Chapter 343: Two Great Hobbies for Men
On July 4th, on the third day of the release of "Looking for the Dragon", something happened in the entertainment industry that surprised everyone, at Chang Sha's solo concert, Zhang Liangying, the queen of Chinese music, staged a vigorous forced marriage drama.
"I'm standing here and waiting, I think I've thought it through now, I've thought about it, I don't want to live alone anymore, if you're willing to marry me now, you can come up."
At that time, the fans in the audience thought that this was an interactive plot specially arranged by the concert, but looking at Zhang Liangying's expression, it didn't look like acting, and then for ten seconds, thirty seconds, and sixty seconds, no one came on stage, not even the staff who came forward to save the scene, and the atmosphere was extremely embarrassing.
Five minutes passed, just when the atmosphere at the scene was becoming more and more embarrassing and solidified, and just when Zhang Liangying was on the verge of collapse, a sloppy middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance and even some raunchy appearance finally walked onto the stage slowly.
Zhang Liangying saw that the man finally came to the stage, and excitedly wanted to come forward to hug him, but the man quietly avoided him. Regarding Zhang Liangying's affectionate confession, the man just said thank you painlessly and then turned around and left the stage.
When the forced marriage drama was staged, Li Mu and Liu Yifei were filming "Edge of Tomorrow" in the magic capital, but it was obvious that Liu Yifei was not unaware of this beforehand.
Liu Yifei and Zhang Liangying have been best friends for many years, and it is normal for Zhang to make such a difficult decision, and it is normal to reveal in advance some good girlfriends who have also been distressed by the man's refusal to propose.
When the video was played, the five-minute silence in the middle made Liu Yifei clench his fists, but fortunately, in the end, the man he was in love with his girlfriend finally came to the stage, although Liu didn't like that man at all.
"I don't like this Fonto very much, Liangying has already done this for him, you look at him again, he is not a man at all." Saying that, Liu Yifei shook his head, "I really don't know what Liangying likes about him, but fortunately, the final ending is not too bad, I hope Liangying can be happy in the future." β
Li Mu said: "Things look a little stupid, but it's not all bad, at least after this matter, you can be more clear about your position in the other party's mind, and you can really let go of it after being disappointed." β
"You don't like the two of them?"
"Of course."
"But didn't Falco come to power?"
Of course he wants to go on stage, Zhang Liangying made it clear that he was going to have a showdown with him today, and put on a posture that he would not hold a concert if he didn't go on stage, Feng Ke is a businessman, the concert is his own business, Zhang Liangying is his cash cow, how could he not go on stage first to stabilize the other party? But you see the few steps he took on stage, as if he went to the grave, he didn't have a smile on his face the whole time, he was incoherent, and when he turned his back to the audience, he seemed to have been persuading Zhang to focus on the overall situation - how could this really mean to marry each other? β
"But...... The whole network is watching! β
"So what? When the heat passes, Zhang is stabilized, and the two perform a scene together, and this matter will pass, and everything will be business as usual in the future. I estimate that it is impossible to really get a marriage certificate, and Feng never really thought about marrying her from beginning to end! β
"Are you saying that the beautiful shadow has been released and doesn't care about anything anymore, and it still can't change anything?"
"Of course, what's the use of being brave just for this kind of thing?!"
"But...... But ......"
Liu Yifei suddenly felt a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.
Zhang Liangying is one of her rare very speculative sisters, and there are some similarities between the two experiences.
Zhang Liangying has been in love for more than ten years, and she has never mentioned marrying her if she likes people, so why hasn't Liu Yifei herself been looking forward to Li Mu proposing to her for several years?
Zhang Liangying was finally forced to get married in front of all the fans, and when Liu Yifei was filming "Let's Get Married", didn't he secretly prepare a proposal ring, planning to propose to Li Mu in reverse? It's just that Li Mu was a step faster at that time.
At that time, Liu Yifei didn't even think about what Li Mu would do if he didn't agree to his marriage proposal, he didn't want to think about it, and he didn't dare to think about it.
Now with the incident of Zhang Liangying, Liu Yifei can't help but think of himself at that time, and he is inexplicably a little afraid.
"But what, if a man really likes a woman, how can he force a woman to the point of proposing to him in turn?!" Li Mu said.
Liu Yifei suddenly blushed.
If a man really likes a woman, he won't push her to that point - then what is she? She almost ......
"Really? What would a man do if he really liked a woman? β
"I will do everything possible to arrange a marriage proposal for her that she will never forget, as well as a wedding, and when I accidentally find out that my girlfriend can't wait to propose to him, I will do everything I can to delay the time for the assistant to get the wedding ring, and I will create eleven proposal songs on the spot to delay time, and I will propose to her before the stupid girlfriend acts."
Liu Yifei thought about the scenes on the day of the marriage proposal in his mind, and then he was sure that Li Mu had learned of her plan in advance at that time. Compared with the cold scene that lasted for more than five minutes before Feng Ke came to the stage, Li Mu's operation of singing eleven marriage proposal songs in a row that day was simply perfect, but ......
"Create eleven marriage proposal songs on the spot, huh?! But as far as I know, you've been writing those songs for at least half a year! β
"Huh? Have it? Li Mu was very thick-skinned, and he didn't blush at all when his bragging was exposed to his face, but laughed and said, "But it's normal for me to really brag, one of the two major hobbies of men includes bragging, if a man says that he doesn't like to brag, then he must be bragging!" β
Liu Yifei was amused: "I've never seen you so shameless and skinless, bragging can be caught red-handed and can make up such a set of crooked reasoning, you just said that men have two hobbies, one is bragging, so what is the other?" β
"Another?" Li Mu stretched out and dragged his two hands, his shirt had been taken off by him, revealing the perfect abdominal muscles inside, he stepped forward, his face stopped a few centimeters in front of Liu, and they could already feel each other's exhaled breath, "Guess what the other man is?" β
Liu Yifei's face instantly turned even redder: "How do I know!" β
"Don't know? As far as I know, you women like this hobby of our men the most, and you tend to indulge in it and can't extricate yourself! β
The atmosphere became a little warm, the air was full of hormones, Liu's face was already a little hot, and his breathing became short: "Hmph, man, they are all hooligans!" β
While saying that, she also stretched out her hands and dragged it, took off her T-shirt, revealing the perfect vest line underneath: "I really can't help you, a big director has that kind of thing in his head." β
"Pretending to be that kind of thing? That kind of thing? At this time, Li Mu took a step back to widen the distance between the two, and then continued, "I mean another big hobby of men is fitness!" It's to train a good-looking abs! By the way, what are you doing with your coat? β
"Huh? Fitness? Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, and his face turned even redder with the naked eye, "Then you just said that women like this hobby of your men the most, and you can't extricate yourself from it." β
"That's right!" Li Mu said, "Don't you women drool when you see a man's abdominal muscles?" Wait, you don't think I'm sayingβ"
"Don't say it!"
Liu Yifei blushed and hurriedly interrupted Li Mu's words, but Li Mu smiled even more happily: "Oh...... It turns out that your women's first hobby is not to look at a well-proportioned body, but-"
"Don't say it! Don't play tricks anymore! β
"Okay, okay, I won't say it, don't play tricks, okay, can't I do it directly?!"
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and hugged him horizontally in Liu's exclamation.
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On July 13, 2015, Huashang Media announced that the company's investment in the film "Looking for the Dragon" was released in mainland China on July 2, according to incomplete statistics, as of 24 o'clock on July 12, the film was released in mainland China for 10 days, and the box office performance has exceeded 1.531 billion yuan.
Looking at the box office trend, the final box office is bound to break the 2 billion mark, and the forecast given by Maoyan Movie is 2.27 billion.
What do you say about this achievement?
Put it to other film companies, it must be an explosive achievement worth writing about, you must know how many films have a box office of more than 2 billion in the entire Chinese film history?
Not many!
But is this achievement within Huashang Media?
It's amazing, no one thinks it's a big deal, and it's not even amazing!
Huashang even has 4 billion films, this 2 billion level film - I can't say that it is trivial, that would be a little too crazy, medium meaning!
A film can be put into the national film history to see the results can be called explosive, but it is not unusual to put it in a film and television company alone, how do you think about this thing and feel wrong, but the reality is really like this, what can be done?
Who made Huashang Media so perverted?
After the official release of "Looking for the Dragon", Pan Yueming was completely popular, to be precise, he had already become popular.
Just some time ago, "Ghost Blowing Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City" starring Pan Yueming, Zhang Yuqi, Zhao A, Yue Yang and others has just become popular all over the country, and Pan Yueming's personal reputation has also been completely reversed because of this online drama.
Now that "Exquisite Ancient City" has just finished broadcasting, and then "Looking for the Dragon" is coming again, and the production level is quite good, so the popularity of Pan Yueming and other protagonists is naturally adding to the fire.
Even many netizens began to brush themselves all over the Internet to be wrong.
First, I used to follow the trend and scolded Pan Yueming, but now I know that I was wrong, and second, when the cast of "Looking for the Dragon" and "Exquisite Ancient City" was just announced, many people scolded Pan Yueming and Zhang Yuqi for playing Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang respectively, which is just nonsense!
Now it seems that this is the fault of my own group again.
Hua Shang, or Li Mu's employment, is really perverted!
Tong Liya played the role of Ding Sitian in "Looking for the Dragon", although there were not many roles, but the final effect was amazing.
Before the release of the film, some fans of Tong complained on the Internet that with Tong Liya's coffee position, they actually arranged for her to match Zhang Yuqi, and I don't know what the leaders of Huashang Media think, can the outsider Zheng Yuqi be more suitable to play Shirley Yang than our Yaya?
Shirley Yang has foreigner ancestry, and YY has Western Regions characteristics, isn't this right?
Some people even secretly boycotted "Looking for the Dragon" because of this, but when the movie was finally released, they said: I grass, so fragrant! Ding Si played by YY is sweetly flipped!
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In mid-July, "Dream Travel", which took three years to produce by Manwu Animation Studio, was finally sent for review, and within Huashang Media, whether it was Liu Siying or Chen Zhixi, or co-director Tian Xiaopeng, they were all nervous.
It's weird if you're not nervous!
The characters in "Dream Travel" are all real "ghosts", and as we all know, all Chinese "ghost films" will become "dreams" or "psychosis" in the end without exception, but "Dream Travel" is not, until the end, "dead people" are really "dead people", and "ghosts" are really "ghosts" - can this pass the trial smoothly?
The production budget of the film is as high as 150 million US dollars, and the production cycle is as long as three years, which if it fails to pass the review in the end!
That's right, although this cartoon is full of a lot of "dead people" and "skeletons", it is really not scary at all, not only scary, but even very touching.
Huashang's senior management has one count, and there is no one who doesn't cry when watching the film internally, but what about crying?
Crying has nothing to do with not passing the trial!
Although the project has been read to the superior department before the official establishment of the project, the superior did not say anything to death, only said that it is not possible in principle, but it is not absolutely impossible, and the final opinion is to make the movie first, and then talk about whether it can pass the review after the film is completed.
Can the $150 million investment be reviewed after the auction?
Very reasonable!
However, the risk is also really TM!
But how could Li Mu be frightened by this risk?
Besides, the original time and space have all been reviewed, and there is no reason why this time and space, with its influence in the country, can't pass it.
This film is obviously a big production for the international market, a cultural export, and a political achievement, although it may not work in principle, but sometimes it is not possible in principle, isn't it just another way of saying that it is actually feasible?
Therefore, although the company was nervous, Li Mu himself was not too worried.
By the way, Li Mu's version of "Dream Travel" basically copied the animated version of Pix in the original time and space, and the setting of the story background still chose Mexico, and chose Mexico's Day of the Dead.
In fact, there are similar festivals in Huaxia, and it is not completely impossible to localize the story of the movie, for example, Mexico has the Day of the Dead, but Huashang also has the Qingming Festival in the middle of the year, but after thinking about it, Li Mu finally chose to copy the original version.
First, "Dream Travel" is a Hollywood movie, but it tells the story of Mexico, since American movies can talk about Mexico, why can't Chinese movies?
Second, the whole movie of "Dream Travel" highly restores many details in the reality of Mexico, if you want to change the background of the story, then there are too many places where the movie will be overhauled in the end, and it will be difficult to say whether the final effect will be "Dream Travel" in the original time and space.
Third, "Dream Travel" is a story with a time span of 100 years, and when was China a hundred years ago? It's the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China!
At that time, the main theme was to save the world!
Let the protagonist's great-grandfather go far from his hometown to pursue his dream of music, Li Mu always feels that some tastes are not right.
In short, for various reasons, in the end, Li Mu gave up the idea of overhauling "Dream Travel" and localizing its background.
(End of chapter)