China Entertainment: Director’s happiness is so simple

It’s the Spring Festival again.

The number one blockbuster that has attracted the most attention during the Spring Festival this year is "Night at the Museum 3".

There is no need to say anything more about the social aspects of the Wonderful Night series.

In 2004, "Amazing Night 1" regained the domestic box office record set by "Titanic" for the first time.

In 2009, "Wonderful Night 2" pushed the domestic box office record to the 1 billion level for the first time.

Therefore, the Wonderful Night series is far from just a movie about the resurrection of wax figures in museums. It represents more of a historical witness of domestic films.

Of course, for movie fans, it is even more emotional.

Now the Wonderful Night series has come to its final installment.

Many fans still don't understand why it has to end so soon.

Everyone is just waiting for the movie to start and see with their own eyes what kind of answer Lu Ping An will give.

In addition to "Wonderful Night 3", the second-ranked film is Cheng Long's "Zodiac".

The film is said to be the second collaboration between Lu Pingan and Cheng Long.

Although it is not like "Peak 3" where one acts and the other directs, but one acts + directs, and one contributes money + script optimization.

But with "Peak 3" in front, it also made the film the most watched film in the world during this period.

After the introduction of the two top players, the next one is "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" by Mr. Xu who ranked third.

Mr. Xu + Jet Li + the new version of "Dragon Inn".

Old directors, old superstars, old IPs, plus a bunch of new stars, such as Mr. Zhou, Chen Kun, etc.

This has made the film's popularity continue from the time it was released until now.

Then there are some movies that look like standard shit comedies at first glance.

For example, Liu Zhenwei's "The East Makes the West 2012", Zeng Zidan, Gu Tianle and Chen Kelly's "Eight Star Announcement".

Among them, "The East Comes to the West in 2012" was called "The East Comes to the West in 2011" in the original time and space.

The movie "Original Space" was released during the Lunar New Year holiday in 2011.

But now, apparently attracted by the huge number of tickets during the Spring Festival period, the schedule has been changed.

A total of five "blockbusters", plus a few scattered low-cost movies, make up this year's Spring Festival schedule.

Generally speaking, there are fewer blockbusters in this year's Spring Festival than in previous years, but the popularity is not low.

Because the No. 2 "Wonderful Night 3" and "Zodiac" actually have a linkage.

On New Year's Day, a large number of movie fans walked into the theater.

Fans who first watched "Zodiac" were as excited about Cheng Long's rare masterpieces in recent years as they were in the feature film stage.

Although the overall quality of "Zodiac" is not as good as Cheng Long's masterpieces of the last century, it is indeed the most diligent movie in recent years.

This made movie fans nostalgic and moved, but also once again lamented that Cheng Long is really old.

When it came to the Easter egg section after the main feature of the film, fans were pleasantly surprised to find that the protagonist in the film brought back not only a copper head from abroad, but also a very familiar turtle back plate!

So this is how the turtle back plate in the wonderful night comes back!

All the fans of Wonderful Night immediately smiled knowingly.

After watching "Zodiac", everyone will watch "Wonderful Night 3".

At this time, fans who have watched "Zodiac" will find that the two movies are really connected.

The plot of "Wonderful Night 3" is not much different from the original one, both traveling from China to the British Museum of History abroad.

The reason was that the turtle's back plate "went out of power", so that the protagonists began to go crazy and the museum was in crisis.

In order to solve the problem, the protagonist first went to Hengdian and found Jiang Ziya in the second part.

I learned that the original appearance of the turtle back board was not just a board, but also many accessories.

Those accessories have now been lost, and Jiang Ziya doesn't know where they are.

Just when the protagonist group was confused, the old security guard played by Northeastern Lao Zhao in the first film gave the answer.

From his story, it turned out that the tortoise-back plates were originally in the Old Summer Palace. Later, due to a well-known historical event, that is, after the Eight-Power Allied Forces burned the Old Summer Palace, the entire set of tortoise-back plates was brought to Europe along with countless treasures and cultural relics.

So if you want to solve the problem, you may have to take a trip to the British Museum of History with your tortoise shell.

Next, the protagonist started to go through the procedures for cultural relics to be exhibited abroad, allowing him to successfully bring the turtle back plate and the protagonists of the museum to the British Museum of History.

The next scene is similar to the original version.

The protagonist group has adventures with various resurrected artifacts in the British Museum of History.

Zhao Kuo and Cowboy also staged a great escape from the eruption of Pompeii volcano.

The biggest highlight is that in the China Pavilion, with the appearance of the turtle back plate, many cultural relics have turned into human shapes.

The fellow villagers burst into tears when they saw the fellow villagers.

What is even more tear-jerking is the words of cultural relics that have been in Britain for hundreds of years: Are you taking us home?

The protagonist is speechless.

At this time, many fans in front of the big screen already understand why the Wonderful Night series will end, because this problem is basically unsolvable.

No wonder Lu Ping'an said before the movie was released that there might be a chance to shoot a fourth movie in the future, but the time is unknown.

After going through some adventures, the protagonist successfully found a way to solve the problem of the turtle back plate. The method is actually very simple, which is to let the turtle back plate and its original base "absorb the essence of the sun and moon". To put it simply, Just bask in the moon at night and bask in the sun during the day.

Finally, a second before the turtle's back was completely eroded, the protagonist let it bask in the moonlight. After the moonlight, the turtle's back improved, and the crazy cultural relics and wax figures returned to reason.

After another day in the sun tomorrow morning, this wave of charging will last another 60 years.

It seemed that the problem had been successfully solved, but after returning to China, during a joint exhibition tour between the museum and the National Museum, the "dragon head" that returned home, that is, the dragon head brought back by Cheng Long in "Twelve Zodiac Signs" materialized and became Cheng Long.

When he saw Turtle Back Board, he revealed a piece of news. It turned out that Turtle Back Board had had a "power feed" incident before when he was at a manor in England, and it happened more than once.

At this time, fans who have watched "Zodiac" will connect the timelines and plots of the two movies.

In other words, the turtle back plate was originally in the Old Summer Palace, but was lost overseas with the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces. Later, the base was donated to the British Museum by the earl, while the turtle back plate was brought back to China by Cheng Long along with the dragon head.

In the end, the turtle back plate was stored in a small museum that was about to close down for unknown reasons.

Also, this timeline doesn’t seem right.

But that doesn't matter, it's a comedy in itself.

The entire series of "Wonderful Night" is very illogical, and the timeline is never mentioned. To use Lu Dao's usual explanation, it is that this world is different from reality, so there is no need to pay special attention to these details.

Therefore, the current fans are more concerned about the crisis in the movie. Through the mouth of the transformed dragon head, they learned that in the past hundred years, the turtle back plate has been fed more than once, and the battery life is getting shorter and shorter every time. It was less than 12 years since the last accident.

This means that after charging this time, it may break again in less than 12 years!

Finally, the dragon head warned: "Before you get the base back, it's better to use it less in the future. Find a piece of cloth to block it. If you don't charge it in time, you won't be able to save it."

Thinking about the difficulties of this trip to the UK, the protagonist still didn't believe it even after hearing this, but he had to accept it and decided to reduce the exposure of the turtle's back to the light from every day to once a month.

This means that for the past few years, the days of having these lovely friends with me every night are probably coming to an end.

Sima Qian and others began to comfort him: "Don't worry, we won't die."

"But we will grow old." The security guard played by Northeastern Lao Zhao sighed with a smile, "We will meet less often in the future."

Everyone also realized that time is a gentle girl when faced with cultural relics and wax figures.

But to humans, she is the most ruthless queen in the world.

Everyone in Sima Qian looked at the white hair on the heads of the old security guard and the protagonist, and fell silent for a moment.

Just when everyone was feeling depressed, the protagonist's son stood up and said, "Don't be afraid, dad is getting old, and I am here. I will have children in the future. One day, everyone will be able to come out and bask in the moon every day!"

The energetic words made everyone in the museum feel refreshed.

The movie also ends with a big party at the museum.

Then there are the Easter eggs.

The easter eggs this time are not just movie plots.

But in reality, Lu Ping'an and Cheng Long brought back various cultural relics from overseas.

This scene actually also appeared in the promotional program of "Twelve Zodiac Signs".

Now appearing again is not only a perfect farewell to the Wonderful Night series, but also gives the movie a more shining glory.

After the movie ended, fans looked forward to the day when overseas cultural relics would be returned to China as soon as possible.

Of course it's more about exhaling a big breath.

A long series that spanned eight years and has become a mark of domestic film history and the growth of countless movie fans has come to an end.

At this moment, as the theater lights came on, many movie fans really didn’t want to leave.

During the Spring Festival, with the "linked" release of the top two films, the box office pattern was quickly established.

After seven days, "Wonderful Night 3" and "Zodiac" took in box office receipts of 790 million and 670 million respectively.

The third place "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is 360 million.

As for other films, although their results are far inferior to these three, they are still beyond the expectations of the film studio.

The media predicts that there will definitely be no problem with the first two movies breaking 1 billion. Whether it can break the 1.3 billion box office record set by "Let the Bullets Fly" last year will require a little bit of luck.

Most people feel that based on the data compared with the same period last year and the growth of big screens this year, this result is very likely to be achieved.

Next, as the working day begins, the film market cools down slightly.

However, the topic of cultural relics is still hot, and the box office of the two movies fell less than expected as a result.

It's just that Lu Ping'an's focus is no longer on movies.

On February 2, Baoqiang held a wedding in Beijing. As his eldest brother, Lu Pingan served as a witness.

After the wedding, Lu Pingan gave Baoqiang a small gift.

Next, Baoqiang will separate from Xingchen and open a studio, and Xingchen will occupy a certain share.

In order for Baoqiang's first project after independence to get off to a good start, Lu Pingan gave him 10% of his investment share in "Thailand".

Not much, just two to three million. After all, the total cost of this film is only that small. Of course, Baoqiang still has to pay, for example, by converting the film remuneration.

Yuan Shikong Baoqiang did not choose the dividend model for this project, but only received a salary.

This time and space was different, so he happily accepted it without any doubt.

However, his wife had some objections and felt that this gift was a bit risky. She also had something to say. She felt that since the relationship between the two was so good, how could they still be so clear about it.

Baoqiang was not moved at all, he just felt that his woman's horizons had to be expanded, otherwise she would embarrass him in the future.

After Bao Qiang got married, Zhang Songwen also had his wedding at the end of March, followed by Ning Hao's make-up wedding in April, and then Huang Bo's.

Huang Bo and his wife had obtained the certificate in 2007, but they did not hold a wedding at that time. Later, when he became prosperous, he always wanted to apply for a new one, but he was too busy with various projects.

Now that he had caught up with several brothers, he simply came to have one.

It makes weddings contagious as well.

At the end of April, Lu Ping'an and Li Zi held a secret wedding, with relatives, friends and their daughter together, which was warm and sweet.

The day after the wedding, news came from Cannes that "The Embalmer" was shortlisted for the main competition and will compete for the Palme d'Or.

The media is no longer surprised that Lu Ping'an's movie was shortlisted for the top three movies in Europe.

But this time it’s different, because the movie’s title is The Mortician?

So this is a horror movie?

Soon, the media learned more information.

With the exposure of the funeral-themed movie, more people were surprised.

Not only domestic, but also many foreign filmmakers were surprised.

Because movies with funeral themes are really rare so far.

It can even be said that there is no movie that purely depicts burial and explores life and death.

The same is true for the original time and space. After "The Embalmer" came out in 2008, a number of funeral-themed movies began to emerge around the world.

And "The Embalmer" was able to win the Oscar because it took advantage of the lack of subject matter. Of course, the artistry here is the key.

Back to the present, "The Undertaker" in this time and space was moved to the present by Lu Ping'an, so a lot of "following the trend" movies did not appear, such as "The Undertaker" in 10 years.

So now, Lu Ping'an's "The Embalmer" can be regarded as a "groundbreaking" in terms of subject matter.

With this golden status of the film, it is not enough to win the Palme d'Or. After all, the three major European films are relatively "aloof".

However, Lu Ping An's status can make up for this to a certain extent.

In addition, "The Embalmer" does not have any political flavor, and its strong family atmosphere and thoughts on life and death are in line with the common values ​​of the East and the West.

The coffin-related scenes in the film are also quite unique. The artistic expression of Chinese culture has always been very popular in Europe, but in the past it was always associated with the "black mainland", which after all represents backwardness.

But now, a new perspective has emerged, embodying the mysterious Eastern culture in a new way.

Overall, it is actually very lethal.

This is in line with Cannes' preferences.

Finally, because this film is so popular, even Cannes has to consider its commercial aspects. After all, this is 2012.

So with the above mentioned tone, the chances of winning the prize are actually very high.

Of course, the top three in Europe are, after all, the top three in Europe. The selection criteria are quite "evil". Several judges quarrel and decide, and most of the time it depends on luck.

Many of the key jury members looked unprofessional.

For example, this year's seven-member team includes three actors, three actors, and a costume designer in addition to three directors.

Taste preferences are hard to pinpoint.

Furthermore, this year's original Palme d'Or winner "Love" is also very competitive, and the theme is somewhat similar to "The Embalmer".

The film tells the story of two retired music teachers who have been together for many years but still love each other. Until their wife suffered an illness, their love began to face the greatest test.

This is about the themes of death and love, and overall it is more in line with European aesthetics.

So it’s hard to say whether Lu Ping An will be able to get it in the end.

Lu Ping'an still maintains that attitude towards this.

Anyway, the main purpose of this film is for great harmony.

And this film can be regarded as his last time to hit the top three movies in Europe.

So take the best you can, and don’t knock it down because you won’t be able to come back next time.

Time flies.

Soon on May 27, the 65th Cannes Film Festival began to award awards.

Lu Ping'an arrived in Cannes only this afternoon.

Once again, I was sitting in the audience waiting for the show to start.

Lu Pingan's attention somehow began to shift to the few blind boxes he had saved.

A sudden idea made him decide quickly.

If you win a prize this time, it at least means you have good luck today. If you draw all the blind boxes, you should have a good harvest.

Thinking like this, the lights on the stage turned on.

Three days later.

A 1999 A6 drove out of the Nortel campus.

This A6 is somewhat outdated now, but it is still a dream for men, such as the guy from Ele.me sitting on an electric car outside Nortel School.

Before the young man could see the chiseled handsome face in the driver's seat, Lu Pingan stepped on the accelerator and jumped out.

Yan Danchen, who was in the back seat, exclaimed: "Slow down, you can't even see what's written on the banner."

"What else can I write? Just keep repeating those words."

Lu Ping'an said, looking at the door from the rearview mirror.

There are several huge banners hanging on the main entrance of Nortel.

"Warm congratulations to director Lu Ping'an for winning the Palme d'Or at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival for his work "The Embalmer""

"Warm congratulations to director Lu Pingan for achieving a Grand Slam at the three major European film festivals"

"Warm congratulations on a safe road"

It was too late to see the rest because the car had already gone away.

Hu Qingquan, the co-pilot, said with a smile: "You have a nickname in school now, right?"

"What nickname?"

"Banner King!"

Zhang Songwen, who was next to Yan Danchen in the back seat, answered immediately.

Lu Ping'an was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

After laughing, Hu Qingquan asked: "Now that I have won the Grand Slam, what are your next thoughts?"

"What's next?"

Lu Pingan recalled the golden finger from his mind.

"System, after I finish filming the adaptations of "Gravity", "The Martian", "Jurassic Park", "Harry Potter" and "Life is Beautiful", are you sure you will upgrade?"

[Ding~ In the next stage, the film and television drama library of the parallel world will be opened. Host, please continue to work hard! 】

"clear!"

Withdrawing his golden finger, Lu Pingan said seriously to Hu Qingquan: "Next, I retire!"

"?!!"×3

"I lied to you." Lu Ping'an laughed.

Press the accelerator lightly.

The A6's taillights slowly disappeared into the traffic.

Just like the old story of safe road has ended.

A new story will arrive as promised, like the rising sun tomorrow, and it has just begun. (End of this chapter)