Chapter 15: The Sorrow of Idleness
The little girl has never been able to hide her thoughts.
After watching the movie, for several days, Wang Jinglu looked like she was happy.
She really couldn't hide her appearance, so Wang Jinglu's mother asked her that night: "What good things have you met? Why are you so happy?"
The little girl was startled, her eyes purred, and she said, "After watching a good movie, I think the hero and heroine are so happy." ”
This statement made Wang Jinglu's mother very confused.
And the next day, before class, her girlfriends couldn't help but ask, "Hey, Lu, why are you so happy?"
"It's obviously the Prince of the Blue Horse, right? That Lamborghini is so handsome!"
"Hey, are you in a relationship with a prince or a horse?"
"Cut, Xiao Lu don't pay attention to them,...... I said, that handsome guy is so handsome, almost, get married, get married!"
"The key is Lamborghini, you can see that the family must be super rich!"
"You money worshipper, go to death, don't ruin our Xiaolu's view of love, okay?"
"Hey, the woman to be married who is going to marry in your summer vacation knows what kind of love concept does not have a love concept, marriage is the grave of love, you have to go to the grave, what kind of love do you talk about!"
"Hey, I said, you say so much, do you put Li Qian in your eyes, they are childhood sweethearts......"
"Cut, Xiaolu said it herself, they're just ordinary friends! Besides, what does Li Qian compare with others, they are high-achieving students who graduated from Cambridge University, look at Li Qian, well, although he has made rapid progress recently, 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 of it!"
Wang Jinglu kept her head down and listened to their nonsense, until someone mentioned Li Qian, she couldn't help but raise her head and defend timidly, "Hey, Li Qian is not as bad as you say!"
"Huh?......"
The women's army let out surprised questions.
…………
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 "Huaxia Film Weekly".
Tonight, these two newspapers and one magazine are his homework.
But it's a pity that except for some instant news in the entertainment industry, "Variety Express" basically has nothing weighty, so Li Qian has to lament that he still spent a lot of money. So, he just skimmed through it, tossed it aside, and decided never to buy it again.
The weekly box office statistics on "Film Weekly" are one of the most important things for him.
However, the situation does not seem to be too rosy.
"Alien No. 3" officially went offline, and before that, it had already swept the country of polar bears, sweeping away 170 million rubles at the box office in one go, equivalent to more than 200 million US dollars! And in China, this blockbuster also swept away a full 325 million Chinese yuan, equivalent to more than 160 million US dollars, becoming the fourth largest box office in China in all years -- here, "Film Weekly" A list of some past information, it has to be mentioned: since the Western calendar began to have detailed box office statistics in China in 1975, there are only 9 films with more than 100 million Chinese yuan in domestic box office history, of which 4 are imported films, namely 325 million Chinese dollars for "Alien Three", from the United States, 158 million Chinese dollars for "Best Lover", also from the United States, 131 million Chinese dollars for the third part of "Star Wars", of course, from the United States, and "National Mission" of 107 million Chinese dollars, from the Soviet Union.
Among them, it is particularly worth mentioning that "Best Lover" was released in 1982, and its domestic box office record of 158 million Chinese yuan was not broken by a domestic film until 1988, and before that, it had occupied the top of the box office list for more than seven years!
Holding the newspaper in his hand, Li Qian pondered for a long time.
"Film Weekly" specifically recalled and mentioned this, 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 make a hoarse voice and devote an entire page to cheering for "The Three Musketeers in White"! Three film reviews and one editor's note, all of which were vigorously advocating and calling on people to go to the cinema to contribute to the box office!
Of course, "The Three Musketeers in White" is also considered to be competitive, although it was only four days in the first week of its launch, it won more than 14.83 million box office in the country, and last week, that is, the second week of the launch, their decline was also very small, winning 14.22 million in seven days, and if the decline is calculated according to the weekend box office, it is only a small drop of 12.5%, and the total box office in two weeks has reached 29.05 million yuan.
According to the estimation 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 break 80 million Chinese yuan, as for breaking 100 million...... If it can be changed to a long-line screening in the later stage, it is not completely hopeless, anyway, martial arts films, the favorite of the Chinese people.
And it is said that the investment in 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 still relatively optimistic about the future development prospects of domestic films, so Li Qian is a little ...... Disappointed.
opened "Film Weekly", Li Qian's eyes lit up.
Its first film review was murderous with a title that might make most filmmakers today feel a little sensational - "The Wolf is Coming!"
Yes, the wolf is coming!
This film review comprehensively analyzes the gap between domestic films and Hollywood blockbusters represented by "Alien Three" from the perspective of script creativity, directing techniques, photography, editing, and even soundtrack, especially mentioning Hollywood special effects, expressing the author's deep worries as a film critic.
At the end of the article, the author also deliberately supports domestic film practitioners, which can be summarized in three ways:
First, we must pay attention to the creativity and innovation of movie scripts, don't continue to stumble with martial arts films, no matter how much Chinese people love to watch martial arts, they will get tired of it, and the interest of film practitioners must be in front of the market, and they must lead the market, rather than watching what is popular and what is filmed, what is to make money, which leads to a large number of blind followers;
Second, we should pay close attention to improving the overall supporting level of the film industry, and the cameras should be eliminated, and if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, no matter how good your story is, you can't stand the blurry and unclear movie picture waste. For film production companies, it is necessary to spend some money to buy, or simply entrust universities and research institutes to study better cameras, and moreover, the domestic film processing technology is too outdated, if you don't hurry up the development and catch up, the future will be stuck by people's necks;
Third, film production companies should immediately send people to Hollywood to learn special effects production, and no matter how much money they spend, they should not feel distressed! In the future, filming large-scale productions with large investment through computer-produced special effects will certainly become an absolute trend in the development of the film industry, and this is the inevitable law of capital development -- high investment and high returns! Whoever neglects this point will certainly be ruined in front of the market!
From Li Qian's point of view, this film review is simply to the point! The last three suggestions are definitely a solid grasp of the most critical point.
It can be said that this article has vision, content, opinions, and direction...... It was just perfect!
So after reading this film theory twice, he also paid special attention to it and remembered the author's name.
Huang Yujie.
…………
After school in the afternoon, Qi Jie still stayed alone in the office to read novels as usual.
The novel is good, it was something she just found out last night, a new book by an old author.
There was no class for her in the third class in the afternoon, and she sat in the office fidgeting, in fact, she had been waiting for the school bell to ring, and she could read a book by herself.
But now, after school, everyone is gone, and the whole campus is quiet, but she doesn't feel right.
It's obviously a story that she likes very much, and she really wants to see it, but on the contrary, she just feels in a trance and can't stand it.
With a sigh, she closed her laptop, stood up, and decided to listen to the song first, as is customary.
Recently, she has begun to like to run to the corridor above the fifth floor after school every afternoon, sit on the steps and listen to the people upstairs singing a song.
It seems that if she doesn't hear the crisp guitar sound every day, she will feel that there is something unfinished in her heart.
So she got up, opened the door, walked out of the office, and walked slowly upstairs.
But just after walking a few steps, she suddenly found that today's ...... Seem...... No sound?
She was stunned at first, then surprised.
Listen closely, there is really no sound!
"He didn't come today?" she thought to herself.
Then, after thinking about it, she continued upstairs.
4th Floor ......
5th Floor ......
There was no movement at all!
Inexplicably, she felt a little flustered.
Even his footsteps seem to have suddenly become much more anxious.
Arriving at the old place where she used to come every day, she listened again with bated breath.
There's really no movement upstairs at all!
No coughing, no drinking, no guitars or singing!
After a moment's hesitation, she slowly climbed up.
Arriving at the entrance to the rooftop, she took a deep breath and suddenly stepped forward...... Empty!
Completely involuntarily, she sighed in disappointment, her brows furrowed slightly, and some anxiety was rising in her heart.
On the rooftop, near the stairway, there are eight identical stone benches.
Qi Jie stood at the entrance of the corridor and was stunned for a moment, then walked over, found a stone bench and sat down, looking around, looking at the empty rooftop, while fantasizing about the scene on the rooftop in his mind-
A boy, well, should look a little handsome, because his voice is really good, so it should be difficult for people to see where to go, of course, maybe he will have a little personality to grow half-length hair, and then ...... Maybe there will be one or two pimples on the face?
Every afternoon after school, when the sun was setting and the heat was still burning on the balcony, he held a guitar and sat on one of the stone benches, maybe the wind would blow his hair, or maybe there was no ...... Who knows!
It's hot around, but there's no one, it's quiet, and it's great for one's lyricism.
He was carrying, in addition to a guitar, a drinking glass filled with warm water that would allow him to moisten his throat between singing.
Then, he started playing guitar and he started singing.
Every time he sings two or three songs, he stops, takes a break, and takes a few sips of water.
Maybe it's going to be hot, it's going to make his face red, there's sweat running down his chest, down his back, down his cheeks, tickling, and then ...... Like the boys who play basketball, he would simply take off his shirt and bare his chest, revealing the slightly thin pecs of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy.
Then he played it over and over again, song after song, and before he knew that just a few steps away, a man was sitting on the steps, with his eyes closed, listening attentively to his every note, every chant......
…………
"I wonder if he will continue to sing in the future?"
Qi Jie sighed with emotion, as if she wanted to recall something and hang on to something, but she felt that a kind of sadness gradually permeated, twilight-like, unstoppable, and made people feel melancholy.
"I don't know if he practiced so many songs, but he sang the song to his beloved girl, and I don't know if the girl accepted his pursuit?"
Thinking of these endless bits and pieces in his mind, Qi Jie looked back at the western sky.
Stunned, stunned, she just watched quietly and motionlessly.
Until the sunset sank into the western mountains little by little.
The sky is shining, and the sunset is like fire.
She sighed, stood up, and walked slowly downstairs.