"Ex Machina" is a science fiction film, and someone has already explained it online

The starring role is actually Na Zha.

A Chinese actress stars in a Hollywood sci-fi movie?

The key point is that Changlin Film and Television didn’t do much publicity...

Nazha briefly talked about "Ex Machina": "I play an artificial intelligence. The story is quite simple. I heard it is an expansion of a short film... It is to determine whether the artificial intelligence has self-awareness through the Turing test."

"The cost must be very low. We only have five actors... and the scene is very fixed. It's just a house. I only shot it for 13 days and it was over!"

"Why are we looking for you?"

Nazha answered casually: "This drama is invested by our company!"

The media quickly asked Shen Changlin, and he nodded: "The cost is not high anyway, and the cost of trial and error is still affordable..."

“...I really like movies about artificial intelligence such as "Her" and "Ex Machina". I watched the short film "Ex Machina" in 2006, and I also learned about the term Turing Test, which happens to have a branch in North America. The company, which specializes in B-movies, had a chat with short film director Alex Garland, and then made this scene..."

"It should be released in China in early June, so everyone can look forward to it."

"Before we made this film, we didn't even think about how big the market would respond... With Nazha, it's just that she's free, and she's one of our own, so it's easy to negotiate about the salary... And she doesn't pick roles, so tell her this The play was good, so she took it!"

The reporter praised it: "You said the show is good, who will pick it?"

Shen Changlin waved his hand: "You can't say that. It's not even sure whether a low-cost B-level movie worth 4 million US dollars can be released. Many actors rejected it as soon as they heard it..."

"Is Naza going to Hollywood?"

"There is no need, the domestic market is booming... Of course, if there are good roles, she will be given priority." After a pause, Shen Changlin continued: "There will be another "Jurassic World" after Naza, then It’s just a bit of a joke, we’re helping her get The Bourne Supremacy 5, and if nothing else, she should be able to win it..."

"Is she the heroine?"

"Yes! And there are a lot of fight scenes..."

Na Zha interjected: "Our producer said I am suitable for action scenes... He didn't think I could play a vase well. Their aesthetics are different from ours. The vases all have very big butts..."

"...Stop saying a few words!"

Shen Changlin interrupted her, the girl was too frank...

But she said there was nothing wrong with her, Naza was a bit thin, and from Hollywood's point of view, her exotic charm was not very obvious.

Orientalism, the proper name of the Angsa people, is also called Orientalism, a prejudiced way of thinking or cognitive system in which Westerners despise Eastern culture and arbitrarily fabricate "Oriental culture".

In this cognitive system, exotic women are also called the xenophilic and are very attractive to them, such as boudoirs, veils, geishas, ​​etc. Oriental women are portrayed as loose, passive and exotic...

Specific to Hollywood commercial dramas, female characters are generally sexual fantasy objects in some sense, and exoticism is an important aesthetic at this level.

So Gong Li went to Hollywood and played a large number of such roles in "Miami Vice", "Hannibal Prequel", "Quick"...

But, Gong Li is plump...

In fact, there were also criticisms against Gong Li back then, saying that she was selling her flesh to gain favor. I don’t know what happened, but later she became Emperor Gong...

Nazha probably wouldn't be able to ascend to this kind of throne.

…

After five films, Shen Changlin has become a leader in mainland commercial films. When his new film is released, countless fans will naturally watch it immediately...

In fact, some senior movie fans are quite worried about Shen Changlin's collaboration with Jackie Chan.

Based on past experience, no matter who the director is, if Jackie Chan stars in a movie, it will be called a Jackie Chan movie. The exceptions were a few times when the box office was a hit - "Around the World in Eighty Days", "Shinjuku Incident"...

However, most movie fans feel that the collaboration between Shen Changlin and Jackie Chan is a good match - Shen Changlin himself made a career in action movies.

Anyway, the theater attendance rate was very high.

Several more professional film critics also came...

For example, Zhou Liming.

In fact, before coming here, most people knew that the story of "The Vengeful Man" should be relatively weak...

You can tell at a glance what kind of movie this is from the synopsis of the story.

It's nothing more than the big boss reappearing after washing his hands in the golden basin, using his own strength to cover the sky with one hand. A typical type of fighting violence with violence.

What matters is the action and the process...

Shen Changlin did not disappoint them.

At the very beginning of the movie, the opening scene is in a bar. Jack, played by Jackie Chan, wears glasses and looks like a retired teacher from head to toe.

He sat by the window, placed the tableware in order, then took out a book - "Epictetus' Discourses", and the waiter brought the food.

"Jack!"

People around him greeted him...

"Hello…"

Jackie Chan also raised his head and smiled back, and then the prostitute played by Na Zha appeared. The makeup was a bit exaggerated, especially the lip gloss... It felt like she had just finished picking up a customer...

"Jack!"

"Na..."

It's obvious that they are acquaintances...

The opening shots briefly introduce Jack's daily life. He works in a supermarket during the day, and after work, he habitually goes to the same bar to enjoy dinner...

Na is also a regular customer of the bar, and the two occasionally exchange a few words...

One day, Na had a wound on her face, and Jack casually expressed concern. Na smiled bitterly and did not answer, but asked him, "You should know what my occupation is..."

'Yes I know!'

'Do you think there is a future for people like me?'

'Of course...'

Na didn't speak and finished her food without saying a word: "Can you walk with me?"

"My pleasure!"

The two walked along the Tobin Bridge and chatted for only a few minutes. Two cars drove over, and then several pimps got out of the car and took Na away. Another person looked at Jack and handed him a card. Business card: "For only 70 yuan, you can do whatever you want to her! Think about it!"

In the car, Na sat in the back seat, looking at Jack with eyes full of deathly silence...

Jackie Chan drove home without saying a word...

Sitting on the sofa, he began to read a letter - written by his wife to him.

At this time, Jack's background was revealed - he used to be a top killer. Because his wife died of illness, he moved and came to live in Boston. The only thing at home was a puppy named Peppa Pig and a Mitsubishi EVO given to him by his wife.

"We step onto a stage that we did not choose, and we perform a script that we did not choose. Life is just like this... No one's script is worth admiring, we only need to perform our own script well!"

It seems to be self-comfort...

Jack picked up the puppy, sat on the sofa and fell asleep...

The next day, he came to the bar as usual, but at ten o'clock in the evening, Nadu did not show up...

He goes to the hospital and meets the girl he was with, Madeleine Carroll.

Madeleine Carroll tells Jackie Chan that Na is dead.

"The boss said it was an accident... Sometimes when we encounter such violent customers, we can only pray..."

Jackie Chan said nothing...

Then we drove to find the pimp that day.

Angry, he taught them a lesson, and when he returned home... he found that the dog was dead...

Okay, the conflict creation is complete!

Before that, Jack went back to Chinatown and asked his old friends to investigate the other party's identity...

The next sixty minutes were almost entirely fighting scenes.

…

Zhou Liming watched the whole scene and felt... it was very smooth. There were actually no explosions in the whole scene, and even guns were rarely used. It was almost all about unarmed fighting...

Especially the final battle in the supermarket warehouse, there was not a lot of gunfights, it was almost all Jackie Chan style fighting - using the tools in the warehouse.

But unlike standard Jackie Chan action comedies, the action in this film is very violent!

The movements are clean and neat, and the punches hit the flesh. Although there is no blood and flesh flying everywhere, there are endless cases of severed hands, broken bones, stabbed hearts, and slit throats...

The scale is huge!

Of course, there are no frontal close-ups in the domestically released version, but it can also be seen that the action design of this film is different from previous Jackie Chan action films.

In the end, the gangsters and the Albanian gangsters in Boston were killed...

After being successful and retired, Jack bought a new dog and sat on the sofa at home. The movie was almost over.

Just as Zhou Liming was about to leave, the Easter egg started with a phone call: "Hey... old guy, are you not dead yet?"

Jackie Chan, who was originally sitting on the sofa in the room, still had a solemn look on his face. Hearing this, he immediately said: "You're the one who died!"
To be continued...