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Chapter 269 The intense summer season

After Su Zhe finished his college entrance examination and went to many screenings, the students basically went on summer vacation.

This also heralds the arrival of summer vacation.

This is one of the hottest schedules of the year, and it is a battleground for both movies and TV series.

Even sports events such as the Major League Finals, the Olympics, and the World Cup also like to be held at this time.

This shows how fierce the competition is.

As far as movies are concerned, if you don't have confidence in yourself, it's better not to join in the fun and be cannon fodder, and honestly choose an unpopular schedule. Maybe you can get more box office by relying on the lack of competitors.

But the best time for youth films is the summer time. It is impossible for Su Zhe to postpone it to other time slots in order to avoid competition.

But the trouble is that he only started filming "The Secret" in April, and many movie theaters had already scheduled their summer schedules, so he was a temporary stop-in.

Fortunately, the quality of the movies produced by Guangying itself was not high, and they would be cannon fodder in the summer schedule, so they could move the film schedule to "Secret".

Even so, they can only guarantee 20.00% of the film arrangement at most.

It ranked second in the same period, lower than "Age of Youth" which was released on the same day.

This is also a youth film starring Su Zhe's acquaintances, Ye Zehong and Zhou Jiamin.

Both of them have no fewer fans than Su Zhe, and both of them have proven themselves and have guaranteed box office. Even the movie genre is the same as "Secret", which is a youth movie.

Reflected in the number of pre-sales, it has exceeded 800 million, ranking first in the summer season. After all, traffic stars have never lost in this regard.

Therefore, under the judgment of major theater chains, they were still more optimistic about "Age of Youth" and gave it a 28% film schedule.

But as "Secret" was screened, word of mouth spread and the popularity grew.

Before the release, the total number of pre-sales even exceeded 1000 million!

The theater chain immediately made changes and promoted "The Secret" to the top spot——

The number of screenings on the first day exceeded 12, with 32% of the film schedule!
Correspondingly, the film schedules of competitors have dropped a bit during the same period, and "Age of Youth" has also dropped to 25%.

In fact, compared to other movies, it didn't lose much in the schedule, but it dropped from first to second, and fans of Ye Zehong and Zhou Jiamin were furious.

In fact, normal viewers rarely look at these data. As long as they can buy tickets for the movie they want to watch, who cares where it ranks?

But fans really cared about it, and immediately felt that their brother (sister) had been wronged, and angrily scolded them online:

[Some fans are really good at bragging about it. It’s just a youth movie, and they brag about it to the point of winning Best Actor and Best Actress! 】

[Someone is so good at marketing. I didn’t understand why he wanted to take the college entrance examination before. It seems that he wanted to gain publicity. 】

[Is SZ serious about making movies?Find a bunch of new people, sign them all into your company, and just concentrate on being the boss! 】

There is no need for sugarcane to refute this. Many viewers who have watched the screening spontaneously tried to defend themselves online.

But there is no use arguing online, never try to convince someone over the internet cable.

In the end, it still depends on the results.

On July 7th, the battle for the summer movie season kicked off, starting with the two youth films "The Untold Secret" and "Age of Youth."

In fact, both movies are not considered big productions. "Age of Youth" cost over 3 million, while "Secret" cost less than 2 million (including Su Zhe paying himself a salary of 1 million), so they can only be considered medium-sized productions.
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Liu Zihan's high school entrance examination is over, but it's not time to get her results yet. It's the most relaxing day.

In the early morning, she couldn't wait to take her best friend to the cinema, specifically to support her Uncle Su.

My best friend yawned and complained with a sleepy look:

"Why do we get up so early during summer vacation? It's so comfortable to go shopping in the mall, eat, and watch movies in the evening! Wasn't it always like this before?"

"But I want to see Uncle Su's movie as soon as possible! If my mother hadn't allowed it, I would have gone to the midnight show last night."

Liu Zihan clasped her hands together with expectation on her face.

My best friend couldn't do anything to him, so she took out her mobile phone and called a taxi.

Liu Zihan got into the taxi and suddenly laughed twice. She couldn't help holding her chin and sighed:
"I wonder what Uncle Su is doing? He is so good, he must be writing songs or scripts."

My best friend complained: "Normal people should be sleeping."

Liu Zihan looked confident: "But he is Uncle Su!"

Su Zhe at this time:
Zz(:3[__]≡】

He murmured in his sleep: "The quilt is a bit short, please push it off..."

Zz(:3<:[__]]

While Su Zhe was struggling with the quilt that was placed in the wrong direction, two "abnormal" people came to the cinema in the mall early in the morning and went directly to the top-floor cinema through the 24-hour elevator.

At this time, the mall wasn't even open yet. My best friend was on the top floor, watching the mall employees downstairs packing up the goods, and she felt more and more sick.

No, it’s Liu Zihan who has a disease—a disease caused by fanatical fans.

For my best friend, if she has to get up early to be a fan, she won’t be able to follow any handsome guy!
"Su Zhe, I hope you won't let me down early! If the movie is not good, I will, I will... secretly hack you behind Zi Han's back!"

Liu Zihan looked at the time and didn't hear her best friend's words, so she responded casually:

"Huh? What did you say?"

"What I'm saying is... buy a cup of coffee, I'm really sleepy."

Liu Zihan answered very honestly: "My mother won't let me drink it."

"Your mother won't let you chase stars."

"But she gave me permission to pursue Uncle Su! But she has been regretting it recently. She was worried that he would not do well in the college entrance examination, so I learned from him. Huh, Uncle Su must have done very well in the exam and passed the 9...911 exam!"

My best friend scratched her head when she heard Liu Zihan's words. She felt like she didn't call 911?

But this is not the key. The key is that even in Sugarcane, there are not many people who believe that Su Zhe can do well in the college entrance examination. The unified speech technique is "emphasis on experience" and "Su Zhe only studied for half a month and failed in the college entrance examination." It’s normal.”

Fans who believe that Su Zhe can do well in the exam are considered to be the most die-hard fans among die-hard fans.

Also known as "brainless fans"...

The two of them kept chatting until the movie started playing, then they calmed down and concentrated on watching the movie.

Along with the melodious music, a mysterious piece of parchment unfolded, with the word "Secret" written in cursive characters.

[Travel Rules] flashed across the parchment quickly. These are details prepared for second-time viewers.

Neither Liu Zihan nor her best friend had read the spoilers, so of course they didn’t notice. They only saw the credits appearing one after another on the parchment:

[Starring: Su Zhe] (First line, Ichiban)
[Starring: Gong Man] (Second line, second episode)

[Starring: Chen Zhanhong, You Mengli]

[Director: Sun Mei]

[Screenwriter: Su Zhe]

[Producer: Su Zhe]

Except for the most important people, the rest of the cast and crew, including Jia Xin's name, will appear at the end of the film.

(The actors, assistants, etc. of the leading actors will actually appear at the end of some dramas.)
At the end of the parchment, a separate page appeared with four large artistic words——

[Su Zhe’s works].

Generally speaking, only directors will sign [XX work], and they must be relatively famous or have outstanding personal styles.

Ordinary tool-man directors are not worthy of writing like this.

But as Su Zhe, as the lead actor and screenwriter, directly wrote "Su Zhe's work", no one felt anything was wrong.

Just like the plays of Aunt Qiong Yao and Mr. Jin Yong, no matter who directs or performs them, they are all said to be "Qiong Yao plays" and "Jin Yong plays".

Even a certain screenwriter with a relatively poor reputation has everyone call his work "XX drama".

In addition to screenwriters, actors also have examples——

The directors and screenwriters of Jackie Chan and Xingye's works have changed, but what remains unchanged is that, except for the early immature works, their personal characteristics are deeply imprinted in them.

Whose willpower is finally implemented in the work, this is whose work, and it is not entirely related to position, fame, income, etc.From this point of view, "The Untold Secret" is obviously the work of Su Zhe, there is no doubt about it.

Liu Zihan didn't understand these twists and turns, but as a fan, when she saw the four characters "Su Zhe's work", she felt very proud and laughed:

"Those idols are fighting all day long, do they dare to write like this? Do they deserve this kind of treatment?"

My bestie also agrees:

"They are acting with their faces paralyzed, how dare they say it is their own work?"

This is what fans are like. The main movie hasn’t even started yet, and they start to feel proud just by seeing the subtitles.

After the title, the main film finally begins——

"I've known you for a long time."

As the lines appear, the camera overlooks the beautiful campus, passes through the lively crowd, and comes to the beautiful path.

Sun Mei shot this long shot very stunningly, with a combination of movement and stillness, smooth camera movement, and beautiful scene selection.

Of course Liu Zihan doesn’t understand the camera, but she can feel the beauty and said with envy:

"Wow! The campus is so beautiful! It would be great if our high school could be this beautiful."

On the path, Su Zhe and You Mengli were walking together. Both of them were wearing fitted black school uniforms (dress-style), one was handsome and the other was beautiful.

Beautiful scenery makes people even more beautiful. The target audience who comes to watch youth movies has a big need to watch handsome boys and beautiful girls.

So after seeing this scene, the entire cinema rang out soft exclamations:
"Wow!"

Listen to the wow sound.

Liu Zihan couldn't help but grab her best friend's arm and was so envious:

"It's so pretty! Why are our school uniforms so ugly?"

My best friend thought for a while:
"Our Shencheng school uniform is quite famous across the country, right? It's no worse than in the movie. If it's ugly...maybe it's because the person is ugly?"

She felt that she had been scolded by this and immediately changed her tune:

"No, it's because they are so good-looking. Their looks are among the best in China. Can we compare?"

Stimulated by the ice cream for her eyeballs, she no longer felt sleepy. She looked as seriously as if she had drank coffee.

In this opening scene, two important clues are laid:

One is Ye Xianglun’s father.

The second is the old piano room related to time travel, which will be demolished after the graduation ceremony.

It's just that all the viewers who watched it for the first time were only obsessed with the beauty of Su Zhe and You Mengli, and only caught the information of "Ye Xianglun transferred to another school".

But these details will remain in their memories, and it will not be until the final reversal that they suddenly realize.

Ye Xianglun was aroused by Qingyi's words, and went to the old piano room alone, where he heard a melodious piano sound ("Secret" played by Lu Xiaoyu in time travel for the first time).

He followed the sound to the old piano room, met a girl, and asked:

"Did you play it just now?"

"No." The girl said deliberately.

Ye Xianglun looked around and found no one else, showing stupid confusion.

The girl immediately laughed and said playfully:
"Yeah!"

"Oh, it sounds pretty good." Ye Xianglun lowered his head slightly and ran away immediately.

Although Liu Zihan didn't read the spoilers, she also knew that the girl was Lu Xiaoyu, played by Gong Man, the heroine of this movie.

She couldn't help but judge in her heart:
"Quite cute, but not as pretty as You Mengli. Is it so ordinary when we first meet?"

If it were replaced by an inferior youth film, the first meeting between the male and female protagonists would definitely be in slow motion, with a larger filter, and then a rotating camera, and I would like to announce to all the viewers:
"Look! They fell in love at first sight!"

But the film quality of "Secret" is far superior to ordinary youth movies. The meeting between the two seems very ordinary, but it contains a lot of information.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Xianglun was in class. Lu Xiaoyu walked into the classroom and said, "Sorry, I'm late." He bowed slightly and sat in the last row.

At this time, because of the special time-travel principle of the "Secret" piano music, only Ye Xianglun could see and hear Lu Xiaoyu, and only he could not help but turn his head to look at Lu Xiaoyu.

He kept turning his head and angered the teacher on the podium, who scolded him very rudely:

"What's there to see? Pay attention in class!"

Ye Xianglun turned his head in embarrassment.

The camera switched, and in focus, Lu Xiaoyu smiled shyly and proudly.

Gong Man's acting skills are perfect for youth movies. The audience can immediately tell that this is the expression of a girl being stared at by a boy she has a crush on.

They didn't notice that Qingyi was sitting in front of Lu Xiaoyu. She also showed the same shy and proud smile in the out-of-focus area of ​​the camera.

After class, Ye Xianglun chased Lu Xiaoyu and asked her what the name of the piano music she played in the piano room was.

This was related to the secret of time travel. Lu Xiaoyu did not reveal it easily. She naughtily approached his ear and told him:

"It's an unspoken secret."

This seemed a bit ambiguous to the audience, but it was actually because Lu Xiaoyu knew that only Ye Xianglun could see her, and didn't want him to talk to himself in the eyes of others, so she deliberately talked to him in a low voice.

The tenderness Lu Xiaoyu showed in the details was not noticeable to the audience for the first time.

Ye Xianglun didn't know either. He looked at Lu Xiaoyu's leaving figure and shouted:

"What's your name?"

In front of him, Qingyi turned back with a hint of pride in her expression:

"Didn't I tell you?"

Here is still the foreshadowing that others cannot see Lu Xiaoyu, but the audience just thinks it is a misunderstanding.

Ye Xianglun also thought it was a misunderstanding. Just when he was about to explain, the teacher came over again and scolded him:

"I heard your voice coming all the way. This is school, not a place for you to pick up girls."

Ye Xianglun was even more embarrassed.

Seeing this, Liu Zihan couldn't help laughing:
"It's so true! Was Uncle Su also trained by the teacher when he was in school?"

My best friend thought for a while and complained:
"When he goes to junior high school, he probably won't have to pick up girls, right? If he goes to school with us, those wild girls won't eat him up?"

"Go to school together?" Liu Zihan didn't know what she was thinking, her face was red.

Girlfriend: ...

You broke the law!No, it was Su Zhe who broke the law!That's not right. It was Liu Zihan's unilateral sexual intercourse. It seems to have nothing to do with Su Zhe...

She's a bit of a mess.

The feelings of a girl are always poetry, and no matter what Liu Zihan is thinking about, it is just a fantasy.

She didn't expect it to come true, she just hoped that this fantasy would make her better.

The movie continues.

The light rain came unexpectedly. Neither Ye Xianglun nor Lu Xiaoyu brought umbrellas, so they had to hide from the rain together.

After the rain stopped, Ye Xianglun took Lu Xiaoyu home by bicycle and asked her name again.

"My name is Lu Xiaoyu."

"My name is Ye Xianglun."

In fact, this is the first time their names appear in the film.

(End of this chapter)