A widower's entertainment

Chapter 204 [Movie] (Please subscribe)
Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

With the people from Bayi Film Studio leaving, Lin Youcheng didn't know what kind of ending the director would give "Tengu" in the end. To be honest, Bayi Film Studio's status is still very high, but he didn't know the first two The final question is whether the Bayi Factory can pass the review.

However, this matter is not something that Lin Youcheng can decide. What Lin Youcheng needs to do now is to write the script of "Tengu".

Lin Youcheng has also agreed to be the screenwriter of the movie "Tengu" at Bayi Film Studio, so he will naturally be responsible for writing the script. However, Lin Youcheng is also thinking about which actor can play Li Li well now. The character of Tengu.

Of course, this matter must be carefully chosen by Bayi Film Studio and Director Wu Ziniu. Lin Youcheng is quite relieved about the current movie casting. After all, at this time, there are not those popular actors who bring money to join the group, let alone More depends on the suitability of the character and the acting skills of the actors, which still has to wait for the script to be released.

Lin Youcheng naturally has no pressure when it comes to writing scripts, which can be considered his old profession.

Although the success of the previous "Wind" movie was shot by director Xie Jin, it also owes a share of the credit to Lin Youcheng, the original author and screenwriter. If it hadn't been for the fact that there was no screenwriting award at the Hundred Flowers Awards at the beginning of the year, I'm afraid "The Wind" would also have been Will win the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Screenplay.

Nowadays, the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award is sponsored by the "Popular Film" magazine affiliated to the Filmmakers Association. It is a mass film award voted by the general audience. The tenth Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award was selected at the beginning of the year. The best feature film is "The Wind" ", "Battle of Taierzhuang", "Sun Zhongshan", the best actress was won by Liu Xiaoqing who starred in "The Wind", and the best actor was also won by Lu Xiaohe of "The Wind", and the key best supporting actor was also won by "The Wind" "Liang Jiahui won, which can be said to be quite glorious.

This is the Hundred Flowers Award that is truly voted for by the general audience. Although it is a popular award, it is definitely the strength of the film and the actors that will make the audience vote for it. It is absolutely a real vote. There are no trolls to swipe votes or fake queens. and the Water Emperor.

Perhaps only at this time will "The Wind" be allowed to monopolize these important awards.

Although Lin Youcheng agreed to be the screenwriter of "Tengu" by Bayi Film Studio, Lin Youcheng was not in a hurry to write the script because he had already heard from Situ Hui that the film he had shot before The movie "War Meridian" has been released, so he naturally wants to take a few carrots to watch this movie.

This cinema can be said to have created many firsts in domestic film history, such as the country's first national-level cinema, the first wide-screen cinema, and the first cinema in Yanjing City with a ticket sales exceeding 10 million.

A few carrots were drinking Arctic Ocean soda with gusto and were looking forward to watching the movie.

Of course, the current fair Hundred Flowers Award will gradually be affected by capital in the future.

It was also the beginning of this year that China Film took the lead in proposing the concept of diversified operations, and various theaters began to sell drinks and snacks. Just like there is coffee in the all-night show of the Capital Cinema, and in the future there will be refrigerators and cold drinks will be sold.

Needless to say, this movie is an anti-war movie about children. More importantly, this movie also stars Lin Zhaomei and Lin Zhaoqing. Naturally, you need to take your children to see your performance in the movie.

There is even a movie theater behind here where you can buy beer and cold dishes.

Although it was a movie, Lin Youcheng didn't just buy movie tickets for the carrots. He also sold them Arctic soda at the canteen in the cinema.

Last year, Lin Youcheng's "The Wind" was also extremely popular and received an enthusiastic response.

In 1937, Peking opera performing artist Mr. Ma Lianliang and his friends raised funds to build the Xinxin Theater between Xidan and Liubukou on Chang'an Street. This two- to three-story theater was equipped with the best sound equipment of the year. In 1950, Zhou Zongli gave the glorious name of Capital Cinema to the war-torn theater on Chang'an Street, and Guo Moruo xiansheng named the theater, so the New Theater was renamed Capital Cinema.

However, the most popular movie this year is not a domestic movie, but an imported movie "Break Dance". This movie was released in the capital cinema and set off a break dancing trend. Countless moviegoers became followers of break dancing. Many street dance kings appeared in the streets and alleys, carrying large tape recorders and wearing half-finger gloves. , jumping "moonwalk" and doing "glass cleaning" movements, can be said to be quite popular.

Lin Zhaomei and Lin Zhaoqing were naturally looking forward to it. They heard early in the morning that Lin Youcheng was going to take them to watch a movie, and they were the ones who acted in "War Meridian". How could they not be excited.

You must know that the current selection of the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award has a total of 101 audience judges, and among the audience judges, workers, farmers, soldiers, intellectuals, young students, business representatives, etc. each account for a certain proportion. If there are two nominees with the highest votes, If the number of votes is the same, the audience judges will vote again for the two candidates with the highest votes until a winner is chosen. If there is still a tie in the second vote, the winner will be the one with the highest number of votes based on the number of votes received at the time of nomination.

Because Lin Zhaohuan and Lin Zhaole were still young, Lin Youcheng asked Song's mother to take care of the two little carrots at home, while he took Lin Zhaoxi and his four siblings to the Capital Cinema.

Compared with the Hundred Flowers Award, as the screenwriter of "The Wind", Lin Youcheng can look forward to the Golden Rooster Award later, because the Golden Rooster Award will have the Best Screenplay Award. Even if Lin Youcheng does not win the award, he will definitely be shortlisted.

We must know that the domestic film industry has grown and developed in the footsteps of reform and opening up, and domestic film audiences have begun to be exposed to more types of film products. From 1979 to 1997, tickets for films such as "Sea Eagle", "Heroes Die Hard" and "Wild Fire, Spring Wind and Ancient City" starring Wang Xiaotang sold very well. The spy film "Gunshots from the Bureau of Secrets" was screened for nearly two months and won the box office championship of the year with a box office of 1800 million yuan. Its popularity was not inferior to that of "Wolf Warrior 2".

Just like when Lin Youcheng took Lin Zhaoxi and others to watch "War Meridian" at the Capital Cinema, you can also see those young people wearing bell-bottom pants making break dancing moves at their feet on the street.

In addition, Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple" became popular all over the country in 1982. In order to meet the audience's viewing needs, the Capital Cinema started showing the film at 5:50 in the morning, and the tickets for the early show were sold out easily.

Lin Zhaoxi saw that Lin Youcheng didn't buy soda to drink, and couldn't help asking: "Dad, don't you drink it?"

Lin Youcheng was looking at the movie ticket in his hand. When he heard Lin Zhaoxi's words, he smiled and said, "Dad doesn't like it."

"Dad really doesn't like drinking this." Lin Youcheng was worried that Lin Zhaoxi would misunderstand that he was saving money, so he emphasized again. He took these carrots out to watch a movie, but he never thought about saving money on a bottle of Arctic soda.

After Lin Zhaoqing finished a few sips, he said, "Dad, can I have another bottle?"

"If you still want to drink, wait until you finish watching the movie. Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold it in and need to go to the toilet."

Lin Youcheng also rarely took the carrots out for a trip, and he didn't seem to be restrained. After all, his children have always been very sensible.

When Lin Zhaoqing heard what Lin Youcheng said, he naturally wouldn't make a fuss about drinking it now.

When it was almost time for the movie to show, Lin Youcheng took the carrots to check in and enter the screening hall.

In fact, before the reform and opening up, movie ticket prices were very low. Capital Cinema has three types of regular tickets: red ticket, green ticket, and black ticket. The red ticket costs 40 cents each. It is the best seat in the middle of the first two rows on the second floor of the theater. It is called the "foreign guest seat" and is only available in the first half of the show. Tickets are sold on an hourly basis, so we have to reserve them in case leaders or foreign guests come. Green tickets cost 30 cents, black tickets cost 20 cents, and student tickets cost 5 cents or 10 cents.

Although residents' income has increased year by year, movie tickets are still so cheap. In addition, from the late 80s to the early 90s, the film industry was actually very depressed, because at that time, Jiajiale TV and various video halls and so on, the ticket prices were still the same. However, the number of moviegoers has dropped significantly every year. At this time, the film studio found that the income was too low and they were unable to make new films. Beginning in 1985, movie ticket management authority began to be decentralized by region and in stages. Movie tickets that once cost two or three cents each finally ceased to exist under the impact of market competition. However, it would not be until September 1992 that movie ticket prices in Beijing would be liberalized.

At that time, movie theaters were still unsure about how much they would sell for if they allowed buying. They even asked the movie company specifically, and the answer they got was that they could sell whatever they wanted, as long as they could sell it. Because of this, the Capital Cinema immediately adjusted its price. A ticket cost ten yuan. If the venue was full, the next show would cost fifteen yuan. Of course, even then, the average movie ticket price was around five dollars.

Later, in 1998, a blockbuster movie came out, it was "Titanic", the average ticket price was about 20 yuan, and the ticket price in first-tier cities was 50 yuan, and some people even paid 200 yuan. By 2002, fares between 20 and 30 yuan became mainstream. However, the appearance of Zhang Guoshi's "Hero" directly brought the ticket price of domestic movies to 50 yuan, but the pirated discs are very powerful.

Now the ticket price for Lin Youcheng to take these carrot heads to watch movies is naturally quite cheap.

The release of the movie "War Meridian" is quite popular, because the original novel of this movie is the third part of Lin Youcheng's war tetralogy. The different war perspective naturally makes many people look forward to Lin Youcheng's war tetralogy. For this successful movie, the theater was almost full of viewers.

As the theater quieted down, the story of "War Meridian" appeared on the big screen.

The screen slowly played, in November 1990, an old figure climbed westward along the Great Wall. From time to time, she stopped and looked at the mountains, as if she was looking for something. This was the young nurse. It was through such a search in time and space that the old woman seemed to see herself carrying a stretcher.

The story officially begins. It is on this Great Wall that thirteen students who rushed to the base area from Peiping and the forty-eight Eighth Route Army soldiers who escorted them were surrounded. The young people fell in a hopeless struggle between stones and machine guns. There was only one nurse. Survive. Hidden among the reeds was a scattered stretcher team, with only an old military doctor and a girl who had just come from the art troupe left. Amidst the random gunfire, the dying correspondent took out an order: Order the Ninth Company to march westward along the Great Wall. The last survivor of the Ninth Company, the platoon leader was injured, but he had to carry out the incomplete order. In the morning mist, what appeared in front of the "Art Troupe" was a row of children...

Lin Youcheng looked at the two carrot heads Lin Zhaoxi and Lin Zhaoqing on the screen. He had to admit that although he knew that this story was very heavy, he still couldn't help but laugh, because the Lin Zhaoxi and Lin Zhaoqing in the camera were completely different from what he usually saw. , wearing a pair of shabby eight-way clothes, it really seems like a different person.

Of course, Lin Youcheng soon stopped thinking about it and started seriously watching the story and the filming of the movie.

Follow the movie footage to see the resistance of these children, watch the older children who participated in the anti-mopping up take on the responsibility of command, watch the children crawling towards their mothers with heavy stretchers on their bodies, with hungry eyes open. Climbing, crawling, watching "Small" digging the mines he had buried for everyone's survival, his ideal of "going to school" disappeared with an explosion...

Seeing the threat of death, the "Art Troupe" missed her mother, but when she saw that only her own life could be exchanged for everyone's lives, she threw the only grenade without hesitation, leaving a legacy in this world A call to my mother...

Seeing "Xiaocao"'s eyes being blinded by the Japanese gas bombs, she was extremely hungry and left the last half of the nest for the wounded, and left this world in a dream.

Even as he watched the story on the screen, Lin Youcheng couldn't help but feel a sore nose and red eyes.

In the end, as Lin Youcheng knew, the story ended. An explosion shook the mountains in the No. 3 tunnel of the Great Wall Line, and a huge conspiracy was shattered. The bodies of twelve nameless children were built into the bricks and stones of the ancient Great Wall and into the base of the Great Hall of the People. Their souls spanned fifty years of time and space, walked onto the overpass of the Asian Games Village, walked into the bright audio-visual classroom, walked onto the broad Tiananmen Square, and saw the new life they had exchanged for their lives.

It has to be said that the film "War Meridian" shot by director Zhang Yuzhong is quite complete, especially the interlacing of time and space between the past and the present has a strong sense of contrast.

Lin Zhaoqing was a little surprised. Looking at Lin Youcheng's red eyes, he asked, "Dad, are you crying?" "

"No, why would daddy cry?"

"Dad, you didn't cry when I died?"

"..."

When Lin Youcheng heard Lin Zhaoqing's unabashed words, he couldn't help but twitching his lips and said, "Because I know it's an act."

(End of this chapter)