Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 1024 Winning the Grand Prize
However, the movie "Mom, Love Me Again" was filmed in Taiwan, so some modifications must be made.

Fortunately, we only need to set the story in the Republic of China, and the problem can be easily resolved.

It also contains some criticism of the cannibalistic society of the Republic of China, and I believe the higher-ups will be happy with that.

What makes this movie really famous is the song "Only Mother is Good in the World".

Seeing Xue Jinglan, Margaret, Jing Rong and Jing Yu, they were all curious about why he thought of this script.

Chu Xiangqian did not play tricks and said directly that he had heard of a story called "A Mad Woman for Eighteen Years".

That's how the script came about.

Jing Rong thought the story was a bit cliché at first, but he didn't dare to say it out loud.

As soon as Chu Xiangqian saw Jing Rong's expression, he roughly knew what this boy was thinking.

Fortunately, Jingrong had been deceived by his father since he was a child, so he came to his senses after just a moment of hesitation.

Although my dad likes to make fun of himself, he can do his best in everything he does. The stories he deliberately changed are definitely more accurate than his own judgment of the market.

So before Chu Xiangqian got angry, he put on a flattering smile and kept saying nice things.

Jing Yu, who was standing by, couldn't help but worry for his elder brother.

Before Jingxi was born, Chu Xiangqian doted on his only daughter, Jingyu, very much.

Of course, I still dote on her very much now.

But although Jingyu was very favored, he had seen too many examples of his father cheating his eldest and third brothers.

So when the little girl saw her brother hesitate, her heart skipped a beat.

Fortunately, Jingrong was also smart. He came to his senses in just a moment and started to say that this story was good.

Chu Xiangqian snorted, but didn't intend to find a reason to teach this kid a lesson.

Xue Jinglan also realized at this time that her precious son had escaped a disaster, and glared at Chu Xiangqian, the bastard who always liked to trick her son.

Then he looked at Jingrong and said, "Rongrong, since your father said this story is adapted from a Taiwanese folk tale.

How about I arrange for someone to take you to the south of Wanwan to interview some people who knew about this incident back then?"

After hearing this, Chu Xiangqian rolled his eyes at Xue Jinglan. He was the one who caused such a big fuss in Taiwan.

If Jingrong ran over, who knows what he would encounter.

Moreover, the original story is quite different from the movie.

So I interrupted him and said, "Okay, give me one night. Once the script is written, we can prepare for filming. There's no need to waste time going to Taiwan."

Xue Jinglan didn't think much about it, and she didn't know what her man had done in Taiwan.

When I heard that Chu Xiangqian was willing to write a good script, I was naturally very satisfied.

In the evening, he had no choice but to drag Margaret along and play another game with Chu Xiangqian.
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The next day, Jing Rong, who got the complete script, excitedly ran back to Beijing Film Academy and started to recruit people to form a crew.

But it’s not that easy to find child actors.

Although there are many children, it is difficult to find those with acting talent.

Fortunately, Jing Rong is now a director of some fame, and he has plenty of money, so he can always find the right one.

Moreover, there are several film studios and major art colleges in Beijing itself, and there are many parents who want their children to try it.

While Jing Rong was busy interviewing actors, Chu Xiangqian's mind shifted from this kid's new movie to sending the movie "That Mountain, That Dog, That Man" to be released in Hong Kong Island.

And it was sent to Japan and Southeast Asia for screening to make money.

Although the domestic box office is not low, under the system of underwriting and selling copies, Jing Rong, the investor, actually does not get much money.

The ones who really make money are the cinemas in various cities and the distributor China Film.

Fortunately, the release and box office outside the mainland have nothing to do with the mainland.

With Chu Xiangqian's status and power in the film and television industry.

While the film was released in Hong Kong Island, it was also shown in cinemas in more than a dozen Chinese-populated areas in Los Angeles.

After being released in Hong Kong Island for a month, the box office was just as expected and did not cause much of a sensation.

Given the fast-paced social characteristics of Hong Kong Island, this kind of slow-paced movie is indeed difficult to attract young people.

Fortunately, the box office exceeded 400 million.

But after one month of release in Los Angeles, the film surprisingly earned $59 at the box office.

This is the box office revenue achieved with only sixteen cinemas.

Chu Xiangqian didn't have to explain to Universal Pictures specifically, and the number of cinemas showing the film suddenly expanded to two hundred.

It is expected that if this movie is released in Magnesium for a long time, the total box office in half a year should be over 15 million.

However, according to Universal's survey, most of the audience are Chinese.

The reason why I like this movie is very simple.

nostalgia.

Therefore, many viewers go to the cinema as a family, which results in a single-view theater occupancy rate of 5%.

However, the box office of 59 US dollars has already made Beijing Film Academy and the Chinese film industry ecstatic.

Although the film was invested by a Hong Kong company, the crew was composed entirely of people from the mainland.

It can basically be considered a Chinese movie.

Such a movie has attracted hundreds of thousands of Chinese people to watch it, which makes people feel that it is of great significance.

The entire film and television industry is also very excited.

In addition, the box office in Japan is better than that in Magnesium, just as Chu Xiangqian estimated.

Less than ten days after its release, the box office had already exceeded 60 US dollars.

The virus is spreading from person to person, and the number of people going to cinemas to watch the movie is increasing instead of decreasing.

However, Jing Rong had already formed a new crew by then, so Chu Xiangqian simply didn't tell him, so as to avoid distracting him from the crew.

After the new movie was completed in two months, the box office in Japan exceeded 2 million US dollars.

Jing Rong, who was holding the wrap-up party, and his classmates immediately jumped up in excitement.

Xue Jinglan, as a mother, directly gave the unsettled box office share to her own son, amounting to 300 million US dollars.

Although Chu Xiangqian muttered a few words in his heart, he didn't say anything.

They were also very generous in rewarding the behind-the-scenes workers and actors of the previous movie with bonuses ranging from 1 to Tianchao coins each.

Xue Jinglan rolled her eyes when she saw this, and immediately used Jing Rong's name to reward Chu Xiangqian with the same amount.

This immediately caused even louder cheers and gratitude.

Now, the crew behind the scenes became even more determined to continue filming with Jing Rong.
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Four months later, Chu Xiangqian took Xue Jinglan, Margaret, Jing Rong, Jing Xing and Jing Yu on a private plane and arrived in Berlin to attend the film festival in February.

As for the main members of the crew, they boarded a commercial flight in advance and arrived in West Berlin first.

Even leaders of several relevant departments in Beijing came over to see it for themselves.

We stayed in the hotel that Nata helped book.

If I could really win the award, many people would benefit from it.

As soon as he got off the plane and stood on the spiral staircase, Chu Xiangqian saw Nata smiling and waving to him and others.

When Chu Xiangqian stepped off the plane, Nata threw herself directly into his arms, stood on tiptoe and kissed him.

Jingrong and his two siblings didn't mind. They had grown up with so many concubines in the family, and they were used to having one or two more women for their father.

Not to mention that when Jingrong was about ten years old, he and Jingxing followed Nata to the European Film Festival.

Having known each other for so many years, they had already become very close. Xue Jinglan and Margaret also didn't care that Nata threw herself into Chu Xiangqian's arms, and they even greeted Nata with a very intimate hug.

Nata also hugged Jingxing, the young man she had watched grow up, and kissed him on the face several times.

Nata herself has no children, and has long regarded Jingxing as her son.

He hugged Jing Rong and Jing Yu again, and then led everyone into four bulletproof Rolls-Royces that were specially airlifted in.

When they arrived at the hotel, Nata immediately told Chu Xiangqian about the schedule of "That Mountain, That Dog, That Man" to participate in the film festival and the plan to lobby the judges.

Chu Xiangqian was full of confidence about attending the Berlin Film Festival this time.

In the mid-1960s, the Berlin Film Festival almost went bankrupt.

The reason is that East and West Berlin were divided into two camps, and the confrontation was greater than art, which led to the Berlin Film Festival always focusing on politics.

And because of the confrontation between the East and the West, many filmmakers in West Berlin had to go south to Bavaria to make a living.

With the participation of a large number of practitioners, the Munich Film Festival once surpassed the Berlin Film Festival.

Under pressure, the Berlin Film Festival took the initiative to seek change. In 69, it even gave the Golden Bear to a Yugoslav film.

The first Soviet film appeared at the festival in 74.

A year later, East German films joined in.

East and West Germany also signed a special agreement to jointly maintain and promote the international influence of the film festival.

In 77, the event was changed from June to February.

Avoiding Cannes held in May and Venice held in August and September every year, the term "Europe's three major" gradually emerged.

During the past six months, Chu Xiangqian has become increasingly close to the bigwigs of women's associations such as Robert and Dennis because of their own interests.

The relationship with the polar bears is also becoming closer and closer.

With the Polar Bear upper echelons acting as middlemen, lobbying the relevant personnel in East Germany became much easier.

As for the connections in West Germany, it is even simpler.

As long as the profit is enough, capitalists can give everything.

Even one's own life and dignity.

Moreover, Chu Xiangqian doesn't feel sorry at all for spending money for his beloved son.

As for whether it was fair to other crews participating in the film festival, Chu Xiangqian simply sneered.

Not only the three major European awards, but also the Oscars can be lobbied for.

To a certain extent, if you want to win a prize, you have to spend money.

Spend big money.

Otherwise, no matter how good the movie is, you will only get some technical awards.

Of course, Chu Xiangqian never thought about lobbying for the Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution and Best Director.

As for the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay and the Silver Bear Jury Award, they were not established until decades later.

So Chu Xiangqian had only two goals: either win the Silver Bear Grand Jury Award or the Silver Bear Award.

Or the Golden Bear for Best Film.

And focus on the Golden Bear.

Many European and American artists of this era had strange tempers and difficult to understand personalities.

But there are actually not many people who truly regard money as dirt and are not afraid of the powerful.

This principle is actually the same all over the world.

If we add to this, Chu Xiangqian used offshore funds to invest in the judges' films.

And they promised to help them send the film to Magnesium for screening. The ending is self-evident.

There were not many who actually refused to invest. Instead, this year's Golden Bear was the first to be identified: that mountain, that dog, and that man.

Of course, in order to prevent any judge from revealing any scandal about the award to reporters later, Chu Xiangqian had already learned the list of judges from sources and had Sparrow keep an eye on these people.

I also spend money on the black market to collect negative information about these people.

Sure enough, artists, no matter in which era, are different from ordinary people.

Not to mention, the entire 70s was the most decadent and dirty decade for the European and American film industry.

If you want to find some dirty laundry on these judges, it's really not difficult as long as you pay enough money.

As Chu Xiangqian obtained more and more information, he began to feel more and more contempt and admiration for those European and American directors.

I thought to myself, it’s still you guys who are playing tricks.

Play unusually.

Play in a unique way.

Fortunately, the quality of the mountain, the dog, and the man was pretty good, otherwise all Chu Xiangqian’s efforts would have been in vain.

Moreover, China just established diplomatic relations with China last year. To a certain extent, Europe also hopes that more Chinese films will appear in Europe.

The right time, the right place, and the human harmony created by Chu Xiangqian.

In the end, Jingrong was successfully pushed to the throne of one of the top three awards in Europe.

When Jing Rong went on stage to receive the award, the audience was stunned at first, and then the applause began to increase.

It's getting more and more intense.

In addition to the Chu family, the most excited people included the crew and official personnel from Beijing.

After Jing Rong came on stage, he seemed very calm, but the slightly trembling tone of his voice during his acceptance speech revealed that he was still unsettled.

The first person Jing Rong thanked was naturally Chu Xiangqian, his father.

Chu Xiangqian smiled and clapped continuously, while Xue Jinglan was so excited that she was already in tears.

Of course, only Nata knew about the shady things Chu Xiangqian did in private.

So Xue Jinglan really believed that her beloved son won the Golden Bear entirely because of his own strength and a certain amount of luck.

Jing Yu was pleasantly surprised, but also somewhat confused, and even felt that the top three European countries were just so-so.

Otherwise, how could it be possible for a newcomer in the film industry like Big Brother to win a big award so easily?
Of course, the little girl also felt that in terms of credit, her father should be the one who made the greatest contribution.

Not only did he provide scripts, he also personally instructed the actors in the crew.

I heard that my father even got involved in the actual filming.

At one point, the eldest brother was forced to be like a follower.

If dad hadn’t come to his senses and realized that this was Jingrong’s movie.

Only then did he retreat behind the scenes and quietly help his elder brother with advice.

Thinking about it this way, in Jingyu's heart, it seemed quite normal for his elder brother to win the award.

Only Jing Xing clapped his hands while occasionally looking at Chu Xiangqian, his biological father, with a puzzled and inquiring look.

Chu Xiangqian smiled, knowing that Jingxing might have guessed that he had done a lot of things in private.

But Chu Xiangqian would definitely not say this, so as not to affect Jingrong's position in Jingxing's heart.

As for Margaret, this woman was certain from the beginning that Chu Xiangqian would cause trouble off the court.

Even in her mind, off-field lobbying is the most normal means of competition.

(End of this chapter)