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Chapter 262 Dance out of my life

On Friday, October 17, "The Texas Chainsaw Madness" was launched in 3,016 theaters in North America; "Dance from My Life" also had 2,951.

Although there is no trace of Wang Yang in the cast and crew, many ordinary audience fans still walked into the theater with interest. Since "Singing and Dance Youth" in 1999, watching at least one song and dance film every year has become a habit for many people. "Dance My Life" has the flame brand, the director of "Sweetheart" Anne Fletcher and the continued system setting, and the handsome handsome men and beautiful women Channing Tatum and Jenna Diwan who emerged from somewhere, are much more attractive than other youth song and dance films.

Wang Yang and Jessica joined hands to attend the premiere of "Dance on My Life" at the Sherland Theater, supporting Anne Fletcher, and attracting more media fans' attention and bringing enough publicity effect. It has to be said that this is a bit "stolen the limelight". This is the first time that the two have made public the Prime Minister, suit, evening dress, engagement ring, and sweet smile after they get engaged...

"Click" sounds one after another, and the cameras in the hands of the reporters emitted a dazzling flash, and they all decided to take a picture of enough money. Various interview questions did not stop: "How is it like getting engaged?", "Jessica, how many carats of diamonds does your ring have? It looks very small, Yang, it seems to be very stingy!", "Yang, there have always been rumors that you are a master of dancing, but no one has seen your dance steps. Is this true?"...

Both of them had no intention of stealing the limelight, stayed on the red carpet and interview area for a while, said hello to Anne Fletcher and others, walked into the backstage of the theater, and soon came to the screening hall to sit.

Soon the audience employment became empty. The crew and the reporters made the screening room full of popularity. The release was about to begin when everyone laughed and talked. Just like all the movies of flames, only the brisk sound of wings dancing in the quiet environment. Moths and butterflies danced on the big screen. "step-up" began! The explosive r&b songs and hot dances made the young audience pleasing to the eye and they could hardly help but whistle; but the film critics did not react, and looked silent.

"I have always envied you guys who can dance. They must have been fascinated by a lot when they go to school." Looking at Jenna Dewan's charming and spicy dance on the big screen, Wang Yang smiled and patted Jessica's palm beside her. She rolled her eyes and said, "God knows I started dancing class only at the age of 17." She raised her lips and smiled, leaned over and pressed her voice: "I know you are actually praising yourself. You are the best, a dance champion." Wang Yang held her hand and swung gently, and smiled, "Thank you, I love you very much."

Whether Wang Yang is a dance champion, the movie fans and audiences in the screening hall do not know; but from the promotion of "step-up", the dance level of the actors on the screen has reached professional level, and there are many supporting roles, and the dance enemies are real professional dancers. No shot uses a stand-in or any form of post-dubbing, everything must be done to be realistic and vivid. This is Anne Fletcher's tough requirement, from the "Singing and Dance" series, "Sweetheart" to "step-up".

So, except for real professional dancers in this screening room, the person with the highest dance level is most likely to start learning dance at the age of 17, and then accompanied Jessica, who has been practicing throughout her youthful and girlish years and is still practicing today.

Until the ending song of the film fell, the ending song and the screen rolled on the cast, and the audience immediately heard a burst of warm applause from the audience. The young audience communicated quietly with their friends. Although there were no exciting stories, the wonderful songs and dances were definitely worth the fare. Wang Yang and Jessica also stood up and applauded, giving the praise to Fletcher and the crew.

In fact, Wang Yang had already watched this theatrical version, and thought it was OK that Fire announced that he would produce "Dance My Life 2"; he also watched the future original version of "step-up" in his mind. "Sweetheart" gave Anne Fletcher a lot of experience. In comparison, the current version is more exciting and novel, but the story still seems a bit weak and cliché in terms of storytelling and story expression, but the exquisite and attentive dance scenes as always are enough to give the audience a happy and satisfying evening.

"Thank you, thank you!" Anne Fletcher, wearing a white dress, smiled. These applauses must be so beautiful. She clapped her palms and looked at the side of Magic Yang. He smiled and gave a thumbs up! Fletcher also replied with a thumbs up and continued to applaud and thanked: "Thank you for your efforts!"

"It's not bad, not as exciting and fun as "Sweetheart", of course, there's no magical Yang." The audience in the theater screening room left the show. Claire and Janet walked out of the theater in the aisle while thinking about the 100-minute video. She said: "But it's OK, its theme is very inspiring, and the dances are really professional." Jenny agreed: "Yes, without magical Yang, there's nothing missing, no surprises."

"We like to call that talent, a good director can inject energy into the film!" While speaking, Claire came to the corridor outside, making hand movements and said in a similar way: "Do you know? "Sweetheart" is like a summer ice cream; now "step-up" may be like an ice cream. What's the point? It doesn't hit your red heart, magical Yang can always hit the red heart, great magical Yang!"

Listening to her "I'm very professional" tone, Janet said a little unhappy: "It seems that your review has been published in the newspaper?" Claire laughed several times and said mysteriously: "Do you know? I have submitted manuscripts to several newspapers and magazines. One newspaper is very interested in me, a 'blog critic'. I have a great chance to get a manuscript." Janet said happily: "Is this true? Wow, congratulations!" The two clapped their hands: "sure-win!"

The premiere of "step-up" is just a "casual" time for one night. The next day, Wang Yang continued to run forward on the busy track of life.

"Margaret, don't urge me, I'm thinking... Wait, there's a problem with the length of this scene." In the editing room of "The Devil in Prada", Wang Yang stood in front of the editing computer, looked at the image on the screen, and said to Margaret: "My requirement is to highlight Andrea's mentality changes. It was too long and there was no impact, too short and too little to feel it. Give Jesse a close-up try."

"You all know that I asked NBC to arrange two consecutive episodes for us, so we have an hour to retain the audience. How much we can retain depends on our ability." Graham Reinhan and Bill Prady sat at the round table and listened carefully to Wang Yang's words standing next to the whiteboard in front. He stretched out his index finger and said, "The first 15 minutes of the first episode, you understand, I understand, it is a crucial stage."

On the whiteboard, he wrote "Highlight Sheldon, Leonard's big personality and temperament, throwing out 1 to 2 quirks", "Showing the identity of a high IQ scientist", "Looking at daily life with scientific theories", "Ordinary people easily koshes them, highlighting the laughter", and said: "The first scene at the beginning, because Leonard's car broke down, it just didn't have enough money to take a taxi. There are other reasons, you can add it, they have to take the bus home, what a bad day! The appearance of the new neighbor Penny is a reversal. Speaking of which, Sheldon never takes the bus, he has cleanliness, obsessive-compulsive disorder..."

"The first set of lines on the camera is at the bus door, and Sheldon and Leonard are arguing whether to sit or not." Wang Yang swirled his hands and counted: "What is Sheldon talking about bacteria? The theory of accidents. Anyway, he can't sit; Leonard is helpless." Graham, Prady nodded silently, and Wang Yang continued: "But the passengers and drivers in the car were impatient. The driver closed the door several times and was shouted 'wait' by Leonard. He finally couldn't help it. He koled two scientists in one sentence, okay?"

A "driver" was written on the whiteboard. Wang Yang turned around and looked at the two of them, saying, "I will invite an interesting star guest appearance for this driver character, which will make the audience excited quickly. OK, the next second scene, Sheldon and Leonard still boarded the bus..."

"No, this is not OK, this spacecraft is designed too stingy! The appearance is not large, because the 'Firefly' spacecraft is one of the most backward models; but the parts details are also a little more majestic, very rough and cool style! Remember, this ship is not a normal firefly, because it is a modified spacecraft that has been repaired many times, and who is the one who repaired and modified it?"

In the Art Office of "Firefly", there were people sitting next to several large round tables, with laptops, hand-painted boards, drawing papers, materials and other objects on the table. Wang Yang was walking around the table, talking about the requirements of the Firefly spacecraft. The Art Design Team of "Firefly" continued to use most of the teams in "The Ninth District", including Kevin Kavanav (representative works "The Dark Knight" and "Transformers"), David F. Clarson (representative works "Iron Man" series), and newly joined art designer and set artist Kim Sinclair (representative works "Avatar"), Daniel T. Dorans (representative works "Mission Impossible 2", "Transformers", and Fantastic Four 2).

There are also prop artist Drew Petrota (Transformers series), set artist Gordon Sing (Pirates of the Caribbean 4) and a group of assistant members... This art team is naturally the top of Hollywood and the top of the world.

But Wang Yang still had to express his wishes clearly. Under the gaze of everyone, he said while walking: "It's Kyle! She has not received formal training and has no education. She just repaired the Ning Jing with her intuition and talent for mechanical equipment. And she is an innocent girl. So there are many parts of the Ning Jing that are not firefly models. Kyle regards the Ning Jing as a home. She wants to make it cool, make it handsome, and even install some heavy weapons that should not exist at all."

"Captain Marl doesn't know anything, he doesn't know anything. This is the plot..." Wang Yang patted David F-Classen's shoulder next to him and concluded: "Anyway, redesign a special firefly. The one just now was considered a regular model, and of course there was no Chinese and English logo of 'Still'."

"I understand." Everyone smiled slightly, and then began a new round of firefly spacecraft design. Wang Yang breathed silently, scanned the all-star team, and recruited several core Chinese and Asian members to preside over the art work of Chinese characters, Chinese and oriental elements.

"A heavy punch is beautiful! Then turn around and sweep your legs..." In the warm and bright bedroom, Jessica, wearing light blue pajamas, lay on the bed side. She held her head and smiled at Wang Yang with a pretty face, and asked interestingly: "Yang, have you often played with these toys before?" He sat cross-legged in front of the set bed table, with a bunch of soldiers models on the bed table, as well as A4 paper and pencils.

Wang Yang continued to fiddle with the soldiers of various styles, picked up the pencil and drew a few more times, and smiled and said, "Yes, I yes, I treat them as actors." Jessica had seen his toy storage in her home in San Francisco. She thought she could use the idiom "stacked like mountains", but it was not piled up, but placed neatly and orderly; but she had been reunited for more than 5 years, and seeing him playing with toys like this, she chuckled and said, "It's really like a baby."

"But I'm not playing now, it's design." Wang Yang turned his head to look at her for a while, and the scenes of several cameras gradually became clearer. He continued to paint on paper, saying: "The initial material for designing some action scenes is your character Ruiva."

It's just a preliminary stage. Whether it can be played like that and what effect it will be, it must be tried and verified by the martial arts action team to make the entire designed fighting process. Therefore, he needs a team of martial arts coaches and martial arts commanders. Many beautiful shots have to be played repeatedly and designed repeatedly. As for now, he can only use toys to serve as a team, and then relies on imagination to supplement the process.

"Oh my God, I'm going to hit so many people!" Jessica's eyes were wide open, her eyes full of excitement. Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "Yes, I've said a long time ago that Ruiva is one of the best people to hit in that new galaxy. Your strength is super strong... Look at this." He picked up a Bruce Lee doll in a yellow one-piece suit and arranged more than a dozen soldiers to surround Bruce Lee.

Jessica blinked in confusion: "What's wrong?" Wang Yang laughed and said: "This is you, not Bruce-Lee. Oh, you are surrounded! Many enemies! Jesse, Jesse, what should I do!? Give you a phone booth! Okay, now start killing Bill, kill them all! Ah--"

"You are just a baby!" Seeing him kicking the soldiers down with Bruce Lee one by one, Jessica smiled so hard that her shoulders were shaking, and she couldn't help but fall on the bed. She moved to him, punching his back with both hands, and laughed and shouted, "Superman is here!" Wang Yang looked down at her and laughed and shouted, "You try to hit again? I'll kick you out of the bed with one kick!" Jessica's hand reached out to his armpit: "Come on, see who is so good!"

"Ah! Haha... Stop!" Wang Yang never could not stand the tickling. He immediately used both hands to protect his chest and his whole body shrank into a ball, screaming and laughing: "It seems that Mark and Cathy's daughter's butts were itchy. In Yang's eyes, she was already a dead person..."

Jessica woke up and quickly sat up; Wang Yang opened his hands desperately, revealing his fatal weakness. He shouted "ah" and turned around and hugged her and pressed her on the bed: "You're dead--"

Time passed in busyness and happiness. Soon the week of screening from October 17 to 23 came to an end. "Dance Out My Life" won the North American championship this week with a box office of 36.58 million, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ranked second, and "Kill Bill Vol.," which was released for two weeks, won the third place with 16.87 million.

Because it is obvious that the audience generally likes it very much, the likes on Rotten Tomatoes is as high as 90%, and the comments are filled with praise such as "the best dance movie this year" and "the music and dance are quite good". With this good reputation, there is no reason why fans of the music and dance films don't want to take a look. The championship is expected to finally create a box office record of 70-80 million North American.

But in sharp contrast to the superb audience's preference, people in the film critics don't like this movie. Among the 85 reviews, it only has 35% freshness in popular reviews and 37% freshness in well-known reviews, and all 55 of them choose to rot.

"Following Sweetheart, Fletcher once again cleverly blends ballet and hip-hop, but the filming itself is clumsy, and she still has a long way to go from being a good choreographer to becoming a good director." - Scott Bowers, USA Today; "Losing Wang Yang is a heavy blow to Fletcher, its dialogue is bulky and boring, old-fashioned storylines and some hypocritical preaching." - Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel; "Don't believe there are stories, just watch them dance." - John Anderson, News Daily; "Fletcher shows that she is a talented dancer and a lame director without drama." - Lisa Rose, The Newark Star Chronicle...

Of course, there are also 30 reviews that choose edible. King Williams of "Scroll Movie Review" said: "The plot is indeed quite predictable, without any surprises; but the dazzling dance and unexpected camera photography make it as spectacular as the sea."

In any case, for the 15 million production fee of "Dance from My Life", it has achieved great commercial success, which further proves that Flame Movie's second film was a serious and confident plan to launch its second film in 2005.

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