The entertainment industry shouldn't be like this

Chapter 128 The Best Stir-Fried Shredded Potatoes
Of course, if it’s not funny or something like refunding tickets, Wang Wei just talked about it in front of Lao Wang.

Anyway, he was determined not to waver in his vacation, and he didn't have any intention of "making a lot of noise".

Lao Wang could only adjust the strategy for the Spring Festival file while complaining, but this did not affect the movie's release as scheduled.

Therefore, on January 1, "Charlotte Annoyance" was officially released nationwide.

At [-]:[-] p.m., a movie theater in the capital.

Film critic Charlotte enters and sits down.

This is a medium-sized auditorium with about 120 seats. While the lights were still on, he subconsciously glanced around and found that the attendance rate was quite low, at most a quarter of the seats were filled. .

This is not surprising at all, he even felt that the attendance rate of [-]/[-] was beyond expectations.

First of all, the name "Charlotte Annoyance" is not very attractive.

——He definitely didn't complain about the protagonist's fame, in fact, he thought it was at first, "Charlotte, trouble".After watching the trailer, I realized that it was "Charlotte, I am very troubled", and the protagonist has the same name as him.

In the trailer, the phrase "Your fucking name is Charlotte", if he hadn't maintained a good relationship with Dunhuang, he would have thought it was deliberately targeting him, someone Xia.

Secondly, today is the 27th of the twelfth lunar month. Everyone is busy going home for a reunion, or busy preparing new year's goods. It is a ghost that it is chosen to be released on such a date, and the attendance rate is good!

He would not have chosen to watch a movie today if he, Xia, hadn't been hired by the newspaper to write a story on the first day of the new year, and he estimated that there was a high probability that he would not be free after the next year.

Well, as an industry insider, he can more or less guess why Dunhuang chose to release it before the official Spring Festival holiday.

——Before the festival is the time for word-of-mouth to ferment. After the word-of-mouth has fermented, it will be the first day of the Lunar New Year that the curtain of the Spring Festival stalls will really kick off.

"It seems that both Dunhuang and the theaters have a lot of confidence in this movie!" Charlotte said to herself.

You must know that many people in the industry believe that the impact of this wave of movie ticket price hikes may last for several months to dissipate-after all, after the Spring Festival every year, until the summer holidays are warmed up in May, the market is originally a cold period. .

As far as Charlotte himself is concerned, he hopes that there will be a movie that will bring the market to market - the market has always been so deserted, and no one cares about whether the film critics are talking about it or blowing it up.

In this mood with a certain expectation, the lights went out and the movie started.

Then, Charlotte was pleasantly surprised to find that the movie captured the audience's attention almost from the first shot.

For film critics who have read countless films, the plot is easy to guess——

The protagonist Xia Luo accidentally travels through time and space, and returns to the classroom of her student days. She beats up the teacher violently, chases the goddess angrily, and undergoes tremendous changes in her life, but her heart becomes more and more empty... Finally, Huang Liang has a dream and suddenly wakes up.

You can guess this kind of routine just by reading the beginning. After all, movies are the art of routines, and most movies follow a few routines to develop forward; do.

Charlotte will not feel disgusted or bored with the film itself just because he guessed the general plot trend. What he values ​​more is whether the film can still attract his attention under the premise of "guessing the routine". .

Of course, for comedy, the most important thing is whether the laughter can be naturally integrated with the plot, instead of deliberately creating embarrassing jokes or piling up cheap jokes.

There is no doubt that this movie does a great job at this point!
The creators know how to set up laughing points to keep the audience laughing--language, situation, and even visual. The whole movie is full of laughs.

For example, Charlotte's most impressive soundtrack "One Cut Plum".

This is obviously an adaptation, but I have to say, the effect of the adaptation is super good.

In the movie, every time Yuan Hua was hit, the magical "Yijianmei" sounded like a pinch. Finally, when he saw the image of Yuan Hua, the film critic Xia Luo automatically played this melody in his mind, interrupting his thoughts repeatedly .

In addition, the magical lines are endless.

"We two talk about each other, you call me dad, I call you brother", "Ma Dong, what Dongmei, Ma what plum"...

The film's laughs are so dense that as long as you dare to linger on one joke, you will definitely miss the next one.

Charlotte originally wanted to count the number of times the audience roared with laughter.

This is the best standard for judging the quality of a comedy film-the audience laughed, and laughed out loud, preferably from the beginning to the end, then such a comedy film must have good reputation and box office!
In the end, though, he gave up statistics because it didn't make sense anymore.

The audience laughed like crazy!

Throughout the movie watching process, there were countless laughs that were impossible to guard against, making the audience uncontrollably "hahahaha"!
Even in some very tragic or tragic moments, the audience laughed even louder!
Charlotte saw that when Yuan Hua was under the telephone booth, looking up at the sky with tears in his eyes at a 45-degree angle, and yelling "No", at the same time, the music started, the snow was flying, "Snowflakes are fluttering and the north wind is rustling", the spoof to the extreme , the laughter also reached the highest point of the audience.

The two female spectators sitting in the row in front of him were laughing completely out of control. They were shaking each other's bodies crazily. The popcorn buckets they were holding couldn't bear the madness. down.

After all, Charlotte is old and has a good laugh, not so crazy, but he was infected by the atmosphere, smiled naturally, and saw the end of the movie without knowing it.

It was not until the end credits came out that Charlotte regained her thinking——

In fact, the subject matter of this film is very vulgar, and the plot is clichéd.

But none of these can conceal the excellent nature of the work.

Most of the laughs in comedy come from the absurdity, and even bloom on the pain-shit, pee, and fart are also a kind of absurdity. The key is to grasp the proportion of feces, pee, and fart, and not just stay in the lower body.

The movie manages well above that, without falling overtly into the sleazy.

Every joke is natural but full of jokes, and every irony is light but full of aftertaste.

Charlotte doesn't think it's all due to the actors and directors.

At least half of the credit is due to the script, the screenwriter Wang Wei!
This reconfirmed one of Charlotte's ideas - he believed that Wang Wei's screenwriting ability even surpassed his director ability!

While thinking, the lights came on, and Charlotte immediately took out her notebook and wrote it down.

After a pause, he continued to write like a diarrhea——

"It's not difficult to make good dishes with good ingredients, but what's rare is to use the most common ingredients to make delicious dishes that make people full of praise.

This movie is not a big fish or meat, but it is undoubtedly the best fried potato shreds I have eaten this year, it is very suitable for Chinese New Year..."

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(End of this chapter)