Exploring the Entertainment Circle [Ancient and Modern]

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first-day box office of "Queen of Guining" reached [-] million.

This is a very astonishing, unexpected, and unreasonable figure.The most optimistic estimate before was only 8000 million.

The reason for this result is that, first of all, the theaters have increased the number of "Queen of Guining" from 15.00% to 20.00% based on the rave reviews of the show, which is second only to the hilarious comedy blockbuster of the same period " 30.00% of the film schedule of "The Unmarried Boy and Wife".

Secondly, the embarrassing phenomenon of low box office of "genre films" (such as historical films, literary films, documentaries, etc., which all belong to "genre films") that were once "popular but not popular" and "the smell of wine is afraid of deep alleys" has become more and more serious. increasingly replaced by word of mouth.In the information age, social platforms such as Weibo, WeChat Moments, etc., can receive and disseminate information immediately. Although there are trolls or marketing to confuse the public, it is easy to distinguish between true and false word of mouth.More and more people also tend to learn word of mouth in advance when choosing a movie.

Although there are suspicions of spoilers in the high-quality film reviews of "Queen of Guining" analyzed from various angles during the screening period, "Queen of Guining" is a historical film, and many people don't care about spoilers.Knowing the content of the film in advance increases the interest and confidence in watching.

Therefore, according to the box office statistics on the first day, the attendance rate of "Queen of Guining" reached an astonishing 70.00%, which was ten percentage points higher than that of comedy films.When analyzing this phenomenon, film critics said: It shows that movie audiences have higher and higher aesthetic needs.The Spring Festival is a day when the family goes out to watch movies. The basic characteristics of family movies used to be emotions such as "excitement" and "happiness" in the eyes of the industry.But now it shows that stressful "emotions" may be generalized into a broader "positive effect"-the upsurge of patriotic film themes that has emerged in recent years also falls into this category.This is bound to enhance the industry's confidence in investing in "genre movies".

However, the leading actors of "Queen of Guining" are too old, and they are not professional data analysts. Their perception of the public's aesthetics is still pessimistically stuck in the past few years.So it was no surprise that the WeChat group exploded when they heard the box office news.

The main actors of "Queen of Guining" have a small working group, and director Xiong Zian and screenwriter Meng Xiaodan are also in it.It was pulled for the convenience of communication during the previous filming.The atmosphere is also the tone of talking about work.After "Queen of Guining" was finished, everyone gradually stopped talking in it.After all, it is not a small group of private nature.The entertainment industry is not an easy place to make friends.

It turned out that it was very busy inside today. Tao Qingfeng heard the jingling voice in WeChat, opened it and saw——

Director-Xiong Zi'an: @钟玉玉@钟玉玉@钟玉玉 who swears that the box office will be at most [-] to [-] million?

Director-Xiong Zi'an: [[-] million box office record picture on the first day]

Xilu-Liu Qihui: [Applause][Applause][Applause][Applause][Applause][Scattering Flowers]

Tiansheng-Zhang Fenghao: I took Niuniu and Nannan to see it today, and there are quite a lot of children.

Screenwriter-Meng Xiaodan: Can children understand this film? [sweat]

Tiansheng-Zhang Fenghao: Don't underestimate children.They all recognize historical figures, and they also think @陶青风 is very handsome.

Weiyuan-Shazhou: What about me?Do the kids think I'm handsome?

Tiansheng-Zhang Fenghao: They think you are more fierce [狗头]

Weiyuan-Shazhou: [Crying loudly] I am obviously a baby!

Xiangchang-Zhong Yujiao: My God, is this box office real or fake? ? ?

Director-Xiong Zian: Are you finally willing to look at your phone?Go to the movie market analysis index, predicting one billion.

Xiangchang-Zhong Yujiao: ...the phone hit my face.

Director-Xiong Zian: You and @陶清风 form a Dianbai alliance.

Xiangchang-Zhong Yujiao: Your Aunt Dianbai has died happily on the yoga mat.

Guangji-Tao Qingfeng: Received [hehe bubble emoji].

Weiyuan-Shazhou: I just want to know, when will Dianbai@桃清风 learn to send other emojis?

Guangji-Tao Qingfeng:? ? ? [Poor bubble emoji].

Xi Lu-Liu Qi replied: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha see you soon.

Screenwriter-Meng Xiaodan: The artist had only made [-] million posters at the box office, but now they have been called back to work overtime.

Director-Xiong Zian: [Official blog breaks [-] million posters] Repost them all for me.

Xi Lu-Liu Qihui: Turn around, it's not human if you don't.

Screenwriter-Meng Xiaodan: There is a wave of publicity, and everyone who has dry goods will pour it out.

Weiyuan-Shazhou: Make a small report, let @陶清风 write a small paper!

Tiansheng-Zhang Fenghao: You can have this.

Xilu-Liu Qihui: Subsequent proposal.

Xiangchang-Zhong Yujiao: Second.

Director-Xiong Zi'an: @陶清风来, be conscious and write.

Guangji-Tao Qingfeng:? ? ?Receive, receive? ? ? [Poor bubble emoji]

The main creators of "Queen of Guining" and Tao Qingfeng's Weibo are related to each other, so they have all read his short essay for "The Witch of Qianxia Dongjun".Moreover, Tao Qingfeng was certified by writers in the circle as "hard to write".These ex-colleagues were all excited about it.Tao Qingfeng had no choice but to extract some experience records from the previous filming, and compose an article according to their request.

He privately called Meng Xiaodan on WeChat and said: I want you to sort it out.There may be some things in my article that are not easy to understand, and I don’t know how to change them more appropriately.

After Meng Xiaodan took the document and read it, she couldn't help but send a horrified expression even though she knew that Tao Qingfeng was a "giant panda-like fanatical history fan".

Tao Qingfeng: What's wrong?

Meng Xiaodan: I asked you to write a small paper... so you really write a paper? ? ?

Tao Qingfeng learned the modern essay format from Yan Dan.He was surprisingly quick to master it. For Tao Qingfeng, footnotes and citations were similar to the types of annotations he used to write articles at that time.As for abstracts, literature reviews, and theoretical frameworks required for modern papers, Tao Qingfeng can understand them immediately. In this regard, he accepts them very quickly.

So today Tao Qingfeng really took the "small paper" that his colleagues in the WeChat group encouraged him to write as a real paper.He thought that "small" meant shorter, so he changed it to about [-] characters.Although the format is exactly the same as a "paper", because the content is restricted by modern empirical norms, it is not actually a "paper" in the strict sense, and it is impossible to explain it in three thousand words.

But Tao Qingfeng didn't dare to give it too long, and racked his brains in his heart, thinking: "Small essays" are really difficult to write.In order to keep things as simple as possible, Tao Qingfeng had no choice but to use classical Chinese sentences.But when I finished writing it, I guess it might not be easy for modern people to understand.Then he went to ask Meng Xiaodan for help.

Meng Xiaodan weakly replied on WeChat: You...are you poisonous...?

Tao Qingfeng:? ? ? ? ?What's the meaning?

Meng Xiaodan almost knelt down, and said on WeChat: Forget it...don't post this article...keep it, change it, and submit to a journal paper platform that is better.

Tao Qingfeng realized that this form is not suitable for posting on the Internet, so he said to Meng Xiaodan: I'm sorry.I thought that a small paper was a "short paper".

Meng Xiaodan replied: You must have been with Senior Brother Yan for a long time.He has brainwashed you.Dear lady, don't go on the academic road of no return, return to the broad road of stardom, my child.

Tao Qingfeng:? ? ?

Meng Xiaodan: Forget it, go and do other things.This paper is more suitable for people like Brother Yan, don't squeeze the brain cells of the poor audience.

So Meng Xiaodan made another article.After a long time, Tao Qingfeng showed the complete paper to Yan Tan, and asked him to revise it and consult about the publication of the journal, that is another story.At that time, Tao Qingfeng had no intention of going to Yan Tan for consultation at all. In fact, he felt too embarrassed.

Tao Qingfeng thought blankly, the night before when Yan Tan was writing Spring Festival couplets at Yan Tan's house, he was caught off guard by Yan Tan's revealing thoughts——

"Actually, I know. The old friend in your heart is the one who you secretly don't want him to 'marry a wife and have children', the later prince and teacher, Yan Dan, right?" Yan Dan said softly behind Tao Qingfeng, The volume is not loud, but it explodes like thunder.

Tao Qingfeng choked for breath, and the pen in his hand fell to the ground with a "slap".He barely held the table steady, and smiled when he turned his head, but his tone was heavy: "I'm sorry, I didn't hear clearly, what did you say?"

For literati, this is actually a disguised form: please don't talk nonsense.Give a step down meaning.

If it is a person with a bad temper, the subtext of this sentence is: please shut up.

Not only was Tao Qingfeng poked at the center of the matter by Yan Tan, but what made him even more astonished was the speculation "You secretly don't want him to marry a wife and have children" - Tao Qingfeng didn't even dare to admit it in his dreams, but when he was pointed out, he immediately Feeling guilty like a drum beating, he realized that deep down in his heart, he really thought so.

Tao Qingfeng suddenly realized that the reason why Yan Tan discovered the clue was because when he was talking about Yan Dan that day, he accidentally said: "This is as incomprehensible as him not marrying and having children."After learning that Yan Dan had no heirs, among various hypotheses, he immediately thought about "couldn't he be married", and subconsciously said this as an "established fact".

In the official history, it is only recorded that "Yan Gong died without heirs".In fact, it is also possible that Yan Dan was born with a wife and concubines, but left no heirs.Only subconsciously, I really didn't want him to marry, so I blurted out like that.

Therefore, Yan Tan abruptly changed the topic that day and ended it.Yan Dan is really...too smart.

Tao Qingfeng stared at Yan Tan in shock, and it was too late for him to show off his "acting skills" that he hadn't practiced yet.

Yan Dan didn't go down the steps that Tao Qingfeng didn't want to admit, he seemed to be determined to uncover this dusty secret, and he repeated persistently: "The person you liked before was Yan Dan, right? ? The one who made you cry, made you unable to get out of the past, and made you unwilling to change a flowerpot to plant in it?"

Yan Tan clenched his palms, and fiercely pinched the crazily growing flame called "jealousy".Fortunately, this is more than half offset by another well-founded suspicion.

Tao Qingfeng's eyes were red, it was rare to have such an emotion of wanting to gnash his teeth, the roots of his ears were slightly red, and there was a sadness in his voice: "So what?" Tao Qingfeng admitted, but there was a touch of clang in his tone, "Yes It's nothing to do with me, it has nothing to do with him."

Yan Dan couldn't see Tao Qingfeng showing such a fragile appearance, his eyes darkened for a moment, and he really wanted to hug Tao Qingfeng into his arms to comfort him.But he just slowly helped Tao Qingfeng to sit down, handed him a cup of hot tea and stuffed it into trembling hands: "What's wrong with this. Maybe he likes you too."

Tao Qingfeng leaned on the sofa, drank hot tea and stopped shaking so badly, and slowly exhaled: "No way. He...he is so good. How can..."

Yan Dan stared at Tao Qingfeng, secretly clenched his fists.Yan Dan finally found the only thing that can be called a shortcoming in Tao Qingfeng so far: arrogance.In fact, this is also revealed a little bit in daily life, but Yan Dan thinks that Tao Qingfeng is not well adapted to modern times, and the degree is quite slight.I didn't expect to be exposed so seriously in terms of emotional cognition, and I had a deep misunderstanding of myself.

Tao Qingfeng's eyes were filled with hot tea mist, innocent and clear.Like the eyes of a sad fawn.Yan Tan thought: It is said that intelligent people have seven orifices.This well-learned and generous Tanhualang doesn't even have the self-confidence and self-knowledge of an ordinary person emotionally.

...the strange and evil feudal concept of rank.

Yan Tan then supported Tao Qingfeng's shoulders and made him turn to himself: "I don't know if Yan Dan likes you or not. But you have to understand one thing. If he doesn't like you, it's only because he doesn't like you and doesn't like you." ', rather than 'I don't deserve it and I don't like it'." Yan Dan looked into Tao Qingfeng's eyes seriously, as if wanting to see into his heart, and said, "On this point, you are especially ignorant of yourself."

Tao Qingfeng's eyes were still red, he didn't understand: "For me, the only thing I think I'm good at is self-knowledge."

It is precisely because of self-knowledge that Tao Qingfeng knows how to advance and retreat; with self-knowledge, he knows that there are certain boundaries that cannot be crossed.

Yan Tan took a deep breath, restrained the burning heart, and said, "Guangchuan. Do you still remember the 'progress' of this era that you felt that day? In fact, the real progress of this era is not the most important thing. It’s not about technology—it’s just the foundation, the advancement of thought and the advancement of social systems are the best gifts this era gives to everyone. Its name is: equality.”

Tao Qingfeng stared at Yan Dan quietly, and the water vapor in his eyes became thicker, making Yan Dan think of the ethereal water surface in the works of the famous painter Monet.The most painted scene in the lake light and water color is the lotus flower, which floats quietly on the transparent water pattern...

Realizing that Tao Qingfeng was waiting for further explanation, Yan Dan continued: "Even if people are born differently, some are beautiful and ugly, some are rich and poor, some are tall and short, some are fat and thin...some people will think it's unfair. But in the modern collective In values, even if it is unfair, the minimum dignity between people is equal. The feudal imperial system of the Great Chu, the separation between the common people is like heaven and earth, and the superstructure is determined by the economic foundation... So you use that set of concepts to guide your actions, It's not your fault that you don't dare to cross the threshold...but that social form has been replaced by a more advanced social form. People are equal to each other. You are the same as Yan Dan, you are equal, so you It's just as good. This is the 'self-knowledge' you should have, don't underestimate yourself."

Yan Tan's words were like hot tea, warming from his heart to his fingertips. Although Tao Qingfeng couldn't say a word, he just looked at Yan Dan blankly, but Yan Dan looked at the moistness in his eyes and knew that the other party listened. understood.

Yan Tan's hand supporting Tao Qingfeng's shoulder slid down to hold Tao Qingfeng's hands holding the teacup, as if holding a piece of treasure.Tao Qingfeng was pinched between Yu Wenwen and Yan Dan's warm hands on the side of the cup in the palm of his hand. He froze for a while and wanted to pull it away, but the grip became tighter and tighter, and he couldn't pull it out for a while.

Tao Qingfeng was startled, and suddenly found that Yan Dan looked at him with such hot eyes.Alarm bells were ringing in his heart, and thoughts that he hadn't dared to think about before suddenly emerged.Why did Yan Tan ask him to "play" the person he likes?

Yan Tan's speech slowed down a bit, and the hand holding Tao Qingfeng trembled slightly, but he still stared firmly at Tao Qingfeng's eyes, as if there was some kind of supporting coordinate there: "So you and I are also equal. He and I are also equal. I didn’t be 'sincere' to you before, not because I didn’t dare. I just don’t know enough, and I’m afraid to make you sad. But when I know who he is and what’s in your heart Digest..."

Only then did Tao Qingfeng realize later, he stared at Yan Dan dumbfounded, the ups and downs in his heart were like water that was almost sloshing out of a teacup.Scenes of Yan Tan getting along with him quickly flashed through his mind, and Yan Tan's many rhetoric when he asked him to "act" before, and the tender embrace that night when he fed him medicine and delivered porridge... Dian Guang Flint made everything clear.He remembered a Western methodology called "logic" that he had read in general education books. If he learned it earlier, would he be able to understand all of this:

In fact, it is an easy-to-see paradox: Can "like" be "acted out"?What is "act until you like him"?If there is no feeling of "like", there will be no "stop".If there is a "feeling of liking", how can it be regarded as "acting"?