Chapter 837 Grassroots Rise
After having lunch with Mr. Wan and satisfying the old man's craving, Lin Weimin became Mr. Wan's most beloved disciple again.
It was already past two in the afternoon when he sent Mr. Wan and his wife back to the hospital.
Little Doubao was clamoring to go ice skating. Last winter, Lin Weimin took her to the Shichahai Ice Rink twice. Ever since then, the girl has never forgotten it.
The Shichahai Ice Rink would not open for another few days, so Lin Weimin took Xiao Doubao to the ice rink in Beihai Park, which had opened a few days earlier than the Shichahai Rink.
The little girl didn't know how to skate at all, but children have strong adaptability and her motor nerves are excellent. After a while, she was skating quite well. Although she didn't know all the tricks yet, it was fun enough to just skate on the ice rink.
After two severe crackdowns, the domestic security is much better than before. The ice rink, which used to be a frequent place for fights, has now become a harmonious place.
After playing for nearly two hours, Xiao Doubao was so excited that he lost himself in the game, his face was flushed and sweat was all over his body.
Tao Huimin stopped her and said, "The sun has set. Stop playing and let's go have dinner."
Xiao Doubao was unhappy that her enjoyable skating activity was interrupted. While driving to find a restaurant, she lay down in the middle of the housewife's driver's seat and asked Lin Weimin.
"Dad, can we build an ice skating rink?"
Ever since she learned that the land next to the museum had become the property of their Lin family, Miss Chihiro has planned a hundred ways to use and build the land in her mind.
"Ice skating is only possible in winter, what about spring, summer, and autumn?"
This question stumped Xiao Doubao. She pondered over it and finally asked her mother for help, "Mom, can't we skate in spring, summer, and autumn?"
Although she didn't want to encourage the little girl's wild thoughts, Tao Huimin still said truthfully: "You can roller skate in spring, summer and autumn, just like skating on ice."
Hearing this, Xiao Doubao immediately became excited and asked what "roller skating" was. From the time she was born until now, she had never seen anyone roller skating.
Tao Huimin explained to her that it might be difficult for children to learn, but when it comes to playing, they learn faster than anyone else.
Xiao Doubao understood what her mother said easily. She clapped her hands excitedly, "Dad, build a roller skating rink! A roller skating rink!"
"It costs a lot of money to build a roller skating rink. Do you have the money?" Lin Weimin asked.
Xiao Doubao was stunned for a moment. She didn't have much idea about money. She thought of the lucky money everyone gave her during the Chinese New Year. "I have money, a lot of money. Dad, please help me build a roller skating rink."
In order to have her own roller skating rink, the little girl did everything she could to act coquettishly and cutely.
When the car arrived at the destination, Lin Weimin carried her into the hotel. She still hugged Lin Weimin's neck and begged.
With Xiao Doubao's persistent efforts, Lin Weimin finally gave in and said, "Okay, I'll build you a roller skating rink."
"Why build a roller skating rink?" The big boss asked, and the father and daughter fell silent instantly.
Xiao Doubao looked at her father with pleading eyes. Lin Weimin made a gesture to her, asking her not to say anything for the time being. Xiao Doubao immediately understood what her father meant and stopped mentioning the roller skating rink.
Today, the restaurant that the family of three went to for dinner was Maxim's. Children have always had little resistance to desserts in Western cuisine.
They had ordered their food and were just about to eat when there was a sudden commotion in the restaurant.
The family looked in the direction of the sound and saw a group of people surrounding a gorgeously dressed and beautiful woman walking into the restaurant.
Lin Weimin took a look and said, "What a coincidence, I run into her here again."
Tao Huimin looked at Liu Xiaoqing, who was surrounded by the crowd and the focus of thousands of eyes, and said: "Xiaoqing has developed very well in the past few years."
Liu Xiaoqing was surrounded by the crowd, asking for autographs and photos. After a long time, she finally satisfied the enthusiastic fans. Accompanied by Song Huaigui, she walked to the private seats deep in the restaurant and happened to see Lin Weimin's family who were having dinner.
"Oh! Teacher Lin, Huimin!" Liu Xiaoqing exclaimed in surprise.
The cry reminded Lin Weimin of Wang Xifeng's appearance in "Dream of Red Mansions". They were so similar. Xie Tieli asked her to play Wang Xifeng. Was it the most successful casting for the film version of "Dream of Red Mansions"?
He looked at the child's mother beside him again. No, it should be the casting choice second only to Lin Daiyu.
Yeah, nothing wrong.
"Xiao Qing!"
Tao Huimin greeted Liu Xiaoqing warmly, and Lin Weimin smiled and nodded at Liu Xiaoqing.
"Oh, this is your little baby, right? He has grown so big?" Liu Xiaoqing said, touching the little baby's head.
"Say hello to the auntie and say hello, Aunt Liu." Tao Huimin instructed Xiao Doubao.
The little boy didn't dare to resist his mother's tyranny and just cried out obediently.
Liu Xiaoqing looked at her cute appearance and couldn't help hugging her. "Oh my, you are so cute. You two have good genes. This is the first time we meet, so I don't have anything good to give you..."
As she spoke, Liu Xiaoqing was about to take off the jade bracelet on her wrist.
Lin Weimin hurriedly stopped her, "No, no, no."
Liu Xiaoqing was very enthusiastic, but Lin Weimin insisted on not accepting it, so she had to give up with regret.
After chatting for a while, Liu Xiaoqing went to the table arranged for her by Song Huaigui.
After she left, Tao Huimin showed a bit of emotion on her face. The filming of the movie version of "Dream of Red Mansions" took three years. For a period of time, she and Liu Xiaoqing were together day and night. They were not good sisters, but they were familiar with each other.
But this time when they met again after several years, she really couldn't recognize him.
"Xiaoqing has changed so much!"
Not long after the filming of "Sunny Days" was completed, Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen broke up peacefully. There are many different opinions about the reason for their breakup, and outsiders are not clear.
Before breaking up with Jiang Wen, Liu Xiaoqing had already entered the business world, but her business was not very big at that time.
After the breakup, Liu Xiaoqing did not produce many works, but a TV series "Empress Wu Zetian" unexpectedly made her famous again.
At the same time, her business was also booming, and her territory was constantly expanding, including real estate, cosmetics, advertising, film and television...
Liu Xiaoqing has dabbled in many fields and has been successful in the business world by leveraging her strong fame and influence.
In the first half of this year, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House also published a book for her, "My Confessions: From Movie Star to Billionaire."
Sister Xiaoqing figured out the eyeball economy a long time ago, and those celebrities in later generations are not even worthy of carrying her shoes.
This celebrity biography sold hundreds of thousands of copies as soon as it was released, and once again pushed Liu Xiaoqing's fame to a new height. Some newspapers even called her the "billionaire sister."
Lin Weimin laughed and joked: "It's normal, a billionaire sister!"
Tao Huimin couldn't help but rolled her eyes at him, "Stop being so sarcastic."
"How can I be sarcastic? This is what the newspaper said. Comrade Xiaoqing did make a lot of money in business. She is not only an actress and a star, but also a big boss. The people she deals with are different now, so her temperament is definitely different from before."
Tao Huimin nodded. "That's true. I didn't expect her to be able to build such a big business. She's really a strong woman."
The term "strong woman" has become popular in recent years, and it is very appropriate to describe Liu Xiaoqing.
The sudden appearance of the acquaintance gave the couple something to talk about. After dinner, they took the small bean bun to the Capital Cinema.
Christmas had just passed and Wenhua Film and Television's "See You Tomorrow" had been released for several days. It was past seven o'clock when Lin Weimin and his family of three arrived at the cinema. There was a queue at the ticket window of the cinema, which shows that the film market has been quite hot in the past few days.
Lin Weimin accompanied his family to watch a movie, which was also a survey. He casually asked a few audience members who bought tickets and found that they all came to watch "See You Tomorrow", which made him happy.
After entering the screening room, there were quite a few people watching the movie, almost reaching full capacity.
Recently, Christmas is followed by New Year's Day, and with the vigorous promotion of "See You Tomorrow", the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies continues to rise.
On the third day after watching the movie in the cinema, Lin Weimin received a call from Yu Dong announcing the good news.
"See You Tomorrow" was released nationwide for 7 days, and the box office reached 14.2 million yuan in the first week.
When the first week's box office figures came out, Yu Dong was the first to tell reporters the news. The news spread quickly, once again sending a bombshell to the Chinese film industry.
This box office still has some gap compared to "Life is Beautiful" and "Say It Well" which swept the film market some time ago, but it is also quite competitive in the domestic film market.
Both "Life is Beautiful" and "Say It Well" bear Lin Weimin's name, and one is an imported blockbuster, and the other is a work by Zhang Yimou. Feng Xiaogang is a self-taught director, and it is already proud enough that his third independently directed work can achieve such box office results.
At the same time, this also makes many domestic colleagues have a complicated impression of Feng Xiaogang, a director with a different background.
They envied the box office success of his films, but disdained his style of pleasing the masses.
This kind of contradictory gaze did not affect Feng Xiaogang's rapid growth in fame.
Last year, "Party A and Party B" was released and generated a box office of 60.25 million yuan.
This year, "See You Tomorrow" was released, with a box office of 14.2 million yuan in the first week. It seems that it will not be difficult to break the box office record set by Feng Xiaogang himself last year.
The three words "Feng Xiaogang" seem to be becoming a box office guarantee in the Chinese film market. What they represent is an influence that can command millions of audiences.
Before this, those who had such influence were all big directors who had won awards and had great influence.
Looking at the many great domestic directors, Xie Tieli, Xie Jin, Zhang Yimou, Cheng Kaige... all of them are from a formal academic background. They have undergone rigorous study and training in art schools, and have shot films with a certain artistic quality. They have made a name for themselves in the film industry by participating in various awards activities at home and abroad, received official recognition, and then gradually gained the love of the audience.
This model seems to have become a must for great directors.
But Feng Xiaogang's way of coming to the fore was something that many domestic filmmakers had never seen before.
His movies are not about art; their biggest function is to make people laugh. He has never won any awards, and there are no newspaper reports about him. All he has is the box office appeal from the ticket stubs of moviegoers.
This rise from the bottom makes many film practitioners who claim to be artists feel uncomfortable, which is an emotion that is even more unpleasant than their complex feelings of envy and jealousy towards the box office of Feng Xiaogang's films.
Feng Xiaogang, a director who made his mark with comedy films, seems to have become an outlier in the Chinese film industry.
At this time, the new issue of "Popular Movies" published an article titled "The Rise of Grassroots, the Inspiration Director Feng Xiaogang Brought to the Chinese Film Industry."
As the film magazine with the deepest mass base in China, even though the sales of "Popular Film" have continued to decline in recent years, the influence of this magazine on the film industry is still significant.
As soon as the article "The Rise of Grassroots, the Inspiration Director Feng Xiaogang Brought to the Chinese Film Industry" was published, it attracted a lot of attention in the domestic film circle, followed by heated debate.
(End of this chapter)
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