ghost on paper

Chapter 529: Creating an Era (Earth)

11 month 10 day.

The world premiere of "The Fantasy Adventures of Young Chumen" was held at the Hollywood Theater.

The mainland also held premieres at the same time, but one was during the day and the other was at night. Hollywood has Disney's appeal, and the premiere was star-studded. The mainland was also star-studded, but There is a world of difference in terms of quality, with a group of charming unknown actors becoming the protagonists.

Of course, although the protagonists are those little stars, it is the men behind them that really attract attention. The media calls it the "Annual Conference of Coal Bosses."

As a producer and director, Chen Ye participated in the entire event, drinking and chatting with the coal bosses, which seemed like a celebration in advance.

A large number of media were invited to attend the premiere. Before watching the movie, they put on 3D glasses that they had never seen before. It was their first time watching a movie of this subject and form, although they were not too interested in coal bosses. , but for Ang Lee and the 40 billion filming cost, they still have to show corresponding respect.

And this movie did not live up to their respect. After the preface, the movie followed Weng Feiran into the peach blossom garden. It was not only the screen that said "It was extremely narrow at first, but then it opened up. After dozens of steps, it suddenly became enlightened." A strong feeling of being out of the screen appeared in front of my eyes, and the mountain gap that suddenly opened up from narrow to wide appeared in front of my eyes as if it was about to jump out of the screen.

At this moment, uncontrollable exclamations erupted from everyone's throats. Some reporters with keen sense of smell in the industry have realized that a new era of movies is just around the corner.

Immediately afterwards, various incredible and bizarre scenes in the Peach Blossom Spring in the movie, and enchanting monsters or spirits of different shapes were displayed in front of the audience one by one. Compared with "Pi" with the same theme but destined not to be released, "Pi" "Youth CHUMEN" draws heavily on novel scenes from traditional Chinese culture, including "The Peach Blossom Spring", "Flowers in the Mirror", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and other mythical novels. It is obviously very familiar to Chinese audiences.

And if you discard the cultural core behind a large number of scenes, the whole movie also has another interpretation. The large number of biological forms that are different from humans can be interpreted as personality differences and cultural gaps caused by the current social form, and can also be interpreted as modern urban people. In terms of inner search for answers when faced with the pressure of survival, this movie is more like an urban fable, full of metaphors.

But it doesn’t matter if you don’t want to understand it. As long as you see those beautiful and special scenery composed of a large number of special effects, as if they are not in the world, it is worth the money.

"Shocked" was the only common feeling shared by all viewers after the 150-minute movie ended, especially those coal bosses. At the end of the movie, they saw that among the row of "co-producers", there were indeed their own names. Some even shed tears on the spot.

What an honor it is that they actually worked together to produce such a groundbreaking and ahead-of-the-era film~
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Chen Ye took Zeng Yi to the premiere.

Almost two years later, the "ban" on Zeng Yi has become weaker and weaker. In the history of mainland film, Zeng Yi is not the first person to be banned for starring in a suspected pornographic film, but he is the first person to have such an impact. After winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress and the Asian Film Award for Best Actress for "Suspect It feels a bit inappropriate to "block" her anymore.

The invisible shackles are slowly being released from Zeng Yi. The premiere of "Youth CHUMEN" was also Zeng Yi's first public appearance in mainland China. Among the many starlets, she is considered to be the most stylish, and she especially attracted the attention of media reporters.

A reporter asked about the relationship between Zeng Yi and Chen Ye. After all, their relationship is too close. Zeng Yi has always had the shadow of Chen Ye behind him. It’s just that Chen Ye was such a prodigal in love that he had a flash marriage with Zhang Xingyun. After leaving the scandal, now he appears with Zeng Yi arm in arm with great fanfare, which really makes people curious.

Zeng Yi just smiled and said nothing.

Chen Ye said that they were "iron buddies".

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Before the release of James Cameron's new film, which was officially titled "Avatar", "CHUMEN" can be said to be leading the world film industry, with unprecedented shooting techniques, shocking audio-visual viewing experience, and magnificent and fantastic visuals. The presentation is full of profound ideological expressions, which is completely in line with everyone's most unrealistic fantasy imagination of a new film technology.

Although many theaters do not have the basic hardware for IMAX 3D movies, "Young CHUMEN" still made a super high box office revenue of 10 million US dollars at home and abroad from the 15th to the 2th, of which the mainland box office exceeded 1 million, which is So far, the fastest mainland movie to break through the 1 million yuan mark has surpassed "Titanic", which previously held this record.

Shocked the world.

On the 15th, "Avatar" will also be officially released.

Audiences who have already watched "CHUMEN" can't wait to watch the famous director Cameron's IMAX3D masterpiece again, and once again indulge in the shock that the extraordinary film industry has brought to mankind.

Compared with "Young CHUMEN", "Avatar" uses new technologies at the same level, and the story is simpler and easier to understand. This "simpleness" may be "shallow" to some film critics, but for everyone around the world For the audience, it seems more acceptable.

This is the difference between the two directors. From a business perspective, there is no doubt that James Cameron is more mature. Cameron knows very well that if a movie wants to be popular around the world, it must use the simplest core and tell the most classic story. The story of "Avatar" is like this.

For the audience, they are happy. In just one week, they have experienced two pinnacle works of filmmaking in the next 30 years. They may think that this is just the beginning of a gorgeous era, but they did not expect that it is already the end. It will take nearly 30 years until MiniLED technology, known as "true naked-eye 3D", matures to experience a more shocking audio-visual experience.

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For Chen Ye, countless praise articles in newspapers have increased the amount of "recognition" he received. After the movie was released, Ang Lee also gave a huge amount of "recognition", which was even greater than what Dou Daxian gave. Several times more. As expected, Ang Lee is too cautious a director. Until this moment, countless audiences, media, and film critics believe that "Young CHUMEN" is not inferior to "Avatar". The two can jointly create a new era of world cinema. Only after his revolutionary work did he truly recognize Chen Ye.

For Chen Ye, this belated "recognition" is no longer important.

By late December, around Christmas time, a movie that originally had a release cycle of about 12 days should consider being offline in China, but "Young Chumen" and "Avatar" still maintain extremely strong vitality. It was still hard to get tickets for theaters equipped with IMAX 40D equipment. It took Zeng Yi some effort to get two tickets for "Avatar" in the IMAX Hall of the China Film Museum.

The China Film Museum was built in 2005 and officially opened to the public in 07. In 09, it introduced the world's largest IMAX GT screen. It is currently the only cinema in the country with IMAX GT hardware.

When it was first built, the first movie to be played was "Youth CHUMEN" by Ang Lee and Chen Ye, which fascinated all the audience. Countless people immediately grabbed tickets for one show after leaving the cinema. Watch, even four or five times, this movie, whether it's "Young Chumen" or "Avatar", as long as it's from this cinema.

On Christmas Eve, it's especially rare to get tickets like this.Chen Ye and Zeng Yi both wore baseball caps and sunglasses. When they walked into the theater like ordinary people, they saw a crowd of spectators, mostly couples. Before the movie started, they were all laughing and laughing. When he entered his seat, he didn't dare to take off his hat and glasses, which seemed a bit weird. Especially Zeng Yi, who looked graceful under the short winter coat. An artist with Zeng Yi's current status has a matching appearance. The difference that can be seen with the naked eye is the basic condition.

But Zeng Yi didn't care. After sitting down, he took out popcorn from the popcorn bucket held in Chen Ye's hand and ate it.

Chen Ye felt that she had eaten too much, so in order to avoid running out of food, he fought with her.

Zeng Yi slapped him on the hand and told him to just be a show off.

Chen Ye muttered something.

Zeng Yi proudly ate a few popcorns and asked him: "Are you completely divorced from your little star?"

The little star, of course, refers to Zhang Xingyun.

The incident of Chen Ye and Zhang Xingyun's flash marriage and divorce has been constantly mentioned by the media with the popularity of "Youth CHUMEN" and the popularity of the theme song "Let it go". Now we don't say that Chen Ye is a promiscuous person. It is a romantic affair that made a teenager famous. Chen Ye's current status is not that of a star. In the eyes of viewers who don't know the truth, he is already a world-class director. In the eyes of industry insiders, he is a producer who can raise 40 billion yuan to create a cross-generation masterpiece. Filmmaker.

With this kind of achievement, you don’t need to care about scandals and criticism.

Such a halo of public opinion actually took care of Zhang Xingyun. The past between the two was regarded as the hormonal youthful love and willful breakup of a young talented woman, which was quite relished.

"Ha~" Chen Ye smiled, "It's just a joke."

"Let me see your divorce certificate." Zeng Yi said.

"Who would carry something like that with them?" Chen Ye shook his head.

"Ha~" Zeng Yi smiled without knowing the meaning, and then said: "Is this your first time watching "Avatar"?"

"For the first time in my life, it's pretty average." Chen Ye said, "Aside from the groundbreaking technology, the universality of the plot, and the destined high box office, there's nothing extraordinary about it."

At present, the box office of "Avatar" has surpassed that of "Young Chumen", with "Avatar" US$21 billion and "Young Chumen" US$19.8 billion. Therefore, Chen Ye's tone was sour, but to domestic audiences, media, film critics, investors, especially investors For people, this month has been a dreamlike day.

Chen Ye only claimed that the box office of "Young CHUMEN" could exceed 10 billion US dollars, and now it is almost 20 billion US dollars. That means that their investment has increased by more than 400% in two years. What kind of investment efficiency is this? Especially Boss Lu, who was threatened by Chen Ye with a beer bottle. The last time he invited Chen Ye to dinner alone, he insisted on putting a bottle on his head as an apology. Princess Tian who was sitting with him was dumbfounded.

Chen Ye's sour tone made Zeng Yi laugh again.

"I'm going to New York to film after Christmas. Do you have anything to say to me?" Zeng Yi asked Chen Ye.

"If you shoot well, this drama will definitely be popular." Chen Ye said.

This show is called "BJ Meets Seattle", and of course it will be a hit.

"I really doubt whether the script of this play was written by me." Zeng Yi said.

"Although I won't get pregnant, I do look forward to being supported by a rich woman~" Chen Ye sighed with emotion.

The movie started showing.

Two and a half dreamlike hours.

Waiting for the movie to end, the audience was still sitting in their seats and unwilling to leave, reminiscing about the content of the movie. At this moment, a beam of light appeared in the center of the stage. Zeng Yi, who just said he was going to the bathroom, appeared there in a white wedding dress. , she held flowers in her hands with a smile of happiness and pride on her face.

"Hey...Zeng Yi!" The audience in the front row recognized Zeng Yi.

Although Zeng Yi has not returned to mainland China for the time being, her name has been well known to most audiences since "Lust, Caution".

"Is this a movie?" some viewers wondered.

"Can I get an autograph?" Someone was about to make a move.

At this time, a little fat man walked up to Zeng Yi with a microphone. It was Xiao Yueyue. Not many people knew him yet.

"Today, I will preside over Ms. Zeng Yi's proposal ceremony." Xiao Yueyue said, "Today, Ms. Zeng Yi officially proposes to Mr. Chen Ye. She hopes that Mr. Chen Ye will marry... no, marry her."

brush!
A beam of light shone on Chen Ye who was in the audience and was about to slip away.

(End of this chapter)