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This is a movie full of surprises. It has a fun story, countless jokes, and the actors' performances are also great. It is really a pleasure to see such a film in the summer file.
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This "Half an Hour of Fright" tells a very strange story. It is about a pizza delivery boy who was hijacked by two criminals, his body was full of bombs, and he was forced to robbery. The story of the bank. This seemingly crazy story is not groundless, it comes from a real event that happened in Pennsylvania in 2003. In Pennsylvania, there was a pizza delivery guy named Brian Wells. When the police were about to arrest him for bank robbery, he detonated the bomb he hung around his neck. This incident reached Ruben Frescher's ears, and he hired a screenwriter, adapted the story, and turned it into a movie with black humor.
Nowadays, Hollywood is full of all kinds of action movies. If this story is handed over to the action movie director, there may be another action movie with frequent explosions and car chases, but in Ruben Freys In the hands of this joking director, it has become a film that wins with lines. Ruben Frescher said: "I have always liked to use lines to show the joy and jokes of the story, because such a film can show a director's taste in the film. There is a premise for shooting this kind of film, that It is to have a very original script, and then display the characteristics of the actors and the story within the framework of this script. The script of "Half Hour of Fear" is a great script, which is very important to me, because My last movie imitated "Zombie Shaun", so I needed to make an original film. After the filming of "Zombie Land", I had many opportunities to direct large-scale, high-cost productions. Movies. But I rejected them all because I wanted to make another low-cost movie. This script is a tough bone for me because there is a lot of dialogue and only a few action scenes, although I really want to make movies like "Hot Day Afternoon", "Strategic Master", "Raising Arizona" and "Murder Green Toe", but it is really difficult. The difficulty lies in how to use the lines to bring the audience into the plot. , I use dialogue to show jokes without making the audience drowsy. I often say to the actors on the set, I’m sorry, there is no action scene shooting today. In this movie, the lines are action scenes, and most of the lines are Our action scenes."
This kind of film that relies on lines is not unfamiliar to Jesse Eisenberg, who starred in "Social Network". In this movie, he continues his experience in "Social Network". The performance style of expressionless, speaking lines like a machine gun. Ruben Frescher said: "Eisenberg is the protagonist of this film and is also the top priority. His performance not only determines the overall style of the film, but also brings out the jokes one by one. This kind of blank, indifferent expression and Aziz Ansari’s neurotic performance are combined with a very comedic effect. "It
must be interesting.
Ruben Frescher is one of the most promising new directors in North America in the past two years, and his big screen debut "Zombie Land" won him a lot of applause. Two years later, he once again brought this black humorous thriller comedy that was also a small cost. The pressure to shoot low-cost movies is often greater than that of high-cost movies—because of the lack of big scenes, big stars and big stories to attract audiences, if you want to have a good box office performance, you can only rely on the meaning of the story itself. People. "Half an Hour of Fear" invested 20 million US dollars. Facing such a film, Frescher said: "Such a film requires the director to rely on his own experience and knowledge to create a fascinating second time on the editing stage. I can’t help but come. For such a movie, the most important thing is that it must be interesting. If it is not interesting, then this is a failed movie. From the beginning of the script creation, I paid attention to the meaning of the film until the film editing was completed. , I put meaning, fun, and ridiculous in the first place. It can be said that this is a very interesting movie. "
Of course, interesting movies also need interesting actors to perform in order to be more interesting. If you find Come with a few serious actors, then even the most interesting story will be filmed dull and boring. Frescher said: "Fortunately I found an amazing cast, whether it is Eisenberg, Aziz Ansari or the long-awaited Danny McBride. Interesting. And this combination seems very wonderful, because these actors have a very personal style. The combination of their styles produces a strong chemical reaction. I like the movie Eisenberg and Ansari very much. The combination of both solemn and humorous and contrasting performances is indeed very entertaining.” Talking about the film, Jesse Eisenberg said: “This is a very interesting film, and I am also very I like the dizzy pizza delivery character. The director asked me not to act, not to be emotional, and to say lines like a machine gun. I didn't understand why I did this at first, because this is a comedy. Ah. Then I saw Azz Ansari, who played with me, and saw his performance. I immediately understood the meaning of it. Because of such contrasting two people, getting together is a joke."
Compared with "Zombie Land", "Half Hour of Terror" has more characters and a more three-dimensional story. Of course, his test of the director is also more severe. Frescher said: "This is a completely different film from "Zombie Land". The characters, stories, and jokes are completely different. However, I didn't think about too many other things. I was just very simple. I directly made this film according to my own thoughts. There is no flashback and interspersed narrative like in "Zombie Land", everything is flat and straightforward, and it comes slowly. This simple narrative has achieved Unexpected effect. I am very satisfied with the final state of the film."
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