Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 117 Film Critics Find Faults

There are no midnight shows these days.

There are too few screens, and it’s cold in the north. Who would have the time to watch a movie late at night?

It took several years for midnight shows to take shape, when the number of cinema chains and screens had grown significantly and people's movie-watching habits had been formed. That's when midnight shows came into being.

At this stage, even if you really want to watch a midnight show, you can't find it, because the cinemas are closed late at night.

The Shallows is released.

The next day, Zhang Chen went to several movie theaters to check out the attendance.

There was even a queue in front of the Wudaokou Cinema. There are many colleges and universities here, and it is known as the "center of the universe". Zhang Chen's movies have a good reputation among college students.

The key is that you really can’t find pirated copies.

Xingchen Entertainment has really taken a tough stance in its fight against piracy this time. Not only has it offered a reward for reporting piracy dens and given rewards based on the number of pirated copies seized, it has also hired a large number of college students to keep a close eye on people and prevent the loss of copies.

This trick is really effective. Zhang Weiping relied on this trick to prevent the loss of copies. Because of this, a copy clerk in a cinema in Xi'an even committed suicide.

……

Wukesong Cinema
Li Chao bought two movie tickets for "The Shallows", this time with his girlfriend.

Although he got a ticket to the premiere two days ago, there was only one ticket, so he went there quietly by himself.

Today my girlfriend suddenly told me that she wanted to watch a movie. I went out happily and it turned out to be "The Shallows".

Just watch it again if you want. The titles of other movies released during the same period don’t sound good, and Fan Binbin in “The Shallows” is really good.

At the same time, film critic Zhou Liming also appeared in the cinema.

"The Shallows" has been making so much noise recently that it's hard not to notice him.

Zhou Liming has a column in "Popular Movies". The interview about "The Shallows" is right after his column. He also knows that such a movie will be released in November.

Just by looking at the title, you can tell that it is definitely a commercial film with little artistic value, but Zhou Liming still bought a ticket.

Protection fees have always been one of the sources of income for film critics, but "The Shallows" did not pay any protection fees. How is this possible?

Zhou Liming decided to teach the producers of this film a lesson on how to respect film critics.

Not long after the movie started, the scene of the heroine changing into a swimsuit on the beach was played.

Zhou Liming sat up straight unconsciously. Isn't this just a naked show of eroticism? But it's really beautiful.

Not far from him were Li Chao and his girlfriend.

Li Chao was drooling as he watched, and then he felt a pain in his leg.

When I turned around, I met my girlfriend's eyes that were almost spitting fire.

Careless~
"I'll let you see, I'll let you see again~" He was attacked continuously again, and two black bruises appeared on his legs.

But there were clear sounds of people swallowing saliva all around.

"Stop pinching, stop pinching. Look, the man with glasses is also staring intently~"

Li Chao tried to find someone to take the blame for himself, but his girlfriend refused to agree.

"I don't care, he's not my boyfriend. If you don't want to be my boyfriend, then you can watch whatever you want~"

Zhou Liming felt a little embarrassed by the quarrel between the young couple next to him, but luckily they were in a movie theater, so you couldn't see that he was blushing.

Well, I watched the movie with a critical mindset.

Zhou Liming found a way out for himself, and then wrote down the eight words "showing off eroticism, low taste" in his little notebook.

Well, keep appreciating, oh no, keep finding fault.

The characterization is unsuccessful and the acting is mediocre.

The language of the camera is quite conventional and does not contain any profound meaning.

The plot does not focus on any human or social issues. I don't understand what the director wants to express?
He didn't see anything core in the whole movie.

But it’s not a bad movie, because he enjoyed watching it from beginning to end, and when he recalled the entire plot and details, he couldn’t find any fault with it.

This……

What exactly is going on?

He decided to watch it again, so he bought another ticket as soon as he left the cinema.

This time he wanted to write down every frame.

There are many young college students who have the same idea as him, but they are all single. Those who are not single have been dragged away by their girlfriends, and some of them have bruises on their bodies like Li Chao.

……

At another cinema, film critic Shi Fan recorded a lot of things:

"Not long after the movie started, there was a close-up shot of a woman changing clothes, and it was a bikini... it was disgusting... this was simply a pornographic movie..."

"Damn it, the cameraman's camera often moves around the woman, and even the normal camera has to deliberately stay on the heroine. This... is too bold. Oh my god, how can such a shot appear? And someone even whistles..."

"What the hell is this director? Why did he suddenly change his style at 10 minutes and 45 seconds..."

Because he was too focused on the shots, Shi Fan didn't even notice the change in the weather. Instead, someone next to him whispered, "I knew something was going to happen. I just saw the weather suddenly turned cloudy, and I knew something was going to happen."

Shi Fan felt a little regretful, as if he had been affected.

Then the plot progressed rapidly, and the shark hit the surfboard without warning, flipping the heroine under the ocean.

Rolling around on the seabed and getting injured.

The shark's first attack was so abrupt that the audience's attention was completely focused on the heroine.

The heroine swam up from the bottom of the sea, retrieved her surfboard, and climbed up.

Just as he was about to swim back to the shore, an accident happened again.

The shark came, bit the heroine's thigh and pulled her down desperately.

The sea water was dyed bright red, just like the opening scene of the movie.

The girls exclaimed~
The boys' hearts were in their throats.
As if to give the audience a heart attack, the heroine swam to the whale's body and began to stitch herself up with necklaces and earrings.

When she took off her earrings and necklace and prepared to take action, some timid spectators even covered their eyes involuntarily, not daring to watch this horrific scene.

The boys were more excited: "This woman is so cruel~"

Amid the audience's exclamations, the heroine gritted her teeth and completed the stitching stitch by stitch.

"hiss!!!"

Shi Fan, who was writing something in a small notebook, suddenly twitched his eyelids in disbelief!

However, as a veteran film critic who has seen all kinds of scenes, he watched the entire stitching process.

After reading it, Shi Fan just felt dry in the mouth. It seemed that this type of thing had never appeared in China before, so he quickly took note of it.

"This woman is so awesome~"

"So beautiful and cool, I really love Fan Binbin..."

After the suturing was completed, the female audience members finally dared to open their eyes, and the male audience members all exclaimed in admiration.

“This movie is good~”

“Not bad~”

Shi Fan was also examining himself, is this movie really bad?

It really doesn't have much depth, but why do I just like watching it so much?

(End of this chapter)