6925 Hollywood Avenue, Chinese Cinema.

At around 27 metres tall, the Hollywood premiere is greeted by two giant red pillars made of coral, which support the copper roof above. Between the two red pillars is a 9-meter-high stone sculpture carved with a Chinese dragon.

At the entrance of the Chinese theater, two large stone tengu brought from China 60 years ago firmly guard the entrance of the theater.

In front of the theater, there is a long avenue, where Wang Zijun's hand, footprints and name are also left.

"Knock knock ......"

Amid the sound of gongs and drums, Wang Zijun specially invited the lion dance team from Chinatown to start the performance, running, jumping, rolling, sleeping, shaking, watching...... The vivid lion movements are perfectly presented under the actions of the lion dancers. On the temporary plum blossom pile, the lion jumped back and forth, and the beautiful and thrilling action made the audience applaud warmly.

This kind of lion dance performance with Chinese characteristics is not common in Americans, and the reporters who came to the US premiere of "A Chinese Ghost Story" have already begun to squander the film they brought today.

After a burst of firecrackers, the crowd of people watching the lion dance poured into the Chinese theater.

The 2,200-seat seats filled up quickly, and more than half of the audience in the back were fans who were lucky enough to buy tickets for the premiere at a high price.

After the premiere began, Guan Zhilin, who volunteered to be the master of ceremonies for the premiere, walked on stage and said: "Hello everyone, I am Rosa Mengguan, and welcome all friends to attend the premiere of Mr. Wang's "A Chinese Ghost Story" today......

Today's premiere was carefully planned and authentically Chinese from start to finish.

After Guan Zhilin stepped off the stage, a group of male and female dancers dressed in ancient Chinese costumes took the stage under the pull of lights, and the sound of silk and bamboo gradually rose, and the dancers began to dance to the melodious sound of the flute.

These dancers are all dancers invited by Wang Zijun from Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theater, and the dance they are dancing now is "A Chinese Ghost Story" choreographed especially for the premiere.

Wang Zijun spent more than $100,000 on the lion dance, dancers, musicians, etc. for the premiere.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre has been established for more than 10 years, and although it has not yet been named Asia's No. 1 contemporary dance company by the Western media, it has become well-known in Asia, and the level of dancers is more mature than many years ago.

There are a total of twelve dancers in this "A Chinese Ghost Story", of which a man and a woman who lead the dance play Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian respectively, and the other dancers are goblins and ghosts.

Although the American audience in the audience did not know the background of the story of "The Ghost of the Girl", a group of Chinese danced in ancient Chinese costumes and danced modern dance, and this mode alone made them feel fresh. Coupled with the dancers' professional dance movements, Western audiences have a feeling that although they don't understand what it means, they still feel that they are very powerful.

Then Wang Guxian wore a costume and performed the water sleeve kung fu that she had practiced for several months, plus the steel wire that was originally prepared, which was quite a bit of a female ghost flying in the sky.

Wang Zijun was not stingy, and personally sang the theme song of "A Chinese Ghost Story" on stage. Before he could speak, there were many fanatical fans below who shouted "Zachary", and the reaction was much greater than that of the previous shows.

"Miss Madonna, please!"

Madonna's appearance was definitely unexpected by reporters and fans. What surprised them even more was that Madonna was not only wearing a silk cheongsam, but also singing the incorrect words "Jasmine".

"Spend a lot of attractive oyster flowers, consume a lot of charming oyster flowers......"

As soon as Madonna spoke, many people in the audience who knew Chinese laughed, and after laughing, they applauded more enthusiastically. Who would have thought that the world's pop diva would sing in Chinese?

But it is undeniable that the appearance of Madonna will definitely become an important report in the entertainment pages of various newspapers tomorrow, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" will also be known to more people, which is also the main purpose of Wang Zijun to invite Madonna.

"The pig king Zijun first rope drifting house is a big seller!" Sing a song, Madonna came to congratulate again, and finally the word "big sale" was pronounced very accurately.

"Thank you!" Wang Zijun walked over and hugged Madonna.

"Oh ......" The fans below saw the two hugging, and suddenly let out a burst of coaxing.

After hugging, Madonna beckoned downward, and suddenly hugged Wang Zijun again without warning, and her bewitching red lips were imprinted on Wang Zijun's mouth.

"...... Uproar"

There was an uproar, the whole audience was brightened up by the flash of the camera, and the reporters were excited to take pictures of their kiss from all angles.

Wang Zijun pushed Madonna away with tears and laughter, this one was not arranged by him, but a moth made by Madonna. If you think about it on your toes, tomorrow's entertainment headlines will definitely be the two kissing at the premiere, and maybe the gossip tabloids will make up all kinds of scandals about them.

"Well, I'm doing a great job, it's over the mark." After stepping down, Madonna said proudly to Wang Zijun.

Wang Zijun could only pout helplessly, the kiss just now, maybe who took advantage of whom.

The movie finally began, and the theater fell silent.

The film is re-dubbed, and Ning Caichen wears a Confucian shirt and speaks English, which is a violation of how to look at it for Chinese, but this is a last resort. The American audience is very self-centered, not to mention that the dialogue is Chinese, and even the British version of Shakespeare's play is rejected by American audiences because of its strong British accent.

Of course, if American audiences want to see the original Chinese soundtrack, they can go to the movie theater in Chinatown.

Laughter erupted from time to time in the cinema, but in general, the atmosphere was nowhere near as frenetic as it was on the Asian side. Compared with the popularity of "Three Heroines of the East" released in the United States, "A Chinese Ghost Story" seems to have an extra layer of separation between Eastern and Western cultures.

After the end of the film, although the audience still applauded warmly, Wang Zijun still felt a little reluctant to applaud.

"The magical Oriental magic, and that female ghost are so beautiful." This is the evaluation of fans who have become Chinese fans because they like Wang Zijun's movies.

"Zachley's new film is a bit of a disappointment." This is another type of movie fan's after-viewing experience.

"Chinese Fantasy Blockbuster Landing in North America"

This was the headline of many American newspapers the next day, and to Wang Zijun's surprise, more than eighty percent of the media reports this time were positive.

The Hollywood Reporter said: "A Chinese Ghost Story is a pure oriental magical romance film, it has a unique and mysterious oriental charm, which makes people fall into it and can't extricate themselves. ”

The Los Angeles Times said: "This is a surprising Chinese film, its selling point is not gag jokes and omnipotent Chinese kung fu, but mysterious and fantastical Chinese supernatural legends and lingering love, we can see it as Zachley's Chinese version of "The Love of People and Ghosts" ......."

Prior to this, due to Wang Zijun's help in the release, Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Zombie" and Tsui Hark's "New Shushan Swordsman" both sold well in the United States. But as the Los Angeles Times said, although "Mr. Zombie" is a ghost movie, it is full of comedy and kung fu elements; As for "The Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain", the selling point is more fantasy and fight scenes, and the love portrayal is very pale.

The most attractive thing about "A Chinese Ghost Story" is the human-ghost romance in it. After all, love knows no borders.

Due to the aura of the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for two best foreign language films, coupled with Wang Zijun's box office appeal, and the scandal between Wang Zijun and Madonna, "A Chinese Ghost Story" was unprecedentedly successful after its release in the United States, with a box office of nearly $8 million in the first day.

For this film, the opinions of ordinary audiences are also quite different, those who like it love it to the extreme, and those who don't like it have no sense of substitution at all.

In fact, after Xiaodong's "A Chinese Ghost Story" entered the United States, it attracted a lot of attention, and even became a textbook film for many film schools in the United States.

The reason why it can be called the textbook of the American Film Academy is not because of how great this movie is, but because Americans use this film to study the production of Chinese films. Especially when the use of computer stunts was not yet on the stage, many of the special effects in this movie were of great interest to Americans.

Wang Zijun's movies are no longer a few as film school textbooks, "Ghost Love", "Titanic" and "Face Snatcher" have been used as film textbooks, and now another one is going to be added, because this movie is regarded by many Americans as an authentic Chinese-style magic blockbuster.

On the third day of the film's release, "A Chinese Ghost Story" reached its peak at the box office in the United States, exceeding 10 million US dollars in one fell swoop, but it quickly fell back after that.

After all, there is a big cultural gap between the East and the West, and if it weren't for the fanatical Chinese fans, it would be difficult for the audience to accurately understand the many cultural elements implied in this movie, and it would be impossible to enshrine it as a classic and watch it again.

From April to early July, "A Chinese Ghost Story" earned more than $82 million at the U.S. box office. This number can be ranked in the top ten of this year's North American film box office list, but judging from the box office that has exceeded 10 million, the total box office of $82 million is still too little, and the film's stamina for release in the United States is too weak.

Of course, this film is not completely finished, "A Chinese Ghost Story" has been released in the Chinese community in the United States for half a year before it ended, and it has received millions of box office.

Compared with the release of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in the United States, the American people seem to be more concerned about the scandal between Wang Zijun and Madonna.

Especially when Madonna lived in Wang Zijun's tulip manor for more than half a year before she became famous, I don't know which reporter dug it up, and then Madonna also became Wang Zijun's mistress, and claimed that Madonna was completely popular behind Wang Zijun's back.

As soon as this news came out, it caused an uproar in public opinion.

Wang Zijun's fans, who have long been accustomed to Wang Zijun's romantic reputation, have made ridicule, they are very proud to see them like that, and their idol has captured the heart of a beauty.

As for Madonna's fans, it was a wild squirt, scolding Wang Zijun for being shameless and indecent, and even worse, publicly clamoring for Wang Zijun to go back to Asia.

(To be continued)