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Chapter 804 Premiere of "Little Princess"

What is the concept of selling out 27 tickets in 5300 seconds?
It broke the record for the fastest sell-out of a single film since the film festival.

This is Liu Yifei's "Little Princess".

The main creators sat in the Daguang Cinema adjacent to the Metropolitan Theater, the host of the film festival, to welcome the audience and the media.

Even Cheng Yu'an took time out of his busy schedule to come over to praise his wife.

"Why are you here?" Cheng Yu'an's arrival surprised Liu Yifei, especially Cheng Yu'an specially prepared a bouquet of flowers, wishing the film a smooth premiere.

"Go, go, who said that this flower is for you." Seeing that Liu Yifei was about to take the flower, Cheng Yu'an said it was not for her, "I gave it to our director and producer."

Qin Hailu spat at him: "Come on, do you still have the leisure to send me flowers? If you give it to your wife, just say it's for your wife."

After such a fuss, the romantic atmosphere of sending flowers was gone, but Liu Yifei was still very happy to receive flowers from her husband on the day of the film's premiere.

The premiere ceremony will begin immediately, and everyone sits down in the audience, waiting for the host to start.

Throughout the premiere process, the director and the leading actors cooperated with the process very well, and there were no radical remarks or behaviors.

But producer Qin Hailu's violent temper is different.

The host asked her: "Why did you choose Yifei to play the role?"

Qin Hailu directly said that the original heroine could not come, so she could only find Liu Yifei to save the scene.

"She originally said that she was sick abroad and would not be able to come back for a while. We also understood her difficulty at the time and we broke up peacefully.

"Unexpectedly, they announced that they signed a contract with a certain blockbuster film crew to play the leading actress within a few days." Qin Hailu was still very angry when talking about this matter.

"Don't ask me who the original heroine is, anyway, I won't cooperate with her in the future."

Afterwards, director Zhang Meng praised Liu Yifei face to face on stage:
"Hai Lu said that she would invite Yifei to save the scene. At first I was very guilty. I said that our small production crew couldn't afford such a big man. Hai Lu said to try to make a phone call. But Hai Lu told me about it. , Yifei immediately agreed, asked for the address, and drove to the crew alone. I told her about the difficulties of the crew, saying that our crew is small and our funds are limited, so we may not be able to afford your salary. What did Yifei say? ?”

Zhang Meng passed a message to Liu Yifei, and Liu Yifei was too embarrassed to brag about herself, but Qin Hailu took over the words: "She said, the crew will take care of the meals."

Zhang Meng said: "Because things happened too urgently, the crew arrangement was disrupted, and the start-up was delayed for a month. Yifei still went to experience life during this month."

Liu Yifei corrected: "In less than a month, I was discovered by reporters in [-] days, and I ran away with a bucket. Ha ha."

Liu Yifei's straightforwardness made the audience and the media laugh, and even Cheng Yu'an in the audience couldn't help laughing.

Finally, the director sincerely thanked Liu Yifei for his dedication.

The pre-screening activities are like this for the time being, and the host announced that it has entered the premiere viewing stage.

This is also the first time Cheng Yu'an saw "The Little Princess" as a film.

Zhang Meng did not place the story in the Northeast, which he is familiar with this time, but chose the capital city, but his lighting and coloring style still follow the "Steel Piano", which is generally gray, because the story takes place in winter, most of the The makeup of the actors gives people a rough and bulky feeling.

The whole movie feels cold and heavy.

When Liu Yifei's cleaning figure appeared on the screen for the first time, Cheng Yu'an was a little surprised. Li Xiaoxiao's clothes didn't have any sense of fashion—this might be Liu Yifei's own clothes, and she has always had a bad aesthetic in dressing herself.

Moreover, the make-up on her face is relatively rough. Although Cheng Yu'an, her husband, can still recognize her at a glance, she still has to admit that Liu Yifei sacrificed a lot in this drama, which Zhang Meng was willing to do. No scruples about Liu Yifei's image.

Liu Yifei's acting skills in the film did not hold back, but Cheng Yu'an still thought about a very realistic question when sitting in the audience. Will the audience show up if this face appears in a film with such temperament?
The mainstream audience's impression of Liu Yifei is either a fairy-like little dragon girl or a fierce and sassy beating girl.

Now suddenly dyed a strand of white hair to play a girl who is a bit abnormal in the eyes of ordinary people, will the audience accept it?

At the end of the movie, the silver-haired Li Xiaoxiao was still sitting in the bar, drank a glass of his favorite wine, paid and left.

Zhang Meng didn't shoot Liu Yifei's face here, but only shot her body and her shoulder-hanging silver hair.

The last shot of the movie is on the viaduct. The camera shoots the traffic and slowly pans to the wasteland under the bridge.

There is a tent on the wasteland, a light is on in the tent, and there is a person under the light.

Shady, over.

There was warm applause from the audience, I don't know if it was sincere praise or polite support.

As a family member of the heroine, it is difficult for Cheng Yu'an to evaluate the film objectively and fairly, especially Liu Yifei's performance.

But at least there is one thing to say, Zhang Meng is really bold, daring to make a film in 17 that criticizes the rapid rise of housing prices and prices.

In 17 years, it was the time when housing prices rose by leaps and bounds, and the golden age of real estate speculation per capita.

"Little Princess" can be more intense, but this will lose the smoothness and basic logic of the film's story. Zhang Meng's handling is already very good. He compromised and did not continue to dig down on this issue, but only shot Li Xiaoxiao's personal encounter.

It's certainly a tragedy, but not one that would bring tears to the eyes.

It's the kind where you don't know who is the good guy and who is the bad guy in the movie, and you can't tell who did what was wrong or what was right, but the tragedy just happened.

The core of this tragedy can be traced back to the tragedy of fate in ancient Greece:
"There is no clear distinction and diametrical opposition between good and evil, good and bad. Good and evil, good and bad appear in the same person in a primitive harmonious state. In tragedy, it is not the freedom of the two opposites, good and evil. There is a violent conflict of wills, but of free will and the fate that lurks behind it; it is not the denial of one man to another that creates the conflict, but the denial of oneself to oneself."

Judging from the interaction with the audience after the screening, most audiences are still very satisfied with the film.

People who will come to the film festival to watch movies are generally fans of literary films. To be honest, they were not optimistic about Liu Yifei’s acting in literary films at first, but judging from the performance of today’s premiere, “Yifei’s performance is very unexpected. Unexpected, very good, I like this movie very much.”

Cheng Yu'an came all the way, how could he let him go so easily, the host asked him to come on stage and say a few words.

Cheng Yu'an came to the stage, handed Liu Yifei's water glass to her with one hand, and took the microphone with the other. Liu Yifei stepped aside and took a sip of water.

Cheng Yu'an said: "I watched it in the audience. To be honest, I was a little nervous. This is also the first time I watched a film. I was a little worried about Yifei before, but now it seems that Yifei has done very well."

Knowing that her husband was telling the truth, Liu Yifei looked at Cheng Yu'an with stars in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)