Chapter 730 The Two Directors of Shanghai and Shanghai (4200+ chapters~)
Sassoon Villa has been renamed Wu Zhai by Wu Jianye, which is the same name as the one in Xiangjiang.
At this time, in the living room, Wu Jianye, Chen Ming, Wu Jianhu and Huang Jianxin, who was in charge of the domestic Fengge Theater chain in Shanghai, were sitting on the sofa watching the news on TV.
Some people have said that watching news broadcasts is a must-have course for domestic businessmen, while others have said that news broadcasts are just a unique promotional tool for us.
Wu Jianye actually agrees with the above point. It cannot be denied that there is a lot of publicity news in it, but it also contains a lot of business opportunities.
For example, in the current news broadcast, what is being broadcast is the old man’s southern tour!
Wu Jianye looked at the old man on TV with a lot of thoughts in his heart.
We are on a tour to the south, which actually means that no one can stop the spring breeze of reform. From now on, fewer and fewer people will ask the question: the surname of capitalists and surnames of society!
This is actually a huge business opportunity.
Chen Ming and others were also very excited at this time, and they were naturally able to understand the meaning contained in it.
"Brother, it seems that there will be fewer constraints when doing business in China in the future!" Chen Ming said first.
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "Yes, you can be bolder from now on!"
The rest of the people nodded, but Huang Jianxin was a little regretful: "If this had happened last year, we might have invested less!"
Wu Jianye laughed and said: "Everything has to be a step-by-step process. Even if the old man tours the south, our industry will not be the first to take his turn. Now it is actually quite good. We must learn to be content!"
Document (3) appeared a year ahead of schedule, which was a very remarkable thing for Wu Jianye.
Some people may think that it is only a year. In fact, there are many differences. There are actually many differences between the document (3) at this time and the document No. 3 of the original time and space.
Coupled with the establishment of Fengge Cinema Line, this is already a big advance for Chinese movies!
Even to a certain extent, it can be said that this advance is at least five years ahead. If we also include the detours in domestic film reform, the advantages gained by Wu Jianye can be compared with those around 2000!
This is a gap of nearly ten years!
In another time and space, even after Document (3) appeared, the domestic film industry still experienced its most painful winter.
The number of moviegoers has plummeted, and the box office of a single movie is not even close to the hundreds of millions it was in the 1980s. There are not even a few movies that are even worth 30 or 40 million.
After the news broadcast ended, Chen Ming and others stood up and left.
Gong Yin had been in Shanghai for a long time, and it was time to go back. However, before going back, they still had some people to visit.
For example, director Bai Chen, the director of "Under the Bridge" that the two collaborated on before!
After Bai Lao finished filming "Mountain Wind" in 1990, he completely retired. He spent the past two years raising flowers at home, and he was very contented.
When Wu Jianye and Gong Ying came to Bai Lao's home, Bai Lao was watering the flowers. After seeing Wu Jianye and Gong Ying, he was also very happy.
As for the relationship between Wu Jianye and Gong Yin, Bai Lao did not ask. At his age, especially as a director, his eyes are naturally very poisonous, but he also knows that there are some things that cannot be asked.
"It's a pity that little Gong won't make movies anymore!" Bai Lao still felt a little regretful about Gong Yiying's incident.
"You are one of the few spiritual actors I have seen. If you can work hard on your performance, your future achievements will definitely be very high!"
Gong Yin smiled and said: "It's actually quite good now. I have things I want to do, so I'll just let it happen when I perform!"
Bai Lao nodded and did not go into details on this. When he looked at Wu Jianye sitting aside, he also sighed a little.
"I have watched your new movie. Although the story arrangement is a bit weak, the special effects are still very successful. It scared me at the time!"
Wu Jianye smiled slightly. He still very much approved of Director Bai Chen's evaluation. Although the story of "Jurassic Park" has not been criticized by many people, compared with feature films, the story is definitely better.
There are still many shortcomings.
"I'm old now. I couldn't believe anything before. I can actually see such real dinosaurs on the big screen. Tell me how those dinosaurs were made!" Although director Bai Chen has retired, he still can't believe it.
It means that he no longer pays attention to movies, especially this time "Jurassic Park", which can be said to have changed many people's inherent understanding of movie technology.
Especially in China, think about it, such special effects are the most advanced in North America, let alone China!
When the movie was released, many domestic audiences even believed that dinosaurs were real.
Wu Jianye told director Bai Chen the special effects production method for dinosaurs. After listening to it, director Bai Chen sighed: "I didn't expect that technology is so advanced now. I guess future movies will definitely use this technology!"
Wu Jianye nodded. To be honest, he was a little surprised that Director Bai Chen could express such an opinion. After all, most people would not think of this.
In fact, not everyone is interested in emerging film technologies, or even willing to accept them.
When the talkies came out, Chaplin looked down on them and stubbornly made his own silent movies!
There are also many people who believe that the emergence of special effects in movies will break the artistry of movies and cause movies to lose the artistry they should have.
But Bai Lao can accurately tell the future direction of movies, which is already a very remarkable foresight!
"It's true. Although I have returned from Hollywood, the news I received is that many production companies have begun to produce their own special effects movies!" Wu Jianye said.
With the success of "Jurassic Park", it seems that several major Hollywood production companies have seen new hope, and they have begun to copy the success of "Jurassic Park" and pursue movies with big production and special effects.
In fact, several major production companies have indeed found the right direction this time.
Director Bai Chen nodded. His experience in Xiangjiang gave him many different views on movies from those in China. He could also imagine what the future movie market will be like.
Then Director Bai Chen became concerned about Wu Jianye's new film.
In fact, almost everyone in the domestic film industry is now keeping an eye on Wu Jianye's new film plans. Some people who are related to Wu Jianye will also ask him about his preparation plans for his new film when they meet him again.
Wu Jianye naturally had nothing to hide from Director Bai Chen, and told Director Bai Chen the story of his new film.
After hearing this, Director Bai Chen pondered for a long time and then said: "It will be more troublesome to shoot this movie. First of all, it is very difficult to find a shooting location. In fact, your movie is more suitable for shooting in Hollywood!"
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "The idea for this movie actually came up when I was in Hollywood, but I still plan to shoot it in China. As for the shooting location, someone is already looking for it in coastal cities!"
Director Bai Chen nodded and said, "Well, since you have this idea, go ahead and do it. I like the story of this movie very much!"
Wu Jianye said: "As long as you like it, please give me more opinions when the time comes!"
Bai Chen joked: "I don't dare to give you advice now. Who doesn't know that Director Wu is our number one director in China now?"
"Please stop saying that, I should be blushing!" Wu Jianye said.
"Are you still blushing?" Director Bai Chen glanced at Wu Jianye.
The three of them were chatting about movies. Bai Chen's wife had already prepared lunch. Wu Jianye and Gong Yin were not polite. They had lunch at Bai Lao's home before officially leaving.
After visiting Bai Lao, Gong Yin and Wu Qichen also got on the plane back to Xiangjiang.
As for Wu Jianye, when he was preparing to return to Yanjing, he received a call from an old friend.
"Xiao Wu, I heard that you are in Shanghai?" The voice on the other end of the phone was very loud and very enthusiastic.
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Director Xie, aren't you filming "The Bells of Qingliang Temple"?"
It was director Xie Jin who called Wu Jianye.
Xie Jin smiled and said: "The filming has been completed a long time ago, and we are currently in post-production. I was chatting with my friends yesterday and found out about your coming to Shanghai. It's not interesting for you to come to Shanghai and you didn't even call me!"
After talking about the final meeting, Director Xie Jin obviously wanted to complain.
Although Director Xie is from Shanghai, he does not have much of the delicacy of Shanghai people, but has a lot of the generosity of northerners.
"I thought you were filming a movie, so I didn't bother you." Wu Jianye asked tentatively: "Shall we have some drinks tonight?"
Sure enough, when Director Xie heard about the drink, he immediately became interested and laughed and said, "That's what I meant. Let's meet in the evening. I have something I want to ask you about then!"
Wu Jianye agreed: "Okay, let's meet in the evening!"
In the evening, Wu Jianye came to the hotel. The hotel that Director Xie found might not be a luxurious hotel, but it was definitely the most suitable hotel for drinking.
When Wu Jianye walked into the private room, he saw Director Xie already sitting there waiting for him.
"Director Xie, I'm sorry for being late and keeping you waiting!" Wu Jianye said quickly.
Xie Jin smiled and said: "I'm not late. I'm not late. I'm early. But I am your senior after all. It's not always good to make your senior wait for you. Just punish yourself with three drinks in one go!"
Wu Jianye smiled bitterly. Although before coming, Wu Jianye had already prepared for a big drink today, but when facing Xie Jin, Wu Jianye was always a little timid.
Director Xie Jin has two major abilities: making movies and drinking!
They are all top notch!
However, this time, director Xie Jin did not drink as soon as he came. Instead, he pulled Wu Jianye to talk about business.
"Xiao Wu, I'm learning from you this time!" Director Xie Jin said seriously.
Wu Jianye was slightly startled and asked: "Director Xie, please don't say that. If anything happens, just ask!"
As a fourth-generation director in China, Xie Jin is not only very accomplished in directing, he is also well-known for supporting the younger generation. Every actor who works with him says good things about him.
Wu Jianye also admires director Xie Jin very much. It is not easy to be able to do what he does.
It would be better if I drank less wine!
"It's like this. Your Tangting Culture can be regarded as the earliest film and television company in our country. I also read the news about the old man's southern tour before. I think the spring of film should be coming, so I plan to open a film and television company myself.
, so I want to learn from you!" Director Xie Jin said.
Only then did Wu Jianye understand that Director Xie Jin’s idea was originally about this matter.
In fact, director Xie Jin did this. After the old man’s southern tour this year, within a few months, director Xie established his own Xie Jin Hengtong Film and Television Co., Ltd., and the next year he founded Xie Jin Hengtong Star School
.
That was later the School of Film and Television and Media of Shanghai Normal University.
Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbang, Yan Yikuan, Chen Sicheng, Zhao Yihuan and others all had the experience of studying here.
As the most well-known director in China, Director Xie naturally had no worries about investing in the film and television company he established. However, in another time and space, the domestic film industry did not improve much because of this reform. It is not that the reform
The direction was wrong, purely because in another time and space, the reform process was a very cumbersome matter and lacked a strong push. Therefore, it was not until the late 1990s that the domestic film industry saw the light of day.
If we had to find a metaphor that everyone is familiar with to describe the domestic film industry during this period, we can actually use Hong Kong films after 2000 to describe it.
At this time, in the domestic film market, the real ticket sellers were basically Hollywood and Hong Kong movies. In 1994, the domestic box office champion was Hollywood's "The Fugitive" with a box office of only 25 million.
In 1995, Cheng Long's movie "Red Zone" made the country aware of the Lunar New Year movie. It also made a box office of 95 million in China. However, the highest domestic box office this year was not Cheng Long's "Red".
Zone", but Arnold Schwarzenegger's "True Lies", with a box office of 102 million!
"Titanic", released in 1998, hit a domestic box office of 360 million!
At this time, the box office of domestic movies was very low. The box office of "Sunny Days" in 1995 was 50 million, which was already an untouchable peak.
Therefore, after Director Xie founded the film and television company, he did not make much money. Instead, he lost a lot. There was a more vivid example during this period.
That is the film and television company founded by Chen Peisi. The film and television company founded by Chen Peisi can be said to be the earliest film and television company in China that integrates investment, production, and distribution. It also produced the classic "Two Sons" series of movies.
, but Chen Peisi still lost everything!
Therefore, Wu Jianye’s work still has a long way to go!
"It's no problem to set up a film and television company. If Director Xie has time, you can make a trip to Yanjing after the Chinese New Year to see how our Tangting Culture works!" Wu Jianye said.
If everyone failed in another time and space, it does not mean that they will still fail in this time and space.
Because of the existence of Wu Jianye!
When Director Xie Jin heard this, he showed a happy smile as expected: "Okay, let's just decide, when will you return to Yanjing?"
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "I originally planned to go back today, but after receiving a call from Director Xie, I have no choice but to go back tomorrow!"