Chapter 344: Politely declined
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This pie is definitely an added version, or there is no filmmaker in China who can get such support from the old chief. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info is not that their ability is not enough, but because their strength is not enough, the filmmakers in the system are still 108,000 miles away from the stage of the old chief.
Even if there is a chance to meet, it will not be a separate meeting, but a large group of people will come up and say a few words, filmmakers like Li Mingbao who have a separate time to talk to the old chief are rare, and even if they are such characters, they can't say these things in front of the old chief, because they themselves are people in the system, and they have a lot of networks, and they will offend people no matter what they say, and in the end, even if they have ideas, they will be confused by everyone and repeat the same old tune.
But Li Mingbao is not a person in the domestic circle, let alone a person in the system, what he wants to say, no one can really do anything to him. After all, Li Mingbao's movie has not thought of being screened in China, coupled with the aura of Li Mingbao's investors, if anyone dares to attack Li Mingbao, the people who attack him are definitely not a small number, because now domestic investors, especially those with great strength, care about the energy of the people, compared to the people in the small circle of movies, the energy is too great, and the conditions are not equal, even if Li Mingbao scolds his mother in person, others have to be received with a smile, and finally Li Mingbao's words are thought-provoking.
This is the current situation in the domestic circle, and to be able to catch such a line with the old chief, for Li Mingbao, this trip has exceeded the goal. But if Li Mingbao wants to take this big pie now, Li Mingbao also feels as if he really can't eat it.
The current situation of domestic films is a problem of funding on the surface, but in Li Mingbao's view, it is actually a problem of the system. And what the old chief is afraid of thinking of is also something about the system, if Li Mingbao accepts this suggestion and goes to China to make a movie, the first thing he has to face is the system. Domestic institutional problems are more difficult to deal with than financial problems.
To put it bluntly, the old chief can give Li Mingbao so much autonomy, and it is not completely without a price, this price is put here by Li Mingbao, which is to go to the thunder for the domestic film system, even if it succeeds in the end, Li Mingbao will have to offend a large number of old people, and it will not succeed, hehe, at that time, there will be countless people who will step on Li Mingbao countless times, so that he will never be able to turn over.
So don't look at the ingredients of this pie are absolutely enough, and it is also very delicious and delicious. But in fact, the delicious and delicious things in this pie were originally made of poison, and if Li Mingbao really wanted to eat and digest it completely, he would have to improve his poison resistance, and he would have to fight against countless big names in the system, and its tragedy was definitely no less than that of war.
And the more the reform goes to the end, the greater the resistance, either leaving the strongest fortress and sharing the benefits in the end, or breaking this fortress and then sharing the peaches with the audience. Anyway, doing such a thing is definitely thankless, and the future is very bright, but the problem is that to that extent, everything Li Mingbao will become something from the mainland, and at that time, Li Mingbao himself will be a member of the system and accept the complicated cobwebs.
This is really not a good choice for Li Mingbao, who has always liked to put his eggs in countless baskets. Of course, he is optimistic about the mainland market, but such a market is also too big, and it is easy to pocket himself, and when there is no outside capital into his company, sooner or later he will be assimilated by the mainland market.
So for the old chief's suggestion, Li Mingbao was first excited, and then felt like he was going to break out in a cold sweat, and finally realized that this pie was also a trap and a bottomless pit.
It is true that there will not be much resistance to the current surgery of the mainland film industry, but the problem is that by the time Li Mingbao is halfway through the operation, the mainland film market has become less easily ignored.
For them, whether the film industry is good or bad has little to do with them, as long as they can make money, it would be good, as for whether the final reform is successful, that is something that Li Mingbao has to consider, not them. This situation is like when the Hong Kong film industry was booming, those underworld funds poured in wildly, and money laundering made money was used in everything.
For this market, there are good and bad things for these funds to enter, but more of them are bad, the main reason is that these funds cannot be controlled, there is no ability to control them, the power of the film circle is weaker than the power of those funds, so they can only watch them grab money in front of their eyes, and there is nothing to do about the erosion of the market, and finally the market collapses, and the loss is the film industry, which has nothing to do with other funds. Li Mingbao felt that he might not be able to eat much of the cake he made at that time, and he would bear all the risks, but the benefits might not be his own. This kind of business is at a loss, even in the face of the old chief, Li Mingbao does not want to make a loss-making business.
Therefore, when Li Mingbao thought about it for a while, he could only helplessly say to the old chief: "This proposition is too big, I don't think I can carry it on my shoulders." I'm still young, and although I know a little about movies, when it comes to experience, I'm not at all comparable to those experienced seniors. Let me do this, and it will definitely be a mess in the end. After all, the actual situation in Hong Kong is not exactly the same as the actual situation on the mainland.
I can only be regarded as a layman in the mainland film market, and letting me do it is no less than asking a doctor who is engaged in surgery to do internal medicine, although they are also doctors, but in fact, the content of their work is completely different.
If it is a small-scale cooperative project, perhaps there are opportunities for cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong, and it can also create some real profits. But if it is all-round cooperation, the market is different, the direction is not the same, and in the end it will only make a four-way difference.
In fact, Hollywood and Hong Kong are obvious examples. Although everyone knows that Hollywood is a place to make a lot of money, Hong Kong people like Uncle Six and Boss Zou are also interested in Hollywood and want to make money. But Uncle Sixth lost money at the beginning, so he has stopped tossing there in recent years, and Boss Zou made money there back then, so he is also very interested in Hollywood now. Although he doesn't earn as much as me, he is also very well-connected in Hollywood.
Hollywood because of its superior geographical conditions, so they can do a lot of things, and the Hong Kong market is only a little bit, when making movies, they only focus on certain movies, and they can't play as comprehensive as Hollywood, which is a real reason why they are not very keen on special effects, it's too wasteful of money, and Hong Kong can't support it.
But they didn't expect that special effects would be the mainstream technology of movies in the future, and if they don't burn money now, they won't be able to burn money if they want to burn money in the future, so the pace is several steps slower. There is no money to engage in technology, which is the real sadness, and in the end you can only eat leftovers.
The current situation on the mainland is actually similar to that of Hong Kong, but the situation on the mainland is even worse than that of Hong Kong. However, the mainland's basic market is incomparable to that of Hong Kong, so there is hope that the mainland will launch these projects in the future. But Hong Kong doesn't even have hope, and under such circumstances, it is not a good choice for you to ask me to run the mainland's film market in its entirety, old chief.
After all, the development direction of each market is different, and the results and achievements are also different. My experience is that even if it is to develop the Hong Kong market, it is very laborious, and putting it on the big stage of the mainland may have reference significance in some aspects. But if you want to do it all, this is not a project that can be completed by a certain person or a certain industry, and it must be done in a holistic way.
I want to make some contributions to mainland films, or the entertainment industry in a broader sense, but if I want to host the work, this is not something I can do. So even if the old chief gave me such a good opportunity, I could only politely decline. Because of my ability, I can't meet the high requirements you said, old chief. ”
Li Mingbao flinched on this issue, and it did not surprise the old chief. His invitation was actually a tentative invitation, and Li Mingbao really agreed so readily, but the old chief would put forward various conditions later. After all, the film industry, or the broader entertainment industry, plays a considerable role in guiding ideology, and Li Mingbao has some dazzling achievements now, but young people like him want to upgrade the industry market in the entire mainland, and it is difficult to achieve the expected goal of such a thing.
What's more, the entertainment industry in the mainland is equivalent to being poor and white for Li Mingbao, and it is too dangerous to invigorate it. If you're not careful, you'll have to put him in it. For a person like Li Mingbao, who is quite oily and watery abroad, this is an inferior project, and as long as Li Mingbao has no problems with his brain, he will refuse such a proposal.
The most important thing is that, according to some of Li Mingbao's development to the present, Li Mingbao is also not the kind of person who can really bear hardships and stand hard work, and those who enjoy it abroad will go to China to play the cultivation game, if Li Mingbao really becomes famous, after the age of forty, if he wants to ask for fame, maybe Li Mingbao will agree to the old chief's conditions.
And like the current Li Mingbao, he hasn't played enough by himself, it is the stage of seeking profit, don't give up the originally well-developed industry, but go to China to work hard, which is not like Li Mingbao's style of life at all. really agreed, the old chief didn't dare to really completely delegate power, and then he had to find some nannies for Li Mingbao, and doing so was completely inconsistent with the original intention.