What is this?

When did a new movie come to work?

Is Zheng Daoer going to do a trilogy?

Wasn't the last movie "Once Upon a Time in South Korea"?

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Many people don't know that Flashing Media made two movies last year, and this nomination only has the title and director name and nationality information, and other related news is gone.

Look at it this way...

So, What was the movie that was shot in Shima Aoi some time ago?

Could it be "Peng's Past Days"?

It's not next to each other, it's a bit unreliable to think about.

Hey...

Many people suddenly remember, isn't that place in Annam Vietnam?

A lot of news has been about the Vietnam War lately, could it be related?

There is too little relevant news, and the information that can be learned from just looking at the title of a movie is quite limited, and it is not enough to guess.

But if you want to know more, there is no information channel, and Flashy Media has not released any information to the outside world, not even a short video or scarf to express their feelings, as if it is insignificant to them to be nominated for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival.

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Whereas... That's really the reality.

Isn't it just the announcement of the nominations, all kinds of public relations in the early stage have been in place, and even the awards are almost operational, and now the list of shortlisted nominees has just been announced, what is there to be excited about.

The whole flashing media up and down, there is no feeling for the nomination of Cannes, the only good thing is to remind Zheng Xu that the nomination is out, and it is time to prepare to go over to receive the award.

However, many people in the outside world who eat melons are very excited.

Why are they excited?

The final prize at the Cannes Film Festival --- the Palme d'Or, which was won by Kai Zige's "Farewell My Concubine" in 1993, which was also the first and only time that director Yan Guo won the award.

In the past, whether it was in the newspaper or in the media news, news such as a certain crew shining in Cannes, they were only shortlisted and participated in small awards in other units, and they had nothing to do with the Palme d'Or!

In the past, Zheng Xu had different opinions about his honor.

Although there are four Oscar statuettes by his side, there have always been people who have criticized him for using special means to obtain the Oscars, and Zheng Xu's control of public opinion in the past few years has not been as in place as it is now.

There is always a group of Internet acquaintances who stand up, want to win some attention, show off, say something that seems to be very profound, say the routine of a director surnamed Zheng, understand everything, the films he makes are not artistic, and he can only rely on some unknown means to get mixed up with the Oscars, and he does not dare to go to the more professional three major traditional European film festivals.

But no one in China has won the Academy Awards before, and the Oscars have been held very high.

The fundamental reason why the awards of the three major European film festivals are lower than the Oscars in the minds of the domestic public is that these three awards, the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion Award, and the Golden Bear Award, have all been won by directors from Yan Guo, but the Academy Awards have not been won by Yan domestic directors.

And this phenomenon lasted until Zheng Xu appeared, and it also ended with Zheng Xu's continued impact on the Oscars.

But it has been a few years since Zheng Xu won the award, and even if other Yanguo directors follow Zheng Xu's same routine, they still can't win the Oscar.

There's a small detail that is easy for ordinary people to overlook.

That's the value for money!

For example, if you spend $5 million on PR in order to win an award, it is an average amount of money.

This average fluctuates from year to year, depending on the opponents of each year, and the size of the producer's determination to win the award, sometimes it fluctuates quite a lot.

Maybe in a low year, a certain award that can be run for $5 million will be doubled or even more in a year when there are many opponents.

In the eyes of many foreigners, what is the ultimate purpose of winning awards?

Is it for art?

No...

It's a benefit!

They can spend $5 million to run an award for a movie, because they are confident that after the film wins the award, the value of the rights sold will far exceed the $5 million upfront investment.

Winning a prize is about making more money, not breaking the bank for just one award.

On the contrary, when the lower and upper limits of a film are not prominent, no matter how much money is spent on operation, the benefits brought are not very considerable, and these awards are no longer necessary.

There is a set of internal standards for this consideration, and no one makes it public, but everyone knows these producers who often participate in the awards.

Put this situation in Yanguo, if they want to go to the United States to participate in the Oscars, they must not only pay attention to the nationality of the movie, but also the subject matter, just these two items, can screen out more than half of the people who want to be opportunistic.

The rest, there is also the disadvantage of playing away, and the price they have to spend if they want to go to the Oscars is much more expensive than some traditional American award-winning producers!

At present, is there any director in China who can willfully spend tens of millions to win an ethereal Oscar?

Sometimes even if you spend money, you may not be able to get it, or even be cheated.

Lao Zhang is not like this, blockbusters with a budget of hundreds of millions have been made one after another, except for a few inconsequential Oscar nominations, the rest has not gotten anything!

And now, Director Zheng, who has been silent for several years, has finally launched an attack on the Cannes Film Festival, and directly entered the main competition unit coldly, which can be regarded as a blockbuster!

This time, Zheng Xu broke the previous rumors with practical actions, and now he has just been nominated for the main competition unit, in case he can really win the final award this time--- Palme d'Or...

Then Zheng Xu's position in the domestic director industry can be completely stabilized to the top three...

Or is it... Higher!

..............

On the afternoon of April 16.

A convoy of three Buick commercial vehicles came to the flash short video e-commerce logistics park specially opened in the port area of Zhongzhou City in a very low-key manner.

The logistics park,Gather all the e-commerce warehouses that have settled in a flash short video,All the goods purchased on a flash short video,To be sent to all parts of the country from here,Now... There's one more road here, a road to Europe.

Zheng Xu has never been here since it was built, and this time he finally found time to take a walk.

In the warehousing and logistics area, there are still a lot of talents in the city, the entire park, now less than one-twentieth of the place, there is still a large area of spare land on the periphery, for future expansion.

Although the scale of the businesses in the park is not too large now, everything is well managed.

For example, food, fruits, grains and oils, electrical appliances and other attributes of the goods will be allocated to warehouses in different directions in accordance with a more scientific management method, from the source, to completely eliminate potential safety hazards.

All the goods in this park must go through strict sampling inspection before entering the park.

When the goods are put into storage, there is also professional warehousing software to strictly manage, and this process also depends on the merchant's self-inspection.

In between, there is a second round of spot checks.

Then, every week, random checks will be carried out at random points for the quality of the goods.

Until the goods are out of the warehouse, random inspections will continue in strict accordance with the process.

Every step in between, every random checker, will be recorded clearly.

If there are still problems with the goods after so many sampling procedures, the merchant will face the deduction of the deposit and a huge fine!

If you want high profits, you have to maintain a high standard of quality.

.............

Zheng Xu didn't get out of the car, pressed the window, the team flashed double, driving slowly in the park, and Wang Yi, the head of the short video department sitting next to him, stretched out his hand to explain to him the various warehouses he encountered along the way, from business information to product information, Wang Yi was familiar with it.

"Xiao Wang... I've been thinking about a few things recently, our e-commerce model, carried out for a period of time, when I didn't find any problems, this model is still developing rapidly, and the reputation is still very good. Or wait and see? ”

"Uh... Boss, what do you mean? ”

Wang Yi didn't understand what Zheng Xu meant, now everything has just become formal, where is this, this year's merchants who have settled in a flash of short videos, the first half of the year has not yet ended, and the number of merchants on the entire platform has doubled, and the results are gratifying!

But... Looking at Zheng Xu's appearance now, it seems that he is not very satisfied with this situation.

"You reported to me the data here, it's only been April, and the number of merchants on our platform has doubled, the number is more, which is gratifying, but this increase rate makes me feel a little uneasy..."

Zheng Xu looked at the logistics vehicles transporting goods in the park, a little distracted, talking to himself, and continued in a voice that Wang Yi could hear: "There are more merchants, this is a good thing, we have more goods on the short video online mall platform, but... Don't you think that's growing a little too fast? ”

"Our inspection standards and requirements are not low, right? Why are many businesses able to meet our standards so smoothly? Is it because our standards have been lowered? No way? ”

Zheng Xu turned his head and glanced at Wang Yi, seeing that he was pondering, and continued to express his concerns.

He has always been a person who pays more attention to the quality of life and likes to enjoy.

Zheng Xu doesn't usually give much opinion on what he eats, but it is all based on the fact that these people under him are all doing well!

All kinds of food are strictly selected by the small quality inspection department of the logistics department, and the first flash media is influenced by Zheng Xu to pay the most attention to these, and in the case of not bad money, it is natural to ensure the quality of their own food and drink.

At the beginning, when they were not much arrogant, Brother Dao, the head of the catering department of the canteen, had to go to the supermarket to pick the best groceries, and later with the growth of Flashing Media, they gradually became magnanimous, and the quality of life was higher.

But this is only the food and clothing of their 1,000 people, there are not many people, and there are few things, and everything can be checked in place.

And now that so many businesses have settled in the logistics park, it is not possible to check them one by one.

It can only rely on multiple batches of sampling and sample inspection, and this kind of large-scale commodity inspection is qualitatively different from small-scale commodity inspection.

...

"Xiao Wang, when I see this situation now, I suddenly think of what we did before... It's like we won the Oscars. ”

"Boss... You mean? ”

"Yes... Take the test, memorize the answers, follow the answers, take the test for the sake of the test, it doesn't matter if the standard we set is high or not, as long as they can meet the standard, they can come in. ”

"I'm afraid they'll do that right now."

A few days ago, some of the vehicles purchased by the company before were old and needed to be replaced and bought new ones, and Zheng Xu also happened to learn about some of the situation in this regard.

He has always been more fond of business cars, and in the company, business models, basically all of them are Buick business cars.

But now, the market is not like in previous years, there are fewer resources, not many models, and not much room for choice.

In the current car market, there are a lot of business models, and there are even some brands that have made a special version of the business model of Yanguo.

There's a very amazing phenomenon here.

Some Japanese brands of cars obviously do not have an advantage in terms of materials or designed model structure, but why are their results in every vehicle collision so-so, or relatively good?

When two cars collide with the same car, some cars of Japanese brands are often scrapped, not only that, but even the people in the car are cold, but as long as they get on the quality inspection bench, they will be tested for crash.

The crash results of these Japanese brands tend to be quite good.

The routine in this is similar to Zheng Xu's previous work of putting together all kinds of political correctness like doing exam questions to impact the Academy Awards.

And to change these routines to these goods on the Internet, it is also a truth, all such commodities, whether they are agricultural products, or various industrial products, there must always be a standard, whether it is size, color, quality, etc., there are always so many key points.

Zheng Xu saw the current situation, under the premise of lowering the required standards of the quality inspection department of the flash short video online mall, there are more merchants settled in a short period of time, which may be that all merchants are doing very well, they are very responsible, and they take out the best goods with quality and quantity.

But Zheng Xu thinks about things, often likes to think about the worst, and expects these merchants to keep their consciences, which he feels a little unreliable.

Businessmen, when they figure out the way and routine, their true desire for profit will be exposed, this is common sense!

Some people have found the trick after such a long period of experience in inspecting goods in the quality inspection department?

No one can say for sure about this thing, but Zheng Xu cares very much about the quality of various types of goods in the flash short video online mall, but whenever there is a merchant with a bad reputation, even if it can be fined, the harm received by their merchants is often not as good as the damage suffered by the platform.

...........

“？？？”

After listening to Zheng Xu's words, Wang Yi's eyes were cold, he hadn't paid attention to this situation.

Now that the platform is developing at a high speed, he can't consider such a tricky problem, since the product quality is up to standard, let people settle in.

The rules set by the platform, when people have reached it, they should let people settle in, which is reasonable.

But Zheng Xu's statement is also reasonable, malicious speculation, no better, but if there are really businesses that rely on opportunism to get in, don't say much, even if there is only one...

If something really happens at that time, the impact will be immeasurable!

"Boss... So in the current situation, are we raising the bar or? ”

Faced with this situation, Wang Yi was also a little numb.

Raise the standard again, although it may be possible to screen out some businesses, but blindly only pursue the standard, and finally the standard is set higher than the sky, but there are few businesses that meet the requirements of the standard, so how to play?

It's not a long-term solution.

But the quality inspection department... At present, there has been no mistake, everything Zheng Xu said has not happened yet, and these are all based on prevention.

You can't hit the merchants who are now on the platform for the sake of some so-called speculations before anything happens, right?

It's not in line with the rules either.

"Tsk..."

Zheng Xu just wanted to smoke a cigarette, thought about it, this is a logistics park, and he is not good at being special, he resisted the urge to smoke, thought about it and said: "This way... At present, since you haven't found a big problem, it's not easy for us to make a big move here, but this quality inspection department... In a few days, you can mention it to the city, and we can establish a new quality inspection department. ”

"This..."

Wang Yi blinked, two quality inspection departments?

Is this a cross-check?

But this treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and after a long time, won't it be like this again?

What to do then?

Don't... When will the third quality inspection department be established?

"Don't worry, let's go, say on the way..."

Zheng Xu asked Xiaokai to turn around, let's see it here today, on the surface, the logistics park is peaceful, but do things, take one step and look at three steps, can't wait for the problem to come out, only to find a way to solve it, Zheng Xu likes to strangle the problem in the bud, any problem, must be strangled in the bud!

.........

The convoy left the park and drove on the road back, Zheng Xu finally lit a cigarette, thought about it and said: "You see if this works, in the future, let's use too specific data to define the classification of commodity quality for each commodity, especially the kind of agricultural products, fruits and vegetables, seafood, meat, eggs and milk, etc., let's prepare three or four, or even more standards, without improving commodity standards, subdivide many commodity standard items, and let the two quality inspection departments randomly use several standards for random sampling each time..."

Wang Yi heard Zheng Xu's words, his glasses lit up, although this method was a little tired when formulating standards in the early stage, but as long as the standards are formulated, the two quality inspection departments will randomly inspect according to different standards, and the quality of the products can be better controlled!

For example, in the past, when the quality inspection department sampled fruit samples, it tested the fruit size, color, sweetness2, and whether there were pesticide residues.

But now, without changing the overall requirements, is it possible to increase some subdivided standards, when the time comes, let the two quality inspection departments, according to the random selection of several standards between a few inspections, cross-checks, so that the quality of the goods in the entire flash short video online mall can be guaranteed to a greater extent!

The most important thing is that in this way, the cost of the merchants' opportunistic shortcuts has been raised, and they can only select high-quality goods more finely in order to better meet the standards of the platform.

In the past, I was able to do the test questions according to only a few high standards, but now I have to develop in an all-round way to cope with the random items in the future.

"This is feasible, boss, don't worry, I'll go back and sort out the information, and I'll mention it in a few days when there is a meeting in the city."

Wang Yi thought about it in his heart, and with some drafts, he was going to go back and sort it out, and then take it to study and discuss it at the meeting when the time came.

"Hmm... Okay, you have to pay close attention to this control, you can't relax, we have just started, and there is still a long way to go. ”

..............

After eating in the company in the evening, Zheng Xu took Wang Ou home, she is now pregnant, it is inconvenient to cook by herself at home, the canteen opened a small stove for Wang Ou, Zheng Xu even stayed in the canteen to eat, mainly to accompany Wang Ou to eat a small stove.

When the two arrived home, it was almost seven o'clock, Zheng Xu collapsed on the sofa, took out a few documents brought back from the company, and looked at them crookedly on the sofa.

Wang Ou was like a little mouse, passing by Zheng Xu for a while, and before he could wait long, he passed by Zheng Xu again.

She didn't say anything, but just this behavior, after a while, Zheng Xu frowned, and when she passed by Zheng Xu's side for the fourth time, Zheng Xu finally couldn't help it, put down the file and asked, "What's the matter?" What are you looking for? ”

"Lao Zheng... I ask you, would you dislike me for not wearing makeup? ”

“？？？”

Zheng Xu didn't want to say anything about this kind of proposition: "What is disgust?" I don't know if you're too late..."

"Hmm~"

Wang Ou pursed his lips, leaned next to Zheng Xu, and stared at Zheng Xu for a long time, almost looking at Zheng Xu.

"I'm going to Cannes next month, and I'm like this now, and I can't wear makeup, so I definitely won't be able to go."

“......”

Zheng Xu, who thought something was wrong, breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that Wang Ou was worried about this.

As we all know, pregnant women can't wear makeup, and many cosmetics have a little chemical ingredient, which is usually fine, but if you have a child in your belly, you should pay attention to it, and it doesn't hurt to be cautious!

Nowadays, many young people are pregnant with children, they should drink and drink, smoke and smoke, and make up their makeup, pursuing the so-called independence and freedom of women.

But... When they give birth, there are times when they regret it!

This is the meat of the hearts of three families, how can this kind of thing be treated so sloppily?

Wang Ou pays great attention to this aspect and doesn't care as much about her image as other actresses.

The child in her belly is now only two months old, and she is still young...

Since she found out that she was pregnant, she has cut off all makeup, not even the so-called "no makeup" such as eyeliner and eyeshadow.

She usually has two o'clock and one line, except for her family, she stays in the company, and she doesn't have to act or appear on the show, so she doesn't care too much.

But this Cannes Film Festival has a red carpet!

Zheng Xu wanted to persuade her that if she didn't wear makeup, she wouldn't wear makeup, and her foundation was not bad, so she should go, but Wang Ou didn't think so.

When she is at home or in the company, she can not care about this, this time she is going to be in the newspaper, or in the news, so how can she do it without makeup?

But think about the kids...

..............

"I've been thinking about it for the past few days, and I'm not going to the Cannes Film Festival this time."

Wang Ou said with some loss.

“... How's that going to work? ”

"Hmph... What I'm saying is that if I don't go back this time, when I have a baby, won't you make another award-winning movie? When the time comes, make up for me on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival..."

Wang Ou glanced at Zheng Xu suspiciously and said, "You can't do it, right?" ”

“！

！ ”

You can't do it!

"Who said that! A must! We will start shooting tomorrow, and we will go next year! ”

How can a man say that he can't do it, no matter what it is, he can't say no to it!

Zheng Xu is a little anxious, no matter whether the movie is made or not, this attitude must be resolute, pregnant women are very sensitive!

"Hmm... That's pretty much it, okay... I'm just saying, Lao Qin told me that next year's Cannes is a bit special, and I don't have to go, you can continue to watch, I'll go back to the house and lie down for a while. ”

After listening to Zheng Xu's answer, Wang Ou got up and went back to the house satisfied.

"Whew..."

Relieved, getting up, Zheng Xu reported to Wang Ou, took a document, brought a cigarette, and prepared to go to the corridor outside to smoke a cigarette.

Now that there are pregnant women at home, you have to be careful about everything.

..............

Closing the security door, Zheng Xu walked a few steps, turned to the stairwell, and took a few pieces of toilet paper to spread on the steps.

He didn't have to worry about people coming up from outside on the top floor, and there was a simple ashtray in the stairwell that he had been using lately, cut out of drink bottles.

Meimei lit a cigarette and looked at the document in her hand.

Recent... Guo Degang took his group of apprentices to the Central Plains Film and Television City to start filming.

There is a letter written by Lao Guo to Zheng Xu.

Unexpectedly, Lao Guo still likes to play this set of literary crepe things, Zheng Xu wrote an invitation letter to Director Jiang before.

After such a long time, there is finally another person who likes to write letters.

What about Lao Guo's letter...

The content is very miscellaneous, Zheng Xu, who is busy with official business in the company, has no time to read it, so he read the beginning at the time, and when he saw that it was not urgent, he put down the letter first until he brought it back after work.

Lao Guo Xinli first thanked Zheng Xu very solemnly for all the help he provided to his debut film "Ancestors of the Nineteenth Generation" for this first trial director.

But the content of the rest is interesting, Lao Guo first complained that the environment of the small theater in the capital is not good, and he is ready to open a few more branches of the Deyun Society.

In this, between the lines, it seems to be chattering about old friends, telling a lot of industry insiders that Zheng Xu didn't know before.

After flicking the cigarette ash, Zheng Xu thought about it for a while, what Lao Guo meant, could it be that he wanted to open a branch in Zhongzhou City?

It's not that difficult, can't you just rent a place if you have money, this kind of thing, you won't ask him for help, right?

Pressing the thought in his heart, he shook the letter paper and continued to look down.

As Lao Guo's words slowly came out, from his entry into the industry to his youth in the capital...

There are many things in the middle, Lao Guo only used a few words to pass through---- although there are hardships, but the past is like the wind.

According to this rhythm, Zheng Xu was a little puzzled, Lao Guo is giving him a homework?

Looking down further, with Lao Guo's letter, Zheng Xu can be regarded as seeing an old Guo in the letter who is different from when he only looked at the surface in the past.

With the words in the letter, the story slowly develops, and Lao Guo talked about how he gradually pulled people into the gang, apprenticed to find backers, accepted apprentices, and spread out the branches, until the end slowly became bigger.

Among them, some of his partners have passed away, and some have left him because of some interests.

Zheng Xu has seen a lot of them, people like them, sometimes, some things are not clear, often because of their fame, their income has exploded in a short period of time, resulting in "uneven distribution of spoils", and it is easy to have conflicts and break up.

Just like watching a small story, looking at it, Zheng Xu pressed the cigarette butt with his hand, and lit another one.

After a long day of inking, the play meat finally came.

Lao Guo mentioned one thing, his teacher was unfortunate and there were some rebels.

Zheng Xu was a little impressed by this matter, as if one of his apprentices made a big fuss about his birthday party, and his daughter-in-law also knelt down to plead for his apprentice, right?

Zheng Xu doesn't understand the details here, this was a long time ago, and Lao Guo didn't seem to be popular at that time.

And what Lao Guo said in the letter is the follow-up to this incident.

There are rebels in the master's door, and according to Lao Guo's idea, they should be expelled from the division and their font size should be eliminated.

This is the old-school rules of the masters and apprentices and masters, Zheng Xu knows a little about this aspect, and he also thinks this is normal.

But Lao Guo Xinli mentioned that he is a little uncertain now, these rebels are now powerful!

Expulsion from the division and elimination of the font size is simple to say, but its essence is to advertise it widely to set an example.

Now that the other party is powerful, Lao Guo is still a little forced in his heart about his ability and influence.

He was afraid that he would announce the news here, and scold each other again, and then the two sides would become a mess.

When the time comes, this will not be an example, it will be a joke, and it will be a big shame.

Therefore, Lao Guo, who seems to be very good in the circle, is a little scratching his head in the face of this imminent situation.

This kind of thing of expulsion from the division can't be recovered, and Lao Guo doesn't have the face to endure it.

But he doesn't have any friends in his circle who are particularly calm.

There used to be a Zhao Dongbei.

But...

Is he looking for Zhao Dongbei about this?

This adds to the chaos, everyone is engaged in this kind of thing, one is cross talk, the other is a two-person turn, whether Lao Guo took the initiative to ask Zhao Dongbei to help, Zhao Dongbei will do his best, every industry has the rules of each industry, he Zhao Dongbei and he are half of the same peers, I can only say that for this kind of thing, I can't even manage it, at most I can condemn two sentences.

As for Lao Guo, there used to be a master, but now his master has passed away for several years, there are no elders and no backers.

When those rebels pull in some foreign aid to help, Lao Guo will be even more embarrassed.

After thinking about it for a while, Lao Guo finally thought of Zheng Xu, a person who didn't fight and didn't know each other.

He seems to be talking deeply.

But this is also full of the thoughts of old rivers and lakes like Lao Guo.

I took the initiative to tell you the secret and handle, you help me, I owe you a favor, and by the way, I also showed weakness to Zheng Xu, if Zheng Xu takes care of his mess, then the relationship between everyone will be closer in the future.

If Zheng Xu doesn't care, it doesn't matter, now that the letter has been written, and others are also filming here, when the time comes, people will be under the roof, even if Zheng Xu doesn't help him, others will have to look at Zheng Xu's face somewhat.