""Return to Youth" has exploded into the Lunar New Year movie. Thousands of cinemas across the country were brightly lit early this morning to watch the midnight show together!"
"Looking back at history, following the scenes of light and shadow through the brilliance and splendor after the founding of New China, "Rejuvenation" - a history of the growth of New China!"
"I fell in love with you when I was seventy and forgot about you when I was seven. Li Qian used an alternative theme to tell a story about a love that is not so unforgettable but great!"
"If you were born as an octogenarian and died as an infancy, how would you live your life? "Return to Youth" will take you through a wonderful life."
"The greatest work of the year, Li Qian once again breaks through himself. "The Truman Show" teaches people to break through themselves, and "Return to Youth" tells us that sometimes we can only accept many things indifferently."
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Early in the morning on the 4th, after a large-scale midnight show in the early morning, "Return to Youth" has occupied the pages of all entertainment media and websites.
Although the after-hours show only started at 0 o'clock in the morning and lasted for more than 150 minutes. It was already 2:30 after watching the movie, and it was already 3 o'clock when I got home. However, the after-hours show is still extremely popular, and countless people across the country can't wait for it.
The audience all went to the cinema and stayed up late to watch it.
One night passed, and it was enough for the media, film critics, and self-media to organize their language and comment on the movie online.
Li Qian was also eating breakfast at the dining table early in the morning, while reading the news to see how others interpreted his movie.
Ordinary viewers would have to go to work at this point, and they didn’t have the energy to write a review after watching the midnight screening, so Li Qian took a look at Douban first.
There are a lot of long reviews, often hundreds, thousands, or even four to five thousand words long.
Although Douban has now become synonymous with literary youth, and the word "literary youth" here is also a derogatory term, it is undeniable that many people here love movies, not just as a way of entertainment, otherwise they would not be able to sleep in the early morning
After watching the midnight show at 3 o'clock, I had a 4,000 to 5,000-word review at 8 o'clock in the morning.
Nothing makes people do this except love and hate.
"There doesn't seem to be anything bad to say." Li Qian took a quick look and smiled.
Tong Liya put the hot milk on Li Qian's right hand and asked curiously, "You still care about what others say about you, haven't you already ignored the outside opinions?"
"Of course I don't care anymore, I just don't want to see anyone scolding me and affecting my mood for breakfast," Li Qian said.
"Then you can only listen to good words and not criticize. Then you still have the nerve to talk about Brother Cheng Kai. Aren't you two the same people?" Tong Liya cursed.
Li Qian was speechless, "I made a good movie, but I was so full that I wanted to watch others criticize me. How can this be the same as Brother Cheng Kai, who made a bad movie and couldn't bear to watch others criticize me."
"You are right."
Except for certain times, Tong Liya couldn't compare to Li Qian at all when it came to her verbal skills, so she simply didn't mention it.
"By the way, what is the story you told before, and what major event is it related to?"
Tong Liya asked again about the story Li Qian was conceiving in the early morning. Even though she didn't let Li Qian go to bed, Li Qian still didn't tell her.
He is already thirty, so Li Qian can refuse to go to bed, but Tong Liya really has no choice but to refuse.
"It hasn't been filmed yet. I'm waiting for the result of something. If the result changes, the story will be ruined and there will be no way to film it." Li Qian shook his head. He only remembered it by chance.
"You haven't said anything yet." Tong Liya rolled her eyes at Li Qian angrily, finished the one-bite breakfast in a few moments, and then went to the dressing room to put on makeup. She had to go to the road show to promote it later.
Li Qian shrugged, he really couldn't say, it was not a good thing after all.
I simply continued to read Douban's long comments and picked a comment with better layout so that my eyes would not be tired from reading it.
"I never thought that such a long and straightforward movie would make me shed tears. The tone and tone of the movie were too ordinary. I worked overtime until nine o'clock before watching the movie. I was in such a bad mood.
I was so anxious that I became a little impatient after watching it for a minute. If I were watching TV, I would definitely change the channel at that time.
But now I am glad that my patience was not so bad at that time, and then I read on. After watching the movie for 150 minutes, I drove away the irritability in my heart, calmed down again, and understood another classic of Li Qian's work.
, there are so many touching things worth spending these 150 minutes in..."
I worked overtime until nine o'clock, and went to watch a movie at twelve o'clock until two thirty. If it weren't for my love for movies, there would be no other explanation.
The long review of more than 2,000 words is very informative, and then goes on to talk about the greatness of mother's love from the point of asking her husband to treat her "monster" son well before she dies, and from the adoptive mother who adopted the hero.
Let the abandoned male protagonist experience complete maternal love and learn love and tolerance.
There are also hints and metaphors about the father's confrontation and forgiveness, the meaning of death, and so on.
It was very well written. Li Qian gave him a thumbs up in his heart and then turned to the next article.
“Every one of us longs to be rejuvenated, but when rejuvenation appears in another form, I’m afraid no one will want to have it.
In Li Qian's "Return to Youth", the male protagonist played by Chen Kun was born like an old man in his 70s. His mother died of dystocia and was later regarded as a freak by his father and abandoned in a nursing home.
The infertile female nurse adopted him, took care of him and gave him the maternal love that a child should have. Then, the male protagonist began to grow up against the laws of ordinary people's growth, and his body became more and more energetic with age, so this
It turned into a story destined to be a tragedy.
Finally, and the scene that touches me the most, the male protagonist blinks his baby eyes and looks at his old lover. I believe he must remember who she is!
At 70, who looked only 7 years old, he looked at her and asked "Do we know each other?"
She shook her head, but she believed that he understood her.
Because when he loses his temper, he can only say to her, "I seem to have lived a whole life, but I can't remember anything."
What a sad dialogue, have you ever asked yourself? We seem to have a whole life, but who stole our lives without us realizing it? We seem to have a whole life, but in the end it is just forgotten.
Among the faces at the end of the film, some are good at music, some are good at dancing, some are getting older, and some are getting younger, but without exception, we all have to die.
If you are the protagonist in your life, in the eyes of others, you are just someone.
Maybe in your thoughts, your ideals are great, but among all living beings, you are just a certain person.
When you are angry about your own destiny, you are just one of the few people on this blue planet."
Li Qian secretly shook his head, such a negative comment,
However, everyone is the protagonist in his own life, but to others he is just a supporting role, which is more suitable for "The Truman Show".
This long comment is somewhat similar to that person who said that some people die at the age of thirty and are buried at the age of eighty.
There were quite a few negative comments, which were always related to this aspect, and Li Qian didn't bother to read them.
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At 9 o'clock in the morning, Li Qian and Tong Liya came to the company and met other actors.
"Good morning everyone, I was so busy last night. Did you sleep well? I will be very busy in the next twenty days." Li Qian smiled and said hello to everyone.
"Don't worry, Director Li, he's in good spirits." Everyone laughed, and no one said anything flattering like being so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.
Of course I am excited. After all, this may be the best movie I have starred in, the highest box office, and the most influential movie. If I want to star in Li Qian's movie, God knows if I will have the chance.
We have seen the audience's response at the premiere. As for the box office, as of midnight today, today's pre-sales have reached 56 million. You can get it with your toes, so there is no need to worry about the box office.
"Okay, it's getting late, let's start recording the show."
Li Qian waved his hand and set off with Chen Kun, Gao Yuanyuan, Duan Yihong, Zhang Yi, and Jiang Wu.
The cinema opened at 9:15 in the morning, and the first road show started at 11:20. Before that, I went to Beijing Satellite TV to record a half-hour interview.
It's just an interview. The host asks questions and Li Qian replies.
At the beginning, the female host who had just smiled like a flower immediately changed to a sad expression.
"Director Li, the movie "Return to Youth" is really touching, a love destined to be a tragedy..."
The female host started talking nonsense, as if she were discussing a third-rate tragic love drama.
However, Li Qian had never seen anyone before, so he waited patiently for her to finish speaking, then smiled and said, "Is this a tragedy? When you get old, or when you become a child, the people you once loved will still be with you.
I still love you by my side, how wonderful it is, this should be a heart-warming story."
Without Li Qian's approval, the female host quickly said, "The male protagonist turned into a baby and died in the arms of his lover. This must be the biggest tragedy. When I saw this, I couldn't stop crying."
If the hero/heroine dies in each other's arms, usually in idol dramas it will be due to a car accident or similar reasons, which is of course a tragedy.
But, sister, have you ever watched a movie?
Li Qian said, "We are not able to stay together, but we are together forever. I don't think there is any pity or sadness. I also read some comments from the audience this morning, and I also saw some negative and pessimistic voices.
However, what I want to say is that almost all the characters and all the plots in the movie are positive. The male protagonist faces reality calmly and looks forward positively. Even the captain who succumbs to reality and gives up his dream of being a writer is also the same.
Do your job seriously and diligently, and let go when you need to.
Don't be so pessimistic about everything. I have watched a traffic program on Western Sichuan TV before. A traffic policeman encountered an overloaded old man on the road. The old man was riding an electric tricycle carrying a full load of goods, and he was sitting on top of it.
Another old man and a dog.
The old man's parents died, his wife also died in childbirth many years ago, he has no children, and his brother is also dead. The old man on the roof of the car is his brother, he can't speak, he is a fool, plus the dog, they are their whole family
a member of.
The traffic police were very sad after hearing this, but the old man just smiled and said "look forward". Even the old man who has experienced such great tragedy and suffering can face life optimistically. We are not that miserable. We can try
If you look at movies from a positive perspective, it may also be a little bit helpful to your own life."
The host was also a professional, and his sad expression immediately changed to one full of excitement, and he started talking about facing life positively.
Interviews are usually like this. With Li Qian's level and status, the host always follows what he says. He will rarely say "Really, I don't believe it" and act against him.
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This is how the annual road show started. After leaving the TV station, we went straight to the cinema.
With the official release of the movie, countless people entered the cinema. "Rejuvenation" completely swept aside all movies and dominated 90% of entertainment news.
At the same time, there are countless audiences expressing their views on the movie in various places.
Compared with those movie lovers, the evaluation of ordinary viewers is relatively simple.
Although there are also negative voices who regard this as a tragedy, most of them are moved by it rather than sad.
"Li Qian's movie is like a phone call story. How beautiful. We come to this world like babies, and leave peacefully like babies. What we leave behind may be in the eyes of the one we love at the end.
At that moment of intersection, all the stories flew by before my eyes. At that last glance, I felt that everything in the past was not important. What was important was that at the end of my life, I still had my lover by my side. It was so touching!"
"It was so touching. Tears kept rolling in my eyes. The mature Yaya in the middle was so beautiful, especially when I was teaching children to dance. If only I could still look like that when I was thirty-six or seventeen years old, ugh!
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"The whole two-and-a-half-hour process is very exciting. Li Qian is so awesome at this point alone. After watching the previous war scenes, I understand how our Zhiyuan Army defeated the Mi Lijian people back then. It is more classic than "Bright Sword"
War scenes in TV dramas are much more meaningful."
"Those historical events were so exciting. I just didn't understand the period when the college entrance examination was resumed. Why did Li Qian make everyone and the atmosphere of the entire society so enthusiastic? It was more successful than the explosion of mushroom eggs, and the women's volleyball team defeated Japan.
The atmosphere is not bad at all when the Olympics are held."
"The rise of a great power. What Li Qian shot is the process of the rise of a great power. All aspects of war, technology, culture, education, and sports are mentioned. From the beginning to the end, New China has risen step by step."
""The Return of Youth" is the most exciting movie I have ever seen. It is more passionate than "Wolf Warriors" and even happier than Truman left the studio in "The Truman Show". It has experienced the power of our country in 150 minutes.
Although the road seems to be missing something substantial, the feeling is completely there."
"It's absolutely explosive, whether it's making mushroom eggs, straightening up, or the women's volleyball team, the five-star red flag replaces the imperial flag where the sun never sets, or there's a military parade!"
"After watching this movie, I felt like I had watched five or six movies. It had all the elements, and although there were few love scenes, I was really moved to tears."
"I also really want to have the love in the movie. Until I die, the person I love most is still by my side. Watching his eyes slowly closing, I don't have any regrets."
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During one day's screening, millions of viewers walked into the cinema and left countless comments in every corner of the Internet.
And after one day passed, the first-day box office of "Return to Youth" was also released.
153 million! A new first-day box office record for Chinese-language films.