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703 [Mulan]

Lin Guan is very lazy, not only because she doesn’t film properly, but she can’t even get up in the morning. She sleeps until half of the morning before she gets up in a daze to eat.
Li Jiaxin is completely different. Although she is also greedy for enjoyment, she works very seriously and hard.
Last night, Li Jiaxin woke up very early in the morning. She opened her eyes in a daze and saw a pair of dogs entangled in bed, and immediately recalled the absurdity of last night.
"Was he woke up so early?" Kang Jianfei sat up and asked with the arm that was put on the switch, put on his body.
"Well, I can't sleep when I wake up." Li Jiaxin replied while putting on her clothes.
Kang Jianfei put on a sports T-shirt and shorts and ran to the open space downstairs to practice boxing. Li Jiaxin put on her clothes and looked back at Lin Guan, who was sleeping like a dead pig. She suddenly felt a sense of emptiness and confusion.
To be honest, Li Jiaxin does have a good impression of Kang Jianfei. This kind of affection became like after the two broke through the relationship between men and women, but it was far from the word "love". Staying with Kang Jianfei as his lover was completely for money. This relationship once made Li Jiaxin feel sad - no woman is inferior to heaven.
Now that she not only became Kang Jianfei's mistress, but also served him with another woman. Li Jiaxin felt that her last trace of dignity had been torn apart.
After Kang Jianfei finished punching, he went to the bathroom to rush. When he returned to the living room, Li Jiaxin had already asked the Filipino maid to prepare breakfast, and have breakfast together like a normal couple.
When Kang Jian flew out, Li Jiaxin kept sending him into the car before coming back. She sat in the empty living room and did nothing, not knowing what she should do.
Li Jiaxin suddenly missed her past days, either studying and doing housework or filming advertisements to make money to subsidize her family income. Occasionally, she felt very happy when she had time to go out with a few friends. Now she has money and has plenty of time to do whatever she wants every day, but she is more empty and difficult than before.
Of course, if Li Jiaxin goes back to live her poor life before, she will not even be beaten to death.
"Why haven't you left yet?" Guan Zhilin walked over in this nightgown with disheveled hair.
Li Jiaxin argued: "This is Brother Fei's house, why should I leave?"
Guan Zhilin stretched and said, "I'm too lazy to argue with you. Is there any breakfast?"
"It seems that there is another thing, go to the kitchen to see it yourself." Li Jiaxin didn't have the intention to quarrel with Lin Guan. What's the point of arguing with the two mistresses?
Li Jiaxin was bored and read a fashion magazine. After reading a magazine, Lin Guan had already packed up and appeared in front of her in a bright and beautiful manner.
Seeing that Guan Zhilin was carrying the bag, Li Jiaxin asked in a tragic way: "Where to go?"
"Shopping." Guan Zhilin said.
Li Jiaxin put down the magazine and said, "Go together."
"Let's go." Guan Zhilin smiled, called her female bodyguard and went out.
Li Jiaxin looked at Guan Zhilin's female bodyguard and couldn't help but feel comparing, thinking to herself: Let Brother Fei invite me one next time.
In the past, the most prosperous shopping center in Hong Kong was Central, but in the past decade, the rents in Central were too high, so the commercial center of Hong Kong Island began to spread to Shanghuan, Wan Chai and other places, and Causeway Bay has become the most prosperous and lively shopping place.
Two sports cars drove to Causeway Bay one after another and stopped in the parking lot near Sogo Department Store.
Lin Guan walked in front wearing sunglasses and said, "There is a good spa on the fifth floor of Chongguang. I'll take you to try it later."
Li Jiaxin said: "I usually do nursing care on the side of George Street in Jili."
Lin Guan smiled and said, "There is already out of date there."
After all, Li Jiaxin has lived a rich life for less than a year. It is not as familiar as Lin Zhili, and she suddenly had the idea of ​​learning humbly from her predecessors.
The two walked into the department store together and immediately attracted the attention of everyone around them.
"Aunt Thirteenth!"
"How did Rosamund Kwan go shopping in the mall with Li Jiaxin?"
"Yes, they are rivals."
“…”
It is normal to meet a star in Hong Kong where the size of a palm. Unless it is a star like Zhou Runfa, Anita Mui, and Alan Tam, most people will not be too excited to meet a little star.
Although Rosamund Kwan is very famous, her celebrity aura is still insufficient. Unless she meets a loyal fan, she will basically not be surrounded by passers-by and asked for signatures.
But this time it was different. The two love rivals actually appeared in the department store talking and laughing, just like the sun hitting the west.
I don’t know who notified the reporter. The next day, the photos of them shopping together appeared in the entertainment editions of several newspapers, and the behavior of the two was analyzed. The final conclusion was: After Kang Jianfei and He Chaoqiong got married, Guan Zhilin and Li Jiaxin were both eliminated in this love battle. After the same fate and compassion, they finally turned enemies into friends.
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When Kang Jianfei went to the mainland to select an outdoor location, the animated film "Mulan" by the Black Horse Animation Company finally began to be fully screened in the spring season of North America.
Spring starts from spring break. Although it is not as important as summer and late-year periods (Thanksgiving and Christmas), movies that can be released at this time are also very good-looking by theaters and publishers.
No one can guarantee the box office of "Mulan" in North America, because it is not only a Chinese movie, but also an animated movie. However, the previous pre-record effect was very good, so when it was officially released, "Mulan" won 625 screens.
In 1998, Disney's original "Mulan" received more than 300 million US dollars in global box office. Kang Jianfei felt satisfied that his global box office could exceed 100 million. After all, the original version is supported by Disney's name. During the holidays, many American parents would bring their children into the movies for the name Disney. Kang Jianfei's dark horse animation company is unknown, and it will be very difficult to promote it in this way.
Compared with the Disney version of this movie "Mulan", there are only some details in the plot, and the soundtrack is completely different. All the songs in it were completed by Hu Weili.
The Disney version of "Mulan" draws on the casualness and freehand painting of Chinese painting in the character modeling, and expresses the expression, mood and inner character of the characters with a few strokes. The film uses freehand ink paintings as the background, landscapes, flowers, gardens, and fields, and has a strong Chinese style. The color is not the usual heavy kind of Disney, but completely imitates the lightness in Chinese ink paintings.
But it is worth noting that the ink background does not have the feeling of ink moistening rice paper, but is integrated into Disney's usual thick feeling on the basis of freehand painting. Although the background is empty and grand and the foreground outline is clear, the foreground background consistently demonstrates the thick color, less chic and more rules.
This style is a breakthrough for Disney. It is not difficult for Americans to accept it at all, but Chinese people will definitely feel awkward.
More than half of the animators at the Black Horse Animation Company come from the mainland. These people are either famous teachers or famous teachers and disciples, and their level is definitely world-class.
Kang Jianfei originally wanted to learn from Disney and incorporate the toughness of American comics into the ink painting style to cater to the aesthetics of American audiences. But after trying it, the animators in the company gave up one by one, saying that this would be the four-dimensional one, and they would not do it if they beat him to death.
Kang Jianfei couldn't mess with those professionals, so he simply followed their wishes and used this cartoon to try the waters in North America.
The style that was finally created is very similar to "The Great Trouble in Heaven". As for whether the American people like to watch it, they will only know after it is released.
A lot of publicity fees were spent, but fortunately, there were no blockbusters to grab the box office at the same time, and no Disney animations to grab the audience. As the only animated film in the spring, "Mulan" became the first choice for parents who took their children to watch movies.
It won $8.61 million in the first weekend, and "Mulan" ranked second in the weekly box office in North America during the spring season, which is an excellent result. Moreover, "Mulan" has a strong potential and continues to rank second in the weekly box office list. The weekly box office exceeded the original first place, but the weekly box office championship was snatched away by another newly released movie and is still ranked second in the weekly box office list.
The box office list was second in the third consecutive week, but the box office data of this ten thousand-year-old second is extremely impressive. When the screening ended in the fourth week, the cumulative box office in North America had reached US$24.48 million.
This result will certainly not be ranked in the top ten in North America's box office this year, and there is not even a top twenty. However, as a Chinese animated film, it can win more than 20 million US dollars in North America, and the animators from Dark Horse Comics Company are all so happy.
In addition to the promotional expenses and dividends from publishers and hospital vendors, "Mulan" can be distributed to more than $3 million in North America, while the production cost of this movie is less than $200,000.
Who says animation movies can’t make money?
After the news came back to Hong Kong, those who made animations in Hong Kong were stupid. They were so poor that they could only make cartoon clips for advertisements and movies. I have never seen anyone earning millions of dollars in a one-time animation.
Chapter completed!
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