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Sitting in the front row of the screening room, Wu Yuan's eyes were empty. Although he was looking at Zhang Guorong who was speaking on the stage, he did not listen carefully to what Zhang Guorong was saying.

After the conversation with Zhang Guorong just now, and when he finally saw Cheng Long's face, Wu Yuan was filled with emotions.

Unconsciously, the first decade of the 21st century has come to an end, and the entertainment industry has entered a new era.

Stars such as Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Cheng Long, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Jet Li, Tony Leung, and Maggie Cheung who once dominated the Chinese film industry have either semi-retired or their box office appeal is not as good as before.

Although they are still the top actors and the biggest movie kings and queens in the country, this era no longer belongs to them.

Although I hate to say it, Chinese-language films in the next ten years will be comedy films.

Starting from this year's "囧", Chinese comedies will always be in the top five box office lists in China, and comedians will become the most box-office-beating actors in mainland movies in the next ten years.

From Xu Zheng to Wang Baoqiang to Happy Mahua to Jia Ling, comedians have become the wealth code of Chinese films.

In comparison, the older generation of movie kings like Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai don't have enough box office appeal.

Fortunately, compared to these actors, directors are still relatively strong, and the four major directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are still producing steadily.

I have to say that the director has the longest career in the entertainment industry.

Just like that, Wu Yuan's thoughts drifted to nowhere, thinking wildly.

Why didn't Liu Yifei come to the premiere with him today? She was busy filming "Get Out!" "Tumor King", Wu Yuan, who had no one to talk to, naturally started to desert.

It wasn't until the main creators of "The Legend of Shushan" finished talking about their bitterness and bitterness in making this movie and the movie was about to officially start screening that Wu Yuan came back to his senses.

"Director Wu, please give me some advice." Zhang Guorong, who had just returned from the stage, said to Wu Yuan in a solemn tone.

As his words fell, the lights in the screening room were turned off, and the familiar dragon logo and the Light and Shadow Times logo lit up one after another on the big screen.

"The movie has started!"

The guests, film critics, and reporters sitting in the back row all fell silent after exclaiming, staring intently at the big screen.

Zhang Guorong is now regarded as a first-tier director in China, especially in the field of special effects blockbusters. "Along with the Gods" directly sent him to the top field. Everyone is still looking forward to this movie.

Sure enough, it lived up to everyone's expectations. At the beginning of the movie, there was a shocking scene.

After the opening credits were played, the big screen suddenly lit up, and a blue mountain towering into the clouds appeared on the screen.

The combination of green mountains, cloud tops, and glowing light is like a fairyland descending, giving the audience a Chinese-style romantic fairyland shock.

The camera slowly zooms in, revealing not-so-gorgeous but very exquisite pavilions and waterside pavilions dotting the green hills, and the classical aesthetics of Chinese-style architecture come to mind.

Between each building, there are huge white cranes flying like cranes, which add a bit of immortality to the green mountains on the top of the clouds.

The camera continued to rotate, leading the audience to visit this paradise on earth from a high altitude in a 360-degree manner, which fully satisfied everyone's fantasy of the "fairy's abode".

This macro shot of Shushan, which started nearly two minutes ago, is burning money every second, or burning a lot of money!

However, the effect was indeed very good, and all the audience at the scene were shocked by this fairyland scene.

The camera continued to slowly zoom in, and a large square appeared in the center of the screen.

On the square, dozens of men and women wearing green shirts and hairpins were holding wooden swords and practicing sword moves in neat rows.

The sword moves are not gorgeous, but under the design of professional martial arts instructors, every move is full of fairy spirit.

In particular, these disciples all have long flowing hair and loose clothes. When they move their swords, their clothes and hair will fly in the wind. It is very pleasing to the eye, and they are both fairy and rustic.

"The martial arts experts from Hong Kong are indeed professional." Wu Yuan also praised with admiration.

At first glance, these martial arts moves were designed by Wu Zhi from Hong Kong Island.

I have to admit that Hong Kong Island is the most professional in Greater China when it comes to martial arts instruction.

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Hong Kong movies have relied on kung fu movies to make a living. In the past few decades, as they have continued to reach their peak, Hong Kong's martial arts instructors have to lag those in Taiwan and mainland China in terms of professionalism and experience. Martial Arts Instruction.

Martial arts films in mainland China and Taiwan all require professional martial arts instructors from Hong Kong. This is the experience accumulated over time and cannot be surpassed in a short time.

Even ten years later, Hong Kong movies have completely declined, but Hong Kong's martial arts instructors are still the best. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

"This opening alone will probably make many Chinese audiences who love Chinese fairy culture and cultivating culture climax." Wu Yuan said with a smile.

Xianxia is a romance unique to Chinese people.

There are three million sword immortals in the sky, but they have to lower their eyebrows when they see me.

Holding a long sword into the sky, the sword fairy floats in the sky.

Outside the world of mortals, swordsmen and immortals travel, and white clouds linger on the waves.

The sword energy stretches across thirty thousand miles, and the light of one sword chills nineteen continents.

In Chinese online literature and classical literature, there are too many poems describing this kind of immortal swordsman.

It's just that this kind of fantasy literature has always stayed in the stage of novel literature and has rarely been adapted into films and TV shows.

Back then, Tsui Hark took a challenge and made a movie version of "Shu Mountain". However, the special effects technology in movies in the 1990s was still very average. When used, those special effects still looked fake and not fairy-like enough.

Even so, "Shu Mountain" has always been regarded as the originator of Chinese fairy tale movies. It is highly praised in the industry and is difficult to forget among movie fans.

Now, with the maturity of movie special effects technology, Xianxia special effects blockbusters with real Xianxia magnanimity have finally appeared.

Looking at the figure of the Shushan disciple Yu Jian flying in the sky in the movie, Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction: "This special effect is really good. Was it made by the company itself?"

"The light and shadow special effects team led the team to do it. It took more than a year to complete these special effects, because this is a Chinese-style fantasy special effect. There is no ready-made template. The special effects company started from scratch one by one. Designed by point-based modeling.”

"The company's group of foreign special effects engineers also read a lot of Chinese fairy literature to try to figure out this fairy culture."

"But after this experience, if we make this kind of Chinese-style fairy tale movie in the future, the production speed of special effects will be much faster. After all, many templates have been made."

"Everything is difficult at the beginning!" The producer from the Light and Shadow Times headquarters introduced to Wu Yuan seriously.

The special effects of "The Legend of Shushan Xianxia" are really not easy to make. After all, it is the first Xianxia special effects blockbuster in the new era. Everything has to be started from scratch. Unlike those sci-fi special effects, there are existing templates that can be directly applied.

"Well done!" Looking at the fairy-like world of Shushan on the big screen, Wu Yuan was satisfied: "This is the fairy!" (End of this chapter)