Coquettish Rebirth

The premiere is finally about to start, on the night of November 11th, in Los Angeles, a small theater in Chinatown.There was a lot of people at the entrance of the theater, which made many tourists and white and black people look at it in surprise.At the entrance of the theater, there was a long queue. What was strange was that the people in this queue were basically yellow-skinned and black-haired, and they were laughing and chatting in words that white people and black people could not understand.This is the premiere of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the queues are all Chinese and overseas Chinese in the greater Los Angeles area.

Soon, an extended Lincoln drove slowly.Although I didn't know who was sitting in the car, everyone who was queuing became enthusiastic and jumped for joy.Because since it is such a luxurious limo car, it must be a star!You must know that in Europe and the United States, after shortening the word limousine to limo, it is used to describe the kind of luxury car with a longer wheelbase and a special driver!And the lengthened Lincoln in front of him must be limo!Who else could drive this kind of car at such a premiere besides the leading actors?It's impossible for a rich man to drive a car like this to watch a movie?

Just when everyone cheered and jumped for joy, one by one started waving at the limo luxury car and even took pictures, the limo car slowly drove to the entrance of the theater, and the driver even made the rear door of the car point right at the theater The red carpet at the door, this technique is really good.Then, as soon as the car door opened, a man got out of the car, and everyone immediately started applauding and cheering.Some people started to take pictures non-stop!

However, when everyone saw the "true face" of the man who got out of the car, they were all stunned—it turned out that this man was not the leading actor Zhou Runfa, but a man with a bad appearance. Who is it?Who could this person be?Ang Lee of course!After Li An got out of the car, he subconsciously waved to the "fans" who lined up. At first, he thought that there would be crazy fans taking pictures, but who knew that the fans were not reporters!These fans may not have watched any literary films before, who knows who Ang Lee is!So at this time, no one took pictures at all, and no one even waved to him!

This embarrassed Li An.But at this moment.Another figure of a woman got out of the car.Needless to say.This is naturally Yang Ziqiong.As soon as the Chinese movie fans saw Yang Ziqiong coming down, they showed a different attitude from when Ang Lee came down before. At that time, some people kept taking pictures, and some even took the initiative to ask for autographs!This scene made Ang Lee a little embarrassed.Fortunately, Yang Ziqiong is very sensible.When she saw a lot of fans wanting to take pictures.He simply grabbed Li An's arm.Actively let the audience take pictures of both of them, so at least Ang Lee won't be too embarrassed, right?

After Yang Ziqiong took a few seconds of photos, another woman got out of the car.Needless to say.This is naturally another leading actor, Li Kuang.After Li Kuang came down, there was a burst of cheering from the movie fans lining up. These cheering people seemed to be young people, probably foreign students.Then, these people kept shouting the name of Li Kuang in Mandarin, "Li Kuang is good!" .Hearing their yell, Li Kuang looked back at them, smiled and waved to them, and this move even aroused the cheers of the international students!

It was another man who got out of the car after Li Kuang.This man is tall, and his aura is different when he gets off the car. He looks like a successful person at first glance. "Brother Fa!" Some fans shouted at that time!That's right, Zhou Runfa was the last one to come down!At this time, Zhou Runfa's cheers were bigger than those of the previous few people, and even many middle-aged and elderly Chinese clapped and cheered!After all, Fa Ge became popular in the 70s, and now he is really a movie fan all over the world!

Naturally, Jia Hongjian didn't get out of the car with them, and he wasn't even in the car.For Jia Hongjian, the current acceptance of fans' cheers is when the people in front of the scene accept the cheers, and it is a compliment they have won.And the stage where Jia Hongjian was appreciated was not here, but in the office where the box office came out, and at the Oscar awards ceremony.That's right, he is the real behind-the-scenes. As a boss, we don't need to compete with star employees for the limelight.We have always been strategizing behind the scenes, and we have always been the image of the big devil behind the scenes. Wouldn't it be too boring if we were casually known by others all day long?Besides, if he really wants to be famous like Zhou Runfa, he can't even go shopping with Ye Jing in the street. Is this necessary?

At this moment, Jia Hongjian was actually smoking a cigarette in an aisle inside the theater.This place is the smoking room used by the theater employees.Jia Hongjian actually doesn’t have much of a smoking habit. He smokes now just because he has nothing to do. He only smokes when he has nothing to do. When he was young, he used to watch movies and TV scenes. , Aren't they all smoking?Then when the waiting person came, he threw the cigarette on the ground, stepped on it and twisted it a few times, right?

"It stinks, what are you smoking?" Ye Jing pinched her nose and looked at Jia Hongjian in dissatisfaction. "Don't you think this is a movie? The young actors are currently being cheered in front, but the biggest hero of the whole movie is smoking in the corner in obscurity. If there is no such hero, there will be no such movie. ...Hey, the hero is lonely..." While talking, Jia Hongjian took another puff of cigarette pretendingly.In fact, he is smoking here, not really smoking, but pretending - he didn't inhale the smoke into his lungs at all, in fact, he just spit it out after taking a sip from his mouth.

In the end, he pretended so much that Ye Jing was amused, "Hey, who are you, how did you become the biggest hero? You said that they are all young people, they are all chess pieces, and you are the one who plays chess." Same..." "Who says I'm not the biggest contributor? If I hadn't taken the initiative to invest in them back then, would their movie have been made? You don't even know. At that time, their previous investors all withdrew their capital, which made them dumbfounded." The producer on the other side, Lao Xu, scolded her at that time, and he was going to sue him! If I hadn't invested in it, Li An's filming would not have gone so smoothly!" Jia Hongjian said ignorant of his conscience.He didn't know if there was any investor withdrawal of capital in the history of Ang Lee's film, but others didn't know, either?So in this time and space, isn't it up to him to say it?

"Tch, you are really a stinky fart, why are you so narcissistic?" Ye Jing couldn't help laughing. "It's necessary. I can attract you who are so devoted to me. Doesn't that prove my excellence?" Jia Hongjian said while teasing the girl. "Who, who is dead to you...are you determined?" Ye Jing was so choked that she couldn't even speak.

Having said that, after chatting here for a while, listening to the voices gradually becoming louder in the theater, Jia Hongjian knew that the audience had started to enter, which also proved that the movie was about to start.He and Ye Jing waited for a while, and when the sound in the theater gradually died down, he turned around and went straight into the theater. He wanted to see the reaction of the audience.

After entering the theater and taking the last seat, Jia Hongjian took a quick look while the lights were still on.However, looking at the backs of their heads, they all seem to be Chinese. I don’t know how many white and black people are there in the 280 movie theaters this time?Thinking about it, the movie started...

I won't describe the specific process of the movie, anyway, Jia Hongjian has watched it several times in his previous life and this life.Jia Hongjian is basically watching the audience's reaction. The problem is that in this movie, the audience's reaction...is not so satisfactory.Basically, the audience didn't have any strong reactions. Even when Li Mubai died, no female audience shed tears or anything.Maybe there are too many of these routines in Chinese films?Perhaps for Chinese audiences, this film is really ordinary, and everyone came here just to praise Ang Lee, Zhou Runfa and others who are also Chinese?

Thinking of this, Jia Hongjian was actually a little worried about the box office results of the 280 movie theaters in the United States today.Because it is impossible to have a city with a lot of Chinese everywhere!The Chinese are basically distributed in the west, with the largest number in San Francisco, and then Los Angeles. The farther to the east, the fewer people there.So if you think about it according to this distribution, the box office of this film should be worse as it goes to the East?

After the movie was shown, Jia Hongjian came to the manager's office of the movie theater, and happened to see the manager of the movie theater holding a stack of reports. "Bruce, how are you doing, grades?" Jia Hongjian asked. "Mr. Jia, it's very good! According to our statistics, today's first show is basically full. Our cinemas are all halls with a capacity of 450 people. This time, 432 people entered the venue. The box office revenue of the show is 4320 US dollars. There are 5 shows in total today, which are broadcast in different halls. In this way, basically the whole theater can reach more than 2 US dollars in a single day. Such a result is quite good !Many blockbuster movies released on a large scale can only gross more than 1 yuan in a single day at the theater..."

Huh?The data here in the United States is quite detailed, right?Is it also divided into a single theater single-day box office?Used to analyze... wait!If a movie theater can earn more than 2 US dollars a day, then this time it will premiere in 280 theaters!Does this mean that it can reach the box office of 560 million US dollars on the first day?Shit, 560 million on the first day, and it's only Friday!Counting Saturdays and Sundays, how could the box office have exceeded 1000 million?You know, this is just a small-scale screening!It took so long for "Memento" to exceed [-] million, but "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will do it in a weekend? (to be continued..)