The movie has started.
What is presented to the audience at the beginning is a zoo.
It's a bit like a documentary about wildlife.
Various animals appeared one by one.
Because the movie effects are good enough, the audience will feel like they are visiting a zoo.
"Did you grow up in a zoo?"
"I was born there, in a small town in Korea..."
Two people were chatting, and to the audience's surprise, one of the chatters was actually played by Jian Yi!
The other person was not a famous actor. He was a plain-looking, dark-skinned man.
…
Auditorium.
"Memories?"
An Xu immediately understood the intention of the movie.
Xianyu's "The Tuner" also opens with a conversation between two people, and then unfolds in the form of memories, which makes An Xu feel more at ease.
That "The Tuner" is a suspense film.
The commercial attributes are also good.
“The colors are very beautiful.”
Jiang Zhu's attention was focused on the zoo.
All kinds of strange and bizarre animals are very interesting, which is why some people like to watch the animal world. Wild animals have an inexplicable attraction to humans.
…
On the giant screen.
Two men eating.
The relationships between characters are revealed in the dialogue.
Jian Yi plays an aspiring writer who visits a man's home to collect material for his writing.
He was a man who was very strict with his work. He once destroyed a text that he had spent two years writing just because he was not satisfied with the story.
He heard someone say:
This man named Pi once went on an adventure at sea. The process was so tortuous, bizarre and exciting that it was incredible and very suitable as material for a novel, so Pi was found.
Pai did not refuse.
He invited the writer to dine with him and then began to tell his story, starting with his birth.
The story is very slow paced.
Pi talked about his birth, his childhood, and even his school experience, as well as his and his family’s religious beliefs.
…
Very strange.
An Xu frowned slightly.
Pi tells his own story, which seems to have nothing to do with the adventure itself, which is not in line with the rhythm of a commercial film at all.
Xianyu shouldn’t be the one who doesn’t even know what rhythm a commercial film should use to tell a story, right
wrong!
An Xu's heart suddenly skipped a beat. This didn't seem to be a commercial film, at least not a purely commercial film!
"Almost half an hour."
Jiang Zhu looked at the time on his phone and his eyes became a little strange.
The movie promotion says that this is a story about survival adventure at sea, but nearly half an hour into the movie, the sea adventure hasn't even begun
The pace is horribly slow!
What is the movie Envy Fish about
A senior screenwriter like Jiang Zhu doesn't think that Xianyu will show the audience a bunch of useless plots within the limited time of the movie. He has been laying the groundwork for so long in the early stage, he must have something he wants to express.
But the thing is…
Doing this in terms of rhythm is very fatal. The audience's patience is very limited, and everyone's tolerance is almost at its limit!
It's really deadly.
An Xu and Jiang Zhu could clearly feel that the audience was already getting a little impatient.
There were whispers in the theater.
“So boring.”
"Why are you taking so long now and not getting to the point?"
“It’s completely different from what I imagined.”
"I can understand the story about the tiger. Pi wants to prove that tigers and humans have feelings for each other, but isn't the introduction of the other parts a bit redundant..."
"How boring, I have to watch him fall asleep."
"This movie is a bit subpar."
“Isn’t this preparation taking too long?”
"Who cares who Pie's family is."
"There are too many scenes with his father, mother and brother."
"… "
The audience began to feel dissatisfied.
The movie spends half an hour telling stories about Pi's childhood and school days, including countless plots about his parents and brother, which seem to have nothing to do with the theme of the movie!
And just when the audience was about to lose their patience.
The plot finally took a turn!
One day, Pai's father suddenly announced that he had sold the zoo and wanted to transport the animals to Qinzhou on the other side of the ocean!
Amid Pi's dissatisfaction and confusion, the family went out to sea!
An Xu and Jiang Zhu looked at each other and saw the weirdness in each other's eyes.
Obviously.
Both of them realized that there was something wrong with the movie, and it seemed to be very different from what they had imagined!
Fortunately, we are finally getting to the point.
…
On the giant screen.
Pai and his family took a ferry out to sea.
Countless animals on the ferry live in the lowest level of the cabin. The huge ferry is like a continent or a fortress on the sea, moving slowly and steadily.
This night.
Pai couldn't sleep and wanted to go out for a walk.
After opening the cabin door, Pai discovered that a strong wind was blowing outside, the sea was turbulent, and huge waves were hitting the ship!
"storm!"
It was the first time that Pi had seen such a spectacular sight since he was a child. He waved his arms and let the sea water wet him.
thump.
He fell down.
He panicked a little, but found that all the lights on the ship were on and someone was shouting:
"The cabin is flooded!"
Pi was terrified and wanted to wake up his parents and family, but he fell down on the boat after taking two steps. The sailors had already lowered the lifeboat: "The elderly and children go first!"
For a moment, there was a burst of crying and shouting!
Pi was almost pushed onto the lifeboat by the sailors.
He wanted to save his family, but the sailor stopped him because the situation was very critical. In the panic, the animals that were locked up at the bottom of the cabin somehow escaped.
boom!
The zebra fell into the lifeboat and actually broke the reins. The white lifeboat fell into the sea and became a rootless duckweed.
"Parker!"
In a panic.
Pi saw a tiger climbing onto the boat in the sea. Parker was the name Pi gave to the tiger.
In a shipwreck.
Humans and animals are all following their survival instinct!
And when the wind and waves subsided, daybreak came.
Pai grabbed the pole on the lifeboat tightly and climbed into the cabin.
At this time.
In the distance, an orangutan came aboard on a floating banana.
This orangutan is also a zoo creature and his name is Orange Juice.
suddenly.
A hyena jumped out and tried to attack Pi.
It turned out that in addition to the zebra, the hyena also got on board during the shipwreck, and of course there was also the tiger who shrank into the narrow cabin after getting on board.
This is going to be lively.
There are different creatures on this little lifeboat.
They are the zebra who broke his leg when he fell onto the boat, the gorilla who got on board on a banana, the hyena who got on board at some point in time, the tiger who entered the cabin after getting on board, and of course the protagonist of this movie!
The hyena bared its teeth.
The zebra was unable to move.
The orangutan's face was filled with sadness.
Pai hid at the bow of the ship.
The tiger hides in the dark.
On a narrow lifeboat, several different animals coexist, and a helpless human hides on the bow, drifting on the boundless ocean. What kind of story will happen between them
…
Pai is telling stories of the past.
The writer's expression changed, and it was obvious that he was attracted by the story.
And in front of the screen.
The audience gradually stopped complaining and stared at the giant screen.
This thrilling shipwreck made the audience almost forget the boring foreshadowing in the previous thirty minutes. When the shipwreck happened, everyone’s chairs even shook slightly, as if they had also experienced a shipwreck!
“What a weird scene!”
"Four animals on a lifeboat, and a frightened protagonist!"
“When will the tiger come out?”
"It makes me so nervous!"
"Zebras and gorillas don't hurt people, but this hyena has a clear tendency to attack the protagonist!"
"Will this hyena be killed by the tiger when it turns around?"
"The first half hour was so boring, this part is a bit interesting."
"… "
There were familiar audience members communicating with each other, but the discussion was barely audible over the background sound of the movie in the entire theater.
"call."
An Xu exhaled: "What a wild imagination."
In the past adventure stories, all of them were about a group of people, with men and women each doing their own job, but in Xianyu's Survival at Sea, it was actually a group of animals staying on the boat, with only one human protagonist.
“The audience has been captivated.”
Jiang Zhu looked around and then spoke.
Not only ordinary audiences, but she as a screenwriter was also attracted by this amazing imagination. Who wouldn't be curious about what stories would happen on such a lifeboat with such wonderful relationships
You should know...
It is illogical that land creatures are in the ocean. Only a shipwreck caused all the animals on the ship to run away, which led to such a strange and magical scene.
And this is entirely the screenwriter's whim!
But Jiang Zhu and An Xu still couldn't understand why the first thirty minutes of the movie took so long.
No matter how I look at it, I find those thirty minutes to be boring.
It doesn't seem to have much connection with the current situation. It is just a bloated prefix that can be deleted and simplified into a foreshadowing that can be completed within ten minutes.
at the same time.
It is already difficult for the two to regard this movie as a simple commercial film. Commercial films are not shot like this!
I haven't considered this idea for now.
The two of them and countless viewers are curious about the same question, which is how will the protagonist break the impasse next
On a narrow boat.
Can four animals and one human coexist peacefully
Not to mention that among these animals there are ferocious hyenas and terrifying tigers hiding in the dark!
Obviously.
The attraction came out.
At this moment, an audience member exclaimed!
…
On the giant screen.
The hyena couldn't attack Pi who was hiding at the bow of the boat, so it turned around and started biting the zebra!
"No!"
Pi has had a deep bond with animals since he was a child. When he saw this scene, his eyes became red. The gorilla named Orange Juice madly attacked the hyena to protect the zebra.
With a wail, the zebra was bitten to death by the hyena.
at the same time.
The hyena was also knocked unconscious by the gorilla.
However.
The hyena was only unconscious for a few minutes before it woke up and started biting the gorilla!
The gorilla died too.
The audience was deeply distressed.
This hyena is so ferocious!
Just at this moment.
A tiger roared.
The tiger named Parker rushed out, bit the hyena to death with one bite, and then turned around and rushed towards Pi!
The faction retreated quickly.
The tiger failed to succeed and roared at him, which made the audience feel scared!
The pattern of biological coexistence has disappeared!
Zebras, gorillas and hyenas are all dead!
On the entire boat, only Tiger and the protagonist Pie are left!
Life of Pi’s journey truly begins at this moment!
…
The audience opened their eyes wide and were completely attracted by the plot!
The cruelty of survival in the wilderness is vividly displayed before the audience!
There is no dramatic treatment, nor is there any brain-opening scene where the protagonist tames hyenas and tigers with great prowess and then leads the animals to a difficult survival. There is only the law of the jungle in nature!
The hyena is hungry!
It can't eat people!
So it wants to eat zebras and gorillas!
The tiger was also hungry, so it bit the hyena to death!
"Tigers have no emotions. They will eat hyenas, gorillas, and zebras. Pies are also their backup food. When all the animals are eaten, they will try to eat humans!"
"When Pi was little, he always believed that animals have emotions."
"It's hard to say whether wild animals have emotions, but it's normal for them to survive at sea. Tigers will eat other animals to survive. There's a plot in the first 30 minutes that lays the groundwork for this. Pi's father said it well: animals are always animals. Animals only have animal nature, while humans have human nature. So animals will eat other animals when they're hungry, but humans won't eat humans when they're hungry."
"I'm so curious about the plot later. How will Pi fight against the tiger?"
"The propaganda says that Pai will coexist with the tiger for more than 200 days. After more than 200 days, won't the tiger eat him to the bone?"
"Little sister, do you know more about the protagonist's halo?"
"Let's see what happens next and see how Xianyu plans to make it happen."
"… "
The audience is now watching the show with great interest. Having endured the boring buildup in the first half hour, the current plot is still very interesting and people are looking forward to it very much.
How did humans and tigers coexist for more than 200 days
Everyone is very curious about this.
…
As the movie was playing, An Xu was also thinking, but he was thinking more than ordinary audiences!
He is not a fool!
You have watched the movie for about an hour, and still regard it as an ordinary commercial film. How stupid you must be!
It’s not that An Xu is slow to react.
In fact, the boring setup in the first thirty minutes had already made An Xu realize that something was wrong with the movie.
He smelled something!
That’s the flavor of an art film!
Art film
With hundreds of millions of dollars invested and the highest quality shooting specifications, what Xianyu ended up shooting was just an art film
An Xu felt that his understanding of the movie had a huge impact!
This is why An Xu only dared to confirm it now!
How brave does one have to be to play like this!
Spending so many hundreds of millions on the profitability of an art film!
Are you crazy!
Do you really think that if you tell an interesting story in the style of an art film, the audience will buy it!
Too greedy!
Xianyu wanted both the reputation of an art film and the box office of a commercial film, so he made a movie like this!
From boring to interesting in just one hour!
This movie just begins to enter the plot rhythm of humans and tigers!
How dramatic would the subsequent plot have to be to justify this investment
An Xu couldn't imagine it!
At the same time that An Xu had completely reacted, Jiang Zhu also came back to her senses. Her expression became horrified, and her tone was filled with strong disbelief:
“This is an art film!”
An Xu's eyes flickered:
"Weakness is the original sin. Even with the protection of the gorilla, the zebra with a broken leg still had no power to fight back in front of the hyena. The gorilla that was protecting the zebra was also killed by the hyena. This shows that even if you want to protect others, you must have the strength to protect others, otherwise you will be killed together with them."
This principle is not difficult to understand.
Jiang Zhu gradually understood the idea: "Hyenas are evil forces, and tigers are even more evil forces. This can be understood as a kind of black eating black, and the evildoers will eventually be devoured by the more evil ones. But isn't this too simple?"
This is an art film!
Recognizing the essence of this movie, we should not only look at the superficial meaning of many shots, but think about them from a deeper perspective. However, this level of thinking does not seem to be able to satisfy the art film's exploration of connotation and depth.
"Xianyu was too greedy and impatient this time."
An Xu shook his head: "There is a bug in the movie."
"What bug?"
Jiang Zhu's eyes narrowed slightly.
An Xu said, "Think about how the gorilla got on the boat. It rode on floating bananas. Let's not talk about whether bananas can float in the sea. Even if bananas can float in the sea, do you think those bananas can bear the weight of an gorilla?"
Jiang Zhu widened his eyes!
yes!
How can a gorilla weighing hundreds of kilograms carry bananas
This plot really has a bug!
Regardless of the reviews after this movie is released, Xianyu’s knowledge of physics will be criticized by professionals.
“It’s just a minor detail.”
An Xu shook his head: "The real point is that he only got to the point after an hour. Such a slow pace can't support the investment cost of this movie. He wants to win the reputation of an art film and the box office of a commercial film at the same time. There have been such greedy people in the past, but as an industry insider, you should know the result as well as I do."
Jiang Zhu nodded.
Xianyu’s plan is too big, but judging from the current level of the movie, although it is wonderful, it cannot support such a big plan and expectations. It can only be said that it is indeed a great idea for humans and animals to survive at sea.
…
In fact.
In major cinema halls, many industry insiders who were watching movies were stunned one after another after they realized Xianyu’s huge conspiracy!
Among them.
There are directors, screenwriters, film critics, etc. Xianyu’s movies have indeed attracted the attention of many people in the industry!
"This is actually an art film!?"
"The key point is, it doesn't have the flavor of an art film, but instead only explores the relationship between humans, animals and nature?"
"What on earth is he thinking?"
“Is this plot worth such a high investment?”
"He wants to go the commercial route, and he also wants to go the art route. Doesn't he know that you can't have both?"
“That’s crazy!”
"Although the plot is interesting now, the pace is too slow in the beginning. It took a full hour to get into the mood!"
“The structure is too bloated.”
"How can an art film be presented by a group of animals?"
"It's not that the structure is bloated. On the contrary, it feels too simple. A man and a tiger trying to survive at sea is not enough to express a profound meaning, but he spent an hour laying the groundwork for this!"
"Xianyu is still suitable for smaller investments."
“Big productions aren’t for him.”
“I can only say that everyone is good at different things. From the perspective of the script alone, it is still interesting. At least it is not so interesting that people can’t watch it halfway through.”
"… "
For people in the industry, this movie can only be described as being okay. To say it is great, it’s really not that good!
But the investment in the movie is too high!
It will be difficult to make a profit if you do this!
During this process, a small number of people remained silent.
Because the movie still has an hour left, there is a possibility that Xianyu will make a comeback in the next hour, although the possibility is very slim.
And at this time.
The movie goes on.
No one realized that from the moment the hyena ate the zebra, the movie had become eerie and scary!
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ps: Thanks to Yan Zi 523 for being the leader, I kneel down to him▄█?█●~!