Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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In laying down these three words, Chen Aiming didn’t feel embarrassed at all, he only felt calm.
Originally, he thought that the result of being nailed down was completely subverted from the release. The reason that affected the result was not the rowing he thought, but his most confident word of mouth.
At first, Chen Aiming always looked at it with scepticism. He always felt that there were too many navies on the Internet, covering up the true voice, a fairy-tale film, an old director, and a new star… Whatever he thought, he couldn’t find the reason for his failure.
But he just failed.
By the end of the first week of the show, the average number of moviegoers per show was slightly reduced. When it was not difficult to grab tickets, Chen Aiming finally stepped into the theatre. After buying the movie ticket for the best viewing position in the iMAX hall, he silently entered the crowd.
When he noticed that there was a child less than ten years old next to him, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and he made a half-fold in advance of today’s movie viewing experience.
As a director, he could not enjoy a movie with the mindset of an ordinary audience. More often, he analyzed and pondered the process of watching movies, but when the first shot of “Dengxian Road” appeared, he fell into a long silence.
The beginning of “Dengxian Road” was a standard long shot, with a green perspective, it rose and fell quickly, it skipped the world of Jiuxian quickly, and then fell on a beautiful red leaf tree, waiting for a gust of wind. The green pheasant turned into one with blue feathers mixed with red leaves, and the bulge on the ground was slowly pushed out, showing the white stamens with light, the lens gradually gained some distance, until the newborn baby was crying in the cabin under the mountain forest, and the man held up the child and said, “Your name is Qiu Xian.”
The baby waved its hands and wept loudly, its tears fell to the ground, and down the soil, extended to the branches of the huge banyan tree, the tree fairy shook the branches, set up a baby-protection in the mortal realm, and was driven away by the leopard, switching between humanoid and leopard-shape, looking forward, the end of the grassland was actually connected to a black ladder, surrounded by blood-like flames. At the top of the ladder, a witch was sitting on the magic gate, humming an unknown song in minor key, and the eye waves flowed between, where there was a kind of entanglement with simplicity and temptation. Behind her, the man who was as tall as a mountain opened his eyes and looked at the road that was connected from Xia Guang and truly climbed the sky.
Chen Aiming’s breathing did not return to normal until the end of the scene. He could hear the exclamation of the people around him as he licked his dry lips. The perfect part of this scene was not his connection, but the philosophy, and aesthetics, Zhu Xufang was particularly good with the light and shadow. Even with the magic gate, he had also made efforts on the ground. The flame seemed to glow, and the depth of the mapped black stone floor changed its shape.
At that moment, he knew that he had lost, because he could not shoot such a shot, or because he had been shooting urban movies, he had never taken on a real “big world”, how could he consider such a shot?
The more he looked, the more speechless Chen Aiming was.
The boy followed Xian Xian and his sister all the way, even the grass and trees on the ground would roll up and sing, and the little man standing popped up and talked about it in a nonchalant way. After arriving at Xianzong, the teacher only taught him spells, while others laughed at him without saying a word.
They asked all the way after learning that the monsters and spirits were also afraid to enter the road, from the big fight to the turn of life and death, it was also interspersed with the masses to make Xian Zong flee, as well as the battle of fairy and demons thousands of years ago. Finally, he learned that Dengxian Road had been closed. Above Dengxian Road, there was a scorching sky. Even if the Demon Emperor arrived there, he would also be burned.
“For the survival of grass and trees, for the wisdom of the beast, for the immortal, for the devil to find…” The demon emperor played by Gu Mingyi had the most lines in the movie. The so-called Dengxian Road was just countless ways to walk out from the cycle of life. He and the witch set foot on Dengxian Road. At each step, the spirits were scattered, but they stepped to the top and disappeared into the sky.
Thousands of years later, the disciples who asked for immortality also embarked on the ascendant road and disappeared into the sky.
After watching the movie, Chen Aiming sat there for a while and didn’t look back. He could see that this was a very “uncommercial” ending. In fact, he was really curious. What exactly did the producer think of leaving such a blank ending?
He also found out that after this movie came down, he didn’t even have time to pay attention to whether the little boy made a noise or annoying sound during the movie.
It turned out that the film critic also gave him face, he was not “lost in time”, but had lost completely.
After the screening of “Crossover Love” ended, Chen Aiming also blew up “Dengxian Road” on Weibo without hesitation. The director knew the director better. He did not know how many times he had seen “Dengxian Road” and dedicated movie tickets could be used to decompose and praise each of the small shots, blowing out such two or three thousand words.
At first, some people said that he had lost his pretence, thinking that this would restore the hearts of netizens. But later, after watching him update his movie analysis at the rate of a small paper one day, everyone was finally convinced and astonished.
“Blow or blow, we all lost.” This sentence appeared under each of Chen Aiming’s Weibo.
And completely compromising the competitor director who once uttered his words, it added to the legend of “Dengxian Road” and was cited as a beautiful talk.
The momentum of “Dengxian Road” did not stop until the late Spring Festival. The Hollywood masterpiece released on March 7th was slightly restrained, but due to the benign effect of word of mouth, its box office continued in a slick and long-lasting manner for some time, until the next level, it hit a box office record of 4.12 billion.
Among them, the most critical of fans was the “non-business” attitude of Dream Entertainment. All the official accounts of Dream Entertainment, including the official Weibo of “Dengxian Road”, continued to go offline during this time. Only every few days, random unlocked titbits could prove that Dream Entertainment was alive.
When the spring was about to bloom and the movie was about to be released, the official account finally made its debut. In the face of comments from netizens, the official Dream Entertainment account pulled hatred to full value.
“You can’t learn from others? Whenever there is a breakthrough at the box office, a new version of the poster will be issued. What about you?
“There is no material for self-examination. The studio has taken a long vacation. General Manager Lin said that if anybody was found working during the vacation, she would have to pay a bonus. Only I worked overtime.”
“You say, how many days did you get leave for?”
“No more, no more, just 30 days!”
“Wait, the movie just came out. Why did you start talking about dividends?”
“Ms. Lin was happy to divide money, so in this new year, she gave advances to everyone.”
After all, who didn’t want to have a caring boss who loved to give dividends, didn’t allow overtime, and gave a lot of vacation time?
Following the last Sui Yan incident, Lin Meng’s Weibo ushered in a peak in traffic again. Everyone’s lines were strange, but the core idea was exactly the same-
“Hey, demon spirit? I have lost my boss, can you send me back?”
“Boss, I forgot the company address. When will you pick me up?”
“Did I become an employee of Dream Entertainment today? No.”
But these extremely enthusiastic netizens didn’t know that the “little nephew” Lin Meng in their hearts was facing the books like dishes.
The total box office was 4.12 billion yuan, after deducting taxes, deducting special funds, and paying Feng Ye’s protection fees…
The mechanical female voice in the calculator was extremely patient: “Zero, zero, zero, zero…”
Lin Meng’s face was expressionless and her expression gradually cracked–
Why, why did she make money again? Who can tell her that after distributing a dividend and spending up to one billion in investment, how can there be so many zeroes?
No, I can’t go on like this.
She must make a huge investment of more than one billion yuan, and she will make that type of blockbuster, one with spaceships, aircraft collisions, the end of the world… Altogether, and then the funds will burn and the expenditure will burst.
Right, that is it.
Lin Meng was planning to call him, and Ning Qi came in. He kept smiling recently like a walking Maitreya. He would sing a good luck song every day when he walked. He did not hear the tragic BGM in Lin Meng’s mind at all.
“Ms. Lin, you asked me to find a screenwriter for you.” Ning Qi said, “Just …”
“Just what?”
Ning Qi: “It’s just a bit complicated.”
He began to make a long explanation.
To put it simply, these two screenwriters, one of them brought their own TV drama script, and would rather refine the script a little bit, this script is wonderful, however it would burn funds and was full of experimentation.
And the other…
He was also well-known in the circle. Most of the scripts he participated in have achieved good results.
The problem was that he was an “actor-only screenwriter”. In short, he was brought into the group by an actor only to help change the drama.
Of course, the resume was glorious, but what was the actual ability?
“Anyway, let’s meet him first.” Lin Meng took over the script and let Ning Qi arrange a meeting with the screenwriters as soon as possible.
Lin Meng’s mobile phone screen lit up, her eyes calmed, and the deep dialog boxes appeared in front of her when she unlocked the phone.
In the first week of the Spring Festival, she and the crew ran a roadshow together. She flew north and south, and in the morning in this studio, the ground vacated, and she didn’t go home with a bright and justifiable reason.
It happened that Zhu Yushen was outside all February, and Lin Shen’s large-scale martial arts online game and 3D card mobile game were launched in China and Japan and South Korea at the same time. He has been busy between this time and has no time to go back.
Zhu Yushen: I watched “Dengxian Road”, and it was well shot. I apologize to you for my prejudice against your career.
Lin Meng stared at the line for a long time before she sent back the message: Thank you.
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