703 [Europe set off the oriental fever]

Although elements such as friendship, love, and justice can transcend languages and borders, really good movies will be recognized wherever they are staged, such as "Titanic".

But such movies are only rare, and whenever European and American audiences watch Asian movies, they are mainly curious. The ones that sell well are nothing more than kung fu, ghosts, horror and other genres, and none of them really rely on emotions to win.

In parallel space, Spielberg's "ET" grossed more than $430 million at the North American box office; And Wang Zijun filmed two years later than in this time and space, and the North American box office of "ET" barely exceeded 100 million.

This is Wang Zijun's only film that plagiarized the original, and the box office was far lower than the original film. In the final analysis, it is because "ET" does not meet the American audience's demand for oriental spectacle - because the selling point of "ET" is alien and virgin friendship.

As a result, "ET" was highly rated by critics, but most Americans were not interested because it was full of Asian faces, and there were no mysterious kung fu and oriental ghosts.

This time in "The Three Heroines of the East", Wang Zijun completely follows the appetite of European and American audiences.

You want to see kung fu, right? Okay, I'll present it to you as it is. There are not only mysterious Chinese boxing, but also the popular Muay Thai, Filipino stick and karate, and even Indian yoga when it comes out.

The costumes inside are also diverse, the three heroines have changed seven or eight sets of clothes each, in addition to modern clothing, suddenly the cheongsam with the female surname has also appeared many times, and there is a kimono in the back, and the soundtracks of Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tokyo are also quite oriental, using ancient Chinese music and traditional music.

Not only that, Wang Zijun also showed off his hand in the film, which is like a ghost painting for Westerners.

It can be said that although Wang Zijun is catering to the appetite of European and American audiences, he does not have a bit of catering flavor in the situation, it is not the kind of half-Chinese and half-Western four dislikes, and the oriental elements in the whole movie are absolutely authentic.

After the Venice Film Festival, "The Three Women of the East" was released in Italy at the end of the month, which immediately detonated the movie-watching craze, far more sensational than when "ET" was released more than two months ago.

The novel setting of the three heroines breaks the established routine that women can only be vases in action movies. What's more, these three women are all devil figures, and they belong to the strong thorny roses.

The beauty plus violence, as well as the strong oriental exoticism in the film, made the Italian audience fascinated.

What followed was a wave of oriental fever in Italy.

First of all, Italy's number one actress, Monica Bellucci, wore a fiery silk cheongsam to the event, murdered countless journalists' films, and dominated the headlines of various entertainment pages.

Then the two most famous fashion magazines in Italy used cheongsam as the theme at the same time, attracting Italian celebrities to compete to order cheongsam, and for a time Italy's rare cheongsam master became a treasure.

This cheongsam craze, with the release of "The Three Heroines of the East" in other European countries, quickly spread throughout Europe, and even women wearing cheongsam appeared in the member countries of the Soviet Union.

In addition to cheongsam, kimonos, brushes, lanterns, folding fans, calligraphy and paintings and other items are also rapidly becoming popular, but most Europeans buy them for decoration and hang them on the wall to give them an oriental charm.

With the help of this shareholder, the box office of "Three Heroines of the East" in Europe quickly exceeded 100 million, and it continues to soar.

When the news came back to Asia, Asians in all regions heard that Oriental fever was prevalent in Europe, and they all felt that they had a lot of face. said that most of the filmmakers who originally scolded Wang Zijun actually changed their tune and began to praise him. There is even a magazine that says that Wang Zijun loves the culture of the book very much, and has studied the karate, tea ceremony and flower arrangement of the book.

The Yomiuri Shimbun directly praised Wang Zijun as a promoter of oriental culture, and thanked Wang Zijun for bringing his kimono and folding fan to Europe.

The Hong Kong and Taiwan media are not far behind, praising Wang Zijun as a film genius who knows the psychology of Western moviegoers well and eats both East and West. Otherwise, how could Akira Kurosawa, who spent nearly 3 billion yuan to shoot "Chaos", get released in the United States for more than a month, and the box office was only a pitiful more than one million US dollars. And Wang Zijun's "Three Heroines of the East", which was released in European countries for a month, has exceeded 100 million at the box office.

However, the article in the French "Film Handbook" broke the mystery in one sentence: "The King's Angel (the Western translation of "The Three Heroines of the East") has set off a craze in Europe, half of which is due to the operation of King Zachary. Not to mention the overwhelming advertising advertisements, the two Italian fashion magazines featuring cheongsam, and Monica, who specially wore cheongsam to attend the event, knew that it was King Zachary's idea without analysis. It is rumored that Princess Diana of the United Kingdom wore a cheongsam to participate in a charity event last month, which is what King Zachary meant - as long as the princess appeared in a cheongsam, Zachary donated 5 million pounds to the Royal Marsden Hospital for free treatment of cancer patients. This cunning Asian director, taking advantage of Princess Diana's kindness, made a very successful advertisement for his own film, so much so that now the streets of Paris are full of women in cheongsam......"

Wang Zijun spent money to ask Princess Diana to do a disguised advertisement, and it didn't take long for the princess herself to admit it. Speaking to reporters, Princess Diana said: "I really like "Angel of the King", and when I was a child, I also dreamed of being a heroine like the three heroines. When someone from the distribution company came to me and said that Zachary had asked me to advertise, I thought that I could help a lot of cancer patients with just a change of clothes, why should I say no? ”

As soon as this interview report came out, Princess Diana's kindness was widely praised, and Wang Zijun became a disgraceful character in this story - Annihilation of Shang.

Annihilator!

Yes, the annihilation of merchants is another positioning that people give Wang Zijun.

This year's "Forbes 400 Richest List" was released in early October, and the new richest man in the United States is Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, with a personal net worth of up to $5.8 billion.

Funnily enough, a note is written at the back of this rich list: King Zachary owns Paradise Electronic Technology Company, Paradise Games Company, Dragon Tiger Film Company, Liberty Will Records, Industrial Optics Magic Company, Carmichael Cinemas Absolute Control, and is also a shareholder of Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Apple and other companies, with personal assets of more than $6.5 billion. Because King Zachary is not an American, and his industry is not all in the United States, he is not included in the "America's 400 richest list". In addition, this magazine will add a "global rich list" next year.

Forbes withdrew from the "America's 400 richest people" list three years ago, and it has made a huge impact on a global scale. Last year, the "Wall Street Newspaper" still estimated Wang Zijun's assets, and this time Forbes magazine directly said that Wang Zijun's assets were more than 6.5 billion US dollars, which was a lot higher than the data released by the "Wall Street Newspaper", and there was an uproar immediately.

In particular, Forbes magazine listed Wang Zijun's name separately under the rich list, and also added the global rich list because of his special case, which sounds like a legend.

After Hong Kong and Taiwan magazines learned the news, many newspapers and magazines directly copied the full text of the entire list, and then put on various headlines - "The list of the 400 richest people in the United States is released, and the assets of the new richest man are not as good as Wang Zijun"

"Wang Zijun beats the richest American and retains the throne of the richest man in the world"

"Oriental Wealth Dream, Chinese Entrepreneurial Idol Wang Zijun"

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The report on Wang Zijun is like this, there is often no news about him for more than half a year, once there is news, it is the headline news, and other celebrities, rich and high-ranking officials in the same period have to let Daoteng publish for him.

Looking at this report, the happiest person in the world is none other than Leyun's mother Luo Fengying - it turns out that Luo Lie is not talking big, Wang Zijun is really the richest man in the world.

Luo Fengying held a magazine in her hand and read it again and again, her daughter has been "hidden in the golden house" by Wang Zijun for more than a month, and the last time she called back, she was sent by Wang Zijun to study at the University of Hong Kong, and there was no news after that.

Luo Fengying was very anxious, the money in her hand was running out, and if she didn't find her daughter to get some points, she would be kicked out of the rental house. Of course, if you can move to live in a big villa with your daughter, it's good if you are kicked out.

Dead skin lazily asked Luo Lie for the address of Wang Zijun's villa, and Luo Fengying packed up and moved over with her son without saying a word.

The mother and son got out of the car outside the villa and rang the doorbell for a long time before the phone rang at the gate.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Leyun's mother, and I'm here to find my daughter."

"I'm sorry, Miss Le only came back in the evening."

"Then you open the door for me, and I'll wait for her first."

"Sorry, I can't open the door without the permission of the villa owner."

"I told you, I'm Leyun's mother, I'm the owner of this villa, open the door for me!"

"Sorry...... Toot Toot ......"

The phone was hung up directly, and Luo Fengying was so angry that she scolded inside, but no one answered her at all.

A Ferrari sports car stopped behind Luo Fengying, Guan Zhilin stuck her head out of the car, frowned, and said, "This lady, if you scold people again, I will call the police." ”

Luo Fengying recognized Guan Zhilin at a glance as the Taiwanese policewoman in "The Three Heroines of the East", she didn't know the relationship between Guan Zhilin and Wang Zijun, and the stinky face that scolded just now instantly burst into laughter, and said: "Miss Guan, you are Ah Jun's friend." Come and talk to the people inside for me and tell them to open the door quickly. ”

"Who are you?" Guan Zhilin asked.

Luo Fengying said: "I am Le Yun's mother, and my daughter is Ah Jun's girlfriend." ”

It's okay not to mention the rhyme, but when it comes to the rhyme, Guan Zhilin is on fire. This was originally her and Wang Zijun's love nest, but she let a fox spirit who popped out of nowhere live in, which made her feel very awkward when she lives here now.

Fortunately, Wang Zijun gave her another super mansion worth 8 million Hong Kong dollars, which has now been renovated and can be moved in at any time, and she is out of sight and out of mind with this vixen.

Guan Zhilin drove over today, just to take away some things in the villa and move into a new mansion. But I didn't expect to encounter such an outrageous thing, the vixen's mother actually wanted to move in with her luggage, when this is a hotel?

"Hurry up, or I'll call the police!" Guan Zhilin was not used to seeing Le Yun, and now she hates Le Yun's mother. Listening to Luo Fengying's Cantonese voice, he knew that he came from the mainland, and threatened, "Hong Kong law, you can go to prison if you scold the street outside a private house and block the door." ”

Luo Fengying was really frightened when she heard this, and she humbly pulled her son out of the way.

Guan Zhilin smiled proudly, and pressed the remote control against the door, and the villa door opened automatically.

This scene made Luo Fengying's mother and son stunned, thinking that the big mansion was different, even the door was automatic, and she was even more determined to move in.

However, why can that Guan Zhilin go in and out of here casually, is she also Wang Zijun's little wife?

The old lady is barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, if you dare not let me go in to live, then everyone will die and stab you in the newspaper! Luo Fengying thought viciously, so she pulled her son to sit outside the gate and wait for her daughter to come back.

At Taipei Airport, Li Zhi, Yang Ziqiong and Iraqi Laudia, who had just returned from an event in Europe, were surrounded by fans and reporters as soon as they got off the plane.

Since "The Three Heroines of the East" was screened in Europe and set off a European Oriental fever, the three actresses who have only made one movie have become well-deserved Oriental angels in the eyes of Western audiences. In Asia, the fame of the three of them is also like Zhongtian, and they directly became the three most popular actresses in Asia after a trip to Europe.

There is less and less negative news about the three daughters, no one calls Lizhi a mainland girl and a Beigu anymore, and no one mentions that Iella got rid of her boyfriend after becoming famous. In addition to the sedan chair carrying people, because of these negative reports, as soon as they came out, they would be sprayed wildly by the fans of the three people, and those extreme fans dared to pour gasoline directly on the editor's house.

Anyway, it was different when I went around Europe, the three girls half a year ago were still a little rustic, but now they are all international superstars with a smile and a smile.

"Miss Claudia, I heard that the Prime Minister of France invited you to dinner, is there such a thing?"

"Miss Lizhi, what do you think of the title of Oriental Goddess given to you by Italian fans?"

"Miss Yang Ziqiong, does the Malay royal family really want to give you a medal?"

“……”

The pomp and circumstance of the three girls at this time was not small, and Wang's Pictures arranged seven or eight bodyguards for them, plus a few entourage, to escort them away.

After signing more than ten names, the three girls finally got into the car smoothly, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

The three girls have been running around Europe for a whole month, and their bodies are naturally extremely tired, but they are in a very happy mood. They are sought after by fans everywhere they go in Europe, which they couldn't even think of before.

Especially Yang Ziqiong, the Malaysian royal family even revealed that they wanted to award her a medal as a nobleman, which can be described as joy falling from the sky.

This time, the three girls came to Taipei to come back to participate in the Golden Horse Awards ceremony, and their red carpet show will be the big selling point of the Golden Horse Awards.

(To be continued)