Chapter 104: The Wives and Concubines of the General Assembly
Simply talking about the quality of the movie "Autumn Fairy Tale", Lu Lingxi is of course confident, from the script, to the shooting, to the performance, and then to the final appearance that will be presented in the later stage, she is confident.
But as for how high the box office can be for this movie, she really has no confidence in her heart.
Although with the role of "Thirteen Aunts", with "Carry on Love to the End" and "Daming Palace Ci", she is already one of the most famous female directors in China, although "Autumn Fairy Tale" has a pair of actors and actresses like Li Qian and Qin Jingjing joining, in fact, there is enough to give her a certain amount of confidence.
But directing a movie for the first time, coupled with the worries and anxieties of post-editing for a month, made her at the most unconfident time, no matter how much Li Qian encouraged, no matter how much she relaxed, and even said "Use this "Autumn Fairy Tale" to set an example for those people!", just to cheer her up, but when this meal was over, Li Qian found that she seemed to be more nervous.
It's something that can't be helped.
The common problem of rookie directors - not to mention rookie directors, old drivers can't escape this hurdle.
In fact, for many directors, before this movie is drawn, they have already begun to worry about whether their next movie will be popular!
It's like when a starting point author is about to finish a book, do you think he won't worry about the results of the next book?
Only by succeeding again and again can we thoroughly cultivate that kind of self-confidence and confidence.
It's like Sanshao and Tomato, they no longer have to worry about whether to hit the street or not.
In fact, when "The Legend of the New White Lady" and "My Sassy Girlfriend" were in his heart, although he had the confidence of a successful and glorious history in another time and space, Li Qian was still worried, so he kept improving, and it was only later that he slowly got better.
waited until "Huang Feihong" was a big hit, and when "Red Sorghum" not only won awards but also sold well, as a director, even if he was just a director with "copying and re-creation" as the main direction, he began to really get up, and now, even if he spends 500 million yuan to make a movie, he is no longer worried.
And Lu Lingxi, there is still a lack of similar success.
In this regard, Li Qian didn't force comfort, ate and chatted for a while, and then drove Lu Lingxi back to her new home, telling her not to forget to attend the premiere of "Crazy Stone" the day after tomorrow, and then drive home.
is already twenty-eight years old, as Lu Lingxi said, he does have a lot of people to accompany.
Adults are good to say, there is Wang Jinglu, a popular main room there, although it is inevitable that everyone wants Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but Li Qian accompanied Wang Jinglu, no one can say anything, and these women around him, no one will pull down their faces to do something excessive.
But the child can't.
They are all growing up, and they can remember a lot of what is happening now.
Spring Festival is the most important reunion festival for Chinese, and children must be together, accompanied by their fathers to spend Chinese New Year's Eve, ushering in the first day of the new year.
This is the atmosphere of home that Chinese value the most.
So this year, on Chinese New Year's Eve, He Runqing took Li Cha and Zhou Yan took Li Shotsheng to live in the big house of Li Qian and Wang Jinglu, and Xie Bing also came, looking at Li Shotsheng and their three little brothers and sisters, hungry, teasing this and that.
Wang Jingxue insisted on not staying here and went back to her parents.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, only Liao Liao will remain in the United States in Li Qian's small family, preparing for her next concert that will last three months to travel all over North America.
Li Qian once asked Qi Jie what she meant, but she resolutely refused to come, so she simply flashed on the afternoon of the twenty-seventh day of the New Year and went back to Jinan Mansion to accompany her parents.
Cheng Suhua was also reluctant to come.
She doesn't use it as an excuse to participate in the Spring Festival Gala or something, but she just said very simply, anyway, she has no name or no point, why did she do it in the pastββ and she doesn't want a name.
On the contrary, Jiang Yiyi muttered a few words, which probably meant that she wanted to wait for the Spring Festival Gala to come to Li Qian's house to eat a bowl of dumplings, which would be considered a holiday.
Li Qian refused.
She is very shaky now, and she is a person who loves to show off and pretend, and the big villa at home has already been bought, and this year she has brought her parents to Shuntian Mansion. She is now in Shuntianfu, but she is not the "homeless" and pitiful appearance she described in the past.
Of course, Li Qian had called in advance and asked his parents to come over for the New Year together.
The old couple wanted their grandchildren, but on the phone, the mother swallowed and vomited for a long time, and finally the father answered the phone, but he couldn't say it - Li Qian felt that the old couple was probably too chaotic at home, and there were several daughters-in-law, and they were really a little big, and they didn't want to get involved in Li Qian's.
In fact, it's a bit big.
Wang Jinglu is good, or Zhou Yan, He Runqing, Xie Bing, are not troublesome nature, even if it is not Chinese New Year's Eve, they get together, Taiping is still peaceful, but you want to say that it is not easy to let them really be like sisters, and everyone will have a reunion year together.
Fortunately, Wang Jinglu's popularity is good, and although she is an eldest woman, she is called sister when she sees everyone, He Runqing is good at dancing with long sleeves, Xie Bing is well-behaved and lovely, even if Zhou Yan is not very suitable for so many people to stay together, but she always shows a little face to Li Qian and Wang Jing, plus everyone knows that she is usually like that, and no one cares about anything - the most important thing is that Li Shesheng and Li Cha are already able to talk about making trouble, with these two children, the atmosphere in the house is always lively and jubilant.
As a result, Li Qian, the first "conference wife and concubine" in the history of a small family, was relatively successful.
Everyone ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, drank wine, watched the Spring Festival Gala tease their children, and celebrated Chinese New Year's Eve.
In the song program of this year's Huaxia TV Spring Festival Gala, Minghu Culture almost occupies half of the sky - the music department has continued to make efforts under the auspices of Xie Mingyuan over the years, not only the position of the old singers has become more and more stable, and they have gradually become the existence of kings and queens, and a large number of new singers who have debuted through their own discovery or talent shows are also becoming the backbone of the current domestic music scene.
Of course, without real top forces such as Li Qian, Liao Liao, Zhou Yan, and Rose Power, Zhou Ye, as the leading brother of Minghu Culture in music, still seems to be missing a little weight, and he feels a little unable to hold back the scene - this year's Spring Festival Gala contacted Li Qian in various ways, trying to get him to appear on the Spring Festival Gala again, and contacted three or four times, but Li Qian thought about it and still refused.
As we all know, the Spring Festival Gala is the best stage for promoting newcomers, and every year newcomers become famous through the Spring Festival Gala, and what Li Qian lacks most now is precisely fame. If he appears, he will definitely take away a lot of attention, firstly, he himself is not uncommon, and secondly, he blocks the way for newcomers to become famous, why bother!
The youngest little guy went to bed early, and at nine o'clock, Li Shesheng and Li Cha were also so sleepy that they couldn't open their eyes, and they were coaxed to sleep by their respective mothers.
Then, several people drank wine and chatted without a word, and they really saw the New Year's bell ringing at the Spring Festival party in one breath, and then they went back to their rooms.
The embarrassment was still a little bit, but it was not as serious as Li Qian had thought before.
He thought to himself: This is a good start!
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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, on February 6, 2005, "Crazy Stone" officially landed in major theaters across the country.
In the morning, many guests who received the invitation rushed to the Minghu Cinema in Suncheonfu - many of them couldn't hide the thick dark circles under their eyes even if they wore makeup.
Originally, Minghu Culture didn't like to hold any premiere ceremonies. But with the success of "Big Shot", Feng Bicheng, as one of the most important famous directors in China, has made it necessary for Minghu Culture to hold a premiere ceremony for him.
Qi Jie didn't come, but Li Qian personally came to the platform.
A large number of directors, actors, and singers under Minghu Culture, as long as they are in Shuntianfu, have come to the platform to congratulate them, Feng Bicheng's father Feng Yumin is a leading figure in the domestic TV drama circle, and his connections are even wider than Li Qian-except for a very few people who don't deal with Li Qian and Minghu Culture, people in this circle who have heads, faces and free time are basically here.
At the scene, Li Qian and Feng Bicheng got together to talk to each other, and many photos were specially arranged for people to be taken - although Minghu Culture has been trying its best to suppress the news, as early as during and after the release of "Big Names", some bad negative news about Feng Bicheng has always existed, and the most attacked and criticized is undoubtedly that he had attacked Li Qian behind his back when he received Li Qian's great support.
And this time, the photo was specially greeted by the propaganda department in advance.
With these photos, all the "rumors" can naturally be self-defeating.
Of course, in fact, when the script of "Crazy Stone" was given to Feng Bicheng, for Li Qian, this matter had already been revealed. When he talks to Feng Bicheng, he doesn't have to be fake at all.
Previously, when "Crazy Stone" was about to be completed, he also deliberately went to Chongqing Mansion to suppress and congratulate Feng Bicheng - it is not easy to say that it is not easy to completely return to the intimacy as before, but as superiors and subordinates, the relationship between the two is now relatively harmonious.
Moreover, even Qi Jie now has to admit that among these directors under Minghu Culture, Feng Bicheng's loyalty and sense of conversion to the company and Li Qian are the strongest.
Even Han Shunzhang may not be able to compare.
Feng Bicheng in recent years, even if he has become popular with "Big Names", he is still extremely low-key, and even so low-key that he is not like himself at all.
When asked by a reporter about the box office when he was interviewed, he modestly said, "Making a comedy is for everyone to have fun watching the picture, as long as I don't lose money, I can continue to shoot, anyway, everyone supports it more, don't ask for too much, just keep the capital!"
And when the reporters asked why they chose to arrange the movie on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a time period when "almost no one will go to the movies", he said with a smile: "That's not the case, a few years ago, our company's film opening work "My Sassy Girlfriend" was set for a few days after the Spring Festival, and the box office was also quite good in that year. Master Qian had confidence in me, and asked me which day I wanted to set, and I said that it would be okay any day, and Master Qian said, then let's just start the Spring Festival!
"Spring Festival stalls?"
"That's right! Spring Festival stalls! The first day of the new year, the first day of the new year!"
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In the current time and space, even until now, there has been a precedent of a box office explosion like "My Sassy Girlfriend" during the Spring Festival, but the concept of "Spring Festival file" is still completely absent.
The wave of commercialization of films has been carried out for more than ten years, and the concepts of commercial films and commercial blockbusters have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and with the gradual integration with the world film market, especially with Hollywood, many concepts of the film market in Europe and the United States, especially in North America, have gradually come to China, and now, they have become some fixed concepts in the Chinese film market.
For example, summer files, such as Valentine's Day schedules, and so on.
Of course, the difference in cultural background and the difference in people's living customs make there huge differences between China and the United States.
The United States has an Independence Day holiday, China does not, and it is not a time period, but China has a Mid-Autumn Festival.
Americans celebrate Christmas, and it is extremely important, it is an important time for the audience to watch movies, so the Christmas and New Year's Day in the United States is a very important reservation for family movies, but when it comes to China, New Year's Day is just a starting point.
The Spring Festival is a festival unique to China. But over the years, the concept of the Spring Festival, for Chinese, the biggest meaning is two words - go home.
During this period of time, the film market often does not have much market to speak of.
The Spring Festival stalls are even more not.
Sometimes, the Spring Festival is in February, and there is a certain degree of overlap with Valentine's Day, so it will be barely brought hot, but it is also limited, and it will make Valentine's Day unattended.
The market affects the movie, and the movie affects the market.
It is precisely because many of the habits of Chinese in the past are there, resulting in fewer people watching movies during the Spring Festival, so the distribution company will not take good films to this time for release, and conversely, there are no good movies to arouse people's ideas of watching movies, which leads to a colder box office market during this time.
However, Li Qian firmly believes that in fact, with the development of modern society and the continuous upswing of the economy, people not only have money, but also the way of celebrating the festival and the concept of consumption during the Spring Festival are also changing greatly.
So, for the Chinese New Year, let's have fun, then take a comedy and try the water of "Spring Festival Stalls"!
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Let's give everyone an early year in advance, and I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year!
In the next three days, the day before the year and the two days after the year, we will sweep the tomb, worship the ancestors, reunite, and drink, and I dare not guarantee that there will be an update, but maybe it will be updated. In short, the update is not powerful, everyone is more considerate!
From the third day of the Lunar New Year, it should be ensured that there will be updates.