Chapter 376: Burning incense and worshipping God
"I believe that there are countless people who are eager to know the latest Hong Kong album rankings, and now I will reveal the answer for you.
In the second week of September, the first place on the Hong Kong album chart came from Lin Zixiang's "Love Story", which achieved 65,420 sales in five days in the first week of release, and landed on the top of the Hong Kong album chart.
The runner-up on the list comes from Chen Lang's "Moon Bright Stars", which has been released for six weeks, with a sales volume of 57,629 copies last week, compared with last week's sales of 17,653 copies of a strong rebound, Lang Lang's fans once again showed strong spending power.
It's a pity that it still hasn't been able to surpass Lin Zixiang's "Love Story", and can only be ranked second, and at the same time, the coherent record of "Moonlight and Stars" came to an abrupt end in five times, and it is a pity that it was not able to achieve six consecutive championships on the list.
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For a time, there were countless cheers, sighs and sighs in Hong Kong.
All Chen Lang's fans and Chen Lang's relatives and friends sighed that "Moonlight Stars" was not able to achieve six consecutive championships.
All Chen Baiqiang's fans and all those who were jealous of Chen Lang's achievements cheered, and finally suppressed this hateful demon.
All the neutral fans and those who don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement are smacking their lips, and it seems that the upcoming awards season is coming.
At this time, Chen Lang looked at the newspaper in his hand, shook his head helplessly, and handed the newspaper to his assistant Xu Fang.
Xu Fang took the newspaper and looked at Chen Lang with some concern, "Lang Lang, are you okay?" ”
"It's a pity, after all, six consecutive championships is really a very rare honor, but now it's like this, no matter how much you say, it's useless, you can only accept the reality." Chen Lang sighed a little unwillingly.
"It's a shame indeed, but I'm sure you'll get this honor sooner or later." Xu Fang was also relieved when she saw Chen Lang's pity, but his normal expression.
"Of course, even if I don't have six consecutive titles, I won't lose to anyone in January." A smile bloomed on Chen Lang's face again.
Although he didn't win six consecutive titles, his two albums this year and his achievements since his debut are enough to make him one of the biggest hits.
"Hello Lang Lang, I'm Li Lizhen, I'm a member of the Lang Lang Fan Club, can you sign for me?"
When Chen Lang was stunned, he suddenly heard a crisp voice in his ears.
Chen Lang turned around and saw a delicate round-faced girl looking at him with some excitement, it turned out to be Li Lizhen, the actor of Lin Xiaohua, one of the three girls.
"Hello, of course." Chen Lang took Li Lizhen's pen and signed his name on the notebook she handed over.
"And me!" "And me!"
As soon as Chen Lang finished signing, he heard two other excited shouts, which should be the other two leading actors, Luo Mingzhu and Lin Shanshan.
Chen Lang naturally did not refuse, and also signed the names of the two girls who were excited to see their idols.
"Lang Lang, come here, get ready to worship God." As soon as Chen Lang finished signing, he heard the shouts of Wang Fatzi.
Chen Lang smiled at the three girls, "It's a pleasure to meet you, I hope we have a happy cooperation this time." ”
After speaking, Chen Lang walked towards Wang Jing.
"I really didn't expect that it was Lang Lang who recommended us to participate in the movie performance, it's great to be able to act in a movie with my idol, I love Lang Lang to death." Lin Shanshan was a little excited.
"Yes, I'm a little incredible until now, this is the first script written by Lang Lang, and it is the first movie he participated in, so many firsts to be able to take away idols, I will remember it for a lifetime, and Lang Lang is really beautiful, I like him so much." Li Lizhen also couldn't hide her excitement.
"Lang Lang is approachable, there is no frame at all, he is really a perfect idol, I really envy you Ah Zhen, you are a rival to Lang Lang, and you are pregnant with Lang Lang's child." Another girl, Luo Mingzhu, looked at Li Lizhen and quipped.
"Damn it, that's just a movie plot that needs to be done."
Li Lizhen was also happy to be able to play against her idol, but after all, she was still a girl who was embarrassed to show it, so she could only slap Luo Mingzhu with a red face, and then the three girls made a fuss.
Since receiving the invitation from the crew of "Happy Ghost", the three are the first to be confirmed as the leading actors, so they were arranged together by the crew very early, just to let them get acquainted with each other and have a tacit understanding, and they can also reduce some adaptation time during filming.
Fortunately, the three of them are not very old, and they all have the same idol Chen Lang, so they quickly played together.
When the three girls were chasing and fighting, Chen Lang had already come to Wang Jing's side.
"It's nine o'clock in the morning, and it's about to be nine o'clock, and it's the best time to start worshipping God!" Wang Jing looked at his watch and said.
Speaking of the start-up worship ceremony of Hong Kong movies, Chen Lang is also very curious, after all, he has heard too many times in novels and reality in his previous life, and he will inevitably be curious.
Many people say that burning incense and worshiping God before the start of Hong Kong movies is a superstition, but perhaps it is more appropriate to say that it is a custom, because it is really popular in Guangdong and Hong Kong to burn incense and worship God.
Guangdong and Hong Kong have to worship God before doing anything big, down to the citizens moving to marry and go to school, up to the government offices to open their doors to do things, and even the police and other departments that have to work hard have to worship even more, and even the fire brigade has to worship the fire hose on the first and fifteenth days of the new year to seek safety.
There are also "White Dragon King" who is now rumored to be the god of God, there are countless big-name stars in the Hong Kong entertainment industry who want to get the "guidance" of this master, kneeling down is a trivial matter at all, and other donations and acting according to the guidance are all necessary, which is much more useful than the law.
Out of his own curiosity, Chen Lang also asked Wang Fatzi about the specific process of burning incense and worshipping God when the movie was turned on.
Generally speaking, before the movie starts, the crew will first ask a master who is familiar with feng shui to determine the start time, accurate to what time it is, just like the good day and auspicious time calculated by the feng shui master Wang Fatzi for "Happy Ghost" is 9:9 today, saying what is 99 to one, anyway, it is very mysterious.
Then it is necessary to determine the direction of worshipping the gods, which seems to be very important, because if you "worship the wrong one", it is likely to make the filming of the crew difficult, this time the feng shui master determined that the direction of worship for "Happy Ghost" is the east, which means that the sun rises in the east, the sun represents the yang, and all the small people and ghosts are restrained, and at the same time, the movie will be in full swing and a box office hit.
When it comes to the auspicious time, everyone in the crew has to participate, usually cover the camera with a red cloth, and then the main creators of the crew will worship God in turn, and as for the small characters, they naturally don't have to step forward one by one.
Finally, the director lifted the red cloth of the camera and announced the official start-up.
Listening to Wang Fatzi, this worship of the machine comes from a technical fear of the film camera in the film era, because once the film camera is diced, it will cause immeasurable losses to the crew, and the machine scribing is incalculable, so the camera should be covered with a red cloth to suppress evil.
Hong Kong crews usually use pig heads and fruits to worship the gods, and the creators cut the pig's head with knives together, while mainland crews generally don't have pig heads, not because they don't have money, but they don't think it really works in their hearts.
The gods worshipped are also inconclusive, basically worship by themselves, you can worship whoever you want, mainly depending on the place, if you are in the temple, mainly worship Sakyamuni, but there are not many start-up ceremonies in the temple, usually in the filming location, so there is no object of worship, and ordinary people simply worship God.
However, during this worship, Wang Fatzi explained that Chen Lang worshiped two great gods, one is the God of Wealth, and the other is a Bodhisattva who blesses peace.
It means that I hope that the movie will be a big hit at the box office after its release, and everyone will make money, and the other is that the crew will not have safety accidents during normal filming, and bless the crew to end the filming of the movie safely.
Soon, the pointer pointed to 9:09, the auspicious time for the crew to start up had arrived, Wang Fatzi shouted with a loudspeaker, "Everyone be quiet, now the auspicious time has arrived, the opening ceremony of "Happy Ghost" has officially begun, first of all, I would like to ask our investors to tell you a few words. ”
After Wang Fatzi finished speaking, he handed the speaker to Chen Lang, which made Chen Lang stunned.
This time, "Happy Ghost" is jointly funded by Chen Lang's LL Film Company and Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Film Company, the producer is named Shao Daheng, and the producer is Chen Lang and Fang Yihua.
"Uncle Sixth and Miss Fang didn't come today, so you can only speak as an investor." Wang Fatzi whispered, and then gently pushed Chen Lang.
When Chen Lang heard this, he had no choice but to stand in front of the incense case with a loudspeaker, although he was facing dozens of people in the crew, Chen Lang was not stunned at all, after all, there were many more people than this when he performed on stage.
"Today is the moment when my first film script officially started filming, and it is also my first time to take on a film, to be honest, as a complete film newcomer, I don't have anything to say to you, I just hope that everyone can work hard to complete their role division when shooting this movie.
I can't give you any promises, what I can promise is that if this movie is a big hit at the box office, then I will definitely give everyone present a big red envelope, so in order to be able to have a red envelope, please be sure to unite to complete the filming of the movie, thank you! After Chen Lang finished speaking, he gave the horn to Wang Jing.
The crew didn't have any feelings about Chen Lang's speech, it was decent, and only when they heard Chen Lang say that there was a red envelope, they cheered loudly.
Wang Jing also patted Chen Lang, "That's right." ”
Chen Lang pouted, what he said was nothing brilliant, but Chen Lang knew that everyone was here for money, and this was the best mobilization.
Wang Jing shouted with a loudspeaker, "I announce the official start of the worship ceremony of "Happy Ghost". ”
After speaking, Chen Lang was the first to pick up the incense and bow to the east three times at the signal of Wang Jing, "Please bless the crew with all the best in filming, and it will be a big hit at the box office after the release." ”
Next, director Wang Jing, assistant directors Liang Shengquan and Miao Jiande, cinematographer Li Xinye and the three girl leading actors all stepped forward to worship God one by one.
Then all the main creators cut the pig's head together, and Wang Jing shouted again, "I announce the official start of the filming of "Happy Ghost". ”
With that, he lifted the red cloth on the camera.
This also means that Chen Lang's first movie "Happy Ghost" officially started filming!
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