Dreams of the Fragrant River

For Ang Lee, he chose to watch this movie with his girlfriend, more because he wanted to experience the taste of China during the Lunar New Year, and he didn't have any hope for the level of this movie. [;Starting]

Most of the audience who walked into the movie theater had the same idea as Ang Lee. If they came out to watch movies after the Lunar New Year, they naturally had to watch Chinese movies.

Of course, the 25 theaters in the temporary theater line cannot be played all day long. After the five shows per day are arranged, the other gaps will be reserved for some old movies. The rental price of copies of these old movies is very low, almost free, which is better than nowhere to add more revenue to the theater.

At the beginning, the advanced shooting techniques and beautiful and mature action scenes brought unexpected joy to these Chinese audiences. Because all the old kung fu films that were shown in the Chinese community before, there are almost no modern films like this.

When seeing the many skyscrapers and luxury restaurants in Hong Kong, some Chinese who have not been back for more than ten years will even feel emotional: It turns out that Hong Kong has developed so well!

Ang Lee is different from ordinary audiences. What he sees is the professional aspect of movies. Subverting his understanding of Chinese-language films, he has only now discovered that Hong Kong also has good films that are not inferior to Hollywood.

Ang Lee studied theatre and film for three years in Taiwan, three years in directing at the University of Illinois, and a one-year MFA at New York University. After watching it at this time, although he felt that some details of the film could be handled better, but he really wrote the script and asked Ang Lee to shoot it, but he thought that the overall effect of the film was far inferior to Kang Jianfei's.

"Good fight!"

"Hahaha……"

"Catch that bastard."

"Why did the protagonist die?"

"happy……"

Various voices came from the screening hall one after another. Obviously, the audience was fascinated by the movie, and they shouted out unwittingly.

Laughter, scolds, and cheers were interspersed between the entire movie screenings, and until the movie ended, the audience was still discussing the movie just now.

"This Hong Kong movie is so exciting, it's even better than Hollywood action movies."

"I heard that Mi Gao who died in the movie is the director."

"So young?"

"Didn't you read the newspaper? They were invited to perform at the Los Angeles Music Center."

"I heard that this man was a soldier king who defected from the mainland. He also participated in the Sino-Vietnamese War. He didn't hold a stick of wood, and he swam to Hong Kong in one breath. He killed four Vietnamese on the streets of Hong Kong that day."

"Speak up, he just killed two, and the two Vietnamese were robbers. The news was posted yesterday."

"What do you say the director does? This movie Lin Qingxia is the most interesting."

"Yeah, I've seen Lin Qingxia's films in Chinatown before, all of them are literary films, but I didn't expect that she would actually make kung fu films."

"Those speed shots are really hard work. I watched the behind-the-scenes footage and several people were injured."

"..."

Ang Lee and his girlfriend Lin Huijia were mixed in the crowd, and the audience was full of the audience's comments about the film, the director, and the actors. He couldn't help but longed in his heart: "When will my movie be discussed so excitedly by the audience?"

When Ang Lee was studying in Taiwan. Just made two 8mm experimental films. At the University of Illinois also shot several student works. But there is no chance of a show.

Lin Huijia knew her boyfriend very well. She held Li An's hand tightly and gave Li An a "you can do it" look.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Li An suddenly said, "Huijia. Watch it with me again."

"Okay." Lin Huijia nodded. This is not the first time she has encountered such a situation. Whenever Ang Lee finds a good movie, he can't help but watch it several times.

Ang Lee came to the ticket window and bought two more tickets for the next game. Thinking that the Spring Festival is coming soon, he stopped frugal and bought two more bottles of Coke and some popcorn.

After waiting for a long time, Li An and Lin Huijia once again waited for the movie to be shown. The first time Ang Lee watched the plot and overall effect, but now it's a closer look at each shot.

"It would be great if there was a videotape." Ang Lee sighed, the big screen in the cinema couldn't let him stop the picture and slowly analyze and appreciate it.

The second scene may be because of screen time issues. The attendance rate was slightly lower than that of the first game, and once again it was full of praise. After the movie, there was a lot of applause.

When Li An returned to his dormitory with his girlfriend, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening, and he was still thinking about the various scenes in his mind.

From Ang Lee's professional perspective. This film is difficult to see in Hollywood, no matter from the director's technique, photography, and special effects. I heard that the director surnamed Kang came from the mainland. How can he make such a high-quality commercial film?

When he came back, Li An incidentally bought two Chinese-language newspapers, all of which were about Kang Jianfei.

After reading the newspaper, Ang Lee said to his girlfriend with a bit of depression: "Hui Jia, I found out that I came to the United States to study film for several years, and my film literacy is not as good as that of a 19-year-old mainland boy who was a half-way monk. Has the book been read in vain?"

Lin Huijia comforted: "Everyone has their own talents. Maybe this Kang Jianfei was born to eat this bowl. You are also very talented, but your ability needs to be accumulated, so you must not give up halfway."

Sometimes, a good helper is even more important to a man than his own ability.

Like the Ang Lee couple in the parallel space, Ang Lee was so poor when they got married that Ang Lee's mother, who rushed over from Taiwan to attend the wedding, held Lin Huijia's hand and wept and apologized, saying she had wronged her. After Li An graduated with a master's degree, he couldn't even find a job. He had to rely on Lin Huijia, who was studying for a Ph.D., to support himself.

Even Li An's friends couldn't stand it anymore, and persuaded him to give up his dream early and honestly find a job to support his family. So Li An secretly went to learn computer, but after being discovered by Lin Huijia, he scolded him and said, "There are so many computer learning, and there is no shortage of you, Li An!"

Only then did Li An give up the idea of ​​changing careers to learn computer science, and went to the film company to apply for a job, starting from guarding film equipment for people, and slowly getting ahead step by step.

If Ang Lee's wife is not Lin Huijia, there may be one more computer elite and one less well-known director in the future.

After being comforted by his girlfriend. Ang Lee cheered up again, took out a pen and paper to write down what he saw today, and was going to watch the movie again another day to think about it carefully.

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On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Kang Jianfei couldn't wait to call Jiang Zhiqiang and asked, "Has the box office data for the first day come out?"

"It came out," Jiang Zhiqiang said, "25 theaters, with an average attendance rate of 62.5%, and the box office on the first day of more than 63,000 US dollars."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Brother Jiang." Kang Jianfei hung up the phone. Can't help but sigh. He has also read several time-travels before. After someone else crosses over, it will cost millions to buy a building for a woman casually. He is here to carefully calculate the gross profit of tens of thousands of dollars a day.

And this is around the Lunar New Year, so the number of people watching the movie will be relatively large. It is estimated that the attendance rate will plummet in half a month, and it will be good to earn 30,000 US dollars a day.

After Kang Jianfei put down the phone. After writing a messy script for a while, out of boredom, I made a cross-border phone call to Hong Kong.

The first call was Zhao Yazhi. Sister Zhi was his first woman in this world and held a very important position in Kang Jianfei's heart.

After the call was connected, Zhao Yazhi's lazy and weak voice came from the other end: "Hey, who is calling so late."

Only then did Kang Jianfei remember the time difference, it was probably 1:00 in the morning over there. He smiled apologetically: "Sister Zhi, did you disturb your rest?"

"Afei?" Zhao Yazhi's voice on the phone. From stupefied to sudden joy.

Kang Jianfei said, "It's me, Sister Zhi, do you miss me?"

Zhao Yazhi said angrily, "You rascal, you have been away for more than a month and then called back once, and even the phone number is always changing."

Kang Jianfei sighed: "Alas. I can't do anything about it. These days, I'm running around the United States. It's better to be in Hong Kong, and I'll hit a wall here."

Zhao Yazhi heard Kang Jianfei's low tone, and immediately asked worriedly, "A Fei, what's the matter with you?"

Kang Jianfei was really depressed by the attitude of those big Hollywood companies some time ago, but when he heard Zhao Yayi's question, he immediately cheered up and said with a smile: "Hahaha, it's nothing, those Hollywood companies dare to give Laozi a face. Look, they will feel better in the future."

Zhao Yazhi said softly: "A Fei, if you have any trouble, just tell Sister Zhi that if you can't do it, just go back to Hong Kong. Anyway, your movies are selling well in Asia."

Kang Jianfei is not someone who hides under the covers to comfort a woman. He pretended to laugh smartly: "It's okay, I just complained when I was upset, and I'll come back when the box office sells in the US."

"You, you know how to be brave," Zhao Yazhi said, "How can the American film market be so easy to enter? Shaw Brothers has made films for decades~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is the only one that sells at the box office in the United States. There is only one movie, and Golden Harvest can only make money from Bruce Lee's few movies. I heard that Mr. Zou of Golden Harvest spent a lot of money on the film last year, and it also hit the streets in the United States. No one will laugh at you when you go back to Hong Kong now."

Kang Jianfei could only turn around to comfort Zhao Yazhi: "Don't worry, Sister Zhi. I don't dare to say anything else. It can still sell at least $5 million at the box office in the United States."

"Really? I heard that it only sold eight or nine million at the box office in the United States." Zhao Yazhi said.

"When did I lie to you?" Kang Jianfei immediately changed the subject and started talking to Zhao Yazhi.

Not long after hanging up the phone with Zhao Yazhi, Jiang Zhiqiang suddenly called again and said excitedly, "It has gone up, and the attendance has gone up. The two theaters in New York's Chinatown, The attendance rate has reached 80%, and the theater attendance rate in other places has also increased slightly."

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I heard from friends in the group that Pharaoh will have to update 14 chapters today to pay off the debt...