Electric Phantom [Entertainment]

Huo Bijun is well-known as an idol. He acted in many romantic movies in his early years. He is the dream lover of many female fans. The characters he plays are similar in personality, so he has not been recognized by the mainstream authoritative awards in the industry.

He didn't seem to care. He once compared himself with Leonardo in Hollywood. Good-looking people always have a bumpy road to winning awards.

After falling in love with He Chenying and getting married, he won the Golden Phoenix Award and the Huading Award as the double best actor for a transformational role, but many people said that his double best actor is too watery.

After breaking up amicably with He Chenying, he became a director, and his talent as a director was recognized earlier than his acting skills.

Although there are only two works, he directed, acted and edited himself, and he is the best commercial film director in the industry in terms of word of mouth and box office.

Huo Bijun did not expect "Huo 3" (later renamed "Long Night") to be favored by the official Venice film company. Recall that the first film was invested by himself and his friends, and the second film was invested by Yaowei Media—the two films The box office reputation was good, but after the third script of his was polished, several companies that had planned to invest in it regressed.

The reason is that it is not light enough, too heavy, and its market is not optimistic.

Huo Bijun originally wanted to find a big company to invest in, but the producer wanted to change the script as soon as he saw it. He couldn't bear it, so he bit the pressure, together with his friends, and spent a lot of effort to persuade Yaowei Media, the investor of the second film, to invest in the third film again.

When choosing the heroine, he purposely made a big noise and interviewed all the young female roles under the age of 28 in the circle. The psychology of choosing an "actress", on the other hand, also took the opportunity to create some pre-publicity enthusiasm.

He was very satisfied with Xiang Xiaoyuan, the heroine, and it was a surprise to invite Zeng Li.

After the filming was completed and integrated, the budget exceeded a bit. Huo Bijun was also confident in the quality of the finished film, so he started looking for a distributor.Not long after his character exploded, Lu Hua took a fancy to his film and wanted to cooperate with him, becoming the exclusive distributor. Huo Bijun had always wanted to cooperate with Lu Hua, but this time he was really hit by the big cake.

Lu Hua is responsible for the promotion of the film, scheduling, and purchasing advertisements. It has theaters under its umbrella, and it is a one-stop arrangement and service.

Lu Hua also became a joint producer with Yaowei, and "Long Night" was recommended by Lu Hua to participate in the Venice Film Festival. After being evaluated by Venice experts, it entered the non-competition unit.

This is not an ordinary pancake, this is a super luxurious golden pancake, which made Huo Bijun dizzy.

After the movie went to Venice, Yaowei couldn't hold back the ecstasy in his heart. Before it was released in China, he anxiously cooperated with some miscellaneous marketing accounts to issue some publicity drafts, predicting that "Long Night" would sweep all major domestic movie awards, Take whatever actor or actress you want, and flirt with other actors to Xiaoyuan.

These drafts are not in the same tone as Lu Huading's publicity and marketing strategy, and the two parties even had a dispute.

One side belongs to Yaowei, the producer investor who supported him at the beginning, and the other side is the co-producer and publisher Luhua, who is rich and powerful, and has his own marketing and publicity department. Huo Bijun is not easy to offend anyone, and he agrees with Luhua's publicity strategy. But he didn't think there was anything wrong with Yaowei's "headline party" marketing strategy, he could only mediate from it, and he was most worried that Lu Hua would let him go and leave him alone.

To his surprise, although Lu Huafang was angry, he was still easy to talk to.

He had dinner with Lu Hua's distribution director and publicity director in private. The two directors got drunk and leaked some inside information—our boss attaches great importance to the "Long Night" project, so take it to heart, and Ah, we won't hype any gossip about the heroine, it's not negotiable.

Huo Bijun always felt that the gold content of this big cake was too high, and he couldn't detect anything wrong, anyway, it was exactly what he wanted, so why not do it?

On the day of the screening ceremony, he was wearing a new custom-made suit, full of vigor and high spirits, talking to the full house of media reporters, movie fans, colleagues in the industry, and lucky audience.

Duo Miaojiang, as a big V of film and television blogger, a celebrity at station B, and Lao Zhang, as a contributor to a senior fan column, both received invitations from the film studio to watch the screening.

Duo Miao Jiang whispered to Lao Zhang: "Fortunately, the host persuaded our 'Flower Peacock' director in time, otherwise we don't know when he will talk about it."

Lao Zhang echoed: "That should not be the case. He knows the process, so he is more proud."

"It's so proud haha." Duo Miaojiang raised his glasses up, "My psychological expectations for this movie are extremely high now, and I am worried that I will be disappointed later."

They all knew before watching the movie that this is a suspenseful revenge story, and the stories are all adapted from real cases.

At the beginning of the film, it cuts into the "Yang Yi case" in which a teacher molested and raped many female students. The pace is very fast. Frowning from the start.

When Xiang Xiaoyuan's appearance made the audience's eyes shine, and then they felt distressed.

She was wearing a pink sweater, white trousers, half-length hair draped over her shoulders, and she was sitting vulnerable in a wheelchair.

The film filmed her daily life for 2 minutes. She got up, had breakfast, took her lunch box, pushed the wheelchair out, locked the door, and then slowly pushed her to work in the library in the next neighborhood. Smiling, more often she lowers her eyes, as if she has endless thoughts.

The case seems simple, and the suspect is also very clear. The narrative method with small incisions is used to lead the audience to solve the case, which is very immersive.

This is different from the tone of the previous two films. Most of the audience in the previous detectives used the vision of God to solve the problem. This time everyone has preconceived the case and sympathized with Meng Xiaozhou played by Xiang Xiaoyuan.

What was wrong with the victim?The perpetrator ruined so many families and was only sentenced to five years. The injured girls will spend their entire lives in the shadows, receiving strange eyes and pointers from others, especially Meng Xiaozhou, who was the first to report on Yang Yi. But she suffered the most. She was scolded and beaten by the parents of the other victimized girls, her father left, she was mentally ill and had an accident in a car accident, her mother died of overwork to take care of her, her family was ruined, and she was disabled.

The audience had already sympathized with Meng Xiaozhou, and also identified her as the suspect. This kind of contradictory mood made the atmosphere of the audience extremely quiet.

But from the perspective of the police, Meng Xiaozhou really can't walk, and he doesn't look like a suspect. The chain of evidence is insufficient, and his attention is always closely followed, waiting to see how she kills.

Then there was the "Xu Qiang case". When the case revealed that Xu Qiang's security guard had molested many young boys, Duo Miaojiang sighed deeply, feeling that Lao Zhang's fists beside him were clenched, and there was a man in the other row Let out a "cao!"

When the police consultant played by Huo Bijun tried to interrogate Meng Xiaozhou several times, the two sides came and went, Detective Huo cheated and induced confessions, and used high-pressure psychological warfare to press Meng Xiaozhou. The audience almost gritted their teeth and watched. , absolutely silent.

"Why should I report her on behalf of those parents?"

"Why am I still doing this?"

"Why am I still doing this?"

When she said these lines, there was endless sadness in her eyes, and her expression was weirdly neurotic.

Duomiaojiang calmed down, and a burst of goosebumps ran across her arms. For acting fans, the adrenaline surged.

After Zeng Li's father played for several minutes, the audience exclaimed, "Ah, Zeng Li, my God, I didn't even recognize him."

"Yes, if I didn't know he was inside, I would never have recognized him!"

……

The honest and simple decoration worker father Ji Hongfeng played by Zeng Li is too vivid, and he looks like he can't do anything bad. When he turned himself in, the audience was surprised.

The scene between him and Huo Bijun is undoubtedly the climax of the film. The bloody and tearful monologue made Lao Zhang's eyes turn red. He took off his glasses, and the tear-stained Duo Maojiang handed him a tissue.

This is not a difficult case to solve.

The audience already knew at this point that Xu Qiang was killed by Ji Hongfeng, but Meng Xiaozhou must have something to do with it.The case is very simple. It is not easy to create a suspenseful atmosphere in a simple case and always hold the hearts of the audience. It depends on the acting skills of the actors.

Advisor Huo arranged for two interrogation rooms to be door-to-door, and Meng Xiaozhou and Ji Hongfeng had a face-to-face meeting as soon as they came out.

There was slow motion when the two passed each other, and when Ji Hongfeng was being interrogated, there was a second blank shot on the cigarette case.

And the vague intertwined relationship between the two before, and the traces of life, always imply that the two are not strangers.

Ji Hongfeng surrendered himself and was taken into prison.

Both cases are closed.

But Consultant Huo knew that Meng Xiaozhou was not innocent.

One day he went to find Meng Xiaozhou again.

For the first hour or so of the film, the pictures were dark and heavy, either cloudy or rainy.And on this day, the sun is shining, the sky is cloudless, the background music is brisk, the old ladies come back from buying vegetables, chatting and laughing at the alley, the young mothers are walking their babies, and the agency at the gate of the community is negotiating with customers...

The audience saw this from Huo Bijun's perspective. The tone of the first half of the film was relatively heavy. At this time, they felt a pleasant and peaceful atmosphere, and couldn't help but feel as relaxed as the protagonist.

Then Detective Huo froze at the corners of his slightly raised mouth, his pupils shrunk and looked ahead——

The lens takes the past——

The breath in the auditorium was almost frozen.

Meng Xiaozhou was standing at the door of the house, holding scissors, and was cutting off miscellaneous branches from a pot of flowers placed on a chair.

She scissored and took a look, moved her steps, looked at the flowers from a different angle, and swayed, looking leisurely and contented.

She-can-go-off?

To be honest, at the end of the movie, many people guessed that Meng Xiaozhou could walk. The question is how the director handled the plot that she could walk.

When Meng Xiaozhou was suspected of being a suspect earlier, the police watched her for a long time, but they didn't find any flaws. She fell down once and couldn't get up by herself, so she got up by a passerby.

The audience thought there would be some gorgeous design, but who knew it would be presented so directly.

The comparison of this shot and editing was completely caught off guard, and it was really creepy for a while.

Meng Xiaozhou didn't seem to be surprised to see Detective Huo at all. She was wearing a clean white dress and light makeup. She was completely different from her previous introverted and melancholy image, and she actually had a quiet and delicate beauty.

Smile at him and invite him into the house.

Detective Huo entered the room, sat down, took the water glass that Meng Xiaozhou passed to her with slightly complicated eyes, and looked at her legs several times.

Consultant Huo took a sip of water, smiled, and told her his guess.

The chain of evidence in Xu Qiang's case points to Ji Hongfeng, who has all the witnesses and material evidence, but it was Meng Xiaozhou who invited him to dinner first, and had a conversation with him before that, and one of the little boys Xu Qiang molested often reads in the library, She is also very good.

Ji Hongfeng and Xu Qiang did not have these intersections.

There is also the case of Yang Yi, although Ji Hongfeng admitted that he was also the murderer.One week before Yang Yi was released from prison, Wu Qianli, a girl who had been victimized before, committed suicide, and Ji Hongfeng was her biological father.

"Back when you reported on Yang Yi, you were beaten by Wu Qianli's mother, Wu Huiyun. Then you became restless and got into a car accident. Ji Hongfeng has always felt guilty about Wu Qianli's mother and daughter, so he wants to redeem you."

"Actually, you killed Yang Yi and Xu Qiang, right?" Consultant Huo asked softly, with a flash of light in his eyes, "You can walk all the time, right?"

The entire audience held their breath.

"When you asked me before, I said that after the car accident and the operation, the doctor said I recovered, but I couldn't walk. After my father left us, my mother did not give up and insisted on taking me for rehabilitation. I have also seen a psychiatrist... these hospitals have records," Meng Xiaozhou didn't look at Consultant Huo, but kept looking at the potted flower.

It is true that the hospital has records.

More than two years of records.

There's no need to pretend for so many years.

Later, after her mother died suddenly from overwork, she did not go to rehabilitation.

Consultant Huo stared at the scissors she placed on the table from the corner of his eyes, his pupils shrank, and he asked, "Then you can leave now?"

Meng Xiaozhou looked straight over and smiled softly, "The villain who hurt me is finally dead, now I don't need to worry about it, I can leave."

Consultant Huo met her eyes in the air.

"That's... that's great." Consultant Huo smiled.

The smile on Meng Xiaozhou's lips was a bit subtle, his eyes stayed in the void, and then fell on the floor.

At this time, a few piano sounds suddenly sounded from behind,

As soon as the scene on the floor changed, Meng Xiaozhou, who was wearing a white mourning dress, was lying on the floor, his eyes fixed, and the camera was shooting her sideways, motionless.

The background sound stopped abruptly, replaced by low and dense human voices, like buzzing flies rushing over,

"Her mother is dead, she is disabled, what should I do?"

"Her father left early and didn't send any money. He must have married someone else."

"It's just a burden, who cares about her..."

As the day turned into night, Meng Xiaozhou lay on the floor all the time, her eyes were frozen and lost color, as if she was dead, it was completely dark, only a little light stayed on her cheeks, the camera zoomed in very close, so close Seeing the vellus hair on her side face and the unblinking eyelashes, the light gradually faded away.

The night turned into day, a little sunlight fell on her eyelids, and her eyelashes finally moved.

"Yes, that's great." Meng Xiaozhou whispered, the smile on the corner of his mouth was like a layer of paper crumpled on the water, thin and fragile.

The camera cuts back again, and Meng Xiaozhou, who is wearing filial piety on the ground, finally moves. She starts to squirm step by step, using her hands, elbows, tears rolling down drop by drop, and finally uses her knees...

Duo Miao Jiang in the auditorium unknowingly burst into tears, and a lot of sobbing could be heard in the front and back rows.

Meng Xiaozhou's eyes became concentrated, she walked to her small desk, opened the drawer, and took out a pack of cigarettes.

Consultant Huo looked at her with complicated eyes, and when his eyes moved to the cigarette case, he was shocked again!

Meng Xiaozhou straddled the paper on the desk, took out a cigarette, lit it expertly, bit her red lips, and the hair on her forehead was scattered, barely covering one eye, her face was full of charm in the smoke .

In the smog, the camera transitions——

Yang Yi was invited to a nightclub for a drink. He looked surprised at first, and then looked at the woman sitting on the sofa with her back to the camera with a teasing look. The audience did not see her face, but only saw the smoke.

As well as the abandoned construction site, the private person on the ground, Ji Hongfeng took the cigarette from the slender fingers beside him, took a sip, and the smoke he spit out intersected with the woman next to him.

The camera moves little by little, revealing Meng Xiaozhou's face, and she smiles at the camera.

It's exactly the same as the smile at Consultant Huo at this time.

With 5 minutes left in the film, Meng Xiaozhou's image has completely changed.

There was an uproar in the audience.

Finally, Consultant Huo came out. Suddenly, he turned his head, Meng Xiaozhou stood at the door, waved to him with a smile, and continued to cut her flowers with the scissors.

The sun is just right.

The lens fades to black.

Meng Xiaozhou's voice sounded, "Mr. Huo, I think the sky will always be bright, what do you think?"

When the list of leading actors and creators scrolled on the big screen, the audience woke up like a dream.

Even if everyone knows that Meng Xiaozhou played by Xiang Xiaoyuan is one of the suspects, they feel that there is nothing to change in the movie, and they just wait to see how it will end. Everyone sympathizes with her and wants to cherish her. But I didn't expect that in the last 10 minutes of a series of editing, the actors completely performed another side, goosebumps appeared frequently besides being dumbfounded, and thunderous applause.

Lao Zhang and Duo Miao Jiang also applauded vigorously.

This is not a suspenseful story that is difficult to guess. The first half is too realistic to pass through, and the middle half is empathized with by the actors' superb acting skills so that weeping. Finally, there is an edit to expose the reversal.

At the end, it seems that nothing was explained, and everything was explained.

Really exciting!

The end of a good movie is not just the end, it will bring endless discussions to people.

After the night's screening, many viewers were still discussing the plot of the movie while walking.

"So it was Meng Xiaozhou who killed him in the end, right?"

"The director didn't say it clearly, but he hinted at it. You see, the cigarettes she smokes are from the father played by Zeng Li! And at the construction site, the two of them are not in the same frame together anymore!"

"Yes, yes, you remember the autopsy before, it said that the wound of the teacher who raped the female student was a little different from Xu Qiang's. I suspect that it was the flower-cutting scissors that Meng Xiaozhou held in his hand!"

"Fuck! Absolutely! Yang Yi was killed by Meng Xiaozhou, Xu Qiang was killed by Zeng Li, or the two committed the crime together. Otherwise, what would the director do for the scissors camera? Huo Bijun's eyes are obviously wrong, he guessed it !"

"If it's the murder weapon, there will be a blood reaction in the test, and that cigarette case, so why didn't you catch her in the end?"

"It's an open ending. Zeng Li is also willing to admit his guilt. I think this is the best way. That Meng Xiaozhou is so pitiful!"

"Although there are still some loopholes in the reasoning of the case, but the acting skills are amazing, it's very enjoyable to watch!"

"Even the technique is too ruthless, I feel a little pain."

"You men deserve it! Garbage!"

"Hey, hey, you don't want to attack personally! There are good men too!"

"Speaking of which, Xiang Xiaoyuan is so pretty! The last scene of smoking, I fear and love that smile, too charming? Hey, don't be jealous!"

"Why am I jealous! I also think she is beautiful, flirtatious and lustful, okay?"

"She's really good at acting, take the actress, oh my god it's amazing!"

……

A group of young people at the entrance of the movie hall had a great discussion while waiting for the car. This kind of discussion was very real. When they got excited, they couldn't remember the name of the character, so they replaced it with the name of the actor.

Duomiaojiang and Lao Zhang also glanced at them and smiled.

While posting a message in the group, Duomiaojiang said: "Look, our garden is full of praise! It's time for our gardeners to look good again!"

"The acting is really good!" Lao Zhang, who is a fan of passers-by, is also rare to praise, "But the shock that Teacher Zeng Li gave me is really great!"

"Yeah, that old man is really amazing! Whatever he acts like!"

They talked as they walked.

Duomiaojiang sighed deeply, "But the reality is much crueler than the movie."

Lao Zhang thought deeply, and sighed, "Zeng Li acted so well, this film is too uncomfortable for my father to watch."

Duomiaojiang smiled at him, "That's because Lao Zhang, you are a good father, if you change to another man hehehe..."

Lao Zhang smiled wryly, "Go back, we still have to catch up on the draft."

Duomiaojiang responded, "Then I'm going to take the subway."

Lao Zhang stopped her worriedly, "Wait, you should take a taxi, and send the license plate number to the group."

Duomiaojiang smiled warmly, "Okay, okay!"

……

This night, the audience at the screening in the early morning of the 7th praised "Long Night" on major social platforms, and the real-time statistics were released 24 hours later-the pre-sale box office on the first day exceeded 3000 million.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※