Chapter 409: Walking the Red Carpet in China (5); Premiere
Then came the main creative staff, a total of eight people, Cheng Long, Li Lianjie and his daughter Jane, Li Binbin, Zhang Chengyuan, Liu Yifei, and the director and his female companion. As for Michael, an American boy who is one of the male protagonists of "The King of Kung Fu"? Angrano didn't come at all this time.
The way everyone appeared this time was a bit special, they lined up in a line, holding hands and walking side by side, at this time Zhang Chengyuan wanted to consciously go to the edge, because he felt that the few people who walked with him, except for the director, each of them should be more concerned than him. Needless to say, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie are countless fans of international superstars, that is, Li Binbin and Liu Yifei are far more popular than him by virtue of their local advantages, and even Li Lianjie's daughter Jane may be more eye-catching than him.
But when Zhang Chengyuan was about to walk to the side, Cheng Long stopped him and held his right hand, and said with a smile: "You and I are wearing 'brother shirts' and 'couple clothes', how can you highlight our friendship if you don't stand by my side?" Liu Yifei next to him also smiled and said: "Brother Zhang, the eldest brother is right, you can stand with the eldest brother, and by the way, you will also stand with me" said and grabbed Zhang Chengyuan's left hand with his right hand, and his left hand was held with Li Binbin's right hand. As for the remaining two, the director and his female companion, they stood to the left of Lee Binbin.
If compared to the first, Zhang Chengyuan and Liu Yifei stood in the middle of the entire main creative team, stealing the limelight, Zhang Chengyuan could obviously feel that he had received a lot more attention than before. But Li Lianjie stood on the far right, and seemed to be a little snubbed. However, Li Lianjie obviously didn't care, and he was relatively indifferent. Very open to such small things; Second, Zhang Chengyuan has a good relationship with him. can win Zhang Chengyuan. He's quite happy to do it, too.
Of course, with Li Lianjie's status in the Chinese film industry, even if he stands on the edge, he is still one of the focuses of the media and the audience.
After lining up, the group began to walk forward slowly, because they were walking together, so everyone inevitably had to walk with each other's pace, and there was a child in the team, so they couldn't get up quickly. However, the length of the red carpet is limited after all, no matter how slow you go, you will reach the end, and the time taken is really short, about 30 seconds or so, you will reach the end of the red carpet, at this time everyone let go of their hands and began to accept photos from media reporters.
At this stage of posing for the media to take pictures, Cheng Long immediately pulled Zhang Chengyuan forward a few steps. He cordially waved hello to the reporters who were standing outside the fence two or three meters away from him, and then put his arm on Zhang Chengyuan's shoulder. asked the media to take pictures of them, and he and Zhang Chengyuan were wearing the same style of Tang costumes, so his desire to promote Zhang Chengyuan can be said to be more obvious, and everyone can see it.
Most of the media know that Cheng Long and Zhang Chengyuan have cooperated twice and have a very close relationship, so they don't think it's strange, but a considerable part of the onlookers don't know this, because the previous "Rush Hour 3" cooperated by Zhang Chengyuan and Cheng Long could not be released in Chinese mainland for some reason, and "The King of Kung Fu" filmed last year has not yet been released, plus "The King of Kung Fu" does not have Zhang Chengyuan on the promotional poster in China, Therefore, except for some of Cheng Long's senior fans and a few loyal fans of Zhang Chengyuan, no one else knows that they have also made movies together, so after seeing their intimate appearance at this time, they will inevitably feel a little surprised, and at the same time, they will have some curiosity about Zhang Chengyuan. And this curiosity drove these people to pay attention to Zhang Chengyuan, an unforgettable handsome guy, and many of them later became fans of Zhang Chengyuan.
After taking photos with Cheng Long, Liu Yifei and Li Binbin also came forward to join in the fun, first taking photos with Zhang Chengyuan respectively, and then taking photos with Zhang Chengyuan together, and let Zhang Chengyuan stand in the middle, completely wanting to highlight Zhang Chengyuan. Because Zhang Chengyuan's appearance, height, and temperament are too good, under the foil of the two beauties, not only does not make people feel cold, but makes people feel very eye-catching, and they can't help but add a good impression to Zhang Chengyuan.
However, Liu Yifei and Li Binbin did not show too close to Zhang Chengyuan, lest their fans hate Zhang Chengyuan and cause trouble to Zhang Chengyuan.
Seeing that Cheng Long, Li Binbin, and Liu Yifei all took photos with Zhang Chengyuan, Li Lianjie couldn't stand still, and pulled his daughter Jane over and took a photo with Zhang Chengyuan. One of them was more special, Zhang Chengyuan hugged Jane's waist and lifted her up, and then he and Li Lianjie's heads leaned on both sides of Jane's head, looking intimate and interesting. Cheng Long, Liu Yifei, and Li Binbin saw it, and they also thought it was very interesting, and immediately leaned over to stand with them, so the six of them took a group photo together and murdered many films.
Perhaps after the photos taken today are released to various media, Jang Sung-won's popularity in China will soar, and after the release of "The King of Kung Fu", when Chinese audiences have seen the acting skills and skills he showed in this film, his popularity will most likely soar significantly, rather than being quite popular and recognized only among audiences who like Korean dramas as they are now.
After the group photo of Zhang Chengyuan and others was completed, it was time for the entire creative team to take a group photo together, at this time, Yuan Heping, the action director of "The King of Kung Fu", and the two brothers of Huayi Company, the Chinese investor, also appeared out of nowhere and came to the scene.
When taking this group photo, Zhang Chengyuan's position did not change, he was still standing in the middle of Cheng Long and Liu Yifei, and he was in the limelight again, but there was an intimate photo of him with Cheng Long, Li Lianjie and others just now, so everyone at the scene no longer felt strange.
The group photo ended quickly, and then the main creative members entered the venue where the premiere of "The King of Kung Fu" was held tonight - a large white tent that could accommodate hundreds of people.
Entering the venue, Zhang Chengyuan and others sat in the first row, and Li Lianjie, Jane, and Cheng Long sat in the middle. Zhang Chengyuan is the most to the left of Cheng Long. And on his left are Liu Yifei and Li Binbin. After sitting down. Because the celebration had not yet begun, the guests and the audience chatted softly, and Zhang Chengyuan and others were also like each other. After chatting for a few words, Li Binbin found it inconvenient to talk to Zhang Chengyuan through Liu Yifei, so he asked Zhang Chengyuan and Liu Yifei to switch seats and let him sit in the middle of the two daughters. When Cheng Long saw it, he smiled slightly, and thought, "Cheng Yuan, this guy is really a good fortune." Wherever he went, there seemed to be beautiful women who were willing to talk to him. β
Not long after, the premiere celebration began, and the first to appear on the stage was a group of martial arts performers wearing kung fu shirts, performing boxing, swordsmanship, kung fu fans and other routine martial arts. Yes, in the eyes of Zhang Chengyuan, Cheng Long, Li Lianjie and others, these performances are just lively, and their practicality is not even as good as the action scenes in the movie.
However, Zhang Chengyuan also knew that these people came to the stage to perform a performance of fist embroidery legs. Therefore, you can't be harsh on the other party, and you don't pay much attention to it at the moment. just casually asked Liu Yifei: "Yifei, what do you think of the moves performed by these people?" β
Liu Yifei shook his head and said softly: "It's just performing for the sake of acting, it's not very useful, it's really too far from the internal strength and martial arts moves that Xiao Yuan taught me." β
Zhang Chengyuan said: "If you are asked to fight them, you can win a few by yourself." β
Liu Yifei said: "Two or three should be fine, maybe four or five people can do it, they should just learn some routines, not people with real kung fu." β
Zhang Chengyuan shook his head and smiled: "You are too worthy of the internal skills and martial arts moves I passed on to you, although those things are okay, but you have no actual combat experience at all, it may be no problem to win one or two people, but it is difficult to agree to three or four, in fact, you are now the same as them, all you have is just fists and legs, but you may be faster and more powerful." β
Liu Yifei said: "I don't care if I embroider my legs, anyway, I learned kung fu for filming, and I don't want to be a chivalrous girl." β
Zhang Chengyuan was slightly stunned, and said in his heart: "This is not bad, it is not much use to learn kung fu in this world now, and it is no wonder that not many people devote themselves to the study of martial arts, so that Chinese kung fu is becoming more and more declining, and many times it has become a pure performance form." Maybe in the future, I should find someone who is really interested in martial arts, and teach her the Chinese martial arts that I know about the Tao of Lu, so that she can pass it on. β
He consciously used his current identity to spread Chinese martial arts, there would be many drawbacks, and maybe even a few years later, the Chinese martial arts that came out of his hands would be transformed into Korean martial arts. Then his sin is too great. Therefore, this matter of spreading Chinese martial arts must not be done by him publicly.
While he was thinking, the martial arts performance on the stage also ended, and a group of martial arts performers stepped back, and then a few dancers who were also wearing kung fu shirts jumped out, followed by a five or six-year-old Western girl, singing a classic song "Wewillrockyou".
Since Cheng Youli Fan Club and Zhang Chengyuan found that his musical literacy was not enough to cope with the chat with Cheng's father, Zhang Chengyuan took the time to learn and understand some music-related things, especially in terms of music knowledge, which made quite rapid progress, and this song "Wewillrockyou" happened to be what he knew, so he could recognize it.
In addition, he also heard that the lyrics sung by the little girl were slightly different from the original lyrics, and the biggest change was that "rockyou" was changed to "KungFu", which was more appropriate.
By the way, this little girl sings very well and beautifully, and even Zhang Chengyuan, who is not much interested in music, feels very comfortable listening to it. However, the dancers dancing behind the little girl made him look very unpleasant, not only did he dance inappropriately, but the kung fu shirt he wore did not match the hip-hop dance they danced at all, which made people upset when he saw it, Zhang Chengyuan couldn't help but think: "The director of this dance line really tarnished the image of the kung fu shirt." β
Towards the end of the song, the four hosts walked on the stage together, dancing to the rhythm of the little girl's singing and dancing with the dancers. Perhaps because they wore modern costumes, so although their dancing posture was much worse than that of the dancers, Zhang Chengyuan felt that what they danced was more pleasing to the eye.
Then came the opening remarks of the four hosts. At first, Zhang Chengyuan was not interested in listening to it at all. Because he thinks what they say is just a clichΓ©. However, the host talked about "kung fu beauties and kung fu actresses", and mentioned Li Binbin and Liu Yifei, and then he came to his senses.
After playing a wonderful clip of several Chinese kung fu actresses, Li Binbin and Liu Yifei were invited to the stage, first briefly introduced their names, and then the host began to ask questions in turn. For the questions they raised, Zhang Chengyuan didn't have to listen to how Li Binbin and Liu Yifei answered, and he knew how they would probably answer. This is not only because he already knows them well, but also because the host asks questions about "The King of Kung Fu", such as their views on the roles they play, their understanding of heroes, and some small stories with Cheng Long and Li Lianjie during filming.
I don't know how long it took to talk, but several hosts suddenly brought the topic to Yuan Heping, the martial arts instructor of this movie, and asked him to come on stage to evaluate Li Binbin and Liu Yifei's kung fu performance in the play. In this kind of scene, Yuan Heping naturally won't say anything bad about the scenery, but strongly praised the two for working hard and being able to endure hardships in filming, and they also performed well in the fight scenes.
In Zhang Chengyuan's view, what Yuan Heping said was the truth, and there was almost no praise at all. When filming, Li Binbin and Liu Yifei were indeed quite diligent and hardworking. Conscientious, never slack off for a moment, without the habit of being pampered by ordinary beauties, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a heroine among women.
After Yuan Heping finished his evaluation, the host's questions about Li Binbin and Liu Yifei also ended, and the second daughter walked off the stage and returned to her seat. Zhang Chengyuan praised: "Sister Binbin, Yifei, on the stage just now, you were generous and decent and answered fluently, and you behaved really well." β
Li Binbin shook his head and said, "Where to behave well?" That's it, and a little nervous, or Yifei behaved better, very calm and calm. β
Liu Yifei said: "I also didn't behave very well, and I didn't answer very well when I had a few questions. β
Zhang Chengyuan said: "You are all so modest, you all say that you don't perform well, then only I perform the best, I look at you intently on the stage, and almost every word you say is memorized in my head, and it can be said that I am the best audience in the audience." β
Li Binbin laughed softly: "Before we took the stage, I saw that you seemed to be so sleepy that you were about to close your eyes." Liu Yifei also nodded with a smile.
Next, the host chatted a little more, and then the director of "The King of Kung Fu", Rob? Minkov invited him to the stage and seemed to want to ask him some questions. At this time, under the supervision of Li Binbin and Liu Yifei, Zhang Chengyuan cheered up a little and continued to watch.
Director Rob? After Minkov came to the stage, the few questions raised by the host and the words he answered were very common, the only thing that made Zhang Chengyuan feel a little special was that during his answer to the questions, he thanked the Chinese actors in the crew of "The King of Kung Fu" and martial arts instructor Yuan Heping, among which Zhang Chengyuan's name was also mentioned, but he classified Zhang Chengyuan as a Chinese actor. Perhaps in his impression, Zhang Chengyuan was not only recommended by Cheng Long, but also had the same skin color and appearance as a Chinese, and he had a very close relationship with a group of Chinese actors, so he unconsciously regarded Zhang Chengyuan as a Chinese actor.
In this regard, Zhang Chengyuan naturally didn't care, there was no anger on his face, and he even seemed to be a little happy.
After that, it is a ten-minute musical skit with the theme of "Kung Fu", in addition to some martial arts performances, several martial arts songs were sung, for Zhang Chengyuan, he naturally heard martial arts songs for the first time, among these songs, one of them left a very deep impression on him, the lyrics are sung like this: "Hongchen is ridiculous, infatuation is the most boring, everything is good ......" After asking Li Binbin, I learned that this song is called "Laughing Hongchen", It is a classic martial arts song that has been on the market for more than ten years, and it is familiar in China, and almost everyone in the seventies and eighties heard this song.
To Zhang Chengyuan's ears, the melody of this song is soothing and beautiful, with a faint sadness, but after the sadness, there is a faint joy, like seeing a rainbow after a drizzle. Its lyrics are exquisite and concise, easy to understand and full of philosophy, revealing a true meaning of life, persuading the world to learn to be open and free, and learn to laugh at life. The two lyrics "I just want to be free for half a lifetime" and "I just want to be happy until I get old" really speak to Zhang Chengyuan's heart.
For Zhang Chengyuan today, the biggest wish in this life is to live happily with his four sisters and other sisters to old age and to the end of his life, and the dream of becoming an immortal and getting out of the cage of this world has long been forgotten by him, even if he puts an accessible road of immortality in front of him now, he will definitely not and does not want to go again. (To be continued......)