Chapter 799： A super blockbuster worth the price

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"Michael Bay doesn't care about your soul, he only cares about your pockets! But he at least guarantees that you will feel exhausted when you get home, and will not feel that the money has been spent a little bit wrongly. This is a fair deal."

This sentence that appeared on the American Salon website can be said to be the most appropriate evaluation of Michael Bay and "Transformers 2".

The film concentrates a lot of explosions, fighting, and destruction. The audience has never seen such a crazy scene in a theater. It has a great impact on vision and hearing. After watching it, it feels exhausted.

"Now you can watch movies everywhere at home and on the Internet. Why can you attract people to the theater and watch your movies exclusively?"

This is what Michael Bay said in an interview. It just reflects the current situation of the film industry. There are more and more entertainment methods, and the channels for watching movies are becoming more and more diversified. And movies full of visual effects are only available on the big screen. The best results can be experienced only when they are up.

In a sense, Michael Bay understands the audience well.

"Michael knows what the audience likes because he is also a member of the audience. He has a good feeling, knows what makes people excited, and knows what movies the public likes."

As one of the film's producers, Jerry Bruckheimer's evaluation of the bombshell is quite pertinent.

"Noisy", "Stupid", "Evil", "Unbearable", "Incurable Garbage Disposer"?????? If you don’t like Michael Bay’s movies, you don’t use all kinds of vicious words For too much.

But how can Michael Bay make most of the audience in the world go crazy? Why can big directors like Simon West and Tony Scott line up to buy a ticket for the just-released "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen King"?

On the surface, all of Michael Bay’s movies use his signature killer, and they are very similar-endless scenes of explosions, deafening noises, dangerous chases and fights, destruction of coordinated buildings around the world, and Mixed with gags that Americans love to hear.

Actually. The most important sign of the Bang Bang movie is the dazzling fast editing.

"It only takes a few seconds to watch a movie. You can tell that it came from Michael Bay. There is no doubt that he influenced the visual language of contemporary Hollywood mainstream commercial blockbusters."

As someone who has worked together several times. Steven Spielberg knows Michael Bay very well.

The editing of sci-fi action movies is like making a puzzle maze. Every screen transition should have its logic, but Michael Bay does not need this logic. He believes that the continuity of action energy can replace logic.

He is good at capturing mid-range shots, blending upward angles to create an exciting feeling, and then quickly editing and configuring the lens to give the audience a feeling of being in battle.

These are perfectly reflected in "Transformers 2". It made the audience crazy and boiling, and even they ignored the existence of superstars like Ryan in the film.

"Whether it is the popularity of the action scenes, the richness of the plot content, and the density of interspersed jokes, it will greatly exceed your expectations."

After the premiere, Irene did not leave Rhode Island immediately. Instead, he was preparing to participate in a Transformers global fan event held by Hasbro. After receiving a call from a friend asking about the film, he said, "If you If your appetite for the film is a beef burger, then the film will serve you a whole beef pizza, on the basis of ensuring that your appetite is satisfied. It does not rule out the possibility of making you eat it."

"But the film critic said..." The other party hesitated on the phone, "The film is noise pollution plus visual garbage plus vulgar plot."

"This is a film made sincerely for fans." Yilun said calmly, "Those who want to dig out something like a professional film critic can give up."

"Then I can rest assured." The friend was about to hang up. "I'm going to book tickets now."

Hung up the phone, Irun thought for a while, turned on the computer in the room, logged on to the Rotten Tomatoes website, and found the newly released "Transformers 2" section, clicked to log in, and saw that the film was thrown up by professional film critics. Tomato, only the first day it was officially released, fell to 25% freshness.

Those film reviews are even more unsightly.

"Even if this film is fair. It's just the most boring, rude, and despicable portrayal of modern Hollywood."

"This "Transformers 2" is simply a pile of litter."

"Transformers 2 can definitely win the'worst movie in ten years'."

"Alessandra Ambrosio's **** and cleavage are the only places where Michael Bay's lens can stay longer than 1 millisecond."

As expected by Irene, professional film critics began to criticize again. But the sound is weak, that is, he barely entertains himself.

Turn off Rotten Tomatoes, which has little effect on the box office of the movie. He switched to Ryan-Disney Home Online, where there have been a large number of fan comments in the "Transformers" section.

"Watching a very cool movie."

"Transformers 2 further proves that director Michael Bay has an excellent appreciation for grand scenes and a talent for creating surprises. Ryan is absolutely wise to choose him as the director."

"The film brings together all the most popular advantages of popcorn movies, and enlarges them one by one toward the most significant goal possible. It does not deliberately avoid the advantages that have been fully recognized and affirmed because of innovation. This creative idea of ​​maximizing strengths and avoiding weaknesses, Ultimately, it is guaranteed that "Transformers 2" will become one of the few sequels that can be better than the famous predecessor in terms of overall quality."

"The whole film is full of earth-shattering explosions, full-fire attacks, heart-piercing screams, special effects at any cost, and dizzying action scenes. The various elements necessary for the popcorn entertainment blockbuster are fully displayed. "King Kong 2" is a super blockbuster movie worth the price."

In less than a day, the number of comments here exceeded 100,000. Most of them expressed their love for the film. People who reflected that the quality of the film was average and believed that the film was done on the Transformers column. It’s good enough to be worth the price of the movie.

After attending the premiere, Ryan flew back to Los Angeles from Rhode Island. At his insistence, the length of the release version of the film was finally reduced to two hours by Michael Bay. Some of them were cancelled just for fun. With funny content, the rhythm becomes more compact.

Michael Bay’s previous failed films are not unrelated to being too long.

You know, Bombshell never mind making the movie extremely lengthy. In 2001, "Pearl Harbor" was 183 minutes long, and "Jedi Men 2" in 2003 was just a street action movie with a city background. It can shoot for 143 minutes, and perhaps only God knows how many cut-outs were edited by Michael Bay after repeated gritting his teeth.

This is very easy to slow down the rhythm and make the audience feel tired.

Time slowly reached midnight, and Ryan didn’t mean to go to bed. He was waiting for the film’s first day of box office. After all, the cost of the entire film alone was as high as 210 million U.S. dollars, even because of the first big fire. , The publicity can save a lot of money, but the publicity cost is also a full 90 million US dollars.

Such investment, even Ryan, will feel some pressure.

The door of the study was pushed open from the outside, and Charlize in her dressing gown came over. She bent over and kissed the corner of Ryan's mouth, pulled a chair, and sat next to him.

"Isn't the statistics available yet?" she asked concerned.

"It should be soon." Ryan looked at the wall clock on the wall, and squeezed her cheek distressedly, "Why are you up? You have not been sleeping well recently, so rest early."

"I just woke up and can't sleep for the time being. I'll wait with you for a while." Charlize took Ryan's glass and drank nearly half a glass of water. "Every time there is a big production, you will be like this. Isn't it stressful? Big?"

"Not as big as you thought." Ryan took the cup that Charlize handed over and put it on the desk. "You know, more than 30 sponsors shared the cost of $90 million for Disney."

"Yes." Charlize quizzed his lips quickly, "My ct Nature Treasure alone contributed $4.5 million, and the Autobot studio didn't talk about emotions at all during the negotiations."

"Honey." Ryan sorted out the scattered blonde hair for Charlize. "This is already a discounted price."

"I understand." Charlize was obviously joking just now, "Business is business, and Disney has its own rules and regulations."

She rolled her eyes, "Is it possible to maintain this price when the next one is implanted?"

"You..." Ryan nodded her nose I will greet the people in the studio. "

"The effect is obvious." Charlize put on a serious face, "Since the release of the implanted "Iron Man 2", the sales of ct Natural Treasures' entire line of products have increased by 25%, although there is a summer vacation. However, the effect is still very obvious. My advertising director has recently reminded me to continue to cooperate in Disney’s major productions."

In the episode of "Transformers 2" in Shanghai, nearly two minutes were shot in the flagship store of ct Nature Treasures. It will definitely help the product's future pulling effect.

After chatting with Charlize a few more words, Ryan refreshed his mailbox, and a new email reminder finally appeared.

"How many?"

Charlize came over, watched Ryan click on the email, and then curled his lips. "It's really disappointing. It didn't break the single-day box office record of The Hunger Games 2."

Glancing at Charlize, Ryan turned off the laptop, "$69.05 million is already pretty good!" (to be continued)

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