Feng Mang by Chai Jidan (English Translation: COMPLETED)

CHAPTER 117

Joining the crew the next night, everyone had come alive.

Director Lu's outlook had undergone great changed, he was once again shining with youth.

Within the crew the enthusiastic trash talk was taking place, and the object of their ridicules is precisely 《Tear》.

Han Dong immediately pointed out the movie's biggest flaw.

"The plot being an endless loop is not false; however, it definitely cannot be considered as Droste Effect. What is Droste Effect? It is when a part of an image is the same as the entirety of the image. When applied to a movie, a part of the movie is identical to the entirety of the movie for it to be called Droste Effect! He picked 'a certain part' which is clearly the video in the cellphone; however, the presented content of the video is not at all the whole movie but merely the surveillance video of his room. Can you clearly understand what I mean?"

Shen Chuhua understood what Han Dong was saying. "I understand, what you're saying is that only when the video he was watching contains the same scenes as the whole movie can it be called the Droste Effect."

"Yes! But that's impossible to take place because the passengers in the subway are constantly changing and the only thing that was constant was Tang Jing's personal behavior."

Someone added in: "Their screenwriter had been negligent. If they didn't add the passengers in the subway and there's only Tang Jing doing the activity by himself throughout the whole movie, then this established theorem will hold water."

(Hold Water = fool proof, as in the logic is sound/sturdy)

"Even if this was the case, it still won't hold water." Han Dong said, "It's impossible to make two identical movements; moreover, Droste Effect is an endless loop but the protagonist's lifespan is limited."

Finally, Director Lu conveyed what Han Dong was trying to say in few short words. "To put it bluntly, this effect cannot be established in real life. It is destined to only be established in real life as paradox, but since they insist on advertising it this way, what can we do?"

In addition to this, Han Dong again pointed at another BUG, "Ghost press is when the mind is conscious but the body cannot move, and yet in the video it was clear that Tang Jing is strangling himself! How could this be a sleep paralysis? This is obviously a mental illness!"

Hearing these words, everyone burst out laughing.

Another actor said: "At that time I was thinking... The bloody beard, he tied it around himself. The sixth finger, he severed it himself. What about the bed scene with Zhang Xiaoning? He rubbed himself?"

"Hahahahaha..."

Amidst the heated condemnation, the deputy director hit the nail on the head with a sentence. "After all, they merely plagiarized some words."

"Yet the content was not event based on the keywords they stole." Han Dong helplessly spread out his hand.

There was another burst of laughter.

To put it bluntly, this movie is under the banner of a new theme yet the journeyed was travelled on the same hackneyed road in domestic horror film. They thought of playing a novel movie yet they couldn't deliver. Ultimately, it ended being nondescript.

Director Lu patted Han Dong on the shoulder, "Okay, okay, be tolerant and forgiving of others. Do you think everyone is as clever as you?"

Although these words have a mocking meaning, it speaks the voice of everyone in the crew. Who can let others steal the theme and routine yet still guarantee that the script will not have points of similarity? Only the Great Immortal Han can!