Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

September 9, Friday. The third film of Xiyangyang Films, Love Is Not Blind, was released nationwide. Because of the success of Xiyangyang's past two films, this film naturally attracted a lot of attention from people in and outside the industry.

In order to warm up for this movie, Kang Qirui published the diary-style novel "Love Is Not Blind" as early as last year. At that time, "Kang Qirui Talks about the Three Kingdoms on the Hundred Schools Forum" became a hit, and his published novel naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Therefore, those waiting for the release of this movie include not only people in the industry, but also many fans of Xiyangyang Company and Kang Qirui, as well as fans of the original novel of the same name.

On the day when the movie written by Kang Qirui and directed by A Zu was released, the whole Kang family would naturally go to the cinema near their home to contribute to the box office.

Although the story of "Love Is Not Blind" is about a broken heart, it is indeed a comedy. However, unlike ordinary comedies, its jokes are more reflected in the lines, so there are few plots that can make people laugh out loud, and more of them are the kind of knowing smiles with a bit of literary flavor.

Although Kang Qirui was also watching the screen, his attention was not on the movie. Not to mention how many times he had watched this movie in his previous life, he had watched the sample film four or five times since the post-production was completed.

At the beginning of the show, he was observing the audience's reactions. When he saw that everyone generally got the main jokes and laughed, Kang Qirui had a good idea.

Then Kang Qirui focused on the professional issues such as the film's lens expression, editing context, and transition form. After all, this is A Zu's first film as a director, and there are definitely many problems. Only by discovering the problems can we better solve them.

There is no doubt that A Zu's directing skills are still relatively shallow. "Love Is Not Blind" is a movie made with the techniques of a TV series, and all shots are to serve the advancement of the plot. For example, in the opening scene, there is a shot of exiting the full screen between each of the three couples who break up, similar to watching a video; for another example, when Wang Xiaojian was first introduced, the photo shot that fell down was just to serve the plot.

Then, the transitions between different plots in the whole movie are also rather abrupt, and it feels like one episode is ending and the next is about to begin. Different plots like the gold digger and the rich second generation, the arranged date, and the golden wedding of the old couple are scattered and incoherent.

These are problems with the film's structure and framework. There are also some flaws in the plot. The main storyline is that Huang Xiaoxian took 33 days to get over a broken heart and start her next relationship. However, as the heroine, Huang Xiaoxian has too many side stories, which makes the interaction and emotional development between the hero and heroine progress too fast.

The final confession between Wang Xiaojian and Huang Xiaoxian is, from the perspective of a movie, a happy ending. But in terms of the plot itself, especially the relationship between the two, it is a bit forced.

Another problem is that the male lead Wen Zhang and the female lead Bai Baihe are still too young. When they filmed this movie in the future, their acting skills were already perfect, but now they are filming this movie.
Let's just say that Wen Zhang is not the star of the TV series he filmed in middle school, this is his screen debut. Bai Baihe is even more so, Wen Zhang at least filmed a drama in middle school, but Bai Baihe is filming a drama for the first time in the true sense.

Kang Qirui couldn't help but secretly decide that if there was a chance in the future, he would definitely ask them to come back and re-shoot a TV version, so that the whole story would be more complete, and with their acting experience they would be able to better perform the emotions in it.

"Hahaha"

A burst of laughter interrupted Kang Qirui's train of thought. The plot of the movie progressed to the point where Wang Xiaojian and Huang Xiaoxian made a scene at the wedding venue and severely "framed" her ex-boyfriend. I have to say, listening to Wang Xiaojian's long string of words without any dirty words, but making people unable to help but boil with anger, was really touching.

This scene is one of the climaxes of the whole play, and it is also the one that made the audience laugh the most. The previous climax of laughter was when Huang Xiaoxian and Wang Xiaojian were scolded by Lao Wang.

The last bit of Wang Xiaojian's cheesy action was filmed by Wen Zhang on the spot, which really showed the cheesiness of Wang Xiaojian. It also proves that Wen Zhang is indeed a very talented actor, but it's a pity that he went the wrong way later.

Kang Qirui couldn't help but smile as he watched Guo Jingfei, who was choked by the article, become speechless. In the classic TV series "Wulin Wai Zhuan" two years later, it was always Guo Jingfei who was the boss and the one who talked nonsense. It was rare to see him being talked nonsense, which made Guo Jingfei very frustrated.

If possible, I really want to get together Guo Jingfei, Lei Jiayin, Guo Degang, Hua Shao and other eloquent people to make a movie. It's hard to say whether it will be good or not, but it should be very exciting.

After this plot ended, the movie entered the second half. Wang Xiaojian used all means to make Huang Xiaoxian agree to share the house with him, and then Huang Xiaoxian educated the rich second generation, listened to the old couple's explanation, and finally heard Wang Xiaojian's confession.

"I promise you, Huang Xiaoxian. No matter what happens to you in the future, I will always be by your side." Huang Xiaoxian turned around with his cell phone in his hand and saw Wang Xiaojian walking slowly towards him with a serious look on his face.

Everyone likes a happy ending, and Kang Qirui is no exception. "At the end of the story, the frog prince and Cinderella lived happily ever after" is cheesy, but also very healing.

The world is already so difficult, why do you keep making things difficult for yourself?
"Hey! The movie is over, why are you keeping your head down?" The movie ended and the lights came on. Zhu Wanling stood up and was about to walk out, but she saw Kang Qirui still sitting motionless in the chair. Not knowing what he was thinking, she patted him lightly.

"I'm thinking about a question." Kang Qirui came back to his senses and said calmly as he stood up.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhu Wanling didn't realize there was anything wrong with the movie. In 2006, this movie was already very good. There were too many movies in this year that were incomprehensible, so a movie that was understandable was good enough.

"I'm wondering, are Wang Xiaojian and Huang Xiaoxian really suitable for each other?" Kang Qirui said, "They are too similar. You can say that Wang Xiaojian is the male version of Huang Xiaoxian. They both have the same personality and the same sharp tongue."

"What do you want to say?" Zhu Wanling didn't quite understand.

"I mean, are two people with complementary personalities more suitable, or are two people with the same personality more suitable?" Kang Qirui answered. The answer to this question may very well determine the ending of the TV version of "Love Is Not Blind". (End of this chapter)