The official meeting between Lu Chen and Chen Guozhi took place seven days later at a private club in the capital.
This club has a long history and has many members who are big names in the economic and entertainment circles. It is considered top-notch in the capital city of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and its environment and privacy are excellent.
In order to meet Lu Chen, Chen Guozhi specially booked a private room, which fully demonstrated the great director's importance to Lu Chen.
There were only four people in the meeting. Lu Chen brought Filia Chen with him, and Chen Guozhi brought his assistant.
Chen Guozhi is over 50 years old this year. He is very thin and short. He does not have much flesh on his face, so his cheekbones are high, but his eyes are bright and his appearance is very distinctive.
After greeting each other, everyone sat down together.
Chen Guozhi said with a smile: "Ms. Filia Chen is getting more and more beautiful. It should be the magic of love!"
The great director actually joked with Filia Chen, which immediately relaxed the atmosphere in the private room.
Filia Chen pursed her lips and smiled: "Thank you for your compliment, you are getting younger and younger..."
She has collaborated with Chen Guozhi and once played a cameo role in a movie produced by the latter.
But speaking of it, the two sides haven't met each other for several years.
The entertainment industry is big or not, there are people you bump into every day, but it's not that small even if it's small, it's bustling with people coming and going, and there's an ironclad camp with flowing soldiers.
In response to Filia Chen's slightly teasing response, Director Chen stroked his sparse hair and said with a wry smile: "As we get older, the wind and rain will blow away all the romance. Now it's your young people's world!"
He looked at Lu Chen: "Lu Chen, um, is it okay if I call you Xiao Lu?"
Lu Chen smiled and said, "Director Chen, this is my honor."
Lu Chen's words were not polite. He also admired this great director very much, a true senior!
Chen Guozhi nodded and said: "Xiao Lu, I know your time is precious, and I am also very busy. Let's not say more polite words and go straight to the topic!"
Lu Chen straightened up quickly: "Say."
Chen Guozhi was really outspoken: "To tell you the truth, I was under a lot of pressure when I took over the job of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, because I was afraid that the audience would not be satisfied with the final show."
"The budget for next year's Spring Festival Gala is about 300 million. Although it is said that it can be earned back through advertising bidding, the people are not satisfied with it. They are scolding me on New Year's Eve. Do you think 300 million is spent unjustly? As a director, do I have any questions?
responsibility?"
Lu Chen listened silently, feeling quite emotional.
He doesn't know much about the Spring Festival Gala, but he does know a few things. Nowadays, the cost of CCTV Spring Festival Gala is getting higher and higher, but the ratings are declining year by year. There are many criticisms on the Internet, thinking that hosting the Spring Festival Gala is a complete waste of the people's hard work.
money.
This statement is of course too extreme. After all, the current Spring Festival Gala is largely based on a business model and is not completed by government budgets, and it has also achieved huge profits.
However, it is an indisputable fact that the reputation has dropped significantly. The audience's aesthetic needs are constantly increasing. Chen Guozhi will naturally feel tremendous pressure when he takes over this responsibility.
And he made no secret of this: "There are five to six hundred programs that have been submitted so far. I have watched half of them, but there are no more than five that caught my eye!"
In fact, Chen Guozhi still has something to say here, that is, as the director of the Spring Festival Gala, he does not have complete power to select the program, because there are too many people watching this area, and it affects the interests of all aspects.
Chen Guozhi’s intention is to try his best to put as many high-quality programs on the Spring Festival Gala within his scope of authority, so that ordinary audiences will be satisfied and happy to watch!
However, it is really not easy to achieve this.
"Xiao Lu..."
Chen Guozhi said to Lu Chen sincerely: "I have listened to many of your pop music works. In my opinion, you are the best singer-songwriter in China at present, so I hope you can compose a song specifically for the Spring Festival Gala."
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"As for the form of the work, it is entirely up to you!"
In fact, Chen Guozhi's intention had already been expressed to Lu Chen in advance through his assistant. Now he stated it again, which undoubtedly emphasized his importance and trust in Lu Chen.
You must know that Lu Chen and Chen Guozhi were strangers to each other and had never had any contact with each other. This kind of attention and trust is extremely valuable, especially on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, a big stage that is watched by hundreds of millions of people!
This made Lu Chen feel pressured.
He and Filia Chen looked at each other, and the latter smiled and nodded.
Lu Chen took a deep breath and said, "Director Chen, thank you for your kindness. In fact, I will prepare two works for this time, and I would like your guidance!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Filia Chen took out a professional portable music player with headphones and two pieces of music scores bound together from her bag.
Put it in front of Chen Guozhi!
Looking at the player and music score in front of him, Chen Guozhi was really surprised.
He didn't expect that Lu Chen was so well prepared and actually brought all the works over.
And there are still two works!
After all, we are young people...
In addition to being surprised, Director Chen felt a little uncomfortable because he felt that Lu Chen probably became famous at a young age and was in the limelight recently, so he acted a little impetuous.
This was a program that was going to be on the Spring Festival Gala, and he took it so seriously that Lu Chen actually spent a week writing two works and put them in front of him. Even if he was a true genius, could he guarantee the quality to match the Spring Festival Gala?
Of course, on the surface, Chen Guozhi just showed an appropriately surprised look, and then said with a smile: "Then I really want to listen carefully."
He picked up the headphones and music scores, turned on the player with the help of his assistant, and started listening to the works Lu Chen brought on the spot.
When he first listened to the first song, Chen Guozhi was very disapproving, but after only listening to the first line of this song, his expression changed!
Become dignified and serious, and there is a little bit of surprise that cannot be concealed!
Then as he listened deeper, his surprise continued to expand, and he even closed his eyes.
After a song was played, Chen Guozhi suddenly opened his eyes. He first pressed the pause button on the player, then couldn't wait to take off his headphones and asked Lu Chen: "Did you really write this song specifically for the Spring Festival Gala?"
Lu Chen smiled and said, "Yes, Director Chen."
Both songs were written specifically for the Spring Festival Gala.
As Filia Chen said, since you want to do favors, you have to make them solid!
Moreover, he prepared more than just two musical works——