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Chapter 14 The Wife and Concubine

To simply talk about the quality of the movie "Fairy Tales of Autumn", Lu Lingxi is certainly confident. She is confident from the script, to the filming, to the performance, and to the final appearance that will be presented in the later stage.

But she really had no confidence in how high the box office this movie could get.

Although she is already one of the most famous female directors in China with the role of "Thirteenth Aunt" and "The Legend of Ming Palace", she is already one of the most famous female directors in China. Although "Autumn Fairy Tale" has a pair of actors and actresses such as Li Qian and Qin Jingjing, she has actually given her a guarantee enough guarantee.

But the first directing of the movie, coupled with the worries and anxiety of the post-release editing, made her at the most unconfident moment. No matter how much Li Qian encouraged her, she would relax her, and even said "use this "Fairy Tale of Autumn" to be a role model for those people!" just to encourage her, but when the meal was finished, Li Qian found that she seemed to be even more nervous.

This is also impossible.

A common problem with new directors - not to mention new directors, veteran drivers cannot escape this level.

In fact, for many directors, before the movie was drawn, they began to worry about whether their next movie would be popular!

It’s like when a Qidian author is about to finish writing a book, do you think he won’t worry about the results of the next book? He is so worried that he wants shit!

Only by success again and again can you thoroughly cultivate that confidence and confidence.

Just like San Shao and Tomato, they no longer worry about whether to fail or not.

In fact, in "The Legend of the New White Snake" and "My Savage Girlfriend", although he had the confidence to have succeeded in the other time and space and glorious history, Li Qian was still worried, so he kept striving for excellence, and later, he gradually got better.

When "Huang Feihong" was sold well, and when "Red Sorghum" not only won awards but also made a big splash, as a director, even if he was just a director with the main direction of "copying and recreation", he began to truly get up. Until now, even if he spent 500 million yuan to make a movie, he no longer felt guilty.

And Lu Lingxi lacks similar success.

Li Qian did not forcefully comfort him. After having dinner and chatting for a while, he drove Lu Lingxi back to her new home, and told her not to forget to attend the premiere of "Crazy Stone" the day after tomorrow, and then drove home.

It’s already the 28th day of the New Year. As Lu Lingxi said, he does have many people to accompany him.

It’s okay, the wife Wang Jinglu, who is well-known for her, is there. Although everyone still wants to be on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year, no one can tell anything about Li Qian accompanying Wang Jinglu. No one around him will put his face down and do something excessive.

But the child cannot.

They are all growing up slowly, and they can remember many things that are happening now.

The Spring Festival is the most important reunion festival for Chinese people. Children must be together, and their father will accompany them to celebrate New Year's Eve to usher in the first day of the new year.

This is the atmosphere of home that Chinese people value the most.

So this year, on New Year's Eve, He Runqing brought Li Cha and Zhou Lao and Li Shesheng to live in the big house of Li Qian and Wang Jinglu. Xie Bing also came and looked at Li Shesheng and the three little brothers and sisters. They were so greedy that they teased this and that.

Instead, Wang Jingxue insisted not to stay here and went back to her parents' side.

On New Year's Eve, there will be only one in Li Qian's little family, Liao Liao will continue to stay in the United States to prepare for her next concert that will last three months across North America.

Li Qian once asked Qi Jie what she meant, but she refused to come, so she simply left the person on the afternoon of the 27th of the Chinese New Year and went back to Jinan Prefecture to accompany her parents.

Cheng Suping was unwilling to come either.

She didn't use the excuse of participating in the Spring Festival Gala or something, but just said it simply that she had no name or no title anyway, so why did she do it in the past? And she didn't want a title either.

On the contrary, Jiang Yiyi muttered a few words, which probably meant that she wanted to come to Li Qian's house to eat a bowl of dumplings, even if the festival was celebrated.

Li Qian refused instead.

She is shaking now, and she is also a person who loves to show off and pretend. She has bought a big villa at home and has brought her parents to Shuntian Mansion this year. She is now in Shuntian Mansion, which is not the pitiful look she described herself as "homeless".

Of course, Li Qian called in advance and asked his parents to come and celebrate the New Year together.

The old couple missed their grandchildren, but on the phone, the mother stuttered for a long time, but in the end the father picked up the phone, but he couldn't say it. Li Qian felt that the old couple probably felt that their home was too messy, and they had several daughters-in-law. They were really a little overwhelmed and didn't want to get involved in Li Qian's mess.

In fact, it is indeed a bit too big.

Whether it is Wang Jinglu, Zhou Lao, He Runqing, and Xie Bing, they are not ill-inducing. Even if they are not big, they are peaceful, but it is not easy for them to be together as sisters and have a reunion together.

Fortunately, Wang Jinglu has a good reputation. Although she is a big wife, she calls her sister whenever she meets him. He Runqing is good at dancing and Xie Bing is well-behaved and charming. Even if Zhou Lao is not very used to being with so many people, she still gives Li Qian and Wang Jing a little face. In addition, everyone knows that she is usually like that, and no one cares about anything specifically - the most important thing is that Li Shesheng and Li Cha are already saying that they will make trouble. With these two children, the atmosphere in the house is always lively and joyful.

Therefore, the first time in the history of Li Qian's small family, the "wives and concubines" was relatively successful.

Everyone was eating New Year's Eve dinner, drinking wine, watching the Spring Festival Gala teasing their children, and celebrating New Year's Eve.

Minghu culture has almost occupied half of the song program of this year's China TV Spring Festival Gala. In recent years, the music department has continued to make efforts under the host of Xie Mingyuan. Not only has the position of old singers become more and more stable, but they have gradually become the queen-level existence of the king and queen-level. A large number of new singers who debuted through their own discovery or talent shows are also becoming the backbone of the current domestic music scene.

Of course, without such real top powers as Li Qian, Liao Liao, Zhou Lao, Rose Power, etc., Zhou Ye, as the leader of Minghu Culture in music, still seemed to lack some weight and could not suppress the venue. This year's Spring Festival Gala contacted Li Qian three or four times by various means and trying to make him appear on the Spring Festival Gala again, but Li Qian thought about it but refused.

As we all know, the Spring Festival Gala is the best stage for promoting newcomers. Every year, newcomers become famous through the Spring Festival Gala battle. What Li Qian lacks the most now is fame. If he appears, he will definitely pay great attention. First, he does not care about it himself, and secondly, it blocks the newcomer's path to becoming famous. Why bother!

The youngest guy went to bed early. At around nine o'clock, Li Shesheng and Li Cha were so sleepy that they couldn't open their eyes, so they were coaxed to sleep by their respective mothers.

Then, several people were drinking and chatting without saying a word. They actually saw the New Year bell ringing at the Spring Festival Gala in one breath, and then they went back to their rooms.

There is still a little embarrassment, but it is not as serious as Li Qian thought before.

He thought to himself: This is a good start!

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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, on February 6, 2005, "Crazy Stone" officially landed in major theaters across the country.

On the morning of that day, many guests who received the invitation rushed to Minghu Cinema in Shuntian Mansion - many people could not cover up their thick dark circles even if they put on makeup.

Originally, Minghu Culture did not like to hold any premiere. But with the success of "Big Star", Feng Bicheng, as one of the most important famous directors in China, has made it necessary for Minghu Culture to hold a premiere for him.

Qi Jie didn't come, but Li Qian arrived at the platform in person.

A large number of directors, actors, and singers under Minghu Culture, who are in Shuntian Mansion, come to stand up and congratulate, Feng Bicheng's father Feng Yumin is a master in the domestic TV drama circle, and his connections are even wider than Li Qian. Except for a few people who don't deal with Li Qian and Minghu Culture, people with strong and easy nature in this circle have basically come.

At the scene, the photos of Li Qian and Feng Bicheng talking together were specially arranged to take many photos. Although Minghu Culture has been trying hard to suppress the news, some bad negative news about Feng Bicheng has always existed during and after the release of "Big Stars". The most attacked and criticized by others is undoubtedly that he had attacked Li Qian behind the scenes of Li Qian's great support.

And this time the photo was specially asked by the publicity department in advance.

With these photos, all the "rumors" can naturally be broken.

Of course, in fact, when Li Qian gave the script of "Crazy Stone" to Feng Bicheng, this matter was already revealed for Li Qian. He didn't have to make a falsification when talking to Feng Bicheng.

Before, when "Crazy Stone" was about to be completed, he went to Chongqing Prefecture to support Feng Bicheng and congratulate Feng Bicheng. It is not easy to completely restore the closeness of the past, but as a superior and subordinate, the relationship between the two is now relatively harmonious.

Moreover, even Qi Jie has to admit that among these directors under Minghu Culture, Feng Bicheng's loyalty and sense of conversion to Li Qian is probably the strongest.

Even Han Shunzhang may not be able to compare.

In recent years, Feng Bicheng has been very low-key even though he has become famous in "Big Star", and is even so low-key that he is not as good as himself.

This time he was released with a new film, he was as low-key as ever. When asked by a reporter about the box office during an interview, he humbly said, "Film comedy is to have fun watching the picture. As long as I don't lose money, I can continue shooting. Anyway, everyone supports it more. Don't ask for too high, just keep the money!"

When the reporters asked why they chose to arrange the movie on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a time period where "almost no one will go to watch movies", he smiled and said, "That's not the case. A few years ago, our company's film opening work "My Savage Girlfriend" was scheduled for a few days after the Spring Festival. In that year, the box office was also quite good. Mr. Qian had confidence in me and asked me which day I wanted to set. I said it would be fine. Mr. Qian said, "That's better, just the Spring Festival! I said okay!"

"Spring Festival?"

"Yes! Spring Festival! The first day of the Lunar New Year, the first day of the New Year!"

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In this time and space, even though there have been precedents like "My Savage Girlfriend" that were so popular during the Spring Festival, the concept of "Spring Festival" is still completely gone.

The wave of commercialization of movies has been implemented for more than ten years. The concepts of commercial films and commercial blockbusters have long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. As it gradually connects with the world's film market, especially with Hollywood, many concepts of European and American film markets, especially North American, have gradually been imported, and have now become some fixed concepts of the Chinese film market.

For example, summer schedule, Valentine's Day schedule, etc.

Of course, different cultural backgrounds and different people's living customs have made huge differences between China and the United States. Therefore, when imported, there will naturally be local natives.

There is an Independence Day holiday in the United States, but China does not have it, and it is not a time period, but China has a Mid-Autumn Festival.

Americans celebrate Christmas, and it is extremely important for audiences to watch movies. Therefore, the Christmas and New Year's Day period in the United States is a very important reservation for family-style movies. However, when we come to China, New Year's Day is just a starting point. Since Zhao Meicheng, China has created the so-called "New Year's Day" that is to go around New Year's Day and go before the Spring Festival in one breath.

The Spring Festival is unique to China. But over the years, the biggest meaning of the concept of Spring Festival for Chinese people is two words - going home.

During this period of time, the film market often has little market to speak of.

The Spring Festival is even more unconceptual.

Sometimes, the Spring Festival is in February, and it overlaps with Valentine's Day to a certain extent, so it will be a little hotter, but it is also limited. Maybe it will leave no one to celebrate Valentine's Day.

The market affects the movie, and the movie will affect the market.

It is precisely because Chinese people have many habits in the past that few people watch movies during the Spring Festival that distribution companies will not take good movies for this period of time to release them. On the other hand, without good movies, people will be attracted to the idea of ​​watching movies, which will lead to the colder box office market during this period.

However, Li Qian firmly believes that in fact, with the development of modern society and the continued rise of the economy, people not only have money, but also the holiday style and consumption concepts during the Spring Festival are also greatly changing.

So, for the New Year, I want to have fun, so let’s try the “Spring Festival” water with a comedy film first!

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Let me wish you an early life in advance and wish you all the happiness and all the best in the new year!

In the next three days, one day before the New Year, and two days after the New Year, we have to visit graves, worship ancestors, reunion, and drink. We cannot guarantee that there will be updates, but we may also update. In short, if the update is not effective, please understand!

Starting from the third day of the Lunar New Year, we should ensure that there will be updates.
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