The Best Director

"Why did you do that?" On the big screen of the 3354 theaters was a small classroom. Wu Yanzu, who was dressed in ordinary winter clothes, had a puzzled expression on his face. When the camera cut, the members of the group were either smiling or playing cards. Natalie's tone was light, but she revealed a powerful and self-confident air: "Because we can."

After the opening section of the bar question-and-answer session that made the audience not distracted for a second and almost suffocated, the film was not wordy at all. The shopping mall Taobao Women's Winter Coat M drove past the Charles River, and after he parked his car on campus, the camera showed him walking quickly on the wide "Killian Courtyard" lawn to the McLaughlin Building, and the screen was full of university atmosphere.

"My name is Jeff Ma, a student of econometrics..." Wu Yanzu's voice-over narration quickly introduced a few words of the situation. On the screen, he asked a classmate a question about the class. I'm a little surprised, is there really a bunch of geniuses in the ivy? Soon on the screen, Wu Yanzu was brought to the blackjack club by Jay Baruchel.

In the classroom, Natalie and others introduced blackjack clearly, and invited Jeff Ma to join, but he curiously asked about the specific principle and method of card counting, the team said it without reservation, and Natalie finally laughed Said: "Without a team, card counting is nothing." Then Wu Yanzu asked why, and after she said "Because we can", she seemed to be contemptuously said: "You can too, or not."

There was silence in the dimly lit auditorium, and every audience who had been waiting for the card counting for a long time was engrossed, almost looking at the screen without blinking their eyes, because they found that as long as they were not paying attention, they seemed to miss a lot.

Claire was so busy that she didn't even have time to grab popcorn. Listening to those principle explanations, her brain felt excitedly running at high speed, and one after another plus and minus symbols popped up, such as Stanford-King, Edward Thorpe, +1 point, high-low Fa... She said, "Adam." Adam, who was sitting next to him, picked up a few popcorns and delivered them to her mouth. Claire ate them, looked at Natalie on the screen, and said vaguely: "Because we Can……"

At the Caesars Palace Theater, the critics also kept their interest high, and they were all a little surprised that Fantastic Young seemed to have really become a chatterbox! He spent a lot of time talking about these card counting, from the historical origin to the principle of card counting, which is in line with what he said, "This is a profession, and it is netgable." And the previous card counting movies and gambling movies are all with a few strokes. Pass.

Not wordy? It doesn't seem to make people feel wordy, I stopped and looked back and realized that I had talked so much.

"Los Angeles Times" columnist film critic Betsy Shaggy felt more and more interested. Everything on the screen seemed so believable and genius, which was created by the temperament of the characters and the exquisite lines. Scene editing and character switching, everyone in the scene has taken care of and played a role, and there is humor from time to time, which is probably the reason why it is not wordy...

But no one realizes,

There is a storm coming soon.

Only Wang Yang, Margaret, Walley Pfister and other post-production creators, as well as the leading actors who participated in the filming, guessed what happened next. Looking at the screen, Wu Yanzu smiled slightly. This was his performance during the audition; Natalie glanced at Wang Yang next to him, and vaguely heard his voice: "I want to create a taste!", "Professional, cool !", "We want to make it an insurmountable pinnacle of gambling movies!"

There is really no procrastination! She kind of understood what he meant now, it was a confident way of telling a story, rambling on without fear, card counting was card counting! There was a long section of eloquence, and a quick section suddenly... She suddenly smiled: "Shock."

"There are 52 cards in one deck, 16 cards in counting cards; 156 cards in three decks..." Standing on the big screen, Wu Yanzu was expressionless, happy to be provoked to show his talent, and spoke clearly and quickly, telling them what happened just now. The card counting principle mentioned is summarized systematically: "48 cards are counted; 312 cards are counted in six decks, 96 cards are counted; the initial ratio is 4/13, the probability of cards appearing in the next round is 7692, and the banker has the advantage. "

"Every time a card is played, the probability decreases. On the contrary, it increases. When the probability increases to 3.666666..." The close-up shot began to rotate and expand, from Wu Yanzu's face to the back, from the close-up to the screen, Natalie and others appeared in a daze Wu Yanzu said six i in a row, and said emphatically: "The player has the upper hand. Algorithm, g——i (understood)."

"When placing different bets b(i) at different winning probabilities (i), the sum of the total winning probabilities (i) is 1/2. But as long as (i) is large when betting b(i), (i ) The current b(i) can make the total return r(i)(i) greater than b(i), g-i (understood).”

"2, 3, 4, 5, 6 count as plus 1 point; 7, 8, 9 count as o point;, j, q,, count as minus 1 point. At o point, the banker has an o.5% advantage; 1 point At 2 o'clock, the players have an 0.5% advantage; at 7 o'clock, the players have a 3% advantage." Wu Yanzu, who hardly needed to breathe, stopped for half a second, with a "but that" smile on his face, faintly Said: "High and low, i-g-i (I understand)."

Alexis on the screen made an ooh, Jay Baruchel also oohed, Nick Cannon mn, and Natalie spread her hands: "What's going on?" Wu Yanzu smiled and said: "Can I?"

Everyone in the screening hall was caught off guard. They listened to a lot in less than two minutes. At first, they didn't even have time to get excited, but gradually they felt so smart! Everyone around was a little bit low-pitched, it felt as if they had encountered something that made people's heart throbbing, a big beauty or a love letter from back then, it was an astonishing feeling! They unconsciously adjust their sitting postures or express their emotions, so handsome!

"Huh..." Evelyn took a long breath, as if what Jeff Ma said just now came from her mouth, she said to herself: "I know why I can't get on, how could it be..." Kelly next to her also sighed, "Genius."

Critics at Caesars Palace also felt that the way the film told its story was getting more and more interesting. In the front row of the auditorium, Wang Yang was slapped on the shoulder by Natalie. She smiled and praised: "Genius!" Even people like her who were ridiculed by Jeff Ma were excited, but what about the others? She smiled and said, "It looks really enjoyable now!" Jessica over there also laughed and said, "E!"

"Thank you." Wang Yang nodded with a smile. The art director thought about using special effects to add some digital symbols to the picture, but he didn't adopt it in order to make the atmosphere more real. It seems that his aesthetics is not shrimpy. Bugman, this is just the beginning, Las Vegas is the fun place.

Jeff Ma quickly learned the principle of card counting, and the despised group leisurely played card experiments with him, and also came to the first gambling table scene in the movie. The first three decks let the audience see addition and subtraction. I also saw that Jeff Ma really learned the simple and practical application of the high-low method and the high-low method; the next eight decks simulated the actual card situation of the casino, and the rookie Jeff Ma naturally suffered a crushing defeat.

"If you play in a casino like just now, you always bet big when the points are high and the probability is high, and you stop playing if the points are low and the probability is low, why don't you just take a loudspeaker and say 'I'm here to count cards? I'll think you're an idiot, and don't pay attention to your abnormality.", "You still have to learn!", "I joined, I can play well!", "Card counting is like a sophisticated machine, except for calculating Points, each of us has different skills, card counters know how to cut cards and anti-shuffle cards; game controllers know how to track cards... Big players know everything, I want you to be a big player!"...

Next is the learning stage of Jeff Ma, with details and quick shots, narration and dialogues. He practiced in the club classroom, in the classroom, at home...and became more and more troubled with the team members. one slice.

And the lines of wearing cha will always have such an exciting and high-spirited line. The audience feel that they are also learning card counting. Many people even feel that they have almost learned it. skill! But if it's watching a DVD at home, they'll go back and watch it a few more times to get the hang of it before they have a Las Vegas meal.

Except for a few people who thought the process was too slow, watching Wang Yang's cameo on the screen, a student in a classroom asked Jeff Ma a stupid question "Do you need to bring playing cards for today's class?" Betsy Shaggy and other film critics People secretly admired him, not because of how well he played the role, but because of the start of the nearly half an hour so far, their two thumbs are all raised high: "Magic Yang is completely controlled and controlled." Stay in the movie-watching mentality!"

The non-stop excitement and anticipation make people watch it with great interest and don't want to miss a shot. This is a successful commercial film and a successful movie.

Jeff Ma on the big screen has finally finished his studies. The team thinks he can go to the official gambling table, but before going to Las Vegas, he needs to complete an experiment and participate in a group operation in an underground casino. And this is actually a final test. Now Lima Kaiwen has not experienced this test. This is a fictional plot in Ben Mozrich's story.

"Inner-inner, ien-nner!" In the dimly lit underground casino in the backward neighborhood, gamblers came and went shouting, quite a bit of smog.

Wu Yanzu sat at the gambling table with a full face of confidence, next to Alexis, the calm controller, the two had already won a lot of chips with their cooperation, at this time the dealer exploded again: "The player Win!" Wu Yanzu suddenly let out a little excited ye, and a new round immediately started on the gambling table, he said with a light smile: "inner-inner, ien-nner."

Huo! He was suddenly wrapped around his head with a burlap bag, and his hands were restrained by two people who could only see the body in the picture, one left and one right, and he was dragged back; Wu Yanzu struggled vigorously, and roared. The viewers who have read the original book or not were taken aback. They were enjoying the thrill of counting cards and winning money. Suddenly... Evelyn, who had been engrossed in watching it for a long time, felt her heart tighten, and she screamed in a natural reaction: "Ah-ah--"

Although the surrounding audience also felt scared, it doesn't have to be the same as watching a horror movie, right? Several people hissed in dissatisfaction, and Kelly covered her forehead: "Sure enough, something happened."

"Boy, do you dare to count cards with me!? Are you tired of work?" The next shot is in a room, with a rough and foul voice, Wu Yanzu was pushed into a chair by those two people and sat down. He no longer resisted, and said very calmly: "I know it's you, right? There are too many flaws in all of this, there is no need to change the accent of the voice, Amanda, I know it is you."

With another bang, Wu Yanzu's sack hood was taken away, and it was Jay Baruchel and Nick Cannon who were holding him, while three girls including Natalie and Alexis stood in front, Natalie with a smile on her face seemed very satisfied: "Don't be afraid in the face of danger, gd, I didn't lose my reason and judgment because of the sudden situation, gd..." She suddenly asked: "What's the game table just now!?"

"Add 16 points." Wu Yanzu said coldly, under Natalie's happy smile, he stood up twisting his shoulders, and shouted angrily: "What are you kidding!?" Alexis He smiled comfortingly and said, "Jeff, you have no reason to be angry. I was so scared that I cried." Jay Baruchel and the others all raised their eyebrows and shrugged, looking like "it wasn't my idea".

"Heh heh heh haha..." The camera focused on Natalie's close-up, and there was an evil look on her face, and she let out an uncontrollable and weird low laugh, which seemed to be squeezed out of her throat. , almost made people feel that she was a pervert, she smiled and said: "Welcome to officially join the team!"

Looking at the smiling face on the screen, movie audiences who love "Juno" instantly understood, evil! Completely different from Juno, a sharp-tongued, hard-mouthed high school student girl, this is a crazy and calm genius college student, who seems to be destructive... Claire really wanted to try to imitate the weird laughter just now, but it was just because of her body It's not such a presumptuous age to be in the theater.

She kept shouting in her heart, sure enough, in Miracle Yang's movie, Natalie would be very cool, cool to the core! There's Juno and Amanda...compared to the wooden queen in "Star Wars Episode 1", this is so unique and bang!

"Let's go to Vegas to make a lot of money!" On the big screen, Natalie stretched out her hand and patted Wu Yanzu's shoulder, smiling and walked out of the utility room first. The camera quickly switched to the front of the panorama, taking pictures of Wu Yanzu, Alexis and other team members with different expressions, and then switched to the back of Natalie's departure. laughter.

"Yo hoo." Natalie laughed softly off the screen. She wasn't very cool on the set. For these laughter, she ng many times. No matter how she laughed, she was not satisfied by the director. In the end, she said she was going crazy before she came out. . At this time, Wang Yang next to him smiled and said, "Good laugh."

The camera finally returned to the front of the panorama. Everyone looked helpless or expressionless with the captain, only Alexis smiled: "She didn't mean any harm." The voice from the corridor outside became louder. Some laughter: "Wow..." Wu Yanzu shrugged, and Alexis nodded in agreement with herself: "Yes, I know."

More than 3,000 screening halls in North America rarely had light laughter tonight. With the same Las Vegas theme, "The Hangover" made people laugh until they twitched and rolled to the ground. "21" has humor and There was no hilarity, but the audience watched it more attentively and attentively.

"Oh my god, my Ali..." Joshua took a deep breath, so cute! Great job!

It's not that he is partial, the film critics in the theater are secretly praising the acting performance of everyone on the screen, Kirk Honeycart, the film critic of "Hollywood Reporter", has decided to express his praise when writing, these actors, There is also the director Miracle Yang, who has fully explored and used the temperament of each leading actor, and gave people a refreshing feeling, such as Natalie Portman, her current performance level is no worse than Juno...

What did Kirk Honeycutt suddenly think of? What about Rachel McAdams, who hasn't played yet?

"Tap Tat Tat..." There was a sound of footsteps in the auditorium of the theater, and the big screen suddenly showed the corridor of a luxury hotel. After a quick cut, a mysterious woman and two security guards entered the office. The burly bald security guard walked into the office. The supervisor said happily: "Sister Kyle, nice to see you!..."

As the camera slowly rises, the audience has an expectation that the mystery will be revealed, even though they know it must be Rachel McAdams, and they really only saw a faint smile on her face. "Is what I want ready?", "It's all ready, just put it there."...

Since Rachel's debut, the camera editing has become significantly faster and sharper. Nancy lifted her chin, and vaguely thought of Miracle Yang's idea. In addition to creating an atmosphere, the movie has been screened for more than half an hour, and it will officially enter the next stage, which is Las Vegas, the center of the story. How to distinguish between Las Vegas and Boston, how can it look cooler? She wondered if it would be U1 film style, MV style...

However, it has been unique and cool enough for more than half a year. It is not just the content of the film that is cool. For a director like her, it is clear that this subject matter is expressed in this way of storytelling, which is really unprecedented! It seems monotonous that the content is always learning, but who would care about and deliberately pay attention to the general audience? Using the light, Nancy looked at the audience sitting on the left and right, and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Anyway, her interest has not diminished, but her expectation of actually going to Las Vegas to count cards has been rising. Now her heart is beating faster than usual. This is the beginning of this story.

"Every time these people appear on weekends, it means that they have full-time jobs; but in recent months, they suddenly appear every few days, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays... These months are summer vacations." Rachel, who looked at the files for a while, was talking about reconnaissance, she put down the files in her hand, and said, "This shows that they are probably teachers, or...students."

The eyes of the audience in front of the big screen couldn't help but their eyes lit up. They had long regarded themselves as members of the team, and now they were surprised by the very powerful female detective of the enemy. Naturally, they were a little excited. Did the female detective mean the team? This should be a flashback scene, the group captured Las Vegas!

And in the airport on the screen, everyone in the group was dressed casually, carrying luggage and backpacks, and was preparing to go to Las Vegas for the first time after Jeff Ma joined the team.