Chapter 293: Grave Robbery 1: The Manor Officials Tricked the Ghost

If you think about it carefully, the Hong Kong circle is really a "small" circle. If you look into it carefully, it may be that this person and that person are related, are long-time friends, are early alumni, etc. When they have the opportunity to get together, they can basically come up with a few lively and noisy scenes.

As a result, the human relations issues that must be taken into consideration in any era can cause many people headaches.

Especially for a resource-rich person like Su Yun who is in a high position, even if he has the golden finger of future memory that can help him avoid those with bad intentions, but as the network of relatives and friends around him extends, from time to time, people of all kinds will come to him through the network to seek "cooperation".

However, Su Yun has always been very self-centered. If she likes something, she will nod her head. If she doesn't like something, she will not give in no matter how much benefit it brings.

Therefore, facing the struggle in the recording studio, Su Yun did not have the worries that most people had. After simply talking with a few senior colleagues, she could sit aside with peace of mind and prepare for the next work.

As for the young people, after Mei Yanshuang released "Bad Girl" and shocked Tan, Zhang, and Chen, who said Su Yun was always partial, they temporarily gave up the idea of ​​looking for Su Yun - they even seemed to avoid her, fearing that Su Yun, who always played unconventionally, would really ask them to sing "Bad Girl" with Mei Yanshuang for fun...

After this little episode, the group officially started recording.

The busy time passed in a flash. The late winter cold wind and the cooling temperature put an end to the song recording work, and then brought the release date of the long-planned movie "Grave Robbers".

After some struggle, "Grave Robbers 1: The Deceiver" was scheduled to be officially released on Christmas Eve, December 24th. It happened to be a Saturday, which was the best time to reap box office revenue in Hong Kong and other regions.

After dressing up to make sure no one would recognize her, Zhang Wanyu walked to the corner of the cinema. Within a few minutes, Er Dongxing, wearing big sunglasses, came over.

I don't know why they made an appointment to watch a movie together tonight: when we watched "Legally Blonde" and "The Postman" in the cinema before, their thinking and personalities were so different that if it weren't for the fact that this was a public place, they might have come to blows...

But it just so happened that in the new movie contract they signed, they were going to play a couple of bickering lovers, and they bumped into each other from time to time on TV because of work, so as a result, they still quarreled, but their relationship became a little closer.

During the daytime argument, I found out that the other party didn't have a date on Christmas Eve, so I inexplicably and naturally brought up the topic of Su Yun's new movie, and then we agreed to meet in the cinema...

Of course, they would not say how complicated their feelings were, and would only call it homework for future new plays.

"Okay, the ants are running faster than you. It will be bad if we are discovered soon." Er Dongxing, who was walking in front, turned around and shouted softly.

The word "躝" in colloquial language means crawling. When he used it here, it was obviously referring to the fact that Zhang Wanyu walked too rigidly and thus slowed down his speed significantly.

"I'm wearing a skirt tonight, so I'm definitely not as fast as you." Zhang Wanyu replied to him bluntly: It is well known to everyone in the circle that Er Dongxing likes racing. This sentence can be said to be using the meaning of "roll" in the word "碌" to criticize Er Dongxing, a steely straight man who is particularly chauvinistic in her eyes.

The two of them bickered quietly all the way to the couple's seat in the last row: there was no other way, one was the newly crowned Miss Hong Kong and the other was a Zhao movie star, and if they were discovered watching a movie together, a scandal would spread the next morning. They had no choice but to choose a couple's seat that had no partition in the middle so communication was convenient, and the entire double seat had a certain distance from the seat next to it.

"Couple seats are actually a trick used by businesses." Seeing that the movie hadn't started yet, Er Dongxing took the initiative to start a conversation to avoid the awkward staring at each other. "Generally speaking, when the theater is not full, the last few rows and the front few rows are rarely chosen. So if we set up couple seats in the last row, couples can take the initiative to choose these hard-to-sell edge seats, leaving the popular seats in the middle vacant. This will not only make ticket sales easier, but also increase the attendance rate."

"Okay, I know you come from a famous family and know a lot, so you don't have to expose yourself here..." Seeing him talking about something that one could know with a little attention as a point of knowledge, Zhang Wanyu retorted out of habit, then raised her eyes to the big screen, "Stop talking, the movie is about to start!"

As Zhang Wanyu finished her words, the title of the movie "Grave Robbers 1: The Deceitful Man" appeared on the screen.

"Zhuang Chen deceives ghosts...pretending to be a god to deceive ghosts?" As a popular young actor in the past who is preparing to develop into a director, Er Dongxing has to pay much more attention to more and deeper things than ordinary audiences: in Cantonese, the pronunciations of the first two characters are very similar, and the name "Zhuang Chen" is the transliteration of the English name "Johnson". Coupled with the theme of tomb robbery, there may be some unnatural factors.

Of course, another possibility is that the Chinese nickname for foreigners is "yang devils", "gui lao", etc. Perhaps the word "liar" means the struggle between people - or it may be a combination of the two.

After watching "The Rooftop Postman" and "Legally Blonde", he found that Su Yun's film style always likes to have more or less suspense and unexpected reversals.

For example, in "The Postman", there are misunderstandings about the undercover identity, and the helpless direction of the fate of each person in the whole plot; for example, in "Legally Blonde", when the heroine accidentally discovered that the witness could identify designer shoes as gay, so it was impossible for him to have an affair with the female client she was helping to defend her innocence, the hero used a formulaic questioning method of asking questions quickly to make the witness answer without thinking, which successfully led to the witness's slip of the tongue to prove that he was gay, so there was suspicion of perjury, and the credibility of the testimony was greatly reduced and not accepted...

The story of the former relies heavily on the uniqueness of the Walled City and is therefore difficult to replicate, but this kind of high-energy reversal in "Legally Blonde" can be replicated and adapted in many occasions, becoming a highlight in the plot.

Later facts proved that Er Dongxing's vision and guess were correct: in the subsequent Hong Kong movies and TV series, many tributes were paid to this plot of asking quick questions to get the subconscious truth, and those who played it well basically became classic scenes in the whole play...

Compared to Er Dongxing's ability to see the big picture from the small details and know the end from the beginning, the eighteen-year-old Zhang Wanyu did not have such a tortuous mind. She became excited as soon as she saw the word "ghost".

Unlike the common fear of ghost stories among girls nowadays, Zhang Wanyu is quite generous in this regard: when she was studying abroad, she liked Su Yun's movies and the games and game consoles she created, and "Dream of the Red Chamber" starring Zhang Querong was one of her favorites; later, Su Yun returned to polish herself and reduced the amount of works, and with the 1983 "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" taking over, she began to be obsessed with the male lead Huang Yihua...

She originally wanted to take advantage of the holiday to return to Hong Kong to chase stars, but was discovered by a scout at the door of a TV station to film a GG, and then was arranged to participate in the Miss Hong Kong pageant... Now, not only did she get Huang Yihua's autograph as she wished, but she was also chosen by Su Yun to be one of the heroines of the movie. After a few months of smooth sailing, she couldn't help but feel a kind of youthful vigor and vitality that is unique to young people.

But therein lies the problem. Being too young and without any experience in the industry, Zhang Wanyu's current perspective on everything is still very "superficial". She and Er Dongxing, who is only a few years older than her, can be compared to each other.

The two of them watched with their own thoughts as the credits faded and the black screen gradually brightened.

At this moment, the melodious background music reflects the antique shelves, and the movement of the camera is simulating human gaze, showing the classical porcelain, ancient books, ancient paintings and other things on the shelves that look very ancient, as well as the ancient sedimentation in the surrounding background.

The crew led by Su Yun was of extremely high standard from lighting to post-production color grading. This round of empty shots not only conveyed the venue information of the antique shop, but also created an atmosphere that made people inevitably feel the beauty of antiques.

"My name is KiKi, and I'm working as a summer intern in this antique shop..." A feather duster that broke the elegant and classical atmosphere was picked up by a slender hand, breaking the tranquility and stability of the scene.

However, the owner of the voice is as bright and cheerful as his age to work as a summer intern. Following the movement of the dust removal work, the flow of the picture and the handsome and gentle face of the young man are drawn. "These things on the shelf are all antiques handed down from ancient China. Of course, the ones displayed outside are said to be more common goods. The valuable antiques are all with my boss, Mr. Zhuang Chen..."

As KiKi, played by Keanu, looked in one direction, Zhuang Long, wearing a dark-colored stand-up collared long gown and round-framed glasses, appeared in everyone's sight in the slanting light from the window in the early morning.

The Chinese style has been misled countless times by those "interested people" in the West in the past hundred years, forcing a group of predecessors led by Lu Shaolong to fight for a place for themselves. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the current situation, they had to focus on military affairs rather than culture.

Although those people now dare not clamor for being the sick man of East Asia, they have also, under the influence of Chinese Kung Fu, lowered their heads and set their sights on the "literature" that is easier to brainwash, create stereotypes, and make falsehoods come true.

Wide-set eyes, droopy eye corners, small eyes, an unhealthy sallow complexion, a frail body that looks skinny and photogenic but lacks any energy, as well as a lowered brow and a pitiful posture, or a head tilted at an angle that looks arrogant but is actually close to rolling the eyes, etc., every little thing and every type of thing carries the deliberate attempt to call a horse a zebra and ugliness beautiful.

Don’t they understand what beauty is?

No.

Everyone may have different aesthetic tastes, but the vast majority of people tend to have the same standards for beauty. In his time, Zhuang Long was able to carve out a niche in Hollywood. In addition to his hard work and continuous improvement of his skills, his unique appearance undoubtedly played a very important role.

However, in the movies that Zhuang Long has starred in before, many people have complained about Su Yun's style and manner that are more inclined towards Western movies. They feel that although Su Yun has used herself and her artists to severely combat discrimination against Asian actors, especially Chinese actors, her works always have a frivolous taste influenced by the free and open style of Western movies, and lack the steady and heavy feeling that has been precipitated by China's 5,000 years of history.

However, within just a dozen seconds, the image of Zhuang Long in a stand-up collar and long gown and the antique style immediately slapped these argumentative people in the face - that kind of indescribable surprise and astonishment, no words or actions were needed, just sitting there with the book in hand, surrounded by the smoke from the incense burner, it was as if there was a shock of the Yellow River civilization being awakened.