Made in Hollywood

"I don't understand why so many people pay homage to Steven Spielberg, and even use words like great to describe this mediocre director. "Schindler's List" is obviously a typical example of being overrated. It was filmed for the sake of winning awards, and making a fuss about the subject matter is one of the reasons why the film won awards. Later, Spielberg continued to enjoy shooting various political themes to confuse the academic judges, such as "Munich" and so on. This kind of mediocre work..."

""Happy Terminal" and "The Adventures of Tintin" both prove that he is old, or he has been beaten back to his original shape. "The Adventures of Tintin" is his true level. I have always wondered why he can compete with Kubrick. In comparison, it can be seen from "The Adventures of Tintin" that Spielberg has only scratched the surface of the master..."

That wasn’t what Duke said to reporters, of course, but an online comment he saw on the plane slamming Spielberg.

In the hearts of a small group of people, Spielberg is definitely not as good as Stanley Kubrick, but in the eyes of most audiences and even academics, Kubrick cannot be compared with Spielberg at all.

This is especially true for the Hollywood film industry.

People who have reached the level of Duke, James Cameron and Spielberg will not wantonly criticize others, especially Duke and Spielberg, who themselves represent far more than James Cameron It's complicated. If the two want to confront each other, they won't talk about it.

In fact, mouth cannon is of no use.

None of the people who have reached this point is an idiot. Even if their brains are not bright at first, they will be sharpened during the long journey.

Faced with reporters' questions about Spielberg, Duke was of course full of praise.

"Steven is a real genius and master. He created and established the Hollywood summer film "Jaws" and established the new science fiction style "ET Alien", which is enough to prove his greatness and his influence on the entire Hollywood film industry. The importance of development!"

Although these words may not be true, they are not all nonsense. When it comes to the importance of the entire Hollywood film industry, Spielberg completely blasted Kubrick. Just like "Titanic", few people in the Hollywood circle would slander Spielberg's "Jaws", because they brought Hollywood a new situation of groundbreaking development.

"Titanic" opened up the world market for Hollywood, and thoroughly promoted the globalization of Hollywood movies; "Jaws" created the summer film mode of Hollywood, which laid the foundation for the popularity of Hollywood films all over the world. .

Critics can look down on these two films and sneer at them. But the relevant practitioners will not.

Duke is also one of those people.

After arriving in Phoenix, all kinds of publicity for "Fury Road" were intensively bombarded across the United States and even the world. Not only online public opinion, but related commentary reports also occupied the popular time slots of many TV channels.

NBC TV's weekend evening "Watching Movies" program focused on this film. I think that all the audio-visual language skills in film production, axis, direction of travel, momentum editing, rhythm changes, scene design, camera direction, etc., can not be found in "Fury Road", so many cars, so many People and such intense car chases will not be unclear or incomprehensible at all; they are all done in one go.

The well-known morning show "Good Morning America" ​​interviewed some ordinary fans. Let these people talk about the merits of this film from a non-professional perspective.

"No sex scene before the war. Not even love."

Fans one after another appeared on camera, telling their reasons for liking "Fury Road".

"Before the battle, the protagonist forcefully talks and sensationalizes."

"There are no pig teammates to increase the difficulty to set off the protagonist's defense."

"There is no body that is unscientific, can't die no matter what, and walks in the middle of a hail of bullets."

"There are no exaggerated anti-physics action scenes, the kind of car crashing into a plane is really enough!"

"There are no deliberate scenes of being handsome and pretending."

"There are no whining memories or even a word of nonsense. Women don't drag their feet in a daze or scream in an emergency. Everyone is doing their best to survive..."

"Some are just doing it! Doing it! Doing it! It's fun from the beginning to the end!"

After all, "Fury Road" cannot be separated from a category. After all, the audience is limited. If you don't like this style, you will not force yourself to like it. Unzip the fanny pack.

The publicity on the Internet is more diverse. After years of development, Duke's navy can also use some ingenious methods.

For example, a few jokes about "Fury Road" they made were frantically reposted on the instant sharing.

"After silently watching "Fury Road", several directors, including Michael Bay, Robert Zemeckis, and Zach Snyder, who always thought that they were the visual streamers, went back and made the next new film The sub-camera was torn to pieces, and then added chicken legs to start all over again...Only James Cameron and other hall-level masters meditated in their hearts, "Constant change responds to all changes"..."

"After watching the test screening of "Fury Road", Alessandra Ambrosio received a call from Michael Bay, the director who had worked with "Escape from Clone Island" before: How is the film?  … I heard that you have filmed a lot of car chase scenes, is it very similar to my style? The tear-stained supermodel angel said with a choked voice: The user you dialed is not in the service area..."

These are all to attract people's interest.

In order to promote publicity, many things in the film are actually changed. This is also a common method used by Hollywood. For example, Duke registered the script as early as 2004. It is very common to say that the film is a five-year-old sword.

And in order to distinguish it from the action movies that use CG crazily today, "Fury Road" constantly uses live-action shooting as a gimmick in its promotion.

In fact, Duke has never rejected CG technology, and the former director is no exception. Like George Miller, Duke used nearly 2,000 CG composites in the finished film "Fury Road". lens.

But just like Warner Bros. once advertised, this is a live-action film, and this gimmick has also attracted a lot of audiences.

In the promotion of the film, it is a method used by film circles all over the world to make some falsehoods so true.

The entire crew of "Fury Road" has long had a tacit understanding on this.

When Duke was interviewed and asked about Charlize Theron's look, he never mentioned that it was his own idea, but attributed it to Charlize, who is more likely to attract people's attention.

"I remember when Sally got the script and tried to think about the role repeatedly. She always felt that something was wrong. Finally, she suddenly realized that she told me to have short hair for the camera, so as to strip away the sense of gender on the outside. Of course I agree, and this is what happened The epic Firoza we saw today!"

Duke doesn't even have to draft these words, "Charlize Theron brings a tough hero this summer, when her bright eyes shine through the camera and look straight at you You will never fail to be attracted when you are in the movie. What is more charming than this appearance is the power of wisdom, bravery and love that she radiates through the characters in the film!"

It's a role that's likely to make a difference in awards season as well, and Duke wouldn't mind blowing a few words for Charlize Theron.

A film, some people praise, also some people criticize.

The "Washington Post", which has never dealt with Duke very much, published a relevant commentary report in a prominent position in the Sunday special issue.

""Fury Road"--an over-rated work under the carnival of word-of-mouth!"

This review uses the method of restraining and promoting first, and first praises the action scene design of the film. It believes that all action scenes are always in motion and strengthens the sense of tension when watching, but the rest of the film's techniques are not advisable.

"Showing a lot of freaks and disfigured faces is a common method in many similar B-grade movies. We also see these contents in this movie, such as the little dwarf in charge of the lookout and the group of villain soldiers all in white. "The Road" is at best a B-movie with huge investment!"

The "Washington Post" also refuted the opinion that "Fury Road" is a milestone work of action movies that many media crazily praised.

"In addition to being cool, "Fury Road" has not made much contribution to the innovation of the action film system. The overly bright colors and the use of a lot of degraded photography are all designed to weaken the seriousness of the film, especially when the fast-forward scenes are constantly changing. When it catches the audience's eye, it's like telling you: This movie is a pure B-movie, don't think too much, just sit there and enjoy it!"

However, this report was powerless to stop the word-of-mouth of "Fury Road" from spreading in a crazy way. After more than two days of release, the IMDB score was as high as 9.8 points, surpassing "The Dark Knight" in one fell swoop, temporarily ranking first s position.

Although this position is not long, it is enough to prove that a large number of people like this film.

According to the statistics of CinemaScore, the favorable rate of theater audiences is as high as 92%, and the average audience score is 'A+'. 55 media reporters from MetaCritic scored a super high score of 97 points.

These are all guarantees that the film will be a blockbuster. Even if it is an R-rated film, after a series of frenzied publicity and promotion, "Fury Road" still achieved a proud 26.37 million US dollars in its North American screening the next day. score.

Compared with the rise of "Fury Road", "The Adventures of Tintin", which was released at the same time, declined due to the poor reputation of the audience. It only received 3.89 million US dollars on Saturday.

"Fury Road" received a warm response from the market, but the media and movie fans frequently compared it with other car movies, which also aroused some people's sensitive nerves. (to be continued ~^~)

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