Chapter 281 The Dark Version of 'Legend of the White Snake'
Chapter 281 Dark version of "The Legend of White Snake"
Hearing the words of the two female protagonists, Qi Ji laughed and said: "Our promotion is so great this time, we must give you two the first credit! Unlike my senior brothers, we didn't even appear on a single show! We're not here for the premiere today!"
While Qi Ji praised the two women, he also complained about Yang Benli, the actor who played Xu Xian.
But it's just a joke.
Before the filming of "Green Snake" officially started, Yang Benli made an agreement with Qi Ji.
He is only responsible for acting, various promotional activities, socializing, etc. He doesn't want to participate in any of them.
Qi Ji respects this very much.
In this circle, there are many people like Yang Benli who simply love acting and regard acting as a normal job.
When a normal actor signs a contract, he will actually sign an agreement with the crew that requires cooperation in publicity later.
However, Qi Ji understood that Yang Benli did not want to add some additional exposure to the movie itself.
So he readily agreed to his request.
Qi Ji and the two girls stood at the door to welcome the guests.
Today, many people from the industry were invited, including many film critics and even more people from the media.
This is Qi Ji's second movie, especially it is adapted from Qi Ji's own popular IP "The Legend of White Snake".
So everyone's expectations for this movie are very high.
Qian came here in casual clothes when he was three years old.
"Brother Qi Ji!"
"Director Qian, I thought you weren't coming!" Qi Ji hugged Qian Sansui.
"The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer" has just been completed. Logically speaking, Qian Sansui should focus on post-production.
If it were anyone else, he would definitely not have the money at the age of three.
But this is Qi Ji.
This is different.
As soon as Qian was three years old, his old enemy, director Li Jianguo, also arrived.
There was still a distance of seven or eight meters, and Li Jianguo shouted: "Old Qian, you old boy, why can you film "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword"?"
The tone was quite angry.
Then he stepped up in two steps, and before Qian Sansui could refute, he looked at Qi Ji and said with a smile: "Brother Qi Ji, what are you talking about? You have to write a whole script for me! I don't have any requirements on the type, as long as
You wrote it, I have to shoot it!"
Li Jianguo and Qian Sansui are both well-known directors in the industry.
There are a lot of high-quality works in the hands of two people.
I have long known that Qi Ji has good relationships with many directors in the industry.
But I didn't expect that Qi Ji's relationship with these two great directors would be so good.
Among these two rumors, the director who often met and quarreled with each other, how come Qi Ji looked like two well-behaved children?
Zhao Tianxian and Zuo Hongdou looked at each other and saw the flash of shock in each other's eyes.
Immediately, both of them clenched their little fists in unison and secretly made up their minds.
Feng Muyu also came.
She was wearing a long red dress and a bun.
This year passed, Feng Muyu filmed two more movies, although they were not big hits.
But this has made her popularity steadily increase.
At present, she is already considered a leading figure among the little flowers of her generation.
"Director Qi!" Feng Muyu said with a smile.
Qi Ji patted her shoulder gently and pushed her in: "Hurry in!"
Feng Muyu paused and said, "I've booked two games tomorrow!"
People in the film industry usually support their friends by booking movie theaters for them.
Seeing Qi Ji and Feng Muyu chatting so naturally, Zhao Tianxian tilted his head slightly.
She had heard a little bit about the relationship between Feng Muyu and Qi Ji.
In fact, she has always been curious.
Qi Ji is so popular, so powerful, and so good-looking, but there is no gossip around him?
She glanced between Qi Ji and Feng Muyu with some suspicion, hoping to find something different.
But in this minute of two people chatting.
The eyes of both people looked very clear.
This is the look of a true friend.
"There is absolutely no pure friendship between men and women in this world! What's more, these two are still childhood sweethearts!" Zhao Tianxian thought.
She didn't know why she thought so.
Then several familiar actors came.
At this moment, Qi Ji had been standing at the door for almost forty or fifty minutes.
The two women next to me were both wearing high heels and were a little tired.
So Qi Ji said, "You two go in first, I'll just wait here."
The two women looked at each other, then nodded and entered the cinema.
Then Qi Ji welcomed another wave of theater managers.
The pre-sale for "Green Snake" started a week ago.
The current results are still very good.
As of now, the pre-sale box office has exceeded 80 million.
Among the five Spring Festival movies in the same period, it ranked second.
The appeal of the play "Green Snake" to the general public is evident.
"Green Snake" is ranked third among the films scheduled for the same period.
It lags behind the science fiction blockbuster "Mars" and the comedy "Dead to Me", which accounted for 23.4% of the scheduled films.
This data is pretty good for ordinary movies.
But in Qi Ji's case, it was just a passing grade.
So for today’s premiere, more than 20 theater managers were specially invited.
Qi Ji hoped that after watching "Green Snake", they could add more films to the "Green Snake" schedule.
The biggest celebrity present today was also the one who surprised Qi Ji the most.
It’s the actor Li Dacheng.
Back then on the "Director Please Take Your Place" program, the two of them had a very unpleasant fight.
Later, Li Dacheng came to Shunli Entertainment in person to apologize to Qi Ji.
This time, it was Meng Feichen who sent the invitation to Li Dacheng.
As a result, Li Dacheng rushed over without saying a word.
When he saw Qi Ji, a smile appeared on his face: "Brother Qi Ji, I haven't seen you for a long time. Your popularity is soaring to the sky!"
Qi Ji and Li Dacheng simply hugged each other and said, "Brother Li, it's great that you can come today! You go first, and I'll come in later!"
"You go about your business!"
When people are wandering in the world, many times, they still have to give them the face they deserve.
After all, if you really think about it, what happened back then was not that big of a deal.
Not a single one of the friends who received the invitation came.
After all, today is the 29th of the Lunar New Year, and many people have stopped working to prepare for the New Year.
So in terms of time, there is still plenty of time.
The huge cinema hall, which could accommodate nearly 200 people, was now dark.
Sitting in the first two rows were ordinary lucky fans.
Tickets are given out to lucky viewers randomly selected under the official Weibo of "Green Snake".
Basically, they are fans of several leading actors.
Among them, Qi Ji and Zhao Tianxian have the most fans.
"Sister, are you also so lucky? Hahaha! When I knew I was chosen, I was stunned!"
"Me too! The most die-hard fan of Qi Ji, this is the first time I have seen him so close! Woohoo! He is so handsome in person!"
"I am a fan of Sister Tianxian! This is her movie, and I must support it!"
"I hope "Green Snake" will be a big hit! I see that many people on the Internet don't think very highly of Tianxian! But I think that if an actor can be selected by Qi Ji, her acting skills must be passable.
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"Thank you sister!"
In a movie theater, the first two or three rows are quite awkward.
Because the viewing effect in these rows is indeed not that perfect.
But in the eyes of fans, this is naturally fine.
I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to watch the premiere among countless people.
Everyone’s little hearts have been pounding for a long time.
Where can I worry about thinking and viewing effects?
The middle part was given to the directors and actors who were invited.
After that, there are film critics and media people.
In short.
The entire place of nearly two hundred people was packed at this moment.
There were even many people sitting in the aisle.
"Movie TOP", a famous filmmaker in the industry.
He was a man in his thirties, very thin, with a scar on the left side of his face from someone he didn't know who had been fighting.
It looks a bit scary.
He received the invitation from Shunli Entertainment a week ago.
Before coming today, he specially reviewed the story of "The Legend of White Snake" again.
At this moment the movie has officially started playing.
In his mind, he entered the movie watching with a state of finding fault.
He wanted to see to what extent Qi Ji would adapt his work.
When "Green Snake" comes on, Fa Hai, played by Qi Ji, is catching monsters.
This monster kept begging for mercy, saying that he was a good monster and had never killed anyone, and hoped that Fa Hai would let him go.
But of course Fahai showed no mercy. In his mind, this was all a conspiracy by cunning monsters to survive.
As long as it is a demon, it is bad and deserves to die!
But after he killed the monster, he realized that it had always been a good monster.
So Fa Hai was confused.
Should such a monster be killed?
"Movie TOP" made my eyes light up.
The opening chapter is actually Fahai?
And as soon as he appeared on the scene, he began to doubt life?
There is a bit of philosophy in the film.
This is completely different from the painting style of "The Legend of White Snake" in "Singing the World".
If "The Legend of White Snake" is silly and sweet, then this "Green Snake" is a completely dark version.
The general framework of the previous part of the story still follows a path familiar to the audience.
White Snake and Xu Xian are together.
Green Snake wanted to know what love is, so she went to seduce Xu Xian.
And between Green Snake and Fa Hai, there is actually a love story.
There is even a plot where Fahai asks Green Snake to seduce her to exercise his concentration.
Xu Xian was so frightened when he saw White Snake's true form that he completely gave up on his love with White Snake.
Because White Snake was disheartened, she was willing to be suppressed in Leifeng Pagoda.
This story...is unusual.
This story completely subverted my view of this movie at the beginning of the movie TOP.
He had already predicted that Qi Ji would adapt it.
But I didn’t expect that Qi Ji’s adaptation would be so big!
It can even be said that this has completely "ruined" "The Legend of White Snake" and turned it into another story!
At this time, there was only one idea in Movie Top's mind.
That means Qi Ji is very courageous.
Such a bold adaptation of a story that is already familiar to the public.
This attempt is very good.
As a film critic, I really like the movie TOP.
But he knows very well that in the eyes of the audience, this kind of thing is not necessarily true.