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Chapter 35: The Shallows is released! Is this Fat Bing?!

Li Wenyu was interviewing for various roles as a sound engineer for a new play, and everything went smoothly until December 12nd.

With the combination of viral marketing and various beauty pageant gimmicks, including concerts and CCTV advertisements, the long-awaited movie "The Shallows" was finally released on a super large scale in mainland China.

Not only mainland China's Hong Kong and Macau, but also South Korean and Malaysian films will be released on this day.

The film company spent 2800 million to buy the distribution rights in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and of course also hoped to take advantage of the marketing popularity.

Early in the morning on the 22nd, Pang Bing dragged Li Wenyu out. "Hurry up, let's not go into the cinema. Let's go to each theater to see how many people have bought tickets to watch the movie, and what the audience's emotions are after they leave."

"Will our first-day box office break one million or one and a half million?"

Don’t think that breaking 100 million on the first day is a small number. Big-name movies made more than 50 on the first day, and it took nearly three months of cumulative screening to achieve a box office of 4300 million.

The original track "Big Shot" was released on December 12, and the accumulated record was reached in March 21, but Li Wenyu made such a big gimmick of Asian beauty pageant that he pushed Pang Bing to become the most beautiful woman in Asia in 2002.

Voted the most beautiful girl by hundreds of millions of registered users!!

And there's support from Zhang Guorong, Liu Dehua and others? Huayi isn't stupid, they changed the schedule of their big-name film to the Spring Festival holiday.

No movie dares to be released on the same schedule as The Shallows right now.

Even the European and American worlds were shaken. Such a grand Asian beauty pageant, from school beauties to beauty pageants, had so many netizens voting, no matter how many small accounts the water army team had.

This is what scared European and American netizens in 2001 just by looking at the data. After all, this is not the era of more than ten years later, when any drama can have billions of views... The audiences were disgusted by the "horrifying and exaggerated data."

How many countries in Europe and America have a total population of over 100 million?

Just how beautiful are the first and second most beautiful women voted by hundreds of millions of users? This is a question that people around the world, especially men, are curious about!

Li Wenyu was speechless. "The first weekend and the next week won't be bad. Brother Rong has returned to Hong Kong Island for a concert. I might as well get more sleep."

Fat Bing rolled her eyes at him charmingly, "You only slept for more than three hours last night, isn't that enough?"

She has proven that if she continues like this, she won't even need to go to the gym to lose weight when she plays a kung fu heroine.

Li Wenyu, "..."

Forget it, he really meant sleep!

As the two of them got in the car, the female driver drove off. Pang Bing quickly made a phone call, "Sister Hua, can you help me find out which theater Yan Zi, Zhang Ziyi, and Lao Xu are in to critique my acting?"

"I want to go over and see the excitement when the show is almost over."

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Outside a movie theater in Beijing, with The Shallows about to start showing, Yan Zi and her good friend Li Yu, her boyfriend Lao Wang, the international star Zhang Ziyi and his brother, including the talented actress Lao Xu from Beijing Film Academy and her man all entered the screening one after another.

This group of moviegoers had not yet occupied half of the seats, but it was announced to the public that all the tickets had been sold out.

Gradually, The Shallows was officially released, and the chaotic noise of whispers quickly died down. Everyone's ears were almost callused by the noise of this blockbuster that shook the global Internet.

I finally waited for it.

At the beginning of the movie, some subtitles are shown first, and then it switches to a beautiful early morning beach seascape with waves and a little boy playing football.

As he was kicking, the little boy noticed something washed up on the shore not far away. He ran over to pick it up and found that it was a waterproof hat with a head-mounted mini waterproof digital camera tied to it.

The little boy wiped the water off and turned on the camera to play the video. The big screen lens switched to the perspective recorded by the digital camera.

It was shown in broad daylight, on the sea surface which was so beautiful that it made one want to exclaim in amazement, and someone was surfing more than ten meters ahead.

The surfer is Joey Wong in a swimsuit!
The surfer, wearing a hat and a mini digital camera, couldn't capture his entire body; at best, he ducked his head to capture his stomach and legs. But then cheers rang out: It was Andy Lau. After a few seconds of Joey Wong surfing, the camera switched to Andy Lau herself, looking down at the water below, surfing herself. A few more seconds passed before Joey continued to show off her athletic figure.

There was a burst of laughter in the cinema, and many people were praising the sea, the people and the scenery.

But the camera switches back to the little boy's perspective, and he's watching the digital camera in his hand show Liu Dehua suddenly falling off his surfboard, swimming in the sea, and shouting...

The slightly complicated falling-into-water shot lasted less than ten seconds before a terrifying shark, with its mouth open as if it could swallow half of Liu Dehua's body, rushed into the camera.

boom!
There were screams and cries in the cinema.

From the name of the movie and the poster, everyone knew it was about sharks, but no one expected the beginning to be so exciting.

Did Liu Tianwang's cameo in The Shallows go so badly? His face wasn't shown, but he was filming Joey Wong while surfing with a mini digital camera fixed to his hat. Did he fall into the water and get eaten by a shark?
The shark's bloody mouth was so scary.

Amid the screams, the little boy on the big screen, holding a hat and a digital camera, ran away quickly from the beach towards the island.

The screen went dark and the title of The Shallows was officially released.

The camera lights up and the music becomes cheerful and relaxing. Zhang Guorong is driving a jeep with Pang Bing in the passenger seat on a road through the dense forests of the island.

When Pang Bing really arrived, she was wearing a long ponytail and jeans, holding a digital camera in her hand and looking at photos, pressing the buttons with her fingers to display the photos one by one.

The photo clearly shows a young figure similar to Pang Bing taking a swimsuit photo on the beach. She has a bright and sunny smile and her good figure is clearly visible.

Each photo was specially enlarged on the big screen, accompanied by Pang Bing's smile. There was a small murmur in the theater again. Yan Zi pulled her boyfriend and whispered, "Why do I feel that her sense of fashion is much more Western than mine?"

"And this smile?? Isn't it a little complicated?"

Pang Bing stared at the photos taken with the digital camera and smiled with a smile full of warmth, dependence, admiration, affection and other emotions. He smiled and tears welled up in his eyes in the next second.

On a cinema-level big screen, Pang Bing's face and upper body take up one-third of the screen. High-definition close-up photography and the complexity of the emotional flow in more than ten seconds are comparable to the classic scene in Zhang Manyu's "Sweet Honey" where she laughs with tears and then cries. It is a textbook-level performance - 80% strength.

The way Pang Bing laughed on the big screen, and the way he suddenly turned from genuinely crying to deeply hurt, was so infectious that I couldn't help but shed tears. It instantly electrified Yan Zi!!

The electric shock made Yan Zi's whole body numb!
Before Old Wang could say anything, someone in the back rows exclaimed, "Holy crap! This is a bit stressful! Fatty Fan is so awesome!"

Without looking back, Yan Zi recognized that it was Zhou Xun, who had won the Best Actress trophy at the Paris Film Festival in 00.

As soon as Xun Ge shouted, the whole cinema fell silent.

The movie continued, and Pang Bing continued to look at the photos through different lenses. Zhang Guorong, who was driving, asked curiously, "Is that you in the photo?"

Fat Bing quickly wiped away her tears and smiled, "No, no, it was my mom. She came to this beach to take pictures when she was pregnant with me. I have never been here, but I just feel like this is our beach."

He has a strong command of dialogue, and his facial features, including the smile and eyes, when he mentions his mother are proud and bright, as if they are clean and clear and are about to shine.

But when he said the last word "our beach", his eyes revealed an unconcealable pain and loss, as well as remembrance and reluctance to leave.

The happy expression trying to embrace the beach world ahead, and the pain in the eyes.

The two diametrically opposed emotions are obvious and super contagious.

Zhou Xun exclaimed again, "Is this because my mother has passed away?"

Although Zhou Xun didn't directly say that his mother was gone, his smile, eyes and lines were so electric that he panicked.

The big screen shot the face closely, with the most beautiful face in Asia occupying only a fraction of the screen, and it was impossible to convey emotions more clearly.

Yan Zi and Zhang Ziyi were almost shocked. Is this Fat Bing? Who is impersonating him?
This is a literary drama that Pang Bing has endured for so long and his acting skills have reached the level of 80. 80 is already very strong. A certain scene was reshot more than 85 times. In this scene alone, Pang Bing's acting skills must be over .

(End of this chapter)