Almost all reviews of "The Apocalypse of the Future" use a lot of pen to analyze the film structure. Many reviews believe that this is another innovation in the film structure after Quentin's "Vulgarity".

1994 was considered the greatest movie year by many people. Of course, this statement is a bit exaggerated. It is not without a year that is even better than 1994, but 1994 is indeed the year of movies, and many good movies were released this year. Among all the movies in this year, Quentin's "Vulgarity".

Before "Vulgar", genre films strictly followed causal relationships in narratives and appeared in chronological order; while "Vulgar" disrupted the chronological order of events, and formed a closed-loop structure that was a complete rewrite of the language of genre films. The nonlinear narrative structure of "Vulgar" is essentially a subversion of the discourse norms of the reproducing system, and an innovation of the film structure, which influenced a number of subsequent films. Therefore, "Vulgar" has a very high status in the history of film.

If "Vulgar" is a typical circular structure, while "The Future Apocalypse" which introduced the structure of Song Ci to the movie is a symmetrical structure, which is also an innovation of the film structure and is naturally enthusiastically sought after by film critics.

Nick James, editor-in-chief of "Visual and Audio", praised "The Future Apocalypse" as a great attempt, but Nick James is not as proficient in Eastern culture as Podwell, and his analysis of film structure is not as profound as Podwell. He focused his analysis on audio-visual language.

Nick James wrote in the article: "Classic war films use long vision, panoramic lenses, and long shots to show the vast background, space and grand war scenes of history to give people a magnificent feeling. This kind of war film is very imposing and magnificent. From a perspective, the lens is set outside the battlefield, and the audience examines the war from the perspective of bystanders, but this also brings a flaw, the audience's sense of immersiveness and presence is insufficient, and lacks the sense of immersive shock.

Spielberg's "Save the Private Ryan" completed the innovation of war films and brought war films from classical to modernity. In fact, Spielberg only did one thing, which was to place the camera in the middle of the battlefield, use a large number of subjective lenses and handheld photography, so that the audience seems to be in the battlefield and have a strong sense of presence. Although this kind of film lacks in the grand momentum of war, it is better to express the inner hearts of the characters through the expression of details, and is better at expressing the cruelty of war, and it is easier to touch the audience's hearts, forming a visual shock that impacts the audience's hearts.

In "The Future Apocalypse", Zhang Ran found a balance between classical and modern, allowing the film to have a strong sense of substitution, while having a magnificent and magnificent epic feeling. Many shots in the movie that combine classical and modern, such as the last shot of the first war scene in the movie, are a big vision according to the scene type. This is the basic norm of the audio-visual language of classical films. The last shot as the conclusion should be a big scene type to express the atmosphere and scale of the entire war and have a clear sense of ending. But this shot is a bit different. This big vision has been moving, and it is a continuous push of the shot. The final shot is pushed towards the commander of Adams, who has died. It is precisely because of the death of Adams' commander that he will receive orders to lead the troops to fight. Therefore, the function of this shot is not only the shape and atmosphere rendering of the large vision shot at the end of the paragraph, but also has a clear narrative effect.

Therefore, the entire shot has two functions, as a panoramic lens with a sense of ending and a close-up lens with a narrative function, which not only satisfies the function of scanning the atmosphere of the whole scene and plays a narrative role. This treatment not only meets the basic requirements of classical audio-visual language, but also enhances narrative, and can directly and quickly enter the next paragraph. There are a lot of similar techniques in the movie, so the Wachowski brothers and other directors say that "The Future Apocalypse" is a perfect combination of classical and modern..."

The media and film critics have analyzed and interpreted "The Future Apocalypse", including music, colors, thoughts, etc., and these are carefully designed by the director and are indeed worth reading repeatedly. For example, the soundtrack of the movie, except for the symmetry of the upper and lower stanzas, why these classical music are chosen has profound meanings?

In addition, the media also praised the performances of several starring actors in the film, praising "This is the best performance of Matt Damon since film", claiming that "the great Robert De Niro has been back and forth again", and the media said that they will be the biggest hits for this year's Oscars.

Scarlett Johnson's performance has also received unprecedented praise. The Los Angeles Times directly stated that for any actress, there are not many more attractive and challenging roles than Emily Stone. Love and hatred, actor performances and role transformations are all integrated into the role. Scarlett Johnson devoted the best performance of her career. If she competed for the Oscar for the Best Actress, it would be difficult for anyone to defeat her.

In the view of "Variety Show", Zhang Ran is one of the best directors in the world. In "The Apocalypse", the actors all performed extremely high standards, and Scarlett Johnson really found herself, and her shaping of Emily is impressive.

Entertainment Weekly said with certainty that Scarlett Johnson will be nominated for Oscars with Emily: "We don't want to wade into the Oscar pool so early, but Scarlett Johnson's performance is as shocking as it is charged, enough to wake the dead from the grave."

Such positive comments from the media made Scarlett Johnson smile. The chances of going to the Olympics this time are really great, but she was also a little worried that "The Apocalypse of the Future" will be released in July, and the release of this period is quite unfavorable for the movie "The Apocalypse" to go to the Olympics.

A large number of Olympic films will be released in North America every year, which will hit the Oscars. In order to attract the attention of audiences and judges, most directors choose to release their own Olympic films from September to December every year, so September to December is also known as the Olympic film market.

Because the closer the end of the year, the easier it is to use the publicity of the awards season to deeply root the people's hearts and form topic benefits, and save the cost of secondary publicity. The most important thing is to subconsciously influence the voting of the college members. If the film to the Olympics is in the summer or the beginning of the year, the popularity will drop significantly after the film publicity cycle, and the impression of the college members of the movie will fade, and the desire to vote will naturally be greatly reduced, which is very unfavorable to hedging the Olympics.

The release of "The Future Apocalypse" in July shows that Zhang Ran and Dingfeng Entertainment have no intention of making the Olympics at all, at least they did not have such an idea at the beginning; science fiction films are not popular among the academy and it is difficult to win awards. In addition, Zhang Ran's new film will be launched soon, so it is hard to say whether Zhang Ran and Dingfeng Entertainment will spend their efforts on public relations.

Scarlett Johnson really hopes that Zhang Ran and Dingfeng Entertainment can do their best to public relations and help them win the Oscars, but no matter how she thinks, it doesn't work. Only Zhang Ran can really make a decision. It's just that Zhang Ran seems easy to talk to, but he is very tough in his bones. If he doesn't want to go to O, no one can do anything to him.

After pondering for a while, Scarlett Johnson called Zhang Ran: "Mr. Zhang, I want to ask you something."

Zhang Ran said directly: "What's the matter? Ask me!"

Scarlett Johnson didn't want to seem too anxious and said tactfully: "The media and film critics have a high evaluation of "The Future Apocalypse" and think it is a big hit for the Oscar this year. I don't know if Tingfeng Entertainment will do its best to the Olympics and whether we need to cooperate with the publicity. If necessary, I can coordinate the schedule in advance and cooperate with the crew in public relations!"

Zhang Ran smiled gently. What Scarlett Johnson was not concerned about the film's Olympiad, but whether she could win the Oscar nomination or even the award. This is completely understandable. She has been working in art films for many years and has worked with many great directors, but she has never been nominated for the Oscar, which is indeed quite embarrassing. In addition, the Oscar can not only bring huge reputation to the winners and even the nominees, but also bring real money. Winning a star means getting more film contracts and higher pay.

According to statistics from Hollywood agency, actors who won the Oscars' performance awards will increase their pay for the next movie by at least 20%. For young actors, their pay will increase by 2 or 3 times due to the Oscars. For example, after winning the award with "Black Swan", Natalie Portman's pay quickly rose from a million dollar to a ten-million dollar.

Now Scarlett Johnson's pay is more than 1 million yuan. If she can win the Oscar, her pay will definitely double. Because the Oscars can bring real benefits, Hollywood stars will not hesitate to reduce their value to star in a movie with potential Oscars.

Zhang Ran thought about it carefully. This year's Oscar winner should be Jennifer Lawrence, the youngest actress. Jennifer Lawrence is a very talented actor. Her performance in "The Bones of Winter" is amazing, but her performance in "The Happiness Line Behind the Clouds" is relatively average. The reason why she won the award is that Weinstein's public relations plays a crucial role.

Relatively speaking, Scarlett Johnson's performance in "The Future Apocalypse" is more difficult, more complete, and more suitable for the academy's taste. If Dingfeng Entertainment makes full use of public relations, she is really likely to win the Best Actress Award!

Zhang Ran said: "The Apocalypse of the Future is more commercial and a science fiction film. At the beginning, I didn't consider going to the Olympics, but now I have the opportunity to win the Oscars, so I will definitely win. After all, Oscars can bring real money and silver returns."

Hearing Zhang Ran say this, Scarlett Johnson felt relieved and laughed: "I thought only people like me can consider money. Artists like you will definitely despise money!"

Zhang Ran chuckled and said, "Movies are money-burning art. Even if you don't have money, you can't get art."

After chatting with Scarlett Johnson for a few words, Zhang Ran hung up the phone, then opened the web page and looked at it. The Rotten Tomatoes web page was full of red fresh tomatoes. So far, the Rotten Tomatoes yielded a total of 17 reviews, all fresh, and the Rotten Tomatoes index was 100%. The score given by the film critics also reached an astonishing 9. It included film reviews from eight authoritative media, 5 of which gave full marks, two 95 and one 90, with an average score of 98. It can be said that they have received rave reviews.

However, the media's positive reviews did not remove the negative impact of the film source leak. Box's latest long-term forecast significantly lowered the "Future Apocalypse", down from 100 million to 68 million in the first week, and the total box office was down from 240 million to 178 million.

If "The Apocalypse of the Future" really had such a performance after it was released, it would definitely be a loss. However, now that things have reached this level, Zhang Ran really has no choice but to put his hopes on the audience.

Zhang Ran put down his mouse, leaned on the chair and breathed softly, then looked at the time, it was about to be two o'clock. This afternoon, the film festival had a roadshow of the Film Festival Venture Capital Association, which was related to the future of the film festival, and he had to be present. Zhang Ran immediately cheered up and hurried out of the room, and went straight to the Movie Palace.
Chapter completed!