Outside the walls of Wang Zijun's house, more than a dozen reporters squatted there boredly.

"Hey, this Wang Zijun won't let us rest during the New Year, it's really troublesome," a reporter complained.

Another reporter said, "yes, it's really a toss-up." Our editor-in-chief said that if you don't get Wang Zijun's interview before the Chinese New Year, don't report back to the club after the New Year. ”

"Brother Li, you are a big reporter, how dare your editor-in-chief dismiss you?" A female reporter smiled and said, "If that's the case, why don't you come to our magazine." ”

"Miss Hao laughed, I can't afford to serve your boss's temper." The reporter surnamed Li said.

"Eh, what do you think this Wang Zijun wants to do? Want to be a Taiwanese film tycoon? ”。

"Who knows? They must have made another big move, so we'll see. ”

"We can't wait and see, we have to be the first to report it."

"Here, Wang Zijun's car"

A sedan drove up in the distance, and a group of reporters quickly surrounded it.

The speed of the car immediately slowed down because of the reporter's obstruction. The reporters asked all kinds of questions loudly through the car window, but Wang Zijun sat in the car and closed his eyes and recuperated, without saying a word, as if he was asleep.

Lin Qingxia, who was sitting next to Wang Zijun, was a little reluctant, and quietly ripped off Wang Zijun's clothes, and Wang Zijun opened the car window.

"Mr. Wang, may I ask if your Wang Film Company and First Film Organization have formed an alliance?"

"Mr. Wang, what is the purpose of your joint statement with First Pictures?"

“……”

Wang Zijun said: "If you want to know the news, just look at tomorrow's "Impact" or "Next Magazine" entertainment edition. Sorry"

Wang Zijun closed the car window, and without waiting for these reporters to ask any more questions, the car had already entered the gate, and more than a dozen reporters complained and sighed.

"This Wang Zijun is getting bigger and bigger," complained the reporter who could only see the smoke coming from the butt of the car through the iron door.

"It's not bad, it's much better than that Wang Yu, at least it won't show us a look." Someone said good things for Wang Zijun.

These reporters chatted casually, then dispersed and left, since Wang Zijun said that they should read tomorrow's magazine, then they have already given the exclusive news to others, and they can't get it if they want to.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the reporter has been running around for a year, and it is rare to take a few days off. For Wang Zijun, it was a busy Spring Festival.

The first is to discuss cooperation with Mei Changling, Huang Hanzhuo and others. It's easy to say, but it's a challenge to reconcile the interests of all parties. If this work is not done well, then this union will not need to be done, and it may split at any time.

The second is to set up a Chinese education and cultural foundation, from the structure of the foundation to various rules and regulations, this is not an overnight thing, and it cannot be decided at all in three or five months. Moreover, to make this fund, it is necessary to contact local overseas Chinese in all parts of East Asia, and it is absolutely difficult for Wang Zijun to do it alone.

At the opening ceremony of China Film Cultural City yesterday, Mei Changling and Wang Zijun jointly announced a news, that is, Wang's Cinema and China Film Cultural City have formed a brother studio, and the two studios are interconnected, so as to facilitate the development of the studio and the convenience of film crew shooting.

Today, Wang Zijun and Huang Hanzhuo issued a statement that Wang's Film Company and First Film have formed a partnership, promising that both parties will give each other the most favorable treatment during the filming and release of the film.

These actions for two consecutive days immediately set off a lot of waves in the industry, and they speculated about Wang Zijun's purpose. And those reporters who have gone home from vacation have also been recruited back to do interviews and reports.

The next day's "Impact" and "Next Magazine" magazines published a joint statement by China Film, First Pictures, and Wang's Film. It was announced that from now on, the theaters under the three companies will raise the standard of film screening, and shoddy bad films will not be released in the three theaters, and too bloody and violent films will be released after 10 o'clock in the evening.

Most fans raised their hands in favor of this statement, because they often encounter the kind of movies that are well advertised and regret it as soon as they enter the theater but cannot refund the ticket.

In the sixties, there weren't many movies at that time, and even bad movies could be watched with relish, and to be honest, there were not as many bad movies back then as there are now. But in recent years, with the economic prosperity, the box office in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia has been increasing, and the windfall profits from investing in movies have attracted countless businessmen who smell blood. These businessmen simply invest in movies with whatever theme they watch, so there are countless shoddy follow-up films, creating bad movies one after another. …,

Unlike the support of fans, those small film companies are like falling into ice caves, and the three theaters have raised the threshold for release, doesn't this mean that they want their lives? This is Wang Zijun's purpose, these small companies will either make movies well and become bigger, or they will be eliminated.

After affirming the article, the two magazines launched a vote at the same time, and the voting content was the top ten bad Chinese movies of the previous year.

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In a lounge at the Hilton Taipei Hotel.

Wang Zijun sat with Mei Changling, Huang Hanzhuo, and the bosses of International Films, Li Ming Films, Superstar Films and other companies. I am here today to discuss the development of Taiwanese films.

Wang Zijun discussed with Mei Changling and Huang Hanzhuo for several days, and Mei and Huang were not in favor of establishing any filmmakers' association, because there is already a producers' association. However, they had the same idea as Wang Zijun in the development of Taiwanese films, and they talked about it, and finally decided that Mei Changling would take the lead and convene major film companies to set up a foundation.

(In fact, even if Wang Zijun hadn't appeared, the foundation would have been established.) In 1975, some people of insight in Taiwan's film industry, in view of the current situation of Taiwanese films, cooperated to establish a film foundation for the healthy and orderly development of Taiwanese films. The full name is "Republic of China Film Development Foundation". ）

Mei Changling said: "I'll just open it up." The ultimate purpose of the establishment of this foundation, for the party-state, is to expand the influence of political culture; For us filmmakers, it is for the development and growth of Taiwan's film industry; For the bosses, it is a more stable and long-term money. ”

Wang Zijun sat on the sofa, drinking tea while observing the people present. Although they are both about making movies for a long time, Wang Zijun and Mei Changling have different ideas. Wang Zijun's idea is to set up an association, set basic standards for the industry, suppress shoddy films, raise the threshold of film production, and create a good environment for the production and distribution of films; Mei Changling is much more gentle, and wants to establish a film development foundation to support new talents, promote film culture, and encourage creativity.

"Mr. Mei, just say it directly, I raise my hands in approval." Huang Hanzhuo said with a smile.

Mei Changling took out a folder and said, "This is the preliminary plan I made, you can see if there is anything that needs to be modified or added." ”

The people present took turns looking at the documents, and when it was Wang Zijun's turn, he took a general glance, which was probably the charter and structure of the foundation, and the management body of the foundation was the board of directors, the chairman of the board of directors, as well as a number of managing directors and a number of directors......

Wang Zijun was shocked in his heart, this old man had already prepared, all the above aspects had been considered, I am afraid he had been thinking about this for a long time. Thinking that Mei Changling was still in ambush a few days ago, if he didn't say such a thing, Wang Zijun was depressed.

In fact, Mei Changling didn't really want to hide anything, but the establishment of this foundation had to apply to the above, and he didn't want to make a big deal of it before the above agreed. At the recording site of the Spring Festival Gala that day, talking about the current situation of the film with Wang Zijun was just a test of Wang Zijun's thoughts.

Just when everyone was circulating, Mei Changling continued: "The Ministry of Education will allocate a sum of money for the foundation's money, and give some administrative convenience, and the rest of the money will depend on everyone's efforts." And the chairman of the first session, it said that I must be the chairman, which is not negotiable. I am also in my fifties, and the chairman of the board of directors changes every four years, and I promise here that I will not be re-elected. ”

"I agree, how much money will be paid, Mr. Mei said." Wang Zijun said directly.

Qiong Yao glanced at Wang Zijun, she and Wang Zijun are now partners, since Wang Zijun agreed, she had no reason to disagree, and immediately raised her hand to express her position.

The others looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

After everyone agreed, they discussed the details together, and talked about the darkness before finalizing the basic content, and decided to recruit troops after the Spring Festival and announce the establishment of the foundation.

Wang Zijun stayed and chatted with Mei Changling and Huang Hanzhuo for a while before going downstairs and leaving in the car.

Staying in the car, Wang Zijun couldn't help but be a little confused, Taiwanese films began to decline in the early 80s, and after 85 years, they could only survive. Can his arrival really make Taiwanese films continue their vitality?

In later generations, most people only said that the decline of Taiwanese films was that they only focused on literature and art, not the market, which was too one-sided. If you make money making commercial films but only make art films that have no market, are those production companies stupid? In fact, most of the commercial films in Chinese films at that time were from Taiwan, and the output of hundreds of films a year was second only to Hollywood and Bollywood. …,

The decline of Taiwanese films is the result of a combination of factors:

Small and medium-sized enterprises are eager for quick profits, full of speculation and bubble production methods - the end of the 70s: the repeated shooting of martial arts action films and literary romance films, the subject matter and content are exhausted, and gradually lose box office appeal. In addition, Liu Jiachang's film production at that time was very simple and the cycle was short, but because the story was well told and the episodes were good, they were blockbusters. As a result, countless people followed suit, and the filming of the movie became simple, and the whole day of the movie was about which singer to invite to participate in and what episode to accompany the movie.

Under capitalism, the industrial production of a large number of people is difficult to improve the creative capacity of Taiwanese films.

At the same time, during this period, television sets had become popular in Taiwan, and the annual viewing rate of individuals was rapidly declining. People watch movies less often, and it is difficult to come out once, so it is natural to pick a good one. At this time, New Arts City was established, and there were countless good Hong Kong films, so of course people wanted to choose better Hong Kong films.

Due to the lack of their own distribution channels for small and medium-sized companies, and the domestic film theater chain has a bottom-up system, in the face of the impact of Hong Kong films, film owners have lost confidence and would rather freeze the film library, which has caused many independent production companies in Taiwan to close their doors.

In addition, the authorities' policy on films is also an important reason for the decline of Taiwanese films. The Kuomintang authorities have never regarded film as an industry, and Taiwan's film policy in the 70s was mainly based on cultural propaganda and education, treating movies as general entertainment, giving up the best opportunity to upgrade the industry. The folk film industry also obeys the spirit of Taiwan's small and medium-sized enterprises, takes self-entrepreneurship as the norm, and seeks short-term profits, lacks foresight, and lacks sufficient efforts in terms of production scale, talent and technology training.

On the contrary, Hong Kong's Chinese films, led by Shaw Brothers and Denmao, moved towards a large-scale studio system. In addition to actively setting up studios, establishing cinema chains, preparing for the production of high-cost films, setting up training classes, publishing magazines, establishing publicity and marketing channels, and consolidating the Hong Kong market, it has also actively entered the Taiwan and Southeast Asian markets to reinvest with higher profits and enter a completely capitalist mode of expanded reproduction. The gap between the film strength of the two places has widened.

The establishment of Hong Kong's star system, the rise of the studio system, the strategy of cinema management, the cooperative operation of production and marketing in overseas markets, the complementarity of television and film, the free competition of the market, and even the rise of the independent producer system with the style of professional managers made Hong Kong films smoothly upgrade and transform in the 70s, and become more and more prosperous.

Taiwan, on the other hand, regards film as a political rather than a cultural and economic industry, takes literature and propaganda as the norm, suppresses market functions, does not invest in construction, adheres to the short-term profit-seeking style of small and medium-sized enterprises, despises the film industry, and allows the industry to be hit by television, so Taiwan was eliminated under the competition at the end of the 70s.

In addition, such as the impact of videotapes, the strict inspection of the film tax system, etc., are the reasons for the decline of Taiwanese films.

Back at home, Lin Qingxia saw Wang Zijun sullen, ran over to hug him and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?" You don't seem to be happy. ”

"It's nothing, I'll go to the study to think about something, don't bother me yet." Wang Zijun shook his head, smiled at Lin Qingxia, and went upstairs into the study.

Whether it is raising the threshold of film production or supporting newcomers like Mei Changling, it is not the root of the problem.

The most effective thing is to change yourself.

The reason why Hollywood can become Hollywood, and its films can be dumped all over the world, depends on two magic weapons - the studio system and the Second World War

Wang Zijun didn't have a world war to help, so he had to rely on the studio system.

For a few hours, Wang Zijun sat in the study and thought, combined with what he knew and heard in his past and present lives, and began to sketch the prospects of Wang's Film Company. There has never been a time when Wang Zijun has thought so deeply.

Finally, Wang Zijun pushed open the window, spread out a blank piece of paper, and wrote down four big headlines - big studio operation, assembly line operation, star system, and genre movies.

Big-studio operations represent competitiveness, assembly line operations represent lasting and stable creativity, star systems attract attention, and genre movies are designed to eliminate blind following. These are the essence of Hollywood's successful experience, and the conclusions reached after the bankruptcy of countless American studios. Wang Zijun can copy it, but it must be combined with his actual situation.

Lin Qingxia pushed the door open a crack, saw Wang Zijun lying on the table and writing something, sighed, and gently closed the door.

When Wang Zijun stretched his waist and stood up, the sky outside the window was already white, and he looked across his watch, but it was already more than six o'clock in the morning.

Wang Zijun carefully put away the more than 20 pages of manuscript paper on the table, which is the result of his whole night, with this plan, Wang's Film Company will get out of the stage of small fights.

Even if all other film companies in Taiwan go bankrupt, if Wang's Films can go step by step according to the plan, and with the bug of Wang Zijun, it will never go out of business.

Wang Zijun went downstairs with his stomach that was already grumbling with hunger, but saw Lin Qingxia sleeping on the sofa in the living room. Hearing Wang Zijun's footsteps, Lin Qingxia opened her eyes in a daze, and then walked into the kitchen to serve the food.

"You waited all night?" Wang Zijun found that these meals were all hot, and hugged her with emotion.

"Go wash up." Lin Qingxia yawned and said, "I fell asleep unconsciously, I'll make up for my sleep." ”

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Alas, the old man has passed away, what kind of contradiction do the younger generations still have?

Why is there such a son in the world? Before his death, he took all the money of his old father, and his father had Alzheimer's disease, and he threw it aside to fend for himself, so he brought a few bowls of rice every day, and when the old man died, he went around talking about others, boasting about how filial he was

My uncle, what a ......,