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Chapter 288 If You Are the One Wins the Championship

Huang Baiming led Cao Sheng into the cinema with a smile on his face. As soon as they walked into the screening room, several guests sitting in the front row lit up their eyes and came to greet him with surprise.

At a glance, Cao Sheng saw that almost all of them were mainland celebrities.

There are men and women.

Such as: Jiang Wen, Zhang Guoli, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi and others.

This surprised Cao Sheng a little.

I didn’t expect that when Huang Baiming brought “Ip Man” to Beijing for its premiere, he was able to invite so many big mainland stars.

He wouldn't be surprised if these stars showed up at the premiere of If You Are the One this afternoon.

Because Huayi and Feng Xiaogang are already very prominent in Beijing.

"Brother Cao! Nice to meet you! I have heard of your name for a long time, and today I finally have the honor of meeting you in person. Nice to meet you!"

Jiang Wen, who looked like a bandit, walked the fastest. As soon as he approached Cao Sheng, he took Cao Sheng's right hand, shook hands vigorously, and greeted him in a gruff voice.

Besides being an actor, he is also a director.

When Zhang Guoli and others saw this scene, they all stopped and no one stepped forward to argue with Jiang Wen. Not only did they not argue, they all watched the scene with smiles on their faces.

Huang Baiming: "Mr. Cao, let me introduce you, this is..."

Cao Sheng raised his hand to stop him and said with a smile, "No need! I know Director Jiang, he's a director I like very much."

Then he said to Jiang Wen: "Director Jiang! Nice to meet you! I really like your movies."

Jiang Wen has not yet filmed "Let the Bullets Fly", which is hailed as a masterpiece by many movie fans, and has not yet been deified by movie fans.

His current fame is not yet big enough to become a household name.

So, Jiang Wen was very surprised to hear Cao Sheng say this, and immediately asked: "Really? Which movie of mine do you like best?"

Cao Sheng smiled and replied: "The Devils on the Doorstep" and "Sunny Days."

Jiang Wen burst into laughter and patted Cao Sheng's arm happily. He turned around and said proudly to Zhang Guoli and others: "He really has seen my movie! Haha, he really has seen my movie!"

Zhang Guoli, Chen Daoming and others laughed.

Zhang Ziyi took a half step forward and praised him, "Of course! Director Jiang, you are a famous director in our mainland. It is normal for Brother Cao to have seen your movies."

……

Cao Sheng, Jiang Wen and others were greeting each other at the entrance of the screening room.

In the audience seats, the audience who had entered early were watching.

Among them, some are fans of Cao Sheng's books.

For example: Chang Yu, who is thin.

The name Chang Yu is not very famous at present.

But in the original time and space, he would also start writing novels a few years later, and his performance was getting better and better. There were almost no flops under his pen.

His pen name is a homonym of his real name: Chang Yu.

At this moment, he looked at Cao Sheng with envy as he was chatting and laughing with Jiang Wen, Huang Baiming, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi and others.

As he looked, the glasses on his face slipped down a little. He raised his hand to push up his glasses, but his eyes were still fixed on Cao Sheng without blinking.

Looking at Cao Sheng, who was like a star, Chang Yu felt extremely complicated.

Because he and Cao Sheng are born in the same year, he was also born in 1980.

Moreover, he was from Beijing, and the Beijing University of Commerce where he studied was much more famous than the Huizhou Teachers College where Cao Sheng studied.

But Cao Sheng had already become famous. A few days ago, the news reported that he had bought a building worth more than 50 million yuan.

But Chang Yu has achieved nothing.

At this moment, the idea of ​​writing a novel came to his mind again.

However, he did not have the confidence that he could write works like "I Want to Become an Immortal", "Tomb of the Gods", and "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth". He had no confidence in his writing skills.

He thought he was OK at writing diaries and family matters, but he had no confidence at all when it came to writing something with a fantasy or martial arts flavor.

This is also the main reason why he has wanted to write a novel for a long time but has never started.

He likes to read novels and has learned about the current situation of online literature publishing. He knows that most of the works currently published are fantasy works such as fantasy and fairy tales.

Although there are many readers online who like to read urban-themed works, publishers are generally not interested in them.

This situation left him with no motivation to write.

Why write something that can’t make money?
This is his idea.

But at this moment, looking at the glorious Cao Sheng, he once again wanted to try writing a fantasy novel.

……

Chang Yu is not the only one attending the premiere today.

There is also the third young master who lives in Beijing.

He was 1.9 meters tall and sat in the audience, not very noticeable, although he tried to take advantage of the popularity by using the title of a book that Cao Sheng had once published, "Seven Treasures Exquisite Tower", which was also published and earned him some royalties.

But in the past two years, many people have successfully published novels in Taiwan, and he is just one of many writers and is not very noticeable.

The pen name is not well-known, let alone the real appearance.

At this time, he also looked at Cao Sheng with envy.

I fantasize that one day I can be as successful as you.

……

After Cao Sheng and Jiang Wen exchanged greetings for a while, Huang Baiming arranged for them to sit in the first row near the middle. Huang Qingya was arranged to sit next to Cao Sheng.

As soon as he sat down, someone next to him greeted Cao Sheng.

Cao Sheng looked up and saw Yuan Biao and Hong Yu.

It was Yuan Biao who greeted me just now.

Cao Sheng quickly stood up and shook hands with Yuan Biao.

Hong Yu, who was standing next to Yuan Biao, smiled and extended her delicate hand, "Mr. Cao! I'm Hong Yu, nice to meet you!"

Cao Sheng looked over and smiled.

Yuan Biao: "When we were on the set, Ah Xu said she wanted to meet you, and today she finally got her wish."

Cao Sheng smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hers.

……

The time soon came to 10:10.

This is the time when "Ip Man" premieres.

The female host came forward and said a few words, then announced the start of the movie.

The lights in the theater dimmed.

Colorful beams of light shot onto the big screen and the opening credits began to play.

Soon, the sound of the theme song rang out in the cinema, and the figure of "Ip Man" beating the wooden man appeared on the big screen, while subtitles kept appearing.

The opening theme is different from the Zhen Zixuan version of "Ip Man".

But it feels the same.

It was like a low humming sound, and occasionally there was the sound of howling in the cold wind.

When the subtitles disappeared, the image on the big screen was still Ip Man, played by Yuen Biao, wearing a black training suit and practicing wooden dummy alone at home.

It can be seen that Yuen Biao is very skilled in Wing Chun.

The moves are also somewhat different from Zhen Zixuan's version of Ip Man.

During the gentle practice of moves, a few fierce moves were occasionally interspersed. Yuan Biao, who was practicing the wooden man, had a calm expression and the demeanor of a master.

Cao Sheng read this beginning and nodded slightly. He felt that Yuan Biao's temperament had changed a lot compared to when he was young.

In his memory, Yuan Biao rarely played stable characters in movies when he was young. He often played impulsive characters who would fall over at any time.

This time, Yuen Biao's portrayal of Ip Man is much more calm and composed.

Cao Sheng subconsciously turned his head to look at Yuan Biao who was not far away. He estimated that Yuan Biao was about forty years old. As he entered middle age, he was indeed a lot more stable.

The movie is playing.

The plot is very similar to the script written by Cao Sheng.

The plot as a whole is not complicated.

Throughout the entire movie, Ip Man has about four major fighting scenes.

One was a closed-door sparring with Master Liao; one was a challenge from Jinshan; one was a one-on-ten fight against ten Japanese soldiers; and the last was a big fight with a Japanese officer. For Cao Sheng, what attracted him most in this movie was Yuan Biao's fighting scenes.

In the original time and space, Zhen Zixuan’s version of Ip Man was also very entertaining to watch.

But Cao Sheng prefers the Wing Chun performed by Yuen Biao in "The Prodigal Son".

This time, Yuen Biao, as Ip Man, performed Wing Chun with a strong sense of rhythm and power.

In the eyes of other viewers, this movie has so many wonderful aspects.

Hong Yu's appearance surprised many people.

The closed-door sparring between Master Liao and Ip Man was a real pleasure to watch.

The fight between Jin Shan and Ip Man also caused a commotion in the screening room.

The scene where Ip Man fought ten people alone made many audiences cheer.

Finally, the decisive battle scene with the Japanese officers also made the audience watch with fascination.

This movie, like the movies about Wong Fei-hung and Huo Yuanjia, incorporates the feelings of family and country and can arouse the audience's patriotic enthusiasm.

In this mood, it was very enjoyable to watch Ip Man fighting the Japanese.

Cao Sheng would glance at the expressions of Huang Qingya, Huang Baiming and others beside him from time to time, and occasionally look back at the reactions of the guests and audience behind him.

He saw Huang Baiming’s face was full of smiles.

Hong Jinbao was also seen with a smile on his face, looking back at the audience in the back row from time to time.

Jiang Wen, Chen Daoming and others were also seen staring at the big screen intently.

Cao Sheng thinks the quality of this movie is acceptable and it should have good reputation.

The plot of the movie is not very profound, but it is a very well-commercialized kung fu movie.

From beginning to end, the filming was very neat.

There is no point in deducting points.

He thinks a movie like this will not do badly at the box office.

Just like novels, a novel with good performance may not have any particularly outstanding advantages, but it definitely has no flaws.

Therefore, many new authors often give low ratings to popular novels.

I think the popular novels on the rankings are just so-so and there is nothing particularly exciting about them.

However, we have not noticed that those popular works, although not particularly exciting, have nothing that readers dislike either.

For most readers, a novel that is comfortable to read, has no reading difficulties, has a smooth plot, and has one or two exciting parts from time to time is a good novel and is worth reading.

If one, two...a thousand, ten thousand readers think this way, this novel, which does not seem to be very exciting, will perform very well.

……

in the afternoon.

It was almost 3 o'clock.

At another cinema in Beijing, "If You Are the One" is premiering.

The huge screening room was packed.

Cao Sheng and Huang Qingya were still sitting in the first row, near the middle.

The main movie is playing on the big screen.

Compared to the ups and downs and exciting plot of "Ip Man", the plot of "If You Are the One" seems much more peaceful.

There are no fighting scenes.

There are almost no quarrel scenes.

The main plot of the entire movie is that the male protagonist played by Ge You goes through one blind date after another.

But during the blind date process, I met all kinds of weird girls.

Some require sexual intercourse between husband and wife only once a year.

Some ask to get married while pregnant... When they are on a blind date, the woman is already pregnant and asks the male protagonist to take over.

Some people have huge debts from stock speculation, and go on blind dates just to find a sucker to fill the hole.

Others, under the guise of blind dates, they cheat on their blind date partners with free food and drinks while selling products to them.

……

But the audience still watched with great interest.

Because these blind date girls are all very beautiful.

Also because the lines are hilarious.

Also because the picture is comfortable to look at.

While the movie was showing, Cao Sheng not only heard laughter coming from the audience behind him.

He glanced at the expressions of the guests in the front row from time to time and found that most of the guests were also smiling.

Director Feng Xiaogang smiled particularly happily.

But Feng Xiaogang's wife's smile was forced.

Cao Sheng couldn't understand why she was smiling so reluctantly. Wasn't she happy for Feng Xiaogang because the movie was so good?

It was not until Cao Sheng saw another blind date girl appear on the big screen, looked at her charming appearance, and saw the smile on Feng Xiaogang's lips, that Cao Sheng began to think about something.

……

Cao Sheng did not stay in the capital for long.

After attending the premieres of the two films, he took Huang Qingya to play in Beijing for a day, ate some Beijing specialties, and then flew back to Huizhou with her.

on the plane.

Huang Qingya was flipping through a newspaper, pointing at a piece of news and calling Cao Sheng to look.

Cao Sheng looked over.

I saw a headline: "If You Are the One won the single-day box office championship during the National Day holiday!"

"I didn't expect this movie's box office to be higher than Ip Man. Ip Man had such a wonderful fight, but its box office was not as good as this blind date movie. Do you find it strange?"

Huang Qingya asked Cao Sheng for his opinion with emotion.

Cao Sheng smiled and said, "Comedy movies always do well at the box office, unless they are badly made."

Huang Qingya frowned, a little confused, "Why? Don't you think Ip Man is wonderful?"

Cao Sheng: "Ip Man is a kung fu film. The number of viewers for kung fu films is limited, but the number of viewers for comedy films is almost unlimited. Some viewers don't like to watch kung fu films, but how many people have you heard of who don't like to watch comedies?"

Huang Qingya was stunned.

After a moment of silence, she asked curiously, "What about novels? If I write a comedy novel, will the grades be good?"

Some comedy novels that he had read before his rebirth flashed through Cao Sheng’s mind.

Such as "The Best Butler", "Please Spare Me, Great Lord", etc.

Then he hummed, "Of course!"

Huang Qingya: "Then... why don't you write a comedy novel?"

Cao Sheng: “…”

After a moment of silence, Cao Sheng smiled and asked, "Then why don't you become the most beautiful woman in the world? Is it because you don't want to?"

Huang Qingya looked at him in surprise.

Then, she suddenly pinched his arm and cursed him in a low voice: "You are very humorous?"

Cao Sheng smiled.

She then asked, "You mean you can't write a comedy novel?"

Cao Sheng nodded slightly.

Everyone has their own style.

He is not an optimistic person, not even cheerful enough. With such a personality, it is too difficult for him to write a long comedy novel of one or two million words.

When writing, I have to adjust myself to a happy state every day.

He can do it in one day, two days, three days, or five days.

But he really couldn't do this every day.

(End of this chapter)