Son of the Bone

The efficiency of this film is really too high.

Eight days of preparation, nine days of filming, and ten days of editing and post-production, all of which are on-site sound recording plus direct recording of the camera, and only need to adjust the light in post-production.

While Qi Lin was obsessed with writing songs and playing the guitar version of the pipa, Lin Jiuguang ran to their dormitory with a mysterious look on his face: "Do you want to watch a horror movie?"

Jiang Jue glanced at the calendar subconsciously, with a premonition of mystery: "Which one?"

""Wild House"! The director is said to be Bai Ping's friend and a professor at ACU!" Lin Jiuguang didn't seem to know who the leading actor was, shaking his phone and said, "Someone sent a GIF out of them later, it's really scary. Bar."

Qi Lin hugged the guitar and half covered his face, and popped his head out when he heard this.

"You actually watch domestic horror movies?"

In fact, there is not much difference between horror films and thrillers in China.

Moreover, domestic thrillers have been in decline for more than ten years.

Furthermore, horror films are generally about the theme of pretending to be ghosts and ghosts. After all, B-level films that splatter blood and blood cannot be released.

Then, pretending to be gods and playing ghosts must not have ghosts, because after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is not allowed to become a master, nor is it allowed to spread superstitious ideas.

This is not the fault of cultural control, it is indeed related to national conditions.

In the case of a rather large population, there are actually not many people who have received higher education.

There are wives who smash their husbands into vegetative states with a frying pan after watching Pleasant Goat too much, and there are village magicians who confuse the public with fragments of ghost movies.

However, there are no ghosts or bloody scenes in a thriller, which is almost equivalent to a bad movie that cheated the box office.

There is a visual blockbuster "The Conjuring" filmed by Chinese in the United States, a thriller "Jin Funan Murder Case" that reflects social reality in South Korea, "The Grudge" in Japan, and countless excellent horror films in Thailand.

Shooting this kind of thing requires visual effects, and more importantly, the script needs the ultimate grasp of human nature.

But in the past ten years in China, there is really nothing.

Qi Lin expressed no interest in this at all.

I'm afraid this kind of nonsense is for money laundering.

Jiang Jue listened to their chattering about related matters, and was silent for a few seconds: "I...acted it."

The whole dormitory was silent for a few seconds.

Lin Jiuguang shook his head resolutely: "You will never act in a bad movie, I don't believe it."

"You also said that this is a bad movie!" Qi Lin showed an affirmative expression, and suddenly realized what Jiang Jue said just now: "The small cost you mentioned——"

Jiang Jue nodded: "It's "Wild House"."

They looked at each other, and Lin Jiuguang looked at Jiang Jue for a few seconds: "There is only one silhouette in that GIF, and I really didn't realize it was you."

He suddenly sighed, and said slowly with regret: "Since it was played by Jiang Jue, then I won't go."

Jiang Jue asked suspiciously, "Do you have any objections to me?"

"Don't you think seeing your gay friend's face in the lens of a horror movie makes you jump into the scene?" Lin Jiuguang tried to give an example: "For example, in "Midnight Ring", when the TV is turned on, you see your friend's face. Lin slowly crawled out of the well..."

Qi Lin thought for a few seconds: "I'm going to see it."

After filming in September, it will be released directly in October.

It is true that there are not many theaters associated with this film, and there are not many theaters in the first-tier cities.

The films competing in the same period include Hollywood blockbusters and idol romantic comedies, and horror films can only be watched at midnight.

Qi Lin dragged the two of them out of school on Saturday night, and went to the movie theater in the city center to watch the premiere together.

He really wanted to see how the gentle and lovely Jiang Jue would act in a thriller.

Not many people came to see it, some couples came in with popcorn in their arms, and some drunk people or overtime workers bought a cheap ticket, just came in to sleep and then left.

After all, it is cheaper than temporary rooms in hotels.

Jiang Jue sat in the middle, with Qi Lin holding a Coke on the left and Lin Jiuguang holding popcorn on the right.

He was suddenly a little curious, how many shots did director Chen Chen cut in the end, and why the film was still an hour and a half long.

When the screen was lit up, it turned out to be a mirror.

The same young man woke up from his deep sleep at the same time, and glanced blankly at the blood in his hand.

But the range of motion is different, and the light outside the house is also different, obviously it is the same person at different times.

When they looked out of the window at the same time, the screen merged into one, and the subtitles jumped out.

- "Wild House".

The script is confusing to read, but the film's narrative is surprisingly clear.

The director only took 15 minutes to explain clearly the first line that the decorator accepted the commission to help decorate, and then began to explain in detail the process of him constantly discovering various scenes and clues.

Jiang Jue held his chin and looked at his face for a long time, and suddenly understood where the strangeness came from.

She doesn't tell herself the plot, that's why the real feeling of bewilderment comes out of the camera.

There is no need to act at all, just be at a loss.

At the beginning, Qi Lin and Lin Jiuguang occasionally complained, but when they saw the middle, they completely ignored it.

The rhythm of the plot is getting faster and faster, the editing is like the drumbeat of tango, and there is a sudden reversal between relaxation and relaxation.

When the camera moved to the decorator's limbs and crawled forward quickly, a group of crows suddenly flew out with the sound of cracking, and Qi Lin squeezed the Coke glass in fright, almost splashing him all over.

Then half of the popcorn on Lin Jiuguang's side was spilled, and he didn't hold it steady at all.

Jiang Jue suddenly realized that sitting in the middle was a very wrong role.

When the film was two-thirds through, all the people in the auditorium who were trying to sleep woke up.

The young couple didn't even bother to hold hands and kiss their faces quietly, they were so frightened that they held each other's hands tightly and didn't even dare to run out.

When the plot was pushed to a new climax, when the decorator directly shattered the porcelain plate with twined branch lotus in the kitchen, both hands grasped Jiang Jue at the same time, and one of them almost pinched him.

The pace is so fast that people can't breathe at all. The decorator who was originally the victim turned into the culprit, and even all the foreshadowing of the previous plot jumped out at the same time——

Jiang Jue let them grab his hands and sleeves, and suddenly fell into a daze.

He originally thought that he understood the script.

Wasn't it the bureau set up by the client?

Wait—the plot of this movie is not that the decorator becomes the prey, and the person who enters the room is trapped and cannot get out. The guest is the conspirator behind it?

So who is behind the scenes?

——Did I really understand the script when I was acting? ?

In the last scene, the fallen rabbit unexpectedly appeared in the middle of the living room.

Lin Jiuguang screamed in fright.

Jiang Jue has been completely confused by the twists and turns of the plot, allowing him to tug on his sleeve.

So am I playing the good guy or the bad guy?

The light suddenly turned on, and almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Qi Lin got half of his sleeves wet from the cup of Coke he was holding, and muttered to himself to wipe it dry with a paper towel.

He wiped it halfway and suddenly remembered something, and turned to look at Jiang Jue who was helping Lin Jiuguang pat the popcorn on his body: "So in the end, that guest escaped, right?"

Jiang Jue blinked.

"We've finished watching, don't worry about spoilers," Qi Lin said in a much softer voice, afraid that he would question his IQ, "I just... just confirm my own judgment."

"No, that guest is dead," Lin Jiuguang retorted firmly, "You saw that rabbit on the table in the living room! The soldiers ate the king!"

Didn't the decorator escape...

May I ask if we are chatting across servers...

The two of them turned their heads to look at Jiang Jue at the same time, trying to find out the real answer: "You have read the script! Tell me!"

Jiang Jue took a deep breath: "I...don't understand."

Qi Lin looked puzzled: "The narrative is very clear! It was the decorator who set foot near the guest's villa in advance, and finally used him to turn the whole house into a prison, and finally the guest was completely imprisoned by him!"

Lin Jiuguang immediately shook his head: "You missed several foreshadowings, it's not like this at all!"

So on Sunday night, the two went to the second fight again.

A certain leading actor was left alone in the dormitory, trying to watch cartoons for a while and wait for the two of them to come back.

Qi Lin came back from watching the midnight show, and when he opened the door, he was excited: "Jiang Jue! I understand! There are so many details in this show—the animal button on the door is actually a mechanism to lock the safe, right? "

With "Story Meeting" on his face, Jiang Jue woke up from his doze, and subconsciously denied: "No, the director said that the meaning of this animal button is the personal totem of the decorator, the lotus on the edge and the totem on the porcelain plate. Exactly the same."

Qi Lin froze for a few seconds, then hurried to find Lin Jiu Guangshun upstairs.

After the weekend, the film's box office didn't explode, but its reputation exploded on the Internet.

Many people directly started to write small papers to analyze the plot, and even discussed that this would definitely be shortlisted for the Cannes Award.

When the foreign media began to report on this thrilling crime movie in a large number of pages, praising its rigorous logic and fine design, the domestic media woke up one after another and went to find out who made this little-known movie.

When the porters on Weibo and Douban sent the news back, some people recognized that the English name on the movie poster belonged to Jiang Jue.

"Why did my male god suddenly become popular abroad?"

"There is no news at all in China. When did he act in this movie? There isn't even a splash on Weibo."

"Has this film been released in China? How come it is scheduled with several other cities? Angry!"

Then pirated resources became wildly popular, and more GIFs and plot analysis continued to flow in.

Things are getting more interesting.

The Rotten Tomatoes index in foreign countries has been soaring, and theaters in Northern Europe and North America have begun to open. Some people asked who the two actors were under the Youtube trailer.

Director Chen Chen did not accept the interview, because she has already returned to the university to concentrate on leading the students to do projects.

Making a movie is just for fun. No matter how you look at the monitor screen, you are listening to Lao Bai while drinking tea.

Domestic theaters finally belatedly began to increase the number of screenings, and more and more people went to the second and third screenings.

—— Thrillers and the like are only played by foreigners, the domestic environment is not optimistic about this kind of subject matter at all, okay?

The total cost of this movie is 600 million, but the domestic box office alone has earned more than 4000 million.

It has doubled six to seven times.

The TOP3 video website directly bought the broadcasting rights and started a new round of member privilege benefits.

People who missed the short release period, or were in a small city and couldn't see the movie at all, ran to watch it, and then involuntarily swiped it a second time.

They didn't worry about anything else, they just wanted to know if the client escaped in the end.

The story is simple and clear. The problem is that if you think about it carefully, you will find that everything is wrong.

People without brains can watch a horror movie that stimulates the senses, while people with brains need to analyze different layouts and designs, and then use it twice and three times together.

When Jiang Jue went out to class, those who came to ask for a group photo disappeared.

They would come over with a gossipy face and ask the decorator if he really succeeded in killing this person.

Facing these curious babies, Lao Jiang sighed deeply in his heart, and showed them a kind smile.

"you guess."

The author has something to say:

This filming method refers to "Happy Together". Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung spent nearly a year in Buenos Aires. Both of them had their passports confiscated by the king of sunglasses. They were tormented until they faced a psychological breakdown. In the end, their brother almost died of diarrhea.

When Tony Leung received the film, he didn't even know that he was going to play a gay role. He had a mental breakdown and said that he couldn't continue acting.

The shooting method refers to "Happy Together", and the plot content refers to Nolan's "Inception"/"The Prestige".

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