Chapter 80
No matter how many times he watches his own film, Qiao Yiqiao still gets nervous and excited.
This is true of both When the Walls Fell and Six Masks.
But this time it seems to be particularly strong.
It even reminded him of the first time, which was "Needle Walker".
Qiao Yiqiao clenched his fists tightly, his whole body tense.
Until the sea of stars on the screen slowly dispersed, and a blue planet gradually appeared in front of everyone.
Various exquisite aircraft shuttled back and forth on the planet, and the camera shook downward to reveal several huge sunflowers from the bottom of the picture, swaying gently with the sun.
The stems and leaves of the sunflower both have a metallic texture. When the camera zooms in, the flower disk is revealed to be a solar panel.
Sunflowers grow above the rooftops, and the surfaces of the skyscrapers are covered with all kinds of green vegetation - the whole city is green, a "solar punk" city.
The sunlight is filtered and blocked by various bionic plants, and finally penetrates into the street. However, this light is pale pink.
The story gradually begins on such a planet.
The protagonist is a frustrated alcoholic who has only a little martial arts skills and cannot even use his inner strength. He is in a state of panic all day long. Without inner strength, he has no status in this society.
Until one day, he rescued a child who had been sent to fight in a black boxing school. The child had great internal strength, but his character seemed to be flawed. However, the protagonist did not care much because he wanted to use this child to participate in the annual hunter school selection.
By cheating, he successfully entered the hunter school and began to study as a hunter.
The so-called hunters were those who had to go to the Burning Star next door to hunt down a creature there and extract its essence. The skills they practiced in this school were also extremely targeted.
Ever since humans came to settle on this planet, they have been constantly tortured by the ruthless torture of the star "Purple Sun" in this galaxy for the first fifty or sixty years. Its extremely unstable "Purple Sun Storm" caused countless disasters on the young swallows, until they successfully found creatures on a nearby planet that could adapt to this kind of sunlight, and extracted their essence to create the "dome" - this huge sheet-like aircraft that stretches between Purple Sun and the planet like an iron curtain, catalyzing the not-so-gentle scorching sun into the light of today, which not only avoided endless disasters, but also found that the crops brought from the old land could thrive.
Therefore, hunter is the highest-ranking profession on this planet.
In this school, the protagonist studies hard, although he is born with
The conditions were extremely bad, but he was willing to endure hardships - at this time no one knew why he was so obsessed with becoming a hunter.
Here he also made several friends who also came from the grassroots rather than the major sects. They formed a small organization called the "Mahjong Gang."
Soon, they completed their martial arts studies and began their journey to find the essence.
But it was not until they first landed on the neighboring planet that they suddenly discovered that the so-called "another creature" actually looked exactly like them.
And the so-called "essence extraction" is even more nonsense.
Behind the dome are densely packed... people.
They can use their unique skills to catalyze Zi Yang and make him harmless.
It turns out that the people on this planet survive on this planet in this way.
It was at this time that the protagonist discovered that he could adapt to Zi Yang's light. The reason why he had no internal strength on his original planet and could not make any progress in his practice was because he was not from that planet.
Those behind the dome are his true compatriots.
He became a hunter because he was obsessed with finding his parents. Unfortunately, the parents he thought were gone and would never come back were actually just the managers of the dome.
After experiencing a series of changes, the protagonist finally wakes up and has to fight for his own tribe.
He also deeply understood the skills that he should understand, and integrated them with the skills on his original planet, reaching a new realm.
Of course, in the end, after killing his father and mother, he and his Mahjong gang successfully freed all the enslaved people.
But at the same time, they discovered that the universe was much larger than they had imagined, and that many more of their people were still enslaved.
So they plucked up their courage and headed towards the depths of the starry sky.
On the screen, there is another starry sky.
After the movie was over, Qiao Yiqiao still couldn't calm down for a long time.
This film can be said to have all the elements, and gradually unfolds the world view and related settings from the perspective of the protagonist. It is also very commercial, and everything is in the most comfortable rhythm.
More importantly, the visual effects of this film are very good. Even Qiao Yiqiao, who has been watching the visual effects, thinks they are very good.
What's more important in this kind of film is the visual effects.
Director Zheng Mao also gave a very positive evaluation: "The film is very complete, it has all the elements of the story, and the pictures are really good, especially the last
The scene where the back dome exploded was very impressive. Moreover, this is not just a space opera, but also a dystopia, which is a theme rarely filmed in our country. It is really good.”
After hearing director Zheng Mao's comments, Qiao Yiqiao felt a little relieved.
He has been working on "The Sky Language" for so long that the worldview of this film has become a part of his world, and he doesn't know how to best convey it to the audience.
But now it seems that he delivered it well.
After all, it is only the first work, and while explaining the information clearly, it also leaves a lot of foreshadowing. For example, in the final battle, there is a third party that gives them resistance. Who is the other party? Who are the biological parents of the protagonist? And so on...
Of course, they didn't forget to bury the Easter eggs at the end of the film.
More cosmic races appeared in the protagonists' vision, and each race had its own skills, just like the major sects...
After the screening, Qiao Yiqiao made modifications as usual according to the suggestions made by Director Zheng Mao, and then found Liu Chong to do many preview screenings across the country and even around the world, and the feedback was still good.
This gave Qiao Yi Qiao the final confidence and he decided to arrange the release of the film.
The choice of release date is also very simple - next year's Spring Festival.
Many people say that China’s film schedule is divided into only two periods: the Spring Festival period and other periods.
During the Spring Festival, China's film market set a record of breaking 1.5 billion in total box office revenue in a single day, while the single-day box office record for a single film was also set on the first day of the Lunar New Year, reaching 1.011 billion.
Moreover, there is still half a year to the Spring Festival, so Qiao Yiqiao and Liu Chong have a long time to operate and promote the product.
Liu Chong also started the early publicity work step by step.
But he didn't expect that a piece of news suddenly came out at this time.
"Qiao Yiqiao's new film has an investment of over 1 billion yuan, but the film has received poor reviews from insiders"
The report said that someone had watched Qiao Yiqiao's film and found the story to be unsettled and the special effects to be lame, and immediately cursed it for being based on a defense, etc...
After reading this report, Qiao Yiqiao was full of questions.
Not to mention that everyone who has seen the film in advance has signed a confidentiality agreement, so no one would risk such a big risk to leak the information. The content alone is extremely unreliable.
He is very confident that although the special effects of his film are all produced by domestic companies, they are already among the best in the world.
As for the plot, although the main storyline is relatively simple, there are no logical problems.
Besides, the main plot of space opera themes, especially the first one, is usually relatively simple.
"Star Wars" is just a story about a group of people challenging the Galactic Empire, and the first "Star Trek" is just a story about the Enterprise spacecraft fighting against aliens.
The most important thing about this kind of subject matter is the presentation of the world view.
After so many previews, Qiao Yiqiao felt that he had achieved what he wanted in this regard.
So, he didn't understand where the bad review came from.
And among so many performances, there has never been a performance that suffered a "Waterloo" in terms of reputation.
Liu Chong immediately began his investigation.
But after searching for a long time, even using some illegal means, he still couldn't find the poster's information because it was an overseas address.
But he could also be sure that this person was not anyone in the internal screenings.
Because these audiences who often watch internal screenings are already very mature audiences. In the past 7 years, they have trained batches of college students to watch movies, and there has never been any problem.
So who released this news?
Is it still so targeted?
But before Liu Chong and his team could find the culprit, this piece of negative news had already caused quite an impact.
Many people said that Qiao Yiqiao hadn't made any action for such a long time, and that he must have been banned, or that the films he made were too bad to show, and that he had run out of ideas. When many people heard that there was a 10 billion investment, they even questioned whether Qiao Yiqiao was laundering money, and so on...
The malice on the Internet is overwhelming.
As much as they praised "Six Masks" and "When the Walls Fall" in the past, they are now criticizing them.
Qiao Yiqiao knew that they were keen on creating gods, and also keen on pulling people down from the altar.
This is the fate that every creator, or anyone with a reputation, cannot escape.
And it’s not entirely their fault.
After so many years of market baptism, no matter which audience hears words like "big investment", "science fiction", "fantasy", "seven years", etc., they will not think that this movie is a good work.
It would be a lie to say that Qiao Yiqiao didn't care about these comments at all. He was still a little sad.
But this is not the most important thing he is facing right now.
The call he had been waiting for finally came.
"Hello, Mr. Qiao Yiqiao," the other party asked in English with a strong accent, "I am Mueller, the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival Organizing Committee. We would like to invite you to participate in the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival. Are you willing to attend?"
Qiao Yiqiao smiled faintly: "Of course I am willing."
His three Grand Slams, this regret, finally has a chance to make up for it. !
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