaozhou, Xu Qiang was killed by Zeng Li, or the two committed the crime together, otherwise the director was fine with the scissor lens, and Huo Bijun's eyes were obviously wrong, he guessed it. !"

"If it is a murder weapon, there will be a blood reaction in the first test, and the cigarette case, why didn't you catch her in the end?"

"It's an open ending. Zeng Li was willing to confess his guilt. I think it's the best way. That Meng Xiaozhou is really pitiful!"

"Although there are still some loopholes in the reasoning of the case, but the acting skills are so good, it is very enjoyable to watch!"

"Even the technique is too cruel, I feel a little bit painful."

"You men deserve it! Rubbish!"

"Hey, hey, don't you want to personally attack! There are also good men!"

"By the way, Xiang Xiaoyuan is so pretty! The last shot of smoking, I was scared and in love with that laugh, too charming, isn't it? Don't be jealous!"

"Why am I jealous! I also think she is beautiful, sultry, and eager, right?"

"She's really good at acting, take the movie queen, oh my god, that's great!"

…

A group of young people at the entrance of the movie hall waited for the car while discussing happily. Such discussions were very real. They were so excited that they couldn't remember the names of the characters and replaced them with the names of actors.

Duo Miaojiang and Lao Zhang also looked at them a few times and smiled.

Duo Miao Jiang sent a message in the group, and said: "I saw it, our garden is praised! It's time for our gardeners to grow faces again!"

"The acting is really good!" Lao Zhang, a passerby fan, also rarely praised, "but Teacher Zeng Li was really shocked!"

"Yeah, that old man is really awesome! What does he act like?"

They talked as they walked.

Duo Miaojiang sighed deeply, "But reality is much crueler than movies."

Old Zhang thought deeply and sighed, "Zeng Li acted so well, this film is too uncomfortable for his father to watch."

Duo Miao-chan smiled at him, "That's because Lao Zhang, you are a good father, if you change to another man hehehe..."

Lao Zhang smiled bitterly, "Go back, I have to rush the draft."

Duo Miaojiang responded, "Then I'm going to take the subway."

Lao Zhang called her anxiously, "Wait, you'd better take a taxi, and then send the license plate number to the group."

Duo Miao Jiang smiled warmly, "Good, good!"

…

On this night, the audience at the early hours of the 7th stage praised "Long Night" on all major social platforms. Real-time statistics came out 24 hours later-the first day's pre-sale box office exceeded 30 million.

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