Chapter 69: Mount Everest
As soon as Xu Jie got out of the car, he felt countless eyes looking at him. Familiar colleagues, familiar cameras, and familiar interview scenes. Everything seemed like he was back at home.
Not empty, but very comfortable.
He turned around calmly, put one hand on the door frame, held Su Yun's hand with the other, and gently helped her out of the car. The moment Su Yun stood on the red carpet, countless shutter sounds rang out around them.
Click, click, click!
Su Yun straightened her clothes, then naturally took Xu Jie's arm and waited for other crew members. After all the main creators were present, they walked towards the red carpet together.
“Dear audience members, the crew of the film “Going Home” is here to step onto the red carpet. Director Yan Dahong, starring Peng Kun, Zhou Fangfang, Cao Yu, Dong Liping, as well as Su Yun and her husband…”
The voice of the red carpet host rang out over the venue, and Xu Jie's name was simply omitted. However, he didn't care, after all, he was just a worker who came to earn appearance fees.
"This drama film directed by Mr. Yan Dahong mainly tells the love story of a young man and woman from their acquaintance, love, breakup to their accidental reunion thirty years later..."
Xu Jie walked slowly beside Su Yun. He positioned himself very simply, just a human-shaped backdrop, cooperating with Su Yun in taking photos. As for interviews and impressions, those were not something he considered.
"Pengkun, I love you!"
"Zhou Fangfang, can you sign an autograph?"
Fans outside the fence shouted wildly.
The film festival is a grand gathering for filmmakers, so even though Su Yun is a queen of the music industry, her popularity here is far less than that of movie and TV stars.
In fact, this situation also directly reflects the current status of these two industries, that is, the music industry is getting worse and worse, while the film industry is booming.
Nowadays, music has been reduced to the point where it can only be saved by variety shows. Even the former music kings and pop queens can only sit in the mentor seat and prepare wedding dresses for others, becoming variety show stars who survive on scripts.
The crew stopped at the interview area, and the host only conducted a brief interview with the director and the male and female protagonists, and then walked into the media photo area.
Su Yun was a minor supporting role with only a few minutes of screen time in the movie, so she consciously stood next to the other actors when taking pictures, and Xu Jie naturally stood on the outside. As for what the C position and B position were, he didn't ask or think about it. It didn't matter to him anyway, so he had no desire or demand.
Just as the crew finished taking a group photo and prepared to enter the main venue of the opening ceremony, a shout suddenly came from the media area.
"Xu Jie!"
Xu Jie thought that the fight was over and there was nothing for him to do, but he was startled by a sudden shout. He thought someone was going to throw rotten eggs and vegetable leaves at him, but when he looked carefully, he found that it was Qin Yan, the host of the entertainment channel of Beijing TV Station.
I seem to have heard from colleagues in the program group that the entertainment channel sent a reporting team to Shenzhou to report on the film festival.
"What's the matter?" Xu Jie walked over and asked.
"You and Su Yun stand together, I will take a photo of you two." Qin Yan said with a smile.
Xu Jie turned to look at Su Yun and asked quietly, "We are from the entertainment channel, do you want to film it?"
Su Yun nodded happily when she saw it.
She came to the film festival for publicity purposes, not to mention that they were from Beijing media and were one of our own.
Xu Jie and Su Yun stood in front of the camera. Xu Jie was half a step behind Su Yun, with one hand gently around her waist, while Su Yun leaned sideways and gently leaned on Xu Jie.
"Click"
Click, click…
The flash lights on the scene kept flashing.
In addition to the Beijing TV station, other TV stations in the surrounding area and major online news media also turned their cameras to focus on the two.
Thus, a supporting role, a gangster, became the focus of the media and photos.
At the same time, on the online live broadcast platform, barrages of comments were flying wildly.
"Put that dirty hand down!"
"Let go of that goddess!"
Dense barrages of comments came flooding in, covering the entire screen tightly without even a trace of a gap.
And this situation lasted for more than ten seconds, until the director had to switch the screen and move away from Xu Jie and Su Yun. The barrage of comments began to decrease, but the topic just now did not stop.
"Who is that man? Why is he hugging Goddess Su?"
" Didn't you hear the host introduce her? Su Yun and her husband, that's Goddess Su's husband."
"Oh my god, her husband? I thought it was a foreigner named Tad."
"Why is Soft Rice Jay also coming to the film festival? Is he here to take advantage of the popularity? Is he crazy about becoming famous and wants to enter the entertainment industry?"
"Xu Gou, get lost!"
"Roll rough!"
Another wave of barrage bombarded the entire screen, and the online platform even began to freeze.
The staff responsible for the online live broadcast were busy and overwhelmed. At first, they thought there was a problem with the network signal. However, when the crude barrage of comments disappeared, the live broadcast resumed smoothly.
"Director Wang, look!" A staff member pointed to the hyperbola on the computer screen.
It is a real-time curve chart specifically responsible for monitoring the online popularity of celebrities. It can show the number of online viewers and the number of barrages in each period of time, with the time accurate to the second.
The director can analyze the popularity index of each star when walking on the red carpet by observing the height of the curve chart, and prepare for the live broadcast of the indoor opening ceremony. If a star is popular, more live footage can be given, and if a star is not popular, less live footage or even no live footage can be given, so as to increase the popularity and attention of the entire film festival.
After seeing the curve chart, the director couldn't help but sweat.
The live broadcast has been going on for more than half an hour since the red carpet walk. During this period, the number of viewers has been slowly increasing, the number of barrages has been very stable, and even when popular stars appear occasionally, the curve index will not be abnormally high.
For example: when a third-tier star appears, the popularity value is 500; when a first-tier star appears, the popularity value is 3000; when a super popular idol appears, the popularity value is 4500. However, when Su Yun and her husband appear, the popularity curve directly bulges out like Mount Everest, and the popularity value reaches more than 8000.
Not only did the number of online viewers and barrages break today's record, but it also broke last year's record, the highest since the Shenzhou Film Festival began. The keywords that appeared the most were: let go of that goddess, get lost, scumbag...
The staff looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes, thinking: Is Goddess Su's husband so popular? They have never seen the husband of a female star get so much attention from netizens.
However, after being surprised, the director began to feel troubled again. Su Yun’s husband is so popular, should he be shown on screen during the indoor live broadcast?
If the screen is shown, one can imagine that the comments will be very loud, but if the screen is not shown, it would be a bit unwilling to leave such a huge popularity unattended.
How to do it?
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