Entertaining Children

  Chapter 201 How is it possible

  In the next half month, Xiao Yao’s spare time was basically occupied by the band rehearsal and the street dance team rehearsal. In order not to delay any of them, Xiao Yao simply quit his part-time job in the "buy more" supermarket. He is not short of money. He goes to the supermarket to work part-time just to experience the life of an ordinary high school student in the United States. He has been working part-time in the supermarket for more than three months, and he has basically had enough experience.

  Time enters the last month of the year. In addition to the rehearsal of the band and the hip-hop team, Xiao Yao also ushered in another new experience opportunity. "TeenageVigilantes" was released in early December. As the creator of the movie's theme song and performing band, immortals received an invitation for the premiere of the movie.

  To say that there are two very successful actors in the family, Xiao Yao should have a lot of opportunities to participate in the film premiere. It is not that Xiao Chengru and Ye Jiaying have not proposed to bring Xiao Yao to attend the show, and provide Xiao Yao with the opportunity to "crush" the film premiere on the red carpet. It's just that Xiao Yao was still young at that time, so he was very cold about this opportunity to "crush" on the red carpet, and he never agreed. Therefore, the second-generation star of his acting family has never attended the premiere of any movie.

  Of course, the US film premiere is still somewhat different from China. At the very least, although a large number of media and celebrities participated in the premiere, there was no red carpet procedure before entering the premiere theater.

Even if there is no red carpet procedure, to be able to participate in the premiere of a commercial film, still sit in the front row as a creator, not only for Xiao Yao, but also for the other members of the band. experience.

  So the five members of the band all dressed up and drove to Los Angeles for an unforgettable premiere trip.

   Xiao Yao can also be regarded as seeing the style of the American film premiere. There is no red carpet, no performances, only the main creators of the film greet various media, film critics and celebrity friends at the gate of the premiere theater. After the film screening, there was no host, no interviews, just the director and several core members of the crew took the microphone to the stage to thank the audience, and briefly talked about the mental process of making this film, the entire premiere Even if the ceremony is over.

The Immortals band is just the creator of the theme song. Naturally, they are not the core members of the film crew, so they just watched a movie for free and saw a lot of big stars that can only be seen on the entertainment news. The entire premiere The style is basically nothing to them.

  However, Xiao Yao was also very satisfied with this premiere. It’s a great honor to be able to watch this movie in advance of the vast majority of people.

During the premiere of   , unlike the band members who mostly focused on the stars who came to join in, Xiao Yao's attention was basically focused on the movie. Although the original film before the soundtrack of this movie was completed, Xiao Yao has seen it for the first time. In Xiao Yao's personal concept, music is the soul of a movie. The original film without a soundtrack appears to Xiao Yao to be a work lacking a soul. Now that the soul is injected, Xiao Yao naturally wants to feel it better.

As a result of having seen the original film without a soundtrack, Xiao Yao, who is already familiar with the plot, has focused most of his attention on the soundtrack of the movie. Among the soundtracks of the entire movie, Xiao Yao is most concerned about it. The place where their theme song appeared.

  Movies generally do not have an opening title song. The theme song usually appears at the end of the movie and the subtitles of the cast and crew names are played, which is the ending song in the usual sense. However, in addition to the ending part, the theme songs of many movies will also appear in conjunction with the plot during the main movie.

  This movie is the latter case. This song "Immortals" appeared in the plot when the Juvenile Volunteer Team was reorganized. Here is the turning point of the whole movie from the low tide to the high peak, after which it is about to prepare for the final battle. Therefore, this place is the most relaxing time for the audience to watch the movie. Coupled with the brain-opening, interesting and cool equipment that the juvenile volunteers in the play have reunited, the audience feels very much. It's easy to be happy, sunny, and full of hope by this story and this song.

  In such a plot with the theme song of the whole movie as the soundtrack, it is simply perfect. Xiao Yao instantly gave 32 likes to Ron Disting, the soundtrack of the film.

  In addition to Xiao Yao, the director of the film, Danny Gray, and one of the producers, Duran Waco, also paid special attention to this episode of the film. But what they care about is not whether the plot on the screen matches the theme song, which they have already determined. They are very concerned about the expressions of those media and film critics at this time. Because their evaluation of this theme song will directly affect the focus of the second wave of publicity after the movie is released.

Seeing that the faces of the media and film critics were smiling at this time, and there were even a few who slightly shook their bodies following the theme song in the movie. Danny Gray and Duran Wako glanced at each other. It seems to be saying through eyes: "Now, we really want to focus on promoting this student band."

  Despite this psychological preparation, director Danny Gray did not act immediately, so in his speech and thanks after the premiere, he did not mention the immortals band. From the expressions of the media and film critics, it is only to make a basic judgment in order to prepare in advance. But before the film reviews of the various media are published, they will not rush into action.

  The day after the premiere, the film review columns of various entertainment media and professional media published reviews of the animated film "TeenageVigilantes" that premiered the night before.

"The quality of the movie is excellent. The pictures are well-made, the plot and themes are old-fashioned, but the details are full of new ideas and imagination. It is a rare animation work this year. Since it is already December, it can even be said to be The best animated feature film this year."

   Xiao Yao finished reading a film review about “TeenageVigilantes” on the film page of the Los Angeles Times, threw it aside, and started reading the next newspaper.

  Meanwhile, Danny Gray and Duran Wako were also flipping through the newspaper in Duran's office. I looked through three or four newspaper film reviews. Although they all gave good comments on the film, none of them mentioned the theme song in the film.

   "Why not?" Duran Wako muttered, and randomly suggested to Danny Gray: "Should we spend money to ask someone to write a film review about the theme song of the movie?"

"It's a taboo to spend money on film reviews. In case it is exposed, it will not be worth the loss for our film." Danny Gray shook his head. "Although the student band is indeed a good point of publicity, I would rather Just put their information on the official website and put out some regular publicity, so that the effect will be discounted a little, and we don't want our film to be stained on the back. Let's look at it again."

"Ha! There!" Xiao Yao said while holding a copy of the film version of the Los Angeles Express: "The theme of the movie is relatively old-fashioned. It is basically a young cartoon version of a superhero movie, but there are many highlights in the details. The form of animation allows the screenwriters to have no restrictions on the production of props, and they can give full play to their imagination. All kinds of bizarre equipment in the movie are novel and interesting, and the fighting scenes and methods are also very special, which makes people fully feel the movie protagonists. The vitality of young people. When it comes to the vitality of young people, the theme song of the movie is also a very dynamic song. The song and lyrics are very good, and it matches the theme of the movie."

   "Yang, what are you doing?" At this time, there was a knock on the door and Dean's voice outside Xiao Yao's door.

   "Come in." Xiao Yao called.

"What's wrong with you today?" Dean said while looking at Xiao Yao's spreading newspaper. "After watching the premiere last night, he said that the band will not rehearse today. I thought you were going to dance hip-hop. Who Knowing that you went out and bought a bunch of newspapers early in the morning, you shut yourself in your room. Is there any big news in the newspaper today?"

   "Look at this." Xiao Yao handed Dean the newspaper in his hand, and said with a smile: "The Oscar stage is one step closer to us."

  ""Los Angeles Express" entertainment version of the film review column, columnist, reporter, film critic Eliza Pritz..." Dean read the newspaper handed over by Xiao Yao.

  "Los Angeles Express" Editorial Department.

  Irisa Pritz, who had just finished a manuscript, stretched out and picked up the coffee cup on the table to go to the pantry to pour a cup of coffee. As soon as I stood up, the phone on the table rang.

  Elisa Pritz smiled bitterly, picked up the microphone and put it in his ears and said: "Hello, the editorial office of the Los Angeles Express, I’m Eliza Pritz."

"Hello, Ms. Pritz, I'm Duran Waco, one of the producers of "TeenageVigilantes". First of all, thank you for your pertinent evaluation of our film." A middle-aged man came on the phone. sound.

   "You're welcome, Mr. Waco, I just told how I really feel." Eliza Pritz smiled.

"I read your film review and saw that you mentioned the theme song of this movie," Duran Wako explained directly, "In fact, the singer of the theme song of this movie is quite special. I don't know if you are interested. To understanding?"

  Hearing Duran Waco’s words, Eliza Pritz immediately understood that this was the singer of the movie’s theme song that the film producer wanted to report on himself, and helped the movie make the second wave of publicity. For her, this is not impossible. After all, the quality of the film is really good. It is normal to publish some related reports later, but the premise is that the content of the report is really her and the audience she thinks. We will be interested in content. She is not a voluntary promoter of a certain movie, she only serves movie audiences.

"Oh, although the theme song of this movie is indeed very good, but it hasn't reached the level of the best original song of the Oscar, don't you know what is special about this singer?" Eliza Pritz asked with a smile. . The meaning of this sentence is that this song is indeed good, but it is only good. It has not reached the level of Oscar's best original song, that is, it has not yet reached the level of writing a report for this song.

   "Of course I know that this song is not at the top level, but I think that considering the identity of the singer and creator, it is worth reporting." Duran laughed over the phone.

   "How special?" Eliza asked. At the same time, the first reaction in my heart is to guess whether the singer and creator are disabled.

"The singer of this song is a middle school student band." Du Lan introduced, "The band has five members, one is eighteen and four is seventeen. All of them are students in a middle school. This song is Their own original work. I heard it seems to be their first original work."

   "What? Middle school students? How could it be possible?" Eliza Pritz was surprised.

   "Do you think it is worth reporting now?" Duran Waco laughed.

   "Of course! If this song is a work by a band like "Daydream", I would think it is normal, but if it is really a work by a middle school student band who is still studying in school, it is a bit unbelievable."

  (End of this chapter)