438 (Finale) The special plane of the world-famous director He Fang crashed in the Pacific Ocean?
Although He Fang has received the support of many filmmakers at the Fengyun Awards, it ...... The support of so many international filmmakers does not wait for the support of the countries behind them.
Therefore, the 2018 Spring Festival movie "The Wandering Earth" cannot be released in most parts of the world, but it is only released in some small countries and small regions, of course, it is not impossible to watch "The Wandering Earth", that is, you can see the pirated version after waiting for a month.
In fact, many foreign fans are also eagerly waiting for the pirated version to come out, because there are many tidbits, trailers, interviews, behind-the-scenes videos of "The Wandering Earth" on TikTok, Twitter, and INS, as well as a large number of posters, as well as many real feelings from Chinese fans.
These can stir the hearts of many fans who continue to like where they are, and they are anxiously waiting.
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Since 2018, the world has also undergone tremendous changes, and people's eyes no longer pay attention to others, because some disputes are more attractive, and the frequent operation of King X has affected the nerves and sight of every corner of the world.
Of course, in 2018, there is no scourge of small fresh meat or anything like that, Chinese films are thriving, in addition to the absence of a global market, the domestic box office exceeded 75 billion yuan in 2017, equivalent to US dollars 11.109 billion US dollars, while the North American box office in 2017 was 11.066 billion US dollars.
The Chinese box office has become the world's No. 1 box office by a touch above the North American box office, which is a great moment, and after the early efforts of He Fang, it has reached a achievement beyond North America before the arrival of 2018.
After more than a year of hard work, many Asian countries are willing to resist the pressure of the United States and the West to open markets with China because they are jealous of China's market, and the first cooperation is in Asia and South America.
It's all due to someone, so when He Fang was a guest at the 5th World Internet Conference in November 2018, he said that 'China's film industry will grow at a double-digit rate every year in the world in the future, which has a huge boost to China's Internet going global. ’
"Director He, now everyone is talking about the Red Sea era of the Internet, and they all say that the development of the Internet industry has entered a stable period, and it may not take ten years to enter a period of recession, what do you think about this problem?" The moderator asked who was sitting in the middle of the stage.
"Who said that the Internet industry has entered a stable period? Those who make this point of view only see the appearance. At the beginning of the 21st century, people thought that the role of the Internet was only the Internet of social networking and information, and they thought that there would be no Internet after a few major social networking sites and portals. But in fact? In fact, the social and information Internet is just the beginning of the Internet.
Next, as we all know, the Internet has entered the era of commercial Internet. As a result, a number of commercial-oriented Internet, such as Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo, have achieved several times the output value of the social and information Internet era.
So is the commercial Internet the end of the Internet? Of course not, with the development of communication technology, we will enter the era of the Internet of Everything, and what will be the scene at that time? After the interconnection of all things, it may enter the interconnection of all brains, that is, the interconnection of the human brain.
So, is the internet over? Of course, it's far from over. If some Internet people still look at the Internet from the perspective of social networking and information, then they will only become the big guys of the past like Yahoo, Sina, and Sohu, and now they are broken households. ”
He Fang's words made the audience at the scene laugh out loud, because He Fang's description of these Internet giants as broken households is really ironic.
"So what changes do you think the Internet of Everything will bring to the film industry?" The moderator asked.
"There will be a lot of them, because as long as the Internet of Everything is achieved, it means that a person can watch a movie on his mobile phone while taking the subway, and when you don't finish watching it, it doesn't matter, you can go home and switch the unfinished movie to TV or projection to continue watching, of course, you can also switch the movie to the computer and tablet, and even, you can switch the movie to your car to watch it...... In short, you can watch it on any platform with a screen or projection that is connected to your account, which makes watching movies even more convenient. ”
After He finished speaking, the host asked again.
"Didn't that affect the cinema? If watching a movie is so convenient, who would go to the cinema to watch it? ”
"The impact will be a little bit, but it won't be huge. It's like the Internet can solve a lot of people's shopping problems, but people don't go shopping? The cinema is an offline embodiment, a kind of dating, dating, and family activities. He Fang replied.
"Does that mean that there will be huge changes in the future film promotion, from offline publicity and distribution to some online publicity? Will there be an impact on the production side? ”
"Of course it will ......"
"The Internet will bring great changes to films, and now it is only in terms of publicity and market development, will there be changes in technology in the future?"
"Of course, everything will be connected. For example, in film post-production, the former "......
He Fang talked eloquently, talking about the impact and changes brought by the Internet to the current film industry, and also discussed the changes and impacts on the Chinese film industry in the future.
Originally, this kind of communication was normal, and the topic of the Internet and movies belonged to the category of whom, but the host suddenly asked a question that he didn't like.
"Director He, someone has discussed and practiced the combination of film and Internet finance before, and made the Internetization of film financing, what do you think about this?"
He Fang is extremely disgusted with this Internet finance, and financialization also dislikes him.
"Actually, I don't like the word financialization, let me take the United States as an example, do you know what is the biggest problem in the United States right now? It is financial capitalism that is their cancer. Because of financialization, the United States began to de-manufacture in the eighties, which has now led to the hollowing out of the manufacturing industry in the United States.
They will start a series of so-called 'manufacturing' reshors this year, but are Americans who are accustomed to making money with capital leverage still earn manufacturing industries that are accustomed to making less than 15% of gross profits?
They have a lot of problems because they don't have manufacturing, and these are not things that a non-professional like me can talk about. But, what I'm trying to say is, if movies are financialized, do you know what the consequences will be?
Maybe wherever I am, I can make a lot of money without having to start filming a movie. For example, if I set up a project and then throw the project online for financing, how many problems do you think it will create?
Let me deduce from you, if the production and publicity cost of this project is 300 million. However, I can't just let everyone buy shares without making any money, right? So, it is possible that I will release 300 million shares, 100,000 per share, that is, 3,000 shares, but only 85% of the shares, that is, I have earned 15%, 45 million before I started.
So do you think I should earn this 45 million? Of course it should, and I may even think it's too little. After all, all the profits were mine, so why should I share them?
Well, even if I'm satisfied. Then I believe that as soon as I release the project equity, it will be given seconds by everyone. Then think about it, where is my project, the cost of 300 million, but it may be 4 or 5 billion at the box office, and the rest of the world can also do a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars.
The profit can be more than ten or two billion, and now people only spend 100,000 yuan per share, but what is the income? The gain is nearly six times. That is, it only takes a year and a half to earn 600,000 yuan by investing 100,000 yuan, where can I find such income?
So, someone began to take the share capital he bought and began to sell it again, he would divide one share of 100,000 into 10 shares, but the price of each share was 50,000, do you say anyone will buy it? There will definitely be a lot of them to buy.
Has this become a financial plate for illegal fundraising? In the middle of this, what if someone takes this equity to pledge to play other financial games with leverage, and finally leads to many people losing their money?
In the end, the movie did not meet the expected box office, but some people sold it according to the box office income of 5 billion US dollars, how to deal with it? What if someone doesn't deal with it for personal reasons?
Will this turn into a mess of chicken feathers in the end? The most important thing is that it will make many people who can't make movies at a bad level and can't make money just by making movies see a way to make far more money than making movies under the guise of making movies, what will happen to the entire industry?
In the end, it will only play the whole industry to death, just like everyone in the United States has gone to play finance, who still opens factories for those who are engaged in manufacturing, how tiring it is to open a factory, how risky it is, how easy is finance?
Therefore, as early as 2012, we foresaw this situation, and when formulating industry policies, we resolutely stopped the film industry from playing with finance. Moreover, I would like to advise many people that finance is a demon that will back, don't get involved easily, although you may be able to accumulate wealth quickly by putting a loan shark, but you will also lose your fortune because of it.
Including some business owners, don't learn what leverage others play, do a good job of your business, and don't mess with finance. If we want to develop finance, we must first open up finance, so that financial capital can enter various industries, and then control all industries in disguise, and then the problem will be very big. ”
He Fang was a little excited, and he was very opposed to the so-called financialization.
"However, financialization is the trend. Shouldn't we learn from the fact that many countries have worked hard for decades, and someone else has swept away their decades of wealth overnight with a single financial means? ”
"Heh, then I'll tell you about ......"
He Fang didn't expect to talk to people about a lot of movies and things other than the Internet at this conference, and it is obvious that many audiences and guests also like to listen to a big guy like He Fang to talk about his views.
Many people believe that successful people are successful because they look at things differently and from different angles, so they have different judgments about future development. Often, successful people just judge right, and then act decisively, so they succeed.
However, He Fang's remarks at the Internet conference caused a huge repercussion in the society, after all, his words were beyond the scope of his profession and made people in the financial industry jump on their feet.
Even people like Alima are hinting at the beauty of finance, what manufacturing and technology industries are little brothers in front of finance, and controlling finance is equivalent to controlling manufacturing and technology industry. Both the manufacturing and technology industries are working for financial capital, bleeding and sweating.
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The time came to 2019, He Fang didn't want to be involved in something, but he always wanted to do something, and if he didn't do something, he felt ashamed of his identity as a traverser. There were things he couldn't stop, but he could have some evidence.
So after struggling for a long time, he arranged a task for Du Chunsheng at the beginning of the year.
That was to arrange for a documentary team to go to Wisconsin to document the influenza in this state, and another team to Frederick, Maryland, where there is a famous biological laboratory called Fort Detrick.
At the beginning, Du Chunsheng was still very puzzled by who asked him to do this project.
Until September 2019, Du Chunsheng urgently called He Fang one night, saying that their team had been arrested, and one of the team members had given him a set of materials. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to keep these materials, so he wanted to ask where to deal with them.
He Fang was both excited and nervous, he didn't expect this to happen.
Immediately, he was ready to go to the United States to get these things back in person.
Tong Weidong was very curious about why He Fang, who had not been to the United States for a few years, why he was in such a hurry to pull him to the United States, and He Fang told Tong Weidong about the general situation on the way to the airport.
Tong Weidong immediately realized that this matter could be dangerous, so he proposed a new method with He Fang.
"Director He, this way, you don't have to go. You just let me go alone to get these materials back, I am also very familiar with Du Chunsheng, and I used to be the same. If you go, the goal will be too big, and as soon as you enter the country, you will be targeted, and many things will not be easy to do. ”
Faced with Tong Weidong's suggestion, He Fang thought about it for a long time.
"Okay, then Weidong, you can go for me, I'll call Du Chunsheng. Remember, this information is important, very important. If you are unfortunate enough to be checked, you must destroy it first. ”
He Fang admonished.
Tong Weidong's eyes froze, "Then you and Du Chunsheng hurry up and let him make two copies, so that I can bring them back better." ”
"Well, what you said makes sense, okay, I'll call him right away, you go first." Who responded.
Then at Huanghua Airport in Changsha, Tong Weidong took a special plane from He Fang to the United States alone.
When Tong Weidong arrived in the United States, he met Du Chunsheng, who was very careful. After greeting Du Chunsheng, he took two documents and left, and then not long after he left, Du Chunsheng was controlled.
When the Los Angeles airport received a call, the tower looked at the plane that had just taken off and could not do anything.
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However, just three hours later, a piece of news immediately spread around the world.
"The special plane of the world-famous director He Fang crashed in the Pacific Ocean"
Then immediately there were more than N calls to He Fang like this, when He Fang heard the news, he suddenly became numb, his mind was blank, he didn't expect such a result.
And just when he was confused, he received a phone call.
"Hey, Mr. Tong Weidong? Why can't you get through that phone? I'm going to let me bring what I brought for you, when will I give me $100,000?. ”
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(End of the book) (End of this chapter)