This man knows how to hype

Chapter 551 I have great respect for you!
Humans are animals that are good at imitating.

Especially for crosstalk practitioners who pay attention to talking, learning, amusing and singing, imitation is one of the basic skills. However, in the past, the imitations were all about learning radio, learning sign language, learning Peking opera and so on.

Today is different. Crosstalk master Guo Jinwei and his apprentices are ready to put on a good show of “learning film reviews”.

Some things have staying power.

For example, the two Weibo posts posted by Xu Xiyu have a particularly strong impact.

It didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but looking back now, it really fits the lyrics of the film: "If you look at it one more time, you'll explode."

Since it exploded.

Then we have to find a way to make Xu Xiyu explode as well.

So, at this moment, in the back two rows of a theater in Beijing, Guo Jinwei and his six apprentices, wearing masks and hats, sat in a row of four in the front and three in the back, each holding a notebook in their hands, waiting for the movie to start before finding faults in detail.

They just couldn't believe that so many people were finding fault with your movie.

If there is any flaw in this movie, you can expect to be criticized to death by Jixiangshe!

Li Yiguang, who was in another cinema, had the same idea. He didn't take a notebook, but on his assistant's legs was a tablet with a magnetic keyboard.

"This advertisement is too long. Why hasn't it started yet?" Li Yiguang was a little impatient.

Before the assistant could reply, he continued to complain: "Why the hell do I have to watch ads when I spend money to watch a movie? Is there any law? Is there no one to supervise this?"

"Haha~~Hehehe..." The assistant was amused by Li Yi Guang's words.

Seeing her laugh, Li Yiguang also laughed and said, "What are you laughing at? I'm telling you, you must remember the subtle points."

"Remember the tear points clearly?" The assistant was stunned.

"You have ear candy. I'm talking about the tear points! What tear points? How can this crappy movie have tear points? Can you cry when you watch Disney princess movies?" Li Yi Guang said unhappily.

"Uh..." The assistant was stumped by this question.

She really wanted to say that it was true in the past, especially when she was a child, some movies were really touching, but how could she say these words to Li Yi Guang?
Fortunately, she didn't need to answer because the commercial was over and the movie started, and Li Yi Guang's eyes were fixed on the screen.

Anyone who has seen "Coco" will probably have a deep memory of the movie's opening.

Because at the beginning, the situation of the protagonist's family is explained through paper-cut images. Not only is the form very interesting, but the explanation is also very clear.

It only takes a minute or two to tell the audience why the protagonist's family does not allow him to come into contact with music.

It was because his great-grandmother's father went out to pursue his dream of music and never came back. Therefore, his great-grandmother's mother completely drove music out of her life, and in order to make money to raise her daughter, she started making shoes.

Later, my great-grandmother also followed my mother in making shoes, and her husband also started making shoes. In this way, the family became a well-known "shoe family", and their ancestors had been making shoes for generations.

"Music broke this family apart, and shoes brought this family together again."

Accompanied by the voice-over of the protagonist Miguel, the paper-cut animation at the beginning of the film transitioned to a 3D animation, and the picture froze on a photo of the great-grandmother and her parents.

However, this photo only shows the great-grandmother and her mother when they were children. Half of the great-grandmother's father's head was torn off, leaving only the body. This is why Miguel didn't recognize Hector.

As the plot progresses, the voice-over of the protagonist Miguel continues to sound.

"Look at this person. This is my great grandmother's mother, my great ancestor. She died a long time ago and I have never met her. But every year on the Day of the Dead, my family would bring out her glorious deeds and tell them again."

"This little girl is my great-grandmother. Her name is Weiwei."

The scene, as the voice-over said this, switched from a black and white photo to a very old grandmother sitting in a rocking chair.

"Wow (What)?!!!" My goodness, when this scene appeared, Li Yi Guang was stunned. He turned his head sharply to look at his assistant, and the assistant was also looking at him in surprise.

"Is this Weiwei?!!!" Li Yiguang was really dumbfounded.

In his imagination, in this movie whose English name is "Vivian", Vivian should be the absolute heroine, the kind of beautiful Disney princess-like heroine.

But this...

No, grandma, who are you? !
How can you be Vivi?
"Mr. Li, I understand!" The assistant's eyes suddenly lit up.

"What do you know?" Li Yiguang asked puzzled.

"I know what this movie is about. Think about it, although the trailer released today has no content, only some simple pictures, there is one concept that I remember very clearly, which is the world of the dead.

In other words, there is a world of the dead in this movie, and grandma Vivi is about to die. The opening scene lays the groundwork for this for a minute or two, saying that grandma's family used to like singing and dancing.

So, I think the next plot is that my grandmother had a dream of music since she was a child, but due to pressure from her mother, she could only learn to make shoes.

Now that she is about to die, she begins to fantasize about reborn in the world of the dead, successfully pursuing her dream and becoming a superstar in the world of the dead. But all this is just her fantasy before her death. Where is the world of the dead? Our domestic censorship does not allow such a thing.

Look at the Chinese name of this movie, Coco. What dream are they looking for? My grandmother’s dream of music.

To sum up, what this movie wants to express is that people should dare to pursue their dreams and not wait until they are old and about to die to regret it. "

Wow, after the assistant made this analysis, Li Yiguang instantly stood in awe of her.

He couldn't help but admire, "Xiao Lin, you're really good! You guessed most of the plot just by looking at the beginning. You're really good!"

"I learned all this from you." Xiao Lin said modestly.

"Don't flatter me like that. This is just your own cleverness." Li Yiguang waved his hand.

"I'm not flattering you, I'm speaking from the bottom of my heart. If I follow you, I'll become smarter."

"I still have this trait?"

"Of course!" Xiao Lin said sincerely. If he doesn't learn some wisdom from following a jerk like you, he will get into trouble sooner or later.

Li Yiguang had no idea what Xiaolin was thinking. She just thought she was sincerely praising her, so she said happily, "You have much better vision than my mother."

Before Xiao Lin could say anything, he heard the audience in front of him couldn't help but say, "Could you two be quiet?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Yi Guang turned his head away with a "tsk" sound, cursing in his heart: Are you sick? I'm just so happy!

But Xiao Lin quickly grabbed him and whispered, "Okay, Mr. Li, let's get down to business."

The two of them were talking more and more happily just now, and forgot to control the volume. No one could hear their whispers.

After being persuaded like this, Li Yi Guang didn't bother to argue and continued to lean back in his chair and watch the movie.

While watching, he whispered to Xiaolin: "You say, such a clichéd story about chasing dreams, the probability of failure should be very high, right?"

"Of course! Let's talk about chasing dreams. It's no longer popular now. It's not that people don't want to chase their dreams, but they have no choice.

Xu Xiyu is now promoting this, which is like talking without any pain. I think he has changed. He would not have done this kind of work before.

Now that they are rich and famous, they have begun to distance themselves from the masses and have begun to educate the masses to pursue their dreams regardless of the actual situation. ” The assistant analyzed again.

Hearing these words, Li Yi Guang, who was already happy, became even happier.

If that's the case, then I have to buy some internet trolls and marketing accounts to satirize Xu Xiyu.

With this happy mood, Li Yiguang continued reading.

At this moment, he happened to see Miguel's family having dinner.

In this scene, Miguel's grandmother gave Miguel rice dumplings. Miguel clearly said that he couldn't eat any more, but his grandmother still gave him a lot of them, giving the feeling of "there is a kind of hunger that your grandmother thinks you are hungry."

This is one of the reasons why "Coco" seems to have no barriers to entry for Chinese people.

In this movie, many cultures, family relationships, and emotional thinking can make Chinese people feel familiar.

For example, when Miguel entered the world of the dead for the first time, no living person could see him, but the stray dog ​​"Dandan" who had a good relationship with him could see him. You know, there is a saying in China that dogs can see the souls of the dead.

Based on this sense of familiarity, even Li Yi Guang couldn't help but smile knowingly when he saw the scene of Miguel and his grandmother getting along, because at this moment, he also remembered his own grandmother.

His grandmother was very good to him, it could be said that she couldn't be any better. Therefore, Du Zhiping has always been dissatisfied, thinking that it was his grandmother's doting that ruined Li Yiguang, causing him to remain unable to grow up and become a talent.

But this doting that destroyed him in Du Zhiping's eyes was actually the greatest reward given to Li Yiguang by God. It was the happiest time in his life.

Unfortunately, time is cruel, and the photos left by my grandmother before she passed away have all turned yellow.

Thinking of this, Li Yi Guang's joy at Xu Xiyu making a "dream-chasing movie that's easy to talk about" suddenly disappeared for some reason.

Not only him, but assistant Kobayashi's excitement also disappeared.

Because as the plot developed, she found that she might have guessed wrong, and "Coco" was not about Vivi's fantasy before her death.

Soon, Li Yiguang also noticed something was wrong and leaned over to Xiaolin's ear and said, "No, isn't this movie called Vivian? More than 20 minutes have passed, what does it have to do with Vivian?"

"..." Xiao Lin didn't know how to answer the question.

Li Yi Guang didn't intend to let her answer, and continued watching the movie after asking.

It would have been fine if he hadn't watched it, but once he did, he slowly got immersed in it and completely forgot about the "Vivian" incident.

(End of this chapter)