In the mid-level villa, Zhou Wen's residence is bustling with activity. Zhou Runfa, Zhang Manyu, Wang Zuxian and others are busy doing barbecue DIY on the barbecue grill in the courtyard. Zhou Yaoliang and Da Fei are making beef balls in the kitchen, and Jimmie and Uncle Quan are cooking. For the shrimp shell, Zhou Cai'er put the shelled and deveined mantis shrimp into a juicer to make it into a puree.
¡°Ahua, is this okay?¡±
Zhong Chuhong and Shao Hua were arranging the seats for the party. Hong Gu asked Shao Hua for his opinion from time to time. Who knows that the latter is a master of planning? The venue for the 6th Academy Awards was designed by her.
Shao Hua crossed his shoulders, nodded and said, "That's good. Let Mr. Rong come over for a sound check later. He will be the lead singer tonight. By the way, where is Awen?"
Zhong Chuhong pointed to the second floor and said, "He is busy explaining Xin Li's doubts."
"Clear the confusion?" Shao Hua frowned and said in confusion: "Aren't Zhou and Debao enemies? How can Awen be so kind as to help his opponent clear up his confusion?"
Hearing this, Zhong Chuhong chuckled and said: "Awen secretly participated in one of the other party's upcoming works and invested six million. No matter what, I have to get the capital back. That is my private money!"
Shao Hua covered his mouth exaggeratedly: "Wow, you two are so insidious! Directly infiltrating the enemy's interior to secretly invest, tsk tsk, you are so courageous. Aren't you afraid that the other party will deliberately disrupt it after finding out?"
"Don't worry, the investment background is very secretive. If Debao knew about it, Xinli wouldn't be able to come here for help." Zhong Chuhong shrugged and said, "So, it's normal for Awen to be positive."
"Yes, yes, it's too late if there is no profit!" Shao Hua said with emotion: "I'm convinced by you. You even have your opponent's ideas. It's a typical case of asking for money rather than life!"
"Awen said Debao's other works are fine if you don't invest. This "Autumn Fairy Tale" is clearly delivered to your door. If you don't make a profit, it would be a disgrace to others' filial piety." Zhong Chuhong waved her hand and said: "Look at Debao Isn¡¯t the publicity very good recently? Anyway, as long as we can make money, it¡¯s fine. With Awen watching over the whole process, we don¡¯t have to worry about it.¡±
After the severe box office failure of "Ghost Horse School", Debao stepped up the promotion of "Autumn Fairy Tale" and put out several large posters with an exotic style, in order to avoid losing interest in art films. The trailer focuses on the "rude" side of the character played by Fa Ge, such as gambling, swearing, and even fighting for his compatriots, which more or less conflicts with the image of "Little Ma".
This is where Xin Li is clever. She knows how to squeeze Zhou Runfa's box office appeal, and deliberately enlarges the image of "Brother Ma" in the trailer, as if to give people the impression that "Brother Ma" is still generous and generous overseas. The "heroic spirit" of stabbing a friend at their own expense.
Synchronous rendering of trailers and posters. In a summer season filled with action movies and comedies, it has suddenly created a fresh and refreshing literary style.
"Generally speaking, there is nothing to criticize about the focus of publicity." Zhou Wen tapped the table lightly, looked at the worried Xin Li across from him and said, "I told you before, don't use your own shortcomings and the strengths of the other party to criticize you. Pin, many people including you may not know, but "Eastern Condor" is actually a war action movie, not a gun fight movie in the traditional sense. It was planned by Hong Jinbao last year, mainly like the American Rambo. .¡±
Xinli bit her lower lip and listened quietly to Zhou Wen's analysis. She hurried over mainly because she wanted to hear Zhou Wen's analysis. At the moment, only Zhou Wen could persuade her.
Seeing this, Zhou Wen said with a smile: "Let me talk about the disadvantages of "Oriental Vulture" first. In case you still have the virtue of not thinking about food and tea."
Xin Li rolled her eyes at him and did not refute.
"It's just because this is a war action movie. In terms of genre, "Oriental Condor" is neither a standard action movie nor a war movie. You have to know that Hong Kong's geographical location is awkward and there is almost no war background. , the audience will inevitably have a sense of dissonance in terms of immersion, because the war is too far away from them, so the plot lacks some convincing and is too far-fetched." Zhou Wen paused here and said to Xin Li: "This point You have no objection, right?"
Xinli shook her head and said nothing, so you can continue.
Zhou Wen hummed and said: "Secondly, if we analyze it from the perspective of action movies and gunfight movies, this movie has a greater disadvantage. Now that there is a wave of hero movies in Hong Kong, the box office will definitely be affected to a certain extent. What Hong Jinbao is best at is group drama. This is his advantage, but it has weakened the halo of the starring role, making it impossible for him to achieve the same level of personal heroism as Cheng Long. Perhaps even he himself has not discovered it. Ever since Cheng Long started directing alone In the end, individual heroism became the mainstream of action movies."
"The audience likes heroes. Brother Xiao Ma is a hero, Brother Hao is a hero, and Cheng Long's police officers are also heroes. However, there are too many heroes in "Eastern Condor", and it is difficult to make themPeople fall in love with one of them, because the aura of the dead supporting characters is more dazzling than that of the living protagonists. After watching it, everyone only feels that this is a visually stunning action movie, with lively fights and cruel wars except There is nothing left beyond these. "
"Isn't it right?" After listening attentively, Xin Li couldn't help but retort: ??"If it's really like what you said, wouldn't the box office of "Oriental Condor" be miserable?"
"Haha, if you keep this kind of optimistic thinking, you won't be entangled and worried!" Zhou Wen chuckled and said, "You are so cute, so cute and interesting."
Xin Li curled her lips when she heard this and said angrily: "Who can curse others like you?"
"Haha, you look even cuter when you're angry!" Zhou Wen laughed.
"Huh!" Xin Li simply turned her head.
"Okay, after analyzing the disadvantages of "Oriental Condor", let's talk about the advantages of "Autumn Fairy Tale". Again, if a literary film reaches the extreme box office, it may not be a hit. Zhang Yuanting is one of the last few existing new wave directors. A person who insists on style, Zhou Runfa has many years of rich experience in shooting literary films, and you have made good use of his heroic spirit as the main promotion, so what you can and should do, you are now operating very accurately. Just do your best to obey fate."
"Is it that simple?" Xin Li's eyes widened. She didn't expect that Zhou Wen would come all the way over, but Zhou Wen dismissed her with just a few words.
"Yes!" Zhou Wen nodded and said, "What else do you want?"
Xinli smiled bitterly and said, "Please, you have to provide some convincing evidence. This is too perfunctory."
"In the beginning, I just invited you to the birthday party. I didn't intend to comfort your injured little heart. I am doing volunteer work for free, and you are not satisfied and you are complaining~" Zhou Wen spread his hands and said ruthlessly: "Hey, Don¡¯t tell me that you didn¡¯t even bring me a birthday gift.¡±
"Youyouyou!" Xin Li stood up angrily and said "you" three times. She took out a beautifully wrapped box from her bag and threw it in front of Zhou Wen and said, "I'm not as unbearable as you said. This is your birthday present, hum!"
"It would be great to take it out earlier!" Zhou Wen started to open the box, showing great violence. He opened the exquisite packaging in three clicks, and saw a golden pen lying in the box.
"Gold-plated?" Zhou Wen picked it up and looked at it, but Xin Li rolled her eyes at him and said angrily: "It cost me a month's salary. If you don't like it, give it back to me!" He then stepped forward to grab it. It's just that her movements were too slow and she could barely grab the cap of the pen.
"How dare you take back the water that was spilled from the gift you gave me? Return the pen cap to me quickly." Zhou Wen didn't expect the little girls to be so strong-willed and actually snatched the pen cap away.
"Hmph!" You gave me a gift"
¡°It¡¯s so ungrateful to burn bridges across rivers!¡±
Xin Li held the cap of the pen tightly with both hands, pouted her little mouth and said proudly: "Whatever you say, I won't give you the most valuable thing anyway. I'm so angry with you that you actually deceived me!"
"Hey, you won't give it back to me, right?" Zhou Wen played with the pen and said, "Okay, I won't tell you the biggest secret about "Autumn Fairy Tale" either!"
"What secret?" Xin Li asked curiously.
"Exchange the pen cap." Zhou Wen stretched out his hand.
Xin Li shook her head: "No, don't try to fool me again, I won't be fooled!"
"Brother, everything is ready downstairs. Come down and open soon!" Zhou Cai'er's voice came from downstairs.
"Well, you didn't want to know, don't blame me for not warning you, don't blame me if something goes wrong!" Zhou Wen put the pen away, waved to Xin Li and said, "Let's go, go eat."
¡¡Dividing line¡¡
Zhou Wen and Xin Li went downstairs one after another. Zhong Chuhong and Zhou Cai'er ran over. One brought a colorful garland to Zhou Wen, and the other put a birthday hat on him. Then everyone kept clapping and singing birthday songs, especially Zhang Guorong. He held the microphone and sang "happy-birthday-to-you." It was very affectionate.
¡°Here comes the cake!¡± Dafei pushed the dining cart into the crowd, and a large multi-layered cake appeared in front of everyone.
¡°Make a wish quickly, make a wish quickly!¡± Everyone was noisy. Zhou Wen closed his eyes happily and moved his lips to make a wish. Then he opened his eyes and blew out all the candles with one breath.
"Awen, I wish you a happy birthday!" Zhou Runfa came over with a smile and hugged Zhou Wen. At the same time, he picked up a piece of cake in his right hand, making it clear that he was going to attack by surprise.
"Brother Fa, you are not good!" Zhou Wen made a mistake and avoided Brother Fa's sneak attack while taking advantage of the situation.The cake was thrown out and hit Zhang Guorong's face, who was singing.
"Hey, what are you two doing? This is not the plan we agreed on!" Zhang Guorong dropped the microphone and counterattacked with two pieces of cake in his hand.
For a moment, the scene was extremely chaotic. Everyone was throwing cakes at each other. Wang Zuxian took advantage of Zhou Wen being flanked and suddenly protected Zhou Wen from behind, and then shouted: "I caught him, everyone, do it quickly!"
Instantly, Zhou Wen was overwhelmed by the cake. His face, neck, and clothes were white and slippery, and he was extremely embarrassed. Just when he was about to fight back, he suddenly felt a cold feeling on the back of his neck, but Wang Zuxian took advantage of the chaos and secretly licked it