"Ji Lun's songs are all good, but judging from the few movies he has acted, his acting skills are not so good, and this time he wrote, directed, and acted by himself, which feels a bit mysterious."

"Didn't you just invest 10 million, and with Abu and my brother joining, it shouldn't be difficult to get back."

In the theater, Hu Jing and Zeng Wei sat next to each other, and when they saw that the movie had not started, they chatted quietly.

Hu Jing shook her head and said: "After the baptism of movies such as "Ambush on All Sides", "Wuji", "Night Banquet", "The City is Full of Golden Armor", "Dragon and Tiger Gate" and other movies, the audience is no longer so easy to fool, as long as the shooting is not good-looking, no one will buy it." ”

Zeng Yi pursed his lips and said: "Yes, but Abu has read the script and said that it is a story with more than 8 points, so don't worry about the plot, you just need to watch the performances of the male protagonist Zhou Jilun and the heroine Gui Lunmei." ”

At the same time, Gao Yuanyuan was also discussing this movie with Yu Feihong.

The main reason is that Zhou Jilun has taken a big step this time, jumping directly from singer and actor to screenwriter and director, and his script creation ability and film shooting ability will be questioned.

And not only them, most of the voices in the outside world are not optimistic.

Lu Bu participated in a day's shooting, and Zhou Jilun didn't have much of a problem, and he was qualified in terms of lens use, on-site control, and actor training.

The only thing you may have to worry about is that the film is positioned as a "romance movie".

"Mythology" did open the Qixi Festival and got a box office of more than 200 million, but "Myth" is not a pure romance film, but a "modern costume action romance" with complex elements.

For a long time, pure romance films have been relatively sluggish in the mainland market.

Because the plots of most domestic romance films are still stuck in outdated concepts such as strong men and weak women, Mary Sue, domineering presidents, good wives and good mothers, etc., the plot conflicts and plots deviate from real life, which is difficult to convince.

In addition, there are few first-line stars starring, and there are few large companies in charge, resulting in a lack of marketing and exposure.

This also makes the audience reluctant to go to the cinema.

Suddenly, the lights in the entire theater dimmed, and the movie "The Unspeakable Secret" began to play.

Everyone stopped talking.

At the beginning of the film, with a long shot of tens of seconds pushed into the back of the protagonist from a high altitude, Ye Xianglun has just arrived at a new school, and his classmates are introducing him to the school environment, and the campus is full of green trees and flowers......

When the camera pans to an old piano room with mottled brick walls that has witnessed the passage of time, a feeling of nostalgia and vicissitudes strikes.

I can't fault the opening part.

The plot proceeds slowly.

In one beautiful music after another, Ye Xianglun played by Zhou Jilun and Lu Xiaoyu played by Gui Lunmei fell in love.

Zhou Jilun's appearance is sunny and handsome, and his acting skills have become a lot more natural than the previous plays.

Gui Lunmei's appearance is young and beautiful, she has acted in several plays before this, and in many movies she starred in, she may not act very well, but she will not feel like she is acting like herself.

In the expansion part, the actors are no problem, Lu Bu's cameo is a small highlight, and Zhang Guirong's supporting role is not dominant.

However, all the actors present here have acted in a lot of plays, and seeing this, they have already discovered the problem of the story.

With the current plot to deduce, the development is nothing more than a romantic encounter between a girl suffering from asthma and a very talented boy, and then after a short love because of a misunderstanding caused by a third party, and when the girl's condition worsened, the misunderstanding between the two was resolved, and after the restart, the girl was seriously ill and died.

Isn't this the kind of beautiful love literary film on the bad street?

Conventional pattern......

Insipid......

Boring......

Hu Jing: Ji Lun, let's write and sing well.

Zeng Wei: Did Abu look away?

Gao Yuanyuan: So far, there haven't been any plot conflicts.

Hu Ling: There are plots that happen every day in school.

Yuan Hong: If it weren't for the good music, I would have fallen asleep.

Tong Yaya: It seems that Zhou Jilun's crossover is not as blockbuster as it is in the music world.

Liu Shishi: There are too few shots of the second brother.

Huang Bo: It's over, word-of-mouth and box office are afraid to fight.

The only ones who are more calm are Lu Bu and Yu Feihong, who have read the script and know the direction of the plot.

At this time, after the two baseball players finished speaking, Ye Xianglun was the only one from beginning to end, and Ye Xianglun's expression changed in vain, recalling some strange things in the past......

The whole story has undergone a breakthrough change, becoming confusing, and seems to have added supernatural and magical colors.

Hu Jing and others all kinds of plot deductions in their hearts were overturned.

They were shaken and their eyes were glued to the big screen.

It's finally getting a little interesting.

Is Lu Xiaoyu a ghost? Or is it Ye Xianglun's fantasy?

It turns out that Lu Xiaoyu and Ye Xianglun are not from the same era, and there is a full twenty years difference between them!

Lu Xiaoyu is a student of Ye Xianglun's father, when she went to school, one day she suddenly found that there was a sheet music under the piano in the music classroom, called "Secret", which said, "If you play this piano piece quickly, the person you see for the first time is the person you like in the future", so she began to play according to the score driven by curiosity, and suddenly the items in the classroom moved, and unconsciously, she came to this classroom twenty years later, and saw Ye Xianglun who was attracted by the music at first sight......

It is still very imaginative to use a mysterious piano song to elicit a love story that transcends time and space.

Suddenly.

The plot has changed in a breakthrough again, and the words that are being written by the correction fluid actually appeared on the desktop.

Lu Xiaoyu: I'm Xiaoyu.

Ye Xianglun: Where are you?

Lu Xiaoyu: I love you, do you love me?

Lu Xiaoyu had a wheezing attack and collapsed on the desk, while Ye Xianglun only pointed out a peach heart because the correction fluid ran out of water.

The tension intensified, and the soundtrack changed to a faster-paced tune.

Is Lu Xiaoyu dead?

Can Ye Xianglun discover the secret that piano music can pass through?

The story comes to an end.

In the old piano room, Ye Xianglun played "Secret" in the roar of the bulldozer, the fusion of the two sounds brought a huge audio-visual contrast, when the last note fell, the sound stopped abruptly, as if time had stopped.

The picture jumped suddenly, and the first thing that appeared was Lu Xiaoyu, who was writing homework in front of the desk, looked at the back door in a daze, the camera switched, and standing at the door was Ye Xianglun with a dusty body, tired eyes, and a faint smile.

Ye Xiang traveled to twenty years ago and continued their love with Lu Xiaoyu.

The lights in the theater turned on, and Lu Bu and the others got up to leave.

"I almost pulled my boyfriend away halfway through it, the plot is too simple, but fortunately, I didn't go, and a setting made the viewing and storytelling higher all of a sudden."

"It's all the same, if it weren't for my boyfriend's reluctance to pay for movie tickets, we would have watched half of it and left."

……

"The addition of a chrono plot sublimates the film."

"There is no mention of money and sex in the whole article, and this alone has already beaten ninety percent of today's youth romance films."

……

"It's good-looking, but there is a suspicion of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and Lu Bu's role is too small, and it won't take more than ten minutes."

"said that it was a cameo, there must be a few scenes, and the second brother will steal the limelight if he has a little more scenes."

……

The audience who came out of the other theater talked as they walked.

Judging by their feedback, the reviews are still good.

There is a high probability of a small explosion, and a small probability of a large explosion.

At this time, in the crowd leaving the cinema, someone suddenly screamed in high decibels: "Ah! Second brother! ”

What second brother?

Crazy, isn't this guy?

Is there something wrong with her?

Everyone was taken aback and were very unhappy with this move.

But......

In an instant, one, two, three, the shouts of "second brother" became more and more, one after another.

People who don't know why followed the prestige, and when they saw Lu Bu and the others, they were surprised and surprised, and immediately joined in.

"Second brother!"

"Zeng!"

"Yu Feihong!"

Well, the halls of the movie theater are filled with names.

It is certain that they are recognized, first, they are numerous, second, they are not disguised, and third, they do not choose to avoid it.

"Don't rush, don't squeeze, come one by one."

Lu Bu's ability to control the field is very practical in such an occasion.

Signing autographs, group photos, and proceeding in an orderly manner.

And the artists of Mengjiang Studio are mainly "down-to-earth", which is quite friendly to fans.

Of course, it's almost gone, because it's been here, people are coming, and it's endless.

Those who have a car drive themselves, and those who don't have a car take Liu Liang's car.

And Lu Bu's car was pulled by Yu Feihong, Zeng Wei, Hu Jing, and Gao Yuanyuan.

In the car.

Gao Yuanyuan found a topic and said, "Do you say, can the box office of this movie exceed 100 million?" ”

Hu Jing was the first to speak: "It's difficult to have a love movie. ”

Zeng Yi followed: "I have a question that I have never figured out, although romance films are relatively sluggish in the mainland market, it has not affected it to become a mainstream film genre, but why do so many love film and television dramas be made every year, and they can't have both word-of-mouth and box office?" We Chinese are not without love, nor do we not understand love, so why? ”

Yu Feihong is now a producer, and he is the one who knows the film market best, and said: "It's not that we can't make romance films, to be precise, it's that there is confusion in understanding the core expression of romance films, and this confusion stems from the format definition of romance films in Western film and television. The female protagonist repaid the male protagonist', in the early days, Baodao Province and Japan and South Korea directly copied this formatted template to produce a large number of Ou Haochen-style dog blood dramas, which directly affected a generation, including the audience and film and television creators, so in today's film market, whether it is a screenwriter or a director, it is still impossible to sort out what our understanding and expectations of love are. ”

Lu Bu nodded in agreement, and said: "A truly moving romance film doesn't need too many bells and whistles, nor does it need some screenwriters, directors, and actors to put on a lofty posture to educate the public about love, and not to easily define love, this is the foundation of the success of romance films, because love has thousands of faces." ”

Gao Yuanyuan, Hu Jing, and Zeng Wei thought about it, and it seemed to be the case.

From the perspective of their actors, it is very easy to fall into several fixed routines for the current domestic romance films.

First, the emotions are ethereal, unpredictable, the content is empty, and there is no disease moaning;

second, spending money like dirt, not grounded, three views exploded, selfish and capricious;

third, men and women are opposed, hurt each other, logic does not make sense, and all kinds of disorderly love;

Fourth, love comes and goes, bullshit doesn't work, you can't break up, you have to die or live.

Compared with the previous "Furong Town", "Autumn Fairy Tale", and "Sweet Honey", ...... Now it's all template routines, and there's nothing new about it.

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"Is it that pretty?"

"It's a bit fake, whether it's money or not, it's all good things."

"Invited the trolls?"

As the old saying goes, hearing is false, seeing is believing, and most netizens are skeptical about the quality of this movie with a score of 8.5 on Douban and the first batch of audiences to praise constantly, but it has been successfully attracted.

"I'll go and see at night and puncture your hides!"

"Judging from the evaluations of the first batch of audiences, media people, and film critics, it is worth watching without following the old routines of domestic love movies."

"It's like taking a concert ticket from Ji Lun to support his first movie written, directed and acted in."

After this wave of publicity and hype, a large wave of audiences poured into the cinema.

In this way, the box office of "The Unspeakable Secret" went all the way up, and in the first week of release, the box office in the mainland was 20 million, the box office in Xiangjiang was 9 million, the box office in Baodao Province was 13 million, and the box office in other parts of Asia was 8 million, and the total box office came to 50 million.

Not only did I get back the cost, but I also made a lot of money.

Moreover, according to this trend, it is not a problem for the total box office to exceed 100 million.

At this moment, Zhou Jilun was overjoyed.

The double explosion of word-of-mouth and box office is something he dare not think.

He also called Lu Bu and Zhang Guirong as soon as possible, anyway, it was a thank you.

After all, if you don't get the "friendship price", where will the investment of 10 million be enough to invite them.

He was not the one to pick and choose, and in addition to verbal thanks, he promised to give each of them a song.

In short, I'm good, you're good, and he's good.

But......

Zhang Guirong's new film "Detective" is not very good.

Applause is not popular.

Compared with Du Qifeng's other two movies released this year, "Detective" has a Douban score of 8.5, "Wen Que" 6.8, and "Butterfly Flying" only has a failing 5.5, but the low-scoring "Wen Que" got a box office of 17.56 million, "Butterfly Flying" won a box office of 8.01 million, and the box office of the high-scoring "Detective" of 11.53 million is undoubtedly a bit miserable.

The movie is based on the "Demon Police Xu Bugao Case", telling the story of a policeman who wanders between a genius and a madman, concretizing the hidden personality that cannot be seen in people's hearts into different people, and then using the quarrels between these people with the same identity but different personalities to show the struggle of different personalities in people's hearts, and the methods of solving the case are also very interesting and creative, just like the experience in the performance, the protagonist follows the suspect and observes the suspect's behavior, Then experience the inner activity of the suspect at that time by imitating the method of repeating, twice, or even many times.

Zhang Guirong's performance was impeccable.

This kind of neurotic role is his forte, such as Peng Yixing in "The King of Guns", Yu Zhongliang in "Fengyue", and Luo Zhan in "Different Space", all of which are classics among classics.

But even if you can't sell tickets, Lu Bu and others can't publicize it.

The impact on Zhang Guirong is not great.

Someone has come over.

Times are changing, audiences are changing, and it is normal for box office appeal to decline.

"It's a pity that it's a good film."

"I guess the theme is too dark."

At the Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center, Lu Bu and Zhang Guirong, who had already finished the concert, chatted and went to the parking lot. (End of chapter)