The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 504: My Uncle is a Eunuch

“Isn’t this color too bright?”

"No, I think it suits you very well."

"Really?" Lu Jia looked at herself in the mirror. She had fair skin and two red lips like cherries.

After Liu Shishi applied the lipstick, she pursed her lips, made a "poof" sound, nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "The bean paste color is the most whitening and suitable for winter. You look very gentle after applying it."

After hearing this, Lu Jia held her face with both hands, her brows lit with joy.

As a mother of two children, she now has an increasingly bad temper. Her naughty younger brother tricks her silly son into calling her a tigress all day long.

It has been a long time since anyone has used the word "gentle" to describe her.

Seeing that she was still conceited, Liu Shishi turned around helplessly and urged: "Sister, hurry up, the movie will start soon, I'll go check on the two little ones first."

"it is good."

Liu Shishi took out her cell phone and sent a message to her boyfriend.

This afternoon, she finished filming her scenes for the TV series Search and returned to the community after leaving the airport. She had originally planned to put her luggage away and go directly to the premiere of Dragon Gate, but Lu Jia also had three tickets, so they made an appointment to go together.

In the living room, Zhou Qi stood in front of the coffee table, staring blankly at the cartoon on the TV screen, holding an apple in his two little hands and munching on it.

There are several high braids on her head.

Zhou Yaoyao sat on the sofa, with several headbands around her wrists, carefully braiding her brother's hair.

Seeing her aunt and sister coming out, she grinned and moved her little butt to make room.

When Liu Shishi sat down, she wrinkled her nose again and said cutely: "Aunt sister, you smell so good, and..."

"With what?" Liu Shishi grabbed Zhou Qi's braid.

"It smells exactly like my uncle."

Of course, your uncle smells like me. Liu Shishi smiled sweetly: "I'll spray some perfume on you, too, okay?"

"No." Zhou Yaoyao refused and hid in the corner.

"why?"

"My uncle said that only old women would spray perfume on their bodies. I'm still young, so I don't need to smell good."

She raised her little head, proudly rolled up her sleeves, revealing her white and tender arms: "Aunt sister, smell it."

Old, old woman.
Liu Shishi silently took note of it in her heart, pretended to take out perfume from her bag, and threatened: "It smells better after spraying it. Come, I'll spray some for you."

"Ah, no, my uncle said that perfume is poisonous and children will get acne if they spray it." Zhou Yaoyao slid off the sofa and ran away.

"Your uncle lied to you."

"Aunt sister, you can scold my brother, he is not afraid." Zhou Yaoyao begged for mercy.

At this time, Zhou Qi was still concentrating on biting the apple, with his cheeks making gurgling sounds.

"No, I'm going to spray you."

"Bang." It was the sound of a trash can being knocked over.

Two pairs of eyes, one big and one small, looked at each other and blinked.

"What's going on?" Lu Jia's voice came from the bedroom, followed by the sound of footsteps approaching.

"Yaoyao, is it you, making trouble again?!"

Zhou Yaoyao's eyes rolled around, and she calmly moved the trash can towards her brother.

Zhou Qi was unaware of this and was still biting the apple intently.

"Mom, it's not me, it's my brother. My brother is naughty. He ate the apple without looking at the road."

Zhou Qi then realized what had happened. With a puffy little mouth, he looked at the overturned trash can on the floor, then raised his eyes and looked at his sister with a dull expression.

He shook his head innocently, saying that it was not him and he felt wronged.

"Hmm?" Zhou Yaoyao clenched her fists and gestured a few times viciously.

Zhou Qi pouted instantly, looked at his aunt and sister aggrievedly, and his eyes became moist.

Liu Shishi: "."

Thanks to Lu Jia's keen observation, well, actually it was Liu Shishi's eye signal that Zhou Yaoyao was finally taught a lesson.

So after going downstairs, he climbed straight into Liu Shishi's sports car with his short legs without saying a word.

"Mom is annoying. I'm going to sleep with my uncle tonight."

Liu Shishi raised her eyebrows. "You unlucky child, you sleep with your uncle, but who should I sleep with? How can you be so tactless?"

Lu Jia and three other people walked into the Wanda Cinema with their backs bent, each wearing a pair of 3D glasses, and sat down in their seats.

Someone beside me was discussing in low voices.

"Brother, where are you from?"

"Heilongjiang."

"My fellow countryman, me too. No wonder your accent sounds so familiar. Didn't you bring your girlfriend with you?"

"No, it's just me."

"I was attracted by Mr. Rain in the trailer."

"Me too."

Zhou Qi ate popcorn, pricked up her ears and listened for a while, then asked curiously: "Mom, what does grandpa mean?"

"Eunuch is a eunuch." Lu Jia replied.

"Mom, grandpa is a eunuch?" Zhou Yaoyao tilted her head.

"Uh..." Lu Jia felt his hands were a little itchy.

"Yaoyao, the eunuch is different from your mother's father-in-law. They need to be distinguished." Liu Shishi explained with a smile.

"Aunt sister, what is a eunuch?" Zhou Qi asked questions one after another like a curious baby.

"This." Miss Liu felt a headache, so she looked at Lu Jia, and Lu Jia pointed the back of his head at her.

Liu Shishi gritted her teeth and gave a rough explanation: "If a boy and a girl have been together for a long time and still can't have a baby, they are eunuchs."

Zhou Qi nodded, probably not understanding either.

Zhou Yaoyao pondered for a few seconds, her eyes lit up, and she replied in a fierce voice: "Uncle and aunt have been together for so long but they don't have a baby. I know, uncle is a eunuch."

"Hey." Lu Jia covered her mouth and lifted her ears at the same time: "If your uncle hears you later, he will punish you severely."

Zhou Qi didn't quite understand what was said, but when he saw his sister being beaten, he grinned and took off his shoes and stood on a chair, "Uncle."

"Sit in the front row."

Liu Shishi stretched her head to look for a while before noticing a familiar figure. She raised her hand and pointed: "Over there."

So Zhou Yaoyao and Zhou Qi looked eagerly in that direction.

"There are so many people." Lu Jia exclaimed sincerely.

"After all, it is the first 3D martial arts movie in China." Liu Shishi looked around.

The seats were almost full, and it was packed with people, many of whom were couples. Among them were many acquaintances in the industry, and some were holding their phones and occasionally looking down to take notes. They were probably film critics.

Soon, the lights dimmed, the screen lit up, the noisy cinema became quiet, and the audience put on 3D glasses one after another.

The film begins with a brown landscape painting with white smoke rising from the painting, accompanied by opening music. However, when this background music comes out, it feels like the Monkey King is making a cameo appearance.

Then, the white smoke turned into clouds, and the camera moved downward, parting the clouds to reveal a vast ocean with rippling water.

Near the shore stands an imposing shipyard, and the audience's perspective follows the camera flying over it.

"Wow." Suppressed exclamations were heard from time to time in the theater.

"Stimulate!"

Wan Yulou, the supervisor of the East Depot, played by the Evil Swordsman Liu Jiahui, came to the Longjiang Naval Shipyard, ostensibly to supervise, but in fact to arrest the officials who opposed him and execute them on the spot.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Huaian, played by Jet Li, suddenly appeared.

Several thick logs broke through the cabin and rushed straight out of the camera.

"Hiss!" Many viewers closed their eyes in fear, and some even took off their glasses.

Liu Shishi also took off her glasses, not because she was afraid, but because she found herself not quite used to it and felt a little dizzy.

When I took off my 3D glasses to watch "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate", the characters on the screen looked like a pile of yellow paste-like stuff, which was horrible to look at, as if they had severe astigmatism.

She glanced to her side and saw Zhou Yaoyao lying on a chair, motionless. She didn't know whether she was asleep or just engrossed in watching.

Zhou Qi was amused. He stretched his neck, tilted his head forward, and clenched his fists.

Liu Shishi was still considering whether to wear glasses when she suddenly heard the little ones calling her "uncle" in unison.

At the same time, in the cinema, the audience began to discuss in low voices, and there was a buzz of voices.

"Yu Huatian is finally out. Jet Li's kung fu is good to look at, but he is old after all and not as good as before."

“This look is so handsome to me.”

"I admit he is a little more handsome than me."

"Yu Huatian's appearance is completely different from the stereotyped eunuch image in my mind."

Seeing this, Liu Shishi hurriedly put on her glasses again, and it was the domineering and charming eunuch Yu Huatian from the West Factory who made a brilliant appearance.

Outside Dajue Temple, a group of people walked towards the main hall in a menacing manner. The person in the lead was Lu Yuan, who was dressed in a royal blue suit, had a fair face and no beard, and had handsome features. He walked with great vigor.

Lu Yuan walked into the temple and mocked everyone in the East Factory in a very sarcastic way. His words and actions were just like pointing at their noses and calling them useless and worse than pigs and dogs.

The deputy governor of the Eastern Depot could no longer bear it, and attacked the other party with the teacup.

Lu Yuan's expression remained unchanged as the teacup flew in front of him and suddenly exploded.

"You ask me what the West Factory is?"

The camera moves downward. He is wearing black boots with gold threads. He pushes hard with his toes, causing the floor to break. He then kicks slightly, causing the debris on the ground to fly quickly, passing over the head of the deputy governor of the Eastern Depot and cutting off a corner of the wooden carved screen behind him.

"I'll tell you now." "The cases that the East Factory can't solve will be solved by my West Factory."

"And listen carefully." He swung his cloak, stood up and walked out. Suddenly he stopped, grabbed the outermost chair, and the row of chairs broke into pieces with a crackling sound.

"I will kill those whom the East Factory dare not kill, and I will manage those whom the East Factory dare not manage."

Lu Yuan walked out of the hall and slowly stopped in front of the steps. The sky was dark yellow in autumn, with dead trees on both sides and a few fallen leaves floating down, full of solemnity.

"In a word, I will manage what the East Factory can manage, and I will manage what the East Factory cannot manage even more! Execute first and report later, with the imperial power's special permission, this is the West Factory!"

The intonation of this line, coupled with his indifferent look, was truly domineering.

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"Fuck, this is so handsome, even more handsome than in the trailer."

"No, his performance just now showed that his fighting power was off the charts. How could Zhao Huaian's group of protagonists defeat him in the end?"

"I guess it's a plot kill?"

"If Xu Ke dares to use a stupid plot to get Lu Yuan offline, I will go to Douban and give a bad review!!" said a girl.

In the front row, Wang Jing heard the noise, nudged Xu Laoguai with his elbow, and asked, "The scene in the hall was filmed many times, right?"

"One pass." Xu Ke looked straight ahead.

"real or fake?"

"I don't have to lie to you."

Wong Jing licked his lips. He had made many bad movies and was known as the King of Bad Movies in Hong Kong.

But most of them are to cater to the market and the audience's tastes, and it doesn't mean that his abilities are really bad.

When filming "God of Gamblers 2", Qiu Shuzhen wore a red windbreaker and bit a playing card with her cherry mouth. She looked sexy, charming and heroic. I don't know how many men's hearts she captivated.

In The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Zhao Min turned around and smiled, saying to Zhang Wuji: "If you want to save the six major sects, come to Dadu to find me."

All are classics.

He believes that the scene where Yu Huatian appears can be ranked alongside this one.

Wang Jing couldn't help but cast his gaze towards Lu Yuan on the other side. This man was too powerful. If he continued like this, most of the male actors in Hong Kong would have to live in his shadow in the future.

The movie continues, and as the plot unfolds, other characters appear one after another.

Ling Yanqiu played by Zhou Xun, Gu Shaotang played by Li Yuchun, and the foreign female Buludu played by Gui Lunmei.
Zhang Xiaobei is a famous film critic, and his task today is to point out mistakes.

That’s right, he took money from Zhang Weiping. Not only that, he also took money from Yu Dong. After watching “Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate”, he had to go on to watch “The Flowers of War”.

When the project of "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" was first launched, he was not optimistic about it.

For mainland audiences, the level of storytelling is considered the main criterion for evaluating film quality.

There is something magical and supernatural about Xu Yong's actions. There are not so many conventional characters in his movies.

The plot rarely focuses on a single goal, and closed causal loops are often broken by his sudden whims, which are sometimes illogical and sometimes even mess up time and space.

In short, in his films, special effects and spectacles come first, using stories to serve the gameplay.

Therefore, the shortcomings of this film remain the same as always, the plot has flaws and the story line is very scattered.

Let’s put aside the plot and just talk about the actors.

Jet Li's fighting scenes are as good as ever, but his overall spirit and energy have deteriorated a lot, and the Kung Fu Emperor is getting old.

Zhou Xun is not suitable for such a role. Ling Yanqiu is like a stagnant pool of water. Her feelings and love for Zhao Huaian are somewhat inexplicable. She lacks the free and easy spirit of a gangster. Compared with Maggie Cheung, she is far from it.

Needless to say, Li Yuchun loses his temper as soon as he sees the other person.

He despised Xu Laoguai's surrender to the fan economy.

These main characters are not even as good as Sheng Jian, who plays the second-in-command of the Western Factory. His aggrieved look made many audiences in the cinema laugh.

Of course, except for Yu Huatian played by Lu Yuan.

When he first appeared, he had a devilish appearance, arrogant eyes, nimble movements, and a contemptuous tone, revealing a slightly sinister and vicious aura.

His kung fu is unfathomable, and he is so arrogant and powerful that it makes people feel sick just by looking at him. He displays his arrogance and domineering nature to the fullest.

Then, Zhao Huaian went to the boat to attack him. Yu Huatian was standing on the mast in a white robe and a black cloak. He could be described as a handsome man with long eyebrows and slightly raised eyes. He looked arrogant but graceful.

Lu Yuan's Yu Huatian portrayed the feminine yet ruthless character of an official from the Western Factory.

When the camera turns to the desert, another character played by Lu Yuan, Feng Lidao, is a timid young man who is opportunistic and cautious, like a street thug.

The two characters have completely different personalities, but he portrayed them both vividly.

Zhang Xiaobei believes that "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate" may have only two highlights: 3D action and Lu Yuan's Yu Huatian.

The rest is not worth mentioning.

Not far in front of Zhang Xiaobei, Liu Shishi was also staring at the big screen intently, thinking that the dog's ascetic look was really tempting.

The plot of the movie goes to Dragon Gate Inn.

Gu Shaotang, played by Li Yuchun, slapped Feng Lidao in the face, and then Feng Lidao was slapped in the face by Du Lunmei, causing laughter at the scene.

Lu Yuan's astonishment, confusion, and grievance were really acted too vividly.

"I remember there was news on Weibo at the time that Lu Yuan scolded Li Yuchun on the set in order to shoot this scene."

"That's called driving the opponent's emotions."

Liu Shishi suddenly felt someone pulling her sleeves, and turned her head, only to see Zhou Qi frowning and said unhappily: "Aunt sister, my uncle was beaten, why are they laughing?"

"Your uncle is an actor. This is a play. It's fake."

"Can you hit someone during filming?"

"Yeah." Liu Shishi didn't have time to respond. She rubbed his head and answered casually.

Zhou Qi muttered quietly: "Then I want to be an actor like my uncle in the future."

Liu Shishi paid a little attention, and then heard him say cautiously: "I also want to take pictures with my sister."

"why?"

"She always bullies me. I want to beat her up."

Liu Shishi: "."

Zhou Yaoyao sat up straight from the chair, with her little face drooping, and grabbed his ear and pulled him up.

Zhou Qi was so frightened that his eyes widened and he forgot to cry out in pain. He fell into his aunt and sister's arms like a quail, scared.

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In the end, there was a huge battle in the underground palace, and Yu Huatian, who was the strongest man in the world, was killed.

The sky was filled with yellow sand. Ling Yanqiu was seriously injured, but he rode away on his horse. After Zhao Huaian woke up, he followed the horse's hoof prints and chased after him.

The screen dimmed and the lights came on.

The seated audience was illuminated by the light, as if they had just been pulled away from the ending. They took off their glasses quietly, accompanied by scattered applause and whispers about the final outcome.

"How come Jet Li and Zhou Xun were still alive and kicking on horses even though they were stabbed so many times?"

"Perhaps it's because of their internal strength that they can repair their injuries."

"Why did my beautiful Western Factory commander-in-chief go offline so tragically?"

"What else can we do? Good will prevail over evil. The villains win, so they don't want to go through the trial."

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After a while, the main creators came on stage one by one.

"Jet Li!"

"Rain in the field!!!"

"Zhou Xun!"

"Brother Chun!"

The audience was enthusiastic.

"Clap clap clap!"

Lu Yuan noticed that someone beside him had a forced smile. He probably heard everyone's discussions during the movie.

This was the first time he saw the finished film of "Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate". The 3D fighting action was very cool, but the plot was really not worth mentioning.

At the same time, his judgment was correct. Yu Huatian is a villain character that is very easy to shine. Judging from the feedback just now, he has overshadowed Jet Li and Zhou Xun.

"What do you think?" Xu Ke asked with a smile.

"It's great." The audience cheered.

"Then please go back and spread the word."

"it is good."

"If anyone has any questions, please raise your hand." The host held the microphone.

"Can we make a separate prequel with Yu Huatian as the protagonist?" an audience member shouted, and received a lot of approval.

Xu Ke said: "We will consider it later."

Zhang Xiaobei asked: "Why did Zhao Huaian invite Yu Huatian to fight in Tornado? Is it because he felt that he was not strong enough and had to rely on the right time and place?"

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Li Lianjie said, "Zhao Huaian knows that Yu Huatian's martial arts are too strong and he is not sure of defeating him. He wants to lure Yu Huatian away from Ling Yanqiu and his group and die with him."

Someone asked Xu Ke: "Do we have to stick to the tradition of Chinese movies that villains must die? Can't we innovate? Have you seen any foreign blockbusters where the protagonists are so powerful that they can easily kill the villains? Isn't the ending too hasty?"

"It's not easy anymore. Zhao Huaian has already shown his determination to die together! In Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Guo Jing, a child who didn't know martial arts, actually raised his hand to kill Chen Xuanfeng, who was more powerful than Mei Chaofeng. Even martial arts masters can lose focus sometimes. Let him die if he deserves to die."

"Ling Yanqiu searched for Zhao Huaian for three years, why did he leave alone after escaping danger?"

"This is what it means to be able to let go. Ling Yanqiu is a woman who is too obsessed with love. She spent three years looking for Zhao Huaian, and she really found him, and she also really found herself."

(End of this chapter)