Jia Zhangke became famous, and it was like taking a rocket to soar into the sky, and the speed was simply explosive.

As a fledgling newcomer, at the Berlin International Film Festival held in February 1998, he won the NETPEC Asian Film Promotion Alliance Award, the first prize of the Youth Forum: the Wolfgang Studch Award, and was shortlisted for the main competition unit.

In the original history, "Xiao Wu" did win the first two awards, but in the end it was not shortlisted for the main competition unit for many reasons, but the main reason was that the production was too rough.

THE COST OF 200,000 YUAN, 16MM FILM, THE CONTENT IS PALE AND THE PICTURE IS ROUGH, THE SUBTITLES ARE BLURRY AND FULL OF ERRORS, NIMA WOULD HAVE WON THE PREVIOUS TWO AWARDS IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE NOVELTY OF THE FILM'S IDEA AND EXPRESSION.

The current "Xiao Wu" is at least much better in production, with an investment of almost 500,000 yuan (Lao Jia is too good at spending money, and both sides have added some points later), the picture is clear, and the translation is accurate, although the content is a little pale, but Lao Jia simply set the style as a documentary technique, and adjusted the corresponding rhythm, which is much better than the original history.

Wang Hongwei's performance is still very natural, not to mention how profound his acting skills are, but at least he can support this movie, and there is not much problem, so it is not obvious in terms of shortcomings, and the judges are deeply impressed by this film.

Listening to Lao Jia, he almost killed "Wagging Tail Dog", which won the special award of the jury, and let "Wagging Tail Dog" get nothing, but only out of many considerations, he finally gave up.

Obviously, "Xiao Wu" is not qualified to win the Golden Bear, so "Wagging Tail Dog" has no face and can't get by, so it only won two awards, but both critics and judges praise this film.

Lao Jia became famous in the international film industry and became a representative of young directors, but in China, there is actually no splash on the surface, mainly because this is a proper banned film, and the media can't publicize it, and it is only spread in private.

But the circle is so big, Lao Jia is famous in the film and television industry, everyone knows that he has a bright future, as for how to be treated when he comes back, that's another matter, anyway, don't toss high-profile.

It means that if you are disobedient and go out to wander back, you have to pretend to be a grandson, if you don't pretend to be a grandson, then you will only be banned, no matter how big your wrist is, you should be banned, and the more you die, the more miserable it is.

Foreigners rated Lao Jia as a lightning-bright light of hope in Asian films, which caused a huge sensation abroad, and the movies made by this light of hope were also sold smoothly, making both investors make a profit.

Or how to say that the moon in foreign countries is relatively round, in this era, a drama is made in China tightly, and everything that wins awards abroad comes back, how many underground filmmakers live on the foreign market, and the exchange rate is sometimes a good thing, after all, it has risen N times when it is converted into RMB all of a sudden.

Originally, the domestic box office growth was okay, but since the mid-90s, what videotapes, VCDs, and DVDs have taken turns for you, and movie piracy has emerged in endlessly, and the audience's habit of entering the cinema that was originally cultivated with great difficulty has been taken away, and if you want to live on the domestic market, you will probably only be starved to death.

Anyway, the situation is that although the actor's salary is not high, he will take it, and the distribution company will still share it, and only the production company will starve to death.

At the same time that Lao Jia became famous, people gradually found out that a strange person was mixed in from the pirated disc, that is, Zhou Bai, who was specially acknowledged, and Lao Jia also had a lot of friends.

Knowing a little bit of information will naturally not stop there, so the identity of Zhou Bai is basically known clearly, the 96th undergraduate class of Chinese opera, just reached the age of 20, even if you know this information, it also makes many people feel incredible, this product is also very mysterious.

Zhou Bai faced an embarrassing situation, as a student of the acting department, not because he played a certain role well, but because he invested in underground films.

Of course, only some people in the circle are interested in Zhou Bai, outsiders don't know who Zhou Bai is, and they don't even know Jia Zhangke, and there is not much news in China that appears in the public at all.

Lao Jia went to the film festival just a few days after the Spring Festival, during this time Zhou Bai was on winter vacation, and when Lao Jia came back, it happened that he had already started school.

What is the first thing to do when you win an award? Of course, it is to celebrate, and the way for ordinary people to celebrate these years is to eat a meal, and to celebrate in a big way is to eat a meal wantonly, and the way to celebrate for literary and artistic young people is to change eating words to drinking words.

306 restaurants have become the position of Lao Jia and a few of them, just come here if they have nothing to do, anyway, the price is not expensive, Zhou Bai is not hypocritical with them, how much should it be, but the cost price is charged.

The first thing he did when he returned to the capital was to be pulled by Lao Jia and drunk, the second thing was to be pulled by Yu Feihong and drank, and the third thing was to be drunk by Liu Ye and a few of them, so during this time, Zhou Bai simply wanted to vomit when he saw the wine.

A few days after the start of school, I received a call from Lao Jia again, this time there was really something, so Zhou Bai had to make an appointment with him and make an appointment with a place to discuss in detail, this time it was finally not a 306 restaurant.

A grade OK hotel, very clean, Sunday afternoon, there are not a few guests, and when Zhou Bai arrived there, he found that Lao Jia did not come alone, and there was a man and a woman next to him.

The man cut a round inch, with a hat, his eyes were not big, black and thin, his eyes looked a little dazed, he didn't chat with Lao Jia at this time, as if he was thinking about something.

The woman is in her thirties, with a beautiful face, fashionable curly hair, looking very amorous, and she is chatting with Lao Jia.

Zhou Bai, who pushed the door and walked in, attracted the attention of the two, and Lao Jia raised his hand to Zhou Bai to signal.

Several people stood up, and after the black and thin man waited for Zhou Bai to come over, he stretched out his hand first: "Hello, my name is Lou Ye, Lao Jia's friend." ”

Zhou Bai also stretched out his hand and shook it with him: "My name is Zhou Bai, hello Lou Dao." ”

The woman next to her stretched out her hand and said, "Hello, my name is Neyan." ”

Zhou Bai hurriedly stretched out his hand and held it: "Hello senior sister, just call me Xiaobai." ”

As soon as the title of senior sister came out, Lao Jia and several of them laughed, and after beckoning Zhou Bai to sit down, Nai An said, "I didn't expect my junior brother to know my name." ”

"Well, of course, Senior Sister has wonderful performances in "Girl in Danger", "Ah Hui", and "Weekend Lover", and we sometimes pull a piece to enjoy it, how can we not know Senior Sister's name. Zhou Bai said with a smile, Nai An graduated from the Chinese Opera Directing Department in 91, so it was not wrong for Zhou Bai to call her senior sister.

"Which of these films do you like?" Lou Ye suddenly asked.

"Weekend Lover. Zhou Bai said without thinking.

"Why?"

"It's very young, but I like the wanton ideas in it. Zhou Bai shrugged and said, this movie is Lou Ye's first movie, a very young work, there is a shadow of him in all aspects, compared to "Girl in Danger" and others, Zhou Bai feels that he likes this movie better, although others don't think so.

Lou Ye nodded and didn't speak, he wasn't a person who talked a lot, and he didn't like to talk a lot.

"Why are you so late?" asked Lao Jia.

"I'm sorry, I just got the school stuff done, so I just took the time to come out. Zhou Bai apologized first and nodded to them.

"It's okay, I know that your kid is busy rehearsing the play, "Soul Rejection" is a good drama, I will definitely watch it when the time comes. Lao Jia said to Zhou Bai, swearing by it, but Zhou Bai rolled his eyes to show his distrust of him.

Lou Ye and Nai An asked Lao Jia to ask Zhou Bai out, naturally not to ask Zhou Bai to be the leading actor, in fact, Lou Ye has an actor named Jia Hongsheng who he admires very much, and he is basically his queen actor at this time, although the two have some disputes, but this time the candidate for the leading actor in Lou Ye's mind for this project is still him.

The reason why they are looking for Zhou Bai today is actually to have the purpose of giving it a try and want to attract investment.