Hollywood Road

In the same movie hall, in a VIP room not far away, Vin Diesel, with a bright head on his head, also sat down, waiting for the film to start showing, and he was able to get away from his busy work and come to the theater. How do I like Murphy Stanton's film, mainly because his film is about to face the impact of this film.

"Fast and Furious 6" was released in North America last weekend, and received more than 97 million U.S. dollars in the first weekend. Although the film has a poor reputation and may face a larger box office decline in the second weekend, it has exceeded 250 million U.S. dollars in North America. There should be no problem.

However, to achieve this goal, the premise is that "Dark City" released this weekend cannot be too strong. If there is a super explosion like "Avengers", all the films released at the same time will inevitably be affected. "Fast and Furious 6", which has a mediocre reputation, may experience a cliff-like plunge.

Such a situation is what Vin Diesel does not want to see anyway.

Vin Diesel is very clear, judging from the pre-sale results, it is basically a foregone conclusion that "Dark City" will get 150 million US dollars in the first weekend in North America. If 150 million US dollars, "Fast and Furious 6" will be affected. Probably not too big.

After all, it all depends on the quality of the film. If the premiere becomes a big hit...

Vin Diesel shook his head, the last thing he wanted to see.

"it has started!"

The moment the big screen was lit up, Daisy couldn't help being excited, she couldn't wait to see the evil performance of the magician.

Countless movie fans are waiting eagerly in nearly 4,000 theaters across the United States, and a large number of film critics gathered at the premiere venue, Lincoln Center for the Arts, and they are all preparing to enjoy a black meal!

At the beginning of the film, everyone was slightly shocked.

The title of the classic 20th Century Fox has changed. In the familiar background music, when the 20th Century Fox logo appeared, the screen was gloomy and dark, and there seemed to be heavy black fog drifting from the background. Even Stanton's work The opening titles of the studio are no exception, as if they were all shrouded in gloom.

Two titles flashed, and the rest of the screen was full of floating black. The camera suddenly lowered and turned into a panoramic overhead shot. The entire Manhattan Island appeared in the frame. In the panoramic shot from the overhead shot, those tall buildings also appeared Presenting a strange blue-black color, the tallest buildings suddenly exploded bursts of flames, forming a line of characters in the darkness - Dark City!

Then the camera cuts quickly, and the subtitles of the Murphy-Stanton work flash away.

Then, as the darkness fades away, bright sunlight bursts onto the screen, and the busy streets of New York City are full of traffic, in which the camera captures the back of an ordinary-looking figure in a black suit, before zooming in and out to stop at on this person.

The other party was carrying a net bag, which contained several colored magic balls!

"This is the magician!"

The use of the lens is ingenious and easy to understand, without any pretentiousness, even if you are not a movie fan, you can understand what this is telling.

"Murphy Stanton is still the same Murphy Stanton!"

In the New York State Theater, the famous film critic Peter Truckee from "Rolling Stone" magazine was quite emotional, "The opening shots of his films are always amazing, but they can be understood by everyone, and there is no barrier to entry. , this is a truly outstanding director!"

Who wouldn't play trick shots? Not to mention anything else, among the students who have just graduated from the film school, there are a lot of them at first glance. Peter Truckee thinks this is nothing at all. He can use the lens amazingly and at the same time it is easy to understand. That is the real wisdom.

The screening of the film is still going on. This man with only his back joined another group of gangsters, entered the bank and started to rob. These guys in black hoods obviously had a careful plan, and they easily opened the bank's safe. I can't tell which one is the real magician.

"that's all?"

Also sitting in the theater, "The New Yorker" film critic Richard Brody shook his head, "The opening scene is indeed amazing, but what use is such a robbery scene for the film and the character creation?"

Seeing the robber open the safe all the time, he didn't think there was anything special about this scene, except that the robber who might be a magician was a little crazy, it was simply plain and boring.

He has complex tastes, an amazing amount of movies, and has always been known for his sharp comments and opinions. If the movie is only of this level, Richard Brody feels that it is reluctant to give a passing grade.

However, following the evolution of the plot, Richard Brody immediately dismissed this idea.

There is still no picture of the magician officially appearing on the stage, but in a series of words and actions of the robber, this character seems to exist in front of everyone vividly.

Through the dialogue, a group of robbers showed that they were all provoked by the magician. While opening the vault, they also began to kill each other, until only one person remained, and this person even teased the bank manager with witty words He and the New York gang behind him killed the driver who drove the school bus into the bank, drove away calmly, and mixed into the end of a team of school buses.

Inside the bank, only the stunned bank manager was left with a smoke grenade in his mouth. The curling smoke from the grenade seemed to be mocking everyone in the world.

"Damn it! This magician is so handsome!"

In the theater in Los Angeles, Justin clenched his fists, "I stole the limelight before I even showed up!"

Richard Brody looked at the picture on the screen and gradually became speechless. This opening scene was not dull at all, but it was so exciting that people couldn't help but want to applaud. Murphy Stanton used the profile The technique is almost perfect, so that the role of the magician can leave an indelible impression on people without showing his face!

This is not dull at all, but... wonderful!

There are three protagonists in this film. After the magician appeared in such a special way, Jay Rachel as the heroine also appeared in the film. Much of the early viral marketing was about Jay Rachel. The content of running for the New York District Attorney, so when she appeared on the stage, she took office as the New York City Attorney, and she also appeared at the same time as the congressman's father in the previous film.

At Jay-Rachel's inauguration, her father also briefly said a few words, revealing from his lines that he has retired.

Although Murphy didn't make it very clear, anyone who has watched the last film is very clear that the high-ranking official in New York City who colluded with Renner is Jay Rachel's father, and Jay Rachel Cher already knew.

Under such circumstances, Jay Rachel, who had just become the New York Attorney, not only chose to turn a blind eye, but let her father participate in her inauguration...

In fact, Murphy is telling all the audience through such a lens that Jay Rachel is not as simple and kind as it seems on the surface.

Perhaps such content may not be discovered by some viewers until they watch it a second time, but professional film critics with keen observations immediately realized this.

As a film critic who has always liked Murphy very much, Kenneth Turan from the "Los Angeles Times" kept nodding to the various scenes and designs since the beginning of the film, especially this paragraph.

"People are not simple animals, they all have their own thoughts and ideologies." He wrote down in his notebook, "Chris Dane has it, Renner has it, Inspector Lynch has it, Jay Rachel has it. I have it too!"

When the law and family conflict, what choice will people make? No matter which one you choose, it will undoubtedly be very difficult for Jay Rachel.

Later, another side of Jay Rachel became clearer. Her first task as the Attorney General was to hunt down the mob and Chris Dane's Nightcrawler, both of whom undoubtedly violated the law, but faced Of the two, Jay-Rachel once again showed her duality.

She cracks down on gangsters, but once again chooses to turn a blind eye to Chris Dane.

As the three absolute protagonists of the film, Chris Dann was the last to appear. The appearance of the Dark Night Walker provided a layer of protection for the chaotic New York, and became the hope of New Yorkers. Some radicals even imitated the appearance of the Night Walker , to fight criminals.

Chris Dann appeared on this occasion. He stopped the gangster's transactions and the behavior of the imitator, but a word from the imitator made him only humorous.

"How are you different from us!" an imitator asked loudly, "What power do you have?"

Many of the people who entered the advance screening were senior fans of Murphy. Hearing this sentence, they naturally began to think, as ordinary people, without legal authorization, why did Chris Dann's Nightcrawler Have the power to fight crime? Is this kind of action of using violence to control violence really reasonable and legal?

Compared with ordinary audiences, professional film critics undoubtedly prefer this method, and Richard Brody was directly poked into a sensitive part of his heart by this question.

"It's just a line..." he murmured, "Murphy Stanton has sublimated the theme of the film, no... even the first "City of Chaos" has become different. .”

He took his eyes off the screen and tried to look forward, wanting to see what was different about the director sitting at the front.

It's a pity that, like the film projected on the screen, all Richard Brody saw was darkness.

It wasn't just Richard Brody who realized that this movie was different, it was people like Vin Diesel and Leonardo DiCaprio who knew they were making Facing or about to face a very terrifying opponent.

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