Six Hundred and Fifty-Nine - The Ultimate Commercial Film

As a great playboy director with a reputation throughout North America, Wayne received countless small notes whenever he attended formal occasions. In the first two years, he would look at it with great interest and carefully look for any big stars he liked.

When things became normal, he no longer had the intention to gossip. To put it bluntly, everyone was "collecting stamps" for each other. After understanding this, he was no longer interested in the "love numbers" that were handed over unsolicited. .

What's more, Hagrid-Ryan, whom Tom Cruise teased, although he looks sexy on the surface, is actually ten years older than him. She was the first actress to work with Tom in "Top Gun". Who knows if anything happened between them? Wayne had no tendency to follow the same path as his brothers.

After greeting everyone along the way, Wayne returned to the middle of the first row where the crew was. At 8 p.m. Eastern Time in North America, "The Flash" officially kicked off its mysterious curtain.

The Warner Bros. title that has remained unchanged for thousands of years flashed, and the DC logo familiar to movie fans in the past two years appeared on the big screen, followed by a routine line of letters: Wayne Greenberg Productions.

Without any verbosity, the picture first shows a close-up of James Franco's face, and then the camera slowly zooms out. Against the background of the street, the forensic technical investigator he plays is squatting on the ground, inspecting the traces left at the scene.

With Barry Allen's quick analysis, a simple line and a street scene, Wayne concisely showed the audience the character background of The Flash in the most direct and straightforward way.

Smart, motivated, lovable, and handsome, this is the first feeling that most viewers have after seeing this scene. At least the characters and settings won't make the audience feel disgusted.

A simple street field investigation and scene flashed by, and Barry Allen in his youth became a child. From here, the film begins to formally introduce Barry Allen's growth process.

Compared with the typical timeline of Wayne's previous works, with a lot of foreshadowing, this film is much simpler, without any pretense. It goes back to Barry Allen's childhood and tells all the audience the origin of that young man. .

On the big screen, Barry Allen was always running to avoid being bullied as a child. Home was his best haven. A happy family always made him forget the pain caused by his peers. Gentle and loving parents are also a piece of candy for this child's wonderful childhood.

However, as soon as the camera turned, everything came to an end that night. Two lightning bolts, yellow and red, invisible to the naked eye, struck at Minibari's home.

Before Little Barry could figure out what happened, he was sent to the street by one of the lightning bolts. When he ran desperately towards home to find out what happened, what he saw was his mother's body. The only father left at the scene became a murderer arrested by the police.

The policemen who were holding his father paid no attention to what Little Barry said. No one believed what a child said. In the end, his father was imprisoned as a murderer.

The story is very simple. Considering the audience's patience, this scene is shown very quickly, and even the subsequent process of Xiaoli being raised by his father's friend is also shown very quickly, without any so-called foreshadowing, just passing by.

The camera turned again in an instant. Fourteen years later, Barry Allen had become an on-site investigation scientist, but he was always late for work due to various reasons, and his adoptive father Joe Weiss If you are special, you will help this child smooth things over and wipe his butt every time.

The film lasted less than ten minutes, and the opening scene was perfectly connected on the big screen, and the smart and lovable Barry Allen appeared. This scene also clearly tells the audience how this outstanding young man continues to use his smart mind and talent to help the police solve one difficult case after another.

"No wonder there are those rumors."

The story on the big screen continued. Steven Spielberg, sitting in the middle of the third row, smiled, shook his head, and murmured under his breath. "This film really doesn't look like a Greenbergian film."

"uh-huh?"

The thin David Geffen heard the muttering, turned to look at his old friend, and asked curiously: "At least I personally think this movie is very good, right? Without the exquisitely designed foreshadowing, there is no such thing as the beginning of the movie. The suspense of the crime is given, and the dark and depressing rhythm of the movie is gone. Isn’t this a Greenberg-style movie?”

Yes, this was the first feeling of all the media representatives, film critics and thousands of fans at the scene. None of the elements that Wayne was best at in his previous works were seen in the opening scene of "The Flash."

If it were not confirmed that this film was shot by Wayne, many people would never believe this fact. Quickly switching shots, a compact but extremely simple story rhythm, a sunny, handsome and distinctive male protagonist, it seems that all these elements that have nothing to do with Wayne all appear at the beginning of the film.

"Hey, Steven."

Seeing that the audience around him was watching the film attentively, David Geffen lowered his voice, approached his old friend and said: "I admit that Wayne's previous works are great, but I still have to say that those films want to To appreciate its greatness, you must carefully contemplate and observe it.

This "The Flash" didn't give me that feeling. It made me feel very relaxed and I didn't have to think hard about whether this scene had any hints about the upcoming story. Isn't this bad? For example, the special effects of the fight between two lightning bolts just now made me very enjoyable to watch! "

"You're right."

Steven Spielberg nodded, turned his attention to the big screen again, and said in a voice that he could not hear clearly: "It's just that this style change is really amazing and too risky, it's not right!"

Suddenly, he turned around and took a closer look at the entire screening room. Whether they were ordinary movie fans, media and guests, they were all looking at the big screen with great interest. There was no common chatter in the entire cinema. , not at all!

It was obviously abnormal. This was not the first time he attended Wayne's premiere. Even for "The Dark Knight", the screening hall was not so quiet after the screening started.

Turning around to look at the big screen, Alan Barry was visiting the Star Laboratory with his childhood sweetheart Iris. As soon as this palace of science appeared, even Steven Spielberg was shocked by the exquisite and grand special effects.

And this laboratory building full of technology is just the beginning. Wells, the leader of Star Laboratory, announced in front of everyone that he will change the future tonight!

Just at this moment, a thief robbed Iris's bag. After Barry Allen chased him out, he was unexpectedly beaten up by the thief. In the end, he was saved by the sudden appearance of Detective Eddie. he. Because of this little thief, Barry Allen could only watch live TV in the office.

The camera began to switch frequently. Barry Allen was in the office, watching the clues about his mother's death collected over the years. His adoptive father, Joe, and his partner were attacked on a farm. The camera suddenly turned again, and a big explosion occurred in the particle accelerator in the Star Laboratory, and the sky was flooded with red light...

The big explosion of the particle accelerator in the Star Laboratory spread and radiated to the entire city to a degree visible to the naked eye. Barry Allen, who also watched this scene, was suddenly hit by the light of the particle accelerator and lightning in the sky at the same time. Got it!

Throughout the fast-paced shots, lightning, particle accelerator explosions, and other scenes were rendered with special effects that were extremely shocking, attracting the attention of all viewers.

Countless viewers are familiar with this story, it was just the birth of The Flash. What people didn't expect was that such amazing special effects could appear on the big screen. The background music in the theater, coupled with the special effects rendered by Wayne regardless of the cost, can be said to be the best that this era can accommodate.

You know, more than 50% of the production funds of "The Flash" were all invested in special effects. Industrial Light and Magic's modeling and the first large-scale computer rendering allowed the audience to experience for the first time, even if it is simply Just for the perfect visual and auditory sensory stimulation, entering the cinema is worth the price of admission.

This is actually a common practice for commercial blockbusters twenty years later. Popular and concise stories, extremely fast-paced editing and splicing, and shocking special effects and soundtracks constitute the unique charm of commercial blockbusters.

The reason why film companies did this twenty years later was partly because the cost of special effects was extremely low, and more importantly, because in that era, people had so many entertainment options to choose from. Even if they were sitting in front of a computer to watch a movie, It's not much worse than walking into a theater.

The fast pace and stimulating the senses of movie fans through big scenes and special effects are the best reasons for them to go to the theater, because facing the computer at home, they will never be able to enjoy the shocking audio-visual experience of the movie as it is.

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Barry Allen on the big screen had already been pushed to the hospital for rescue after being hit by a particle accelerator and lightning, but the scene just now left all the audience in the aftertaste.

Is the story complex? No, it's so simple that it just shows the birth process of The Flash. It doesn't take long, only less than five minutes. However, it was this special effect that was achieved to the extreme in this era, which attracted all the audience.

"If this film had appeared half a year later, I would have immediately guessed that it was 'Titanic' that inspired him." Steven Spielberg took a deep breath and looked at the old man next to him. whispered.

After all, David Geffen's understanding of movies is not that deep. After all, he has always been playing music, but this movie has given him a great feeling from the beginning to now. Hearing what the old man said, he immediately looked over in surprise and asked:

"What's the meaning?"

"The Flash" and "Titanic"? No matter how you look at it, there is no connection at all between the two.

"Wayne, who has abandoned his exploration of film art, has completely taken commercial elements to another extreme, just like when he took horror movies to an extreme with "The Return of the Clown"!"

Smiling and shaking his head, Steven Spielberg looked towards the middle of the first row, revealing deep admiration. “He has seen through one thing and succeeded in doing so, which is that in this extremely commercialized circle, ideas and stories have always been the least valuable things!

Just like James Cameron's "Titanic" and Roland Emmerich's "Independence Day", they only used a third-rate story to create a commercial miracle! The same is true for "The Flash". There is no creativity in such a story, let alone artistry. However, is the story important to this film? not at all.

But it was such a simple story that the audience knew well, but he used another extreme way to stimulate everyone's emotions. Tsk, tsk, tsk, the special effects scenes currently appearing in "The Flash", I'm afraid George's new star wars can't do it..."