13 years ago, he dropped out of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in a fit of anger because of his disagreement with his teacher's philosophy, and was admitted to the Nortel Directing Department the following year. www.biquge.info He never dreamed that he would return to Nortel as a student eight years after he graduated.

Nortel's campus is almost exactly the same as Wu Ershan's memory, the only difference is that the girls have become more fashionable and cooler.

Wu Ershan was walking towards the Biaodao Building, and a voice with a Hong Kong and Taiwan accent beside him asked, "Teacher, do you know where the Asian Film Academy is interviewing?"

Wu Ershan heard the other party ask the Asian Film Academy, looked at the other party, in his thirties, wearing black-framed glasses, looking polite, and said with a smile: "I'm not a teacher, just like you, I'm here to participate in the interview!"

When the man heard that Wu Ershan was a classmate with him, he enthusiastically stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, I'm Guo Zijian." I used to work as a screenwriter in Xiangjiang and also worked as an assistant director!"

Wu Ershan shook hands with Guo Zijian and said, "I'm Wu Ershan, an advertising director, I'm glad to meet you!"

Wu Ershan knew that Guo Zijian used to make a living from graphic design, and later was introduced by a friend to serve as an artist in the movie "I'm Sorry, Team Woo You", igniting the fire of the movie. Guo Zijian started from the bottom and served as a screenwriter and assistant director in many Xiangjiang movies, growing up step by step from the set. As long as he persists and does it for another year or two, he may become a director. However, after the enrollment of the Asian Film Academy, he resolutely signed up, not only because of Zhang Ran's fame, but more importantly, he felt that the future of Chinese films was in the mainland.

When he came to the door of the guide building, Wu Ershan saw the signboard of the "Asian Film Academy Interview Office" and the two beautiful girls under the signboard. Wu Ershan walked over and asked, "Hello, may I ask, is the Asian Film Academy interviewing here?"

Yang Fan stared at Wu Ershan and Guo Zijian and thought, what a mature junior brother, this is forty years old, right? But he still said with a smile: "The interview location is inside, please come with me!"

Under the leadership of Yang Mi, Wu Ershan and Guo Zijian walked into the table guide building and came to the door of a classroom on the second floor.

At this time, on the chair at the door of the classroom, there was already a young man of twenty-four or five years old. Wu Ershan nodded at the young man and said, "You're also here for an interview, right? My name is Wu Ershan, and I used to be an advertising director!"

"Hello, I'm Yang Qing, and I used to be a screenwriter. ”

"I'm Guo Zijian, and I used to be a screenwriter. ”

Wu Ershan and they are all people who love movies, and they chatted quickly, and they talked very speculatively. But it didn't take long to chat, and a beautiful girl came out of the classroom, it was Jiao Junyan from Zhang Ran's class, she called Yang Qing's name loudly and asked him to come in for an interview.

Half an hour later, Yang Qing came out, and at the same time, Jiao Junyan began to call Wu Ershan's name. Hearing his name, Wu Ershan straightened his clothes and walked inside.

"Hello interviewers!" Pulling open the door of the room, Wu Ershan glanced at the five interviewers sitting inside, and bowed slightly in greeting.

The interview lineup is very strong, sitting in the middle is Zhang Ran, on his left is Oscar-winning director Alejandro Amamba and "Time Soldier 2" director Neil Blomkamp, and on the right is Park Chan-wook and Ning Hao.

"Please sit down!" Zhang Chong Wu Ershan smiled, then pointed to the chair in front of him and motioned for Wu Ershan to sit there.

After Wu Ershan sat down, Zhang Ran flipped through the resume in his hand and said: "Wu Ershan, you originally graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and dropped out of school early because you didn't agree with the teacher's concept. Many of your installations are often exhibited in South Korea and Japan. From your experience, it can be seen that you are a person who longs for freedom, does not want to be constrained, and also has artistic feelings, and what we want to cultivate is genre film directors, emphasizing industrialization, and erasing individuality. Why did you come to our school?"

Wu Ershan took a breath and said, "At the beginning of last year, one day when I went to wander around Xiaoxitian, and when I walked to the cinema outside the museum, I especially wanted to watch a domestic movie. But after taking a turn around, I found that the movie theaters were showing either imported films or Hong Kong-style spoof comedies, and mainland films were barely scheduled on that day. I was so angry!"

Wu Ershan recalled the mood at that time, and his tone was very heavy: "I think movies are popular culture, and they have a great influence, especially for young people; and we are blank in such a huge field, which is really ridiculous! If we don't occupy this piece ourselves, then we are missing and niche in popular culture, if it continues like this, then our culture will become more and more marginalized! I am Chinese, and I have feelings for my own culture." Okay, since everyone else wants to be an artist and a master, and they don't want to make commercial films, then I'll do it!"

Zhang Ran nodded secretly in his heart, the biggest problem of Chinese films is not censorship, but a conceptual problem, there are too many directors who despise commercial films in their hearts, and they never consider the audience's feelings when making movies. It is really rare for an artist like Wu Ershan to be able to put aside his artistic pursuit and sincerely want to do something for Chinese films!

"I watched your short film, in terms of directing skills, it is very good, and the picture processing has strong skills!" Ning Hao looked at Wu Ershan and said, "You used to be a commercial film director, so what do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of advertising film directors doing genre films?"

Wu Ershan thought for a while and said: "As an advertising director, you can't freely choose the theme you want to express, you have to express all the propositions given to you by the creative director, and you have to be good at using many different video techniques and styles. Therefore, the person who shoots commercials may be experts in style, and he can immediately change his style as needed, and the director of the advertising film is particularly adaptable when he makes a genre film, and in addition, the advertising film often has to be shot beautifully, and the visual impact is stronger when making a movie. On the downside, the advertising film focuses on the visual and despises the story, so the director of the commercial film lacks the ability to tell the story.

Amamba asked, "Most of the scenes in your short film "The Knife" are night scenes and chamber scenes, with dim lighting, the whole picture is very beautiful, but the daytime part is turned to black and white, why did you do this?

Wu Ershan smiled embarrassedly and said, "No, it's mainly to save money." I didn't expect to shoot it and look at it, it seems to have a personal style!"

The directors present basically started from small-budget films, and they all laughed when they understood Wu Ershan's feelings.

While Zhang Ran smiled, he also nodded slightly. There are many young directors in China, but if they were to be thrown into Hollywood, most of them would not survive. Cao Baoping once said that 90% of the people in China's film industry will starve to death if they go to the United States to work, and they will not even be able to eat the dregs there. Zhang Ran felt that there were two young directors who were exceptions, one was Ning Hao, the other was Wu Ershan, and of course, there was one more Ding Sheng now.

Wu Ershan doesn't have Ning Hao's screenwriting ability, so he can't write down-to-earth stories like Ning Hao, but Wu Ershan also has his own advantages, and he is especially good at spending money. Spending money does not mean that he spends money indiscriminately, on the contrary, but uses as little money as possible to make the greatest effect.

When filming "Knife and Laughter", Wu Ershan asked every penny to be spent on the camera, and the actor's costume was done well on the upper body, and the lower body was relatively simple. The collar should be particularly good for the clothes you photographed, and the makeup for the face should be good. The swords in "Sword and Laughter" are all borrowed, and even the clothes of the prostitutes are leftover from "The City is Full of Golden Armor". In the end, the movie only cost more than 7 million, but it made the effect of 20 million medium-made films, which surprised many industry insiders.

Just imagine, Jia Zhangke, who spent 6 million yuan to shoot "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", Zhang Meng, who used 6 million yuan to shoot "The Piano of Steel", and Wu Ershan, who spent 7 million yuan to shoot "Sword and Smile", you are a producer and have a blockbuster to shoot, who will you invite? The answer is obvious, Wu Ershan.

It is precisely because of the super high cost performance shown in "Knife and Laughter" that Wu Ershan was finally designated as the director of "Painted Skin 2". Directors like Wu Ershan are also the most popular among film companies in Hollywood, and Lin Yibin, Garris Edwards and others all came out in this way.

Park Chan-wook asked, "What is your understanding of genre films?"

Wu Ershan replied fluently: "I think genre films are a commitment to the audience, different types of films have different audiences, and many people come for the genre of the film, so as a director, you must meet this demand of the audience." For example, comedy films must be happy, tragic films must cry, suspense and reasoning films must rack their brains, and horror films must scare people. In addition, the genre sheet requires the integrity of the genre elements. For example, what is martial arts? I'll define it first, it's the story of a freelancer who wears a costume and can fight. Many people confuse martial arts movies with martial arts movies and killer movies. The chivalrous man is not a policeman, not a national civil servant, he represents an individual, which is the most important thing. As a martial arts film, this element must be there!"

The teachers present all nodded slightly, and it could be seen that Wu Ershan had his own thinking about the type and grasped the key point.

After that, Zhang Ran and several of their teachers asked several more questions, and then discussed in a whisper, and they all stood up with a smile, and said to Wu Ershan: "Wu Ershan, welcome to officially become a member of the Asian Film Academy!"

"Thank you!" Wu Ershan stood up very happily and shook hands with several interviewers.

"We all hope that Chinese films will get better and better, so let's work together!" Zhang Ran patted Wu Ershan on the shoulder and encouraged.

Out of the interview room, Wu Ershan was still a little excited in his heart, Zhang Ran's words just now made him understand that Zhang Ran was the same person as himself. Zhang Ran did these things out of love for Chinese culture, but also out of conscience and responsibility.

"Wu Ershan, how is the interview?" As soon as Wu Ershan went out, Guo Zijian saw him and immediately stepped forward and asked.

Wu Ershan laughed and smiled happily: "It's over." Don't worry, you're also someone who really wants to make movies, so it's no problem!"

At this moment, Jiao Junyan stood at the door and shouted, "Guo Zijian!"

Guo Zijian answered, said hello to Wu Ershan, pushed the door and walked into the interview room.

As the day passed, the interviews were all over. Everyone was satisfied with the results of the interview, but the only problem was that many students did not speak English very well. Although there will be professional language teaching assistants in the future teaching, when the sophomore is going to go to Hollywood for an internship, if the English is not good, the communication may be more troublesome.

Time passed slowly, and soon it was September 4th, the day of the opening ceremony of the Asian Film Academy.

On this day, a large number of Chinese and foreign reporters gathered at the gate of Nortel early in the morning, with long guns and short guns, and complete equipment, all of whom came prepared.

At half past nine, a black sedan soon drove slowly. The appearance of luxury cars often means the arrival of stars, and all the media reporters have picked up their cameras.