As the sun sets, the afterglow of the setting sun shrouds the Forbidden City, revealing a kind of historical vicissitudes and heaviness.

Sun Ziming's hometown, Feng Xiaogang, a famous domestic director, looked at the red wall and blue tiles under the sunset, and felt a little uncomfortable. Before he became famous, he followed Jiang Wen to the United States to film "Peking People in Los Angeles", which was to live in Sun Ziming's house and make friends with him. Thanks to Sun Ziming's support, he soon signed a contract with Beiping Light and Shadow Branch to independently shoot "Party A and Party B" and became famous in one fell swoop. But for various reasons, Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen have either switched to other companies in the past two years, or opened their own film companies, and they have left Light and Shadow.

Although it is common in the entertainment industry to divide and merge because of interests, Feng Xiaogang also tries to use the artists under Starlight Company in his movies, but every time he comes to Sun Ziming's place for dinner, he still feels a little sorry for his friends.

When the car arrived outside Sun Ziming's courtyard, Feng Xiaogang cleaned up his mood, parked the car next to Jiang Wen's dirty jeep, picked up his handbag and entered the door, and saw Yuan Mei who was placing dishes in the yard at a glance.

"Mr. Yuan, are you busy?"

Yuan Mei looked up, and hurriedly smiled: "Director Feng, I'm sorry, I originally wanted to invite you to dinner, but my boss asked you for help, so I invited you here." ”

Feng Xiaogang glanced at the quiet wing room and joked: "He still has something to ask me to help, aren't you joking?" ”

"It's true, I'm discussing it with Director Jiang."

Sun Tzu clearly asked Feng Xiaogang for help, and he wanted to set up a film fund to discover talented new directors. In terms of artistic level, even if Zhang Yimou has had a tendency to exhaust his talents in recent years, he is still a cut above Feng Xiaogang, but Sun Ziming is not looking for those art film directors, but commercial film directors. Since he is looking for a commercial film director, Sun Ziming feels that the foundation is still much more reliable than Zhang Yimou for inviting Feng Xiaogang to check the script.

Of course, Feng Xiaogang has to be willing to do this, otherwise Sun Ziming would only have to ask Lao Mouzi for help, which is why he didn't invite Lao Mouzi today, only invited him and Jiang Wen.

"Ten per year, each investment is controlled within 10 million yuan. Xiaogang, what do you think? ”

This is a good thing, it must be a great thing, but Feng Xiaogang, who is skilled in human feelings, is embarrassed and feels that Sun Ziming's approach is inappropriate. I'm not a person of light and shadow anymore, and I still participate in the operation of the foundation? Besides, newcomers who have become famous through the foundation will definitely join Light and Shadow, and there will be no complaints in their own company?

It is common for literati to be light, and it is also common for directors to be light, Jiang Wen also felt that Lao Mouzi couldn't make new ideas, so he opened his mouth and said: "I also think Ziming is right, you are more suitable than Lao Mouzi, what kind of things has he filmed in the past few years?" ”

Sun Ziming looked helplessly at his old friend's unbridled mouth, in fact, he was also very dissatisfied with Feng Xiaogang's departure. It's just that in the entertainment industry, because it is common for interests to be divided and combined, it is also common sense that 'one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers', so he has always generously expressed his respect for the choice of friends.

raised his leg and kicked Jiang Wen, Sun Ziming scolded with a smile: "Okay, don't talk nonsense, what have you filmed in the past few years?" If it weren't for Lao Tzu, you would have begged for rice a long time ago.

If you want me to say, you and Lao Mouzi are both too self-righteous! If you really want to talk about it, Xiaogang and I are the same kind of people, and we are responsible directors. If the movie doesn't make money, how can you pay your subordinates a salary, and how can you give investors a return? ”

"Why did you become such a philistine? Do you know what art is? ”

Jiang Wen's anger made Feng Xiaogang speechless, if you want to talk about art, what film awards have you not won, and it is your turn to point fingers?

However, Sun Ziming is really not as Feng Xiaogang thought, if you want to talk about art, he is really convinced by Jiang Wen. Although I often shoot something I don't know, "The Devil is Coming", "Sunny Day" and "The Sun Also Rises", which I had to watch seven or eight times to understand, can be described as temporary masterpieces, and the artistic effect is no less than that of those film masters. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have been able to unconditionally let this guy waste money for more than ten years.

"I'm too lazy to talk to you, Xiaogang, you have to help with this. It's not that I haven't considered Lao Mouzi, but he is not as familiar as you in Beiping, and if you want to find out those people who can edit and guide in the basement and rental houses, you can't do without the help of locals like you. ”

After Sun Ziming finished speaking, he helped Feng Xiaogang light a cigarette and said sincerely: "More importantly, you are the most down-to-earth mainland director I know, and the directors of your company are all mainlanders, so they know the situation in this circle better." As you know, most of our company's directors are Hong Kong people, and they have encountered the problem of adapting to the water and soil, and I want to find a group of such down-to-earth newcomers to let everyone learn from each other. ”

Not to mention, people's reputation must be good, Sun Ziming's good reputation made Feng Xiaogang not think crookedly. People are interesting enough to their friends, and when they were nameless, they invested millions in themselves just by an idea.

Now that Sun Ziming has opened his mouth twice, Feng Xiaogang is embarrassed to refuse anymore no matter what, so he has to agree: "That's okay, I'll do this." ”

"Thanks, let's go to dinner"

After eating, they drank tea for a while, and Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen said goodbye. Seeing off the guests, Yuan Mei sighed while packing up the tea set: "Brother Ming, your tricks are high, if Huayi and Director Feng are unhappy, I will immediately persuade him to set up a new company." Huayi has developed too fast in recent years, your move is called drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle, right? ”

Sun Ziming glared at her angrily, he really didn't think about it that way, but as soon as Yuan Mei said this, he immediately understood why people were embarrassed just now.

Damn, no wonder Wang Fatzi and Lao Mouzi pretended not to see it, it turned out that they all had this idea? As for Lao Feng to be honest, he only thought that maybe their company would be unhappy, but he didn't expect that there were so many dirty tricks in this. No, I didn't have this in mind, although objectively it may have caused such a result.

Sun Tzu scolded Yuan Mei insincerely, "What nonsense? If I really want to target them, I might as well let the theater chain not schedule films for them. ”

This is the reason why the light cinema line occupies nearly half of the theaters in the country, forcing other companies to adjust the schedule according to the release plan of the light and shadow company, which is the reason why they have only relied on Zhou Xingxing and Lao Mouzi in recent years to support them, and they have also sat firmly on the throne of the leading boss; is also the reason why Wang Jinghua left Starlight Company and made the worst plan to develop in the TV field first.

After cleaning up the tea set, Yuan Mei begged again: "Brother Ming, can you help us check the gates?" Although the company's resources are richer than other companies, they are also limited. ”

Sun Ziming, who had just finished instructing Douglas to send the plane over, hung up the phone and said: "It's useless, good actors are made by big waves, and stars are seven points of praise and three points of luck." I'm not a fairy, do you really think that if I look at them, I can know if they can be popular? ”

Sun Ziming's refusal again made Yuan Mei's preparation come to naught, so he had to change his plan again.

"Brother Ming, are you going back to the United States so soon?"

"There's no way, after filming Leo's "The Wolf of Wall Street", I have to shoot Fa Ge. If you agree to other people's things, you have to rest assured, right? Hey, Zhi's "Resident Evil 1" premieres next month, are you going? ”

"Go"