Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

"No, the whole picture after that wouldn't be of that accuracy, would it?"

"How much money do you have to burn on this set prop and this special effect?"

LU is baffled because Mission & Choice has gone way beyond what he expected in terms of detail!

Although Lu Xiaoping had heard some rumors that Tengda had invested heavily in the new movie this time, he just listened casually and didn't take it seriously.

Because bragging is the industry norm.

Just like the ancient march to war, 100,000 hard can be blown into 500,000, anyway, first blow the numbers out, can cheat a few cheat a few.

A movie, to buy IP, hire big-name actors to spend a large sum of money, and then add the publicity and marketing funds, said to invest several hundred million, in fact, the real use of the film production money is not much.

Lu Xiaoping originally felt that the "Mission and Choice" is a domestic science fiction movie, and the ceiling of domestic science fiction movies has always been there, not very high at all.

But now, Lu is confused.

Is this really a domestic movie?

The details are done in such a way that you can't tell the difference between it and those Hollywood blockbusters that cost a fortune!

Is it true that Mission and Choice has saved all of its IP money and big-name actors' fees, as well as its promotional expenses, and has actually thrown all of its money into the production of the movie?

Thinking of this possibility, Lu Xiaoping had only one thought: madness!

This is more than a risk, it's suicide!

If any other crew were to engage in this, it would be almost like shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, the crew wouldn't be able to do this, because the employer would never agree to it.

But Teng Da was different.

Obviously, Flying Yellow Studios wasn't committing suicide, they dared to do it because they had strong self-confidence in the film Mission and Choice, believing that it could just as well hang on to all the games in its class and kill it even without the usual publicity!

Ru Xiaoping realized that something had gone terribly wrong with his judgment!

He previously thought that Mission & Choice was brought up because he was unsure and wanted to avoid the Golden Week slot, but now he realizes how that's possible.

How can you be afraid of Battleship of the Furious when the quality of this film is so great that it's going to kill it when it gets Golden Week?

It's not good. ......

With extreme apprehension, Lu Xiaoping continued to look down.

......

The rest of the plot can be said to be full of twists and turns and climaxes, with no pee throughout and full of all sorts of reversals.

The entire story line of the movie all revolves around the character of Qin Yi, and the audience's emotions are all being pulled by the character.

Although it's a monologue, Lu Zhiyao is able to hold on to his role through his acting, and successfully completes the task of stirring the audience's emotions.

The entire story can be roughly divided into the following stages.

In the first phase, Qin Yi became the commander, through the simulation of the battle to understand the human and Zerg before the defeat of the battle, understand the need for communication between the commander and Anserbo, accepted the position of commander, and serious training.

In the second phase, after fully familiar with the operation of the console, Qin Yi began to simulate the training, everything was going well, but after the addition of the "realistic element" suddenly took a turn for the worse, the human army was defeated. In order to improve the odds, Qin Yi slowly began to get used to accept AEEIS data and suggestions, gradually become a command machine without emotion.

In the third phase, Qin Yi saw the scenario of his original AS-371-45 squad carrying out their mission, and eventually made the same decision as his previous commander. Amidst the conflict and struggle, Qin Yi finally understands his former commander's actions and makes many painful choices in order to win.

In the fourth stage, everyone thought that Qin Yi was ready, but in return, reality struck even more ferociously in the face. In the projection of the final battle, even if it was directed exactly according to AEEIS's advice, the humans were still retreating steadily.

Qin Yi is almost in a state of collapse, he no longer believes that the human race can win this war, regardless of deception or not, regardless of the method of command, will not be able to win the war.

In the fifth stage, Qin Yi realized that it was wrong to use cold data to measure everyone's value, and that the original command method did improve combat efficiency to a certain extent, but using the Zerg tactics to fight the Zerg and trying to turn all the soldiers into cold machines would never succeed. So, Qin Yi chose to tell all the soldiers the truth, using a desperate speech to re-invigorate everyone's faith, and the war took a turn for the worse once again.

In the sixth stage, the high intensity of thinking overwhelmed Qin Yi's body, and in his coma he felt the nest consciousness, and the Bug Queen showed him the truth of the past, that the war between humans and the Zerg was originally started by humans, and the behavior of the Bug Queen in the nest was an attempt to communicate with Qin Yi, only to be unsuccessful until now.

Qin Yi made an apparent move to reconcile, but in reality deceived the Worm Queen and executed a decapitation, directly laying the victory.

In the seventh stage, Qin Yi, who thought the war was over and wanted to evacuate, is betrayed and commits suicide by rushing his command ship into the insect colony, unaware that he has become the new brain of the colony because he has the nest consciousness after the secondary queens have all been beheaded.

The end of the film actually leaves two cliffhangers.

The first cliffhanger is whether it was the Executive Committee or the AEEIS that decided to betray Qin Yi?

AEEIS's words to Qin Yi put the blame on the Supreme Executive Committee, creating a sense of "a cunning rabbit's death, a dog's death". But in the footage of the Supreme Executive Council meeting, AEEIS said that Qin Yi had taken the initiative to seek his own death, and the council members were very remorseful.

There are two possibilities: one is that AEEIS deceived both Qin Yi and the Supreme Executive Council, and effortlessly killed a human military genius, clearing the way for its own takeover of the entire human army; the other is that some in the Supreme Executive Council gave AEEIS the go-ahead, and falsely pretended to be acting.

These two possibilities hint at future sequels to the "Crisis of Wits" or the "Civil War", respectively.

The second suspense is that Qin Yi in the body of the Leviathan beast inherited the insect nest consciousness, and his body was transformed by the insects into a special kind of life form. He was a soldier with a natural loyalty to humans, but suffered the most shameful betrayal.

How exactly will Qin Yi choose to lead the insect flock to revenge? Or will it take a different path? Can he still be called human or not? How will he perceive himself?

We'll obviously have to leave the revealing of this content for later.

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The great spectacle of the interstellar war was so overwhelming to all the spectators that some of them even got so caught up in the shocking emotions that they forgot to scream.

From the very beginning when the humans encountered the insect swarm when they were routed, to the small scale anthropomorphic training, and finally to the massive battles in the vast starry sky and on the planet's surface ......

All of the war scenes in the movie were gradual and escalating, and the audience followed Captain Qin Yi from weakness to strength, witnessing step by step the protracted and magnificent war between humans and insects in cosmic space.

Much to Lu's dismay, it's clear that while the film has some very cool special effects, it's not the only one.

In terms of storytelling and emotionally engaging the audience, this movie also did a fantastic job!

While the war scenes in the film as a whole are escalating, the emotional tone of each stage is constantly fluctuating, like a wavy line with peaks and valleys, presenting a spiral that spirals in and out of flux, leaving it completely unpredictable.

Other films tend to show this through the conflict between characters, such as when in a difficult situation where different members of a team with different personalities come up with different solutions, the heated arguments can become irritating even to those in front of the screen, and the audience feels emotionally released at the end when everyone is united and overcomes their difficulties.

It's a common trope in many literary productions, and it's old-fashioned, but it works and there's little risk.

But in Mission and Choices, Road holds up the emotional tone of the movie all by himself, through his performance and by taking up with that cold A.I. electronic voice, AEEIS!

This feeling reminded Lu Xiaoping of a monologue movie two years before, which was about the main character being buried alive in a coffin in the desert, and the whole time he was constantly exploring and using all kinds of props around him to survive, and finally thought the dawn was coming, but what he waited for was only despair.

In that movie, the whole time is also the main character's solo play, but the audience brought a continuous suspense, unique perspective, superb shots, twists and turns of the plot, so that the movie managed to get a box office miracle that year, with a cost of 3 million U.S. dollars to reap 20 million dollars in the box office, a great success.

And in a way, "Mission and Choice" is similar to this movie.

In both films, the protagonists are trapped in a small space and struggle against an unknown fate, failing again and again but remaining indomitable.

They both withstand the test of acting skills that a monologue requires, holding the emotional pulse of the entire film on their own and allowing the audience to become perfectly absorbed in the film.

The difficulty of this kind of performance is high, like a big gamble where you bet all your chips on the same game, and if you succeed, you make a lot of money, but if you fail, you lose your money.

The two differ in their emotional tone.

The protagonist who is buried alive is in a coffin, extremely cramped, and the despair he endures is from both mental and physical devastation. The audience, like the protagonist, is severely restricted in perspective, and is in a state of cramped, depression and despair the entire time.

But although Qin Yi is in the space capsule, he can see the real situation around him through the holographic walls, and his vision is not restricted in any way. The despair he endured was more from a mental devastation, the pain of suffering the fate of humanity alone.

Both of these performances were a severe test for acting skills, but Lu Zhiyao's seemed to be tougher.

Because most of the despair that Qin Yi endures comes from his spirit, the entire set and environment can't do much to enhance his emotions, so if you want to mobilize the player's emotions, you have to rely on Lu Zhiyao's performance.

Luckily, Lu Zhiyao did his job well, giving his most perfect acting since his debut.

It even made Lu Xiaoping feel that what he was seeing was not Lu Zhiyao, but another person, or ...... was Captain Qin Yi himself!

Ever since he finished his role in A Better Tomorrow, Lu Zhiyao's acting has improved by leaps and bounds.

The exaggerated expressions have all disappeared, replaced by more subtle psychology and well-designed micro-expressions, and the whole person seems to be completely integrated into the role!

In the final scene of the film, Qin Yi wakes up in the incubation pool inside the Leviathan behemoth, his eyes suddenly open and the camera gives a close-up.

There seemed to be too many complicated emotions in his eyes.

In fact, at the beginning of the film, there was also such a close-up, but at that time, Qin Yi woke up from the hibernation capsule, while at the end, he woke up in the incubation pool inside the Leviathan beast.

The two eyes seem to have certain things in common, but the background, the appearance of the protagonist, the subtle expressions, and especially the eyes are worlds apart.

The hibernation chamber and the incubation pool are like wombs, and this shot clearly symbolizes Qin Yi's new life.

Only in these two lives, Qin Yi plays the role of the human commander and the heart of the insect swarm, respectively.

Just like at the beginning of the film, this expression at the end lasts for a full few seconds before cutting to the next shot.

His mind is spreading rapidly through cosmic space, with all the larvae in the hatchery pool surrounding him, becoming an extension of his consciousness.

And then, the camera quickly pulled up to the cosmic stars outside of the Leviathan behemoth's body, and the terrifying worm that had been wandering aimlessly through the universe suddenly opened its eyes as well, speeding up into the endless starry sky!

A large number of bugs followed the Leviathan behemoth and disappeared into the depths of the screen like a comet with a long trailing tail.

The film ends here, and a list of the cast and crew appears on the big screen.

The closing song played, an impassioned war song, describing a soldier about to depart and step into battle.

The song was supposed to be very uplifting, but the scene it was accompanied by was of the human soldier cleaning up his mess and the Leviathan beast carrying Qin Yi eventually disappearing into cosmic space, filling the song with an inexplicably sad meaning.

With a "pop" sound, the lights of the cinema came on.

Many audience members woke up from a dream, and the exclamations of "Fuck" and "Awesome" were heard endlessly.

"Fuck, that's awesome!"

"That's an unexpected ending!"

"I can't get enough of this, it's worth the ticket!"

When the premiere of "A Better Tomorrow" was over, most of the audience felt unsure of what to expect.

The reason is that the performance of "A Better Tomorrow" on many key issues is quite obscure, and there are not that many impressive scenes as a drama.

But "The Mission and the Choice" is a true popcorn film, the whole time is filled with all kinds of space war scenes, emotions like a roller coaster up and down, there are lows and peaks, giving people an extremely exciting emotional experience.

So, after watching Mission & Choice, the feeling of most viewers can only be summed up in two words, "awesome"!

This kind of impact from the senses is more direct, more intense, especially in the last scene of Qin Yi's eyes with the end of the song, the audience's emotions have the ultimate release, cool to the peak and at the same time memorable and long.

The audience got up and couldn't wait to share their feelings about the movie with their fellow viewers.

"That was awesome! How could the special effects in a domestic sci-fi movie be so good? It's totally on par with a Hollywood movie! I was dazzled by the whole thing, and I didn't get out of the play at all!"

"Surely Tengda's film is just awesome! Never let anyone down!"

"It's not too much to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in publicity for this film, is it? It's a pity the publicity is a bit lacking and the schedule isn't high."

"It doesn't matter, why would a film of this quality not be a hit?"

"That treatment of Qin Yi at the end was really too combustible, I was expecting another clichéd episode of different species shaking hands and building a better universe together, comfortable!"

"What a great performance by Lu Zhiyao, I feel like Pei has a manual for Lu Zhiyao, before it was box office poison, now this acting is simply a visible improvement, it really has that feeling of a movie star!"

The audience all raved about it, and it was clear that the film actually exceeded their mental expectations!

The audience who came to see the movie were there for a variety of different reasons, but the vast majority still didn't hold too many unrealistic expectations.

Domestic science fiction film in the end is a state, we all know, if the "mission and choice" is not the production side of Tengda but some other company, even if it is some very rich big company, the audience will not come to see the zero field as a guinea pig.

Because no other company can gain as much trust from the audience as Tengda.

Most of the audience thought it would be a "small but beautiful" film, that is, a film with enough good points but also obvious weaknesses.

But after seeing the film, it turned out to be nothing like that, and the film exceeded expectations in every way!

And this mentality has invariably elevated the audience's opinion of Mission and Choice.

It's like going to a restaurant, almost delicious food, if it's in a restaurant that has been getting rave reviews on the Internet, then customers may instead feel that the reputation, in fact, is hard to live up to; but if it's by chance in a small alley in a nameless restaurant to eat, customers will be particularly surprised, unforgettable!

Lu Xiaoping and the head of distribution for "Battleship of the Furious Sea" didn't immediately get up along with the rest of the audience, but fell silent.

The two of them hadn't said another word since the movie started.

The person in charge had been shocked by the movie, and had been drowsy, but was now very hyper, especially since the final scene was always lingering in his mind, and the images were slow to dissipate.

Granted, Mission and Choice was a competing movie, and the better it performed meant the worse it was for Battleship of the Furious, but the person in charge wasn't in the mood for that at the moment, because he was completely won over by the movie, and only appreciated it from the bottom of his heart!

Only after a long time did the person in charge say, "I guess ...... there are no more eggs."

Lu Xiaoping nodded in silence, "Well ...... probably."

The person in charge said, "Then, Mr. Lu, shall we go?"

Lu Xiaoping: "Let's go ......"

He was all very depressed.

They had come to see the premiere of Ground Zero today with the intention of watching a joke, never expecting that they would become a joke.

There were still quite a few audience members who hadn't exited, obviously all waiting for the egg.

But Lu Xiaoping judged that there should be no more eggs, partly because the studio had already lit up to hint at them, but also because the whole story had been told very clearly, and no eggs were needed to continue to warm up the next part of the story.

Strictly speaking, the whole story should end with Qin Yi being betrayed and sent to the insect colony by AEEIS.

The meeting of the Supreme Executive Committee of the United Fleet and Qin Yi waking up inside the Leviathan behemoth were two episodes that were more suitable to appear as eggs.

However, these two episodes are too important and long, so if they were to be used as eggs, there would be a sense of fragmentation, so Zhu Xiaoshe considered it over and over again and put them at the end of the movie, with the end credits playing a very good effect.

Lu Xiaoping also judged for this reason that the movie shouldn't have any more eggs.

But just as the two were about to leave, some images appeared next to the scrolling list of the end credits.

There were no eggs at the end of the film, but there were something else.

These are some of the NG footage that Roadrunner was filming!

He speaks his lines to the green screen, over and over again, changing different ways to perform them, sometimes stopping immediately when he is not satisfied halfway through the act, and so on and on.

Sometimes he would stop in the middle of a performance if he wasn't satisfied, and then he would repeat it over and over again.

There is also a shot of Lu Zhiyao speaking to an AEEIS automatic intelligent lifting machine.

To the audience, many of Lu Zhiyao's performances were actually very good, but Lu Zhiyao himself still wasn't satisfied, and still had to perform each scene over and over again to perfect it.

While these scenes aren't bad on their own, they pale in comparison to those in the main film.

The audience who stayed are basically die-hard fans, although the lights in the theater have been turned on, but they still insist on seeing the end, with the idea of "what if there are eggs?

I never thought I'd get a surprise!

"Fuck, how many times is this the same shot?"

"The road is so tough, it feels like he's in a bit of a possessed state, and the same lines have to be changed several ways to say that one time works better than another. On the other hand, those little fresh meat who don't even memorize lines and only know how to count 1234567 counterparts in their acting, the highs and lows!"

"In fact, strictly speaking, although Lu Zhiyao is from a scientific background, initially he had no acting skills and was better than fresh meat, but not much better. But unlike young fresh meat, he didn't satisfy the fan's boasts, but was constantly demanding himself and refining his acting skills, which is why he was able to give us such wonderful performances as A Better Tomorrow and Mission and Choice ah!"

"Indeed, the improvement in Lu Zhiyao's acting is truly visible to the naked eye, and this movie ticket is so worth it, it's a blood gain!"

"There are still a lot of people on 'A Better Tomorrow' who say that Lu Zhiyao rubbed off on Tengda's book and acting skills were also brought on by Zhang Zuting, but now that argument should be self-defeating, right?"

"Indeed, one man supporting a multi-billion dollar film, it's not even necessary to discuss the issue of number one because he's the only one in the cast!"

"That should take away the title 'box office poison' for Road Runner, right? With two movies in a row doing so well, you're most likely going to be a bona fide movie star in the future!"

Viewers have been lamenting, even some who were originally indifferent to Lu Zhiyao, are genuinely pleased with his progress.

In recent years, more and more flow movies, all kinds of fresh meat in all kinds of so-called "big production" movies dedication of acting repeatedly break through the lower limit, many audiences have long been used to watching.

It is clear that they can rely on their face value, but they have to rely on their talent, and they have made unimaginable efforts, so how can people not like them?

Finally, the final cast and crew list of the movie and the NG shots of the road were played.

The few remaining viewers finally left satisfied, and their hands were not idle to send a quick friend blast.

Lu Xiaoping and the person in charge of Battleship of the Furious Sea muddled their way out as if they had lost their souls.

The first time I saw this, I was shocked by the content of the movie, and on the other hand, I was extremely worried about the current situation of Fan Qi Media and Battleship of the Furious Sea after watching Mission and Choice.

What a terrible adversary to mess with in the heat of the moment!

There is a price to pay for this kind of movie.

Lu Xiaoping's plan is based on the poor quality of Mission & Choice, which is why he is trying to make the case for Battleship Fury.

But if the two films are compared and Battleship of the Furious is pressed and rubbed against the ground, all that heat that had rubbed off on it is going to backfire!

If the "Battleship of the Furious Sea" wins, it is dominating and confident, but if the "Battleship of the Furious Sea" loses, it is sour, that is, jumping clown.

This feeling is like a boxer in the ring, the original thought that the other side is a small weak chicken, pre-match put all kinds of harsh words, the bull has been blown out, the results did not expect to get on the stage to see the other side of the coat, the arm is thicker than his thighs.

This also hit the hammer!

The two men were silent, both knowing in their hearts that the situation was bad enough as it was, but in reality, it had only just begun!