I was just thinking about taking the arts exam and you said I've been playing supporting roles

Chapter 278 The power of Chen Jin’s butterfly effect!
The dinner did not last too late, considering that there were many veteran artists present and the award ceremony ended at around 9 o'clock, so everyone dispersed at 11 o'clock.

Chen Jin also went to other tables to toast and met many well-known directors and artists in the circle, such as Ge Cunzhuang, Xu Huanshan, Lu Yuan and so on.

"Yang Mi and Liu Yifei are so famous, why do they still want to go to the Hong Kong circle?"

On the way back, Zhu Yanmanzi asked Chen Jin who was sitting next to him.

The two of them did not stay in a hotel because they were in the imperial capital and could go home directly.

However, after parting with Zhang Yimou and others, it was already early morning when we got back on the bus.

“Because there is no other choice!”

Chen Jin suddenly looked at Zhu Yanmanzi, admiring her somewhat pure and thoughtful face; she was just protected too well by Chen Jin and her family, and still retained the innocence unique to a girl.

But this doesn't mean that she is a simple person.

In fact, she knows very well what this circle is like.

So she really has been holding it in all this time. In her opinion, it is unwise for Yang Mi and Liu Yifei to join the Hong Kong circle.

Everyone knows that Hong Kong movies are getting worse year by year, not to mention TV dramas.

It’s like joining the National Army in 49.

"Liu Yifei didn't sign a contract with Huayi when she was filming The Forbidden Kingdom, so she pissed off the big and small Wangs!"

"Oh, who did I hear about this?"

Zhu Yanmanzi frowned slightly: "I thought she got this role because she signed with Huayi!"

"She auditioned first, but then the domestic partner was changed to Huayi, and Huayi probably wanted to sign her, so they didn't change... Maybe her mother played a trick on Huayi!"

“But you have to understand that if there is no capital guarantee behind you, the consequences of signing with Huayi will not be good!”

This artist who is deeply involved in this circle can relate to this.

Even someone like Zhang Yimou can't protect himself, let alone a female actress.

"What about Yang Mi?"

Yang Mi is quite popular this year. The TV series "Palace" aired at the beginning of the year is one of the few hit TV series this year, and many local TV stations are still broadcasting it.

The theme song of "Love Offering" is still on the music charts. It was sung by Yang Mi.

"Actually, it's almost the same as Liu Yifei!"

"She just terminated her 8-year contract with Rong Xinda at the end of last year!"

"Rong Xinda wanted to renew his contract, but Yang Mi didn't agree. Her family doesn't have much background, so she definitely can't stay in Beijing!"

If you offend this circle in the capital, you will definitely not be able to survive in the several circles that have not yet developed in the country.

"In the final analysis, there is still no one behind us!"

Chen Jin can understand Yang Mi's behavior, but marrying a Hong Kong "prince" is indeed a bit outrageous.

This girl is really in love.

"Alas, becoming famous is harder than not being famous!"

Zhu Yanmanzi finally saw through it.

If you are not famous, capital will not even look at you; but your fame is the money-making tool that capital needs. You either compromise or face being cut off.

“So, you have to make your own capital!”

Chen Jin actually still has a lot to live up to now. Without Han Sanpin, it would be difficult for his movie to be released.

As long as one of his movies fails, he may be stepped on and beaten by everyone; although he hasn't offended anyone now, if there is competition at the box office, it will be hard to say.

So the next few films of Chen Jin are actually very crucial.

And Lei Jun's side is a path for Chen Jin to get higher capital.

It is also the way out he left for himself.

"We are not yet a rival to companies like Huayi and Rongxinda, so we have to keep a low profile!"

"But we will definitely meet in the same period in the future..."

Chen Jin spoke cautiously, and Zhu Yanmanzi was also a little worried. This was the first time she felt the cruelty of this circle.

You can only keep moving forward, and if you are not careful you will be doomed; and you basically have no friends, only opponents.

This opponent is not acting in an upright manner and may even try to trip you up secretly.

Since they are released in the same period, they are in competition, which is inevitable.

If you are not strong enough, let alone scheduling a screening, even if you do schedule a screening, your movie will be drowned out by the internet trolls.

Fortunately, Chen Jin is not involved in this kind of competition now.

Next, "Life Events" and "So Young" were avoided, and "The Flowers of War" was also put in the Spring Festival period that no one cared about. The purpose was to make these three movies to establish the status of Film Science in the industry.

If all three films sell well at the same time, then Huayi will basically have to re-examine this "newcomer" that has emerged in the past two years!
By then, many directors, artists, etc. who had previously been at odds with the Beijing circle may come to join them.

If you look at the Huabiao Awards, you will know that there is basically only one leader in China, the Beijing circle.

……

The car sped all the way, and then Zhu Yanmanzi hugged Chen Jin's arm without saying anything.

She could understand the various pressures Chen Jin was facing, not just for himself, but also for her, Guo Xun and everyone else in the company, even Zhang Yimou.

Chen Jin was right to be low-key, allowing others to temporarily ignore him as their opponent.

"Honey, do you want me to take you there tomorrow?"

Zhu Yanmanzi raised her head and asked softly.

"Need not!"

Chen Jin smiled and said, "Wash yourself at home and wait for my good news!"

"Ok!"

“I’ve been waiting for almost 2 years!”

Zhu Yanmanzi met Chen Jin's gaze, and everything was said without words.

After sending Xiao Zhu home, Chen Jin returned to his home in Yinhu Villa.

Mom and Dad should have gone to bed. Chen Jin tiptoed to open the door. Just as he was about to go up to his bedroom on the second floor, the door of his parents' bedroom on the first floor suddenly opened.

Su Wanyu was wearing pajamas and yawning. She must have heard the door open. "Are you back?"

"Well, Mom, why aren't you asleep yet?"

Chen Jin turned around at the stairs and saw Su Wanyu saying, "Your dad and I watched the Huabiao Awards. Your dad was worried that you didn't have dinner, so the pot is still hot. Do you want to eat?"

"I waited so long but he never came back!"

"Yes, there is a dinner party..."

Chen Jin forgot to tell the two of them.

"I thought your dad thought you came back after 10 o'clock!"

"Where's the award? I see there's a red book?"

Su Wanyu was a little excited when she talked about this. Chen Jin said with a bit of a smile: "It's in the car, I'll get it!"

Usually, the driver would send Chen Jin home and then drive away in his own car. He was responsible for picking her up and dropping her off every day.

After a while, Chen Jin placed the Huabiao Award certificate and the Huabiao trophy in front of Su Wanyu and Chen Xianqi; Old Chen was also awakened by Su Wanyu.

"Your parents have never received such a red book in their lives!"

Su Wanyu was excitedly flipping through the award certificates issued by the Propaganda Department. There were two certificates in total, and the other one, for an outstanding feature film, was in Chen Xianqi's hands.

Chen Xianqi also said happily: "Your mother was watching TV just now, she was more excited than you were when you won the award!"

"It's just a newcomer award..."

To be honest, Chen Jin didn't really take it to heart.

"Why not? Didn't Zhu Jun say that you can only get the Rookie Award once in your life!"

“And it’s such a big prize!”

Su Wanyu couldn't let go of it and looked at it. Chen Jin curled his lips and said, "I didn't see you so happy when I won the Venice Newcomer Award!"

"You don't understand, Venice is Venice!"

"This is awarded to you by the government, and its meaning and nature are different!"

As expected of a teacher, his ideological awareness is extraordinary.

The key point is that Lao Chen also agreed: "Your mother is right!"

"The honor of the country is above all else. You will understand when you grow up!"

Don’t be too big, Chen Jin is very clear now.

They are nothing more than artists recognized by the state, and they come with an official certification; just like Teacher Li Xuejian, he will be a people's artist in the future, which is the highest achievement for an actor.

Which actor doesn't want to have this honor? It is the highest praise and is admired and respected.

And some actors, even when they are old, are just stars.

This is the difference. When embarking on the path of acting, many people actually want to be stars and make money at first, but as they grow older, it is like their blood awakening, and becoming an artist is the highest pursuit of an actor's life.

But in the end, there are only a few people in the entire entertainment industry who can live up to these three words.

Of course Chen Jin also wants to be the former, and his parents certainly hope so too.

"Son, this is the first time I feel that you made the right choice to become an actor!"

“But that remains to be seen!”

Lao Chen’s values are very positive, just like Su Wanyu’s.

"Okay, okay..."

Chen Jin waved his hand and walked upstairs: "I will strive to become an artist, so that you can also benefit from it!"

"This boy!"

Chen Xianqi was in high spirits, feeling that the red copy of the excellent feature film in his hand was not as good-looking as the one with the excellent new actor in his wife's hand.

For parents, this may be the happiest moment in their raising of children.

It’s not the box office, nor the trophy, but the officially recognized personal red book!
Chen Jin has experienced so many movies, so of course she understands Su Wanyu and Chen Xianqi's thoughts.

After taking a shower, Chen Jin was originally ready to go to sleep, but the moment he lay down, he immediately stood up and turned on the computer. It was not that he did not do today's exercise, he had already clocked in early in the morning.

But it's the box office of "Transformers 3".

"Transformers 3" box office exceeded 12 billion yuan, becoming the second domestic film to break 10 billion yuan box office! "

"Brilliant!"

Looking at the front-page headlines of the portal website, Chen Jin sighed. The word 12 billion was indeed too helpless.

Hollywood films are now popular all over the world and are extremely successful.

Especially the "Transformers" IP, which is more popular in the country than Harry Potter.

"The Founding of a Party" held the pre-sale and midnight show records for less than a month, but they have been completely broken by "Transformers 3".

"Transformers 3" grossed 7100 million yuan in the midnight screening and 1.1 million yuan in pre-sales, making it the first domestic film to exceed million yuan in pre-sales.

The first-day box office was 9700 million. Although it did not break the first-day record of over 33 million held by "Love Is Not Blind", it hit a terrifying single-day box office of 2 million two days later on Saturday!
It broke the single-day box office record again.

The screening schedule even accounted for 73%.

This is the current treatment of Hollywood blockbusters, which can exceed the 50% screening regulations.

The box office record of 3.9 million yuan in the first weekend broke the previous record of 33 million yuan held by "Love Is Not Blind", and it only took 2.94 days.

"12 million!"

“But the record of over 13 billion of Avatar probably won’t be broken!”

"Transformers 3" has been released for nearly a month, and the current daily box office fluctuates around 300 million; it will definitely not reach 13 billion.

"The original timeline was just over 10 billion, but my butterfly effect has increased the overall box office!"

Chen Jin shook his head and was about to close the computer when another piece of news made Chen Jin stunned.

"Xiaomi mobile phone released, priced at 1999 yuan, set off the whole audience!"

"Wow, Jun'er released a mobile phone?"

Yesterday I was reporting to Chen Jin that the number of users had exceeded 8000 million, while WeChat had just exceeded 1500 million. I could see the gap between the two apps was widening.

Xiaomi mobile phone was unexpectedly released at this critical juncture.

"Jun'er is really good at marketing!"

"Let's talk about it next. We should be able to update the public account, album sharing, video chat and other functions!"

"Two-pronged approach with Xiaomi mobile phone!"

In a nutshell, let WeChat always catch up with the pace of chatting.

Apart from copying, they obviously don't have time to do anything else, after all, the updates on Chat are too fast.

This made Zhang Xiaolong live completely in Chen Jin's shadow.

"I'm sorry Hua Teng~~~"

Chen Jin grinned and lay on the bed, still thinking about Ma Huateng at this moment. He must be very miserable, right? !
It's still painful to live in the shadow.

However, if Chen Jin did not do this, he would lose the opportunity to gain the upper hand; at this juncture, binding with Lei Jun was the best choice for Chen Jin to gain momentum.

If it had happened a few years earlier, it might have been Ma Huateng or Ma Yun.

This is the opportunity, and Chen Jin is now relying on Lei Jun.

When it comes to business, any mercy is unacceptable.

……

The next day, Chen Jin slept until noon, opened his cell phone and took a look. He actually received a very unexpected text message.

"See you tonight!"

Huang Shengyi actually remembered that Chen Jin was on the same flight as him.

Chen Jin smiled speechlessly and could only reply: "OK!"

This time when Chen Jin went to Venice, she did not bring her assistant with her. Instead, she packed her luggage by herself and took a car to the airport.

Chen Jin booked a first-class cabin. After all, the journey to Venice is long, so he should save money where he can and spend money where he can.

The crew of "Legend of White Snake" appeared together in the first-class departure lounge because they attended the Huabiao Awards yesterday; Chen Jin walked in and immediately saw several familiar figures chatting enthusiastically.

Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Huang Shengyi's husband Yangzi, who participated as a producer.

This guy liked to take advantage of all kinds of popularity in later generations, so of course he was indispensable at a film festival like this; maybe it was this guy who suggested going to Venice to attend the screening, or it was Huang Shengyi.

Jet Li is the male lead, playing the role of Fahai.

The Kung Fu Emperor may have just immigrated to Singapore in the past two years. He wanted to earn money for his retirement and took on a lot of movies crazily.

"Flying Daggers of Dragon Gate", "The Expendables", "Ocean Paradise", etc.

Moreover, after filming "Huo Yuanjia", he said he would retire from making kung fu movies, but then he turned around and filmed "The Warlords" and "The Forbidden Kingdom". His moral integrity was shattered.

However, at present, Lao Li's box office appeal is still comparable to that of Jackie Chan, whether in mainland China or Hollywood.

Even after making so many bad movies, there are still fans who buy them.

All I can say is that the blood is quite thick.

All these years of making Kung Fu films were not accumulated in vain.

It was not until the super bad movie "The Legend of the Gods" that was recorded in the history of bad Chinese-language movies that his reputation was truly ruined.

As for Andy Lau, he was shortlisted for the main competition because of his starring role in "A Simple Life". Like Chen Jin, he was in a hurry to attend the event. Director Anhua Hui and Dexian Yip had already arrived.

"Hi, Chen Jin~~"

Huang Shengyi was waving to Chen Jin enthusiastically. Yangzi, who was beside her, followed her gaze and saw Chen Jin. He obviously recognized her and looked a little displeased.

He was obviously very angry that his wife was so enthusiastic about seeing a pretty boy, but he didn't dare to show it.

After all, he also attended the Huabiao Awards yesterday.

Jet Li, Andy Lau and others also turned their heads at the same time.

"Boss Yang, Brother Jie, Brother Hua, Sister Shengyi!"

Chen Jin was quite polite and called out to everyone one by one. There were several other leading actors, such as Raymond Lam, Cai Zhuoyan from Twins... However, among the few who sat there and looked like big shots, Chen Jin only knew one.

Cheng Xiaodong!
He is the director of "Legend of White Snake", but he is more famous as a martial arts director - the second best martial arts director in the world.

The best in the world is Mr. Yuan Heping, the martial arts director of "The Matrix", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Kung Fu" and so on!

As for Cheng Xiaodong, he has collaborated with Zhang Yimou on many films, including "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Swordsman", "New Dragon Inn", "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers" and so on.

There is also a saying circulating in the martial arts world: for ancient costume fighting, look to Xiaodong, and for modern fighting, look to He Ping.

In terms of martial arts fighting scenes, the fighting designs by Cheng Xiaodong are very elegant; while Mr. Yuan Heping is more focused on innovation and modern fighting techniques; he is the pioneer of Hollywood action design.

This certainly does not mean that Yuan Heping is not good at ancient costumes, but compared to modern fighting, he knows more.

Cheng Xiaodong's modern fight scenes are mediocre in design.

So the second place actually has a big gap with the first place, both in terms of fame and strength.

But compared with the others, the third and fourth place, Cheng Xiaodong also has a huge gap.

"Hello, Chen Jin!"

"Hello there!"

Both Andy Lau and Jet Li were quite polite, but Jet Li was obviously more enthusiastic.

"Which movie were you nominated for?"

Liu Dehua suddenly asked Chen Jin, and the others were obviously curious as well.

After all, they pay attention to all the Chinese-language films that have been nominated, but they don’t study the starring lists of some films in detail.

(End of this chapter)