Chapter 15
Little girls have always been unable to hide their thoughts.
After watching the movie, for several days in a row, Wang Jinglu looked happy.
She really couldn't hide her appearance from others, so Wang Jinglu's mother asked her that night: "What good thing did you meet? Why are you so happy?"
The little girl was startled, her eyes rolled around, and she said, "I watched a good movie, and I think the male and female protagonists are so happy."
This statement made Wang Jinglu's mother a little puzzled.
And the next day, before class, her girlfriends couldn't help asking: "Hey, Xiao Lu, why are you so happy? Have you decided to accept that Prince Charming?"
"He's obviously the Prince Blue Horse, okay? That Lamborghini is so handsome!"
"Hey, are you dating a prince or a horse?"
"Tch, Xiao Lu, ignore them,... I said, that handsome guy is so handsome, he's almost married, married!"
"The key is the Lamborghini. You can tell at a glance that the family must be super rich!"
"You gold digger, go to hell, don't ruin our Xiaolu's view of love, okay?"
"Hey, you woman who is going to get married in the summer vacation, what do you know about love or not? Marriage is the grave of love. You are going to go to the grave, so why are you talking about love!"
"Hey, let me tell you, you talk so much, do you take Li Qian seriously? He's a childhood sweetheart..."
"Tch, Xiaolu said it herself, they are just ordinary friends! Besides, how can Li Qian compare with others, he is a high-achieving student who graduated from Cambridge University, look at Li Qian, well, although he recently The progress is very fast, but the National University has reached the top, our Xiaolu will be a big star in the future, he is not worthy! Cambridge University is worthy!"
Wang Jinglu kept her head down and listened to their nonsense, until someone mentioned Li Qian, she couldn't help raising her head, and timidly defended, "Hey, Li Qian is not as bad as you say!"
"Huh?……"
All the women's soldiers made surprise voices of questioning.
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After school in the afternoon, Li Qian once again rarely stayed at school to practice guitar.
In the newsstand at the school gate, he chose for a long time, and finally picked out two newspapers and a magazine and bought them.
The two newspapers are: "Variety Express" and "Film Weekly".
The magazine is "China Film Weekly".
Tonight, these two newspapers and one magazine are his homework.
But it's a pity that apart from some instant news from the entertainment industry, "Variety Express" basically has nothing of weight, which makes Li Qian have to lament that he spent an unjustified amount of money. So he just glanced at it briefly, put it aside, and decided never to buy it again.
One of the most important things to him is the weekly box office statistics on the "Film Weekly".
However, the situation does not seem too optimistic.
"Alien No. 3" is officially offline. Before that, it has swept the polar bear country, taking away 170 million rubles at the box office, equivalent to more than 200 million U.S. dollars! And in China, this blockbuster also took away a full 325 million Chinese yuan, equivalent to more than 160 million U.S. dollars, becoming the fourth domestic box office over the years-here, "Film Weekly" lists some past materials, It has to be mentioned: since 1975 in the Western calendar, since the country began to have detailed box office statistics, there are only 9 films in the domestic box office history that have exceeded 100 million yuan, of which 4 are imported films, namely "Foreign Films". The 325 million Chinese yuan of "Star Man III" came from the United States, the 158 million Chinese yuan of "Best Lover" also came from the United States, the 131 million Chinese yuan of "Star Wars Part III" still came from the United States, and "National The 107 million Chinese yuan for "Mission" came from the Soviet Union.
It is particularly worth mentioning that "The Best Lover" was released in 1982. Its domestic box office record of 158 million yuan was not broken by a domestic film until 1988. Number one at the box office for more than a year! And if you take into account the factors of rising prices, its box office is not much better than the current "Alien No. 3"!
Holding the newspaper in his hand, Li Qian pondered for a long time.
"Film Weekly" specifically mentioned this point in retrospect. Presumably the editors of this newspaper must have had some ideas, but unfortunately, they did not really come up with any opinions on this.
What they did was to hoarsely take out a whole page to cheer for "Three Musketeers in White"! Three film reviews, one editor's note, all are vigorous advocacy, calling on people to enter the movie theater to contribute to the box office!
Of course, "Three Musketeers in White" is also considered a success. Although it only had four days in the first week of its launch, it won more than 14.83 million box office in the country. Last week, which is the second week of its launch, their decline was also very small. It won 14.22 million in seven days. If the decline is calculated based on the weekend box office, it only dropped by 12.5%. The total box office in the two weeks has reached 29.05 million yuan.
According to the estimate of "Film Weekly", if the current downward trend can be maintained, even if it is only released for 8 weeks, the film is expected to exceed 80 million yuan. , It's not hopeless, anyway, martial arts movies are the favorite of Chinese people.
It is said that the investment of this film is less than 20 million, so it can be said that the profit is a foregone conclusion.
It should be said that, on the whole, "Film Weekly" is quite optimistic about the future development prospects of domestic films, so Li Qian is a little...disappointed.
Opening "Movie Weekly", Li Qian's eyes lighted up instead.
Its first film review, with a murderous look, typed a title that might make most filmmakers today feel a little sensational-"Wolf is coming!" "
Yes, the wolf is coming!
This film review comprehensively analyzes the gap between domestic films and Hollywood blockbusters represented by "Alien 3" from the perspective of script creativity, directorial techniques, photography, editing, and even soundtracks. Among them, the special effects of Hollywood are mentioned in particular, expressing It expresses the deep worries of the author as a film critic.
At the end of the article, the author also specially offers advice to domestic film practitioners. A brief summary is three points:
First, we must pay attention to the creativity and innovation of movie scripts. Don’t continue to fight with martial arts movies. Chinese people will get tired of watching martial arts. The taste of film practitioners must be ahead of the market and lead the market. What should be seen to be popular, what to see to make money, what to see, which leads to a large number of blind followers;
Second, step up efforts to improve the overall supporting level of the film industry. If there are cameras that should be eliminated, they must be eliminated. If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. No matter how good your story is, it cannot be ruined by blurry movie images. For film production companies, it is imperative to spend some money to buy, or simply entrust universities and research institutes to research better cameras. Moreover, domestic film printing technology is too outdated. If they do not hurry up and catch up , the future will be stuck in the neck;
Third, the film production company should immediately send people to Hollywood to study special effects production, and don't feel bad no matter how much money is spent! In the future, it will become an absolute trend in the development of the film industry to shoot large-scale productions with large investment through computer-generated special effects. This is the inevitable law of capital development - high investment, high return! Whoever ignores this point will definitely have a bloody head in front of the market!
From Li Qian's point of view, this film review hits the nail on the head! The last three suggestions definitely firmly grasp the most critical points.
It can be said that this article has vision, content, viewpoint, and direction...it is perfect!
So after reading this film theory twice, he paid special attention and remembered the author's name——
Huang Yujie.
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After school in the afternoon, Qi Jie still stayed alone in the office to read novels as usual.
The novel is not bad, she just discovered it last night, a new book by an old author.
She didn't have her class in the third class in the afternoon, and she was fidgeting sitting in the office. In fact, she had been waiting for the bell to ring after school so that she could read a book alone.
But now, after school is over, everyone has left, and the entire campus is quiet, but she feels something is wrong.
It was obviously a story that she liked very much, a story that she wanted to read very much, but she just felt in a daze and couldn't bear to read it no matter what.
With a sigh, she closed the computer notebook, stood up, and decided to listen to a song first as usual.
Recently, she has become more and more fond of running to the corridor above the fifth floor after school every afternoon, sitting on the steps and quietly listening to the people upstairs singing for a while.
It seems that if she doesn't hear the crisp guitar sound every day, she will feel that there are some unfinished things in her heart.
So she got up and opened the door, walked out of the office, and walked upstairs slowly.
But just after walking a few steps, she suddenly realized that today... it seems... there is no sound?
She was stunned at first, and then amazed.
Listen carefully, there is really no sound!
"Today, he didn't come?" She thought in surprise.
Then, after thinking about it, she continued upstairs.
Fourth floor...
fifth floor...
There is no movement at all!
Inexplicably, she actually felt a little flustered.
Even the footsteps seemed to suddenly become a lot more anxious.
When she came to the old place she used to come to every day, she held her breath and listened again.
Upstairs is really no movement at all!
No coughing, no drinking, no guitar or singing!
After hesitating for a moment, she slowly climbed up.
When she came to the entrance of the rooftop, she took a deep breath, and suddenly stepped out...it was empty!
Completely involuntarily, she sighed in disappointment, her brows were slightly furrowed, and some anxiety was rising in her heart.
On the roof near the corridor, there are eight identical stone benches lined up side by side.
Qi Jie stood at the entrance of the corridor in a daze for a moment, then walked over, randomly found a stone bench and sat down, while looking around, looking at the empty roof, while imagining the scene that should have been on the roof in his mind ——
A boy, um, should look a little handsome, because his voice is really nice, so he should be ugly, and of course, maybe he will have a little bit of personality. hair, and then... maybe there will be one or two pimples on the face?
Every afternoon after school, the sun sets and the residual heat on the balcony is still scorching. He just sits on one of the stone benches with a guitar in his arms. Maybe the wind will blow his hair, or maybe not... Who knows!
The surrounding is very hot, but there is no one, it is very quiet, very suitable for one person's lyric.
What he brought, besides a guitar, was a water glass filled with warm water that would moisten his throat between singing.
Then, he started playing the guitar, and he started singing.
Every two or three songs, he would stop, take a break, and drink a few sips of water.
Maybe it will be hot, it will make him flush, there will be sweat running down his chest, down his back, down his cheeks, itchy, and then... he will just take off his shirt like the boys playing basketball, His chest was bare, revealing the slightly thin chest muscles of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.
Then, he played it over and over again, singing one song after another, unaware that just a few steps away, someone was sitting on the steps, eyes closed, listening to him every time. Every note, every chant...
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"I wonder if he will continue to sing in the future?"
Qi Jie let out a sigh of emotion, as if she wanted to reminisce about something, pay tribute to something, but felt a kind of sadness gradually pervading, like the twilight, unstoppable, making people faintly melancholy.
"I don't know that he practiced so many songs, but he sang the song to his beloved girl, and I don't know if that girl accepted his pursuit?"
Thinking about these endless bits and pieces in her mind, Qi Jie looked back at the western sky.
Leng Leng, Leng Leng, she just watched quietly without moving.
Until the setting sun sank into the Western Hills bit by bit.
The sky is shining, and the sunset is like fire.
She sighed, stood up, and walked downstairs slowly.