Chapter 14: Rock and Martial Arts (Part II)
On the screen, the hero and heroine have gone through many misunderstandings with each other, overcome various difficulties, and finally overcome the temptation of money and fame, and also threw aside the second female and second male respectively, and successfully came together.
Seeing the heroine happily wearing her wedding dress on the screen, it seemed that the whole picture was beginning to become brighter and brighter, Li Qian couldn't help but reach out and grab her chin and ponder.
In his previous life, he went to the theater to watch, bought and rented discs, and went to the film academy to watch the movies in the room, not a thousand, but 999, domestic and foreign, as far as the silent films of the old era, to the works of the fourth and fifth generations of directors in China, to the micro movies on the Internet, and even many films that can't be on the theater and can only be released on DVD to try to get back the two jujubes, he has seen them all, and he has his own set of criteria for judging the quality of the movie.
In his opinion, although the plot of this film is old-fashioned and the lens is clumsy, at least its main line is fine, and the rhythm is not deviated, and it can definitely be regarded as a qualified movie at this time in 1995.
But it's such a movie of acceptable quality that can allow young couples to pass the weekend love time, but the scene is extremely deserted - the entire hall, including Li Qian and Wang Jinglu, only a dozen or so people sat down, one of them started snoring not long after the opening, and soon after, two more people quit halfway!
Although it was at half past eight in the morning, considering that this was on Saturday, this result was obviously not good-looking, and the reaction of the audience directly marked the whole movie with a "street movie".
Therefore, when he walked out of the screening hall, Li Qian's brows were tightly furrowed.
"Do you think it's good-looking?" he asked Wang Jinglu.
"It's so beautiful! Qianqian finally married Li Mingyuan! So happy!" she said.
Li Qian's head was full of black lines.
Sure enough, this is the standard for girls to judge whether a movie is good?
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Only twenty minutes after the end of the first show, the two went to the bathroom separately, and then the second show "Proud Bones".
Unexpectedly, the box office of this film is still very poor!
It was already 10:10 a.m. when it opened, it was Saturday, and it was an American blockbuster, and it had just been released in China...... There were only thirty or forty people in the entire screening room!
This is Schwarzenegger's muscle!
A smooth story, sharp editing, and a sheer adrenaline rush from Schwarzenegger's muscles and fists...... Although Li Qian doesn't like this typical American muscle film much, he still thinks it can be worth the ticket price.
Even in Li Qian's view, regardless of the difference in their themes, whether from the artistic perspective of the film or the technical point of view, the strength and sincerity shown by this film are enough to crush the "Love, You Will Not Lose" just now.
However, the audience still didn't buy it.
"Do you think it's good-looking?" After watching the movie, Li Qian threw the same question to Wang Jinglu again.
Wang Jinglu frowned and thought for a while, looking entangled.
"That'...... What do you think?" she asked rhetorically.
Li Qian was speechless.
"I'm asking you!" he said.
Wang Jinglu hesitated for a moment before reluctantly saying, "Anyway...... I don't really like this kind of movie, call around...... However, the story is pretty good! That actor is really strong!"
Li Qian was speechless again.
So, when he walked out of the screening room, he was a little distracted. But then, when he and Wang Jinglu went to line up to wait for the entrance of the third "Three Musketeers in White", they were stunned at the time!
Crowded!
After entering the theater and before the screening, Li Qian deliberately stood up and looked at the screening hall - at least seventy percent of the attendance!
This made Li Qian's heart suddenly excited!
Director: Zhou Kuiyuan, starring: Frontier Defense, Lu Youming, Chen Bin, Sun Yuanyuan.
entered the story with full expectations, and then, Li Qian was stunned again!
That feeling made Li Qian feel like he was in Hong Kong in the 80s! That's ...... In the 80s, Hong Kong Radio TV opened other martial arts films except for a few classic Jin Yong dramas!
But the audience is buying it!
While watching the movie, some people sighed in a low voice from time to time -
"I'm grass, so handsome!"
"That's awesome!"
"Good!
It's men, and boys.
"The border guard is really handsome, you see him jumping on the roof, he is really handsome!"
"Chen Bin is also very handsome, and the role played by Chen Bin is the best!"
It's girls, and women.
Li Qian's eyelids jumped wildly, and his head was full of black lines.
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At 1:45 p.m., the rice noodle shop.
When two portions of rice noodles, one large and one small, were served, Li Qian was still a little absent-minded.
Wang Jinglu eats very delicately. She picked up a few rice noodles with chopsticks, blew carefully, and waited until it was a little cooler before sucking it into her mouth in small bites, without any movement.
After taking a bite, she saw Li Qian wandering while stirring the rice noodles in the bowl, so she took the initiative to say, "You seem to be very unenergetic?"
Li Qian looked up at her, as if he had smelled the aroma of rice noodles, he suddenly came a little stronger, lowered his head and picked up a chopstick and stuffed it into his mouth, Wang Jinglu hurriedly shouted, "Be careful of burning!"
Li Qian was stunned for a moment, and then put the rice noodles back.
After thinking about it, he said: "I don't know what's wrong, it's just a little unrelenting! Mainly, the situation of these movies is a bit ...... It's a bit beyond my imagination, so I feel a little confused!"
"Oh!" Wang Jinglu didn't quite understand what he was confused about, so she picked up a few more chopsticks, blew carefully, and then sucked them into her mouth, chewed and swallowed them, and then she opened her mouth to say the next sentence, "What are we going to do in the afternoon?
"What are you doing in a video store? Whose song do you want to buy?"
"I don't want to buy anyone, I'm just going shopping! Anyway...... I don't want to go home right away. ”
"Oh. ”
"By the way, by the way, you also like to listen to Zhou Yan's songs, right? How many albums do you have of her?"
"Three discs, right?", "Dreamer", "Quicksand River", and...... That's right, Fireworks. ”
"Ah, then you don't have as much as me, I still have her "Glass Cup" and "Crossing the River Without a Bridge", which are also very good, do you want to go back and lend them to you?"
"Okay!"
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It only took a few minutes for Li Qian to dry up a bowl of rice noodles.
Then, he waited for Wang Jinglu to finish eating.
When she finished eating, the two of them settled the bill and went out, but Li Qian suddenly stopped at the door and said, "Or...... Let's go to the movies again in the afternoon?...... There's something I can't figure out, and I want to see it again!"
"Oh, okay, let's go and see it, I don't have anything to do anyway! It's still fun to watch a movie!" she said.
So, the two went back to the cinema, Li Qian asked, and the conductor said that there were still tickets for the show "Alien No. 3" at three o'clock in the afternoon, so he paid for two more tickets.
This is another imported film, which is said to be screened in the last week, and it will be painted on the weekend.
This movie is very popular, because in my memory, the previous Li Qian had already watched it, and I still watched it with Liu Qiang, but Li Qian was still ready to watch it again.
Because it's ...... Science fiction movie!
Because he knows that this is likely to be the highest level of Hollywood film technology in 1995 in this time and space!
Li Qian felt that maybe this movie could help him solve some of the doubts in his heart.
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At 2:45, "Alien Three" began to check in.
After entering and before the screening, Li Qian checked the attendance as usual.
Although it was the last week of screenings, there were still about three or four percent of the attendance in the screening hall. Considering the tragic situation of "Love, You Won't Lose" and "Proud Bones" that he saw with his own eyes in the morning, Li Qian knew that this movie was really making a lot of money.
This reminded Li Qian of the invasion of Hollywood movies in the previous life.
Before the 90s, the entire Fan Chinese cultural circle, that is, East Asia and Southeast Asia, has always been the world of Hong Kong films, because of the differences in cultural orientation, values, aesthetics, etc., except for Japan, which has been trying to integrate into European and American culture, Hollywood-style blockbusters do not have much influence in this circle, which also makes Hong Kong with the strength of a city and the local market foundation of millions of people, but it has developed into the largest film and television base in Asia, and has achieved the glory of Hong Kong films.
However, with the development of science and technology, with the maturity of Hollywood's technical capabilities and production models, and the basic completion of Hollywood's internal resource integration, in the last decade of the twentieth century, the so-called American blockbusters began to hit the market with incomparably ferocious waves one after another. In the end, with the real sweeping trend formed after the release of Spielberg's "Jurassic Park", and the follow-up blockbusters such as "Titanic" came one after another, Hong Kong films fell to the ground, and since then they have declined, and the entire Fan Chinese cultural circle has since become the box office base of Hollywood blockbusters.
This situation lasted until Li Qian's rebirth, domestic films seemed to have begun to rise, and they also relied on a few urban films and comedies to get a good box office, but they were still weak in the entire market, especially when facing the heavy pressure of Hollywood blockbusters, domestic filmmakers still couldn't come up with any weighty innovations, and everyone was rushing to make movies with the mentality of making a handful, so that the world's first so-called variety show movie appeared!
Moreover, even if domestic films begin to rise, their box office and influence are only limited to the smaller Chinese-speaking market. Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places have long become Hollywood's backyard.
In this time and space, Li Qian has not heard of "Jurassic Park", and "Titanic" does not know where it is, but the development trend of "big investment, big return" formed by the development of science and technology and the maturity of the market is something that no one can stop. So, although there is no "Jurassic Park", "Alien Three" arrives as scheduled.
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In the screening hall, Li Qian reached out and grabbed his chin, staring intently at the big screen.
The story of earthlings and aliens making friends, and then fighting evil aliens together, is of course not new at all for Li Qian, who has watched Hollywood blockbusters in his previous life, and the current special effects that still seem a little rough also make him feel "not enjoyable" and "a little fake", but I have to admit that Hollywood filmmakers are really good at telling this kind of science fiction story very beautifully!
And for the current audience, especially the Chinese audience, the special effects at this level are good enough and shocking enough, and this kind of alien story is already creative enough!
Therefore, when the cute alien No. 3 on the big screen showed his super powers to the male protagonist, Li Qian clearly heard the sound of "wow" in the screening room......
When the male protagonist is repeatedly molested by his alien friends, he also clearly hears the laughter around him......
And when the alien warship landed in the sky over Washington, that kind of grand and glorious scene also made many people gasp and straighten their backs......
Take a deep breath and take another long breath.
Li Qian knows that Hollywood blockbusters are really coming!
What should China rely on to resist? martial arts films?
He rubbed the non-existent stubble on his chin repeatedly, once again lost in thought.