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I pressed a new blanket and had a dreamless night.

Early the next morning, after 7:[-], Xie Lansheng's legs felt weak, so he went to the first floor to eat breakfast, returned to the living room, looked at the easel, picked up a few more pencils, and continued to draw yesterday's painting.

He released the photos he took last night with his laptop, looked at them a few times, drew a few strokes, looked at them again, and drew a few more strokes.

For some precious moments, he likes to take pictures and also likes to draw.Photos are more realistic and delicate, but paintings can carry his mood and love at that time. "Painting" is not just painting the other party, but also painting yourself.Moreover, painting requires the painter to carefully observe and restore every line of the other party completely. In this way, he can be more aware of every detail of the other party's body and remember the other party's appearance at that time with a pen.

As he traced, he blushed again.

After painting, Xie Lansheng took out his notebook to write the weekly diary for this week.This is a habit of his, which began in 1996.He will record what he saw, what he heard, what he did, what he thought, what he ate and drank every week, how he spent this week, and read it for himself in the future.He wrote in detail about the details with Xin Ye, and he didn't want to lose or forget.

His weekly diary is in "letter style", which is in the same format as his "reply letter" to Xinye nine years ago. generation.At the end of each letter, instead of "today, there are xxx days before falling in love with you" is "today, we have been together for xxx days", this number is getting bigger and bigger, from three digits to four digits, from The four-digit number starting with "1", to the four-digit number starting with 2, and then to the one starting with 3.Xie Lansheng also kept guessing: How big will this number be in the end? More than 1? More than 2?Can it reach 82?If it is [-], the two of them will be together for [-] years. It seems to be relatively reluctant, but it is worth looking forward to.The signatures of these weekly diaries are all "yoursever, Lan Sheng."

Because he knows how to take pictures and draw pictures, sometimes, Xie Lansheng will lightly mark the numbers of the photos and videos for things that have images, such as the premiere of a movie, or the anniversary of the two, so that they can be searched at any time in the future.For some moments without images, such as a casual encounter, or a sudden surprise, Xie Lansheng will also draw some sketches of the scene at that time, as long as he thinks it is "important".

Xie Lansheng felt that this kind of thing was very meaningful. These weekly diaries, together with the letter he wrote to the actor Xin, recorded his whole life after filming "Rooting" and his confession. It can also be said that it was his real life from beginning to end.

Xinye will also help him back up these things frequently.

It premiered yesterday, and it has a lot of content.

As soon as Xie Lansheng finished writing his diary, Xinye knocked on the door and said, "Lansheng, the premiere film reviews have been sent." The morning papers have already been published, and his assistant just sorted out all the reviews and sent them over.

Xie Lansheng: "...well." He originally wanted to read the media comments after writing the diary. He read it on the Internet and bought newspapers. Now it's just right, so he doesn't need to look for it himself.

He was still quite nervous.He was very happy to be able to premiere, but on the other hand, he also began to worry: Will his commercial film of Xie Lansheng be recognized by the public?He is successful in making literary films, but can he also make commercial films?Lan Sheng is not like most film creators who despise the taste of the public and want to make money from the public at the same time. He is in awe of the taste of the public, but his interest is not in it.Now, because of other reasons, he is trying to learn to cater, but, he thought, can this be successful?Will it be criticized?Will you be scolded?Can he only make literary films that have no market?What's more, the extent to which he caters is limited.

Unlike literary films, the "success" and "failure" of commercial films are so simple and intuitive. As long as the public does not respond well, this work will fail.

Xie Lansheng did not want to fail.

He also didn't want to lose to Li Xian.

Taking a deep breath, Xie Lansheng lowered his eyes.

There is a whole pile of reports, both in newspapers and on the Internet.

Sure enough, the focus of attention in all aspects is the director's "crying."

such as:

[News from our newspaper (Reporter Wang xx) At 4:29 p.m. Beijing time on April 7th, Golden Bear director Xie Lansheng's banned work "Love at First Sight" held its premiere.The film's chief director Xie Lansheng, leading actors Du Shitian, Sun Qianqian and others attended the premiere ceremony, and the Thousand People Cinema was packed.

"Love at First Sight" is a love movie as well as a crime movie. The heroine of the movie, Lu Yixing, fell in love with an ordinary man at first sight, but she used her twin sister's name when dating.As for the theme of the movie, Xie Lansheng said... As for the reason for the filming, Xie Lansheng said...

Xie Lansheng has won the best film at the Berlin Film Festival twice. However, at the premiere of "Love at First Sight", he was moved to tears several times, saying, "I have been a director for 15 years, and I have been making movies for 15 years. Today, my movie Finally, it can be screened publicly on this land", and the audience was all moved.

That presumably also set the tone for last night's premiere.When the screening of "Love at First Sight" was in the second half, the audience burst into tears because of the protagonist and the story, and there was endless applause after the screening.

At the post-screening meeting, when talking about..., Xie Lansheng said...

The film will be screened nationwide at 5 am on May 1st. 】

"..." Xie Lansheng knew that a topic was very important to the film's premiere ceremony.

So... what about the report on Li Xian?

Xie Lansheng knew that Li Xian's "Grape and Wine Luminous Glass" had its premiere yesterday afternoon, but he didn't have time to pay attention to Li Xian because of "Love at First Sight".

Now I can finally see it.

He turned again.

He just glanced at the news on Sina, Sohu, etc., and his eyes widened in surprise! ! !

Above, Li Xian is hugging a beautiful woman and kissing her passionately!

Xie Lansheng looked at the text again:

[Report from our newspaper (Reporter Zhang xx) The movie "Grape Wine Luminous Cup" with the largest investment this year held its premiere event in Beijing yesterday. Director Li Xian led everyone to attend.

The extravagant and grand premiere ceremony was arranged in the xx auditorium.In front of the auditorium is a resplendent ancient city gate. Peach blossom trees are planted on both sides of the 150-meter-long red carpet, which was transplanted by The Paper for the premiere.In order to get close to the content of the film, the scene was filled with ancient costume troops from several countries in the film. There were about a thousand people in the dark, and they had been in the sun for a day.

The film used the joint columns of China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The lineup can be described as unprecedented. xx, xxx, xxxx, xxx·xxx and other leading actors all participated in the red carpet ceremony. xxx was dressed luxuriously, the ruby ​​necklace around her neck was worth as much as 280 million that day, and xx...

The entire scene was full of seats, and there was congestion at the entrance of the auditorium.In order to take care of the fans, the film crew gave them the first 20 rows.When the movie was officially screened, whenever xx, xxx, and xxxx appeared on the stage, there would be screams from the fans immediately, making it difficult for others to tell whether the movie was exciting or not.

Hong Kong girl xxx has never filmed a large-scale nude sex scene in the past, but this time in "Grape Wine Luminous Cup", she not only filmed a sex scene, but also took a naked shower!At the premiere, the large-scale nude sex scenes completely stunned the audience!

The total investment of "Grape Wine Luminous Cup" exceeds 3.6 million. It tells the story of...

At the post-screening press conference, director Li Xian was very confident and couldn't wait for everyone to watch this epic masterpiece.At the same time, Li Xian said that the person he is most grateful to in the past 23 years of filming is his wife.His wife also came to the premiere to support her husband. Li Xian said "I Love you" emotionally, and kissed his wife passionately on the spot, pushing the atmosphere to a climax!

...]

Xie Lansheng: "..."

Wife... the wife you really love?

He thought, The Paper really understands the psychology of the audience.Among these reports, stars, fans, money, and sex all attract attention.He and Xinye could also think of it, but they couldn't do it, or in other words, he couldn't do it by himself, Xinye just knew him too well.

Xie Lansheng brought the phone.

This morning, the major directors he knew sent congratulations to him one after another.

Among them, several of the best directors mentioned Li Xian's premiere, and they were all very distressed. They asked:

[Did you see Director Li's premiere?So sad!It's so uncomfortable!Does a big director, a creator, and an artist need to kiss this gimmick to let everyone see the work?Let the audience buy movie tickets? 】

[Director Xie, have you seen Director Li?This should be what the film studio strongly requested to do!I'm a little dazed now.Are things like markets and capital necessarily good?Where did you put the director's personal dignity? ! 】

Xie Lansheng replied a few words, but could only sigh.

He doesn't know this question.

Whether the market and capital are good or not is too difficult to answer.

Lan Sheng then looked at the articles written by various film critics.They all have an online column, and Assistant Xinye also printed it out.

Everyone is praising "Love at First Sight".

The most famous film critic gave it a perfect score of 5.

He wrote rather provocatively:

[The first half of this movie is just a love story, even a cliché love story.A beauty fell in love with the ordinary hero Liu Mu at first sight, full of masculine lust and delusion.Although there are some delicate expressions, people can't help but think: Is Xie Lansheng, who won the Golden Bear twice, only at this level?However, the second half of the movie turned sharply and full of tension, several reversals, and several climaxes, which left the audience dumbfounded, very exciting, and out of the box.Moreover, people are the soul of movies, and the two protagonists of "Love at First Sight" have touching parts.My daughter finally asked, "Is she good or bad?" I couldn't answer.These are people, really two people.Thanks to the director and the screenwriter. In the end, the protagonists redeem each other. This story is beautiful and touching.

I will always admire aggressiveness.In the past two years, I suddenly discovered that many great directors are only pursuing mediocrity.They are very good at analyzing which content is more marketable and which characters can pull the box office, with stars, scenes, and computer CG, and they are unwilling to break through the fixed framework.I got a little bored at one point.

However, "Love at First Sight" gave me renewed hope in the film industry.

I found out that I still really love movies.

Still genuinely love a good movie.

Hope it lasts.

Hope for film. 】

And the second one, also write:

[Xie Lansheng is the most feminist director in China.From "Rooting", "Mountain Ridge" to "Galaxy", and then to "Love at First Sight", the female characters in his lens are stubborn, stubborn and tenacious, and they can always burst out with amazing strength. 】

The third:

[Xie Lansheng is very good at dealing with complex relationships between characters, whether it is "Consummation", "Galaxy", or this "Love at First Sight", this is the concentrated expression of Xie Lansheng's ability to tell stories... Moreover, he is very good at telling complicated stories. , instead of telling simple stories complicated. 】

the fourth:

[A literary film hidden under a commercial film. 】

Xie Lansheng looked through Li Xian's premiere film reviews again, and found that they were all good, but most of the film reviews focused on stars and scenes.

All good reviews are normal.For the premiere, each film studio only invites well-connected reporters and film critics, and they are sure to speak well.

But the real word-of-mouth fight needs to wait until the official release.

As soon as Xie Lansheng finished reading these, Xinye walked into the study again.

Putting his hand on the back of Lan Sheng's chair, he asked, "How is it?" Xin Ye had actually seen it all.

"Well, it's not bad." Xie Lansheng said, "Also, it really feels amazing...to be reported by the mainstream media."

This is his first time in the mainstream media news.

Xin Ye looked at him deeply.

Once, his ideals, his movies, his love, his lover, everything was taboo that could not be mentioned.He is upright and frank, but everything about him is taboo and cannot be understood by outsiders.

But now it's different.

His ideals and his movies can already see the light of day, and maybe one day in the future, so can his love and his lover.

Xinye is really looking forward to that day.

Lan Sheng went to the movie forum again to read the comments posted by fans.

Yesterday's premiere of Deep Blue gave away 500 tickets to ordinary movie fans, and Lan Sheng felt that some people would express their thoughts.

He logged into the "World Movies" and "Youth Movies" he built, and found that there were indeed some posts.

Half of them were fans, and they tweeted back like crazy:

【Ahhhhhhhhh, Sun Qianqian's acting skills are amazing!She plays the two sisters by herself, every move is different! 】

[Our Qianqian is so beautiful! 】

[Du Shitian is really handsome...I usually don't have feelings for him, but he suddenly has temperament in the movie...]

A quarter is talking about movies:

【look!look!look!Just don't let the first half make you sleepy!Believe in Dao Xie Believe in Dao Xie Believe in Dao Xie! ! !It's all foreshadowing! ! !Every time the audience thinks they have the truth, they will soon find out that what they just knew is just the tip of the iceberg! 】

[In a auditorium of 1000 people, everyone is crying...it's too strong. 】

There were also individual posts of scolding, but Xie Lansheng didn't pay much attention to it.

And the remaining quarter is basically discussing "Xie Dao".

They described the situation at the scene, and reposted media reports, saying: [Director Xie has been making movies for 15 years, and now it is finally released to the public...]

The following posts are all: [The director is too miserable. 】【The director is too difficult. 】

This forum belongs to Lan Sheng.Although users don't know it, Xie Lansheng recommends it to himself from time to time, and these posts will have an impact on everyone intentionally or unintentionally.

Among the posts discussing the Chinese film system, there is a post with a very unique theme called:

【Who can recognize that it was Xin Ye who wiped Xie Lansheng's tears? 】

"..." Xie Lansheng clicked the mouse and opened the post.

The main building is a few live photos sent by the audience and fans of the premiere.In the photo, in the dim light, Xinye is wiping Xie Lansheng's tears with the cuff of his suit.Under the photo, the host asked: [Who can identify, is it Xin Ye who wiped Xie Lansheng's tears?Luzhu must now admit that she is a 10-year corrupt girl...]

And the following is a large number of relatives: [Ah!So delicious so delicious! 】【Is it because of the dark light... Xinye's eyes are too gentle. 】【Not only tenderness, but also distressed. 】【Xin Ye acted as the leading actor for Xie Lansheng twice in 1991 and 1995, right?He later took the Cannes Best Actor movie as someone else's. He opened a film company in 1999, and as soon as Director Xie was lifted from the official ban, he immediately became the producer, and he also had to personally do promotional planning for Director Xie... 14 years of brotherhood! 】

Xie Lansheng was shocked.

He had heard of this group of people, but he never knew that this group of people was so terrifying.

Xin Ye chuckled lightly: "It seems that we should pay more attention in the future."

Xie Lansheng looked up at Xinye and was kissed.

"Ha." Xie Lansheng pursed his lips and looked at the computer screen again.

For "Wine and Wine Luminous Cup", half of the posts are posted by fans, a quarter discusses "kiss", and the remaining quarter is devoted to discussing the movie.Xie Lansheng clicked on all these posts one by one.

The most mainstream opinion was that "the whole movie is incomprehensible."

Someone said: [I didn't understand this movie, but the main character can't be killed no matter how hard I hit, I'm tired of watching it in the end...]

Someone else said: [My mother! ! !Can you imagine that the battle between the two armies is heating up, and the hero and heroine are still making love! ! ! 】

"Hmm..." Xie Lansheng propped his chin, feeling that it was not enough.

There are too few samples of several posts, Li Xian shouldn't be like this.

Although Lan Sheng really felt that after Li Xian's mother got cancer, he married someone he didn't love, made a film he didn't love, and changed—only fame and fortune can make him feel meaningful.Because he no longer thinks about it, he doesn't know what can move people's hearts in this era, so stars and scenes have become his personal weapons.

Can't tell a story well... still doesn't feel like it.

…………

After accepting a few more interviews, on May 5st, Xie Lansheng's "Love at First Sight" and "Grape and Wine Luminous Cup" were screened simultaneously in all provinces and cities across the country and bombed together.

Xinye has already secured for Xie Lansheng high-ranking films from several movie theaters that accounted for 40% of the national box office. These theaters have basically the same screening rate for the two films, both at 33.3%, but the rest of the theaters are more optimistic about Li. For Xian's new work, 22.5% is given to Lan Sheng, 45% to Li Xian, and even more exaggerated, 14% to Lan Sheng and 56% to Li Xian.In the end, on average, the total screening rate of Li Xian's films was about twice that of Lan Sheng's.

twice as bad.

After the two shows in the morning, Li Xian's show was basically full.Everyone wants to watch celebrities, scenes, and xxx sex scenes for fun, but those who choose to watch Xie Lansheng's "boring" romance movies are only half of the audience, and this is almost what marketing can do It has reached the limit, and almost all the "literary men and women" have gone to the theaters online.

Therefore, in the first two competitions, the box office of "Love at First Sight" was only 25% of that of "Grape and Wine Luminous Cup".

But at noon, movie forums, school forums, TV, newspapers, and other media began to curse "Grape Wine Luminous Cup".

Critics say:

["Grape Wine Luminous Cup" tells an incomprehensible war story in ancient costumes with bright colors, gorgeous scenes, star cast, and super technology. 】

[There is no reason for women's love, and there is no reason for men's hatred. The things it tells are logically far-fetched. 】

【What exactly does he want to express?Could it be that a film can have no desire for expression? 】

[It is said that at the premiere, to the very simple question of "what does the movie want to explain", the chief director Li Xian avoided the seriousness and evasively said: "It is a good dream."]

On the forum, there are more and more criticisms:

[Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Li Xian ruined my male god! ! ! 】

[I didn't think the xxx sex scene was beautiful, but it was very funny.The audience in the whole cinema hall of mine had fun watching it!Even the cheeks are sore from laughing! 】

Others said:

[Stars are all stuffed in, and 75% of them are dispensable. 】

[Why does the male protagonist xx have to use the original voice... He can't speak Mandarin at all, it's too weird, it's too dramatic. 】

[Ah, ah, the Japanese male god xxxx is so pitiful!His acting skills are pretty good, but his Chinese is too bad, and his character is cold and cold, so it turns out to be extremely frivolous! 】

[Tell a story of emptiness with complex shooting methods.The whole line is full of gods and gods, playing tricks and delaying time. 】

[The plot is scattered...]

【Fancy bells and whistles...】

Xie Lansheng looked over, not knowing what mood he was in.

Li Xian used inappropriate actors for the movie's box office, and also used inappropriate stories and inappropriate sex scenes.

How could he be like this.

However, Xie Lansheng still believes that there should be some things in Li Xian that the audience cannot see.

At the same time, "Love at First Sight" is being praised everywhere.

[Don't watch "Grape and Wine"!Don't watch "Great Wine"!Waste money waste time!Watch "Love at First Sight"!Xie Lansheng!This story is so special and so soulful. 】

[The love in "Love at First Sight" is sad, beautiful and profound, and I didn't slow down for two hours after watching it.Might be insomnia tonight. 】

And in the evening, after the four shows were finished, although the box office ratio was still 1:4, Xie Lansheng's "Love at First Sight" was completely suppressed in public opinion.

于是，晚上4到6点、6到8点、8到10点、10到12点的这几个黄金场上，《一见钟情》上座满了，这两场的电影票房比变成1:2。各大院线反馈消息说，明天会给《一见钟情》提高排片，与《葡萄美酒夜光杯》平均下来是1:1.5左右。

Lan Sheng felt that the momentum was good.

…………

However, Lan Sheng never expected that starting from 10 o'clock in the evening, there would be a lot of negative reviews on "Love at First Sight" on the Internet!

such as:

【stuffy!stuffy!stuffy!Big blockbuster! ! ! 】

[A literary director really doesn't know how to make commercial movies!Look asleep! 】

[Is this rhythm too slow?The one who said it looks good is Tonger! 】

As the bases of movie fans, "World Movies" and "Youth Movies" have naturally become the two main battlegrounds for these bad reviews.

Xie Lansheng was quite uncomfortable when he saw these posts just now, but later, with an inexplicable mentality, he logged into the moderator account and checked the registration time and posting IP of these accounts.

Then, he stayed.

He thought: Did The Paper go crazy by blackmailing my film "Love at First Sight" on the film forum I built?

Although, no one knows that these two forums were established by Xie Lansheng in 1998.