Chapter 808 Chapter 108 Dating, Li Qianjun, and the Hot Summer
Japan, Tokyo, the entrance of a certain subway station.
Minako specially put on her favorite pink dress today, arrived at the agreed place at 8:20, and finally waited for Obo Kuichi 17 minutes later.
Minako smiled sweetly and bowed halfway, "First date, please take care of me!"
Ohbo Kuichi bowed shyly, "Hay, please take care of me!"
In other words, a slight deviation in the development direction of time and space will lead to a huge gap in the final social form. Many people who have adapted to the social conditions and concepts of the 21st century may not be able to imagine it at all. In fact, as long as the original revolution Ah, the reform route, etc., if you deviate a little bit, the whole society after a hundred years of development will be completely different.
For example, in another time and space, "My Sassy Girlfriend" was able to be filmed in South Korea, and it became popular in Japan and South Korea. This is due to the profound social reasons for thousands of years of patriarchy and inferiority. When it was later spread to China, this film Being able to become popular and widely loved among young people is actually related to the further development of the economy after 2000, and the increasing social working ability, earning ability, social recognition, and social status of young women at that time. Relational—people at that time urgently needed one thing to confirm that the social status of women had been greatly improved!
This is the group psychology of the whole society.
Just imagine, if men and women were equal in the first place, then a savage girl, even if she was cute, would be more or less disgusting, instead of appearing so strange and refined, so attractive.
In the same way, young people in the time and space of China where Li Qian once lived may not be able to imagine that Japan in that time and space, and China, Japan, South Korea and other countries with East Asian Confucian culture in this time and space are all different. The government encourages, but does not object to young people talking about love early.
In Japan, many boys and girls start falling in love at the age of thirteen or fourteen, which is not too early, and many of their love will choose to get married after graduation and stay with them for life.
On the one hand, it can be understood as a variant continuation of the concept of marriage formed in the Eastern society, Chinese language and cultural circles, and Confucian cultural circles for thousands of years, but it is undeniable that it is a place, a country and a nation. The social order is extremely stable, even a symbol of complete solidification.
To put it another way, your father is an ordinary person anyway, do you still want to be prime minister in your life? Since the bouncing is not enough to smoke from the ancestral grave, and it is impossible to marry the president's daughter in the future, he should start early, pick a beautiful girl he likes, and get married after graduation and go to the ball!
Minako is fifteen years old this year, and Obo Kuichi is sixteen years old.
Both are dating for the first time in their lives.
In the morning, the two went to the amusement park, which was suggested by Minako, so she paid for it, and the two had a great time, and had dinner together at noon—Dabao Kuichi is a shy, quiet, and well-bred boy, I respect Minako's ideas more, so what I eat is Minako's favorite, so Minako is very grateful and moved, and thinks that Jiuichi-kun is really considerate! So he took out the money happily, and Obo Kuichi was very pleased with himself.
Well, if this is in China, even in China in this time and space, it may not be easy for a boy like Obo Kuichi to find a girlfriend. But in dating in Japan, this is one of the more normal situations.
The more national psychology and social customs of self-esteem and self-love, the less girls will easily spend each other's money, at least treat a serious relationship, girls will have such an attitude-this is the attitude that has been adopted by countless countries and The nation, and the things that have been confirmed by thousands of years of history.
In the afternoon, it was finally Obokuichi's turn to spend money, and he invited Minako to watch a movie.
After the two finished their lunch, they took a short break and chatted and communicated for about an hour. They both felt that they had gained a lot of understanding of each other, so their good feelings increased. After the two had a good chat, they found a large movie theater nearby. , ready to watch another movie, add an hour or two of time together, and then end this wonderful first date.
There are quite a few popular movies currently in theaters.
Obo Kuichi was more optimistic about "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" before - the former is said to be a magical theme, he likes it very much, and he has read the original work of the latter!
He had already paid attention to these two movies on the Internet before, so he asked for Minako's opinion at this time, and seeing that she had no objection at all, he went to buy tickets with satisfaction, but after a glimpse of his superficial glance, he felt that he Something impressive seemed to flash in front of his eyes, so he stopped and turned to look - he actually found a poster! A poster of Li Qianjun!
"Eh?"
Seeing him running towards a poster, Minako followed him curiously.
"Hey, how could it be Li Qianjun?" Minako was also very puzzled.
In fact, since a few years ago, since the first album, Li Qian has already started to enter Japan, but he has always been half popular. The more popular the underground music circle, the more famous he is. In a small number of people who yearn for China Among young people, he is regarded as the leader of East Asia, but in the mainstream music circle, he is not comparable to the local Japanese superstars, even after the release of "Gangnam" last year.
However, who made this year the World Cup year, and who made his "Dream Back to Tang Dynasty" popular all over the world!
Now he is the lead singer of a popular band, and he is so handsome. Even in Japan, he has been praised by many people, many media and music critics as "Asia's number one talent". One of the most famous and popular idols.
"Hmm..." Da Baojiu scratched his head, looked at the poster seriously, and at the same time muttered, "Has the album started selling here? Li Qianjun has a new album?"
But soon, he understood that this was really a movie poster!
It’s just that the strange thing is that the Japanese cooperative publishers are afraid that no one will buy Huang Feihong’s posters if they post them. Therefore, when negotiating the distribution rights, they would rather give Minghu Culture a little more share, and insist that Minghu Culture must allow it. They use Li Qian's likeness on the poster!
So, a strange situation that is relatively rare in the world, just appeared!
At the bottom of the poster is Huang Feihong as the leader, surrounded by Aunt Thirteen, Zhurourong and others. But on the top of the poster, in the most conspicuous place, is the big bust image of director Li Qian!
Even a few days after the film was released, the box office soared, proving that the quality of the film itself was very strong, but the distributor still insisted that it was precisely because of his "wise decision" to print Li Qian on the film poster that this With the current good grades!
After all, the only purpose of a poster is to lure the audience into the screening room!
As long as the audience can buy tickets, it is a good poster!
So, when standing in the movie theater, what Obo Kuichi and Komukai Minako saw at this moment was such a paradoxical poster—next to the image of Li Qian, there were the largest ones on the entire poster except for the title of the movie. Word: Work directed by Li Qian! The number one talent in Asia!
Then there are those other things, like "My Sassy Girl" strikes again after its release, Huaguo's box office exceeded 100 million in the first week of its release!", like "The first kung fu movie in history, Li Qian personally interprets the style of a martial arts master!" And so on, in short, the meaning is a little more vague. If you didn't read the whole poster and ran in excitedly, you would find that, Baga, Li Qianjun didn't show up at all, okay?
At this time, Dabao Jiuyi carefully read the poster, and suddenly said: "I remembered, I heard people yesterday that there was a Chinese movie released a few days ago, it was very good...Damn it, why didn't they say it was Li Qianjun What about the director? Almost missed it!"
Minako couldn't help asking: "Isn't Li Qianjun a singer? I really like him and Liao Liao, and I think they are a match made in heaven! But Li Qianjun is too hardworking... Besides singing, does he also make movies?"
Obo Kuichi replied seriously: "Yes! I also watched Li Qianjun's "My Sassy Girlfriend" last year. It was a very good romance movie! I was in Japan, so I fell in love with Li Qianjun relatively early!"
Minako was shocked when she heard the words, "Ah! It turns out that "My Sassy Girlfriend" is also Li Qianjun's work! I really like it too! So that's the case! Li Qianjun is so talented!"
Da Baojiu nodded, paused, and then said: "Otherwise, how could he be called 'Asia's No. 1 Talent'! By the way, I went to a Chinese website a few days ago. The band's first concert tour will officially start on the 12th of this month! It's a pity we can't see it!"
Minako was shocked again, "Huh? Are they going to hold a concert? Will they come to Tokyo?"
"No! Only in China, only four shows!"
"Hey... how can it be like this! We also like his songs! Don't they come to Tokyo as long as the singer holds a concert?"
"Ah! That's why it's irritating! But what's even more irritating is that I saw on the Internet that some people actually entrusted a Chinese booking company to book tickets in advance, and actually bought tickets for the concert. I bought it from fans in China at ten times the price! They even took pictures and posted them on the Internet, and said that they will make an appointment to fly over to see it together, it’s really pissing me off!"
"Hey...how can this be! Are you going to China to attend a concert?"
"That's right! It's really enviable to say that it's a summer project ahead of schedule!"
"right!"
"Uh, Minako, let's just watch Li Qianjun's movie, okay? I'll invite you to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" next time. I originally planned to invite you to watch these two. !"
"OK!"
Minako's eyes turned into a lovely crescent moon, "I am so happy to be able to watch Li Qianjun's movie with Jiuyi-kun!"
"Eh... is it?"
Obo Kuichi touched his head in embarrassment, and smiled shyly.
After buying the tickets, the two waited for the opening time, and chatted again. Minako asked a question that she wanted to ask just now, "Can Jiu Yi-kun actually visit Chinese websites?"
Obo Kuichi nodded proudly, "Yes! Because of my family's education, I have studied Chinese for five years! I also know China very well!"
Minako's eyes were full of little stars when she heard the words, "Hey...he really is a well-educated family! Kuichi-kun is so amazing!"
Obokuichi smiled shyly, and nodded a little modestly but proudly.
Although there were wars between China and Japan in this time and space, it has to be said that Japan has been shrouded in the Confucian cultural circle for a long time for one or two thousand years. Although it has Japanese, it has developed its own culture based on Chinese characters. Chinese characters, but domestic nobles and high society are still proud of receiving Chinese education.
Even some formal and official documents or contracts, contracts, etc., must be written in Chinese—obviously, they believe that the logic of Chinese is more rigorous, and it can more accurately specify the items of the offer, and reduce ambiguity. To avoid discord.
Even today, in the past 100 years, Japan's economy, culture and other aspects have always been ahead of China. The Japanese's own national self-confidence has been unprecedentedly inflated, but it has to be said that this is like mixing with Hollywood. The actor must be able to speak a standard London accent, and Hollywood also likes to remake some classic novels of English literature. The cultural roots of the entire country lie with others!
Therefore, the Japanese versions of "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" have long flourished in Japan, and Chinese TV dramas with Japanese dubbing are almost empty. Even the Japanese version of "Legend of the White Snake" The translated version, after it was broadcast, caused a sensation throughout Japan, and several novels by the famous Chinese novelist Jin Yong that have been translated and published in recent years, such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", have also been bestsellers in Japan.
It's just that, similar to what happened to "Once Upon a Time", Jin Yong's novels were translated, and all of them were dubbed "the best samurai novels in history" as a propaganda slogan!
To put it bluntly, the roots of their culture are Chinese culture and Confucian culture, and the Japanese culture developed in Japan for hundreds of thousands of years is just a branch and variant of Confucian culture.
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In early May, "Once Upon a Time" hit the Japanese and Korean film markets successively, and then set off a "Kung Fu movie" boom in the two countries! Therefore, young Japanese like Kuichi Obo and Minako Komukai, no matter where they learned about the movie, the end result was that they bought movie tickets and walked into the screening hall.
Therefore, this pair of young people who are dating for the first time in their lives is not an exception.
Moreover, when they came out after watching the movie for 100 minutes, all of them young people had their eyes bright, and they were full of praise for the kung fu shown in the movie!
Then, when they went back after watching the movie, or spoke on the Internet, or talked with friends in reality, they all praised the movie, which made the word-of-mouth of the movie grow at an extremely fast speed. , spread among young people in Japan.
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The Chinese movie box office battle between April, May, and June in 2002, even after many years, is a "golden age" that movie fans and film history researchers love to talk about.
Because in these short three months, the Chinese film market and domestic films themselves have achieved many breakthroughs! There are many records that were not even broken until many years later!
For example, in the first week of May, that is, from May 1st to May 7th, under the double blessing of "The Gate of Life and Death" and "Huang Feihong", the Chinese film market achieved an all-time high of 375.63 million. box office!
This record is unprecedented, and it was not until 2004, two years later, that it was barely broken because of the rivalry between "The Matrix" and the imported blockbuster "Jurassic Park 2" in the domestic film market.
Some brilliant records have even become the pinnacle of some people's lifetime glory.
For example, "The Gate of Life and Death", which was finally released after 57 days of release, finally won an astonishing box office of 700 million yuan, and later landed in North America, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Europe and other countries. It was also well received, and finally won an astonishing box office of 190 million US dollars from abroad. The global total box office was superimposed, as high as 540 million US dollars, and even ranked 24th in the box office record of global film history at that time!
This is of course the highest box office record for a Chinese film!
And it is also the first time in the history of a Chinese-language film that it has achieved such a huge influence overseas, and such an astonishingly high box office!
Although "The Gate of Life and Death" has many problems such as old-fashioned stories, the gorgeous shots and elegant martial arts moves are very appetizing to Westerners. In addition, Qin Wei has a great reputation in the world, and the story of Prince's Revenge is also a Western Humans can understand it, so "Once Upon a Time" was still able to compete with it in Japan and South Korea, and even surpassed it in Southeast Asia, but when it came to North America and Europe, it was immediately left behind!
To put it bluntly, people from East Asia and Southeast Asia have been tried and tested for a long time, and they will be more interested in "Once Upon a Time", which has new ideas, breakthroughs, and innovations, but for movie audiences in Europe, America and other places, The story of a simple oriental hero defeating the enemy with kung fu is obviously not as good as a movie that shows gorgeous oriental luxury and elegant style of play everywhere!
What's more, the same sentence, the simple story line of Prince's Revenge will make it easier for Europeans and Americans to understand, and "Huang Feihong" has more or less unfriendly factors towards Western devils!
So in the end, when the overseas box office of "Once Upon a Time" was blown up in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, it still only got 145 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative global box office was 380 million U.S. dollars, which is 1.6 times less than "Life and Death". 100 million U.S. dollars—equivalent to 320 million Chinese yuan!
A box office that was difficult for a previous super-best-selling movie!
However, this is the pinnacle of Qin Wei's personal achievements.
Since then, although Qin Wei has continued to produce all kinds of gorgeous blockbusters, the box office is not low. At this moment, it seems amazing that the domestic box office is 700 million yuan, and the global box office is 540 million US dollars. Directed the third place in the box office of the film, but until more than ten years later, he can no longer replicate the great success he has achieved at this moment! Not to mention beyond!
So some people in later generations said that China in 2002 belonged to Qin Wei and the World Cup.
Of course, some people say that China in 2002 belonged to football, "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty", Qin Wei, and "Huang Feihong"-this was the most important event in that hot summer that left the deepest impression on people!
Yes, you read that right, many people think that it is Qin Wei and "Huang Feihong" who left the deepest impression on everyone, not "The Gate of Life and Death" and "Huang Feihong"!
In fact, after experiencing the popularity in the first few weeks of its release, although the popularity has declined, the story in Qin Wei's commercial giant "The Gate of Life and Death" is old-fashioned and uninspiring, Guo Yulong's performance is slightly overdone, and the sets and costumes seem too much. Overcoming empty and gorgeous and other deficiencies, it has gradually overwhelmed the praise of this movie from all over the country, and in the end, these increasingly negative word-of-mouth have also largely affected the box office results, making "Life and Death "The Door" was delayed until it was released for 57 days, and finally passed the 700 million mark and went offline.
In contrast, with the release and popularity of "The Gate of Life and Death", "Huang Feihong", which has been repeatedly suppressed and must have been affected at the box office, has become a memorable film after many years. And the pioneering work of the classic series of memories.
This "world's first kung fu movie" only got a domestic box office of 470 million yuan in the end. Unfortunately, it failed to break through 500 million yuan. "Every Time" - Many people believe that if there is no impact of "The Gate of Life and Death", this groundbreaking first Kung Fu blockbuster is fully capable of breaking through 500 million, or even hit 600 million at the box office!
Of course, even if it is only 470 million yuan, it has already made "Huang Feihong" enough to follow "The Gate of Life and Death" and rank second in the historical box office rankings of domestic movies!
Movie ticket prices have risen, and the overall domestic film market has begun to recover strongly, all of which have led to the rapid development of the film market. In the past, the so-called super box office record that people talked about not long ago, this year, was "The Gate of Life and Death" and "Once Upon a Time" two blockbusters have been crushed!
"The Swordsman and the Monk" has maintained the highest box office record of 270 million Chinese yuan for a domestic film for four years, and Zhao Meicheng's "My Name Is Auspicious" won 270 million Chinese yuan before the Spring Festival. , became dust in one day this summer, and was quickly thrown away by the gap of hundreds of millions and four hundred million!
The domestic box office record of 620 million yuan that once felt impossible to be broken by "Titanic" was also broken by "The Gate of Life and Death", and it seems that it no longer makes domestic filmmakers look so high!
Of course, when it comes to the global box office, domestic films, whether it is "The Gate of Life and Death" or "Once Upon a Time", are still far behind "Titanic"!
But even so, the success of the two domestically produced films, with domestic sales of 700 million and 470 million Chinese yuan, and global sales of 540 million and 380 million US dollars, still stimulated the domestic film industry to be very hot!
After seeing the box office, Zhao Meicheng decided to finish filming the film on hand, and was about to make a big commercial production. Zhou Yanghua and Du Weiyun jointly announced that the new film Du Weiyun was preparing would invest 160 million yuan, and additional investment could not be ruled out The possibility of - in the end, it may be as high as 200 million Chinese yuan!
And Liu Chengzhang, who had been silent for a long time, quickly took the initiative to ease the little conflict with Hu Fei. The two sides continued to join hands and planned to create an "epic special effects blockbuster"!
Of course, investment must be indispensable!
It can be said that the Pandora's box has been jointly opened by two blockbusters, and the era of commercial blockbusters for domestic films was officially announced in the summer of 2002!
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