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Chapter 140 "Crazy Stone"

Cheng Yu'an is very self-aware. He knows that even if he wins the Best Director at Venice, he will not be as popular as Andy Lau.

The original "Crazy Stone" featured Andy Lau, which boosted a lot of box office.

But now, "Crazy Stone" is being taken remotely alone and not distributed to anyone. He is not sure that he can make "Crazy Stone" reach the original 0 million box office.

So Yuan Yuan started the promotion of "Crazy Stone" a month in advance.

Spent a million to push.

Join forces with Focus to place advertisements in major cities and theaters.

On June 19th, "Crazy Stone" will be previewed in Shanghai.

Cheng Yuan stood up personally.

We invited Zhou Gongzi, Xia Yu and his wife, Huang Xiaoming and other friends to help out.

Mr. Han also came to cheer in person: "Ning Hao is a frequent visitor to international film festivals. "Incense" and "Green Grass" sold well abroad. "Crazy Stone" is Ning Hao's first entry into the mainland market. We are very willing to help people like him

An outstanding young director.”

Regardless of whether it is true or not, it is correct to say so.

Zhou Gongzi and other supporting stars said: "We believe in director Cheng Yu'an's vision. He told me that although "Crazy Stone" is not high-cost, it is definitely the most interesting movie in the past few years. I have seen samples of it in the past few years."

, it’s very good, I believe the audience will like it.”

Director Ning Hao said: ""Crazy Stone" is a film that shows different behaviors and mentality in fighting and acquiring. The filming of the film was all completed in the mountain city, and a large number of dialogues were in the mountain city dialect."

Ning Hao believes: "Shancheng is a developing emerging city, and its urban character that is both public and restrained is unique!"

"Crazy Stone" adopts a multi-line parallel narrative that is rare in current domestic films. Audiences who have watched enough films may say that it plagiarized Guy Ritchie.

But there is no such thing as plagiarism in narrative techniques.

You can use multi-line narrative but I can’t?

"Crazy Stone" uses Guy Ritchie's multi-line narrative, but the story and jokes are all original.

Comedy films in recent years can be roughly divided into two categories. One is Hong Kong films that are nonsensical, pushed to extremes, and use exaggerated body movements to make you laugh. The other is Feng Xiaogang's Beijing-style comedies, which win with witty lines.

But "Crazy Stone" is not like this. It relies on exquisite narrative structure and dramatic conflicts.

Of course, the lines are also interesting.

This "novel" comedy form that breaks through the two also brings certain risks.

Because it has not been tested by the market, the creators are worried that the audience will not accept this format.

There is a lot of information in the first few minutes of "Crazy Stone". All the major protagonists appear, banging and banging, and there is no connection between the major characters. It is easy for the audience to be confused and confused.

But fortunately, Ning Hao controlled the rhythm very well, and connected the characters and the story through a small incident.

Brother Dao and his group pretended to be a moving company to smuggle furniture and were blocked by the police. Seeing that the matter was about to be exposed, they took out their black leather hammers and were ready to take action. A loud noise not far away attracted the attention of the police. The police gave them a few words of warning.

Left to deal with a car accident.

As soon as the camera turned, the four-eyed secretary played by Wang Xun parked on the roadside in a BMW, took out his spray paint and painted the word "death" on the wall. While spraying it, he cursed: "I won't shed tears until I see the coffin, I will despise you all!"

What’s interesting is that Siyan didn’t write the complete word “dismantle”. Second, he wrote the word “reject” next to the handle of the word “arrangement” on the wall.

Then a van hit his BMW.

"Gouzile!" Siyan cursed.

Then the camera turned again, Lao Bao was practicing his skills in a factory van, and the windshield was smashed by a can of Coke falling from the sky.

Only then did the audience realize that this can of Coke was the one that Xie Xiaomeng had thrown away when he was hooking up with a girl on the cable car.

Then Lao Bao and the two got off the car to check the situation and cursed at the cable car in the sky. They found that the van had not turned on the handbrake and was already sliding down the slope slowly. Duang screamed and hit the front of the BMW.

Only then did the two lines intersect, and Four Eyes dedicated a classic line here: "It's high-tech, driverless! If you don't see it, don't touch me!"

Only then did the audience suddenly realize that this was the case!

It was also at this time that laughter erupted neatly for the first time in the theater.

People in the industry who were watching the movie also understood at this time that the previously scattered and unrelated characters and stories were cleverly connected because of this car crash.

Two words: Advanced!

The story of "Crazy Stone" mainly revolves around an unexpected emerald, involving three parties: the factory security department led by Lao Bao, a trio of thieves headed by Brother Dao, and the international thief Mike from Hong Kong Island.

At the end of the film, the international directors Mike and Feng Dong died together, Brother Dao failed in his bamboo basket, and the real jadeite was hung around his girlfriend's neck by Lao Bao as a fake souvenir.

With nowhere to go, Heipi knocked on the bakery window with a hammer and stole the bread. He was chased by the bakery owner on a motorcycle and climbed onto the elevated road:

"Run! Steal the bread and run! Run, 60 miles!"

Heipi ran and gnawed on the bread while mumbling something vague, not sure if he was cursing or something else.

The whole film comes to an end in Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"!

With the applause of the audience, the main creators came to the stage to share.

Cheng Yuan is sitting in the audience. He is the producer and there is no need to go on stage to steal the limelight.

"Brother Hu, Brother Hu, can you say that line again?"

Brother Hu plays Mike in it.

"What?"

"That's what I'm going to say to you."

Brother Hu complied with the reporter's request and used Hong Kong to reproduce the lines in the film: "I'll beat your lungs out!"

"Hahaha!"

There are no big names in "Crazy Stone", the biggest name is Hu Ge.

Speaking of interesting things about the crew, Ning Hao first "fired" on Cheng Yu'an in the audience: "Actually, at first I wanted Yu'an to play Mike, but..."

"But what?"

"Let Director Cheng speak for himself."

The microphone was given to Cheng Yu'an in the audience: "Do I have to say this kind of thing myself?"

"want!"

"Okay," Cheng Yu'an stood up and faced the audience, "I did try Mike's part, but...how to put it, I remembered a comment from my teacher, Professor Hou Kenming: 'Throw a bone, and the dog will be gone.

Better than you!’ Anyway, I won’t act anymore.”

This was the first time outsiders heard Cheng Yuan talk about himself like this.

Hou Kenming, who was sitting next to him, said softly: "I didn't expect you to hold a grudge. You have remembered these words for so long."

Needless to say, in the subsequent interviews, various guests expressed that this was the funniest and most interesting domestic comedy they had ever seen.

Even Lu Chuan had to admit: "This is the biggest surprise for domestic comedy films in recent years."

Yes, Lu Chuan is here too.

Cheng Yu'an didn't know him, but Ning Hao did.

During the period of "Incense" and "Green Grass", the two met to attend international film festivals together.

Now that the quality of "Crazy Stone" is so high, I don't know what Lu Chuan thinks.

I want to make an art film, but it can't sell at the box office. I want to make a commercial film, but I can't get enough of it with pretentiousness.

The reporter finally asked Cheng Yuan: "Does Director Cheng have any expectations for the box office of "Crazy Stone"?"

"Just get back to your roots. Just get back to your roots." Cheng Yu'an usually doesn't predict the box office, he only predicts haha.

After the interview ended, the reporters slowly walked out, and a voice called out from nowhere: "Liu Yifei is here."
Chapter completed!
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