novelones Chapter 688 The World of Truman
Chapter 688 The World of Truman
In the evening, after Guihua washed and massaged Shiyun's feet, and was about to take the basin out, Xia Chuan teased her again: "Guihua, wash my feet."
Shiyun rolled her eyes at him, and Guihua smiled and said, "Why don't you go take a shower."
Xia Chuan smiled and said: "You have to stand while taking a shower. How about this? I'll ask you a kindergarten question. If you can't answer it, wash my feet."
"Then if I answer, you can wash my feet?"
How could Xia Chuan suffer such a loss? He smiled and said, "You have to test me first before you can answer. I won't give you the answer until I can't answer."
"Okay. Just ask. We agreed it would be a kindergarten question."
"Don't worry. Xiao Ming from the kindergarten put the fish in the fish tank and the fish died in less than 10 minutes. Why?"
Shiyun snorted.
Osmanthus thought for a moment and said, "Because it's too dark?"
Xia Chuan and the others were stunned for a moment, and then they realized that she had never seen a fish tank before and thought it was a water tank.
Shiyun said softly: "Fish are not afraid of the dark."
Osmanthus pursed her lips and smiled: "Okay, I can't answer."
"Well, the answer is, there is no water in the fish tank." Xia Chuan smiled gently.
Osmanthus suddenly looked embarrassed, why didn't I think of it being so simple?
"It's my turn to ask you," Osmanthus took a deep breath: "When you were in kindergarten, I always woke up in the middle of the night. Why?"
Shiyun chuckled again.
Xia Chuan smiled and said, "You are hungry."
"Wrong." Guihua said seriously: "I woke up from poverty."
Shiyun suddenly burst into laughter, and Xia Chuan asked dully: "How do you know you are poor at such a young age?"
"Of course. My family is too poor. My parents get up in the middle of the night every day to secretly catch badgers. They are afraid that I will be snatched away by wolves, so they take me with them and help a little bit. As time goes by, every time I arrive I woke up in the middle of the night. Even if I don’t catch badgers in the future, I will wake up because my family is still so poor. Everything costs money, but I can’t afford anything.”
Xia Chuan and Shiyun were speechless. This was really sobering.
Shiyun said softly: "I'll take you to see a movie tomorrow, The Truman Show."
Osmanthus's eyes lit up and she nodded with a smile on her face: "Thank you, sister."
She took the basin and left.
Shiyun put on cotton slippers and continued writing.
Xia Chuan, however, lay on the bed and picked up the phone and called the consulting company.
As a result, no one answered.
He changed the number again, and the secretary answered it.
"What are Yuhua and Fei'er doing?"
"Boss, oh, no, Consultant Xia, they are talking to those people about going public."
"Oh my God, let's negotiate with Ma Xiaoyun. Fei'er doesn't understand, doesn't Yuhua? There are more than 20 people, what can Yuhua do? First call Jiang Wei and Lingxuan to come over, and take Fei'er down to rest. , quickly call Ma Xiaoyun and ask him to fly over immediately, and we will accompany him to the end to see who gets down first!"
"Yes!" The secretary quickly hung up the phone.
Xia Chuanyu said angrily: "It takes a lion to fight a rabbit with all its strength. How can you pretend to be an elephant with a wild camel? You still have to beat him!"
Shiyun burst into laughter.
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The next morning, everyone had finished breakfast and was preparing to watch the first show of "The Truman Show". This was no small matter. Shiyun wanted to go with a full stomach, as if to see her child, so everyone naturally followed and protected her.
A group of more than a dozen people arrived at the cinema.
Then I found that the place was deserted, and only the cinema's radio was playing promotional advertisements.
Shiyun got out of the car and looked around, feeling a little melancholy.
Xia Chuan smiled and comforted: "Starting from 93, in the next ten years, movie theaters will be in dismal business. These old movie theaters will have to close down. It has nothing to do with the quality of the movies."
"Why is it so miserable?" Shiyun wondered.
"There are three reasons. First, the video hall overcrowded the cinema. Second..." He suddenly stopped before he finished speaking.
Everyone noticed a hawker carrying a military backpack walking over.
Alexei didn't take them seriously. This man was not dangerous at all. Even if he took out a gun from his bag, he would die first.
The hawker saw it very accurately and went directly to Xia Chuan and said:
"Brother, do you want a videotape? "The Truman Show", 21 copies, you can take it home and watch it countless times. Why spend this money? It's not good for pregnant women to be crowded with people." He suddenly lowered his voice: "Three There are also class films, do you want them?"
Shiyun suddenly turned pale with anger. She finally understood what the second reason was, piracy.
Xia Chuan smiled and said, "If you have a CD, I can buy it. Forget about the video tape."
The vendor was dissatisfied with the price when he heard that a VCD costs RMB [-] or [-]. How many families have one? Unless you are getting married and buying one, you may not be able to afford the CD. He waved his hand and left.
Osmanthus bought movie tickets and everyone entered the cinema.
There is no luxury cinema in 93, just hard seats with seats that can seat thousands of people. Xia Chuan specially asked Guihua to bring a thick cushion for Shiyun to sit on.
Looking around, there were not many people there.
This is a magical year.
This year there were many outstanding films that left a mark on film history, such as "Farewell My Concubine", which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Leslie Cheung's acting skills are unsurpassed classics.
There is also a masterpiece in commercial films, Stephen Chow's "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance".
但让人尴尬的是，90/91/92都是20多亿的票房，到了93年变成了13亿。
In 94, it dropped to 11 billion.
The worst was 99, 8.5 million.
Shiyun suddenly remembered and asked, "What is the third reason you mentioned?"
"The popularity of VCD." Xia Chuan said.
Shiyun suddenly woke up and punched him angrily. This question was simply too stupid.
The price of VCD will definitely get lower and lower, which will directly lead to the elimination of video recorders, and then it will not be pirated video tapes that will become popular, but pirated optical discs.
The movie started soon, and a series of advertisements were dazzling.
Ten minutes later, the Paramount Pictures logo finally appeared.
When the feature film was released, it was Jim Carrey who appeared directly in the camera, with a natural comedic face, smiling and saying to an acquaintance: "If I never see you again, I wish you a good morning, noon and night."
The screen suddenly zoomed out and turned into a TV screen, and then switched to the face of Harris's natural villain. There was endless palace in his actor-level eyes, and there was a sarcastic smile at the corner of his mouth.
The audience suddenly understood that Jim Carrey was the caged bird, and strange emotions arose spontaneously, including tension, sympathy, pity, expectation...
Xia Chuan's eyes became brighter and brighter as he watched. It was indeed much better than in history. The scenes switched smoothly. The original movie was too representative of life in a small town, making the scenes look messy and redundant. However, this movie is so compact that it's not. A picture is redundant, and there is a rhythm in it.
Various shooting techniques that were only available in later generations are used freely here, and it looks very mysterious...
Shiyun was so surprised that she covered her mouth with her hands and shed tears of happiness in her eyes, as if she saw her child growing up.