Chapter 708: Dinner (I)
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Haidian District.
Soajun Temple.
The Fuxiang Building opposite the headquarters of DreamWorks Film and Television.
At this moment, Wang Shuo, Liu Yiran, Wu Bin, Wei Ren, Su Lei, Ma Weidu, Ge Xiaogang, Mo Yan, Zhu Xiaoping, Liu Heng, Liu Zhenyun, and Feng Xiaogang, an artist at the Beijing Television Art Center, are waiting for Xu Cun while chattering.
In 1988, Liu Yiran, Wu Bin, and Wang Shuo revised the script in the guest house of Beijing Film Studio, and after tea and dinner, they got together to talk about the mountains, and as a result, they decided to set up a literary and artistic salon film and television creation group composed of some like-minded young writers, named "Haima Film and Television Creation Center".
Subsequently, Wang Shuo, Wei Ren, Su Lei, Ge Xiaogang, Zhu Xiaoping, Ma Weidu, Liu Zhenyun, Mo Yan, Liu Heng, Haiyan and others initiated the establishment of China's first non-governmental film and television creation institution, and raised the banner of "bargaining" to sell literary and artistic products "according to quality and price", and its membership list included almost all the important writers in the literary circle in Chinese mainland in the eighties, which can be called the earliest screenwriters' union in China.
These people do have the strength, and they have successively come out with the two dramas "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", and left, "The whole country mourns Liu Huifang, the whole country scolds Wang Husheng, and everyone sighs Song Dacheng!" ", and the pioneering work of Chinese sitcoms!
However,
It is true that these literati are talented, but they also have to face a very real problem - money!
Nowadays, the treatment of mainland screenwriters is really bad, and the script written has to be broadcast before the manuscript is paid, and only a meagre 300 yuan is given for one episode.
As a result, the script of "The Story of the Editorial Department" has been written for more than two years, and the gang has not yet raised production funds, and the earlier "Desire", which had just started filming, was suspended because of lack of money.
Today, there are two themes of this meal - one is to talk about cooperation (in fact, it is to make a relationship with Xu Cun), and the other is that they want to meet Xu Cun, the great god.
In China, the literati have been a very special group since ancient times, "to establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a life for the people, to continue to learn for the saints, and to open peace for all generations." There is no power in their eyes, at least on the surface.
Therefore, although Xu Cun has money and power, these people still talk about Xu Cun without scruples:
"Xu Cun's level of directing movies is indeed good, but his literary skills are too ordinary, and the ideas and creativity of the novels he wrote are good, which is to express ...... Gee! ”
"However, we have to convince Xu Cun's head, the "Jurassic Park" and "Harry Potter" he conceived are really whimsical, and they opened my eyes, I don't have a head like him!"
"That's because we people have seen less, Xu Cun is flying all over the world, he has seen many novelties, he has come into contact with many people, and he naturally has more inspiration, it is better to read thousands of books than to travel thousands of miles, and it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read countless people."
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Not long after, Xu Cun walked in from outside the door, accompanied by Gan Guoliang, the general manager of DreamWorks Film and Television, Zhao Baogang, Xu Cun's student, Zheng Xiaolong, the producer of "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", and Gong Li, Chen Hong, Yang Gangli, and Ma Yanli.
Gan Guoliang is the first student of the wireless training class, and he has already started to do the behind-the-scenes planning work of the TV station before graduation, and he can be regarded as the founding veteran of TVB.
Until Fang Yihua took over TVB, because Gan Guoliang was too powerful in TVB, he naturally became a thorn in Fang Yihua's side, and later Gan Guoliang simply jumped to Phoenix Terrace with Zhou Liang Shuyi.
At the beginning of the year, Xu Zheng established DreamWorks Film and Television Company in the mainland, and transferred Gan Guoliang to be the general manager.
Speaking of which, Gan Guoliang is indeed very managerial - in the last life, shortly after Gan Guoliang left TVB, he was invited by Li Jiacheng to serve as the director of the satellite Chinese channel, and built the satellite Chinese channel into the first international Chinese media covering many countries around the world. After expanding the Chinese channel of Satellite TV, Gan Guoliang became the president of the group, and developed the TV business to non-Chinese speaking countries in Asia, and the programs of the Chinese channel of Satellite TV once had high ratings in South Korea. Until the Chinese channel of Satellite TV was renamed Phoenix Satellite TV, Gan Guoliang still served as a management manager. It can be said that the Phoenix Satellite TV in the previous life traced back to the roots of Gan Guoliang.
In this life, without waiting for Li Jiacheng to invite Gan Guoliang, Xu Cun took the first step to promote Gan Guoliang to the mainland to prepare for the establishment of DreamWorks Film and Television Company.
Zhao Baogang was the middleman of this meal, and the reason why Xu Cun agreed to eat with Wang Shuo and others was all for his face.
Zheng Xiaolong, the producer of "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", was the promoter of this meal, and he was about to be crazy with money, and proposed that Zhao Baogang, the director of "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department", ask Xu Cun out for dinner, in fact, he wanted Xu Cun to invest in them and let them shoot "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department".
Gong Li, Chen Hong, Yang Gangli, and Ma Yanli came out to play with Xu Cun today.
Hearing Wang Shuo and others talking about themselves, Xu Cun took the initiative to laugh and said: "Don't talk about people behind your back, you are not authentic." ”
As soon as they saw Xu Cun coming in, Wang Shuo and the others laughed and said:
"Who doesn't say people behind their backs, and who doesn't talk about people behind their backs?"
"That's it, that's it...... Yo, and beautiful women, or four big beauties......"
"Don't look at you, kid, from the position and eyes of these four beauties, I'm sure they must all be Mr. Xu's confidants!"
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Talking and laughing, the guest and the host sat down.
In just a few words, Wang Shuo and the others could see that Xu Cun had no, and he was much cuter than the Hong Kong businessmen they had met before, whose eyes were on top of their brains!
And Xu Cun is also willing to get acquainted with famous writers such as Wang Shuo and screenwriters, Ma Weidu, a famous collector, Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, and Feng Xiaogang, a famous director.
In addition, there is Zhao Baogang, a student of Xu Cun and the head director of the Haima Film and Television Creation Center.
The two sides got off to a good start and quickly got off to a hot ......
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Zheng Xiaolong gave Zhao Baogang a look, signaling that Zhao Baogang should get down to business.
Zhao Baogang knew that Xu Cun was very willing to promote people in film and television, and he was very nostalgic.
And this time the two opportunities to direct "Desire" and "The Story of the Editorial Department" are extremely rare for Zhao Baogang!
Therefore, as soon as he saw the look in Zheng Xiaolong's handover, Zhao Baogang said: "Teacher Xu, we have two books in the seahorse, you can take a look, okay......"
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