Chapter 458: More Arrogant than Jie Lun (Happy New Year)

As the movie gradually came to an end, Hao Yun also evaluated the movie in his heart, or compared it with "Those Years".

It's not that he is competitive, or wants to be more arrogant than Jay Chou.

Well, there is a little bit of this meaning.

Although Hao Yun is a little abnormal, he is only a young man of 23 years old after all. If he loses his competitive spirit, wouldn't he enter the old age life in advance?

The scenes of "Initial D" can be said to be handled very beautifully.

Including the tofu shop that seems to be hidden, the gas station after the rain, and the quiet mountain road.

In particular, the beginning of the movie gave a super long shot of AE86 going down the mountain. Under the conflict between human products and natural scenery, the sunrise and wheat fields set off a different flavor.

Since this movie has a lot of night scenes, after all, drag racing, stopping cars and closing roads are not fair.

But when you see a beam of car lights winding in the mountains, there is indeed a sense of lonely beauty.

Hao Yun has to admit that he is not as good as Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui in these aspects. After all, they are old-fashioned Hong Kong directors and have always been the objects of his learning.

There are also some details that are handled very well.

Many shooting techniques used in animation are used. When speeding, the camera enters from the rear window and continues to look forward to the entire cab, and then passes through the front window. Very innovative and very urgent.

And Hao Yun is probably just a simple flat lay, at most occasionally capturing some emotional pictures.

Hao Yun did not pursue the beauty of the lens. The photographer of "Those Years" is not a good photographer, and is not even as good as his deputy director Cao Dun.

"Initial D" not only has good cars, but also good songs. Jay Chou sang two songs for this movie, "Drift" and "All the Way North".

Like "Those Years", these two songs are also very appropriate.

However!

Hao Yun does not think that the box office of "Initial D" can exceed "Those Years".

There are many reasons.

One is the plot.

A small person at the bottom of society, simple equipment, a heart-touching and inspiring counterattack, such a story satisfies the fantasies of most ordinary people and resonates with them.

However, due to the subject matter and length, the plot of this movie is too stiff and the coherence is particularly unnatural.

The movie seems to have a lot of storylines to show, but the length is limited, so many foreshadowings and transitions can only be abandoned.

It hurriedly tells the story and lacks the necessary details to fill in.

This phenomenon even exists in the Infernal Affairs series of Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui, and also in the works of many Hong Kong film directors.

Another thing is the actors.

Hao Yun thinks that Zhou Jielun, who has the worst acting skills, is surprisingly good.

Perhaps it is precisely because of his awkward acting skills that he really plays the stupidity of first love vividly. Especially the floating demeanor when thinking about it day and night and the crying accompanied by "Go North".

Just from the director's point of view, "Initial D" invited so many well-known actors, but did not give them a stage to play their acting skills. All of them are limited to symbols.

Hao Yun invited Ge Da Ye and Jiang Wen to play guest roles, but they were given space to perform.

Especially Jiang Wen, whenever the cinema showed him and Hao Yong "friendly communication" in English, there would be a burst of laughter.

Then there are the emotional scenes.

Suzuki An's Mogi Natsuki is a typical Japanese chick, with short legs, round face and big eyes. It makes people feel very pity.

But she is also an out-and-out old-timer.

From the fact that the hero of the strategy forced her first kiss, it can be seen that this is definitely not a good person.

A typical beauty brings disaster, coupled with the setting of "aid transaction" with local characteristics.

It is inevitable that people will think of the sentence "Natsuki, uncle is going to **!"

Jay Chou and her are not in the same dimension.

On one side is the inspirational story of an ordinary boy with extraordinary talent defeating a professional driver.

On the other side, life has poetry and distance, but there is no lack of immediate compromise - what Natsuki experienced is real life, and no matter how fast the 86 is, it can't catch up with you in a Mercedes-Benz.

If we talk about the career line and the love line separately, there is no problem on both sides.

But putting them together feels very serious.

The movie is very fragmented, and the audience's feelings are also fragmented.

You may even feel resentful about the movie. You told me a fairy tale, why is there a "year-end bonus" in it?

In the end, Takumi turned and ran away, Xia Shu knelt on the ground and cried, and "Go North" sounded, and the audience knew that their youth was over.

The same is not a good ending, but "Those Years" is much friendlier.

Finally, in terms of subject matter, "Those Years" is youth, and "Initial D" is racing. The audience of "Those Years" is definitely wider.

If judged from Hao Yun's professional perspective, the box office of "Initial D" may be good, but it is definitely not as good as "Those Years".

If it is comparable, it can only mean that the flaws in the plot and emotional drama have been leveled by Jay Chou.

It can only mean that Jay Chou is very arrogant.

Much more arrogant than Hao Batian!

Of course, after the premiere, the whole audience applauded warmly.

Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi were no exception.

However, they did not communicate with each other from the time the lights came on until the end of the movie and the guests left.

The media were inevitably very disappointed.

And a little regretful.

Have such a popular couple also succumbed to the reality?

You don't really suspect that she is a shapeshifter, do you?

If you don't try, how can you know if she is a shapeshifter?

Hao Yun didn't wait for Jay Chou and Guanxi Chen, they had other things to do, so Hao Yun went back directly.

He took time out from the intense filming this time to rush back, which was very respectful to his brother.

After getting in the car, Hao Yun found An Xiaoxi sitting in the back seat of the car.

Good guy, you are really not afraid of being discovered.

"Are we like the meeting in a spy movie?" An Xiaoxi seemed to find it quite exciting. She and Hao Yun were classmates before, and they almost never avoided people when they were together, and they were never photographed.

Although the media has no moral integrity, they still have some bottom line.

She is a minor after all.

It was in the past six months, seeing that she was about to become an adult, and the news broke one after another, that the reporters stared at her.

"You, forget it." Hao Yun shook his head.

If someone like you plays in a spy film, I'm afraid you won't even make it through the opening credits.

"Huh~" An Xiaoxi was not convinced, but she was thinking about something else.

"Why did you come here? You're not just looking for excitement, are you?" Hao Yun turned up the temperature in the car by two degrees.

He also turned down the music in the car.

The wind by the river blows wantonly and desperately/stirring up the tears of the departed...

At this time, the music in the car was a song from Xiaogang's new album "Legends Under the Stars" for Zhou Chuanxiong - "Lonely Sand Island Cold".

The title of this song is taken from Su Shi's "Bosuanzi", which says that he picked all the cold branches but refused to rest, and the lonely sand island was cold.

"It's like this, Li An found me and seemed to want me to play the leading role in his new movie..." The car slowly drove out of the underground garage and merged into the busy traffic at night. An Xiaoxi's voice with a unique sweetness drifted in the car.

"Li An!" Hao Yun did not hide his surprise at all.

Li An from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, released by Li An in 2000, has been the box office ceiling of Chinese-language films so far, with a total global box office of 216 million US dollars.

When everyone is still chasing the billion-dollar club directors, this is already a billion-level.

He and An Xiaoxi made the film Those Years popular, which is bound to bring a lot of changes.

It is foreseeable that a lot of scripts will come to him. This month, Hao Yun received at least three times more scripts than before. Not only did he play the leading role, but many of them also asked him to direct.

The New Shanghai Bund that had previously approached An Xiaoxi also approached him.

But I didn't expect An Xiaoxi to receive an invitation from Li An. This span is really too big.