Chapter 35: Money and Movies
Zhou Bai's words surprised Liu Ye Danghao and them, they originally thought that Zhou Bai might have some money, most of which would be asked for by his family, but they didn't expect that Zhou Bai's funds were already 150,000 yuan, which was undoubtedly a lot of money for a college student.
In 1996 in Beijing, the price of the best commercial housing in Chaoyang District was only 3,000 yuan per square meter, outside the Third Ring Road, the price of 150,000 yuan could buy a very good commercial house, and even the price of Xiaoying Roman Garden in Chaoyang District this year was only 1,900 yuan per square meter, and you could buy a house of 80 square meters.
"Don't be so surprised, it's all I'm worth. You also know that I am the top student in the examination of Guangdong and Guangzhou Province, and I am still the first in the history of three subjects, the first in the total score, and the school and the government have awards, a total of 30,000 yuan in bonuses. There is also my dad who is in business, and he has more friends, so those friends will give me red envelopes when they come to my house, and my parents didn't take them away, they kept them all for me, this is the big head, there are seventy or eighty thousand. Before coming to school, my dad gave me another sum of money as living expenses, and there was so much left after paying the tuition and so on. ”
Zhou Bai calculated for everyone, this money is indeed a lot, but the red envelope or something is a favor, my father's friends are all in business, and they are more generous, of course, if my father encounters any happy events in someone's family, he will also make a big red envelope to return favors, and when he graduates, he will return all the money, including these money, to his parents, this is the condition that was said before.
"Didn't you say that you are a small city? Why do you have seventy or eighty thousand red envelopes alone, it's too exaggerated, right?" Tian Cheng almost wanted to hit the wall with his head, Nima, is this still a small city, and it costs seventy or eighty thousand yuan to receive a red envelope casually.
"Well, it's my dad's credit, he's doing a good job and has a lot of friends. There are also those who do financial business, there are also those who do manufacturing, and this year I heard that I am going to work with my friends to do real estate projects in Huadu, and I just followed the light. Besides, there is only one time in the college entrance examination, they all pay more attention to the grades, and if their children get good results, they will be very generous, but there are not so many other things. Zhou Bai explained, there was no proud expression at all, as he said, it was all because he had a powerful and low-key father, if his current family background was still like his grandfather when he was young, it would be too much to receive a thousand.
In fact, he has vaguely processed some of this information, as far as his father's friends are concerned, there are many people who are indeed either rich or expensive, they belong to the first generation of people who have made a fortune, and they have already driven Mercedes-Benz BMWs in this era, and I vaguely heard that friends who used to speculate in stocks with my father have made a lot of money, and it is already considered restraint to pack two or three thousand, which means it.
In fact, the red envelope atmosphere in Guangdong and Guangzhou is more prevalent than in other places, but at this point in time in 96, the college entrance examination champion is a big happy event that most people may give a few dozen yuan, but many of Zhou Bai's father's friends are indeed relatively wealthy, so relatively speaking, there are more.
"Your dad won't be a wealthy man in Guangdong, right? Nima, I still think my family is very good, but I didn't collect more than 10,000 yuan in red envelopes during the Chinese New Year before, okay, most of them have to be handed over. Tian Cheng sighed and said, people are more popular than people.
"I don't think I'm a rich man, I really don't know how much property I have in my family, who will have nothing to calculate how much money they have? I used to concentrate on studying and practicing, so how can I care about these things. Besides, there are really a lot of rich people these years, and I don't know how many people are worth hundreds of millions, and my father should not be ranked among them. Zhou Bai continued to explain.
Zhou Bai is completely truthful, although he is more precocious, but that is only in the world, in fact, he is completely a novice in life.
In Zhou Bai's eighteen years of life, he used to live a three-point and one-line life like reading, practicing, and watching movies, and he never even talked about love.
For him, there has always been no shortage of food and clothing at home, and he either soaked in the movie screening room with his uncle or went to the woods to practice, or he was reading at home and in the library, which was really an extremely simple life.
Thinking about it now, Zhou Bai found out that he didn't have many friends, Huang Hongjun was small, plus two or three good friends, and the others were really just ordinary classmates and ordinary friends, when he was in high school, others liked to go to the video game room to play games, but he liked to watch movies, read books, practice, and couldn't play at all, where did he come from.
"My dad used to want me to be a scholar, preferably an economist, so I wasn't allowed to ask about things at home, and every day I was reading, practicing, and watching movies with my uncle, or just going to my grandfather in the country, and I was really a nerd. Zhou Bai patted his head and said with a wry smile, only then did he know that everything was the result of his father's intentional guidance.
"Brother, you haven't been in love, right?" Liu Ye asked curiously, making Zhou Bai's face blush, it was a shame to say this, he was really ignorant and didn't care about anything in this regard.
"Well, sure enough, I've never been in love. Dang Hao and they nodded, there was a smile in their eyes, and they came out of the emotion of being hit, although Zhou Bai's family background is good, but after more than half a month of getting along, they have already understood their temperament, Zhou Bai is indeed a simple person, and he doesn't care about these things, Qin Hailu's family background is so good, everyone doesn't treat it the same.
"Hit the street, don't look at me like this, okay, Liu Ye, isn't your kid the same as me, what do you mean by this expression, don't laugh at fifty steps and take a hundred steps!" Zhou Bai gave these goods a middle finger, is Nima's expression teasing me?
"Brother, I'm still young. Liu Ye threw out a few words leisurely, making Zhou Bai almost spurt out a mouthful of old blood, you are still a little fart, you are less than a year younger than me, okay.
"Back to business, Lao Bai, you don't lack money at home, business things are time-consuming and laborious, if you want to be a good actor, you should work hard, and if you touch too many business things, you can only become a businessman. Niu Qingfeng said seriously, Zhou Bai's family background is so good, what do you do with this effort, you see that Qin Hailu's family background is so good, and he didn't do business by himself.
Speaking of class 96, Qin Hailu's family background should be one of the best, her family background is solid, she wears famous brands, and the bags she takes can cover everyone's tuition for a year, in fact, if she doesn't go to school, she can go directly to work in her own company.
Zhou Bai was silent for a moment, in fact, he didn't like business things, but after learning more and more information from his dreams recently, he felt that God gave him such a good gift, if he didn't do something, he would have a negative God's arrangement.
"Old Niu, I'm ...... I think that in the future, we will enter the era of capital, and everything related to the film and television industry will eventually be forced to accept the change of capital, and if I want to maintain the principles in my own mind, I must master a certain amount of capital. I know I'm empty, but I know what I'm doing, I do like money, I'm not a self-made person, and of course I won't abandon my ideals to chase money, on the contrary, I want to make money for my ideals. ”
Zhou Bai was a little emotional, there were some things he couldn't explain to these buddies, he couldn't say that a big ship was coming soon, Chinese movies were going to be hung for many years, and then 3D Avatar came, and Chinese movies were hung for many years, and it will be the era of capital in the future, he doesn't want to go with the flow, he wants to be a trendsetter.
Zhou Bai likes acting, so he signed up for the art exam, hoping to become a great actor, but he also likes movies, doesn't he do something for Chinese films?
Yes, the Chinese market is very big in later generations, but what happened to the Chinese film industry? Isn't it all kinds of five-cent special effects, and all kinds of PPT can also be released as movies?
Later, Hollywood even deliberately got a few traffic stars to make soy sauce in the movie for the sake of the Chinese market, and even got a special version for the Chinese audience, but is this respecting Chinese movies? Is this respecting the Chinese audience?
No, this is an insult to Chinese filmmakers, this is a contempt for Chinese audiences, treating us Chinese audiences like fools, people are telling you that they don't like you, just to make your money, and getting a few local stars with traffic to go up just to make money, what can you do with him?
But can you blame others for looking down on you? It's not that you're not so angry, you can't tell stories, you don't care about special effects, your performances are perfunctory, you only fry stars, your investment is insincere, your marketing is very smart, and you can't do it without kneeling when you enter the cinema.
The backwardness of Chinese films is backwardness in all aspects, and it is clear that some of our traffic stars are not baba to play soy sauce, do they like this? Of course not, they also know that in fact, people don't pay attention to you at all, they just use you to make money, but these are what they can decide?
The most fundamental reason is that because our film power has no right to speak, some stars are forced to make a mark for international popularity, in order to brush up on the style, after all, the opportunity to make soy sauce on international blockbusters is not available to anyone, how could they miss it?
If you want to change Chinese films, you must first start from the film industry, and if you want to change the status quo of China's film industry, you must use the power of capital.
I'm not short of money, but I'm so short of money, if I want to complete my idea, there will be a bunch of bottomless pits waiting for me to throw money in the future, Zhou Bai is scared when he thinks about it, Nima wants to change the film industry, and the money can't be calculated with tens of thousands, how many tons should be used.
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"Cowardice imprisons the soul of man, hoping to feel freedom. The strong save themselves, and the saints cross people. - The Shawshank Redemption