My target person set collapsed [entertainment circle]

Soon after, Changan Films went public on the GEM, and its market value was as high as tens of billions based on the closing price.

This is undoubtedly a good sign. The higher the stock price, the lower the possibility of Changan Films being acquired. Although the equity of the company's main executives has been diluted after financing, Nie Bohui still holds the control. Of course, Changan will also face With greater performance pressure.

The movie "Puppet Show" therefore became the first gift of Chang'an Film Industry after its listing.

After Changan Films re-adjusted its asset structure, it began to seize territory in the distribution market non-stop. Through large-scale publicity and the strength of the film itself, "Puppet Show" was indeed well-received and well-received. The counterattack, it has made a name for itself through various marketing and publicity from the first day, with a box office of nearly 1 million on the first day, which shocked many people's jaws.After all, a film with the highest box office in the history of domestic horror films claimed to invest 4.2 million yuan, but the final box office was only more than 4000 million yuan.But the total investment of "Puppet Show" is only more than [-] million, and the cost performance of this investment is simply amazing.

Moreover, in the later period, it did not go up and down as many people predicted, and the original niche horror theme became popular.After the first show was well received, the ratings were low, and the box office continued to rise in the later period. It miraculously made a bloody battle among the comedies and fantasy films gathered by many big names in the summer, especially on the day of Qixi Festival, which set a new single-day box office record. It is surprising that it is the number one among romance films.

However, after Xue Yanchao finished watching the finished film, he could understand why young couples organized a group to watch horror movies on Qixi Festival. It was all a routine.

Xue Yanchao actually saw the finished film of "Puppet Show" only on the Qixi Festival.Since the promotional period of "Puppet Show" ended, he has been taking plays and acting non-stop.Su Ting took Xue Yanchao to a lot of TV dramas produced by Changan himself. They were all small supporting roles. There were not many roles, but the roles were different, which was very suitable for him to slowly hone his acting skills now.Xue Yanchao was also busy and focused on filming. The result of such high-intensity filming is that although his acting skills have improved, he is physically and mentally exhausted. After filming, he just wants to sleep at home every day, except for occasional morning jogging, going downstairs to buy vegetables, and going to the gym. He basically didn't go out very much, and was so close to being isolated from the world that he almost forgot that "Puppet Show" was released.

Later, Gu Yao called on Qixi Festival and ordered Xue Yanchao to go to the movies with him.

"Brother, did you make a mistake?" Xue Yanchao was shocked, "You asked me to accompany you to the movies on Qixi Festival? I don't want to be beaten to death by your boyfriend?"

"It's just been divided," Gu Yao said, "the movie starts in ten minutes or so. I'm all in the movie theater, so I don't want to waste tickets."

Xue Yanchao: "...All right, send me your location, and I'll see if I can make it."

The movie theater was still quite close, so Xue Yanchao ran all the way there. When he arrived at the movie theater, the ticket checking had already started. Gu Yao was not in a hurry, he carried a bucket of popcorn and walked into the movie theater with Xue Yanchao and a cone.

The attendance rate on Qixi Festival is extremely high, and it is basically full, all of which are young couples in pairs.Fortunately, when Gu Yao and Xue Yanchao entered, the lights of the movie theater had already been dimmed and advertisements were being played, otherwise these two young men would have been too conspicuous.

Xue Yanchao sat down, took a look at the movie ticket stub with his mobile phone, and was speechless for a moment.

"I was so flustered that I didn't see it clearly just now," Xue Yanchao said, "You said you were watching something bad, but you actually watched "Puppet Show"."

"Is there any problem watching horror movies on Qixi Festival? This routine is so perfect." Gu Yao wrote "I don't accept rebuttals" all over his face.

Xue Yanchao said sincerely: "The meaning of this movie is not good, and it is easy to break up."

Several young couples around glared at Xue Yanchao angrily.

Gu Yao rolled his eyes at him.

After the Rolls-Royce commercial, the film begins.

The first scene of the film is the dimly lit old ancestral hall.The ashen cobwebs, candles, and tablets easily created a gloomy atmosphere. There was no background music, only the faint sound of breathing. The sound was a little weak but very clear, as if someone was panting painfully in the ear.

The camera zooms in, and Du Hongchang, played by Lu Peng, is kneeling on the futon of the ancestral hall. He bends forward to hold a tablet, as if intending to wipe it, but under the tablet, there are four blood-red eyes staring at him.

Du Hongchang seemed to have noticed it too. He leaned forward and found a white child with two heads staring at him. He was shocked, but when he took a closer look, it turned out to be a puppet doll. relieved.

A virtual lens blurred the picture, and when the picture transition became clear again, the camera had turned to the outside of the ancestral hall.The dilapidated carved door was closed, but blood seeped out from the inside of the door.

Xue Yanchao could tell that this shot was a tribute to "The Shining".

"Ah!" A man's voice roared, and the scene suddenly changed. In the picture, Du Hongchang woke up from the bed panting. It turned out that what happened just now was just a dream.

There is another woman beside Du Hongchang, who is Fu Huaiyu played by Fang Yuqin. She was woken up by her husband, confused and asked softly, "Did you have a nightmare?"

Du Hongchang sighed: "Yes, another day you go to the doctor's house to grab some tranquilizing medicine."

Fu Huaiyu nodded, straightened the curtains on the carved bed, got up and dressed, and walked to the dressing table, wondering: "Where is my mirror?"

Du Hongchang wondered: "Did it fall under the bed?"

He rolled over and got out of bed to help his wife find it. He bent down and saw a pair of blood-red eyes were staring at him directly at the bottom of the bed.

Du Hongchang yelled in fright, fell to the ground, and shouted: "Huaiyu! When did unclean things enter the house?"

Surrounded by deathly silence, no one responded to him, Du Hongchang looked to the side, his wife had been hanged on the beam by Bai Ling, her tongue was sticking out, and two protruding eyes were staring out.

Du Hongchang screamed loudly. At this time, a man with two heads crawled out from under the bed. He had no nose and mouth on both faces. The person had their eyeballs gouged out and was empty and lifeless. His whole body was bloody, as if someone had peeled off the skin and wrapped it back.

The words "puppet show" appeared on the screen.

The paragraph just now was not the feature film, but the title of the movie.

The audience has already been interested in the few visually impactful images just now, and the discussion was much quieter, and they began to concentrate on watching the movie.

Subtitles began to flash on the screen, and the list of actors was also included. Xue Yanchao couldn't help being excited, and tugged on Gu Yao: "Look, the third line is the third line."

"I can't see it," Gu Yao said, "It disappeared in a flash."

Du Hongchang woke up from the bed again, the candles in the old house were dimly lit, and his wife Fu Huaiyu was still sleeping soundly.

The opening title just now was just a dream within a dream, and the film is only now entering the feature film.

The style of the picture changed, from the gloomy picture just now to the bustling market.

This is a scene taken by the crew in the film and television city of the Republic of China. There are many small western-style buildings mixed with Chinese-style buildings, shops, businesses, hawkers and pedestrians, shouting and selling, and it looks very lifelike.

Du Hongchang, who was wearing an embroidered coat, was choosing earrings for his wife at a silver jewelry shop. He was talking to the boss when he accidentally saw a very down-and-out poor Taoist priest soliciting fortune-telling business everywhere.Du Hongchang was attracted by the poor Taoist priest, and when they met each other, he couldn't help smiling, and went up to shake hands.

It turned out that this poor Taoist priest was Du Hongchang's good friend You Shiliang in his hometown. Du Hongchang had been away from home for many years, and it was rare to meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land.

The two were very happy to meet again after a long absence.You Shiliang invited Du Hongchang and his wife many times to make friends, and also visited Du Hongchang's home many times, but due to various reasons, he failed to meet Fu Huaiyu, Mrs. Du.

But at the same time, as the opening title suggests, Du Hongchang is often troubled by nightmares, and what brings him the greatest fear is the double-headed ghost in the dream. He often dreams that he is tortured/killed by the double-headed ghost in various cruel forms.As a result, Du Hongchang's spirit became worse and worse, and sometimes he even had hallucinations in reality. He often saw traces of two-headed ghosts in ancestral halls and old houses, yelling and terrified.

Although this series of plots told the audience through dialogue in advance that these are all Du Hongchang's hallucinations and dreams, but the hallucinations and dreams did not use virtual shots or color tone processing to imply the audience as usual, and there is no difference from the realistic shooting techniques in the movie. , can play a confusing role, deepening this fear, and the plots of Du Hongchang's various killings in hallucinations and dreams are cleverly set up. Very scary.

When Gu Yao was watching this episode, he ate popcorn happily, turned his head and said to Xue Yanchao, "Your director Ji is really an expert at passing the trial."

The hallucinations, dreams, and artificiality of domestic horror films are known as the three universal routines that have passed the review. Ji Zizheng also actively learns from the experience of his predecessors, and clearly tells you that these horror scenes are hallucinations and dreams. Our movie is actually very materialistic.

"Actually, a lot of scenes were deleted." Xue Yanchao shook his head, thinking that it was a pity that some wonderful scenes were obviously scary and beautiful, so they were deleted.

The plot continues.

At this time, Du Hongchang still didn't know that he was suffering from mental problems. He firmly believed that there were evil spirits at work, and he cried to his friend You Shiliang.

You Shiliang asserted that Du Hongchang was entangled by an unclean evil.

Du Hongchang was afraid in his heart, and turned pale and said: "I have never done evil, how could I be entangled by evil things?"

You Shiliang narrowed his eyes, and said: "Hongchang, you and I grew up together when we were young, and we have been friends for a long time. What can you say to me?"

Du Hongchang forced a smile and said: "Yes, I naturally regard you as a brother, so what can I not tell you?"

You Shiliang sighed: "Everything has a cause and effect. It won't entangle you for no reason. It's not that I intend to pry into your secrets. It's just that if I don't know the reason, it's difficult to cast spells to drive away evil spirits. It's haunting you now. It is sucking your yang energy, and every time you suck it, it will be more powerful. If it is cultivated enough and can transform into a yin/corpse, no one can restrain it, and you and I may die ah."

Du Hongchang was shocked, kowtowed to You Shiliang again and again, and said: "Shiliang...no, Taoist priest save me! I...I can say anything."

The camera fades out and begins to describe Du Hongchang's memories.

Du Hongchang's father was originally a puppet and puppet performer, and he took his young Du Hongchang to work together to make ends meet. But soon after, his mother gave birth to a pair of conjoined twins, and he himself died of dystocia. People thought it was a monster, and Du Hongchang's father was expelled by the whole village with his baby and little Du Hongchang, wandering about.

Du Hongchang helped his father make puppets and became a craftsman. Later, Du Hongchang's father died of illness, and he was the only one living with his deformed younger brothers, because he was often pointed at by others and thought they were cumbersome. , He poisoned and killed his two younger brothers in a cruel heart, fearing that people would find out that he burned the thatched hut where he lived and his younger brother's body, and ran away alone.

Later, he went to work as a boy in Xingde Trading Co., because he was smart and hardworking, so he was highly valued by his boss, Fushan.Later, Du Hongchang became a puppet and won the favor of Fu Huaiyu, the eldest lady of the boss, and became the son-in-law of his master Fushan. After marriage, the two were very affectionate, and the business grew bigger and bigger.After Fu Shan passed away, Du Hongchang took over Xingde Commercial Bank and became the new owner.

You Shiliang said: "That's it. Your two brothers were killed by you, and they still had grievances after death, so they turned into ghosts and came to demand your life."

Du Hongchang fell to the ground and cried loudly, and said: "The Taoist priest save me, don't let these two evil beasts kill me!"

You Shiliang asked Du Hongchang to follow him to the Taoist temple in the mountains, and cast spells to exorcise evil spirits to save his life.

Du Hongchang believed in You Shiliang very much, and followed You Shiliang to suppress evil things.You Shiliang took Du Hongchang to live in a Taoist temple, "casting spells" for Du Hongchang to exorcise evil spirits every day, and made a puppet doll for Du Hongchang, with Du Hongchang's birth date sealed on it, saying that if he could serve as a substitute for Du Hongchang, evil things would not come to haunt him again Du Hongchang.

Du Hongchang really slept very peacefully in the Taoist temple, and his spirit improved a lot.So he was very grateful to You Shiliang and gave You Shiliang a lot of money.

But after Du Hongchang returned to Du's house, he was still plagued by nightmares.

Du Hongchang was very frightened, and despite his wife's persuasion, he insisted on moving back to live in the Taoist temple.Du Hongchang huddled in the Taoist temple every day, suspicious of ghosts, because he was often troubled by double-headed ghosts as soon as he came out of the Taoist temple, and he also began to become afraid of light. generally.You Shiliang defrauded Du Hongchang of a lot of money, pretending to go out every day to buy talisman papers and magical instruments, but when he came back, his face was full of oil, washed and replaced, and it was even more radiant.

One day, after You Shiliang went out, Du Hongchang's wife Fu Huaiyu came to visit very worriedly and persuaded Du Hongchang to follow him home.

Du Hongchang said: "No, if I leave Taoist You's protection, I will definitely be persecuted by that evil thing."

Fu Huaiyu's complexion changed, and he said angrily: "Where is there such a Taoist leader or no Taoist leader, you are clearly the only one in this Poguan."

Du Hongchang was shocked: "How can you talk nonsense?"

Fu Huaiyu said: "I've been here many times. Apart from you, there's not even a sweeper here. How can there be any priest? You've said You Shiliang many times, but I never seen him!"

Du Hongchang said: "You Taoist priest went to buy a magic weapon, so you have never seen him."

Fu Huaiyu said patiently: "I just came up from the bottom of the mountain and asked the people at the bottom of the mountain. They all said that this Taoist temple has been dilapidated for a long time. A few years ago, there was a fire in the mountain, and the old Taoist temple was burned by water, and the old abbot died. It's here. Look at that wing room, how does it look like it's inhabited?"

Du Hongchang covered his head and murmured: "Impossible, how could this happen."

"Hongchang, listen to my advice," Fu Huaiyu persuaded in a warm voice, "I have already asked the red-haired doctor from the West, and he said that you are ill, you go home with me to find a serious doctor." Doctor doctor."

Du Hongchang said: "How can the words of foreign doctors be trusted? They want to disembowel and disembowel. Where is a doctor who treats people, he is clearly a butcher who kills people!"

Fu Huaiyu said: "You are not allowed to talk nonsense like this. My second uncle suffered from hysteria some time ago, and Chinese medicine was useless, but the foreign doctor cured it. And he said, taking medicine and using a knife for your disease are both It's useless, you're a heart disease. You are possessed by evil spirits, such as You Shiliang, but they are all illusions created by the fear in your heart, and they are all fake. Only when you face up to your own demons can you truly It's good."

Du Hongchang hugged his wife and wept uncontrollably, crying: "Yes, I hurt my two brothers, and I often feel guilty and restless. No wonder I suffer from this heart disease now."

Du Hongchang made up his mind, and said to his wife: "You go home and wait for me first, and after I kill the imaginary You Shiliang, it will be all right."

Fu Huaiyu was very relieved and said: "That's good."

After more than a month like this, Du Hongchang reorganized Xingde Commercial Bank, refreshed, and restored his original appearance, and reopened a branch in Hexi. When it opened, local merchants came to celebrate.

On this day, matchmakers from all over the world also took advantage of this festive day to say to Du Hongchang happily: "Master Du, it's good for you to be like this. After all, you can't be resurrected after death. Miss Fu must be worried when she sees you so sad." Yes. A few days ago, everyone said that you were bewitched by that poor Taoist priest, and that you were going to go up the mountain to become a Taoist priest regardless of your huge family fortune. Dare to kiss you."

As soon as the screen turned, the camera returned to the ancestral hall, and on a tablet in the middle was "Du Hongchang's Wife Fushi".

The film ends abruptly here.

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