Xu Dunyang saw Xu Wangqiu and Ding Jianming, and walked over quickly with his luggage. Before he arrived at Xu Wangqiu's side, he greeted them with a smile: "Lao Ding, Wangqiu, I haven't seen you for a long time!"

Ding Jianming shook hands with Xu Dunyang and said with a smile: "It won't be long, it's only been two months!"

Xu Wangqiu looked at the suit on Xu Dunyu's body, and teased: "Mr. Xu, you are full of capitalist atmosphere, when you walk out on the street, if you let the pickets see it, you will definitely take out scissors and cut your clothes." ”

Xu Dunyang will go back to the mainland every year to attend conferences, and he is quite experienced in dressing and traveling, patted the bag in his hand, and said with a chuckle: "I brought a Zhongshan suit, and I will change it when I go out." ”

Xu Wangqiu was stunned: "No, you are too thoughtful." ”

Ding Jianming laughed and said, "Wangqiu, you are rare and strange." The people from their southern film industry are like this every year when they come back for meetings, gay men in suits and leather shoes, and lesbians in cheongsam. When they arrive at the residence of China Film Company, they will change their clothes. When it's time to leave, they'll change their clothes back again. ”

Xu Wangqiu felt a little funny: "I estimate that in a year or two at most, you won't have to change your clothes when you come back." Saying that, he stretched out his hand to take the luggage from Xu Dunyang's hand: "Let me take the luggage! This is not the place to talk, let's go quickly!"

Xu Dunyang didn't postpone it, and said with a smile: "Then it's troublesome for you!"

Xu Dunyang and Xu Wangqiu walked out together, and after a few steps, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I heard that there is a nude painting at the capital airport, I don't know where it is, can you take me to see it?"

1979 is the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and all walks of life have presented gifts for the National Day. As a key construction project after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Capital Airport also ushered in the inauguration ceremony on the National Day. To decorate the airport, the head of the capital airport decided to invite painters to create murals for the airport.

After 10 months of creation, seven murals were unveiled in October, including "Songkran - A Hymn to Life" by Yuan Yunsheng on the second floor of the terminal. The mural depicts the Songkran Festival of the Dai people: carrying water, dividing water, splashing water, dancing, bathing, courtship, among which two ** appeared, which is the first time that the human body appeared in public in the Chinese art world.

The national leaders, including Taizong's presence in the mainland, visited the airport terminal and spoke highly of the murals, praising each of these works for their own unique style and subject matter. Many leaders believe that these murals are of high quality, first-class level, and add brilliance to the entire airport building.

After the official opening of the capital airport, there was a strange phenomenon, every day there were trucks pulling trucks to the airport. These people didn't come to wait for the plane, they all came to see the nude paintings. Even Xu Wangqiu and the others had a lively time, and went to the terminal building to see the murals that were hotly discussed by the masses.

Xu Wangqiu was a little surprised when he heard that Xu Dunyang was going to see the painting: "I didn't expect you to know that painting." ”

Xu Dunyang chuckled: "The Xiangjiang media reported on this matter, and foreign media also reported it, and their evaluation is that China's appearance of a woman's body on the wall of a public place indicates a real sense of reform and opening up." I think this assessment makes sense, so I want to pay a visit. ”

Xu Wangqiu's evaluation is also very reasonable: "In fact, there are many people who criticize the painting, they advocate revision, saying that there can be no nudity, at least wear pants, or simply remove it." Just a few days ago, someone organized an on-site criticism meeting in the name of the China Artists Association. Because the painting was of a Dai woman, the people who organized the criticism found many Dai students from the Central University for Nationalities and pulled them to the front of the painting at the airport and asked them to criticize. It's hard to say how long this painting will last!"

A hint of gloom flashed on Xu Dunyu's face: "Didn't the national leaders all give affirmation, how can this be?"

Ding Jianming sighed slightly and said: "Although the reform and opening up has been carried out now, many people's minds have not yet turned around, and the conflict between the old and new concepts is particularly strong. ”

Xu Dunyang sighed and said: "I'm not afraid of conflict of ideas, as long as I don't get involved in politics." ”

Xu Wangqiu is extremely confident in this: "Now reform and opening up is the trend of the times, even if there are a little twists and turns, it cannot stop this trend, and the future is definitely bright." Don't you want to see paintings, let's go over!"

Xu Wangqiu and the others came to the second floor of the terminal building and saw a mural called "Songkran Festival - Hymn to Life". On the wall, which is three meters high and four meters high and twenty-seven meters long, it depicts the situation of the Dai people celebrating the Songkran Festival. The mural is composed of two main parts, on the front wall, showing the Dai family carrying water, splashing water and dancing, and on the east side of the smaller wall, depicting bathing and love.

Although Xu Wangqiu's painting skills are so-so, he has seen a large number of paintings and exhibitions, and his appreciation of paintings still has a certain level. In his opinion, this painting is quite ordinary, not too artistic, but very novel for the current China, with both realism and decoration, both national and folk and modern, with smooth lines to show the bloom of life and youth.

Xu Dunyang stared at "Songkran Festival - A Hymn to Life" for a while, and said with satisfaction: "I think this painting is really meaningful and a symbol of reform and opening up." No matter what others think, at least for me, seeing this painting is very grounded. ”

Coming out of the capital airport, Xu Wangqiu and Xu Dunyang came to the headquarters of Xiaoxi Tianzhong Film Company. When people from Southern Film Industry go back to the mainland to attend conferences, they never live in hotels, they all live in the dormitory of China Film headquarters.

After Xu Dunyang settled down, Xu Wangqiu asked, "Mr. Xu, I asked you to help me find the information, don't you know if you brought it over?"

Xu Dunyang smiled and said, "Don't worry, I brought it all." As he spoke, he opened his bag and handed a stack of materials to Xu Wangqiu: "This is the information you want for the export of Xiangjiang films and Indian films." ”

"Great! I'm really bothering you!" Xu Wangqiu flipped through the information, full of gratitude. Now is not the time to look at the information, and he did not look at it carefully, holding the information tightly in his hands. When he went to Xiangjiang to promote "The Rape", he agreed with Xu Dunyang and asked Southern Pictures to donate some video recorders and videotapes to Nortel. This matter has not been fulfilled, and now that the main owner is in front of him, he naturally will not miss the opportunity to ask for the account: "Mr. Xu, do you know that you have made me miserable?"

Xu Dunyang was slightly stunned when he heard this: "Oh, what's going on?"

Xu Wangqiu sighed and said: "The last time I came back from Xiangjiang, I told the school about your Southern Film Industry's donation of video recorders and videotapes, and the teachers and classmates of the whole school knew about it, and they were all looking forward to it." But until now, this has not been fulfilled, and in the eyes of my teachers and classmates, I have become a liar. ”

Xu Dunyang laughed when he heard this: "Don't worry, I will definitely not forget what I promised you." When I came over this time, I sent something over. It's just that it needs to be declared, plus transportation, and it may take ten days and half a month to arrive. ”

Xu Wangqiu was overjoyed when he heard this: "Mr. Xu, thank you so much." ”

Xu Dunyang waved his hand and said, "This is what we should do." Film schools train film directors, and if we can train a few more outstanding young directors like you, then our lives will be much better. Speaking of this, he looked at Xu Wangqiu and asked, "How is your new film "Falcon", when will it be launched?"

Xu Wangqiu said: ""Falcon" is much more complex than "Hoe Rape", the scene is much larger, and there are many special effects. The preparation time is relatively long, and I estimate that it will not be able to start until June. ”

Xu Dunyang heard Xu Wangqiu talk about "Falcon", the story is very exciting, coupled with Xu Wangqiu's directing ability, this movie will definitely be a big hit in Xiangjiang, and he is very much looking forward to it: "Slow work and careful work, don't worry." ”

Xu Wangqiu chatted with Xu Dunyu for a while and left. Ding Jianming originally asked him to stay and had dinner together in the evening. However, Xu Wangqiu refused, and there will be a meeting tomorrow morning to discuss the establishment of a film export company, and he must digest the information brought by Xu Dunluo. The establishment of a film export company had the potential to change history, and he really wanted to seize this opportunity.

Xu Wangqiu returned to the bedroom, sat on the bed, and slowly looked at the information brought by Xu Dunyu. Since 50 years, Southern Pictures has been responsible for the export of domestic films, and has a good understanding of the Southeast Asian and Indian markets. Xu Dunyang attaches great importance to Xu Wangqiu, and asked a special person to sort out the relevant information, and the content is extremely detailed.

Through the information brought by Xu Dunyu, Xu Wangqiu found that the export of Xiangjiang films was stronger than he imagined. Throughout the 70 years, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia have been the most important export markets for Hong Kong. Xiangjiang movies are not as popular as imagined in Dongying, but they are better than imagined in the United States. It's not surprising if you think about it, Quentin is a big fan of Shaw Brothers movies, and there should be many Americans like him.

The results of Xiangjiang Films in the United States have increased Xu Wangqiu's confidence by two points, and the current level of Xiangjiang Films is not very good, and most of them are shoddy. These movies can all enter the American market, so what reason can't they pry open the door to the American market for commercial blockbusters that they have created with huge sums of money?

Xu Wangqiu knew that Indian movies were stronger, but after reading the data provided by Southern Pictures, he found that Indian movies were stronger than he imagined. Since 1971, India's annual production has surpassed that of Hollywood. Up to now, India has 66 film studios, 26 film laboratories, more than 400 film magazines, 12,000 cinemas, 250,000 film workers, and a daily audience of 12.5 million to 20 million people. Last year, India produced nearly 900 films and exported nearly 500 films to countries in Asia, Africa and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, earning a lot of foreign exchange.

What shocked Xu Wangqiu even more was the incredible success of Indian cinema in the Soviet Union. Half of the entire Soviet market was home-grown films, and the remaining half were foreign-language films from all over the world. Among them, Indian films are the most popular foreign language films, more fierce than all other foreign language films combined. A bit of a decades later, Hollywood movies feel like in China. I am afraid that in the Soviet market alone, Indian films can earn nearly 10 million dollars a year.

Seeing that Indian films were so successful in the Soviet Union, Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but secretly say that it was a pity, the Soviet Union had a population of more than 200 million, and it was relatively rich, and the film market was also very prosperous. The normalization of Sino-Soviet relations would not take until '88, when the collapse of the Soviet Union was only three years away.

A big market with a population of more than 200 million, it's a pity that you can't get in, it's really cheap!

Xu Wangqiu feels that the huge success of Indian films overseas is a good inspiration for Chinese films. India is in a similar situation to China, both are populous countries, and both have relatively backward economies. Since Indian films can be made and can be successful overseas, then of course Chinese films can also do it!

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