Perfect Life

Chapter 15: idle sorrow

Little girls have always been able to hide their thoughts.

After watching the movie, Wang Jinglu looked happy for several days in a row.

She couldn't hide her appearance, so that night Wang Jinglu's mother asked her, "What good things happened? Why are you so happy?"

The little girl was startled, her eyes rolled, and she said, "I watched a good movie, and I think the hero and heroine are very happy."

This statement made Wang Jinglu's mother very at a loss.

On the second day, before class, her best friends couldn't help but ask, "Hey, Xiaolu, why are you so happy? Have you decided to accept that Prince Charming?"

"He's obviously the Prince of Blue Horses, okay? That Lamborghini is so handsome!"

"Hey, are you dating a prince or a horse?"

"Che, Xiaolu, don't pay attention to them... I said, that handsome guy is so handsome, it's almost time to get married!"

"The key is Lamborghini. At first glance, you know that the family must be super rich!"

"You're a money-worshipping girl, go to hell, don't ruin our Xiaolu's view of love, okay?"

"Hey, a woman to be married who is going to get married this summer, what do you know about love and not love? Marriage is the grave of love. You are going to go to the grave. What love is there to talk about!"

"Hey, I said, you talk so much, have you put Li Qian in your eyes, he is a childhood sweetheart..."

"Cut, Xiaolu said it herself, they are just ordinary friends! Besides, what does Li Qian compare to others, they are top students who graduated from Cambridge University, look at Li Qian, well, although he has recently The progress is very fast, but the National University has reached the top, our little Lu will be a big star in the future, he is not worthy of it! Cambridge University is worthy of it!"

Wang Jinglu kept her head down and listened to their nonsense. Until someone mentioned Li Qian, she couldn't help raising her head and timidly defended, "Hey, Li Qian is not as bad as you said!"

"what?…"

All the Women's Army raised a surprised voice of doubt.

……

After school in the afternoon, Li Qian rarely stayed at school to practice guitar.

In the newsstand at the school gate, he chose for a long time, and finally picked out two newspapers and one magazine and bought them.

The two newspapers are: Variety Express and Movie Weekly.

The magazine is "China Film Weekly".

Tonight, these two newspapers and one magazine are his homework.

But unfortunately, apart from some instant news from the entertainment industry, "Variety Express" basically has no weight, so Li Qian has to lament that he still spent a lot of money. So he just skimmed through it, put it aside, and decided not to buy it again.

The weekly box-office statistics on "Movie Weekly" is one of the most important things to him.

However, the situation does not seem to be optimistic.

"Alien No. 3" is officially off the assembly line. Before that, it has swept the polar bear country and swept away 170 million rubles at the box office, equivalent to more than 200 million US dollars! In China, this blockbuster also swept away a full 325 million yuan, equivalent to more than 160 million U.S. dollars, making it the fourth largest domestic box office over the years. Here, "Movie Weekly" lists some past information, which is What I have to mention: Since 1975, when detailed domestic box-office statistics were available, there are only 9 films with over 100 million yuan in domestic box-office history, of which 4 are imported films, namely "Alien" The 325 million Chinese dollars of "Man No. 3" came from the United States, the 158 million Chinese dollars of "Best Lover" also came from the United States, and the 131 million Chinese dollars of "Star Wars" Part III, of course, came from the United States, and "National Mission". 107 million Chinese yuan from the Soviet Union.

Among them, it is particularly worth mentioning that "The Best Lover" was released in 1982, and its domestic box office record of 158 million yuan was not broken until 1988 by a domestic film. Before that, it had occupied seven Years at the top of the box office charts! And if you take into account the factors of rising prices, its box office is comparable to the current "Alien No. 3"!

Holding the newspaper in his hand, Li Qian pondered for a long time.

"Movie Weekly" deliberately mentioned this point in retrospect, presumably the editors of this newspaper must already have some ideas, but unfortunately, they did not really put forward any opinions on this.

What they did was to hoarsely take out an entire page to cheer for "The Three Musketeers in White"! Three film reviews and one editor's note, all of which are vigorous advocacy, calling on people to go to the cinema to contribute to the box office!

Of course, "Three Musketeers in White" is also a good candidate. Although it only lasted for four days in the first week of its launch, it won a box office of more than 14.83 million nationwide. Last week, the second week of its launch, their decline was also very small. It won 14.22 million in seven days. If the decline is calculated according to the weekend box office, it only fell by 12.5%, and the total box office in two weeks has reached 29.05 million Chinese yuan.

According to the estimates of "Film Weekly", if the current downward trend can be maintained, even if it is only released for 8 weeks, the film is expected to break 80 million yuan. It's not that there is no hope at all, anyway, martial arts movies are the favorite of Chinese people.

It is said that the investment in this film is less than 20 million, so it can be said that the profit is a foregone conclusion.

It should be said that on the whole, "Film Weekly" is relatively optimistic about the future development prospects of domestic films, so Li Qian is a little... disappointed.

Opening "Movie Weekly", Li Qian's eyes lit up instead.

In its first film review, a murderous title was given that may make most filmmakers feel a bit sensational - "The Wolf is Coming!" 》

Yes, here comes the wolf!

This film review comprehensively analyzes the gap between domestic films and Hollywood blockbusters represented by "Alien No. 3" in terms of script creativity, directing techniques, photography, editing, and even soundtracks, especially focusing on Hollywood's special effects, expressing The author's deep concern as a film critic.

At the end of the article, the author also deliberately provides advice for domestic film practitioners. The brief summary is three points:

First, we must pay attention to the creativity and innovation of movie scripts, and don’t continue to fight with martial arts films. No matter how much Chinese people love to watch martial arts, they will get tired of it. The interests of film practitioners must be ahead of the market, leading the market, not You should watch what is popular, what is making money and what is fast, which leads to a large number of blind followers;

Second, step up the improvement of the overall supporting level of the film industry. If the cameras need to be eliminated, they should be eliminated. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. No matter how good your story is, you can't hold back the blurred movie scenes. For film production companies, it is a must to spend some money to buy, or simply entrust universities and research institutes to study better cameras. Moreover, the domestic film printing technology is too outdated. If they do not develop quickly and catch up , you will be stuck in the neck in the future;

Third, the film production company should immediately send someone to Hollywood to learn special effects production, no matter how much money you spend, don’t feel bad! In the future, the use of computer-generated special effects to shoot large-scale productions with large investment will definitely become an absolute trend in the development of the film industry. This is the inevitable law of capital development - high investment and high return! Whoever ignores this point will definitely face a bloodbath in front of the market!

From Li Qian's point of view, this film review is just straight to the point! The last three suggestions are absolutely solid grasping the most critical points.

It can be said that this article has vision, content, opinions, and direction...it's just perfect!

So after reading this film theory twice, he paid special attention and remembered the author's name—

Huang Yujie.

……

After school in the afternoon, Qi Jie still stayed alone in the office to read novels as usual.

The novel is good, she just discovered it last night, a new book by an old author.

In the third class in the afternoon, she didn't have her class. She was sitting in the office fidgeting. In fact, she was waiting for the school bell to ring, so she could read a book happily by herself.

But now, school is over, people are gone, and the whole campus is quiet, but she feels something is wrong.

It was obviously a story she liked very much and wanted to read, but she just felt in a trance and couldn't stand it any longer.

With a sigh, she closed the laptop, stood up, and decided to listen to a song first as usual.

Recently, she has become more and more fond of running to the corridor above the fifth floor after school every afternoon, sitting on the steps and listening to the people upstairs sing a song quietly.

It seems that if she doesn't hear the crisp guitar sound every day, she will feel that some things in her heart have not been completed.

So she got up, opened the door, walked out of the office, and walked upstairs slowly.

But just after walking a few steps, she suddenly found that today...it seems...there is no sound?

She was stunned at first, then surprised.

Listen carefully, there is really no sound!

"Today, he didn't come?" she thought in surprise.

Then, after thinking about it, she continued to go upstairs.

The fourth floor…

The fifth floor…

There is no movement at all!

Inexplicably, she felt a little flustered.

Even his footsteps seemed to suddenly become a lot more anxious.

When she came to the old place where she used to come every day, she listened again, holding her breath.

There was really no movement at all upstairs!

No coughing, no drinking water, and no guitar or singing!

After hesitating for a moment, she slowly climbed up.

When she came to the entrance of the rooftop, she took a deep breath and stepped out suddenly...it was empty!

Completely involuntarily, she sighed in disappointment, her brows furrowed slightly, and a little anxiety was rising in her heart.

On the roof near the corridor, there are eight identical stone benches arranged side by side.

Qi Jie stood at the entrance of the corridor for a moment, then walked over, found a stone bench and sat down, while looking around, looking at the empty rooftop, while imagining the scene on the rooftop in her mind —

A boy, um, should look a little handsome, because his voice is really nice, so people should not be able to see where he goes, of course, maybe he will have a little personality. hair, and then... maybe there will be a pimple or two on your face?

Every afternoon after school, the sun goes down and the residual heat on the balcony is still scorching hot. He holds a guitar like this and sits on one of the stone benches. Maybe the wind blows his hair, or maybe there is no… who know!

The surroundings are very hot, but there is no one, it is very quiet, which is very suitable for a person's lyricism.

In addition to a guitar, he carried a water glass, which was filled with warm water that could moisten his throat between singing.

Then, he started to play the guitar, he started to sing.

Every two or three songs he sang, he would stop, take a break, and take a few sips of water.

Maybe it will be very hot, it will make his face flush, there will be sweat down his chest, down his back, down his cheeks, itching, and then... he will be like those boys who play basketball, UU Reading www.uukanshu. Com simply took off his shirt and left his chest bare, revealing the slightly thin chest muscles of a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old boy.

Then, he played it over and over, singing song after song, unaware that just a few steps away, someone was sitting on the steps, with his eyes closed, listening intently to his every One note, every chant...

……

"I wonder if he will come and continue singing in the future?"

Qi Jie sighed with emotion, as if she wanted to reminisce about something, to pay tribute to something, only to feel a kind of sadness gradually permeating up, twilight-like, unstoppable, making people feel melancholy.

"I don't know if he practiced so many songs and sang that one for the girl he loves. I don't know if the girl accepted his pursuit?"

Thinking of these endless bits and pieces in her mind, Qi Jie looked back at the west sky.

Leng Leng, Leng Leng, she just watched quietly.

Until the sunset sank into the western mountains little by little.

The sky is bright, and the sunset is like fire.

She sighed, stood up, and walked downstairs slowly.

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