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2000/04/28 Sanlian Life Weekly Author: Tang Bo "Titanic" was so popular that Beijing Aohua Cinema set the ticket price at 80 yuan. I borrowed a VCD to watch it.When I borrowed the disc, I asked what version it was, and the lender replied: the movie version. The so-called movie version is to use a device called a "camera gun" to take pictures of movies shown in movie theaters to obtain "sample films" to create pirated copies. Unexpectedly, this movie version is full of charm. I can't feel the sensation of "Titanic" at all, and all my attention is taken away by it.In fact, this is not the movie version, but the cinema version.At the beginning of the video, I heard two coughs and thought it was an effect.Looking at it, I thought the director was not James Cameron, but Oliver Stone, because the heroine on the bow wanted to jump into the sea, and when Leonardo teased her that she couldn't really jump, a sitcom-specific laugh appeared outside the screen. Sound, this is the usual method of "Natural Born Killers" Oliver Stone when parodying soap operas.Similarly, when the handsome Leonardo puts on his evening gown and his hair is so shiny that even a fly can't stand on a stick, the girl Mu Yan's exclamation erupts outside the screen.In the scene of having dinner together, the heroine stood at the corner of the stairs with a smile on her face and waited for Leonardo to come up. Suddenly, a black shadow with a pointed head stepped forward to block the heroine, and the screen was suddenly dark.Is it a metaphor for the fate of the heroine?It's too straightforward.I suddenly remembered that this is the movie version, which was secretly filmed in the movie theater. Since it is a movie theater, of course some people will chuckle, exclaim, or can't help but say "shhhhhhhhhhh" along with the plot.Presumably the seat number of this sneak shot is relatively late, because there are at least 3 times in the whole film that the black shadow stands up and covers the entire screen.In addition, I also heard two coughs, and I judged that the coughing person was not psychologically healthy, because each cough was at a critical moment: one was when the heroine exposed her breasts in Leonardo's portrait, and the other was when they Make love in the car.However, the most exciting thing is the ending. Under the affectionate gaze of the characters in the play, Leonardo and the heroine cuddled each other. I thought that the next part must be the list of black and white characters. Unexpectedly, the words that appeared made me laugh out loud. More than that: the movie is over, don't forget to bring your belongings!

This is really a movie theater version that is genuine and innocent, and it fully expresses the characteristics of a pirated version: Pirates.Pirated films, underground publishing channels, greedy for profit, and daring to act recklessly, even dare to manufacture and sell such movie theater effects. However, such a cinema version also has a good sense of humor.First, in terms of aesthetic principles, it achieves Brecht's "alienation" effect.During the viewing process, the quadruple spaces created by the movie theater version (the memory space of the old lady, the real space of the old lady, the audience space of the movie theater, and the space where we watch VCD) collide, communicate, entangle, and repel each other, especially the audience in the movie theater space. The reaction to the VCD erected a solid fourth wall for us, always reminding: This is a movie, a fabricated illusion, please maintain due vigilance and reason, until you don’t forget to bring your belongings!It seems that the classic Brinell drama theory has been skillfully used by VCD pirates.

Secondly, the movie theater version unintentionally uses some post-modern expression techniques, parodying (laughter, exclamation, coughing) or wantonly subverting the classic love + disaster + high-tech Hollywood authoritative text (black shadow Attack), showing a completely alternative "COOL", catering to the aesthetic paradigm of "new new human beings". I decided to save the 80 bucks.No matter how good Aohua's sound system is, it won't make me laugh out loud despite tears in my eyes at the end of the movie.
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