From collapsed house idol to entertainment superstar

As Ding Zhi said, the attendance rate of the audience in the broadcast hall they were in was really not high, and most of the people they saw were young people in their twenties and thirties.

This is also a serious constraint for "Operation Red Sea" during the Spring Festival.

In addition to poor marketing, the sluggish pre-sales performance of "Operation Red Sea" has a lot to do with the film's bloody nature.

In the trailer of "Operation Red Sea", shots of severed limbs, broken arms, fingers, ears and other flesh and blood can be seen everywhere. This will definitely test the psychological quality of the audience, and will also scare away some viewers.

During the Spring Festival, family-friendly movies will have more advantages, and the proportion of adults and children watching together will be higher than usual.

As for "Operation Red Sea", which has overly bloody scenes, it may restrict the box office's coverage of all ages to a certain extent. Many parents may not be able to take their children to watch it together and give priority to other movies.

The theater where Ding Zhi and Zou Yutong are now is located in a relatively prosperous area of ​​Kyoto, and it is also relatively representative.

If the attendance here is not ideal, it actually means that the first-day attendance of major theaters should also be not ideal.

But Ding Zhi just gave it a little thought. After all, the cold reception on the first day was actually something that the film crew, including Ding Zhi, had anticipated.

After the commercials on the screen finished playing and the main film entered, Ding Zhi and Zou Yutong stopped chatting and began to watch attentively.

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The main film begins.

"Go to the safety cabin quickly!"

Several people dressed as sailors fled hurriedly in the narrow passage corridor.

"Don't run! If you run again, we'll shoot!"

Behind him, several dark-skinned foreigners who were chirping and singing the songs of birds were shouting randomly from behind.

The subtitles also thoughtfully indicate the words (Somali).

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Soon, after the "warning failed", these black men who were dressed in extremely weird clothes began to shoot.

The opening of the movie is extremely tense, a typical crisis start.

Moreover, the narrative is not sloppy, and the cause and effect of the incident are explained within the first few minutes.

Our merchant ship Yangcheng was hijacked by Somali pirates in the sea, and some crew members were even injured or killed.

To this end, our fleet made an emergency dispatch and sent three dragon teams to successfully infiltrate the hijacked merchant ship.

There was originally a bit of rustling noise in the cinema when it opened, but as the film started nervously, the audience gradually became immersed in it, leaving only the surround speakers on both sides of the screening room.

That tense background music.

Yang Rui, the captain of the Dragon Team played by Ding Zhi, also appeared at the beginning of the film.

"Position No. 1 reports the situation!"

Ding Zhi's highly recognizable voice came out at the same time.

"There were three pirates in the cab holding 15 hostages."

The camera flashed across a corner of the ship's deck. Several members of the Dragon Team, wearing equipment and holding weapons tightly, with calm and focused eyes, were lurking in the dark, ready to break in with an order and rescue the hostages.

It can be said that Lin Chaoxian is very familiar with this type of film.

In the tense background music, the audience's attention is instantly captured.

Soon, Luo Xing, the sniper of the Jiaolong Team on the helicopter, took aim at the gangster in the cockpit and pulled the trigger.

Here, Lin Chaoxian played a fancy job and created a real "bullet time".

On the screen, the sniper pulls the trigger, and the bullet pours out of the muzzle amidst the sound of firing and the explosion of gunpowder, and then "tick-tick-tick", a sound similar to the movement of the second hand is amplified to the extreme.

The time of everything in the world seems to be frozen.

The bullet rippled in the air, and then penetrated into the middle of the forehead of the gangster who was holding the hostage.

This gunshot was the signal to launch a general attack. At the same time, all the Jiaolong members lurking inside filed in and quickly eliminated the other pirates.

At this time, a pirate who killed many crew members seized a small boat and planned to take advantage of the chaos to escape.

Sniper Luo Xing, who had just initiated the general attack signal, immediately volunteered with captain Yang Ruimao to take a helicopter to hunt down the fleeing pirate.

The direction in which the escaping pirates drove the small boat was the waters of other countries where there were many pirates and the situation was complicated.

After Luo Xing promised that he would catch up with the pirate before entering other countries' waters.

Captain Yang Rui hesitated again and again, and after urging the other party to be careful, he approved his action.

In the tense background,

Sniper Luo Xing finally succeeded in knocking out the power unit of the pirate boat before the pirates were about to cross the waters of another country.

But at the same time, three pirate speedboats appeared in the sea not far away to meet the gangsters.

After a fierce battle, the pirates were finally captured and brought to justice.

However, in order to cover our speedboat that came to capture the escaping pirates, Luo Xing was hit by the opponent's bullet during the gunfight.

"Awesome!"

The audience in the cinema finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In this short opening chapter, the plot of the story develops with twists and turns.

At the same time, the audience did not completely let go of their hearts, and still worried about the injured sniper.

There was even a small discussion.

Ding Zhi, who was sitting in the corner, heard Zou Yutong next to him let out a sigh of relief.

It has to be said that there is a reason why Lin Chaoxian was chosen to shoot such a big production.

The first crisis and small climax that struck at the beginning of the chapter came to an end, and the duration was only about ten minutes.

In just ten minutes, a rescue incident was told very well, the atmosphere was tense, the narrative method was sophisticated, and there was no trace of sloppiness.

Except that the picture may be a bit realistic and bloody, there is basically not much controversy, and this kind of realism just touched the hearts of many young viewers at the scene.

The following story is not as perfect as the family theater.

Sniper Luo Xing was hit in the spinal nerve and paralyzed. Although his life was not in danger, he could no longer return to the team.

It started with a small stab of the knife, which made many viewers frown.

"sharp!"

Zou Yutong's beautiful eyes wandered around Ding Zhi's face, then he came closer and praised in a low voice.

On the screen at this time, captain Yang Rui was playing a conversation with his boss.

At this time, Yang Rui concealed the truth about Luo Xing's paralysis from other team members, but his boss accused him of being too protective of the team members.

This is also the first time that Yang Rui, as the first protagonist, appears in a more emotional scene.

I have to say that in "Operation Red Sea", all the actors on the screen went through a long period of military training before filming started, and the most outstanding one was Ding Zhi.

You know, just a while ago, the image of cowardice and good at disguise played by Ding Zhi in the short film "The Tuner" was still in the hearts of many viewers.

At this time, he was wearing a military uniform, but he was able to convince everyone at once that this is what a special operations team member, especially the captain of a special operations team, should look like.

Serious, resolute, and capable, but without losing his warmth towards his teammates.

I don’t know if Ms. Zou’s “amazing” comment was due to her admiration for Lin Chaoxian’s directorial skills, her admiration for Ding Zhi’s performance, or both.

"But the only thing wrong is..."

"What's wrong?"

"I can't remember the characters. Except for you."

Ding Zhi grinned. As an actor who already had her own understanding of performance, Miss Zou actually had a very sensitive sense of touch. She immediately caught a suspected "flaw" in just ten minutes from the beginning.

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But Ding Zhi actually realized this problem earlier than Zou Yutong.

Not only the two of them, but even the general audience around them vaguely felt that, except for Ding Zhi, the other characters were actually a bit "homogeneous".

In fact, the same goes for Ding Zhi. The Yang Rui he played will be remembered largely because of his "familiar face". To be honest, other team members besides him don't have much memory.

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This seems to be what many people often say, "the characters are not standing up".

But that was not the case. Ding Zhi and Lin Chaoxian discussed this issue during filming.

In fact, generally speaking, this kind of military-themed movies either place all the rhythm and supporting points of the narrative on individual protagonists.

The most typical one is our real-life "Wolf Warrior" series.

The other is to take group portraits, which do not have a specific protagonist, but more about the choices and journeys made by each individual character in a big era or trend.

The most typical one is "Eight Hundred".

And "Operation Red Sea" is neither of these two.

At that time, Lin Chaoxian cited the viewpoint of "individual hero" and "collectivism".

To put it bluntly, he does not want to photograph "individual heroes", but "collectivism".

Not all rhythms and supporting points focus on the captain played by Ding Zhi, nor is it a traditional group portrait that spreads to other team members.

Rather, the eight members of the Jiaolong Commando team together are the protagonists themselves.

That's why Lin Chaoxian had the guts to choose mostly new or unknown actors to play the main roles.

This is actually not a common attempt, but whether it can be accepted by the audience still depends on the market response.

"Keep watching, you may have a different experience."

On the screen, the plot continues.

As soon as the scene changed, the heroine of the whole drama finally appeared, that is the female reporter Xia Nan played by Huang Yi.

Xia Nan is a reporter for an international newspaper. She has been reporting news in dangerous war-torn areas all year round. This time, she learned another news from her assistant’s informant, that is, there was a rebellion in the Republic of Ivia.

, the extremist organization has information about this batch of yellow cakes.

Yellow cake is undoubtedly a necessary raw material for making a "dirty bomb" with nuclear contamination capabilities.

Once this batch of yellow cakes is obtained by those extremist organizations, it will surely be another major threat to world security.

This leads to the biggest main plot in this film-the rebellion of the Republic of Ivia and the Yellowcake Crisis.

Obviously, this is a two-line narrative story.

This is also a common narrative device in genre films. The last two lines will definitely converge and point to the same goal.

While female reporter Xia Nan was arguing with her newspaper boss to provide first-hand news materials to go to the Republic of Ivia, exposing the conspiracy of this rebel extremist organization, the Jiaolong Commando also received orders from their superiors.

It was an urgent notice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking their fleet to go to the Republic of Ivia to pick up and escort the local overseas Chinese back to the country.

At this time, the Jiaolong team, which was short of members due to the injury of sniper Luo Xing, also welcomed a new sniper teammate, officially completing the entire team before departure.

The perspective comes to the Republic of Ivia.

The territory of the Republic of Ivia, which has been shrouded in flames of war, especially the war zones, is full of smoke and the remains of houses after bombing.

With the help of the local government and the embassy, ​​a large number of overseas Chinese have moved to the port, waiting for the arrival of the fleet.

However, when He Qingliu, the consul of the local embassy, ​​was evacuating the port with the last group of overseas Chinese, he was forced into the war zone with ulterior motives by the enemy.

The assisting personnel of the local government forces were gone on the spot, leaving our armed members to protect the unarmed expatriates, who were forced to hide in an abandoned factory to protect themselves.

The members of the embassy and the last group of expatriates were suddenly plunged into critical danger.

Not long after the emotions of the movie theater audience had calmed down from the operation of the Jiaolong Commando to rescue the merchant ship and capture the pirates, they immediately entered an extremely tense state again.

There was not a single unnecessary shot or line, and the whole process was high-energy and without any irritation, which made everyone's hearts lift.

Zou Yutong, who just now was "complaining" about his poor characterization, was now looking at the movie screen attentively, as if he was afraid of missing a scene.

The Jiaolong Commando marched quickly and soon arrived at the Republic of Ivia.

Because the streets were blocked, the members of the Jiaolong Team were unable to drive the convoy directly in for rescue. Here, Ding Zhi and the others on the screen showed the audience what the special forces team's penetration and attack capabilities are.

Snipers and observers first find the commanding heights and support our team members below from a high position.

Machine gunners and demolitioners established defensive lines on the left and right sides. Captain Yang Rui led the rest of the team members to quickly pass through other abandoned buildings, using roofs, slings and other means to bypass the enemy's key defense areas and quickly approach our blocked areas.

Embassy members and overseas Chinese trapped in an abandoned factory.

The movements of all the characters here are clean and neat, just like real special operations team members.

This is the instinctive reaction formed by Ding Zhi and the other actors after training over and over again during those five long months.

Some people were injured or fractured during training, and they even continued to shoot.

There are no stand-ins or martial arts in this film. The actors are required to complete all the actions themselves, and the visual effects displayed on the screen are extraordinary.

At this time, the audience in the theater no longer struggled with which character corresponded to which character. Even Ding Zhi's dazzling face did not arouse any other thoughts in their hearts.

All the audience's attention was focused on the familiar special operations team members in gray-yellow uniforms.

At this moment, they are neither characters nor actors. In the eyes of the audience, they only see the real special forces fighting bravely to save the overseas Chinese!