The Golden Lion Cinema in Ximending, Taiwan's first multiplex luxury cinema, once again served as the premiere location for Wang Zijun's films.

As always, in order to satisfy Wang's unique hobby, the premiere of "ET" is still held in the evening, with other theaters in the north and south of Taiwan showing the film.

According to Wang Zijun, this is more able to experience the charm of the movie with fans.

As the first Chinese-language film made by Wang Zijun after his return, Zhang Jingyu, the new director of the Information Bureau, who had just been in office for three months, was invited to attend the premiere.

Wang Zijun invited Zhang Jingyu to come, naturally to express closeness and cooperation, and hoped that Director Zhang would raise his noble hand in the future and just mean it when reviewing the works.

Mr. Zhang, who is in his 40s, is a more traditional mainland-style official, like his predecessor, James Soong. This guy didn't have much to do with Li Denghui, so as soon as Li Denghui came to power a few years later, he quit politics and ran to become the president of the university.

"Director Zhang is really appreciative, please take a seat!" Wang Zijun personally ran over to greet him, looking enthusiastic about his family.

"Where, where, Director Wang invited, I am very honored." Zhang Jingyu held Wang Zijun's hand for a long time and didn't let go, and said to the two accompanying officials behind him, "Our director Wang Da is the pride of the Chinese, and Americans have to admit Director Wang's artistic level." Today, I also came with the attitude of learning to appreciate art. ”

"Director Zhang, you're too polite." Wang Zijun sweated wildly, Zhang Jingyu's shelf was put so low, which made Wang Zijun feel a little weak in his heart.

Zhang Jingyu is completely equal in his attitude, and even with a little flattery. The main reason is what happened before the filming of "ET" this time, when the script of "ET" was sent for review, but because the Taiwanese agent in it was a negative image, it was directly beaten back.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the civil servant in charge of reviewing the script got Jiang Jingguo's handwritten instructions, saying that the artwork review should be lenient and not a snake.

The officials below were sweating profusely, at that time, the Jiangnan murder case had just broken out, and if anyone came to submit the script of "ET" for review, it would definitely be regarded as an insinuation of Taiwan's intelligence and security departments, and the trial would not pass for a hundred years.

was scared of this, and later after "ET" was filmed, it was sent to the electronic inspection department for review, and the people in the electronic inspection department directly approved it without reading it, which is also the reason why the release time of "ET" is so fast. If you change to other directors, the fastest electric review will take a week, which is like Wang Zijun's film can be released in three days?

The main creative staff of the film arrived one after another, and Xiao Chang, who only played soy sauce in the play, but always ran to the set, also came. However, Xiao Chang was very shy today, and she didn't talk much after seeing Wang Zijun, it seems that Wang Zijun's behavior of seducing the little girl left a psychological shadow on her.

The appearance of Zhen Zhen and Ke Junxiong also won a lot of applause, and there were even a few old fans at the scene, who specially grabbed tickets for the premiere to see Zhen Zhen.

As for Xiao Yan's appearance, it made all the reporters who participated in the premiere very excited. There is never a shortage of beauties around Wang Zijun, as soon as there are beauties, there is news, although the innocent and beautiful girl in front of her claims to be Wang Zijun's descendant, but if something really happens to the two, wouldn't it be even more exciting?

In recent years, paparazzi and gossip magazines have emerged in Hong Kong, and their counterparts in Taiwan have also followed suit. While journalists in Taiwan still face press restrictions, entertainment magazines have begun to use half-naked photos of actresses on their covers, something that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

On the stage, Wang Zijun picked up two little actors, five-year-old Hu Shanshan and ten-year-old Lin Zhiying were easily picked up by Wang Zijun with one hand, and there was a fifteen-year-old boy named Chen Yueqi standing next to him, who played Lin Zhiying's brother in the movie. Behind is a row of teenage boys, all of whom are actors in the film.

After a burst of photos, the interactive part of the game began, and Zhang Jingyu, the director of the Information Bureau, was also pulled onto the stage to play games with a five-year-old girl. The director's appearance and the little girl's innocence made the audience laugh.

"The three of you have worked hard!" In the audience, Wang Zijun was apologizing to the three girls in the back row.

Li Zhi, Michelle Yeoh and Ella Croatia were also invited by Wang Zijun to attend the premiere, and the three girls came to Taiwan for more than a month of military training after learning kung fu in Hong Kong for three months, and they were really tossed enough.

However, the effect of the training is obvious, the three women are charming, and they also add a bit of sassy and heroic posture, the only regret is that all three of them have been tanned.

The most speechless of the three girls is Michelle Yeoh, she was originally going to shoot "Royal Senior Sister" at her boyfriend's Garbo company, but as soon as she heard that Wang Zijun wanted to ask for filming, she immediately dropped the original scene. Until now, "Royal Sister" has been released for more than a month, and Zhong Chuhong, who replaced her as the heroine, has become popular again with this film, and the scenes that Wang Zijun asked her to shoot have not yet started.

"Mr. Wang, can I ask, when will our drama be filmed?" Michelle Yeoh couldn't help but ask, her Cantonese level was slightly better, but her Chinese pronunciation was vague, and now she asked directly in English.

"Well, after the New Year." Wang Zijun said.

Michelle Yeoh is sweating wildly, and after the Chinese New Year, she will have to wait for at least two and a half months, and it is estimated that the second part of "Royal Sister" will come out at that time.

Wang Zijun comforted: "Actually, this kind of training is very beneficial to you. If you become a star in the future, these months of training will be the foundation of your life. Even if you don't work professionally as a woman, after having this experience, you can open up a career in drama, and exercising is a good thing in itself. ”

After saying this, the three women wanted to roll their eyes, since Ella Croatia won the runner-up in the finals of Miss Hong Kong, there have been countless films in the Philippines and Singapore and Malaysia, just in order to be the heroine in Wang Zijun's film, she turned them all down. For Ella, who is from an ordinary background, her heart is dripping blood, if she had taken over those roles in the past six months, she would now be able to live in a small villa.

Li Zhi was also a little panicked, mainly because she was so popular half a year ago, and the media called to visit her every day, and various directors came to invite her to film. But after months of secret training, she suddenly found herself completely forgotten by the media, and she couldn't see a word about her in newspapers and magazines.

What Li Zhi is most worried about is that if Wang Zijun temporarily replaces the heroine and replaces herself, then she will be empty.

Looking at the worry on the third girl's face, Wang Zijun smiled and said, "Anla, Anla, three little fools." You will be the Sigourney Weaver of Asia from now on, and what you have given up before is only a small meaning compared to what you will get later. ”

Sigourney Weaver is the heroine of the "Alien" series, a goddess in the hearts of countless fans, and like Monica who starred in Wang Zijun's "Titanic", she is synonymous with a charming surname.

Upon hearing Wang Zijun say that they would become Asia's Sigourney Weaver, Li Zhi was overjoyed and asked, "Mr. Wang, are you saying that you want to make "The Three Heroines of the East" into a series of movies, and we will all star in the future?" ”

Wang Zijun nodded and said: "As long as you don't make any scandals, unless you don't want to act yourself, then I guarantee that the "Three Heroes of the East" series will be starred by you within ten years." ”

"Really?" The depression on the three girls' faces just now was swept away, and they were replaced by beautiful expectations for the future. Wang Zijun promised to let them be heroines for ten years, which is too tempting for girls who have never made a movie and dream of becoming a big star. Compared to this commitment, the months of silence in their training some time ago are nothing compared to this.

"Roar!"

A tiger roared from the high-end audio equipment in the screening room, and the opening credits of Wang's Pictures' classic Tiger Descending Mountain had appeared on the screen. The word "Wang" on the tiger's forehead gradually enlarged, and finally formed the words of Wang's Film Company. After that, the whole picture went black, and only the five big words "Wang Zijun's works" flashed in the center of the screen.

The screen is still dark, and the names of the crew and leading actors have jumped out one after another, but the dark picture is gradually moving, and there are clear footsteps in the dark.

From the viewer's point of view, all they know is that something is hiding behind a tree, hiding from the search of many people. Since Wang Zijun only revealed that it was a sci-fi film about aliens, some viewers who had watched "Star Wars" even speculated whether a human being had escaped from the alien base and was evading the aliens' search.

However, they soon learned the answer, it turned out that it was not aliens who were catching humans, but humans who were catching aliens.

When ET revealed his true identity, most of the audience was stunned. Because of the existing movies about aliens, the aliens in them are all strong and powerful or have super powers, and even evil aliens who want to enslave humans.

And the alien in front of him is only a little taller than a five-year-old child, looks stupid, has no strength at all, and is chased by humans all over the mountain.

It's so, so subversive of the inherent image of aliens!

The later plot is even more speechless, as a rare alien, even human children are afraid and hide in the utility room and dare not come out.

A lot of people come to see sci-fi, fights, and spaceships, like in Star Wars. But none of this is at all, but a little boy became friends with a thin alien, and then there were all kinds of trivial things in life, and the alien actually followed the child to learn to watch TV, use chopsticks, and drink milk...... Some viewers were disappointed at first, but they were quickly re-drawn to the attention of the audience, and the various plots that made the audience laugh did not make the audience feel dull.

Let the audience not feel bored and honestly watch the movie, which is the basic quality of a successful director. Wang Zijun naturally mastered this perfectly, and after the script was written, it had to be carefully revised, and there should be a breaking point every few seconds to attract the audience, and the audience was not given time to doze off and go to the toilet at all.

(By the way, Wong Kar-wai's "The Grandmaster" Lao Wang really fell asleep.) Although "Thai Embarrassment" is full of cold jokes that can freeze people to death, it is better than watching "The Grandmaster" and falling asleep. "Haha, that alien is so funny with chopsticks! ”

"How did that alien shoot it, it looks like the real thing, and there is a figure in the eyeball."

"Wang Zijun won't really catch an alien to film, right?"

“……”

The audience's focus is on how the aliens act, in addition to the various weird and clumsy actions of the aliens.

Some of the directors who participated in the premiere on the spot, as well as the directors who quietly ran into other cinemas in Taiwan to watch Wang Zijun's new film, were completely kneeling at this time. Not to mention letting them shoot this kind of sci-fi film, even if they make it and let them watch it, they can't figure out how the aliens were filmed.

Some people use such a sentence to describe the art master: the meaning of the previous master's works can be understood by everyone, but you don't know how he made it; Nowadays, everyone knows how to make the masterpieces, but they don't understand what the meaning is.

Wang Zijun is really a master, film critic Liao Yizhou, who was watching the movie at the premiere, sighed in his heart. Compared with the so-called New Wave film works in Taiwan that can't be understood for a long time, Wang Zijun is obviously much more popular.

The light-hearted and funny slowly passed, and the agents who captured ET gradually discovered the traces of aliens, and the atmosphere at the scene became tense. Because of the series of funny episodes of life, and the clumsy and likable appearance of the alien, the audience has clearly accepted the alien and treats it as a weakling person worthy of sympathy and love, hoping that it will not be caught by the agents.

As the alien "sick" became dying, the audience's emotions began to become sad and moved again, and the political axe agent, who was originally regarded as a villain, is now actively treating the alien with the medical staff.

"ET is going home!"

The little alien said this over and over again, and there was a place in the distant and deep night sky that was its home.

When the little alien sacrificed his life energy to save the little boy's "strange disease", but he stopped his heartbeat and pulse, the audience's emotions were finally brought to a sad peak, and some viewers with feelings even began to shed tears.

Is the alien dead?

Most of the audience thought that the movie was almost over, and this movie would be a tragic ending, and some people even began to complain about Wang Zijun, who had just filmed a big tragedy of "Titanic", and now he is filming a sci-fi tragedy, is it too little to earn tears?

It was in this atmosphere of sadness and despair that the alien's finger suddenly moved.

The background music suddenly changes from solemn to cheerful, and the little boy pretends to have a stomachache and hides that the agent takes away the aliens, making the audience burst into tears.

Then countless movie theaters in Taiwan began to laugh constantly, especially the clumsy chase scene, which made the audience feel a stomachache.

"Wow! Mom, look, the bike is dusting! In a screening room, a seven or eight-year-old boy pointed to the screen enviously.

Not just the little boy's bike, but all the bikes that escorted the aliens out flew up. The classic finally appeared, in the blue night sky, hung a huge blue moon, and the little boy flew through the moon with aliens on his bicycle, leaving an amazing silhouette.

The picture is stunningly beautiful, a perfect combination of science fiction, mystery and poetry.

According to statistics, in the months after the screening of "ET", bicycle sales suddenly increased in many countries and regions...... The aliens finally came home, and the faces of the audience unconsciously smiled.

From the initial surprise, followed by warmth and laughter, especially the alien's babbling, little by little learning to use chopsticks, watching TV, and eating, these are enough to make the audience think of it as their own growing child. In the end, from sadness to joy, and then the ending is a happy ending, leaving the audience with an unforgettable memory.

At the end of the music in the screening hall of the premiere, the audience stood up and applauded the director.

Zhang Jingyu, director of the Information Bureau, held Wang Zijun's hand and said: "Director Wang's works are really extraordinary, and I, who don't watch movies much, watch them with relish." By the way, how did that alien get it? ”

Watching several reporters gather around the camera, Wang Zijun explained with a smile: "We first made a model of an alien, controlled its movements through circuits, and asked professional dubbing personnel to dub the speech, and then used computer technology and traditional film processing technology to synthesize and process it later." ”

"Okay, good, you are worthy of being the boss of a computer technology company, you know how to use high technology, and other directors in Taiwan should also learn from it, otherwise you will fall behind Hollywood." Zhang Jingyu kept praising it.

This is the first time that Zhang Jingyu has dealt with Wang Zijun since he became the director of the Information Bureau, and the two of them respect me for a foot, and I respect you for a foot, and they are all showing favor to each other, which makes those who understand it disgusting.

The two shook hands and separated, the reporters were still reluctant to leave, and they were pestering the interview subjects in the screening room, and the three daughters of Lizhi and Michelle Yeoh were also under the care of reporters.

Wang Zijun had bodyguards to block the car, and he walked relatively smoothly, but Xiao Yan, who was besieged by reporters, faced this situation for the first time, and didn't know how to deal with it at all, so he could only stick to Wang Zijun's ass and leave.

After getting into the car, Wang Zijun asked Xiao Yan, "Are you angry in your heart?" Why don't you talk to me all the time? ”

"I didn't." Xiao Yan lowered her head and said, I don't know if she really said that she was not angry, or if she did not stop talking to Wang Zijun.

Wang Zijun said: "It's late, or I'll send you home." ”

"Okay." Xiao Yan wanted to refuse, but somehow agreed.

Wang Zijun said to the driver: "Amai, go to Yonghe first." ”

Ah Mai turned around, Wang Zijun leaned on the back seat and closed his eyes and didn't speak, and the car suddenly became quiet.

The roof lights in the car are turned off, and the back seat is pitch black and you can't see it clearly. Such an environment made Xiao Yan feel at ease and boldly turned her head to look at Wang Zijun, although she could only see an outline, she still stared at Wang Zijun stupidly for a while, as if she wanted to study whether flowers would grow on his face.

For nearly half of the filming work in front, Xiao Yan will come to the scene to watch for a while. At that time, I thought that making a movie was very chaotic and simple, but after watching the fully completed film today, Xiao Yan felt that Brother Wang was really powerful.

It is easy for little girls to have a worship psychology for big heroes and big shots, Xiao Yan grew up listening to various rumors about Wang Zijun since she was a child, and this kind of worship psychology took root in psychology as early as this moment, until this moment finally broke the ground.

(To be continued)