Chen Jianning was the last representative to sign the fourth parity contract, and after signing, Chen Jianning shook hands with the representatives of Sheng Xuanhuai, Swire and Jardine to celebrate, and each gave 6 movie tickets to the representatives of Swire and Jardine, and gave Sheng Xuanhuai 10 tickets, inviting them to Zhang Yuan Ankaidi tomorrow to watch the film of the Traveler.

Sheng Xuanhuai looked at the movie ticket given to him by Chen Jianning, about half a foot long and more than two inches wide, with Zhang Yuan Ankaidi Cinema written on the front, the large-scale mythological drama [Journey to the West Episodes 1-3], *row* seats, and information such as time and place written on the back.

Although Sheng Xuanhuai didn't know what a movie was, he could roughly guess that it should be a drama arranged by overseas Chinese. A few months ago, overseas Chinese held a concert in Shanghai, and the result was a great success, and more than 20 songs sung at the concert became popular songs in Shanghai.

In this era, Chinese drama has developed greatly from Peking Opera, and the famous "Tongguang Thirteen Uniques" is still alive, so Peking Opera is very popular in China, and there are many Peking Opera troupes in Shanghai. Sheng Xuanhuai is another red-top businessman after Hu Xueyan, and he also has the official title of the imperial court.

And [Journey to the West] is also a repertoire often performed in Peking Opera, because [Journey to the West] is mainly based on small students and martial arts, and there are many fighting scenes, which is very lively, so it is also widely loved by the people. Of course, Sheng Xuanhuai has seen a lot of dramas of [Journey to the West], but [Journey to the West] is often a play that pulls the atmosphere at the beginning, rather than a finale.

However, Sheng Xuanhuai also knows that the customs and habits of overseas Chinese are very different from those of China, and there is a success of the concert in the past, so Sheng Xuanhuai does not dare to despise it.

The representatives of Swire and Jardine know what movies are all about, but in this era, movies are still a novelty, and they have not formed an industry. But at this time, the overseas Chinese are reissuing invitations, and this face cannot be denied, anyway, there is nothing important tomorrow, so let's just go to the show.

It turned out that during the period of their negotiations, the construction of the cinema has been carried out intensively, after continuous construction operations, and after debugging finally succeeded, although the audio-visual effect is much worse than the official cinema, but in this era, this is already the technology of Zenith. Just two days ago, the East China government approved Yang Yuxin's plan and sent a batch of sound and stage lighting equipment, so the construction and equipment installation of the VIP hall are now underway, and it will take about 10 days to complete.

At this time, the shipping negotiations ended, so Yang Yuxin set the opening time of the cinema the day after the signing. On the first day of opening, there will be three screenings, the first at 10 a.m. and two more in the afternoon. However, on the first day, all the movie tickets were given to Shanghai officials, industrial and commercial owners, representatives of various social industries, gentry and celebrities, consuls of various countries in Shanghai, representatives of foreign commercial banks, etc., as well as students. The second screening of the afternoon was for students.

On the one hand, Yang Yuxin's arrangement is to take the opportunity to make friends, after all, the Shanghai New Area is mainly based on commercial trade, so the more friends he makes, the more beneficial it will be to the future development of the Shanghai New Area; on the other hand, it is also to use this group of people to promote the reputation of the filmer's film, Yang Yuxin is full of confidence in the effect of the movie, but in this era after all, the film is a new thing, and it will take time for the people of this era to accept, and the people invited today are all well-known people in Shanghai, and they can help the time-traveler to promote, which can greatly shorten the time for the public to accept the movie。

In addition, a special session for students was arranged, and it also adhered to the policy of the Shanghai Office to attract students, and the Shanghai Office has organized a number of lectures, reports, sittings and other activities for students, and originally planned to organize students to visit Qingdao or Tianjin, but because the East China Government could not arrange time for the time being, it did not take place, so the opening of the cinema did not forget to arrange a special session for students, and also let them get in touch with the soft power of the traverser.

And in the selection of films, Yang Yuxin and others have also been carefully considered, after all, this is not the territory of the traverser, so don't choose too sensitive films and televisions, and don't choose dramas, overhead, martial arts, and fantasy films and television that may be difficult for people in this era to accept, then the film and television adapted from famous books are naturally the best choice.

There are films and television adaptations of the four classical Chinese classics, and there are all the people who travel through them, but [Water Margin] is about the peasant uprising, and [Dream of Red Mansions] is actually based on the historical background of the Qing Dynasty and belongs to the sensitive category, so it can only be selected in [Journey to the West] and [Romance of the Three Kingdoms]. And these two films and television have a wide range of folk bases in this era, not to mention [Journey to the West], and [Romance of the Three Kingdoms] is highly respected by the Manchurians, and any of these two films and television is feasible as a release.

After repeated comparisons, Yang Yuxin and others finally decided to make [Journey to the West] the premiere, because [Journey to the West] is a mythological novel after all, both in terms of subject matter and content, it is relatively relaxed, and [Romance of the Three Kingdoms] is the next one.

The version that the time-traveler chose to screen was the 86-year-old TV version of "Journey to the West". In the old time and space, this version of [Journey to the West] once broadcast, it became a sensation all over the country, suitable for all ages, and won high praise, the whole drama took 7 years to film, and the plot was basically faithful to the original work, although many cuts were also made, and some new plots were added, but the adaptation was very reasonable and harmonious, and there was no failure. Although from the perspective of a time-traveler, this version of [Journey to the West] seems quite naïve in terms of special effects, this does not affect the overall artistic success of the show. Although there are factors of the times, it is also recognized as a classic that cannot be surpassed.

In fact, this version of [Journey to the West] was filmed in two stages, 25 episodes were broadcast in 86, and another 16 episodes were filmed from 1998 to 1999, supplementing the plots that were not filmed in the previous stage and completing the entire storyline.

On the morning of the first day of the cinema's opening, almost all of Shanghai's celebrities gathered, all by invitation. Because whether you like the traverser or not, you must admit that the traverser is now a force to be reckoned with in China, so the invitation of the traverser is generally not refused. Moreover, the success of the concert came first, and many people were also very curious about what overseas Chinese could create.

Yang Yuxin came to the Shanghai office with all the traversers in the Shanghai New Area last night to help greet and maintain the order of today's movie theater opening, after all, this is the first day the movie theater opens, and all the celebrities who came, Yang Yuxin did not dare to be careless. In addition, in the past ten days, all the personnel in the Shanghai New Area have been more positive at the construction site, and Yang Yuxin expected that a considerable number of people would retreat from the phenomenon, which also made Yang Yuxin quite pleased, so he also took advantage of the opening of the cinema to pull everyone to Shanghai, so that everyone can relax, one by one, so that there is continuity of work. In addition, after the opening of the movie theater, there is also a need for someone to help greet you, and you can't always rely on the Shanghai office to maintain it, so this time you also need to determine the people who work in the movie theater.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the official opening of the screening, and the venue of more than 300 people immediately quieted down, because the picture seen caused a huge shock to everyone present, and everyone had only one thought in their hearts: too real, too real, just like the real thing. Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath and stared at the screen intently, for fear of missing a detail, not even coughing, the whole courtyard was so quiet that it was almost audible, only the dialogue and music in the film.

However, [Journey to the West] is a relaxed and humorous style after all, and it is played by the Monkey King played by a six-year-old child, and his every move is a living monkey, so soon there will be bursts of laughter in the theater from time to time, and some people laugh and sigh: "This monkey is really interesting." And when the Monkey King made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and the battle against the heavenly soldiers and generals, the audience was like watching a play, shouting and cheering, which also pushed the atmosphere to *.

The three-episode film will be played for more than 2 hours, and the time is almost fleeting, and everyone doesn't even feel a little bit, the three episodes are over, the lights are bright, and everyone is like waking up from a dream, and they have praised that the movie drama of overseas Chinese is indeed much better than the drama.

At this time, Yang Yuxin walked to the screen, announced the end of today's screening, expressed his gratitude for everyone's presence, and explained that the following episodes will be played tomorrow, two episodes at a time, and there is a ticket office at the entrance of Zhang Yuan, if you want to continue watching, you can buy tickets to watch tomorrow, and the time, ticket price and related instructions are available at the ticket office, and everyone is welcome to continue to watch tomorrow.

Although there are still some unfinished things, everyone also knows that today's play is over, so they all got up and left, and many people greeted Yang Yuxin and asked about the movie, and some people were very curious to look behind the curtain to see if there was anyone hidden, and Yang Yuxin smiled and patiently explained to the questioner. And immediately after leaving the cinema, a large number of people bought tickets for tomorrow's movie, ready to continue watching.

In the afternoon, two more screenings were held, both of which were great successes, and it was the first one in the afternoon, nearly half of them were foreigners, although many people could not understand Chinese, but the picture effect was enough to convince them, and the result was that on the same day, the next day's movie tickets were sold out.