Is This What Making Empty Promises Looks Like?

After the release of the second trailer for "Mouth of the Madman", the Internet went silent for a short time.

Because it's too fast!

Originally, everyone thought that the first trailer released by Lu Ban was so short, and the preparation for the feature film was probably just beginning. Even the actors may not have been found yet, and the wheat seeds were still being sown.

Unexpectedly, in less than a month, the second trailer of the Lu Ban update would have such a high degree of completion.

The first three monologues of this trailer have a similar style, but the scary aspects they display are different.

The first is shadows. Dark places always make people instinctively afraid. No matter who you are, when you were a child, you may have imagined a scene where a hand or something suddenly appeared in the shadow and grabbed you. Because darkness represents the unknown, it is human instinct to be afraid of the dark.

The second is color. If pure darkness brings unknown and uneasiness to people, then colors that are too bright and unique and do not belong to nature give people a sense of danger. Just like poisonous mushrooms and poisonous insects, they all use bright colors to protect themselves, and the weird portraits bring such primitive terror to people.

The third one is bugs, spiders, centipedes, and centipedes. These creatures with more than four legs are usually accompanied by highly poisonous ones. There should be only a few people in this world who are not afraid of spiders. Seeing spiders crawling out of human bodies, so densely packed, is simply goosebumps.

Moreover, Lu Ban's movie itself has some kind of power beyond reality. When you see a monster in the dark, it feels like there is something in the shadows around you, and when you see the oil painting with the weird monster, it seems like it is about to crawl out of the screen. When spiders crawl all over the body of the person on the screen, the audience will also feel the immersive feeling of being crawled by bugs on the body.

As for the subsequent scenes, it can be regarded as a standard part of an adventure and suspense movie, with some big scenes, some personal shows, some gags, and the final thrilling scene.

These combinations create a chemical reaction under the special effects of Lu Ban's video. To put it simply, it's awesome.

On the movie rating website Doudou.com, in a discussion group that gathers many people in the industry, discussions about Lu Ban's new film have increased with the release of the second trailer.

[Actor Zhao Kuo]: Director Lu's second film seems to have used actors from the previous one. Can any of you get in touch?

[Film Maker]: What do you want to do after contacting others, poaching others?

[Actor Zhao Kuo]: No, don't you think it's strange? The acting skills of these two actors from Lu Ban are second to none, the girls are beautiful, and the boys are also very suitable for their roles. For example, the dean in "The Crying" is just like a really crazy doctor. Such a character has not appeared in other movies. This is very unreasonable!

[Hengdian Xiaozhi]: Isn't this unreasonable? There are so many actors that you don't know about. There are so many supporting actors across the country. Even Hengdian has hundreds of newcomers every day. Lu Ban must have some special channels to find these actors who are suitable for the roles.

[General screenwriter Axiang]: Indeed, sometimes more powerful directors like to use newcomers, such as so-and-so, so-and-so, Lu Ban, etc. I guess there are quirks in hiring people.

[Yannan Xiaoliu]: Speaking of which, I was running a group recently. One of the supporting actors in the group was a wealthy second generation who joined the group with money. He was originally a variety show performer and his acting skills were terrible. However, I didn't know how to find Lu Ban through some channels. It was said that he provided guidance and teaching. Now I feel that his acting skills are amazing. You will probably see it after a while. That frightened expression, hey, it's like seeing a ghost!

[Bean Paste Popsicle]: Is this Lu Ban really so powerful? I feel like I was just an ordinary rookie graduate a year ago. Is there someone behind this who is creating the character?

[Movie Brick Man]: Speaking of this, it made me laugh. A buddy of mine told me when he was drinking a few days ago that in March or April last year, a handyman handed him a horror movie script. He rejected it without even reading it. But now I look back and look, good guy, that handyman is Lu Ban. What do you think is a coincidence?

[Ordinary screenwriter Axiang]: I should really thank your friend. If he had accepted it at that time, there would probably be no Lu Ban. The shooting style and special effects of Lu Ban are really beyond the control of ordinary domestic directors. When the time comes, we can find a young talent to come as a guest star, and some traffic-hungry actors as the protagonists. This film will be a hit.

Discussions about Lu Ban and his "Mouth of the Madman" skyrocketed with the trailer. This second trailer exceeded 30 million views in just one day. On the film and television website, the expectations for "Mouth of the Madman" were immediately high, ranking first, and its popularity far exceeded the sum of the remaining second to tenth places.

Some people in the industry have noticed that if "The Cry" is a pure horror film, with classic horror film routines from the background to the story, then "Mouth of the Madman" is obviously a thriller and adventure movie. Such movies are more popular, with adventurous and funny scenes, as well as thrilling and exciting plots. Although the audience is still not as big as serious family movies or war blockbusters, it is already much larger than the pure horror film "The Cry".

In addition, this is the first official movie of the Silence Project, and people are even more curious about what kind of world view it will show.

However, everyone is doubtful about the production capacity of Lu Ban.

After all, even if the preparatory work for a movie has been completed, it will take several months from the start to the end of shooting and post-production of special effects, and it will be gone in less than half a year from the time it is finalized and announced.

Not to mention the previous videos, starting from "Hyakunin Isshu", Lu Ban has actually officially entered the production of major movies, and the gap between "Hyakunin Isshu" and "Crying" is less than two months. Now, has the filming and production of "Mouth of the Madman" been completed within four or five months?

There is even a Spring Festival in between.

No, doesn't this Lu Ban not have a holiday or rest?

There are many directors who make good movies and are box office hits, but usually they only make one movie every two to three years, but this Lu Ban, three movies a year?

This is like an era when everyone on the Internet updates 4,000 words a day. There is a person who writes very well and updates 20,000 to 30,000 words a day. It is completely overwhelming.

Is this going to cause the film industry to also undergo involution?

Film and television practitioners are worried about whether Lu Ban will bring changes to the industry.

Various film and television companies are also busy producing their own horror films, preparing to make another fortune by taking advantage of the popularity of "The Crying".

However, before the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday in April, Film Bureau located in Yannan received a copy of the film master tape.

The name of the label above is "Mouth of the Madman".

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