In the Dongyu Banquet Hall on the first floor of the International Convention Center, the film, television, media, and cultural industry roundtable was held as scheduled on the morning of the 9th.
Present with Tang An were Kong Deming, Director of Hainan Radio and Television Station, Su Yantao, President of Global Oriental USA, Chairman of China-US Film Festival, Han De, Director of Central Daily Research Institute, Indo New Generation Media Development and Planning
Department Director Manyia, China.com Chairman Wang Fanghuai, Singapore New Media Group President Zhou Yongqiang and others, as well as directors of radio and television stations in Southeast Asian countries.
Wang Gengnian, a member of the National Radio and Television Party Committee and director of International Radio and Television, presided over the meeting as the chairman of this meeting.
The main topics are film and television, media, culture, innovation and responsibility in the digital age.
There was a host at the meeting who introduced everyone first. Except for the Chinese, most of the others present were directors of a national radio and television station, which is equivalent to the director of domestic CCTV, and even the boss of Optoelectronics
this level.
However, countries in Southeast Asia are far from being able to compare with China.
Put on your headphones and select Chinese on the simultaneous interpreter.
Nowadays, some important international conferences use simultaneous interpretation, and larger conferences no longer require translation.
There is no need to speak English, Chinese, Arabic, etc. There will be specialized people who will relay the information in different languages at a frequency of three or four seconds behind the speaker.
Each seat has headphones and simultaneous interpretation machines, and you can choose one of the six mainstream languages: Chinese, English, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish.
It is also equivalent to dubbing, but the requirements are high. After all, the interpreter has no idea what the speaker will say. If the speaker speaks too fast and has some dialect and slang, it will be even more difficult.
Chairman Wang Gengnian spoke:
Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, on behalf of the organizers of the conference, Boao Forum for Asia and Huaguo International Radio, I would like to extend my warmest welcome to all the representatives and guests attending this conference.
The theme of this media leaders' meeting is innovation and responsibility of media in the digital era, which reflects people's concerns about the development and transformation of the media industry in the new era. I hope to build a platform for exchanges and cooperation between media, release new development momentum, and achieve common development.
good wishes!
The two-hour roundtable meeting was neither long nor short. Everyone had to say a long paragraph, which basically didn’t have much nutrition.
It’s Tang An’s turn, “The Internet digital era is a new era for cultural media, and it also means new opportunities and breeds new hopes.
The new era carries new dreams. In today's world, with the rapid economic and social development and technological progress, information transmission and acquisition are becoming increasingly faster, digitalization and network development have spread to all aspects of life. The global media industry is experiencing unprecedented profound changes.
Opportunities and challenges coexist.
In this era, we are facing new difficulties. Users are able to accept news. There are more and more channels for news, and they are getting faster and faster.
For example, the impact of online media on print media has continued to worsen, and the current priority of print media around the world is to overcome this situation.
Mr. Han just gave an example. South Korea's "Central Weekend" is a newspaper that is only published on Sundays, with a circulation of about 120,000. This newspaper covers global political trends, economic development trends, culture, entertainment and other fields.
Composed of advanced analytical news and commentary.
The target readership is the elite who rest leisurely at home on Sunday. By reading this newspaper, you can know very clearly all the events that happened during the week.
As there are more and more channels for receiving news, people do not necessarily need to receive news through newspapers. At this time, paper media need to be more professional and purposeful, and specifically create content for the audience on why they buy newspapers.
Just like paper media, the same is true for film and television dramas. Nowadays, if a film or television drama is released, word of mouth can spread to any corner of the Internet within two days at most.
Movies and TV dramas also need to be professional and purposeful. For example, if a comedy is released and many viewers comment online about how funny the movie is, it will attract potential viewers of the movie.
Regardless of newspapers, magazines, radio, television, or movies, it is very important to seize the core selling points and capture the accurate audience, and this is inseparable from the Internet industry. We also need the support of cloud computing, big data, and digital
The times have impacted every aspect of the media industry in all aspects."
It is also a speech without nutrition, but it is very standard. The tone and speed of speaking are becoming more and more similar to those of a leader.
There will be a break at noon, and in the afternoon there will be another session on the film and television culture industry.
The situation has changed. It is no longer a round table meeting. In addition to Tang An, there are only three cultural figures and a host on the stage, and then there are people from related industries and many reporters sitting under the stage.
This becomes an interview.
The host was Beijing News reporter Hu Wei. The meeting started on time at two o'clock in the afternoon.
“Good afternoon to all guests present, and welcome to the Boao Forum Cultural Branch today.”
The four people on the stage were introduced one by one, Tian Bin, chairman of Xinhuanet, Yang Gongda, a professor at Qinghua University and a famous cultural scholar, and Meng Shengli, director of the National Cultural Innovation Research Center at Fudan University.
Two famous university professors and scholars, a CEO of Xinhuanet, and a CEO of a film and television company, this configuration is really a bit strange.
At the Boao Forum in the past few years, there were very few representatives from the film and television industry, and only occasionally actor representatives came to show off.
What's more, in this cultural sub-venue, although film and television practitioners were also regarded as cultural workers back then, today, when film and television dramas are becoming more and more commercialized, the cultural circle despises the film and television industry.
There were a lot of experts, professors, and scholars in the audience, and they felt a little uncomfortable when they saw that a film and television company CEO who was at the lower level of the contempt chain was sitting on the stage, but they could only be in the audience.
Tang An was the last one to speak. He had no choice and no opinion, so he listened to the three of them finish speaking one by one.
Xinhuanet President Tian Bin said: We must promote the Internet transformation of traditional literary and art institutions and literary and art workers, have a larger digital platform and space, and also give play to the active role of new literary and art organizations, literary and art groups, and literary and art platforms, and jointly
Construct a new way of cultural production.
Qinghua professor Yang Gongda said: Social order cannot be maintained solely by law, but also by humanistic education.
Meng Shengli, Director of the National Cultural Innovation Research Center of Fudan University: Promoting public opinion connection through cultural similarity.
What the two university professors said was very high-level, but also a bit false.
It is too early to talk about maintaining social order through humanistic education when the law cannot restrain the people.
The same culture promotes the communication of public opinions. It seems that there is something, but it seems that nothing is said.
That is to say, the CEO of Xinhuanet said something practical about the Internet-based transformation of literary and artistic workers and literary and artistic institutions.
However, there is no plan, just that we need to transform. After the transformation, we will have a larger platform to launch more and better excellent works that can better meet people's growing spiritual and cultural needs.
It's just slogans without any real substance. I've heard this kind of thing every day for the past two days.
When we arrived at Tang An, everyone at the scene wanted to hear what Tang An could do with his talk about culture in the film and television industry.
"As a film and television worker, I have been committed to spreading our unique Chinese culture to the world through film and television dramas, so that more Chinese culture can be known and understood by foreign audiences."
There was nothing to say, so Tang An memorized the prepared manuscript and finished the four to five hundred words quickly.
After one person spoke for a while, the host Hu Wei began to randomly invite people in the audience to speak and ask questions.
A fat middle-aged man wearing glasses asked Tang An.
"Hello, Mr. Tang, you just said that you want to spread Chinese culture through film and television dramas. How much do you know about Chinese culture?"
According to the rules, at least the first thing to ask is the boss of Xinhuanet. After all, it is owned by Xinhua News Agency and one of the organizers of the Boao Forum.
The visitor was not a good person, Tang An knew it as soon as he looked at the looks of some people in the audience.
Among a group of cultural workers, I am the only person in the entertainment industry who makes movies, so I feel a little out of place.
Just like those who make movies look down on those who make TV series, and those who make TV series look down on those who make online dramas. There is a chain of contempt in any industry, let alone the entertainment industry, which was originally considered a cultural worker.
Before Tang An entered the venue, he heard these people talking about him behind his back, and they had nothing good to say.
Tang An was even there when two people were discussing, but they didn't recognize him.
After all, Tang An is a director, and these people are not movie fans who watch movies every day, so they can't recognize it as normal.
Even if business tycoons such as Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Li Hongyan, Lei Jun, Ren Zhengfei, Liu Dongqiang, and Zhang Jingdong appear frequently, it would be difficult for ordinary people to recognize them immediately when they meet them on the street.
Except for Ma Yun, I estimate that 99 out of 100 people can be recognized at a glance. After all, they are so recognizable.
Tang An smiled and said, "I think culture should be based on people, and any behavior of people is always related to culture."
Tang An's answer obviously did not satisfy the people in the audience, and many people even began to criticize in a low voice.
"How much culture does a film director know?"
"It's simply ridiculous. Why did the organizer ask him to come on stage?"
"This is Tang An. In the past few years, he has been making movies that have no meaning, and the current movies are becoming more and more kitsch!"
The disdain for the entertainment industry and the gap between one on stage and another off stage make many people feel quite unhappy.
As soon as Tang An finished speaking, the middle-aged fat man began to correct Tang An's statement and started talking at length.
"I'm afraid Mr. Tang's statement is a bit wrong. Culture is the sum of the existing, inheritance, creation and development of all social phenomena of the intelligent group and the inner spirit of the group.
Culture encompasses the history of the intelligent race from the past to the future. It is the content of all activities of the race based on nature. It is the whole of all material appearances and spiritual connotations of the race.
Culture can be divided into three aspects: material culture, institutional culture and psychological culture. Institutional culture refers to "
This long speech sounded familiar to Tang An.
Since it was a cultural forum, Tang An also checked some information. He had definitely read these words in many articles.
The contempt in these people's eyes was almost engraved in their eyes. Tang An was not polite and interrupted him directly.
"Sir, please stop. I don't think you understand what you said. If you search for one of the sentences in Baidu, you can find the original words."
The fat middle-aged man's face changed slightly, "Mr. Tang, what do you mean?"
Tang An did not answer, but turned to the host Hu Wei next to him and said, "Can you trouble the host to search online?"
Hu Wei glanced at the boss of Xinhuanet and saw that he didn't have much reaction. He immediately used his laptop to search for a sentence that the person just said.
On the big screen behind me, I searched Baidu, and an entire article containing what the man just said appeared immediately at the bottom. It was obvious.
Tang An said, "These are all summed up by predecessors. In my opinion, you don't know much about culture. Endorsing it shouldn't be considered culture. Otherwise, if I memorize all Lu Xun's books, wouldn't I also become a literary giant?"
The man's face turned red, but he couldn't find anything to say to refute, so he could only sit down angrily.
Many experts and scholars these days are the same. After all, a lot of graduate theses, doctoral and postdoctoral theses are plagiarized.
Tang An said seriously, "We eat rice as culture, and Westerners eat beef as culture. In ancient Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods, we used knives and forks as culture. At the same time, Westerners used their hands to grasp it as culture. Later, knives
The fork was eliminated, and we switched to using chopsticks as culture. Westerners also gradually switched from hand-grabbing to knives and forks, but this is still culture."
"Culture is affected by time and space. The culture of different times and regions is different. Film and television dramas also contain a lot of oriental culture. As the largest film and television production company in China, it is my responsibility and mission to spread Chinese culture.
It is also the responsibility of all film and television workers."
"It's still the case, then why, Mr. Tang, have you never made a literary film?"
Someone else raised questions.
"Why should I make a literary film?" Tang An asked rhetorically.
"Because commercial movies have no artistic value at all!"
Tang An asked again, "So, what is artistic value?"
“Artistic value refers to the artistic personality and style of the author represented by a work of art, as well as the nationality and regionality it reflects!”
Tang An shook his head, "Many people don't understand what artistic value is at all. When it comes to a movie, as long as it is something that the public likes to watch, it is kitsch and vulgar in the eyes of some people. On the contrary, some niche movies may be considered by him himself.
I don’t understand, so in order to show my level, I praise it as art!”
Nowadays, the so-called artistic value has gone too far. We have begun to indulge in petty bourgeoisie and alternative art and regard this as all "artistic value". It is extremely ridiculous.
Tang An's words immediately upset a lot of people. Many cultural workers at the scene saw it this way. They had not even seen many movies. Some of them they had not seen. As soon as they heard that the box office was high, they would criticize them.
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However, Tang An was not in the mood and had no time to talk nonsense with these people. It was just a waste of words.
Before they could refute, Tang An continued, "Many years ago, Premier Zhou gave a wonderful speech at a symposium on literary and artistic work and a feature film creation meeting, in which he criticized the deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture and Chinese Culture.
He said: "A deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture and Culture went to Western Sichuan and said that Sichuan Opera was lagging behind. At that time, a comrade replied: Whether it is lagging behind or not depends on the 70 million people in Western Sichuan to answer and decide. I think this comrade is very brave and gave a good answer.
! People like to hear and see, but if you don’t like it, who do you think you are? Our words are unreliable. Everyone has their own preferences, so how can they be used as a standard? Art must be approved by the people. As long as the people like it, it has value."
"Here, I would also like to convey these words of Premier Zhou to everyone present. Art must be approved by the people. As long as the people like it, it has value!"
The scene was silent. Tang An had already moved Premier Zhou out, what else could he say.
Looking at the somewhat unhappy people in the audience, Tang An didn't feel happy at all.
Tang An never cared about what these people wanted to say, he just didn't want to talk nonsense. He never thought about changing these people's opinions. Whether they liked it or not didn't affect Tang An at all. Every time a movie was released in the past few years, those
Tang An also automatically filters out the troublesome voices. He will do whatever he likes and doesn't even bother to retaliate.
After being interrupted like this by Tang An, things became much more harmonious later on, and Tang An also handed over the meeting scene to the other three, occasionally making a sound, and then returned to the scene of eloquent discussions.
It was really boring. After the meeting, Tang An was about to go back to the hotel, but the host Hu Wei found him.
Hu Wei was later the founder of Mobike, and he came here looking for investment.
Tang An listened to her idea and didn't have time to read the ppt, so he asked her to go back to the capital to find the investment and development department of the group. For this level of angel round, the people below can decide.
After playing in Boao for a few days, Tang An returned to the capital on the 12th.
In terms of film editing, professional editors will first sort out all the materials. Tang An will still have to edit it himself after a while.
Two major events also happened in mid-April. Tencent, with Xinli Media as the main body, officially established Penguin Film and Television and fully entered the film industry.
Ye Nian, vice president of Wanda Cultural Industry Group, officially resigned and was replaced by Jiang Defu, the former general manager of China Film Marketing Branch. Ye Nian then joined Huayi as vice president of Huayi and president of Jiuzhou Distribution.
These two events had been foreshadowed for a long time, and there was nothing surprising about them.
In the past few days, Tang An has followed up on the progress of several investments, and asked the Investment and Development Department to acquire them and apply for some licenses. There are too many licenses required for finance, more than ten kinds of licenses, and any that can be obtained are taken advantage of at a low price.
Get it as soon as possible.
I also met with several local private enterprise giants in Beijing to discuss the establishment of private banks.
In addition, I also went to see the Executive Deputy Director of the Xuanxuan Department and asked about entering the Xiangjiang Cinema Line to see if the higher-ups could give me some support.
With so many things going on, a week or two went by in the blink of an eye.
On April 24th, as the May Day holiday is approaching, two new films will be released on the same day, "Frozen: Gate of Rebirth" and "My Deskmate."
The former is a magical action, sci-fi, comedy and romance blockbuster produced by several medium-sized film and television companies, starring popular stars Donnie Yen and Wang Baoqiang, and distributed by Lay's.
The latter is a youth film jointly invested and distributed by Guangxian and Wanda.
In the evening, Tang An also took the time to come to CBD Wanda to attend the premiere of "My Deskmate."
Of course, the main thing is to meet Jiang Defu, the trusted helmsman of Wanda Pictures. Tengxun has just cooperated with Guangxian, so it is estimated that someone will go.
Sure enough, Jiang Defu showed up in person, Yu Dong came, and Sun Huaizhong, the newly established president of Penguin Film and Television, also came.
Several major companies are almost here. It's not surprising that Fan Luyuan from Ah Li didn't come, but Wang Zhongjun didn't come either. It was Wang Zhonglei who came.
Tang An smiled and asked, "Mr. Wang, it's rare that everyone is so present today, why did Mr. Wang not show up?"
Wang Zhonglei said, "He went to "Frozen: Gate of Rebirth" and was invited by Director Cao."
This film is invested by Dewen, a subsidiary of the International Culture and Film Company of the International Department of Radio and Television, and the invitation from the leadership was justified.
However, several people also knew why Wang Zhongjun went there. Yu Dong smiled and said, "I guess Wang Dong went to see how the combination of Zhen Zidan and Wang Baoqiang works. In the second half of the year, Huayi will also have a "One Person"
"Martial Arts" was released, also starring Donnie Yen and Wang Baoqiang."
Donnie Yen is considered to be the best actor in the Mesozoic era in Hong Kong. The "Ip Man" series has gained sufficient popularity and reputation. Although the subsequent films were average, they did not have a great impact.
"Havoc in Heaven" has a box office of over 800 million, but its reputation is relatively poor.
But even so, "Rebirth: The Frozen Gate" and "One Man's Martial Arts" are both action movies, and Wang Baoqiang is also a star, so they still have potential.