A busy person like Boss Ma, whether at home or abroad, has a super luxurious circle of friends, and he has participated in dinners, of course, no less than any entrepreneur.

It can be said that Boss Ma definitely spends more than 1,000 hours in the air a year, which is longer than the time of any professional pilot in the world.

Therefore, Boss Ma actually has very little time to be able to set up a banquet at home.

Because in Boss Ma's heart, rice is very important, and what to talk about at the dinner table is more important.

Every time he has a dinner with friends, what Boss Ma wants to stay is not a meal, but a collision of ideas.

Huang Zhongjun and Boss Ma met at the "Annual Meeting of Chinese Business Leaders" a few years ago and hit it off at first sight, and Boss Ma became one of the earliest shareholders of Huayi Brothers.

In the past few years, Huang Zhongjun has often called Boss Ma for advice when he is confused, and Boss Ma will not hesitate to give advice.

When talking about movies with everyone, Boss Ma also laughed that he didn't care about the box office of Huayi Brothers' movies at all, and he cared more about whether the mainland could produce a company like Warner Bros. to improve the international status of Huaguo films.

I have to say that Boss Ma's ideological realm is absolutely detached from low-level taste, which is indeed embarrassing for Lin Xiaoguang, because in Lin Xiaoguang's heart, he is still far from the threshold of the art of film, and he has been able to make one or two movies with word-of-mouth box office success in the past two years, which has basically met his initial expectations of being a director.

In addition, Boss Ma also recalled the past when Huang Zhongjun asked him to invest in movies, and he was not interested in it at all.

When mentioning these past events, Boss Ma still felt some emotion in his heart: "To be honest, I never wanted to be an entertainment figure, and the Chinese army has approached me several times in order to let me invest in Huayi, which is also a persistent spirit." ”

"One day, the two of us had a meeting together, and he sat next to me and said to me, go and see Huayi, this investment is really good. ”

"At that time, I asked him whether you want to be a box office company or a company like Warner Bros., and Zhongjun told me that he wanted to be a company like Warner Bros. ”

It was only then that I became interested in getting in touch with him, and I immediately said that I would talk about it after the meeting. ”

At this time, Huang Zhongjun also smiled and quipped: "So, it turns out that you decided to cooperate with our Huayi because of my perseverance?"

Boss Ma smiled noncommittally, then looked at Huang Zhongjun, and then at Lin Xiaoguang: "Actually, from beginning to end, I don't care much about the box office of the movie, the reason is very simple, according to my original ideals, I really hope that Huaguo can produce a film company that can stand on its feet, like Warner." ”

"As for the box office of Huayi Company, the loss of one, or several movies a year is nothing, there will be wins and losses every year, you may be the first this year, and he will be next year, but so hat?

The first time I heard Boss Ma say swear words in English, or Chinese English mixed with English, Lin Xiaoguang and the others did not feel vulgar, but were amused by Boss Ma's tone and demeanor when he said swearing.

This is probably the so-called personality charm.

In the past, Lin Xiaoguang always felt that Huang Zhongjun was the king of stories in the entertainment industry, not only rich in experience, outstanding talent, but also extremely smart, but today Lin Xiaoguang met Boss Ma and realized that there is a mountain and a mountain high, there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky.

For example, at tonight's dinner, when we talked at the beginning, Huang Zhongjun could still talk to Boss Ma about the theory, but soon, Boss Ma slowly guided the topic, so that Huang Zhongjun couldn't interject at all, and could only listen to his speech with the same peace of mind as Lin Xiaoguang and Zhao Wei.

That night, the four of them stayed in Peach Blossom Land for one night, while Huang Zhongjun and Boss Ma chatted late at night behind closed doors.

The next day.

Early in the morning, after saying goodbye to Boss Ma and Zhao Wei, Lin Xiaoguang and Huang Zhongjun went to the airport and took a flight from Hangzhou to Beijing.

Looking at the white clouds outside the window, Huang Zhongjun stretched his waist, yawned, and suddenly said casually: "Xiaoguang, you will rest for a while this year, and it is time to prepare for a new movie after almost the year, and see if it can be released in time for next summer." ”

Now that the company's bigwigs have taken the initiative to speak, Lin Xiaoguang, who is an employee of the company, receives the company's salary, so he is embarrassed to continue to be so idle.

Of course, the reason why Huang Zhongjun asked Lin Xiaoguang's movies to be released in the summer is mainly to let Lin Xiaoguang avoid the Chinese New Year film schedule of the sealed small tank, so as not to have a chaotic war between his own people and his own people.

Lin Xiaoguang said with a straight face: "Big brother, you can rest assured about the movie, I have been studying the script recently." ”

Hearing Lin Xiaoguang say this, Huang Zhongjun said with relief: "That's good, do you have any promising projects at hand now? ”

Lin Xiaoguang said calmly: "Not yet, I'm thinking about it." ”

Huang Zhongjun said faintly: "Okay, I won't say anything superfluous, you can grasp it yourself." ”

"Okay, I know. ”

In the following days, Lin Xiaoguang did not go out with Huang Zhongjun to socialize, but stayed in the light and shadow studio, discussing the script selection of the new movie with the staff.

As for Cheng Yanxi, the contracted artist of Light and Shadow Studio, Lin Xiaoguang basically did not let her take on new plays, but took advantage of Cheng Yanxi's popularity in the circle to let her attend various commercial activities, as well as the shooting of magazines and advertisements.

Cheng Yanxi has no complaints about Lin Xiaoguang's arrangement, the hard work is a little hard, but she can't stand the money to earn!

In addition, several screenwriters in the studio have found a lot of scripts, but they don't particularly like Lin Xiaoguang.

However, among so many scripts, there is a book of pure love, which has attracted Lin Xiaoguang's attention.

Originally, after filming the movie "Those Years", Lin Xiaoguang didn't like this kind of little love very much.

Because Lin Xiaoguang always feels that no matter how he shoots youth films, it is difficult to surpass the moving brought to the audience by the movie "Those Years".

Therefore, when screenwriter Xiao Zhou gave this recommendation to Lin Xiaoguang, he refused in his heart, and after reading a short paragraph, he put it on hold, and then put it on hold until he finished reading it.

In the past few days, perhaps because of the fatigue of the boats and cars, Lin Xiaoguang has been devastated by coughing, coughing until he couldn't sleep last night, and lay in bed in a daze on a three-degree winter night.

Lin Xiaoguang, who was tormented by insomnia, couldn't sleep, so he casually flipped through the book "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" on the bedside, and his feelings were out of control.

It can only be said that Lin Xiaoguang chose an inappropriate scene at an inappropriate time and in an inappropriate atmosphere, resulting in a rather vulgar theme and conception like "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", which can set off the same ripples in his heart as watching the movie "Brokeback Mountain".

It's just that the latter is a big wave returning, thrilling, and the former is a river entering the sea, the source vein, and the incision is rushing and cannot be suppressed.

After reading it, Lin Xiaoguang always felt that he had a string of small words in his heart that wanted to be spit out of his mouth, and he didn't know what he wanted to say, maybe he made a joke similar to Hegel's enthusiasm for "Suo" back then.

In short, Lin Xiaoguang felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and he also had an inexplicable impulse, if he didn't adapt "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" into a movie script, he probably wouldn't be able to pass this level in his heart.

Of course, Lin Xiaoguang also has his own ideas, and he always feels that this story should not have a plot.

It seems that everything in the text is blue-gray, and the times, personal, and life should all flow in this cold coolness, without waves or freezing points.

Two pairs of opposite smiles, a gray scar, a red hawthorn flower that never shows up, in the mind, in the song, in the words, plucked the bowstring little by little.

Originally, like "The Hawthorn Tree", Lin Xiaoguang should have passed by just looking at it, but this time he didn't do it.