Chapter 534 This movie is so powerful!

Chapter 534 This movie is so powerful!

The promotion of "Buried" this time is different from Li Youzhi's previous movies.

Like "Dear", "The Wandering Earth" or "Nezha", the promotion of the movie mainly revolves around the movie itself. But this time, because of the fans of Leziren, the promotion of "Buried" mainly revolves around the topic of "Li Youzhi's Oscar".

Before the premiere, Li Youzhi said these words to the audience, entertainment media, and some film critics who were mixed in the audience. In fact, he wanted to give a vaccination.

What vaccination?

It's not a vaccination against not winning an Oscar, but a vaccination against the political part of the film!

Don't say that Li Youzhi is worrying too much. There are at least 800 films exported from China in the past few years, but the content of the movies is either singing and dancing, love, or some so-called literary directors deliberately make some small moves under the banner of literature and art, using the so-called reflection of social reality to please the white masters in the Western film and television industry.

According to Li Youzhi's understanding, it is definitely the first time that a theme like "Buried Alive" is so direct and open, and does not shy away from political content.

Of course, this is about personal works, not national teams.

But the more this happens, the more Li Youzhi feels that he needs to remind him.

Now he has enough things to do, and the netizens of Leziren have caused him a lot of trouble. Don't let the domestic public intellectuals Gao Hua get stressed and use me as a scapegoat after the premiere of the film. How can I have time to deal with these stinky shits?

After the opening of the premiere ceremony, Li Youzhi returned to the backstage with the support of the on-site staff.

Because it was the last stop of the tour promotion and the main venue of Qiangsheng Film and Television, the film agent and distributor, the premiere ceremony in Shanghai was handled more carefully.

There were media interviews and question-and-answer sessions with the audience before and after the opening of the premiere ceremony. Even if he worked non-stop for several days, Li Youzhi had to wait patiently in the lounge for the end of the movie premiere.

Seeing Li Youzhi sitting on the sofa and looking relaxed, even ignoring the buzzing sound of the high-power speakers coming from outside, squinting his eyes and preparing to take a nap, Liu Yun, Tu Zheng, and Zhou Yuan, who had completed the decoration of the Shanghai branch of Heguang Culture and came to accompany Li Youzhi to the premiere, were all happy.

This was not the first time that Li Youzhi's premiere was held at the Shanghai Dawan Film and Television Center. The premiere of "Dear" was also held here, and even the lounge for the main creative team to rest was this one.

It's just that at that time, Li Youzhi was so excited that he was not as Buddhist as he is now.

Seeing him relax like he was in his bedroom at home, Zhou Yuan said happily: "Brother Zhi, what you said just now was to avoid the dark? After all, you are an old driver, and now you know to add buffs to yourself in advance?"

"Ha,"

Faced with Zhou Yuan's joke, Li Youzhi, who was lying on the sofa, grinned.

"You have to add it. Damn, you are famous now. Every move you make is watched by people. It's a trivial matter. You may be used to make a fuss and make you annoyed. It's better to make it clear in advance, so as not to complain and occupy public resources."

"You kid, I was just about to praise you for being smooth now. After all this time, you are still afraid of trouble and lazy!"

Hearing the explanation of Li Youzhi and Zhou Yuan, Liu Yun smiled and stretched out his hand to point at him.

Tu Zheng also laughed, but saw the fatigue in Li Youzhi's eyes and waved his hand.

"Okay, let him sleep for a while. He has been running more than a dozen road shows these days, and he has to say a lot to deal with the media every day. Let him rest up and do this last one well."

Feeling Tu Zheng's care, Li Youzhi smiled faintly and took off his windbreaker to cover himself.

After a while, he fell asleep in a daze.

Just as Li Youzhi was falling asleep, the plot of "Buried" was advancing rapidly in the screening room;

Through Li Youzhi's breathtaking performance in the first part of the film, the audience has learned the reason why the protagonist Paul was trapped in the coffin, the kidnappers' motives and the general relationship and status of the US officials.

After this part of the foreshadowing, the film showed the real "motive" and the core content of the film - individual rights are not worth mentioning in the face of group interests!

If Li Youzhi's performance in the first part made the audience feel physically uncomfortable and suffocated, then the movie starts from this part... It is to squeeze the audience's senses and spirit from the psychological and physiological levels;

From the CRT company where the protagonist works, in order to get rid of the relationship and responsibility, not only did not provide rescue help, but also induced the protagonist Paul to terminate the contract, to the US government's clear attitude of not negotiating with KB elements, and the "Schrödinger-style" rescue operation of the hostage rescue team...

Trapped in a box buried deep underground, consuming the precious power of the mobile phone left by the robbers, the only good news that the protagonist received was that the robbers took his situation into consideration and reduced the ransom of 5 million to 1 million...

Any action cost that matches it cannot be separated from the words "cost" and "benefit" - even if it involves a living life.

These pressures from the social level are like spiritual sand, which swallow up the already fragile life of the protagonist bit by bit.

And Li Youzhi's performance in this part also shifted from the surface tension and anxiety to the transition of hope being ignited and frustrated again and again.

The anger and powerlessness are hidden behind the body movements and lines, focusing on the shaping of psychological activities.

These things are invisible and intangible from the performance, but through the almost face-to-face shots of "Buried Alive", they are very contagious!

"Hey, hey! Listen, you need to calm down Paul. We are doing our best to try to get you out..."

"No you don't! I've been here for nine months, I've seen and heard what you do. You don't care, you guys sitting in the damn office, only care about your secret plans and backdoor policies, if I were a diplomat, or a senior executive, or the CEO of a company, I would have been out by now! But I'm not, I'm just a damn truck driver, so I can only lie in this damn box, shut my mouth and wait to die."

"OK, OK! Paul, I need you to focus."

"FKU, Dan. FKU,"

"Paul listen, finding you is our top priority, for us to find you and find a four-star general is no different. But you have to calm down and hold those KB elements, understand?"

"Dan, I want to ask you a question, how many people are kidnapped? I mean, like me..."

"Since I got here? A lot of... journalists, contractors, soldiers, a bunch of people have been kidnapped here, and I bet this is the only business in this damn place that works."

"How many people have you rescued?"

"... a handful."

"Tell me their names, anyone, and make me believe that you really care about them."

"Mark White... a 26-year-old student from New Hampton, who came here to help re-establish a local medical aid station. He was kidnapped two weeks ago and we successfully rescued him."

"How is he now? Where is he now?"

"I don't know, maybe he's happy to go back to school and tell his new girlfriend about what happened two weeks ago, who knows? Paul, don't worry about that, you need to help me hold off those KB elements now, understand?"

"I have to die Dan! The robber sent a video... No, no, no! Damn, no!"

In the theater.

Watching the big screen, Paul, who received the video from the robbers and learned that his best colleague had been executed, had to shoot the blackmail video according to the robbers' request. He was no longer hysterical or sealed. He just lay in the coffin calmly, and the spirit in his eyes gradually disappeared as if his soul was also dissipating. The atmosphere in the screening room was extremely depressing.

It seemed that everyone's breathing had stagnated, as heavy as attending a person's funeral in advance.

Wrapped in such an atmosphere, Liu Xin, who was sitting in the back row, shuddered fiercely!

As a fan of Le Zi Ren who has been following Li Youzhi since the "Dear" era, even if "Buried Alive" has not been played yet, it is enough to subvert Liu Xin's impression of Li Youzhi!

Sanjin Brothers: "Fuck, brothers, who of you is watching the premiere in the cinema now? Why is no one talking today?"

Carefully turning down the brightness of the phone to the lowest, Liu Xin sent a comment in Li Youzhi's shaking hand fan group.

Unlike the previous messages in the fan group that would be replied to in seconds, this time he waited for several seconds before a few idiots who usually chatted happily finally jumped out of the group.

Three missing one equals two: "Who the hell is still in the mood to talk! Watching the premiere, this movie is so... amazing! I thought the part where the guy was live streaming before was the most suffocating part, but now the more I watch it, the more terrifying it feels. Watching a person being swallowed by despair bit by bit, it feels worse than killing him directly! Damn, I didn't feel this bad when I watched the guy's self-isolation challenge before, but I just want to see how he escapes!"

It's Mr. Min: "This movie of the guy is really... I personally think it is definitely the peak of his acting skills. Maybe his acting skills will still be explosive in the next movie, but I don't think it is likely to surpass this movie. It was said before that he would win an Oscar. Just kidding, but halfway through the movie, I really think this guy's movie is worthy of an Oscar! His acting is so awesome! "

Idiot: "Brothers, it seems like this time the jokes have been taken seriously. You are all praising the guy's acting skills, but don't you realize that the script and filming are also awesome? The coffin under the gravel, the mobile phone about to be powered, the lighter with kerosene burning out, the thin and turbid air, the frustrated man... With these elements, the story can be told like this, I am really convinced! In the current film and television industry where big scenes and special effects are often used, as if stories cannot be told without these, this script is also awesome! "

Screening room

Liu Xin felt comfortable watching the large number of rainbow farts he had attracted in the group.

Satisfied with the recognition of his ideas, he carefully turned off his phone and returned his gaze to the screen.

The movie had entered the second half at this time;

Just when Paul witnessed his best friend die under the gun of the KB members, and he was so desperate that he could not hysterically, a desert snake mixed into it from the crack on the side of the coffin.

The instinct for survival made him cheer up again. He used a lighter to drive the deadly creature out of the gap and temporarily escaped danger.

But what can he do?

Paul, who originally had a glimmer of hope for survival, is now desperate and exhausted.

People are always particularly vulnerable when they are desperate. They can avoid the attack of venomous snakes but cannot escape the unpredictable nature of human nature. The fastest way to destroy a person's will is to make him gain hope in a hopeless situation, and then deprive him of everything...

The only belief that supports Paul to live, in fact, has not much left after repeated phone calls.

Only the student named Mark White, who was successfully rescued two weeks ago, mentioned by Dan, the contact person of the hostage rescue team, still gave him a little hope.

He hoped that he could be successfully rescued like that lucky guy, and return to the United States to tell his wife, children and relatives about the desperate moment he was experiencing now.

It was this faint hope that made him calm down and find some clues from the surrounding environment and report them to Dan.

However, what he waited for was not rescue, but bombing.

The violent explosion after the plane roared past triggered a series of small earthquakes. Quicksand tilted down from the broken coffin lid, and when he was about to be filled with quicksand, the head of the hostage team called urgently.

He told Paul that he had found the burial location from the captured kidnapper and could rescue him immediately.

Paul, who had been waiting to meet death, was once again "given" the dawn of life. He held the final hope and waited for the moment when the rescue team opened the coffin door.

Like an hourglass counting down his life, as the quicksand continued to fill in and bury him, he finally heard the sound of gunfire and digging sand on the phone.

However, at the last second when the yellow sand completely swallowed him, he heard the curse of the rescuer on the other end of the phone.

Because the kidnappers misreported the wrong location, they dug out another hostage - the dead Mark White, the "lucky guy" that Dan, the rescue leader, mentioned to him on the phone before.

In the cinema.

The movie that challenged the audience's psychological and physiological limits every minute without knowing it came to an end.

Looking at the coffin filled with quicksand, strangling Paul's mouth and nose, burying this man who tried his best to survive in the desert of a foreign land, all hopes and aspirations went with him, and the screening room was silent.

Until the screen was completely dark, until the short list of production staff of "Buried Alive" appeared on the big screen, the audience who realized that the story had ended, came back to their senses from the shock.

But the entire screening room was still quiet.

Hiss~

Standing backstage, Li Youzhi, who had already had a good sleep, blinked his eyes.

Through the crack of the soundproof door at the backstage, he looked at the screening room that seemed to be cast with magic, and smacked his lips.

Is this movie... so powerful?

Where's the applause?

It's okay if there's no applause...where's your surprise value?

What the hell is going on?

With your emotions like this, I don't know what expression I should make later!

Bang.

As the white font of "THEEND" appeared on the big screen, the basic lighting of the screening room lit up, and the beautifully dressed host walked to the big screen.

"Okay, friends, the two-hour movie has now been played. Now let's invite the director, screenwriter and starring actor of this film, Li Youzhi, to the stage again to talk about the movie with our audience and media friends. Please..."

Hearing the host's warm-up, Li Youzhi took a deep breath.

Damn, never mind!

He pushed open the door of the backstage, and faced the searchlight, and he went on stage from the guest channel.

Just as he took the microphone and thought about how to open the situation, someone stood up from the audience first.

Pah...

With a crisp sound, in an instant... thunderous applause!

Beep!

Received cumulative amazing value, 5012890 points!

Looking at the audience standing up, listening to a few broken praises mixed in the thunderous applause, Li Youzhi, who was holding the microphone and ready to quibble... cough cough, how to explain this movie, breathed a long sigh of relief.

Damn... please don't have such a long reaction arc, you bastards.

Zhige thought you were used to watching Zhige's commercial films, and you were incapable of accepting this kind of drama film occasionally, and you fell into the street!

You are so scared, this is more terrifying to Zhige than a thriller!

(`^)σ Forget it this time, but not next time!

Putting down his hanging heart, Li Youzhi bowed deeply to the audience.

Under the maintenance of the host, the completely out-of-control order finally returned to normal with great effort.

"It can be seen that everyone loves the movie "Buried Alive". Then, we will give the right to ask questions to the audience. After watching the whole movie, everyone can communicate with Xiaozhi if they have any questions. Then... the gentleman sitting in the back row. Yes, it's you."

As the host warmed up the audience, the question-and-answer session just began, and a fat man sitting in the last row grabbed the question.

Holding the microphone handed over by the staff on the scene, Liu Xin was a little trembling with excitement.

Although he is an old fan of Leziren, this is the first time he has such a close contact with Li Youzhi.

"Brother, my name is Liu Xin, an old Leziren."

Standing in front of the big screen, looking at the fat man in the last row whose voice was a little trembling and was obviously very nervous, Li Youzhi smiled faintly.

"Then you must have given me a lot of rubbish suggestions."

Hoo,

Today, many fans came to the scene, and they got Li Youzhi's frequency, and there was a burst of laughter at the scene.

Liu Xin, who was a little relieved, laughed a few times and picked up the microphone.

"Before the filming of "Buried Alive", you were shaking your hands and said that this film was originally scheduled to be released in Heguang Audiovisual, not released in China, and only for the American market. Now I have watched the whole film. In the film, through the character of Paul, I noticed that you made a very sharp satire and criticism of the American system. I just want to ask... Although this film and TKTK were not able to premiere online due to concept issues, it is also in American theaters. Aren't you afraid that after it is released, the film and television companies and audiences in the United States will cause trouble for you and block you?"

"Hahaha..."

Hearing Liu Xin's question, there was another burst of laughter at the scene.

Li Youzhi also laughed.

But he felt that the question raised by Liu Xin was still very representative.

When the host announced the start of the post-movie Q\u0026A session, he had already seen some media reporters getting excited, and they were probably concerned about this question.

Faced with the question, Li Youzhi hesitated for a moment.

Then he picked up the microphone and smiled.

"Actually, I think that China is developing quite well now. So in the field of literary and artistic creation, as a cultural creator, we don't need to deliberately please anything, nor do we need to deliberately avoid anything. Look at the most glorious era of Hollywood, which was the 1990s. There was a very clear spirit in their movies. What spirit? It means not thinking about anything, just a good and wonderful story.

I think most of the audiences in the world, when they spend money to go to the cinema, don't want to see political correctness, but just a good story. I think if the story is well shot, audiences all over the world will like it.

In fact, the question you asked today is very good. I believe that after the premiere, there will inevitably be many media and film critics who will question me and the film itself about this issue. So I would like to take this opportunity to declare in advance that as Chinese filmmakers in the new era, we have stepped out of The idea of ​​Guomen's works should be changed. Decades ago, Western audiences liked to see us backward because they felt superior, and we ourselves felt inferior. But now the situation has changed. We should look at the world with an equal eye and break through the inherent ideas of cultural works. Why can't we shoot their bad points?

Similarly, at that time, we liked to watch the tall buildings, beautiful women and handsome men in Hollywood movies. That was also because we didn't build as well as they did, and we wanted to learn from them. Now our infrastructure, communications, public security, and living standards have all improved. Why do we show these in our works for foreign countries? Maybe now the people abroad want to understand us and learn from us through film and television works?

The times have changed after all. "

In the screening room, listening to Li Youzhi's unreserved talk about this shocking argument, several film critics looked at each other.

Before they finished expressing their surprise to each other, the scene was swallowed up by applause again!

Beep!

Received the additional [Excited] amazing value, 41209 points!

Received the amazing value from the United States, with a total of 3012907 points!

Listening to the applause and the two amazing value notifications ringing in his ears, Li Youzhi took out his mobile phone with a smile.

"Xiaozhi, what a good movie! I really don't want to compliment you. In recent years, has there been such a balanced and perfect movie in terms of acting, script and camera!"

"Brother, I'm not afraid of your pride... This may not be a good commercial film, but this movie... is awesome!"

"I'm ready to watch the second time. Next time, I won't bring water, maybe the immersion will be stronger. I fucking praise this movie!"

"Super, super, super! At the premiere in Shanghai, what the brother said after watching the show must be a hot search again! Brothers, cheer up!"

Looking at the comments section of the dynamic post he posted in the morning to canvass votes for "Buried", and the rainbow farts from the netizens who had watched the premiere, Li Youzhi laughed and opened WeChat to find Su Bona's profile picture.

The domestic venue should be stable.

Whether Zhige can get an Oscar ticket... depends on how he performs overseas.

……………………

When he received Li Youzhi's WeChat, Su Bona was laughing wildly!

In North America, because "Buried" is mainly shown in Class B theaters, there are a large number of cooperating theaters, and the scale is relatively small, it is not easy to conduct data statistics.

Although the first screening of "Buried" in theaters around the country has ended at this time, the relevant attendance rate and comprehensive box office will not be completed until the afternoon of the next day.

But this is not important!

Just now, before the premiere of the movie was over, he had already received calls from the theaters showing it.

What are these theaters calling him for in the middle of the night?

Weighting, renewal!

Foreign cinemas sign contracts for movie screenings unlike domestic ones, especially for Class B cinemas. Many cinemas sign contracts for the first week when negotiating screenings. The meaning is obvious, that is, to see how the first seven days are. If the audience response is good, they will continue to sign for the second period.

Moreover, these short-term screening contracts are also weighted. For example, some small cinemas only sign for the evening show, so that they can get more box office revenue.

But now, the first show on the first day of the first seven days has received so many renewals and full-day show authorizations... Even the Huggins Cinema, which has always been famous for its popcorn and drink sales, called to ask for the authorization of the stills of "Buried Alive", saying that they want to print them on Huggins' large cup of juice for joint advertising, which is very telling;

The premiere must have been a hit!

"Boss, I heard that you like others to give you advice. There is an idiom in China called "give someone what they like", so I have to suggest that you... open an international account as soon as possible to deposit US dollars! Lots of US dollars! Before 2 pm tomorrow, I will summarize the US box office results for you. I believe it will be a surprise! For you and for me!"

Looking at the voice message sent by Li Youzhi asking about the box office data. In ecstasy, Subona sorted out his emotions and pressed the voice button.

At the same time.

The TKTK branch is located in the US headquarters building in Los Angeles.

"Wendy, this is our recent operating data. The team has specially marked the part of the user increase you want."

"Okay, put it there, I'll use it in a while."

"Uh..."

"Anything else?"

It was late at night, but the lights in the CEO's office on the top floor of the building were still on.

Seeing that the head of the operations department seemed to have something to say, Wen Ting, who felt dizzy after a busy day, raised her eyebrows.

"It's that Heguang Audiovisual. We said before that we wanted to connect the data, so we specially assigned people to form a maintenance team. But now there are problems with the progress of the cooperation. I want to ask you how we should deal with this team? We don't have enough people on the operation side..."

"Then disband it first. Is it necessary to ask about this kind of thing? You can't let them sit in the office drinking coffee and chatting with a salary of two thousand dollars a week? I don't think there will be any possibility of connecting with Heguang Audiovisual in the short term, so let the team disband and do what they should do. By the way..."

Wen Ting waved to the head of the operations department and raised her head again.

"I heard that the movie "Buried" was released in theaters. Do you know the screening situation of this movie?"

"I don't know. I have worked overtime for two consecutive days. I heard from my colleagues that the tickets for that movie are not easy to buy. They are all shown in Class B theaters far away from the commercial center. It should be... not very good. After all, those theaters are popcorn and beverage theaters. Movies shown in such theaters have never had high box office."

Hearing what her colleagues said, Wen Ting nodded.

It seems that the situation... is similar to what I expected.