Chapter 252: The Golden Age
On May 18, 2010, the most anticipated domestic film "Chinese Partner" of the year, after months of indiscriminate publicity and the sudden rise in word-of-mouth after the screening, finally kicked off the prelude to the release. 《
Wanda Cinema Tanzhou flagship store, a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, with his wife and seventeen or eighteen-year-old daughter, entered the hall.
As the owner of Tanzhou Baiwei fast food restaurant, Xu Youping is worth about 10 million yuan of 46 chain fast food restaurants, which is a member of the rich class. But this is the first time he took his wife and children into the cinema to watch a movie, he used to be poor and reluctant to spend money on tickets, but then he was busy and didn't have time to watch a movie.
If it weren't for his daughter's repeated pruning, Xu Youping would not have come to the cinema this time, and he was used to being busy all day long, and he really couldn't stop.
But her daughter, who has just entered her freshman year, somehow became obsessed with "Chinese Partner", in her words, the story depicted in this movie is very similar to the story of her parents. After graduating from university, they faced the boom of going abroad, but failed to follow the trend, but after hitting walls everywhere, they began to start a business from scratch in China.
Although I have heard it many times, my parents talked about the hardships of starting a business back then, and my daughter still wanted to watch "Chinese Partner" and imagine those people and things in that era.
Seeing that his daughter happily bought three movie tickets for consecutive seats, Xu Youping was still very pleased.
He has no feeling for "Chinese Partner", it's just that his daughter has grown so big, and as a parent, it seems that he has never been so leisurely except for giving money. Really feel like a family, sit together and watch a movie. A debt to her daughter. It seems like too much. It's not bad to watch a movie and make up for it a little.
"There are a lot of people buying tickets, isn't it Tuesday today, why are there so many people?" It was Xu Youping's wife who spoke.
"Because today is the premiere, a lot of people have been waiting for many days for the movie to come out. I just ran to see it. The daughter explained simply, "And most of the people who won the premiere were movie enthusiasts." Or a fan of the director and starring. ”
"Are you a fan?" Xu Youping asked jokingly.
"I am a fan of Huang Xiaoming and a fan of Bai Yuhan."
"Bai Yuhan is this director, right?"
"Well, the most handsome director in China is only in his twenties this year."
"In his twenties. Can you shoot the taste of the last century? Don't be hype again, now Chinese movies like to engage in hype, and the miasma is smoky. ”
"Dad, you can rest assured, although Bai Yuhan is young, the works he shoots have been tested by time. And this time, they held the premiere at Tsinghua University, and our class Liu Yanyan. Wasn't she admitted to Tsinghua University, she attended the premiere. came back to chat QQ in the group, saying that after watching "Chinese Partner", she herself couldn't wait to become a man and go back to the 80s to fight. ”
"Childish." Xu Youping commented.
After chatting outside for a while, soon the last one in the movie hall was over and a large group of people came out. Passing by the father and daughter, what can be clearly heard is "the best domestic film this year", "Huang Xiaoming's god", "better than expected", "this ticket is not a loss", "good-looking" and so on.
"It's quite popular." Xu Youping muttered, looking a little disapproving. What good films can be made by directors in their twenties, even Zhang Yimou can't make any good films at this age, and even the director can't sit down.
With such and such a mood, a family of three lined up into the theater.
After a lot of commotion, the theater quieted down when the label logo at the beginning of the film came out.
"Chinese Partner."
The beginning of the movie, life in the school days, is a very funny comedy. The laughter in the movie theater came and went, and Xu Youping's wife and daughter all laughed along. Xu Youping became more and more silent, the country resumed the college entrance examination in the eighties, and the college students of that era were the pride of the sky.
It is indeed the most elite group of people in China.
The heart is higher than the sky, and the pretentious.
All kinds of ideas and new trends of thought are sprouting among college students, and family and country, love, dreams, and the future are intertwined into the mark of an era.
Xu Youping has never forgotten.
Of course, Xu Youping was not conspicuous at the time, just like Huang Xiaoming in the movie, who had just come up from the countryside and had a turtle. But the turtle also has a spring, and also has a restless heart, and during college, he successfully got his sister, and now his wife. Therefore, others watch comedy, but he watches youth and memories.
Even Bai Yuhan personally made a cameo appearance in "The American people need me", Xu Youping just grinned simply, in his daughter's opinion, this was really funny, but he knew that the situation at that time was like this, everyone wanted to go to the United States and never come back.
Xu Youping's mentality is no longer to cope with errands, but to be real, while reminiscing about the past, while enjoying movies.
When Su Mei went abroad, Cheng Dongqing fell out of love, and when Meng Xiaojun and Liangqin exposed their vanity to each other, Xu Youping's irrepressible eyes moistened. Once upon a time, I wasn't like this, pretending to be a mixed person, but in fact, I couldn't eat at all.
Soy sauce and rice can be eaten fragrantly.
In a trance, Xu Youping didn't notice the passage of time at all, and a movie ended briefly like this. When in the end, Cheng Dongqing looked at the reflection on the glass window, and Su Mei took the child away. The faint sadness that infiltrated the heart made the entire movie theater silent.
Life is no match for years, and in the end, things are no longer people.
Xu Youping suddenly had a sense of refreshment, turned his head to look to the side, and his wife, at the same time, turned her head and looked at him.
Silence is better than sound at this point.
"The flowers bloom in spring, the wind in autumn, and the sunset in winter."
"I used to think so ignorantly in my melancholy youth."
“……”
"The story of flowing water, it takes away time, changes us."
"It's that sentimental and first memories of youth."
Subtitles and photos slowly emerge.
Xu Youping involuntarily stood up and applauded. At this moment, his heart was full of mixed feelings.
There were too many people like Xu Youping in the movie theater, and his daughter also stood up and applauded. This moment. The charm exuded by the movie has impressed men, women and children.
"It's so pretty."
"It's a great shot."
"It's good, it's better than foreign films."
"I finally saw such a good-looking domestic film!"
"Dad, Mom, is this the story of your generation?" The daughter turned her head and asked very seriously.
"Yes, that's the story of Mom and Dad's time."
"You're amazing!"
……
The movie ends. The evaluation is out.
Douban Community, Yishui's five-star short review score, occasionally mixed with one-star and two-star. That's people who didn't watch it, and they hit it for domestic films. The long reviews are almost not less than four stars, and in just one day, more than 300 long reviews have been added, which interprets "Chinese Partner" in an all-round way. Countless people who haven't seen it have yet screamed that they will go to see it tomorrow.
mtime.com. With the same score of 9 to 10, there are countless long reviews, comparing "Chinese Partner" with Hollywood movies, and finally came to the conclusion that "Chinese Partner" is a new biographical commercial film, which can be called a classic. Aside from the weakness of artistic connotation, it can almost be compared with classic Chinese films such as "Alive" and "Farewell My Concubine".
Everyone is online, a water of sincere recommendation.
Station B on Weibo. The touching nostalgia of a water.
"What Bai Yuhan does is very simple, that is, write his ideals on a piece of paper. When you write a sentence and you cry, that is your ideal. I want to say that I am very strong, but at the end, Cheng Dongqing looked at Su Mei, and I also cried. The story of running water and taking away time has changed two people, and I have also had youth. ”
"Domestic movies are finally no longer costume killing, and they are finally no longer horror films, and they are inspirational and deeply memorable! Chinese filmmakers, I have seen your efforts, thank you, the movie tickets for this film are worth it. ”
"The four of us old men made an appointment to watch it together, and after watching the movie, we cried profusely, and we were drunk at night, we were not as successful as Yu Minhong and Xu Xiaoping, but there are many stories."
"After watching the movie, the first feeling is that the golden age of Chinese films has come!"
With endless praise, the box office of "Chinese Partner" on the premiere day of May 18 was also counted at noon the next day.
received 3.9 million online tickets and 24.5 million box office, while the total box office on the day was 31 million, "Chinese Partner" produced 79% of the box office with 40.23% of the film schedule, with an average attendance rate of 41% and a total of 10640000 moviegoers. The best opening day result for a film premiering on Tuesday was created.
""Chinese Partner" got off to a good start, with 24.5 million on the first day, and it was difficult to find a ticket in many theaters."
This ticket is hard to find, naturally not for the whole show, but for the prime time, all major theaters are full of sold-outs, only morning, morning, and evening shows, and there are very few people to watch. Otherwise, the attendance rate is not such a low figure as 41%, but it will directly explode.
Tuesday's box office gave the movie a wonderful start.
The super good word-of-mouth directly drove the follow-up box office explosiveness, which can also indicate that "Chinese Partner" is not the kind of outbreak that will die, but can achieve a long-term box office.
On Wednesday, stimulated by yesterday's attendance, major theaters added more shows.
The schedule of "Chinese Partner" has risen to 51.24%, and it is all arranged in prime time, almost monopolizing the theater chain. "Iron Man 2", "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Ip Man 2" have been affected, and the film schedule has dropped again and again.
On this day, the box office of "Chinese Partner" dropped by 29.5 million, and the total box office on the day was 32.5 million, accounting for more than 90% of the box office production. The accumulation of 54 million in two days is overwhelming.
On Thursday, the total number of moviegoers fell a lot, and the total box office of the film market did not exceed 30 million that day. However, the film schedule of "Chinese Partner" continued to rise, and the box office did not decline much, getting 27.6 million, with a total box office of 81.6 million.
On Friday, office workers began to take a holiday, and the broader market began to rise.
"Chinese Partner" climbed to a new high, with 31 million in a single day, and the total box office successfully exceeded 100 million yuan in four days, reaching 112.6 million yuan. And these four days, excluding weekends, although the gap between China's holiday box office and weekday box office is not so big, but it is also a remarkable achievement.
broke 100 million in four days, and everyone is already looking forward to whether it can break 200 million after the weekend.
broke 200 million in six days, which will be the second fastest time in mainland film history and the fastest time in domestic film history.
"Breaking 200 million in six days, nothing is impossible." Netizens who have seen "Chinese Partner" have left messages on the Internet to express their support and optimism. (To be continued......)