Millennium director

Beijing, Light and Shadow Era Cinema.

Chen Kaige stood nervously at the entrance of the cinema, greeting guests invited to the premiere one after another.

In the afternoon, Painted Skin 2 had already held a premiere press conference.

At the press conference, he led the main actors of the crew to conduct a large-scale interview, which satisfied the reporters' desire for interviews.

However, he was asked many tough questions during the meeting.

After all, Chen Kaige has not been doing well in recent years. He has failed to achieve box office results and has also failed in terms of awards.

Journalists are very realistic. When you are down, all kinds of sharp topics will be thrown at you.

Isn't it a lot of pressure to take over Wu Yuan's sequel?

Can Painted Skin 2 surpass Painted Skin 1?

Choosing to take over Wu Yuan's sequel instead of making a new movie by myself, does it mean that I don't have confidence in myself?

Along with the Gods, which is also a fantasy-themed movie, has already exceeded 400 million at the box office. Do you feel any pressure?

Problems like this happen all the time.

Although Chen Kaige claims to be confident and believes that he is no worse than anyone else, this time Painted Skin 2 is definitely a turnaround.

But in his heart, he was no longer as confident as before.

If you fail several times in a row, everyone will be a little less confident.

But he still suppressed this uneasy feeling in his heart, pretending to be confident on the surface, and stood outside the movie theater to greet the guests invited by his connections.

Just when Chen Kaige was distracted, a black Mercedes-Benz nanny car parked low-key at the door. The beautiful Liu Yifei, wearing a white gauze skirt, got out of the car and walked quickly towards Chen Kaige.

Director Chen, congratulations on the release of the new film.

My family member is in the United States and is busy with the post-production of a new movie. He really can't make it back to China for the premiere. He asked me to apologize to you.

Facing the apologetic Liu Yifei, Chen Kaige held her hand, smiled and shook his head: It's okay, this is not a very important matter, Director Wu's work is more important.

Come in quickly, the premiere is about to begin.

Liu Yifei smiled and nodded, hugged Chen Kaige, said hello to the other leading actors, and then walked into the cinema gracefully.

Looking at his back, Chen Kun said with emotion to Zhou Xun beside him: You have really grown up.

She can now handle various interpersonal interactions on behalf of Yuan'er.

It feels like filming The Golden Family was just yesterday, but in the blink of an eye she is no longer that little girl.

Zhou Xun was not as emotional as Chen Kun. She rolled her eyes at Chen Kun angrily: Why do you sound like an old man?

Or are men who have children more sentimental about age and growth?

Chen Kun shook his head and laughed, somewhat dumbfounded by Zhou Xun.

Okay, the guests are almost here, let's go in. Chen Kaige's words interrupted the conversation between the two.

After leading the leading actors and finally waving to the reporters outside, Chen Kaige led everyone into the cinema.

The premiere of Painted Skin 2 has officially begun.

Sitting in the dim screening room, Liu Yifei watched the big screen with relish.

She has watched Painted Skin 1 many times.

After all, this movie was made by his soon-to-be husband, and it was the benchmark for Chinese-language fantasy and magic movies at the time.

Ask her to write a 2,000-word review of the content of Painted Skin and she can write it.

It can be said that of everyone present, no one knows Painted Skin 1 better than Liu Yifei, not even Chen Kaige.

After all, if Chen Kaige wants to make Painted Skin 2 well, he can't delve too deeply into Painted Skin 1, otherwise he will just copy the cat and the tiger.

Therefore, Liu Yifei is very looking forward to Chen Kaige's Painted Skin 2. She wants to see the script provided by Wu Yuan and what kind of sparks will come out when meeting Chen Kaige, a top domestic director!

The movie has started!

With an exclamation from someone unknown, the familiar dragon logo appeared on the big screen.

An oriental magical journey begins again in front of the audience.

The story of Painted Skin 2, from a superficial perspective, is a love story with contemporary significance.

How does an imperfect girl get her own love? In the story, Xiao Wei and Princess Jing change their identities, which can actually be incorporated into the modern women's choice of plastic surgery for the sake of beauty.

In recent years, the topic of plastic surgery has become more and more intense in China.

After all, is it a correct value for women to choose plastic surgery in order to be more beautiful, or to use medical means to make themselves more beautiful in order to make the people they like like them?

In the movie Painted Skin 2, this topic is discussed in more depth and a positive love value is presented.

The mood is full of misfortune, but love is eternal

As long as you give and sacrifice for love, this love is great.

It still revolves around love and the original core of the story of skin-changing, but the discussion of love in the second part is more profound.

And in the hands of Chen Kaige, a director who is good at inserting depth into movies, Painted Skin 2 is not just a superficial love story.

As the story of the movie progressed, Liu Yifei gradually realized that under this shallow love story, Chen Kaige also wrapped a deeper analysis of society and human nature.

The most important reason for the story of this movie is that Princess Jing, played by Zeng Li, is envious of Xiao Wei, a vixen who can have a beautiful appearance that attracts men.

The vixen played by Zhou Xun envies humans for not having to eat people's hearts and not suffering from the extreme cold.

So, two types of people envied each other and wanted to be each other, so this story of skin-changing happened.

The two of them infinitely reduced what they had, but infinitely enlarged what they couldn't have, which was their desires.

After they exchanged bodies, humans discovered how hard it was to be a monster, and if they didn't eat their hearts, they would age quickly.

And the monsters also found that all their magic powers that could control wind and rain had disappeared. These things that they once thought were not important at all put the two of them into desperate situations.

After leaving their comfort zone and entering a field that they had previously envied, they suddenly discovered that in fact, the things they had previously envied were not necessarily really good.

And this kind of mentality actually exists in everyone, not just Xiao Wei and Princess Jing, nor is it limited to love.

Rich and poor, men and women, and people from all walks of life.

The poor think that the rich live a happy life of feasting, feasting and drunkenness every day, which is extremely good.

The rich may feel that the ordinary poor people are happy because they don’t need to think so much and worry so much every day.

Some men envy girls. After getting married, they can have a husband to support the family without working hard.

And some women may envy men who don’t have aunts and don’t have to have children, and don’t have to be housewives to take care of their parents and children.

It's the same thing among industries. They can't see that the good things they have are magnifying others infinitely.

Everyone cannot see the good things they have, but they infinitely magnify the good things others have.

Few people can understand each other's difficulties.

We always envy others, but rarely realize the beauty we have.

This is the deeper theme of this movie, which goes beyond simple love, but elevates the core of the movie to a spiritual dilemma that all human beings have encountered.

Chen Kaige did a great job in expressing this level of depth in the film. Through various meaningful lines and a large number of meaningful empty shots, he led all the audience to have a psychological baptism of themselves!

When the movie screening ended, there were endless sighs and exclamations from the nearly 500 guests and film critics in the audience.

“What a great shot!”

It's thought-provoking! (End of chapter)