Chapter 69: I Want to Make a Movie
After thinking about it, Cao Ping decided to tell Uncle Wang his thoughts, although he was shocked and kept repeatedly, but at Cao Ping's insistence, they still chose to respect Cao Ping's wishes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After staying in the crew of "The Legend of Lu Zhen" for another three days, after the scene was over, Cao Ping spent half a day looking for a house, and then moved over with his things, although it was just a single apartment just one street away from Uncle Wang's house, but the meaning to Cao Ping was completely different.
This room has a small kitchen, the water, electricity and gas networks are ready-made, and the landlord is also a local and knows Uncle Wang, so the price should not be expensive. Aunt Wang and Wang Yuan helped move the things over and cleaned the room together, Cao Ping went to the supermarket downstairs to buy a set of sheets and quilts, and after laying them out, they finally looked a little good. Aunt Wang took Cao Ping back to the store to have dinner together, Cao Ping helped in the store until the end of the evening, Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang personally fried a table of dishes, and opened a bottle of wine, Uncle Wang kept telling Cao Ping, even if you move out to live, everyone is still a family, come to the house for dinner in the evening, don't forget Uncle if there is anything, Cao Ping listened carefully, nodded and agreed one by one.
After eating, Wang Yuan sent Cao Ping out, both of them were silent and did not speak, Cao Ping smiled and opened his mouth to break the silence, and said: "Okay, brother, you go back to rest! It's not a big deal, it's just that I moved to the next street to live, and it's two steps away." ”
Wang Yuan also smiled, patted Cao Ping's shoulder habitually, paused, and said, "Always remember, I am your brother." Cao Ping's nose was a little sour, and he quickly smiled to cover it up, pushed Wang Yuan and said, "Okay, okay, it's not life and death, hurry up, I'll come over tomorrow." ”
Wang Yuan turned his head, hugged Cao Ping, hugged him tightly, and patted Cao Ping's back twice. Cao Ping was also silent, he knew in his heart that although they would still look up and not look down in the future, but, just like every adult child has to leave home, this separation determines that their trajectory will be divided into two lines in the future, and their identity will change to relatives who often move, and no longer like relatives before, plain, but permanent. Cao Ping sighed silently and turned his head to leave.
In the three months that Cao Ping has come, Wang Yuan has become accustomed to the role of a younger brother at home, Cao Ping, who has just arrived in Hengdian, is still immersed in the grief of losing his relatives, looking a little confused and uneasy, and his brows are always shrouded in a layer of sadness. Wang Yuan experienced the feeling of being an elder brother for the first time, and he spent a lot of time accompanying Cao Ping to come out of the shadows. Slowly, Cao Ping slowly became cheerful, and he would joke with himself and make a fuss, he could see that Cao Ping was a very sensitive and strong person, and he also had his own pride, destined not to be sent under the fence forever, the bloodline was like a glass, although they could see the kindness expressed by both sides clearly, but they would not merge after all. He also thought that Cao Ping would leave this home one day, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.
Hengpiao is a group of people whose floating population changes very quickly, and almost every day there are people whose dreams are shattered, and they carry their bags and embark on the way home. Wang Yuan is the leader of the group, and I don't know how many sad young people have been sent away over the years, so he is very afraid of the sadness of parting. But he knows that Cao Ping is different, this time it is a symbol of his formal independence and maturity, in the future, he will face this society alone, to work hard, to suffer losses and study, and he can no longer help unconditionally, this is an insult to Cao Ping, but also a stain on a mature and independent personality. So, from today onwards, they are still relatives, but they will eventually drift apart.
"Xiaoping!" Wang Yuan stopped Cao Ping, Cao Ping looked back, Wang Yuan's smile was a little crystalline: "Come on!"
Men's emotions are always secret and strong, like a glass of mellow spirits, which do not need to be described in words, but felt by heart. Cao Ping had mixed feelings in his heart, suddenly smiled with relief, nodded vigorously, and turned around and strode away.
The lobster house on both sides of the road set up a night market, as usual is full of people, Cao Ping looked at this familiar and unfamiliar scene, his heart was full of thoughts, tomorrow morning to wake up, this world will be another meaning for himself.
Downstairs, Cao Ping went into the supermarket again, bought some necessities, what toilet paper, garbage cans, garbage bags, toiletries, passing by the tobacco and alcohol shelves, Cao Ping picked up a bottle of wine, and drank a bottle of liquor at Uncle Wang's house, but he is still not drunk, he thought about it, or put it in the cart, and took a pack of peanuts, when he arrived at the counter to check out, he saw the cigarette behind the salesman, Cao Ping rarely had an urge to smoke, Cao Ping pointed and said to the salesman: "A pack of Liqun, a lighter." ”
After settling the account, Cao Ping returned to the rental room with a bag of things, opened the door and went in, put the garbage can on the garbage bag, and put the toiletries away, Cao Ping sat in the living room, didn't know what to do for a while, and was so awake that he didn't feel a trace of sleep. He opened his backpack and sorted out the things inside one by one, hand-copied boxing books, Cao Ping carefully smoothed each page, wiped the silver needles in the acupuncture box one by one with alcohol cotton and put them back, wiped his grandfather's pipe with a cotton cloth, and a pair of emerald green bracelets, which his grandmother said she would pass on to her granddaughter-in-law...... Cao Ping sorted it out one by one, put it in a box, and solemnly closed the lid, he felt a little moist on his face, stretched out his hand to wipe it, and tears moistened his palm. Cao Ping was stunned for a moment, and laughed dumbly, he reached out and turned off the light, letting the darkness completely drown him, covering his expression, and that's it! Just allow yourself to be weak one last time! With the faint sound of calling the bed next door, Cao Ping cried silently, and the sadness was instantly permeated.
For a long time, Cao Ping breathed a sigh of relief, he hadn't cried so happily for a long time, the pressure for a long time seemed to flow out of his body with tears, Cao Ping felt reborn, as if he had abandoned his past self as easily.
Cao Ping wiped away his tears, feeling no sleep, he went out with a wine bottle and peanuts, climbed from the window of the corridor to the top of the building, he lived on the top floor, which is why he chose this house, because it was convenient to go to the roof. He sat on the edge of the building, hung his legs, and looked at the moon above his head, letting the starlight shine all over him. His position just happened to see the Dazhi Temple, and the temple was already dark, and the monks were probably asleep. The streets downstairs are also starting to be sparsely populated, and the noisy night market has closed its stalls, and it is already late at night when everything is silent.
Cao Ping lit a cigarette and sat quietly on the edge of the building, enjoying the solitary tranquility, he felt that he hadn't seen the starry sky for a long time, Immanuel Kant, the founder of German classical philosophy, had a well-known saying, which he engraved on his tombstone: There are two things, the deeper and more persistent I think about them, the wonder and awe they evoke in my heart will change with each passing day, and continue to grow, this is the starry sky above my head and the moral law in my heart. The night tonight was beautiful, and Cao Ping couldn't help but lose his mind.
The cigarette burned to the end, Cao Ping came back to his senses, he took a sip of wine, the breeze on the roof of the building was blowing, it was very comfortable, Cao Ping began to think carefully about his future direction.
In the past three days, Cao Ping has spent his spare time checking information related to movies and television, and slowly has his own ideas. The audience groups of movies and TV series are completely different things, the movie audience is basically 18-40 years old young and middle-aged audiences, while the TV audience covers all ages, the population base is not comparable to the movie audience, Cao Ping saw from a data that in 2011, the annual movie box office data, 18-40 years old audience contributed 70% The above box office, and this year is expected to account for even higher, there are many people in the TV audience who can't watch a movie once a year, so TV series stars will be more close to the people, also called more down-to-earth, and more widely known. However, the moviegoer is winning by quality. After all, movies are an entertainment consumption, and a movie ticket costs one or twenty yuan to say the least, while TV is indeed free. Most of the movie audiences are at the age when they have the most purchasing power, and the market effect that movie stars can drive will be greater, so that in comparison, the status of movie stars is higher than that of TV series stars, which can be seen from the endorsement fee, and the endorsement fee of movie stars with the same coffee position is much higher than that of TV series stars, and this is the reason.
The TV drama industry is seriously polarized for actors, either it is a new-school TV series that is liked by young audiences, relying on young idols of handsome men and beautiful women to win attention and earn ratings, or some familiar actors attract the attention of middle-aged and elderly people through some TV series with themes such as short mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war in some parents.
His advantage lies in his own kung fu, and martial arts TV series can't be filmed a few times a year, and the protagonist will definitely choose the popular Xiaosheng Huadan, if he wants to be on the top, he has to take the idol route, but he looks much better than himself, and he is still very jerky in terms of acting skills, and he is almost relying on imitation. Those excellent actors from professional classes are better than themselves, it can be said that if they want to compete on the TV screen, it is estimated that they will have to hone for a few more years, and they must seize a good opportunity to make it possible.
On the other hand, in the film industry, even if kung fu movies are sluggish, they still have a good foundation for watching movies in China, and there will always be kung fu stars among the most box office appealing people among filmmakers, not to mention that he has received an olive branch from Jackie Chan, the first brother of kung fu movies, which is equivalent to having a ticket to get on the boat, which is much stronger than other people who want to get in.
But now that domestic films are in decline for the first time, Cao Ping is a little afraid to make up his mind. He saw a set of data from the Internet, in the first half of 2011, the domestic film box office was 5.6 billion, the domestic film box office was 2.9 billion, and the imported film box office was 2.7 billion, and the domestic film box office in the first half of this year was 8.07 billion, although it rose by 2.47 billion over last year, but the domestic film box office did not rise but fell, only 2.805 billion, and the remaining 5.265 billion were all contributed by imported films. The box office received 290 million in 4 days of release, and it has already broken 500 million in just two weeks, but it is also with the help of special effects advantages and the good reputation of the first part, and the box office driven by a number of big-name actors, just looking at its cast, you know that the cost of its actors' remuneration is not low, Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun, the two top actresses in China, and the popular student Chen Kun, and with "Ip Man" Donnie Yen, who has successfully created the image of the grandmaster, will not be paid less than 10 million yuan, as well as its excellent special effects lenses, and the technical cost will not be low, so it seems that such a luxury masterpiece that gathers half of the film circle is still not the opponent of Hollywood blockbusters, a hyped "Titanic 3D Version" can collect 970 million box office in China, and "The Avengers" also won 570 million box office in one fell swoop, which makes many industry insiders discouraged that domestic films have almost no power to turn over in a short period of time. But the most worrying thing is that almost all of the film industry now believes that technology is one of the biggest guarantees for the box office, because the audience recognizes this, many movies do not have a 3D lens, but they are sold as 3D movies in layers, and they can sell double the ticket price, so why not, so the domestic cinema line is almost all lined up with 3D movies, which is a very dangerous thing, when technology replaces the story, then is it still called a movie?
Cao Ping only understood why Jackie Chan was in such a hurry at this time, and rushed back from Paris to meet him, he was right, at present, the only thing that can compete with technology is the human body skills that technology cannot achieve. Today's film technology can construct a realistic fake animal model, but it still can't be fabricated in a vacuum. Human expressions are difficult to simulate with current technology, not that they can't be done, but the cost will be very terrifying, so now the technical special effects of people require actors to wear specific clothes and sensors to capture expressions, record them and then carry out post-production.
Therefore, technology can't copy a Bruce Lee, on the one hand, the cost is not allowed, on the other hand, because the real kung fu is easy to see, Cao Ping has carefully watched the actions in Bruce Lee's movies, and the actions made by other actors who imitated him after his death, the difference is very obvious, a simple step side kick, Bruce Lee's kicked legs are very straight, just like a spear that swims the dragon out of the sea, full of a sense of sharpness, which can only be done after a long time of practice and exercise, and other imitations can't even kick the legs straight, not to mention other shots?
From this point of view, maybe real kung fu movies are the best way to deal with the impact of Hollywood blockbusters, so Cao Ping already has the answer in his heart on how to choose. He took out his mobile phone and wrote a text message to send it: Big brother, I've thought about it, I want to make a movie!
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