Chapter 410 "Painted Skin 2" Is Released!

Beijing, Light and Shadow Times Cinema.

Chen Kaige stood nervously at the entrance of the cinema, welcoming guests who were invited to attend the premiere.

In the afternoon, "Painted Skin 2" had already held a premiere press conference.

At the press conference, he led the main actors of the crew to do a large interview, satisfying the reporters' desire for interviews.

However, he was asked a lot of sharp questions during the meeting.

Chen Kaige has not been doing well in recent years. The box office results are not good and the awards are also unsuccessful.

Reporters are very realistic. When you are down, all kinds of sharp topics will be thrown at you.

What about taking over Wu Yuan's sequel, is it stressful?

Can "Painted Skin 2" surpass "Painted Skin 1"?

Choosing to take over Wu Yuan's sequel instead of making a new movie yourself, do you have no confidence in yourself?

The box office of "Along with the Gods", which is also a fantasy theme, has exceeded 400 million. Is there any pressure?

Such questions are common.

Although Chen Kaige was full of confidence, thinking that he was no worse than anyone else, and that "Painted Skin 2" was definitely a comeback.

But in his heart, his confidence was not as strong as before.

After several consecutive failures, anyone would have some lack of confidence.

But he still suppressed this uneasy emotion in his heart, pretending to be confident on the surface, standing outside the studio to welcome the guests invited by mobilizing his connections.

Just when Chen Kaige was a little distracted, a black Mercedes-Benz nanny car stopped at the door in a low-key manner, and Liu Yifei, wearing a white gauze dress and beautiful and freezing, got out of the car and walked quickly towards Chen Kaige.

"Director Chen, congratulations on the release of the new film."

"My family man is in the United States, busy with the post-production of the new film, and he really can't rush back to China to attend the premiere. He asked me to apologize to you."

Facing Liu Yifei who was apologizing, Chen Kaige held her hand, smiled and shook his head and said: "It's okay, this is not a very important matter, Director Wu's work is more important."

"Hurry up and go in, the premiere is about to start."

Liu Yifei smiled and nodded, hugged Chen Kaige, and greeted several other leading actors, and then walked into the cinema with grace.

Looking at his back, Chen Kun said to Zhou Xun beside him with some emotion: "She has really grown up."

"She can now represent Yuan'er in dealing with various interpersonal relationships."

"It feels like filming "The Golden Age" was just yesterday, but in the blink of an eye she is no longer that little girl."

Zhou Xun didn't have as many emotions as Chen Kun. She rolled her eyes at Chen Kun unhappily: "Why do you sound like an old man?"

"A man with a child is more sentimental about age and growth?"

Chen Kun shook his head and laughed, feeling a little amused and helpless at Zhou Xun.

"Okay, the guests are almost here, let's go in too." Chen Kaige's words interrupted the conversation between the two.

Leading several leading actors, after waving to the reporters outside at the end, Chen Kaige led everyone into the cinema.

The premiere of "Painted Skin 2" officially began.

Sitting in the dim screening room, Liu Yifei looked at the big screen with relish.

She has seen Painted Skin 1, and has seen it many times.

After all, this movie was made by her future husband, and it was a benchmark for Chinese fantasy and magic movies back then.

Ask her to write a 2,000-word review of the content of Painted Skin, and she can write it.

It can be said that no one present knows Painted Skin 1 better than Liu Yifei, not even Chen Kaige.

After all, if Chen Kaige wants to make Painted Skin 2 well, he can't study Painted Skin 1 too much, otherwise he will just copycat.

Therefore, Liu Yifei is very much looking forward to Chen Kaige's Painted Skin 2. She wants to see the script provided by Wu Yuan and what kind of sparks will collide with Chen Kaige, the top domestic director!

"The movie has begun!"

With an exclamation from someone unknown, the familiar dragon logo appeared on the big screen.

An oriental magical journey is once again unfolding in front of the audience.

From a superficial perspective, the story of Painted Skin 2 is a love story with contemporary significance.

How can an imperfect girl get her love? The story of Xiao Wei and Princess Jing who changed their identities can actually be applied to the issue of modern women choosing plastic surgery for beauty.

In recent years, the topic of "plastic surgery" in China has become more and more intense.

Is it a correct value for women to choose plastic surgery for beauty and to use medical means to make themselves more beautiful in order to make the people they like like them?

In the movie "Painted Skin 2", this topic is discussed in more depth, and a positive love value is thrown out.

"The heart is full of disasters, only love is eternal"

As long as you pay and sacrifice for love, this love is great.

It is still centered around love and the original story of "skin change", but the second part has a deeper discussion on "love".

And in the hands of Chen Kaige, a director who is very good at putting depth in movies, "Painted Skin 2" is not just a shallow love story.

As the story of the movie gradually entered, Liu Yifei gradually saw that under this shallow love story, Chen Kaige also wrapped a deeper analysis of society and human nature.

The most important reason for the story of this movie is that Princess Jing, played by Zeng Li, envies Xiao Wei, a vixen, for having a beautiful appearance that can attract men's hearts.

The fox spirit played by Zhou Xun envies humans for not having to eat human hearts and not suffering from extreme cold.

So, two types of people who envy each other want to become each other, so such a skin-changing story happened.

The two of them infinitely reduced what they had, but infinitely magnified what they could not have, that is, their desires.

After they exchanged bodies, humans found out how hard it was to be a monster, and that they would age quickly if they did not eat hearts.

The monsters also found out that their powers to call the wind and rain had all disappeared, and these things that they once thought were not important at all made them fall into despair.

After leaving their comfort zone and entering a field that they envied before, they suddenly realized that the things they envied so much before were not necessarily really good.

And this mentality actually exists in everyone, not just Xiao Wei and Princess Jing, and not just limited to love.

The poor and the rich, men and women, and people from all walks of life.

The poor think that the rich live a happy life of feasting and drinking every day, which is very good.

The rich may think that the poor people who live a simple life are happy because they don't need to think so much and worry so much every day.

Some men envy girls because they don't need to work hard after getting married and have a husband to support the family.

Some women may envy men because they don't have to have their periods or have children, and they don't have to be housewives to take care of their parents and children.

It's the same between industries. They can't see the good things they have but they magnify others infinitely.

Everyone can't see the beauty of what they have, but they magnify the good things that others have infinitely.

Few people can understand each other's difficulties.

"We always envy others, but rarely discover the beauty we have."

This is the deeper theme of this movie, which goes beyond simple love, but elevates the core of the movie to a spiritual dilemma that all mankind has encountered.

Chen Kaige's filming of this level of depth is very good. Through various meaningful lines and a large number of meaningful empty shots, he leads all the audience to a self-psychological baptism!

When the film screening ended, the audience of nearly 500 guests and film critics sighed and exclaimed endlessly.

"It's so well shot!"

"It's thought-provoking!" (End of this chapter)