New Age Artists

Chapter 621: Premiere Night? Defense Breaking Night!
No media presence, no press conference, just a direct release!
An IMAX theater in Beijing CBD.

The air conditioning was turned on very high, and sitting in the middle of the third row of seats was the "well-known media person" Lao Hu.

Old Hu really didn't expect that Shen Santong could actually retreat in order to advance.

He is even better at sitting on the fence than him. He will leave as soon as the job is done.

Commissioner Smith returned home in disgrace, and many of those involved in the incident in the country were disciplined.

Some of those who rushed to high positions even lost their jobs and are still in the investigation period, so there is a high probability that they will have to go to jail.

Of course, Lao Hu himself is fine, he has very sophisticated methods.

Lao Hu put his coat on the armrest. He deliberately adjusted the screen of his mobile phone to the highest brightness, which emitted a cold light in the dim theater.

On the screen was the draft he had written in advance.

The cursor on the Weibo draft page kept jumping under the title "Three major failure points in Shen Santong's new film", making his triangular eyes behind the lenses flicker.

"Predictions on the three biggest downfalls of Shen Santong's new film: 1. The United Nations setting will become a laughing stock 2. The Russian female lead can't support the box office 3. The fake Goldman Sachs is a low-level red"

Shanghai.

Next to the fire escape of Hall 3 of Xintiandi Cinemas.

BBC branch reporter Li Weiwei prepared a press release in advance titled "Beware of the use of patriotism to hijack art."

Crouching in the shadows with her high-heeled feet curled up, her newly manicured nails made a slight sound on the phone screen, and the camera suddenly stopped when it was aimed at the audience in the front row.

Li Weiwei's lips, painted with matte lipstick, were pressed into a straight line. The mascara on her squinting eyes condensed into tiny black dots and fell on her lower eyelids. She thought to herself, "Look at these audiences, all of them are Wolf Warriors. Shen Santong must have hired a lot of extras."

With conclusions, there are answers everywhere.

Shenzhen MixC Cinema.

The representative work is "You Can Only See the Stars on Your Knees", the "famous" writer Zhang Mingyuan pushed up his black-framed glasses, and his sleeves folded at his elbows as he crossed his arms.

Thinking of the trailer, Zhang Mingyuan sneered: "United Nations Investigation Team? Why didn't Shen Santong just film the Wolf Warriors occupying the Pentagon?"

He then posted a Weibo: Waiting for Shen Santong, whose popularity has been ruined, to fall to the ground!
“Rational market” economic analyst Xu Xiaoyu.

Her leather shoes swayed gently against the back of the front seat, and she crossed her legs and posted on WeChat Moments: "Watching a monkey show, this is the limit of Chinese directors!"

Cultural scholar Zhou Muyun, host of the "Dialogue of Civilizations" forum, deliberately turned the spine of the English book facing outwards when he entered the venue. The book "The End of History" was stuck in the gap between the seats.

Looking at the crowded audience, he sighed: "Chinese films are getting further and further away from universal values."

Law professor Luo Zhuo, dressed in a suit and tie, adjusted the miniature camera hidden in his tie clip, keeping the lens focused on the screen, and quietly held up the small camera to record the video.

He is collecting evidence.

The problem with Shen Santong's play, "The Magic Thieves", can be seen from the name, which is suspected of inciting illegal violence.

After the commercials, the movie started.

The story of the movie is set in the United States. The actors speak Chinese. Zhou Jie, who represents the United Nations investigation team, does not speak a word of English and communicates directly in Chinese.

Xu Xiaoyu got goosebumps.

How embarrassing!
Do you think Chinese is an international language?
Forcing Chinese lines in is so awkward!

Movie climax.

The four knights of the Magic Thieves locked the bank's wealthy man in the vault and stole his money.

The audience was completely absorbed in the play, watching it with fascination, and Lao Hu even said it was an eyesore.

Typing on the phone in the seat: "Populist carnival! It is definitely encouraging crime!"

The plot reaches its climax again.

Despite the pressure from the investigation team, the Magic Thieves did not stop committing crimes and robbed a large number of insurance companies and CEOs that refused to provide insurance.

When the thieves used tarot cards to draw a line across the butt of the Wall Street bronze bull, the whole audience laughed so hard that the roof almost fell off.

Luo Zhuo counted and found at least seven bursts of laughter from the entire audience. The veins on his temples throbbed with the rhythm of the laughter.

Zhang Mingyuan's cheeks bulged from biting his back teeth. He pinched his thigh fiercely, feeling extremely disgusted: "Fools! Financial freedom is a universal value! Using magic to fight against capital? This is as anti-intellectual as the Boxers chanting spells to block bullets!"

When the magician on the screen opened the safe, Zhou Muyun was as anxious as the CEO who was robbed in the movie. He crumpled the movie ticket stub into a white ball with his fingers: "Shen Santong's movies are a cultural plague!"

Some people would have left long ago if they weren't looking for black spots.

"The cheering is too loud, it counts as noise pollution! I want to complain!"

"A serious violation of the purity of film art!"

There are also cross-dressing ones: "Zhou Jie speaks Russian? Why don't Chinese actors speak Chinese? They lack cultural confidence!"

"Is it worth celebrating that the medical insurance company was stolen? What's the difference between this and beating up the rich and dividing their land?"

The plot reaches the final showdown between the magic thieves and the investigation team, one of the climaxes. At the moment when the top light of the screen suddenly dims, the brim of Chen Kun's black hat casts a sharp shadow on the screen, and his smile, which is both good and evil, carries a hint of sarcasm.

The playing cards flying between his fingertips brushed against Marina Alexandrova's high Russian cheekbones. His cold eyes swept across the female agent's gun and then across the United Nations badge on Zhou Jie's chest.

“Financiers steal money legally.”

Chen Kun suddenly threw the playing cards into a fan shape, and one of the Joker cards was stuck in Marina's gun muzzle.

“We magicians are only seeking the truth.”

His ending tone has the unique granularity of Beijing dialect, which makes the audience feel a tingling sensation on their scalp.

At this moment, the positions of good and evil seem to be reversed.

However, this is not the end. As the movie draws to a close, Zhou Jie discovers her colleague's secret and confronts Marina Alexandrova.

Marina gave her own monologue: "You ask me why I do this?"

Marina looked cold and said calmly, "Because some people's wallets are dirtier than the arsenal of war criminals."

"Every brick in the City of London and Wall Street is stained with the blood of Russian workers"

"When the law protects predators, justice can only be achieved through magic."

On the screen, Marina Alexandrova's gray-blue pupils, like permafrost, made the audience feel a hint of coldness from Siberia in the hot summer.

Those eyes seemed to transcend history, representing the countless blood and tears of Eastern Europe!
The camera passed over the bronze logo of the consortium that combined the names of Morgan and Goldman Sachs. The company logo looked somewhat like the dollar sign and sparkled in the sun.

Luo Zhuo couldn't hold it in any longer. When the legal expert jumped up, clutching the hidden camera in the shape of a tie clip, popcorn crumbs were still stuck to the knees of his linen suit pants: "What a blasphemy! It's against Abraham!"

The veins on his Adam's apple throbbed as he roared, waking up the audience in the theater.

"Can you have a little more manners?" The girl in the yellow skirt behind her frowned, the small mole on the tip of her nose flickering in the reflection of the screen.

When Luo Zhuo turned around, he stepped on the Coke cup that had fallen to the ground and muttered, "I am raising reasonable doubts. As long as the law does not prohibit it, you can question it!"

The girl in the yellow skirt said, "We also have reasonable demands. Shouldn't we watch a movie in the proper manner?"

Luo Zhuo's expression immediately changed: "I bought the movie ticket. I am free to do whatever I want in my seat!"

The audience member in the back row wanted to argue, but her friend next to her pulled her back.

What's there to say to this kind of person? The movie is almost over, there's no need to ruin your mood.

The movie ends.

The audience was not in a hurry to leave. They discussed the plot while waiting for the easter eggs and subtitles to finish.

Few people care about the movie metaphors, because the University of Tokyo is not as miserable as the Russians.

Many viewers paid attention to the appearance of the Russian actors. There was a scene where they were dressed in Russian court costumes, which was really cool.

In Shen Santong's movies, the main actors have always been pleasing to the eye and understand the aesthetic requirements of brothers and sisters.

Some people are happy, while others are upset.

Li Weiwei: "The audience is a brainwashed mob!"

Luo Zhuo: "Shen Santong is criticizing like crazy! This is trampling on the rule of law!"

Xu Xiaoyu: "The market needs financial elites!"

Zhou Muyun: "It's a blatant cultural regression!"

Li Weiwei left the theater and tried to stop the audience from leaving to interview her: "Don't you think this movie vilifies the West?"

The eldest brother grinned: "What's the matter? It's just a movie, why is there so much trouble?"

Lao Hu waited until the movie was over before he couldn't watch any more.

Grab your bag and rush to the exit.

He glanced at the screen. There would be a screening of Now You See Me in about ten minutes. His show hadn't finished yet, but there were already people waiting. The crowd rushed towards the standee of Shen Santong in the hall.

One kid even kicked the Amazing Spider-Man poster next to the theater's sign.

There is also a scene in this play that pays tribute to "Happy Birthday".

The Amazing Spider-Man failed to save Gwen, and Gwen fell off the building. Spider-Man spit out silk, and the silk thread became longer, and Gwen fell to her death.

In Shen Santong’s previous film “Happy Birthday”, the heroine jumped off the bell tower. Using montage techniques, the scene was cut to the heroine falling on the bed, starting the next cycle. The two shots are exactly the same.

"Hopeless"

He trembled and moved forward with the help of the wall, and quickly posted a Weibo post, which was very pertinent.

"I'm not saying the movie is bad, but my neighbor brought his three-year-old child to watch Shen Santong's movie, and the child cried. Is this movie suitable for children?"

(End of this chapter)