China entertainment that year eighteen

Chapter 138: The Spring Festival Gala and the Beating! (guaranteed three shifts)
2000年2月3号，农历99年腊月28。

Neon's film settlement has been settled. As of January 1, the total box office was 31 billion. In fact, by January 25.3, the box office had exceeded 1 billion. The growth slowed down and gradually declined in the following days.

However, before Han Ping thought it would be enough to exceed 20 billion, which was more than 5 million higher than his expectations.

According to the four-point account, one billion is also returned. After deducting the film development fund, consumption tax and other taxes from Huaxia Bank, and the exchange rate settlement, there is 600 million yuan left on their producer side.

The three of them split the accounts, and it was nearly 300 million to Lu Heng's side, but this was not the final income, and tax returns were required at the end of the year.

In addition, as of the end of last month, the domestic box office was more than 300 million yuan, but after the accounts were divided, there were only more than 300 million left in Lu Heng's hands.

But the benefits are more than that, the country has bonuses for winning awards.For example, the Golden Rooster Award will reward 100 million yuan for the best film, 30 yuan for other individual awards, 100 million yuan for category A such as the Montreal Film Festival and the Indian Film Festival, and 200 million yuan for the five projects, and the total box office of the film will exceed 8000 million yuan. The reward is 200 million, all kinds of 760 million.

The Golden Rooster Award itself has no bonuses. Although India and Montreal have bonuses, they are not many, totaling 15 each.

In addition, there is money for selling copies abroad, as well as proceeds from distributing discs.

All in all, these were summed up on the books of Lu Heng Company, and there were more than 100 million in the end.

satisfy!Lu Heng is very satisfied!
"This is my big red envelope for Chinese New Year~" Lu Heng said with emotion in the office when he saw the money exchange form sent by the finance department.

And the bulk of it is mainly the income from Neon, followed by national bonuses and domestic box office. Of course, if there is no enthusiasm brought by the high box office of Neon, let alone 300 million in China, I am afraid 230 million The box office of the movie is not enough, and this is still due to the starring role of Lu Heng-like in the previous life, the copy was not sold in China, and in the end it was only sold to the movie channel to get back hundreds of thousands.

And the movie channel... is actually also owned by Huaying, which is listed alongside Beijing Film Studio and does not belong to CCTV.

Since its establishment, the movie channel has actually fed back many movie studios through advertising and other income, especially low-budget and niche movies, which have prospered our movie industry.

But in Xiangjiang, they can only rely on some public welfare organizations or individuals, such as Wang Jing, who is one of them. The money earned from making a lot of bad films is used to support some literary films.

In fact, in Lu Heng's view, the promotion of this kind of literary film is only in a narrow sense.

Just like the most intuitive feeling of the general public now, whether a movie is good or not depends on whether it sells well at the box office.

Although many box-office-selling films have been criticized by countless insiders as unnutritious, meaningless, and meaningless three-no products, the general public doesn’t care about what they say—I watch movies to relax, and you want to educate me? ?
Of course, education is not impossible. First of all, you have to tell the story well. It will be a matter of course that the emotions will be sublimated, and the audience will not be disgusted, but many literary films can't even tell the story well.

In fact, Lu Heng feels that literary and artistic films are not a minority, but are twisted into a minority by those senior people who try to be superior to others.

Good literary and artistic films, both refined and popular, are like Bai Juyi's poems, which can be understood by an old woman who does not know a single big character. Even Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng", which is full of literary quotations, ordinary people cannot distinguish the endless allusions in it, but If you listen to someone recite, the feeling of majesty will also arise spontaneously.

But those people just made the literary film so that no one could understand it, and they were complacent: "I am advanced!"

Using some unnecessary filters, the name is to increase the texture, edit the rhythm of the narrative upside down, and call yourself a super time and space. If you don’t understand it, it’s because your realm is not enough.

In the future, the public will narrowly define literary and artistic films as low box office, few stars, rough production, dull rhythm, and exclusively for overseas film festivals. Such an "inherent impression" will gradually distance the public from literary and artistic films.

But who is to blame?
Certainly not to blame the audience, let alone blame them for not being able to understand.

At the end of the 80s, Victory Art Cinema exclusively screened "Half Flame, Half Sea Water"—not Liao Fan's film.

The theater's 443 seats were often full for three consecutive months, and in the end the box office had to pull up iron fences to divert the audience.

Even in the future, "Bi Luo Snow Mountain" directed by Liu Jie and released in 11, a film that was not planned to be released at first, was screened at the newly built MOMA Art Center in Beijing for a whole year and a half, and the dialogues are almost all Lisu language, but it has always been hard to get a ticket.

Even this method has such a grand occasion, it can be seen that good literary and artistic films will never lack audiences.

Therefore, whenever directors and producers hit the box office and blame literary films, saying that they have profound ideas and audiences don't understand them, they don't need to watch their films in the future.

However, this kind of bad habit also caused some literary films to dare not classify their own films into this category when they announced their releases.

Just like the "Fireworks in the Day" played by Liao Fan, no matter from which dimension you look at it, it is a standard literary film.However, after participating in the competition in Germany and returning to China, it mainly starred Liao Fan + Gui Lunmei, and was blessed by the Berlin Golden Bear Award.Draw a clear line between the film and the "literary film" and announce it as a crime genre film.

It wasn't until the box office exceeded [-] million yuan that the film changed its name to a literary film.

Therefore, from the beginning of neon to returning to China, Lu Heng has been talking to Han Ping about this matter. Whether he is a literary film or a commercial film, first of all it is called a feature film. Is it a documentary? Just call it a director documentary..."

Hearing Lu Heng's complaints, Han Ping couldn't help laughing at the time, and said: "Okay, I know, I will pay attention to it later, write and publish it in a special magazine, how about you sign it?"

Lu Heng waved his hand: "If you post it, everyone won't say anything. If I post it... I guess I won't have to hang around in this circle in the future."

Han Ping, who was deeply impressed by this, nodded and said, "That's true, then let me do it."

Before the Chinese New Year, Lu Heng gave his employees a holiday, and everyone was given a generous year-end bonus—although Lu Heng discussed many businesses, they were still in charge of the follow-up, finishing, and artists under his banner, not to mention finances.

"The three companies hold the dinner together, but none of us three bosses can come. Sister Ma Xia is in charge of your meals and drinks."

Not only did Lu Heng and the three of them participate in the last rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala, the original eldest sister, Da Xihua, now her son has not been out for a hundred days, and rarely comes to the company.

"Leave it to me, don't worry." Ma Xia waved her hand.

Her husband Jing Gangshan also participated in the Spring Festival Gala, and played his famous song "Only You in My Eyes" on the oboe during the minority song and dance music segment.

In fact, his song was originally composed as a commercial song for a contact lens, but it was useless. After Zong Qinghou signed Jinggangshan to endorse their Wahaha mineral water, the song followed it on CCTV and became popular all over the world. In the north and south of the river, even children would sing a sentence at that time: "I said I only have you in my eyes, and you are the only one I can't forget~"

Li Jian and Lu Gengxu are not qualified to go to the Spring Festival Gala now, but Lu Heng has brought them to meet Director Lang, and they will sing "I Have You in My Life" at the Lantern Festival Gala.

It is worth mentioning that the sales of their album have exceeded 30.

This year's Spring Festival Gala, because of Lu Heng, the TV station in Lingshan County has been very proud to report it, and even Xinyi TV station and newspapers have followed suit, so the villagers in the area have long been looking forward to it.

Not to mention Lao Lu, the house has three floors inside and three floors outside.

The opening song and dance was led by Zhang Ziyi. With her role in Lao Mouzi's "My Father and Mother", now she can only be said to be famous in the circle, but she is still a strange beauty to the outside world.

This year, she was wearing red lantern trousers and a rose red apron, singing and dancing on stage with unsteady breathing.

There was joy on the stage and thunderous applause off the stage.

In the past two years, the Spring Festival Gala has changed from a small studio to a spacious venue. Not only the scale, but also the stage design is closer to ten years later. Although the pixels of the large LED screen in the background are not too high, it has become fashionable. .

And this year has the most hosts in history, not only the veteran Zhao Zhongxiang and Ni Ping, but also the new generation Zhou Tao, Zhu Jun and Xiao Cui, there are folk artists such as Niu Qun, Feng Mercury and Jiang Kun, as well as Qian Wei and Wen Zhaolun These emerging stars, as well as Wen Xingyu, an old artist, also made guest appearances on stage, and there were twenty of them.

Because of the 50th anniversary, the twin sisters in the military parade also came to the Spring Festival Gala and sang the song "Sisters in the Army", which has been popular for a while.

The valiant and heroic posture brought a different kind of excitement to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

"This year, we have a movie that hit the neon, creating a box office of more than 20 billion yen."

"This year, we have an album that is popular across the Taiwan Strait and in three places."

"These two things are related to one person, and he is Lu Heng, please!"

Wearing a Chinese tunic suit, Lu Heng was the first to appear because there was still a short interview with him.

Under Ni Ping's guidance, Lu Heng faced the camera and paid his respects to audiences all over the country. After a year, Zhao Zhongxiang announced his show:
"Next, I would like to invite Lu Heng and Zhang Yan to bring you the song "Wanjiang" written by Lu Heng to bless our motherland."

"Welcome everyone." Ni Ping followed.

Amid the applause, Lu Heng turned to look to the side of the stage, and Zhang Yan, who was dressed in a cheongsam, walked gracefully.

Originally, she wanted to wear an evening gown, but Lu Heng slapped her on the round part: "It would be nice to wear a cheongsam with your figure, at least it is also our national costume."

Although the cheongsam originated from that dynasty, it has been improved a long time ago, and the main feature is the front and back curls.

"I think you want to see it?" Zhang Yan mercilessly exposed it at that time.

Although she said so, she still put on the cheongsam Lu Heng bought for her.

"The red sun rises in the east, its avenue is full of rays;

How lucky I was to be born in your arms,

Inherited blood flows~”

……

As soon as Zhang Yan's clear voice came out, the audience was moved by the melody and lyrics, and when Lu Hengwenchun's voice sang the second part, the audience liked it even more.

"Write the sky, only write a corner of the sun and the moon are long,

Draw the earth, only draw a corner of the mountain and the river without any harm~”

……

When it came to the second part of the chorus, the two held hands together, pushing the atmosphere to a warm one.

After a song, there was warm applause from the audience.

But in Lu Heng's family, not to mention Lu Heng's parents, everyone around them has a kind of pride, at least... We have seen this kid on TV running naked.

After someone said it, the whole room roared with laughter, and Zhao Huifang said angrily: "Don't let him hear it, otherwise he will definitely be so angry that he wants to hit someone."

Everyone is happy again.

Lu Heng's song is relatively early, around nine o'clock.

After singing, they asked: "Didn't you say there is another song?"

"Yes, that song was sung with Lin Yilun and the others, and it was also written by Lu Heng. It was about eleven o'clock. He seemed to be talking about this time." Old Lu said.

At this moment, Lu Xue and his family were also happily watching the Spring Festival Gala. Seeing Lu Heng coming out, Xiao Qiuyue clapped her hands excitedly: "Mom, mom, my uncle!"

"I heard it, please speak carefully, and you will stutter if you say that again." Lu Xue couldn't laugh or cry.

Not long after Lu Heng's song, it was Lao Zhao's "Hourly Worker".

This year, Zhao Lirong and Chen Peisi were absent from the stage, officially beginning the era of Zhao Benshan.

"You think I don't know you if you take off your vest" This funny golden sentence that is about to become popular also comes from "Hourly Worker".

In order to keep the father played by Zhao Benshan from being too bored at home, his son hired Song Dandan as a part-time worker, and a series of funny stories happened.

In the skit, Song Dandan told Zhao Benshan a cold joke about "putting an elephant in the refrigerator and taking a few steps in total". As a result, this meme will last for a long time in the next 20 years.

It's just that when the straight man Zhao made Aojiao Song Dandan angry, in order to coax her, Zhao Benshan began to get close:

"Do you smoke?"

"will not."

"Where's the water?"

"Bring yourself."

"Eat fruit?"

"nausea."

Huo Jianqi, who was originally leaning on the sofa as if Ge You was paralyzed, suddenly got up and scratched his head: "Why do these words sound familiar?"

Su Xiaowei next to him said angrily, "I don't know if your ears are familiar, but you suddenly jumped up like a grasshopper, which frightened me!"

Just as Huo Jianqi was about to say something, a sudden flash of light flashed in his head: "What the hell is Lu Heng!"

As he said that, he pointed to Su Xiaowei who was a little confused: "He was sitting with you at that time, and I asked him to answer, and that's all he said!"

"Really?" Su Xiaowei asked in surprise, "What about me?"

"You?" Huo Jianqi scratched his head again: "I really can't remember."

Su Xiaowei was so angry that he wanted to hit someone: "Why don't you go live with Lu Heng!"

"If I were a woman, maybe I would really post back." Huo Jian laughed.

"Go, go, go now, I'll help you pack up." Su Xiaowei said

And around eleven o'clock, Lu Heng and Zhou Xiaoou started singing their song "Running". Starting from "Speed ​​Seventy", they brought the audience inside and outside the TV to cheer together. They sang happily, and the audience also enjoyed listening to it .

As for Lu Xue's family, just halfway through hearing it, the sound of crackling firecrackers outside started.

"What time is it? It's so noisy!" Lu Xue said angrily.

Zhao Zheng beside him also frowned, glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and said speechlessly, "It's just after eleven o'clock."

It is a tradition in my hometown that firecrackers will be lit until twelve o'clock to continue the New Year.

Wherever the God of Wealth is on the first day of the first lunar month, the bamboo pole with firecrackers will be propped to that side, implying receiving wealth.

However, there are always people who like to go ahead of time, just like burning the first stick of incense, thinking that if he fires the cannon first, he can grab more fortune, so people often start to fire before twelve o'clock, or even eleven o'clock.

When Lu Heng was celebrating the New Year in his hometown, he was very annoyed that they set off the cannons in advance, because Lao Zhao and his sketches were often after eleven o'clock.

So at that time, Lu Heng was thinking, if those gods could even take care of this, how busy would he be all day long?

Just like Jim Carrey's "The Fake God", when he became a god, the prayers of the whole world echoed in his ears, and he couldn't hear anything clearly because of the buzzing, so he didn't have the energy to give you a hammer!

Lu Heng and the others couldn't hear it this year. After the Spring Festival Gala ended, Lu Heng said goodbye to some friends and leaders on the TV station, and Lin Yilun and the others drove them to the airport.

In the early morning of the new year, there were few people flying, so it was no surprise that Lu Heng was recognized by the stewardesses and stewardesses, and then Lu Heng took a New Year gift bag on the plane, not to mention dumplings.

Except for the bad taste, everything else is pretty good, even afraid that he would be bored, two stewardesses asked him to fight the landlord.

It was already morning when I got off the plane, and I took a taxi at the airport. Lu Heng didn't return home until the sun was high.

On the first day of the first lunar month, every family pays homage to the new year.

In previous years, Lu Heng always followed Lao Lu, but this year not only Lu Heng himself was unwilling to go, but Lao Lu also asked him to stay at home.

In the words of Lao Lu: "Wherever we go, everyone is watching around, like watching monkeys, it's so annoying!"

Not only that, but Lu Heng shrank in the back room. Whenever someone asked, "Where is your Lu Heng?", Zhao Huifang said, "Going out to pay New Year's greetings."

Lu Heng quietly read books at home for two days, and made a few phone calls with some confidantes.

The reason why he went back to his hometown was simply to get together with his relatives, other things...he didn't want to bother so much now.

Even if you come back three or four times a year, how many times can you accompany your parents?

On the third day of junior high school, Lu Xue's family came here with big and small bags.

To Lu Heng's surprise, he saw a box of three-plant oral liquid and a box of Sun God.

Nima!

Lu Heng swears in his heart, not to Lu Xue, of course, but to the merchant!

In this day and age, she can buy these as gifts, and every gift is a box. If no one came to her to fool her, how could she buy so many?

It is estimated that only those who have experienced this time will know the popularity of these things.

"Aren't these things cheap?" Lu Heng said calmly.

"That's right. You get what you pay for. Everyone has said that you don't need money if the effect is not good." Lu Xue said with a proud face.

Lu Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, this psychological tactic was so smooth, he couldn't help but said:

"This is similar to the virtues of court jade liquid wine. It dares to sell for 100 yuan at a cost of one yuan, and it is advertised as a miracle that can cure all diseases. The key is that many fools believe it."

"Hey——Lu Xue, I didn't mention you, a gentleman uses his mouth but doesn't move!"

Lu Heng was a little helpless, but they bought everything, Lu Heng could only be slapped by Lu Xue, and was counterattacked by magic: "If I am a fool, you are a fool brother!"

Xiao Qiuyue couldn't stand it anymore: "Mom, you hit someone again!"

"I hit my brother, not a human being."

"Then your brother is not a human being, what about you—ouch!"

Although Xiao Qiuyue was slapped, Lu Xue also got Zhang Huifang's slap in the blink of an eye: "You can slap Qiuyue?"

Lu Heng snickered in his heart. In this family, the big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat dried shrimps... It's a pity that I am the bottom mud.

……

The time of Chinese New Year is short, Lu Heng felt that he didn't do anything, and he didn't talk much to his parents and sisters. Three days passed in a blink of an eye.

On the morning of the fourth day, Lu Heng took a taxi to the airport again, and then flew back to the capital.His EP hasn't finished recording yet, and Zhu Bajie's later stage was finished years ago, so he has to check it out. If there is no problem, he can find a TV station to sell it.

　Thanks to Moonlight Kuangshi 12, I want to wake up and palm the world, and the reward from the demon monk and beautiful boy. Thank you for your support. After paying off the debt, continue to ask for a monthly ticket. Can you get [-]?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)