Gastronomy God

Chapter 201
Just as Cheng Xin was thinking about shooting the next movie, other major film schools launched a comprehensive analysis of the movie Li Yang's Redemption.

The professional teachers of the major film academies read theories one by one. It is hard for them to believe that the film that broke the box office record of domestic films was not made by the directors trained by their own schools. Saying that is a shame.

Li Yang's redemption was filmed by Zhang Xing, a first-class director trained by the Tianfu Film Academy, which has a low status in the film academy.

Judging from the film's composition and narrative rhythm, the quality of this film is undisputed, and it is a proper high-quality film.

The professors at the college are proud of the emergence of such a high-quality film in China.On the other hand, they are also reflecting that their own college has the best film instructors in the country to train students. Why can't the directors trained in recent years fail to make good movies?
Zhou Xiaotian, the dean of the Shanghai Film Academy, has been thinking about this issue day and night as he watches the box office of Li Yang's redemption movie continue to rise these days.

When he was a student at a film academy, there was no shortage of good movies in China. On the contrary, a batch of high-quality movies with compact plots and first-class structures appeared in that era.

Why when he became the dean of the Shanghai Film Academy, none of the students he trained entered the film and television industry.

Every year, among the many art candidates, the outstanding new talents in the film industry are selected, but in the end, why is there not a single one who has become a talent?
Others have various reasons to answer this question perfunctorily, but Zhou Xiaotian can't.He is the dean of one of the top Shanghai Film Academy in China, and he can't even figure out this problem.

Zhou Xiaotian clearly remembered that the last domestic movie he saw that shocked him was five years ago.

It has been five years since now, and no one in the film and television industry has produced any good-looking and in-depth movies.

The Shanghai Film Academy has the best batch of talents who love the film and television industry in the country, but why in the end, when these students enter the film and television industry, one is not as good as the other, and they can't make any decent movies?
Zhou Xiaotian initially doubted whether these students had mastered the film and television production-related knowledge taught by the teachers at the film school during class.

But when he saw the high-grade report cards of each student, Zhou Xiaotian clearly realized that the problem was not with the students.

The students should all have mastered the knowledge needed to make an excellent film, and judging from the transcripts, their basic skills in film and television production are very solid.

"Lu Run, why haven't the students of our college entered the film and television industry after graduating in recent years and have not produced any first-class film and television works? What do you think is the problem? I think over the years, we have trained students from the film college There is nothing wrong with our plan. Judging from the transcripts, these students have mastered the knowledge in school very well, and I can't see anything wrong."

Dean Zhou Xiaotian looked at the number two person in the dean's office, the deputy dean Lu Run, hoping to get some useful feedback from the younger deputy dean.

"Mr. Zhou. Actually, this time Li Yang's Redemption can achieve such a good movie box office, which is completely beyond everyone's expectations. After all, the director of this movie, Zhang Xing, is the first in China to win an Oscar. Director, it is completely reasonable for him to be able to shoot such a good movie. His success cannot be replicated. After all, director Zhang Xing is a top-notch director, and the achievements he can create will not be predicted by others. .”

Vice President Lu Run poked his hand and let out a long sigh, his words were full of admiration for Director Zhang Xing.

"I know Zhang Xing is very good, but I'm wondering why our Shanghai Film School, as one of the top film schools, can't cultivate outstanding talents in the film and television industry like Zhang Xing. I want to find the reason from within us, rather than just blindly Shift the responsibility to the fact that others are too powerful.”

Zhou Xiaotian's tone was full of dissatisfaction, and he was very dissatisfied with Vice Dean Lu Run's answer.

What do you mean someone is too powerful?

Could it be that the talents cultivated by our Shanghai Film Academy are not good enough?

Zhang Xing is just a director trained by a second-rate film academy, the Tianfu Provincial Film Academy.

A second-rate cinema director can cultivate such outstanding talents in the film and television industry, why can’t our schools do the same?

This is what Zhou Xiaotian, the dean of the Shanghai Film Academy, wanted to know. He wanted to find the reason from within the school. Zhou Xiaotian even began to waver in the academy's talent training plan he had formulated.

"Dean Zhou, actually, our film school has not cultivated any outstanding film talents in recent years. The real reason lies in the changes in the film industry. I couldn't tell you directly before, after all, you have always been thinking about it. How to cultivate better talents in the film and television industry has not been considered from the perspective of the market."

After being scolded by the old dean, Lu Run's expression became a bit unbearable. He decided to talk to the dean, who had been out of touch with the external film and television industry for a long time, to talk about the truth.

Zhou Xiaotian has been working as the dean of the Shanghai Film Academy for the past few years, and has been focusing on the students of the school. He has not paid much attention to the job market in the film and television industry, and the change in the attitude of film and television industry capital towards film production.

Before, there were still many investors who were willing to give young and promising young directors who graduated from Shanghai Film Academy a chance to make in-depth movies, so that they could bring a movie with content to the market.

The investor itself also has the opportunity to train new directors. Generally, a young director gets around 2000 million investment from the investor. The investor will train new directors for their own use in the future.

For the films of young directors, the attitude of the investors is that after the filming is completed and the screening is over, it is better not to lose money at the box office.

The original operating rules of the film and television industry are like this. Talented young directors have the opportunity to be trained by investors, try to shoot good, high-quality movies, and then embark on the road of shooting mature commercial films.

But the emergence of traffic movies has destroyed this.

During the filming process of popular movies, as long as there are good-looking celebrities who have attracted a large number of die-hard fans, no matter how poor the acting skills of the actors who play key roles in the movie are, there will still be fans who will pay for it.Moreover, this type of movie has extremely high box office.

The investor is not a fool, of course he will understand that he can obtain higher returns by investing in post-type movies.

Then who will give young directors a chance, give them money, let them boldly follow their own ideas, and make a high-quality movie?

And the consequence of doing so is likely to be a loss of money, and the final box office of the movie is considered good.

It's a fool to have money and not make money!
this is the truth.

"Dean Zhou, over the years, the film and television industry has become less pure due to the injection of large capital. Everyone is looking at it for money, and few investors will let a newly graduated outstanding young director to shoot a movie. It is a high-quality movie that is very likely not to make money. Investors like the kind of traffic star movie that returns money quickly. Shooting this kind of movie has a high probability of bringing investors a lot of money. This is what these years , the reason why there are not many well-known graduates in the film and television industry among the students who graduated from Shanghai Film Academy!"

Vice President Lu Run is deeply saddened by this phenomenon in the film and television industry, but he can do nothing to change anything.

He is a teacher.

After all, he could teach his students the knowledge they needed to make a great film, but he couldn't give them the funds to pursue their ambitions.

Without money, as a director, you can't make a movie, you can only stare blankly.

As the dean of the Shanghai Film Academy, Zhou Xiaotian cannot fail to understand this, otherwise he would not take the position of dean.

When Zhou Xiaotian was young, he lived in the golden age of making movies. For movies, Dean Zhou Xiaotian has a love and attachment that ordinary people can't match.

Subconsciously, the old dean may really be unable to accept the cruel reality of the film and television industry, so he can only try to get an answer from himself.

Lu Run felt that the old dean might not be able to accept the reality, the film and television industry he loves, and the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money.

The film and television industry in the old dean's time was still a very healthy industry. Almost all film and television practitioners were not thinking about how much money they could make, but what good movies they could make.

The current film and television industry is no longer the simple and healthy film and television industry it used to be.

"Hey! Fortunately, that Zhang Xing from the Tianfu Provincial Film Academy filmed Li Yang's Redemption, which re-made the capital market realize how important a film's quality is, and brought the film and television industry into a new era. The era of streaming movies. It's a pity that such talents are not cultivated by our school."

The old dean's tone was full of sobs.

"Mr. Zhou, you already understand why these students in our college have not been famous all these years. Why do you still ask me? I thought you were confused just now."

Lu Run said half-jokingly.

It seems that the old dean is really not stupid, he just wants to get an answer from his own mouth.

"Dean, in fact, this time the movie Li Yang's Redemption can achieve such good results, there is another person who cannot be ignored, that is the investor behind this movie, the boss of the World Divine Chef Catering Co., Ltd., Cheng Xin. It's him I gave Director Zhang Xing a filming fund of [-] billion in one breath, so that Director Zhang Xing can shoot with peace of mind. I think our film school can invite this big shot to cooperate. He is rich, and we have talents in the film and television industry. It will definitely be very easy to cooperate. happy."

"Mr. Cheng Xin definitely hopes that high-quality movies will appear on the market, otherwise he would not give director Zhang Xing one billion in one go to make movies. Only those who are really not short of money and hope for good in the film and television industry can Courage to do it."

Lu Run gave the dean a suggestion to cooperate with Cheng Xin.

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaotian's eyes really lit up.

He hadn't thought of this before.

At first glance, Cheng Xin was a rich man, and he was willing to use the money to invest in filming, so he was a very good partner.

Director Zhang Xing has the opportunity to cooperate with Cheng Xin, so the famous directors of their Shanghai Film Academy should also have this opportunity.

What Cheng Xin wants is money to make money, and he wants high-quality movies to bring him good profits.

The students at the film school wanted to make good movies, and when the two collaborated, they both got what they wanted.

Not much to say, Zhou Xiaotian immediately asked the relevant staff of the college to contact the Human Kitchen Catering Co., Ltd. to seek cooperation.

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Coincidentally, the leaders of Nanjiang Film Academy and Kyoto Film Academy are also aware of this.

This time Li Yang's redemption, this high-grossing movie, changed the understanding of all film and television practitioners.

In the foreseeable future, more and more people will come to Cheng Xin for cooperation.

Through this movie, Cheng Xin's image of not short of money has been created.

Being able to invest one billion yuan in one go to shoot a movie without changing his expression, without interfering at all with how the director shoots the movie.

This is the dream investment partner of all film and television practitioners.

As a director, sometimes there is nothing you can do about it when you encounter stupid investors, and you can't explain it clearly.

The supervisor sent by the investor, followed the progress of the director's filming, and reported to the investor's boss.These people like to pretend to be powerful, and they don't know how to make movies. They like to give all kinds of layman's opinions when the director shoots movies.

At this time, as a responsible director, I can only endure these people.After all, movies still have to be shot. If there are investors to invest, it is already very good to have a movie.

How talented directors are now, but they have no chance to shoot movies, and they are all wasting their golden creative time.

However, if a director loses his pride, he is destined to lose a lot of things.

A truly excellent director is always full of confidence in the things he shoots, and absolutely does not allow others to point fingers at the things he shoots.

As a director, you should have overall control over your film.

After all, the responsibility of the director is to restore the script as much as possible.

Now, all directors ushered in a good time.

Li Yang's redemption, the film's box office of 98 billion and its release income of 88 billion have made many people jealous, and they can't wait to enter the film and television industry to make a pot of gold.

Those who filmed traffic star movies at the beginning have all begun to transform.They no longer look down on the little money they earn every time they shoot a traffic movie.

Tens of millions of income, hundreds of millions, billions, as investors, they are still very keen and know how to choose.

How to maximize your own investment profits will determine the future direction of the film market.

Li Yang's redemption gave the answer, high-quality movies bring high-gross movies.

During this time, there will be countless new movies started.

Countless veteran drama stars who have been silent for a long time have also received roles that suit them for a long time. The film and television industry has begun to develop further and is on the right track.

Cheng Xin himself is currently discussing the new movie with Director Zhang Xing.

"Mr. Cheng Xin, these good friends of mine all said this time that I am amazing. I have shot the highest level of domestic films and created the box office history of domestic films. All kinds of congratulations and compliments me. But I know, this time When shooting the movie Li Yang’s Redemption, I just acted normally and shot. It is the script you provided that determines the upper limit quality of this movie, as well as the thinking of the two leading actors in shooting this movie. I actually played the role of a supporting role .”

"As for me, I mainly want to express my gratitude to you, thank you for providing me with such a perfect script, and giving me an investment of one billion yuan, making me officially become a pivotal figure in the domestic film industry."

Zhang Xing expressed his sincere gratitude to Cheng Xin.

In fact, without Cheng Xin's script, filming suggestions, and unconditional large investment, it would be very difficult to make a big movie with a good reputation at the box office in the domestic market in his lifetime based on director Zhang Xing's personal talent.

The "Murloc Legend" directed by director Zhang Xing is a fantasy hero movie adapted from a fantasy novel. The spirit conveyed by the movie itself is very positive, but the way of expression is too obscure, not every audience can understand it , the box office is not ideal.

In the end, "Legend of the Murloc" won the Academy Award, allowing director Zhang Xing to grow from a small transparent director to a mature director with his own style. Not that big.

Box office, high quality, shooting a movie, for most directors, being able to achieve one of these successes is already very successful.

The previous director Zhang Xing was in a relatively successful director stage.

With Cheng Xin's help, director Zhang Xing suddenly became one of the most dazzling directors in the group.

"Director Zhang, don't say that. Our cooperation was initiated by Feiyu Film Group. At the beginning, I didn't know your ability, Director Zhang. I chose to trust you and entrust you with an investment of one billion yuan. You filmed Li Yang’s Redemption, and it turned out that you are indeed a superb director with first-class filming skills. You made Li Yang’s Redemption a movie. On the other hand, my investment also made your status in the industry go further. It can be said , we are mutual achievements. I also want to say thank you to you."

Cheng Xin also expressed his sincere gratitude to Director Zhang Xing.

"I still have a new movie script here, which I came up with recently. Director Zhang Xing, do you want to see it? I don't think Li Yang's redemption, this movie's waves are not big enough. We can still break through the limit and let The new film is once again setting a movie box office record."

Cheng Xin let out a breath and said this sentence sincerely.

"Mr. Cheng Xin, are you joking? If you have a new script, you can send it to me right now. Let me see, if the quality of the new script is really as outstanding as Li Yang's Redemption, this movie, then there is no There is no doubt that we will make a new history."

Director Zhang Xing is also nearly forty years old. Hearing the news of Cheng Xin's new script, he became excited all of a sudden. He stood up from the posture of lying on the sofa.

As mentioned earlier, the golden creative time of a director is limited.

Most of the world-class directors who are well-known and well-known by the public will not shoot more than ten movies in their lifetime.

Therefore, it is very important for every director to be able to receive a first-class script.

"I'm not joking. The new script I wrote this time is a romance script. It tells the story of young people falling in love, falling in love, and breaking up in a bustling city. The theme of this script is not so lofty. But the theme of romance movies will definitely attract the vast majority of audiences and evoke memories of love in every audience."

Cheng Xin said cheerfully.

"Then I'll take a good look at it on the spot. Your script must be a masterpiece."

As soon as the phone call was over, Director Zhang Xing turned off the phone, cut off all contact with the outside world, and began to read the script sent to him by Cheng Xin on the computer.

The script that Cheng Xin sent him is called "Bayu Forest". It is easy to understand from the name. This is a love story that takes place in the Bayu area. The forest symbolizes the complex relationships among various characters in the modern city. including love.

The story of this story is not complicated. There are four main characters, two men and two women. One pair did not become lovers, and the other became lovers.

Urban management A Wu, number 223, had just broken up with his girlfriend May, and was devastated every day, until one day, when 233 was working on the street, he ran into a blond woman wearing red high-heeled shoes, and was fascinated at first glance.

Chengguan Awei, number 663, took the initiative to break up with the busy flight attendant. After the breakup, he stayed alone in the empty room, often thinking of the smell when the flight attendant was still at home, nostalgic for the past, and then he met Ah at the canteen Fei, after some experiences, Ah Fei fell in love with him.

Ah Wu is very handsome, with outstanding appearance. He is also the most beautiful young man in the urban management team. He has always wondered why Ah May broke up with him. He has been waiting for Ah May to change his mind and get back together with him, but he has been Did not wait.

Ah Wu buys a can of pineapple every day that expires on May 30st. May [-]st is Ah Wu’s birthday. If Ah May has not changed his mind when Ah Wu buys [-] cans of pineapple, then Ah Wu will decide to give up the relationship.

But on Ah Wu's birthday, he ate [-] cans of canned pineapple, and Ah May still didn't change his mind.

Ah Wu's heart was full of bitterness, so he decided to go for a run.

"Everyone will fall in love sometimes, and I will choose to run. Because running can evaporate the water in the body, so I won't shed tears easily. In May's heart, I am a cool man."

Seeing this narration commentary, director Zhang Xing suddenly felt that Wu's character image was erected.

Cheng Xin is indeed a master of novels. He wrote the fantasy master of "Fighting the Sky", and his skills in writing scripts are also outstanding.

A sad narration brings the image of Ah Wu's lovelorn to the readers' eyes, which makes people feel sorry for him.

"Saury will expire, meat sauce will expire, canned pineapple will expire, I don't know when, there will be a date on everything, I began to suspect that there is nothing in this world that will not expire. "

The second note written by Cheng Xin clarifies the essence of love among urban young people, a moment of passion, and then quickly loses interest in the other party.

This is also the theme of the movie Bayu Forest.

(End of this chapter)