For the pot friends who like to go to the theater to watch movies, the "deleted version" is definitely a pain in the heart.
From Uncle Wolf's curtain call at the beginning of the year to "Wolverine 3: A Battle of Death", to the word-of-mouth explosion of "Wrestling! Daddy", and then to the sci-fi blockbuster "Alien: Contract", which was jokingly called "Opened: Big Spoon" by netizens, these masterpieces have been deleted to varying degrees when they were released in mainland theaters.
The above-mentioned movie has at least attracted enough attention due to the word-of-mouth basis of the previous work or other factors, and the movie that Poison Jun wants to talk about today, because it was deleted for 37 minutes when it was released in the mainland, was brainlessly boycotted, it is simply unjust to no friends, it is-
Lost City
the lost city of z
The story begins in 1905 in Ireland, England.
The film's protagonist, Percy (Charlie Hannham), is a handsome and handsome Army major.
He was the first to hit his prey in a hunting expedition in which many officers participated, but because of his family's bad reputation, he could not even sit at the main table of the celebration dinner.
Fortunately, Percy has a happy little family, a virtuous and beautiful wife (Sienna Miller) and a lovely son.
Although Percy is capable, she is not reused because of the bad reputation of her father.
The governor sent him to the Royal Geographical Society to assist in an expedition.
The president of the Royal Geographical Society valued Percy's early experience in mapping and hoped that he would be able to map the primary forests on the border between Bolivia and Brazil, because the two countries had a dispute over the border and entrusted the Royal Geographical Society of the United Kingdom to arbitrate.
Percy initially thought the work would mean little to him, but the president said that if he could accomplish the task, he would be able to shame the family, which was a rare opportunity.
It was with this expectation in mind that Percy decided to travel to South America for an adventure.
Before leaving, his wife told him that she was pregnant, but he still encouraged her husband to move forward for his ideals.
Along with Percy, he also recruited Mr. Costin, who played Robert Pattinson, who became a Hollywood star with the vampire-themed Twilight series of films, known as the "Twilight Man".
Then, Percy and Coustin carried the mapping equipment on the snowy mountains at high altitudes.
Magnificent lakeside,
There are also dangers in the Amazon rainforest.
The film "Lost Z City" presents a shocking natural landscape that is rarely seen on the big screen today, because it abandons Hollywood's usual digital shooting and green screen special effects, but uses film live shooting, which has become a luxurious visual feast in the era of computer stunts flying on screen.
When Percy and Costin arrived at the rainforest replenishment point contacted by the Royal Geographical Society, they visited a duke who was mining rubber in the area, and the duke provided them with aborigines as guides.
Percy and the others, led by the natives, headed deep into the rainforest.
Along the way, they were ambushed by the natives,
There are also piranha attacks.
The members of the ship, dead and wounded, and the rest of the people also faced a great test because of the loss of food.
Just when the group fell into despair, they were ecstatic by the sight that appeared in front of them, a territory that no one had ever set foot in.
Here Percy found traces of human civilization such as pottery.
Just as they were about to look for further clues, a black panther-like beast blocked their way, and Percy and his party had to retreat.
The content of this Black Panther appearance was deleted in the mainland release version.
Percy returned to England with some regrets, but his mapping achievements and discoveries of unknown civilizations were enough to cause a huge sensation.
Because of his outstanding merits, Percy was invited into the high-class social circle and became the object of admiration of the dignitaries.
However, Percy was not carried away by the honor before him, and he insisted on preaching his discovery of an unknown civilization in his speech.
But most people did not share his views, and even the secretary-general of the Royal Geographical Society advised him not to mention it again.
Because, at that time, people generally believed that white people were the earliest origin of civilization, and did not believe in the existence of other civilizations that could be compared with them.
Fortunately, there is a wealthy Mr. Murray who agrees with Percy's views and publicly offers to fund Percy's return to the rainforest and to work with him in search of a lost civilization.
What Percy did not expect was that this "confidant" Mr. Murray was a strange teammate, and directly led to the failure of the second expedition.
Mr. Murray not only dragged his feet, but he was also afraid of death.
When the raft transporting food encountered rapids, he grabbed the raft to protect himself, causing a large amount of food to be washed away.
When the expedition was ambushed by the Natives, Percy made a friendly gesture of friendship and was received by the Indigenous leader.
When Murrayne discovered that the tribe was an cannibal, he fled in fright and broke his leg.
In fact, this indigenous tribe only ate the dead, believing that this would redeem souls.
The visual "Dead Man's BBQ" scene in the original movie was removed in the mainland version.
Also deleted are footage of some naked indigenous people in the tribe.
Mr. Murray cried out for his leg injury and cried out to go home, and the expedition members urged Percy to abandon him, but Percy gave him the last horse and guide and asked him to seek help.
Percy continued the expedition with the rest of the team. What they could not imagine was that Mr. Murray had greased the rest of the food before leaving, and the only remaining supplies were destroyed by him, and Percy was forced to abandon the journey and return to England.
Mr. Murray, who had returned to England a little earlier, filed a complaint against the evildoer, claiming that Percy had no regard for his life and death, and demanded that Percy apologize in person.
In a fit of rage, Percy decided to quit the Royal Geographical Society and planned to explore again in his own name.
At that time, the outbreak of World War I disrupted Percy's plans, and he was transferred to the front to participate in the battle.
Percy killed the enemy heroically on the battlefield, but suffered serious injuries to his eye due to chlorine poisoning.
After treatment, Percy regained her health.
Percy, who returns to a peaceful life, has always been concerned about his adventure plans, and the eldest son, Jack (Tom Holland), sees his father's heart, encourages his father to return to the forest again, and decides to accompany him.
As the saying goes, you still need father and son soldiers to fight, how did their expedition end, please go to the movie to find the answer!
"Lost Z City" was released in mainland theaters on June 2, with less than 8% of the first day of the film schedule, and the high-ranking movies released at the same time were "Wonder Woman", "Caribbean 5" and "Wrestleman"! Daddy".
Compared with the unappreciated treatment at home, its reputation abroad is surprisingly good, at least unattainable for leftover fan movies like "Caribbean 5".
Lost Z has a freshness rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The freshness of "Caribbean 5" in the same period of domestic gold mining is less than 29%.
Among the top 33 most anticipated movies in 2017 selected by foreign film media website Collider, from action movies, horror movies to comedies, different kinds and different sizes of movies are involved in this list. "Lost Z City" has suppressed many IP blockbusters and ranked first.
The mainstream media's evaluation of this film is even more "exaggerated"——
Time Magazine:
This "Lost Z City" is the lost Z City in today's film industry.
The Hollywood Reporter:
Lost Z is a rare contemporary classic.
The production team behind this film can be described as "Oscar original" level.
Director James Gray is a legend, winning the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival at the age of 25 for his debut film "Little Odessa", and four subsequent works were nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
▲ Director James Gray
"Lost Z City" includes the members of the team of oscar best picture "Twelve Years of Slavery", and also gathers the big names behind Oscar-winning films including "Moonlight Boy", "Big Short", "Saving Private Ryan" and other Oscar-winning films.
The film's production company, "Plan B," is the film company of Hollywood god star Brad Pitt. This amazing production company has been a legend in the industry since 2004, with an annual record to deliver best picture to the Oscars.
If the movie is so good, why did it cut 37 minutes?
In fact, the mainland release version of this film was deleted by the producers themselves, in addition to the deletions mentioned above, the rest of the deletions in this film are mainly character dialogues, scenery and so on.
Dale Johnson, the producer of "Lost Z City", came to China to promote: "The Chinese version surprised me! I'm nervous every time I watch this movie, but I love this version. ”
▲ Producer Dale Johnson
In addition to some restrictive shots, the mainland version of this film is to make the film look smoother, which is also the usual method used by many filmmakers internationally.
For example, wong Kar-wai's "Generation Grandmaster" was released in North America in 108 minutes, which is 22 minutes less than the domestic version, and director Wong Kar-wai said that this is to get close to the viewing habits of American audiences.
▲ The deleted version of "A Generation of Grandmasters" has achieved gratifying results in North America, easily breaking the box office record of Chinese films in the United States in the past three years.
Similarly, the impact of the deletion of "Lost Z City" on the perception is not as terrible as the rumors on the Internet.
Many netizens who have watched the North American version and watched the mainland version have also expressed such views.
What makes people cry is that a certain self-media that has made an extreme statement that "Zhang Yimou is dead" has called on netizens to boycott the film when the film has not yet been released, and also maliciously scored low scores to carry out brainless boycott in the name of "criticizing unscrupulous film dealers".
The deletion of the movie is indeed easy to cause dissatisfaction among the audience, but it is maliciously resisted without watching it, who is playing hooligans?
It is also a self-deleted movie by the filmmakers, "WrestleMania! The mainland version of "Daddy" was deleted for 21 minutes, but it created a phenomenon-level movie with word-of-mouth explosion this year.
And "Lost Z City" suffered from being boycotted before it was released, and even the little fans of "Twilight Man" said that they were determined not to buy tickets, which was really called every day should not be, and the ground was not smart...
Some people have described the deletion of "Lost Z City" as an unscrupulous filmmaker who arranged several more shows in order to compress the screening time, and also took the example of "Cloud Atlas" released in 2013.
When "Cloud Atlas" was released in the mainland that year, it was deleted for nearly 40 minutes, and the spearhead of public opinion pointed out that the merchants deliberately compressed the length of the film in order to make money, and its scheduled film volume was indeed placed there.
And "Lost Z City" is not comparable, the first weekend of release, the third-to-last number of films, not to mention there are many embarrassing time periods.
A healthy film market should be rich in genres and reasonable in scheduling.
A healthy film criticism environment should be about the film itself, not the "false accusations" of accusations.
Whether it is propaganda hype or brainless resistance, the criticism of the content of the lost film is not only irrational, but also not conducive to the spread of good movies.
There is no doubt that "Lost Z City" is indeed quite wronged in this regard, and the word-of-mouth box office in North America has soared, and in the Chinese market, is it just because of the water and soil?
It is estimated that even executive producer Brad Pitt did not expect that this one would lose so badly...