Such a dreamy beginning made all the audience present a little confused.
After all, most commercial films will clearly tell the time, place and characters of the story at the beginning.
But "Madoka Magica" did not do that, it just used a set of strange shots to bring everyone into the story.
In fact, there are differences in the initial plots between the original TV version and the theatrical version of "Madoka Magica".
There is a scene where Homura Akemi fights in the TV version, but this scene was deleted in the movie version.
In the first version of the editing, Nanaya chose the approach of the theatrical version and deleted the scene where Homura Akemi appeared in the dream.
But he soon realized something was wrong from audience feedback - the beginning of the movie was too bland.
After all, if Homura Akemi hadn't appeared in her dream, the first large-scale special effects shot in the entire movie would not appear until several minutes later.
What the audience is faced with is the daily life of several ordinary high school girls, which will make most of the audience's attention very distracted in the early stages.
Even if this does not affect the audience's evaluation of the movie, it will give people a not-so-good viewing experience.
At the same time, it will also make the audience watch the daily plot at the beginning with questions in order to avoid missing out on necessary information.
However, the plot design of Nanaya in Madoka's dream is still different from the TV version.
The dream in the TV version revealed a lot of information.
Plus the music "Magia" was playing at the time.
In fact, the tragic tone of "Madoka Magica" was set from the very beginning.
Of course, Nanaya's view is a bit belated, like he is a wise man after the event.
After all, the content after the first episode and the second episode were too long for daily life, so few viewers noticed anything wrong at the time.
Nanaya personally believes that adding that dream plot to the new house was a helpless move.
After all, it is a purely original anime, and the first part of the plot is so boring.
If you want to attract audiences to continue watching a show, you definitely need some suspense.
It's a pity that even with such an opening, the final effect was not good.
If it weren't for Gen Urobuchi's fame, probably not many people would try to follow the series.
However, although Nanaya did include a scene in which Madoka dreams of Homura Akemi in the final edited version, it is far less explicit than the TV version.
In fact, what attracts the audience at the beginning of Seven Nights is more the kaleidoscope-like opening of the title.
Roger Ebert was right about one thing, it's all about showing off.
Use special effects wonders to attract the audience and make them look forward to what special effects the next movie might have.
"Avatar", which has not yet been released, made the same choice.
The released version of "Avatar" allows the audience to see the planet Pandora after a brief opening, and uses scenes introducing the planet's environment to indirectly demonstrate the brilliance of the film's visual technology.
Nanaya, who used the same method, was just copying it.
However, the sentence "Sign a contract with me and become a magical girl" was processed by Nanaya with special sound effects.
When Ah Fu recited this line again, he was specifically asked to finish the sentence in a rap-like tone.
Then Nanaya used a special echo processing method to process this dubbing.
Not only this time, but every time QB said this in the subsequent plot, Nanaya used the same method.
Nanaya did this to make this sentence sound like "Let it go" in "Frozen" or "You are my little apple" in "Little Apple".
Let it be deeply engraved in the audience's DNA and become the symbol of the entire movie.
From now on, whenever the audience mentions "Madoka Magica", they will subconsciously think of this sentence in their minds.
However, at this time, the audience of "Madoka Magica" could not appreciate Nanaya's good intentions.
On the contrary, their perception of the film began to decline.
Because after the dazzling opening scene, there is nothing particularly surprising about the beginning of the entire movie.
The daily lives of several high school girls and a transfer student who suddenly breaks into the protagonist's life.
This story template is simply the standard opening of a Hollywood youth movie.
Although the 3D special effects are indeed very three-dimensional, the plot of the movie is really hard to arouse people's interest.
Fortunately, the plot of the movie later progresses to the time when Madoka first encounters QB.
The mysterious appearance of the familiar and Mami's gorgeous battle still helped the film regain a lot of points.
"At least the special effects in this movie are really great."
Many viewers commented like this.
In the critics' seat, Roger Ebert glanced at Turan with a triumphant look.
"Am I right? This is a movie that is backfired by technology. I have said it countless times, technology is a tool, and the director must control technology..."
Turan shook his head slightly. He was very glad that the sound system in the IMAX theater was strong enough to block out Roger Ebert's gossip.
But Turan was still somewhat disappointed.
He couldn't help but wonder, could it be the same clichéd story about a girl gaining super powers and then saving the world?
"Not a very good start."
Spielberg whispered.
He, Lucas and Cameron were all invited by Washimine Entertainment to attend the premiere.
Because Cameron often boasted about Nanaya's talent, Spielberg was actually quite looking forward to this movie.
But now it seems that apart from the good special effects, the plot of the movie is not particularly outstanding.
Of course, with Nanaya's superb directing skills, the movie is not boring at all.
But compared with the Fate series, this "Madoka Magica" really doesn't have much outstanding storytelling.
Lucas glanced at Cameron next to him, meaning, is this the movie you've been bragging about?
Cameron nodded and said, "The plot is indeed average, but aren't the special effects good?"
There is no way to refute this because the start was really average.
"Only the special effects are worth watching."
Lucas said with a bit of regret, and Spielberg nodded vigorously.
But the two of them didn't notice that Cameron secretly smiled mysteriously on his face.
Although Cameron has not seen the final cut of "Madoka Magica", he naturally knows the plot of the movie because he has worked closely with Nanaya.
[Nanaya is such a bad boy, he fooled everyone. ]
But Cameron did not remind his friends.
Such an interesting plot must of course let them experience the feeling of "killing at first sight" again, which is considered a complete movie-watching experience.
It feels good to reveal the secrets, but it will end up in the crematorium for the whole family.
Cameron said that he is a very moral audience and he would not do things like spoilers.
"The movie is really interesting~"
Cameron let out a long sigh. He would never admit that he was looking forward to his friend's reaction when he saw the U-turn scene.
no way!
In fact, not only Spielber and other directors, but even Lily, who saw the film for the first time, frowned slightly.
[Brother-in-law and Washimine Group invested more than 300 million US dollars in the production budget, so could they only shoot and produce a mediocre youth film? ]
This is absolutely no different from the "Dragon Ball" from a few months ago!
This doesn't seem like Nanaya's style at all.
Lily looked at Nanaya not far away with a little surprise. She even wondered if the theater was playing the wrong movie.
Although Lily admitted that the five thieving cats looked really good in the magical girl costumes, it was hard to say how much appeal they had to the audience.
Ryan, who was standing by, saw his sister looking back from time to time and couldn't help but chuckle.
She gently held her sister's hand, signaling her not to worry.
Seeing her sister nod affirmatively, Lily could only suppress her impatience and start watching the movie again.
[I hope my brother-in-law can bring surprises to people. ]
That's all Lily could do now.
After all, if the movie really fails, Nanaya will have to bear the anger from all sides.
But Lily felt that before that happened, the angry Washimine Shion would have already tied up Nanaya and all the copies of the "Madoka Magica" movie and thrown them into Tokyo Bay.
Compared to other people's complicated thoughts, Nanaya himself was sitting on the high ground, not looking anxious at all.
He even nodded slightly from time to time when he saw the scenes of Yumi and Rin.
But just because Nanaya is stable doesn't mean that others are stable as well.
In the first few minutes of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", instead of the theater becoming quiet, there was a very low but slightly noisy discussion.
Fortunately, when the magical girls start fighting, the discussions will disappear.
But this further illustrates the audience's polarized attitudes towards the movie's daily life and combat plots.
It seems like everyone is questioning this magical girl movie.
Many people have suggested that the movie should just be edited into a collection of magical girl's battles.
"Please don't insert daily life into the battle footage."
This is the view of the vast majority of the audience in the theater.
Even Sakutsuki Yumi and Tohsaka Rin were nervous.
Although they know the exciting plot in the later part of the movie, they also understand that the daily plot in the beginning is to create a contrast with the later part.
But faced with such loud doubts from the audience, they all wondered whether the movie was really that bad.
Then, that shot appeared.
The shot where only the part below Mami's neck appeared on the screen.
Then everything changed!
"What the ..."
"Sh**t!!"
"Oh my mother!"
"What the hell is this!"
Even when the Sweet Witch opened her bloody mouth, the audience already subconsciously felt that something was wrong.
But the audience didn't care too much.
After all, in all Hollywood blockbusters, the main characters have always been in danger without getting hurt.
The protagonist of the movie can come and go freely in the hail of bullets, and can even talk about love.
Therefore, no one would think that Mami is in danger, and in the end, Madoka or Sayaka would push her away, thus averting the danger.
After all, this blonde magic girl is so beautiful, has such a good figure, such a high temperament, and such a big chest...
Click.
Mami's legs flapped twice and then stopped moving.
This is a scene worthy of being recorded in history!
This is an unforgettable scene!
This is also a scene that will give rise to countless memes!
Mami Tomoe finally got rid of her burden and became a true "Headless Senior."
At the same time, tens of thousands of viewers across the United States who were watching the preview of "Madoka Magica" exclaimed almost at the same time.
"Damn it! Why did your head fall off!!!"