"The Story of Laughter" was released in the last week of May.
The investment in this movie was not large. From production to promotion, plus Jiang Kan's two million composition fee (the singing fee is a commission, so it is not included in the cost), it did not exceed ten million.
The reason is that martial arts movies in Xia Kingdom are currently in decline. The stars of a few decades ago were still very popular, but now the two biggest male and female protagonists are only paid 1.5 million or 1 million. .
The other actors are actually priced at around 100,000 to 200,000 yuan. Only a few veteran actors are paid a little more. At most, they promise to give a few tenths of a percent of the box office share after the box office is successful. , to save money on filming.
More often than not, the director relies on his sharp tongue to trick young people who want to get ahead. After all, there are many young actors and actresses in the market who are like actors but can't act. They are willing to star in roles at a low price. Put yourself first. Let’s talk about it after your face becomes familiar in front of the audience.
But just because their prices are low, doesn’t mean they have low status!
It's just that the prices of stars who specialize in martial arts movies have dropped too fast in recent years, but they still have a reputation, and they are all familiar faces on the screen.
"Teacher Jiang, you are here, please come in, please come in!"
The director and creative staff all stood outside the cinema to receive guests, and they would exchange greetings with respectable people when they saw them.
In particular, director Liu Xinping himself is a Mesozoic film director, and he is quite famous.
But if you want to say it's big, it's not that big. His plays can't attract any big names like kings and queens. At most, actors between the first and second tiers will occasionally participate in his works, and most of their salaries are based on Payment is made in installments or box office sharing.
There is no other way. Directors who like to make martial arts movies are not popular in this era, and the investment they can get is very small, and every penny has to be broken in half.
The male and female protagonists, Jiang Kan, look familiar to each other. They are two current second-tier stars, in their early twenties and early thirties. They are both beautiful, have good figures, and their movements are similar. It seems that they are all doing this. The movie has been prepared for a long time.
So when watching the premiere, Jiang Kan felt that this group of people is still a bit powerful. With such a small production, they can make a movie of a genre that has long been outdated, quite interesting. It’s also quite difficult.
The screening room of the 100-person cinema was basically full, with about 70 or 80 people. There were not many audiences outside, only some middle-aged and elderly people who looked older, and they were all male audience members.
There were also a few young men and two or three couples who came in and sat there chatting and watching the show.
Those couples felt more like they were looking for a place for a couple's date. The time they spent watching the movie was not as long as chatting and laughing. At any rate, they sat closer to the side and did not affect other people.
Halfway through the film, the protagonist fought his enemy for a hundred rounds and finally avenged him with a knife. Then he smiled and faced his lover who was worried about his safety and ran to help him. A sudden burst of rapid music was introduced to everyone present. A human ear!
From the beginning, there was a series of flute and guzheng sounds!
Their sounds are faster and faster, and their sounds are louder and louder!
It was like the scene where the protagonist and his enemy were chasing each other in the air using Qinggong.
Then came the strumming sound of the guzheng, the sound was clear and crisp, as if telling the strange twists and turns of the world.
At this point, the singing begins.
Jiang Kan's male voice, which deliberately suppressed his voice to make his voice slightly richer, sang the lyrics of this song grandly:
"The sea laughs, and the tide surges across the strait,
Ups and downs follow the waves, only remembering the present.
The sky laughs, and the world is flooded with tides,
God knows who will lose and who will win. "
The song is full of ancient charm and contains a majestic and heavy atmosphere. A few lyrics seem to bring the listener into a strange and twists and turns but heroic and huge rivers and lakes.
Awesome weather!
"!"
The old male audience members who had been staring at the screen, extremely immersed in it, suddenly felt themselves startled!
Then, the martial arts atmosphere that had been absent for many years suddenly hit their faces with Jiang Kan's singing, awakening their youthful memories that had been dormant for many years!
"This, this song is pretty good. The feeling of being in the world came over right away!"
A middle-aged male audience member's eyes were as bright as stars in the dark night, his mouth opened wide, and he murmured to himself.
"It's really good. I haven't heard such an excellent martial arts-style song in many years. I'm getting goosebumps!"
The friend sitting next to him also echoed, and subconsciously touched his arm where the hair was standing on end, and looked at the big screen in front of him with an expression of disbelief and surprise.
Both of them have been fans of martial arts for decades. They are neighbors and classmates and have loved watching martial arts since childhood.
I usually rent books from bookstores. You borrow the first episode and I borrow the second, and then I switch between them after I finish reading.
When martial arts movies and TV series were popular back then, people often watched those classic masterpieces. Even after they got married and started their own families, they would occasionally meet up to watch movies in the cinema and relive the martial arts of their childhood. The movie brings the feeling of rivers and lakes.
But later, martial arts movies declined.
In the past 20 years, there have been no good movies worth talking about. As for TV series, they have gradually evolved from fists to flesh, real swords and guns, and "martial arts" with various postures, and gradually evolved into standing in place and reciting moves. , the "Xian Xia" who barely moved his lower body and just made hand gestures, lost the original aura of the world, and more of a misty feeling of losing his humanity and pursuing "immortal energy".
They were disappointed, but there was nothing they could do.
Until this time, they saw director Liu Xinping once again directing a new martial arts film. After hesitating for a long time, they finally decided to trust him again and come here to watch the movie to support this martial arts general.
The plot is actually quite satisfactory. Although the martial arts flavor is not particularly strong, it is still vaguely expressed.
Although halfway through, I didn’t find anything particularly exciting, and there was nothing obviously disappointing about it, so I was still quite immersed in it.
In fact, they themselves understand that it is not Director Liu's technique that has deteriorated.
But their character is different from before.
The two of them at the beginning were young men who were full of blood but had not seen much of the world and had not experienced the torture of life.
Because I have little knowledge, when I come into contact with the majestic martial arts arena, I will unconsciously get involved, imagining that I have peerless martial arts like those knights, who can subjugate demons, uphold justice, and kill people. The rich help the poor and bring justice to the world.
But as age slowly increases, people grow up slowly, and their knowledge increases.
Only then did I gradually realize that there were so many knights in life, so many who subdued demons and eliminated demons, upheld justice, and killed the rich and helped the poor.
Especially after finishing school, entering society and starting to work, and starting to interact with all kinds of people in society, and even after getting married, having children, and having a family of my own.
Only then did they discover...
In fact, adult life is not so narrow, just, romantic, and killing the rich to give to the poor.
This *** life itself is the monster, the devil, the evil and injustice that they wanted to defeat in their hearts.
hehe……
Very bitter, isn't it?
The battle between yourself and "life" is the biggest battle in the world, and it is the arena in life that you can never get out of.
The two of them looked at each other very seriously.
Also listened very carefully.
Therefore, when the theme song of "The Swordsman", which is world-famous on the earth's own plane, appeared in their ears, the martial arts soul in their hearts was instantly ignited!
The soul that has been silent for a long time begins to roar!
The blood that has been suppressed by life to the point of being humble has already begun to boil!
If I hadn't finished watching the movie, I would have been unable to bear the urge to go back to my hometown, kick the old cow away, and pull the plow to plow its three acres of land!
Or rush into the company, push the young supervisor who thinks that he is over fifty and no longer dares to resist any exploitation, and treats himself as a hard-working old scalper who can be used and insulted at will, and slams him on the ground with a hammer. For a moment, beat him until his eight generations of ancestors could no longer recognize him!
"The country is smiling, the misty rain is far away,
The waves wash away all the beauties in this mortal world.
The breeze laughs, causing loneliness,
There is still a night photo left of the pride. "
The audience lamented, but the song continued.
The repeated melody and different lyrics once again come one after another like stacked waves, constantly stimulating the listener's eardrums and brains, and strengthening the shape of the melody of the song.
The heroic and majestic music style makes people feel excited as they follow it, as if they are standing in front of a turbulent river and examining the rolling waves of the river in front of them.
Just like looking at the grudges and grudges in the mortal world, the world's customs make people feel heroic and want to roar a few times along with the song to vent all the accumulated anger in their hearts.
"Good song, really good song!"
This is the true and sincere voice of the audience at this time.
Many people are inspired by it and recall their glorious appearance when they were young.
I recalled my arrogance and youthfulness when I was not burdened and overwhelmed by life.
Standing on a high mountain and looking into the distance, the heroic spirit of a noble man amidst the chatter and laughter wells up in his chest!
"good!"
Someone finally couldn't help it and roared out, completely regardless of whether he would be noticed by the surrounding audience.
This is a middle-aged man watching a movie alone.
The man's face was sallow, with deep crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and the wrinkles on his forehead could be clearly seen without looking up.
He was wearing a slightly old black coat and a pair of outdated wellies on his feet. His whole body exuded a faint but lingering fishy smell, which made everyone around him subconsciously distance themselves from him. Several seats.
No one knew that in the pocket of this coat with some oil stains, there was also a pair of plastic gloves that had just been taken off and were not completely dry.
He is a fishmonger in a market not far next door.
After delivering fish to a customer's doorstep, I happened to catch a glimpse of a promotional poster for "Laughing in the Rivers and Lakes" while riding a tricycle back.
As a senior martial arts enthusiast, he accidentally stopped riding the tricycle and pulled the car over.
He didn't know what kind of force inexplicably drove him to put a pair of wet plastic gloves with some fish scales on them into his pocket, wiped his hands on his trouser legs slightly awkwardly, and then put them on his trouser legs. In the ticket office, I bought a movie ticket for "The Story of Laughter" premiering today.
When he finally regained consciousness, he found himself sitting in a large cinema, waiting for the martial arts movie to be played!
"Forget it, you're here already, who cares, just finish reading before you leave."
He persuaded himself this way.
I haven't been to a movie theater in years.
It’s been years since I’ve seen a martial arts movie.
The last time I watched it, I felt guilty and took Xiaofang from next door to the simple video room on the corner to watch it. At that time, I secretly wanted to hold her little hand with sweaty palms...
At that time, my mind was no longer on the TV set with swords and swords, but I smelled the fragrance of Xiaofang's hair next to me, and I touched her smooth, white and tender little hands for the first time, which I had missed for many years...
But now, these smooth, white and tender, cute little hands have long turned into black, fat and rough. They hold fish-killing knives and have been killing fish in the wet market for decades to make a living.
The miserable appearance...
"The country is smiling, the misty rain is far away,
The waves wash away all the beauties in this mortal world.
The breeze laughs, causing loneliness,
There is still a night photo left of the pride. "
The song echoed in the theater auditorium.
It also stirred in his heart.
An old man in his fifties suddenly discovered that the martial arts dream in his heart was still like a fish lantern that was blown by wind and rain, but still shined brightly and never went out!
His long-dried heart suddenly seemed like a clear spring gushes out.
Clear spring water gurgled out of the spring, gradually nourishing his withered soul.
His heart seemed to be back to the time when he held her hand for the first time and sat secretly in the video room together, lost in thought.
"Okay! Well said, it's really a good song!"
Another rough voice suddenly sounded, echoing him!
"It's so powerful! It's so powerful! This is the taste, this is the taste!"
An old man's voice sounded around again, and then there was irrepressible applause, as if he wanted to slap his hands off!
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
"It sounds so good, I can't help it. It sounds so good!"
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
"Who wrote this song? It's so well written, the lyrics are all in my heart!"
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
"It sounds good, it sounds so good. A laugh spreads across the sea, and the tide surges across the shores. Ups and downs follow the waves, only remembering the present day!"
"Crack! Crack! Crack!"
Unconsciously, I don’t know when, someone started singing loudly along with Jiang Kan’s singing in the film.
Then, one person, two people, or three people also started singing along.
four people.
Five people.
six people.
Everyone.
Everyone in the theater started singing loudly.
For those who couldn’t remember the lyrics, I used “La La La” instead.
The passionate and high-pitched singing was like a stream flowing down the mountain, gradually gathering together to form a surging river!
The high-pitched singing voice surged and swirled in the theater, like a volcano that had been suppressed for countless years and was about to erupt!
Everyone, including actors, stars, directors, crew...
Even Jiang Kan himself stopped suppressing his emotions for a moment and sang loudly along with the songs in the film!
"The country is smiling, the misty rain is far away,
The waves wash away all the beauties in this mortal world.
The breeze laughs, causing loneliness,
There is still a night photo left of the pride. "
"The common people laugh, no longer lonely,
The pride is still smiling foolishly.
La……"
"La la la la la, la la la la la..."
"La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la..."
