Chapter 808 Premiere
The Spring Festival is approaching. In order to gain popularity for their movies, major entertainment companies have released trailers one after another. The Internet is flooded with movie promotions, which has aroused heated discussions among netizens.
"The Spring Festival is too lively. There are eleven movies. I wonder which movie will become the box office champion this year?"
"If there is no dark horse, "Infernal Affairs" and "Dark Forest" are the two movies most likely to become the box office champion. As for which one, it is hard to say now. The popularity is about the same."
"I support "Dark Forest". I have seen the final trailer. It is really well made. Director Sun Daohao is still the top director in China."
"That must be "Infernal Affairs". I believe in Teacher Tan Yue. This movie will definitely not be bad."
"I hope "Happiness" can become a dark horse. Come on!"
"There are so many movies to be released. I can't wait to watch them."
New Year's Eve.
Jishui City.
The old courtyard of the Tan family in the suburbs.
Li Yulan was cleaning up, shaking her head, and said, "Years go by so fast, and it's New Year's Eve again in a blink of an eye."
Tan Zhaohe whispered on the side, "You heard your mother sighing again."
Tan Yue, who was helping to paste the Spring Festival couplets next to him, smiled, and his mother's thoughts were the same.
"Okay." Tan Zhaohe took a step back to make sure that the Spring Festival couplets were not pasted crookedly.
"Old man, go to the kitchen to wash the vegetables, and I will cook for the party." Li Yulan arranged, "Xiao Yue, go and clean up the garbage."
The father and son nodded, and the family began to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner under Li Yulan's command.
An Nuan packed up the things at home and brought Tan Xin to help.
After Tan Xin arrived, Tan Yue also took on the task of looking after the children, and the two played games.
Li Yulan and the other two were making dumplings in the living room.
The sun set and it was getting dark.
"Xiao Yue, Xinxin, come and eat." Li Yulan came out of the kitchen with the last dish.
"It smells so good!" Tan Xin's voice came out before she came out of the room.
Li Yulan smiled happily and said, "If it smells good, eat more."
The living room was filled with a happy atmosphere, and the Spring Festival Gala was playing on TV.
"Now the New Year is just a family dinner together, and it's not as delicious as before." Li Yulan picked up a piece of meat for Tan Xin.
"In the past, my family was so poor that I looked forward to the New Year to wear new clothes and eat meat. Now I can buy whatever I want and eat whatever I want. The price of vegetables is almost the same as meat." Tan Zhaohe and Tan Yue drank a little wine and thought of the scenes of celebrating the New Year in their hometown.
The family ate and chatted and spent this New Year's Eve dinner.
After ten o'clock, An Nuan took Tan Xin away. Li Yulan sighed and didn't say anything.
Since Tan Yue and Chen Ziyu confirmed their relationship, An Nuan has not spent the New Year's Eve in the old courtyard for the past two years.
Tan Yue returned to the room and lay on the bed. The father and son had a few drinks and felt a little tipsy. Looking at the time on the phone, he was actually a little nervous.
In a few hours, "Infernal Affairs" will be released.
In any case, "Infernal Affairs" is a gangster film, and its situation in the film market is worse than that of martial arts action films.
It has almost completely disappeared from the big screen in recent years.
It is still unknown whether "Infernal Affairs" can be accepted by the audience.
There are worries, but there are also some expectations.
On Earth, "Infernal Affairs" has revitalized Hong Kong films, and Tan Yue also hopes that through this movie, the audience will once again accept gangster films.
Under the influence of alcohol, Tan Yue felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and he fell asleep soon.
The first day of the new year.
Nine o'clock.
Hangzhou.
Li Yuan, who was still sleeping soundly, was awakened by a knock on the door.
"Xiao Yuan, hurry up and get up."
Li Yuan, who stayed up late playing games yesterday, yawned and replied, "I'll get up right away."
He dozed in bed for another half an hour and finally got up from the bed.
Li's mother urged, "Look at the time, hurry up."
At the party, Li Yuan was going to his girlfriend's house to pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and these etiquettes were indispensable.
After washing up, Li Yuan finally woke up, ate something casually, and drove to his girlfriend's house with gifts.
"Why are there so many cars?" Li Yuan was a little impatient as he stopped and started along the way.
On the first day of the New Year, some people wanted to lie down and rest at home, but most people still liked to hang out.
After Li Yuan arrived at his girlfriend's community, he called his girlfriend: "Yan Yan, I'm downstairs at your house."
"Okay, I'll be down right away."
Not long after, Zhao Yan came downstairs: "Let's go, go up."
Li Yuan took a deep breath: "I've been here once, why am I still a little nervous."
Zhao Yan laughed, took Li Yuan's hand, took the elevator, and came to the door of the house.
While Zhao Yan opened the door, Li Yuan tidied his clothes.
"Xiao Yuan is here."
Zhao Yan's parents came out to greet him.
"Happy New Year, uncle and aunt!" Li Yuan greeted them as soon as he entered the door.
"Hurry up and sit down, Xiao Yuan!"
"Here are fruits and melon seeds. Eat whatever you want. Don't be shy."
"Thank you, Auntie!" Li Yuan sat stiffly and chatted with Zhao Yan's parents.
After chatting for half an hour, Li Yuan really couldn't find a topic, so he gave Zhao Yan a look.
Zhao Yan came to the rescue and said, "Mom, we're going out to see a movie. If we don't go, we'll be late."
"Yes, yes, we're leaving." The speaker was Zhao Yan's sister Zhao Ruo.
Li Yuan originally planned to go to the movies with his girlfriend, but when his sister-in-law found out, she clamored to go out together, so she grabbed an extra movie ticket during the pre-sale period.
"Be careful on the road." Mother Zhao warned.
"I know!" Zhao Ruo took Zhao Yan's arm and stood up from the sofa.
"Uncle, aunt, let's go out first." Li Yuan stood up and said goodbye.
"Let's go, let's go." Zhao Ruo on the side kept urging.
The three of them got on the elevator, Li Yuan took a deep breath, and his nervousness finally eased.
Zhao Ruo held Zhao Yan's arm, looked at Li Yuan and said with a bad smile: "I saved your life. You will treat me to a big dinner at noon."
"No problem." Li Yuan thought for a while and suddenly realized that coming from his future father-in-law's family had nothing to do with his sister-in-law.
"You just know how to eat." Zhao Yan said angrily.
The three of them went straight to the cinema.
Zhao Ruo asked: "What movie tickets did you buy?"
""Infernal Affairs"."
"Ah?" Zhao Ruo looked depressed. She wanted to watch "Dark Forest", but she didn't have much interest in police movies.
"No, my sister doesn't like watching police movies either."
Zhao Yan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, slowly turned her head and said slowly: "I asked him to buy it."
"Are you sure you like watching police movies?" Zhao Ruo still didn't believe it.
"I can't say that I like police movies because the director of this movie is Tan Yue."
"Tch." Zhao Ruo looked disdainful, lay down in the back seat and stopped talking. He kept muttering in his heart: No police and gangster movie is as good as a science fiction movie. A group of people are fighting around with guns, which is not good at all.
Li Yuan, who was driving, shook his head, laughed, and said, "Tan Yue's movie will definitely not disappoint you."
Zhao Yan joked: "If you don't like watching it, why don't I send it home first."
"No." Zhao Ruo pouted. Although he didn't like police and gangster movies, he didn't like to go home and lie down even more.
As we got closer and closer to the cinema, the traffic volume gradually increased. When we arrived at the mall, there was already a long queue at the entrance of the underground parking lot.
There's no point in being anxious right now, all I can do is follow the vehicle and move a little bit.
Finally entering the parking lot, I walked around the parking lot several times to find a parking space, and finally found a spot in a corner.
Li Yuan sighed: "It's too difficult."
"We have a holiday during the Chinese New Year, so we all come out to have fun."
Li Yuan looked at the time. Fortunately, he came out earlier, otherwise it would have been a late show.
The three people took the elevator to the cinema on the top floor of the mall.
"There are too many people." Zhao Ruo looked at the crowded crowd in the cinema and his head felt a little big.
There were mostly young couples in the cinema, and many families came out to watch movies together.
"Let's go."
There were long queues at the front desk of the cinema and at the ticket pick-up area.
Li Yuandao: "I'll go get the movie tickets. You go buy popcorn."
Zhao Yan nodded and pulled Zhao Ruo to queue up to buy popcorn.
There were four ticket machines in the cinema, and Li Yuan chose a relatively small queue. During the break to collect tickets, he heard people around him discussing the movie.
"It's not easy to get movie tickets today. No matter which movie it is, it's almost full, and the movie tickets were sold out as soon as they started."
"No, in order to buy movie tickets for "The Dark Forest", I have been paying attention to the ticket purchasing software for fear of missing out."
Li Yuanshen felt the same, picked up the movie tickets, and waited for a while. Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan came back with two buckets of popcorn.
Seeing that "Infernal Affairs" was about to start, three people lined up to enter the theater.
Li Yuan was lucky enough to get the best viewing position.
Audiences continued to pour in at the entrance, and everyone looked excited, discussing Tan Yue's new movie.
"It's finally about to begin. I've been paying attention to the news since Teacher Tan Yue announced "Infernal Affairs". It's been half a year, and I can see it today."
"Teacher Tan Yue's business hours are almost full this year, ensuring both quality and quantity."
"I think the scariest thing is the movie box office. Each movie can reach 5 to 6 billion in box office. I wonder if the quality of "Infernal Affairs" is still satisfactory?"
"Teacher Tan Yue has never let me down. I am very much looking forward to this "Infernal Affairs", and the cast is also very strong."
"It starts soon!"
Zhao Yan sat in the middle, and Li Yuan sat on her left. When it came to Tan Yue's movie, both of them were quite excited.
Li Yuan completely became a fan of Tan Yue because of the movie "Kung Fu", and Zhao Yan became interested in Tan Yue from "The King of Comedy". It was "Kung Fu" that really made her feel that Tan Yue was very capable.
Therefore, the two are also looking forward to this movie.
Although "Infernal Affairs" is a police film, with Tan Yue in it, it was not a bad film.
The success of "Kung Fu" is a good example, which made martial arts fans go crazy for a while.
Li Yuan ate popcorn, leaned into Zhao Yan's ear and said, "Others have the same opinion as us, they are all looking forward to Tan Yue's "Infernal Affairs"!"
Zhao Yan nodded slightly and said: "Teacher Tan Yue's influence is too great now. Everyone comes here for his name."
Li Yuan picked up popcorn and fed it to Zhao Yan.
Zhao Ruo put down his phone and wanted to speak, but when he raised his head and saw this scene, he immediately felt regretful.
I regret going out to watch a movie together.
Grabbing the popcorn and stuffing it into your mouth.
The two sisters grew up together. The elder sister is about to get engaged and married, but he is still a single nobleman, and his emotional life is not at the same level at all.
Zhao Ruo followed Zhao Yan out today because it was too boring to stay at home alone, and wanted to find someone to spend the first day of the new year together.
When she arrived at the place, she found that she had become a light bulb. Zhao Ruo suddenly felt that it was not bad to be alone at home, without having to eat dog food.
Watching police and gangster movies had already made her depressed, and now she was even more depressed.
Zhao Ruo took out her mobile phone again, opened the movie purchasing software, and checked the movie tickets for "Dark Forest". She had been looking forward to this movie for a long time.
The movie tickets had already been sold out, and even the tickets for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow had already been snapped up.
Zhao Ruo sighed, turned off her mobile phone, closed her eyes slightly, and waited for the movie to start.
Whether she was interested in police and gangster movies or not, she could only watch it with gritted teeth.
She had naturally heard of Tan Yue's name.
But what attracted her was not the publicity and fame. She always only watched science fiction movies that she was interested in.
As the lights slowly went out, the entire viewing room gradually became quiet.
"It's starting."
"It's starting!"
An audience member whispered.
After two advertisements were played on the huge screen, the logo of Brilliant Entertainment Company appeared, and the theater was completely quiet.
As the tense music sounded, the subtitles began to play.
The names of several main actors in the play appeared on the big screen, and the last one to appear was the name of director Tan Yue.
The big screen suddenly went black, and a line of words flashed.
"The 19th volume of the Nirvana Sutra."
"The worst of the eight hells is called the Avici Hell, which means suffering great pain without interruption, so it has this name."
This passage is considered to introduce the origin of the name of this film.
Many viewers did not understand what this passage meant, and decided to go back and check it carefully after watching the movie.
Zhao Ruo paused while eating popcorn, and thought that this beginning was a bit pretentious?
A bell rang, and a Buddha statue appeared on the screen, and the movie officially began.
As the bell continued to ring, Han Chen in the camera bowed to the Buddha statue and turned his head, giving a lecture and arranging his younger brother to go undercover in the police station.
The picture kept changing, and it came to the plot where Huang Zhicheng and the principal of the police academy asked the problem of the teenager Chen Yongren, numbered 27149.
Huang Zhicheng lost the bet.
The principal of the police academy said: "I said, he is the most suitable to be an undercover agent."
Huang Zhicheng and the principal of the police academy were also carrying out a secret mission, selecting the right people to go undercover in the gang.
"When you come to the police academy, you must abide by the rules of the police academy. Those who do not abide by the rules will be eliminated like him."
Chen Yongren was driven out with his bag to carry out a secret mission.
"Does anyone want to exchange with him?"
The young Liu Jianming said silently in his heart: "I want to exchange with him."
At this time, the voice of the principal of the police academy appeared: "27149, this is a long-term undercover plan. Your record in the police academy will be deleted. Only I and Inspector Huang of the Serious Crime Unit know your identity. You have accepted a very dangerous mission. Do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand."
The two undercovers began a different life.