In the National Science and Technology Museum, the premiere ceremony of "Rejuvenation" lasted for more than an hour, which meant chatting and interacting.
Originally, Ma Qingyang and Ma Huagan were also going to attend the premiere. After all, it was their debut film.
However, unfortunately, Ma Qingyang went to the Elysee Palace to meet with the French President.
Ma Huagan was in the capital, but he went to talk about the energy Internet with the boss of State Grid. Although the boss of State Grid seemed inferior to the French General Grid, it was also the seventh largest company in the world's top 500 companies, and even said The giants have insulted the power grid, at least they have to be oligarchs.
This is the simple and unpretentious life of the rich. Today they are discussing business with the CEO of a big company, and tomorrow they fly to meet the boss of some country.
After the ceremony, the movie officially started showing.
As Li Qian led the actors off the stage, the lights in the screening room of the National Science and Technology Museum dimmed.
The big screen suddenly lights up, and the familiar dragon logo never gets tired of watching.
There were no credits, and after the dragon logo flashed by, an old face appeared on the screen.
"The hurricane is moving north."
Accompanied by the sound of news coming from nowhere, the old man slowly opened his eyes.
She was in a hospital bed, and there was a beeping sound from the equipment next to her.
The old man opened his eyes, looked at Gao Yuanyuan by the window, and asked her what she was looking at.
Gao Yuanyuan, who had been staying with her in the hospital, felt a little tired. She stretched out, walked to the window, and whispered in the same gentle voice as her gentle face, "Mom, I'm watching the wind. The news said that this typhoon is coming." You may pass through the Magic City, are you feeling better?"
"I feel like I'm on a ship, floating all the time." The terminally ill old man's speech was a little unclear, and he seemed to have cotton in his mouth.
The first one hundred seconds is a conversation between a daughter and an elderly mother in the hospital bed.
Gao Yuanyuan was comforting her mother, but her mother was not afraid of death at all. Instead, she was curious about what would happen after death, and changed the topic to 1945.
When the Anti-Japanese War ended in 1945, the train station welcomed a group of soldiers returning home after the war, and a magnificent clock was replaced at the train station.
The old man was slowly telling how lively the train station was that year, how happy the people were, and how most of the people in the city were celebrating and welcoming the soldiers back home.
The first three minutes were a little boring, but industry insiders and movie fans who came to watch the premiere with the highest expectations waited very patiently. They believed that Li Qian would not let them down.
In the narration, the old man continues to recall the past.
But the scene has moved to 1945.
It was a very lively day. In addition to celebrating and welcoming the returning warriors, a grand unveiling ceremony was also held for the big bell.
However, when the red cloth was lifted, people suddenly discovered that the clock actually ran backwards.
The guests and audience at the scene were also a little strange.
"Is this why time goes back?"
Next, the craftsman who made the big clock explained.
"I did this on purpose so that the children who died in the war might come back to life and come home."
Along with his narration, the scene shifted to a battlefield, where a soldier who had just been shattered by a shell suddenly stood up.
Holding the gun in his hand, he faced the hail of bullets and ran backwards step by step, as if time was flowing backwards.
"They go home to farm, work, marry, have children, and live their entire lives."
As the soldier continued to retreat, more and more fallen soldiers stood up and ran backwards together.
Everyone in the train station fell silent, and the people who came to watch the excitement looked at the clockmaker solemnly.
In the screening room, people who were eating snacks and drinking all put down their hands, and the lovers who were whispering also stopped.
"Maybe my child can also come home." The clockmaker said. The soldier who had been resurrected from the battlefield had already got off the train to the battlefield and fell back into the arms of his parents who came to see him off.
Although it was just a scene imagined by a watchmaker who was suffering from the pain of losing his son, these short ten seconds moved the audience very much.
And even though the main plot has not yet entered, the audience still showed no impatience at all, and everyone was staring at the big screen seriously.
Immediately afterwards, the old man took out a diary that he had read countless times and asked his daughter to read it to her.
The daughter started reading from the first page of the diary: "These are my last words and testament.
I left nothing behind, no property, no money.
I came alone and went alone. I will not take you with me in life, and I will not take you with me in death.
I'm writing it now, while I still remember it."
The old man lay peacefully on the bed, listening to his daughter telling the story of the person she loved most.
The audience also realized that this was probably the protagonist's diary and listened attentively.
Immediately afterwards, the narration was changed to a male voice. People who often watch movies can recognize that it is Chen Kun's voice.
"My birth was very unusual, and I heard later that it was a particularly beautiful day."
The big screen once again switched to 1945, the day of victory in the Anti-Japanese War, and countless people celebrated in the streets.
At night, a tall figure shuttled through the crowd celebrating victory on the street. It was Liu Yunlong with an anxious face.
When he rushed home, his wife had difficulty giving birth, and the doctor said that her mother was dying.
Upon hearing the news, Liu Yunlong angrily told the doctor to get out.
He came to the bedside with a guilty look on his face and held his wife's hand.
The wife who had just experienced a difficult childbirth used the last strength of her life to beg her husband not to abandon their child.
The husband looked at the newborn child in astonishment. When he saw his extremely ugly and old face clearly, he picked up the child full of resentment and ran away again.
Although the audience has already seen the appearance of the newborn male protagonist in the trailer, it is still a bit difficult to accept it because everything is seen more clearly on a big screen close to 30 meters wide.
Just like the trailer, Liu Yunlong abandoned his child at the door of a nursing home and was adopted by Liu Mingtao, who worked in the nursing home.
He was abandoned by his biological father at birth. Although he looked ugly, the audience was very aggrieved, especially the emotional female audience.
"Scumbag!"
A girl in the audience couldn't help but cursed in a low voice. The boyfriend next to her was a little embarrassed and explained in a low voice, "Actually, this approach is understandable. After all, the baby does look a little bit...
The man felt that this unknown baby had killed his wife, and he was so angry that he suddenly lost his temper. Moreover, he did not throw it away casually, but left it at the door of the nursing home. He even saw someone taking the baby in before leaving, so he had some conscience.
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However, this explanation made it even more difficult for the already angry girlfriend to accept it. If her boyfriend didn't follow suit and scolded her, she would just give the scumbag an explanation.
"Do you still think he did the right thing?" The girl glared at her boyfriend unhappily.
"I don't. It's not that I'm just standing in his position. It's understandable, but understanding is understanding. I can't accept abandoning my own child." The boy explained quickly.
"Are you still standing on the scumbag's side?" The girl's voice immediately raised a little higher, "Then who is standing on the child's side? His wife begged him not to abandon the child before she died. Who is on his wife's side?"
"I was wrong, he is just a scumbag." The explanation does not make sense, and the boy immediately admits his mistake. If he continues to explain, he will become a scumbag.
The male protagonist, who was an old man at birth, no, to be precise, an old baby, appeared and got into the theme.
A man with the soul of a baby, the body of a baby, and the appearance of an old man living in a nursing home also made the audience very interested.
On the big screen, Liu Mingtao took the baby back and asked the pastor and doctor in the nursing home to take a look. The doctor said he wouldn't live long.
But the elderly people who were watching were not afraid at all, nor did they think the baby was ugly. Instead, they were very happy.
In this way, the old baby became a member of the nursing home.
Time passed day after day, and after four years, the baby grew up and looked almost like a seventy-year-old man in body and appearance.
He cannot walk yet and lives in a wheelchair like other elderly people in the nursing home.
"Who acted this? Does it look a bit like Chen Kun?"
In the past, it was not obvious when watching trailers on computers or TV. Now on the big screen, the more they see this four-year-old man, the more the audience feels that he looks too much like Chen Kun.
Teacher You Bencang in the guest seat also smiled, "He looks a bit like me between his eyebrows."
Chen Daoming next door also smiled and said, "Like me."
Zhang Hanyu, who has been working on the material for the movie for almost a month, also laughed and said, "It's a bit like me, technology is really amazing."
However, the plot did not give everyone time to think. Although the pace was slow, just like telling a story smoothly, it made everyone immersed in it.
The little old man has begun to get used to life in a nursing home, but he often behaves childishly, making it obvious that he is still a child.
Elderly people also began to die in nursing homes. The little old man who was only four years old did not understand what death was.
The elegant old lady who taught him how to play the piano told him, "We are destined to lose the people we love in our lives, otherwise how would we know how important they are in our lives."
It's obviously talking about death, but it doesn't let the audience feel a trace of sadness or fear.
"Li Qian's line is simply amazing!" Audience members who studied literature were greatly impressed and secretly remembered this sentence in their hearts.
Scenes of life in the nursing home, including studying and his mother's education about life and life, are so plain and true.
Then the scene turned to the church, and the godfather shouted "Almighty Lord"
"Hallelujah" and miraculously made the hero stand up.
Many viewers were secretly unhappy with this scene, why should such a plot be used to show the greatness of Jesus?
However, when the male protagonist stood up and the priest looked up to the sky and shouted "Praise the Lord", and then suddenly fell down and died, he felt inexplicably refreshed.
"Haha, I don't know why I feel like laughing."
"Me too, even though someone is dead, I still want to laugh."
"I thought Li Qian believed in Jesus before, but now I realize that this is a satire on religion."
"It's too much. I praised the Lord but was taken away by Him."
Gradually, the male protagonist also got to know other people outside the nursing home, and began to wander around the streets to see the world.
At the age of five, he was obviously much younger than the four-year-old. He had grown taller and stronger, and he looked less than seventy.
Soon, he also made a new friend, the granddaughter of an old lady in a nursing home.
The male protagonist, who was only five years old, soon got to play with the innocent and curious little girl.
Chen Kun's voice also came from the narration: "That is the most important person in my life."
In the dead of night, the little girl took the male protagonist to play house and moved them under the table surrounded by a tablecloth, where candles were lit.
The male protagonist said that he was not as old as he looked, and the little girl also felt that he did not look like an old man, and she wanted to touch him.
However, at this moment, the tablecloth was lifted, and the grandma saw her granddaughter putting her hand on the actor's face. She took her granddaughter away with her face full of anger, and even insulted the actor before leaving.
The audience also breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, they looked very awkward. The main reason was that the male protagonist was too old and the little girl was too young. Even if they knew it was the male and female protagonists, they could not accept the intimate actions.
The injured hero began to seek comfort from his mother. Liu Mingtao told him that he was born different from others and this could not be changed, but he had to learn to accept this reality.
Life in a nursing home is full of philosophies of life. Let’s not talk about whether it is right or wrong. At least it is based on the male protagonist who has experienced it. The audience at the scene was fully invested in it and accepted it.
Finally, one day when the hero was watching the sunset on a pier by the sea, he met a captain who dreamed of becoming a poet.
Jiang Wu plays the unshaven and rough image of the ship's captain, which perfectly matches the rude captain.
The rude captain who loves to write poetry and yearns for art takes the hero out to sea.
Before leaving, he met the little girl again and told her that he would write to her during the trip and tell her what he saw during the trip.
In this way, he embarked on a sailing journey.
However, the sea was not calm, and we encountered a big storm in winter.
The boat capsized and people died.
The rude captain who yearned for art also perished in the sea with his ship.
However, before he died, facing the heartbroken male protagonist, the rude captain taught him all his life experience.
"When things don't go your way, you can vent like a mad dog, you can yell and curse your fate, but in the end, you still have to let go."
The male protagonist did not expect that the rude man who called himself a poet but was full of foul words would still teach him the principles of life before he died.
The audience did not expect that the vulgar Jiang Wu was actually a poet and artist.
Previously, when Jiang Wu was holding a cigarette in his mouth, spitting everywhere, pointing at Xia San Road and cursing people, but always claiming to be an artist, no one in the audience could not secretly despise him.
They all thought that Li Qian created this character to satirize those who regard dreaming as dreams, but they did not expect that this person was really a dreamer.
Anyone with some life experience will silently chew on this sentence in his heart, and invariably have the same sigh.
"This is life!"
The movie continues to play without stopping to wait for the audience to think. It has been playing for nearly fifty minutes now, and one-third of it has passed.
50 minutes, even if it were a normal movie, half of it would have passed, but the audience in the screening room did not notice that time passed so quickly.
The boat capsized and the artist captain died, but the actor was lucky enough to be pushed ashore by the waves while holding a piece of wood.
The waves on the beach were rolling, and a company wearing old-fashioned military uniforms was marching in a hurry and found the male protagonist unconscious on the beach.
Seeing this, the audience also realized that the drama of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was coming.
In the previous trailer, the Ice Sculpture Company had already appeared. Facing the more than a hundred lifelike ice sculptures and looking at the Zhiyuan Army soldiers who were frozen into ice sculptures, as long as they were Chinese, no one would be unmoved.
Even if you are no longer Chinese in your heart, as long as you are still a human being, you will at least not be indifferent.
There is also endless debate about the filming of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In addition to military fans, ordinary audiences are also curious about how Li Qian would film that period of history.
Now, as they are about to see that period of history, most people can't help but sit up straight and look forward to it.