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Chapter 810: Chapter 767: This is Actually an Art Film_3

“As a child, I steadfastly believed that animals have emotions.”

“Whether such wild animals have emotions is hard to say, but surviving at sea like this, such brutality is normal. To survive, the tiger would inevitably have to consume other animals. There was a scene set up in the first thirty minutes, where Pi’s father put it well—animals will always be animals. They only have their animal instincts, while humans possess humanity. That’s why when animals are hungry they eat other animals, but when people are hungry, they don’t eat people.”

“I’m too curious about the latter part of the story. How is Pi going to contend with the tiger?”

“The promotion says Pi has to coexist with the tiger for over two hundred days. Wouldn’t the tiger have him down to his bones in that time?”

“Little sister, ever heard of the protagonist’s halo?”

“Let’s see how Xian Yu is going to resolve the upcoming plot.”

“…”

Now, the audience was thoroughly enjoying themselves, having endured the boring set-up of the first half hour. The current scenes were quite interesting and anticipation for the storyline was high.

How can a man coexist with a tiger for over two hundred days?

Everyone was greatly curious about this.

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As the film progressed, An Xu was also thinking, but he considered much more than the average viewer!

He wasn’t stupid!

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After about an hour into the movie, to still treat it as a normal commercial film would be foolish!

It wasn’t that An Xu was slow to react.

In fact, the monotonous set-up of the first thirty minutes had already made him realize that something was off about this film.

He smelled something!

It was the scent of an art film!

An art film?

Investing hundreds of millions, employing the highest level of production standards, only for Xian Yu to come out with an art film?

An Xu felt his understanding of cinema had been greatly shaken!

This was the reason he dared to be sure only now!

Who would have the guts to do such a thing?

To throw in so many hundreds of millions and bet on the profitability of an art film!?

That’s crazy!

Do you really think that with the approach of an art film, if you tell an interesting story, audiences will buy it!?

Too greedy!

Xian Yu wants both the reputation of art films and the box office of commercial films, so he made such a film!

From boring to interesting – a full hour!

Only then did the film begin to enter into the rhythm of the story between man and tiger!

How much of a ripple would the subsequent plot need to justify this investment?

An Xu couldn’t dare imagine!

And as An Xu fully came to his senses, Jiang Zhu also came back to reality. Her expression was one of shock, her tone filled with strong disbelief:

“This is an art film!”

An Xu’s gaze flickered:

“Weakness is a sin, so even with the protection of a gorilla, a zebra with a broken leg has no chance against the hyenas, and the gorilla trying to protect the zebra is killed by the hyenas too. This proves that if you want to protect others, you must have the strength to do so; otherwise, you will just end up getting both of you killed.”

This wasn’t a difficult lesson to grasp.

Jiang Zhu gradually understood the idea: “The hyenas represent evil forces, and the tiger represents an even greater evil force. This can be understood as a kind of ‘dog-eat-dog’ scenario, where the wicked will ultimately be consumed by something even more wicked. But isn’t that too simple?”

This is an art film!

Recognizing the essence of the film, many scenes couldn’t just be taken at face value and should instead be considered from a deeper and more comprehensive perspective. However, this level of contemplation seemed insufficient for an art film’s exploration of depth and substance.

“Xian Yu is too greedy and too hasty this time.”

An Xu shook his head: “The film already has bugs.”

“What bug?”

Jiang Zhu’s gaze slightly sharpened.

An Xu said, “Think about how the gorilla got on the boat before. It boarded using floating bananas. Setting aside whether bananas can float in the sea, even if the bananas could float, do you think they could carry the weight of a gorilla?”

Jiang Zhu’s eyes widened!

Yes!

A gorilla weighing hundreds of pounds, how could the bananas carry it?

There really is a bug in this plot!

As for the movie’s reviews after it was released, let’s not go into that. In any case, Xian Yu’s knowledge of physics is bound to get criticized by the professionals.

“Actually, this is just a trivial matter.”

An Xu shook his head, “The real point is, it took him an hour to get to the main topic. With such a slow pace, it simply can’t support the investment cost of this movie. Wanting to grab the reputation of an art film and the box office of a commercial film, there were greedy people like this before, but you, as an industry insider, should be as aware as I am of the outcome.”

Jiang Zhu nodded.

Xian Yu’s ambition is too great, but judging by the current level of this movie, although exciting, it can’t support such grand ambitions and expectations. It can only be said that the concept of humans and animals struggling for survival at sea is indeed a splendid idea.

…

In reality.

Inside the major cinemas, many industry insiders watching the film started looking stunned one after another upon realizing Xian Yu’s grand ambition!

Among them.

There were directors, screenwriters, film critics, and more. Xian Yu’s film indeed attracted a lot of attention from industry insiders!

“This is actually an art film!?”

“The key point is, it lacks the flavor of an art film and instead just explores the relationship between humans, animals, and nature?”

“What on earth is he thinking?”

“Is this plot worth such a high investment?”

“He wants to take the commercial film path and also the art film path, doesn’t he know that you can’t have the best of both worlds?”

“It’s too crazy!”

“The plot is interesting now but the pacing at the beginning is too slow, taking a full hour to get going!”

“The structure is too bloated.”

“Since when is an art film represented by a group of animals!”

“It’s not that the structure is bloated, on the contrary, it feels too simple. Man and tiger surviving at sea, such content isn’t enough to express anything profound, and yet he spent an hour setting it up for just this!”

“Xian Yu is better suited for smaller investments.”

“Large productions don’t suit him.”

“It just shows that everyone excels at different things. From the script level alone, it’s interesting, at least it doesn’t make you want to stop watching halfway through.”

“…”

For industry insiders, the movie was just okay, not as exceptional as some may say!

But the investment in the film was too high!

With such an approach, even breaking even is tough!

In the meantime, a small number of people remained silent.

Because the movie had another hour to go, and Xian Yu might still have a chance to turn it around in the next hour, even though the possibility was very slim.

And at this point.

The movie was still ongoing.

What nobody realized was that from the moment the hyenas started eating humans, the movie had turned sinister and terrifying!

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