462 Chapter 459 Lost Wisdom (seeking subscription, tickets) (1/2)

The original version of ”Dead Silence” is a film released by Universal.

It was also the first home that Wen Ziren found after peacefully breaking up with Lionsgate.

But I don't want to. The North American box office of this work with an investment of more than 20 million is less than 17 million. The global total has just recovered the production cost.

According to the proportion of the publicity and the theater line, if the producer wants to make a profit at the box office, it basically needs to reach 3 to 1, which means that the box office of 60 million is compared with the production cost of 20 million in order to basically achieve a profit at the box office. Cover.

But unfortunately, the setting of ”Dead Silence” is still novel, but the story is too old-fashioned, and the world is losing it.

It is estimated that they are also thinking about how the talented director who can create box office miracles is on the street.

Actually, this is also a rare box office loss in Wen Ziren's directorial career.

From the perspective of latecomers, it's normal for ”Dead Silence” to lose money.

On the use of horror elements, the deployment of puppet toys with rural nursery rhymes is simply the best setting effect. Similar to the classic American film ”The Ghost Baby” series, each has a high horror index and a box office performance. It's also considerable, and ”Dead Silence” is naturally impossible in terms of scaring people.

Billy, the doll often shown in slow motion in the film, is the most brilliant prop in the film. The original fear of human beings being engraved in their genes is the fear of things that are too similar to themselves but unknown.

Billy's realistic doll is naturally full of mystery.

That kind of plastic face with a stiff smile forever, and the pupils staring straight at people are themselves synonymous with weirdness.

And in this work, it cannot be said that Wen Ziren's directorial skills decreased because of the box office failure.

This product’s bold attempt at horror elements is already of a very high standard in this movie. Compared with the later popular ”Latent” series and ”Call of Souls” series, the horror expression techniques in ”Dead Silence” are more deeply rooted in the bones. The atmosphere rendering and the sudden audition experience brought the audience into a hell-like heartbeat state.

It's just that the story of this work has too many flaws, which greatly weakens the horror atmosphere that is hard to stand up.

So that after the grand debut of Mary Shaw, the climax of the ghost's life became too cliche, and the ending is even more abrupt with the business foreshadowing of this type of film.

For example, the identity of the big villain Mary Shaw is so poorly set. As a ventriloquism performer, I saw your lips move because of a sentence from a kid watching a show, which caused a deliberate killing. It was a big deal. Failure.

Also, what kind of perfect doll is this child made with a child. After being discovered, the town people killed her, she began to resent all the town people, will revenge the town people and their offspring?What are you doing, how can this story unfold?Mary Xiao, an old guy who kills children is very happy, but if someone kills you, you can become a ghost to get revenge. Why can't those tragic children?On hatred, there are obviously more children.

So there are so many foreshadowing in the front. Once Mary Shaw is reached, the degree of mental disability and hypocrisy in the plot rises to a situation where it insults IQ and the audience's three views, and it is not possible to save it by any setting.

To be honest, the white blind doll Billy has such a good setting. In order to match it, the lighting effect of one bright and one dark plus the ingeniously built atmosphere of the scene; the psychological effect that strongly implies with the lens details, pinch The tension in the heart was all torn apart.

This is why the film’s horror index is quite high, and several shots have become classics for latecomers, but the market performance is so strong.

So, no matter what the subject matter is, a qualified story that can justify itself without making the audience feel that IQ is insulted is the basis of film art.