248. Chapter 248 Scene 248 SARS strikes
"I'm the heroine?" Sun Li just thought about her acting opposite to a superstar like Zhang Guorong, whom she had seen on TV in childhood, and felt that she was dreaming in daytime, but this daydream made her very excited and said in a longing:
"If... I am the heroine, I hope Zhang Guorong will play a revolutionary hero, preferably an underground party member. I am also a party member. I was a fake couple with her by the organization. Then our relationship gradually develops during the revolutionary mission. Then I was cruelly arrested and tortured by counter-revolutionaries. Zhang Guorong sacrificed himself to save me, and I gave birth to his posthumous son and died alone..."
"Isn't this the plot of "Red Lovers"?" Li Xiaole suddenly felt something was wrong and looked at her speechlessly.
"No, the heroine played by Mei Ting in the end of "Red Lovers" was dead. I survived. Okay, if you don't like it, I'll change it." Sun Li said as she seemed to be interested, and continued with great enthusiasm:
"Or it's better to shoot a costume theme. I play a white snake spirit. I was rescued by Zhang Guorong a thousand years ago. Then, after a thousand years, she asked him to repay his kindness and married him. However, a master thought that we were a human demon and had a big battle with me. I flooded Chu and Zhejiang. Finally, it was sealed in the mural of the Forbidden City. It only turned into a human form once a year to meet Zhang Guorong~~"
"The idea is good... But Platoon Leader Sun, do you think that the Legend of White Snake and the Cowherd and Weaver Girl will be combined together, so Bai Suzhen won't sue you for infringement?" Li Xiaole couldn't help rolling his eyes. Sun Li is too nonsensical.
"Why did she sue me for infringement? She is still in Leifeng Tower? Could it be that she is allowed to live in a villa by the lake, and the Palace Museum will give me a house~" Sun Li seemed to be immersed in her fantasy, and was happy like a child, giggling and sighing:
"Ah, all the illusions are beautiful, reality is cruel. I am like this now, let alone Bai Suzhen, I am almost forced to go on a blind date and get married by my family. I have experienced at least several emotional setbacks on a blind date. I only went there after being indifferent to this matter. I have never even had a relationship. I am really unwilling to accept it." Sun Li sighed.
"Do you still need emotional experience? What emotional experience do you need to be willing to do it?" Li Xiaole moved his body, asked Sun Li's hand to his waist, and leaned closer to her, asking casually.
"Me? I imagine that Zhang Guorong is too handsome. He should be an ex-boyfriend. Then after our relationship was broken, I met Jiang Wen on a blind date... Teacher En Jiang is too serious. Men like Ge You are the best. They live a humorous life~ Then I will be willing to give up and don't miss others anymore." Sun Li opened her eyes wide and looked up at the sky, composing her own fantasy.
"Meet Ge You on a blind date? Is her ex-boyfriend Zhang Guorong? You really dare to think about it..." Li Xiaole said suddenly and was stunned for a moment, and his heart suddenly jumped. Why is this plot so familiar? Blind date? Ge You? Isn't this Feng Xiaogang's comedy "If You Are the One"?
The information about the movie "If You Are the One" is swiftly passing through my mind. The cost of this romantic comedy is 43 million, but the box office is 340 million. This is undoubtedly a movie with a very high return on investment.
In terms of subject matter, although he has filmed a youth comedy and also talked about love in "My Girl", it is almost all aimed at young people aged 15-30, and the detailed description of realistic love types has never been involved. Whether he can enter maturity and shoot romantic love with charm is indeed a challenge.
Li Xiaole carefully recalled the plot of "If You Are the One". This movie is very good and the script is solid. However, there are two problems in everyone's evaluation in the future. The first is that the story is very exciting in the beginning, but the later stage is insufficient. Almost all Ge You's one-man show is not exciting enough, there is no conflict, and the turning point is too stiff.
The second is the heroine, which is an old problem in Feng Xiaogang's movies. Feng's comedy is known as "the iron-clad Ge You and the flowing heroine." Feng Xiaogang's women are mostly vase-like characters, and they cannot establish their image.
Later, they started to use Hong Kong and Taiwan actresses, Guan Zhilin, Liu Ruoying, and Shu Qi. This is mostly commercial considerations. Even in big dramas like "Night Banquet", Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun did not perform as well.
This is even more true for Shu Qi in "If You Are the One". Li Xiaole remembers that when she was watching this movie in the cinema, many people reported that the lines she said were unclear.
Thinking of Sun Li’s proposal just now, Li Xiaole immediately thought about how to make "If You Are the One" better. The biggest failure in the original version was Fang Zhongxin, the boyfriend of the heroine Liang Xiaoxiao. This character is not pleasing. Ge You’s final victory was too natural. It’s understandable that the original work was written like this, but for the movie, it goes against the way of telling stories.
Think about it, the male protagonist with an ordinary appearance met a big beauty, but the beauty left him and threw herself into the male protagonist's arms because the boyfriend who looked very annoying was already married. The ending of this story made the man look a little bit beautiful and made the woman feel almost like it.
What if the ex-boyfriend's role is a little bit more serious and the romantic Zhang Guorong is played? Will the love story be more vivid? Li Xiaole immediately got a positive answer in his heart.
In real life, ordinary Chinese Luo Duomo has experienced too many hardships and depressions, but let them continue to smile happily after "Crazy Stone". This time, there may be more warm smiles.
Maybe he can't imitate Feng Xiaogang's Jing family humor, but he can completely create his own style. Although it is also a comedy, it can have a more warm and sincere love.
As she thought about it, Li Xiaole became more and more excited. Ge You and Zhang Guorong, who wouldn't want to shoot such a movie? Although there are still many shortcomings in the original plot, at least the direction has been set. He spent time to slowly modify it and would always get the ideal result. Li Xiaole couldn't help but kiss Sun Li on the leg, and looked up excitedly at Sun Li and said:
"Haha, you are really my muse~~"
But as soon as he finished speaking, he found that Sun Li was staring at him. Then he remembered that he was now a "cervical spondylosis patient". How could he be so energetic? He quickly lay back on Sun Li's warm thighs.
"You liar..." Sun Li angrily gave up her legs, sat aside from a distance, and ignored him again.
Faced with this situation, Li Xiaole immediately lamented in her heart, and she was playing with it. Looking at Sun Li's snow-white legs from afar, she missed the smell on it...
After the end of the Golden Horse Awards, Han Sanpin called on behalf of the group to commend Li Xiaole, but the subsequent development was much beyond everyone's expectations. It was originally considered a small-scale "SARS" that was infected with the virus, but as time went by, it became a huge event that affected the country like a snowball. The front pages occupied by Saddam on major media were all replaced by such news.
"On April 12, since last month the 12th, the accumulated cases of patients with atypical pneumonia in Hong Kong needing hospitalization treatment reached 1,402 and 94 deaths."
"On April 18, the ******* Standing Committee established an emergency group, the State Council Information Office held a press conference to disclose the SARS epidemic and prevention and control.
"On April 21, there were 13 new cases of atypical pneumonia in Guangdong, including 10 in Guangzhou and 3 in Jiangmen. One was discharged from hospital, no deaths were reported, and 13 suspected cases were reported. The province has reported a total of 1,330 atypical pneumonia, 1,137 cured and discharged from hospital, and 48 deaths. 78 suspected cases have been 78.
"Data released by the Information Office of the Ministry of Health of China on the 22nd: As of the 21st, Chu and Zhejiang City had reported a total of 588 cases of atypical pneumonia (including 99 medical staff), 46 cases were cured and discharged, and deaths (cases."
No one expected that a sudden outbreak of epidemic not only began to sweep across major cities in China and Southeast Asia, but also caused panic in all provinces in China.
The whole society became panicked, and isatis roots and masks were sold out in various places, and the usual lively public places became crowded overnight.
After the State Council announced the SARS news, the entertainment industry also suffered a huge impact.
In Taiwan, two singers s·h·e were confirmed to have high fever by the media and were isolated in the hospital.
In Hong Kong, Hong Kong TVB's TV series "Happy All" was shut down. The heroine Charmaine Sheh is considered to be suspected of a case and was quarantined and observed at Ren'an Hospital in New Territories.
In the mainland, the epic blockbuster "The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers", which was highly anticipated by China Film Group, and the suspense film that brings together top lineups such as Stephen Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and "I Know Who You Are", have all encountered a box office crash.
Both of them did not have a box office of 500,000 weeks, and were less than one-tenth of the expected box office.
The movie version of "Jade Guanyin" that is being filmed has also been announced to be shut down indefinitely because the starring actor Nicholas Tsefeng was forced to be quarantined after getting off the plane.
Even the Chinese National Olympic Football Team, which was training in Guangzhou, was disbanded on the spot and ended the training camp early.
All this happened so suddenly that the mainland film industry was filled with sorrow. Whether it was the director, actor, or the senior executive who took the overall situation, they were worried that the engine that the mainland film had just started would be shut down due to this sudden incident.
Only a small number of people with high political sensitivity discovered that the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has promulgated the "Interim Provisions on Foreign-Invested Cinemas", encouraging private equity firms inside and outside the system to participate in and control or establish cinemas wholly owned.
Chapter completed!