New Age Artists

Chapter 96 Shen Santong’s understanding of movies: from the audience to the audience (13)

In his previous life, Shen Santong donated movie tickets to "A Thousand Miles Home".

It's a good movie, well made and worth the money.

It's a pity because it's a good movie.

The creators were too restrained, kneeling to reality, but not real enough.

In the end, there was still a lot of emotions piled up and they were not resolved at all, which made Shen Santong feel extremely heavy when he left the cinema.

The protagonist of this drama is a very good character, a hero with flaws.

But until the end, he is still a hero.

He has not completed the transformation from a hero to an ordinary person, and is still a diplomat, not an ordinary person.

There are three emotional low points in the film.

The death of colleague Zhang Chu.

Death of a foreign driver.

The little girl was pulled out and not allowed to leave.

There were three more intense moments afterwards, playing Russian roulette with the military leaders.

The revolver has six bullets, three for each character. Every time the protagonist Zong Dawei, played by Zhang Yi, fires a shot, a lot of emotions are accumulated.

Because he fired the sixth bullet last, the male protagonist didn't know that there was no bullet in the revolver and thought he was going to die.

Three emotional lows, three shootings, and a lot of emotional accumulation.

There is no release, and it's very frustrating.

The old Chinese built refineries, power stations, hospitals and schools for the local country.

A military unrest, gone in an instant.

No struggle or resistance, just go home, that's all.

The protagonist tries his best to practice diplomacy, which is very hard and involves sacrifices, but still feels aggrieved.

Ultimately, military unrest cannot be resolved through diplomacy; it requires warships and peacekeeping forces.

It would have been completely reasonable for the Chinese peacekeeping force to intervene in the neutral zone, but it didn't.

At the end of the movie, when the protagonist returns to BJ from the war zone, he has one more chance to be released.

For example, when BJ was stuck in traffic and fireworks were exploding, passers-by were taking pictures with their mobile phones, but the male protagonist reacted immediately by holding his head and looking for cover.

Then I realized that I was back in BJ. Seeing the people around me watching the fireworks with great interest, I started crying.

I cried my heart out, with complicated, sad and happy feelings.

Who says men can’t cry? Men can cry too.

I thought about my colleagues who would never come back, the foreign drivers who had never lived in a peaceful place in their entire lives, and so much more.

cry.

Let your emotions out.

Then, it’s the New Year.

A young man was crying, and the uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters of old BJ were all very concerned about him.

Seeing him in a suit and tie, I thought something had happened to him and he couldn't go home, so I comforted him considerately.

"Are you homesick, young man?"

“Is it work pressure?”

"Lost in love?"

"Is there a rent issue?"
It would have been fine if you didn’t ask. Every time I asked, I cried even harder.

All the pressure that seemed so great in the past now seems like nothing.

What a blessing it is to be able to worry about trivial matters.

Don't be afraid of bullets flying from nowhere, don't be afraid that people around you will die suddenly, and don't worry about not being able to protect those around you.
Just like the Pakistanis envy their Chinese colleagues, complaining about square dancing and this and that.

I watch the video of the Chinese military parade over and over again, and I really want to have a normal life.

Born in Gaza, he learned to imitate animals since he was a child just to get water from the guards.

After leaving the place where I was born, my family told me never to come back.

During the bombing, while running around to get visas for my family, I received the news that all my family members had died.

In the end, even though he knew he would die, he still returned to his hometown.

By crying, the actor completes the transformation from a hero to an ordinary person, gets closer to the audience, and allows the audience to empathize, experience, and perceive.

The film's perspective goes beyond diplomacy and reaches out to the general public.

Completely release the emotions of the three low points and the three Russian roulette shots, and complete the return from hero to human being.

But "The Journey Home" does not have that, and the creators leave a lot of emotions for the audience to digest on their own.

Kneeling in truth.

It's fine if it's true, but it's not completely true either.

Wang Junkai is distracting. His face is suitable for music videos but not for movies.

There is another shot where Shen Santong was in the cinema and was so excited. Zong Dawei, played by Zhang Yi, handed over 100 people to Cheng Lang, played by Wang Junkai. After many days of sleeping in the open, a man was shouting with a loudspeaker at night. When Shen Santong was in the cinema, he shuddered and his beard was shaved.

Beard, Wang Junkai has grown a beard.

At that moment, Shen Santong felt that he had wronged the film's creators. Wang Junkai acted well and the play was well choreographed.

Physical maturity reflects psychological maturity. After going through the trials of blood and fire, the diplomatic recruits became veteran soldiers.

Wang Junkai’s previous performance was not abrupt.

Then, the camera cut away, and Shen Santong fainted on the spot.

It’s not Wang Junkai, it’s another character.

Wang Junkai still has no beard.

Logically, he is set to be in his early twenties in the movie, and after such a stressful evacuation and escape, he should have grown a beard.

It just didn’t grow.

And Li Chen also distracts people from the show and destroys the realism of the movie.

Kneeling in reality and yet unreal.

"A Thousand Miles Home" is a good movie.

If it was a bad movie, Shen Santong wouldn't remember it so clearly.

The creators made the film so well, with great care in the plot flow and props, but it's just not satisfying.

When Shen Santong read novels, he found that some authors had very realistic plots. When the protagonist was in a disadvantageous situation, the writing was very exciting and the plot had many twists and turns.

But when the protagonist gains the upper hand and feels happy, he completely ignores reality.

He was very restrained and just mentioned it in passing, for fear that the readers would be satisfied and feel angry.

So in "Happy Birthday", Shen Santong paid great attention to the audience's emotions.

The mother and daughter's perspectives are exchanged, and it seems that the perspective has changed to the mother's, but in fact it has entered the audience's perspective.

The film's perspective changed from emphasizing the heroine as an individual to "mother's daughter" and "mother's child", and her identity changed to "child".

Children, everyone is their parents’ child.

The audience feels that it is not a special heroine, but a universal child in which everyone can see themselves.

The perspective suddenly got closer to the audience, and the characters became grounded and integrated into the audience group.

Shen Santong's understanding of movies is that if movies, especially theater movies, want to make money from the audience, they must come from the audience and go to the audience, and they must be worthy of the audience's movie tickets.

Nothing else, just basic professional ethics.

noon.

The crew’s wrap party.

Compared to the supermarket crew, Shen Santong felt much more relaxed.

He didn't have to do everything himself, he just focused on checking the film materials.

Other work, including equipment, venue rental, fee settlement, etc., will be handled by dedicated personnel.

The "Happy Birthday" crew had a peak of 200 people, but most of them have already left.

However, everything has a beginning and an end, and a sense of ceremony is very important.

Shen Santong said without pretense, "Thank you, thank you everyone for sticking to the end. The finance department will have red envelopes later. Everyone, eat and drink well. I'll have one first."

There is no need to be pretentious, just be happy.

Shen Santong did not drink alcohol during the filming, but made an exception at the wrap-up party and drank it all in one gulp.

"it is good!"

The atmosphere was very lively.

Working in Shen San Tong’s crew is indeed tiring. It’s okay in Hong Kong Island, but I’m a little uncomfortable with the mainland.

It's just that I'm not used to it. But when I start working and eat this bowl of rice, I'm mentally prepared.

In life, money is not easy to make, you have to grit your teeth and get through it.

All good things must come to an end. The wrap party ended, announcing the disbandment of the "Happy Birthday" crew and the transition to post-production.

Shen Santong felt a little dizzy. Whenever someone toasted him, he would drink with them, one sip at a time. But after a few rounds, he drank quite a lot.

When I returned to the hotel, I saw Li Yu and wanted to approach him immediately.

"Director Shen, my sister wants to see you."

Li Yu was shocked. She hadn't told her sister about herself and Shen Santong yet.

She wanted to find a good opportunity to talk about it, but because of the rivalry between Li Bingbing and Zhang Jingchu, she was severely punished and lied, saying that she didn't even join the crew.

Actually, I got in, but was knocked out in the hotel.

And sister?

Shen Santong's eyes lit up, the crew was disbanded, so come on, sugar-coated bullets!

Female celebrities don’t have to respect themselves anymore, they can do it automatically.

Is Ice and Snow Legend finally going to become Mixue Ice City?
Shen Santong said he loves to drink!
(End of this chapter)