He Fang saw that the students were all in deep thought, and spread his hands in satisfaction.

"I'm not saying that the United States is bad here, I think that only those who go there will understand whether the United States is good or not. Some people who have never been to the United States and have never understood it always regard the United States as the ideal other side of the ideal country, and I have no intention of breaking your beautiful imagination and how you like to think and think.

What I want to say is that I returned to China with this reflection back then. Because I've lived in the U.S. for eight years, what I've seen and learned can only be described in a phrase from a TV show: 'If you love him, send him to the U.S., because it's heaven.'" If you hate him, send him to America too, because it's hell there'.

How to understand this sentence, you will know when you go, sometimes a native American can't convince someone who hasn't been to the United States, maybe the person who hasn't been to the United States loves the United States more than the native American.

As I stand here, I would like to share with you some of my personal experiences and thoughts on film culture. These experiences and thoughts must be correct, but at least it proves that it has made me successful, of course, it can't make others successful, because following the path of other people's success is not necessarily successful. I introduced my path just to give students a reference and to think more.

As mentioned earlier, can I succeed in staying in the United States with my talent? Not necessarily, because the world is changing so fast, maybe I have been silent in the United States for decades, and finally when the opportunity is about to rise, the United States will decline? The opportunity is suddenly gone? Who knows?

Some people will call me alarmist, but do you dare to say that it is not a possibility? So, instead of leaving your talent to explode when the opportunity comes, it's better to make your choices in advance. That's the first theme I'm going to talk to you about, under certain conditions: choose to work hard! ”

He Fang's words immediately caused a lot of discussion among the students in the audience, but He Fang pressed his hand and signaled everyone to be calm.

I won't give examples of this argument that choice is greater than effort, you can search on the Internet and find countless cases and stories where choice is greater than effort. Therefore, I choose to wait for an opportunity in Hollywood, where the distribution of benefits is completed, the industrial chain is mature, and the newcomers are extremely unfriendly? Or return to China, a film wilderness, and use his talent to do a vigorous career and become an important figure in the history of Chinese film?

Is this choice difficult? It's hard, it's not hard. The American film industry chain is mature, and everything is standardized, which is friendly to newcomers looking for jobs, because as long as you have basic abilities, it is basically not difficult to find a job to make a living.

But it is very difficult for newcomers to get ahead, because the class is solidified, there is a chain of interests layer by layer, and if you want to jump, this road is extremely difficult. When there are talented people in Hollywood, why can you beat everyone else and succeed?

And the other way around? What if I choose to go back to China? First of all, I'm a returnee, I'm an inconspicuous little guy in Hollywood, but I'm probably a returnee in China. Secondly, if I want to make my own film in the United States, I have to wait for the opportunity, maybe seven years like Ang Lee, maybe not for a lifetime.

But in China, I was able to get investment right away to start my first film journey, and I was able to use my thinking about the film industry as a whole in Hollywood to make a career with Lake Film.

As it turned out, I made the right choice. So, at the age of thirty, I achieved something that many directors would never have been able to achieve in their lifetime. Therefore, when you are at an important crossroads in life, you must remember one sentence: choice is greater than effort.

Of course, the premise of this 'choice is greater than effort' is that if you are talented enough, choice is greater than effort. If you're not talented enough, sometimes that's not necessarily the case.

Therefore, many people in the United States, even if they do not mix well, are not willing to return to China to display their talents, and I don't think this is a good choice. That's right, some people say that returning to China is to face endless human relationships, and in the face of people who are less talented than me but have higher administrative positions than me, they are unwilling to return to China to face these.

But isn't that actually the case in the United States? The same face. Of course, it's not that complicated, because in the United States you don't have access to the administrative process when you work, because the degree of privatization in the United States is very high, and the place where you work is always a private company, what are the complex administrative matters that you have to deal with in a private company?

If you get into the top level in the United States, such as starting your own company and starting a business, you will face more complicated interpersonal relationships than in China. But there is only one reason why you say you don't face these things, and that is that your level is not high enough to reach them. You are a small researcher in a company, what qualifications do you have to get in touch with the distribution of interests at the top of the United States?

I didn't know it before, but it's clear now. Because, I am going to the United States now to deal with these people, and the relationship between people and the world is indispensable, and the exchange of interests is even more blatant.

So, if you just want to focus on research, then go to work in a private company and be quiet, maybe the high-tech private enterprises in the United States are better developed and suitable for doing research. However, China is a blue ocean in this regard, and you may have more opportunities.

Of course, some people compare China's environment and conditions with those of the United States, and complain that this is not good and that it is not good. I would say that it's like a mechanized farm versus a wasteland. If the conditions of this wasteland are as good as those of a mechanized farm, is this still called wasteland? That's asking you to pick up the money, right?

What is Reclamation? It is to slowly remove the stones, thorns, and thatch in the wasteland while planting the land, and then plan this wasteland through everyone's efforts, and finally become a rich land with abundant and gratifying yields.

This is the spirit and joy of land reclamation, and this is what adventurous and pioneering people and talented people do. Those who face the slightest difficulty and complain all kinds of complaints, all kinds of hatred of the unfair system, all kinds of spraying their talents can not be used, I give you a suggestion, you should recognize yourself, maybe you are really not a pioneer who can take risks, just a little talented researcher. ”

He Fang's speech did have a great impact on these young students, and they had new ideas in life planning or choice and development.

"I, as a pioneer. How many difficulties did you face at that time at that time? The first is the cynicism and criticism of me in the public opinion, ladies and gentlemen, if you put yourself in your shoes, some returnees complained about this and that when they encountered a little administrative difficulties when they returned to China, should I be thinking at that time, 'Where am I going to come back with Hollywood's advanced film industry ideas, how can you do this to me?'" And then I can wave my sleeves and go back to the United States?

If I were so vulnerable, then I would have fallen at the first level of pioneering. In fact, I'm not so fragile, public opinion is just that, no matter how cynical others are, I use excellent movies one after another, I slap them in the face with the successful re-industrialization of Lake Film, and now what public opinion dares to sneer at me? ”

Bang Bang Bang ...... This kind of speech with strength is easy to infect hot-blooded young people, so they are applauding warmly.

"The second difficulty I had when I returned to China was that I wanted to replicate the industrialized films of the United States, but I found that neither the production equipment, nor the professional talents, nor the film market that could return to my original cost were enough to support the conditions of my industrialized films.

So what to do? If you change to those who like to complain, are you going to pick and choose again? Do you have to complain again, the conditions are not good, there is no scientific research equipment, there is no scientific research academic environment, and then you run away? Finally, I want to scold 'It's not that I'm not patriotic, it's really that the country can't support my talent'?

What do I do? Four words 'overcome difficulties', introduce equipment, train talents, build bases, and develop new processes...... Wait a minute. Just now I used the example of land reclamation, which belongs to the process of picking up stones to remove thorns, building embankments, and turning over the land in the process of land reclamation.

Isn't it just to turn a useless place into a rich and beautiful place? So, when I was doing this with the Lake Shadow Group. What was the resistance at the time? In addition to the continued cynicism of public opinion, there was also the collective protest of the employees of Huying Group at that time that the group was tossing around with me, a newcomer, with money, and even they felt that it was a few of us who were embezzling state-owned assets in the name of the project.

But what happened next? We not only doubled Huying's assets, but also rehired all the employees who were left without pay at Huying, so that they had a higher and better income. If you can't withstand this pressure, will this business be successful?

Do those who complain feel that their talents are limited again? Do you feel that China is not friendly to these returnees again? Are you going to go back to the United States again? ”

Bang Bang Bang ...... He Fang's words once again made the students applaud excitedly, what they saw was a face of difficulties, unyielding pressure, strong and forging ahead, and carrying the entire Chinese film industry alone.

He is not only a star, not only a director, but also a successful model and representative of entrepreneurial elites who have returned to China.

"Do you think I'm going to have a smooth road after I face this difficulty? No, there are even greater difficulties waiting for me in the future. The third difficulty is that we have built the base, trained talents, and made excellent movies. The problem is that the Chinese market can't support it, and China's industry can't support the high investment in the Huying base. What to do? What to do? ”

The more than 2,000 students in the audience were also silently thinking, yes, what should I do in this situation? There was almost no understanding, and then everyone looked at where on the stage, this young man with a pioneering passion was not much older than them.

"In the end, we had no choice but two tricks, one was to exchange some of our interests for the cooperation of major Hollywood studios, and let them help us publicize it internationally. Second, we want to open up the domestic market, how can China's 1.4 billion people not be able to support the cost recovery and profitability of a movie? Obviously, the market has not been developed.

But here comes the problem again. If we want to restructure the domestic market, we will have to face the situation of overturning the original domestic interest chain and the original domestic system and process. For the healthy development of the Chinese film market, we have to reconstruct a new Chinese film pattern.

How difficult is that? We ourselves tossed the industrialization of the Huying Group in Hunan, and others were at most cynical. However, if you want to change the entire industry, it will affect the interests of some people, so no one must ask you to work hard?

But don't you do it because you're in trouble? No, even if it is the death of some people, we must continue this matter, and Chinese films cannot be stagnant because of the obstruction of some people. ”

He Fang's sonorous and powerful voice burst out the passion of every student, yes, this is the bloody deeds of the ancestors who studied in the classroom from elementary school to high school before their college to change China, but they didn't expect them to still see such bloody things happening in China today.

But why don't they hear about it again when they go to college? On the contrary, everyone is proud of attacking the country?

"In fact, at the end of last year, through our efforts, the industry norms were finally issued, and since then, Chinese films have officially started to be on the right track and are moving towards the road of rapid development.

So, students, you are all the top talents in the country. I know that you are full of talent, and I, an international director, dare not talk about literature, philosophy, quantum physics, etc. in front of you, because I can't talk about you, and some of you are far more talented than me.

Therefore, I don't dare to tell you anything about literature or technology, but what I can share with you is some of my journey. Personally, I feel that my journey may serve as a guide for some of my classmates, because many of you may go on the same path as me.

When one day you can become a naturalized U.S. citizen or have a major life decision, you can refer to my journey. It is your freedom to stay in the United States, and it is also your freedom to return to China. As for the challenges, they're all pretty much the same. It can't be said that in the United States you don't have challenges, but in the United States you have more challenges.

Maybe you won't have too much trouble at work in the United States, but your cultural and life challenges are a big problem, after all, from human relationships to food culture to law and order, etc., are completely different.

Food culture, for example, is one that needs to be overcome. Another example is nightlife, in the United States, there are not many people on the streets at seven or eight o'clock at night, because the streets at night belong to gangsters and homeless people. Another example is that you can reason with the police in China, and you can even point at the police's nose and scold, but when the police find you in the United States, you need to raise your hands as soon as possible to let the police see that you are not threatening him, otherwise they have the right to shoot you without breaking the law.

There are also ethnic, religious, and cultural challenges that pervade every aspect of your life, and they are no less than the challenges you do at work. In short, you will know if you go to the other side of the United States, and you will understand whether the United States is the other side of the ideal. ”

When He Fang said this, he basically completed his first task, telling the students about his mental journey. However, his speech can't just talk about his mental journey, he also has to talk about something professional.

"So, the second big topic is my cinematic aesthetic."

(End of chapter)