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Chapter 769: The Movie Is Released

Zhang Ran has always attached great importance to film promotion. His premiere is generally very lively, and there are many celebrities who support him. However, "One Person Decoration" is a very experimental movie, and many viewers may feel uncomfortable. Therefore, this premiere is not as ostentatious as in the past and is much more low-key.

The movie premiere was held at the Wukesong Store, Jiahe Cinema. This is a cinema that just opened in October this year. It has 17 halls, 3,500 seats, including a giant screen hall that can accommodate 600 people. It is currently the largest single movie city in China. The premiere of "One Person's Lights and Decoration" was held in the super-large laser giant screen hall with 600 seats.

The premiere of "One Man's Lights and Decoration" did not have a red carpet, no signature wall, and even no celebrities were invited to help. Only Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke and others had a good relationship. "One Man's Lights and Decoration" was a very experimental movie. Now that the experimental results have come out, Zhang Ran hopes to have some communication with other directors.

However, what surprised Zhang Ran was that although he did not send an invitation, the stars still rushed over. Students such as Zhang Ran, Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun, who had cooperated with him, and celebrities who had not cooperated with him, also came. It can be said that domestic first-line stars have basically come.

Other stars basically came over to say hello, then quietly sat down at their own seats and waited for the movie to begin; while the students in Zhang Ran's class were much more presumptuous, they knew the teacher too much, and although he is now a big director and a big boss, he has not changed at all, so they pulled Zhang Ran to protest without hesitation.

"Teacher Zhang, it's too much to call us when we premiered the movie!"

"Yes, Teacher Zhang, you hurt our hearts too much!"

"We are your biological students. We don't call us at the premiere. It's too much and too sad!"

Zhang Ran was undoubtedly very happy to see the students coming to support him. He felt satisfied that his parents saw their children becoming sensible, and laughed and scolded: "I'm the premiere of the movie, not the monkeys have a meeting, so why are you monkeys doing?"

The other celebrities saw Wang Luodan and the others pulling Zhang Ran to laugh and laugh, and they were extremely envious. It would be great if I had a teacher like Zhang Ran!

Time passed slowly. Half an hour before the opening of the movie, the theater began to let audiences and media reporters enter the venue. As a result, 600 seats on the scene were quickly filled. The screening hall was crowded with bees buzzing.

The audience who had been looking forward to the movie for a whole year soon waited for the moment they were most looking forward to. As the lights went out, the movie "One Man's Lights Decoration" opened its most mysterious veil.

After the Dragon Biao of the Film Bureau, it was the peak of the century, and then the movie officially began.

The whole world seemed to be trapped in darkness, with no sound, no light, nothing, only endless darkness.

One second, two seconds, five seconds, ten seconds...

Thirty seconds later, the reporters and audiences on the scene couldn't sit still and started to talk in a low voice.

"What's going on? Could it be that the machine is broken, right?"

"It should be a problem with the equipment, otherwise how could there be no movement for a long time!"

"Where is the maintenance staff? Turn on the light if the machine breaks!"

Not only the premiere scene, but at this moment, there are thousands of cinemas and thousands of screening halls across the country, and there are even many screening halls shouting: "Photography officer! What are you doing? If the machine breaks, hurry up and do it. We are still waiting to watch the movie!"

The black screen lasted for a minute, and finally there was a sound, all kinds of tiny sounds, the buzzing sound of electric hair clippers, the clicking sound of scissors cutting hair, and the hissing sound of shaving...

Directors such as Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke realized that Zhang Ran was building an off-screen space through sound, and they all sounded carefully to feel the space built through sound; but the reporters and viewers on the scene did not realize that this was intentional. Many people thought that there was something wrong with the equipment, resulting in only sound and no pictures. Some reporters even wrote in their notepad: "The premiere of "One Person's Lights and Decoration" could not be broadcast normally due to equipment failures, and nearly 600 movie fans were hung in the cinema..."

Zhang Weiping and Zhang Ran had a conflict. Although he invested in the movie "Love" with Zhang Ran this year, he still didn't like Zhang Ran. Now he saw that "One Man's Lights and Decoration" had a problem and said gloatingly: "What is the peak of the century doing? The premiere actually caused such a big mess. Zhang Ran is really making a big joke this time!"

Zhang Yimou chuckled and shook his head, "This black screen was designed by Zhang Ran on purpose!"

Zhang Weiping naturally didn't believe it: "What are you doing in such a scene with only sounds and no pictures? He was kicked in the brain by a donkey!"

Zhang Yimou knew that Zhang Weiping didn't understand the movie at all, and explained: "This part of the play is not for watching, it is for listening, it is for sound montage, and it is for the ultimate sound montage. Do you hear the sound of footsteps? It is the sound of high heels, which means that the haircut is a young girl. If you listen to the sound of shaving, young people usually use electric shavers. Only older people will go to the barber shop to shave, which means that this person is an elderly man. Zhang Ran built a very complete off-painting space outside the picture through his voice. If you listen carefully, we can feel what we can't see!"

Zhang Weiping was stunned when he heard this and had no idea how to respond.

After five minutes of suffering, the movie finally returned to "normal". As Lao Huang opened his eyes, Xiaoyu appeared in front of the audience and the story officially began.

A few months ago, the eight-minute opening scene of "One Man Decoration" shocked Berlin Film Festival chairman Diet Cosrick, and now it also shocked directors such as Zhang Yimou. They have a common idea in their hearts, and multi-part montages have really reappeared in the world!

The movie continues. When Lao Huang walked out of the barber shop, the camera shook to the city at the foot of the mountain. In the black, the whole city is brightly lit, the name of the movie "One person is decorated with lights" appears on the screen.

After many viewers on the scene learned that Zhang Ran was going to film "One Man with Lights and Decoration", they had read Tian Er's novel and were quite clear about the development of the story. However, as the film progressed, everyone found that movies and novels were very different.

At the beginning of the novel, Xiao Cui and his friends caught a middle school student who sneaked into the female teacher's dormitory and acted hooligan to the female teacher. After they took the student to the police station, the student was actually slutty, so they asked several intern police officers to beat him. Xiao Cui was originally going to be satisfied, but was stopped by Lao Huang. A few days later, Xiao Cui thanked Lao Huang for pulling him in a hurry. Several intern police officers were too heavy to beat the student and made a problem. In order to express their gratitude, Xiao Cui asked Lao Huang to go out for fun, and then led to another important figure, Yu Xinliang.

The plot of the police beating people is definitely not able to pass the review of the Ministry of Public Security, so the movie turns into Xiao Cui finding clues with the help of Lao Huang and cracking a case of a high school student murdering his parents. In order to express his gratitude, Xiao Cui invited Lao Huang to Nanquan Town to wash the hot spring. Nanquan is a famous hot spring in the mountain city, but it is a bit far away, Xiao Cui and the others booked a car to go. Xiao Cui bought Yu Xinliang's car, and he and Yu Xinliang were friends. After a while, Lao Huang and Yu Xinliang also became friends, and they learned that Xiao Yu was Yu Xinliang's sister.

Zhang Yimou felt that this adaptation was quite successful. The high school student murdered his parents as a metaphor. The tragedy caused by communication problems between the two parties, and it is difficult for parents to communicate with their children. What about the others? This case indirectly shows the individual loneliness hidden behind the moral depravity and expansion of desire in the indifferent modern city. At the same time, through the dialogue between Lao Huang and Xiao Cui, Lao Huang's family relationship was drawn. He divorced and his daughter worked in another place. He usually had few contacts, and Lao Huang was also lonely.

Jia Zhangke's views were completely different. He thought that Zhang Ran's adaptation was very failed: "Zhang Ran is too timid! Since it is an experimental work, what are you afraid of? At worst, the movie will be banned! You are so famous and so rich abroad, what are you afraid of! With this change, the criticism of the system will disappear!"

In Jia Zhangke's opinion, in the novel, the middle school student was arrested by the police and kept asking the police for evidence. He also told the police, "You don't know the law and break the law, but you end up being beaten into a fool by the police." How ironic, why are the police so rampant and dare to beat people in the police station? This is a system problem! If the movie is filmed directly, it is the most direct criticism of the abuse of power, and a naked ridicule of the system! Zhang Ran's change will no longer criticize the system!

Jia Zhangke was very disappointed with the movie, and even more disappointed with Zhang Ran.

On the screen, Lao Huang, Xiao Cui and Yu Xinliang sat together to eat sauce of sauce. The three of them were chatting in the steaming fog. Yu Xinliang also talked about his sister Xiao Yu. Although he had a lot of dissatisfaction with his sister, he was his sister after all, and he wanted to have a good home. Yu Xinliang thought Lao Huang was good, and with the help of alcohol, he wanted to introduce his sister to Lao Huang.

Yu Xinliang looked at Lao Huang and said seriously: "I know you are a good person, and you are steady. Although my sister is deaf and dumb, she is young and understands taste. If you treat her well, she will be very kind to you...",

"Hey, Xiaoyu I have to say a few words to you, I'm joking. I don't look at my age. My daughter got married the next year." Old Huang said with a face, "Xiaoyu you've drunk too much and talked about alcohol."

Yu Xinliang said: "Why am I talking about drinking?"

Xiao Cui felt that Lao Huang had no intention, so he said, "Brother Yu, you are indeed talking about alcohol!"

Seeing that Old Huang seemed angry, Yu Xinliang didn't want to make the atmosphere stiff, so he blew and said, "As soon as I drank, I didn't keep my mouth shut. Brother Huang, don't mind!"

Lao Huang waved his hand, took a few bites, put down his chopsticks, and looked into the distance, with a hint of confusion in his eyes. The camera slowly pushed towards Lao Huang, from the middle scene to a close-up, then into a close-up, and finally into a large close-up of his eyes. The camera was still and the picture was frozen. Through the large close-up of Lao Huang's eyes, the audience clearly felt a hint of sadness and loneliness hidden under his calm appearance.

A few seconds later, the camera gradually moved away. At this time, the audience was surprised to find that it was no longer Lao Huang, but Xiao Yu who appeared in the camera. She sat in the barber shop, looking at the city under the hillside, with a faint sadness and loneliness in her eyes.

It is not an amazing technique to turn around through the eyes. Many movies are used, but after watching Zhang Ran's transition, Zhang Yimou stopped nodding. He knew that this shot was not only using matching edits to achieve the transition, but also told the audience through the eyes of the two people that Lao Huang and Xiao Yu were equally lonely people.

At the same time, Zhang Ran took a deep breath and looked a little solemn. The next play will be unfolded from the perspective of less than. The whole drama that tests the audience's patience most in "One Person Decoration" is not the black screen at the opening, but the drama with the perspective of less than. The smallest person is deaf and mute, living in a silent world, so this drama with the perspective of less than is completely silent, without even the soundtrack.

If the audience can get into the role and truly enter the perspective of Xiaoyu, it should feel good; but if the audience can't get into the role, it will be a huge torment.

Can the audience get into the show smoothly?

Zhang Ran was not sure, really had no confidence!
Chapter completed!
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