Chapter 197 First Day

October 3rd, Friday.

Movies in this schedule of Dragon Kingdom are basically released during the day, but everyone has to go to work during the day, so it is from nine o'clock until five o'clock in the afternoon.

The total box office of the entire Dragon Country film industry is just over 110 million. Evenly distributed among the six movies released in this period, the average box office is actually only 10 to 20 million.

For example, "To the Moon" had a total box office of 8.7 million nationwide until 5 p.m. that day. The results are within normal expectations. After all, movie fans have not yet stepped away from work and study. .

But in the evening, as the off-duty time approaches, students, office workers, civil servants and other people all over the country take holidays one after another.

By the time it was close to seven o'clock, the box office sales of the entire Dragon Kingdom had exceeded 200 million, and the total box office sales of To the Moon had reached 15 million.

And Zeng Jichun is one of the moviegoers lining up to enter the venue at 7:10, preparing to watch the moon.

Zeng Jichun is not interested in detective movies like Lame Detective, and she doesn't like disaster movies like The Fall either.

The Tree in the Distance suited her taste, but the heroine in the film had too many dark histories. She didn't like it and directly boycotted the film.

Naturally, her eyes moved to the moon.

Animated movie!

Zeng Jichun looked at the movie ticket stub in his hand, a trace of curiosity flashed in his eyes.

The two-dimensional circle is the two-dimensional circle. Although To the Moon is very famous in the novel category, people like Zeng Jichun who find it troublesome and only watch movies, TV series, and animations are naturally unfamiliar with the original novel of this work.

Just from the introduction on the ticket purchase page of this work.

Tear-jerking, touching, brain-burning?

The labels confused her.

"Forget it, let's talk about it after watching it. Anyway, I've seen a lot of bad movies. Even if it's really going to the moon, this one won't be bad."

With this thought in mind, she successfully lined up and entered the cinema.

After all, it was the beginning of a five-day holiday, and it was a perfect time to go to the moon.

After watching the two-hour movie and having some late-night snacks, the couples can spend their warm night.

So in the show that Zeng Jichun watched, there were actually quite a lot of people, with more than half of the entire theater filled.

It’s an old movie theater routine, opening with a lot of GGs, insurance, buying a house, or just promotional trailers for movies that will be released in a month or two.

During this process, the lovers sitting near Zeng Jichun were also chatting happily.

"Why don't you go see the trees in the distance!" "Although I don't hate watching animated movies, as for romantic movies, among the movies released today, The Tree in the Distant World is better than Going to the Moon in terms of investment and publicity, right?" a girl asked curiously.

"I tell you, you are absolutely right to watch this movie. The original novel of this movie is very good." The boy responded immediately.

"Have you read the novel from which this movie was based?"

"Of course."

"So what's the plot of this movie?"

"You'll know it when you see it."

"When I watched the movie introducing this work, it was very tear-jerking. Is it true?"

"Fake. This movie is very heartwarming and will make you laugh. Otherwise, why would I take you to watch it tonight?" The boy responded to his girlfriend with a smile.

Zeng Jichun felt a little irritable listening to the conversations of these couples.

Everyone else is in couples, but she is the only one who spends the whole day working, eating, and sleeping.

well.

She sighed.

After being forced to watch the pre-screening GG for six or seven minutes, the theater suddenly dimmed and the movie started.

Sugarman Pictures is producing an animated movie about going to the moon, and there are definitely many things that need to be adapted.

After all, the original work is a novel with more than 100,000 words.

If all the content is shot down to the last detail, the movie would not be enough to shoot for three or four hours.

For example, the redundant and long foreshadowing plot in the early stage of the work can be changed as needed.

Moreover, some foreshadowing and foreshadowing at the beginning of the story should be mentioned as much as possible.

After all, movies need to grab the attention of moviegoers as quickly as possible.

so.

Five minutes into the movie, the story has progressed to the point where two doctors, Eva and Neil, enter John's dream through the machine.

This is what makes movies, anime, and TV series better than novels.

A scene described in a novel using a lot of words can be shown in a single scene in a movie.

Those relatively redundant and boring passages with textual descriptions are surprisingly enjoyable to watch with the support of exquisite images and music.

Especially when the heroine Xiaoxi appears.

In her old age, Xiaoxi, holding a rabbit, lay on the bed and listened to her beloved husband John playing the song "To the Brook" written for her.

The animator captured all of Xiao Xi's moved, painful and confused expressions.

The story progresses along the way.

From the old Xiao Xi, to the middle-aged Xiao Xi, to the scene where Xiao Xi and John get married.

In movies, everything is detailed when necessary and omitted when necessary.

If viewers who are really interested in this movie feel that the plot in some parts is relatively blocky after watching it, they will buy the original novel on their own.

In the cinema, in fact, when the movie To the Moon first aired, there were many people playing with their mobile phones.

But as the plot begins to progress, there are more and more mysteries in this work.

John, why go to the moon?

Xiaoxi, why do you want to make an origami rabbit?

Why would Xiaoxi rather die than speak out her inner thoughts?

The first half of the movie is about laying out suspense points.

When the one-hour plot is over, Zeng Jichun has already immersed herself in it.

After all, the description of these contents in the novel may be boring and some people may find it boring.

But the movie has the blessing of pictures and music, the backs of John and Xiaoxi at sunset.

The dance of the two on the lighthouse.

The process of their love in their youth, plus the plot has been laying out foreshadowing.

In fact, it doesn't look boring.

At least until now, Zeng Jichun can give this animated film a 70-point score.

Just for the exquisite pictures of the animation and the music of this movie. The movie ticket price of dozens of yuan is not worth it anyway, and she doesn't feel it's a loss.

But the plot.

It always takes a sharp turn like this.

When the movie is one hour and twenty minutes.

The two protagonists, Neil and Eva, finally, through the smell of the dead squirrel, crossed the memory gap caused by John's mother feeding beta blockers in his childhood and came to the memory of her childhood.

The scene of the movie suddenly changed.

I don't know when, the background music of "To Xiaoxi" sounded again.

On the top of the mountain, under the broken tree, John and Xiaoxi as children, the first meeting after the carnival celebration.

Different from the scene description of the novel with a lot of text.

The animation only used a few short scenes, plus the mental symptoms of Xiaoxi who could not communicate with others introduced in the previous plot. Zeng Jichun, who stood in a semi-God perspective, saw this scene and understood that the topic of lighthouse and stars in Xiaoxi's words was a metaphor for herself.

And finally, when the topic of the conversation between the two was introduced to the moment of using the stars in the sky to describe the rabbit.

Zeng Jichun watched this movie for more than an hour, and finally.. for the first time, there was a violent shock from the inside out.

In the cinema, at this moment, there was silence in the theater.

Everyone looked at the beautiful sky full of stars on the screen, the Milky Way light poured down, and the boy and girl under the moon looked up at the starry sky.

"Let's find the rabbit in the sky!" said the boy.

"I have found it." The girl said proudly.

"There are two feet. There is also the moon. The moon is the belly of the rabbit."

The plot progresses along the way. On the eve of the separation of the girl and the boy, the boy gave the girl gifts, sandbags and platypus dolls.

Seeing this, Zeng Jichun was heartbroken.

So Xiaoxi will never let go of the platypus for the rest of her life

"Will you come again in the future?"

"Well, of course."

"What if you forget or get lost?"

"Then we will always meet on the moon, silly."

What if you forget or get lost?

Then we will always meet on the moon.

Zeng Jichun's eyes were instantly blurred with tears.

The quality that must be possessed when watching movies in the cinema is not to make any noise, and not to look at the phone frequently to prevent the light from affecting others.

But Zeng Jichun couldn't help it.

More than an hour of plot preparation, just for this moment and this sentence.

"Then we will always meet on the moon."

The meaning of why Xiaoxi folded the rabbit in his later years.

Why John couldn't remember anything after Xiaoxi died, but still wanted to go to the moon under the instinct!

At this moment, the atmosphere in the entire cinema has changed.

The boys are fine, they can control their emotions and barely hold it back.

But many emotional girls can no longer hold back.

Many people have begun to wipe their tears with tissues.

Even people like Zeng Jichun who learned a little about the movie before watching it are psychologically broken at this moment.

I know that the main feature of this movie is tear-jerking, but I didn't expect it to be so tear-jerking. Tears burst out instantly.

Can this movie make people cry like this?