Chapter 1060 First Experience of "Avatar"

Thursday, June 13, 2007.

Shuntianfu Minghu No. 1 Cinema.

The time is 11:30 in the evening. Generally speaking, at this time, the number of people in the cinema is already relatively small. But in the Minghu No. 1 Cinema at this moment, it was a crowded scene.

Zhou Yuzhu and her best friend Chen Ziwei are crowded in the crowd at the moment.

They are waiting for the midnight show of "Avatar", which starts at 00:25.

On Monday, June 10th, "Avatar" held a grand world premiere ceremony in Los Angeles, USA, and announced that the film will be officially released worldwide at zero o'clock on June 14th.

As members of the generation who grew up listening to Li Qian’s songs and watching Li Qian’s movies, Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei may not be Li Qian’s loyal fans, but there are almost no Chinese young people who have grown up in these years. People have not been influenced by Li Qian at all, especially for movie fans like Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei. The summary of the movie-watching experience in recent years is that the best movies in China are often made by the leader Li Qian. Followed by Li Qian as the producer and supervisor, that is, produced by Minghu Culture, and the high-quality Hollywood movies, and then, it is the inferior products of Hollywood movies, and other domestic movies.

So, maybe when a new Hollywood movie is shown in the cinema, they still have to hesitate and check word of mouth before buying a ticket, but as long as it is directed and starred by Li Qian, they will go to see it without hesitation. Now that Li Qian's new movie is about to be released, of course, as long as there is a chance, we must strive to get tickets for the first show.

In a sense, they are not Li Qian's fans, but they are die-hard fans of "Li Qian's quality"!

What's more, after the premiere ceremony, word-of-mouth about this movie in the United States has already come out, and it was quickly reprinted by the powerful people on domestic forums-almost every comment published is right The viewing experience of this movie gave exaggerated words such as "shock", "shock", and "worship".

In other words, this movie can already be understood as "conquering North America"! This status, in the understanding of Chinese audiences, should be at the same level as "The Matrix"!

Of course it is a must-see level!

Even though tomorrow is Friday and they still have to go to work, after discussing with each other, the two girlfriends booked tickets online in advance, and decided to come over to watch the early midnight screening of "Avatar".

Of course, the two sisters have just started working for a short time, and their income is only about 1,000 yuan a month, so when the tickets for the early show started to be issued online, they looked at the ticket prices of 3D and 3D-IMAX, and they were responsible Zhou Yuzhu, who booked the tickets, hesitated for half a minute, and then, the two kinds of tickets were no longer available.

Because in the Chinese film market, except for the three theaters under Minghu Culture that provide 3D and 3D-IMAX versions of movies, there are only two other large theaters, because they signed a gambling agreement with Minghu Culture, so In the first half of the year, a total of six or seven theaters were remodeled. Apart from this, there are no more professional theaters in this area.

In Shuntianfu, although the three theaters under Minghu Culture have deployed more than 20 movie theaters, and almost every one has at least one 3D movie theater, and the other two theaters have also arranged six movie theaters. There are 60 or 70 screening halls together. But how many tickets for all the advance 3D and 3D-IMAX movies that these cinemas can provide?

Only five or six thousand sheets.

You know, Shuntianfu is one of the largest box office markets in the Chinese film market! There are also the largest and most concentrated fans of Li Qian here, including fans of music, movies, legs, and face.

Five or six thousand 3D and 3D-IMAX movie tickets that were shown in advance, and the time was on Thursday night and Friday morning, and I have to go to work tomorrow, but they were sold out on the Internet in eleven seconds!

Both Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei have subscribed to Li Qian’s blog, read his popular science articles on the blog, and know that their idols are sparing no effort to promote, and hope that everyone will try to watch the 3D-IMAX version, and said “3D-IMAX version It is the real "Avatar", and whether it is the early publicity of the movie in China, or the reviews on the Internet that have been spontaneously reproduced by fans from the American Internet in the past few days, they all respond almost completely in unison. 3D-IMAX The viewing of the version of "Avatar" is "absolutely shocking"!

However, after discussing with the little sisters, the tickets for 3D and 3D-IMAX are so expensive, if you don’t buy them, you can’t buy them! Anyway, buying ordinary tickets is a victory!

3D sounds amazing, all kinds of "shock", Li Qian never recommends anything purely commercial, he solemnly recommends it, it must be a good thing, but... a movie, just to watch a story, in the past everyone I watched Li Qian's movies all the time, and there was no such thing as 3D back then, so they were just as good-looking?

So, that's it!

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Starting at 11:55, ticket checking for the midnight show began.

As the theater chain of Minghu Culture, and it is still at the leading level, the copies in the hands of Minghu No. 1 Cinema are of course extremely abundant. Even according to the company's current arrangement, from the date of the release of "Avatar", the three theaters under Minghu Culture will completely transfer to the "Avatar mode", that is, all other movies will stop showing, and all movie theaters will be closed. Instead, show Avatar.

Therefore, in fact, it is not only the Minghu No. 1 Cinema in Shuntianfu, but all the cinemas under Minghu Culture nationwide at this moment have guaranteed sufficient copies, and all advance shows are fully fired, every five minutes. The opening scene, every scene is "Avatar".

After midnight, at 00:18, it was finally Zhou Yuzhu's and Chen Ziwei's turn to enter.

Checking tickets, entering the venue, and when passing by other screening halls, I looked with a little surprise at a strange pair of glasses that other audience members were holding and playing with.

Find a spot and sit down.

Many audience members were a bit like Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei. Even though it was already midnight, they couldn't help chatting with excitement in low voices.

Some people are talking about the overwhelming reputation of the film at the premiere ceremony, some people are saying that Li Qian's movies never disappoint, and some people are regretting that they can't buy 3D-IMAX tickets.

00:25, the movie started.

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The beginning of the movie is extremely simple.

The explanation and origin of the story are not muddled in the slightest.

In the future world, science and technology are extremely advanced, but resources are exhausted and the environment is deteriorating, so human beings begin to march to alien planets. This is the usual setting of Hollywood science fiction movies, but there is nothing new about it.

The actor's twin brother is a scientist who has been involved in the colonization and mineral mining plans for alien planets, but unfortunately died in a robbery three days before he was about to board the journey.

And the actor, a former US Marine Corps member whose legs were paralyzed due to injury, was chosen as a replacement because of the 99.9% similarity between his gene and his brother, and thus embarked on a journey abroad. Journey to the planet.

Throughout the beginning, for a minute or so, the hero has already appeared in the weightless space capsule.

Then, the vast universe, the wonders of distant planets appeared.

Even though they only watched the normal version, when the movie came to this scene, Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei, including most of the audience in the theater, were still shocked by such a grand shot.

There was a burst of exclamation in the entire theater.

The foreshadowing of the whole story was unfolded in such awe-inspiring manner, without any traces - the comparison between the size of the mining vehicle and the ordinary vehicle and that of a human being, the vehicles with colorful bows and arrows passing by on the tarmac. Engineering vehicles, there is a setting about the difference in air so you will die quickly if you leave the mask, and in the orientation speech, the colonel's various sounding descriptions of the planet Pandora sound exaggerated, and so on.

Then, the story unfolded like this.

A whole new planet.

A brand-new ecosystem, from plants, to animals, to local indigenous humans, and each of them is almost beautiful.

The appearance of the female scientist played by Bai Yujing caused a little commotion in the theater, but it soon calmed down—everyone could easily perceive the conflict between the earth mining group and the local aborigines.

Then, the actor's avatar made his debut.

A crisis and escape left him alone in the wild environment of this strange planet, losing all protection. At this time, his identity as a former marine began to play out.

And as the male protagonist was brought into the tribe by the female protagonist, and because of his status as a "former pot cover tribe warrior", he obtained special treatment to communicate with the other party and learn the other party's survival skills, the whole story unfolded thoroughly— ——All kinds of fresh and gorgeous world environments, all kinds of novel and interesting settings, one after another, just unfolded slowly, attracting almost all the audience in the entire screening hall to immerse themselves in the story, so that the entire screening There was hardly any noise in the hall.

Only at some key points, such as when the hero finally tamed his mount and soared in the sky with this big bird, the feeling of flying freely subconsciously satisfied many audiences in the auditorium. sighed.

Even without 3D, the special effects of this movie are definitely the top in the world at the moment, and even in the next few years, it will be the top.

Because its story and its pictures are carefully crafted, and it is most suitable for the "scenery and sightseeing film" to unfold such exquisite and atmospheric pictures.

And its story itself, whether it is the version of James Cameron in another time and space, or the version of Li Qian in this time and space, is undoubtedly a story that is not new in nature, but the story is complete and branched. Stretching, and many settings are particularly fresh and interesting stories.

A good story, coupled with a good narration method, coupled with the delicate and realistic film special effects supported by advanced film technology that is completely "believable", all of these form the super strength of "Avatar". Movie experience.

It can be said without a doubt that this is definitely the pinnacle of global commercial films so far.

So, including Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei, the audience in the entire screening hall were fascinated.

The hero's betrayal, the "big tree" where the heroine and the tribe lived for generations was directly destroyed by the earth's guns, and the sky was full of smoke and dust-at this moment, the hearts of countless audiences were tugged.

On the one hand, the people of his own homeland, Earth, had to destroy and plunder in such a barbaric way in order to survive and develop; emotion.

He has begun to like the life of being an "Avatar", and he has an incomparable understanding of the greed of human beings on earth, and everything he has experienced makes him disagree with the development ideas of human beings on earth.

Therefore, he decided to do his best to help the local people and fight against his mother race, the earthlings.

In order to increase his own right to speak in a thrilling blow, the male protagonist who was promoted to "Torukomato" returned to the tribe where he was offering sacrifices and praying. With his brand-new legendary identity and some high-spirited speeches, he quickly won the The trust of the tribal people, so a decisive battle between the local aborigines and the invading humans began.

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When the movie finally ended, almost everyone in the entire screening hall had an unusually satisfied feeling on their faces—Minghu No. Tickets to the city have never been cheap, but at this moment, after watching this "Avatar", almost everyone sighed and sighed sincerely: It's worth it!

The story of the whole movie is beautiful, the picture is exquisite, and there is an indescribably majestic feeling. There is no such concept as "no worse than Hollywood blockbusters". At the time of "The Matrix", everyone already Everyone thinks that Li Qian's sci-fi movie is "the world's top level", and now, after watching "Avatar", countless movie fans have subconsciously commented - this kind of movie, Hollywood may not be able to make it! Li Qian is already at least one or two positions ahead of Hollywood!

Everyone sighed in satisfaction. It was already late at night, but they were not sleepy collectively. When the headlights in the projection hall came on, everyone reluctantly stood up and discussed with each other excitedly.

Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei also stood up with the crowd and walked out one by one.

Occasionally, when they turned their heads, the two looked at each other with a look of emotion and satisfaction. You said, "It's so beautiful!", and she subconsciously replied, "Yeah, it's so beautiful!"

At this time, many people in the crowd were already discussing topics such as "Watch another show tomorrow!", "I haven't watched enough! I want to watch it again!"

Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei were also a little moved.

And by this time, they have fully realized how good this movie is, and they can't help but think, "I don't know if it's a 3D or 3D-IMAX version, it will be better than this ordinary version." Is it better? Where does it look better? How much better? What kind of stereoscopic method is stereoscopic viewing?" ——Once this kind of thought sprouted in my heart, it was almost unstoppable.

But tomorrow is Friday and I have to go to work!

The two were thinking about each other, but they didn't say anything. They just walked out of the auditorium slowly following the flow of people while listening to the cheerful discussions of the people around them.

The routine of the two of them watching movies, girls, don’t rush out after watching movies, the first thing to do is to go to the restroom——but at the midnight show, there are actually a lot of people waiting in line for the restroom!

Of course, when a girl is going to the bathroom or waiting in line, there is always a boy waiting for her.

Therefore, even though the bathroom is very large, it still seems a bit overcrowded with such a concentrated flow of people.

There is no way, the two girls can only line up behind.

At this time, I heard a few people in the front line discussing excitedly there - they and they should be the audience of the scene that ended early.

What they are discussing and amazed at is the "3D-IMAX" that Zhou Yuzhu and Chen Ziwei are more concerned about and curious about at this time. So, the two girls subconsciously stopped their conversation and listened carefully——

"I'm convinced, it's so good to see!"

"Me too. I've been watching movies for seven or eight years now, and I've only seen such a cool movie! This 3D is so awesome, I must come and watch it again tomorrow! And watch 3D!"

"I've seen all the previous movies of the leader. This movie is indeed his best work, but I don't think it's the best. It's just that the 3D technology is too good! It feels really good. What’s more, it’s like being in it, especially the part where the hero is sitting on the flying bird, and there’s a spaceship behind him, that kind of feeling, damn it, it’s so exciting!”

"I now feel that the words of the leader are right. To watch this "Avatar", you must watch the 3D version. It is best to watch the 3D-IMAX giant screen version, otherwise you will not be able to fully appreciate its beauty!"

"Yeah, at first I thought the ticket was too expensive, 60 yuan a piece, and there was no discount, but now, I think it's worth it! Ordinary tickets are still 20 yuan! I just don't know the ordinary 3D tickets that cost 40 yuan a piece. How's your experience! But I think, you get what you pay for, and it's definitely not as good as the version we watched!"

"Expensive things have only the disadvantage of being expensive, and cheap things have only the advantage of being cheap!"

"Fuck, you are so philosophical, brother!"

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Hearing this, Chen Ziwei couldn't help turning her head to look at her little friend.

Coincidentally, Zhou Yuzhu was also turning around to look over.

At this moment, the people behind Zhou Yuzhu and the others couldn't help asking: "Hey, buddy, is 3D really that good-looking?"

The people in front looked back, all of them looked very excited, and one of them said: "Of course! I don't lie to you! Just follow what the leader said, and you will definitely not suffer! If you want to watch it, watch the 3D-IMAX giant screen Version, let me tell you, it's amazing!"

Another person replied: "Don't worry about the money, I don't think there will be another film like this in the next few years, and it depends on whether the leader is willing to continue making this type of film!"

Another person smiled and said, "Now it's no longer a matter of money or not. I guess it will be hard to find all the 3D tickets tomorrow! With money, you can't buy a ticket!"

Chen Ziwei couldn't help but turned her head and looked at Zhou Yuzhu.

Zhou Yuzhu whispered, "Tomorrow... I should be able to ask for leave!"

Chen Ziwei thought for a while, and said, "I too... okay?"

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I'm home!

The countdown begins...