In the next half month, Xiao Yao''s spare time was basically occupied by the rehearsal of the band and the rehearsal of the hip-hop team. In order not to delay any of them, Xiao Yao simply "buy more" supermarket part-time job also quit. He is not short of money. He goes to the supermarket to work part-time just to experience the life of an ordinary high school student in the United States. He has been working part-time in the supermarket for more than three months, and basically has enough experience.
In the last month of the year, in addition to the rehearsal of the band and hip-hop team, Xiao Yao also ushered in another new experience opportunity. Teanage vigilantes was released in early December. As the creator and performing band of the theme song, immortals received an invitation for the film premiere.
If there are two very successful actors at home, Xiao Yao should have a lot of chances to attend the premiere of the film. Xiao Chengru and Ye Jiaying did not mention that they would take Xiao Yao to attend the film premiere to provide Xiao Yao with the opportunity to "rub" the red carpet. But at that time, Xiao Yao was still young, and he was not interested in the chance of "rubbing" the red carpet. He never agreed. As a result, the second generation of stars from his performing family has never attended the premiere of any film.
Of course, the film premiere in the United States is somewhat different from that in China. At the very least, although a large number of media and stars participated in the premiere, before entering the premiere theater, there was no red carpet program.
Even without the red carpet program, being able to participate in the premiere of a commercial film, or sitting in the front row as a creator, is a rare experience not only for Xiao Yao, but also for other members of the band.
So the five members of the band dressed up and drove to Los Angeles for an unforgettable premiere.
Xiao Yao also saw the style of the American film premiere. There is no red carpet, no performance, only the film''s creators meet all kinds of media, film critics and stars at the gate of the premiere. At the end of the film screening, there was no host or interview, but the director and several key members of the crew took the microphone to the stage to thank the audience, and briefly talked about the psychological process of shooting the film. The whole premiere ceremony was over.
Immortals band is just the creator of the theme song, naturally not the core member of the film crew, so they just watched a movie for free and met many big stars who can only be seen on the entertainment news. The whole premiere was basically nothing to do with them.
But Xiao Yao was also very satisfied with the premiere. It''s a great honor to be able to catch up with the vast majority of people and enjoy the film in advance.
During the premiere, unlike the band members who mostly focused on the stars, Xiao Yao''s attention was basically focused on the film. Although the original film before the completion of the soundtrack of the film has been seen for a long time, Xiao Yao saw the finished product after the soundtrack for the first time. In Xiao Yao''s personal view, music is the soul of a movie. In Xiao Yao''s view, the original movie without music before is a work without soul. Now that it has been injected with soul, Xiao Yao naturally needs to feel it again.
Because of watching the original film without music, Xiao Yao, who is already familiar with the plot, focuses most of his attention on the music of the film. In the music of the whole film, Xiao Yao is most concerned about the location of their theme song.
Generally, there is no opening song in a movie, and the theme song usually appears at the end of the movie when the subtitles of the cast members'' names are played, which is usually called the ending song. But in addition to the end of the film, many of the film''s theme songs will also appear in the main film with the plot.
This movie is the latter case. This song "immortals" appears in the plot when the Juvenile Justice Police Force reorganizes. This is the turning point of the whole film from low tide to high tide, and then we are ready to launch the final showdown. Therefore, this place is the most relaxing time for the audience to watch the film. With the interesting and cool equipment created by the young vigilantes after their reunion, the mood of the audience can easily be brought happy, sunny and full of hope by the plot and the song.
In such a plot with the theme song of the whole movie as soundtrack, it''s just perfect. Xiao Yao instantly gave 32 compliments to the film sounder Ron Dean.
In addition to Xiao Yao, the film''s director, Denny gray, and one of the producers, Duran Waco, are also very concerned about this part of the film. But what they care about is not whether the plot on the screen matches the theme song, which they have determined for a long time. They are extremely concerned about the expression of those media and film critics at this time. Because their evaluation of the theme song will be directly related to the focus of the second wave of publicity after the film is released.
Seeing the smiles on the faces of the media and film critics at this time, and even a few people shaking their bodies with the theme song in the film, Denny gray and Duran Waco looked at each other as if they were saying: "now, we really need to publicize this student band."Despite this psychological preparation, director Denny gray didn''t act immediately, so he didn''t mention immortals in his speech and thank-you speech after the premiere. From the expression of the media and film critics, people just make a basic judgment, in order to prepare in advance. However, before the film reviews of various media are published, they will not act rashly.
On the second day after the premiere, the film review columns of various entertainment media and professional media published the film reviews of the animated film "teange vigilantes" premiered the night before.
"The quality of the film is excellent. The picture is well made, the plot and theme are old-fashioned, but the details are full of new ideas and imagination. It is a rare animation work this year. Now that it''s December, it''s even the best animated feature film of the year. "
Xiao Yao finished reading a review of the "teanage vigilantes" in the film section of the Los Angeles Times, threw it aside and began to read the next newspaper.
Meanwhile, Denny gray and Duran Waco were in Duran''s office, flipping through the newspaper. After reading the film reviews of three or four newspapers, although they all gave good comments on the film, none of them mentioned the theme song in the film.
"Why not?" murmured Duran Waco, suggesting randomly to Denny gray, "why don''t we pay someone to write a review of the theme song?"
"It''s a big taboo to spend money on film reviews. If it''s exposed, it''s not worth the loss for our film Chong Ao." Denny gray shook his head and said, "although that student band is really a good publicity point, I''d like to put their information on the official website and publicize it in a regular way, so that the effect can be discounted, and I don''t want to make our film tainted. Let''s have a look again. "
"Ha! There it is Xiao Yao read with a film edition of the Los Angeles express: "the theme of the film is quite old-fashioned. It''s basically the juvenile cartoon version of the superhero film, but there are many highlights in the details. The form of animation makes the screenwriter have no restrictions on the production of props, and can give full play to his imagination. All kinds of strange equipment in the film are novel and interesting, and the fighting scenes and ways are also very special, which makes people fully feel the vitality of the young people of the movie protagonists. When it comes to the vitality of young people, the theme song of the film is also a very dynamic song. The song and lyrics are very good, and it matches the theme of the film just right. "
"Yang, what are you doing?" At this time, outside Xiao Yao''s door came knocking and Dean''s voice.
"Come in." Xiao Yao called.
"What''s the matter with you today?" Dean looked at Xiao Yao''s newspaper and said, "after watching the premiere last night, he said that the band didn''t rehearse today. I thought you were going to hip-hop there. Who knows you went out early in the morning and bought a bunch of newspapers. When you came back, you locked yourself in your room. Is there any big news in today''s newspaper? "
"Look at this." Xiao Yao handed the newspaper to Dean and said with a smile, "the stage of Oscar is one step closer to us."
"Los Angeles express entertainment film review column, columnist, reporter, film critic Eliza Pritz..." Dean took the newspaper from Xiao Yao and said.
Los Angeles express editorial office.
Eliza Pritz, who has just finished an article, stretches, picks up the coffee cup on the table and goes to the tea room to pour a cup of coffee. As soon as I got up, the telephone on the desk rang.
With a wry smile, Eliza Pritz picked up the receiver and put it in her ear. "Hello, Los Angeles express editorial department. I''m Eliza Pritz."
"Hello, Ms. Prydz. I''m Duran Waco, one of the producers of teanage vigilantes. First of all, thank you for your pertinent comments on our film." The voice of a middle-aged man came over the phone.
"You''re welcome, Mr. Waco. I just said what I really felt." Eliza Pritz said with a smile.
"I saw your film review and saw that you mentioned the theme song of the film," Duran Waco said directly. "In fact, the singer of the theme song of our film is quite special. I don''t know if you are interested in understanding it?"
After hearing Duran Waco''s words, Eliza Pritz immediately realized that the film producers wanted to report the singer of the theme song and help the film do the second wave of publicity. For her, it''s not impossible to do so. After all, the quality of the film is really good, and it''s normal to publish some related reports in the future, but the premise is that the content of the report is really what she and the audience will be interested in. She''s not a volunteer propagandist for a movie. She only serves the audience.
"Oh, although the theme song of this movie is really good, it hasn''t reached the level of best original song of Oscar. What''s special about this singer?" Eliza Pritz asked with a smile. This song is really good, but it''s just good. It''s not up to the level of the best original song in the Oscar, that is, it''s not up to the level of writing a report for this song."Of course, I know this song is not at the palace level, but I think it''s worth reporting considering the identity of the singer and creator." Duran laughs over the phone.
"How special?" Eliza asked. At the same time, the first reaction in my heart is to guess whether the singer and creator are disabled or not.
"The singer of this song is a middle school band." Duran said, "there are five people in the band, one is 18 years old, four is 17 years old. All of them are students in a middle school. This song is their own original work. It seems to be their first original work. "
"What? middle school student? How is that possible? " Exclaimed Eliza Pritz.
"Do you feel the value of reporting now?" Duran Waco laughs.
"Of course! If this song is the work of a band like daydream, I would think it''s normal, but if it''s really the work of a middle school student band who is still studying in school, it''s a bit unbelievable."