You made me a superstar

Chapter 184

80s to 90s.

Chinese mainland movies are almost in a state of monopoly.

Only the family members of Genzheng Miaohong from the National Film Studio and those born in college can get the resources and opportunities for filming.

Among the five generations of directors, the previous generation ended, and they rely on their qualifications to take over their positions to make movies.

For example, Shen Changwei, Chen Kai, Li Biehong, Zhou Yilin and others have been working as assistant directors until they almost vomited blood. Only after they were 35 years old, they finally directed a movie alone under the care of the older generation. Chances are on the stage of history, showing the movie world in their hearts.

Directors of the five generations are basically middle-aged uncles over 40 years old.

Of course, there are also surprises.

for example……

Wang Shuai, as the prince in the Beijing circle, became famous before he was 30 years old, and now he is only 36 years old. He belongs to the five generations of directors who are least like the five generations of directors.

In the late 90s...

Some six-generation directors gradually began to emerge in this circle.

The sixth generation of directors has a hard life. Although most of them are academics, most of the resources have been firmly controlled by the fifth generation of directors. If they want to make movies, they must belong to the inheritance faction of the fifth generation of directors and follow them. Mixed qualifications in movies, either try every means to make yourself famous and prove your commercial value to win the favor of the market and capital, or take the international route, win awards and gain qualifications, so that the higher-ups can see...

The first path needs to look at your background and your connections in the academy. The second path is to test your market acumen and how to make the first pot of gold. Someone believes that you can invest money in you. Probably, for many talented directors who have no connections, no money, or even Ye Luzi, the third one is a little more reliable...

It’s like a gamble to make a movie. It doesn’t matter whether you can win an award or not. Even if you are shortlisted, you will win a lot of applause. After returning to China, some resources and money will automatically come to you. If you are lucky enough to be shortlisted The three major European film festivals, tsk tsk, then you are awesome, you might be able to enter the faction of the five generations of directors, enjoy the shelter of their resources, and officially gain a foothold in this circle...

Under such circumstances, Chinese movies in this world have entered into a very cheating existence.

Most of the sixth-generation directors with no connections and no funds tried their best to make all kinds of shortlisted films that exposed the social status quo. They desperately signed up to participate in various international film festivals, large and small, and their enthusiasm for the three major European film festivals was even greater. It's crazy to the extreme, dreaming of walking on the red carpet of the three major film festivals, it all tastes like glory.

The reality is very sad, but there is no way, the current living environment is very bad, if you want to get ahead and make your own movies, they can only rely on this method.

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October [-]th.

Yanjing.

On the relevant department elevator.

"Hey...our sixth-generation directors are known as the generation that lacks sunlight, especially many directors born in Yeluzi. Even if they have their own representative works, they are still not recognized."

Zhou Yang met Feng Kai who hadn't seen him for many days.

Since leaving Huaxing, Zhou Yang saw that Feng Kai had obviously lost a lot of weight, and at the same time grew a mustache, looking haggard.

Feng Kai is working as an independent director of a film called "Jinyiwei", which was introduced by Wang Shuai.

It stands to reason that Feng Kai should be in high spirits now, but Zhou Yang discovered that this was not the case at all.

Not to mention Zhou Yang's high-spirited appearance when he saw Feng Kai for the first time, even the last time he met Feng Kai, he was more energetic than the current Feng Kai.

The first time he saw Zhou Yang, he said this sentence, and after saying it, he sighed, feeling a little bit disappointed.

Zhou Yang didn't know how to describe him, should he be described as mature, or should he be described as bruised and bruised by life?
"Director Feng... are you okay?" Zhou Yang looked at Feng Kai's appearance and couldn't help asking.

"It's okay." Feng Kai shook his head with a smile: "It's just that we don't have too much hope for this meeting. This is the current situation of the entire Huaxia director faction. After several generations of inheritance, it has been deeply rooted. Even if the relevant departments Even if you want to come forward, it's hard to change..."

"Go ahead and have a look." Zhou Yang nodded.

The two chatted about the current situation of the filming. After seeing Zhou Yang being beaten bruised all over, the muscles on Feng Kai's face twitched, as if he was extremely shocked, and then his mood was very sad, as if he became even more lost , After the elevator exited, Feng Kai sighed quietly: "It would be great if you came to be the leading role."

"What's the matter?" Zhou Yang is no longer the Zhou Yang of a year ago, and at this moment he is more or less sensitive to people's emotions.

"Although the investment in "Jinyiwei" is only 700 million, the lead actor is someone who was brought in by the investor, like..." Feng Kai looked around, and when no one was looking at him, he sighed quietly: " It's like an embroidered pillow... I can't even read a few lines, so I use 1234 to replace it, and prepare for post-dubbing, some action scenes, and more... In short, as a director in the crew, I don't have as much speaking power as I imagined I can only do my best to make this movie..."

After finishing speaking, Feng Kai fell silent.

Zhou Yang patted Feng Kai's shoulder, and he could feel the helplessness in his bone marrow.

When the two walked into the corridor and came to the meeting room next to the main hall, they saw a slender figure in uniform standing at the end holding documents.

When he saw them, that cold figure showed a slight smile: "Director Zhou, Director Feng, follow me..."

When he saw An Xiao's figure, besides being amazed, Feng Kai was also quite touched...

No one could have imagined that during the time they left, everyone's identities had changed.

Mr. An left the company and became one of the department staff who managed the circle...

Zhou Yang transformed himself from a humble little man in the mine to a director, actor, and singer, and he flourished in this circle.

It seems that I am the only one who is still standing still, which is not right, and should have taken many steps backwards.

"Director Zhou, Director Feng, if you have any comments, I hope you can bring them up... This meeting does not lack the voices of veteran directors, but the most lacking are young directors. In a sense, you two are this group of young directors The representative of the representative..." An Xiao glanced at the two of them, and finally focused on Zhou Yang.

"Hmm..." Zhou Yang nodded.

When the two came to the conference room, they found that the conference room was empty.

Except for a middle-aged man about 40 years old standing on the podium of the conference table and waiting with materials, the seats with the names of some directors were actually empty...

It's eight o'clock soon, and it's the time for the meeting to start. There seems to be no sign of the directors who came to the meeting?

"Hey, Director Zhou, Director Feng is here? Hello..."

"This is Zhang Jianguo, Section Chief Zhang..."

"Hello, Section Chief Zhang."

After Zhang Jianguo saw the two, he walked over with a smile, and shook hands with them, looking very enthusiastic.

Then he personally led Zhou Yang and Feng Kai towards the location.

The positions of the two of them were not good, they were at the corner of the conference table, and Feng Kai was sitting near the door.

Zhou Yang was fine. It was his first time to attend this kind of meeting, and he had a learning attitude, and he felt that his position was not bad. He was near the window and could breathe in the wind.
But Feng Kai's face changed slightly, with a feeling of being underestimated.

Zhang Jianguo then chatted with the two of them about the content of the movie, and said some expectations, saying that the future depends on you young people and other nonsense.

Feng Kai didn't listen to a single word...

Zhou Yang just stared at the time, seeing that the time had come to [-]:[-], and there was still no sign of others coming, so he began to wonder if he had made a mistake.

"Section Chief Zhang... why didn't the other directors come?" Feng Kai finally couldn't help but say this sentence.

"They greeted me, it should be delayed due to the traffic jam on the road..."

"Everyone has been delayed? Let the two of us wait for them here? Is the seniority theory here?" It seems that these days have been going very badly, and I have seen too many It was a disgusting thing, Feng Kai felt like a powder keg, his whole body was suffocated.

Just at this time.

"Hehe, young people just can't sit still, that's right, they must have a bit of a temper when they become famous so early, and they really lack a bit of self-cultivation..."

The door opened.

A smiling figure walked in.

Zhou Yilin glanced at Feng Kai, then at Zhou Yang, and sat down in his seat.

When he saw Zhou Yilin, Feng Kai's face changed slightly, turning red and blue, but finally stood up subconsciously, and greeted Zhou Yilin with a smile: "Director Zhou..."

"Well, Xiao Feng, the young man restrained his emotions a little bit. Now that he can't restrain his emotions, what should he do in the future?" Zhou Yilin continued to smile and nodded.

"Director Zhou, you're here...please sign here."

"Well, Zhang Ke, do you have any support policies for movies recently?"

"Yes, it depends on what opinions everyone has on the overall reform at this meeting..."

"what."

Zhou Yang has been standing and watching this scene...

Strictly speaking, when Zhou Yilin nodded to him, he also responded with a smile, and then looked at the parked cars outside the window.

After Zhou Yilin sat down, people from the entire conference room began to come in one after another.

Feng Kai stood and greeted these directors one by one.

Except for a very few directors and directors, everyone else just nodded, as if they didn't even look at Feng Kai.

Some directors, like Zhou Yilin, walked into the conference room alone, while some directors walked in with several young directors.

These young directors are all sitting in front of Zhou Yang, Feng Kai and others, they look very conspicuous, they keep calling Uncle Uncle, they seem very affectionate...

In particular, a young director named Django sits in the center of those five generations of directors, like a rising star.

Feng Kai stared at Jiang Ge, feeling a little angry in his heart, but finally had to bow his head.

Finally, he whispered something in Zhou Yang's ear.

"Ten years in Hedong, ten years in Hexi!"

"I will definitely let these people see it in the future..."

"..."

Zhou Yang sometimes feels that Feng Kai is quite duplicitous.

In front of people, he bowed his head as humble as sand, but behind them, he gnashed his teeth in various ways, as if his self-esteem was trampled on the ground.

Zhou Yang looked at Feng Kai's appearance...

Somehow it reminds me of a line in "Flastic".

Eighteen that year.

Alma mater prom.

Stand like a minion...

At that time, I swore with tears in my eyes that everyone must see me!
After everyone was seated, Zhou Yang discovered one thing. Huang Jiacheng belonged to the faction on Hong Kong Island, and it was normal that he didn't come when he was filming "The Grand Master". Come……

(End of this chapter)