Before the main film is released, there will be an advertisement.

It’s a normal thing. In addition to making box office, advertising is also one of the big deals.

If the surrounding area develops again, the theaters will make more money. Therefore, Wanda strives to build a theater chain, in addition to controlling the terminal's voice, the most important thing is of course because of making money!

In addition to the advertisements, there are also some trailers for movies, and Bai Xiaofei saw the trailer for "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and "The Nine-Ranking Sesame Official".

Before any movie is released, trailers will be placed in the theater and the Internet, and one of the routines of early publicity.

"Nine-rank Sesame Official" has two sections in the theater trailer. They intercepted each of Bao Longxing, played by Bai Xiaofei, practiced mouth cannons for one minute and practiced acrobatics for one minute. The one placed in this screening hall is exactly one minute to practice mouth cannons for one minute...

"I'll go, is this Bai Xiaofei?"

"It feels so funny, I want to see it!"

"It's only in December, it's early!"

The audience whispered, and Bai Xiaofei, who was in the last row, heard it and smiled.

“…You made a movie too fast!”

The young lady sighed in a low voice.

"It's not very fast, either..."

"I've played three movies this year!"

“…Okay, I will restrain myself…”

"Riding the Wind and Waves", "I Am the God of Medicine", "Nine-rank Sesame Official", the beginning of the year to the end of the year...

Give them a way out!

...

The big screen darkened and the movie officially began.

I don’t know when it started. A group of directors always like to have something like a wedge before the movie begins, either related to the theme of the movie or the background of the movie. After the introduction is finished, the title will be displayed.

This should have been passed down from Hong Kong movies. Mainland directors, especially novices, like to learn Hong Kong movies. If you haven’t learned anything else, you can learn some of them very well.

The only one who can directly title the movie at the beginning and enter the plot directly is "Pure Heart: Dream-Chasing the Performing Arts Circle" in my impression...

Of course, "The God of Medicine" is a movie that can be written into contemporary film history. "Pure Heart" probably only has a lot of complaints about writing public accounts and online articles.

‘In 2002, Shanghai’

The timeline is very clear.

The camera first aimed at a computer, which showed spider cards...

Then cut it out, ‘Prince Indian God Oil’…

"The landlord called me and asked me to push it. Pay the rent quickly!"

"I can't pay it, I don't have money!"

Cheng Yong, played by Xu Zheng, then showed his face.

He had a cigarette butt in his mouth, and his face was greasy...

The brighter the arc of the characters, the better. At the beginning of the movie, the audience can see that Cheng Yong is a middle-aged greasy man who lives a sluggish life. He sells Indian magic oil. His business is bleak and he is urged to rent. His wife has divorced and wants to immigrate with his son. He has an old father who is bedridden at home and cannot take care of himself.

By the way, feeding my father is a scene that cannot be ignored. His patience shows that he is a filial son.

A small boss who sells Indian God Oil of unknown origin, has a poor business and is chasing debts by the landlord, has a history of domestic violence and has divorced, and his son wants to immigrate. These misfortunes cannot win the audience's favor, and at most it is sympathy.

But at the beginning of the movie, the protagonist must gain favor, just like after a thief succeeds, he throws a coin to the beggar, and the audience can build a favorable impression of the thief at once. This is a kind person, and there must be his reason for his stealing.

This is a common routine used in movies, called "rescue cats". Cheng Yong feeds his father a scene of "rescue cats".

The emotions between the characters and the audience are firmly established because they are faulty but are kind in nature, just like us, so we hope that they will change their destiny, just as we always think about changing their destiny.

This is how the conspiracy between the movie and the audience is formed. The audience participates in the creation with their own expectations and then completes the movie-watching ceremony together.

At this time, before Cheng Yong was over, although he could not make a fortune, he could not starve to death.

When the movie was in the seventh minute, Lao Lu, played by Wang Chuanjun, appeared.

"...But this is a business opportunity. There are 37,000 bottles of genuine domestic medicines, and 2,000 bottles of pirated Indian medicines, and the effect is the same!"

"The efficacy of the medicine is exactly the same, the price difference is twenty times? Gengguangguang..."

Cheng Yong didn't believe it at all...

The pressure valve of the story is not yet over. At this time, his father's hemangioma broke out and he had to wait for death if he had no money for surgery. At this time, the characters' needs are the most primitive and he wants to save his family.

The more primitive the character needs, the more persuasive the actions are, and the more resonant they can be. Just paying the rent for the Shenyou Store will take risks, which is not strong enough.

But taking risks to save family is very convincing, and the audience is willing to see such stories.

Of course, at the same time, patients jointly protested against the excessive price of "Glenin" on the big screen.

...

Some viewers whispered to discuss the plot.

"What is Glenin?"

"…I'll check it out…it's the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia."

"You are stupid. You don't do your homework before watching the movie? The prototype of this story is Lu Yong's purchasing agent case. Don't you know?"

"…I have to check information when watching a movie? I have something wrong!"

According to the current situation, the movie is quite attractive because the plot is really good, and there are a lot of jokes in the first half.

In fact, many stories adapted from reality are much more interesting than those adapted from novels and ip...

The most interesting thing is of course the dialogue between Cheng Yong and Indian A San.

"Okay, you Indian San, you are so fat, you are even fatter than Zhu Bajie, you've actually learned the essence!"

Cheng Yong successfully brought the medicine back to Shanghai, but encountered difficulties in selling the medicine.

Lu Shouyi suggested that he could ask someone to help.

The two of them came to the bar. The person who danced pole dance on the stage was the person Lu Shouyi was looking for. She was Sihui. She was a hospital group group leader. She basically knew other patients in Shanghai.

"Is she a patient like this?"

"She is not, her daughter is!"

Then there is the plot of the official establishment of the Healing Group.

There is a segment in the middle, which is a segment where Sihui leads the group leader to say hello to Cheng Yong.

"I asked if you can take off your mask?"

Sihui said carefully: "Brother Yong, there is a bacteria environment here, and they are not very convenient..."

Cheng Yong expressed his disdainful expression: "Okay, then wear them all!"

Everyone saw Cheng Yong's dissatisfaction. Lu Shouyi took the lead in taking off the mask. Sihui used her eyes to signal, and the patients also took off their masks one after another.

Cheng Yong also let go and extinguished the cigarettes on his hand...

This clip is very important, showing that Cheng Yong is not the kind of scum who ignores others' lives and death...

The business of the healing team was going well, and Cheng Yong made money!

At this time, the second paragraph of the story begins. Cheng Yong's transformation from an illegal drug purchaser to a drug god, from human nature to divine nirvana, must be completed in the second act.

The so-called storytelling is to tell a good turning point. If a play does not have a turning point, it is a waste play, and empty mirrors do not count.

The story must move forward with conflicts and crises. Cheng Yong made a lot of money, but the illegal crisis was always there. The liar Zhang Changlin appeared at the right time. Under his coercion, Cheng Yong transferred the agency rights and betrayed other members of the team.

The movie begins to sink from the upward emotions, which is the midpoint of the movie, from which you can divide the movie into two.

From here, bad things come, and emotions have to go down all the way. According to Snyder's plot chart, you have to enter two beats of nothing and soul night. This is how the movie really advances the story, strictly follows the narrative rules.

Snyder's plot beat chart is the most suitable script creation method for current genre films. Snyder is the screenwriter who creates scripts most according to specifications in Hollywood. In "Save the Cat", he gave a beat chart for screenwriters of all genre films as reference and comparison templates.

He restored a movie of about 90 minutes into a 110-page script, and then divided the 110-page script into 15 key beats. Compared with this beat chart, it is easy to find out whether the rhythm of the script is appropriate, whether a certain beat is too slow or hasty.
Chapter completed!