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After "Spider-Man: Across the Universe", someone worried about Holland's brother (Tom Holland):
Cartoons are made like this, how many people are willing to watch the live-action Spider-Man gag there?
Probably to prove the "strength".
Apple TV+ immediately launched the Dutch brother's new work:
Crowded room
The Crowded Room
Adapted from the famous split personality novel "24 Billy".
Dutch brother himself starred and served as a producer.
How "powerful" is it?
After filming, he was unable to appear in the play, so he announced that he would take a year off...
But.
Rao is such a battle, when Rotten Tomatoes scored, it still startled everyone:
Just 20% freshness.
At one point, it even fell to 8%!!!
Sir hasn't been so shocked since the last time "Idol Vortex" scored 9%.
Bad films?
No, no, no, it's not that simple.
In a few days, the audience popcorn index scored, 97%!
Fan support?
Dutch brother treated unfairly?
Sir brushed overnight, and can only say that there is indeed a gap between ideal and reality.
01
At first glance, "Crowded Room" is a standard suspense drama.
The story begins with a shooting.
The protagonist, Danny, is arrested, but refuses to admit that he fired the shot, and blames all the crimes on his roommate: the girl Ariana.
However, the police did not find this girl.
Killed?
Or is it a lie made up by Danny?
Neither.
The series uses a lot of camera language and lines to hint to the audience that Danny is special.
For example, when sitting on the subway with the girl Ariana to go to kill, Ariana's first shot is her reflection in the subway glass window.
It's virtual.
For example, when Danny is bullied at school, he will be followed by a diehard Johnny to fight back against the bully.
But there was no reaction from the other side.
A word that is often called:
"Freak".
It happened when a man helped him out of the siege.
It also happened when he talked to drug dealers and talked to friends.
Yes.
You "guessed" it, Danny has a split personality, and the characters that appear above are all himself.
Kind of interesting?
Pity.
The professional community is not satisfied with this.
On Rotten Tomatoes, it's 33% so far.
On Metacritic, the professional rating is stuck at 48.
None of them reached the passing line.
In the Variety report, variety TV critic Alison Herman gave the reason:
"Unfortunately hollow".
Most of the bad reviews are similar rhetoric: slow-paced, verbose, boring, boring...
To be honest, this is Sir's first impression.
Why?
Because in the case of knowing that the protagonist is a schizophrenic, it is not until the last scene of the fourth episode that the episode officially picks this point.
This will make you wonder:
What exactly were filmed in these four episodes? What the hell did I see?
But, can just "hollow" explain the entire show?
There may be more complex reasons for this.
02
There is one of the most commonly used methods in suspense films: poor information.
By creating a poor information, the truth of the story is constantly stripped and exposed layer by layer.
Or.
It feels "boring and boring".
For "24 Billy", whether you know the story or not, its core message has long been revealed: the protagonist is a split personality.
This is also the most difficult part of this genre to photograph.
Because the "flashing point" is actually gone, there are actually very few ways to go: either focus on the psychological excavation of the protagonist, or create new suspense points on this basis.
But alas.
"Crowded Room" chooses an "unexpected" path:
Aziva Gossman (screenwriter of "A Beautiful Mind" and "Transformers 5") still uses "the protagonist is a split personality" as the core suspense point.
So you see.
The four personalities that appeared in the first episode were repeated in the second and third episodes, and although a new personality was added to the fourth episode, it was still parallel to the whole story, and the audience did not get more information about Danny's story.
This is its most fundamental mistake.
Some people may say, Sir, that it is really difficult to create the main creator when you say this.
Is it really hard?
The contrast is also a movie about split personality.
"Fatal ID", with this as a suspense.
But even if the audience guesses that the ten people living in the hotel are the same personality, the reason why these ten personalities kill each other and the final reversal add new suspense to the story, and the whole story is layered.
The same is true of Forbidden Island.
Even if the audience guesses that the protagonist is a split personality, in addition to the suspense of split personality, the greater suspense is the reason why the protagonist becomes split personality - he killed his wife and children.
Therefore, when the mystery of the story is revealed, the audience can also get a refreshing feeling of sudden realization.
And both.
Even when the audience first saw it, they did not know the core message of the "split personality".
So ah.
It's not that we are too demanding, but the creative ability is really low.
The thinking is too old.
So much so that to the end.
Sir will think that the content you spent 4 episodes is not as effective as the 4 minutes in To Qifeng's "Detective".
Take a step back and say.
As far as "24 Billy" is concerned, it is actually possible to completely abandon suspense.
It can dig and explore more things.
To keep it simple:
It can serve as a vehicle to focus on the performance, to focus on the conflict of the characters.
Remember Shyamalan 's "Division" a few years ago? James McAvoy's Kevin is a man of 24 personalities.
There is a long shot in the film.
Yimei "shows online" how to switch many heavy personalities in an instant, even if you only listen to the voice, you can clearly distinguish different personalities.
When the same body changes different personalities, the expression, demeanor, tone, and accent do change, which is amazing.
And this is why people were initially surprised by the prototype of the story, Billy.
If the drama can make this sense of wonder, it will definitely have another effect.
But alas.
At least in the first four episodes, different personalities in "Crowded Room" were played by different people, and the Dutch brother did not show "talent" in acting.
To complicate the do:
It can also be used as a topic to explore the pros and cons of social culture.
Probably you don't know.
A rapist and murderer, just because he was diagnosed with multiple personalities, the result was not only acquitted, but also treated like a star.
He owns a small production company and even makes a fortune selling the rights to his stories.
So people are envious and jealous again
They didn't like that this guy had escaped jail time
But you can still make money
He has been associated with many of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Johnny Depp, Leonardo · DiCaprio (the male protagonist of the movie version of "Crowded Room"), John Cusack (the male protagonist of "Fatal ID") and so on.
Teach them how to play themselves.
So, when a smart psychiatric patient knows that he has a "death-free brand", will he conspire with psychologists?
Will it divert the public's attention?
To know.
Since learning that Billy has a 24-fold personality, almost no one cares about what happened to the women who were raped.
A private psychological problem can be filmed as a sociological problem.
But alas, for at least the first four episodes, "Crowded Room" ignored any level of digging.
And here it is.
If you know that this show is adapted from "24 Billy", you will find it extremely informative, boring, and mysterious.
If you don't know what it's adapted from, you will feel that the whole story is extremely blunt and lacks realistic logical support.
In the end, the rating of 33% may be lower.
But there are also excusable circumstances.
03
So the question is, what is the popcorn index of the audience with a score of 97% and is still at a high level of 90%?
That's right.
There are many people here who are grievances about the Dutch brother who has suffered "grievances":
Although this drama is really not good, it is not as good as 8%.
It also has our expectations for this popular fried chicken:
To be honest, in Sir's eyes, the Dutch brother is a little "floating".
"Spider-Man" was a big seller and a burst of popularity, which made him once overconfident in his strength.
This can be seen from his remarks that scare Martin Scorsese.
"If you don't believe me, ask Martin if he wants to make a Marvel movie." But he won't shoot. I've made Marvel, and I've made films for the Oscars. I can tell you that the two are the same. In addition to the fact that Marvel movies are much more expensive. But the way I disassemble those characters, the way the director sculpts the story and the characters, it's all the same, only on a different scale. So I really think they're all real art. ”
As a result, I was very confident in shooting such a difficult scene.
Word of mouth smashed not to say.
Even the performance is a little unable to cope:
"I feel that there is something wrong with my spirit, and I will go crazy if I act again."
"I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this role!"
He even went to Mexico to rest for a week, and after recuperating for a while, he still couldn't make a play, so he decided to fade out of the film industry to rest for a year...
This is a "lesson" and an experience.
But at the same time.
Such a high score may be more of the "credit" of Dutch brother fans.
In "Crowded Room", we can indeed see his performance efforts.
Fear and helplessness when threatened by a stepfather.
The humble heartache of being rejected by the goddess.
Shocked when he was killed by personality domination.
Because he is not one person with multiple roles, he has completed the task qualifiedly in several inner scenes.
But if you open the comment page.
You'll find out how a popular traffic fan can turn normal into magic.
Well......
Under the fancy "encouragement" of fans.
The Dutch brother also duly thanked them for their support in a report on the US news website HuffPost.
The question is, is this really "encouragement"?
Brainless praise from fans really won't make your idol have unrealistic fantasies about their abilities, thus harming your idol?
It can only be said.
Thankfully, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have a distinction between popular and professional ratings.
Whether it's good or not, it's naturally clear at a glance.
Otherwise.
It's really like the characters in the play.
Immersed in a closed cognitive space, unable to recognize yourself.
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