Chapter 386: Vulgar and unbearable
Gu Biao led a group of foreign businessmen to talk and laugh, and made foreigners marvel again and again that "it turns out that all aspects of China are not what we imagined."
After revealing more of this kind of true feelings, it will naturally make the receiving officials and accompanying reporters awe-inspired.
Although I don't know what details those foreign businessmen saw in the respectable, but in short, they were very powerful.
Provincial newspaper reporter Pei Haiyan has been waiting beside her, taking a photo from time to time, knowing the point of lunch, and finally seized the opportunity to interview Gu Biao alone.
"Mr. Gu, can I interview you with a few questions about this morning's trip?"
Gu Biao didn't even look at him, and first took care of Qiu Qing with a posture of daily care: "Director Qiu, then please invite the foreign guests to dine first." ”
Qiu Qing said very well: "It's okay, you're busy." ”
Then Gu Biao looked back condescendingly: "Do you have anything you want to ask?"
Pei Haiyan was instantly suppressed in her aura, and she waited for two or three seconds: "That's the case, I also know English, just now I heard Mr. Galvin and other foreign businessmen praise, saying that the historic sites and museums visited today are planned to be in line with the international advanced level, which makes them very immersive and intimate...... Maybe I'm not very precise in translating it, can you explain that?"
Gu Biao smiled first: "I'm sorry, this is not my major. But since you insisted on asking, I'll say a few words. So far, we Chinese look at museums in a similar way to Americans a few decades ago.
There was a pile of worn-out things that were so detrimental that they couldn't see the difference. Tell you what a certain type of instrument looked like this in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, how it developed in the Tang and Song dynasties of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and how it was in the Ming and Qing dynasties......
If it is a fake imitation, it is rarely displayed, even if those fakes can greatly enrich the visual experience and allow children to better learn history and culture, they are not exempt - unless they are directly displayed as genuine.
Nearly 100 years ago, the Metropolitan of New York and the Carnegie Museum did the same, and the idea of building the museum was to show off the wealth of the super-rich, not to educate and charity the poor about history and traditional culture. Although antique fakes are helpful to popular science culture, they cannot show that the donor is rich and forced, so they are naturally discarded.
The same is true of the history of zoos in the West. The earliest zoos, from the Renaissance onwards, were used by dukes and marquis to show off their wealth. Species that have biological educational value, but are not scarce enough to show off their wealth, cannot be displayed and explained. It took three or four hundred years to become what we see now in the 19th century.
Today, China's zoos have caught up with the pace of "public education and charity" in the West a hundred years ago, but the museum industry still has to hammer and hammer to make up for the gap in understanding.
I hope that in the future, some people in China will be able to realize that after they get rich first, they will not imagine donating to the museum as a legitimate way to show off their wealth, and not follow the mentality of JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie when they were nouveau riche a hundred years ago. Everything should be designed from the perspective of being truly conducive to popular science culture and nature education, even if it doesn't show that you have money. ”
Gu Wei's words were sprinkled, which made Pei Haiyan not only unconscious, but also in awe.
"Don't be as vulgar as JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie when they were just upstarts",
Listen, is this the kind of thing that is said by a man?
Why did Gu always say it so heartfelt and natural?
It seems that the top American business tycoon a hundred years ago was really a nouveau riche with no connotation in his eyes.
Tsk, this is the essence, different from those bewitching real nouveau riche.
Pei Haiyan's mind was a little down, and she struggled to ask a question: "That...... Have you ever seen a museum in a foreign country that you call an 'immersive, cultural, natural, and science-oriented' design?"
Gu Biao: "Of course, the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada has a pavilion about First-Nation - well, this proper noun is not easy to translate, and the domestic cultural community has not paid attention to these issues, so I will temporarily set up a translation, called 'First Nation'."
Canada's First Nations is a Native American, Inuit, and Medid, as well as a mix of Americans. In recent years, the Royal Ontario Museum has created a special exhibition area for the sake of political correctness and respect for Aboriginal culture.
It's a pity that the Indians and Inuit don't have any artifacts to unearth, so they built a whole restoration museum similar to the ancient tribes of Inuit, everything is fake, but at least the shape and color are the same as the real ones that have been researched, so that the white people can better understand what the indigenous way of life was like before the American colonization.
Similarly, in New Zealand, in the National Museum in Wellington, there is also a Maori museum, which has no real cultural relics, but has built an entire simulation of the ancient Maori tribe. These are all practices that transcend the economic value of cultural relics collection, focus on cultural inheritance and popular science, and get rid of the vulgarity and low-grade interest of money measurement. ”
If it were someone else who said "the vulgarity and low-level taste of money measurement", then Pei Haiyan would definitely laugh at the other party.
However, this sentence was said by Gu Biao, so it was different.
He is a big man with 300 million US dollars in fixed assets alone, and he is qualified to say this.
Just like the later generations of Ma Feng are qualified to say "I have no interest in money".
"You...... How can you open your mouth and tell what you have seen about the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington or the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada?
Fortunately, she didn't know that Gu Biao had already been on the blacklist of "persona non grata" in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, otherwise she would be even more strange.
Gu Biao shook his head helplessly: "Miss Reporter, I graduated from the Foreign Affairs University, and now I am studying for a doctorate in international relations at the Waltz Diplomatic College in Georgetown. Understanding the cultural values of countries around the world is our basic lesson, and I think it is difficult for me to explain it to you. ”
Pei Haiyan suffered a critical blow to her heart in an instant, and she didn't dare to beep anymore.
In the end, he is a top student of the Foreign Affairs University, and he knows foreigners well.
She was very ashamed, and even felt that she had asked recklessly and rudely, so she hurriedly tried to find a way to remedy it.
Her mind turned sharply, and she thought of the questions that arose when she chatted with Director Yu Guangrong Yu yesterday, and hurriedly changed her tone of praise and asked sincerely:
"Mr. Gu, I have one more question. As far as I know, in the past six months, there have been many township enterprises in Zhuxian and Shanyin, absorbing a group of employed people who have been eliminated and re-integrated into enterprises, providing Lanting Cinema and museums with high-quality imitation customization of ancient utensils and clothing, and making a fortune.
I have investigated the cost distribution of the Xiangjiang film and television industry, and I can conclude that the current expenditure on props and costumes given by the relevant companies of Lanting Cinema is far beyond the level of its peers, and it is very likely to lose money. And do you insist on doing high imitation for better cultural promotion? How are you going to balance it from a business perspective? Is this a feeling?"
Gu Biao rubbed his temples: "I'm sorry, this is another question." I was talking about public welfare, but now you're talking about business. Some of them involve trade secrets, and I could have avoided answering you, but for the sake of your lack of malicious intent, I will say a few words.
I think that Shaw Brothers' low cost has won huge profits for Hong Kong filmmakers, but this does not mean that this path should still be taken in the future. It can be said that the Hong Kong film industry only officially rose in the late 60s and early 70s, and it was all petty and had no international influence.
In the era of horse racing, it is normal to seek quick pictures and cheapness, after all, even Jin Yong's martial arts have not been able to guarantee that before every film has been filmed, it is more important to solve the question of 'whether it is or not' than 'whether it is good or not'. The rapid expansion of staking has also led to high hardware inventories and too large actors, so Shaw Brothers can't step on the brakes if they want to.
However, now, I think the times have reached a turning point, and the question of 'whether there is' has been almost solved in the past ten years, at least for now, we no longer have a certain type of audience that other advanced countries in the world have, and the Hong Kong film industry does not. After filling in the gaps, it is not contradictory to ask for refinement.
The people of Xiangjiang and the local market in Xiangjiang have been accustomed to the atmosphere of 'because there are many films, so they hardly watch replays', and Shaw Brothers is forced to stop by their fast pace, so they can only reduce the cost of each film and try to find a new idea. However, we are still facing a mainland market that has just been opened up like CN.
The people of our mainland are accustomed to a film being replayed repeatedly, and they lack spiritual entertainment content, so why not spend several times the money for short, flat and fast production, make high-quality products, and expect multiple broadcasts to earn back the cost?
What's more, establishing a correct national outlook on ancient culture cannot be measured by money alone. If as long as the props and costumes save money, then in the future, I can infer that all costume TV series for women and mainly romance and drama will become the background of the Qing Dynasty.
Because the nomads' props save money, the honor guard wears a blue-gray cloth coat, and a "soldier"/"brave" written on the chest or back solves the problem. If you shoot the background of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty with money, it will cost many times more money to imitate a step man armor and a Ming Guang armor that are only similar to them. In this case, since it is just for the sake of watching romance scenes, and the historical background is not important, then it will all become a money-saving and poor Qing Dynasty!"
Gu Biao said casually, and the female reporter remembered it with admiration.
"Unexpectedly, Mr. Gu's industrial layout ideas are more advanced than those of Xiangjiang people. He is confident that he will return to his roots, then he must really be able to return to his roots, and we laymen have nothing to worry about.
Well, this article may make the provincial leaders happy, this should be regarded as 'intensive economic development, driving local flexible employment, and comprehensively improving social benefits', right?"
As a reporter, especially a provincial newspaper, I often write official articles, and these theses lead the rhetoric of lofty intentions, of course, they come with a pen, and they don't need to move their brains.
In Pei Haiyan's heart, she has already figured out a flowery song of praise.
Set a small goal first, such as remembering in 1 second: book guest residence