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Chapter 262 Hot Screening
"Director Huang, do you think our movie will be popular?"

Li Lianjie, who has no filming schedule at the moment, came to the United States specifically for this purpose.

Watching the images on the screen, his heart couldn't help but hang in the air, "I'm a little nervous!"

"Why are you so nervous? You've been performing Kung Fu overseas since you were a kid, are you still afraid of this?"

"This is different, this..."

"What's this?"

"There is hope." Li Lianjie glanced at Huang Ze, "This is the film directed by you, Director Huang. I believe in you!"

"Hey, believe me, just don't take any new films." Huang Ze smiled.

All I can say is that Li Lianjie is probably afraid of being poor and loves money very much, so he is more hardworking.

It is spelled differently from Jackie Chan.

"You've been filming one movie after another every two or three months without a break, but how much can you earn? Seven or eight million for one movie is a lot, and it's less than 50 million a year."

“Why can’t we just make one or two movies a year and earn the 50 million?”

"It's impossible." Li Lianjie smiled bitterly, "If I don't shoot some scenes, I will be in trouble."

Having been in Hong Kong for a few years, he has become increasingly aware of the presence of the underworld in Hong Kong.
It was fine to cooperate with the left before.

Once you go out, you will have to face all kinds of monsters and demons alone.

Maybe it's because he is famous and the films he made really sell well, so everyone pays him. But if he doesn't do it, he believes that those people will use despicable means.

Can't refuse at all.

"Maybe you can work in Hollywood in the future." Huang Ze smiled, but didn't respond to the trouble he mentioned.

First of all, the general environment is like that, and you cannot change it, and these people do not affect your ability to make money.

Secondly, what does this have to do with you?
Xinghai and Li Lianjie are in a cooperative relationship, so it is impossible for him to handle those things.

She is not his woman, nor is she someone who is fully signed to the company.

The rights and responsibilities are equal, and that's what a contract is.

"I have little education, Director Huang, please don't lie to me." Li Lianjie laughed, and as he appeared in the movie, he forgot about the nervousness.

Come here.

The movies are all released.

There's no point thinking about that anymore.

It would be better for him to enjoy his own film carefully. As an actor, he has not even seen the finished film yet.

The audience sitting in the seats were also concentrating on watching the screen, without caring about chatting with their friends or boyfriends or girlfriends next to them, because most of them could not understand the language and could only understand the plot through subtitles.

I'm afraid that if I get distracted, everything will be delayed.

Wouldn't that be a waste of the money I paid for the ticket?

When there are no more lines, they will chat with their friends next to them, "The pictures here are beautiful, and the soundtrack is good, it's worthy of being a pornographic movie."

"Yeah, I just don't understand. I can see that Yu likes Li, so why aren't they together?"

"Be conservative, this is ancient times, don't you see that it's full of traditional Chinese architecture?"

"Hmm? Traditional architecture? Aren't the buildings over there like that now?"

“Some of it has been passed down, but there are also tall buildings, a little less.”

"How did you know?"

"Didn't our General Tong serve as an ambassador to China before? I've seen some of his photos. Besides, I've always wanted to travel to Oriental China, but I couldn't make up my mind."

The movie continues to play. Li Mubai is about to retire from the underworld and gives the Qingming Sword to the commander of the Jinyiwei in the capital. Yu Jiaolong goes to steal the sword.

The sound of drums one after another immediately raised the tension of the movie.

Then comes the fighting scenes.

Beat the security guard first, then fight Yu Xiulian.

Especially the fight with Yu Xiulian, where he flew over eaves and walls, every move was magnificent, and the sound of drums made it even more interesting.

At that time, Hollywood was still producing turn-based action movies, and had not even experienced the innovation of Hollywood action movies like The Matrix. The fighting action, camera movement, and editing of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were absolutely novel to North American audiences.

Some audience members even cried out in the theater.

"Oh cool!"

"This action scene is so fast, is this kung fu? Or is it a super power from a sci-fi movie? Are they Skywalkers?"

"Compared to this, our action movies feel like two robots fighting each other!"

"I remember Huang knew kung fu, and he once broke the host's desk with one kick."

"Shh, watch the movie quietly."

……

Nearly two hours later.

Yu Jiaolong leaped into the sea of ​​clouds.

The movie is over!

Director: Huang Ze...

The credits appeared on the black screen, the lights came on, and applause broke out, with whistles from time to time.

"The action is so cool, and the actors' performance is also good. It makes me see the mysterious ancient oriental country."

"The scenery is so beautiful, the buildings, the costumes, especially the mountains and bamboo forests. I have decided that I will travel to China and visit the places where this movie was filmed."

"I want to go too. Let's go together. I have to go to the place where Yu Jiaolong jumped off last."

"It really is a yellow movie. Even a movie like this is good!"

"I need to buy a ticket and watch it again. I missed some of the lines just now!"

"It looks like the response is pretty good!" Li Lianjie clapped excitedly. He looked at the audience behind him with shining eyes and moved closer to Huang Ze. "It sounds like it should be good."

"I hope so."

Huang Ze smiled, and then began to answer questions from fans who came to him one by one.

"Huang, were all the scenes shot in China?"

"Of course." Huang Ze nodded slightly.

"Then can you tell me where those places are? I want to travel to those places."

"I will publish my filming locations in the newspaper, and you can read them there when the time comes."

"Huang, can anyone really fly? Just like that." An audience member tapped the ground with his right foot, raised his hand and tried to take off. Newton told him that he was dreaming.

After the failed attempt, he saw Li Lianjie standing beside him, and immediately felt like he had found a treasure, "Li, can you fly?"

"This is a science fiction movie, science fiction." Huang Ze smiled, "You can't ask Schwarzenegger if he can travel through time and space, right? But he knows kung fu."

Huang Ze gave Li Lianjie a look and said, "Perform your best performance."

After saying that, Huang Ze began to clap his hands to get everyone to focus on the performance.

Li Lianjie didn't waste any words. He walked to the middle and performed a set of fanzi punches smoothly and fluidly, which made the foreigners applaud and exclaim.

The atmosphere of the premiere was good. After the show, Li Lianjie asked Huang Ze, "How long do you plan to promote it?"

"Two weeks, what's wrong?"

"I originally thought I would just attend the premiere and then go back. I don't have much appeal here anyway. But after the premiere, I want to promote it with you, Director Huang."

"Is it okay to do a set of Fanziquan each time?"

"No problem! Even if I do ten sets a day, there's no problem! I can even make sure the patterns don't repeat themselves."

"Okay, let's go together then."

Although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was screened in only a hundred theaters, because Huang Ze had a certain status in the world film industry, not just in terms of box office, many professional film critics also went to various theaters to watch "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

The next day, these critics' reviews appeared in newspapers and magazines.

(End of this chapter)