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Text Chapter 556 My surname is Shamon and my name is Susie

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    "My last name is Salmon, which sounds like 'salmon,' and my name is Susie."

    A clear and soft girl¡¯s voice echoed through the Kodak Theater. None of the 3,400 full-house audiences who were watching this movie for the first time expected the opening scene.  The readers of the original work did not expect that the book was not like this; the actors also did not expect that the script was not like this.

    It¡¯s not the opening sentence, nor Susie¡¯s past. The screen image synchronized with the narration is Susie in heaven!

    Even with a little bit of psychological preparation brought by the trailer, readers of the original novel are still surprised.

    Heavy snow is falling, and a girl wearing a royal blue hooded coat, yellow bell-bottom pants, and a colorful pom-pom hat stands in the snow. Her long brown-blond hair and a pair of braided bells on both sides of the hat are blown by the cold wind.  Move, Susie Shamoon.

    In the medium shot, she looked around with a confused expression, reached out to catch the falling snowflakes, and looked up at the sky slightly.

    At the same time, the camera zoomed out, making Susie look smaller and smaller. Not far behind her stood a dilapidated double-storey Victorian house, and a flock of crows flew away from the roof.  When the image became a panoramic view from a low angle, the small round snowfield where she and the house were located was surrounded by a dense and dark forest. The giant trees spread endlessly, filling the whole world, and the sky was full of ghostly green.  Aurora, gloomy and strange.

    The heart-breaking loneliness, the heart-breaking coldness, the heart-breaking confinement.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Inexplicable fear.

    This is heaven or hell?

    From the beginning, within ten seconds of a scene, the audience¡¯s hearts were slightly twitched, and they had some inexplicable feelings.  But whether it's Spielberg, Peter Jackson, or knowledgeable movie fans, they all know that this heart-wrenching feeling is nothing else but the tone of the film.

    A good movie usually does a lot of things in the opening scene, exerting a lot of influence on the audience's subconscious mind as to where the invisible hand will lead them.

    Peter Jackson also didn¡¯t expect Ye Wei to be so cunning. As soon as the movie starts, the audience has to unconsciously define its tone, direction, narrative scope and inner world: with what mentality should they watch it?  What should you expect?  What should I expect?  What is possible and impossible about it?

    The director should tell the audience these answers as early as possible to help the audience establish the most suitable mood for watching the movie.

    Although Jackson and Ye Wei have huge differences in adaptation, they know that what he said is not unreasonable. Effective emotional unity is what any movie needs, and the construction of the beginning is already the top priority.  This time, Ye Wei simply told the audience what they need to know before watching the movie:

    Susie is a storyteller. She is in a place full of fantasy, and all kinds of surreal things can happen on the screen.

    This movie will be very sad and melancholy, so you should watch it quietly and feel it carefully.

    You can also feel suspense: Where is Susie?  What's wrong?  What happens next?  You can have wonder - "There is such a place." You can have anticipation of destruction - "Susie will get there." You can have story goals - "Susie has to get out of there because she's obviously imprisoned."

    It is very difficult to create suspense when the audience already knows the ending or even the plot.  Ye Wei did it through a top-notch opening scene.

    ?Through "Heaven".  The paradise on the screen is completely different from the free and arbitrary paradise in the original work. Ye Wei turned it into a visible cage and a story goal.  The audience has been thinking since the opening, looking forward to seeing Susie's paradise no longer so scary, looking forward to her breaking through the imprisonment of darkness and regaining freedom.  They refused to leave until they saw it, they were hooked.

    This hook makes the tension of the story not just about capturing Mr. Harvey, but also about the development and changes of the characters.

    Jackson also had this idea, but not to this extent. He thought about heaven as in the original work, and the goal was whether Susie could reach somewhere, like the olive tree where the victims gathered.  And Ye Wei said that would be ineffective. When Susie can do whatever she wants in her own paradise, why does she need to go to the destination?  Heaven must never be a showcase for imagination and special effects.

    ¡°However, he felt that it was feasible to adapt the plan based on his case, and Ye Wei¡¯s plan Thinking of the scripts he had read, there was no doubt that this paradise was designed for this movie.  Ye Wei once said, "There is no paradise there, only a prison." This bastard genius boy does have some talent.

    Ordinary viewers don¡¯t know that there is so much behind this trace of worry. Watching the light and color of the screen image become brighter, they followed Susie¡¯s narration into an elegant study room in the 1970s style: ¡°When I was a child, I had many  toys, I will never forget that snow globe.¡±

    In the panoramic shot, behind the desk on the left side of the frame, a handsome and friendly middle-aged man is busy making a ship in a bottle.There were children's toys all over the floor beside her, and a four or five-year-old blond girl was playing with them. Her eyes suddenly looked at the snow globe on the desk, she put down the blocks in her hand and walked away.

    The scene shot allows people to see clearly that there is a penguin wearing a red and white striped scarf in the glass ball, and then the oblique close-up shot captures little Susie's chubby face, her innocent blue eyes looking up at the glass ball.  This look made the audience feel their hearts were warmed.

    Within a few shots, Jack walked over and picked up little Susie before sitting down.  Little Susie wiped her teary eyes and said sadly: "It's so lonely." Jack picked up the crystal ball and flipped it to let the snowflakes fall. He smiled and said: "Susie, don't worry, it's living a good life inside.  It's a perfect world."

    Little Susie continued to look at the glass ball with a cute smile on her face.

    ¡°At that time, I really believed it.¡± The calm narration made the atmosphere in the theater sink further.

    Whether it is the Michalka sisters or the media, everyone can see the connection between the two opening scenes. Heaven is the snow globe and Susie is the penguin.  Jack's words were wrong. In fact, he was very lonely. He didn't have a good life there at all. He wanted to get out of there.

    "I have a sister, Lindsey, who is one year younger than me. My dad said that when Lindsey was just born, I was very jealous of my sister. He witnessed with his own eyes a nasty thing I tried to do. From then on, whenever someone came to our house as a guest, he would  They talk about it all in a show-off manner" Susie's voice was a little lively, and she was a little helpless at the end.

    The synchronized screen image is a panoramic shot of the Salmond family's living room. Susie, Clarissa and Lindsey are sitting on the sofa. Jack and Abigail are standing beside the sofa. Jack is beaming and saying: "Ke."  Lysa, guess what? Susie climbed on top of the cradle and tried to pee on Lindsey's head!"

    In the three-person shot, Clarissa in the middle of the sofa suddenly laughed, Susie on the left looked speechless, and Lindsey on the right sighed, "She still wants to do this now." Susie countered instantly.  : "You are still sleeping in the cradle." The two sisters glared at each other.

    In the reverse double shot, Jack holds Abigail in his arms, and the couple are all smiles.

    ? ? Even a blind person can see that this handsome couple is very affectionate and loves this family very much. Look at their smiles and eyes!  Fans noticed that there was no Buckley. This should be a scene before he was born. Everyone's makeup and clothing were trying their best to look smaller. Abigail was wearing business attire, high-spirited, like a working woman.

    The atmosphere in the theater is warm again, and Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz still match well!  Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie also look good.

    ¡°Actually, we have a deep relationship as sisters, and that¡¯s because Lindsey wants to be a psychiatrist and I want to be a wildlife photographer. Apart from clothes, we have nothing to fight over.¡±

    Many viewers are smiling, and they are getting brighter and brighter.

    On the screen, next to the bed in a warm girl's bedroom, Susie, wearing white pajamas, was surprised to see a black Kodak point-and-shoot camera, and she hurriedly loaded the film.  The narration also became happy: "My parents gave me the best birthday gift this year! With it, I can realize my dream."

    As soon as Susie loaded the film, she started taking random selfies, posing in various poses and expressions in front of the point-and-shoot camera, smiling, expressionless, looking pretty, grimacing, laughing, and so on.  With a clicking sound, a photo freezes on the screen.  The narrator said excitedly: "I really like to use a camera to capture the moment of taking pictures. As soon as the flash of the camera flashes! Time stops and can be preserved forever. And these images are all mine! No one can take them away from me.  Take away.¡±

    At this time, she was taking a selfie by the window. Suddenly she saw something outside the window and immediately rushed out of the room with her camera.

    In the editing room, Susie rushed down the stairs and out of the living room of the house. In the living room, Lindsey was reading a newspaper and a three or four-year-old boy was playing with toys. Abigail looked at Susie who rushed past, obviously loving her.  She looks unhappy, look at this wild girl!

    "That's Grace Tarkin, who lives across the street! I'm going to track wild elephants and rhinos when I grow up, so I'll keep her for now."

    Susie¡¯s subjective shot shows a woman in her twenties in sportswear doing morning exercises on the front lawn of the house across the street.  After the camera shot back, Susie sneakily hid behind the bushes in her front yard, pretending to be a wildlife photographer, holding the camera with one hand and taking one picture after another.

    Grace Tarkin started running, running down the street towards the upper right side of the picture frame.  Susie hurriedly bent over and followed quickly, taking pictures while following, with a happy expression. In this long frontal shot shot backward, her eyes suddenly widened slightly, and her face was full of panic for a moment, and she looked towards the oak tree in the front yard of the house next to her.  Hide.

    She lowered her hands against herHe turned around and looked over there secretly.

    ??The subjective lens shows a tall and handsome black-haired Asian boy riding a red bicycle. He greeted Grace Tarkin and looked mature and confident.

    "He is Lei Xin. Their family moved to the community last year, almost a year ago. His father is a history teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, and he" Susie's narration voice was a little soft, revealing the girl's admiration.  .  In the image, she was dodging around the big tree. When the thunder passed, she had already slipped to the other side of the tree, her eyes wandering.  The narrator continues: "Ray is well-informed and knowledgeable. He seems to be eight hundred times smarter than us small-town kids. He's just so cool."

    Susie looked away, looked at the camera in her hand, and walked away from the big tree to go home.

    Seeing this, it is hard for the audience not to like this quirky, beautiful girl who has just begun to fall in love. Every expression and movement she makes is so cute, her words are smart and interesting, she is kind, she is smart, she is simply perfect!  And every audience saw Elizabeth Olsen's stunning appearance!

    It¡¯s Olsen¡¯s surprisingly good performance that makes ¡°Susie¡± jump off the screen.

    Is she really the sister of the Olsen sisters?  Many people in the media have this problem. O'Mei's acting skills are much higher than those of her two sisters. She is full of aura and is definitely one of the best screen debuts.  The Olsens are really going to have a movie star.

    One thing is certain, none of the ten winners of the viy draft will be parallel imports. Susie is amazing, and little Lindsey is also very vivid.

    ¡° Emma looked a little dumbfounded, and her proud heart was hurt. It seemed that it was not the same thing at all If she were asked to play Susie, it was hard to say whether she would be able to perform like this.

    There are many people who are surprised. Vanessa and other supporting girl celebrities can really see the difference. Is this the "genius director's heroine"?  How can this be called "clumsy and bad acting"?  Of course Olsen was lucky, as agents said, if the movie fails, Susie will not fail either.

    While the audience silently applauded Olson¡¯s performance, the leading girls sitting in the front row silently high-fived and celebrated. The performance time had just begun!

    But, what about Ye Wei?  Where have you gone?

    Viy has also appeared on the screen. Apart from guest appearances, the last time he acted was in "Wedding Day is Coming", and this time he acted more like his true self.  A lot of fans are looking forward to his scenes, and the most anticipated one is naturally the kiss scene.  Alice Sebold was smiling, and no matter how many times she saw it, it was unbelievable that it was Susie and Ray.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know if my four-year-old brother Buckley will be smart when he grows up. He always does stupid things. That time a year ago was really scary.¡±

    The screen image has transitioned, and Susie with different looks is sitting on the backyard porch of the house, slowly applying toenail polish. As soon as the narration with a slight sigh finished, there was an anxious child's voice: "Susie! Susie!  "She looked up and hurriedly got up and ran.

    The atmosphere became tense. A double shot of the two children showed Buckley lying trembling under the tree. Another little boy standing there, Knight, said anxiously: "Buckley swallowed a branch!" Susie in the close-up shot suddenly changed.  His face turned pale, he panicked for two seconds, immediately picked up Buckley, and ran while shouting: "Lincy! Help!!!"

    Bang!  A brisk soundtrack sounded.  In the garage, a flower pot is smashed; a hand pulls a spare key from the mud; a red Mazda classic car drives out of the garage; Susie turns the wheel and Buckley lies in the back seat; the car drives up  The road rushed away crookedly.

    "Be careful!" Susie exclaimed. The car was running through the busy streets of the small town. She pulled the handbrake urgently. A car next to her also stopped suddenly. She panicked and apologized: "Sorry!" and immediately stepped on the handbrake.  Throttle the accelerator and the car runs again.  There was a lot of excitement on the road, and passers-by looked sideways. Apparently Lei, who had just arrived in the town, was also there. He watched the speeding girl running past in amazement.  After a while, Jack and Abigail, who were obviously rushing home, were in a Volkswagen station wagon and looked out the window at the Mazda running past, and they were also dumbfounded.

    The car rushed to a stop outside the hospital gate. The medical staff who had been prepared took Buckley out and put him on a stretcher for rescue. The brisk music gradually faded away.

    What a witty and brave girl!  This sequence had the audience roaring with laughter at the Kodak Theatre, and fans of the book were satisfied, great, that the original work was on the screen.

    Everything in the camera, in the hospital ward, the Salmon family are all there, Buckley is lying on the hospital bed, Susie and Lindsey are sitting on the left, the doctor is saying something to the Salmons in the close shot on the right, and the two of them look frightened after hearing this  .  Grandma also came, wearing heavy makeup, with electric curly hair, and wearing an old mink coat that was obviously second-hand.

    Susie narrated: "The doctor said that if I hadn't rescued him in time, Buckley would not have been saved. And Grandma Lynn said¡­¡±

    The doctor turned and left, and grandma said loudly: "Susie, the Buddha said that saving a life is better than building a church. You will live a long and happy life!" Everyone smiled.  In the single close-up shot, Susie's pretty face also showed a happy smile.

    ¡°As usual, Grandma Lynne was wrong.¡±

    The scene changed, and above a sinkhole that served as a landfill, the Salmon family of five laughed and kicked an old refrigerator down.  When the old refrigerator fell into the sinkhole and was swallowed by the mud, the three siblings cheered. Jack gave them high-fives one by one, and they were a happy family.

    The camera shot up to the sky, and Susie's voice became a little sad: "On December 6, 1973, I was only fourteen years old when I was killed."

    The film was shown for less than 10 minutes, and suddenly there was silence in the theater. The faces of the audience who had been laughing just now had no expressions, and their hearts were chilling.

    I don¡¯t know who sighed, or whose eyes were wet.

    Peter Jackson crossed his arms over his chest. The beginning of this story is easy to shoot. Just introduce Susie to the audience. What happens next?  There are more and more clues, the structure becomes more and more complex, and heavencan collapse at any time.  Boy, can you film it from beginning to end?
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