Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Premiere (Part I)
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"Give me two copies of Bat Legends. ”
"I'm sorry, sir, 'The Legend of the Bat' has already been painted. ”
"I haven't seen it yet, why did I paint it?"
“……”
"What's the movie now?"
"Happy Ghost. ”
"Who starred in it?"
Xu Cun, Luo Meiwei, Li Saifeng, Wen Bixuan, Dong Wei. ”
"Uh...... I've never heard of any of them. ”
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"Who directed it?"
"Xu Cun. ”
"I haven't heard of this director, are there any other movies?"
"I'm sorry, sir, but there's only one Happy Ghost. ”
"What about the end?"
"It's also "Happy Ghost". ”
"What's next?"
"From now until the 11th, it will be "Happy Ghost". ”
“…… Get me two Happy Ghosts. ”
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"Brother Long, you really brought your little brother to support Xu Cun's field!"
"Of course, if you rush to the temper of Lao Tzu in "Shanghai Tang" written by Xu Cun, Lao Tzu can't save these dozens of yuan. ”
"It's still Brother Long's righteousness, unlike a dog's face, saying that he brought twenty younger brothers to support Xu Cun's field, but it turned out that the world evaporated. ”
"Bigmouth bear, your mother didn't teach you, will you have a rotten tongue if you say bad things about people behind your back?"
"Yo! Ah Fa is also here, and he has brought so many brothers. Well, I thank you on behalf of Xu Cun. ”
", what kind of thing are you, and you deserve to thank me for my idol?"
"Yes, can't I be amorous? The boy who sells movie tickets, give Lao Tzu six copies of "Happy Ghost". ”
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"These three girls are so punctual, especially the one on the right side of the ghost, their legs are so straight and white, and they look so beautiful!"
"The girl on the back of the ghost is beautiful, those little feet, how beautiful!"
"I like the one on the ghost's left, how cute it is!"
"Da Niu, it turns out that you like this type, tsk, the eye sister is yours, I want the straight-legged, small-footed girl to leave to Ah Sheng. ”
"It's decided, let's go, buy a ticket and go...... Ah Yin, you give me back the newspaper, and when I go back, I cut out that little foot girl and stick it on the bedside of the bedroom to read it every day. ”
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The premiere of "Happy Ghost" was a good day - on July 20th, only "Fat Dragon Crossing the River" starring Hong Jinbao in the entire Xiangjiang was not bad.
However, although "Fat Dragon Across the River" is not bad, it has been in theaters for more than a week, and many viewers have seen it. Most of these people who came to the cinema again chose "Happy Ghost", which had been promoted in the "Oriental Daily" for half a month. In addition, many of Xu Cun's brainless fans came to support Xu Cun's field, and the youthful beauty of Luo Meiwei, Li Saifeng, and Wen Bixuan also attracted many young audiences. The most important thing is that the sixteen theaters of the Shaw Brothers were shamelessly monopolized by Xu Cun. Therefore, the attendance rate of the premiere of "Happy Ghost" is not too ugly, reaching 37%.
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Leigh Stage is in the penultimate row.
Xu Cun brought Li Saifeng, Luo Meiwei, and Wen Bixuan to watch the premiere of "Happy Ghost".
After turning off the lights, Xu Cun's left hand naturally grabbed Li Saifeng's right hand, and Xu Cun's right hand stretched out to Luo Meiwei's waist with ease, and Wen Bixuan, who was only more than twelve years old sitting on Li Saifeng's left, was completely ignored by Xu Cun.
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The film began to be screened.
The first thing that plays on the screen is the DreamWorks animated intro:
In the blue night sky, there are several gray-blue clouds floating.
A bright crescent moon bends in the center of the clouds.
Between the clouds, a stone connected by a thin line fell, causing a ripple between the clouds and the moon.
It turns out that the clouds and the moon are just reflections cast in the water.
In the sky, a little boy sits on a crooked moon and is fishing with a fishing rod in his hand.
Eventually, the crooked moon became a letter D, followed by the line 'DreamWorks'.
Immediately afterwards, the three words "DreamWorks" floated out of the sky - the style of these three words is the same as those in English, and they are all from the hand of the Japanese calligraphy master Inoue Yuichi (in fact, Xu Cun originally wanted to find a calligrapher from his own country to write these words, even if he did it himself, but unfortunately the current Xiangjiang can't do the opening animation of DreamWorks, and Xu Cun, who is in a hurry to let "Happy Ghost" be released, has no time to wait, so these words can only be written by Miyazaki Jun's friend Inoue Yuichi. However, Xu Cun made up his mind that he would definitely change these words if he had the opportunity in the future. )。
That's right, DreamWorks' opening animation is exactly the Hollywood DreamWorks opening credits. Moreover, even the music was composed by Spielberg's royal soundtrack musician Williams.
Speaking of this opening animation of only twenty seconds, Xu Cun couldn't help but feel a little bitter.
If more than 30 years later, Xu Cun himself can use the computer to make this simple animation. However, at the end of the seventies, it really stumped Xu Cun.
Xu Cun and Zhong Zhen ran blindly for three days, but they couldn't find a master in Xiangjiang who could make the opening animation of zuò.
Just when Xu Cun was about to give up, Xu Jixin introduced Xu Cun to a Japanese named Nakajima Ono.
Nakajima Ono is just an ordinary Japanese paper merchant. But what makes him unusual is that he is good friends with the famous Japanese animator Jun Miyazaki.
Later, Xu Cun paid a price of 5,000 Hong Kong dollars and asked Nakajima Ono to be an intermediary to contact Miyazaki Jun.
Then, with the help of a female translator from Xu Cunzài's Oriental Daily, he made a three-hour phone call with Miyazaki Jun to explain what he wanted.
After listening to Xu Cun's request, Miyazaki Jun agreed to help Xu Cun make the opening animation of Zuò DreamWorks, but the price was 3 million yen, which was converted into nearly 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. In addition, Miyazaki Jun also put forward a condition - if Xu Cun, who is in a hurry, wants to deliver to the door, then the cost of the delivery person, including the delivery person's salary, must be Xu Cun.
The cartoon title is about DreamWorks' forced frame. Therefore, although Miyazaki's conditions were harsh, Xu Cun gritted his teeth and agreed to Miyazaki's conditions.
However, then again, you get what you pay for! Miyazaki's craftsmanship is not only worthy of Xu Cun's money, but also worthy of his great teacher in the animation industry in the future.
After watching the opening animation of DreamWorks by Toshiki Miyazaki, Lin Zhengying and others were all dumbfounded.
However, it's no wonder that Lin Zhengying and others made a fuss - people who have never been exposed to CG animation will have a dreamlike feeling when they see DreamWorks' opening animation for the first time and hear Xu Cun's soothing and ethereal music copied from Williams.
Just like the audience in the theater at this moment, the originally noisy audience collectively lost their voices after seeing the opening animation of DreamWorks, and the theater was quiet in an instant, and the audience's ideas were all concentrated on the big screen.
"Boom!"
With the sound of lightning and thunder, a man in a long robe and braided walked into the ruined temple, then stepped on the offering table and hanged himself in front of the idol.
The movie begins......
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