Rebirth: Uranus Superstar

Chapter 659 The tip of the iceberg

March 3, the first day of February in the lunar calendar.

The Spring Festival movies that have been released for a full 28 days have all been confirmed to be released on this day.

From New Year's Eve to the present, seven films in the Spring Festival file have been released for a total of one month, and the total box office of the Spring Festival file has reached 155 billion yuan, ranking among the top five in the total box office list of the Spring Festival file in film history.

Among them, "Kung Fu" can be regarded as the best, with a total of 61 billion box office, becoming the box office champion of the Spring Festival.

Followed by "The Tao of Longevity 2", relying on the huge influence brought by the first movie and the blessing of this year's Spring Festival, it won a total of 39 billion box office.

No.3 is "Space Journey", with a total box office of 20.8 billion.

No.4 is the animated film "Panda Down the Mountain", with a box office of 13 billion.

The remaining three films, combined, have a total box office of 18 billion. Among them, the main theme movie "Founding of the People's Republic of China" has a box office of 9 million, and the family movie "Happiness on the Road" has a box office of 7 million. Modern dramas are at the bottom. The love movie "I'm Not a Brain in Love" only earned [-] million at the box office.

Because of the sluggish performance of Mandarin at the box office during the Spring Festival, "Happy on the Road" and "I'm Not in Love" were forcibly released in less than two weeks, leaving the film schedule to several other films.

Because "Founding of the People's Republic of China" is the main theme movie, although the theme is bad, it is not very pleasing. Although the 28-day Spring Festival stalls are full, the total box office only earned 9 million.

In fact, whether it is "Founding of the Nation" or "Happiness on the Rise", etc., it is natural to have its highlights and bright spots to be on the Spring Festival file, but it is a pity that the schedule is scheduled for the Spring Festival file, and "Kung Fu" will run into it again. , "The Tao of Longevity 2", which caused these already excellent movies to encounter Waterloo in the Spring Festival.

Under the prestige, everyone went to watch movies such as "Kung Fu" and "The Tao of Longevity 2", which made these top movies more and more profitable. Capital is profit-seeking, and it is impossible for theaters to do charity, so They will forcefully promote these movies, give out all the movies that can be scheduled, and reduce the movies that are not profitable, or even only schedule one or two movies a day, all of which are at midnight shows, forcing the film studios to go offline.

Therefore, film producers who are generally not of very good quality are self-aware, and will never compete with other blockbuster movies for the schedule during the Spring Festival, National Day and other hot days, otherwise under the influence of the siphon effect, they will definitely Lost scum.

The performance of this year's Spring Festival file has given an excellent answer sheet worthy of a special book for the entire Chinese film industry.

The total box office of the Spring Festival stalls reached 155 billion, ranking No.5 in previous Spring Festival stalls, and the highest box office figure in the past three years.

It was also on the day when movies such as "Kung Fu" were released, the super movie "Steel" directed by the famous director Xu Weizhou officially announced the start of filming.

On this day, Donghai Port International Terminal.

Tens of thousands of people dressed in costumes from a hundred years ago gathered here, including Chinese, whites, and blacks. People of all skin colors gathered together at this moment, which seemed particularly busy.

If it weren't for the skyscrapers not far away, you would think you have returned to a hundred years ago at a glance.

This is the effect that Xu Weizhou wanted, and the historical background of "The Iron Man" was like this.

Seeing the bustling figures everywhere in the port, and a huge cruise ship parked by the water not far away, Xu Weizhou stood in front of the director's chair and looked around, feeling as if he had stepped into a historical picture scroll. A great sense of honor was born.

"Boss Tan is still amazing. This Donghai Port actually rents it!" Xu Weizhou laughed and said, "Although it's not a month, it's only a week, and it's just this small area, but that's it, I also want to rent it." I am very satisfied, I only need the special effects artist to polish the picture in the later stage!"

Donghai Port International Terminal is the largest port in the country and even in the world. The port is located at the front of the Yangtze River Delta, in the middle of the mainland coastline, adjacent to the Yangtze River estuary. One of the important ports.

This is also China's largest port.

As a world-famous port and one of the top ten ports in the world, Donghai Port has ranked first in the world in terms of cargo and container throughput since 20 years ago.

The annual cargo throughput is more than 5000 million containers. If it is suspended for one day, the loss will affect the normal operation of the world economy. If it is suspended for a month, the world economy will collapse.

But now, at the request of Tan Gaohan, Donghai Port actually agreed to allow the crew of "Steel" to use it for filming.

Because only a small area is divided, it does not affect the operation of the port cargo at all, or the impact is very small.

When Xu Weizhou proposed to lease Donghai Port, Tan Gaohan was paralyzed, and even directly proposed to replace Donghai Port with Bangkok Port. The two ports are completely different in terms of transportation, geography, and specifications. Not a volume and level.

Of course, Xu Weizhou disagreed with this. He wanted to capture the epic feeling of the steel cruise ship. Going to Bangkok Port was a waste of money, so he decided to choose Temasek Port as the next best thing.

Temasek Port is also one of the top ten ports in the world. Compared with Donghai Port, it is only slightly inferior, and its throughput is not as fast as Donghai Port. For many foreign ship merchants who come to China to do business, Temasek Port is just It's just a transit port.

If it was filmed in Temasek Port, Xu Weizhou could still accept it, and Tan Gaohan also expressed that he would give it a try.

Who knew that when the shooting was about to start, Tan Gaohan borrowed Donghai Port for use. Although it was only for seven days, and it was divided into specific areas, Xu Weizhou was already overjoyed. He even admired Tan Gaohan very much, and his connections were so good. It is so wide that even the East Sea Port can be rented.

But Tan Gaohan said slowly: "Rent? There is only this area of ​​such a port, which cannot be measured by money. You are too vulgar. The leaders of Donghai Port gave us free use, just to support domestic films. "

Hearing this sentence, Xu Weizhou was in awe: "Then I must make this movie well, so as not to disappoint the leaders."

While the two were talking, at this moment, Di Rongjie appeared in front of him in a tuxedo with his shiny hair combed.

He will play Deng Qingsi's fiancé, Xie Keduo in this movie.

All the TV dramas shot by Shidi Di Rongjie are high-quality products, and there have been a few masterpieces of movies, but none of them are considered big hits. However, he didn't seek out Han Sen's relationship. Instead, when Xu Weizhou spread the net to invite domestic actors to audition, he quietly signed up and successfully stood out from the crowd of audition candidates.

Even Tan Gaohan, the agent, only discovered Di Rongjie's existence when he saw the list of actors.

"You are showing off a bit with your outfit." Tan Gaohan frowned slightly when he saw Di Rongjie: "You are the second male, not the first male."

Hearing this, Di Rongjie smiled, conjured up a short top hat from nowhere, put it on his head comfortably, took out a cigar from his pocket, stuffed it into his mouth, and looked at Tan Gaohan sideways : "I don't want to show off, but that's how the script sets the roles. Old Tan, do you know what role I'm playing this time? I'm personable, dedicated to love, born into a wealthy family, heir to an international steel giant family, A typical diamond queen!"

Tan Gaohan was stunned: "Really?"

He hadn't carefully polished the script, and in fact it wasn't his strong point, so he looked at Xu Weizhou suspiciously.

"That description is actually correct, there are objective facts."

Xu Weizhou nodded and said: "But in the subjective view of the audience, you are just a vulgar man full of conspiracy and smell of money."

"you're right."

Di Rongjie sighed, put the cigar back into the box, and said with a bitter face: "Perhaps, this is the male second! Damn sense of fate!"

Xie Keduo, who he plays, is the undisputed second male lead in "The Man of Steel" and the biggest villain in the whole movie. He has very high requirements for acting skills and temperament.

In order to prepare for this drama so that he can better integrate into the role, Di Rongjie even read through the script every day for a month, and inquired about all kinds of relevant information in the history of the Iron and Steel Company.

Di Rongjie felt shocked from the bottom of his heart every time he found the key node that led to the silence of the ship.

After the shock, there is a deep sense of regret and powerlessness.

Even during this period, because of the in-depth study of the script and the review of a large number of video and text materials, Di Rongjie often dreamed of the scene a hundred years ago.

That year was April 1912, 4.

On that day, there were only three hours left before twelve o'clock midnight.

Known as the "unsinkable giant ship", the steel cruise ship was sailing rapidly on the dark and cold ocean at a speed of 45 kilometers per hour at that moment!

It is like a dagger, regardless of all dangers, it charges bravely, as if it wants to cut a huge hole in the black plush cloth!

At that time, the maximum speed of the entire ship was 23 knots.

The speed of the cruise ship reaches 22 knots, which is infinitely close to the limit.

Under such rapid progress, it is also difficult to "brake" in the event of an emergency.

At that time, Hua Xinjie, the shipowner of this huge ship, in order to make this huge ship popular all over the world, under the influence of comparison, ordered the captain to sail at the fastest speed, striving to reach the destination in the shortest time, and then Shock the world and hit the headlines of newspapers all over the world.

If it was placed at other times, the giant ship Steel was advancing at full speed regardless of all speeds, perhaps no accidents would have happened.

But at that time, it was a warm winter, and the icebergs on the Arctic Ocean were moving southward than in previous years. Therefore, on the established route, the probability of icebergs appearing was much greater than in previous years!
Therefore, ships traveling in the North Atlantic Ocean often receive notifications about icebergs from other ships.

Everyone understands each other, passes information to each other, and helps sailing.

"Steel" is of course no exception.

The captain at that time ordered the lookouts many times to pay close attention to the icebergs floating on the sea.

But what makes people speechless is that there is no binoculars that can be used to look out on the giant oil tanker Steel, which has attracted so much attention from all over the world!
It is said that the crewman in charge of the telescope carefully locked the telescope in the cabinet, and then, for some reason, he himself did not board the ship...

So the lookouts on duty can only identify with human eyes in the sea breeze.

Along the way, it can be described as calm and peaceful.

But it was too calm and calm, which led to the birth of the next tragedy.

Because even if there is a little wave ups and downs, when the waves hit the iceberg, the movement of the waves can be easily detected by the naked eye.

But it is precisely because there is no telescope that the lookout cannot notice the scene hundreds of meters away in the dark night.

As the clock ticks, it's approaching midnight.

When the lookout found the shadow of the iceberg.

I saw the tip of the iceberg shrouded in darkness in the distance, which was growing at a lightning speed.

He woke up immediately, rang the alarm bell three times in a row, and then quickly grabbed the phone and shouted: "There is an iceberg directly ahead!".

Although the deputy captain who received the report was calm and calm, he immediately ordered to slow down all engines, turn the steering rudder to full left, and quickly reverse the No. [-] propeller, but later investigations confirmed that the order of the deputy captain to full left rudder was a Fatal error.

At that time, the steel number was less than 400 meters away from the iceberg.

From the time the lookout spotted the iceberg to the starboard side of the ship hitting the iceberg, only 37 seconds passed.

In the dark night, when the hull of the ship collided with the iceberg at an extremely fast speed, any decision was made in a single thought.

Thirty-seven seconds later, because the hull was too big, the rudder was too small, and the forward speed was too fast, it was impossible to stop and turn in time, so it rushed towards the iceberg obliquely.

Everyone knows the phenomenon of "the tip of the iceberg" - when you see an iceberg floating on the sea surface, there may actually be a super iceberg dozens or hundreds of times larger in size below the sea level.

So, on that day, the steel and the iceberg had a kiss of death——

"The starboard side of the hull was torn open by the iceberg below the sea level. Below the waterline at the front, the rivets began to break rapidly, and the cargo hold continued to flood with huge amounts of seawater."

"Even some passengers in the cabin on the bottom floor can see the milky white iceberg passing by outside the porthole!"

"In the first 10 minutes after colliding with the iceberg, 4000 tons of seawater poured into the bow of the ship!"

"In the end, more than 7000 tons of seawater quickly poured into the bow of the ship, and the water has flooded three bow cargo holds, further covering the upper deck..."

When Di Rongjie, who looked up the information, saw these descriptions, his whole body felt numb, not to mention those lives who unfortunately died due to accidents and cold!
After that day, these fresh lives turned into cold numbers...

Therefore, the closer the start time of the crew was, the more Di Rongjie looked forward to it, mixed with great confusion:
How should the director shoot such a large and detailed scene?
　Ask for a monthly pass! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)