When he was about to get off work at noon, Wu Zongxian walked out of his office and said to Liu Genghong and others: "There is a book exhibition in the afternoon. You can also go and have a look."
After saying that, he went out by himself.
Liu Genghong looked at the other people: "Are you going?"
Fang Minshan was the first to express his position: "I was going to go."
"I'll go too," Wen Lan said.
Then they looked at Jay Chou. Before Jay Chou could express his position, Liu Genghong took his arm and said, "Let's go and eat first. We'll go over there after eating. It's not far anyway, it's the World Trade Center."
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The book fair started at one o'clock in the afternoon, and Jay Chou and the others arrived at the place at half past twelve. They thought they had arrived early enough, but they did not expect that the World Trade Center was already packed with people.
Looking at the crowded entrance of the World Trade Center, Wen Lan asked curiously: "Is the book fair so popular?"
Fang Minshan smiled and said: "Not every book fair is hot. This is the first time I have seen such a hot book fair. But it is understandable. There are no tickets for today's book fair, and there are many international stars here. Many of them probably are not. I came here for the book."
The World Trade Center holds the Beijing International Book Fair every year. This year's International Book Fair was held just last month. Fang Minshan also came at that time. There were not so many people at that time.
Although they are both called book fairs, they are different from book fairs.
Although the annual Beishi International Book Fair is open to the public, it is more about exchanges among industry insiders, involving a lot of copyright transactions and related business cooperation.
Moreover, the Beishi International Book Fair requires tickets, which can be regarded as a threshold and keeps many people out.
Compared with the Beishi International Book Fair, this time's Deep Sky - Cross-Strait and Three Places Book Fair is more open. Although it only lasts for most of the day, there are many activities.
Everyone who comes to the museum will receive a beautifully crafted brochure, which describes the process of the event and the features of each area of ​​the book fair.
Liu Genghong pointed to the brochure and said in surprise: "There is an opening movie. Is this still a book fair?"
Jay Chou also opened the brochure in his hand and looked at it, and saw the opening movie that Liu Genghong mentioned. The opening movie of this book fair is "The Second World", which is not a new movie.
This movie has a good box office in Baodao and is also very well-known. A Motorola mobile phone that Wen Lan had been clamoring to buy appeared in this movie. It was still a concept phone at the time, but now Motorola has made it and sold it. .
"Let's go in first. The movie will be played in the first hall soon. We need to find a good seat." Fang Minshan said.
Wen Lan pouted and said, "I've watched this movie three times, let's watch something else."
"Let's take a look first, maybe there are some differences."
Several people followed the crowd and entered the museum. As soon as they entered, they saw a large screen, which should be used for showing movies.
Various stalls have been set up in other parts of the hall. The one closest to the door is the "Second World" exclusive stall. There are many "Second World" physical books and movie posters, props, and booth peripherals. Many visitors also gathered.
At one o'clock, a picture appeared on the curtain, but it was not a picture from the movie "The Second World", but another video.
The great director Spielberg appeared in the video. He smiled and said: "Welcome to the Deep Space Book Exhibition. I am Steven Spielberg, the director of "The Second World."
Spielberg's words have been translated into Chinese, so everyone can understand them.
"It's an honor for Deep Space to select "The Second World" as the opening film of the book fair. Here I would like to tell you some short stories related to the filming of the film..."
In the next five minutes, Spielberg talked about the birth of the film and some interesting things he encountered during the filming.
When Spielberg said that the current models of Motorola were designed by the team led by Yu Dong, there was an exclamation in the venue.
"Isn't Yu Dong a writer? Why would he design these things?"
"Aren't all geniuses like this? Leonardo da Vinci was also a painter."
"incredible."
"If you have read the novel, you won't find it unbelievable. The description of near-future technology in the novel is already very powerful."
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Hearing the discussion from people around him, Liu Genghong poked Fang Minshan on the arm: "Minshan, is that so? The original novel contains a lot of relevant things?"
"Of course, how else would the movie be made?"
"It's really amazing." Liu Genghong sighed.
Wen Lan joked: "Our boss will be Yu Dong from now on. Will it be cheaper if we buy Motorola phones?"
"What a beautiful thought."
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After Spielberg's video ended, the screening of "The Second World" officially began.
Of course, it's not just as simple as showing a movie. While the movie is playing, there are also people nearby who will introduce you to the relevant technologies and the differences between the movie and the original novel.
Fang Minshan and the others looked at it for a while and felt it was too crowded, so they walked deeper into the exhibition hall.
The exhibition hall of the World Trade Center is very large, covering an area of ​​more than 23,000 square meters, and can accommodate more than 1,300 booths.
Such a large place, but deep space makes use of them all.
Some booths even have TV sets dedicated to playing movies adapted from the works or promotional videos.
Alpha's group of people were halfway through when they suddenly heard a scream coming from the east. They turned around and saw that it was the famous actress Winona appearing in the venue.
With the "Edward Scissorhands" and "Resident Evil" series, Winona has become one of the first-line actors and is also very popular here on the island.
Liu Genghong and Wen Lan were attracted by Winona, so they left Fang Minshan and Jay Chou behind and ran over.
There were only two of them left. Fang Minshan glanced at Jay Chou and said, "I'm going to Yudong District to have a look. Do you want to go?"
Jay Chou shook his head: "I'm not going."
Seeing Jay Chou shaking his head, Fang Minshan breathed a sigh of relief. He had known Jay Chou for a while, but he always felt like he didn't get along with him.
Moreover, Jay Chou rarely reads books, and Fang Minshan felt that it was really boring to be with him at the book fair.
Jay Chou, on the other hand, felt that Fang Minshan was a bit pretentious and did not want to be alone with him.
Just like that, the two of them separated, each going his own way.
Fang Minshan had a plan for visiting the book fair. He went directly to the Yudong section. Later he planned to visit the Wang Xiaobo section.
Jay Chou, on the other hand, wanders around aimlessly, wherever there are few people, where there are beautiful posters, and where there are nice sounds, he goes wherever.
While walking around, Jay Chou suddenly heard a soothing and affectionate piano music.
The music was very nice, but the most important thing was that he had never heard it before.
Chapter completed!