Chapter 88 The most successful premiere!

Media seating area.

“How many screenings are scheduled for First Love?”

"31.5%."

"so tall?"

"You don't even notice who is behind First Love. Vance Films has been struggling for so many years but has not produced any results. They have lost money and lost face, and have been laughed at by the industry. This time, they finally tied up Cheng Cheng, and they must be pushing it forward with all their might!"

"What about Lost Signal?"

"33.9%, 2.4 points more. The remaining three films accounted for 24.6%, an average of 8% each, which is actually not a small amount. If they were of good quality, they would have been able to make it. Didn't "All or Nothing" create a miracle of slashing 7 million box office with % of the screening time?"

"I don't know how First Love will perform. If it performs poorly, Cheng Cheng, his actors, and Vans Pictures will all be in tatters. If it performs well, let alone winning the New Year's Day box office championship, even if it can get 10 billion in box office, the domestic film market structure will probably be rewritten."

"The main reason is that Cheng Cheng's filming speed is too scary. It took only three months from project approval to release. It's too exaggerated!"

"Look, the movie has started, and it's useless to discuss it too much now."

"Yes, look."

The seats of Li Yang and others.

"I don't know why, but I feel like I'm even more nervous than Director Cheng right now!"

"Don't worry, Director Cheng must be confident in filming this subject. We have to believe in Director Cheng, he is a genius, the more others think something is impossible, the more miracles he can create!"

"That's right, I'm still waiting for Director Cheng to become a big director, and I'll be picking up roles behind Director Cheng~ This movie will definitely take off, and it would be best if it even surpasses Master Gong!"

Audience seats.

“Will the movie be good?”

"I don't know. I haven't watched a movie about youth romance for a long time."

“I came here for the songs in the movie.”

"It must be good looking. I'm Xiao Hei Zi and I believe in Brother Frog!"

-

"A Little Thing Called First Love", the main film begins.

The first thing that catches your eye is a clean and pure picture, and soothing music slowly sounds, like a ditty on a summer afternoon, soft and comfortable.

The camera starts from a long shot, and slowly scans across the library's white and modern gate, lush trees, Western-style buildings, and a huge wall poster with the words "XX Photography Exhibition" printed on the library's outer wall.

Entering the library, you will see a spacious and bright space, well-arranged photographs, and tourists chatting quietly.
“I like close-ups of people because they allow us to see scenery that we cannot see otherwise.”

The camera followed the sound and came to a photograph where three girls were listening to a boy telling a story.

The boy had his back to the camera, and one of the girls was holding a camera and taking pictures of him.

"So when you take close-up photos of the face, which part of the face do you focus most on?" the girl holding the camera asked expectantly.

"The part I'm most concerned about?" The boy pondered, and the camera moved up. One after another, photographs of eyes appeared in the picture. He said, "It should be the eyes."

At this moment, the cry of a baby suddenly sounded, and the boy with his back to the camera turned around, revealing Cheng Cheng's face.

He has lamb-like curly hair, delicate features, fair skin, and thick and long eyelashes. He seems like a beautiful boy who has walked out of Western mythology, bathed in sunshine, clean and warm.

"I'll go first, the child started crying."

He turns and leaves, and the camera gives him a full shot.

He is tall and perfect, and his posture is very casual, but he has an invincible youthful feeling.

The three girls looked at each other, so excited:

"So handsome!"

“But they all have children~”

Cheng Cheng came to the child, squatted down, and faced the camera with a doting smile on his face:
"What's wrong, son? Why are you crying?"

"Want some milk?"

"Looks angry?"

The camera turns to the baby, who has black tape stuck to his eyebrows, like angry eyebrows.

The whole audience let out a low laugh. It wasn't a very heart-wrenching laugh, but it was a very warm, cute, involuntary kind of laugh that spread from the heart to the face.

It also happens to portray the protagonist's cute yet slightly mischievous character.

"See~ I'm not angry anymore~", Cheng Cheng peeled off the black tape and stuck it on his eyebrows.

In the scene where Cheng Cheng is coaxing the child, Yan Gou'er's voice-over sounds:

[Deep in the heart of each of us, there is a person. Every time I think of him, I feel, emmmm, a little heartache, but we are still willing to keep him in our hearts. Even if we don’t know where he is or what he is doing today, at least we know that it is him who makes me understand what is——]
Cheng Cheng drove away with the baby on his back, and the screen went black.

[A Little Thing Called First Love]
-

In the media seating area, reporters were surprised.

"This beginning——"

"So strong!"

"A touch of warmth, a touch of beauty, a touch of touching, a touch of sadness, and finally the five words 'a little thing called first love', make people want to cry. This movie doesn't seem to be simple."

“Feeling. Not bad”

“Most importantly, Sung Cheng is so convincing as a handsome guy!”

-

The screen lights up again.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the pedestrians, adding a touch of golden color to the picture.

Yan Gou'er and three members of the Mengbi Girls Group, wearing school uniforms, were chasing and playing on the way home from school.

Just at this moment, Cheng Cheng stopped at the intersection on his electric bike.

After entering the coffee shop, the confused girls went to the front desk to place their order, while Yan Gou'er rushed into the side room in a panic and sat down in front of the floor-to-ceiling window that could see outside. She held her chin and looked at Cheng Cheng who was waiting at the intersection, with stars in her eyes.

-

"How did you do this makeup?"

The camera gave Yan Gou'er a close-up, and everyone at the premiere was confused.

If they didn’t know in advance who played the role, they wouldn’t have believed that it was Yan Gou’er!

This is very different from her usual self. Although Yan Gou'er in the movie is still somewhat cute, she is a completely ugly girl with dark skin, dull eyes, very light eyebrows, and lips the same color as her skin. Her ugliness is very real and does not look like something that can be created with makeup.

“Are there any special effects added?”

"Why do I feel like my bones have changed?"

Although it is hard to understand, everyone knows that makeup is also part of the quality of a movie. Only such an ugly woman is convincing. Otherwise, calling a woman ugly by putting on makeup is bullying the audience's IQ.

Just for this reason, the sincerity of this movie can be reflected and the logic of the movie itself is enhanced.

-

In front of the window, Yan Gou'er held up his chin, and the more he looked, the more affectionate and obsessed he became.

The confused girls group came over after placing their order.

Zhang Meiyu saw her and smiled slyly: "Ah~ You invite us to this store every day just to see this person."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yan Gou'er defended himself, "I was just looking at his car and it looked weird."

The three members of the confused girls group looked at her at the same time and said in unison: "Huh?"

Next, the three of them grabbed Yan Gou'er's hair, pinched her nose, and made faces at her, shouting to attract Cheng Cheng's attention outside the window:
"Senior, senior!"

"look here!"

Cheng Cheng rode his electric bike and left without looking back.

Chandra said disappointedly, "Your senior is so good at showing off. No wonder you screamed for him!"

Yan Gou'er retorted without confidence: "You are crazy~ I didn't scream!"

-

Below the stage, the audience chatted in low voices.

"It's quite interesting."

"The Confused Girls Group performed very well!"

"Youth is like this, playing and fighting with good friends, it's very real."

-

Next, Xiaoshui’s mother came on stage and the audience was amazed: Mom is so beautiful!

Sister Xiaoshui appears on the scene, and the two of them tease each other, creating a lot of jokes.

-

Xiaoshui and Senior Aliang had their first face-to-face encounter. Senior Aliang jumped down from the tree and stood up slowly in a Superman-like posture. He held the kitten he had rescued from the tree in one hand and the mango he had picked from the tree in the other hand, and handed them to Xiaoshui:

"Want a mango?"

Countless female viewers who saw this covered their chests, their hearts beating wildly: I am going to faint from Gu Qi!
Xiaoshui took the mango. Senior Aliang turned around, a mask of pain appeared on his face. He covered his lower abdomen, walked step by step to the mother cat, and put the kitten next to it.

Xiaoshui was laughing when a beautiful girl passed by. Senior Aliang asked again:

"Want a mango?"

Xiaoshui's smile froze on her face.

There was laughter from the audience.

This joke is so clever!

-

The English teacher came on stage, speaking with a peculiar English accent that made people laugh.

Afterwards, Xiaoshui and her bestie were passing notes in class and were caught by the English teacher.

But the next second, the handsome physical education teacher passed by the window, and the English teacher suddenly looked infatuated. Only then did the audience realize that this was also a funny character.

-

Wen Lian appeared on the scene and her appearance in school uniform left a deep impression on the audience.

-

Next, Xiaoshui and senior Aliang gradually became familiar with each other, and scenes flashed by like a passing show.

In the movie, Cheng Cheng's singing voice was also heard at the right time.

"...

I have no experience in love and I discovered it today.

I saw him from afar,
That joy is so fresh,
I couldn't sleep all night and the shadow appeared in my mind.

Asked why I met him,
Beautiful impression like first love,
Silently looking at it,
Silently looking at that lightning-like gaze,
......"

The cheerful singing, coupled with the interaction between the male and female protagonists in the movie, seems sweet and beautiful. There are also some funny scenes interspersed in it, which adds a bit of fun.

This is first love!

This lyrics is so fitting!
In the audience, many middle-aged audience members unconsciously put a smile on their faces, as if they had returned to their youth.

"Is this one of the six songs mentioned during the movie promotion? This song is really strong, not inferior to the other two at all!"

"It's really amazing! And it's Fu Yin."

Fuyin is the Cantonese in the previous life.

"Wonderful."

"I like this kind of green and sweet youth film, this is everyone's youth!"

"Both the male and female protagonists are very cute." "Cheng Cheng is so attractive, he is indeed a boy that all girls would like."

"I'm addicted! I'm addicted to the song! I'm addicted to the movie! I'm also addicted to Cheng Cheng's looks!"

-

Xiao Fei, played by Lin Yin, appeared on the stage for the first time as a green tea villain, which also caused Xiao Shui to feel a crisis. Under the instigation of her best friend, Xiao Shui began the process of changing herself.

The song "Year, Month, Day" by Yan Gou'er and Mengbi Girls Group sounded.

"

……

On Monday I waited and on Tuesday I waited to see if you would come.

Wednesday doesn't come, Thursday is helpless.
Friday, Saturday or Sunday, there is no day that I don't miss.

"

“The friendship line in this movie is also great!”

"The confused girl group is actually cute!"

"It's very funny. I have to say, the ugly ones are very likable!"

"Cheng Cheng is really good at picking people."

“It’s great to have such a group of friends.”

"When I heard this song, wow, it felt like my youth was back!"

-

The club begins recruiting new members, and the story of Xiaoshui's transformation into a beautiful woman and her counterattack officially unfolds.

After the senior schoolmate played by Wen Lian helped Xiao Shui put on makeup, she appeared in a princess dress.

For the first time, audible exclamations were heard from the audience.

"So beautiful!"

“This transformation is so natural!”

"Oh no, it's a heart-pounding feeling!"

Xiaoshui's appearance has not improved much, probably from 5 points to 7 points, which is far from Yan Gou'er's appearance in reality. But with the previous plot preparation, the audience has already accepted Xiaoshui's ugly image. When she changes at this time, she looks particularly stunning!
-

Drama Club.

The boy who was originally supposed to play the prince had a stomachache, so senior Aliang took over, and the two had their first intimate contact.

-

Xiaoshui almost fell off the stage, and senior Aliang reached out to hold her back, and the two looked at each other.

Then, Senior Aliang pulled Xiaoshui into his arms: "Be careful not to fall and sprain your neck."

offstage.

"I was so excited that I wanted to slam the table!"

"The old lady is about to cry with excitement!"

"Girls' hearts burst!"

"Cheng Cheng is such a good actor, with that worried and blaming look in his eyes!"

Both the media and the audience were immersed in the plot.

The difference is that the media people still maintain a certain level of professional clarity:
"We're almost halfway through the show, and it looks pretty good so far. If we keep up this pace, it won't be an exaggeration to say that this is the best youth film in Chinese history!"

"Master Gong has met his match this time!"

“It’s an old routine, but it’s shot with new ideas. The most touching part is that it captures the details of a young girl’s love very well, and it perfectly restores the flustered, messy, yet fresh and simple feeling of youth.”

“Very clean shot!”

-

Next, the sadomasochism begins.

On the day of Xiaoshui's performance, the male protagonist was temporarily pulled to participate in a photography competition and was unable to go to the scene to support Xiaoshui. Xiaoshui was disappointed and sad, thinking that senior Aliang had gone to watch Xiaofei's dance performance.

The second male lead Atuo, played by Jiang Jun, appears. Atuo and Aliang are two completely different kinds of handsome. Aliang is a pretty boy type, warm and clean, while Atuo is sporty, sunny and enthusiastic.

Senior Atuo expressed his love for Xiaoshui when he first appeared: "She's so cute. Does she have a boyfriend?"

Senior Aliang: "Probably not, but I think you should stop chasing her."

Senior Atuo: "Ah, why?"

Senior Aliang: "Is it too small?"

Senior Atuo: "Hey, I asked her for her number when I was in the first year of junior high school."

offstage.

"Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter."

"Is this guy a pervert?"

"Aliang was shocked."

“Master, master!”

"Jiang Jun is quite interesting."

With the appearance of senior Atuo, senior Aliang began to fall out of favor in school and became a has-been male god.

-

At the same time, as Xiaoshui in the movie grows up, she becomes more and more beautiful, and has become an 8-point beauty, even making the audience wonder if the actor has been replaced here.

When the sports meet opened, Xiao Shui took the stage as the conductor, changing into a beauty pageant outfit. The audience let out a second audible exclamation:

"Super beautiful!!"

“This shot is so well cut and on point!”

"beautiful!"

"The legs are so long!"

"The figure is curvy."

"Hass! My wife is so beautiful!"

-

Mom: "How is it? Is my daughter as beautiful as mom?"

Sister: "More beautiful than mom!"

-

After the sports meet, Xiaoshui became the recognized school beauty.

Senior Atuo formally confesses his love to Xiaoshui.

Xiaoshui did not explicitly refuse, but she did not explicitly agree either.

At a bonfire party, senior Atuo kissed Xiaoshui on the side of the cheek. Senior Aliang was stunned and Xiaoshui lost all her smile in an instant.

After returning, Xiaoshui told Senior Atuo directly not to look for her again, as she had never admitted that she had agreed to be his girlfriend.

-

In the stairwell, senior Atuo asked senior Aliang to make a promise: never chase Xiaoshui.

He couldn't accept that his best friend became the boyfriend of the person he loved the most.

Senior Aliang: "Now that you've said that, what else can I do?"

The audience didn't know who to feel sorry for for a moment.

Senior Aliang is miserable, senior Atuo is miserable, and Xiaoshui is also miserable.

Why is it that people who love each other can never be together due to some unknown reasons?

"What a pity."

"Actually, I can understand the second male lead."

"The second male lead here should already know that Xiaoshui likes Senior Aliang, right?"

"The second male lead is too much!"

"I feel like crying."

The third song, "Because of the Heart", is online.

"I also do not understand,

Why did my heart choose you?
Met thousands of people.

But in the end, you and I are the only ones left.

Love is not just accidental,

Love connects two hearts.
Only the heart knows who is the person in my dream.
You are the one I've been waiting for.
......"

The clips are presented one after another in a soothing and sad song.

Xiaoshui lost everything, including the chance to develop a relationship with senior Aliang. Also, because she had spent too much time trying to get close to senior Aliang, she gradually became estranged from her best friend.

The second female lead Xiao Fei also shifted her attention and began to pursue senior Atuo.
Xiaoshui became beautiful, but became lonely in her life.

Some audience members started crying at this time.

-

Next, Xiaoshui started looking for her three best friends to get back together.

At first, the three girlfriends were very indifferent to her appearance, and the air became a little tense, but then, Xiao Shui silently sang their song:
"On Monday I waited for Tuesday and waited to see if you would come,

Wednesday doesn't come, Thursday is helpless.
There is no day that I don’t miss, Friday, Saturday or Sunday.”

At first she sang alone, but then, one by one, the three of them joined in.

Crying and singing.

More and more audience members started crying.

"Friendship is more valuable than love."

“I was so moved by this segment.”

"It was so contagious that I started crying too."

“They are all so cute.”

"The performances of the Confused Girls Group were all very good."

"Adolescent friendship!"

"The best thing about this movie is that it doesn't deliberately discredit friendship for the sake of love, but instead interprets both emotions very well!"

"One is like summer and the other is like autumn" sounded.

"Friends are more loyal than lovers.
Even if I'm busy with love,

Freeze you into ice,

You won't hate me.

Just scold me a few words,

if not you,
I won't be sure.
Friends listen better than lovers.

......"

(End of this chapter)