The largest cinema in Shanhai City is the Emei Cinema next to the city square, right next to a newly built shopping mall. Yang Xia's mother works in the cultural system and has connections in the cinema. She can reserve tickets for even the most popular shows by just making a phone call.
On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, a group of men and women stood at the entrance of a crowded movie theater and felt clearly and truly how popular the movie Titanic was.
"What do you want to eat? I'll treat you!" It seemed that Yu Xiao had received a lot of New Year's money this Spring Festival. Of course, he had to show off in front of a group of girls.
Yao Beibei looked at Cheng Ran excitedly, "I don't need you to treat me, shouldn't Cheng Ran treat me now? He is the landlord now!"
Cheng Feiyang's Fulong Company distributed cash rewards, and it was also reported in Shanhai City newspapers and TV stations. This incident was extremely beneficial to Fulong's publicity in public opinion, and it also caused heated discussions within the compound. People like Yao Beibei's parents privately discussed how many details Cheng Feiyang had created Fulong Company. What Yao Beibei heard was full of her parents' covetousness for Cheng Feiyang's good fortune. In fact, she, Liu Ying, Yang Xia, Yu Xiao and other families still supported Cheng Feiyang at the beginning, and occupied employee shares. They did not listen to what Zhao Ping said, and gave away employee shares, asked for seniority compensation, and squeezed Cheng Feiyang's cash flow.
This time, each of them received a sum of money from the bonus distribution. Of course, this amount of money was not much compared to those who had just joined the company. It varied from a few thousand yuan depending on the shareholding situation. But this was actually a sign and symbol, a sign that the company that had no ability to survive before was revived by Cheng Feiyang. Of course, what they discussed privately was how much money Cheng Feiyang made from it. In short, they were extremely jealous of the current situation of Cheng Ran's family.
Cheng Ran nodded, "Order whatever you want to eat."
Yang Xia rolled his eyes at him and said, "Cheng Ran, are you rich? You're so extravagant! Forget about the times you asked me to borrow money before. Every time you took the New Year's money, you were generous, but later you became poor!"
Several people stared at the two of them. Yu Xiao winked and Liu Ying laughed, "Yeah... Yang Xia, what's the matter? Are you controlling Cheng Ran now? Do you feel bad about spending his money?"
Yang Xia was a little at a loss, "What..." This kind of booing is common among everyone, especially before they knew that Cheng Ran liked Yang Xia, but it was usually just a booing, really unnecessary, and before that, Yang Xia had caused a misunderstanding when she gave Cheng Ran a greeting card at Christmas, but they didn't know that Yang Xia went to Cheng Ran alone to explain it. They thought that Yang Xia's attitude towards Cheng Ran at that time actually explained the problem.
Yao Beibei hated to see Cheng Ran, a toad, get involved with Yang Xia, so she said, "No, I didn't hear anything... Yang Xia is worried that Cheng Ran will borrow money from her after squandering his New Year's money!"
Liu Ying pouted, "Cheng Ran is now a small rich man. After his father restructured the company, he is now the boss. How can he not have money?"
"His father's property is from the company, not his... How much money can he have? It's just the New Year's gift money!"
Cheng Ran finally said that it was okay to treat a small guest, but when everyone saw that there were too many people selling snacks at the door, they finally decided to finish the movie before going out to eat, and the group went into the cinema.
Titanic is indeed the tearjerker of the century. Even from the perspective of Cheng Ran in later generations, the many narrative techniques and scenes shown in this movie are no fuss and steady, which are already worthy of being a classic textbook in the history of film. You should know that before filming Terminator, Cameron was only known by Hollywood as a big liar. However, it was this truck driver who changed his career and was not favored by everyone, but he gave birth to such a great movie as Terminator. Then his talent was unstoppable. Whether it was Titanic, Terminator, True Lies, or the future Avatar, they are essentially ordinary stories, but he was able to turn these stories from decay to magic, and they exist as a beacon of the film industry. Such a person is a master.
Reborn in this world, these masters have not been lost, Cheng Ran feels extremely lucky. Because of the deviation of this world, Cheng Ran occasionally wonders if he can reproduce those great movies in his memory if this world does not exist... Later, after careful consideration, he feels that it may still be difficult... Because even if he re-does it, he may not be able to truly restore every detail of the time. At the same time, just like any industry in this world, it actually requires talent.
Although there is often an inspirational saying that hard work can make up for the lack of talent. This is true, but it is also to make up for the lack of personal talent. For some people who are already gifted, the gap cannot be narrowed by others through hard work and diligence.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that you don’t need to work hard, and that talent determines your success.
Rather, everyone has different talents, some strong and some weak. Therefore, there is a truth from ancient times to the present that "it is important for people to know themselves", which is not a derogatory blame, but a more profound meaning is that everyone should explore and prove greatness in the field they are good at.
After watching the movie, they burst into tears. Everyone left the room with red eyes. When everyone looked at Cheng Ran, Yang Xia, with red and swollen eyes, spoke first, "Cheng Ran, you didn't cry... How can you be so hard-hearted!"
A group of young men from the academy condemned Cheng Ran.
Cheng Ran felt so wronged. He was moved, in fact, he was still moved even if he watched it again, but the key point was that you had watched it seven or eight times and still cried. How fragile must you be... Although Cheng Ran admitted that his performance might have been more exaggerated when he first watched it than it is now.
After watching the movie for two hours and forty minutes, everyone was hungry. At this time, many shops in the snack street outside the cinema were empty. Everyone was clamoring to buy wraps, but Yang Xia said that she wanted to drink milk tea. So they split into two groups. Yu Xiao, Liu Ying, Yao Beibei and others went to buy wraps, while Cheng Ran and Yang Xia went to the milk tea shop next door to order some milk tea, and finally met in the middle.
Cheng Ran and Yang Xia were walking on the street. Yang Xia's eyes were still swollen. She tilted her head to glance at him and said, "Cheng Ran, aren't you touched?" She looked very sad.
"I'm really touched... I'm just thinking more about Cameron as a director."
"Hmm?" There were still traces of tears on Yang Xia's face. "What do you mean?"
"Many movies, of course, I'm not saying they're bad... Many movies tell stories as complicated as possible, with flashbacks, montage, and all kinds of twists and turns. They also hype up how the structure is layered and exquisite, anyway, to make the audience confused, so that they can feel the depth and power... er, it means that they can't understand it but feel it's very powerful... But Cameron is different. His movies are all straightforward and described with a cold eye, as if he is afraid that the audience won't understand it. Sometimes it's even too straightforward, without any suspense that echoes inside and outside. But it's often like in martial arts, where a heavy sword has no edge and great ingenuity is not elaborate, but no moves are better than moves. He can always capture those simple emotions and then convey the core of the story to the audience very clearly."
"So he truly interprets the essence of storytelling, which is that only a story that can convey emotions clearly and touchingly is a good story. Abandoning such principles and being overly particular about the so-called structure and the techniques and norms of the academic school are all putting the cart before the horse."
“For a story, the most important thing is always the core and the ideological connotation, not the various narrative principles, routines and elements that have been analyzed and studied by countless people.”
After Cheng Ran finished speaking, Yang Xia looked at him in a daze.
He frowned, "Is there something on my face?"
Yang Xia shook her head again and chuckled, "For a story, it is most important to clearly convey the core and ideological connotation. Very well said."
"Okay, I'll forgive you for not crying..." She pointed at the milk tea shop again, "This is the shop. I want to drink fruit tea!"
Just when the two of them were standing at the door of the milk tea shop, not far away, Luo Zhixian and his group also walked out after watching a movie. When they came out of the door and stood among ordinary people, they were quite eye-catching. They were all well-groomed and generally wore luxury clothes that were not sold in the Shanhai specialty store. Coupled with their exuding aura, they frequently attracted the attention of many girls.
A man wearing Jordan sneakers and loose Korean clothes hissed and curled his lips at Yang Xia who was not far away, "There's a hot chick over there... I found a lot of pretty girls in Shanhai this time... This place is really blessed with talented people? This chick has a cold face and her legs are tightly closed. I bet if you try to chat with her, you will most likely be turned down!"
As soon as Wang Jiajun, nicknamed "Monkey" in this circle, opened his mouth, everyone looked over. Yang Xia was wearing a white down jacket and had a slender figure. She was standing under the blue sunshade of the milk tea shop, like a lily waiting to be picked.
Luo Zhi first looked at Yang Xia, and then... "Ha..." he smiled softly.
He turned to the group of people in front of him and shrugged, "Let me bet that I can get that chick... What's the odds?"
"I'll give you one thousand. Monkey." Wang Jiajun rolled his eyes.
"I don't believe it! I'll give you 1,000 too! Luo Zhixian, in cash! Hehe..."
"Follow two thousand! I want your kid to fake a fight!"
A group of people started to speak up.
Luo Zhixian calculated that he could probably earn ten thousand yuan from this bet. He smiled and walked towards Yang Xia.
The group of people behind him looked gloating.