Chapter 475: Jiang Lang's Talent Is Exhausted

When the hero and his father returned to the time when the hero was a teenager, and the father and son went for a walk on the beach together, Shang Wenya had a little tear in his eyes.

This two-hour film leads the audience step by step into the final philosophical discussion about time.

By this time, Shang Wenya has been able to give his own evaluation. This is definitely a good movie.

If it were a ten-point scale, she would give this movie ten.

Of course, the reason why she was willing to give ten points was because of Zhou Yan.

If it weren't for Zhou Yan, she would probably have deducted 0.5 points or one point.

The ratings of "Time Travelers" are not as good as "Spring of the Cowherd Class", but Shang Wenya believes that this has something to do with the subject matter.

"Spring in the Cowherd Class" is about education, which has its own advantages.

Li Yuanyuan, who was sitting next to Shang Wenya, let out a long sigh of relief. Nearly two hours of audio-visual enjoyment made her a little breathless.

In terms of the development of the main story line alone, the pace of this movie is relatively slow, and it doesn't seem to tell much story at nearly two hours.

But in terms of audio-visual experience, the pace of this movie is not slow at all.

One thing that is very exciting about this movie is the capture of small details of daily life. These details play an important role in shaping the characters and adding to the real and vivid feeling of the film.

The combination of the supernatural element of traveling through the past and this daily narrative allows the audience to more actively enter the film's narrative and explore the direction of the film.

The movie is full of life details worthy of attention, and many of the character lines may seem random, but they are worthy of serious consideration and recall by the audience.

If you like music, you'll be even more busy. Throughout the movie, Li Yuanyuan felt like she was being pushed by the waves formed by the movie's soundtrack.

This wave is slow but huge, making people immersed in it and unable to extricate themselves.

At the end of the movie, the song "How Long Will I Love You" played again, and until the credits started, the song when the hero and heroine met for the first time played again.

At this time, I don’t know who was the first to applaud, and everyone else followed suit.

The lights in the concert hall came on, and the creative staff in the front row stood up and turned to thank the audience.

When the applause gradually stopped, Xu Feng picked up the microphone, first said some words of thanks, and then asked everyone to help promote more.

These are naturally meant for those in the media, whose propaganda is very important.

Of course, if you want them to help you say something nice, you can't just ask them a few words. They all need to be managed.

By the time Xu Feng finished speaking, the scene began to disperse.

Jiao Huang walked to Zhou Yan and said with a smile, "Director Zhou, the final presentation of the movie is even better than I imagined."

Due to schedule reasons, Jiao Huang was not involved much when the movie was in post-production, so he didn't know how effective the movie would be before today.

Sometimes, shooting a movie is one thing and editing it is another.

It feels good when shooting, but the final result is very poor. There are many situations.

Now that he has finished watching the movie, Jiao Huang feels relieved.

The role of the father he plays is very important in the movie. Apart from the male and female protagonists, he can be said to be the most important role.

However, during filming, Jiao Huang felt that his role was not many, and at the end of the scene, he was relatively relaxed.

This should be regarded as the most relaxing movie Jiao Huang has ever played. Even if he played an inconspicuous supporting role before, it would be more tiring than this.

In this drama, most of the time he just needs to find a place to sit, read a book, and relax. The most energy-consuming thing is probably playing table tennis with the male protagonist.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Teacher Jiao, the success of the movie is due to your hard work. You performed the role of father very well. I told Sister Feng a few days ago that we asked you to play the father. This is what we did this year. One of the best decisions.”

Jiao Huang waved his hand, "Director Zhou, please stop complimenting me. When I was making this movie, I basically didn't do anything. I was just listening to your instructions. I never thought that making a movie would be so easy."

"It's because you acted well and had few NG, so it was easy."

"I'm in another crew..."

At this time, Han Sanping came over and said with a smile, "What are you two talking about? It's getting late if you don't go to the hotel quickly."

After the premiere ceremony, there was a party, which was actually the finals banquet. When the filming was finalized before, Zhou Yan did not hold a finals banquet, so this time it happened that most people were there so he held a make-up party.

After hearing what Han Sanping said, Jiao Huang and Zhou Yan stopped talking and walked outside together to go to the hotel.

…

After Li Yuanyuan and Shang Wenya walked out of the concert hall, Shang Wenya asked Li Yuanyuan, "Sister Yuanyuan, are you going back to school now?"

"If you don't come back, I'll go to the cinema."

"Cinema?" Shang Wenya looked confused, "Why are you going to the cinema at this time?"

"I'm going to watch "Space Traveler" again. Many of the songs in it appeared for such a short time that I didn't even hear them. I feel a little itchy in my heart. I feel like I can't sleep even if I go back now."

Hearing Li Yuanyuan's words, Shang Wenya blinked a few times. Sister Yuanyuan really loves music. She even went to the cinema to watch the movie again just for the music in the movie.

This movie is two hours long, and they have been sitting in the concert hall for more than two hours.

Shang Wenya thought for a while and said, "How about I accompany you? I don't have anything to do tomorrow anyway."

Li Yuanyuan nodded and said, "Okay, let's go. I'm afraid I won't be able to buy a ticket if I'm late."

…

Li Yuanyuan and the others walked very quickly, just in time for the first wave of audiences to come out of the theater, and the second show would start in a while.

However, there are no tickets at all for subsequent shows.

Seeing Li Yuanyuan and Shang Wenya panting, the conductor said with a smile, "Don't mention the show tonight, even the show tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You can't buy tickets now. If you want to watch now, you can only You can buy tickets for Monday, and they have to be during the day, and the tickets for the evening are sold out early.”

"Are tickets so difficult to buy?" Shang Wenya asked in surprise.

"You don't even look at what kind of movie it is, who acted in it, and who directed it."

The conductor rolled his eyes and ran away to eat melon seeds.

She was not in a good mood, because if the leader hadn't insisted on having someone on duty, she would have left work today, and there would be no tickets to sell later.

Li Yuanyuan sighed slightly. She originally thought that the evening show would be late and there might not be so many people watching, but she didn't expect that she wouldn't be able to buy tickets at all.

Seeing that Li Yuanyuan was a little disappointed, Shang Wenya said, "How about we go to other cinemas? Maybe we can still buy tickets."

Li Yuanyuan shook her head and said, "Forget it, we don't have enough time, and the situation in other movie theaters should be similar. There must be no one company that sells movie tickets well."

"It feels like the popularity of "Space Traveler" is higher than the previous "Spring of the Cowherd Class" this time," Shang Wenya said.

"Because Mr. Zhou is more famous now, and the heroine is Wang Zuxian, and Mr. Zhou plays the male lead himself. In addition, the early publicity of this movie is also very good. I have often seen related news some time ago. Previously, "Cowherder" When "Ban's Spring" was released, there was not so much news."

Shang Wenya nodded and said, "Well, I saw Wang Zuxian donated twenty pianos to Yangyin this morning. This is probably part of the publicity."

Li Yuanyuan has a different opinion, "It shouldn't be about donating pianos. I heard that more than 200,000 yuan was donated. If the money is used in other publicity channels, the effect will be better. Just donating pianos is not very cost-effective. I feel that it is purely Wang Zuxian took the initiative to donate for Teacher Zhou’s sake.”

"Whether it was done deliberately to promote the movie or not, the effect was there anyway."

"That's right. In fact, there is no need to promote anything else. It is enough to just promote the relationship between Teacher Zhou and Wang Zuxian. Everyone likes to see this."

"Yes, many juniors and juniors in the support club like the two of them together. After the new movie comes out, they will be happy."

"Actually, I think Kudo Shizuka is quite good. She is young and energetic."

"Is Kudo Shizuka a little short?"

"Short and cute."

…

The two of them walked outside the theater while gossiping about Zhou Yan's scandal.

On the way, they heard many viewers discussing "Space Traveler". Basically, they all said that the movie was good, but some viewers had different opinions.

"I don't know what Zhou Yan is thinking, why he plays so many English songs. Isn't he a bit advocating for foreigners?"

"Is he trying to please Hollywood?"

"It always feels awkward to play so many English songs in Chinese movies."

"And don't you think this movie is out of touch with the masses? Who would an ordinary person live in such a big house, or on the beach?"

"Well, it feels far inferior to "Spring of the Cowherd Class"."

"This is just an ordinary love movie. Of course it cannot be compared with "Spring of the Cowherd Class". I feel that Zhou Yan is a bit out of his depth."

"Has Joey Wang changed? Why don't he look better than before?"

"It was good at the wedding, but not good at other times. Isn't it said that Zhou Yan is very good at photographing beauties? Why didn't it work this time?"

"I heard that this movie was shot in one month. There must be no sincerity. It was just made to make money."

"Yes, and the movie lasts two hours, and the ticket price is 50 cents more than an ordinary movie."

"Disappointed, so disappointed."

Hearing the discussion from the audience, Shang Wenya frowned, as if he wanted to go up and argue.

Li Yuanyuan is calm and relaxed. She sees things more clearly than Shang Wenya. She knows that no matter what movie she makes, she will be criticized.

There is never anything in this world that can be liked by everyone, let alone movies.

Don't look at the few people who just stepped on "Space Traveler" and pulled out "Spring of the Cowherd Class". In fact, "Spring of the Cowherd Class" also encountered a lot of doubts and criticisms when it was released.

…

After the release of "Space Traveler", the box office performance was very good. Although the national box office data will not be available for a while, it is obvious to all that the movie theaters in various places are hard to get a ticket.

With such a grand scene, the box office will definitely not be bad.

For a time, news about the movie’s box office success appeared in major media.

【shock! Zhou Yan's new movie is a hit in movie theaters and it's hard to get a ticket! 】

["Time Traveler" may become the hope of "anti-Americanism"! 】

[Agency predicts that the mainland box office of "Space Traveler" may exceed 40 million! 】

["Space Traveler" is expected to have a box office of over 50 million in mainland China! 】

[...It is expected to exceed 60 million! 】

These news articles contain everything from true to false, making it difficult for people to understand.

The most exaggerated thing is that "Time Traveler" has the hope of exceeding 80 million box office, and the reason for this number is that the box office of this year's most popular movie "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" is 80 million yuan.

If the box office of "Time Traveler" exceeds 80 million yuan, it means that it can take the first place in the mainland box office this year.

…

The box office of "Time Traveler" is so hot, and it should be well evaluated, but in fact, the social evaluation of this movie is not very high.

And those negative reviews are mainly aimed at the following points.

First, all the interludes used in the movie are English songs, which is suspected of pleasing Europe and the United States.

Second, the film has no logic, and the science fiction elements in it are self-defeating.

Third, the film has no consistent main line, just like a lyrical essay.

Fourth, the theme of the movie is not profound enough, not as good as "The Chorus".

Many "film critics" expressed disappointment with Zhou Yan's new movie. They believed that this should not be shot by a director who won the Special Jury Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

They believe that Zhou Yan should continue to pay attention to social issues instead of focusing on love.

In addition to "film critics", people in the literary criticism circle also spoke out this time.

Just a few days after the movie was released, young critic Zhang Yiwu published an article titled "Spiritual Compromise" in "At Your Service Newspaper".

In the article, Zhang Yiwu criticized Zhou Yan for copying the European and American film models, and the new film he shot was a work that completely compromised with the West, which was a manifestation of bending his back.

He also criticized Zhou Yan's music for being seriously Westernized, completely imitating Western music, without Chinese connotations. If no one watched the movie, it would be fine, but if many people watched it, it would be a disaster and would have a bad impact on most simple audiences.

Zhou Yan did not see the article at the first time, but Yu Hua called him to tell him.

After the call was connected, the first sentence Yu Hua said was: "You were also scolded."

This made Zhou Yan stunned. What did he mean that he was also scolded? Who scolded him? Who else was scolded besides him?

After listening to Yu Hua's explanation, Zhou Yan realized that it was Zhang Yiwu, who had scolded Han Shaogong, who also scolded him, and even wrote a special article, the name of which looked like a sister article to the "Spiritual Lack" that scolded Han Shaogong.

Zhou Yan was often scolded, but he didn't care much, just a little curious, "Zhang Yiwu is a literary critic, why would he scold me?"

Yu Hua smiled, "Aren't you from the literary world?"

"This... We didn't have any grudges before, he came to scold my movie, isn't it a bit over the line."

"You don't know Zhang Yiwu, he knows everything."

Knows everything... Zhou Yan probably understood what Yu Hua meant. Zhang Yiwu was probably a bit talkative, and he would comment on things regardless of whether they were in his own field or not.

This is also a common problem of many so-called critics, who always like to comment on things outside their field and often make a fool of themselves.

Of course, some critics may not be able to say anything brilliant in their field. (End of this chapter)