What's a scarier experience than watching a bad movie? Watch your own shit.
Ning Ning sat in the movie theater with a blank face, with laughter around her, and the audience next door poked her with their elbows: "When were you blind?"
"I'm not blind." Ning Ning helped the sunglasses on her face. She was wearing sunglasses not because she was blind, but because she was afraid that people would recognize her as the heroine in the film.
"Oh, I'm already blind." The audience next door took off his glasses and wiped them slowly. "My eyesight started to decline just five minutes after the film was released, and I've been blind for almost 100 minutes now."
"Heh, hehe..." Ning Ning was speechless in embarrassment, wondering why this damn movie hasn't finished yet.
In fact, since the movie is now, most of the movie theaters are empty. Most of the audience who cherished their time or cherished their eyes have already left the venue ahead of time. That man was sitting next to Ning Ning. He was disabled and strong. He had been blind for more than 100 minutes. He was still staring at the screen persistently: "How much do you think this movie can score on imbd?"
Ning Ning really couldn't give a full score with no conscience, so he said, "Three points."
"Two points to five." The audience next door chuckled softly, "Two points for the plot, and five points for the starring."
"What?" Ning Ning was not calm now, she turned her head to look at the other party, "How can you blame the actors for a bad movie? Such a mentally retarded plot and such stupid lines, changing the movie can't save it later!"
"What do you think an actor is? It's turning corruption into magic, turning a two-point film into a three-point film." The audience next door was still looking at the screen, unable to see his face in the dark, only his profile. The outline of the film, as well as the reflection of the lens, "There are not so many good films, and there are not so many good characters. Most actors start from bad films. Because the films are bad, can the actors not care?"
After the film was over, along with the slow flow of the ending song, the lights in the cinema came on, illuminating his profile.
Great director, Chen Guanchao.
He turned his head and smiled at Ning Ning, but Ning Ning's heart sank to the bottom, because she had already guessed the purpose of watching the movie and what he was going to say next.
"Your mother is a great actress." Chen Guanchao got up and walked past her, leaving a regretful voice, "Unfortunately, you are not."
He left, and so did the other audience members. In the empty cinema, only Ning Ning was still sitting there, motionless, like a statue.
The phone rang suddenly, and she lowered her head and took out her phone. It was a message from the agent, and it was written: "You don't have to go to the audition next month. Director Chen just got on the phone with the above, and it is clear that you will not be used."
Ning Ning lowered his hands weakly. On the big screen opposite, the names on the cast moved up one by one, just like a big wave rushing through the sand, one by one old names were washed away one by one new names, so many names, a few were swept away. Remember, some are forgotten, some are admired, and some are cast aside.
"I Am a Beauty" opened lower, and the box office is expected to be less than 3 million!"
"The curse of the second generation of stars! The daughter of Ning Yuren, the legendary actress of the past, is difficult to achieve a great deal!"
"Breaking the news! Ning Ning revealed in private: as long as you give money, you can shoot any film!"
Overnight, the negative news was overwhelming. Amid the accusations, Ning Ning came to the hospital and just opened the door of the ward, when she saw her mother lying on her side on the bed, with a mobile phone beside her pillow, inside was the one she photographed. The big bad movie "I am a beauty".
"Ah, Mom." Ning Ning groaned, walked to the bed and knelt down, resting her forehead on the back of her mother's hand, and said softly, "I'm sorry, don't look at it."
I'm sorry, she shouldn't have taken this crap.
But if she doesn't answer, she doesn't have enough money to see her mother.
Originally, I still held a glimmer of hope, hoping that I could, like my mother, use my own power to turn the tide, and even in the middle of a bad movie, I can still shine like the moon and attract people's attention, but it turns out that she wants more. Now, the reason why the legend is called a legend is that it cannot be replicated. She only inherited her mother's face, not her talent.
"I'm sorry." Ning Ning couldn't help sobbing, "I'm sorry mom, I have no talent..."
"Who said you don't have talent?" Ning Yuren laughed, "You are just like me, exactly the same, look."
Ning Ning raised her head with red eyes, followed her scrawny fingers, and saw her nostrils enlarged on the screen of her phone, staring angrily, like a blind bear running down the mountain, roaring at the male protagonist: "I look like this. Beauty! Why don't you look at me! Look at me! Look at me!"
Ning Ning closed her eyes and trembled: "Mom, can we close this video first? I feel like I'm about to vomit."
"It was the same when I acted in a movie for the first time. I spit on the male protagonist's face." Ning Yuren watched it with gusto. "Then the male protagonist stopped acting and said he wanted to hold an umbrella when he saw me..."
"Then what?" Ning Ning asked.
Ning Yuren shrugged: "Then I was replaced."
Ning Ning looked at her in surprise. She couldn't believe that the legendary actress also had such a dark history. You must know that Ning Yuren had a title before being called "the legendary actress" - a born actor. Numerous big directors have declared that Ning Yuren is the most talented actor they have ever seen, a noble concubine, a village girl, a cunning spy, an infatuated singer, and even a man, she can all act vividly.
No, it can't even be described as vivid.
The last film before her retirement was made by Chen Guanchao. It was a spy film. At that time, Chen Guanchao, who directed the film, said bluntly at the press conference: "There will never be a better actor than Ning Yuren. I cut out other people's clips and put them out, and you can see that they are acting after you watch them over and over again, but if I cut out and put out her clips, you'll think it's a real interrogation video, no matter how many times you watch it!"
In contrast, what was Ning Ning performing
"Forget it, mom, don't comfort me." Ning Ning said sullenly, "I have a few kilograms and a few taels. It's already clear when the film comes out. Director Chen even called me specifically..."
Having said that, she paused for a while. She didn't want to continue talking, but Ning Yuren urged gently: "What did he say?"
"... He persuaded me to quit this industry." Ning Ning said sourly, "Said that the things I filmed both tormented the audience and tormented myself, except to provide netizens with a wave of emojis, there is no other use."
"Oh." Ning Yuren smiled lightly, "He farts."
Ning Ning felt dizzy for a while: "Mom, so you're not a good fan of the brain?"
Ning Yuren hehe: "He was the male protagonist who cried and shouted to replace me back then."
Ningning: "…"
Unexpectedly, the director has such a black history!
"Actors are lonely." Ning Yuren restrained her smile and looked at Ning Ning seriously. The reflection in Ning Ning's eyes was no longer the most beautiful woman in the East, but a skeleton. The hair is gone, the flesh is gone, and only a thin skin is left wrapped around the bones, "The audience comes to you like a tide, and leaves you like a tide. The one who can accompany you forever is only your acting skills."
"But I didn't..." Before Ning Ning could finish speaking, Ning Yuren suddenly grabbed her hand and put the things she had prepared on her.
a movie ticket.
Ning Ning looked down at the palm of her hand. This was a movie ticket from decades ago, and she was probably older than her. A thin piece of yellow paper with a circular stamp on the left, which reads the admission ticket, and a rectangular box on the right, with Life Cinema in the middle, and the first eight rows of forty below. Number five.
"At twelve o'clock in the evening, go to the cinema at No. 35 Rouge Road to watch a movie." Ning Yuren said, "You go alone."
The next second she regretted it again, and snatched the movie ticket back: "No, you better not go."
"Mom..." Ning Ning looked at her without knowing, "what's the matter with you?"
Ning Yuren looked at her with a complicated expression, and after a long time, she asked, "Ning Ning, do you really want to be an actor like me?"
Ning Ning: "Of course I do."
Ning Yuren: "How much do you think?"
"How can I describe this?" Ning Ning frowned.
"In this life, I will never touch any other meat except boiled chicken breast." Ning Yuren said leisurely.
Ning Ning, who loves to make skewers when he has nothing to do, couldn't help but look grim for a while, and finally the strong man broke his wrist: "I can."
Ning Yuren: "Even if your wife is about to give birth, you must finish the play first."
Ningning: "I'm a woman."
"Okay then." Ning Yuren changed his words fluently, "Even if your husband is about to give birth, you must finish the play first."
"... I can't do this." Ning Ning replied embarrassedly, "At times like this, I have to accompany their father and son."
Ning Yuren: "You are stupid, how can a man give birth to a child."
Ningning: "…"
"Last question." Ning Yuren paused and looked at her, "Will you give up acting?"
The overwhelming negative comments from the media, the late-night phone call from Chen Guanchao, the abuse on Weibo, the gossip in the company... One after another flashed in front of Ning Ning, she couldn't help closing her eyes to escape the reality for a while, and finally Difficulty opening his eyelids: "I will never give up."
Ning Yuren laughed, the smile was overwhelming, and in a trance, the number one beauty in the film industry who once turned all beings upside down and made countless people dream of is back.
"Then you can go." She handed the movie ticket to Ning Ning again, then closed her eyes with a nostalgic smile, "That place once changed my destiny, it can also change yours..."
The sound stopped abruptly.
"Mommy mommy!"
On November 11, 2016, at 9:30 pm, the legendary actress Ning Yuren died of cancer at the age of fifty-two.