Rebirth of Chinese Entertainment, starting with the strategy of 95 flowers to counterattack

Chapter 154 The Fairy Sister Who Secretly Attended the Premiere
The lights in the theater gradually went out, and the last glimmer of light disappeared behind the heavy curtain.

Beside Gu Yang, Zhou Ye and the others also held their breath. It was also their first time seeing the complete film, and they were extremely nervous.

Under the cover of darkness, Gu Yang gently took Zhou Ye's hand beside him.

"Are you nervous?" he asked in a low voice, his fingertips able to feel the thin layer of sweat on her palms.

Zhou Ye squeezed his fingers with her other hand, harder than she expected: "With you here, I'm not nervous."

"Don't worry, you did a great job!"

The moment the screen lit up, Gu Yang had no choice but to let go.

In the dim light, he saw Zhou Ye's profile.

A buzz cut has a unique beauty under the screen light!
Perhaps we should buy Xiao Ye a nun's outfit to try...?
……

The film opens with a fall from a building.

Zhang Yifan's character, Hu Xiaodie, jumps from the teaching building. The camera doesn't directly show the bloodshed of the fall, but instead focuses on her last look at the classroom, a look of despair mixed with relief.

This 10-second close-up shot made the entire audience hold their breath.

"what!!!"

Gasps of surprise erupted from the movie theater!
"My God..." A girl in the back row covered her mouth, "Is the opening really this cruel...?"

Next came Zhou Ye's first public appearance.

As Chen Nian, the character she plays, she squats beside the corpse, her fingers trembling as she covers Hu Xiaodie with her school uniform.

When the police questioned her, the moment she looked up, the suppressed fear and guilt in her eyes caused a collective gasp to rise in the room.

"That acting is pretty good!"

"The film looks pretty good too!"

"This movie might become a hit."

Several film critics were whispering among themselves.

As the plot unfolds, the entire ecosystem of school violence is laid bare.

A small group led by Wei Lai (played by Zhang Jingyi) filmed the bullying process with their mobile phones. The students in the classroom pretended not to see it, while victims like Chen Nian dared not speak out.

When the scene where Chen Nian was pinned down in a toilet stall and splashed with red ink appeared, sobs could be heard throughout the theater.

Zhou Ye's performance was incredibly nuanced, from the initial struggle to the later numbness, and finally the scene where he suddenly broke down while wiping his face in front of the mirror. Even the seasoned film critic in the front row took off his glasses to wipe away tears.

"This is even more suffocating than real-life school violence..." a teacher-looking audience member murmured to himself.

In a rainy alley, Xiao Bei, played by Gu Yang, makes his first appearance.

Many viewers were pleasantly surprised to see Xiao Bei!
Gu Yang portrayed that youthful spirit, loneliness, and the cynical attitude of a petty hoodlum very well.

He was beaten and curled up in the corner, his black T-shirt torn open, revealing the shape of his ribs.

As Chen Nian passed by, he suddenly grabbed her ankle: "Call the police!" His voice was tinged with blood.

In the close-up shot, their faces were covered in a mixture of rain and blood. As Chen Nian trembled as she pulled out a tissue, Xiao Bei suddenly smiled.

This smile caused his nosebleed to rush into his throat, choking him into a series of coughs.

"That acting..."

Wu Jing and Guo Fan looked at each other in bewilderment.

"When did Gu Yang become such a good actor?"

"I don't know! He looked quite young when he filmed Wolf Warrior 2."

"Such rapid progress? Is he just blessed with natural talent?"

"Perhaps there really are geniuses in this world..."

The video continued playing, and the highlights began to unfold.

In the empty stairwell of the teaching building, Wei Lai (played by Zhang Jingyi) blocked Chen Nian's (played by Zhou Ye) path.

"Why are you running?" Wei Lai tilted her head, her fingers twirling Chen Nian's school uniform tie.

She wore peach-colored lip gloss today, and her hair was adorned with delicate strawberry hair clips, making her look like an innocent doll, if you ignored the chilling excitement in her eyes.

Suddenly, she shoved Chen Nian hard.

Aerial view:

Chen Nian tumbled down the stairs like a puppet with its strings cut, her schoolbag scattering its stationery all over the floor.

Wei Lai stood on high ground, sunlight shining from behind her, casting a huge shadow on the ground.

The two looked at each other from above and below, their similar faces presenting a mirror-like contrast.

The close-up shot focuses on Zhang Jingyi's expression.

Her pupils dilated slightly, and a sweet smile appeared on her lips, but her eyes were as cold as if she were looking at a dying ant.

As Chen Nian struggled to her feet, the camera panned across their equally disheveled bangs and pale lips, like two reflections in a mirror.

"My God..." someone in the audience covered their mouth, "That look... it's kind of scary..."

"I got goosebumps!"

"How can someone with such a pretty and innocent face portray evil so well?"

"Oh no, that look in his eyes! I'm going to have nightmares tonight!"

In the dimly lit rented room, the razor hummed.

Xiao Bei's hands were steady, but the camera deliberately captured the cold sweat seeping from the back of his neck.

As the first strand of black hair fell, Chen Nian closed her eyes.

She didn't cry immediately, but her whole body was trembling slightly, like a fledgling bird soaked in the rain.

The close-up shot cruelly lingers on her face:

Her clenched teeth caused her cheeks to hollow out, and her nostrils flared rapidly, but her breathing was barely audible. Most striking was the single tear hanging in the corner of her right eye, which never fell.

"Textbook-level emotional control..." Lin Tao, a professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Beijing Film Academy, said to his students, "She didn't wail, but every audience member heard the lament of her soul!"

"It seems our school truly produces a wealth of talented individuals!"

"I have never seen this level of performance before, where physiological reactions replace emotional expression and suppression replaces outburst!"

"The best expression is authenticity! Zhou Ye achieved that!"

The original author wiped away tears in the back row: "They acted out a pain that words could not express."

In the gray-green interrogation room, Xiao Bei sat slumped in an iron chair, his ill-fitting plaid shirt collar wide open, revealing unhealed bruises on his collarbone.

When the old policeman slammed his fist on the table for the third time, he suddenly grinned, revealing a bloodied mouth. The wound from his broken canine tooth was still bleeding, but the smile was dazzlingly bright.

"Do you know how many years the crime of harboring a criminal is punishable by?" Gu Yang's performance here is brilliant.

He was biting his nails, his leg shaking, and repeatedly licking his wobbly canine tooth with the tip of his tongue, looking like a stubborn thug. But a close-up shot revealed the truth: his thumb, rubbing an old scar on his left wrist, was trembling.

When the recorder played Chen Nian's voice, his spine suddenly stiffened.

As he slammed his fist on the table, the bulging veins in his neck and the bloodshot whites of his eyes created a terrifying contrast: "Her future is bright!"

Saliva mixed with blood sprayed onto the interrogation record, and a few drops splashed onto the policeman's glasses.

Upon hearing the news that Chen Nian had turned herself in, he felt as if his bones had been removed and he went limp.

That final smile broke everyone's hearts. His left cheek muscles twitched from the pain, but his right eye was so tender it seemed to be overflowing with tears, as if he could see the girl he was desperately protecting through a wall.

The film ends with a rather heartwarming conclusion.

Years later, Chen Nian became a teacher and walked the road escorting students home.

Xiao Bei, still following behind her, kept a distance that was neither too close nor too far, just like back then, silently protecting her.

"You protect the world, I'll protect you!"

"Better Days"

Director Gu Yang's works

"This is damn hard..." Wu Jing wiped his face in the audience, "It's much harder to act than action scenes."

As the last line of subtitles slowly disappeared from the screen, the entire theater fell into a brief silence.

Suddenly, a suppressed sob came from the back row, as if a switch had been flipped, and a chorus of sniffling sounds echoed in the darkness.

The moment the lights came on, countless red and swollen eyes were revealed.

“Snap, snap, snap—”

It's unclear who started it, but the scattered applause quickly turned into a thunderous wave.

The audience stood up in unison, and someone in the back row shouted in a hoarse voice, "Gu Yang! Zhou Ye!"

Gu Yang stood up and led Zhou Ye and the others back onto the stage.

With tears welling up in her eyes, Xie Nan raised the microphone: "Everyone, was the movie good?"

"It's beautiful!!!" The shout, choked with sobs, shook the chandelier.

"Is Director Gu Yang's filming good?"

"it is good!!!"

"Isn't it even better than Wolf Warrior 2?"

A burst of laughter immediately erupted from the audience.

Xie Nan, as expected of a professional host, enlivened the atmosphere with just a few words: "Everyone, please wipe your tears first..." She paused deliberately, "Although my makeup is also ruined by crying."

She turned to Gu Yang, feigning anger: "Director Gu, you have to take responsibility for this, right?"

Gu Yang took the microphone, a roguish smile reminiscent of Xiao Bei, and said, "Don't worry, Sister Nan, once Brother Jing asks me to film 'Wolf Warrior 3,' I'll compensate you for your cosmetics as soon as I get my paycheck."

The audience burst into laughter.

The camera pans to Wu Jing in the audience, who is making a gesture of taking out his wallet, prompting director Guo Fan next to him to pat him on the shoulder.

"Alright, let's get serious." Xie Nan wiped away the tears of laughter. "Now we're moving on to the Q&A session. Does anyone have a question for the production team?"

The entire stadium was filled with arms, almost reaching the roof.

The first person to ask a question was a girl wearing glasses, her voice still a little choked up: "Zhou Ye, did it hurt when you got your hair cut?"

Zhou Ye touched his buzz cut and laughed, "To be honest, it felt so good when I got it cut!"

She made a scissor gesture, "Snip, it felt like all the tension was cut away." Her gaze unconsciously drifted towards Gu Yang, "It's just that Director Gu was too mean, insisting on doing the cutting himself, and the result looks like a dog chewed it up..."

Gu Yang immediately raised his hand in protest: "Hey, didn't we get it fixed by a professional hairdresser in the end?"

The audience burst into laughter.

The second person to ask a question was a chubby boy with a round face. He stood up and nervously wrung his hands: "Sister Zhou Ye, Sister Zhang Jingyi, are you sisters? You look so alike!"

Before Zhang Jingyi could speak, Zhou Ye grabbed her neck and said, "Isn't that it now?" She ruffled Zhang Jingyi's hair with a mischievous grin. "She bullied me in the drama, so I have to get my revenge in real life!"

Zhang Jingyi pouted, feigning grievance: "Everyone, please be the judge, who's bullying whom?"

The way the two of them playfully bickered was just like that of two sisters.

Gu Yang suddenly stopped smiling, took over the conversation, and his eyes became exceptionally deep.

"I'd like to take this opportunity to say a few words." His voice was deep and powerful, and the entire theater fell silent instantly.

"The character Wei Lai is very complex, and Zhang Jingyi paid a price that is unimaginable to ordinary people in order to play her well."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over all the cameras in the audience, "When filming the bullying scenes, she had to do two hours of psychological counseling every day after work. In order to maintain her character's state, she voluntarily cut off all social contact during filming..."

Zhang Jingyi stared blankly at Gu Yang's profile.

Under the light, the slight furrowing of his brow as he spoke, and the slender fingers holding the microphone, all made her heart flutter.

"So," Gu Yang's voice suddenly rose, "if in the future someone attacks the actress herself because they dislike Wei Lai..."

He turned to Zhang Jingyi, his eyes resolute, "That would be the greatest disrespect to the acting profession."

Zhang Jingyi suddenly felt her eyes welling up with tears. At that moment, he stood under the spotlight, forming a protective barrier for her.

“Every role deserves to be taken seriously, and every actor deserves to be treated with kindness.”

After Gu Yang finished speaking, he gently handed the microphone to Xie Nan.

Zhang Jingyi quickly lowered her head and pretended to adjust her skirt.

She was afraid that if she looked at it for even one more second, she would lose control of the tears in her eyes and the overwhelming excitement in her heart.

Prolonged applause erupted from the audience.

"Does anyone else have a question?"

As the applause gradually subsided, Xie Nan's sharp gaze swept across the audience and suddenly stopped in a corner.

There sat a fully armed "suspicious person".

He wore his baseball cap pulled low, sunglasses indoors late at night, and practically huddled into his chair.

“That lady wearing sunglasses,” Xie Nan suddenly raised the microphone, and the camera immediately cut to her, “Yes, that’s you! The one hiding behind the pillar!”

The entire audience turned around in unison. The man froze, hesitated for a few seconds, and then slowly stood up.

When she reluctantly took off her sunglasses and hat, her long, smooth hair fell down.

"Liu Yifei?!"

(End of this chapter)