In fact, there is another reason why Wang Xuan chose this house. The house is well-decorated and has been standing for a long time. The formaldehyde has been emitted below the standard line. He only needs to add some furniture to move in.
In the afternoon, Wang Xuan's family went to the nearby furniture market to buy furniture, including mattresses, bedding, TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines... As long as a well-off family should have it, Wang Xuan's family bought everything. Nearly one hundred thousand.
The money came from Wang Xuan's parents. Wang Xuan wanted to pay, but his parents refused to let him go. In the former words, Wang Xuan has already paid for the house. If Wang Xuan still pays for the furniture, it will look like they are too useless.
Wang Xuan smiled at this and did not argue with his parents.
Nothing to fight about. Afterwards, he can just transfer the money directly to his parents' cards. Can the latter refund the money to him?
After spending an afternoon, Wang Xuan's new home was finally finished and ready for move-in.
The family is very happy.
In the evening, Wang Guojun cooked another sumptuous dinner, which was more sumptuous than lunch. It was basically cooked according to the standards of a banquet. In Zhou Meiling's words, this meal was their family's "housewarming" dinner.
After dinner, Wang Xuan received a call from Director Chen Kai: "Wang Xuan, where are you? The premiere of "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" is about to begin. You, the hero, cannot be absent. Come and watch the premiere." "
At this time, the song "Half City of Smoke and Sand" has reached seventh place on the new song list, with over one million listens and 800,000 downloads.
Thanks to the popularity of the song, the pre-sale box office of the movie "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" has already exploded. From 8 o'clock in the morning to now, the pre-sale box office has increased by 60 million. This is just the pre-sale box office. Including the previous ones, the pre-sale box office alone has exceeded 100 million.
Such achievements were unimaginable in the past.
Therefore, as Wang Xuan, the songwriter and composer of "Half City of Smoke and Sand", it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a hero.
"I'm sorry, Brother Kai. I'm in my hometown now and can't go to the premiere of "Half a City of Smoke and Sand". However, I am planning to take my family to the cinema to watch "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" after the premiere. "Wang Xuan laughed.
"I see, I guess you won't be able to attend the celebration party tonight. Okay, when you come back I'll treat you to a celebration party alone." Director Chen Kai felt a little regretful.
"Then I have to give you, a rich man like you, a good beating. I have decided not to order the right ones, but only the expensive ones." Wang Xuan made a joke.
"Fuck you!" Chen Kai scolded with a smile, and the two chatted for a few words before hanging up the phone.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the premiere of the movie "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" began...
After the premiere, Chen Kai then called Wang Xuan. According to director Chen Kai, the premiere of "Half City of Smoke and Sand" was very successful, especially when the ending theme song came out, the entire premiere theater was infected. .
The audience, celebrities, crew members, media reporters, and moviegoers were all infected. They gave the warmest applause with red eyes and refused to leave for a long time.
The most intuitive manifestation is that "Half City of Smoke and Sand" is very popular. It was on the hot search just after its premiere, and it directly reached the fifth hot search, and it was inserted into the middle of the hot searches for "Dongfeng Po". Comments sprung up like mushrooms, and within ten minutes there were over 10,000 comments.
Forget it, the key point is that "Half City of Smoke and Sand" actually received a 9.0 rating on Douban Film Review. This is a recognized poisonous tongue website!
There is no doubt that "Half City of Smoke and Sand" exploded.
In this regard, Wang Xuan congratulated Chen Kai. At the same time, I am looking forward to the movie even more.
In fact, there was another reason why he originally wanted to win the movie theme song. The script of the movie "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" was good, and he had a premonition that the box office would explode. It’s certainly impressive when a bad movie is paired with a divine comedy, but when a good movie is paired with a divine comedy, the effect is not as simple as one plus one.
At 9:30 in the evening, Wang Xuan and his family came to Starlight Cinema and easily bought the 21:45 show.
As long as the film schedule of "Half City of Smoke and Sand" is very high, there will be a screening almost every half hour.
This kind of film scheduling rate is at least about 30%, which is amazing. You know, there are at least 30 movies selected to be released on May 1st. "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" accounted for 30% of the filming rate.
Soon, the movie started.
The first is the opening song "The World", composed by a gold medal composer and sung by second-tier singer Liu Yang.
The lyrics and music are okay, and the singing is also good, but Wang Xuan still feels that it lacks a bit of meaning. Mainly because of this song title, Wang Xuan couldn't help but compare it to the classic "Tianxia" on Earth, so it sounded a bit tasteless.
After the opening song, the screen changes and the background of the movie begins.
It was a world in chaos. Foreign invasions, frontline defeats one after another, devastation of life, people in dire straits, refugees everywhere, not enough to eat, not enough to keep warm, the whole country is in danger.
To avoid the country's demise, the imperial court issued a document forcing young men to serve in the military. As long as men are over 15 years old, they must respond to the national call and go to the front line. Many people choose to avoid military service because they know that untrained men like them will be cannon fodder once they reach the front line. As a result, he was violently killed by the imperial court. For a while, people were panicked and the whole country was filled with complaints.
The scene changed and we came to the countryside. The protagonist Liang Xiao appears. Liang Xiao is a commoner, but there are thousands of ravages in his heart. Unfortunately, Liang Xiao also received a notice of military service. There are seven or eight volumes of military books with his name on them.
Liang Xiao did not escape because he understood that deserting military service would mean death, but he did not rush to the front line immediately, but was faced with a difficult choice.
Just because he is not alone. He has a wife who is eight months pregnant and about to give birth. How could he bear to leave his wife and children and go to the battlefield?
Days passed like this. Seeing that the country's situation was becoming more and more urgent, and his wife's belly was getting bigger and bigger, Liang Xiao became more and more silent day by day, falling into a dilemma.
At the critical moment, his wife was considerate and said: "Husband, go ahead. If you delay him any longer, he will probably be executed on the spot."
"But what will you do if I go? What will happen to our children?" Liang Xiao said.
"Why are there so many scruples? The country is about to be destroyed. How can we tolerate the love between children? Forget about mother-in-law and mother-in-law. This is not like my husband. My husband is an upright man. Let me ask you, if you stay with me all the time, what will happen to you? When the barbarian army comes to kill me, can you protect me?"
"..."
"Can't, right? But what if you were given an army? Can you protect me? The answer is obvious. You are my husband, and I know better than anyone how capable you are. You shouldn't be nesting in this remote place. In a small mountain village, your stage should be on the battlefield, strategizing and winning thousands of miles away."
"But..."
"There is no but! Husband, only when you have a country can you have a family!"
It was these words that shocked Liang Xiao and decided to rush to the battlefield. Only when there is a country, there is a home! Yes, in troubled times, who can be greedy for pleasure? If the country becomes unjust, where will peace come from?
"Husband, I can't bear to leave you, but now is not the time for children to love each other. You can go with peace of mind. I will take good care of our children and wait for you to return safely. I just hope that when you become successful and famous, you will not forget us."
"No. It's not my intention to be a general, prime minister or prince. Whoever controls the ups and downs has nothing to do with me. How can the picturesque mountains and rivers compare to your smiling face like flowers? I just hope that this worldly chaos will end as soon as possible. When I am unarmed and return to the fields, I can talk to you about sangma. For eternity, I will never envy immortals because I am free and happy." Liang Xiao said, taking a deep look at his wife, turned around and strode away without looking back. He was afraid that if he looked back, he would never be able to take another step forward.
Behind him, his wife looked at his retreating back with tears in her eyes, opened her mouth, but didn't say a word.
In this way, Liang Xiao has been gone for eight years.
I have to say that Liang Xiao is really a military genius with great ambition and strategy. His wife was right about him, and he didn't live up to her high expectations. As soon as he entered the battlefield, he seemed to be a different person and became sharper.
Movie scenes change one by one.
Liang Xiao rose from being a soldier to killing enemies on the battlefield. He was very brave and quickly stood out. From a small soldier, to a centurion, to a captain of thousands, and then to a captain, it only took just one year.
And this is just the beginning of Liang Xiao's glory. After he became a captain and initially took control of the military, what he had learned in his life was truly put to use. He leads troops to fight, and there are endless schemes and schemes. He is sure to win every battle and conquer all attacks. He once achieved a feat of defeating 5,000 enemy troops with 300 men. If the strength of the troops is equal, it will be a crushing force.
In the movie, the scene occasionally switches to Liang Xiao's wife. Liang Xiao's wife gave birth to a son for Liang Xiao. He struggled to make ends meet by himself, but he was also very strong and told the children stories about his father from time to time.
After every battle, Liang Xiao would think of his wife and children, and the memories would come back frequently. It could be said that he suffered from lovesickness, but before every battle, Liang Xiao would put down his lovesickness.
Because only by letting go of lovesickness can he be invincible on the battlefield.
With one big victory after another, Liang Xiao's military rank rose all the way. In just seven years, he rose from the position of captain to the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
With only one last city left, Liang Xiao can bring peace to the world.
But when Liang Xiao's army approached the city, he hesitated. Because once he pacifies the world, his power will reach its peak, controlling one-third of the country's army, with countless generals, capable people, and with a single order, the entire world will be at his fingertips.
Such power is something that the emperor will definitely not tolerate. He understands this. The generals under him also understood. It seems that the only thing waiting for him is to support the world. His subordinates also supported him in his fight for the world.
On the eve of the city's destruction, the generals under his command deliberately gave him wine to make him drunk, and then put a yellow robe on him.
After waking up, Liang Xiao thought a lot.
In successive years of war, he has won one victory after another and achieved brilliance one after another, but he has also witnessed too many sacrifices, too many tragedies of white-haired people giving away black-haired people, witnessed the cruelty of war, and understood that the people Yearning for peace.
He especially remembered the conversation he had with his wife before leaving for the expedition.
Tian Ke testified that he was forced to join the army in the first place. If it were not for forced military service, and if he was not afraid that when the barbarians came over, he would be alone and unable to protect his wife and children, he would not have joined the army.
His biggest wish in joining the army was to one day be able to shed his armor and return to his field, and be reunited with his wife. As for any words of loyalty or the like, they were all false, and he had never considered who he wanted to fight for in the world.
Just as he said before leaving, "It is not my intention to become a prince. Who is in charge of the ups and downs has nothing to do with me. How can the picturesque mountains and rivers compare to your smiling face like flowers? I only hope that this chaos in the world will stop as soon as possible. When I am unarmed and return to the field, I can talk to you. Mulberry and hemp last forever, and they are free and have no envy of immortals."
This is what Liang Xiao really thinks.
Unable to bear the rare peace to be stirred up again by his own ambition, at the end of the movie, Liang Xiao silently shattered the yellow robe. After calming the world, he chose to fake his death, gave up the world at his fingertips, retired to the mountains and forests with his wife and children, and lived a life apart from the world. A life without contention.
And because of Liang Xiao's retirement, the whole world ended its disputes and ushered in peace...
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This is the story told in the movie "Half a City of Smoke and Sand".
At the end of the movie, when the ending song of "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" came out, it was accompanied by scenes, especially Liang Xiao's psychological description when the soldiers came to the city, which was really touching. There are few people in the entire movie theater who are not red-eyed.
Even Wang Guojun was red-eyed and rarely commented, "Not bad."
Wang Xuan smiled.
This movie is indeed good. The theme is clear, the war scenes are grand and realistic, the details are in place, the line skills are fully demonstrated, and the protagonist's psychological description is vividly... It is a rare masterpiece.
After watching it, Wang Xuan knew that the box office of "Half City of Smoke and Sand" would definitely explode. I dare not say that it would be too much. The 1 billion box office club should be fine. And the song "Half a City of Smoke and Sand" is about to explode.
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