This celebrity is absolutely wicked.

Chapter 508 Huang Feihong's Film Release

Pang Yuntian was so excited that he couldn't express it and wanted to talk to someone.

However, Lu Ran didn't want to talk to him and said that she was a little tired today and wanted to take a shower and go to bed.

Pang Yuntian felt as if he had been rejected by a goddess, but he didn't realize that he had been rejected by a goddess. He thought that the goddess had really gone to take a shower and go to sleep.

In reality, the goddess was just chatting with someone else.

In the hotel, Lu Ran and Shen Fupo made a video call and chatted until midnight. After wishing each other a Happy New Year, Lu Ran finally went to sleep.

The influence of the song "Dragon Fist" continues to grow online.

Influenced by "Dragon Fist," many netizens directly searched for the keyword "Once Upon a Time in China" online and saw the movie trailer.

The trailer for "Once Upon a Time in China" was decent, but not many people saw it.

During this period, all the movies released during the New Year's Day holiday have been heavily promoting and distributing their films. The highest-grossing film in terms of pre-sale box office has exceeded 100 million yuan, and the amount of money spent on promotion is quite substantial.

Most viewers frequently see these few promotional videos online.

This time, Lu Ran saved the movie a lot of publicity money with just one song.

After watching the trailer, everyone saw the action of Wong Fei-hung lifting the hem of his clothes and the pose he paused in after the fight.

"These two moves really are from a movie."

"I have to say, Director Lu is quite handsome."

"The female lead is also very beautiful."

Many netizens clicked on the ticketing app and bought tickets for the movie "Once Upon a Time in China".

The next morning, film critic Crow took a plane and got up early.

He's going to see "Once Upon a Time in China" this morning.

As a professional film critic, I must watch the movie as soon as possible before making a video.

More importantly, even if it's a pile of shit, he has to taste it for his fans. If it's not tasty, then the fans won't waste their money buying tickets to see it.

After getting ready early in the morning, Ma Fei immediately headed to the shopping mall near his neighborhood.

He bought a ticket for this movie theater.

In most cinemas, the prime time is from afternoon to evening, when the number of customers is highest.

There are relatively fewer shows at 9 or 10 in the morning.

Even so, there were still quite a few people in the movie theater.

When Ma Fei heard the cinema's announcement and started queuing to have his ticket checked, he noticed that many people were there to see "Once Upon a Time in China".

Those who can catch the first showing are either fans or true movie lovers.

Ma Fei recorded all the details he observed along the way in his phone's notes app; these would be the material he would use to make the video later.

Shortly after, he entered the theater and sat down in his seat.

As the lights in the theater went out, the movie screening officially began.

The dragon logo appears, followed by the logo of Xinghuo Films, and then a series of company logos related to film production and distribution. The main feature officially begins.

The story told in the movie "Once Upon a Time in China" is actually very simple.

That's how kung fu movies are; a large part of the film's runtime is dedicated to fight scenes, so the plot is kept relatively simple.

But it's just simpler; it doesn't mean it lacks depth.

Ma Fei held his phone in his hand, ready to jot things down in his notes app at any moment.

The film begins with a view of a shimmering sea, with ships docked in the harbor and the seven-starred black flag fluttering in the sea breeze.

As the sound of gongs and drums rang out, the lion dance appeared on screen.

Amidst the sounds of gongs and drums, the lion dance performance took place on the boat.

Huang Feihong and Liu Yongfu, the leader of the Black Flag Army, sat on a boat watching the performance.

When the Chinese people on the ship set off firecrackers, the Westerners on a distant ship mistook it for gunfire and, without restraint, fired directly, injuring the lion dance performers.

However, the Qing troops dared not retaliate.

At this moment, Huang Feihong leaped up and caught the falling lion head, completing the lion dance performance. He then jumped to Liu Yongfu's side and opened the two red scrolls that Liu Yongfu had taken out.

The scroll had two lines of text written on it: “Soaring Ambition” and “Heroic Spirit Reaching the Heavens”.

Liu Yongfu and Huang Feihong discussed the current political situation.

This humiliating history is something that every student who listened attentively in junior high school history class remembers.

China was divided up by foreign powers.

Liu Yongfu saw all this but was powerless to do anything about it. This performance was, in effect, a farewell to Liu Yongfu, who was about to lead his troops to Annam to fight the French.

Ma Fei quickly wrote down this information.

This part of the story mainly explains the origin of Huang Feihong's militia, which was Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army.

The reason the Black Flag Army was handed over to Huang Feihong and turned into civilians was because the Qing government did not trust Liu Yongfu and could not allow this army to continue to exist.

Finally, Liu Yongfu also presented Huang Feihong with a folding fan inscribed with "Unequal Treaty" and its contents.

"I hope that when I return, these treaties will have been wiped clean," Liu Yongfu said slowly.

This part of the story explains some of the events that happened earlier.

Just then, a familiar melody began to play.

It was the song "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant".

On the screen, a group of shirtless young men wearing white pants are running on the beach.

The leader was none other than Wong Fei-hung.

As the sun rises, the militia practices martial arts.

Ma Fei was trying to understand the language conveyed by these shots.

"In turbulent times, all Huang Feihong could do was stay healthy."

The film's opening sequence officially ended with the song "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant".

On the screen appeared customers in a restaurant teasing birds and musicians playing music.

Foreign soldiers patrolled the streets, vendors hawked their wares, and foreigners from all over the world walked the streets.

The church priest led a choir of Chinese teenagers in singing Hallelujah.

In just a few dozen seconds, the footage vividly depicted the situation at the time.

Finally, a whistle blew everything away.

"This long take is amazing! It depicts the clash between Chinese and Western cultures, but under the wave of the Industrial Revolution, all the past will be impacted," Ma Fei exclaimed inwardly.

He quickly jotted these things down in his memo.

Then, Wong Fei-hung appeared, followed by Aunt Thirteen.

The Western style of Aunt Thirteen contrasts sharply with the Chinese style of Wong Fei-hung.

Later, when Aunt Thirteen was going to take a picture of Wong Fei-hung, the thick smoke emitted by the flashlight startled a group of people who had never seen it before.

Later in the story, Leung Foon appears. He originally wanted to become Wong Fei-hung's apprentice, but Wong Fei-hung was not there, so he was teased by Toothpick Su.

To make a living, Liang Kuan had no choice but to learn martial arts in a theatrical troupe.

"This character is on a different storyline."

Ma Fei also started analyzing it in his mind.

He believed that with Lu Ran's skill level, it was impossible for him to create a seemingly superfluous character like Liang Kuan without a reason.

Sure enough, when Liang Kuan went to deliver an umbrella to Aunt Thirteen later, he was standing on the street with a huge mask behind him.

The facial makeup on the wall was wet from the rain, and the patterns on it were a bit messy, as if it were crying.

As the plot unfolds and characters appear one after another, the clear outline of the story is revealed.

All of this started when a vegetable vendor was beaten by foreigners because he couldn't tell the difference between the British and American flags.

Huang Feihong went to negotiate with the Qing government and foreigners himself to help the vegetable vendors seek compensation.

The result can be imagined.

The foreigners refused to pay compensation, and the Qing army commander, not wanting to offend them, advised Huang Feihong to take a step back and see if things would turn out better.

The admiral also wanted to incorporate the militia under Huang Feihong's command.

While negotiations were underway, the militia and the Shahe Gang stormed into the restaurant, and a fight broke out.

Huang Feihong kept saying "Stop fighting! Stop fighting!" but he took down the group of people who were still fighting one by one.

Ma Fei heard the background music as "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant".

At that moment, he didn't realize that there was anything special about the sound; he just thought it was ordinary background music.

When Huang Feihong started fighting, Ma Fei's eyes lit up.

"That move was pretty good!"

(End of this chapter)