Chapter 128: "If the Wine Is Sold Dryly"

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The call came from Wang Guxian, who was far away in Taipei.

Because "If the Wine Sells Nothing" is about to be released on January 22, she wants to know if Lin Jing will go to Taipei when it is released.

"If the Wine Sells Nothing" is the file of "Plan A", "Plan A" will be drawn on January 21, and there is still a week to go. At present, the box office of "Plan A" is more than 21 million, and the film seems to have exploded too violently in the week, consuming too much potential, and only more than 400 and less than 5 million in the second week.

Although it is said that the weekly box office of four or five million is already a big surprise for most movies, compared with the volcanic explosion in the first week, it is too far behind, and people will inevitably be a little disappointed in addition to being happy.

So much so that many people are thinking that the final total box office of "Plan A" may not be able to surpass last year's box office champion "Best Partner", let alone break the highest record at the Hong Kong box office.

The release of "If the Wine Sells Nothing" is a big deal.

For Lin Jing, this is her third script, and the first two scripts "Five Lucky Stars" and "Plan A" made movies were all very successful, making Golden Harvest make a lot of money, and envy the many film companies that have rushed to their deaths.

If the movie made by this script can also be a big hit, then her screenwriting signature will be completely launched, although it is already very loud now.

For Time and Space Film Studios, this is the first film of the film company, whether it is a blockbuster or a success, will have a very big impact on its future. If the box office is okay, you can start officially recruiting.

After all, good birds are perched on trees, and with achievements, recruiting talents such as photographers like Christopher Doyle will not be given a cold reception because of their unknown origin.

For Xu Anhua, this is the film she has directed, the widest budget and the longest shooting time, and she is looking forward to what kind of result her carefully crafted film will be after its release.

For the new art city, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. Because "If the Wine Sells Nothing" is run by Golden Harvest Film Company, and Golden Harvest, and New Art City, strictly speaking, competitors are enemies. They have no reason to pay attention to such a literary film.

However, what is very bad is that the script of this movie was once rejected by them themselves. They never thought that Lin Jing would rise so fast at the beginning, faster than a rocket, it seemed that in the blink of an eye, he was already famous.

If this could have been anticipated, even if the script was really useless, they would have to follow it. Because no one would think that with Lin Jing's current popularity, the script created will not even recover the cost of the film.

If the movie really hits, they might be scolded, and they will be scolded very badly.

It can be said that in addition to Lin Jing and Golden Harvest Film Company, which are related to this movie, the one who pays the most attention to this movie and wants to see this movie fight at the box office is Xinyicheng.

Therefore, on January 22, on the day of the release of "Dry Wine If You Sell Nothing", although the publicity of "If Dry Wine Sells Nothing" did not do much, it was still in the limelight.

Lin Jing did not go to Taipei, but stayed in Hong Kong.

In fact, the release of this movie is simple, and even the test screening is omitted, so naturally there will be no screening.

Especially in Hong Kong, Lin Jing didn't even change the title of this movie, and directly used "If the wine is dry, if it is not sold". And the words "if the wine is not sold", in Hokkien it means "will the bottle be sold after the wine is drunk", which is easy to understand in Taiwan. But in Hong Kong, I'm afraid not too many people know what it really means, after all, this is the world of Cantonese.

Regarding Lin Jing's insistence on not changing the title of a movie in Hong Kong that is easy to understand, Xu Anhua and Mo Ziqi all expressed their understanding, but opposed Lin Jing doing so. It's just that they couldn't resist Lin Jing, so they could only nod and agree in the end.

In the evening of that day, because my father, younger brother and sister had gone to a dinner party, they might not come back very late, and Lin Jing, who did not go with her, had eaten early and then drove out alone.

……

Zhou family.

"Amin, is there something on your mind?"

Zhou's mother saw her daughter, sitting in front of the piano, absentmindedly playing, and asked.

"Nope." Zhou Comin heard her mother's question and replied casually.

"If not, be serious." Mother Zhou said with a frown.

So Zhou Comemin concentrated his scattered thoughts, and when he pressed his hands, the beautiful melody flowed like flowing water. But this state only lasted for a while, and then she stopped again.

The corners of Zhou Comin's mouth moved, and after a while, he finally mustered up his courage: "Mom, let's go to the movies together in a while, okay?" ”

Watching a movie?

Zhou's mother was stunned for a moment, thinking about it, she hadn't watched a movie for a long time, and the last time she watched a movie was sixteen years ago, or twenty years ago, even she forgot about herself. Anyway, in her opinion, the movie and her are very distant things.

Although a movie ticket is only a dozen quick money.

"You want to go to the movies?" Mother Zhou sighed slightly and asked.

"Hmm." Zhou Comemin nodded and said, "Wait a minute, a friend will come over, and then we will go together." Mom, you'll come along, okay? ”

Hearing that it was a friend, Zhou's mother immediately woke up, but pretended to be casual and said: "Mom is old, what kind of movie do you watch." And you're with friends, how can mom get involved. ”

"What does it have to do with watching movies and age, what we want to watch is a literary film, I think it should be suitable for you to watch, mother." Zhou Comin replied, "And that friend is very good, he won't care if we go together." ”

……

While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door.

"She's coming."

Zhou Comin heard the knock on the door and immediately got up from his seat, picked up his coat and left.

"Who is he?" Zhou's mother was not at ease, and hurriedly followed.

The door opens.

Seeing that it was Zhou Comin who opened the door, Lin Jing asked with a smile, "Amin, are you ready?" ”

After the last meeting on Lantau Island, Lin Jing and Liang Yinning asked Zhou Yimin to come out together, and after contacting them many times, they have become good friends. But it's the first time I've come to the door.

Zhou Yimin was a little excited, nodded, and replied, "Well, my mother agreed, but she didn't want to go, so we can go." ”

"Go if you want to, stay safe, and come back early, you know?" The voice of Zhou's mother came from the house

"Got it."

"Auntie, goodbye."

"Be sure to stay safe!"

When Zhou's mother was still telling her, Zhou Comin had already taken Lin Jing's hand and hurriedly walked downstairs, until she couldn't hear Zhou's mother's voice, so she slowed down.

Glancing back, Zhou Comin, who was a little out of breath, playfully stuck out her tongue and said, "Although my mother is a little verbose, she is very good, Ah Jing, don't be surprised." ”

"See, it's really verbose, and it's really good, just like my dad." Lin Jing smiled and said, "Okay, let's go out now!" ”

Seeing her daughter walk into the car from the balcony and watching the car carrying her daughter go away, Zhou's mother returned to the house, sat on the rattan chair, and said to herself in confusion: "Woman, this friend of Amin seems to be a little kind, where have you seen it?" ”

……

Leaving the public housing where the Zhou family lived, Lin Jing drove Zhou Comin into the city center and found a movie theater where "If the Wine Sells Nothing".

"That's it."

Lin Jing parked the car, and the two walked to the door of the movie theater.

"Do you want something to eat?"

"No need, I'm so fat now, how dare I eat snacks."

"Slightly fat, slightly fat, it will be fine in a year or two."

"Is this a consolation or a blow?"

"Hee-hee!"

When Lin Jing and Zhou Comin, who were wearing peaked caps and dressed very low-key, bought tickets and walked into the cinema, there were more than 100 people seated in this cinema with only more than 200 seats, about 70% of the attendance, most of whom were mainly young people.

Because young people make up the majority, the atmosphere is particularly lively before the show, full of voices talking, shouting, whistling, and biting sugar cane......

The attendance rate of 70% is already a good attendance rate for a literary film, but I don't know how many days this attendance rate can last.

Lin Jing thought about this question, and it wasn't until Zhou Comin pulled her sleeve that she came back to her senses, and now because of her own reasons, the two of them were still at the door like door gods.

"Let's find a seat and sit down."

The two found their seats and sat down, Lin Jing looked at her watch, and there were still five or six minutes before it officially started.

"Alas, I'm a big man, and I'm going to be reduced to watching a literary film, and it is said that it is still a tragic song and dance literary film."

"If you don't want to see it, get out, I'm a little girl, it doesn't matter if you watch it alone, but don't come to me again in the future."

"I don't think it's okay?"

……

This is a small episode before the opening of the movie.

Five or six minutes passed, and the light in the movie theater dimmed all of a sudden.

On the big screen, on a spiral-shaped vast and quiet galaxy starry sky, a beam of light representing time seems to shoot from the sky, passing through the center of the spiral like an arrow, and then the words "time and space movie" appear below.

Time and Space Film Studio is a reading film production company, unlike Cheng Longhong Xinbao's Iron Fist and Baohe, which are just satellite companies affiliated to Golden Harvest Film Company, and the opening animation will not use Golden Harvest's red square that appears with the sound of a knock.

"This is my studio's first production!" Lin Jing said silently.

It's a pity that the animation technology of this era is too poor, and there is no way to completely give the connotation of the opening credits designed by Lin Jing to symbolize time and space.

As the slightly sad music sounds, wine bottles appear on the screen, echoing the title of the movie, "If the wine is not sold", and in the middle of the wine bottles are several white or yellow chrysanthemums.

In the slightly depressing picture, words introducing surnames began to appear: producer - Zou Wenhuai, director - Xu Anhua, screenwriter - Lin Jing, starring - Sun Yue, Liu Xuehua......

After the introduction is finished, the dumb uncle played by Sun Yue, the protagonist of the movie, officially debuted, and the first few minutes explained the dumb uncle and his living environment, a very low-level living environment, and he had to come out early in the morning to collect the bottle, which seemed to indicate that this would be a tragic movie from the beginning.

And this is exactly what happened, and the conflict soon came.

When the dumb uncle collected the bottle, he picked up an abandoned baby girl named Ami, and the kind dumb uncle hoped to be able to adopt the abandoned baby, but his wife Zhilan disagreed, and ran away in a series of conflicts in the following birth, and the pain befell the dumb uncle for the first time.

But after the pain, it is the happiness in the process of raising Ami Seonghito.

It's just that happiness is always short-lived, while sorrow and pain come so suddenly and quickly, and last so long.

went to gamble and came back from drowning in the river due to drunkenness, and wanted to "save" Akun who ran into the fire and burned to death for Ami......

The subsequent continuous deaths push the story to one tragic little ** after another.

The plot of "If the Wine Is Dry" is very compact, one after another, the sad plots are very sensational, and then after Xu Anhua shoots them with delicate lenses, it is comparable to tear gas, which makes people completely immersed in the film unconsciously when they are upset and upset.

Soon, there was a lot of sobbing in the cinema.

"Crying, annoying, funeral?"

Maybe it's because he hates to hear crying, or because he's impatient to see it, or maybe he doesn't want others to see that he is a big man who is sad and tears when watching a movie, and he needs to vent his inner sorrow, a young man suddenly turns around and screams at a girl who is crying a lot behind him.

"If you don't want to see it, go out, don't yell here, do you want people to see how low your Su zhì is?" It's just that as soon as the young man's voice fell, someone immediately accused him.

"I ......"

The man thought, I bought the ticket, I have the right to sit here. But I saw that many people were looking at themselves, but in the end they didn't say anything, and they sat back in their seats with some anger. After looking left and right for a few seconds, he quickly immersed himself back in the picture on the screen.

When the film came to the end, the dumb uncle died, and the helpless Xiaomei stood alone on the stage and sang "If the Wine Is Dry" affectionately, with the interlude of the violin's rapid improvement, many audiences in front of the screen had already cried in their hearts.

The touching lyrics seem to represent the hearts of children all over the world: "What a familiar voice, how many years of wind and rain with me, I never need to remember, and I will never forget it...... There is no heaven and earth, there is no land and there is a home, there is no home there is you, there is no you there is me......"

Lin Jing glanced at Zhou Comemin next to her, and saw her wiping her tears with the tissue she had just handed her while staring at the big screen, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.