Chinese entertainment starts with Hong Shixian

Chapter 439 Jing Tian: What the hell?!
After the film screening, Xu Ke led the main cast and crew onto the stage for a routine briefing.
Qi Hui patted Guo Fan on the shoulder, preparing to ask about filming in the United States.

But to everyone's surprise, Lao Guo turned his head and said, "Mo ha mo ha?"

Qi Hui blurted out: "Empty mud chicken!"

"Yamete... damn it, why can't you speak human language?"

Guo Fan had barely finished speaking when Guo Fan turned around and accused him.

He was almost led astray by Qi Hui!

"You were the one who started swearing!" Qi Hui was equally furious, masking his guilty conscience.

I've been studying Japanese textbooks a lot lately, and I've been talking nonsense.

Sigh, my Japanese isn't good. I shouldn't study Japanese too much!

Guo Fan remained silent for a long time, then stopped speaking.
This matter cannot be investigated too deeply; he himself is not clean either.
"Ahem... Let's get down to business." Qi Hui said sternly, steer the conversation back on track.

"Ahem...you go ahead." Guo Fan coughed lightly, clenching his fist.

"Is the matter of going to the US to film a movie confirmed?"

“Yes, Huayi is already making preparations in a few days.” Guo Fan nodded: “However, we won’t go to New York, we’ll stay in Los Angeles.”

"Going to New York is expensive."

He wants to save money for special effects.
"Row."

After a brief chat, the two went home separately.
Going abroad requires a lot of preparation.

Yeah, and draw a few talismans while you're at it; foreigners really like that.

……

A few days later, the data for "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" came out.

The opening day box office was a mere 17 million, less than 2 million, which looks rather dismal.
Unfortunately, patriotic films have never been popular with the market.

However, a few days later, the box office skyrocketed, with the first week's box office exceeding 300 million yuan.
It's truly terrifying.

Moreover, it directly surpassed Jiang Wen's "One Step Away," leaving it far behind.

Many people in the industry who disliked Jiang Wen directly mocked her: "You can't even beat a patriotic film, how embarrassing!"

Jiang Wen quietly disappeared, and stopped saying anything like "Chinese audiences don't understand movies."
the other side

The crew of "Mojin: The Lost Legend" is all ready and prepared to travel to Los Angeles, USA.

Several assistant directors and the location scouting team set off earlier.
They were responsible for site scouting, location selection, and all sorts of complicated procedures.
Guo Fan, along with the remaining members, went in the second batch.
The actors were the last group to board the plane; Qi Hui, Jing Tian, ​​Huang Bo, and Xia Yu were among them, having boarded after New Year's Day.
At first glance, Xia Yu bears a striking resemblance to Zhang Yishan, but Xia Yu is far more capable than Zhang Yishan.

With his role in "In the Heat of the Sun," he won Best Actor at the 94 Venice Film Festival and Best Actor at the Golden Horse Awards.
Huang Bo is also a Golden Horse Award-winning actor, from 09.
Qi Hui is a Hundred Flowers Award Best Actor.

The group consisted of four people: three Best Actor winners and one Best Actress winner.

Of course, each of them also had their own assistants.
Xia Yu has traveled abroad many times and is very knowledgeable about certain things. He and his assistant's luggage were specially customized for durability.

Huang Bo had no experience with this; he found his suitcase ruined as soon as he boarded the plane.

With Qi Hui's help, Jing Tian pasted a yellow talisman on her suitcase, and relying on the mysterious power of the East, she was easily unaffected.
Xia Yu was shocked by this scene.

Holy crap? You can do that?

I've traveled abroad so many times, and this is the first time I've seen something like this.
Huang Bo was on the verge of tears. Why didn't you tell me sooner?
Anyway, the plane is on another country's territory, so I can be feudal and superstitious!
Qi Hui shrugged and ignored the two rough old men.

The plane took off, and the tedious transoceanic flight began.
Qi Hui and Jing Tian stayed in the same first-class cabin, chatting from time to time.
Huang Bo and Xia Yu were left bored, so they just chatted and joked around. Huang Bo felt that he hadn't been abroad enough and lacked experience, so he decided to learn from Xia Yu.

Xia Yu was bored, and since Huang Bo had excellent emotional intelligence and no one felt uncomfortable around him, he openly shared his experiences with Huang Bo.
He's been to Europe and America and knows the situation there very well; none of them have good public security, much like China in the 1980s and 90s.

If they don't steal, they're not Italy; if they don't rob, they're not France; they steal from England and rob England, then finish them off with two more shots from America.

This could easily be turned into a rhyming jingle.

Huang Bo was stunned. He knew that foreign countries weren't good, after all, Qi Hui had posted some videos a few years ago.

But I never expected there to be so many intricacies involved.
Huang Bo was somewhat shocked by this.

However, as the plane entered US airspace and was about to land, he was even more shocked.
As soon as he landed below the clouds, Huang Bo saw plumes of black smoke rising from the distant mountains and forests through the porthole.
Even from hundreds or thousands of meters above the ground, you can see the rolling flames in the mountains and forests.

"Holy crap!" Huang Bo exclaimed in shock. A forest fire?

Xia Yu was also squeezed in front of the porthole, looking incredulous. Damn, this was the first time he'd ever seen anything like it.
"Wait a minute...why isn't anyone putting out the fire?" Huang Bo asked, puzzled.
He saw neither the white column of water nor the white mist that rose after the water and fire merged.

“…I don’t know!” Xia Yu shook his head. Although he was very knowledgeable, this was the first time he had ever seen anything like it.
"Fire?" On the other side, Jing Tian was equally shocked as she stared at the billowing smoke and flames.
"What the hell...!"

This was the first time she had ever seen a wildfire in her life!
“Don’t be surprised, it’s normal.” Qi Hui shrugged and explained, “California is an arid and semi-arid region.”

"Backed by the towering Rocky Mountains, the easterly winds from the mountains descend and become terrifying foehn winds, known locally as the St. Anna winds, which occur every year."

"What? Wildfires happen every year?" Jing Tian was genuinely shocked.

"Floods and waterlogging happen every year in our country," Qi Hui coaxed, as if talking to a child.
Floods and waterlogging do occur in China every year, but they don't happen in the same place every year.

But wildfires in Los Angeles happen every year.
This place is under the influence of the subtropical high, so the weather is unbearably hot.
It is also frequently attacked by foehn winds.

Add to that the US's poor grassroots governance and organizational capabilities, as well as its aging infrastructure and frequently leaky electrical wires, and it's no wonder it burned down!
Furthermore, in addition to the Santa Ana winds mentioned earlier, another type of Foehn wind that struck California was called the Destroyer.
With two foehn winds serving California, how could it be anything but a blessing?

Besides natural disasters and man-made calamities, there are also geographical factors.

The trees here are mostly pine and eucalyptus trees, which are rich in oil.
So for the next nine or ten years, until Qi Hui struck it rich, the wildfires here continued to burn more and more fiercely.
It started in uninhabited national parks, then it evolved into burning only the poor, not the rich, and eventually even the rich couldn't withstand it anymore.

[Famous scene: Batman sits in his car, staring blankly as his $20 million mansion turns into ruins]

If there were an IRS agent nearby collecting property taxes, that would be even more Ricky, even more American!

As we spoke, the plane began its descent. Fasten your seatbelts, stow your tray tables, and the plane is about to land.

Qi Hui and his three companions disembarked from the plane and found Guo Fan and his group who had come to greet them.
After a brief greeting, Huang Boxiayu started talking about the wildfires he had seen from the plane.

Guo Fan looked shocked: "What? It's on fire?"

"No...you didn't know?" Huang Bo was even more shocked: "Such a big thing, how come you haven't heard a single thing about it?"

“There’s no news about it!” Guo Fan said. “You can ask them if you don’t believe me. We haven’t heard anything about it. The newspapers, the TV, and the news haven’t mentioned it at all.”

At this point, he slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "No wonder I've been smelling a faint burnt odor these past few days!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Huang Bo and Xia Yu fell silent for a moment, unsure of what to say.

"Alright, don't be so surprised, this is a uniquely American thing." Qi Hui chuckled and said:

"Let's go to the hotel. We weren't comfortable on the plane, and we're still jet-lagged."

Guo Fan was speechless: "It's on fire, how can you still be so calm?"

Qi Hui shrugged, because he had seen much larger scenes before he transmigrated.
(End of this chapter)