Three Hundred and Seventy-Eight-It Must Be Understandable to Ordinary Audiences

Silence completely returned to the auditorium of Hollywood's Chinese Theater, and everyone involuntarily turned their attention to the film that was about to begin.

Only Daisy, the leader of the movie fan organization today, kept muttering in a low voice with a gloating smile on her lips. "It will subvert your worldview! How can a movie written by Wayne be a simple commercial film? I don't know how many people will think that this is not a movie, and suspect that it is a prophecy..."

At this time, the story has officially begun, with a series of green codes and blabbering dialogues that almost baffled the entire audience.

The male protagonist is a programmer on the surface, but privately he is a famous hacker with the pseudonym Neo. After helping someone steal network information, they discovered that the rabbit mentioned by Trinity, another network hacker, was tattooed on the shoulder of one of the buyers.

And what the network hacker Trinity said is that if you want to find the truth of everything, follow the rabbit.

The previous scenes are relatively bland. In addition to revealing the strong cyberpunk style of the film, all the plots are just foreshadowing and introducing the structure of the world through the bland plot.

It wasn't until the male protagonist got the mobile phone, was arrested by a group of agents, and was controlled by two agents during the interrogation, and took out a terrifying mechanical bug, that there were sporadic exclamations from the audience.

The male protagonist was struggling hard on the big screen, and the two agents were holding him down tightly. The mechanical insect was struggling and got into his stomach bit by bit.

Suddenly the scene changed, and Neo suddenly sat up from the bed, as if everything just happened was a dream.

The phone rang again, and when the heroine Trinity met him again, she used an instrument to suck out the mechanical insect. This showed that what happened before was not a dream, and the hands and feet that Agent Smith moved were all real.

Not long after the film started, the audience accumulated more and more doubts about why this world is full of weirdness. Everything seems real, but there is no way to explain the various strange scenes that appear.

Then the plot progressed rapidly, constantly giving some explanations. The world is like a cage, and the matrix is ​​everywhere. Morpheus, who is full of the aura of a magician, appears and tells the male protagonist that he can let him see what is real. .

Then open your hands and if you want to see the true face of the world, take the red pill, otherwise take the blue pill and you won't remember anything when you wake up.

Obviously, the male protagonist had doubts about the world, so he picked up the red pill and swallowed it.

At this point in the film, a lot of information has been revealed, and all viewers vaguely understand that the world in which the hero Neo and the heroine Trinity live is not the real world. This is a cage or a prison.

"Oh my God!"

"Oh my god!"

When the male protagonist woke up again and climbed out of the petri dish filled with mucus, countless viewers screamed.

The camera seems to have become Neo's eyes, showing the audience the real world from the first perspective, with tens of thousands of countless petri dishes, each of which contains a human being.

This world is desolate and terrifying. A flash of lightning occasionally flashes in the dark sky, but under the fleeting light, apart from gray clouds and dust, there are only countless petri dishes. It is a completely doomsday scene.

This seemingly first-person shot is composed entirely of pure special effects. It can be regarded as the most expensive part of the film, so it brings a high sense of reality to the audience and vividly embodies the scene of the end of the world.

"I love this movie."

Naomi Watts rested her head on Wayne's shoulder, her eyes not leaving the big screen, watching the scene where Neo was rushed into the sewer by the mechanical bug and was rescued by Morpheus.

"Dear, I like the world you wrote better than the movies you made. Lee is very handsome. I have to say, the heroine's figure is really cool, and these futuristic things are simply cool. Killed!"

In the explanation of matrix, electronic signal, matrix, reality, etc., Morpheus behaves more like a magician at this time.

"Hmm, the cooler stuff is yet to come, don't worry." Wayne shrugged. His attention was not actually on the movie. Instead, he observed the reactions of the audience behind him from time to time. After all, this movie appeared several years in advance. He was afraid that he would be acclimatized to the various settings for the future.

But their worries were obviously in vain, as the audience exclaimed from time to time. Whenever an action scene appeared, everyone was attracted by this novel fighting method, and some people even unconsciously exclaimed "cool".

"Is this kongfu?"

The Australian actress noticed that he didn't watch many movies, so she just whispered into his ear if he had any questions. "Lee has been practicing these things since she was a child. Why didn't she find it so cool before?"

"It's fresh, Nami." Wayne explained patiently. "The fighting methods you have seen in movies since you were young are all physical and physical fights. Now there is another way, which brings you a lot of freshness."

This is one of the selling points of the film. Cyberpunk, future technology, flexible fighting scenes, and alternative methods of using special effects make up the clear selling points of the film.

The kung fu shown by the white people in the picture can be considered ridiculous in Wayne's eyes. This superficial thing can bring indescribable freshness to North American audiences who have seen too many power-based fights.

Audiences attracted by movies now are definitely not because of the existing philosophy, discussion of human nature, etc., but because of the refreshing feeling brought by future technology, cyberpunk, kung fu, etc.

Even before the filming of the film started, Wayne warned Zack Snyder that this was a pure summer science fiction film. Don't try to amplify other elements. Theology, philosophy, and human nature can only be embellishments. What's more important are the special effects scenes and other selling points.

Perhaps when fans mention this film in the future, they will unconsciously think of other elements in it, but it is definitely not these that attract them. If it explores too much about philosophical humanity, this will no longer be a science fiction commercial masterpiece, but will definitely become a The four literary and artistic aspects of Shen Shen Na Nao are different. When a director makes a movie, he just wants to express an emotion rather than tell a story. Usually many people can't understand it. This is a so-called literary film, and this kind of literary film can only be watched in the cinema. Among the audience, the proportion of sleeping was as high as 35%.

Therefore, the theory that a movie that is too literary and artistic means losing money is not wrong at all in some aspects.

The movie continued to play, and the frequent action scenes that followed caused exclamations and applause from the audience from time to time. Especially when the classic bullet time appeared, it not only shocked all the movie fans, but also the media reporters and guests. These circles The internal practitioners were also dumbfounded.

Wayne's thoughts drifted away unknowingly, and he remembered that in his previous life, after the release of "The Matrix 1", the Wachowski brothers (sisters) received countless praises, and tens of millions of science fiction fans worshiped them.

However, these two people were lost in the praise of film critics. They believed that the success of the first film was due to the discussion of human nature and philosophical speculation in the mouth of the film critics. The production of the second and third films became more and more impressive and had a great reputation. fall.

This is a typical example of someone who was deceived by film critics and then never returned on the road of art. He could obviously become a top commercial film director in Hollywood, but in the end he became a typical example of someone who reached the peak of his career right after his debut.

In this regard, we have to say that he is a bombshell. He was also fooled in the past, but he immediately woke up after one movie. Movie fans love him for exploding and exploding again. No one likes to see him discuss human nature.

In Wayne's memory, when it comes to the most successful literary and artistic film, the one that immediately comes to mind is "Farewell My Concubine". He personally feels that this purely literary film is a classic because it was made by the director. The film can also be understood by ordinary viewers!

This is very important, very important. Although the current "The Matrix" is also full of Gods and gods, he has already determined that the story is definitely not obscure for ordinary movie fans. Even a child can understand it. , which is the basis for the film to have a wide audience.

When the film was just over halfway through at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the premiere at the Temple Theater next door came to an end, and the cast and crew list was already rolling on the big screen.

"Hey, Jack, the movie is over!" A white boy reached out and poked his sleeping companion, and pointed vaguely at the big screen.

"Shit, I actually fell asleep?" A young man named Jack rubbed his eyes, stood up with his companions, and took the lead in giving warm applause to the creators of the show.

"No one else saw me falling asleep, right?" While applauding vigorously, he looked at his companions.

"No, don't worry, our work will be over soon."

The originally quiet screening room seemed to come alive when the two boys' applause rang out. More viewers stood up and gave their own applause.

This profession of the two of them will have a nice name in later generations, the atmosphere team, or, to put it harshly, it can be called a shill. This method is used in almost every movie premiere, including the ongoing "The Matrix", and Warner Bros. has also made arrangements.

This is like a kind of insurance that can resolve a lot of embarrassments and awkward moments, just like the situation just now.

The crew and creators standing in front of the curtain greeted the audience's enthusiastic applause as they closed the curtain. However, the film's producer Brian Grazer had a very ugly expression on his face. He knew exactly what happened later during the movie screening.

Director Bill Beckby's expression was equally solemn. He leaned close to Justin and whispered: "The situation is a bit unexpected."

"Go to the press conference first and talk about other things later."

The distribution director of Universal Pictures was also puzzled. The entire film was clearly based on a successful model, but the audience's reaction was very bad. He spent the entire second half of the film comforting himself, hoping that this was just an isolated phenomenon.

When the number of fans who started to leave the theater reached 20 or 30, he had to accept the truth. There might be some problems with this film.