Chapter 149: Premiere in the Great Hall
After the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, Lu Chong became famous again, not only in China, but also around the world, and became a popular idol in various Chinese regions.
Looking at the soaring [popularity], Lu Chong smiled, he knew that he had made the right bet!
The Youth Song Competition, the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, or the Spring Festival Gala are all gambling for Lu Chong, if the singing is smashed, not only will the popularity not rise, but will drop dramatically, it is a wrong bet, now it seems that after unremitting efforts, this bet is right!
Of course, if there are no follow-up works and no follow-up topics, [popularity] will slowly dissipate.
For other idols, there will be a time when Jiang Lang is exhausted, but for Lu Chong, there is no need to worry about this at all.
A few days later, the National Day arrived, and "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle", which he invested, produced, directed, wrote, and starred in, was staged online in major theaters in China.
Although he didn't want to be too high-profile, he was now in the entertainment industry in the eye of the storm, and he couldn't help but be high-profile, so he moved around some connections and placed the premiere in the Great Hall of the People.
In that life, since Zhang Yimou put the movie "Hero" in the Great Hall of the People for the premiere, many unknown movies rushed to the Great Hall of the People to hold their premieres.
But in this 1996, the Great Hall of the People was still very sacred in people's hearts, and no one would have thought of holding a premiere here, and when Lu Chong proposed this idea, Wang Xiaoshuai and others were stunned.
Wang Xiaoshuai stammered: "That's not a place for meetings, we can also go in if we make movies?" ”
Lu Chong smiled: "Don't think too high about it, there is a venue, there are only a few meetings throughout the year, the rest of the time is empty, the repair cost is so high, the relevant departments have long wanted to play its other functions, you don't have to worry, I will talk, it should be able to negotiate." ”
Lu Chong found the relevant management department, negotiated and won the right to use it for one day at a price of 100,000 yuan.
At two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Great Hall of the People played the full film of "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle".
All the main creators, led by Lu Chong, Wang Xiaoshuai, Feng Xiaogang, Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Zeng Li, Zhang Ziyi, and Zhao Wei all appeared.
A large part of the elites in the industry who came to participate in the premiere were well-known directors, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, who came to participate, not only to give face to Lu Chong, but also to Beijing Film Studio.
The other audiences are mostly relatives and friends of the main creators, and some are students from various middle schools.
At one o'clock, more than 400 reporters from foreign and domestic media attended the scene.
Because it is located in the center of the Great Hall of the People, the security check is already strict, and after a series of strict ticket checks and security checks, these reporters were led to a special bag storage hall on the third floor.
It was not the beautiful service lady who greeted the guests, but the tall and sturdy young men with their backs and waists, and they were all from the security department of Huaxing Entertainment.
In order to crack down on piracy, Lu Chong required all guests to put all photography and video equipment outside the screening hall before watching the movie, and these security personnel would conduct security checks, and not a single fish could slip through the net.
The auditorium is too big, the sound and screening conditions are limited, so the effect of "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle" is not very good, but this does not affect the enthusiasm of the audience, after all, this is the first time they sit in the Great Hall of the People to watch a movie, they all cherish this rare opportunity, hold their breath, concentrate, and are unwilling to miss any wonderful moment.
The auditorium with hundreds of people at the scene was full, and there were still audiences who couldn't find seats and stood to watch the whole film.
The plot of the movie is very smooth, the echo before and after is very good, the first paragraph makes people a little sad, a little melancholy, looking back, there are more and more laughter, and when it comes to the alley bicycle scuffle, laughter comes and goes.
Lu Chong had always been a little apprehensive, worried that his mixed ideas would be messed up, but looking at the audience's reactions, they didn't have the same hatred as Wang Xiaoshuai said, they all accepted it, and they all watched it with relish.
If Wang Xiaoshuai's previous film still has the saying of cruel youth, it is Lu Chong's turn to make this version, the cruel intention of youth has dissipated and has become a simple drama film with no profound connotation, even so, the audience's reaction was very good, and they said: "Interesting! ”
"It's so much fun!"
"It's no worse than Xiangjiang's shot!"
Lu Chong put down his hanging heart at this time, he understood a little in a trance, after all, before this, most of the films released in the mainland were tall and empty main theme films, and the audience was super tired of it, and suddenly saw such a novel and interesting film, can you not love it?
But the sixth-generation directors, mainly Wang Xiaoshuai and others, can't see the needs of the people, so they have to add a little cruelty and abuse to the original boring and boring, but fortunately, Lao Mouzi changed quickly, and fortunately Feng Xiaogang was born, otherwise mainland movie audiences would not have been tortured to death by them.
Just as the masses who have been tortured enough by traditional literature like light-hearted and straightforward online novels, people in this era prefer light-hearted and funny movies to didactic movies and literary films, so Lu Chong adapts to the situation and specializes in making low-budget comedy movies.
After the screening, various comments came into being, and as Lu Chong expected, the mainstream comments were all criticisms and all kinds of clichéd preaching at first, but later, somehow, those comments quickly turned against each other, and they were all full of praise.
After the film is released, after a short break, it is the highlight of the premiere, the press conference.
After all the main creators were seated, all the focus was on them, but among these people, the movies directed by Wang Xiaoshuai have never been released in China, although Feng Xiaogang has filmed two TV series, they are all behind-the-scenes heroes, and they are not famous, Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun have filmed some movies and TV series, but they have not yet become popular, Gao Yuanyuan, Liu Ye, Chen Kun and others are not famous, and the protagonist of the press conference naturally became the recently popular Lu Chong.
All kinds of questions followed, Lu Chong only answered questions about movies, and did not answer any questions about the college entrance examination, concerts, and Mid-Autumn Festival gala.
If it is a question about some characters in the movie, Lu Chong asked Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan and others to answer.
What are you afraid of, an entertainment reporter from a newspaper asked: "Brother Chong, I see that you cooperate very well with Gao Yuanyuan in the movie, and there is a lot of love between the two of them, may I ask if you also have feelings between you in real life?" ”
Lu Chong wanted to make Gao Yuanyuan a jade star in the mainland, and he never wanted to expose his official relationship with Gao Yuanyuan, and he had also discussed this with Gao Yuanyuan, so he said without thinking: "Of course I have feelings, I have feelings for every beauty, if a beautiful woman stands in front of you and you don't feel it, then you can enter the palace!" ”
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