This star is too fierce

"Jielun's songs are all good, but judging from the few movies he has acted in, his acting skills are not that good. This time I wrote, directed and acted, which feels a bit mysterious."

"Didn't I just invest 1000 million? With Abu and my brother joining us, it shouldn't be difficult to make a return."

In the theater, Hu Jing and Zeng Lai sat next to each other. Seeing that the movie had not started yet, they started chatting quietly.

Hu Jing shook her head and said: "After being baptized by films such as House of Flying Daggers, The Promise, Night Banquet, Golden Armor, Dragon and Tiger Gate, etc., the audience is no longer so easy to fool. As long as the filming doesn’t look good, no one will buy it.”

Zeng Lai pursed his lips and said, "That's true, but Abu has read the script and said it is a story with a score of 8 or above, so you don't have to worry about the plot. You just need to watch the performances of the actor Zhou Jilun and the heroine Gui Lunmei."

At the same time, Gao Yuanyuan was also discussing the movie with Yu Feihong.

The main reason is that Zhou Jialun has taken a big step this time, jumping directly from singer and actor to screenwriter and director. His script writing ability and film shooting ability will be questioned.

And not only them, most voices from the outside world are not optimistic.

Lu Bu participated in a day of filming, and Zhou Jielun had no big problems. He was qualified in terms of camera use, on-site control, and actor training.

The only thing you may need to worry about is that this movie is positioned as a "romance movie."

"Myth" indeed opened the Chinese Valentine's Day schedule and earned more than 2 million at the box office. However, "Myth" is not a pure romance film, but a "modern costume action romance film" with quite complex elements.

Pure romance films have always been relatively sluggish in the mainland market.

Because the plots of most domestic romance films still stick to the old concepts of strong men and weak women, Mary Sues, domineering presidents, good wives and mothers, etc., the plots are conflicting and deviate from real life, making it difficult to convince people.

Coupled with the fact that there are few A-list stars and few big companies controlling the show, there are deficiencies in marketing and exposure.

This also makes the audience reluctant to go to the cinema to watch it.

Suddenly, the lights in the entire theater dimmed, and the movie "The Untold Secret" began to play.

Everyone stopped talking.

At the beginning of the film, a long shot of tens of seconds is used to push the back of the protagonist from high altitude. Ye Xianglun has just arrived at a new school. His classmates are introducing him to the school environment. The campus is lined with trees and flowers...

When the camera pans to an old piano room with mottled brick walls that bear witness to the passage of time, a feeling of nostalgia and vicissitudes of life hits.

There's nothing wrong with the opening section.

The plot progresses slowly.

In the beautiful music one after another, Ye Xianglun, played by Zhou Jialun, and Lu Xiaoyu, played by Gui Lunmei, fell in love.

Zhou Jialun's appearance is sunny and handsome, and his acting skills have become much more natural than in previous films.

Gui Lunmei's appearance is youthful and beautiful. She has acted in several movies before. In many of the movies she starred in, she may not have performed very well, but she never felt like she acted in everything.

In the development part, the actors are okay. Lu Bu's cameo is a small highlight, and Zhang Guorong's supporting role does not dominate the show.

However, everyone here is an actor who has acted in many movies. Seeing this, they have already discovered a problem with the story.

Based on the current plot, the development is nothing more than a romantic encounter between a girl suffering from asthma and a very talented boy, and then after a short love, a misunderstanding occurs because of the third party. When the girl's condition worsens, the two finally misunderstand. After it was lifted and restarted, the girl became seriously ill and died.

Isn't this just the kind of aesthetic romance film that sucks?

conventional……

dull……

boring...

Hu Jing: Jie Lun, you’d better write and sing songs.

Zeng Lai: Did Abu make a mistake?

Gao Yuanyuan: So far there is no plot conflict.

Hu Shu: It happens every day in school.

Yuan Hong: If it weren’t for the good music, I would have fallen asleep.

Tong Yaya: It seems that Zhou Jialun's crossover is not as blockbuster as he was in the music industry.

Liu Shishi: There are too few scenes of the second brother.

Huang Bo: It’s over. I’m afraid the reputation and box office will suffer.

Only Lu Bu and Yu Feihong were relatively calm. They had read the script and knew the direction of the plot.

At this time, after the two baseball players finished talking, Ye Xianglun was the only one from beginning to end. Ye Xianglun's expression changed in vain, recalling some strange things in the past...

The whole story has undergone a breakthrough change, becoming complicated and confusing, and seems to have a supernatural and magical color.

All the plot deductions that Hu Jing and others had just made in their minds were overturned.

Their spirits were shaken, and their eyes were fixed on the big screen.

Finally something interesting.

Is Lu Xiaoyu a ghost?Or is it Ye Xianglun’s fantasy?

It turns out that Lu Xiaoyu and Ye Xianglun are not from the same era. There is a 20-year gap between them!

Lu Xiaoyu was a student of Ye Xianglun's father. When she was in school, one day she suddenly found a sheet of music under the piano in the music classroom called "Secret". It said, "If you play this piano piece quickly, the person who sees it for the first time is "The person you will like in the future", so she started playing according to the music score driven by curiosity. Suddenly, the objects in the classroom moved in various ways. Unknowingly, she came to this classroom 20 years later. For the first time, she Then I saw Ye Xianglun who was attracted by the music...

It is very imaginative to use a mysterious piano music to introduce a love story that spans time and space.

Sudden.

The plot once again experienced a breakthrough change, and words written by correction fluid actually appeared on the desktop.

Lu Xiaoyu: I am Xiaoyu.

Ye Xianglun: Where are you?
Lu Xiaoyu: I love you, do you love me?

Lu Xiaoyu had an asthma attack and fell on the desk, while Ye Xianglun could only point out a heart because the correction fluid was out of water.

The tension increased and the soundtrack changed to a faster-paced tune.

Is Lu Xiaoyu dead?

Can Ye Xianglun discover the secret that piano music can travel through time?

The story comes to an end.

In the old piano room, Ye Xianglun played "Secret" amidst the roar of bulldozers. The blending of the two sounds brought a huge audio-visual contrast. When the last note fell, the sound stopped suddenly, as if time had stopped.

The screen suddenly jumped, and the first thing that appeared was Lu Xiaoyu, who was doing homework at the desk, looking blankly at the back door. The camera switched, and standing at the door was Ye Xianglun, who was covered in dust, with tired eyes and a faint smile.

Ye Xianglun traveled back to 20 years ago and continued their love with Lu Xiaoyu.

The lights in the movie theater came on, and Lu Bu and others got up and left.

"Halfway through the movie, I almost dragged my boyfriend away. The plot was too simple, but luckily I didn't leave. One setting suddenly made the viewing and storytelling more interesting."

"It's all the same. If my boyfriend hadn't been reluctant to pay for the movie tickets, we would have left after watching half of it."

……

"The addition of a time-travel plot sublimates this movie."

"There is no mention of money or sex in the whole story. This alone puts it at a disadvantage compared to [-]% of today's youth romance films."

……

"It's good to watch, but there is a suspicion that Lu Bu's role is too little, less than 10 minutes." "It's a guest appearance, so there must be only a few scenes. The second brother will have more roles. It’s about to steal the spotlight.”

……

Audiences coming out of another theater were walking around in groups of twos and threes and talking.

Judging from their feedback, the evaluation is still good.

There is a high probability of a small explosion, and a small probability of a big explosion.

At this time, among the crowd leaving the cinema, someone suddenly screamed at a high decibel level: "Ah! Second brother!"

What second brother?
Crazy, this man?
Is there something wrong with her?
Everyone was shocked and very unhappy with this move.

but……

In the blink of an eye, one, two, three, "Second Brother" shouts became more and more frequent, one after another.

People who didn't know what was going on followed the sound and when they saw Lu Bu and others, they were surprised and surprised, and immediately joined them.

"Second brother!"

"Come here!"

"Faye Yu!"

Well, the hall of the cinema echoed with various names.

It was certain that they would be recognized. Firstly, there were many of them, secondly they did not disguise themselves, and thirdly they did not choose to avoid them.

"Don't be anxious, don't be crowded, come one by one."

Lu Bu's field control ability is very useful in such situations.

Signing autographs and taking photos were carried out in an orderly manner.

The artists of Mengjiang Studio are all "down-to-earth" and are quite friendly to fans.

Of course, I almost ran away, because I kept being here and people kept coming, and there was no end.

Those who have a car drive themselves, and those who don’t have a car take Liu Liang’s car.

And Lu Bu's car was pulling Yu Feihong, Zeng Jing, Hu Jing, and Gao Yuanyuan.

In the car.

Gao Yuanyuan found a topic and said, "Do you think the box office of this movie can exceed 1 million?"

Hu Jing was the first to speak: "Romance movies are difficult, right?"

Zeng Lai followed: "I have a question that I still can't figure out. Although the romance film market is relatively sluggish in the mainland, it has not affected it from becoming a mainstream film type. But why are there so many romance films and TV dramas made every year and they can't be released? What about the ones that have good reputation and box office? It’s not like we Chinese don’t have love, nor do we understand love, so why on earth is that?”

Yu Feihong is now a producer and is the one who knows the film market best among them. He said: "It's not that we can't make romance films. To be more precise, it's that there is confusion in understanding the core expression of romance films. This confusion stems from Western film and television defined the format of romance films as "the male protagonist saves the female protagonist, and the female protagonist repays the male protagonist." In the early days, Baodao Province, Japan and South Korea directly copied this format template to produce a large number of Ou Haochen-style dog-blood dramas, which directly affected It has passed a generation, including audiences and film and television creators, so judging from today’s film market, whether it is screenwriters or directors, we still cannot clarify what our understanding and expectations of love are.”

Lu Bu nodded in agreement and added: "A truly moving romance film does not need too many bells and whistles, nor does it require some screenwriters, directors, and actors to assume a superior position to educate the public on what love is, and do not easily define love. This is the basis for the success of romance films, because love has thousands of faces."

Gao Yuanyuan, Hu Jing, and Zeng Lai thought for a while, and it seemed like this was the case.

Looking at current domestic romance films from the perspective of their actors, it is very easy to fall into a few fixed routines.

First, the emotions are vague, unpredictable, empty in content, and futile;

Second, he spends money like water, is not grounded, has a broken outlook on life, and is selfish and willful;
Third, men and women are antagonizing each other, hurting each other, illogical, and all kinds of chaotic love;

Fourth, love comes and goes, bullshit doesn’t make sense, breakup doesn’t work, it’s life or death.

Compared with the previous "Furong Town", "Autumn Fairy Tale", "Sweet Honey"...now they are all templates and have nothing new.

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"Is it so beautiful?"

"It's a bit fake. Did you give me money? They are all talking good things."

"Invite the navy?"

As the old saying goes, hearing is false and seeing is believing. Most netizens are skeptical about the quality of this movie, which scored 8.5 on Douban.com and received constant praise from the first batch of viewers, but they have been successfully attracted.

"I'll go see you tonight and prick your skin!"

"Judging from the comments from the first batch of viewers, media people, and film critics, it does not follow the same old routines of domestic love movies. For this reason, it is worth watching."

"Just think of it as taking one of Jie Lun's concert tickets to support his first self-written, directed and starred movie."

After this wave of publicity and hype, a large wave of audiences flocked to the cinema.

In this way, the box office of "The Untold Secret" has been rising. In the first week of its release, the box office was 2000 million in the mainland, 900 million in Hong Kong, 1300 million in Baodao Province, and 800 million in other parts of Asia. The total box office came to 5000 million.

Not only did I get my cost back, I also made a lot of small profits.

Moreover, according to this trend, it is not a problem for the total box office to exceed 1 million.

At this moment, Zhou Jielun was extremely happy.

The double success of word-of-mouth and box office was beyond his imagination.

He also called Lu Bu and Zhang Guorong immediately, just to thank them.

After all, if they hadn't gotten the "friendly price", the 1000 million investment would not have been enough to hire them.

He was not a picky person. In addition to verbal thanks, he also promised to give each of them a song.

In short, I am good, you are good, and so is he.

but……

Zhang Guorong's new film "Detective" is not very good.

Applause but not seat.

Comparing Du Qifeng's other two movies released this year, "Detective" scored 8.5 on Douban, "Wenque" 6.8, and "Butterfly Flying" only failed with a 5.5. However, the low-scoring "Wenque" received a box office of 1756 million, and "Butterfly Flying" It received a box office of 801 million. The high-scoring "Detective" with a box office of 1153 million is undoubtedly a bit miserable.

The movie is based on "The Case of Demonic Policeman Xu Bugao" and tells the story of a policeman who is wandering between a genius and a madman. It embodies the hidden personality that cannot be seen in the human heart into different people, and then uses these same identities to... The quarrels between people with different personalities show the struggle between different personalities in people's hearts, and the methods of solving crimes are also very interesting and creative. Just like the experiential school in the show, the protagonist tracks the suspect, observes the suspect's behavior, and then imitates the suspect. Use it twice or even many times to experience the suspect's inner activities at that time.

Zhang Guorong's performance is impeccable.

This kind of neurotic character is his specialty, such as Peng Yixing in "The King of Guns", Yu Zhongliang in "Feng Yue", and Luo Zhan in "Alien Space", they are all classics among classics.

But it just couldn't sell tickets, even if Lu Bu and others publicized it.

The impact on Zhang Guorong was not great.

Someone is coming.

Times are changing, audiences are changing, and it is normal for box office appeal to decline.

"What a shame for a good movie."

"The theme is probably too dark."

At Hangzhou Huanglong Sports Center, Lu Bu and Zhang Guorong, who had finished their concert, were chatting while heading to the parking lot. (End of chapter)