Zhang Ran stood in front of Jinxing Building, No. 20 Shan Lin Road, Tsim Sha Tsui and looked up, but he didn't see the sign of Xinghui Company, but he knew that Xinghui Company was in Room 401. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After submitting the bid for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Zhang Ran slept well and got on the plane to Xiangjiang the next day. The Olympics are not until September, and now he has his hands free to do the rest. He came to Xiangjiang this time to find Zhou Xingchi, in addition to Huang Shengyi's termination of the contract, there are more important things to discuss.

Zhang Ran and Zhou Xingchi had never met, and they didn't have any intersection, so it was not good to come to the door rashly, so I asked Jiang Ziqiang to help him meet Zhou Xingchi. Jiang Ziqiang has a great influence in the Xiangjiang film industry, and he has a good relationship with Zhou Xingchi.

With a ding, the closed elevator door slowly opened, and Zhang Ran stepped out of the elevator.

When he stepped out of the elevator, Zhang Ran saw Xinghui's signboard and the front desk wearing black professional clothes. Xinghui's front desk is different from other companies, and she has a special personality, much like Luo Yazhen in "Kung Fu".

It is worthy of Zhou Xingchi, this front desk is too individual!

Zhang Ran walked over, looked at the front desk full of personality and said, "Miss, I'm Zhang Ran, and I'll make an appointment with Mr. Zhou Xingchi to meet at three o'clock!"

"Mr. Zhang Ran, hello!" the front desk grinned at Zhang Ran, showing a smile that felt good about herself, the mouth was so big that it could almost swallow a cow, "Mr. Zhou is waiting for you! You can go in by yourself!" As she spoke, she picked up the phone in front of her and pressed it twice: "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhang Ran has arrived!"

This girl's mouth is twice as big as Yao Chen's, it's a bloody mouth! Zhang Ran hurriedly thanked him and walked into Xinghui Company.

In the reception room, Zhang Ran saw the gray-haired Zhou Xingchi: "Mr. Zhou, hello! I'm Zhang Ran, I took the liberty to disturb me, and I hope I will forgive me!"

Zhou Xingchi knew that Zhang Ran was in the Lunar New Year war at the beginning of the year, and his "Kung Fu" was originally leading all the way, but in the end, Zhang Ran achieved a shocking reversal with the Golden Globe Award and Oscar nominations, so he still remembers this young man named Zhang Ran vividly. He looked at Zhang Ran, he was really young, and said very politely: "Don't call me Mr. Zhou, call me Xingzai!"

Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, what boy should be called a younger person, Zhou Xingchi is much older than himself, so it doesn't seem appropriate to call him so. But after thinking about it, this was Zhou Xingchi's request, maybe he liked that kind of young state, so he opened his mouth and shouted: "Xingzi, hello!"

Zhou Xingchi's eyes widened, and he looked at Zhang Ran like a monster: "You really call me Xingzai?"

Zhang Ran had heard that Zhou Xingchi had an eccentric temper, but he believed that people with eccentric tempers were generally not particularly hypocritical. You won't say call me Xingzi, others are really upset when they call me. He smiled and said, "yes, didn't you ask me to call you Xingzai?"

Zhou Xingchi raised his head and laughed, laughing so much that tears were about to come out. The title Xingzi was prevalent when he was playing tricks, but now almost everyone calls Xing Ye with 12 points of awe when they see him, even if many actors who have worked with him are also called Xing Ye when they face him.

But this is not what he wants, he doesn't like to be called Xingye, and he likes others to call him Xingzi.

A young man like Zhang Ran calls himself Xingzai, which makes Zhou Xingchi feel that he is still young and in a very happy mood: "Actually, I really want everyone to call me Xingzai, but everyone calls me Xingzai! Only you dare to call me Xingzai! No wonder you can make a movie like "The Aviator", you are really a very straightforward person. I love "The Aviator" a lot, especially that shot, like a picture scroll, unfolding to both sides, it's incredible, I love your films, and I love you. ”

Zhang Ran said: "Thank you, maybe because I don't want anything from you, I won't look for you to act, and I won't point to you to make money, I'm equal to you, I didn't think of flattering you, so it's more casual!"

"Makes sense!" Zhou Xingchi nodded, and then looked at Zhang Ran, "Why don't you ask me to act?"

Zhang Ran has always felt that Zhou Xingchi's movies are a little childish, and Ang Lee also said so. It's not that the movie is naïve, and the movies he makes are relatively innocent, and there are a lot of innocent things in them. Zhang Ran felt that people who could make this kind of movie should be more childish, and now it is true at first sight. He laughed and said, "It's not a matter of acting, it's a matter of style." Besides, it's better to have only one OCD patient in a crew, and it's easy to fight if there are two!"

"Makes sense!" Zhou Xingchi laughed, he liked this young man more and more, "What the hell are you looking for me?"

Zhang Ran coughed and said: "That's the case, we at Nortel, Chung-Ang University in South Korea, and Nihon University are going to set up a director school to train new talents, with the Hollywood film industry norms as the teaching content, called the Asian Film Academy." We only recruit about a dozen students, but the teachers are the best, including Luc Besson from France, Park Chan-wook from South Korea, Alejandro Amamba, who just won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year, and so on. Zhang Ran looked at Zhou Xingchi: "I came here today to invite you to join and serve as a teacher in the school." ”

It is not the first time that Zhou Xingchi has received a request from the university, he was hired as a visiting professor by Southwest University for Nationalities in 03, and became an adjunct professor at the Business School of Renmin University in 04. However, what Zhang Ran said sounded a little different from the invitation he had received before, and asked, "Teacher, do you need to attend class?"

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded: "We are asking you to be a teacher, of course we have to go to class!"

This time, I really invited myself to teach at the university, which is completely different from the previous honorary professors. Zhou Xingchi was a little excited, I could be a university professor, but he was a little surprised: "You take the Hollywood film industry norms as the teaching content, I am a director of Xiangjiang, I don't understand Hollywood at all, how can you find me to be a teacher?"

Zhang Ran explained with a smile: "When I was in college in the United States, there was a teacher who was Polish, and he had never made a Hollywood movie, but most of the students he taught went to Hollywood. We don't need you to teach Hollywood, we don't need you to teach Hollywood system, we just need you to teach how to make movies. In fact, among Chinese directors, I can't count three directors who know Hollywood better than you, and it is precisely because you understand Hollywood movies that you can use Hollywood freely, just like Quentin uses the bridges of Hong Kong movies. We don't run schools to copy Hollywood and make Hollywood movies, but to learn to tell Oriental stories in Hollywood ways, which is exactly what you can teach everyone!"

Although Zhou Xingchi felt that being a university teacher was a very fashionable thing, it was too much of a waste of time, and slowly shook his head: "I still like to be a director." ”

Zhang Ran knows very well that Zhou Xingchi can't be done in one or two sentences, and it is better to let him see tangible benefits no matter how much he says: "The overseas box office of "Kung Fu" is good, but the overseas copyrights are all bought out, the price is not particularly high, and the profits you actually get are quite limited. Take "Kung Fu" as an example, the movie grossed more than $20 million in North America and earned a lot of DVD revenue. Didn't you know that you had $10 million in revenue from North America?"

Zhou Xingchi looked at Zhang Ran and didn't speak, and didn't understand what Zhang Ran was talking about.

Zhang Ran smiled and said: "Although my movie "The Aviator" was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Oscar, the box office in North America was only more than 9 million US dollars. However, box office, DVDs, and other related revenues add up to nearly $1,000 in North America. Why? Because I have a good relationship with Lionsgate, I get a share, and I get a share of the box office, on DVD, on TV. You are older than me, you have more social experience than me, I believe you must understand that this world is about personal relationships, take "Shaolin Football" as an example, for various reasons, you missed the mainland, and the box office of more than 100 million yuan was lost. Your "Kung Fu" was stolen at the box office by Huayi, if someone hadn't exploded, it would have been a loss of twenty or thirty million. If you have strong connections, if you have strong partners, will this happen?"

Zhou Xingchi's face was a little ugly, "Shaolin Football" could not be released in the mainland, and the loss was very large, and "Kung Fu" was stolen from the box office, which made him very chilled. These were two things that made him very uncomfortable, but now that Zhang Ran said it to his face, he looked a little unhappy: "What are you talking about? Don't mention the past again!"

Zhang Ran said lightly: "We established the Asian Film Academy to train young directors, and in addition to that, there is another important purpose, which is to establish a platform. A Nortel-centric, China-centric film platform, Lionsgate in the United States, Europa Pictures in France, EJ Entertainment in South Korea, and GAGA Pictures in Japan are all our partners, and our network will spread all over the world. If you are a teacher, then this platform can be used for you. The overseas distribution of your film will be smoother, and you will be able to get a share of it, so you can make more profits!"

Zhou Xingchi was slightly stunned, his two movies "Shaolin Football" and "Kung Fu" were quite good at the overseas box office, and many places have set new records for Chinese films. However, as Zhang Ran said, these box offices have nothing to do with him, because they are basically buyouts. If you can share your own movies, then you will get a lot more income! Zhou Xingchi is a well-known lover of money, and he can't help but get excited when he thinks that he can earn tens of millions more by making a film.

Zhang Ran continued: "As long as you are not blind, you can see that the future of Chinese films is in the mainland. If you want to get a better development as a filmmaker, you must go north. It's easy to go north as an actor or director, just sign a company. But you are the boss of Xinghui, and if Xinghui wants to develop in the north, then you need connections. If you become a teacher, then you are a member of Nortel. With Nortel's connections and connections, if you encounter something like "Shaolin Football" again, you can settle it, and it won't be like it was at the beginning!"

suffered two losses in a row, Zhou Xingchi was really afraid, even if he was famous, he couldn't eat it in this circle without connections. Recently, he was preparing to go north to visit Han Sanping, the head of China Film, hoping to use Han Sanping's influence to clear the way for himself.

However, Zhou Xingchi is a silent and unsociable person, so it is indeed a bit difficult for him to let him pull the relationship. Now Zhang Ran's words are a bit pie-in-the-sky: "Then how many classes do I have to take?

Zhang Ran heard Zhou Xingchi say this, and knew that the big thing was decided: "There is very little time for class, we only have theoretical classes in the first month, and the rest is to practice filming." The first two assignments may require the teacher to stare at them, and then the students will take their own shots, and the teacher only needs to comment on the assignments. Students take a picture of their homework once a month, and you can comment on it online. Sophomores basically intern in the crew, and you don't need to care about it at all; juniors start to make feature films, all of which are commercial films, and you can act as a producer to control the quality of the film, so that you can get a share of the film, and it doesn't matter if you don't want to be in it, it's up to the teacher to decide!"

Zhou Xingchi nodded: "Okay, I'll try!"

Zhang Ran laughed: "Then I'm going to call you Teacher Zhou from now on!" )