"Elder Wang, you know everything." Shen Chong took a chess piece, took a step casually, and asked, "What is the new policy?" ”

"Xiao Shen, your move is a stinky move." Wang Yang snapped, ate Shen Chong's horse, and said, "General"

Shen Chong couldn't cry or laugh, he had no intention of playing chess, but this old man seemed to enjoy it - in 1979, the visiting group from the mainland was very strict and no one was allowed to act alone, so he had to use the excuse of playing chess with Wang Yang to inquire about the policy trend.

"Xiao Shen, when you were in Beijing, you said that I was too anxious, I think you are too anxious." Wang Yang put his hands on his sleeve and said with a smile: "The policy can be formulated in a day or two, it's very early, let's play chess, it's your turn." ”

"Elder Wang bluffed me again." Shen Chong looked at his radiant appearance, and said with a smile: "There must be good things, otherwise you are a busy person, how can you come to Hong Kong to play." ”

"What do you mean by playing, it's all at this time, do I have the heart to play?" Wang Yang lifted his big black-rimmed glasses and said, "I'm here to investigate." ”

"Handsome doesn't move lightly." Shen Chong moved his general and said, "Elder Wang, don't sell Guanzi, if you don't say it, I'll go to Beijing to ask."

"General Zai" Wang Yang smiled at the cannon, and then said: "You are a ghost in the field, you can inquire about anything, but this matter is not a secret, you can ask Wei Baoguo, and you can know." ”

"You are always authoritative, Brother Wei can't compare." Shen Chong stared at the chessboard, and while thinking, he said, "Did China Film Company agree to share the box office account?" ”

"Don't even think about it" Wang Yang has great resentment about the policy of unified purchase and sales of China Film Company, as soon as he heard the four words of China Film Company, it immediately turned cloudy, and said indignantly: "China Film Company needs funds to build a projection system across the country, I understand this, but who will understand the difficulties of our studio?" China Film Company, they collected 900 million box office in the country last year, 900 million, and our 17 film studios, they can't share a dime, Xiao Shen, tell me, what is the reason? (Note)

"You have a state financial allocation, you can't starve."

"Nonsense." Wang Yang waved his hand vigorously and said: "The money allocated is only enough to complete the annual production task, and there are hundreds of people in the factory, who don't need money to eat, drink, and Lazar?" Employees need salaries, equipment needs to be updated, and factories need to be maintained, and if they don't get money from the box office, where will they get money? ”

"When China Film Company bought a copy of the movie, didn't it pay back 9o?"

"That money, there's a fart" Wang Yang burst into foul language, and said: "We have to pay fifteen or sixteen kinds of taxes to the state every year, and there are various apportionments in Beijing. ”

Shen Chong pondered for a long time, and finally supported a chess piece, and then said with a smile: "Elder Wang, don't complain all the time, looking at your complexion, there must be something good about it." ”

"It's a good thing, but when it will be done, there is no sure letter." Wang Yang's mind at this time was not on the chessboard, he took a step and said: "The central government agrees in principle that the copy price will be set according to the situation of the film. ”

Shen Chong was not surprised by this result.

Speaking of which, although China Film Company has the company's name, it is actually a government agency, its main function, just like the post office, is the product of the thinking of "a game of chess for the whole country", the whole country spreads the pie, robs the rich and helps the poor, makes box office money from the city, and then builds cinemas in unreachable areas and rural areas, movies are propaganda tools and spiritual welfare, and the network must cover the whole country, but in the late seventies and early eighties, most of China was in a state of non-compliance, so the pressure on China Film Company was also quite large.

China Film Company has indeed made a great contribution to the popularization of Chinese films, after the great construction in the 80s, in the early 90s, except for Tibet and Xinjiang and other remote provinces, most of the villages in the country have cinemas or projection teams, which is a very great project.

If there were no TVs and VCRs, China Film Company could be said to be the number one hero of China's film industry, but unfortunately, as these two things entered thousands of households, the rural cinemas with poor conditions were quickly eliminated, and all the previous things were lost.

Moreover, due to the arduous political tasks, China Film Company must maintain a strong monopoly position, which oppressed the studios, leaving the studios without the funds and motivation to follow market changes and grow, the content of the film industry and the market are strictly out of touch, and the upstream and downstream of the film industry are both sluggish, and the harder the China Film Company works, the faster Chinese films will die.

At the Cultural Congress, Shen Chong went everywhere to publicize the lethality of television to the film market and the danger of having no content on the Internet to the film industry, and there were giants like Wang Yang to help advocate it.

Shen Chong took a step forward and asked, "Elder Wang, what is the floating method?" ”

"What China Film Company means is to count by the number of copies." Wang Yang didn't even look at it, took a step forward, and said: "If the copy line passes a fixed number, the studio will be rewarded with a certain amount of funds." ”

"And what do you mean by being old?"

"I've thought about it, it's better to settle it according to the box office." Wang Yang said: "In the short term, it is beneficial to our studio to float according to the number of copies, after all, many local movies are released for free, and there is no box office harvest, but as you said last time, we are developing fast in China, and now the ticket price is dicent, and there can be a box office of 900 million, and when the ticket price is one dollar or two yuan, how much box office does it have to be?" For the long run, it's better to use the box office to float. ”

"What kind of floating method is the box office floating?"

"First set a red line with China Film Company, the box office has crossed this red line, and the excess part should be drawn out as a percentage of the box office, which is regarded as the studio's income."

"This floating method is good, but it is not easy to operate." Shen Chong thought for a while and said: "There is no independent third-party box office statistics agency in the mainland, and there is no sound cinema management system. ”

"Who's to say it's not." Wang Yang sighed and said: "The current film industry in the mainland, many places are not sound, there are still many rules and regulations, it is really not easy to do something, but in any case, it is better than taking a copy fee of 9o yuan." ”

"It's also said that if you cross the river by feeling the stones, things will always be resolved." Shen Chong smiled, crossed the river, and said, "Elder Wang, this time it's my general's turn." ”

"You kid, take advantage of my distraction to carry out a sneak attack." Wang Yang looked at it, then pushed the chessboard, disrupted the chess game, and said, "Xiao Shen, this game doesn't count, let's do it again." ”

"Wang Lao ......"

"Start over, I patronized and talked just now, I'm old, my energy is not as young as you, I can multitask." Wang Yang said while placing the chess pieces: "Xiao Shen, let me ask you something." ”

"You say."

"Before I came to Hong Kong, CCTV showed a documentary about Deng Gong's visit to Huangshan, which was shot from a unique perspective and was widely acclaimed." Wang Yang leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Did you shoot this film?" ”

The corners of Shen Chong's eyes jumped, and he said with a smile: "How is it possible, I can't make movies, how can I have the ability to make this kind of documentary." ”

"Xiao Shen, you're really slippery." Wang Yang also smiled, he pointed to his face and said: "You have hidden it from others, but you can't hide it from me, in July, there was a young man from other places who stayed in the cutting room of the Beijing Film Studio for seven or eight days, can he hide it from me, the director of the factory?" ”

"Elder Wang, there are some things that are inconvenient to say, but I didn't mean to hide them from you." Shen Chong saw that he couldn't hide it, so he stopped being perfunctory and said, "It's just a coincidence." Huangshan is the first mountain in China, I heard that "The Legend of the White Witch" is going to shoot there to shoot exterior, and I found a way to follow to see and see, I don't understand filming, so I took a camera and Rn camera to wander around, touring the mountains and rivers, just met Deng Gong, so I took a few rolls of tape, and then Sister Nan said that she wanted to take it back as a souvenir, let me go to Beijing Film Studio, cut out the important shots, and make a documentary. ”

When Wang Yang heard this, he was amazed, and after a while, he asked, "Then do you still have any film in your hand?" ”

"How could there be." Shen Chong gently tapped the chessboard with the chess pieces and said, "All the films, along with hundreds of photos, have been taken away, and I don't even have a chance to show them." ”

"I watch a lot of documentary material." Wang Yang asked again: "In Huangshan, you accompanied the whole process?" ”

"No, I only met it on the first night." Shen Chong didn't want to say more, he stretched out his hand and said, "Elder Wang, please first." ”

"What did you say to Deng Gong in Huangshan? Forget it, forget it, when I didn't ask. Wang Yang waved his hand, he pushed the pawn, changed the topic, and said: "When the Kaiwen Congress, we old guys were muttering in private, saying that you, a hairy guy in your early twenties, can also participate in the filmmaker conference, it turns out that this is the reason. ”

"Elder Wang, I'm going with real skills."

"What the hell are you fooling, tell me, when you have a meeting, are there anyone under 3o years old?" Wang Yang laughed and said: "Even if you are less than 4o years old, there are few of them, but you have created Zào history." ”

While playing chess, he said: "Xiao Shen, you have real skills, I admit it, but you are too young and have no qualifications, in Beijing, the theories you say are very reasonable, but some people just don't listen, do you know what they say?" ”

"It's nothing more than being young and ignorant, not knowing the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth."

"It's good that you know, the tree is big, and sometimes it's better to keep a low profile." Wang Yang admonished: "You are still young, don't worry, your ability and vision are not bad, Taoguang has been obscure for a few years, and when you have enough qualifications, it will be more useful when you meet the next Cultural Congress." ”

"What Elder Wang said is that my human nature is really anxious." Shen Chong smiled and nodded repeatedly, and after taking a few moves, he asked, "Is there any good news besides the fluctuating copy price?" Like a movie co-production or something? ”

"There is no policy for the time being." Wang Yang said: "After all, there is no co-production yet, there is no precedent, crossing the river by feeling the stones, there are always stones first." ”

Hu Jin has not yet secured his assets in Taiwan, and for the time being, he does not have the conditions to go to the mainland to film -- after all, making a film is not a revolution, and there is no need to drag people bankrupt, so Shen Chong has not yet made it clear about the co-production.

"Is there a new policy for film imports?"

"In this regard, you have to ask Wei Baoguo, if you are not in his position, I will not seek politics, I, the director of the film factory, can't control the import of films.

Shen Chong wanted to ask again, but he heard a knock on the door, he thought it was Fu Qi coming, and when he opened the door, it was Qiu Siyu, the secretary with a stern expression.

"Xiaoyu, what's wrong?"

Qiu Siyu handed over a magazine that had been turned to the middle page and said, "Mr. Shen, look." ”

Shen Chong took the magazine, and after browsing it for a while, he only felt a wave of anger rushing straight to his head from the soles of his feet, after he crossed, he had never been so angry, and couldn't help but scold: "I cāo"

Note: The box office and studio figures in this chapter are from the "Research on China's Film Industry and Policy".

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