On February 1, the "Tangshan Earthquake" was screened at the Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles.???

Dingfeng Entertainment has made great efforts to promote the movie and invited many stars including Keanu Reeves and Nicole Kidman to help. The red carpet is full of stars and the level of liveliness is comparable to that of Hollywood blockbusters.

Zhang Ran undoubtedly hoped that "Tangshan Earthquake" could achieve good results in North America, but he knew it was very difficult. In his last life, Feng Xiaogang's "Tangshan Earthquake" had a box office of only $60,000 in North America. American audiences did not like to watch subtitles. No matter how well the production was or how much investment you invested, as long as it was a foreign language film, it was an art film in the eyes of American audiences, and it could only be released in art theaters.

In the past twenty years, there have been only three movies with a scale of 2,000 foreign language films, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero" and "Kung Fu", all of which are action films because action films have a fixed fan base; there are only one movies with other types of movies that have passed 1,000 movies, and Italy's "Beautiful Life", which is still supported by Oscars, has gradually increased from more than 100 movies to more than 1,000 movies.

"The Great Tangshan Earthquake" was able to open 1,800 museums, and for a foreign language film that is not an action film, it has been recorded.

Although there are 1,800 museums with a scale of paintings, Zhang Ran is still unsure of how much the final box office can reach. So far, in addition to "Space-Time Warrior", the highest movie in North America is "The Aviator", with a box office of 10 million, which is still a result achieved with an Oscar nomination.

Zhang Ran’s expectation for “Tangshan Earthquake” is over 20 million US dollars.

How can you achieve this result? Then "Tangshan Earthquake" can easily enter the top ten of the North American foreign language film rankings. This result will be very beneficial to the subsequent DVD!

However, this time when Zhang Ran came to the United States, he did not completely promote the movie. There was another more important thing.

Halfway through the movie, Zhang Ran got up and went to the bathroom in the theater. After confirming that there was no one in the entire bathroom, he entered one of them, sat on the toilet, pinched his throat with one hand, and dialed a number.

Gaviyo, a geologist at the US Mining Bureau, was sitting in the office, slowly turning over the Journal of the American Earthquake Society, which contained an article on it, "Active Structure of the Eastern Fringe of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau."

Last September, Garveyyo received a strange call, on which a mysterious man said that he was inspired by God that one day in May next year, a major earthquake will occur somewhere, but no one believes him. Therefore, he hopes that Garveyyo will present an article to prove that an earthquake will occur that day. After the event is completed, he will pay Garvey about 50,000 yuan.

There are too many people in reality who say that they are oracles and are inspired by God. They are either crazy or liars. Garveyor hung up the phone directly.

Unexpectedly, a week later, Gaviyo received a call from the man again, and the other party told him that he had already transferred the 50,000 US dollars of advance payment to his account. After checking the skeptical Gaviyo, he found that there was actually an extra 50,000 US dollars in his account, and he was stunned at the time.

However, Gaveyor did not call the police. In the next few days, he kept thinking about whether he had encountered religious fanatics or some conspiracy? But he felt that the possibility of the conspiracy was not high. He was a geologist and was about to retire soon. He was neither rich nor valuable. Who would have any conspiracy against him? He felt that it might be that a rich man didn't know that his nerve was drained or he had hysteria, and he felt that an earthquake would occur in a certain place, hoping to use a paper from a geologist to warn him.

Almost another week later, Gaviyo received another call from the Mysterious Man. This time, Gaviyo directly agreed to the Mysterious Man's request. He is a retired geologist, and the 50,000 US dollars is too tempting for him.

The requirements of the mysterious man are very simple. You only need to put the papers in any professional publication in February.

Now that my article is out, I don’t know when the mysterious man’s phone number will be called again!

At this moment, the phone suddenly rang, and Gaveyor answered the phone: "Hello!"

A low male voice came over with an Italian accent: "Mr. Gaveio, is the article coming out?"

Garvey's heart suddenly jumped and immediately said: "It's already, the Journal of the American Earthquake Society in February!"

On the other end of the phone, the man was obviously relieved: "May God be with you, Mr. Gaviyo, you are a good person! The money will be transferred to your account soon!" After that, the man hung up the phone.

Garvey breathed a long sigh and then smiled. It was 50,000 yuan. With this money, you can enjoy your old age after retirement.

At the same time, Zhang Ran in the bathroom exhaled gently, used the movie "Tangshan Earthquake" to arouse the audience and the country's memory of the earthquake, used Gaveyor's article to warn, and then used tens of millions of users on Weibo to spread the news. Now the most important preparations have been completed!

Zhang Ran sat on the toilet and thought about all the links carefully. There was no mistake in the whole plan, and he didn't reveal his own strength. Even if he was investigated, he couldn't find his head. He pulled out his mobile phone card, threw it into the toilet, pressed the button, and rushed it into the sewer.

After leaving the bathroom, Zhang Ran returned to the screening room. He looked around. The audience was immersed in the plot of the movie, with tears in his eyes and no one paid attention to him. He smiled and watched the movie seriously.

There is no need to elaborate on the movie watching process. Chinese people attach importance to family affection and family, while Americans attach equal importance to it. In the end, the movie ended with the audience's hazy tears and applause.

With the end of the screening ceremony, media comments on "Tangshan Earthquake" were also released.

"Variety Show" introduces the background of the Tangshan earthquake in detail and praises it as a great movie. Zhang Ran showed a strong sense of compassion, possessed more social responsibility and higher moral standards.

The Wall Street Journal reported the movie in depth in full page, and the report said: "As the world's first 4K movie and the first non-Hollywood movie to be presented on the IMA screen, most of the films were filmed in Tangshan. Some extras experienced the earthquake in 1976. Through the movie, we saw a city reborn in the ashes!"

Unlike domestic media and film critics who like to talk about it, there are many critics in the United States who value film language and technology, and these critics even praised "The Great Tangshan Earthquake".

Todd McCarthy, a well-known film critic of "Hollywood Reporter", gave a 95-point evaluation: "In the past disaster films, their color composition is basically close to reality, and each color exists in the picture. "Tangshan Earthquake" shows amazing creativity. Most of the colors in the movie are psychologically expressed. The tone of the movie will continue to change with the story, and then highlight the psychological state of the characters. Among them, Yu Hong played by Zhang Jingchu is the most obvious, and Yu Hong was first released.

The color tone is warm, and when she received the news that her mother was sick, the color tone began to cool. After the Tangshan earthquake, the color tone became colder and colder during the process of returning home. When she returned to Tangshan to know that her relatives were killed, the whole color tone was extremely cold, giving people a feeling of cold winter. After her son is still alive, the whole color tone quickly warmed until it was in the end consistent with the actual color tone. This change in color shows the illusion charm created by screen images and directly serves the theme of the film."

"Movie Review" gave a full score of horror high scores: "Tangshan Earthquake" introduced the expression techniques of many war films into "Tangshan Earthquake", which completed a breakthrough in disaster films. The scenes of disaster films expressing disasters are undoubtedly the biggest highlight. Zhang Ran used the handheld photography technique that he thought war films were used. A large number of handheld photography brought a strong sense of substitution to the viewer. The audience could clearly feel the camera shaking caused by the earthquake and the continuous aftershocks, making the audience feel like they were in an earthquake zone.

In addition, the film uses a 9o-degree shutter angle to capture the characters' movements and the details of the earthquake very clearly, giving people a sense of arrogance and hardness, creating the ultimate earthquake effect and giving people a strong sense of presence. These are undoubtedly extremely rare in previous disaster films."

In ordinary movies, there will be tailings when moving shots, and objects with high movement are often confused, such as stones falling during earthquakes and soil jumping during explosions.

There are two ways to solve this problem. One is to increase the shutter degree, such as the shooting technology of "The Hobbit" used 48 frames per second; the other is to adjust the shutter angle. This shooting method was created by photographer Kaminsky when filming "Save Private Ryan". The explosion in the movie and the graininess of the earth jumped up were particularly obvious. After that, all the explosion scenes of war films liked to use this shooting method, including Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly".

However, I thought that no disaster film did this. The disaster film was not as simple as shooting an explosion scene. It was enough to bury the explosives and then detonate them. Most of the special effects of the disaster films need to be done later. It takes more time and money to use this shooting method. Therefore, no disaster film uses handheld lenses on a large scale, and no one uses a 9o-degree shutter angle to shoot.

From a technical perspective, "The Great Tangshan Earthquake" is indeed a breakthrough in a disaster film.

However, "The Great Tangshan Earthquake" is not an impeccable movie, and there are also bad reviews. However, these bad reviews are mainly due to the lack of understanding of China and the inability to understand the characters in it, and they are also directly involved in politics.

"As the director of the opening ceremony of the Peking Olympics, Zhang Ran maintains a close relationship with the government, and the movie itself is also invested by the government. In the movie, we can see a large number of Chinese soldiers, who are brave and fearless and as strong as robots. These soldiers go to earthquake-stricken areas to rescue disasters. Since they don't bring weapons or even tools at all, these details are too false. This is a clumsy political propaganda film that lacks emotions!"

"Zhang Ran used a one-dimensional, patriotic approach to show the Tangshan earthquake. Recently, many Chinese films have shown more emotional nationalism, chauvinism, and the same is true for "Tangshan Earthquake". Compared with similar classic films, "Tangshan Earthquake" seems superficial and the narrative subject is powerless."

However, the negative reviews are only a few. The freshness of "Tangshan Earthquake" on Rotten Tomatoes reached 86, and the comprehensive media score of mt also reached 78.

For Chinese movies, this review is not particularly high. The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes and MT scores in Chinese movies have always been good. Zhang Yimou's movie "The Golden Armor in the City" has been criticized in China, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is still 78, mtbsp; however, compared with Hollywood disaster films, the rating of "Tangshan Earthquake" is simply god-level. In the past decade, except for "Titanic" which has won 83 freshness and 74 Mt comprehensive score, no disaster film has scored more than 60 points.

From this point of view, "Tangshan Earthquake" is definitely a masterpiece! 8
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