Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 435

A round of sunset is on the verge of the end of the sea.

In the eyes of the family of three, the sunset is slowly sinking into the sea at a speed undetectable to the naked eye, and the orange-red afterglow makes the sea and sky one color. Such a magnificent scene fascinates the whole family.

After Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei returned from the Halo Technology Company, it was already afternoon.

At that time, Liu Xiaoli was still thinking about what to have for dinner. With Liu Yifei's suggestion, they came to this seaside barbecue restaurant.

This barbecue shop was also the place where they played with Deng Chao, Sun Li and Chen He all night when they came to Xiamen last year.

The boss and the proprietress were still very enthusiastic. They put a charcoal fire in the grill embedded in the center of the round table, served raw food on a plate, and also sent a few stacks of cold dishes and nuts.

The boss and the proprietress' daughter brought a case of beer. The girl had a watermelon head and a pair of myopia glasses. Her big eyes kept looking at Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi. She wanted to do something but didn't dare. She hesitated to speak. appearance.

"What's wrong?" Chu Xuan looked at her and said gently.

The girl pursed her lips, kneaded her two little fingers nervously in front of her abdomen, and said, "Can we take a photo together?"

"Come." Liu Yifei beckoned cordially.

The girl was happy yet cautious, sitting obediently between Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi, her eyes kept signaling to her parents.

The boss and the proprietress smiled kindly, and the proprietress hurriedly took out her mobile phone to take pictures of them, and said: "Her room is full of your posters, from "The Family of the Gold Powder" to "The Legend of Condor Heroes", as long as you act She has bought posters for all the dramas she has ever seen."

Chu Xuan and Concubine Liu Yi each glanced at the girl, and met another loyal audience.

After the two posed for a few photos, the girl said "thank you" excitedly, then picked up her mother's mobile phone and ran away, looking like a shy girl.

After the owner's family exited the private room, Liu Xiaoli fiddled with the raw food skewered with bamboo sticks, preparing for barbecue.

"Auntie, go back to the capital tomorrow afternoon." Chu Xuan took out three bottles of beer from the wine box on the ground and put them on the table.

"Tomorrow afternoon? So soon?" Liu Xiaoli asked, "Is the investigation over?"

Chu Xuan picked up the corkscrew to open the wine, and with a soft "bang", the beer cap flew out, he nodded and said: "The investigation is over, I will visit a platform company tomorrow morning, and ask about the cooperation intention of this company, it's OK Alright, there are quite a lot of things going on in the capital, so go back early and say hello."

Liu Xiaoli picked up a handful of mutton skewers and put them on the grill, saying, "Okay, I'll send someone to buy a plane ticket tomorrow morning."

Chu Xuan poured beer into the three glasses, while Concubine Liu Yi was playing with her mobile phone on her own.

Chu Xuan took a glance from the corner of his eye and saw the information browsed on Concubine Liu Yi's phone, and said, "2.8 million, not bad."

"What?" Liu Xiaoli asked, raising her eyebrows while holding a skewer in her hand.

Concubine Liu Yi put her phone on the table and said, "Director Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" is almost 3 million at the box office, now it's 2.8 million."

"It should not reach 3 million, and it will be released in a few days." Chu Xuan picked up his wine glass.

Concubine Liu Yi said "Yes", picked up the wine glass and touched Chu Xuan, and the two drank beer.

"It's just weird." Concubine Liu Yi put down her wine glass and said, "The box office is so high, everyone is scolding."

"Ah? Why?" Liu Xiaoli was surprised.

The corner of Chu Xuan's mouth raised slightly, he broke off the disposable chopsticks, and said, "Isn't "The Promise" directed by Kai Ge different? It's the box office champion of the year, but everyone is scolding it."

"Why is this happening?" Liu Xiaoli was puzzled, and put the grilled skewers on a plate, indicating that the two children could start eating.

Chu Xuan took a bunch of mutton, pulled the mutton into a bowl with disposable chopsticks, put the bamboo sticks on the table, picked up a piece of meat with the chopsticks, and ate it. The director filmed "Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger", which grossed more than 2 million US dollars worldwide, making a lot of money."

"In this case, filmmakers across the country saw the value of domestic commercial films for the first time, and from that moment on, the domestic film market gradually shifted from literary to commercial."

"Following that, "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou turned out, with a global box office of 1.77 million US dollars, making a huge profit, once again proving the ability of commercial films to attract money."

"Then, "The Promise" directed by Kai Ge came out, but the global box office was only over 3000 million US dollars, a blood loss."

"Today, "Curse of the Golden Flower" was released. Judging from the current domestic box office of nearly 3 million, when the follow-up is released globally, director Zhang Yimou is estimated to have made money again this time."

Chu Xuan picked up the chopsticks and picked up another piece of meat and put it into his mouth, and said, "Did you find any problems?"

Liu Xiaoli glanced at Chu Xuan, and continued to barbecue on her own. Her vision in movies was still lacking, and she couldn't keep up with Chu Xuan's rhythm. She remained silent when facing Chu Xuan's question.

Concubine Liu Yi picked up her chopsticks and ate the mutton slowly. After thinking for a while, she seemed to have discovered something. Her eyes lightened slightly and she said: "They are all released worldwide, and the global box office is so high, but the domestic box office market is limited, which means that the overseas box office is the big one. It was filmed for foreigners."

"Smart." Chu Xuan smiled, picked up a small handful of roasted green beans, and distributed a few skewers to Concubine Liu Yi.

Concubine Liu Yi picked up a bunch of green beans, pulled them into a bowl with chopsticks, and chewed them slowly, saying: "These movies are all about martial arts, but if foreigners want to accept martial arts with our traditional cultural heritage, they must be removed." The core of the story, otherwise foreigners would not understand."

"Producer Liu is right." Chu Xuan nodded and called Producer Liu.

Since Concubine Liu Yi became a producer, her horizons of knowledge related to film and television dramas have been broadened, and her thinking and analysis skills have made great progress.

The whole family took a sip of wine, Chu Xuan put down the wine glass and said: "Removing the core of traditional culture is equivalent to eating without rice, leaving only visual effects and beautiful pictures, which is equivalent to only good food and wine."

"In our country, at first glance, such a martial arts movie is really amazing, but when you watch it slowly, you will feel that something is missing if you eat too much food and wine, and if you don't have rice to fill your stomach."

"But foreigners don't eat rice. Good food and wine are enough. So in the face of my country's always mysterious martial arts and kung fu, these movies temporarily supported the box office overseas."

"Without the core of martial arts, there will be no in-depth and incomprehensible Chinese-to-English translations that can be understood by everyone, including foreigners."

"But people in our country have a very thorough understanding of martial arts. If there is no core, there will be no resonance. Naturally, they will call it a garbage movie."

"The reason why the domestic box office is high is because of the appeal of these big directors and the appeal of the all-star lineup."

Liu Xiaoli suddenly understood.

Concubine Liu Yi nodded slightly, and said while eating green beans: "Your analogy is quite interesting. You compare the kernel to rice. People in our country eat rice, and foreigners don't eat rice."

"Isn't that so?" Chu Xuan glanced at her: "This is the most obvious cultural difference between our country and overseas."

Concubine Liu Yi nodded in approval, and then asked: "Directors Li An and Zhang Yimou have both succeeded overseas, why did director Kai Ge's "The Promise" fail?"

Chu Xuan put down his chopsticks, eating a lot of barbecue and beer made his stomach swell a bit, he decided to take a break, and replied: "Director Kai Ge is arrogant and wants to surpass directors Li Min and Zhang Yimou, but he is not satisfied. It is a genre of martial arts, so a magical martial arts was created, and the cultural cores of the East and the West were injected into "The Promise."

"Director Kai Ge intends to take care of both the domestic market and the overseas market, and wants to make a film with two cultural ideas."

"Obviously, he failed. Such a combination of Eastern and Western elements not only makes domestic audiences unable to understand, but also overseas audiences."

"I guess he can't understand it himself."

Concubine Liu Yi and Liu Xiaoli had a good time. Director Kaige is also a shareholder of the company. How about saying that to him?
"Director Kai Ge always said that "The Promise" was a good film, but the audience couldn't understand it." Liu Yifei thought it was very interesting when she recalled what happened last year.

"These big directors value their reputations, so of course they have to protect their own reputations if they scold their works," Chu Xuan said.

"I have a doubt." Liu Xiaoli brushed oil on the skewers on the grill, picked up a skewer and ate it: "Foreign sci-fi movies have high box office worldwide. Why don't these directors make sci-fi movies?"

Chu Xuan rested for a while, then picked up the skewers and started to eat: "One is that the domestic industrial base is backward, and the other is that the capital investment is large, but the most fundamental reason is that they dare not shoot."

"Don't dare to make it?" Liu Xiaoli was stunned, and there are movies that these great directors dare not make?Chu Xuan's words were beyond her expectation.

Chu Xuan threw the bamboo stick aside, and wiped his mouth with a tissue: "Didn't I just say that these directors value their reputations, and it's safe to shoot martial arts, while science fiction is outside their range of cognition, and they dare not try it lightly. Otherwise, if they fail, their reputation may plummet."

"When the "Hope" project was launched, Director Kai Ge and Brother Zhang did not show much interest in such a pioneering film. At most, they only came to guide and direct, and did not want to participate in the core part."

"Although they talk about their strong support, they are just watching to see if all this is feasible, and let me, Sissi, Kino and the others come to explore the way."

"To put it simply, because of their reputation, these big directors will only make movies and TV dramas that they are sure of, and they will not even think about what they are not sure about."

Chu Xuan threw the tissue into the trash can, and said: "Besides this reason, these directors who came from the 80s and [-]s, their artistic ideas are deeply rooted, and they are full of futuristic, unknown, pioneering and innovative genres like science fiction. Movies have a generation gap."

"It's not that they are incapable, but that they have their own set of artistic ideas that doom them to be unsuitable for sci-fi."

"If directors Zhang Yimou and Kai Ge are allowed to shoot science fiction, I have reason to suspect that they will turn science fiction into fantasy."

Concubine Liu Yi and Liu Xiaoli were amused when they heard the words. They didn't expect these directors to be like this in Chu Xuan's opinion, but it made sense after thinking about it.

These directors who have been directing for decades, their shooting techniques and ideas are deeply rooted, and have become their beliefs.

If they are exposed to a new type of film, these big directors may not be suitable.

Chu Xuan said: "So, why do I want Wen Muye to be the director of "Hope" and the director of the science fiction project? Wen Muye is young, he has pioneering and innovative ideas, and his way of thinking is also in line with the current young man era, but also have a powerful and unconstrained imagination."

He made a conclusion: "Huaguo's science fiction should be filmed by young directors, they are more likely to accept pioneering ideas."

Concubine Liu Yi nodded, and Chu Xuan's conclusion was also the idea shared by her and Chu Xuan.

Liu Xiaoli has learned so much from what Chu Xuan said, and she is gratified to have such insights at a young age. She also has a longing for the future of her two children.

She stretched her waist, looked up at the starry sky at night, and suddenly said with emotion: "It seems that we have never had a rhythm like this, where we go to a place to play."

Concubine Liu Yi showed her face and nodded. From Hangzhou to Shenghai, and then from Shenghai to Xiamen, although the time was tight, they also visited every place. This is indeed a rhythm that has never been done before.

"This is life." Chu Xuan ate the last skewer.

"There will be opportunities to continue in the future." Liu Xiaoli is very happy, and feels very comfortable with the family's lifestyle of traveling around, which can further promote the harmony of the family.

"Then set a small goal and visit all the fun places in the world in your lifetime." Chu Xuan smiled.

"This is good! I agree with both hands!" Concubine Liu Yi raised her hands, one of which was holding a enoki mushroom covered with chili powder.

Liu Xiaoli looked at the two children warmly, and said with a little regret and eagerness: "I just don't know how many years I can play with you."

"Hey! Why are you talking like this? Auntie, you are still young." Chu Xuan frowned, thinking about Liu Xiaoli again: "No matter how many years, under the aurora in Norway, we go there to look up at the starry sky. Hugging my granddaughter is a joy."

grandson?granddaughter? Concubine Liu Yi was taken aback, and the hand that was just about to put the Flammulina velutipes into her mouth was also stuck in the air. A flash of shame flashed in her eyes, and she elbowed Chu Xuan unhappily.

Liu Xiaoli put her forehead on her forehead and smiled, looked at the two children with a playful look, but said, "Don't say it, it's still very visual."

Concubine Liu Yi pouted, Chu Xuan said such a thing in front of her mother, and her mother responded positively, which made her feel more ashamed.

However, the beauty and fantasy in the picture described by Chu Xuan made her feel a little more yearning. It was really a beautiful feeling.

Seeing that the two children had almost eaten, Liu Xiaoli asked, "Have you finished eating?"

Concubine Liu Yi took the last bite of Flammulina velutipes into her mouth, put the bamboo stick on the table, nodded, and picked up the wine glass again.

Chu Xuan and Liu Xiaoli picked up their wine glasses, and the three glasses clinked together, and the family of three drank the rest of the wine in one gulp.

Immediately, check out and leave.

(End of this chapter)