Chapter 5: At the Premiere
Time flies quickly, and there are still two days left before the movie is released nationwide. And tonight will be the premiere of "Infernal Affairs".
On the day of the premiere on January 20, 2014, the Beijing Film and Television International Grand Theater was star-studded, and celebrities from all walks of life came to cheer on it. Naturally, it is not how big Chen Yongren's face is, although the name Chen Yongren has now reached the point where everyone knows it, but it is not praised, they are all coming to praise the CEOs of the three companies.
As the host of the premiere, Chen Daqi can be described as full of scenery this time, after all, he has been engaged in the film industry for so many years, and he has seen a lot of winds and waves, but this time it can be described as infinitely beautiful, almost the top stars of this premiere have received invitations, it can be said that the first line of the entertainment industry has come more than eight or nine times out of ten, and the second line is also very much, plus other guests, the premiere is huge, and it has refreshed the scale and specifications of the Chinese film premiere.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the invited guests had basically arrived. The invitations are basically the most famous film and television companies in China, well-known producers, directors, famous film critics, and many celebrities and media reporters.
After Chen Daqi's bigwigs or deputy president-level representatives of the film and television company arrived, they entered the venue first. Chen Yongren still received the guests at the door as the host with the two leading actors, Liu Dehua and Liang Chaowei.
Seeing this scale, although he is very confident in "Infernal Affairs", Chen Yongren is still a little nervous, after all, in his previous life, his movie premiere did not have such a big pomp, not only did he secretly laugh at himself in his heart, but if he failed, he was afraid that he would never be able to mix in the entertainment industry again. But after all, he is a person who has a rebirth hanging, so he immediately adjusted his mentality, and said to Liu Dehua and Liang Chaowei, "Brother Hua, viagra, almost everything that can come has arrived, the premiere will start soon, let's go in too" and then went into the venue.
At half past seven, the premiere began, and the host was Xie Nan of the light, and according to the process, the major creators came to the stage one after another to talk about the hardships of film creation and shooting.
When Chen Yongren arrived, a reporter asked, "Director Chen, this is the first movie you directed, how much do you think the box office of the movie will be, and will it break the box office record of director Zhang Yimou?"
"Although this is my first time directing, I am very confident in my work, and I don't know if I can break Director Zhang's record, but I can set a small goal, such as breaking 100 million at the box office in the first week. As for the movie, you will know it as soon as you watch it, I think if you don't watch this movie, you will definitely regret it, because you missed a good movie," Chen Yongren said domineeringly.
"Director Chen, if I heard me correctly, did you just say that the box office of the movie broke 100 million in the first week?" The reporter asked, after listening to Chen Yongren's speech, the media below were all high, what a typical representative of youth and ignorance, I don't know that Zhang Yimou's highest box office record is only more than 35 million? And the highest box office record in mainland film history does not seem to have exceeded 1 billion, your goal is really small enough! Other guests are also discussing, whether Chen Yongren is really so confident, so confident, or ignorant...
"You heard it right, the box office of the movie broke 100 million in the first week, and the final box office did not exceed 500 million, for me, it is a failure for the movie! The movie will start screening immediately, as for how the movie is, I will wait for you to evaluate it after watching it" After speaking, Chen Yongren stepped down from the stage and returned to his position and sat down.
Chen Daqi on the side said to Chen Yongren, "Yongren, you just dared to say it, 500 million, if you can't reach it... , Although we are all optimistic about this movie, but whether the market is optimistic or not is still a bit bottomless, your small goal makes us feel a lot of pressure, if you don't break the record, those reporters can have you feel better" Chen Daqi said and said without confidence, after all, it is 500 million yuan, not ten yuan.
"Uncle Chen, don't worry, since I dare to speak up, I have confidence, you have also seen the movie, do you think this movie has no potential to break records?" Chen Yongren, who is well versed in marketing in later generations, asked rhetorically, you must know which movie is released now without shouting that the box office of more than one billion does not feel high-grade, backward, and he is quite low-key.
Chen Daqi couldn't help but smile when he heard Chen Yongren's words, and said, "Yongren, it seems that your Uncle Chen is old after all, or you young people have courage."
"Haha, Uncle Chen, you are still very young, in my opinion, you can still him for thirty or forty years"
Chen Daqi, who is in his forties and almost fifty years old, couldn't help but smile after hearing this, "You just can talk, the movie has started, let's watch the movie first, and then talk after watching it."
After the lights in the theater dimmed, the dragon logo appeared on the big screen first, and then the five big characters of Chen Yongren's work, followed by the opening animations of several companies, and then entered the feature film.
At the beginning of the film is a Buddhist scripture "Nirvana Sutra", what does "Nirvana Sutra" mean? It is the last posthumous teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni before Nirvana.
To explain, countless religions in the world talk about hell, and Buddhism is the most detailed religion that describes hell. Buddhism believes in the cycle of birth and death, reincarnation.
Reincarnation is divided into six realms: the Heavenly Path, the Human Path, the Asura Path, the Animal Path, the Hungry Ghost Path, and the Hell Path.
The Hell Dao is composed of eight hells, and the most frightening one is the Infernal Hell, which is the uninterrupted suffering, death and life, life and death, and the cycle repeats itself, without interruption, and this is the meaning of Infernal Affairs. Of course, in this movie, there is a difference between the underworld and the white way, and the undercover agent is between black and white.
So the beginning alone gives people infinite reverie, and a title attracts everyone deeply, I have to say that this movie is half of the success, at least it makes people have the desire to watch it.
With the broadcast of the movie, many famous film critics who were invited put down their pens, for fear of missing a shot, they thought it was a big bad movie, and they were going to capitalize and close-up, but after watching the movie, they found that it was a big mistake, this is a classic that cannot be missed for a shot.
Many details in the movie are worth considering, such as the two sets of numbers 27149 and 4927. Chen Yongren's police number is PC27149, while Liu Jianming's number is PC4927, and in Buddhism, 7749 days is used to exceed.
In the Buddhist concept of reincarnation, after death, within 7749 days, a person goes through seven stages, that is, 49 days is a buffer period, during which most people can atone for their sins and be reincarnated after excess. But the best go to heaven, and the worst go to hell.
The reversal of 27 and 49 symbolizes the misalignment of Liu and Chen, and Chen's number also has a 1 indicating that he has been wandering between the two roads for many years.
There is also a listening bridge, the more than ten minutes of monitoring part for the first time exposed the fact that both sides have undercover agents, first of all, Liu Jianming found that Officer Huang was very covert and put on another earphone, and at the same time saw Officer Huang's fingers playing the beat, and the beat coincided with the frequency displayed on the locked channel in the computer screen, so it was guessed that Officer Huang had planted an undercover agent on Han Chen's side, and the way they communicated was Morse code.
Chen Yongren on the other side also found that Han Chen was wearing a headset, and guessed that Han Chen might have also placed an undercover agent in the police.
The highlights of the battle of wits and courage between the two sides, and everyone who didn't watch the movie very well was addicted.
The movie is almost over unconsciously, and it has reached the section of the rooftop duel.
In fact, if Chen Yongren didn't know Liu Jianming's identity in the end, Liu Jianming should become Chen Yongren's friend for life. The first impression of the audio store has made him have a good impression, after knowing that Ah Ren is an undercover agent, he is even more sympathetic, seeing that he is not only suddenly enlightened at this moment, there is a person who has a somewhat similar experience like himself, suffering endless pain, so he wants to cherish it very much.
But after Chen Yongren accidentally discovered that Liu Jianming was Han Chen's undercover agent, he immediately escaped. Chen Yongren ran away because he was afraid that Liu Jianming would harm him, and he did not have any evidence in his hand at that time to directly prove that Liu Jianming was Han Chen's undercover agent, so he escaped first and then made a plan. What he didn't know was that Liu Jianming suddenly wanted to be a good person and planned to restore his identity.
When Liu Jianming returned to the office and found that Chen Yongren had left, and the envelope had been passed, he knew that his identity had been known by Chen Yongren. Then came the rooftop duel.
The reason why Chen Yongren chose the rooftop is because he is familiar with the terrain and he is a police officer, he wants to always be above board, which is in stark contrast to Liu Jianming, who can only hide in a dark movie theater to make deals.
With Chen Yongren's death and Liu Jianming's smooth continuation of being his good guy, the whole movie has ended.
In the Buddhist scriptures, it is clearly stated that what kind of person will be sent to the infernal hell after death, and the Buddha said: Those who commit the five sins of rebellion will fall into this world forever and suffer endlessly. The five rebels, one kills the father, the second kills the mother, the third kills the arhat, the four come out of the Buddha's body and blood, and the five break the monk of harmony, any one of them is to fall into the infernal hell.
So Chen Yongren may go to Infernal Hell, because although he is righteous, he has to be a traitor, and he is also hurt to the victim, so it is really difficult to say what will happen to the undercover agent. As for Liu Jianming's destining to the Infernal Hell, the Buddha said: Those who suffer from the Infernal Hell will never die, and longevity is the catastrophe in the Infernal Hell. Liu Jianming, who is worse than death, will have to endure the pain of infernal purgatory.
At this point, the whole movie was finished, and the audience was silent for dozens of seconds, and Chen Yongren, who was harmed, whispered, "It shouldn't be, it's not so bad, isn't the movie adaptable?" After a while, he responded with thunderous applause, which lasted for several minutes.
Looking at the thunderous applause at the scene, so far. Chen Yongren clenched his hands into fists excitedly, and he couldn't wait to shout that I had succeeded! Because the era that belonged to him Chen Yongren had officially come.