In the sight of a family of three, the setting sun was slowly sinking into the sea at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, and the orange-red afterglow made the sea and sky one color. Such a magnificent scene fascinated the whole family.
It was already afternoon after Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei returned from Halo Technology Company.
Liu Xiaoli was still thinking about what to have for dinner. At Liu Yifei's suggestion, they came to this seaside barbecue restaurant.
This barbecue restaurant was also the place where they stayed up all night with Deng Chao, Sun Li and Chen He when they came to Xiamen last year.
The boss and his wife were still very enthusiastic. They put charcoal fire into the barbecue grill embedded in the center of the round table, brought raw food on plates, and also gave a few stacks of cold vegetables and nuts.
The daughter of the boss and his wife brought a box of beer. The girl had a watermelon head and a pair of myopia glasses. Her big eyes kept looking at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. She wanted to do something but didn't dare. She hesitated to speak.
appearance.
"What's wrong?" Chu Xuan looked at her and said gently.
The girl pursed her lips, pinched her belly nervously with her two little fingers, and said, "Can we take a photo together?"
"Come." Liu Yifei waved her hand cordially.
The girl was happy and reserved, sitting obediently between Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, constantly gesturing to her parents with her eyes.
The boss and his wife smiled kindly, and the wife hurriedly took out her mobile phone to take pictures of them, not forgetting to say: "Her room is full of your posters, from "The Golden Family" to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", as long as you are acting
She bought posters for all the dramas she watched."
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei each looked at the girl, and they met another loyal audience.
After the two posed for a few photos, the girl said "thank you" excitedly, then picked up her mother's cell phone and ran away. She looked like a shy girl.
After the boss and his family exited the private room, Liu Xiaoli flipped through the raw food skewered with bamboo skewers and prepared for barbecue.
"Auntie, we will return to the capital tomorrow afternoon." Chu Xuan took out three bottles of beer from the wine box on the ground and put them on the table.
"Tomorrow afternoon? So soon?" Liu Xiaoli asked: "Is the inspection finished?"
Chu Xuan picked up the bottle opener and opened the wine. With a slight "bang", the beer cap flew out. He nodded and said: "The inspection is over. I will visit a platform company tomorrow morning and inquire about this company's intention to cooperate."
Okay, there are a lot of things going on in the capital, so go back early and say hello."
Liu Xiaoli picked up a handful of mutton skewers and put them on the barbecue grill, and said, "Okay, I'll have someone buy a plane ticket tomorrow morning."
Chu Xuan filled three glasses with beer, while Liu Yifei was minding her own business on her mobile phone.
Chu Xuan glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw the information browsed on Liu Yifei's phone, and said: "280 million, not bad."
"What?" Liu Xiaoli asked while raising her eyebrows while grilling skewers.
Liu Yifei put her mobile phone on the table and said: "The Golden Armor directed by Zhang Yimou has a box office of almost 300 million, and now it is 280 million."
"It shouldn't reach 300 million. It will be released in a few days." Chu Xuan picked up the wine glass.
Liu Yifei said "hmm", picked up the wine glass and touched it with Chu Xuan, and the two of them took a sip of beer.
"It's just weird." Liu Yifei put down her wine glass and said, "The box office is so high, everyone is scolding it."
"Ah? Why?" Liu Xiaoli was surprised.
Chu Xuan raised his lips slightly, broke open the disposable chopsticks, and said: "Isn't it different from "The Promise" directed by Kai Ge? It won the box office of the year, but everyone is criticizing it."
"Why is this happening?" Liu Xiaoli was confused and put the grilled skewers on the plate, indicating that the two children could start eating.
Chu Xuan took a bunch of mutton, used disposable chopsticks to pull the mutton steak into the bowl, put the bamboo skewer on the table, picked up the chopsticks to pick up a piece of meat and ate it, while chewing the delicious food, he said: "Millennium Li Min"
The director made Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger, which grossed more than 200 million US dollars at the global box office and made a lot of money."
"Such a situation allowed filmmakers across the country to see the value of domestic commercial films for the first time. From that moment on, the domestic film market slowly shifted from literature and art to business."
"Following it, "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou turned out to be a hit, with a global box office of 177 million US dollars, making huge profits, once again proving the ability of commercial films to attract money."
"Then, "The Promise" directed by Kai Ge came out, but the global box office was only over 30 million US dollars, a huge loss."
"Today, "The City of Gold" is released. Judging from the current domestic box office of nearly 300 million, when it is released globally, director Zhang Yimou will probably make money again this time."
Chu Xuan picked up another piece of meat with his chopsticks and put it into his mouth, saying, "Did you find any problem?"
Liu Xiaoli glanced at Chu Xuan and continued to barbecue. Her vision for movies was still lacking and she couldn't keep up with Chu Xuan's rhythm. She remained silent when faced with Chu Xuan's questions.
Liu Yifei picked up her chopsticks and ate the mutton slowly. After thinking for a while, she seemed to have discovered something. Her eyes brightened and she said: "They are all released globally. The global box office is so high, but the domestic box office market is limited, which means that the overseas box office is the big one. This shows that these movies
It was taken for foreigners to see."
"Smart." Chu Xuan smiled, picked up a small handful of roasted green beans, and gave a few skewers to Liu Yifei.
Liu Yifei picked up a bunch of green beans, pulled them into a bowl with chopsticks, picked them up and chewed them slowly, saying: "These movies are all martial arts, but if we want foreigners to accept martial arts with our country's traditional cultural heritage, they must be removed.
The core of the story, otherwise foreigners wouldn’t be able to understand it.”
"Producer Liu is right." Chu Xuan nodded and called Producer Liu.
Since Liu Yifei became a producer, her horizons of knowledge about film and television dramas have broadened, and now her thinking and analytical skills have made great progress.
The family picked up the wine glasses and took a sip of wine. Chu Xuan put down the wine glasses and said: "Removing the core of traditional culture is equivalent to eating without rice, leaving only visual effects and beautiful pictures, which is equivalent to having only fine wine and delicacies."
"In our country, a martial arts movie like this is really amazing at first glance, but as you watch it slowly, you will always feel that something is missing after eating too much food and wine and not having rice to fill your stomach."
"But foreigners don't eat rice. Good wine and delicious food are enough. So in the face of my country's martial arts and kung fu, which have always been mysterious, these movies temporarily boosted the box office overseas."
"Without the core of martial arts, there would be no depth and incomprehensible Chinese-English translation that everyone can understand, including foreigners."
"But people in our country have a very thorough understanding of martial arts. Without the core, there will be no resonance. Naturally, they will call it a garbage movie."
"The reason why the domestic box office is high is because of the appeal of these great directors and the appeal of the all-star cast."
Liu Xiaoli suddenly understood.
Liu Yifei nodded slightly and said while eating green beans: "Your metaphor is quite interesting. You compare the kernel to rice. People in our country eat rice, but foreigners don't."
"Isn't that true?" Chu Xuan glanced at her: "This is the most obvious cultural difference between our country and overseas."
Liu Yifei nodded in approval and asked: "Directors Li Min and Zhang Yimou have both succeeded overseas. Why did "The Promise" directed by Kai Ge fail?"
Chu Xuan put down his chopsticks. After eating a lot of barbecue and beer, his stomach was a little bloated. He decided to take a short rest and replied: "Director Kai Ge is arrogant and wants to surpass Directors Li Min and Zhang Yimou, but he is not satisfied.
I believe that martial arts is a genre, so I created a fantasy martial arts show and injected the core of Eastern and Western cultures into "The Promise"."
"Director Kai Ge intends to take care of both the domestic market and the overseas market. He wants to make a movie that captures both cultural ideas."
"Obviously, he failed. Such a combination of Eastern and Western elements is not only incomprehensible to domestic audiences, but also to overseas audiences."
"I guess he can't understand it himself."
Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli had a laugh. Director Kai Ge is also a shareholder of the company. Is it okay to say this about him?
"Director Kai Ge always said that "The Promise" was a good film, but the audience couldn't understand it." Liu Yifei thought about what happened last year and found it very interesting.
"These great directors all value their reputations. Of course they have to protect their reputations if they criticize their works." Chu Xuan said.
"I have a doubt." Liu Xiaoli smeared oil on the skewers on the barbecue grill, picked up a skewer of meat and started eating: "Foreign science fiction movies are very popular at the global box office. Why don't these directors make science fiction movies?"
Chu Xuan rested for a while, then picked up the skewers and started eating: "First, the domestic industrial base is backward, and second, the capital investment is large, but the most fundamental reason is that they dare not shoot."
"Don't you dare to shoot?" Liu Xiaoli was stunned. Are there movies that these great directors dare not make? Chu Xuan's words were unexpected to her.
Chu Xuan threw the bamboo stick aside and wiped his mouth with a tissue: "Didn't I just say that these directors attach great importance to reputation and it is safe to make martial arts films, but science fiction is outside their cognitive scope and they dare not try it easily.
Otherwise, if they fail, their reputation may plummet."
"When the "Hope" project was launched, Director Kai Ge and Brother Zhang did not show much interest in such a avant-garde film. At most, they only came to provide guidance and did not want to participate in the core part."
"Although they said they strongly supported it, they were just standing by to see if this was feasible. They let me, Sissi, Kino and others explore the way."
"To put it simply, burdened by their reputation, these great directors will only make movies and TV series that they are sure of, and they won't even think about the ones that they are not sure of."
Chu Xuan threw the paper towel into the trash can and said: "In addition to this reason, these directors who came from the 1970s and 1980s have deep-rooted artistic ideas. They are full of futurity, unknownness, pioneering and innovation like science fiction.
Genre movies have a generation gap."
"It's not that they are incompetent, but that their own set of artistic ideas destined them to be unsuitable for science fiction."
"If directors Zhang Yimou and Kai Ge were asked to make science fiction, I have reason to suspect that they would turn science fiction into fantasy."
Liu Yifei and Liu Xiaoli were delighted when they heard this. They didn't expect these directors to be like this in Chu Xuan's opinion, but it makes sense after thinking about it.
These great directors who have been directing for decades have deep-rooted shooting techniques and ideas that have become their beliefs.
If they are asked to come into contact with a completely new film genre, these great directors may not be suitable.
Chu Xuan said: "So, why should I let Wen Mino be the director of "Hope" and the director of the science fiction project? Wen Mino is young, he has pioneering and innovative ideas, and his way of thinking is in line with today's young people.
He is of this era and has an unbridled imagination."
He made a conclusion: "China's science fiction must be shot by young directors, who are more likely to accept pioneering ideas."
Liu Yifei nodded. Chu Xuan's summary was also a concept shared by her and Chu Xuan.
Liu Xiaoli gained something from what Chu Xuan said. She felt gratified to have such insights at such a young age, and it also made her look forward to the future of her two children.
She stretched out, looked up at the starry sky at night, and suddenly sighed: "It seems that we have never had a rhythm like this, where we just go to a place and have fun."
Liu Yifei showed her face and nodded. From Hangzhou to Shenghai, and from Shenghai to Xiamen, although the time was tight, they also visited every place. This was indeed a rhythm that they had never experienced before.
"This is life." Chu Xuan finished eating the last skewer.
"I will continue if I have the opportunity in the future." Liu Xiaoli was very happy. She felt very comfortable with her family's lifestyle of traveling around the world, and it also promoted the harmony of the family.
"Then set a small goal and visit all the fun places in the world in your lifetime." Chu Xuan smiled.
"This is good! I agree with both hands!" Liu Yifei raised her hands, one of which was holding an enoki mushroom soaked in chili powder.
Liu Xiaoli looked at the two children with warm eyes, a little regretful and eager to say: "I just don't know how many more years I can play with you."
"Hey! Why are you talking like this? Auntie, you are still young." Chu Xuan frowned and thought about Liu Xiaoli: "No matter how many years, under the aurora in Norway, we go there to look up at the stars. Auntie, you hold your grandson in your left hand and your right hand
Holding my granddaughter in my arms, I am so happy."
Grandson? Granddaughter?... Liu Yifei was startled. The hand she had just raised to put the enoki mushroom into her mouth was still in the air. A flash of shame flashed in her eyes, and she hit Chu Xuan with her elbow angrily.
Liu Xiaoli raised her forehead and smiled, looked at the two children with a joking look, and said: "Don't say it, it's very picturesque."
Liu Yifei pouted. Chu Xuan said such a thing in front of her mother, and her mother responded positively, which made her feel even more embarrassed.
But the scene described by Chu Xuan, the beauty and dreaminess in it, made her feel a little more yearning. It was such a beautiful feeling.
Liu Xiaoli saw that the two children had almost eaten, so she asked: "Have you finished eating?"
Liu Yifei took the last bite of enoki mushroom into her mouth, put the bamboo stick on the table, nodded, and picked up the wine glass.
Chu Xuan and Liu Xiaoli picked up the wine glasses, the three glasses clinked together, and the family of three drank the remaining wine in the glasses.