Chapter 31: The Premiere (Part I)
When night falls on Hong Kong Island, the starry sky in the sky and the street lamps on the ground echo each other, and the scenery is very magnificent.
Wang Zheng was standing in a Shaw Brothers theater in Clear Water Bay, looking at the red carpet in front of him, Zhou Yanfa was wearing a straight suit and Chen Yulian, who was wearing a white dress, walking on the red carpet, like a pair of golden boys and girls. Many reporters gathered around the red carpet, and the flash flashed continuously, and Zhou Yunfa waved at the flash and showed a charming smile, attracting many fans outside the guardrail to scream.
Today is the premiere of Shaw Brothers Pictures' "Ghost Blows the Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City", and TVB popular students Zhou Yunfa and Hua Dan Chen Yulian were invited to be red carpet guests.
Because some media were not optimistic about this movie, and Shao Tycoon didn't want to see reporters asking questions indiscriminately, Shaw Brothers only arranged a red carpet walk, and did not arrange an interview session with reporters.
"Next, we invite all the members of the crew of "Ghost Blowing Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City" to appear, they are director Wang Zheng, Liang Chaowei who plays the male protagonist Hu Bayi, Guan Zhilin who plays the heroine Shirley Yang, Xu Dafei who plays Wang Kaixuan, Zhou Xingchi who plays the big golden tooth, Shi Tian who plays Professor Chen, Liu Dehao who plays Hao Aiguo, and Zhong Chuhong who plays the student A Hong. ”
The on-site master of ceremonies began to announce the curtain, and Wang Zheng, who was waiting at the entrance of the red carpet, took Guan Zhilin to the red carpet. Guan Zhilin, who was walking next to him, was dressed in a black dress, his slender white thighs dazzled the eyes of the reporters next to him, and his low-cut collar attracted countless eyeballs.
The flash flashed quickly, and Wang Zheng felt that he had become a passer-by at once, and it seemed that the red carpet was still a stage for women. thought that Guan Zhilin would stay for the reporter to take pictures, but she held Wang Zheng and walked directly past the reporter without stopping. Waving to the few fans outside the fence, the two went straight into the theater.
Liang Chaowei also stepped on the red carpet with Zhong Chuhong in his arms, and the other leading actors rushed in.
Soon, Shao Tycoon walked on the red carpet with a dragon head cane and Fang Yihua, although Shao Tycoon did not invite many red carpet guests to help, but he came over in person to show that he attached great importance to this movie, and the reporters' flashes turned to Shao Tycoon, but he didn't expect the tycoon to appear at the premiere.
In the rest area of the theater, Wang Zheng and others shook hands with Zhou Yunfa and Chen Yulian, although their relationship was not made public, everyone knew that they were a couple.
"Fa Ge, it's a pleasure for you to come to the premiere of our film. Wang Zheng held Zhou Yanfa's hand, very enthusiastic, although he knew that this was the arrangement of the Shaw Family.
"You're welcome, I love the story and would love to see how the movie turns out. Zhou Yan said with a smile.
Wang Zheng didn't mention the encounter with him in the tea restaurant, when he was a nobody, and Zhou Yanfa was busy filming at that time, and he may not remember the waiter who introduced himself in the tea restaurant for a long time.
When the 800 seats in the theater were full, Wang Zheng took a group of leading actors to the first row of the theater seats, while Shao Daheng and Zhou Yunfa watched in the theater box. The audience stood up and applauded to welcome the arrival of the crew, these are all die-hard audiences of Shaw Brothers Pictures invited by Shaw Brothers, and there are also some newspaper reporters.
On behalf of the organizers, Wang Zheng invited everyone to sit down, without too much nonsense, and the film began to be screened directly.
A beam of projection lights hit the central screen, the screen lights up, the unique SB logo of Shaw Brothers Pictures appears, a burst of music plays, and the movie officially begins.
The busy streets on the screen are crowded with pedestrians, walking past all kinds of people, from office workers rushing to work with briefcases, and fruit sellers carrying their burdens, and the screen subtitles are also displayed.
Starring: Liang Chaowei, Guan Zhilin, Zhou Xingchi, Xu Dafei, Liu Dehao, Wang Zheng. Guest starring: Shi Tian. Friendship starring: Zhong Chuhong. Special starring: Gooma.
Producer: Fang Yihua. Producers: Fang Yihua, Wang Zheng. Screenwriter: Wang Zheng. Director: Wang Zheng.
After the subtitles ended, the screen came to a station, Wang Fatzi played by Da Fei sat on a tricycle and looked at the exit of the station, and soon Liang Chaowei, who was dressed in a tunic suit, came out of the station, and the two reunited after a long absence.
The screen turned to a teahouse, the big gold tooth played by Zhou Xingchi was selling a snuff bottle to the two ghosts, Zhou Xingchi was very happy to fool the two ghosts like a hanging river, and finally sold it for 5000 Hong Kong dollars in the good.good, after the transaction, Zhou Xingchi's profiteer's successful appearance caused the theater audience to laugh quietly, at this time, the fat man Dafei just saw this scene, and he must reason with Zhou Xingchi, and return the ancestral jade pendant he sold to Zhou Xingchi at a low price, and found the purple gold compass on Liang Chaowei's body during the debate.
Wang Zheng glanced back at the audience behind him, and saw that the audience was all staring at the big screen with curious eyes, so he was relieved, and the leading actors sitting next to him also reacted the same as the audience, and this was the first time they watched the premiere.
The story is quickly edited here, the three of them found Professor Chen of the archaeological team together, applied for the leader of the archaeological team, at this time the heroine Guan Zhilin appeared, a standard Chinese and sexy figure made the audience very amazing, Wang Zheng heard several viewers behind asking each other about Guan Zhilin's name, and also heard some viewers say that she was beautiful and sexy, Wang Zheng smiled at the corner of his mouth and looked at Guan Zhilin sitting next to him, seeing that she stared at the screen seriously and watched very devotedly, Wang Zheng no longer looked around, and watched the movie seriously.
Everyone in the archaeological team was impressed by Liang Chaowei's sixteen-character feng shui secret technique, and the student Ah Hong looked at Liang Chaowei with admiration, and the little woman's posture was very charming. In the end, Liang Chaowei and several people successfully joined the team, set off in the desert to find the ruins together, found the guide An Liman in the edge town, and officially set foot on the desert.
The boundless golden desert made the group miserable, and also let the audience see the charm of the desert. The last group encountered a sandstorm and fled for their lives, hiding in a loess ruin. The audience was shocked by the yellow sand scene in the sky, and was very surprised by how this was filmed, and they all felt that this movie was very exciting, not at all like a bad movie as stated in Entertainment Weekly.
The group hid in the loess ruins and saw various animals hiding from sandstorms in the desert, which also opened the audience's eyes. Finally, a stone statue was dug up in the yellow sand, An Liman stopped everyone's actions, thinking that this was blasphemy, and Professor Chen, who was obsessed with ruins, could listen to An Liman's persuasion, and finally the marching ants that crawled out of the eyes of the god chased the group and fled in all directions. Where the marching ants passed, the animals that did not have time to flee in a hurry were instantly bitten into a bone frame, and Liang Chaowei was surrounded by marching ants in order to cover everyone, and he was in danger, which made the audience sweat for him. At a critical juncture, Guan Zhilin rescued Liang Chaowei like a divine soldier, which made the audience all breathe a sigh of relief, and they were also fascinated by Guan Zhilin's heroic posture.
Although the special effects of the ants are a bit fake, the actors acted very realistically, the audience was very engaged, and the audience was very quiet.
Everyone in the archaeological team was frightened by the marching ants, and when they were glad to escape, they found that they only cared about running for their lives and didn't look at the direction, and they walked for most of the day before they found that they had lost their way, and the water at this time was almost drunk, and the water had been exhausted after walking for half a day, and An Liman still couldn't find the direction, and everyone was a little desperate.
When the audience was worried about a group of people, Liang Chaowei identified that there must be a water source here according to the stars in the sky, and everyone saw that they wanted to look for it together, and finally found an ancient well, and found a tomb in the ancient well, everyone went down to observe it together and found from the mural that the ruins they were looking for were called the exquisite ancient city, and this place was close to the ancient city, and it was also found that the ancient tomb was robbed and the tomb thieves had just moved, everyone had to hurry up and find the exquisite ancient city before this group of tomb robbers.
Later, Liang Chaowei used the Celestial Star Water Splitting Technique to find the entrance of the exquisite ancient city, and found the body of a foreign tomb robber at the entrance, Liu Dehao, who played Hao Aiguo, was very angry: "This group of foreign tomb robbers is really hateful, they came to China to steal and dig up Chinese treasures, take them to their museum exhibitions, and say that they keep them for us, this kind of statement is really shameful." ”
When the audience heard Hao Aiguo's words, they also felt the same way, and the scene on the screen reminded them of the original Eight-Nation Alliance.
Liu De angrily dragged the body of the tomb robber, Liang Chaowei hurriedly stopped his move, but it was too late, a fiery red snake strung out of the corpse and instantly bit Liu Dehao's neck, making his face turn red and purple at once, and he fell to the ground and died with two smacks in his throat.
The audience was taken aback by this sudden change, and before the audience could relax, a new change arose, after the fiery red snake bit Liu Dehao to death, it instantly wrapped around Liang Chaowei's neck next to him, which made Liang Chaowei dare not move, and the fire snake opened its big mouth full of fangs and was ready to bite Liang Chaowei's neck. The audience exclaimed loudly, some timid viewers blindfolded and did not dare to look at the next picture, "card rub", a flash light lit up, the fire snake was blinded by the flash and bit the wrong direction, Liang Chaowei hurriedly turned around and grabbed the tail of the fire snake, threw it to the ground, and the sapper shovel in his left hand cut the fire snake into two pieces. The audience was frightened by this change, but they didn't expect that when the picture turned, the fire snake had been cut in half, and it turned out that Guan Zhilin used the flash of the camera to save Liang Chaowei's life.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the student played by Wang Zheng saw the tragic death of his teacher, and angrily stepped on the corpse of the fire snake to vent, and then the accident protruded, the body of the fire snake that had been broken into two, the snake head suddenly flew up and bit towards Wang Zheng's neck, and the audience was shocked again, Wang Zheng was so frightened that he hurriedly turned around, and with a "bell", the snake head bit the camera on Wang Zheng's shoulder, but fortunately, Wang Zheng carried the camera to block the snake's head and survived.
The audience was nervous and scared by this change after another, which was really exciting, and they stared at the big screen intently, looking forward to what changes would happen in the next plot.