Chapter 202 Big sale at the premiere!
For these companies that are interested in joining the audio movie tide, I naturally strongly recommend audio movie projection equipment produced by DreamWorks Company No. 5 and give them discounts as appropriate. As for the patent fee for audio movies, it is of course a matter of course to refer to the specific movies shot by their respective companies.
The group of people were very happy to see me giving them discounts, and they also knew that even if it was 10% off, they could save a lot of money.
Among the people, only Chuk and Chaplin did not come over. To be honest, I am sure they are very eager for audio movies now, but they who had already had the power to have sex with me before were not able to show their kindness to me like others. It was like a piece of fat meat in front of me, but others could not move. Chuk was originally a person who regarded money as life, so of course he was extremely unhappy.
I don't care about this, I eat what I should drink and drink what I should drink. I chatted with Marskolov and others very happily. Sometimes I even talked a few classic dirty jokes, which made those guys laugh.
At eight o'clock, Xishishi, the two guys were talking on the stage, saying nothing more than some high-sounding words. I was bored and started chatting with Grant below.
"Grant, why don't you go up to the abbot?" I smiled.
Grant grinned and whispered: "I tell you Andre, I'm not the abbot of all premieres. I'm only interested in your movies. I'm happy with other companies' movies.
I chuckled, "Okay, this time I know who loves me."
Hayes was smiling when he heard this.
After the opening remarks, the movie officially began. MGM is rich and even the screen is bigger than that of other film companies. I sat in my seat and stared at the huge white cloth, and I was very curious about this movie.
"Washington" and my "Vampire Dracula" have started filming at the same time. It has been several months now. I have been fiddling for so long, spending so much money and spending so much effort. I will know how the effect is right away.
Marskolov and Meyer were sitting next to me and were very nervous. I saw Marskolov holding his breath.
The film was originally a factory logo of MGM. You can tell at a glance that I learned it from our DreamWorks. The lion was similar to what we saw in later generations. It opened its mouth lazily and whispered. Then there was a string of long subtitles. MGM always had the habit of reporting all the subtitles before the movie started. The subtitles took about five minutes. I looked at the people around me and were basically yawning.
"Andre, if there are so many subtitles in front of your movie, I won't give you the premiere of the abbot," Grant whispered to me.
"Don't worry, our subtitles will not exceed one minute at most." I raised my eyebrows.
The film begins with a long subtitle introduction, introducing the historical situation at that time, taking up a few more minutes, and then begins with a bloody scene of a group of British colonists executing local residents.
I nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that the Shitou could indeed mobilize the audience's emotions at once. Now is a moment when the American people hate the British very much. Such a set of shots can really attract the audience's attention.
Sure enough, with the appearance of this set of shots, I immediately heard a lot of insults behind me.
However, this insult disappeared after lasting a minute or two. The reason is that this set of shots is too long and a bit too fake. Perhaps because of technical reasons, the shots of the prisoners who were executed were shut down and indirect shots. Muzzle, plasma, etc. were all fake, which greatly shocked the audience's emotions.
After this long set of execution shots, the film officially entered the theme, starting from Washington's childhood, spreading the plot in chronological order. After a few minutes, the years at that time appeared on the Silver Tomb, showing the first half of Washington's life to the audience.
Such a form should be considered very novel in this era. If Dimil handled it well, it would definitely be easy to immerse the audience in the historical environment at that time. However, Dimil's nature of liking flashy dramas greatly reduced these shots. He did not focus on the portrayal of Washington, but on the exquisite scenes of the dance party, the gorgeous and exquisite costumes of each character, and other outdoor scenes. This is the specialty of all his movies
To be honest, if it were another movie, such as his love movie, such a shooting would definitely make the camera shine, but it seemed a bit over the horse in this movie that showed a great man of a generation. Everyone knows that that era was extremely cruel and extremely bloody. Such exquisite shots formed a huge contrast with the bloody shots of the execution of prisoners in front, giving people the impression that these people were a group of borers who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun all day long.
When Washington became an adult, Sisig also changed with it, from the original elegant and hazy to the cold and nervousness. The excessiveness in the middle began with a massacre, which made me feel very disgusted.
Grant sat next to me, not even drinking wine, poured the cup on the table,
What's the matter? He shrugged and told me that the plasma on it was rising.
The camera behind is the main body of the movie. Xi Shi actually brought wars one by one to the screen. These wars are bigger and bigger. I watched six wars in half an hour. Washington led the way in these wars, and the rest of the people around him were killed and injured. In the end, he did not even get dirty. Moreover, before going to the battlefield, he always held a letter from his lover and looked silently at the moon in the sky, or sat on a big table next to the window and wrote a letter to his lover. Such a scene was made by Xi Shi. The use of the soft focus lens made the lens surprisingly beautiful, but it was precisely because of this beauty that it became more and more fake.
In the next hour, it was basically repeated and repeated. Although Cishil wanted to make the movie as full as possible through several other clues, such as the British government's reaction to the war, the lives of those comrades around Washington, etc., the film still seemed huge but had no content.
During the screening, the cinema was surprisingly calm. Except for the occasional whistle or two, I couldn't hear any other movement. I looked back and found that many people were yawning.
Marskolov seemed to feel this bad atmosphere, and sweat began to appear on his forehead. After all, the investment in this movie was 800, and it was a movie he had always wanted to make. If the box office was not good, wouldn't it be a smashing of his golden sign?
This movie also confirms my guess at the beginning. For Western movies, such as some love movies, they are definitely good at it, but he has not yet grasped the ability of such large scenes and large themes. The most important thing about the movie is the rhythm, which is also the thing that can best reflect the director's level. Many times, without saying much, just quietly feel how a movie moves, you can know the director's skills. Dimil tried his best to make the historical scenes at that time bigger and more beautiful, but the more he did this, the thinner the characters in the movie and the thinner the story, so the film seems to be slow and lengthy.
I sat in my seat, half-closed my eyes, and it was not until the climax of the film that I felt a little bit energetic.
The climax of the film consists of two parts: one is the surrender of the British, and the other is the Americans' declaration of independence and founding the country.
These two scenes are basically interior scenes. Dimil obviously borrowed from my "Lust and Caution" when filming, and was very attentive to use light indoors. For example, one of them showed the negotiation scene. The sunlight leaked in from the window, and the United States was sitting in the sunlight while the British representative was huddling in the dark. Such shots were very creative, but unfortunately, not many. Despite this, for Dimil, who is good at filming indoor dramas, he grasped the core of these two climax scenes, and expressed the content he wanted to express well, making the shots of the two scenes full of explosive power.
The audience's emotions also became motivated with the two climax scenes, and the atmosphere in the cinema suddenly became tense. Many people began to call Washington's name and shouted long live the United States.
Marskolov put down his heart, took out a handkerchief from his pocket and began to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Meyer kept pulling his tie. As MGM's general manager, if this movie was smashed, he would naturally be responsible.
These two climax scenes saved the movie's life. Without these two scenes, the whole movie would be like a flat mountain. Although it was spread out very well, there was no peak, so there was no special questioning in it. However, these two scenes added a hint of brightness to the movie and finally saved it from the bleak situation.
Despite this, the two scenes were still too little, and they only had ten minutes together. I don’t know what Dimil thought. Perhaps he didn’t regard these two scenes as the climax of the movie at all. He could spend ten minutes on a small-scale war in the previous one, but became extremely stingy at the climax. Although this approach set off a highlight at the end of the movie, because of too much time, the movie still did not completely get rid of the previous dull situation.
The movie ended at the funeral in Washington. It was raining heavily. Dimil used a high-altitude shot to look down at the coffin of Washington being placed in the tomb. He did this and referred to my "Dracula Vampire" to show the symbolic meaning of Washington's death, even God wept for it. It was quite unsatisfactory.
When the projector beam went out and the movie theater was clear again, Marskolov, Meyer, and the people in the cemetery stood up and applauded them, and I knew many of them were like me, just out of courtesy.
"Dimil is not good enough!" Grant clapped and shook his head.
I was amused by the way: "What, isn't he pretty good?"
Grant whined at those who applauded: "Be polite and polite. Andre, to be honest, although this movie invests 800, it is definitely not as attractive as your 100-year-old "Brave Heart". It seems that today's Harvey
The movie will probably dominate Hollywood.”
I didn't take his words because I saw Marskolov wave to me on the stage.
The people in the cinema focused their eyes on me, and they applauded at me, hoping that I would go on stage to speak.
At this time, I secretly called Marskolov a cunning. The only purpose of his call to speak on stage was to let me say good things about this movie, so that the media reporters in the audience could write what I said in the newspaper. To some extent, this would be of great benefit to the box office of "Washington". At this time, in front of so many people, I would never say bad things about this movie.
I walked onto the stage and the applause from the audience suddenly became warm. I waved to everyone, signaled to be quiet, and then picked up the microphone: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for Mr. Marskolov for inviting me to the premiere of this movie. This "Washington" has made us look forward to for several months, and now we have finally met us. What I want to say is that tonight, I watched a wonderful movie."
Then I smiled and praised the two climax scenes in the movie. I analyzed how good it was to the audience from various aspects such as light, composition, scene scheduling, etc. After I was happy with Marskolov and the Session, I said a few high-sounding words and ended my speech.
Although Marskolov felt that I had said less and praised this movie a little less, he also understood that I could say such praise to this movie and not criticize its shortcomings, which was enough face.
"You kid really know how to get along with each other." After getting off the stage, Grant smiled at me.
"What's wrong with me?" I also laughed.
"What's wrong with you? The only highlight in this movie is those two scenes. Didn't you do this without offending Marskolov or lie to the audience?" Grant is a personal genius, so I can't escape his eyes if I do this.
I smiled and stopped talking.
After the movie was screened, MGM held a very grand reception as usual.
Jiabao walked through the venue with my arm, constantly surrounded by clusters of people. These people include actors, directors and producers, but the majority of them are the bosses of major film companies.
Paul of the Bessie Film Company of the Star Film Company of Robert Century Film Company. OK, and said that they were interested in audio films and might consider investing in the filming. I naturally greeted them with a smile and vigorously promoted the audio film projection equipment grown in the fifth factory and the "Vita style" audio film projector to them. This made the cocktail party completely change its taste and became a sales conference for DreamWorks audio films. Many people did not pay attention to the audience, although the actors were romantic and chic, and the women were either sexy or hot or pure and refined, but were surrounded by me layer by layer.
After finally dealing with these people, I pulled Jiabao back to a corner and took a breath.
"These guys are simply not alive." I wiped the sweat from my head, then pulled the tie around my neck hard.
"Give it, handkerchief." Jiabao took out a handkerchief from her small bag and handed it to me, looking at me with a smile that raised the corners of his mouth.
I wiped my sweat, then pointed at Jiabao: "Are you tired after standing for so long?"
"I'm tired, I'm just accompanying you. If I don't have any energy, wouldn't it be embarrassing for you?" Jiabao grinned mischievously.
The shoes she wore were the ones that were good but not good. If she stood for a long time, her feet would definitely hurt. She always smiled when she accompanied me to deal with those guys. I thought she was fine, but it turned out that she was for me.
"Come here to rest, too." I pulled a chair from the side and asked Jiabao to do it.
Jiabao pinched his calves and stuck out his tongue at me.
We had just sat for a while and were invited by someone again.
"Andre, why can't I find you everywhere? So you are here!" Sidney, the owner of Callum Film Company, mentioned it.
"Are you enjoying the world of two people here with the beautiful Miss Garbo?" Tom of Aisina Company
Since Callum and Aisina formed the film company alliance, these two guys have become two-headed babies, sticking together wherever they go.
"Don't tease you anymore. I'm exhausted. I finally found a place to rest. Now, you are here." I shook hands with these two guys and laughed.
"That's that's it, we saw it just now. More than half of the people around you at the entire cocktail party." Alcott smiled.
"Andre, we have something to discuss with you this time." Tom was serious.
Chapter completed!