Chapter 718: Northern Shadow Exchange Meeting
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said that it was an exchange meeting, but looking at their arrangement, it was clear that he was asked to give a speech!
He stood on the rostrum, and sat down in the black pressure below, there were students from two academies, as well as school leaders on both sides, and the five consecutive champions who followed Wu Cheng. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
I guess this venue is a place where schools usually hold conventions, or a small theater used for stage plays and movies! There are one or two hundred people sitting below, and there are still many vacant seats.
Looking at the podium in front of the rostrum, Wu Cheng smiled a little bitterly, then simply took the microphone, walked to the front of the rostrum, sat down on the edge, hung his feet outside, and said with a smile: "It was originally an exchange meeting, as if I was here to speak, well, it's better!"
As a result, when those actors saw Wu Cheng like this, they couldn't help but cover their mouths and chuckle.
Wu Cheng didn't care about this, and those teachers and leaders smiled wryly, this was completely different from what they had imagined before!
However, Wu Cheng has narrowed a lot of distance with those ordinary students, giving people a very easy-going and approachable feeling, rather than the kind of existence that is high up and needs them to look up. This feeling also made the minds of these students somewhat relaxed.
Coughing lightly, Wu Cheng smiled and said, "Actually, I'm not much older than you, and maybe even younger than some of you. In fact, I'm only twenty years old. ”
Well, this is a false declaration of age to the outside world.
"I'm luckier than most of you, though, because I got into cinema at the age of fifteen, and I also became an assistant director, and I took the lead ...... Well, you can take this as my boast, because I'm pretty proud of it, haha......"
Hearing Wu Cheng say this, many people couldn't help but laugh a little and laughed. Even those school leaders who wanted Wu Chengzheng's serious speech smiled helplessly.
After laughing for a while, Wu Cheng raised his hand and pressed it, and waited for the silence below before he continued: "For the movie, I don't know what you guys think. Wu Cheng said, pointing to a black-clothed young man sitting below and said: "Then who, that's you, the one who wears a black hat and smiles with a hat, don't look at others, it's you, stand up and tell me, what's your name? By the way, tell everyone, what is the movie in your heart?"
The young man named by Wu Cheng stood up a little embarrassed and said, "Director Wu, hello everyone, my name is Zhang Yimou, and I am a student of the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy. Well, in my opinion, film is an art, and at the same time, it is also a tool for disseminating information, through which we can convey what we want to express in our hearts......"
Wu Cheng nodded, asked him to sit down, and then nodded to a young man not far from him, the young man stood up with an honor, and said: "Director Wu, hello everyone, my name is Chen Kaige, I am a student of the directing department of Beijing Film Film, my thoughts are similar to those of classmate Zhang, but I think it can not only convey information to others, but also affect our lives, so I think that when making movies, we must convey things that are 'true, good, and beautiful', which is the responsibility and obligation of filmmakers...... That's what I think!"
Wu Cheng nodded, secretly slandering in his heart, the idea is very good, but very naïve!
In addition to these two, Wu Cheng ordered a few more people, these people were all a little impression in his mind, such as Tian Suit, such as Gu Changwei, such as Zhang Tielin, Fang Su.
The latter two are actors, so some of the opinions they say are similar. Zhang Tielin should be familiar to everyone, but that Fang Su, in fact, Wu Cheng is only a little impressed, knowing that she has acted in a TV series "The Legend of Queen Lu", but Wu Cheng has not finished watching this TV series.
Maybe it's because he doesn't like this kind of TV series with women as the main characters!
However, during this period, this woman is still quite smart, if it weren't for the fact that she wanted to pull Huang Qiuyan over to play with the five consecutive crowns, Wu Cheng felt that it would be no problem for her to play the heroine Shepherdess.
"Well, that's all good!" Wu Cheng smiled slightly and said, "But there is one point, everyone seems to have ignored it, I don't know if everyone didn't expect it, or if they didn't think it mattered at all." That's what the audience wants, what kind of movies do the audience want to watch, what kind of movies do the audience are interested in? It seems that no one mentions that. That, Zhang Yimou, what do you think?"
Wu Chengxiao looked at Lao Mouzi and pulled him out again and whipped him a few times.
Zhang Yimou was a little stunned, and finally raised his head and said: "Indeed, I haven't seriously thought about this before, but I think the audience should just have a movie to watch!"
Sure enough, it is still tender and young that has not been tested by the market!
Wu Cheng smiled and said, "Chen ...... Chen Kaige, what do you think?"
Chen Kaige stood up and said: "I don't think it's a problem, because the demand for watching movies is not very big for most audiences now, and what drama there is in the general theater, you can watch whatever ......drama you want."
Well, the situation is similar to Lao Mouzi!
Wu Cheng smiled and said, "It seems that although you are all very good students, you obviously don't know much about this market, or rather, you all think that this doesn't matter." Indeed, the domestic film industry is not developed now, or it can be said that it is in its infancy, and there is really not much room for the audience to choose. It's just that have you ever thought that in the long run, when our country opens up to the outside world and foreign films come in, what will our domestic films do to resist these fierce foreign films?"
Wu Cheng chuckled lightly and said, "I don't know if you have seen the "Wrong Car" I filmed before? In fact, it's normal, even if I haven't seen it before, but when I heard that he was coming here, everyone must have asked the school leaders to show it to everyone again.
"Since everyone has seen it, I don't know if you have carefully calculated, how much box office does my movie "The Wrong Car" have in the mainland?" Wu Cheng asked again: "I know that when this movie is shown in many places, the box office is not needed. In fact, my film was released in China and my company didn't receive any box office ......"
Wu Cheng helplessly spread his hands, and finally said: "I roughly calculated, the number of viewers of my movie is more than 600 million, and if the ticket price is a dime, it is more than 60 million box office." So, may I ask if there is a film in China that has a higher number of viewers than my one?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, there really wasn't. In this way, this movie is indeed very strong. Making such a literary film is what they yearn for.
Wu Cheng shook his head and said: "Well, I wasn't bragging just now, I just explained a fact to you, and at the same time, I also told you the importance of the market." From here, we can see that the art of film can be art at the same time, and it can also be used as a tool for transmitting information, but the key is that it is also a tool that can be used to make money. ”
"Well, when I say this, I guess some classmates will say that using movies as a tool to make money and staining this art with a vulgar copper smell is not a blasphemy against art?"
Hearing this, many people couldn't help but nod their heads again, because they did feel this way.
Seeing this, Wu Cheng couldn't help but smile and said, "People who think like this, I can only say that you are too high." It is true to regard money as dung, which is a noble sentiment! But it is important to understand that you can do anything without money. For example, if our country wants to develop, do we need money? Do we need money to develop films?"
"The simplest, Chen Kaige, let me ask you, do you need money to make a movie? Whether it's machinery, film, or labor, don't you need money?"
was named by Wu Cheng, Chen Kaige was in pain and happy.
However, Wu Cheng's question also made them involuntarily begin to ponder.
It's just that Wu Cheng didn't let them think about it for too long, and continued: "Take me as an example! I wrote a script and wanted to shoot it, but I didn't have any money, and I didn't want to sell the script cheaply to those film companies, what should I do? I spent half a month, using newspapers, to attract the attention of all the citizens of Hong Kong to the fashion aspect, and then launched a few fashionable clothes, with this, I started a clothing company in a month, earned 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and raised funds for the shooting of my film. ”
These people don't know Wu Cheng's family history, so it sounds a little unclear at this time. You know, that's not a hundred, that's two million.
Although Hong Kong dollars are not as valuable as Chinese dollars, if they can be exchanged for Chinese dollars, they are more than 600,000 yuan.
Think about how much you get a month now!
Such a huge amount of money, in a month, he earned it, it's a miracle!
"With money, it's easy to do, I and the director of this play, director Hung Jinbao, maybe you haven't heard of his name, but in Xiangjiang, he is also a household name, we founded a film company together, which is my current film company - Donglong International. We filmed the first film together, and that film, on the other side of Xiangjiang, directly broke the box office record, and at the same time sold the overseas distribution rights to another film company...... Golden Harvest Film Company. On that occasion, we made a total of more than 14 million Hong Kong dollars......"
Hearing this number, everyone was once again stunned and unaware of it.
"It is precisely because of this money that my film company can grow. Wu Cheng glanced at everyone and asked, "If my drama is not successful, then do you think I can continue to shoot the second and third dramas until now?" )