Dreams of the Fragrant River

Guan Zhilin's temperament is very lazy, which is not only reflected in the poor filming, she can't even get up in the morning.

Li Jiaxin is completely different. Although she is also eager to enjoy herself, she works very seriously.

After tossing until midnight last night, Li Jiaxin still woke up early in the morning. She opened her eyes in a daze, saw a pair of dogs and men entangled on the bed, and immediately recalled the absurdity of last night.

"Wake up so early?" Kang Jianfei asked with the switch Zhilin's arm resting on him, sitting up.

"Well, I can't sleep when I wake up." Li Jiaxin replied while putting on clothes.

Kang Jianfei put on a sports t-shirt and shorts and ran to the open space downstairs to practice boxing. Li Jiaxin put on her clothes and looked back at Guan Zhilin, who was sleeping like a dead pig, and suddenly felt a sense of emptiness and daze.

To be honest, Li Jiaxin does have a good impression of Kang Jianfei. This kind of affection turned into a liking after the two broke through the relationship between men and women, but it is still far from the word "love". Staying by Kang Jianfei's side as his lover is all about money. This kind of relationship once made Li Jiaxin feel sad for a time - no woman is inferior in the world.

Now that she has not only become this Kang Jianfei's mistress, but also serves him with another woman, Li Jiaxin feels that the last trace of her dignity has been torn to shreds.

After Kang Jianfei finished punching, he went to the bathroom to wash up again. When returning to the living room, Li Jiaxin had asked the Filipino maid to prepare breakfast, like a normal couple having breakfast together.

When Kang Jianfei went out, Li Jiaxin kept putting him in the car before coming back, sitting in the empty living room doing nothing, not knowing what to do.

Li Jiaxin suddenly missed the old days a little, either reading to do housework, or shooting advertisements to make money to subsidize the family. Occasionally I have time to hang out with a few friends, and I already feel very happy. Although I am rich now, I have a lot of time every day to do whatever I want. But it's more emptiness than before.

Of course, let Li Jiaxin go back to the poor days before. She won't even kill her.

"Why haven't you left yet?" Guan Zhilin walked over in this nightdress with her hair disheveled.

Li Jiaxin raised the bar and said, "This is Brother Fei's house, why should I leave?"

Guan Zhilin stretched and said, "I'm too lazy to quarrel with you, do you still have breakfast?"

"It seems that there is still a little bit more, go to the kitchen and see for yourself." Li Jiaxin didn't have the heart to quarrel with Guan Zhilin. What is there to argue with the two mistresses?

Li Jiaxin flipped through fashion magazines boringly, and read one magazine. Guan Zhilin has also packed up and appeared in front of her in a bright and beautiful body.

Seeing that Guan Zhilin was carrying this bag, Li Jiaxin asked mysteriously, "Where are you going?"

"Shopping." Guan Zhilin said.

Li Jiaxin put down the magazine and said, "Let's go together."

"Let's go." Guan Zhilin smiled, called her female bodyguard and went out.

Looking at Guan Zhilin's female bodyguard, Li Jiaxin couldn't help but feel a sense of comparison, and thought to herself: Next time, let Brother Fei invite me one too.

In the past, the most prosperous shopping mall in Hong Kong was in Central, but in the past ten years, the rent of houses in Central has been too high, and the commercial center of Hong Kong Island has begun to spread to Sheung Wan, Wanchai and other places, and Causeway Bay has become the most prosperous and lively shopping place.

The two sports cars drove to Causeway Bay in tandem, stopping in the parking lot near Sogo Department Store.

Guan Zhilin walked in front wearing sunglasses. Said: "There is a spa on the fifth floor of Sogo that is good. I will take you to try it later."

Li Jiaxin said: "I usually do nursing at Keeley George Street."

Guan Zhilin smiled and said, "It's outdated over there."

After all, Li Jiaxin has not lived a rich life for less than a year, so Guan Zhilin is so familiar with spending money to lose a family. Suddenly I had the idea of ​​humbly learning from my predecessors.

The two walked into the department store together and immediately attracted the attention of everyone around them.

"Aunt Thirteen!"

"How come Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin go shopping together?"

"Yes, they are rivals in love."

"..."

In Hong Kong's palm-sized place, it is normal to meet a star. Unless it is Zhou Runfa, Anita Mui, and Alan Tam, most people won't be too excited when they meet small stars.

Although Guan Zhilin is famous, her star aura is still insufficient. Unless she encounters a die-hard fan, there is basically no situation where she is surrounded by passers-by to sign an autograph.

But this time it was different. The two rivals in love appeared in the department store talking and laughing. It was as if the sun was coming out of the west.

I don't know who notified the reporter, but the next day, photos of them shopping together appeared on the entertainment pages of several newspapers. And the behavior of the two was analyzed. The final conclusion is: after Kang Jianfei and He Chaoqiong got married, Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin were both out in this love battle. Under the same fate, they finally turned enemies into friends.

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When Kang Jianfei went to the mainland to select a location, the animated film "Mulan" by Dark Horse Animation finally began to be screened across the board in North America in the spring.

The spring season starts from the spring break. Although it is not as important as the summer season and the end of the year (Thanksgiving and Christmas), the movies that can be released at this time are also very good-looking by theaters and distributors.

No one can guarantee the box office of "Mulan" in North America, because this is not only a Chinese film, but also an animated film. However, the previous point screening effect was very good, so when it was officially released, "Mulan" got 625 screens.

In 1998, Disney's original version of "Mulan" earned more than 300 million US dollars at the global box office. Kang Jianfei felt that he was satisfied that his global box office could break through 100 million. After all, the original version is supported by the name of Disney. During the holidays, many parents in the United States will bring their children into the movie for the name of Disney. And Kang Jianfei's dark horse animation company is not well-known, so it will be very difficult to promote it.

Now this "Mulan" is compared with the Disney version, only some details have been changed in the plot, but the soundtrack is completely different. The songs in it are all completed by Hu Weili.

Disney's version of "Mulan" draws on the casualness and freehand brushwork of traditional Chinese painting in character modeling, and a few strokes show the character's expression, mood and inner personality. The film uses a large number of freehand ink paintings as the background, landscapes, flowers, gardens, fields, and has a strong Chinese style. The colors are not Disney's usual heavy, but completely imitate the lightness of Chinese ink paintings.

But it is worth noting that its ink background does not have the feeling of ink moistening rice paper, but incorporates Disney's consistent thickness on the basis of freehand brushwork. Although the background is empty and atmospheric, and the foreground is well-defined, the foreground and background are consistent in showing the rich color, a little less chic and a little more disciplined.

This style is a breakthrough of Disney. It is not difficult for Americans to accept it, but Chinese people will definitely feel awkward when looking at it.

More than half of the animators of the Dark Horse Animation Company are from the mainland. These people are either famous teachers or apprentices, and their level is absolutely world-class.

Kang Jianfei wanted to imitate Disney's style by incorporating the toughness of American comics into his ink painting style, in order to cater to the aesthetics of American audiences. But after trying it out, the animators in the company were arrogant one by one, saying that they didn't make it like this, and they wouldn't do it if they were beaten to death.

Kang Jianfei couldn't make trouble with those professionals either, so in the end he just followed their wishes and used this cartoon to test the waters in North America.

The style that finally came out is very similar to "Havoc in Heaven". As for whether the American people like it or not, it will only be known after it is released.

A lot of publicity expenses were poured into it. Fortunately, there were no blockbusters to grab the box office during the same period, and no Disney animation to grab the audience. As the only animated film in the spring season, "Mulan" has become the first choice for parents who take their children to watch movies.

It won $8.61 million at the box office in the first weekend, and "Mulan" ranked second in the North American spring week box office, which is an excellent result. And "Mulan" has a very strong stamina, with a drop of only 21.4% in the second week, continuing to rank second in the weekly box office list. In the third week, the decline was ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The weekly box office surpassed the original first place, but the weekly box office champion was snatched by another newly released film, and it still ranked second in the weekly box office list.

No. 2 at the box office for three consecutive weeks, but the box office data of this ten thousand years old second is extremely impressive. At the end of the fourth week, the cumulative box office in North America has reached 24.48 million US dollars.

This result is definitely not in the top ten of this year's North American box office, not even in the top twenty, but as a Chinese animated film, it can get more than 20 million US dollars at the box office in North America. The gang from Dark Horse Comics The animators are all crazy.

Excluding publicity expenses and dividends from distributors and academies, "Mulan" can be divided into more than 3 million US dollars in North America, and the production cost of this film is less than 200,000 US dollars.

Who says animated movies can't make money?

After the news came back to Hong Kong, those who did animation in Hong Kong were stupid. They were so poor that they could only make animation clips for advertisements and movies. Where have they ever seen animation making millions of dollars at one time.

After "Mulan" achieved good results in North America, it immediately took advantage of this momentum and was screened in Hong Kong. (To be continued)()