"People's Daily" was the absolute mouthpiece of public opinion in the 80s, and everyone who read a newspaper had to read "People's Daily". Since the "People's Daily" published a positive review of "Royal Senior Sister", the box office of "Royal Senior Sister" has skyrocketed again in the fourth week, and the movie theaters in big cities such as Beijing/Beijing, Shanghai/Shanghai have been full, and there have been scalpers who speculate on movie tickets - you must know that under normal circumstances, the attendance rate of mainland cinemas does not exceed 30%.

The screening of "Royal Senior Sister" in the mainland was then fully rolled out, but the box office concealment and piracy of city and county-level cinemas were very serious, and the money basically went into the pockets of the local government, not to mention Kang Jianfei, the producer, and even the Central Film Bureau had nothing to do, so it was impossible to send people to check the accounts in theaters across the country.

In a small mountain village in eastern Sichuan, Liu Si walked fast on the country road.

The sweet potatoes have been harvested, the wheat seeds have been sown, and this year's farm work is basically over, just waiting for a happy New Year.

Liu Si is a 19-year-old young man, he originally had good grades and could go to secondary school, but unfortunately he couldn't get good grades and could only go to high school. At this time, only the best students can go to secondary school, especially for the children of farmers, who can become workers after graduating from secondary school, and only the children of the losers can go to high school.

Liu Si was naturally not a loser, so he honestly went home to farm, and worshipped a master to learn the mason trade. At present, when the official farming is off, Liu Si has saved more than ten yuan as a small worker, so he is ready to go to the city to watch a movie and have fun.

Almost every farmer likes to watch movies, but the screening team only comes to the village once every three months, and many young people who can't help themselves go to the city cinema to watch it.

Movie tickets in small cities are very cheap, only two cents for a show, and even a dime for a student ticket.

After walking on a dirt road for about 40 minutes, Liu Si finally stepped onto a road paved with lime mixed stones. It's only 5 cents to get to town by car.

However, Liu Si did not choose to take a car, and it took more than three hours to walk into the city, and he felt that it was really not cost-effective to take a car.

"Fourth Brother Liu!" Not long after walking on the lime road, Liu Si suddenly heard someone calling his name, and turned his head to see that it was Song Yingzi, his female classmate when he was studying in the town.

Song Yingzi was wearing a brand-new red jacket and two long braids, and she looked particularly good when she smiled. Liu Si's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked, "Yingzi, are you going to the city too?" ”

Song Yingzi raised the paper bag in her hand and said, "Yes, my dad picked up a big Ganoderma lucidum yesterday. I'm going to take it to the supply and marketing cooperatives for money. Fourth Brother Liu, what are you doing in the city? ”

"I'm going to see a movie, or I'll treat you to a movie." After Liu Si said this, his heart was beating straight.

Song Yingzi generously agreed: "Okay, wait until I change the Lingzhi." ”

The girl's words floated to Liu Si's ears like fairy music, and she only felt that the bones in her body were a few taels lighter, and she walked as if she wanted to fly.

The two of them chatted happily all the way. Before I knew it, three and a half hours had passed, and I finally reached the station on the edge of the city.

It was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon. Liu Si and Song Yingzi did not go to the restaurant. Instead, I bought two large bowls of hot and spicy noodle soup for five cents at a noodle restaurant, and ate the food I brought with me.

After lunch, Liu Si accompanied Song Yingzi to the supply and marketing cooperatives to sell Ganoderma lucidum, and then the two rushed to the cinema in a hurry. They don't have much time, and it will take at least four hours to go back after watching the movie, and it will be almost dark when they get home.

Cinemas in small cities are not big. And there is only one screening room, barely able to seat 200 people.

Liu Si rushed to the cinema with his beloved girl, took out 5 cents boldly, and said to the conductor: "Two movie tickets!" ”

The conductor glanced at Liu Si, who was dressed rustically, with disdain. With an expressionless face, he said, "Two pieces cost a dollar." ”

Liu Si was still waiting for the conductor to find him money, and when he heard this, he was anxious: "Don't coax me, it used to be 2 dimes a movie ticket, why did it become 5 dimes today?" ”

The ticket seller pointed to the poster at the entrance of the cinema: "See, the movie made by a big Hong Kong director should be worth this price." At first glance, you are a peasant, and you have to slap your swollen face and become fat, and it doesn't cost you money to take your object to the road. ”

Song Yingzi has long liked the capable and smart Liu Si in her heart, and when she saw that her sweetheart was discriminated against, she immediately pointed at the conductor and shouted, "Hey, what do you mean?" What's wrong with the peasants, the food you eat is not grown by the peasants, call your leaders quickly! ”

The conductor sneered: "The leader is very busy, and he has no time to see you." ”

Liu Si was obviously hurt by his self-esteem, his face was hot, he took out a dollar and said, "Give me two tickets!" ”

The conductor muttered to himself while opening the ticket: "Hillbilly also learns from other people's ...... to watch movies"

Liu Si could only pretend not to hear, although the other party was just a conductor, but the identity of the worker and the city's hukou were there, which was not something that he could deal with as a small farmer.

Song Yingzi was sullen in her heart, and cursed in a low voice: "The dog looks at people low, be careful when you go out and get hit by a car!" ”

When they walked into the cinema, they forcibly forgot the unhappiness just now, and just waited for the movie to start showing.

At this time, there are no weekends in China, and there are generally several shifts in the factory, and the day of rest is the day. But the students were on winter break, and even though it was only two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the 100-seat cinema still had 60 or 70 spectators.

"There are so many people watching movies today." Liu Si looked at the black head in front of him and sighed, he used to watch movies in the afternoon, and there were no more than ten people in the theater.

Song Yingzi said: "Maybe this movie is very good, so people who watch it guess, otherwise why would the movie ticket be so expensive." ”

"No matter how good it is, it's not as good as "Shaolin Temple", when I came to see Shaolin Temple last year, it was full of people in the middle of the afternoon, and I waited for more than ten minutes to buy a ticket." Liu Si proudly recounted his experience of watching "Shaolin Temple", "I watched "Shaolin Temple" five times, and once the screening team came to the village to show it, and I can memorize all the dialogues in it. ”

Song Yingzi smiled and listened to Liu Si talk about "Shaolin Temple", and suddenly a beam of light above his head shone on the big screen, and Liu Si shut up a little unsatisfied.

The animated opening of the movie DreamWorks appeared, and the dreamy music made Song Yingzi feel like a natural sound, and couldn't help but say, "It's so good." ”

Kang Jianfei's directorial work

"Brave Policewoman"

Starring: Lin Qingxia, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kang Jianfei, Keiko Matsuban

Produced by Oriental DreamWorks

……

"Ahh

Song Yingzi screamed in Liu Si's arms, but it was the bad guy on the screen who was knocked out of the plane window by his head, and hoarfrost quickly formed due to the low temperature.

Because the makeup is so realistic, and the mainland audience really has no resistance to it, Song Yingzi almost thinks that there are really actors who froze to death during filming.

If it were normal times, Liu Si would definitely be excited because Song Yingzi was lying in his arms, but now his attention is all on the big screen.

Exclamations and cheers came from time to time in the theater, and until the end of the movie, Liu Si had not yet come out of the shock of the movie.

"This movie is so well made!"

"How did you get those flying cars?"

"It's a waste of money to make a movie, at least a dozen cars were smashed in the film."

"That female policeman has great kung fu, I don't know who is more powerful than Lu Dao and Jue Yuan in "Shaolin Temple"."

"It must be Jueyuan's Shaolin kung fu that is more powerful."

"That's not necessarily, Officer Wu has a gun when he fights."

"You can't use a gun than kung fu!"

"Those Vietnamese in the movie are so bad that they have to dig people's graves when they die."

"The Vietnamese are just bad, they actually came to invade China, but fortunately, the liberation/liberation army beat them away."

"Hong Kong people really know how to dress up, and that policewoman is even more beautiful than Liu Xiaoqing."

“……”

The audience discussed a variety of topics, but they all spoke with an excited tone, and it was clear that the film gave them a great shock.

Liu Si and Song Yingzi left the theater and went home, and along the way, Liu Si's mind was still the movie just now, he said: """Heroic Policewoman" is as good as "Shaolin Temple", but I don't know what the name of the actress who plays Officer Wu is called." ”

Song Yingzi said: "It's called Lin Qingxia, I looked at the cast." ”

At this time, although Qiong Yao's novels have flowed into the mainland, they are still only circulated among some students and workers, and it will take a few more years for Qiong Yao's TV series to become popular, so the mainland people have not heard of Lin Qingxia's name.

Liu Si remembered Lin Qingxia's name firmly at this time, he naively thought that Lin Qingxia was a beauty who knew kung fu, and the fighting actions in the movie were all done by Lin Qingxia herself.

After sending Song Yingzi home, it was almost seven o'clock in the evening when Liu Si returned to his village, and when he saw someone, he said proudly:

"I went to the city this afternoon to watch a movie, it was made by a big Hong Kong director, and it is better than "Shaolin Temple"."

"Really, the dog lied to you, I don't believe you will see it yourself tomorrow."

"The name is "Brave Policewoman", played by Hong Kong star Lin Qingxia, Lin Qingxia is more beautiful than Liu Xiaoqing."

"There's also a flying car in there, and the throttle flies up a few meters high."

“……”

In the mainland, there has never been a shortage of active and free promoters like Liu Si, and the influence of "Royal Senior Sister" has extended to the countryside, sweeping the country at an astonishing speed.

With the popularity of "Royal Senior Sister", CCTV officially proposed to purchase and broadcast "Senior Sister Tuogun" with DreamWorks, hoping to win TV ratings by relying on the popularity of the movie.

Although CCTV set up its own TV drama production center in 1983, its shooting efficiency was really low. A "Dream of Red Mansions" has just started filming after a year of preparation, and "Journey to the West" has only completed 3 episodes after almost two years of filming.

The purchase and broadcast agreement for the first part of "Sister Tuogun" was quickly negotiated, and CCTV purchased it at a price of 10,000 yuan per episode, directly buying out the broadcast rights of "Sister Tuogun" in the mainland. If the provincial TV station also wants to broadcast it in the future, it will need to pay CCTV, and DreamWorks and Kang Jianfei will not ask again. (To be continued......)