The desert is lonely, and the sun sets on the long river!

In the midst of thousands of rolls of yellow sand, a lonely inn towers over.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, even if this rivers and lakes are just a small inn!

Wu Jianye's thoughts have completely returned to the movie he once remembered, if the so-called Hollywood has its own western cowboy movie, then this "New Dragon Gate Inn" is a Chinese western martial arts movie!

He doesn't remember how many times he has watched this movie, the elegant but proud Zhou Huai'an, the restrained but heroic Qiu Moyan, the cunning but amorous gold-inlaid jade, even the sinister and vicious Cao Shaoqing who sits on the top of the mountain.......

These people are like real people, living in Wu Jianye's mind.

However, it is precisely because I am too familiar with this movie, so familiar that Wu Jianye knows any detail of the movie, but this is the case, but Wu Jianye doesn't know how to write!

Wu Jianye once thought that it was enough to copy all the plots of the previous life, but Wu Jianye had his own ideas, and he wanted to integrate his own ideas into this movie.......

It is precisely like this, until the morning sun outside the house has risen, the glow is sprinkled into the room, and countless obsolete drafts are placed in the paper basket, but the paper manuscripts spread on the table are still only five words: "New Dragon Gate Inn"!

Wu Jianye, who was a little irritable in his heart, habitually wanted to light a cigarette, but found that the cigarette box was already empty, and opened the drawer to take out a new box again, but found that there was no longer a pack of white rabbits left in the drawer, lying there quietly.

Wu Jianye pushed open the window, and a cool breeze blew in, making his somewhat drowsy head sober up a lot.

"I'll go, Lao Wu, have you ordered the house?"

At this time, Zhang Huijun was holding his basin, he had just come back from the water room, passing by Wu Jianye's room, and saw the window that was smoking outside, and couldn't help shouting.

Wu Jianye shook his head and said with a smile: "Don't worry, if you want to order, you will also order your room first!"

"You're ruthless, let's go to breakfast together?"

"Cheng, I'll go wash my face first!" Wu Jianye did not refuse.

It feels very good to soak your face in cold water, and from time to time there are teachers who live in the school come in with their own basins and greet each other.

Back in the dormitory, changed into clean clothes, Wu Jianye and Zhang Huijun went to the cafeteria together, the breakfast in the canteen is still the same, there will be no changes in the past few years.

However, Wu Jianye, who didn't sleep all night, was also in spirit.

Zhang Huijun is different from Wu Jianye, Zhang Huijun is still in charge of the students of the Fine Arts Department, these are all Zheng'er Bajing who were admitted to the Yenching Film Academy, and belong to the students of the Yenching Film Academy who are rooted in Miaohong, but Wu Jianye's advanced training class has now been officially renamed the cadre advanced training class.

To put it bluntly, these people came to Yenching Film Academy to gild, but Wu Jianye will not slack off on his work because of this, these people may not be well-known in front of and behind the scenes that everyone is familiar with in later generations, but they are real real power figures, even at this time, they are all middle-level leaders of various studios.

Wu Jianye came to the classroom with the textbook.

"Teacher Xiao Wu is here!"

Everyone has no restraints after seeing Wu Jianye, most of these people are older than Wu Jianye, so the title of Teacher Xiao Wu has become their exclusive term.

Wu Jianye had no opinion on this, and greeted everyone with a smile.

When Wu Jianye stood on the podium, the classroom became quiet, Wu Jianye was very satisfied with this situation, when he first taught this group of people, it was not like this, they all held their own identities one by one, and they didn't look down on Wu Jianye very much, not to mention that Wu Jianye only starred in two movies now, even if Wu Jianye really directed two movies, they wouldn't take it too seriously, didn't there be a group of directors in the hands of these people.

They also had the idea of coming here to gild, so when they first started class, they gave Wu Jianye a dismount.

Clearly told Wu Jianye, everyone is usually very busy, Wu Jianye should not be too serious, everyone is running to get by, hello and I can do it.

Wu Jianye didn't say anything at the time, he knew that even if he came up with the directorial techniques of later generations to talk to these people, he would not receive any results, to put it bluntly, the job of these people is not to be in charge, but to be political!

So he is talking about the future of Huaxia Film Studio!

At that time, the first sentence Wu Jianye said shocked everyone: If Huaxia's film studios can't keep up with the road of foreign studios, sooner or later they will become dust in history!

You can imagine how much of a reaction Wu Jianye caused when he said this sentence at that time, and now that Huaxia movies are doing well, no one will think that Wu Jianye is right.

Therefore, he was young and frivolous, and the name of grandstanding fell on Wu Jianye's head.

At that time, Wu Jianye did not pay attention to them, but told them about the development history of the film company in Xiangjiang and the development history of the seven major film companies in Hollywood.

In the current country, this knowledge has not been compiled into a book at all, which means that what Wu Jianye said is a completely new topic.

It is precisely in this high-rise situation that Wu Jianye gradually conquered everyone, and now they have begun to look forward to Wu Jianye's lecture.

"Mr. Wu, can you tell us about Hollywood in the United States again?"

The quiet anger was quickly broken, and the production director of the official Xiaoxiang Film Studio, surnamed Liu, Liu Yuanjun, has the unique straightforwardness of a Northwest man, and he was the most dissatisfied with Wu Jianye before, but after listening to Wu Jianye's few classes, he has now become a die-hard fan of Wu Jianye.

Before, Wu Jianye told them a lot of stories about the eight major film companies in the golden age of Hollywood through the asymmetry of domestic and foreign information, and now these people hope to listen to more.

Wu Jianye pressed his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said with a smile: "Everyone knows Chaplin!"

"Of course!" said a dozen students in the class at the same time.

Chaplin, as an indelible figure in global film history, does not say what his character is, but his influence is known even in China now.

"Today, let's talk about the 100-year history of Lianyi, a top Hollywood production company that Chaplin participated in and founded!" After Wu Jianye finished speaking, he wrote the word Lianyi on the blackboard, thought about it for a while, and added three words of defeat history!

"The founder of Lianyi is not only Charlie Chaplin, but also D· W. Griffith, Mary Pikford, Douglas Van Punk, these four people were all famous filmmakers in Hollywood at that time, it can be said that each of them called for wind and rain, and their deeds have been repeatedly written in Hollywood and recorded in history.

The original intention of United Arts was actually for celebrities to resist the oppression of large corporations, but they could not maintain a purely independent identity, but in the end, they became one of the eight members of Hollywood's golden age with this original intention, but because of this idea, as well as their own unstable personnel changes and management strategies, this business was in jeopardy, making independent production more possible. ”

"Mr. Xiao Wu, didn't you say before that professional things should be done by professional people? It stands to reason that since Chaplin and the four are film masters, why would they still let their company fall into trouble, and at the same time, there will be unstable personnel changes and mistakes in management strategies?" asked Liu Yuanjun incomprehensibly.

"There is no conflict between these two things, it is true that when shooting movies or acting in movies, the four Chaplin people are professional, but managing a company, even if it is a film company, is still a new topic for them, that is to say, these four people are not professional in this regard, and it is this unprofessionalism that makes the establishment of Lianyi not successful in the early days!" Wu Jianye said.

In the early days of Lianyi, although these four people were full of enthusiasm, they wanted to start a vertically integrated enterprise funded by the DuPont consortium with production, distribution and projection functions.

But they all have their own little calculations, or it can be said that they don't think about it that much at all.

For example, when Lianyi was founded, the copyright of Bikov and Chaplin's works was still in the hands of the first country. United Arts was founded in 1919, but Chaplin, as the founder, did not release his first film in United Arts until the end of 1923, "A Woman in Paris".

In order to increase his original stake in United Arts, Griffith signed a three-film contract with the First State in 1919, which he worked hard to free the following year.

Of the four, Van Punk was the only one to be freed immediately, and his "His Majesty the Americans" naturally became the first film released by United Arts.

The terms of the founding of United Arts also showed that the four founders were very amateurish, and they even required each of them to independently produce five films a year and release at least twelve films a year.

You must know that at that time, the language of silent films had matured, and the length of the film was fixed at about 90 minutes (about eight films), and the huge production style raised the production cost and lengthened the production cycle, which determined that even the most popular stars could not complete five high-quality works in one year.

In 1920, the first official year of operation of United Arts, it released only seven films, just halfway through its mission. To boost the business, United Arts created a subsidiary called Allied Producers, which focused on works by relatively minor directors and actors, such as Charles Ray and Max Lindday, which later proved to be unappealing.

At the same time, Chaplin and others were in fear of being acquired, so they clearly refused to go public, which made it difficult for them to raise funds on Wall Street.

In the early days, United Arts also had several box office successes, such as "The Marriage", "Robin Hood" and "Gold Rush", but the value they created could not be offset by those who lost money, and they could not reverse the trend of making ends meet. Between 1919 and 1927, Lianyi was profitable for only two years, and was generally in a state of loss—the so-called "profit" was actually not worth the salary that Adolf Zucker paid to Bickf in a month.

In the end, Douglas was the first to quit Lianyi, and in 1924 he sold his shares.

Later, Chaplin and others also realized their own shortcomings in management, and hired Joseph Schenck as the new chairman, his advantage is not only the rich experience accumulated in his ten-year production career, but also the "Schenck Film Family" he brought: Norma Talamucci, the star wife who was worth more than Bickfu at that time, Norma's sister actor Constance Talamach and her director, star husband Buster Keaton.

During this period, Chaplin also objected to the request for a merger between United Arts and MGM.

For a while, United Arts was on the verge of bankruptcy, but two lawyer-turned-producers, Arthur Colm and Robert Benjamin, saved the fortunes of United Arts and created its miracle and glory in the 50s and 60s.

In 1951, Colm and Benjamin approached Bikov and Chaplin and made them a somewhat crazy request: they wanted to hold a stake in Brikov and Chaplin for a period of ten years, and if any of the first three years of their operation were profitable, the Colm-Benjamin team would be allowed to buy fifty percent of the company's shares at a symbolic price of one dollar per share (about eight thousand dollars).

Bikfu thinks that there is nothing to lose, so it is better to give it a go and readily agree. Chaplin was initially opposed, but he was embroiled in personal lawsuits and investigated by the Committee on Un-American Activities, and he had no time to protect himself. In the end, Chaplin was disqualified by the U.S. government from returning to the United States when he premiered "Stage Career" in Europe the following year, and he was forced to let go completely.

By the end of 1951, in just a few months, United Arts had released a total of 45 films, making an incredible net profit of $313,000.

Colm-Benjamin's team's agreement with Bikov and Chaplin took effect immediately, and they became partners of United Arts.

It was only in the fifties that in the minds of major financial institutions, Lianyi's image changed, and it was gradually shaped into a rationally managed publishing company - a chaotic page in its history has been turned.

By February 1955, Chaplin had sold all of his $1.1 million shares to Colm and Benjamin. The following year, in 1956, with the success of Lianyi, Ms. Bicker thought she could walk away gracefully, and she sold her 25% stake and took $3 million with her. Colm and Benjamin became the sole owners of Lianyi, and soon after, Lianyi went public as a joint-stock company.

By 1967, Lianyi had become one of the most successful companies in the American film industry, and Colm and Benjamin, who had gained fame and fortune, decided to sell Lianyi to the insurance giant Pan Am.

When capital participates in the operation of the film company, it is also destined to usher in its own period of decline again.

Pan America's acquisition of Lianyi was followed by a radical overhaul that quickly transformed into a diversified company that extended into the mass leisure industry, acquiring a chain of restaurants, hotels, bowling alleys and service stations.

The Pan American leadership, which sells insurance and has little experience in filmmaking, is eager to prove that under their leadership, United Arts can also produce high-quality films. They gave the green light to director Michael Chimino's brainchild, big-budget western "Heaven's Gate."

Everyone knows the result later, "Heaven's Gate" pits Lianyi into a desire for immortals.

After Wu Jianye finished telling the history of Lianyi, the students in the audience fell into deep thought.

"The future of the film studio is not only to deal with the system at that time, but also with the development of the country, the capital market will enter the Chinese film industry sooner or later.

When the bell rang for the end of class, Wu Jianye's words also fell!

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