Chapter 331 Killer Leon!
The Spring Festival is like this. Even in the past, the number of moviegoers during the Spring Festival would reach an astonishing level, not to mention this era that attaches great importance to entertainment.
In the corridor of a cinema in Yanjing, two couples who wrapped themselves up tightly walked into the theater hand in hand.
It was Lin Qiu and Tang Anning.
In the winter, the temperature is so low, and it is not uncommon to see audiences wrapped up tightly like these two.
Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year. Lin Qiu and Tang Anning have no work, and Tang Anning wants to watch "Leon: The Professional", so they came to the cinema to feel the warm atmosphere of watching movies during the Chinese New Year.
This is much more enjoyable than watching movies at home or in an empty theater.
Among the many Spring Festival films, if there is a movie that is most anticipated by the audience, it is undoubtedly Lin Qiu's "Leon: The Professional".
As the representative director of Xiazhou now, every work of Lin Qiu will attract audiences in Jiuzhou.
While the film was released in Xiazhou, the Jiuzhou film market was also showing it at the same time. The film was much more popular than "The Butterfly Effect" and "Iron Man".
"Don't spoil it..."
"Am I that kind of person?"
In the back corner of the theater, Tang Anning leaned against Lin Qiu and whispered.
As a director, Lin Qiu must have seen the finished film. Since the song "Shape of my heart", Tang Anning has been full of curiosity about this "Leon: The Professional".
"Is it tear-jerking?"
"It's OK."
"Tsk, I don't believe you, I have prepared the tissues."
Tang Anning shook the tissue in her hand and said proudly.
In fact, if Tang Anning wanted to know the story that Lin Qiu was shooting in advance, she could just read the script written by Lin Qiu at home. But all along, except for some novels that Tang Anning couldn't help, she hadn't seen the rest, including the original animation paintings, waiting for the final film to be released to get the most complete and freshest impression.
Tang Anning is not only Lin Qiu's girlfriend, but also the number one fan.
By the way, Lin Qiu's second biggest fan Ye Zhiyuan had already sat in the theater at the same time and bought the premiere ticket of "Leon: The Professional".
I had seen clips before when I was doing film editing in the company, but the art of film, the complete emotion, still needs to be watched from beginning to end in person. Some marketing accounts' essence editing is more or less fast food.
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The theater where Lin Qiu is located has about 200 audience members, which is not large.
Before twelve o'clock, there are still many audience members entering the theater, and their eyes reveal their expectations for this work.
Looking at the seats, most of them are young fans in their twenties, which is also the main component of Lin Qiu's fan group today.
Why many box office prediction software predicts that "Leon: The Professional" will not win the box office championship during the Spring Festival is because the type of this film, judging from the trailer and introduction, is not very suitable for the older generation and children to watch together.
During the Spring Festival period, the competitiveness will naturally drop a level.
"It's started..."
"It's started."
Just as the lights in the theater gradually dimmed, all the audience in the theater were excited, took a deep breath, sat in their seats, and prepared to enjoy this unknown film!
At the same time, all the films in the entire Spring Festival were released at the same time, and a fierce and bloody fight officially began.
When the logo of Changan Film and Television Company flashed on the big screen one after another, the audience who had just entered the theater quickly found their seats, fearing that they would miss the beginning.
"I don't know what kind of surprise Lin Qiu will bring this time!"
"Lin Qiu's production must be a fine product, and Lin Qiu dared to release it during the Spring Festival, which means that this film is definitely not as tear-jerking as before, otherwise it would be asking for scolding."
"Shh, it's started, don't make noise."
The entire theater quickly quieted down, and at the first moment of quietness, the melodious violin sound from the movie immediately brought the audience in the theater into the world of the movie.
The first shot of the movie is an extremely long shot, which shoots from the riverside to the city, shuttling through the streets and alleys of Xizhou City.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this texture."
"Too invincible."
Seeing this shot, many viewers couldn't help but exclaim in their hearts.
This is really not bragging. Lin Qiu's film language always feels like there is a special magic that can capture the audience.
This kind of shot at the beginning of the movie also appeared in "Hope", but this time, the sense of life is weaker, replaced by artistic texture.
The camera focuses on a close-up of a man's sunglasses. Audiences familiar with Kyushu movies recognize at a glance that the actor under the strange round black sunglasses is the protagonist Donald of this work.
"How about it? Leon?"
"Okay."
"Let's talk about business."
It is not difficult to know from the trailer and introduction of the movie that Leon, played by Donald, is a professional killer.
But the film explained this to the audience from the first scene. It has to be said that the rhythm is quite fast, and the advantage of this is that it can quickly get the audience into the play.
Although it is an art film and a drama film, the story of "Leon: The Professional" will not make the audience bored at all.
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Leon is a killer.
It is 50% similar to the image of a professional killer in the minds of all the audience.
He is always armed with a gun, calm and professional, elusive, often able to kill people without being seen, and cold without any emotional fluctuations.
But the other 50% is a little different.
Donald has changed his previous image on the screen.
This time, Leon, played by him, has an extremely lifelike appearance, and even his expression is a little dull.
But such a killer, when carrying out the commissioned killing mission, is extremely clean and ruthless!
At the beginning of the story, Leon's image was clearly presented to everyone.
The target's men were killed one after another by Leon using various fancy methods.
Finally, when the target was the only one left in the huge room, he was shooting wildly, gasping for breath, and making a phone call to the police for help, a knife flashing with silver light was placed on his neck.
"Fuck!"
"So cruel!"
"Awesome!"
"This is a killer!"
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Many viewers were excited and secretly said.
In the past, there were many killer images in film and television works, but they all had various flaws, or they were highly homogenized.
But in Lin Qiu's movie, in just a few minutes, many viewers felt that "the killer should be Leon"!
... (End of this chapter)