Just like Zhang Nan's hometown, after the county was withdrawn and established as a city in the mid-90s, the people suddenly found that they didn't know which day it would be, and only one theater on the main street of the city was still showing movies.

The movie theaters in the towns and villages were unconsciously empty, and some were diverted for other purposes, and some were closed to raise rats.

It was from that time on, not to mention the small towns that were withdrawn and annexed, even if people from large central market towns with a population of tens of thousands wanted to watch a movie, they had to go to the former county seat and the current urban area.

In the years before that, many people began to find that it was becoming more and more difficult to make money, and there were many people who lost their jobs: there were fewer and fewer people who went to work every day and would go to a movie on Saturday night to recuperate, this is the happy life of the 80s that Zhang Nan missed before is gone and will never come back!

As time goes by, there is another phenomenon that makes people unintentionally recall what to say: those central market towns with rapid economic development, the once glorious movie theaters that used to be bustling every night are gone!

Why?

All the factories and communities were demolished and developed.

The relaxed, happy and soothing life is gone, and everyone needs to fight every day to survive and make money, just like the warriors who participate in white-knuckle battles!

Some people may make more money, but they lose the joy of barely feeling the weight of life.

The movie theaters in the economically developed towns are gone, but the houses of the original theaters in the towns and villages where the economic development is lagging are still there, but they have either become warehouses or simply accumulate dust there.

Among them, the changes of the village-level cinema on the outskirts of Zhang Nan's grandmother's house are even more embarrassing - in the early 80s, a village had its own well-equipped movies, although there was only one projector, and when watching the movie, it would pause and wait for a while, because the projectionist in the projection room above needed to change the film film.

But even then, the nearby villagers will be proud of the cinema, and it is a real pleasure and relaxation to be able to go to a movie every week on Saturday night for a modest amount of money.

Unfortunately, in a few years, the projector in that movie theater will no longer be lit up, and the huge screening hall will be silent.

At the dawn of the new century, the antechamber of the cinema became an activity room for the elderly in the village, playing its last little bit of role in entertaining the public. Every day, there are one or two tables of small pitiful, time-consuming mahjong for the elderly, plus some old people's memories of the past.

A few years later, when the new senior activity room in the village was built, the theater fell silent again, until nearly 2010 or so, when the cinema's screening hall remembered the roar of machines and became the factory of a small private weaving factory.

A cinema can reflect the development of the village, the early 90s can be said to be the last glory of the countryside, when the construction of the cinema was completed, the north wall of the cinema is the outermost part of the building at the back of the village;

More than 30 years later, the north wall of the cinema is still the outermost part of the north side of the village, but the original rice fields outside the wall have become fields of flowers and trees, and few members of the family are willing to grow food anymore.

The village has barely expanded, and a lot of new houses have been built in the village, but the population is getting smaller and smaller, and you don't see a few young people in the village.

Especially the old houses in the middle of the village, the entire side street, the whole piece of abandoned and collapsed, the hollow village is no longer the meaning of no one in the middle, and even the houses in the middle are almost gone!

Every year during the Qingming Festival and the winter solstice, when Zhang Nan went to sweep the graves of his grandparents, he would pass by the door of the old cinema in the village, and every time he saw the face of the cinema, he would sigh with emotion.

When my sister became a little sensible, every time she passed by there, she would say to her daughter, "Dad used to watch movies here, at that time..."

Looking back on the past, it's just that my daughter can only understand a lot of the things he said, and some of them simply don't understand at all!

Two children only need to buy one ticket to go to the movies, and the other person is "brought in", so the rules are incomprehensible to the young baby daughter.

"At that time, my father lived here, and when there were children playing with him nearby, I would take a little friend to the movies.

At that time, my father was not too good, and he was most supported by those friends, even if he was older than me, but I was still the king of children..."

Of course, he is the king of children, Zhang Nan always has pocket money to watch movies, his family is a double worker, and the ticket price of the movie theater in the village is sometimes less than a dime. But for the nearby farmers, it is not always possible to give a dime to the children to go to the movies every week, and those children are sometimes happy to have a 5 cent pocket money.

If you have a good relationship with Zhang Nan, you can go to the movies together, and of course he will become the king of children. Sometimes he will take out a few cents to invite all the children who play together, take him to fish for yellow eels, catch fish to watch movies, anyway, two people have a ticket, an absolute tyrant!

Regardless of whether he understands it or not, Zhang Nan will talk about these old things every time anyway, because Zhang Nan's father would also tell him something decades ago when he was young.

I will say it every time, and I will say it for more than ten years.

In 12 years, Zhang Nan once went back to the village to drink, the village party secretary and the village chief were all there, and they were all very familiar with it, and the new village chief was still the original playmate, so he talked about the old movie theater.

After drinking, the three of them went to the cinema to reminisce about the taste of 30 years ago, and walked into the second-floor screening room: the door had not been opened for almost 20 years, and it was forcibly opened.

The two village cadres thought that there should be nothing in it, but it turned out that the projectors and stereos inside were all there, and although they were full of dust, they could still be used.

There are still more than a dozen copies of old movies in the cabinet, and Zhang Nan said that if the village can do it, he wants to buy these back as a collection.

As a result, the party secretary and the village chief said to move away casually - the wine was too high, and that's it.

In the end, he insisted on paying a small amount of money, so as not to be unable to explain to the village.

When I saw that projector, I was a little sad.

Township cinemas were the first to be abandoned, and when there was only one cinema left in the county, the one in the downtown area was almost only occasionally lively when the school chartered a movie, and there were often only a few spectators in the more than 1,000 seats of ordinary movie screenings, and even the air conditioning was reluctant to turn on in the summer, or only for a while.

At this time, what happened to the theaters of those factories and mines?

The factories that were originally in the county, not to mention the theaters and assembly halls in the factory, even the factories are gone!

It's not just the demolition of houses to develop real estate, but even the factories are completely history!

The most prosperous and brilliant state-owned factories in the 80s collapsed, disappeared, and disappeared with the economic changes that really began on a large scale in the 90s!

As for the large factories in the market town below, some of the houses have been abandoned, some have been diverted for other purposes, leaving only the once tall and glorious, now desolate buildings, green flower beds, and the occasional passer-by to tell of the glory of the place.

It wasn't until around 2010 that a new multiplex modern cinema appeared on the top floor of a new shopping mall in the city, and the state-owned cinema on the main street of the old city was completely closed.

The cinema belongs to the film company, and the superior unit is the Bureau of Culture, Radio, and Television, which belongs to the enterprise establishment in the public institution, and the shops along the street can still be rented, otherwise those workers would have been laid off for more than 20 years.

After a few years, modern cinemas with giant screens appeared in the urban area, and it became a fashionable place for young people to watch movies.

Giant screens?

In the '80s, almost every movie theater was a single theater with a capacity of 1,000 people, and as long as you chose a seat in a third of the row from the screen, every movie was a giant screen.

Fashion giant screen, young people have to spend more money to watch the giant screen, in fact, their parents have already enjoyed such treatment.

Not to mention that giant screen theaters are expensive, the average movie ticket price in China is too expensive more than 20 years later: Zhang Nan remembers that in 16 years, a statistical institute under UNESCO made a statistics on the average selling price of movie tickets in the world.

At that time, the average movie ticket price in China was more than $5, nearly $6, and it seemed to be $5.74. The average ticket price in the United States during the same period was a little over $8, and the average salary in the United States at this time was about $3,000 per month.

The ticket price of Little Devil's movie was the highest in Asia at that time, nearly $13 a piece, and as for India, it was much cheaper, less than a dollar, only equivalent to one-seventh of that of China.

In 1982, the average annual salary of Chinese workers was 764 yuan, and the average monthly salary was less than 66 yuan.

At that time, movie ticket prices were expensive for one dime, generally only a dime, and the cheap 8 cents were more expensive, and the monthly salary could watch 440 movies.

There are always about 40 yuan in areas with low wages, so you can only watch at least 260 shows - the ticket price in those places is actually cheaper, a dime should be enough, and it can be counted as 400 games.

In 2016, according to the statistics of relevant departments, the average employee of Huaxia should have 5,000 yuan, and the average ticket price of a movie is 30 to 38 yuan.

How many games can I watch with a monthly salary?

Calculate the ticket price lower, 166 games, the premise is that you have to have a salary of 5,000 yuan per month!

No wonder 20 years later, many people are calling for movie tickets to be too high, and it is best to reduce the price to 10 to 15 yuan, so that everyone can afford to watch the movie.

After discounting a movie ticket for 30 yuan, some people say it's not expensive...

This is probably the reason why I haven't seen a movie in the United States, let alone a dime or a dime movie.

30 bucks, so expensive!

Relatively speaking, movie tickets in the United States are too cheap, and many of these few dollars a movie ticket also include free popcorn and soda, Zhang Nan hopes that this will increase the ticket price of American movies to a month, and he can only watch more than 100 movies a month, but he is afraid that he will scare the American people away.

A good movie is a real money-making machine.

Of course, the cost of the 82-year-old movie is different from the 2012 movie, and what is the difference, perhaps the shooting cost has become relatively higher, and the salary of actors and stars is higher.

The cost is high, and the ticket price is expensive?

Anyway, I think 30 is still expensive!

It costs a lot of money to make a movie, and the salary cannot be ignored, like this Jet Li is filming the "Huang Feihong" series of movies in Xiangjiang, the first one was very popular last year, and it is even more popular in Southeast Asia, and his salary is also rising.

Millions, and then tens of millions, in exchange for a few years ago, his salary alone was the entire cost of a big production in Xiangjiang.

But the salary of this film is also relative, even if it is two or three years later, Jet Li's salary will be 15 million Hong Kong dollars, which is trivial for Xingchen Columbia, and it is not as high as the salary of Yasuko Sawaguchi.

One dollar, one Hong Kong dollar, it's not easy to compare, no wonder Hong Kong's film companies are sharpening their heads and hollowing out their hearts to enter the North American market.

Earn dollars multiplied by eight, big money!

As for Charlize Theron, this little girl is an alternative to Hollywood, whether she is a starring or a cameo, so far it is only one dollar, according to her, she is too lazy to pay taxes to the tax office, such a unique style is always reminding the entire film industry - she is a special princess of the stars!

She is still underage, and her expenses are all pocket money given by her brother, but she does not pay personal income tax!

The consequence of this is that the entire Western film industry knows one thing: Princess Etoile will only make movies for Etoile Columbia, and other companies will not be disrespected.

In the United States, it is almost impossible for other actors to take on a film contract from only one company, but she has no problem, who makes the new choice of the star Colombian film super large, almost to make a hit.

The most important thing is that the film company belongs to her, not what film contract she can take, but what movie she wants to make.

The cruel truth tells those young people who are looking for dreams in Hollywood that hard work is important and opportunities are more important, but in the face of the theory of "having a good father", everything else will become unimportant at all!

With a salary of 1 US dollar, it doesn't matter whether the company is losing or earning, she doesn't care, her family doesn't care, and she doesn't care if there is an unconventional little girl.

Besides, there are still a bunch of financial personnel who are bullish, and it is almost impossible to take advantage of the tax bureau, but the vampires of the tax bureau don't want to overcharge taxes!

As for the eternal French rose in the family, she has not made a movie for almost 3 years, and when Zhang Nan joked with her, she was paid either one dollar or 100 million!

It's just that now Adjani is completely immersed in family life and the joy of raising children, and she has no plans to make any movies at all.

When I was inspired to shoot a costume blockbuster, the biggest cost is not the cost of the main actors, but the cost of extras is a lot, as well as the rent of the venue.

As for copyright, it's a small matter, just let people talk about it.

Zhang Nan was saying: "If you make a blockbuster, then you will make a real blockbuster, and the special effects will be almost enough, so the number of people will make up!"

When Charlie heard this, she said, "Brother, you wouldn't want to shoot like the Soviet Union did when she filmed "War and Peace", right?"

Xiao Nizi rolled her eyes and said, "At least 3 billion US dollars, I can take it, but I'm afraid that your two sisters at home will send me to a psychiatric hospital!"

Yes, a $3 billion movie? Guan Xingquan, Lin Ming and others were directly confused.

These two don't know, Zhang Nan is still a conservative calculation of the purchasing power of the US dollar in 1991, if it is 2016 before Zhang Nan's rebirth, it is at least equivalent to more than 6 billion US dollars!

Then Andrei proudly told these colleagues from Huaxia who didn't know the inside story - there really is such a movie, it is the 1968 Soviet version of "War and Peace"!

The film took five years to complete, and the cost in 1968 was equivalent to the original $560 million, the most expensive film in the history of world cinema - the "Liberation" trilogy, which was filmed for 20 years, is not counted, it is a series, and the army used is nearly 600,000, which cannot be calculated.

In order to maximize the restoration of history, the Soviet version of "War and Peace" used 125,000 actors and 35,000 horses to shoot the war scene of the Battle of Borodino, where Napoleon invaded Russia.

Each soldier had his own weapons and uniforms, and the number of soldiers alone was not much more noisy than the number of people on the front line of the campaign (in 1812, 120,000 French troops fought against 110,000 Russian troops, with more than 40,000 French casualties and more than 50,000 Russian casualties). ), which is equivalent to fighting the war of 1812 again!

And the American version of "War and Peace" starring Audrey Hepburn in 1956 is also a blockbuster, using 15,000 actors and 2,400 sets of military uniforms, but it is completely incomparable with the Soviet version!

At that time, the Soviet Union prepared 695 French cannons of the Napoleonic era and 587 Russian cannons of the same period, of which 20 were dragged directly from the museum.

In order to shoot "War and Peace", there is also one of the most heart-wrenching acts...

The Soviets copied a Moscow!

In 1968, modern Moscow was no longer possible to shoot on location, so the Soviets built a fake Moscow covering an area of 100,000 square meters on the northeastern outskirts of Moscow, including residential buildings, government agencies, cultural facilities, and even a complete Kremlin, which is a unique set in the history of world cinema!

In the end, in order to shoot the fire that burned Moscow, the film crew burned this Moscow to the fullest!

"Burning Moscow", such a move in the past 10 years, only one person has had the opportunity to do something crazier than this move, Zhang Nan joked: "If I finally sink the Titanic, which is still under construction, it will be even crazier than burning Moscow." ”

"You're not crazy. Nizi nodded, "You'd better not go crazy, or I'll help Nicole and the others stuff you in an insane asylum." ”