Chapter 45 Directors Guild

Meng Chao also smiled: "Brother Wang Jing is polite, I watched your movie last year, and it was so well filmed, the gambling skills in it are simply eye-opening, Brother Wang Jing himself must be very good at gambling, if you have the opportunity, you have to show your hand to the younger brother." ”

Wang Jing thought to himself that this kid really didn't open a pot, if he really had such a powerful gambling skill, would he still have to lose like this?

However, Meng Chao is not guilty of ignorance, and Wang Jing naturally will not be angry with him because of this: "Let's talk about it when I have a chance, I look forward to the opportunity to make a movie with you, why don't we talk about this after the Spring Dinner is over?" ”

It would definitely be a good thing if Wang Jing, a commercial director, could be absorbed into his Genesis Film Company, so Meng Chao also smiled: "Then dare to be kind, I'm afraid that my temple can't accommodate Director Wang, the big Bodhisattva, if you can afford the little brother, we will definitely be able to have a good cooperation in the future!" ”

Hearing Meng Chao's promise, Wang Jing suddenly felt a burst of heart-cold comfort, the funds he was going to make a movie had been lost, if he could get the capital investment of Meng Chao's company to start shooting a new movie, Wang Jing would not be known by his family that he had lost miserably.

Seeing Wang Jing talking to a young talent, the members of the Directors Association found out that this young man was the most popular Meng Chao in the entertainment industry, so many young filmmakers came over to say hello to Meng Chao.

As for some filmmakers with higher seniority, such as Xu Guanwen, Mai Jia, Hong Jinbao, Li Hanxiang and other filmmakers, Meng Chao put on the posture of a junior and took the initiative to come forward to say hello.

It can be said that Meng Chao is a focus of attention in the audience, and he is also the most potential upstart produced in the entire film industry in 1985!

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Soon Mr. Zhang Ce, the president of the Directors Association, appeared in front of everyone, director Zhang Ce is the development of Chinese martial arts films, his films are mainly masculine men, and he has directed many blockbuster movies, such as "One-armed Knife", "Stabbing Horse", "Ma Yongzhen", "Thirteen Taibao" are his masterpieces, and the famous actors Dillon, Jiang Dawei, Er Dongsheng, and Fu Sheng are his apprentices.

After the unification of China, Mr. Zhang Ce's films have endured for a long time, and he has a great status in the entire Chinese film circle, and his personality is highly recognized by insiders, so he was naturally elected as the president of the Directors Association.

At this time, Mr. Zhang Ce walked out of the audience with thunderous applause, after the applause, Mr. Zhang Ce said: "Thank you, I wish you all a happy new year, this year I see that there are many powerful newcomers in our film circle, I am very happy, the film market in recent years is not very good, but I believe that it is only temporary, and it will get better and better in the future. This proves that we are a nation that creates miracles......"

Next, as the vice president, director Li Hanxiang began to speak, the main content is to tell about the world film situation in the past year, when talking about the Chinese film market, focusing on Meng Chao and Gao Zhisen, two film newcomers who created a box office of 50 million, so that the two of them became the object of attention of the audience.

After finishing speaking, the internal Directors Guild Awards were awarded, and the best new director of the year was awarded by director Zeng Zhiwei, who was super eloquent: "The best new director of the year in 1985 was Gao Zhisen's "Happy Ghost" and Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth"! ”

The so-called Best New Director Award is actually just a symbolic encouragement from the Directors Guild for directors who have just joined the film industry, and there is not even a reporter on the scene, so this award is only an internal recognition, and has no practical effect!

And because the film market is not good, there were only three or four new directors in total last year, among which "Happy Ghost" had the highest box office, and "Yellow Earth" was the most artistic, so the two new directors won awards.

Chen Kaige was shy when he was young, and most of the film directors on the stage were Cantonese-speaking regions, so he felt a little uncomfortable, so he hurriedly said a few words and walked off the stage.

On the contrary, Gao Zhisen, who had just come to the stage to accept the award, was particularly excited, and he first said on stage: "Colleagues in the film industry, I believe that many people have tried to make movies when more leading work is carried out by the producer, and our "Happy Ghost" is like this, because my experience is relatively shallow, so Mr. Meng Chao is assisting me in filming the whole process, and the film is also invested by him, so this award should belong to Mr. Meng Chao!" ”

Saying that, Meng Chao came to the podium under the push of Wang Jing and Cheng Long, and then Gao Zhisen continued: "Before participating in the Spring Dinner, I knew that Mr. Meng Chao had prepared something and wanted to discuss it with everyone in the Directors Association, so it is better to ask Mr. Meng Chao to speak now......

Meng Chao has no interest in winning this kind of internal award, because the authority is not high, and it is not as authoritative as the Golden Globe Awards in the United States, which is the shortcoming of the Chinese film industry!

However, taking advantage of such a situation, Meng Chao really prepared a little something, so he said: "Hello seniors present, the younger brother has just entered the film industry, thank you very much for being recognized by everyone, this is the first time I have participated in the activities of the Directors Association, and I was very moved to hear Mr. Zhang Ce's speech, in fact, we in China from the founding of the country to a poor and white, with the population as a dividend to vigorously develop the manufacturing industry, thus accumulating the first pot of gold to develop science and technology, thanks to God blessed a few super geniuses, As a result, our scientific and technological level can now be said to be leading the world, and some people even say that our average scientific and technological level is 20 years ahead, of course, this statement is a bit exaggerated, but compared with the United States and the Soviet Union, we have not left behind the ......."

After Meng Chao started from the level of science and technology, the people present began to listen with interest to see what tricks he could say: "After the development of science and technology, our level of manufacturing is gradually improving, and Chinese manufacturing has begun to become popular all over the world, we filmmakers have nothing to say, but now that the economy is getting better and better, should this phenomenon change? ”

Unexpectedly, Meng Chao raised the topic of the free version this time, so everyone present began to be interested, which has a vital interest in him, for example, Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao's movies are now stable at the box office of more than 50 million, but this is because of the rampant free version, basically as long as it is released for a week, seeds and even videos will appear on the Internet. It was fast in three or four days, but because it was beneficial to the masses, the government's crackdown was not strong and negative, which led to the loss of a lot of box office.

If there was no free version, Huaxia might have a movie with a box office of more than 100 million now!