China Entertainment: I have been a director since 05

When the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film named "The Wind Rises", the whole world fell silent!
The difference between the Oscars and other film festivals is that the Oscars ceremony is held during the day Beijing time.

You don't need to be a night owl to keep up with the news.

Guan Ling herself has been frequently on the hot search list because of the verbal battle with Zhen Zidan.

Some of Zhen Zidan's fans were already prepared to mock him.

More people are paying attention to whether Chinese directors can create another miracle at the Oscars.

After all, Director Guan always created it before.

That’s exactly what happened, just moments after the award was announced.

The domestic entertainment industry was shaken!

On Sina, NetEase, Sohu, Weibo, and other major portals and forums, all kinds of news popped up all of a sudden, just like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!

"A Chinese animation miracle?! 'The Wind Rises' wins the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film!"

"Director Guan Ling boasted last year, and it came true in just one year!"

"A history of humiliation and a lifetime of perseverance, Even If the Wind Rises stands at the top of the annual animation charts at home and abroad!"

"The Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. When you were watching Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, did you realize that there was an animation from China that could win this award?!"

Countless people were shocked.

If we must use a metaphor to describe Guan Ling's winning of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, it would probably be like a domestic football player joining Real Madrid.

That was quite shocking!
Even at the award ceremony, countless people kept looking towards Guan Ling.

Fan Bingbing's face was filled with shock, her breasts rising and falling, and Guan Ling was a little worried that her clothes would fall off.

Zhang Ziyi covered her mouth and nose. Her cherry lips, which had previously exerted their power on Guan Ling, were now as red as blood and opened to the size of a goose egg, presenting a classic expression package for Director Guan's achievement.

Amber looked back at Guan Ling, her desire to get married becoming stronger.

"Guan, why is he so awesome even in cartoons?"

Amber looked at Guan Ling with a shrunken gaze. If there weren't so many people outside at the moment, she felt that she would have been in a daze.

…………

"What a great Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film."

Inside the big villa, Liu's mother clenched her fist and swung it out fiercely.

She turned to look at her mahjong friends at home and said with a smile,
"My son-in-law is, if nothing else, low-key. He is also honest and always brings something back wherever he goes.

I have won the Oscar several times!

The first time, I took Feifei with me. I was celebrating the New Year at home when this guy sent an email. He was just a small director at the time, not a very prominent one. He sent an email asking Feifei if she was going to the Oscars. Our whole family was stunned at the time.

In the end, he actually went and won the Best Original Screenplay award for the first time. He was then forwarded and thanked by disability associations around the world.”

Liu's mother fell into fantasy and memories.

Whenever I think of that incident, it seems like it happened just yesterday, but the memory is still clear.

"Don't worry? How can you talk like that? This is called hard power. How can you say that a thief never leaves empty-handed? Right now, there are countless thieves who want to pounce on Guan Ling."

"I don't really want to explain to you what the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film actually means. Anyway, our domestic animation is like a desert. Even a drop of water on it may be hope. But winning the Annie Award, the Berlin Golden Bear and the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in succession is like opening up three oases in the desert. You can't deny it."

"Fei Fei is now working as a producer under the guidance of her son-in-law. She is starting slowly. This time she is a producer, and next time she may be a director. The future of this couple will depend on them."

Liu's mother kept talking about stories, feeling both happy and unhappy at the same time, with mixed emotions.

The good news is that Guan Ling and Liu Yifei's relationship is still relatively stable, at least they haven't broken up.

The uncomfortable thing is that now Liu's mother has to admit the most basic fact, that is, Yifei herself cannot control this son-in-law.

Even if I, as a mother, were to join forces, could the two of them control Guan Ling?

It's a bit choking.

"Fei Fei, as a mother, I really can't help you this time."

Liu's mother hit a little chicken in her hand and watched the live broadcast of the movie channel showing Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bingbing and Amber. The one she was thinking about was Feifei. The three figures overlapped in her eyes, and they were all little chickens.

Three little chickens.

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"Director Guan, my God!"

Yang Mi and Zeng Jia were putting on makeup backstage at the moment. When she heard the news, Yang Mi opened her mouth slightly and uttered these words in a daze.

At this moment, she was as excited as Guan Ling.

After all, no one expected that Director Guan could win such big and so many awards for animation.

Although they also don't understand why Guan Ling won this animation.

But after all, I took it.

"This is amazing." Zeng Jia widened his eyes and said hesitantly.

Everyone can understand that Director Guan has previously won awards such as the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Oscar for Best Director.

After all, "The Hearing Girl" is a film that has been listed all over the world. It is a humanistic film for people with disabilities.

"Shoplifters" and "The Father" focus on the lower classes of society or patients with Alzheimer's disease. They proved themselves early on in Cannes. If they did not win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, people might have doubts about the Oscars.

When it came to the Oscar for Best Director, Inception had such a high box office worldwide, and combined with The Father, the Oscars were giving Guan Ling support.

To put it bluntly, considering the box office success Director Guan has created in Hollywood, it's time for him to be shortlisted.

But now this Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

That was the real creation of the world!
This award has been established for so many years, and only Hayao Miyazaki has won it as an Asian.

The most important thing is, this is Director Guan’s first time making an animation, and he really managed to pull it off?
And it’s a great success?
Director Guan is now controlling public opinion in the mainland. Could it be that the Annie Award, the Berlin Golden Bear, and even the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film are all fake news written by Director Guan himself?

Some people began to doubt their eyes.

……

Amidst the endless applause from the audience, Guan Ling walked onto the stage.

Amid the host's congratulations, Guan Ling gave her acceptance speech in fluent English on the stage.

"I am very grateful to the Oscars for giving me this award. It is a recognition. As you all know, I have been targeting certain regions at the press conference in China and at the Venice Film Festival when I announced the animation shooting. But today, I don't want to talk about how cruel the Japanese army was and how they need to apologize.

I just want to talk about the animation film itself. Compared with American, Japanese and European animation, the level of Chinese animation in the past 20 years is still far from enough: there is no complete professional industry chain, there is a shortage of professionals, the audience recognition is low, and there is a lack of brand advantages. But at the same time, Chinese animation has a certain accumulation, a huge consumer market, a deep cultural heritage, and the gap in production technology, especially CG technology, is narrowing.

I believe that my winning this award has historical significance for the development of Chinese animated films, and also has very important significance for the joint development of Chinese and American animated films.

So this award can be regarded as a beacon of light.

I also hope that more Chinese animation directors will gradually stand on the Oscar stage, enjoy the nominations, enjoy the awards, and enjoy the shining lights. Thank you everyone.”

Guan Ling's words were very grand, and the faces of several invited Japanese guests turned pale.

Didn’t you say you wouldn’t tell me?
Why did you say that? Are you afraid that others don't know that you said the Japanese army was cruel before?

Director Guan appeared to be very harmonious on the surface, but this was an Oscar acceptance speech, and every sentence would probably be analyzed frame by frame. Guan Ling's apparent sarcasm made everyone laugh.

But the following words of Guan Ling felt a bit like complaining. However, the more so, the more it showed Director Guan's extraordinary merit in winning the award with such background and strength.

Guan Ling stepped down from the stage amid the applause of the crowd.

Although the Oscars ceremony is still going on, in the eyes of many Chinese people, this year's Oscars has completely ended.

……

“Acceptance Speech: I don’t really want to talk about it, but the Japanese army was indeed very cruel!”

"A belated apology is not justice. Director Guan has transformed himself into a moral judgement director, describing the life and death of the Japanese soldiers."

"Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film! A Chinese film, the first time in history that a Chinese director has won an Oscar for animation!"

Various news swept across the Internet, causing many people to wonder in their hearts.

"Got it! Got it!" At the Magic City Film Studio, Director Zhang was patted on the shoulder by someone beside him excitedly.

Director Zhang had tears in his eyes and was stunned for a long time.

Everything around him became noisy, but when it reached his ears, it all turned into noise and did not reach his mind at all.

At this moment, Director Zhang felt complicated.

In his world, it seemed like a ray of light shone into the endless night.

From the box office to the three awards, each time, the light shining in became brighter, and now, it is like a beacon in the ocean, illuminating the world.

"Chinese director won three animation awards, including Annie, Berlin and Oscar, and The Wind Rises!"

“The answer to the best animated film of 2012 may have been given at the beginning of the year!”

Looking at the two latest news headlines, Director Zhang finally spoke.

He looked at the people around him.

"Everyone, I'm retiring."

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Now that Hua Xia Animation has found a successor, Director Zhang suddenly feels very tired.

He has been struggling to keep the Shanghai Art Studio going for twenty years, but now he is really tired and can't do it anymore.

He watched the lost thirty years with his own eyes, and watched the Magic City Art Studio go from being an industry giant to a lost assembly plant.

He even had doubts sometimes.

"What's the difference between making animation in China and working in an electronics factory?!"

The Chinese animation school has been lost in the dust of history.

Since the influx of American and Japanese animations into China in the 80s, Chinese animation has gone through a difficult transformation over the past years. The Magic Animation Studio, which was kicked out of the planned economy by foreign films, Universal Digital, which learned Western D animation technology, and CCTV Animation, which imitated the business model of foreign animations... Each generation has tried to save the declining domestic animation in its own way.

Just like modern China, modern China did not emerge from the Middle Ages, but was bombarded out of the Middle Ages. It was after being bombarded by the powerful guns and ships of others that it was forced out of the Middle Ages.

At that time, American and Japanese animations were invading in large numbers, and the Shanghai Animation Studio was completely driven out of the Middle Ages.

In 1984, after making "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata came to the Shanghai Art Film Studio.

Director Zhang was a little follower beside the two of them.

The two Japanese animation masters were full of praise for the ink-and-wash animation "Little Tadpole Looking for His Mother", but the leaders of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio kept asking them about Japan's piece-rate system and wanted to introduce it to China. This disappointed the two, who believed that this would mean the end of the Chinese animation school.

Later, various policies were implemented one after another, and subsidies for the animation industry led to the establishment of Shenzhen Animation Whampoa Military Academy Global Digital Company. The Hong Kong Liang brothers decisively devoted themselves to animation production with the goal of creating China Disney.

However, in the end, they spent 1.3 million yuan to learn from the foreigners, but failed to defeat the foreigners. The movie "Moebius Ring" they produced earned more than 300 million yuan at the box office.

Moreover, due to the sharp drop in stock prices, the Liang brothers were squeezed out of the board of directors.

It was a complete failure.

Five years of youth, more than 5 people, 400 million yuan, and the company changed hands...

Although these had little to do with the Magic City Art Studio, they scared the studio. From then on, they no longer had the courage to reform.

Later, CCTV Animation took over the torch of Shanghai Art Studio. Many talents from Shanghai Art Studio went to CCTV and finally made many excellent animations such as Journey to the West, Legend of Nezha and Adventures of Little Carp. However, CCTV Animation soon fell into the dilemma of talent loss and declining creativity, just like Shanghai Art Studio in those days, and gradually declined.

At this time, the "ban" on overseas cartoons continued to escalate, and CCTV Animation, which could not keep up with its production, was once in a situation where it had no films to broadcast.

In order to make up the running time, they had to put some low-quality domestic animations on the screen.

Director Zhang understands the history of animation because the development of domestic animation over the years is one with him and has almost become part of his life.

He had thought that was the absolute low point.

He thought Chinese animation had no future.

It was not until Guan Ling came into conflict with Japan that he announced he was going to make an animated film.

It was not until he learned through indirect inquiry that Lingyun Media had acquired Walter Fangqiang.

Only then did he realize that Guan Ling was not just talking nonsense, he was serious!

And now, he felt that the pressure on his body had finally dissipated.

Guan Ling used "Even If the Wind Rises" to tell all animators that as long as you do it with your heart, you will definitely make a profit.

Because of him, he is standing on the Oscar podium!
"Zhang Chang, are you really going to quit? We are still waiting for you to lead us to do something big."

Some people were quite surprised. The Magic City Art Studio was just starting to pick up, so why was Zhang going to retire?
According to a rough estimate, Shanghai Art Studio can earn at least 100 million yuan from the movie "Even if the Wind Rises".

"I'm really tired."

Director Zhang smiled.

"But I am relieved that Chinese animators have not all died yet."

Inside the factory, people were excited, but there was only a long silence.

……

China Film.

Han Sanpin stroked the script in his hand and made a phone call outside.

"Director Li, hello, do you have time for a meeting?"

"I'm a bit busy, Mr. Han, what's going on?"

"About Guan Ling,"

"I saw the news. The Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film went to Xiao Guan, who was very good. My support for him was not in vain. Let's talk about it after Xiao Guan returns to China. Now that he hasn't come back, it's not time for us to celebrate."

"It's not a celebration." Han Sanpin said, "Director Li, I don't want to discuss this with you alone. I want you to invite a few senior leaders in the bureau to sit down and have a meeting."

"Is something wrong?"

Director Li's voice became serious this time.

Han Sanpin had just won an Oscar and took the initiative to hold a meeting. There must be something going on.

"Guan Ling has a new script, and I've read it, but it's hard to pass the review according to the current requirements."

Han Sanpin said, "Moreover, Guan Ling has put forward some new requirements and new ideas for the development of Chinese animation, and he hopes that I can convey them on his behalf. This script is a stepping stone."

Director Li fell silent for a moment before asking, "Is it the script for an animated film?!"

"Correct!"

"Does he have any new requirements or new ideas?" Director Li asked.

"He asked us to relax the review of certain aspects of animated films and not be too restrictive. Specific matters still need to be discussed in meetings. But he asked that a few exceptions be made for excellent works each year, not to affect the overall situation."

"If not, he wants to shoot this movie in the United States?" Director Li asked.

This time Han Sanpin didn't answer.

But both of them have the answer in their hearts. Han Sanpin has previously been to South Korea to film "The Crucible" and to Taiwan to film "Confessions". This means there is always a way to shoot the drama he wants to shoot.

Director Li was silent for a few seconds and said, "Come to my office."

"Don't worry, Director Li, aren't you a bit busy? Just wait until you have made appointments with the senior leaders. One or two days won't be a big deal."

Han Sanpin said.

"Nothing is more important than this right now."

Director Li said, "Originally, I was going to have a meeting with several leaders, but now, this issue must be raised first."

"I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm afraid that Guan Ling will start filming without telling anyone. He shoots too fast and it's already pre-production before we know it."

Director Li was also a little frightened.
"If he needs us to have a meeting, then there's only one thing we need to do, have a meeting."

"I don't mind being dominated by the winner of the Oscar."

Han Sanpin sucked in a breath of cold air.

A great leader, but now he has lost his backbone. (End of this chapter)