In the eyes of American reporters, Wang Zijun, an Asian boy, will always have a mysterious halo on his head.

Especially with the hot sale of the "Harry Potter" series, the global popularity of several consecutive movies, and the rapid development of game companies and personal computer companies, the halo above Wang Zijun's head is becoming more and more dazzling.

Even the big harem, although widely criticized, also adds a dazzling color to this aura.

In addition to these, Wang Zijun left the impression on American reporters that he did not play according to the rules. Other people's premieres are basically held in the morning, but his is good, all in the evening, and the explanation given is that there is no atmosphere for watching movies during the day.

This was the same time, when the official premiere was held at 6 p.m., so that reporters and film critics had to come early for dinner so as not to go hungry for several hours at the premiere.

Wang Zijun waved to the fans on both sides of the street outside, and then quickly walked into the Chinese theater, and the reporters also came in in a cluster.

The premiere was held at the same time as the national release, but the 145-minute director's version was shown at the premiere and the 120-minute theatrical version was shown in other theaters.

What is cut is some content that does not affect the plot, after all, for ordinary audiences, the movie will look boring if it is too long.

In fact, directors and film critics prefer to watch the director's version because it can more fully express the director's intentions and the theme of the film. Wang Zijun has picked up enough refinement, and the complete version of "The Pianist at Sea" more than ten years later in the parallel space is more than 170 minutes, and it is almost three hours before it is called suffocating.

So this time, there are a lot of fans who want to come to the premiere, and they all want to get a premiere ticket to come in and watch the full version.

In fact, they don't need to be in such a hurry, after the release of "The Pianist at Sea" for a period of time, the world will release the full version of the movie cassette and soundtrack, and you can go home and watch it slowly after buying it.

Time passed little by little, and when the hour hand pointed to six o'clock, the premiere in the Chinese theater finally began.

The lights on the stage came on, and the first to appear were two pianos.

"Click......" A slow, powerful footstep sounded, but a black man walked out.

It was Clarence who appeared. Williams III, many viewers at the scene recognized him as one of the stars of the film, but they couldn't remember his name for a while. Although Clarence. Williams III has been acting in Hollywood movies for 20 years, but those movies were all acted in the fifties and sixties, and the movie with the second male lead the year before last did not do well at the box office.

Clarence. Williams III bowed downward, then sat down at the piano and moved his fingers.

"Dang!" Fingers slammed into the keys with a loud sound, followed by a stream of notes floating out of his fingers.

Only then did the audience remember that the name of the movie was "The Pianist at Sea", which must be related to the piano.

Clarence. Williams III's piano skills are not bad, after all, his father was one of the founders of jazz, and he practiced various instruments from an early age. And I haven't made a movie in over a decade, Clarence. Williams III made a living by playing the piano, which was already considered a professional level.

A brand new piano piece quickly conquered the audience, and at least to those white audiences, the black man seemed pretty good.

Clarence. As soon as Williams III's fingers left the keys, Wang Zijun walked up to the stage, and the fans at the back of the audience immediately shouted and shouted Wang Zijun's English name.

Wang Zijun's piano skills are comparable to Clarence. Williams III is much worse, and he can fool ordinary people who don't understand music, but this can't stand the star halo above his head.

Clarence. No matter how well Williams III played, those audiences applauded at most, and although Wang Zijun barely passed, as soon as the performance ended, the fans went crazy again, applauding and shouting as if they were holding a concert.

There is no way, almost all the fans who came to attend the movie premiere are die-hard fans of Wang Zijun.

Wang Zijun called all the main creators to the stage and introduced them one by one.

The reporter below asked again, but it was Judy who asked more. Foster's whereabouts, as they discover that the heroine of the film is not there tonight. The leading actors standing on the stage are all pure masters.

Wang Zijun's old friend, film critic Stephen, who has been paying attention to him since "Bloody Lonely City", is sitting below, waiting to enjoy Wang Zijun's new film as usual. Sitting next to Stephen was his old acquaintance and colleague, the famous film critic Carl. Seguins.

"Stephen, I heard that this time it's a literary film." Cal. Sekkins said, "Hope Zachley." Don't disappoint, King. ”

Cal. Seggins has always liked movies with substance, so this time he was looking forward to it. On the contrary, Steve prefers the popular elements, and playing too much high-end art films will make him sleepy.

"I hope he can grasp the limit, otherwise the box office will be ugly." Stephen said with some concern that in fact he hated people who talked about the art of cinema at every turn, especially European directors who specialized in art but did not understand the box office.

On the screen, the logo of Dragon and Tiger Film Company has come out, and the English translation of "Wang Zijun's works" is under the five Chinese characters. As soon as the black curtain passed, a huge yellow pupil-like thing appeared on the big screen, but when the camera slowly zoomed out, people realized that it was just a small copper trumpet horn.

As the main creator's subtitles are played, Max, a trumpeter played by Rob the Fat Man, begins a monologue of memories, which begins with a steamer liner called the USS Virginia.

The camera begins to give the Virginia a full view, and then the camera zooms in, and the camera slowly crosses the camera like a picture of the river during the Qingming Festival. From bow to stern, there are gentlemen drinking morning tea, refugees nested in the corner, and couples in love......

The camera never left the passenger ship, and there were at least thousands of passengers on each deck alone, which is enough to prove how huge the ship is.

"Oh hell, that steamship looks brand new."

"Zachary isn't really going to build a big ship, is he?"

"It's a steamer, and it still has black smoke coming out of its chimney, it must have been newly built."

“……”

The Virginia, which has just appeared, has made the audience talk a lot, mainly because this kind of movie scene is the first time in Hollywood. How could they not be surprised that a brand-new, long-vanished giant steamer appeared so vividly before their eyes?

Nowadays, there is no special effects that can be made by computers, and everything has to be captured by the lens.

"Sister, look at (the United States)!" Suddenly, a young man in the bow of the ship pointed ahead, shouting the name of the United States, and the outline of the Statue of Liberty appeared in the thick fog.

Then, one by one, the passengers on board poured onto the deck, and these passengers from Europe waved frantically at the Statue of Liberty, in Spanish, French, Italian...... Shouting the name of the United States, his eyes revealed the radiance of hope, as if there was a holy land of hope opposite.

Even the arrogant gentlemen and ladies who had been drinking tea on the deck took off their hats and waved their hands one by one, clapping their hands lightly in celebration with a little reserve, and all of them had yearning smiles on their faces.

"Huh!" Cal. Sekkins couldn't help but laugh, and so did Stephen next to him.

Their laughter naturally saw through Wang Zijun's intentions, and the plot of this movie was just a change of law to please the American audience. In another time and space, the director caused dissatisfaction among European audiences because of this paragraph, thinking that the director was sacrificing art to flatter the United States.

But this little trick is obviously very successful, just as Chinese hear foreigners shouting praises of China's greatness. The American audience had proud expressions on their faces.

After the carnival, it is back to reality, and the time is already after World War II.

Max, the destitute trumpeter, wipes his trumpet and takes it to the musical instrument store to exchange it for money, only to inadvertently lead to the only vinyl record of the piano piece the actor had made before 1900.

The dreary memories are soon shattered, and the kind-hearted black stove burner crawls around the guest restaurant, searching for cigarettes, money, or other knick-knacks from the rubbish on the floor, and finally picks up an abandoned baby.

The baby, named 1900, spent his childhood in a dirty furnace room.

A black stove burner holds a newspaper for betting on horses and teaches mixed-race children 1,900 literacy. The child's innocence not only made the stove burner laugh, but also enlivened the atmosphere in the screening room, and the audience also showed a discouraged smile.

"Danny, what's Mommy?" The mixed-race kid 1900 dragged his chin and asked the black stove burner.

"Mom?" The black stove burner was stunned for a moment, and replied, "Oh, Mama is a kind of horse." ”

"A kind of horse?" Kid 1900 said.

"Yes, horse racing." Danny, a black furnace burner, nodded solemnly, "Actually, mom is the best kind of horse racing in the world, and if you bet on mom, you're going to win." ”

Seeing this, all the audience couldn't cry or laugh, it was the first time they had heard someone explain their mother like this.

The Virginia was bumpy under the storm, but it became the cradle of childhood in the 1900s. Danny, a black furnace burner, died unexpectedly not long after, and the sad 1900 disappeared for days, and when people found him, he was sitting at the piano, playing the piano without a teacher.

In 1900, as he grew up, the film also ushered in the "gaochao" plot for the first time.

Max, the seasick trumpeter, was taken to the piano room by 1900, and after unlocking the piano, the two of them played the piano while letting the bumpy hull of the boat let the piano glide all over the ground, like children in a playground.

In the beautiful sound of the piano, the fierce storm, the bumpy ship, the sliding piano, and Max lying on the piano and yelling, and the 1900 playing the piano with ease, constitute a perfect picture.

Viewers with a little connoisseurship will be moved by this picture.

Of course, there are also viewers who don't like it, and they keep complaining below: "Hell, what the is this movie?" I'm almost asleep! ”

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted angry eyes from other fans of Wang Zijun around him, and they had to shut up obediently.

1900 fell in love, he fell in love with a female passenger who immigrated to the United States, he took the address and decided to get off the ship and go to that city to find her.

1900 stepped down the ship's suspension ladder, and he stood in the middle of the suspension ladder, with land in front of him that he had not set foot on since he was born, and behind him was the familiar Virginia.

The music in the screening room suddenly stopped, and even the audience's voices completely disappeared, and everyone waited for 1900 to make a choice.

Finally, 1900 took off his hat, threw it into the sea, and returned to the ship without hesitation.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time mourned for him.

Especially 1900's eternally clear eyes have made countless female viewers flood with their mother's surname, wanting to take him into their arms and comfort him like a child.

"The first time I found out, it turns out that Zachary's eyes are so good-looking!" In countless movie theaters in the United States, many women are thrilled.

Indeed, most of this drama is supported by Wang Zijun's acting skills, and the finishing touch lies in his pure baby-like eyes. This kind of look is not only attractive to women, but even men will like it.

In 1900, fame gradually spread from passenger liners to land, Clarence. The founder of jazz, played by Williams III, personally took on the boat to challenge.

The exciting piano fight begins, with each person playing three tunes. The soundtrack recorded by two famous pianists at a high price, coupled with the handsome editing and atmosphere rendering, even the audience who does not understand music at all is still excited, and when the last 1900 lit a cigarette with the piano, there were bursts of exclamations in the cinema.

But at the end of the movie, they were silent.

Years later, the Virginia was scrapped, and the contents were emptied and explosives were placed to blow it up and sink it in the sea.

The trumpeter Max knew that 1900 was still on board, but he led people to search the ship, but he still couldn't find anyone, and no one was more familiar with the ship than 1900, who had stayed on board all his life. If he wants to hide, no one will find him.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the ship burst into flames.

The legendary pianist of the sea in 1900 sank in the sea along with the USS Virginia, where he had stayed all his life.

"No!" The female audience with the feeling surname screamed out loudly, and even the male audience felt that their eyes were a little moist.

"Is the movie over?" A viewer who was asleep rubbed his eyes and said.

"Shut up!" Countless people around scolded him.

On the first day of the release of "The Pianist at Sea", there was a very obvious two-level phenomenon. Audiences who like it feel that this movie is a rare classic; And the audience who didn't like it fell asleep directly in the theater.

"It's a fun movie." Cal. Seggins said.

"It's a funny bad movie." Stephen added.

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There was a problem with the computer, and Lao Wang had to go to work during the day, and it took two days to fix it.

(To be continued)