Chapter 36: Art and Eating

Throughout the history of Chinese films, except for Hong Kong films, after all, it was already brilliant in the eighties and nineties, of course, there are commercial films that can make money in the mainland, but they are almost rare, and it takes the appearance of "Hero" to open an era.

For example, in the top ten movie box office in 1996, except for one "Kong Fansen", there is no mainland film on the list, but if you want to say that "Kong Fansen" is a commercial film, people will spray you to death with a big aunt.

In this era, Chinese filmmakers pay attention to art, and the box office is a floating cloud, and whoever talks to you about the box office seems to be inferior and despised.

For example, Feng Dacang, who does not pay so much attention to the so-called art, but pays more attention to the movie-watching experience and commercial nature, has been despised by the so-called artists for many years.

Of course not, how many masterpieces have been produced by the third generation of Chinese directors, to the foundation of the fourth generation of directors, and the glory of the fifth generation of directors, the classics produced can be described as fruitful, but how many can be called classic commercial films?

Even in the sixth generation of directors, they have been in literature and art, entangled, and in the seventh generation, not only have they not progressed, but they have become even more chaotic and stagnant, and even the seventh generation is between having and not, which is completely unreasonable.

In 1998, Cameron's "Titanic" gave Chinese filmmakers a heavy slap in the face, making many people wake up from the innocent dream of art and poverty.

Even until 2015, the domestic box office list has always been dominated by American blockbusters, and finally our filmmakers tried various means to break the box office record of "Fast and Furious 7", the movie "Monster Hunt" was extended and the box office was flooded, and after a full 58 days, it 'finally' surpassed the box office of "Fast and Furious 7".

It's a pity that this champion has been criticized as a champion who has 'taken medicine', in order to get rid of the shame that the first place in China's box office has always been a foreign film, many people don't even want face, all kinds of ghost fields have 100% attendance, and they have done things that they don't even dare to write like this, and they really lost even the last bit of face.

Of course, we can't deny that the investment in foreign films such as "Titanic" is enough for China to make literary films for N years, this is the gap in the country's economic strength, and it is also the most helpless gap, but the filmmaker's disdain for commerciality cannot be denied, if you are poor, you are justified, it is a bit shameless.

If there is no big investment in the movies before "Hero", it is nonsense, "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" invested 70 million and even got to the Great Hall of the People to be released, but what about the box office?

The exquisiteness of costumes and props can't hide the confusion of the movie's positioning, the staged performance style, and the setting full of slots, even Li Jianjian's god-level performance can't save this movie.

In later generations, after the audience was edified by many bad movies, some people's evaluation of this movie was overturned, and it was crowned with the most epic domestic movie, but this kind of overall temperament is crazy, the so-called epic with no distinction between priority and priority, and excessive performance is actually self-congratulatory.

Is the film investment in later generations still small compared to the film market? How many movies can be produced a year that are really made with heart?

I dare to take a PPT for you and release it, fans are still crying and shouting that they are inexplicably moved by themselves, and there are a bunch of audiences who are willing to cheer for things like variety shows and movies, which don't even need discipline, and it can only be said that this is what our audience is used to.

In addition to the reasons for economic development, one of the reasons is that the audience will not buy it or not, and if the audience thinks that it is a big bad movie, even the director will dare to fight it, so the Xiangjiang film implements the sincerity of commerce and literature and art, and exaggerates to say that a bunch of classics can be produced in places where people have a big nose, which can be said to have been exhausted.

Even the great leaders said to seek truth from facts, what people are most afraid of is not being able to recognize themselves, self-touching and self-absorption are the most terrible, such as Wanwan in later generations, well, I have a large black area, and the map is too big.

In short, Rome was not built in a day, whether it is a Chinese movie or Zhou Bai's road, if you want to do everything in one day, unless you send him a system, there is no way to do it.

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dragged Liu Ye and Danghao for a few days, but unfortunately there was little gain, but Zhou Bai was not discouraged, doing things is never achieved overnight, if he was hit so easily, it was better to shrink home early and eat and wait for death.

The matter of registering the company itself is a thousand things, and none of these people are people who have been socially educated and really have work experience, so they didn't even complete the first step for half a day, but the good news is that the intermediary company found it, and the price offered made Zhou Bai a little unbearable.

"30,000 yuan? 500,000 yuan of registered capital bridge toll requires 30,000 yuan, this proportion is too high, right?" Out of the door of a company, Liu Ye couldn't help but exclaim after learning about the intermediary company's fees from Zhou Bai.

Niu Qingfeng and Dang Hao beside Zhou Bai had a bad face, the attitude of those scalpers just now was extremely bad, and they opened their mouths for fees, completely because they thought that they were young and bullied them.

That's right, it is said that it is an intermediary company, but in fact they are scalpers, but this one has transformed from a scalper to a formal company model, at least on the façade.

Beijing is one of the most rapid commercial development of the region, in this era there are indeed scalpers specializing in the registration of companies, to put it bluntly, is to pay the registered capital, after all, 500,000 registered capital for some people want to take out is not easy, the worst thing is that there is also a review process, must put the funds on the account for a period of time, so they have a market.

"The bridge toll is indeed too high, the bridge toll of 30,000 yuan is a bit exaggerated, and the six percent toll has exceeded my expectations. Zhou Bai said with a wry smile, a group of people in their teens and twenties went to open a company, no wonder people would want to kill you.

"Brother, do they see that you are young and open a high price?" Liu Ye asked with some resentment.

"Okay, Yezi, don't ask, this old saying is good, if you die Zhang Butcher, don't eat hairy pigs, they look down on people, that is, they won't do business, we can't do this in the future." Zhou Bai patted Liu Ye on the shoulder and said.

"We, brother, why are you still including me?" Liu Ye was a little confused, he felt that this was Zhou Bai's slip of the tongue.

"You don't think I'm the only one to start a company, right? Of course, I want to pull you all in, it's boring to start a company alone, including you, none of the people in our dormitory can escape. Zhou Bai smiled, this was really not his slip of the tongue, he thought so.

If everything is done by Zhou Bai alone, and the interests are exclusive to Zhou Bai alone, it seems to be a matter of course, but it is so boring, although Liu Ye and they will not have too much money to invest in, but Zhou Bai himself does not need them to invest much money, what is important is everyone's people.

"Lao Bai, you're not kidding, we don't have any money. Dang Hao was also surprised, he admired Zhou Bai very much, he dared to invest a lot of money to open a store at a young age, although it was just an idea now, but he Dang Hao asked himself if he had this money, he would not have the courage.

"Brother, don't... Just kidding, you know the situation of my family, how can I have any money to invest, and the cost of living is tight. Liu Ye stammered a little, he did envy Zhou Bai for having so much money, but he was not jealous at all, he was a very simple person, he didn't have so many miscellaneous thoughts, and now he was telling the truth.

Liu Ye's family economic situation is really not good, and it can even be said that he belongs to the bottom group in Class 96, so that when Liu Ye was in difficulty later, he didn't even have the money to buy cigarettes.

It was Mei Ting who asked Liu Ye to help her get hot water every day, and then Mei Ting gave him a pack of cigarettes, which Liu Ye said in later interviews.

Tian Cheng and Niu Qingfeng also opened their mouths to persuade Zhou Bai, saying that they were not so optimistic about Zhou Bai's idea, mainly because everyone was still too young, and things in society had not been understood at all, and business was not so simple.

"Don't worry, let me ask you a question, do you think the living expenses given by the family are enough?" Zhou Bai smiled and asked very bluntly.

"Of course it's not enough, but you can get over it one by one. Liu Ye blurted out a sentence directly, without thinking at all.

"It's really not enough, so we don't have the money to invest. Niu Qingfeng said, it is not easy to live in the capital, even if everyone is not a vain person, but the matter at hand cannot be denied.

Tian Cheng and Dang Hao and Qin Hao all nodded, even if their family background was better, but the living expenses in hand were quickly spent, and later generations in the interview Tian Cheng described the boys in the class as emperors in the first half of the university and beggars in the second half of the month, which is their current situation.

In fact, even after ten or twenty years, the life of college students is basically like this, and many people come over like this.

"You don't think I can do everything alone, right? I'm just a buddy in the capital, but whether he has time to help me is another matter, since you treat me as a brother, can you bear to watch my career fail before it starts?" Zhou Bai asked calmly, this is also his heart, no matter what is good, a person's power is always limited, not to mention that everyone is still a student now.

"But we're all still in school now, and the vacation time is the same, and we don't understand these things!" Liu Ye said tangledly.

"I don't understand either, that's why I need you to start a business with me, and the pursuit of art is not in conflict with having enough to eat. Zhou Bai spread his hands and said, very simply.

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"When you think you know something, you have to look at it from a different perspective, even if it seems stupid or wrong, you both have to try. —Dead Poets Society