On January 23, in Beijing, Wanda Film and Television Group headquarters, in an office of the cinema audit department.

The days when the year is approaching are the busiest days of the year for the staff of the audit department of the cinema line. Near the New Year's Pass, the Chinese New Year blockbusters invested and produced by major production companies poured into the cinema film market like a tide, trying to suck in frantically during the days near the New Year's Pass.

Wanda Film and Television, as one of the top cinema film and television groups in China, has nearly 1,000 Wanda cinemas in China distributed throughout the country and has a huge scale, so generally large distribution companies will cooperate with Wanda Film and Television to make movies go to theaters.

The time is ** o'clock in the evening, and the staff of the review department of Wanda Film and Television Cinema Line are working overtime to review the copies of films that major distribution companies want to schedule in theaters.

Because of the Chinese New Year, the national vacation is the outbreak period of the film market, and all kinds of films are going into battle at the end of this year, wanting to make a profit, so there are many films that want to be released in theaters. The staff of the cinema review department selects excellent films from these film copies to the theater to earn enough benefits for the company.

This requires sufficient business insight and market popularity of the film, so in order to ensure efficiency, each review group has five employees, and at the same time reviews a copy of the film.

Today is January 23rd, and there are still two weeks to watch before the New Year, but the theater schedule has been scheduled for the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and all the prime time has been occupied by New Year's films gathered by major celebrity directors.

In fact, the sense of storage of the cinema review department is usually not very strong, because there are usually few films, and the review department's requirements for film review are not too high, and the quality is acceptable or there are enough gimmicks such as a director or star, they can let the film be released to the theater. At the end of the year, it's different.

There are too many films in the New Year, famous directors and celebrities from all walks of life gather, and there are foreign blockbusters who want to share a little bit of the big cake in the New Year's film and television market, so the schedule of the theater company has long been lined up. Compared with those films that do not have "big gimmicks", cinema companies prefer those films that are "full of big names", because there is a very important factor in the film market, that is, popularity, there is a "popular box office theory" in the market, even if the quality of the movie is not good, the box office is often good, which is a long-term experience.

At this time, in a five-person review team of the audit department, they were watching a copy of a movie applying for a theater at the same time.

This movie is called "Journey to the West"!

At first, looking at the name, several reviewers who have long-term experience in film and television unconsciously raised their eyebrows. "Journey to the West" is one of the four famous novels, and its related adaptations of film and television works are unknown, but there are few outstanding adaptations, because the traditional "Journey to the West" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people, and many people adapt "Journey to the West" to find their own way, but they often become "four dislikes" and become bad movies, so in the eyes of many senior film and television people, the theme of "Journey to the West" is a minefield, and it will die if it is touched.

Looking at the title of this movie - "Journey to the West", you can see the clue from the word "big talk", this movie is going to start with the theme of "Journey to the West", and it is also "big talk".

Unconsciously, several people had reactive thoughts in their hearts, and it is estimated that this movie is a "four dislikes" out of ten.

At the beginning of the movie, several reviewers saw the picture of "Monkey King" fighting and talking with Guanyin and Tang Seng, and they saw the clues of "big words", Sun Wukong wanted to dedicate Tang Seng to the Bull Demon King in order to marry the sister of the Bull Demon King, but Tang Seng was a chattering person, like a chatterbox, in Sun Wukong's words, Tang Seng was like a fly buzzing in his ears every day. Then the plot is that Guanyin destroyed Sun Wukong, and Tang Seng cut himself in order to give Sun Wukong the opportunity to reincarnate.

Immediately after the picture turned, it was a desert, and then a group of mountain bandits such as Spring Thirty Niang, Supreme Treasure, and Erdangjia appeared, and jokes gradually appeared.

Later, the appearance of several characters of Bodhi and Bai Jingjing, and the interactive jokes of the Supreme Treasure group, when several auditors saw these nonsensical jokes, although they felt that the characters in it were very exaggerated, they just wanted to laugh. Several people felt a sense of being amused and fresh in these jokes. Especially when the axe helped everyone to help the Supreme Treasure "step on the crotch to extinguish the fire on the **", several reviewers who had read countless films and watched numb couldn't help laughing.

In the process of watching the movie, the five reviewers quickly lost their previous ideas, and the comedy aspect of "Journey to the West" gave them a bright feeling, but the exaggerated acting skills made people laugh naturally.

They naturally wanted to look down, and behind them was the Supreme Treasure who was chased and killed by the Bull Demon King, and when they arrived at the Pansi Cave, there was a series of jokes, and then the Supreme Treasure opened the Moonlight Treasure Box and returned to five hundred years ago.

As soon as the picture turned, the Zixia Fairy appeared, rowing in the reeds of a sand lake, the ethereal and clean Zixia Fairy in the picture gave people a bright feeling, and several people recognized it as played by Ye Xuan!

The plot continues to progress, starting from the three hemorrhoids of the Supreme Treasure given back to five hundred years ago by the Zixia Fairy, several reviewers who have studied the context of the film deeply thought of the dream that the Supreme Treasure often has, and somehow, my heart was inexplicably tight, and I vaguely felt that this film would not be a simple comedy.

Later, it seemed that this feeling was getting deeper and deeper, and the Zixia Fairy burrowed into the heart of the Supreme Treasure in a bazaar, leaving a tear there.

The plot developed to the end, and when the Supreme Treasure came to the cave, put on a golden hoop, and said the sentence "Love you for 10,000 years".

There were one or two perceptive auditors who seemed to feel that things were about to turn around, even though there were still jokes.

Later, sure enough, as they vaguely felt, Fairy Zixia died in the end, for the sake of the Supreme Treasure.

At that moment, when some auditors saw Zixia being shot through the chest by the Bull Demon King and falling in the air, and the Supreme Treasure wanted to catch her but was tortured by the golden hoop, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Then, Fairy Zixia died in the arms of the Supreme Treasure, and when she said that line, a poignant melody suddenly sounded, like a sledgehammer hitting people's hearts.

A few minutes later, the film ends.

The expressions of the five auditors were different, some were distracted for a while, some seemed to be confused, and some looked relaxed

On January 30, Wanda Film and Television updated the list of year-end schedules, from the golden period from the 30th to the 15th of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year - "Journey to the West"!

As soon as the release schedule of this theater was announced, "Journey to the West", a name that had not been heard of before, attracted additional attention from the entertainment industry. (To be continued.) )