Volume 1: The Platinum Age, Chapter 168, The Light Boat Empire (5)

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With the official opening of the Qingzhou cultural training class, the voice of opposition in the society gradually dissipated, for many opponents, they are most worried that the Qingzhou culture will rob a large number of students, so that they become a second-rate school that picks up rags, after this cruel enrollment, we dispelled this doubt, Qingzhou culture is not to grab students with everyone, just want to recruit some elite students, in terms of the overall situation of enrollment, the impact is not great.

Of course, dispelling doubts about Qingzhou culture is one of the reasons why they gave up boycotting, and the other reason is that they have resisted for so long, after all, it has no effect, and they have been sprayed by netizens on the Internet.

The first training course lasted for a year, and the fifty students thought that they would start to counterattack the wonderful life of life after entering the training class, but the next training days made them feel that "a qiē is not as good as they imagined", because the process of receiving training is more tense than when they were preparing for the college entrance examination from a certain point of view, and the competition between students is almost all on the bright side in order to leave a good impression on the training teacher and get a better role in the film and television drama of Qingzhou culture.

Despite this, after the start of the class, there has not been a single incident of students having conflicts with each other or wearing small shoes behind their backs, because on the first day of the class, the first thing Cao Yuqin, the head teacher of the training class, said to everyone: "The first iron rule of the training class is that it is not allowed to have conflicts with other students because of things other than majors, and it is the red line of the class to play conspiracy and tricks to frame other students." ”

The entertainment industry is a vanity fair, and things that compete for fame and fortune are happening all the time, when Ning Qingzhou and Cao Yuqin discussed the class rules, they especially emphasized this point: "I hope that this year, in addition to learning what they want to learn, they can also gain additional friendship or love, kindness is the most important quality of our Qingzhou culture." ”

Cao Yuqin also conveyed this sentence to the fifty students.

Halfway through the semester of the training class, more than 20 students in the class had signed a contract directly with Qingzhou Culture, and then participated in the audition for the Qingzhou Cultural Epic Historical Drama "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

It was only at this time that these twenty students profoundly felt that the problems they had experienced before were worth it.

At the end of 115. That is, when the first phase of the Qingzhou cultural training course is about to end, the main city of the twelve cities on the fifth floor is also officially completed, and the next step is the formation of the surrounding facilities, it is estimated. It should take another year, and Ning Qingzhou didn't rush to work, but said: "I hope the filming of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can catch up with the scene." ”

In 116, the most important thing for Ning Qingzhou and Qingzhou culture was the release of the new movie "The Godfather" in collaboration with Paramount, in addition to the Twelve Cities on the Fifth Floor and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

In March 116, after many efforts by Ning Qingzhou. In the end, the global release of "The Godfather" was reached, including Shenzhou.

The film failed to surpass the myth of the box office myth of "Titanic" at the box office, but it formed a devastating sweep of the film industry in terms of word-of-mouth.

"This is undoubtedly the greatest gangster movie to date!"

"Power, family, sin, love, friendship, loyalty, betrayal...... This movie is a man's bible. ”

"This film made me see the most elegant gentleman wielding a butcher's knife."

"This film has reached a lofty point in the storytelling, the rendering of the atmosphere, the shaping of the characters, and the interpretation of the philosophy of life, which is almost the greatest film in the past fifty years, and there is no one."

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The rave reviews of "The Godfather" made the nearly million-dollar advertorials prepared by the distribution company useless, because the publishers found that the quality and incendiary nature of these advertorials were not even as good as those posted by some viewers themselves.

"This is a masterpiece that deserves to be watched ten times and hundreds of times!"

"It's been brushed three times, each time with a different feeling, and four brushes on the weekend. Tickets have been bought. ”

"If "Titanic" is a movie that women deserve to be happy to enter the theater, then "The Godfather" is the male version of "Titanic", which deserves to be watched by all men in the world. Although once is not enough at all. ”

In addition to these appealing short reviews, there are also a large number of professional and well-written long reviews, the more famous ones are "There is no so-called must-see movie for men in this world, if there is, it must be "The Godfather", "Hello, Mr. Corleone" and "How the movie "The Godfather" was made" and so on.

On some authoritative movie networks around the world, the movie "The Godfather" has achieved 100 percent full positive reviews in history, as the saying goes. Any movie will be criticized, but "The Godfather" has achieved such a rebellious reputation on these authoritative movie websites.

Of course, in the face of praise on such a scale, even if some viewers want to stand up and criticize two sentences. will also wait for this wave to pass, otherwise it will definitely fall into the situation of "I don't understand", "vulgar things", "shallow", "brain-dead" and "you better watch cartoons, that's more suitable for your IQ".

The ecological environment of the online world is like this, the positive is like this, and the negative is the same, fortunately, there are not many black spots in this movie. Or there are too many advantages, as long as you read it carefully, you can always find a certain place, a certain scene or a certain line that can move you.

The strong word-of-mouth fermentation provided a solid guarantee for the box office of the film, and the global box office revenue was close to 500 million US dollars more than half of the film's schedule. At this time, a small episode occurred in the United States, which added to the legend of the film.

One day in April 116, more than 20 students at Yale University who love movies raised money to watch "The Godfather" collectively at night, and then in the process of watching the movie, they worked together and recited the lines of the movie throughout the whole process, and they filmed this process into a video and uploaded it to social networks, which immediately detonated the online world, and the number of clicks on the video grew wildly, and the 20 college students also became Internet celebrities.

There is no doubt that there are too many classic lines in "The Godfather", and the light emitted by these lines can withstand the washing of time for a long time.

"Never let your enemies know what you think"

"Never hate your enemies, that will affect your judgment".

"I'm going to make a offer to him that he can't possibly refuse."

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"There is only one destiny for a person."

"If you are an enemy, you must draw near to him"

"The most insignificant person, if he keeps an eye on it, will always have the opportunity to take revenge on the most untouchable."

"A man who doesn't know how to spend time with his family is not a real man."

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The enthusiastic viewers wrote on their personal social networks: "I love every line in the movie, and I love the way everyone in the movie says the line. ”

The enduring charm of "The Godfather" is not only the heaviness of the story itself, but also the greatness of these actors.

In the Oscars of 117, "The Godfather" was expected to dominate. Winning six major awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay, Ning Qingzhou, the representative of the film's producer, delivered an acceptance speech at the Best Picture ceremony, saying: "Thank you for supporting our film, the best way to make a sequel is to make a sequel. ”

"The Godfather 2" was officially launched.

However, the opinion on the sequel to "The Godfather". Netizens reacted differently, and the mainstream opinion was of course to express anticipation, but there were also many die-hard loyalists who expressed concern about the sequel, because throughout the history of world cinema, no matter how great a movie is. The sequels will all be greatly compromised in quality, adversely affecting the look and feel of the first film, and in the eyes of these fans, "The Godfather" is not to be desecrated.

Still, the film quietly began to emerge amid this support and controversy, and the only way to change the minds of fans was to come up with a sequel of high quality.

With the great success of "The Godfather", the world influence of Ning Qingzhou and Qingzhou Culture has risen to a new level, and at this time more than 100 companies have issued investment applications to Qingzhou Culture, including some world-renowned huge chaebol groups, facing these cooperation invitations with unimaginable temptations. The company's senior management was not moved, and the chief financial officer even led the team to fight for three days in a row, made detailed and accurate audit reports and pros and cons analysis reports on 100 companies, selected 15 most suitable companies for cooperation, and was ready to rely on Dashu to persuade the chairman in one fell swoop.

In the face of frequent hints and requests from the top, Ning Qingzhou showed the dictatorial side of the group's leaders for the first time, forcefully rejected their requests, and made it clear that the group would not consider listing for the time being, and that the group would not consider accepting investment from foreign consortiums for the time being.

Ning Qingzhou's two decisions caused a great shock among the company's top management, and when they communicated privately. They all said they didn't understand, but they didn't say much if they were excessive, after all, the Qingzhou culture has come to this point, and it was basically brought over by Ning Qingzhou alone. All the money-making projects launched by the company are basically related to him, and this relationship is not only about the decision, but also about the content of the project itself.

Not to mention the classic songs that are sung from all over the country, all over the world, TV series and movies produced in China, and blockbusters cooperated with Hollywood, but all works that make money for the company. There was not a single one in which he was not personally involved.

The core productivity of Qingzhou culture has always been Ning Qingzhou, chairman of the board.

So when he first said "no" to the entire group, no one in the group dared to continue to challenge his authority.

Rejected so many influential chaebol groups in one breath, the next pressure on Qingzhou culture is also conceivable, the company's senior management did not dare to mention the listing and investment matters, they began to exaggerate this pressure, trying to put pressure on Ning Qingzhou in a roundabout way, in February 117, Ning Qingzhou opened three executives who provoked trouble behind him, and only then did he suppress this unhealthy atmosphere.

"Except for Mr. Ning, no one in Qingzhou Culture can operate."

This was made clearer when three key executives were fired.

Just when everyone thought that Qingzhou Culture would continue to maintain the status quo of funds, one day in May, at the company's high-level meeting, Ning Qingzhou suddenly announced that he would jointly establish a film studio with a new investment company called "Dragon Chuan" and a company called "Spinat" in the United States, called "Dream Factory".

After the establishment of the Dream Factory, the various pressures faced by Qingzhou Culture before were easily solved, and the perception and interpretation of this film factory by outsiders was that Ning Qingzhou in order to better integrate foreign resources such as Hollywood and further expand the influence of Qingzhou Culture, but insiders, and insiders and high-level and professionals faintly smelled the unusualness of the two cooperative companies that Qingzhou Culture cooperated.

I haven't seen the café for a long time, Ning Qingzhou and Cao Yuqin sat in a special seat chatting and drinking coffee, Cao Yuqin finally couldn't help but be curious to ask about the dream factory, Ning Qingzhou smiled and said, "Sister Qin finally asked", and then patiently explained: "Behind the dragon is Shenzhou craftsmanship, as for the ...... behind spinat" Ning Qingzhou stretched out his hand and wrote a letter starting with M on the table. After Cao Yuqin saw it, she first looked surprised, and then nodded with relief.

"Their biggest shareholder liked "The Godfather", so they got this bag company to come and cooperate." Ning Qingzhou teased.

Cao Yuqin took a sip of coffee. Then he tilted his head and asked, "How did you get in touch with them?" ”

"It's just to use your previous trick, first tell A that B will cooperate with us, and then tell B that A wants to cooperate with us, and then it's done, of course. Get another C, and this movie factory is completely finished. ”

"And C?"

"Of course, we represent our motherland with Shengong, spinat represents the United States, and then find a partner in Europe."

Listening to Ning Qingzhou's joking words, Cao Yuqin wondered for a while, because she knew very well that the European partner Ning Qingzhou was looking for would not be very simple, and asked curiously: "So does this European partner have a goal?" ”

"Well, there are, and I'm in contact with one of their representatives. We are in the stage of watching each other, and when there is a result, I will sue you. ”

"Hmm."

I thought that after offending so many heavyweight companies, Qingzhou Culture would face unimaginable pressure, but I didn't expect Ning Qingzhou to pull these few such heavyweight allies in a blink of an eye, national enterprises and huge chaebols, partners of this level, can basically suppress all groups or individuals in the world who are trying to maliciously retaliate against Qingzhou Culture.

The most amazing thing is that Ning Qingzhou still pulled out the Qingzhou culture to ensure its independence and integrity.

Entertainment companies do it to this point. Finally, there was the prototype of the "empire".

In the second half of 117, Qingzhou Culture once again launched the plan of martial arts TV series, and planned to announce several works such as "Tianlong Babu", "Smiling Proud Jianghu", "The Legend of Deer and Ding" and "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", according to Qingzhou Culture. The main scenes of these works will be filmed on the fifth floor of the 12 cities on the soon-to-be-completed floor, and the TV will be filmed and the attractions will be promoted.

Now that Qingzhou Culture has a precedent for successful martial arts drama production, it has returned to the martial arts theme again, which has naturally won the warm welcome of the majority of martial arts fans. Especially with the growing growth of Qingzhou culture and the cooperation with foreign film and television companies, the film and television drama technology of Qingzhou culture is bound to reach another level, so the quality of TV series production can be guaranteed.

In September, Ning Qingzhou went to England for a week, and three months after returning home, a magical novel called "Harry Potter" took the world by storm.

On New Year's Day in 118, a German company "AUST" joined the Dream Factory, and Ning Qingzhou's so-called triangular structure between China, the United States and Europe took shape.

In the same year, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was broadcast in China, "The Godfather 2" announced the release schedule, and the first film "Harry Potter" made by Dream Works, was officially launched......

At the beginning, the small light boat culture has now become a ******** that has attracted worldwide attention, and the original big brothers Jian'an, Dongwu and Taoyuan brothers are no longer in the same world, and have become the real predators they can't match, after the death of Cao Mengde, the power war between the Cao family and the Sima family is still inevitable.

Cao Xian, with the support of Qingzhou Culture, staged a "Return of the Princess", and then, Qingzhou Culture officially entered Jian'an Group and cut off 17% of the shares, becoming the second largest shareholder after Cao's sisters and brothers, while the Sima family was completely out.

Qingzhou Culture's involvement in Jian'an made the Taoyuan brothers and Dongwu Culture feel the crisis, in the face of the cold capital game, friendship or something is really vulnerable, especially when they look at the current Ning Qingzhou, it seems that it is difficult to find the figure of the young man back then, a rare gathering, old friends are no longer as relaxed as before, whether it is Zhou Gongjin, Sun Zhongmou or Kong Ming, Liu Xuande, when Ning Qingzhou sits at a table to drink and chat, he can't help but be in awe and vigilance.

As the top figures in this circle, they know something about the Dream Factory, and they know how great the power of this factory is, and they can't help but be afraid.

In addition, today's most popular film and television music works are almost monopolized by Qingzhou Culture, some things may not be intentional by Ning Qingzhou, but things have done that far. It's not something he can completely control, after all, you can't blame others for your weakness.

The merger plan jointly proposed by the Taoyuan brothers and Soochow Culture to Qingzhou Culture came after "The Godfather 2" won the Oscar for Best Picture again, creating a history of "the first sequel to win this award". Officially submitted to Qingzhou Culture, Ning Qingzhou read the plan, and called Liu Xuande, Kong Ming, Zhou Gongjin and Sun Zhongmou respectively to chat about the relevant situation, which is strange. Both sides expressed some apologies on the phone, and then Ning Qingzhou agreed to their plan.

In 118, Taoyuan Brothers and Soochow Culture were officially merged into Qingzhou Group, and according to the opinions of Ning Qingzhou, chairman of the group, we reached the charter of "one company, two systems", that is to say, whether it is Soochow or Taoyuan, they have absolutely independent operation rights while following the overall interests of the group.

Soon after the merger of Taoyuan Brothers and Soochow Culture ended, the integration of Qingzhou Culture into Jian'an Group also began.

By October of 118, the Qingzhou Group, an aircraft carrier-class entertainment group of Shenzhou State, was officially established. Compared with the heyday of the Han Dynasty, today's Qingzhou Group is obviously much better, and the fact that it is on a par with Hollywood is incomparable to the Han Dynasty back then.

The October issue of People magazine in 118 gave all the covers to Ning Qingzhou and his Qingzhou culture, and the most striking headline was: "Ning Qingzhou and his ********." ”

Coincidentally, the top domestic fashion magazine also mentioned the words "Ning Qingzhou's coronation" in an interview with Ning Qingzhou in "Guiquan".

After the formal establishment of the group, the business scope has expanded outward geometrically, although Ning Qingzhou and Soochow, Taoyuan Brothers have an old, but really involve the integration of business resources, the two sides still have to complete the handover in a tacit atmosphere, Soochow and Taoyuan Brothers took the initiative to merge. The original intention was to be attached, and they were also psychologically prepared, until Ning Qingzhou threw out the "one division, two systems" to make them feel the sincerity of the new owner, and the degree of cooperation was naturally improved accordingly.

Ning Qingzhou then handed over "The Legend of Deer and Ding" to Dongwu. Handed over the Chu Liuxiang series to the Taoyuan brothers as a welcome gift for the first time.

With the huge success of "The Godfather 2", fans and partners are full of great expectations for the final chapter of the Godfather series, "The Godfather 3", Ning Qingzhou thought about it again and again, and finally agreed to start the project and give this great series a complete ending.

In fact, "The Godfather 3" as a whole. The degree of completion is also very high, especially the portrayal of Mike's self-redemption, which also makes many fans sigh, Mike as the protagonist of this series, the most criticized place may be his cruelty, not as gentle as his father, so compassionate, so loving his wife, in the process of taking power, he did a lot of ruthless things, and in the third part, you can see some reflections on Mike's life experience, which can be regarded as a feedback to fans.

In addition, the third part did not receive praise from the first and second parts, and it is indeed because the first two parts are too classic, and the style and taste of fans have been raised to the point of regret from the beginning.

The word-of-mouth of "The Godfather 3" did not surprise Ning Qingzhou, and after the official release of the movie, the Washington Post unceremoniously criticized: "It's purely a snake painting, Ning Qingzhou and his partners should have refused to produce the film." ”

The voices of criticism and support on the Internet are also showing a trend of being split in half, and the miracle of 100% praise is no longer the original.

Of course, the domestic media and netizens who have been bombarded by bad movies for a long time have expressed a relatively tolerant attitude, they believe: "Although the overall performance and quality of the third part cannot be compared with the first two, it finally gave the Corleone family an epic ending." ”

At this time, the rivals of the vibrant Dream Factory and the strong rise of the Qingzhou Group began to take advantage of the topic, and some professional film critics fiercely attacked the Qingzhou Group and the Dream Factory in response to the decline in the quality of "The Godfather 3", believing that these two companies that instinctively go to greatness will eventually become a tool for businessmen to chase fame and fortune, and Ning Qingzhou will also fall into the same swamp and cannot extricate himself.

Just when the whole world thought that Ning Qingzhou couldn't extricate himself, Ning Qingzhou and his partners spent a year launching two movies "Forrest Gump" and "The Shawshank Redemption", which made the Oscar judges in 120 brain-wrenching, and the debate among netizens also lasted from the release of the movie to the end of the Oscars, becoming a classic cultural event outside the movie.

At this time, everyone finally realized that Ning Qingzhou and Dream Factory were invincible, as the holder of the world box office record and Oscar record today, Ning Qingzhou and his partners had little extra place to complain and think about it. can only find another way, starting from their own records.

"The box office record of "Titanic" has been held for so many years, and such a result not only proves the shrinkage and regression of the world film industry today, but also shows the regression of Ning Qingzhou and his dream-making ability to make dreams......"

Opinion articles on the web. As long as you can put a good logic, you can basically fool a large number of people to like and agree, but these comments have no practical meaning for Ning Qingzhou and Dream Factory today, if the record is so easy to break. That's not a record.

In 120, DreamWorks' "Avatar" was quietly launched without any publicity, and the movie that DreamWorks focused on promoting at this time was the "Harry Potter series" that had been officially launched.

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In 123, the blockbuster movie "Avatar" launched by Dream Factory and shot with new technology was released worldwide in the form of 2D, 3D, and I-MA, and in the same year, the box office record of "Titanic" was broken.

In 124, Qingzhou Group launched the full-length fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings", and the film project was launched in the same year. Dream Factory entered the TV drama industry for the first time, and tried to shoot the mini-series "Friends".

In 125, the "Harry Potter Movie" ushered in the finale, the premiere was held in London, England, and with the end of the movie, the series also became the highest-grossing film in history.

In 126, the first part of "The Lord of the Rings", "The Fellowship of the Ring", was released, with a magnificent world view and picturesque movie pictures, bringing the audience a dreamy and bizarre travel feast, and achieving a total box office of nearly 1.5 billion US dollars worldwide.

127. Ning Qingzhou's farewell concert on a world tour became the most sensational cultural event of the year, and several large cities in the United States even opened red alerts specifically for his arrival.

128 ......

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May 1 of a certain year, International Labor Day. The world-famous tourist attraction is a city on the fifth floor and 12 cities, where tourists gather and there are crowds of people.

Between the seven or eight cities, there is a dense wood, and among the shadows of the trees, you can see the eaves of an independent villa. On a basketball court in the villa, several young people were playing basketball, and there were several girls full of youth and vitality standing on the sidelines, not clapping.

In the living room on the second floor of the villa, there are six middle-aged people, three men and three women, who are lying on the sofa casually, chatting easily while waiting for the TV series to be broadcast.

That's right, today is the day of the finale of "the greatest series in history" "Friends", and the six of them put down all entertainment and gathered here to wait for the final episode of this TV series.

"Ding Dong~" Suddenly someone's mobile phone rang, he opened the text message and looked at it, and then said to others: "New York Times Square has set up a projection big screen to show the finale, and more than 3,000 people have gathered at the scene. ”

One woman continued, "We should also do such an event." ”

"However, I prefer to watch the ending of this drama with you."

"Me too."

Everyone laughed at each other, and then the TV series officially began.

In the finale, Ross and Rachel, a couple who have been foreshadowed from the first episode, finally have lovers and finally become married, ushering in a happy ending, everyone sees the moment Rachel throws herself into Rose's arms, showing a relieved and satisfied smile, but then the six friends handed over the keys to Monica's apartment one by one, and the six people said goodbye in Monica's room, at this moment, more than 50 million fans of the show around the world shed tears at the same time.

"There is no script for this last scene, every actor is showing their true feelings, and they don't do it again."

"The six of them are real."

"Yes!"

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In the TV series, six old friends cried uncontrollably, and outside the TV series, six old friends also burst into tears.

"Goodbye." They said secretly in their hearts.

"Goodbye, old friends."

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