The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 647 Cliff
"So Young" won the first-day box office championship, achieving remarkable results and having no rivals during the same period.

In mainland China, the youth film genre is relatively scarce as it has not yet formed a relatively stable film genre like Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.

So when a movie like this came out, the public showed unprecedented enthusiasm.

Since the day before the premiere, the three words "To Youth" have occupied the top three positions in various searches on Weibo.

On the 26th, it topped multiple topic charts including the Weibo comprehensive hot search list, real-time hot words, and film and television hot search list.

In light of past examples, with the announcement of the excellent first-day box office results, major cinemas will further increase their screening schedule based on the original 34.02%.

In addition, there is a short May Day holiday next week, and the final box office performance of "So Young" is generally optimistic, and the industry expects it to at least exceed 5 million yuan.

Dark horse for sure.

The media and professionals have given high praise, including the performance of the second female lead Liu Shishi, which is remarkable.

Such a result made Liu Shishi overjoyed. She sat astride her boyfriend's legs and estimated how much money she could get.

"Based on a 6.7% share, with a box office of 5 million, I can get 1000 million before tax, and after deducting the tax, 800 million. Eh, it's a little too little."

She did a rough calculation and felt it was not worth it: "Movies really don't make money, and the risks are huge. You can't be sure you'll lose everything. Even if you take such a big risk, in the end you won't make as much as I did with Eternal Love. No wonder Zhou Xun and the others have started making TV dramas too."

Her pay is not as high as Lu Yuan's, but in the TV drama market, her value is as high as 500,000 or 600,000 per episode. After one drama, her income is also considerable, around tens of millions.

Compared to movies, TV series not only have stable returns but also much lower risks.

The sunlight shone through the glass onto the desk, feeling warm. Lu Yuan put his arms around her waist and could see the little fuzz on her earlobes and neck.

He pinched her earlobe lightly, smiling: "You can think so, and everyone thinks so, so a lot of outsiders have poured into the TV drama market in the past two years."

Seeing her wrinkled nose, Lu Yuan moved the script off the table and said, "Be content. 1000 million is not a small amount. Ordinary people may not be able to earn that much in their lifetime."

"I know, I was just saying it casually." Liu Shishi said coquettishly and pinched his lips, not wanting to listen to his lecture.

She was acting coquettishly and suddenly felt her body lighten and she was carried to the desk by him.

"What are you going to do?"

"Swish!" Lu Yuan pulled the curtains.

"'Youth' is a big hit at the box office. You must have made at least 10 million. Shouldn't you celebrate?"

"Then how do you want to celebrate?" Liu Shishi raised her white feet and placed them against his chest, biting her lips, her eyes full of ambiguity and teasing.

Lu Yuan brushed it aside casually: "Of course, we celebrate by clapping our hands together."

"Pfft, you're annoying!"

Lu Yuan carried his girlfriend, who was whimpering, into the bedroom.

Although Miss Liu was already limp and let him do what he wanted, she still held her arms around his neck and refused to let him go.

Lu Yuan had no choice but to comfort her for a while.

After her breathing became even, he quietly withdrew, climbed out of bed, took a shower, and returned to the battlefield.

The light in the study was dim and shadows were everywhere. I drew open the curtains and opened the windows to let in fresh air and dispel the inappropriate smell in the house.

Then he picked up Liu Shishi's lace underwear hanging on the corner of the table, and threw the sticky paper ball on the ground accurately into the trash can.

Then he wiped the stained table.

After everything was sorted out, Lu Yuan stood in front of the table and looked around, feeling that something was missing.

He looked around and finally stopped at the upper right corner of the table, remembering that the script was originally placed there.

He squatted down and searched around again before picking up the script of "The Cliff" in the corner.

Pulling out a chair and sitting down, Lu Yuan took a deep breath.

"The Cliff" is the third spy drama he will star in since his debut.

He might fail in any other type of film or TV series, except in the field of espionage.

After all, he got his start in spy war dramas, which are also his base and private territory on the small screen.

In recent years, there has been no shortage of other actors involved in spy war dramas, but none of them can match "Insidious" and "Before Dawn" in terms of depth or influence.

The gap between the works and professional capabilities is not just a little bit, but far from being comparable.

Restricted by the increasingly shrinking censorship mechanism, the current spy war drama market has gradually fallen into a vicious circle, moving closer to anti-Japanese war dramas.

The background is set on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

The underground party, the Military Control Commission, Japanese and puppet spies and other forces are intertwined to form an intricate network of confrontation.

These are actually understandable.

If it purely depicts the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it would be quite sensitive, but if some anti-Japanese elements were added and more devils were killed, it would be classified as an anti-Japanese war drama.

The logic is wrong, killing Japanese devils, the character is exaggerated, killing Japanese devils, Hengdian killed 7 million Japanese devils in one year.

Nowadays, anti-Japanese war dramas and spy war dramas can basically be mixed into the same category, as long as the anti-Japanese stance remains unchanged.

If the plot is up to par, these wouldn't be a problem. But when it comes to the actual story, it makes people laugh.

Driven by commercial interests, "commercial nationalism" has been infinitely magnified, rationality and logic have been thrown out the window, and spy war dramas have gradually become a tool for making money.

Based on such a market, producers have only one requirement, which is to be different and surpass others.

In order to make their works stand out, screenwriters have no choice but to go against historical facts, deviate from reality, and make up outrageous stories.

For example, seduction, assassination, and obtaining intelligence in exchange for money.

During the promotion, the crew called it a breakthrough in spy war dramas.

In fact, these plots clearly violated the basic principles of underground work.

If these are still acceptable and barely in line with reality, then the other category is speechless.

This type of plot often challenges the audience's IQ bottom line.

The protagonist's abilities are infinitely elevated, making him like a superman, while the villain's IQ is lowered, making him an idiot.

For example, the protagonist is an undercover agent and was accidentally exposed during the mission. Climbing walls and climbing roofs are no big deal for him, and he can even use a bow and arrow to fight against the enemy's machine guns.

The action was so cool, his little universe exploded, he jumped to a height of seven or eight meters on the spot, and shot to death twenty or thirty Japanese soldiers and Japanese puppet troops in just a few tens of seconds.

Or maybe the protagonist is a butcher by birth, but he is very agile and can quickly master all kinds of strange weapons, from butcher knives to stones and long ropes.

When his identity as a spy was discovered, he fought ten people with his bare hands. In the melee, he hit his opponent in the neck with one punch, knocking the man three to five meters away. Then he picked up a few stones and scatter them like flowers, and all the enemies fell to the ground.

There are also some similar to tearing the Japanese apart with bare hands, where the protagonist has a crew cut, wears punk clothes, and swaggers in and out of the enemy's war zone.

This is a complete drama, completely illogical, and an insult to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives.

Therefore, since the news of the upcoming filming of "The Cliff" was announced, netizens were instantly excited and expressed their expectations when they learned that the king of spy warfare would return.

This is indeed the case. In Lu Yuan's opinion, "The Cliff" is closer to reality than the many fantastic dramas that are flooding the market.

It is more realistic than "Undercover" and "Before the Dawn". The behavior of the male protagonist Zhou Yi is almost a vivid portrayal of the underground workers of that era.

Every character in the play relies on wisdom to survive in a dangerous environment. There are no idiots, lovelorn people, stutterers, or idiots. The plot is suspenseful and thrilling.

Even though Zhou Yi is the protagonist, and even though his micro-control skills are superb.

But he does not have the aura of a protagonist, and it is difficult for him to be foolproof when performing his tasks. Every action will leave some clues.

As the plot progresses, clues are accumulated, his identity gradually surfaces, and he steps into a dangerous abyss step by step.

Compared with Yu Zecheng and Liu Xinjie, Zhou Yi more closely fits the image of a traditional undercover agent.

Lu Yuan hopes that the emergence of "The Cliff" will bring a strong impact to the current spy war drama market, and it will also be a respect for the audience's IQ and aesthetic taste.

"Shhhhh!"

He held the water-based pen and continued to draw on the script.

Back to the New Year's Eve of 1939, the land of Northeast China was still shrouded in the shadow of the puppet Manchukuo.

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Zhou Yi, a Communist Party agent, meets Gu Qiuyan, who pretends to be his wife, at the train station.

Zhou Yi's real wife, Sun Yuejian, was sent by the organization to become the new contact person.

She met with Zhou Yi and told him that radio stations and medicines would be delivered to the mountain in the next few days.

Unfortunately, Lao Wang, who was in charge of transporting the medicines, was captured by the secret service department on the way, while another person, Xiao Dong, drove a horse-drawn carriage to transport the medicines to the mountains.

The spy chief, Section Chief Gao Bin, got a clue and assembled a team to go to the hotel where Sun Yuejian was staying.

At the critical moment, Gu Qiuyan, who came to report the news, intercepted Sun Yuejian who was carrying the radio back to the hotel.

On the other side, Xiao Dong and the carriage carrying medicine were hijacked by bandits.

Gu Qiuyan ignored Zhou Yi's instructions and sent two telegrams to the Anti-Japanese United Army without authorization, almost exposing her identity.

Gu Qiuyan was extremely anxious because she had not received a response from the Anti-Japanese United Radio Station for a long time. She decided to contact her husband's younger brother Zhang Pingjun on her own to take action, which almost exposed her.

Zhang Pingjun, who had no experience in underground work, was arrested by the Jiamusi Secret Service Agency along with his girlfriend, and later transferred back to the Secret Service Section of the Harbin Police Department.

Under such circumstances, Gao Bin once again became suspicious of Zhou Yi's identity.
Having written this, Lu Yuan paused his pen.

"The Cliff" is similar to "Insidious", both revolve around the theme of "pretending to be a couple".

But they each adopted completely different approaches in shaping the characters.

Cuiping in "The Hidden" is a guerrilla fighter who was born into a peasant family. She has a very straightforward and even somewhat rough personality.

She was not familiar with the rules of officialdom and lacked the ability to judge people, and often caused trouble for Yu Zecheng because of her blunt words.

However, it is this "authenticity" and "wildness" that makes her particularly unique and conspicuous in the treacherous spy battlefield.

The character settings of Zhou Yi and Qiu Yan are also disguised as a couple.

But the relationship between them is not love, but a deep friendship that transcends family and love.

There was no intimate behavior between the two of them, and the title of husband and wife was just a strategy to cover up the truth.

Completely different from Cuiping's image, Gu Qiuyan is an educated woman with higher education.

She has elegant manners, good conversation, careful thinking, and is thoughtful and considerate when handling matters.

But due to the lack of practical experience, he seemed a bit bookish in his initial performance. Similar to Cuiping, he was a bit stupid, making people hate him.

Such a Gu Qiuyan undoubtedly added a lot of trouble to Zhou Yi.

The people around him are either rivals like Gao Bin, who are eyeing him covetously, or rookies like Gu Qiuyan, who are not only unable to help, but also hinder him.

It can be said that Zhou Yi was able to escape from these cruel games in many emergency moments thanks to his high caution and calmness.

This kind of escape is not Yu Zecheng's style of retreating unscathed. Whenever he encounters danger, he can always get out of it safely.

When Zhou Yi first entered the workplace, he was not as popular as Yu Zecheng.

He is not like Liu Xinjie, who has a good big brother protecting him. A group of brothers know that he is an undercover and deliberately ignore him.

Zhou Yi was alone and neither received the appreciation of his superiors nor was he promoted in his career in a short period of time. Instead, he gained trust after experiencing life and death.

Faced with difficulties, he could not have it all and could only make necessary sacrifices.

Whether it is his comrades or his own life, he may sacrifice it.

When he was isolated and powerless many times, Zhou Yi tried to develop his own power and instigated Liu Kui, Chun San and even Ren Changchun to rebel.

But in the end, the result is obvious, they all ended in failure.

The reason is that these people do not have the faith that Zhou Yi wants to see!

Zhou Yi is a man with great self-control and a martyr complex.

In the Northeast, where the Japanese and puppet forces were unprecedentedly strong, the underground anti-Japanese forces faced extremely harsh living conditions, and many people lost confidence.

But Zhou Yi cares about his country and family, is loyal and righteous, is open and honest, has his own principles and bottom line. He is a nearly perfect man who has never wavered in his beliefs and pursuits.

The filming location for the first season of "Running Man" was chosen near West Lake in Hangzhou.

This variety show is jointly produced by PPS and Dragon TV.

There are two directors in the program team, both men, Shi Jianing and Yao Yitian.

The former was assigned by Dragon TV, and the latter was from PPS, a director poached by Lu Jing from Zhejiang TV.

It has become a major trend for major video websites to poach talent from traditional TV stations, and this is not uncommon.

IQiyi, LeTV, Sohu, and Tencent all have no production experience or team. It would take too much time to train them on their own, so there is no other way except to spend a high price to poach them.

PPS is no exception.

Initially, Lu Jing wanted to start with Hunan Satellite TV, but gave up considering the cooperative relationship between the two parties.

As a variety show project, sponsorship fees and advertising placement are the fastest ways to make money.

As a key project of Dragon TV and PPS, "Running Man" has attracted much attention.

The first season only received title sponsorship, special contracts and partnerships, and has currently attracted 2.5 million in advertising placements.

Lu Yuan secluded himself in the capital for several days, studying scripts every day, or studying his girlfriend and teaching her new moves.

Practice your lines, control your speaking speed, and master the pitch of your voice.

After a long time, Liu Shishi felt that her body could not take it anymore, her voice became hoarse, and she clamored to come to Hangzhou for a visit.

As soon as the two arrived at the scene, Jing Tian ran over with a silly pigeon-toed gait.

"Brother, I'm sorry!"

(End of this chapter)