China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 208 "Signal" premiere (6000 words)

July 17, 2015, in a community in Jiangcheng.

The sound of Wang Yiqing opening the door startled Wang's mother, who was leaning on the sofa and applying moisturizing oil. She looked at the entrance and wondered: "The chess player didn't come out of the stall? Why did you get the key today... Qingqing?"

"Didn't you say you were having dinner with your classmates tonight? You finished eating so quickly? There is still some meatball soup left, do you want to eat it? If you don't eat the good food at home and go out to eat every day, just do it and wait until you get a stomachache.

You know how awesome it is." Wang Ma complained while holding the remote control to change the channel.

Wang Yiqing kicked off her slippers and sat on the sofa, and casually replied: "Suddenly I didn't want to eat, so I came back. It was just in time to lose weight."

"To lose weight, you have to eat three meals a day normally. It's not healthy to lose weight if you eat irregularly. Just wait for me to warm up the meatballs for you..." Wang Ma got up and went to the kitchen to heat up the rice.

Wang Yiqing dealt with her mother's nagging perfunctorily, picked up the remote control and dialed Mango TV, took out her mobile phone and scrolled through Weibo while waiting for the long advertisement.

Wang Ma put the beef meatball soup on the table: "Hurry up and get the chopsticks, and you want me to feed it to your mouth? No wonder you can't find a boyfriend because you're so lazy."

"I'm just a freshman, okay? You can say that to your daughter. You are not allowed to fall in love in high school. Once you get to college, you will push for a partner. I am a superman?" Wang Yiqing said as she hurried to the kitchen to get chopsticks, and then trotted

Return to the living room.

Just as Wang Ma was about to teach her a lesson, she saw her daughter picking up a ten thousand Chinese character and blowing on it while looking at the commercials on the TV, as if she was waiting for someone to appear on the TV. She couldn't help showing suspicion: "You

What's going on today

?I usually go to the bedroom as soon as I get home. I either play on the computer or my mobile phone. I don’t even take a look at the TV. I even want to take the meal to the bedroom to eat. Today is the sun rising in the west? I also started watching it.

'Middle-aged women's feet wrapped'?"

"Middle-aged women's foot-binding cloth" is a term Wang Yiqing uses to mock the TV series his mother watches.

When "Signal" was sold off its exclusive broadcast rights by Mango TV at a high price and announced the restart of weekly theaters, it triggered a backlash from those who disliked Chen Jingxing, who had been suppressed by the performance and reputation of "Source Code". They not only denounced the quality of the TV series but also criticized the

The ratings are declining. After all, Mango TV’s weekly theater is indeed a big pit, otherwise it would not have been hastily canceled less than a year after its launch.

So when Li Shian's voice came out from the walkie-talkie held by Qin Hai, it was very shocking, especially for people like Wang Ma who had never watched the movie "The Signal".

Chen Jingxing is much more popular than other directors because of his high productivity, good reputation, big imagination, movies that meet the aesthetics of young people, and his good looks. To put it more vividly, he is a bit like Nolan in Chen Jingxing’s previous life. He himself

It is a brand, and because it is a local director in China, it has more and more enthusiastic fans.

After getting off work, Li Shian drove to the backyard of a seemingly abandoned tube building and walked to a manhole. He struggled to open the manhole cover, and a hanged male corpse appeared in the camera.

"This walkie-talkie can travel through time and space. Mom, just look down slowly. It's absolutely wonderful!"

Wang Ma and Wang Yiqing exclaimed together. This plot is paired with a gloomy background and slightly shaking shots to create a pseudo-documentary feel. Coupled with the music, it is quite thrilling and suspenseful.

"You can make a conclusion without even watching it?"

Wang Yiqing mumbled a little embarrassedly: "It's not that I don't watch TV series, it's just that the TV series are generally not to my liking."

"Movies!" Wang Yiqing replied intently. As a fan of Chen Jingxing, she has watched many domestic and foreign film and television dramas, and has read a lot of them. Although she doesn't know anything about aerial lenses, camera movements, and lighting filters.

It’s a terminology, but you can also tell at a glance that the scenes in the TV series are very similar to movies, and you even feel like you are watching some high-quality American TV series.

Paired with sad music, the girl's mother's persistence and the boy's sense of powerlessness and guilt, as well as the empathy for the girl's tragic experience, quickly aroused Wang Yiqing's emotions. The original interruption of "Signal" interrupted her pursuit.

Wang Ma, who was a little dissatisfied with the drama, was also completely involved in the plot.

Qin Hai walked out of the office and stood in the corridor of the police station. The scene when he came to the police station to report the kidnapping of the girl Ma Xiaojing appeared in his mind. The camera rotated 180 degrees, and as the screen became dim again, the police station

The corridor and layout changed, and a little boy stood where the male protagonist was just now. Through this extremely smooth special effects long shot, he returned to the time when the protagonist came to the police station eighteen years ago and wanted to tell the police that Ma Xiaojing was kidnapped.

Scenario where the suspect is a woman.

[Didn’t I say that the TV series and the movie are not the same story? They just use the same sci-fi setting. Looking at the trailer, it feels like a crime drama. A few more cases will be enough.]

"I didn't come to watch "Wives Lie". This drama is not only cliché but also watery. The plot has no logic at all. If you want to imitate "The Temptation of Home", you are just trying to imitate it."

"Didn't Deng Chao live eighteen years ago? How did he get in touch with Qin Hai?" Wang Ma still used to call the old detective Li Shian the actor's name.

"Source Code" even made her become a supporter or career fan of DreamWorks. It feels strange to support a company, but this is very common in the fan circle. Mango TV has a group of die-hard fans who are fans of Mango.

Satellite TV pays attention to the ratings of Mango Channel every day. Many people have a faint plot of admiration in their hearts. Directors or companies like Chen Jingxing or DreamWorks who produce all high-quality films will naturally attract career fans.

In this way, Wang Yiqing not only started to like Luo Chen again, but also started to pay attention to the film director Chen Jingxing. She then found Chen Jingxing's debut film "Comet" and found that this movie was also very suitable for her, and it was more creative than "Fatal Identity"

Still big, plus Chen Jingxing

This young and outrageous director is also very handsome, and she has become half a fan of Chen Jingxing - the reason why she is half a fan is because as a director, Chen Jingxing does not appear in variety shows, does not go on red carpets, and rarely participates in promotional activities.

If you become a fan, you can only pay attention to his works.

Wang Yiqing took a sip of the soup, put down the bowl with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "I won't compete with you. Didn't you watch the Mango Channel? I also watch the Mango Channel."

[Let them go away. Anyway, with Sun Li and Deng Chao, the ratings will not be bad]

The girl was still beaten, and the boy could see the girl's mother waiting at the school gate every day with her daughter's portrait on her back. He always felt that the police could find out the truth and give the girl's mother an explanation. Year after year, time passed, and the boy had already

When she grew up, the girl's mother still insisted, but the kidnapping case became an unsolved case.

In fact, since the filming of the "Signal" TV series, many people on the Internet have been negative about this work, thinking that it is a work for capital to make money after seeing the success of the movie, especially when Sun Li and Deng Chao were hired at a high price.

, it seems that DreamWorks does not have much confidence in the quality, and Chen Jingxing has never engaged in public relations. Anyway, Sun Li and his wife have no worries about selling the copyright. When the audience in front of the TV sees it, they will naturally give a fair evaluation.

"Haven't you heard about the weekly theater? Starting from today, it will be a weekly theater every Saturday. The show will be "The Signal", two episodes a week, hehe." Wang Yiqing was a little gloating.

This smooth plot directly clarifies the relationship between the three protagonists. Even Wang Ma basically understands the relationship between time and characters - Li Shian played by Deng Chao is an old detective, and He Xiuying played by Sun Li is in

Eighteen years ago, she was a young policewoman who liked Li Shian, and she was also the captain of the Third Criminal Police Squadron eighteen years later. The protagonist Qin Hai was a primary school student eighteen years ago, and eighteen years later he is the subordinate of the squadron leader He Xiuying.

The boy, the male protagonist, is named Qin Hai. He is a police officer who has just graduated from the police academy and joined the public security system. However, due to his childhood experience, he is full of distrust of the police profession and does not have a serious work attitude. He is played by Sun Li.

He Xiuying, the captain of the criminal police squadron, criticized.

A reply from a group friend made Wang Yiqing quickly put down her phone and watch TV.

Wang Ma was surprised and disappointed: "Isn't "The Wife's Lie" not finished yet? Why is it starting to air a new drama again?"

Movie fans are so crazy. The so-called fans pay for idols, which will naturally attract resentment. Moreover, Chen Jingxing has much more black spots than the "Nuo Shen" in his previous life. After all, he is a Chinese director and has more movie fans than Nolan.

many.

[Anyway, I am being normal. Jingshen is not a director, but a screenwriter. If the director fails to produce a good script, it is not the screenwriter’s fault.】

Wang Yiqing was originally a fan of Luo Chen. She started to like Luo Chen when she was in junior high school. In the third year of junior high school, she even had a crazy obsession, which almost affected her studies.

"Today's performance is not "Wives' Lies"."

Wang Yiqing was chatting animatedly with the group of friends. "Jingshen" is the nickname given to Chen Jingxing by their fans. It's a bit like calling Cameron "Kingshen" and calling Peter Jackson "Peter the Great".

[I’m so nervous. If this drama really doesn’t work, some people will start to get upset again]

The boy turned around and noticed a woman with long hair wearing red high heels walking towards the school. When he looked back, he saw that this woman had picked up the girl standing at the door.

Li Shian on the other end of the intercom told Qin Hai that Xu Jun, who was identified by the police as killing Ma Xiaojing and was missing, was not the murderer. His body was hung in an abandoned kiln in the backyard of a tube building. The real suspect

Killing him and cutting off his thumb, blaming him for all the crimes, and being attacked by someone before he could finish the sentence - this high-energy plot once again made Wang Ma scream in surprise.

When I entered a key high school, on the one hand, the academic pressure was heavier, and on the other hand, Luo Chen returned to China, and there was no stage performance, and his work as an actor was mediocre. His passion began to fade, and his enthusiasm turned from strong to weak, but he still did not lose his fandom.

But as Luochen made one lukewarm and unattractive movie after another, his love for him gradually waned.

It rained when school was over, and the classmates rushed to hold umbrellas and leave. The girl stood at the door to take shelter from the rain. The awkward boy stood with an umbrella. He wanted to share the umbrella, but was a little shy. When he saw the girl, he turned around and smiled.

, lowered his head and ran away.

After "The Signal" she became a die-hard fan of Chen Jingxing's movies, the kind who always takes advantage of everyone and fights with her keyboard when encountering disparaging comments.

"It's strange that TV stations have started to broadcast TV series that suit your taste?" Wang Ma looked at Mango TV's advertisement and wondered: "Isn't this Mango TV? Is "The Wife's Lie" suit your taste? Didn't you just say that just the day before yesterday?

Have you ever thought that this drama is so clichéd and ridiculous? Your appetite has changed so quickly?" This TV series is also one that Wang Ma has been following every day these days.

【It’s about to start!】

【here we go!】

The endless words coming from the walkie-talkie made Qin Hai confused and frightened to the extreme. He had no idea who was on the other side of the walkie-talkie and thought there was something wrong with his brain because the walkie-talkie had no battery.

The boy returned to a person's home, but suddenly saw the news of a girl being kidnapped on TV. When he arrived at school the next day, the school entrance was surrounded by reporters and police. The whole school was full of panic. He

Seeing this pushing and shoving situation, I thought about the situation when my brother was arrested by the police. I felt a little dazed and did not have the courage to say that I had witnessed the kidnapping process.

Although Wang Yiqing was also excited by this scene, she was not surprised. After all, it was the TV series version of "The Signal", and of course it had the same science fiction setting.

Although fans of Chen Jingxing bravely confront the naysayers online, they are also worried about the quality. On the one hand, the works of DreamWorks or "Jingshen" - including the screenwriter's works - have an average Douban score of 8.6

, no work has a low score

At 8.5 points, these are the important data they are touting. If the big words are blown out, this drama will definitely attract the ridicule of the black fans. This is the first Waterloo of DreamWorks or Chen Jingxing, "

The "invincible golden body" is about to be broken.

In the lively and noisy playground, a little girl in school uniform sat quietly with a racket in hand. When she looked around boredly, she saw a boy drawing circles on the ground. The girl walked towards the boy in a friendly manner, but the shy and lonely little boy walked awkwardly.

It's open.

There was new progress in the case. News reports stated that the suspect had been identified as Xu Jun, a male student at Shancheng Medical University based on fingerprints and threatening letters, but the murderer had not been found. The boy was puzzled because the suspect was obviously a woman.

He went to the police station and thought about the situation when his brother was arrested. He calmed down and randomly grabbed the passing police officers at the top of the stairs and said that the suspect was a woman, but no one wanted to stop and listen to what the boy said.

[It’s also very dangerous. Mango Channel finally chose a weekly broadcast. I checked Mango’s weekly theaters but couldn’t find it. I’m afraid that “Signal” was cheated by Mango]

"Don't all TV series act like this? If they were all like you, which TV series would catch your eye? Let me tell you, don't grab the remote control from me. "The Wife's Lie" was being played at a critical moment yesterday.

If you want to watch what you like, go back to your computer and watch it. Didn’t you say that there are all kinds of dramas on your computer? There are all kinds of dramas from abroad."

"Isn't this Deng Chao?" Wang Ma, who had exclaimed when she saw He Xiuying, the captain of the criminal police squadron played by Sun Li, exclaimed again: "So Deng Chao plays the criminal policeman Qin Hai played when he was a child? Then he and Qin Hai and

It’s been eighteen years since Sun Li!”

She is a prospective second-year student at Jiangcheng University. She is on summer vacation. She was originally going to attend a party convened by the high school monitor today. She was still on the way there when she suddenly remembered that "Signal" would be broadcast on Mango TV today, so she found

She made an excuse to come back early - in fact, she didn't want to go herself, and she didn't get along with the monitor's group when she was in high school.

Not only Wang Yiqing, but also Wang Ma felt that the picture was a bit strange. She raised her right arm and said: "It feels like the tone of this TV series is different from other dramas. It's a bit like...like..."

A greasy male voice sounded: "The next broadcast is "Signal"... Mango Weekly Theater is sponsored by Anmuxi Yogurt..."

In particular, "Source Code" created a record in film history. The number of Chen Jingxing's fans, including the number of extreme fans, has greatly increased. Naturally, Heizi has also rebounded greatly. Fortunately, the quality of the movies is excellent, and both domestic and foreign results have been achieved by national films, so they have not yet reached the level of

The extent of PTSD caused by Wu Jing.

It was the first time for Wang's mother to see such a scene transition in a TV series. She couldn't help but be a little confused and asked questions to her daughter. However, Wang Yiqing was already focused on the TV screen and ignored her mother's doubts.

But Ma Xiaojing's murder case has always been a knot in his mind. After careful consideration, in order to prove that there was nothing wrong with his mind, he went to the address told by the mysterious man on the intercom to visit the long-abandoned Tongzi Building.

This plot uses a montage of alternating flashes, allowing Qin Hai to discover that the abandoned walkie-talkie and Li Shian picking up the walkie-talkie to speak happened almost at the same time.

Poetic shots narrate this straightforward plot, but it is surprisingly easy to empathize with, and the repressed emotions are extremely contagious. Wang Yiqing no longer has the heart to follow the Q group, she already has a vague premonition that the tone of this drama will be

It seems much heavier than the movie version.

The boy stood helplessly in the corridor, with no one listening to his explanation. He ran down the stairs in frustration and was about to go home, but he happened to bump into the detective Li Shian played by Deng Chao, and dropped a note - it read crookedly.

"The murderer is a woman".

Li Shi'an didn't seem to be surprised. He put the intercom to his mouth and began to describe the state and identity of the deceased. At the same time, the young detective Qin Hai, played by Zhang Ruoyun, subconsciously walked to a corner at the end and heard something that seemed to come from the intercom.

A man's voice rang out, and Qin Hai followed the sound and found a walkie-talkie from the abandoned garbage.

"Nonsense, "Wife's Lies" only aired in its 30th episode yesterday. I watched the entire episode on TV, which is over 50th episode..." Wang Ma was interrupted by a preview from Mango TV before she could finish her words.

"You don't need to watch this. There are so many commentary and complaint videos on the Internet. Even if I haven't watched an episode, I already know what kind of bloody plot he plays."

A director who is so topical and has a group of fans touting him will naturally have problems. Chen Jingxing cannot control the behavior of his fans or fans, and usually the director's fans have a sense of superiority because they all claim to be movie fans and watch a lot of movies.

It's not bad at all, and it's not an ordinary audience, so if you punch foreign directors online and step on Chinese directors, you can only say that "Jingshen" is the number one director in China or even the world.

[This just shows that DreamWorks has not injected enough water. To be honest, I am not very optimistic even if there are only 25 episodes. The "Signal" movie is only two hours. Everything including the rhythm feels just right. The story is very complete. I really can't finish it.

How can one understand such a story and make it into a TV series with dozens of episodes?】

Wang Ma was puzzled: "Don't you like watching "Wife's Lies"?"

Wang Yiqing ignored her mother's disappointment and picked up her phone again before the commercial ended to enter the Q group - this was a Chen Jingxing fan group she joined.

After Mango TV routinely skipped the title sequence, the camera with a dim yellow background moved down from the empty sky to a campus playground - an empty mirror that looked like a movie.

[Is there really only 25 episodes? There are fewer star dramas with 25 episodes these days than Giant Panda]

On the other hand, the weekly theaters are really worrying. Everyone feels that Chinese audiences have not developed the habit of watching weekly dramas. Even if "The Signal" is of excellent quality, it may be difficult to achieve good ratings. Do you think

It's been a week since the last episode was aired. Maybe I've even forgotten the plot. How can I still follow it with more enthusiasm?

When Li Shi'an had an argument with his boss while investigating the kidnapping case of Ma Xiaojing, when he was feeling depressed, he saw He Xiuying, played by Sun Li, who was obviously more than a little younger in a police uniform, walking into the office to comfort Li Shi'an - the younger version of Sun Li not only used makeup,

And I also used some special effects to finally achieve such an effect that basically has no sense of dissonance.

Wang Ma was doing stretching exercises on the side. This is her secret recipe for health. It is very suitable to do when watching TV series. She glanced at her daughter who was sitting upright as if she was watching cartoons when she was a child. She was also a little curious. She has rarely done this since she entered junior high school.

Seeing that my daughter is so focused and enthusiastic about the TV set made me feel disappointed.

Without giving up, she also had a slight interest in the upcoming TV series to see what TV series was worthy of interrupting "Wives' Lies" to occupy Saturday's prime time - I have to say that she was still thinking about yesterday's "Wives' Lies"

Her enthusiasm for following the drama was greatly affected by the subsequent plot where the scumbag slapped her mistress.

The turning point was "Fatal Identity". She was still in her senior year of high school when "Fatal Identity" was released, so she didn't watch it in time. Her computer was disconnected from the Internet, and even her mobile phone was a feature phone and she couldn't find resources. She just didn't like what her classmates had seen.

Juekou made her feel itchy. After passing the college entrance examination, she immediately found the movie online and after watching it, she felt very surprised. She never thought that domestic movies could produce such creativity.

[Let them be upset, even if this movie fails, the minimum score should be 7 points. I don’t believe that DreamWorks can still make a truly bad movie. Even if it is a 7-point movie, the average score of Jingshen’s works will be at least 8.2 points.

Okay, let’s beat others up]

Because the tube building eighteen years later was more dilapidated than what Li Shian had seen, and it was night, the feeling of horror and suspense was even greater, which made Wang Yiqing clenched her fists and held her breath in fear.

There were two kiln wells in the backyard. Qin Hai removed the cover of the first manhole and found nothing. This made the mother and daughter in front of the TV relax a little. Qin Hai thought about it again and moved the manhole cover of the second kiln well.

, a skeleton actually appeared under the light of the flashlight.

When Wang Ma and Wang Yiqing gasped, the first episode ended, and a sad and beautiful melody sounded. Wang Yiqing was stunned: "Is there such a break in the episode?"

Wang Ma also stroked her chest before she recovered from the fright of the skeleton: "No wonder you insist on watching this TV series. It's really exciting. Who filmed it?"

(End of chapter)