It's another year of Spring Festival.

The number one blockbuster that attracted the most attention during this year's Spring Festival is "Wonderful Night at the Museum 3".

For the Wonderful Night series, there is no need to say much about the social side.

In 04, "Wonderful Night 1" recaptured the domestic box office record set by "Titanic" for the first time.

In 09, "Wonderful Night 2" pushed the domestic box office record to 1 billion for the first time.

Therefore, the Wonderful Night series is far from being a movie of the resurrection of wax figures in a museum, but more of a historical witness to domestic films.

Of course, for fans, it is even more emotional.

Now the Wonderful Nights series has come to an end.

Many fans still don't understand why it's going to end so soon.

Everyone just waits for the movie to start and see with their own eyes what kind of answer Lu Ping'an will give.

In addition to "Wonderful Night 3", the second place is Cheng Long's "Zodiac".

The film is said to be the second collaboration between Lu Ping'an and Cheng Long.

Although it is not like "Peak 3", one plays one director, but one acting + director, one pays + optimizes the script.

But with "Spike 3" in front, it also made the film the most watched film in the world during this period.

After the introduction of the top two, the next thing is Xu Laowei's "Dragon Gate Flying Armor", which ranks third.

Xu Laowei + Jet Li + the new version of "Dragon Gate Inn".

Veteran directors, veteran superstars, veteran IPs, plus a number of new stars, such as Zhou Gongzi, Chen Kun, etc.

This has made the popularity of the film continue from the start of the movie to the present.

And then there are some movies that look like standard-pee-fart comedies.

For example, Liu Zhenwei's "East Becomes West 2012", Zeng Zidan, Gu Tianle and Chen Huilin's "Eight Star Annunciation".

Among them, "East Becomes West 2012" is called "East Becomes West 2011" in the original time and space.

The original time and space movie was released in 2011.

And now, it is obviously attracted by the massive ticket warehouse of the Spring Festival stalls, so the schedule has been changed.

A total of five "blockbusters", plus a number of scattered small-budget films, make up this year's Spring Festival file.

On the whole, there are fewer blockbusters in this year's Spring Festival file than in previous years, but the topic is not low.

Because the first and second "Wonderful Night 3" and "Zodiac" actually came to a linkage.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, a group of fans walked into the theater.

Fans who watched "Zodiac" first, like the original time and space, were excited about Cheng Long's rare masterpieces in recent years.

Although the overall quality of "Zodiac" is not as good as Cheng Long's masterpieces in the last century, it is indeed the most desperate movie in recent years.

This made fans nostalgic and moved, and at the same time, they once again sighed that Cheng Long was really old.

And when it came to the easter egg session after the end of the film, fans were pleasantly surprised to find that the protagonist in the film brought back not only a bronze head from abroad, but also a very familiar turtle back plate!

That's why the turtle's back plate in the Wonderful Night is back!

A group of fans of the wonderful night immediately smiled.

After watching "Zodiac", let's watch "Wonderful Night 3" again.

At this time, fans who have watched "Zodiac" will find that the two movies are really linked.

The plot of "Wonderful Night 3" is similar to the original version, both from the British History Museum to foreign countries.

The reason is that the turtle's back plate is "out of power", so that the protagonists begin to go crazy, and the museum is in crisis.

In order to solve the problem, the protagonist first went to Hengdian and found Jiang Ziya in the second part.

I learned that the original appearance of the turtle back plate was not only a board, but also many accessories.

And those accessories have now been lost, and Jiang Ziya doesn't know where they are.

Just when the protagonist group was confused, the old security guard played by Lao Zhao in the Northeast in the first part gave the answer.

From his telling, it turned out that the turtle back plate was originally in the Old Summer Palace, and later because of the well-known historical event, that is, after the Eight-Nation Alliance's burning of the Old Summer Palace, the entire set of turtle back plate was brought to Europe with countless treasures and cultural relics.

So if you want to solve the problem, you may have to take the turtle back plate to the British History Museum.

Next, the protagonist began to go through the procedures for the cultural relics to be exhibited abroad, so that he could smoothly bring the turtle back plate and the protagonists of the museum to the British History Museum.

The next scene is a plot similar to the original.

The protagonist group adventures in the British History Museum with various resurrected artifacts.

Zhao Kuo and the cowboy also staged a wave of Pompeii eruption and escape.

The biggest highlight is that in the China Pavilion, with the appearance of the turtle's back plate, a number of cultural relics have turned into human shapes.

When the fellow saw the fellow, his eyes were full of tears.

What's even more tear-jerking is a sentence from the cultural relics of the British for hundreds of years: Are you taking us home?

The protagonist is speechless.

At this time, many fans in front of the big screen have already understood why the Wonderful Night series will end, because this question is basically unsolved.

It is no wonder that Lu Ping'an said before the release of the movie that there may be a chance to start filming a fourth part in the future, but the time is unknown.

After some adventure, the protagonist successfully found a way to solve the problem of the turtle's back plate, and the method is actually very simple, that is, let the turtle's back plate and its original base together, to "absorb the essence of the sun and the moon", simply put, it is to bask in the moon at night and the sun during the day.

In the end, a second before the turtle's back plate was completely eroded, the protagonist let it bask in the moon, and after basking in the moonlight, the turtle's back plate improved, and the crazy cultural relics and wax figures returned to their senses.

After another bask in the sun tomorrow morning, this wave of charging will be able to be used for 60 years.

It seems that the problem has been satisfactorily solved, but after returning to China, in a joint tour exhibition between the museum and the National Museum, the "dragon head" that returned to China, that is, the dragon head brought back by Cheng Long in "Zodiac", became Cheng Long.

He saw the turtle back plate and revealed a news, it turned out that the turtle back plate had also had a "feeding" incident when he was in a manor in the United Kingdom before, and it was more than once.

This time, fans who have watched "Zodiac" have connected the timelines and plots of the two movies.

That is to say, the turtle back plate was originally in the Old Summer Palace, but with the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was lost overseas, and later the base was donated to the British Museum by the earl, and the turtle back plate was brought back to China by Cheng Long and the dragon head.

In the end, the turtle back plate was stored in a small museum that was about to close down for some reason.

Also, this timeline doesn't seem quite right.

But it doesn't matter, it's comedy in itself.

The entire series of "Wonderful Night" is very illogical, and the timeline has never been mentioned, to explain it in the usual routine of the road guide, that is, this world is not the same as reality, so these details do not need to be particularly particular.

So what fans are more concerned about is the crisis in the movie, and they know from the mouth of the transformed dragon head that in the past 100 years, the turtle's back plate has been fed more than once, and the battery life is shorter than the last, and it has been less than 12 years since the last accident.

This means that after this charge, it may break down again in less than 12 years!

In the end, the dragon head admonished: "Before the base is not taken back, it is better to use it less in the future, find a cloth to block it, if you don't charge it in time, you can't save it." ”

Thinking of the difficulties of this trip to the UK, the protagonist still didn't believe it even after hearing it, but he had to accept it, and decided to reduce the turtle's back plate from seeing light every day to once a month in the future.

This means that the days of having these lovely friends every night in the past few years are coming to an end.

Sima Qian and the others began to comfort: "Don't worry, we can't die." ”

"But we'll be old." The security guard played by Lao Zhao in the Northeast smiled and sighed, "I will see one side less in the future"

Everyone also realized that time is a gentle girl in the face of cultural relics and wax figures.

But for human beings, she is the most ruthless queen in the world.

Sima Qian and the others looked at the old security guard and the white hair on the protagonist's head, and they were silent for a while.

Just when everyone was in a depression, the protagonist's son stood up: "Don't be afraid, my father is old, and I will have children in the future, one day, everyone will be able to come out to bask in the moon every day!" ”

A vigorous sentence rejuvenated the entire museum.

The film also ends with a big party at the museum.

And then there's the easter eggs.

This easter egg is not just the plot of the movie.

But in reality, Lu Ping'an and Cheng Long brought back various cultural relics from overseas.

This scene actually appeared in the promotional program of "Zodiac".

Now that it appears again, it is not only a perfect farewell to the Wonderful Night series, but also a more shining brilliance to the movie.

At the end of the movie, fans are looking forward to the day when overseas cultural relics will return to China as soon as possible.

Of course, it's more about exhaling heavily.

A long-form series that spanned 8 years and has become a mark of domestic film history and the growth of countless fans is over.

At this moment, with the lights of the theater turned on, many fans really didn't want to leave for a while

With the "linkage" release of the top two during the Spring Festival, the box office pattern was quickly established.

In seven days, "Wonderful Night 3" and "Zodiac" won 790 million and 670 million box office respectively.

The third place "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" is 360 million.

As for other films, although the results are far from the top three, they all exceed the expectations of the filmmakers.

The media predicts that it will definitely be no problem for the first two movies to break 1 billion, and it will take a little luck to break the box office record of 1.3 billion set by "Let the Bullets Fly" last year.

Most people feel that this result is very likely to be achieved based on the data compared to the same period last year and the amount of big screen growth this year.

Then, with the start of the working day, the film market ushered in a small cooling.

However, the topic of cultural relics is still hot, and the box office of the two films has fallen less than expected.

It's just that Lu Ping'an's focus is no longer on the movie.

On February 2, Baoqiang held a wedding in the capital, and as his eldest brother, Lu Ping'an became a witness.

After the wedding, Lu Ping'an sent a small gift to Baoqiang.

Next, Baoqiang will go out independently from Xingchen to open a studio, and Xingchen will occupy a certain share.

In order to make Baoqiang's first project after independence get off to a good start, Lu Ping'an gave him a 10% investment share of "Thai Embarrassment".

Not much, only two or three million, after all, the total cost of this film is so little, of course, Baoqiang still has to pay, such as converting it with salary.

The original time and space Baoqiang did not choose the dividend model on this project, but only got paid.

This plane is different, he gladly took it, without doubt.

However, his wife has some opinions, she thinks that this gift is a bit risky, and there is another thing that she didn't say, she thinks that since the relationship between the two is so good, how can it be so clear.

Baoqiang was unmoved, he only felt that his woman's vision had to be expanded again, otherwise he would have to lose his face in the future.

After Baoqiang got married, at the end of March, Zhang Songwen also ushered in the wedding, followed by Ning Hao's make-up wedding in April, and then Huang Bo.

Huang Bo and his wife had already received the certificate in 07, and there was no wedding at that time, but then he developed, and he always wanted to make up for one, but he was too busy, and various projects continued.

Now that he has caught up with the brothers, he simply came to a scene.

Even weddings are contagious.

At the end of April, Lu Ping'an and Lizi held a secret wedding, with relatives and friends and daughters, warm and sweet.

The day after the wedding, news came from Cannes that "The Undertaker" was shortlisted for the main competition unit and will participate in the competition for the Palme d'Or.

For Lu Ping'an's film to be shortlisted for the top three in Europe, the media is no longer surprised.

But this time it's different, because the title of the movie is the undertaker?

So this is a horror movie?

Soon, more information was learned in the media.

With the exposure of funeral-themed movies, this has also caused more surprises.

Not only domestic but also foreign filmmakers are also surprised.

Because funeral-themed movies are really rare so far.

There is no film that is purely about burial, about life and death.

The same is true of the original time and space, after "The Undertaker" came out in 08, a number of funeral-themed movies began to emerge around the world.

And "The Undertaker" was able to win the Oscar, which also took advantage of the vacancy in the subject matter, and of course, the artistry here is the key.

Back to the present, the "Undertaker" in this time and space was pressed to the present by Lu Ping'an, so a number of "follow-up" movies have not appeared, such as "The Undertaker" in 10 years.

So now, Lu Ping'an's "The Undertaker" can be regarded as a "groundbreaking" theme.

With this golden body, it is not enough for the movie to win the Palme d'Or, after all, the three major European ones are relatively "cold".

However, Lu Ping'an's status can make up for this to a certain extent.

In addition, "The Undertaker" does not have any political flavor, and the strong family atmosphere and thoughts on life and death issues in it are also in line with the common values of the East and the West.

The artistic expression of Chinese culture has always been very popular in Europe, but it has always been related to the "black hinterland" in the past, after all, it represents backwardness.

And now, a new perspective has emerged, embodying the mysterious oriental culture in a new way.

As a whole, in fact, the lethality is still very large.

This is very much in line with Cannes' preferences.

Finally, coupled with the fact that this film is very popular, even Cannes has to consider commerciality, after all, this is 2012.

So with these tones, the chances of winning the prize are actually very high.

Of course, after all, the three major European ones are the three major European ones, and the selection criteria are relatively "evil", and several judges quarrel and decide, and many times it depends on luck.

There are many members of the key jury, and they don't look very professional.

For example, this year's seven-person team, in addition to three directors, also has three actors and a costume designer.

It's hard to find out what the taste prefers are.

Moreover, this year's original Palme d'Or winner "Love" is also very competitive, and the theme is somewhat similar to "The Undertaker".

The film tells the story of two retired music teachers, who are over eighty years old and still in love with each other for many years, until their wife suffers an illness, and their love begins to face the biggest test.

This is a theme about death and love, and in general it is actually more in line with the aesthetics of the Europeans.

So in the end, it's really hard to say whether Lu Ping'an can take it.

Lu Ping'an still maintains that mentality about this.

Anyway, the main purpose of this film is for great harmony.

And this film can be regarded as his last impact on the three major Europeans.

So you can take the best, you can't take it down, and you won't come back next time.

Time flies.

Soon on May 27, the 65th Cannes Film Festival began to present awards.

Lu Ping'an arrived in Cannes in the afternoon.

Once again, I sat in the audience and waited for the opening.

Somehow, Lu Ping'an's attention began to shift to the blind boxes he had saved.

On a whim, he quickly decided.

If you win the prize in this wave, it at least means that today's luck is good, and you should be able to have a bumper harvest if you draw all the blind boxes.

Thinking so, the lights on the stage turned on.

Three days later.

A 99 A6 drove out of Nortel's campus.

This A6 is a bit outdated now, but it is still a man's dream, such as the Ele.me brother sitting on an electric car outside Nortel School.

Without waiting for the little brother to see the handsome face in the driver's seat, Lu Ping'an jumped out with one foot on the accelerator.

Yan Danchen in the back seat exclaimed: "Slow down, I didn't even see what was written on the banner." ”

"What else can I write, back and forth with those words."

Lu Ping'an said, looking at the door from the rearview mirror.

Several huge banners hang on Nortel's gates.

"Congratulations to director Lu Ping'an for winning the Palme d'Or at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival"

"Warm congratulations to director Lu Ping'an for achieving the grand slam achievements of the three major European film festivals"

"Warm congratulations on the safety of the road"

The rest was too late to see, because the car had already gone far.

Hu Qingquan, the co-pilot, said with a smile: "You have a nickname in the school now, right?" ”

"What's the nickname?"

"Banner King!"

Zhang Songwen, who was next to Yan Danchen in the back seat, answered as soon as possible.

Lu Ping'an was slightly stunned, and then laughed.

After laughing, Hu Qingquan asked: "Now that I have won the Grand Slam, what are my thoughts next?" ”

"What's next?"

Lu Ping'an called up the golden finger from his mind.

"System, when I finish filming the adapted "Gravity", "The Martian", "Jurassic Park", "Harry Potter" and "Life is Beautiful", are you sure it will be upgraded?"

[Ding~ In the next stage, the parallel world film and television drama library will be opened, please continue to work hard! 】

"Understood!"

Retracting the golden finger, Lu Ping'an said solemnly to Hu Qingquan: "Next, I will retire!" ”

“？！！” ×3

"I lied to you." Lu Ping'an laughed.

Tap the throttle on your feet.

The taillights of the A6 slowly disappear into the traffic.

Just as the old story of Lu Ping'an has ended.

The new story will be like the rising sun tomorrow, as promised, and it has just begun. (End of chapter)