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Chapter 230 Hanging the Red Lantern High (4200+ chapters, please subscribe~)

Wu Jianye stayed in Shanghai for a week before returning to Yanjing.

The rest of the day is very comfortable, I occasionally go to give lessons to those bosses in the studio, or go to see Zhu Zhuo, the two of them get bored for a while, if there is no occasional intrusion by Wu Shuangqing, it will be even better .

In the evening, Wu Jianye worked hard to write the script of the movie "New Dragon Inn", including the biography of each character in it, their life experiences
But when Wu Jianye was working hard to write the script, Dean Cheng Yin found Wu Jianye again.

"How is the preparation of your martial arts movie script?"

"It's okay, I'm writing a biography!" Wu Jianye said with a smile, he didn't expect Cheng Yin to care so much about his new work.

However, when he saw director Cheng Yin's embarrassed expression, Wu Jianye's heart skipped a beat and he asked, "Dean, is there something wrong?"

Cheng Yin looked at Wu Jianye's nervous expression, and said with a smile: "It's okay, don't be nervous, actually there is another thing I want to talk to you about."

Wu Jianye: "If the dean has anything to say, just say it!"

There is also a film studio under the Yanjing Film Academy, which is the Yanjing Film Academy Experimental Studio, which was later renamed the Youth Film Studio.

The main task of Yanjing Film Academy Experimental Studio is to cooperate with the teaching plans of each department and complete the film assignments and production practice of middle school students in each teaching link.It is the place where teachers of the whole school carry out creative practice.It can produce 3-4 feature films and several short feature films a year.

Previously, "Little Courtyard", which was filmed by Tian Zhuangzhuang as the chief director and Zhu Zhuo as the starring role, was produced and shot by the Yanjing Film Academy Experimental Studio.

Now that Cheng Yin approached Wu Jianye, he wanted to ask Wu Jianye if he could write a movie script as the highlight of the youth studio next year.

In the past few years, the Yanjing Film Academy Experimental Studio has been working on the works of the students of the academy. It has a low reputation among domestic film studios. The Academy hopes to improve the status of the Yanjing Film Academy Experimental Studio, and at the same time, to be able to Later, it will be changed to a youth film studio for preparation, so after the meeting of the leaders of the academy, I hope that a young man like Wu Jianye can write a script.

"The martial arts movie you are writing now is definitely not good. The Youth Studio does not have such a large amount of funds, and the studio also hopes that this movie will be produced independently by us." Cheng Yin first reassured Wu Jianye's emotions.

Although there are quite a few talented teachers in the academy, since it is the Yanjing Film Academy Experimental Studio, the academy also hopes to let the young people of the academy take on important responsibilities!

Wu Jianye thought about it for a while, "New Dragon Inn" is still just writing biographies of the characters, and there is still a long way to go before the script is completed, plus some actors in his mind, some of them have not yet grown up at this time Get up, but you can complete the mission of the academy first.

"Since it's the college's business, I'm naturally duty-bound!" Wu Jianye said immediately after thinking about it.

When Cheng Yin heard what Wu Jianye said, he immediately became happy, and said with a smile: "I knew you must be fine."

Wu Jianye quickly said: "There is definitely no problem with the script, but when the time comes, you will have to say something about whether you will like it or not, Dean!"

Cheng Yin said with a smile: "There is no need to hide this matter from you. The academy will also find several other teachers to write the script. When the time comes, we will choose the most suitable one among you!"

Wu Jianye nodded. He didn't have any idea about this. Although he had written two scripts in the academy, he could only be said to be one of the outstanding talents in the academy, and he was far from reaching the peak. The top position can only be in that position after continuous success.

"Dean, since the academy is planning to let itself produce this film, do you know if there is any candidate for a film director?"

"You kid must be thinking about the director's position, right?" Cheng Yin saw through Wu Jianye's thoughts at a glance.

"A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier!" Wu Jianye didn't hide his thoughts.

"The candidate for the director has not been decided yet, but I can tell you in advance that you are also among the candidates for the director, but in the end the candidate for the director can only be determined after the screening and assessment!" Cheng Yin said: "But now you still Let's prepare the script first!"

"Understood!" Wu Jianye nodded and continued to ask, "Then when will the script school be required?"

"Before the winter vacation!" Cheng Yin replied.

"Understood!"

After returning to the dormitory, Wu Jianye put away his "New Dragon Inn" script, put it in a drawer, and took out a notebook again.

If according to Wu Jianye's original intention, the script of the new movie is well established, just use the "To Live" that he wrote before, but Wu Jianye still underestimated the public opinion of this era after all, as "To Live" continues to ferment, The film has already caused great repercussions in the domestic literary circles.

It's just that this kind of response is not a good direction, and various criticisms follow one after another. If Wu Jianye hadn't used a pseudonym, life would definitely be difficult now.

At this time, Wu Jianye didn't dare to take the risk of proposing to shoot this movie. What's more, according to the fate of this movie in his previous life, even if it was shot, it would not be screened. If it was taken to the Youth Film Studio, it might be shot continuously They are not allowed to shoot.

"To Live" can't be written, so I can only change it to another one.

The most indispensable thing Wu Jianye had in his mind was the movie script, but it would not cost too much to find one, and there were not many that could cause huge repercussions.

After thinking for a long time, Wu Jianye finally started to write a new movie script!

"Raise the Red Lantern"!
In the end, Wu Jianye decided to use this movie as his stepping stone. The theme of "To Live" is too out of line for this era, and the same is true for "Farewell My Concubine", and the investment in "Farewell My Concubine" is too much huge.

As for Grange's "The Blue Kite", there is no need to even think about it.

The movie "Raise the Red Lantern" also brought great glory to Zhang Yimou. Let's count the glory brought by this movie in the previous life. The 48th Venice International Film Festival - Silver Lion Award, the 48th Venice International Film Festival Women's Theme Film Award, one of the top ten Chinese films of "Film Biweekly", one of the top ten Chinese films of the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards, the International Film Critics Association Award, the 64th Italian David Award for Best Foreign Language Film Award, American International Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film, Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the [-]th Academy Awards
A series of awards and nominations marks the success of this movie. If Wu Jianye can really make this movie, then he can really use this movie to become the No. .1 up!

As for the investment issue, when the movie started shooting in another time and space, it claimed to invest 600 million yuan, but that included the copyright fee for purchasing Su Tong’s novel "Wives and Concubines". Now Su Tong is still studying Chinese literature at Yanjing Normal University, and even wrote poetry. None of them were published, let alone "Wives and Concubines".

In addition, both Zhang Yimou and Gong Li had already achieved fame at that time, and their compensation was also part of it. In addition to the price inflation of nearly ten years, it is impossible to spend 600 million now.

It can be said that this film is very in line with the director's requirements in terms of investment and content.

a week later!

Wu Jianye came to Cheng Yin's office again.

Looking at the script Wu Jianye brought out, Cheng Yin really wanted to ask Wu Jianye if you wholesale scripts?Or you didn't take the task assigned by the academy to your heart at all, and you have a very improper attitude to come up with a movie script so quickly.

But Cheng Yin didn't say anything, no matter what, let's read the script first, if Wu Jianye really wrote a script casually, he must be harsh.

The red lanterns hang high!
What kind of title is this, is it telling the story of the Chinese New Year?

With a skeptical mind, Cheng Yin began to read the script, and soon he was attracted by the content of the script, and whether Wu Jianye's attitude was perfunctory, could also be seen in the story expressed in the script , this script is not a bad script at all, but a rare boutique.

The film revolves around the topic of feudal ethics, and tells the story of several concubines of a wealthy family who were jealous and caused a series of tragedies during the Republic of China.

"The script is very good, it's the subject matter." Cheng Yin looked at the script with a bit of a dilemma.

"Dean, in fact, I think this theme is also very suitable for our college experimental studio to shoot. Think about it, reform and opening up are being talked about in China now. What we have to abandon is this kind of feudal dogma. The Qiao family in the movie The Academy is just such a big family full of feudal ideology and dogma, if we photograph him, wouldn’t it just be able to show the beauty of modern society?”

Wu Jianye naturally understood what Cheng Yin was worried about, but this movie was approved to be shot in the early 90s, and won many domestic awards, which means that this movie was accepted by the mainstream domestic film circle, Unlike the movie "To Live", it was directly banned in China!

Sure enough, after listening to Wu Jianye's narration, Cheng Yin thought for a while and asked, "How much do you expect to invest in this movie?"

"One million should be enough!" Wu Jianye said immediately.

Director Cheng Yin smiled wryly: "You're talking about Ke Ding Kemao, you know that the highest single-chip production cost in our factory is 100 million!"

After two years of development, the single-film investment of Yanjing Film Academy Experimental Studio has risen to the same level as that of other state-owned studios.

"Dean, the purchase of this movie by China Film can almost pay back the cost. If you add the foreign screening rights, I believe it can make a fortune for our studio!"

"Show abroad?" Director Cheng Yin said with a smile: "You are confident, but if you want to sell the copyright for foreign screening, you must get the approval of Huaxia Film Export and Import Company!"

Huaxia Film Export and Import Company, originally the export and import office of Huaxia Film Distribution and Projection Company, was later changed to Huaxia Film Export and Import Company on December 1978, 12.

The office is located in the same building as China Film, No. 25, Xinwai Street.

The business scope of Huaxia Film Export and Import Company includes: selling the theater distribution rights of Huaxia films, TV broadcasting rights, film videotapes, audio tapes, and laser disc distribution rights, or exporting Huaxia films in other commercial and non-trade forms, and responsible for the purchase of foreign films. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Taiwan with film-based audio-visual programs for domestic distribution, TV broadcast, data storage, on the basis of the principle of equality and mutual benefit, exchange film distribution rights with foreign film and television production or distribution institutions , film broadcasting rights, participate in international film festivals or film market activities, participate in foreign cultural exchanges and film business activities under cultural agreements, jointly organize with relevant parties or organize Huaxia Film Week or the premiere of China alone, and contract foreign businessmen in cinemas , TV commercials and other matters, undertake investment from relevant merchants, jointly develop Huaxia film distribution and projection business, edit and publish "Huaxia Screen" in both Chinese and English, and distribute it at home and abroad.

Many of the business scopes were gradually added with the development of Chinese movies and world movies, but now, as Wu Jianye said, if this movie wants to sell foreign screening rights, it must not bypass Huaxia. Film output import company.

Wu Jianye smiled "hehe", "Dean, this kind of thing is not something that a small person like me can participate in!"

According to Cheng Yin's status in the arena, it is impossible for Huaxia Film Import and Export Company to block him, so this problem is not a problem for Wu Jianye at all.

This is the benefit of dealing with high-level relations. Even if your film is banned in China, as long as the upper-level line is well followed, you can still participate in foreign film festivals in a fair manner and give yourself a brush with force. This kind of thing Zhang Yimou Just play sneaky.

So even if the movie "To Live" is banned in China, Zhang Yimou can still take this movie to a foreign film festival to win great glory, and then return to China with a yellow robe.

The one who messed up is naturally Tian Zhuangzhuang. Without the consent of the upper management, he took "Blue Kite" and went abroad to participate in the film festival. Even though he has a strong background, he was still banned for ten years in the end. fate.

Another student who had the same fate as him was Jiang Yun, who was also banned from filming after filming "The Devil Is Coming". There was no explicit regulation until the leader changed positions later, and the new leader said lightly: Why doesn't Jiang Yun make movies anymore.

Then Jiang You can continue to shoot
"Okay, I'll take care of this matter, but I have to wait until the conference agrees to shoot your movie, and then operate these things!" Cheng Yin said.

"Then I'll wait for good news from the dean!" Wu Jianye made a joke.

Cheng Yin didn't say anything, he waved his hand and let Wu Jianye go out.

When Wu Jianye went out, he happened to see Tian Zhuangzhuang coming over with a stack of scripts. After seeing Wu Jianye, Tian Zhuangzhuang was slightly taken aback, pointed to the script in his hand, and asked, "You too."

Wu Jianye nodded.

"I'll go and sit with you tonight!" Tian Zhuangzhuang said carelessly, and there was no change because the two of them had become competitors now.

"Success!" Wu Jianye also smiled.

This group of people is very different from the college students of later generations. It is their special experience and vision for the future. It is already a very good thing for them to have the current environment. As for Secret intrigues seldom appear. Of course, no one would admit to being cowardly in a fair competition!

(End of this chapter)