Zhang Yuanjun will finish filming in half a month, and his colleagues on the crew were particularly friendly to him during the last period.
Guo Jinan and others actually invited him to watch a movie.
Zhang Yuanjun thought for a while, there were no good movies on this schedule, could it be possible to go to the video hall?
Not to mention, now more people go to the video theater than to the cinema.
"Let's go see "The Day After Tomorrow," a Hollywood blockbuster."
Only then did Zhang Yuanjun think of "The Day After Tomorrow", which was released a few days ago. This film has a lot of history. It was written by Roland Emmerich, the master of disaster films. It is the second imported film in China to be released simultaneously around the world after "The Matrix 3". .
Simultaneous global release means that there is no impact and diversion from pirated discs, and it can better reflect the true performance of the film in the domestic market.
Before the release, domestic distributors and theaters were very confident about the film, believing that by conservative estimates, "The Day After Tomorrow" could earn 40 million at the domestic box office.
The performance of "The Day After Tomorrow" did not disappoint Huaxia Film Distribution Company, with good results of 14 million yuan in the first three days of the weekend.
Cinemas in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou even had rare scenes of queuing up to buy tickets. The prime screenings at 8 or 9pm were sold out early, and audiences had to wait for an hour or two to buy the midnight screenings.
Zhang Yuanjun didn't want to spoil the fun and agreed to go watch a movie together.
In the theater, except for Zhang Yuanjun, most of the audience were amazed by the special effects scenes of "The Day After Tomorrow".
The special effects of "The Day After Tomorrow" are of course good, even if Zhang Yuanjun sees them with the perspective of twenty years ahead of his time, but he has seen too many good special effects, and the scenes in "The Day After Tomorrow" are not enough to arouse his amazement.
Instead, he paid more attention to the story itself beneath the surface of the special effects.
After watching the movie, someone asked Zhang Yuanjun about his indifferent attitude: "Isn't it good-looking?"
"It looks great. The special effects are really good." Zhang Yuanjun can only praise the special effects. "However, his story is too simple and has no imagination."
Guo Jinan and others did not expect Zhang Yuanjun to say this. Currently, "The Day After Tomorrow" has a very good reputation and performance in China.
Zhang Yuanjun explained: "Emmerich tells a simple story about a father saving his son in a doomsday environment. Putting aside the big disaster scene, the story of "The Day After Tomorrow" itself is very clumsy, and Emmerich has no rhythm in the narrative. It was handled well, too casually. There were too many emotional scenes, such as love, father-son relationship, husband-wife relationship, doctor-patient relationship, etc., which made the movie emotionally complex and bloated.
"But this is a disaster movie, and Emmerich accomplished his task brilliantly. This is still one of the best disaster movies in recent years."
Hong Kong actors have a shortcoming, because they lack systematic academic education. Most of them just go to groups to hone their acting skills after simple training.
So they can act very well and teach you how to act on the spot, but if they are asked to do theory and analysis, Hong Kong actors often cannot speak.
Zhang Yuanjun's analysis of "The Day After Tomorrow" made this group of Hong Kong Islanders update their impression of him again: Is he really just a 19-year-old sophomore?
But listening to what he said, it makes sense.
In fact, these things are relatively simple. An old producer or supervisor would be able to explain them just as well.
It's just that most of the people who came out to watch the movie today were young people from the crew.
Few of them came from serious colleges and their theoretical foundation was very weak.
When it comes to special effects, mainland China and Hong Kong Island are actually evenly matched. Hong Kong Island may still be a little ahead at this time. There is a company called Xantao Digital that has made a name for itself with "The Storm" and is now working on the special effects for "Kung Fu".
Mainland China is shabby. There are special effects companies, but they can only do simple work.
If Zhang Yuanjun remembers correctly, the famous MOREVFX (Mojing Tianhe), Tiangong Yicai and Times Media will have to wait two years to be established.
When we came out of the theater, it was already early in the morning. There was a show tomorrow, so everyone didn't want to eat late at night, so they all went back to the hotel.
What Zhang Yuanjun didn’t know was that after he left, his colleagues in Hong Kong said that he had learned some theoretical knowledge and was showing off without even having half a bucket of water. They also said that Emmerich’s stories were crude, his emotions were bloated, and he had not yet graduated. If you want to be a gentleman, go to the street!"
But in the next few days, Zhang Yuanjun felt the warm hospitality of his colleagues in Hong Kong while filming.
Three days for a drink, five days for a party, it was so lively.
In the last week, they actually took Zhang Yuanjun to play cards together.
But I'm sorry, Zhang Yuanjun won't.
He only knows a few simplest poker games such as Landlord Fighting. He watched his mother play mahjong for more than ten years, but he didn't learn it. He seemed to be missing the brain and couldn't understand the logic of mahjong tiles.
He has no interest in playing cards, and he doesn’t want to learn if he doesn’t understand.
Seeing that he didn't understand, his colleagues in Hong Kong became even more enthusiastic and said they would teach him how to play Hong Kong-style mahjong.
Zhang Yuanjun was beaten for several times and lost some money. He was really not interested, so he simply gave up and stopped playing.
His colleagues in Hong Kong were not annoyed with him, and even offered to fight him as landlords.
Zhang Yuanjun vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it and started fighting with them again.
He is no match for Mahjong, but in Landlords, Zhang Yuanjun dares to boast that he is the God of Gamblers!
Zhang Yuanjun didn't want to play a big game, so he only said that a game would cost 10 yuan, and he would only win or lose a few hundred yuan in one night, which cost him thousands.
But my colleagues in Hong Kong disagreed and insisted on playing big: "It's boring to play for 10 yuan, so let's play for 100 yuan."
Zhang Yuanjun had to agree. On the first day of the Landlord fight, all three of them won or lost evenly. Zhang Yuanjun lost 200.
Win 1000 the next day.
Lose 800 on the third day.
Win 2700 on the fourth day.
On the fifth day, Hong Kong People's Daily asked for a round of NT$200, and Zhang Yuanjun lost NT$4,600 that day.
On the sixth day, Zhang Yuanjun slowly realized that these people wanted to take advantage of the last few days to kill him.
His salary is not much, 6,000 yuan per episode, and the total salary is only 150,000. In this way, their salary is already very large, and they can lose one episode's salary in one day.
After reacting, Zhang Yuanjun was favored by the goddess of luck and won back everything he had lost on the same day.
On the seventh day, Zhang Yuanjun officially wrapped up filming at noon. As the first of the four leading actors to wrap up, the crew held a grand wrapping up party for him.
Deng Yancheng and Wang Jing gave speeches to thank him for his hard work for more than two months.
Zhang Yuanjun wrote on the finalization message board: "It's so fun to be a hero."
After the filming was completed, Guo Jinan and others dragged him into fighting the landlord. On that day, Wang Jing also participated.
After finishing the filming, he was in a good mood. Zhang Yuanjun won them 20,000 yuan in one breath and let out a sigh of relief.
They lost money and lost the show. In Zhang Yuanjun's heart, the already not very good image of Hong Kong film and television people became even worse.
Zhang Yuanjun has reason to believe that this is not the first time they have done this.
After filming was completed, the crew happily settled Zhang Yuanjun's remaining salary. After agreeing to dub in the capital in three months, Zhang Yuanjun packed his bags and prepared to return home.
Xiao Zhao, the temporary assistant assigned to him by the crew, also ended his work. After more than two months and nearly three months, she really enjoyed working with Zhang Yuanjun.
"Will we meet again in the future?" Xiao Zhao was very reluctant to leave, but Zhang Yuanjun was not yet qualified to take her away at this time.
"We will definitely see each other again." Zhang Yuanjun also likes this little girl very much. "Review carefully and familiarize yourself with the art test materials I compiled for you. Don't delay your cultural classes. I look forward to seeing you at the film school."
After saying a brief farewell to the crew, Zhang Yuanjun officially ended his life on the crew of "The Best in the World" and embarked on his return journey.
