The later stage of "The Shawshank Redemption" was completed, and it was already August 1977.

Chinese mainland has just resumed the college entrance examination, and the 11th National People's Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing, announcing the official end of the 10-year Cultural Revolution.

On the whole, China's Taiwan side is relatively stable, and its economic development continues to be at a high speed, but there are still "Taiwan independence" and "democratic" elements secretly developing, and these ideas have become more influential among intellectuals. These are just undercurrents, and the real upsurge of Taiwan's democracy movement will be after Chiang Ching-kuo officially succeeds him as president next year. The hereditary rule of the Chiang dynasty has outright outraged some democrats.

The United States, on its part, has just launched the Voyager probe to conduct scientific exploration of several major planets in the solar system. However, ordinary people are more concerned about "Star Wars", which has been released for more than two months, this Hollywood blockbuster with a budget of $11 million has quickly become popular in North America, and has reaped nearly $200 million at the box office, and the hit is still ongoing.

In contrast, whether it is Bruce Lee's "Hejing Blood", or Martin. Scorsese's "New York, New York" was influenced by "Star Wars" and did not achieve the expected effect at the box office.

The bizarre special effects of the "Star Wars" films, the genius of technological fantasy, and the mysterious understanding of the vast universe simply drive Americans crazy.

The only benefit that "Star Wars" brought to Wang Zijun is that his industrial light and magic company, which helped "Star Wars" make special effects, has become the darling of many film companies and directors, and has also become a model for Hollywood special effects companies.

Twentieth Century Fox was delighted as it celebrated the box office success of Star Wars. If they hadn't eliminated the company's special effects department in order to reduce expenses, the special effects team trained from "Star Wars" would have been another elite team of the company. You must know that several of the outstanding special effects personnel of Industrial Light & Magic were fired by them in the first place.

The director of the historical "Star Wars" Because of the dismantling of the special effects department by Twentieth Century Fox, Lucas couldn't find a suitable special effects company for a long time, so he had to rent a warehouse and set up his own Industrial Light & Magic. But now Wang Zijun has cheapened for nothing, and he preemptively established the special effects company before Lucas, and made the company's name through "Human and Ghost Love".

In order to shoot smoothly and reduce trivial troubles, Lucas really found Wang Zijun's industrial light and magic to help him do special effects. The result is that many special effects have not been tried at all, almost while making movies, everyone studied how to do it together, and after more than two years, they finally experienced a group of special effects elites who are proud of Hollywood.

The success of "Star Wars" made Hollywood giants finally realize the importance of movie special effects. Good special effects can prop up the whole movie, but only serve as an auxiliary to one movie as before, playing the role of icing on the cake.

Forward-looking film company giants have begun to set up their own special effects teams, while second-rate film companies that do not have this ability are spending money to hire Industrial Light and Magic to make special effects for them.

For a time, the industrial light and magic business continued, and it had the flavor of Hollywood's No. 1 film special effects company.

Warner Bros., which has a lot of money, wants to buy the whole Industrial Light & Magic, and after many inquiries, they found that the behind-the-scenes boss of Industrial Light & Magic is actually Wang Zijun.

When the people from Warner Bros. found Wang Zijun who was squatting in the editing room, Wang Zijun said a word, don't sell it!

Industrial Light & Magic has not been listed, is it possible that Warner can still be forcibly acquired? Then what made Wang Zijun very depressed was that Warner Bros. actually spent a lot of money to poach people in Industrial Light & Magic, and dug seven or eight in a month, but fortunately, the most core special effects artists held some company shares given by Wang Zijun, and none of them left. …,

The release and promotion of "The Shawshank Redemption" began at the beginning of filming, and in July, a lot of publicity investment began, but the effect was not very satisfactory. "Star Wars" is so popular that people who are attracted to the past are not too interested in what prison-themed films.

In the face of the strength of "Star Wars", after discussing with Frank, Wang Zijun decided to postpone the release of "The Shawshank Redemption" to mid-September, and planned to launch an autumn publicity offensive.

And "God of Gamblers", which was originally released in North America three months ago, failed miserably as expected. Perhaps, this god film that has caused a storm in the Chinese-speaking region really can't resonate with the United States and Japan. Even if there were many Chinese Americans who came to cheer, "God of Gamblers" could only reach $1 million at the box office, and then ended hastily.

Entering September, it has been more than three months since the release of "Star Wars", and the popularity has finally decreased. Wang Zijun knew that he couldn't wait any longer, because in two months, Spielberg's sci-fi god "The Third Kind of Contact" would also be released, and his Wang Zijun's movie could only find a good time to withdraw between the two movies.

At the beginning of July, Wang Zijun was still making up some scenes of "The Shawshank Redemption", and Free Will Records began to release Wang Zijun's "rolling_in_the_deep", which was copied from Miss Dumb's divine comedy, which stayed on the singles chart for 60 weeks in later generations, topped the singles chart for 7 consecutive weeks, and swept the major music awards in North America.

Once "rolling_in_the_deep" was released, it took a week to break into the top 100 of the single circle chart, and in the fifth week, it finally entered the top 50 of the singles chart, and in the eighth week, it ranked 6th on the list.

In the face of "rolling_in_the_deep", which is on the rise, the American music scene has become a sensation.

"Billboard" commented on "rolling_in_the_deep" after the list: "It's a soul-burning song, and when I listen to her, I even feel my soul fluttering." Perhaps, as the title of her song suggests, this is a song that rolls in the soul.

Zachary. Wang is an elusive singer, and even though he is from Asia, from China, where music is not developed, it doesn't affect my love for him. "rolling_in_the_deep" reminds me of "Hotel California" three years ago, which sang the hearts of an entire generation of singers in the United States, while this "rolling_in_the_deep" is a little smaller, but the expression in the subtleties is more exquisite. In terms of the audience, the fans of "Hotel California" are more young and old singers, but the fans of "rolling_in_the_deep" are across age boundaries and races. She sings the heartfelt voice of everyone's soul......"

Before the premiere of "The Shawshank Redemption", "rolling_in_the_deep" finally rose to No. 1 in the singles chart of "Billboard", attracting the attention of countless musicians and record companies. At this time, Wang Zijun's "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" has sold nearly 3 million copies in North America, ranking first in this year's North American book sales list.

At the same time, the two very different fields of books and music have achieved great success, causing American writers and musicians to roll their eyes, and even suspect that Wang Zijun's works are made by the team behind the scenes.

Taking advantage of this trend, d&T officially announced that Wang Zijun's new film "The Shawshank Redemption" will be released in North America on September 10.

Well, you're not satisfied with selling books and records, and now you want to come to Hollywood to join in the fun.

The New York Times published: "The United States has set off a "Star Wars" fever this year, and the release of "Star Wars" can be called the biggest event in the American entertainment industry this year. Except for George. In addition to Lucas and his "Star Wars", there is another person who has made an impact in the United States this year that seems to be no less influential than Lucas.

He's Zachary. Wang, this amazing young man from China. His Harry Potter novels have now evolved into a cultural icon, and at Christmas and make-up parties, you'll find magicians dressed up everywhere, and there's no doubt that the Harry Potter series will become a memory for a generation of Americans if it continues. Stephen. Kim is now the best-selling author in the United States. King's two Harry Potter films are not inferior to Stephen in terms of sales. Kim, even because of the subject matter, bought Harry Potter readers more than Stephen. There are more people in gold horror novels. …,

In terms of music, the song "Hotel California" three years ago not only occupied the top of the singles chart for a long time, but even many well-known singers and bands have become fans of this song. Because this song sings about the current situation of American rock music in the past ten years, and the current state of life of rock singers. Zachary. Wang's later single "Yellow" can only be regarded as good, and has entered the top ten of the singles chart, but it is far from being compared with "Hotel California", and his big record mixed with Chinese songs sold badly in the United States, with only tens of thousands of copies sold. At the time, some critics thought that Zachley. Wang crossed like a meteor and will gradually disappear from the American music scene.

But the birth of "rolling_in_the_deep" directly shocked countless American musicians. The original "Hotel California" was not selected for the Grammy Awards for some reason, and I think this "rolling_in_the_deep" should be qualified enough, and I personally would love to see an Asian face appear at the Grammys next year.

Let's talk about movies. Zachary. Wang's "God of Gamblers" was released in the United States in June and received a measly $1 million at the box office, but that's not bad for a Chinese-language film. "The Love of Ghosts" has created a classic, and now this "The Shawshank Redemption" is even more conceited Stephen. Kim agreed to adapt it into a novel, which should be pretty good. I'm very excited that if The Shawshank Redemption succeeds, the young Asian will become the brightest star in the United States this year, with glory in three different areas......

By the way, according to the personnel of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Hollywood's Industrial Optics Magic Company is none other than Zachley. Wang's industry, I have to say, this young man's vision for business and art is outrageously good. ”

Originally, many media were already reporting on Wang Zijun's success in the book and record market, but the New York Times made the American people turn their attention from "Star Wars", which had been popular for several months, to Wang Zijun.

Wang Zijun's book fans, fans, and movie fans even threatened on various occasions -- Wang Zijun is the best at writing books among all singers, the best at making movies among all writers, and the best at singing among all directors......

This, it seems, no one can refute.

If you want to judge the American people of the year in 1977, then it must be George W. Lucas and Wang Zijun.

Of course, there are some media predictions that Zachary. Wang's new film is bound to fail, mainly because "Star Wars" is so powerful that even blockbusters like "New York, New York" are innocently shot, not to mention niche prison films - even now "Star Wars" has been on the screen for nearly four months.

On September 10, 1977, the premiere of "The Shawshank Redemption".

Compared with three years ago, the American media has paid more attention to Wang Zijun, and the two major magazines, "The Hollywood Reporter" and "Variety", have also sent elite reporters instead of the two "temporary workers" at the beginning.

The screening room was packed with reporters, critics and fans who attended the premiere. Photographers with long guns and short guns set up and began to look for important people who were present.

It's a pity that they were disappointed, and there were not many celebrities present.

Except for a few kung fu stars such as Bruce Lee, as well as Aida and Quinton, who are famous for "Ghost Love", there are no big stars.

"Hey, Jack, over there!" A photojournalist was pleasantly surprised.

It was Robert who came in. Mr. and Mrs. De Niro, and not long after, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney and others also came in. Soon the appearance of another person made the reporters even more excited.

George. Lucas!

Today's most popular director George . Lucas, with his editor wife, came.

Wang Zijun was talking to Bruce Lee, Robert and others, and as soon as Lucas came over, he gave me Wang Zijun a hug and said with a smile: "Hey, Wang, I wish you a big box office hit!" ”…,

Wang Zijun hugged and patted him on the back, and said with a smile: "I can't compare to you, "Star Wars" is too terrifying, it is estimated that there will be no movie that can surpass its box office in a few years." ”

Lucas proudly said, "Of course, it's my baby." But anything can happen in Hollywood, and who knows what the future holds? ”

"Hello Mrs. Lucas!" Wang Zijun greeted Thea again. Lucas Road.

"Hello Zachary, your song is great!" Thea. Lucas nodded.

After Mr. and Mrs. Lucas sat down, they chatted with Wang Zijun about the movie. George. Lucas talked about the filming of "Star Wars", and by the way, thanked Wang Zijun for his help to the film - Industrial Light & Magic. This is also the case with George. The reason why Lucas accepted Wang Zijun's invitation to attend the premiere of "The Shawshank Redemption".

When Wang Zijun talked about the greatness of "Star Wars", Lucas's wife Thea. Lucas complained that the couple had hardly seen each other in the more than two years that Lucas had been filming.

In other words, Lucas spent more than two years on the set.

With this kind of professionalism, I think that as long as you are not too stupid, you will be successful. At least, Wang Zijun admires these people who devote themselves to what they are pursuing.

Wang Zijun and George. The moment when Lucas was talking and laughing was also captured by the reporter and became a classic moment in the future.

It didn't take long for Stephen. Kim and his wife also came. Stephen. Kim was obviously not as comfortable with reporters as movie stars, and he smiled reluctantly and waved to the camera, and walked to the front seat.

"Wang, I'm not late, am I?" Stephen. Kim asked.

"It's not too late," Wang Zijun said to Stephen. Kim's wife greeted, "Hello, Mrs. Kim. ”

Stephen. King's adaptation of the novel version of "The Shawshank Redemption" has been completed and will be published a few days later, the same day that "The Shawshank Redemption" is officially released.

The premiere preplay passed quickly, and the film officially began.

The light under the screening hall dimmed, and a beam of light shot towards the screen, a dragon and a tiger came out with the wind and clouds, and finally turned into two images of a coiled dragon and a tiger down the mountain, and the static frame was fixed into two letters, D and T.

Cal. Sekis is a well-known film critic in Hollywood, and has been featured in various film magazines such as The Hollywood Reporter.

This time he came specifically to attend the premiere of "The Shawshank Redemption", because he missed "The Ghost Love" three years ago, although the movie was because of Audrey. Hepburn's appearance is very popular, but he doesn't think that a young Asian can make any good movies.

The result made him regretful, because when he watched "The Love of Ghosts", it was already a week after the release of that movie. Missing the premiere of a good movie can be very uncomfortable for a deadly critic.

Cal. Seggins came to the conclusion that one should never take anyone lightly and believe in miracles - especially for the mysterious Orientals.

Those Asians have grown some monsters, such as Wang Zijun, and the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who is now in the limelight in "Star Wars". Lucas also admits that he borrowed from Kurosawa's story.

The movie begins, in the cab of a car, a pair of hands appear.

The first hand was a steel flask, and when he put it down, he pulled out a revolver.

My hands were shaking, I don't know if it was because of drunkenness, nervousness, or anger.

The picture is everything, but it is a picture of a man and a woman, half-naked together and passionate.

The camera pans back into the car, where the hands shake and are somewhat clumsily reloaded into the revolver.

The camera turned to the two men and women again, the two were entangled in death, and just when the movements of the two were at their best, suddenly a gunshot rang out, and blood stains appeared on the woman's back.

Then in court, the lawyer accuses Andy, a banker, of killing his cheating wife and her lover.

Andy tried his best to defend himself, saying that he did have the idea of killing, but he didn't carry it out, and finally threw both the pistol and the bullet into the river.

However, the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for the actor.

Cal. Seggins concentrated, and as a film critic, began to speculate on the direction of the story and the director's technique and psychology.

Is it the wife that the hero killed? All those who watch the movie are thinking. Because of the protagonist effect, coupled with his innocent expression, the audience expects that he was wronged.

It's a pity that the next development of the plot did not go as they thought, entangled in whether it was Andy's wife who killed him, but the protagonist Andy was thrown directly into prison.

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