Director’s Legend

On the afternoon of August 6th, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was being screened at the AMC Times Square Cinema in New York, USA. Hall 1 is already full of people, chatting and bragging, waiting for the movie to be shown.

"I bet this movie is definitely not as good as the old version of "Planet of the Apes." A young man with red hair shouted.

"You can bet without watching it. Shao Shuaijun is a very good director, and he will definitely not make a bad film." Another young man with yellow hair next to him said.

"Come on, what's so great about that Chinese guy? Except for "Inception", he doesn't care much about him. He can even be called a Hollywood twin star with Nolan. Has our media brains been flooded? "

"To be honest, I don't think Nolan is necessarily as good as Shao Shuaijun. Nolan's output is not high, and the subject matter is also more dark. Shao Shuaijun is ten or twenty years younger than Nolan, and the movies he directed are almost Nolan's. Twice, and, except for one "Night Watchman" which lost money because it just came into contact with Hollywood, the rest of the movies are very popular."

"There isn't even a billion-dollar movie, so that's a blockbuster?"

"Does it have to reach a billion dollars to be called a blockbuster? "Teddy Bear" cost less than 50 million dollars, and the global $613 million, setting an R-rated comedy box office record, isn't this called a blockbuster. "Inception" is a very popular movie. The sequel, which is not a prequel, is $922.5 million worldwide. Isn’t that a blockbuster? There is also a so-so Chinese movie “Old Boy”, which broke a number of box office records in Asia with a global $321 million. Isn’t this also a hit? Mo's 500 Days" and "Pounding Heartbeat" are small productions with a cost of tens of millions. "Source Code" and "Painted Skin" are also small and pitiful. There is also "Buried Alive", which costs 10,000 US dollars. It was filmed, and it grossed more than 20 million U.S. dollars at the box office." The blond-haired young man said eloquently.

The red-haired young man stared exaggeratedly: "Please, you have been brainwashed by the Chinese, and you really believe that Shao Shuaijun is the representative of the American dream? Shit, the reporters are all raised by female cousins, and the Chinese give them money. They are like Wagging its tail like a dog!"

"Your prejudice against China is too deep. Movies do not know national boundaries. A good director is worthy of our liking. Bill Gates still has his mother to take care of him. Shao Shuaijun is completely self-made. He can use his talent to conquer any problem, no matter what Whether it's business or film."

"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, you are too poisoned."

"If you don't believe me, let's make a bet. Can this "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" surpass the previous work! As long as it is not inferior to the previous work, you admit that Shao Shuaijun is an excellent director. If it is not as good as the previous work, I will think I am blind, how about it? "

The red-headed young man snorted coldly: "It's a bet. But how can we prove whether it has lost or won?"

"When the show is over, listen to everyone's applause. If the applause is loud, it means success. If the applause is sparse, it means failure. How about it?"

"Okay! You just wait to be blind!"

The two whispered a bet, and the movie started to be released at this time.

After Summit Entertainment's logo passed, there was an aerial shot of the forest. At first, the big screen was quiet, a serene picture. Then the camera looked down, and a group of orangutans passed through the forest. Suddenly, a large group of birds flew by, and an orangutan raised his head curiously, with innocent eyes.

In the next second, a scene of humans hunting orangutans was staged. The chimpanzees fled blindly, but were finally arrested one by one and put into iron cages. The escaped chimpanzee watched from a distance as the cage was loaded into the car and drove away.

And on the window of the cage, the eyes of a chimpanzee with an unknown emotion.

The close-up of the eyes is enlarged, suddenly occupying the entire screen, and the impact is shocking.

The movie theater, which was still noisy, fell silent after the chimpanzee was arrested.

The red-haired youth snorted disdainfully.

In the shot, black pupils cover the entire screen, and then the close-up shot slowly zooms out, turning into the eyes of another chimpanzee. This chimpanzee is playing the Lux Tower game with a collar chain. The chimpanzee miraculously follows the rules and successfully completes the Lux Tower.

Looking at the vivid chimpanzee, a small audience even said in surprise: "Where did you find the chimpanzee as an actor, so smart?"

No one answered, everyone was watching the movie intently.

Dr. Will invented a drug "alz-112", which can help the brain to restore health. They conducted experiments on chimpanzees and helped a chimpanzee to greatly improve its IQ. So he decided to experiment on the human body. When Will was making a speech to the board of directors, the chimpanzee suddenly went crazy and disrupted the meeting.

The security guard shot the chimpanzee to death, and declared the drug plan bankrupt. The entire experimental plan was cut off, and the president ordered the laboratory to euthanize all the chimpanzees.

While packing up, the researchers unexpectedly discovered that the chimpanzee's madness was because it had given birth. Will's assistant couldn't bear to kill the young chimpanzee and couldn't find a place to put it, so he asked Will to take care of it temporarily. Will then took the baby chimpanzee home.

Will's father liked this little thing very much and named it "Caesar", but he suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which is also the original intention of Will to study "alz-112". It can be said that the whole beginning is not amazing, but the chimpanzee image created by relying on special effects, and the fast-moving plot successfully captured the hearts of the audience.

Then the camera progressed faster and more joyfully. Caesar gradually grew into a big guy from a young age, and his intelligence also advanced by leaps and bounds. All kinds of performances made the audience exclaim, and the laughter and exclamation filled a plot.

"Caesar is so cute, it's so fun, I can't believe it's made with special effects, it's no different from the real thing!"

"It would be nice to have an orangutan."

But the plot did not keep the audience entertained for a long time. Will's father's dementia was getting worse and worse. Will couldn't bear to see his father being tortured by the disease, so he stole a few "alz-112" from the laboratory and gave them to his father. Injected. The young Caesar saw the whole process.

Then Will's father miraculously recovered his health, and his intelligence was also greatly improved. Will was overjoyed and decided to re-propose the research on alz-112. At this time, Caesar was no longer satisfied with staying at home and wanted to sneak out to play, but the neighbors regarded him as a danger and injured him.

"It's over, Caesar must hold grudges. If humans don't treat it well, it will definitely rebel in the future!" An audience member said worriedly, which shows that it has been completely substituted into the plot of the movie.

The audience happened to be sitting next to the red-haired young man, who nodded unconsciously: "That's right, Caesar will fight humans in the end, this is the incentive..." Suddenly remembered something, and said sourly , "However, I feel that it is a bit sloppy and nothing new to deal with it this way."

But the audience next to him didn't hear his sour words, they were grinning.

Because in the movie Will took Caesar to bandage the wound, Caesar actually helped Will pick up girls, and this was the first time the protagonists and heroines met. Then, under Caesar's promotion, Will and Caroline really got together. Under Caroline's suggestion, Will decided to take Caesar to the mangrove forest in the park and let Caesar play freely.

When Will untied Caesar's chain, Caesar hesitated. Encouraged by Will's father, Caesar knelt down and held out his palm to Will. This is a chimpanzee gesture of petition, meaning to ask for permission. Will stroked Caesar's palm with his hand, and Caesar ran towards the mangrove.

"Cool!" an audience exclaimed.

There are even cooler ones below. Caesar climbed a big tree and jumped up and down on the tree. Spring, dawn, autumn and winter, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, four seasons of cold and heat, Caesar grew up like this, wearing a red T-shirt, spending money to his heart's content Belongs to its youth. The whole shot is Andy Serkis making moves indoors, and the CG special effects are combined with the background shooting to create a spectacular picture.

"so cool!"

"Handsome!"

"Caesar is so handsome!"

"This shot is definitely the coolest shot of the year. I have never thought that an orangutan is more handsome than a human!"

The exclamations in the movie theater came one after another, and even the red-haired young man couldn't help but clenched his fists, completely forgetting his contempt for Shao Shuaijun, and exclaimed together with the audience. In particular, Caesar stood on the top of a tree in the sun, overlooking San Francisco in the distance and the smoky Golden Gate Bridge. The camera was full of majestic atmosphere.

It makes people unable to vent their emotions without following the camera.

Five years later, Caesar looked at Will and Caroline's intimate movements under the big tree, and seemed to feel a kind of loneliness and out of place. Especially when they were away, the family came to play with a dog, and the dog barked at Caesar, and Caesar noticed that the dog had a chain around its neck, and it had a chain around its own neck.

In the movie theater, the audience lowered their breaths, as if following Caesar's discovery, they were worried. The audience who rushed to watch "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" for the first time are basically fans of the old version of "Planet of the Apes". They know the ending of the whole story and know that sooner or later Caesar and humans will go to war.

Seeing such a shot, the audience seemed to be holding their breath.

And then Caesar no longer sat in the trunk of the car, but sat in the back seat, asked Will in sign language if it was a pet, and even asked where its mother was, which made the audience depressed and worried, and the theme of the movie also Here, gradually sublimated. Caesar has a personality, he is no longer "it"!

"The movie is finally here, and it is finally going to be fascinating." The mixed film critics in the movie theater couldn't hold back their excitement, put down their notebooks, and started watching the movie intently.

When a movie conquers the books of film critics, then the movie is not far from success! (to be continued..)