""A New Natural Couple" was released, and Zhou Yumiao played the innocent uncle."

""High-altitude Love" was released, Gu Tianle, Zheng Xiuwen's love in the snow mountain."

"The 2012 Spring Festival Gala, the worst Spring Festival Gala after the millennium."

"CCTV should seek a mutation, why not find a real big director to direct the Spring Festival Gala."

"Lao Mouzi: Director Li's new movie is very exciting and will shock the film and television industry."

"2012 is a very important year, the people's living standards are higher, and the spiritual civilization needs to be higher."

"The Chinese Neon Film Exchange Conference will be held in Beijing, and filmmakers from the two places will hold a symposium."

……

The Spring Festival stalls in 2012 were very bad, such as "The Great Magician", and "Counter War" performed unsatisfactory, and there was not a single high-grossing movie in this Spring Festival stall.

After the year, several romance movies were released, and the box office was not good.

"High Altitude Love" is starring Gu Tianle, this should be the sixth movie starring Principal Gu last year, and he is definitely prolific.

But the times are different, in the 90s, it was very common for Hong Kong Island stars to star in seven or eight movies a year, but at this time, mainland audiences did not like it so much.

has acted so much, all of them are bad movies, and everyone will not support it.

The year 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of China and Neon, and there are many cultural and artistic exchange activities between the two places.

On the morning of February 19, 2012, there was a film symposium between the two places at the Shangri-La Hotel in Yanjing.

Li Shengyao also passed, he is the director representative of Huaxia.

At this time, Tong Gang, the leader of the Huaxia Film Administration, was giving a speech above.

The participants on the Huaxia side include Li Shengyao, Zhang Guoli, Huang Xiaoming, etc., and on the island side, there are Hirokazu Kore-eda, Atsuko Maeda, Kurihara Komaki and so on.

It can be said that Hirokazu Kore-eda is the only big director who has taken a shot after the neon millennium.

Kurihara Komaki is not very popular in the mainland, but it is considered a first-line celebrity in the island country.

And Atsuko Maeda is the hottest member of AKB48, and she has begun to leave the team and officially enter the big screen.

Although there are not many people arranged by Neon, it can definitely be regarded as carefully prepared.

The 40th anniversary of China and Neon is as important as Neon.

But in the end, he was not used to holding meetings, and at this time, Tong Gang was talking at length on the stage, reading the manuscript page after page, and the people on the neon side listened to it drowsily.

Li Shengyao sat on the side, and saw that it was Hirokazu Kore-eda dragging his chin with one hand, barely widening his eyes, looking at Tong Gang in a daze, and laughing secretly in his heart.

After the internal viewing of "Parasite", it was determined that there was nothing wrong with the movie, that there was no need for reshoots, and that there were no changes to be made.

Li Shengyao was submitted for review, and after passing the review, he arranged for someone to sign up for the Cannes Film Festival.

He then took Chen Hao and the child back to his hometown for the New Year.

He was thirty-one years old, and finally had a child of his own, and the old people in the family were very happy.

Li Shengyao can be regarded as having completed the task, and he is also happy to see the old man at home smiling with satisfaction.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, they left their hometown and rushed to Yanjing.

This was followed by a dinner party with Fenghua's employees, a commencement speech, a red envelope and so on.

Just the day before yesterday, Neon decided that Hirokazu Kore-eda would come to the mainland, and the best young directors would be arranged according to our traditional principle of reciprocity, so Lee Shengyao was invited.

After Director Li was busy for a while, he had time.

So here it is.

Tong Gang read the manuscript on it, of course he knew that if he did this, the people in the audience would be bored.

But it doesn't matter, he didn't read the manuscript to the people in the Huaxia and neon entertainment circles in the audience, he read the manuscript to the people of the whole country.

CCTV photographers were filming his speech.

Soon the major news media will spread this picture, and the big guy knows that he is the keynote speaker of the Huaxia Neon Film Exchange Symposium, and that is enough.

As for the people in the audience, he doesn't care, he likes to listen to it or not.

This is a manuscript that several secretaries of the Film Administration worked together and spent three days sorting out, and if you don't listen, it's your loss.

Tong Gang didn't take the people in the audience to heart, but he occasionally raised his eyes and saw that the people in the audience were absent-minded, and he was somewhat embarrassed in his heart.

Fortunately, he had always been confident, and he quickly came back to his senses and comforted himself with the above words.

Brother's audience is not you insiders, Brother's audience is the people of the whole country.

It's just that in the end, it's an adult, and Ah Q's self-consolation has been too many times, and I'm still a little unhappy in my heart.

Several secretaries of the Film Authority are still very conscientious, after the neon millennium, the film market is rotten like a dog, except for animated films, there are only a handful of excellent live-action films, even so, they still picked out a few excellent neon movies and analyzed them.

Tong Gang recites "The Undertaker", which is the best Neon movie after the millennium.

He noticed that several neon actors in the audience were still distracted, and they didn't listen carefully at all, and he couldn't help but be a little angry.

He took a deep breath and then comforted himself, and then he calmed down again and continued to read the manuscript.

After a long time, Tong Gang finally finished reading a thick manuscript in his hand.

Everyone in the audience applauded, applause was warm, full of recognition.

Tong Gang walked off the podium speechlessly, and after he sat down, he asked the secretary in a low voice, "Isn't this manuscript badly written?" ”

"Leader, very good, the data in it, the movie, can stand up to inspection."

"Is that my reading without emotion?"

"Leader, your reading is full of emotion."

"Then why don't the big guys listen carefully?"

"Leader, these people in the entertainment industry are like this, they are engaged in art, they can't calm down, they have hemorrhoids, and they can't sit still for five minutes."

When Tong Gang heard this, he nodded with deep understanding.

The secretary is right, it's not that the manuscript he reads is not good, it is not that he has no feelings, or the audience is not good.

At this time, a neon official was also reading the script, and the people in the audience were just as listless, and no one listened carefully.

Tong Gang saw it and smiled secretly in his heart.

However, the neon official read quickly, and in less than three minutes, he bowed and stepped down.

"Next, I would like to invite director Li Shengyao to tell us about the exchange experience of Chinese neon movies."

A round of warm applause rang out, louder than the applause that Tong Gang had just finished his speech.

When Tong Gang heard this, he couldn't help but look at the people on the neon side.

He found that the group of neon showbiz people who seemed to be dozing off just now straightened their backs at this time, looking forward to Li Shengyao.

"These guys, they still look at fame, Li Shengyao is famous, so he is more serious, I am not famous, I am about to die just now."

At this moment, Li Shengyao's voice sounded.

"After entering the nineties of the last century, neon movies have gone the wrong way, lifeless ......"

Tong Gang was stunned when he heard this, can he say such a thing?

Aren't they boasting to each other today?

How did Lee Shengyao damage neon movies?

Even if it's true, you can't say it.

Will the neon dwarfs be angry?

Tong Gang glanced at the people on the neon side, and found that these people seemed to approve of Li Shengyao's words very much, and nodded with a serious face.

"Although neon movies have occasional masterpieces, they are not worth learning ......"

Li Shengyao did not praise the neon movie at all, it was completely a critical gesture.

Tong Gang couldn't help but be a little worried, will those neon guys get up and leave?

However, no, the neon interpreters represented by Hirokazu Kore-eda nodded after hearing Li Shengyao's words.

"The Huaxia film market has surpassed neon, and the prospects of the Huaxia film market are much greater than neon."

In 2011, the total annual box office of Neon was 220 billion yuan, about 11 billion yuan.

The total annual box office in the mainland is 12 billion yuan.

In 2010, the mainland's economic aggregate surpassed that of Neon.

In 2011, the total box office in mainland China surpassed Neon, becoming the world's second-largest film market after Beauty.

These are all well documented, Tong Gang didn't say it just now, he felt that there was no need to say the content of such a comparison at this time.

And Li Shengyao said it, and also said that the prospects of the Chinese film market are greater.

Even if it's true, there's no need to expose people's scars.

Tong Gang was really worried, he was worried that these neon would slap the table and refute.

But no, it was Hirokazu Kore-eda who nodded approvingly.

"At present, there is very little cooperation between the two films, and the conditions for comprehensive exchanges are not yet available......"

The above is a good intention, and I hope that the cultural exchanges between the mainland and neon will be more in-depth, but it does not have such conditions.

It's not thirty years ago.

"I hope that filmmakers from the two places will work hard to explore their own development paths and contribute to Asian films."

finally said a better word, but Li Shengyao's speech was not optimistic about the film cooperation between Huaxia and Neon at all, and Tong Gang felt that this was contrary to the theme of the exchange symposium.

After Li Shengyao finished speaking, the audience once again gave warm applause.

A moment later, it was Hirokazu Kore-eda who took the stage to give a speech, and the content of the big man was similar to that of Lee Shengyao, first criticizing neon movies for going the wrong way, then recognizing the future of Chinese films, and finally the filmmakers from both places should seriously explore.

Li Shengyao and Kore-eda Hirokazu's speeches were not long, and there was a sense of mutual echo in the content, and the applause received far exceeded that of Tong Gang and the neon official.

Tong Gang was a little speechless, he felt that the little book was cheap.

Li Shengyao belittled the book movie, they still applauded, he praised seriously, these people are still sleeping.

"These guys, they're really cheap."

……

The symposium is finally over, and it's time to interact with each other.

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kurihara Komaki, and Atsuko Maeda who came to Li Shengyao together, and then Qiqi bowed and saluted, "Director Li, it's an honor to meet you, please give me a lot of advice." ”

Hirokazu Kore-eda is dressed casually, with a gray suit and a pair of wide-legged trousers, and he looks like an office worker with an eastern view.

Kurihara Komaki and Atsuko Maeda are relatively more formal.

Kurihara Komaki is a formal suit, but the proportions are not good, and it looks like the legs are very short.

Atsuko Maeda is twenty-one years old this year, but she is an old-timer at AKB48, but she is still very youthful and looks cute.

Li Shengyao smiled and nodded, and then chatted with Hirokazu Kore-eda and the three of them in English.

Mainly chatting with Hirokazu Kore-eda, Atsuko Maeda and Kurihara Komaki didn't have enough coffee seats, so they stood by and listened.

"Director Li, I'm a little confused about the path I've always adhered to, do you think I can succeed in making movies like this?"

The more they talked, the more Kore-eda Hirokazu felt that Li Shengyao knew more, and he said what he wanted to ask in his heart.

"Mr. Kore-eda, I like your style very much, keep it up, and you will definitely succeed."

Many people don't know that Hirokazu Kore-eda's idols are Yang Dezhuan and Hou Yanxian, and his film style is also to learn from these two masters.

Therefore, it seems that it is all some life things, and there seems to be no fierce conflict.

Many people will think that Hirokazu Kore-eda's film is very bland.

But this is his style, depicting the lives of ordinary people at the bottom from an objective perspective, ordinary life.

In Lee Shengyao's previous life, Hirokazu Kore-eda always adhered to this style, and later won the Cannes Palme d'Or.

It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who heard Li Shengyao's words and nodded excitedly, "Director Li, I understand what you mean." ”

……

Lee and Kore-eda chatted with them for a while, and then it was lunchtime for the big guys to eat together.

Li Shengyao was about to talk to Kore-eda Hirokazu again, when a middle-aged man about fifty years old came to Li Shengyao, it was Kore-eda Hirokazu, Kurihara Komaki saw this person and took the initiative to leave.

"Director Li, hello, I'm Noshi Shimatani of Toho Co., Ltd., please give me a lot of advice."

Li Shengyao nodded, he hadn't heard of this name, so he thought it should be the financin of the neon film and television industry.

Shimatani Nengcheng then sat down, he looked at Li Shengyao eagerly, "Director Li, we hope to work with you." ”

"Cooperation?"

Li Shengyao paused slightly, the neon mainland film and television industry was actually very close for a period of time in the last century, but then they gradually separated, and each of them guarded their own one-third of an acre of land and rarely communicated.

For example, Lao Mouzi asked Takakura Ken to perform "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone", and Dongbao invested in "Red Cliff", all of which happened once in several years, and there were very few exchanges in ordinary times.

He didn't expect Shimatani to want to work with him.

"Yes, Director Li, we already have a very good script, called "1905", this script will invite Atsuko Maeda, Shota Matsuda, and Liang Chaowei to perform together, telling a legendary story of China, neon people with lofty ideals who rebelled against European and American powers together."

Huaxia, neon people with lofty ideals, rebel against European and American powers together?

What is the Hook Eight script?

Li Shengyao frowned and thought about it, and then remembered that in his previous life, there was indeed such a movie, Dongbao did invite Liang Chaowei, and he almost made it.

Shimatani Nengcheng was very excited, and then said: "Director Li, we will make it in four places: Neon, Hong Kong Island, Wanwan, and the mainland, with a total investment of 200 million yuan, which is an absolute big production."

We know your style, this movie, Toho and Fenghua, each invested 100 million.

As long as Toho's neon box office and copyright, the box office and copyright of the world and other regions are all yours, how about it?"

This......

It seems to have taken a lot of advantage.

However, investing 100 million yuan to tell the story of Huaxia and Neon's sincere cooperation against European and American powers can really be welcomed by mainland audiences?

Maybe the bend-bend area can be a box office hit, but the mainland is only afraid that it will be scolded to death.

The main thing is that Neon can't call the shots himself, and his father is behind him.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, in 2012, the 40th anniversary of Huaxia and Neon, both sides intended to deepen their ties, but the beautiful country was unwilling.

The reason why this movie is stillborn is that the relationship between the two parties is not working.

Thinking of this, Li Shengyao smiled, "Mr. Shimatani, don't be excited, let's talk slowly." ”

He is preparing for the participation of "Parasite" in Cannes, and will later promote the release of "Parasite", where is the time to cooperate with Neon at present.

The main thing is that he is very popular, why should he walk with neon?

(End of chapter)