Chapter 179 Premiere(1/2)
At the entrance of a cinema, a middle-aged man looked at the movie poster at the door without thinking too much.
I directly asked for a ticket to "Copper and Iron Bone".
Behind the middle-aged man was a young couple dressed up in a bit of a frivolous manner. The man looked like a Shaobao and the woman looked like a gangster girl, but the two had a dispute.
"What's good about kung fu movies? I've been tired of watching the fight and killing. I want to watch "A Chinese Odyssey"!" said the woman.
"What's good about "A Chinese Odyssey"? Have you watched Journey to the West for a little bit?" The man said with an upset look: "There are three major kung fu superstars fighting together, and they are so passionate that they are rare to see."
"What's the point of fighting and killing? I'm going to watch "A Chinese Odyssey". Didn't I see the poster? The lingering love between Sun Wukong and Fairy Zixia is definitely a romantic movie." The woman refused to support her, shook her arm and said, "Aren't we going to date? What's the point of watching a kung fu movie? It's the time to watch a romantic movie!" "I'm going to watch a hairy date, I just came out to watch a movie." The man looked unhappy, but he couldn't stand being entangled by the woman, so he had to curse and said to the ticket seller: "Give me two tickets for "A Chinese Odyssey"..."
"What? When did the movie tickets rise?... The man took out his wallet to pay, but when he heard the price quoted by the ticket seller, he suddenly became frustrated and started shouting.
"It's like this, because "American Journey" is screened for a long time, three hours, which is equivalent to two movies, so the ticket price has increased appropriately," explained the ticket seller.
"Damn, I won't read the price increase. I will exchange it for two tickets for "Copper and Iron Bone"!" The man cursed, but turned around and saw his girlfriend turning around with anger and about to leave. He couldn't help but curse, quickly grabbed his girlfriend's right arm and said to the ticket seller with an unhappy look: "Forget it, don't change it, let's have two "A Chinese Odyssey"!"
Another cinema.
Several young men and girls who looked like high school students walked to the ticket window and shouted, "Give us seven tickets for "American Journey to the West"!" Behind the young men and girls was a middle-aged man. At this time, he muttered strangely: "Are you all such a big person? Why do you still watch something like "Journey to the West"?
And don’t high school students like kung fu movies?”
"Uncle, see clearly. This is "Journey to the West" and "Journey to the West" that I watched with the children.
It's not the same thing." Who knew that the boy in front of him had a sharp ear. He immediately turned around and retorted seriously when he heard the middle-aged man behind him.
"What "A Chinese Odyssey"? The strange thing in ancient times" The middle-aged man turned his head and looked at the poster. "It's really a trait. Sun Wukong protected Tang Monk to go to the West to obtain scriptures. He was a monk. How could he fall in love with Fairy Zixia? What's this? What's the trait!" "Uncle, you really out, know what "Big Talk, no?" The high school student looked at the middle-aged man with contempt and said:... Big Talk is just a joke, do you understand the joke? Forget it, I can't understand such an old antique. Brothers, let's go in quickly! The movie is about to begin!" "" The middle-aged man shook his head and said to the ticket seller: "Give me a "Bronze and Iron Bone"
"Strictly speaking, today is the first time that the Li brothers company held a premiere for its own film, so it is still very important. Not only did the main creators of "A Chinese Odyssey" come all, but all the artists under the company, including Tang Wan, Kong Chen, Dai Ming and other directors and behind-the-scenes staff, have basically rushed back to help.
Li Xiaohu also specially invited his mentor Tian Feng to attend the premiere. Of course, other mentors from the college also sent invitations, but not many of them could come.
In addition, Han Xiu, who came to join in the fun, did not invite other guests in a big way. The premiere mainly played a publicity role, the actors interacted with the audience, and the media interviewed again. Even if it was done, there was no need to invite big stars to support the scene and create topics.
However, a big-name guest who came uninvited still surprised Li Xiaohu.
"Thank you Uncle Li Yangzhong for coming to support the show!" Li Xiaohu was surprised but he did not forget to be polite. This big name came to support the show, which was enough to attract the attention of countless media and also increased the popularity of this premiere to attract several levels.
Many premierees will invite some big names to support the scene, that is, to attract media attention and create topics to expand the popularity of the movie. With Li Yangzhong's fame, taking time to attend a premiere can at least bring hundreds of box offices to "A Chinese Odyssey", which is a real benefit.
"Haha, don't be so polite. Actually, I'm here this time, not only to attend the premiere, but also to ask for help from Xiaohu, Xiaohu!" Li Yangzhong smiled and said, "But this matter will be over soon. 1 Xiaohu, please go and do it first!" "Oh?" Li Xiaohu felt even more surprised, but he didn't blame him and asked again because the premiere was about to begin.
The two hosts who hosted the premiere today are Lin Yue and Luo Xingtang. Luo Xingtang's popularity has soared recently with the love apartment program. In just a few months, he has grown from an unknown junior to a famous singer. Lin Yue has also become a hot new generation of beautiful girls because of hosting the One Foundation Charity Concert with unprecedented influence.
These two people are the only hosts in the Li brothers' companies that can be seen in fact, this is already very powerful. It is rare to have a film company with its own hosts. And the most insane thing is that these two hosts are even more popular than many professional hosts who come from TV stations.
Because the two movies "A Chinese Odyssey" are played together, the total length is about three hours, so the premiere is as short as possible, leaving more time for the audience to enjoy the movie.
When the brief premiere of "A Chinese Odyssey" is about to come to an end, "Bronze and Iron Bones", which held its premiere in another corner of the same city, is entering the media interview session.
Luo Tian wants to suppress Li Xiaohu everywhere, and even the premiere has to be held better than "A Chinese Odyssey"
Even more grand, he spared no effort to invite many famous directors, movie stars and seniors in the circle to support him, and was determined to compete with "American Journey to the West".
"Mr. Luo, what are your box office expectations for "Bronze and Iron Bone"?...
"Of course, the more you get better." Luo Tian naturally became familiar with this routine problem, so he thought about it easily and added: "Anyway, it must be more than "A Chinese Odyssey"!"
"That means that Mr. Luo is very confident that "Bronze and Iron Bone" will win the first week box office championship?"
"Haha, if "A Chinese Odyssey" is the second place, then the champion must be "Bronze and Iron Bones". When Luo Tian answered the question, he always had to talk about "A Chinese Odyssey" to talk about it, which shows that he had a deep resentment towards Li Xiaohu.
"Mr. Luo, what do you mean is that "Bronze and Iron Bone" will compete with "American Journey"?"
"Haha, why should a newly emerging small company compete with an old film company like Tianluo?" Luo Tian said arrogantly: "Although Li Xiaohu has some talent, in the film field, we have an absolute advantage, just the number of screenings is almost twice its size. Also, look at the guests who came to the scene today. Can the Li brothers company invite so many people to watch the ceremony? The right time, place and people, "A Chinese Odyssey" has lost two things, what qualifications does it have to compete with us? Li Xiao
This young man, Hu, didn't know that the world was high and he just spent money to play computer special effects, but he didn't know that the movie was not what he did. I had to teach him a good lesson!"
Li Xiao... Hu didn't know that his old rival Luo Tian was making a big fuss with the media again. Even if he knew, he wouldn't care. At this time, the premiere of "A Chinese Odyssey" had ended and he sat with Lin Yue in a row and quietly began to enjoy the movie.
Some movies only display some exciting clips, films or trailers at the premiere, while others are screened together with the whole movie. Li Xiaohu naturally adopts the latter. There are many professional film critics who come to attend the premiere today. If they want to spread the reputation of "A Chinese Odyssey" to the public, they will naturally have to let them watch the entire movie.
The first thing that appears on the big screen is a poetic landscape painting. In the sound of Ding Dong's melodious music, the camera slides quickly and focuses on a pack of bluestone. The music becomes rapid. A ferocious tiger suddenly jumps onto the bluestone, roars with great power, and then the words "Li Brothers Media Co., Ltd. appear.
Li Xiaohu is not so bad that he puts "Li Xiaohu's works at the beginning of the movie. Such a symbol, based on his achievements in TV series, has made personal comparisons in his works, and there should be no one to gossip, but in movies, he is far from proving his strength. He is rashly pretending to be ridiculous and ridiculous.
After the opening and subtitles, a desolate desert appeared on the big screen. The shots of the sky were taken closer from the distance, giving people a sense of oppression from the wind and sand of the desert, and a majestic momentum was fully displayed.
"This picture is very exquisite..."
The first impression is very important. The high-quality pictures of "A Chinese Odyssey" are piled up at any cost, which makes the film critics look at them for a moment and are surprised that they somewhat restrained their contempt in their hearts.
No wonder many film critics are not optimistic about Li Xiaohu. In the film industry, Li Xiaohu's works on the surface are only one "Nightclub", which is Li Xiaohu's first work debut. Due to the relationship between capital and experience, the quality can only be described as rough. Although he won a high box office at the beginning, there was a lot of controversy in the film critic industry, and various criticisms have never stopped.
Even the few critics who spoke good things about Li Xiaohu at that time were not very optimistic about Li Xiaohu's directing level. They just appreciated his creativity and encouraged the mentality of backwardness. To be honest, there was almost no review of Li Xiaohu's in-depth films.
The camera quickly passed by the rolling yellow sand on the ground, and the first person finally appeared in his vision... Chun Sanshiniang, holding a peach huā, riding a donkey, wearing a straw hat, walking alone in the desert.
Then the camera flashed, and a disheveled bandit retracted its head from behind the sand dune, and then the picture switched. The bandit came out of the tunnel and rolled and crawled towards several thatched houses. It was obvious that this was a minion responsible for looking for news.
A group of ferocious and ragged men sat around a ragged table filled with wine and meat. It was obvious that these people were not kind people.
“Sin, 5.
"The bandit looking at the wind danced and said something like Aba Aba in his mouth......... He was actually a mute?
He actually sent a mute out to find out the news?
This spoof setting made many viewers smile knowingly.
"What do you want to say?" a minion shouted to the mute with displeasure.
"Bah!" The second in commander who was picking teeth with a toothpick, spit out his saliva and shouted to the questioning minion: "Give him a piece of meat!"
"Take it" the questioning minion grabbed a large tulip on the table and threw it towards the mute.
"Be careful, everyone! There is a woman outside who wants to come in." The camera changed back to the second in command, and he said with a serious expression.
"The second in commander, do you guess they were officers and soldiers?"
"No wonder people call you blind. Didn't you see the mute's butt twisting?"
The second in commander said cursingly.
"It might be hemorrhoids that twist and twist?" The blind man replied discontently.
"Huh?" The second headmaster suddenly turned his head and stared at the blind man fiercely, saying with evil deeds: "Even if there is, he is just an officer and soldier with hemorrhoids. What are you afraid of?"
A group of ferocious bandits burst into laughter.
Seeing this, ordinary audiences laughed so much that they kept saying, "This group of bandits is so funny. How could there be such stupid bandits?"
But some film critics were secretly shaking their heads and thinking that this was just a spoof movie? I remembered that Li Xiaohu's last movie was also a comedy, but that "Nightclub" is somewhat new, but why is it getting back to filming more and more?
It seems that it is impossible to see the meaning of this movie. It is better to just treat it as a comedy movie. At least you won’t be disappointed in the end because of your expectations! Film critics thought to themselves.
As the plot develops, the robbers failed to rob, but were frightened by Chun Sanshiniang, and everyone was piled up with a pile of money on their heads.
At this time, the bandit leader Supreme Treasure played by Zhang Xiaomingku appeared.
"What are Chun Sanshi Niang doing when she comes to Wuyue Mountain?" Supreme Treasure poses like a sleeping arhat, lying on the bench with his eyes closed, shaking a small round fan in his hand, and said thoughtfully: This female devil has always been a Tianbao, so will there be a big deal here?
In front of the Supreme Treasure, the bandits were kneeling all over the floor. Looking at the posture, the audience felt that this Supreme Treasure should be a very powerful horn.
But after the Supreme Treasure said, he suddenly raised his head and everyone immediately burst into laughter. The bandit leader not only had a very ridiculous shape, but also had a fluffy and exaggerated beard, and even thick hair grew between the eyebrows on both sides, which simply connected the eyebrows on both sides. The funniest thing is 1
This bandit leader is actually a cross-eyed person.
Seeing this, the audience finally understood that there was no normal person in this group of bandits.
"Hmm?" Here the camera switched to Supreme Treasure's subjective gaze. The people in front of them were all vague ghosts. Supreme Treasure exclaimed and cursed unhappily: "What are you stupid pigs doing when you put the silver on your head? Put it down!" He got up and punched and kicked the little brothers who were kneeling on the ground.
"No, gang leader! Money is on the ground, but the head is not guaranteed, gang leader!" The second head of the army held his hands on his head and shouted in a dodge.
"What did you say?" Supreme Treasure rushed straight towards the Second Head, but when he arrived in front of the Second Head, he suddenly grabbed the blind man behind the Second Head and cursed: "Second leader, you are so unbearable, why do you become my boss?" "Gangzhu, I am not the Second Head, I am blind!" The blind man quickly pointed behind the Supreme Treasure and shouted: "He is the Second Head!" "Yes, I am the Second Head!" Second Head pointed at himself and nodded repeatedly.
"Don't I know? I scold the blind man to make you ashamed." Supreme Treasure threw the blind man away and pointed at the second head and cursed, but when he walked to the second head, he pushed the second head away and rushed away like a rabbit. "So still run?" The dumb expressions of the minions appeared in the camera, and then the camera switched back to Supreme Treasure. He pointed to a puppy lying on the ground and cursed: "Look at your virtue, sneaky, embarrassing, disheveled, and looked like a dog. How could he come out to enter the world with me?" Seeing this, the audience had long been laughing back and forth, and had never had any contact with them who were nonsense. The first time I saw this novel performance method, the laughter was not ordinary.
The nonsensical culture is a subculture that suddenly emerged in Hong Kong in the 1990s.
This culture has dominated the entire Hong Kong society for ten years and did not slowly fade after the Asian financial crisis, but its influence continued until more than ten years later.
Nonsense is not unique to his previous life, nor is it even a patent of Stephen Chow, but whenever he mentions nonsense, the first thing people think of is Stephen Chow. There are actually many celebrities who have tried nonsense in their previous life, but only Stephen Chow's nonsense performance method can reach its peak. People remember only one Stephen Chow.
In fact, some people in this world have tried nonsensical performances, but they are undoubtedly very unsuccessful. Compared with Stephen Chow, there is a gap from heaven to earth.
So if you count it carefully, the audience can only see the authentic nonsensical performance of Tongshi with their own eyes today.
With the help of Li Xiaohu, Zhang Xiaoming could not be said to have 100% interpreted the essence of Zhou's nonsensical performance, but at least he was distracted. With his unique and exaggerated voice, the funny effect could almost be said to be a copy of Stephen Chow, and no one would not be amused by him.
"Gangmaster, I'm marrying here!, the second head of the army said stupidly.
Supreme Bao suddenly turned his head, glanced at him with a pair of cross-eyed eyes, shouting, "Don't you show up yet?" "Here you show up, gang leader!" The second head broke into the camera from one side and stood next to Supreme Bao. "Gang leader, you have been hit by the Seven Injury Fist of the Three Saints of Kunlun, and now your injury is starting to occur!" This was originally a plot to spoof Jin Yong's martial arts, but at this time Li Xiaohu had not had time to copy "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", so it could not be considered a joke. Fortunately, because there were many other jokes, he didn't care about ignoring this one.
"Dare you still dare to say it?" Supreme Treasure waved his hand hard, but hit the air. Then he pointed to the open space in front and cursed, "If you hadn't shrunk your neck that day, how could I have been hit by the middle nose~?"
"Here, gang leader!" The second head of the house raised his hand and shouted.
Supreme Treasure looked around in confusion, looking for the second in command who was standing in front of him.
Everyone couldn't help but whisper, thinking to themselves how such a stupid person became the leader of the gang?
"Oh, the Qishen Fist made the gang leader really miserable." The blind man said with emotion.
To be continued...