Director’s Legend

On the afternoon of August 6, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was in theaters at the AMC Times Square Cinema in New York, USA. Hall 1 was already full of people, chatting and bragging, waiting for the movie to be shown.

"I bet this film is definitely not better than the old version of "Battle of the Apes"." a young red-haired young man shouted.

"You make a bet without seeing it. Shao Shuaijun is a very good director, and he certainly won't shoot badly." said another yellow-haired young man next to him.

"Please, what's so great about that Chinese guy. Except for "Inception", it's not attractive. He can even be called Hollywood Gemini with Nolan. Are our media brains flooded? "

"To be honest, I don't think Nolan is as good as Shao Shuaijun. Nolan's output is not high, and the subject matter is also dark. Shao Shuaijun is ten or twenty years younger than Nolan, and the movies he has directed are almost Nolan's. Two times, and, except for one "Night Watcher" because it just got in touch with Hollywood and lost money, the rest of the movies are very popular."

"There isn't even a billion-dollar movie. Is this a hit?"

"It has to reach a billion dollars to be a hit? The cost of Teddy Bear is less than 50 million U.S. dollars, 613 million U.S. dollars worldwide, setting an R-rated comedy box office record. Isn't it a hit? Inception is not a hit. The sequel is not a prequel, and the global $922.5 million is not a hit? There is also a so-so Chinese film "Old Boy", which has a global US$321 million and broke multiple box office records in Asia. Isn't this also a hit? "Mo's 500 Days" and "Popular Heart" are small productions with a cost of tens of millions of dollars, and "Source Code" and "Painted Skin" are also small and pitiful. There is also a "Buried Alive", do you know that, 10,000 US dollars It came out and won a box office of more than 20 million US dollars." The yellow-haired young man gushed.

The red-haired young man stared exaggeratedly: "Please, you have been brainwashed by China guys, do you really believe that Shao Shuaijun is the representative of the American dream? Shit, reporters are raised by female cousins, and the Chinese give money, they are like Wagging its tail like a dog!"

"Your prejudice against China is too deep. Movies know no borders. Good directors deserve our liking. Bill Gates and the care of his old lady. Shao Shuaijun started from nothing. He can use his talents to conquer any problem, no matter what. Is it business or movie."

"It's ridiculous, you are too poisoned."

"If you don't believe me, we'll bet whether this "Rise of the Apes" can surpass the previous one! As long as you don't lose to the previous one, you will admit that Shao Shuaijun is an excellent director. If it is not as good as the previous one, I think I am blind, how about? "

The red-headed young man snorted coldly: "You gamble, but how can you prove whether it lost or won?"

"When the scene is over, listen to everyone's applause, enthusiastic applause means success, sparse applause means failure, how about?"

"Okay! Just wait to get blind!"

The two men whispered to a bet that the movie was released at this time.

After the Summit Entertainment logo passed, it was an aerial shot of a forest. At first, the big screen was quiet and a serene picture. Then the camera looked down, and a group of orangutans were walking through the forest. Suddenly, a large group of birds flew by, and an orangutan raised its head curiously, with innocent eyes.

In the next second, a scene of humans hunting orangutans was staged. The chimps fled blindly, but in the end they were arrested one by one and packed into the iron cage. The plot suddenly became fierce and passionate. The chimpanzees struggled and roared in the iron cage. The chimpanzee, who had escaped, watched the cage from a distance and drove away.

And on the window of the cage, a chimpanzee doesn't know what emotional eyes he has.

The close-up of the eyes zoomed in, suddenly occupying the entire screen, and the impact was shocking.

The originally noisy movie theater also calmed down as the chimpanzee was arrested.

The red-haired young man snorted disdainfully.

In the lens, the black pupils enveloped the entire screen, and then the close-up lens was slowly pulled apart, turning into the eyes of another chimpanzee. This chimpanzee is playing the Lux Tower game with a collar and chain. The chimpanzee magically completed Lux ​​Tower under the rules.

Seeing the lively chimpanzee, a small audience said in surprise: "Where did you find the chimpanzee as an actor, so smart?"

No one answered, everyone was watching the movie intently.

Dr. Weir invented a drug "ALZ-112" that can help the brain to restore health. They experimented on chimpanzees and helped a chimpanzee greatly improve its IQ. So decided to experiment on humans. While Will was speaking to the board of directors, the chimpanzee suddenly went crazy and disrupted the meeting.

The security killed the chimpanzee and announced the bankruptcy of the drug plan. The entire experimental plan was cut. The president ordered the laboratory to euthanize all the chimpanzees.

When packing things up, the researchers unexpectedly discovered that the chimpanzee went crazy because it gave birth to a child. Will's assistant couldn't bear to kill the baby chimpanzee and found no place to settle it, so he asked Will to take care of it temporarily. Then Will brought the baby chimpanzee home.

Will's father liked this little thing very much and named it "Caesar", but he suffered from Alzheimer's disease, which was also Will's original intention to study "ALZ-112". It can be said that the whole beginning is not amazing, but the chimpanzee image created by special effects and the fast-moving plot successfully captured the hearts of the audience.

Then the camera advances faster and more joyously. Caesar has grown into a big guy from a young age, and his intelligence has also improved by leaps and bounds. The audience is exclaimed by various performances, and the laughter and exclamation are full of the story.

"Caesar is so cute, it's so fun, I can't believe that this is made of special effects, it's no different from it!"

"It would be nice to have an orangutan."

But the plot did not keep the audience open for long. Will's father's dementia became more and more serious. Will couldn't bear to see his father being tortured by the illness. He stole a few "ALZ-112" from the laboratory and gave them to his father. Injected. The young Caesar saw the whole process.

Then Will's father miraculously recovered his health, and his intelligence also greatly improved. Will was overjoyed and decided to renew the study of ALZ-112. At this time, Caesar was not satisfied with staying at home and wanted to sneak out to play, but the neighbor regarded it as a danger and injured him.

"It's over, Caesar must bear a grudge. Human beings don't treat it well, and it will definitely rebel in the future!" An audience member said worriedly, showing that it was completely substituted into the movie plot.

The audience happened to be sitting next to the young red-headed hairy man. The young red-headed hairy man nodded unconsciously: "Yes, Caesar will fight humans in the end. This is the incentive..." Suddenly he remembered something again, and said sourly. , "But it feels a bit sloppy and not new at all to deal with it this way."

However, the audience next to him didn't hear his sour words at all, they were grinning.

Because Will took Caesar to dress up the wound in the movie, Caesar actually helped Will pick up girls. This is also the first time the hero and heroine meet. Then, with the help of Caesar, Will and Caroline were really together. On Caroline's suggestion, Will decided to take Caesar to the mangrove forest in the park and let Caesar play freely.

When Will untied Caesar's chain, Caesar hesitated. With Will's father's encouragement, Caesar squatted down and opened his palm to Will. This is a petition gesture by chimpanzees, which means that they want permission. Will stroked Caesar's palm, and Caesar ran to the mangrove forest.

"Cool!" some audience exclaimed.

There is something cooler below. Caesar climbed up the big tree and jumped around the tree, spring, autumn and winter, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and the four seasons of cold and heat. Caesar grew up like this, wearing a red t-shirt, splurge Youth belonging to it. The whole scene is of Andy Serkins doing the action indoors, and the CG special effects are combined with the background shooting to create a spectacular picture.

"so cool!"

"Handsome!"

"Caesar is so handsome!"

"This lens is definitely the coolest lens of the year. I never thought an orangutan was more handsome than a human!"

The exclamations in the cinema came and went, and even the red-haired youth could not help holding their fists, forgetting their contempt for Shao Shuaijun, and exclaiming with the audience. Especially when Caesar stood in the sun, standing in the treetops, looking at San Francisco in the mist and the smoky Golden Gate Bridge in the distance, the lens was full of majestic atmosphere.

People can't help vent their emotions without following the camera.

Five years later, Caesar looked at Will and Caroline's intimate movements under the big tree, and seemed to feel a kind of loneliness and incompatible. Especially when they left, the family brought a dog to play. The dog barked at Caesar. Caesar noticed that the dog had a chain on its neck, and it also had a chain on its neck.

In the cinema, the audience lowered their breathing, as if they were anxious about Caesar's discovery. The audience who watched "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" for the first time were basically fans of the old version of "Planet of the Apes". They knew the end of the whole story and knew that Caesar and humans would go to war sooner or later.

Seeing such a scene, the audience seemed to be depressed in breathing.

And then Caesar no longer took the trunk of the car, but instead sat in the back seat, asking Will if it was a pet in sign language, and even asking where his mother was, which made the audience depressed and worried. The theme of the movie was also Here, gradually sublimated. Caesar has a personality, he is no longer "it"!

"The movie is here, it's finally going to be fascinating." The mixed film critics in the movie theater couldn't help being excited, put down their notebooks and so on, and concentrated on watching the movie.

When a movie has conquered the critics' book, then the movie is not far from success! (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)