Chapter 2 Who's the Trash?
Gu Zhi's major before his death was English literature, and he studied English culture from university to doctorate.
At that time, in order to cultivate him into an international talent, his parents specially urged him to apply for this major.
Gu Zhi himself does not like English, but I have to admit that a good foundation in English has made a lot of contributions to his study abroad career and the process of reviving his family business after returning to China.
There are many Chinese people who hate English since childhood, but the United States is the most powerful country on the planet after all, and it is necessary for individuals and countries to learn English.
If Chinese people want to surpass the United States, they must first fully understand it.
By learning its advanced technology, absorbing its advantages, applying them, throwing away the dross, and being vigilant.
Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.
So whether it's in 1999 or 2017, English is important and useful.
In addition to studying and socializing during his school years, Gu Zhi's biggest hobby is reading novels, movies, TV series, variety shows, and gossip, in short, he is very interested in the entertainment industry.
Whether it is domestic or foreign, a small and fresh literary style, or a pure commercial masterpiece, he basically dabbles in it.
He watched at least 90% of the top250 movies, he also watched more than 90% of the IMDB top250, and the remaining 10% were some works that were really difficult to arouse his interest.
In terms of novels, from online novels to science fiction novels, from domestic and foreign masterpieces to Nobel Prize in Literature works, there are nearly two or three hundred books that have been read.
There are other excellent TV series, variety shows, etc., too many to count.
Before the family accident, Gu Zhi's annual consumption in entertainment exceeded tens of thousands of yuan. After he returned to China, he also tried to keep this expense, but it was reduced a lot on the time scale.
In his opinion, money is earned, and saving money alone is just a drop in the bucket for his family's big hole, and it doesn't make much sense.
Gu Zhi's ideal is to join the entertainment circle, establish his own entertainment empire, export culture abroad, and let Chinese films dominate foreign theaters.
Just like in reality, foreign films dominate the domestic box office.
Every time I see the domestic entertainment industry constantly producing garbage works, Gu Zhi is both spurned and distressed.
In his previous life, he had no time or capital to participate in the entertainment industry, most of the film and television resources in China were firmly held in the hands of all parties, and few good works appeared every year, but they were kidnapped by capital everywhere and held hostage by traffic.
The audience is looking forward to the works that are sapped and applauded, but at a glance, there is often only garbage.
Feng Xiaogang, a famous director of Huaguo, once said some time before Gu Zhi's rebirth:
"Huaguo has produced a lot of garbage movies, is that because there are a lot of garbage audiences?"
Gu Zhi knew that on the surface, Feng Xiaogang was criticizing the domestic audience's garbage, which led to the phenomenon of domestic film garbage.
In fact, he intended to hype, and through amplification to engage in porcelain marketing, to create heat for his new movie "Fang Hua".
But isn't the sentence itself?
Feng Dagang is filming commercial movies that he despises for the box office, and on the other hand, he goes to make literary movies that are so garbage that no one watches, feeding the audience.
When the box office of the movie came out, it was lower than his expectations, and he began to scold the audience for being garbage and not watching his so-called good movies.
Typical pick up the bowl to eat meat, put down the chopsticks and scold the mother.
If the film is really good, won't the domestic audience vote with their feet?
Before Gu Zhi was reborn, Wu Yan's self-directed and self-starred work "Zhan Lang 2" was officially released.
This work took Wu Yan 2 years to shoot, which is a rare work of heart and boldness, which not only ensures the integrity of the plot, but also supports the Hollywood-style movie scene.
And there are many elements of the film, which complement each other.
It's a war movie, an action movie, and at the same time a drama.
The combination of elements ensures that it appeals to lovers of many different film genres.
There is no doubt that this is a domestic blockbuster that has reached the level of the Hollywood film industry.
According to Feng Xiaogang, domestic garbage audiences just don't know how to appreciate movies, but this "Zhan Lang 2" slapped him in the face.
It broke 100 million in 4 hours of release, 300 million in 25 hours, 600 million in 3 days, 1 billion in 85 hours, and 1.5 billion in 5 days.
It is more than twice the box office of "Dunkelke" released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States, and it has become the global weekend box office champion for the first time as a domestic film.
Now, major movie box office websites predict that "Zhan Lang 2" is expected to break the box office record of 3 billion in "Beauty Fisher" and become the box office champion of domestic films.
In the current domestic film industry, there are very few people who make movies with their hearts, and Wu Yan is even more making movies with his life, how can the audience not support it.
Many viewers will even go to the cinema to watch it twice, three or four times, just to support this good movie.
The audience has been waiting for too long, too long to see a good domestic movie that has really been created with heart. And all this aggrieved mood finally broke out completely with the release of "Zhan Lang 2" this time.
Domestic audiences are using the box office to shout in RMB to declare - "Lao Tzu is not a garbage audience, the real garbage is those garbage directors who can only circle money and are self-absorbed!"
Gu Zhi has been reborn, back to 1999, he will not know the final box office results of "Zhan Lang 2", but he does not want to see the domestic entertainment market become a big garbage heap like in his previous life, and it will take a few years to produce a good work.
"In the face of the declining entertainment market in my previous life, I could only sigh on the side and silently contribute to the box office. Now that God has reborn me, in this life, I will completely change the entertainment market in China, upgrade the entire entertainment industry, and to hell with all bad works!"
Gu Zhi clenched his fists, his eyes were like fire, and an unusual self-confidence arose spontaneously, and his temperament was even more outstanding.
The most regenerate, he has faith.
In his previous life, he had been working hard for the family business, and after he was reborn, he knew the general trend of development, and it was natural for him to guide his mother Linzhi's industry to further expand.
However, how can a garment industry be satisfied?
The capital required to enter the entertainment industry alone is a sky-high figure. Since Gu Zhi has decided to change the Chinese entertainment industry, he naturally can't let himself fall into the helpless situation of being kidnapped by capital.
It's not that Huaguo can't produce good works, but in order to cater to the so-called market and various nepotism of investors, capital will often force and rape a work in the end.
Even if you are a director and a screenwriter, you can only obediently listen to investors.
If you don't have money, you can't make works, and if you have money, you have to be held hostage by capital, which can be said to be the sadness of the creators of Chinese entertainment.
Gu Zhi will not be naïve to think that just relying on the knowledge reserve of his previous life's works can change the entire Chinese entertainment industry.
The most useful and fundamental way for Gu Zhi is to make himself the largest capitalist.
And then - fuck him, the mother's bullshit investor, want to manipulate his work? Eat shit before it's too late!
In the past three days since he was reborn, he has been thinking about this problem, and now he has a rough expectation in his heart.
However, there is a premise for all this, Gu Zhi first has to convince his parents.