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Chapter 174 Box Office Huge Success! Misleading! (44)

[New Year's Eve afternoon]

After dealing with the scammers, the two continued their journey.

I won a grand prize in a shopping mall lottery: a minivan.

Then the winning card flew out, was chased and recovered, and was used to redeem a minivan.

Li Chenggong hadn't rested well and his eyelids were drooping. Niu Geng felt this was unsafe and suggested that he drive.

Li Chenggong didn't believe Niu Geng, saying that he would never reach the destination if he came.

Niu Geng couldn't understand why he didn't trust him at all.
Li Chenggong nodded calmly.

Niu Geng said there was only one road ahead. He slept well yesterday, but Li Chenggong did not.

In particular, Li Chenggong couldn't help but yawn, and Niu Geng continued to persuade him, saying that driving like that was unsafe and would cause problems.

Li Chenggong gave the car to Niu Geng, emphasizing that he would only sleep for ten minutes before taking over.

I slept for two and a half hours straight.

When I woke up, I heard rhythmic snoring beside me.

Niu Geng fell asleep while driving and started snoring.

unbelievable!

Li Chenggong split open and woke Niu Geng.

Niu Geng denied it.

The car crashed into a haystack and overturned.

Upon seeing the gasoline leak, Niu Geng immediately thought of scenes from movies and imagined an explosion was imminent.

The two men struggled to climb out of the car.

They both lay down.

The car didn't explode.

Without transportation, the two were unable to reach Changsha before the Lunar New Year.

We spent Lunar New Year's Eve outdoors.

New Year's Eve

Because of a rollover accident, Wagyu Geng was stranded in the wild on New Year's Eve.

Before the campfire, Li Chenggong and Niu Geng cooked instant noodles and drank some wine, confiding in each other.

Niu Geng sighed, "There are still more good people in this world. Everyone I've met along the way is a good person. My boss is a good person too, a nice guy."

Li Chenggong retorted to Niu Geng, "Do you think I'm a good person?"

Niu Geng replied, "It's fine."

Li Chenggong said, "My employees don't think that way."

Niu Geng asked, "Why are you so successful?"

Li Chenggong then countered with, "Am I successful?"

Niu Geng said enviously, "You've succeeded! You haven't succeeded yet."

Li Chenggong spoke his mind: "I named myself Chenggong (meaning success)."

"As a boss, making money involves backstabbing and infighting. One general's success is built on the bones of thousands. You have hundreds of employees under you."

"They secretly gave me a nickname, 'Grey Wolf'."

“He’s not a good son either; he wasn’t there when my dad passed away.”

"He's not a good father either; he went to his daughter's school for a parent-teacher conference and the homeroom teacher didn't recognize him."

"As a husband, he cheated on his wife with another woman, causing his wife and children to break up and his family to fall apart."

"As a lover, I can't give anyone any future. I'm an irresponsible bastard."

Niu Geng cursed Li Chenggong, saying, "You deserve it! It would be so much better to live a simple and honest life, but you had to be so greedy. You were always looking for more than you had!"

Li Chenggong was rendered speechless by the reprimand.

The scene of the outdoor confession is also different from the original.

The original version is that the mistress voluntarily withdrew, Li Chenggong turned over a new leaf, and his wife returned home.

Especially after the original Li Chenggong confided his feelings, Niu Geng asked if the feelings were real, towards his sister-in-law and the mistress.

Li Chenggong answered that all of his answers were true.

Niu Geng sighed, wondering how all of this could be true, and told him to think about it carefully.

In Shen Shandeng's version, Li Chenggong is divorced, which initially reveals a problem with the timeline.

And since it's about reflection, let's have a thorough reflection.

Niu Geng's identity is that of a worker with certain technical skills, which is more equal to that of the original character, and he is not humble either. He can say what he wants to say.

[On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year]

I woke up after daybreak.

Li Chenggong and Niu Geng got tired from walking and went to a primary school playground to rest.

I saw armed police officers resting in the classroom.

Despite the hardships of working through the night, they completed the task of clearing traffic. Exhausted, they rested against the wall wrapped in their coats.

Li Chenggong was deeply shocked and began to rethink his life.

The team leader said that the rest was over and they were ready to return to the team.

Li Chenggong asked a soldier, "Aren't you afraid of the cold?"

The soldier replied, "If transportation can be restored sooner, and people can return home sooner, then our suffering in the cold will be worthwhile."

It was as if he had done something insignificant; after saying that, he left with the group.

Niu Geng didn't really care: "Boss, this is how we've always been. Otherwise, why can't the train run but the car can? It's because the repairs are done quickly."

Li Chenggong muttered to himself, "Yes."

Li Chenggong suddenly understood that the road they had taken was cleared so quickly because of the hard work of the soldiers in front of him.

Even along the way, on their way home through heavy snow, there was a group of people like this in Qingdao, Xuzhou, Wuchang, and Changsha.

For Niu Geng, this was simply what he should do; the People's Army serves the people.

Office-based bosses like Li Chenggong were greatly impacted.

Here, the character's arc light changes.

Niu Geng turned his head and suddenly shouted excitedly, "Boss, look!"

Li Chenggong turned his head and saw the blackboard writing and drawings left by the armed police soldiers who had participated in earthquake relief efforts in the classroom behind him.

I hope the children will study hard and serve the country.

It included close-ups and flashbacks.

Before leaving, the soldiers wiped all the tables, chairs, and benches clean.

Li Chenggong turned to the soldiers who had long since gone, deeply moved, and remained silent for a long time.

The camera first pans from the classroom to Li Chenggong, then zooms out to the departing figures of the armed police officers, then rises again, and finally freezes on the five-star red flag fluttering in the school.

[Morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year]

Finally, they boarded a truck bound for Changsha to sell chickens. Covered in chicken feathers, the two of them arrived in Changsha on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year after overcoming numerous hardships.

The city is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, full of festive atmosphere.

Xu Zheng took out his phone and sent a message to the person marked as his wife, hoping to get another chance.

The two went to the mall, bought a set of clothes, and then took the elevator, revealing their bodies covered in chicken feathers.

Shen Shandeng preserved this famous scene.

Li Chenggong's black overcoat turned brown.

Upon seeing his lover who had suddenly appeared, Li Chenggong was furious and asked her why she had come. The mistress said she missed him and had even gone to his house.

Li Chenggong was very angry and furious, and questioned her about what had happened.

Li Chenggong returned home with a mix of unease and anticipation.

A corner of the screen displays the time.

February 16, 2007 (the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month), 11:00 AM.

During his journey home in 07, Li Chenggong experienced no setbacks and returned home smoothly, even stopping the mistress who wanted to see his wife.

At this time, there were no marks on his face.

When he got home, he found that his wife Meili, his daughter Guoguo, and his mother were not there, which made him even more anxious.

Hear the door open.

Li Chenggong was very happy when his wife, daughter, and mother-in-law returned from grocery shopping.

The daughter asked, "Dad, aren't you coming with us to buy groceries? Where did you go?"

Li Chenggong hugged his daughter affectionately, but did not answer the question: "Hey, Guoguo."

His wife, Meili, looked at him and said, "Let's go home."

Li Chenggong hummed in agreement.

Meili said, "So you finally decided to come back? What were you doing?"

Li Chenggong was a little flustered: "I've run into a lot of things. Put your things down first, and we'll talk slowly later."

Li Chenggong was uneasy and kept trying to get information out of his wife when they were alone together.

The wife didn't act strangely.

After their daughter fell asleep, Li Chenggong embraced his wife from behind. It was then that Meili mentioned that a pretty girl had been with her that day.

Li Chenggong was heartbroken; he couldn't stop the mistress.

He wandered around the house, wrote a letter, and put it in the flower bed by the door.

A voice-over plays a letter from Lulu, the mistress.

She is truly understanding, and from this perspective, she seems to be the same as the original.

The mistress backed down when things got tough, while Meili simply wanted to go home.

The camera turned.

Li Chenggong walked to the door again, his face bruised, having been beaten at the hotel.

A message appeared in the corner of the screen: February 7, 2008, 11:00 AM, the first day of the Lunar New Year in the Year of the Rat.

This is the timeline from 08.

Li Chenggong returned to his doorstep once again.

Compared to the original, Shen Shandeng played a trick on the timeline by misleading readers.

This is something I learned from "Breakup Buddies". It seems like it's the first encounter between two people, but it's actually on different timelines.

This version of "Lost in Thailand" appears to be a family reunion during the 08 Spring Festival, but the scenes shown of the wife are actually a reflection of the waiting in 07.

The timeline for Li Chenggong and Niu Geng is 08.

The timeline with his lover and wife is actually from 07.

At the beginning of the movie, when he meets with his mistress to go shopping, it's all set in 07, and the time displayed on the LCD screen is 07.

Li Chenggong frequently looked at photos of his ex-wife and daughter on the way.

On the ferry, Niu Geng guessed the identity of the person in the photo and revealed that he was already divorced.

Of course, even if you don't discover it, the plot is similar to the original, so it won't affect your viewing experience.

In the movie, aside from Li Chenggong's face not being injured and the clothes he's wearing being different, the whole scene is pretty much the same as the original.

The audience gets the impression that Li Chenggong went through all sorts of hardships to return to Changsha, bought clothes at the mall, and then his mistress came looking for him, leaving him anxiously returning home.

The reason for having two timelines is that Shen Shandeng didn't want to use the original ending, as it was a bit cliché.

Two timelines allow for more advanced processing.

Moreover, Li Chenggong's transformation makes his character arc more complete.

He didn't just have a sudden realization because of those two days of the disastrous trip.

Rather, it was the groundwork laid a year in advance, and these two days were simply the turning point from quantitative to qualitative change, making the character development more complete.

present.

It's the intersection of two timelines, the climax of the movie.

Li Chenggong stood in front of the door again, in front of the door from 08.

He hesitated for a long time, his expression a mixture of crying and laughing.
Laughing means it's time to go home.

The reason he cried was that his home had been gone since last year, and he had destroyed it himself.

After a while.

The door opened, and there stood Li Chenggong's mother. Upon seeing him, she said calmly, "You're back."

"Ah."

Li Chenggong nodded slightly and went inside the house.

He only had his own mother; he had no wife or daughters. His mother didn't even ask him why he was only coming back on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The two timelines converge and intertwine.

There's no need to say more or show any divorce scenes, because the previous foreshadowing already tells us they're getting divorced.

Li Chenggong was in great pain.

Scenes flashed by one after another.

Niu Geng's honest and simple nature contrasts sharply with his empty heart.

Li Chenggong suddenly realized his mistakes and decided to turn over a new leaf.

"I want to bring Meili and Guoguo back," Li Chenggong said to his mother.

Li Chenggong fully realized how precious what he had lost was.

Instead of succumbing to despair, he turned his remorse into action, doing everything he could to help Niu Geng prepare the labor arbitration materials and accompany him to seek justice.

This section uses rapid editing to show him taking the initiative to help Niu Geng collect the debt.

Li Chenggong told Niu Geng not to underestimate himself, because his identity could leverage a lot of power.

The government has special channels to address the issue of wage arrears for migrant workers.

Unlike the original version, it didn't involve charity, but instead taught Niu Geng how to fight.

Niu Geng obtained the money through struggle.

At the labor arbitration committee, Niu Geng successfully got his wages back, finally able to hold his head high.

Li Chenggong was even happier than him.

Just then, they unexpectedly encountered Meili, who was also there to apply for labor arbitration.

Clearly, Meili had a tough time after the divorce, and she also encountered labor disputes at work.

The three met, and the scene was both awkward and shocking.

Li Chenggong sincerely apologized for the past.

I talked to my ex-wife about the past year, talked about the changes I've made, and begged for her forgiveness.

Niu Geng came over and called his sister-in-law to help Li Chenggong testify.

Li Chenggong mentioned that he had just helped Niu Geng resolve a labor dispute, and that he could also help Meili.

Niu Geng joked, "A boss just knows how to exploit his employees."

Meili witnessed Li Chenggong's complete transformation.

The ending shows Li Chenggong picking up his daughter Guoguo, then turning to Niu Geng and mouthing, "You are my lucky charm."

Li Chenggong achieved self-redemption, and his perception of Niu Geng changed from that of an oddball to a lucky charm.

Niu Geng waved the wages he had gotten for his fellow workers and mouthed, "Go, boss!"

Niu Geng also achieved self-improvement, got his wages, and understood the importance of struggle.

The ending is a happy one.

One shot also showed the outcome of the female con artist's storyline.

The couple went to the police station and shouted, "Let me out!"

Final scene.

Li Chenggong and Niu Geng meet again on their journey.

Shen Shandeng observed the reactions of the premiere audience.

There had been test screenings before, but he was still apprehensive.

Shen Shandeng doesn't want the audience to be shocked by the timeline or the underlying meaning; he wants the audience to feel happy.

When this show was being filmed, there were young screenwriters like Yan Fei and Peng Damo who were eager to prove themselves, as well as young comedians like Shen Teng, Ma Li, Qiao Shan, and Jia Ling who had been working their way up in small theaters.

During filming, they poured their talents into the movie, creating many sparks and improvisational adaptations.

But the most important thing is the audience's approval.

Fortunately, the audience reacted quickly, which reassured Shen Shandeng.

"Hahahahaha."

After the famous scene of Wang Baoqiang drinking milk, the first burst of laughter seemed to erupt from some corner, quickly spreading and then wave after wave.

Wang Baoqiang's jinxed mouth; Fan Bingbing, dressed in a bright red cotton-padded jacket, exudes charm but keeps saying "me, me, me".
Each carefully crafted joke hits the audience's sweet spot perfectly.

Especially the con artist scenes, with multiple plot twists, and then Ma Li and Shen Teng putting on a show of tantrums.

Laughter rose like the tide, one wave after another.

At first, he was somewhat restrained, but it quickly turned into unrestrained, loud laughter.

Han Sanping's face was sore from laughing that he slapped his thigh repeatedly.

No wonder Harden didn't want him to pitch; he's making a killing.

"No, you really can make a good comedy."

Feng Xiaogang's expression was complicated.

"Assembly" almost broke 300 million, but it was enough to announce that it had broken 300 million, thanks in no small part to "The Eunuch" raising the box office ceiling.

So before filming began for "If You Are the One," he made a special trip to attend the premiere.

Judging by this momentum, the box office is going to be a huge hit, which is making me a little unhappy.

Shen Shandeng's success came too easily, unlike him who had to act like a subservient grandson for so many years before finally getting his hands on a director's chair.

"Welcome our creators."

After the screening, Jingwei looked at Shen Shandeng with a gaze that seemed to carry a tangible weight.

Shen Shandeng was completely relaxed and chatted with the main cast, audience, and media about interesting things that happened during the film's creation.

6 month 26 day.

"Lost in Thailand" is now showing in theaters.

The young actor's judgment was spot on; the box office was a huge success!

(End of this chapter)