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Chapter 336 Inspection
Huang Ze returned to his loyal Shanghai again.

I have to come back. Not only is my home in Shanghai, but I also have too many businesses here.

Huang Ze always has to make an inspection.

Starting from the film and television city, let’s see how far the Qin Palace has been planned.

We also have our own key planning projects, the VCD Research Institute, and finally the project of recruiting people from the Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

Huang Ze, the father of Huang Shi, was also very upset about this project. At the dinner table, he finally couldn't hold it back and said, "You asked me to find some good players. I found more than a dozen for you."

"But how many people did you dig up in the end? Were you too aggressive? I wouldn't have helped you find out if I had known."

"Hmm? Is it cruel?" Huang Ze looked innocent.

"I received a report from my subordinates that we have only recruited 100 people so far, but my expectation was 200."

"You have already poached 10% of their people in one go!"

"Dad, you don't have to feel guilty!" Huang Ze consoled him, "Even if you didn't tell me, I could still poach the right people. It would just take more time and money, and I wouldn't even have to waste my energy. It's all done by people in the company."

"Besides, is that what I call poaching?"

"I'm helping the Shanghai Animation Film Studio to optimize its staff, reduce its salary burden, and go into battle with a light load. I'm trying to make the name of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio known outside of China, to Hollywood, and to the world in the tide of marketization."

"Stop!" Father Huang put one hand flat and pointed his index finger at the palm of his hand, "Stop it, don't talk to me in official language!"

"Twenty percent of people is indeed not a lot."

"But don't you know? Most of the people you poached are the main force."

"Oh!" Huang Ze nodded slightly, "It's the same as layoffs. Those who are laid off are the old workhorses who do the most work and have no background. So even though there are not many people missing, the damage to the factory is too great."

"Then it's not my fault!"

"Besides, if I don't dig them up, can these people really continue to work in this industry?" Huang Ze asked out of conscience, "Are there any movies that are big sellers in the film market?"

"With the efficiency of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, it is still possible to beat Japan's already industrialized animation in the field of TV dramas."

"If there was no me in the art film industry, I don't know how many people would retire or change careers!"

"Can't you speak nicely? Why are you trying to imitate Cao Cao?" Huang Shi frowned, but he felt that Huang Ze was right. In fact, he came to ask because someone complained to him, so he came to remind his son not to continue digging, and to give his father some face and stop for the time being.

Having fulfilled his duty of reminder, he did not continue to ask about the matter.

Instead, he turned around and thought about what Huang Ze had said before.

"Hey, you said you would go to Hollywood and go global, can you really do it?"

"You remembered it wrongly?" Huang Ze blinked. "Didn't I say that the Shanghai Animation Film Studio was going to lighten its load and go global? What does it have to do with me?"

"is it?"

"Yes!"

"Then maybe I remembered it wrongly."

"You must have remembered it wrongly." Huang Ze smiled, "Of course, this is actually the goal I want to achieve after poaching people."

"Their animations are internationally famous, such as 'Havoc in Heaven' and 'Little Tadpole Looking for His Mother'."

"I don't want to see the people who created such a group of classics buried because of lack of funding." "They should move to a bigger stage!"

"With my creativity and their strength, we are going to Hollywood. It's not just talk. Just wait and see. In three or four years, you will know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for them if I poach them!"

"If you can really do it, you've done a great thing." Father Huang pinched his brows and shook his head, "How did the film market become like this!"

"I heard that they are still negotiating with the United States. Previously, they bought a batch of foreign films from many years ago at a low price. It is expected that Hollywood films will be allowed to enter in two years, and the profits will be divided according to the box office."

"By then, more than a dozen films currently being screened in the United States will be released in a short period of time."

"Alas." Father Huang shook his head. "It's really hard for our movie to compete with blockbusters like The Terminator."

"I'll see, it's going to get harder and harder for this studio!"

"You know something about this industry. What do you think should be done to reverse the downward trend?"

"It can't be changed for the time being." Huang Ze smiled, "Once the things my company produces are successfully sold, the decline of the film market will be even more serious. This is the general trend."

"If you want to change it, then give the production companies a share of the box office, say 30%, so that they can make money from making movies. Then open up various channels for capital investment in movies, just control the review, and allow some private funds to come in."

"Otherwise, with the current seniority-based culture in film studios, only the older generation can make films."

"They don't know what young people like to watch, and even if they knew, they wouldn't give in."

"Movies are art, high-pressure art. What do you like to watch have to do with me? If I only shoot what you like to watch, wouldn't that make movies vulgar?"

Huang Ze spread his hands, "But is there anything we can talk about?"

"First of all, the distribution company cannot give 30%. They will find all kinds of objective reasons. There are so many employees, so many people need to eat, and they also need to go to the countryside to show films to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the countryside."

"So, there is no other way?" Father Huang looked into Huang Ze's eyes.

"If you don't break, you won't stand!"

"When movies become worse and worse and audiences stop going to the cinema, the distribution companies will naturally not be able to support so many people. They will have to change. If they don't do this, they will die step by step."

“Isn’t there a Hollywood blockbuster?”

"Only relying on ten movies a year?" Huang Ze shook his head. "It's impossible to allow all of them. The cinemas are full of Hollywood blockbusters. How can we allow that?"

"Why are you asking me this?"

"That's what we're talking about now," Huang's father smiled and shook his head, without saying anything else. Huang Ze didn't ask either.

In the following time, Huang Ze stayed at his home in Shanghai to celebrate the National Day, and at the same time remotely controlled Xinghai Animation to recruit talents.

The original plan of 200 people has to be adjusted.

After all, we have to give face to my father, so let's just recruit 150 people and then call it a day.

If other people want to come, they won’t go to the factory gate or the painter’s home to poach people. They will find a way to contact the company through old colleagues, and then come over after passing the interview.

I think the Shanghai Animation Film Studio has nothing to say about it, as this is the person’s personal wish.

They waited until the number of 150 people was reached, and they had obtained their documents and flew to Hong Kong Island. Only then did Huang Ze board a plane to Hong Kong Island.

After settling 150 people, Huang Ze walked into the office of Xinghai Animation with his script and several image designs.

(End of this chapter)