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Chapter 338 Set a Small Goal First

"Actually, it's nothing. I just want to thank Mr. Tang in person." Zhou Shiwei smiled.

"Thank you?" Tang An didn't know why.

"Yes, thank you Mr. Tang for persuading Xiao Ming to give up the TV series "Summer of Bubbles". I have persuaded him many times before, and he insisted on accepting this TV series. No matter how much I persuaded him, it was useless." Zhou Shiwei shook Shake your head.

It is of course a good thing for an agent to have big-name celebrities, but big-name celebrities have a lot of ideas, and they are relatively strong in the relationship between the two. Generally, it is difficult to persuade them to pay attention.

If you think about it with your toes, the TV series "Summer of Bubbles" is the kind of Taiwan idol drama from a few years ago, which is definitely harmful and not beneficial to Wang Xiaoming.

Wang Xiaoming wanted to pick it up, but he couldn't do anything about it. As a result, Wang Xiaoming suddenly said he would not pick it up yesterday, which made him confused. Later, he realized that it was Tang An who had mentioned it at the banquet that day.

There were few people in Huayi who could make Wang Xiaoming obedient, and Tang An was the only one besides the Wang brothers.

After all, Wang Xiaoming's two most important films were directed by Tang An, which helped him a lot.

As for Feng Xiaogang. The previous year "Assembly" used several male actors from the company, but without him, I was quite upset.

"So that's what happened." Tang An suddenly said.

"I just mentioned casually that idol dramas, especially Taiwan idol dramas, are not a wise choice for an actor like him who has just hit the big screen."

Just for this matter, Tang An just happened to think of it and mentioned it.

However, Zhou Shiwei is really a very good agent. In terms of marketing, he may not be as good as Huang Bin later, but Zhou Shiwei's planning and consideration of actors is better.

"I still want to thank Mr. Tang. If I really accept this drama, these two years will be wasted." Zhou Shiwei said sincerely.

Tang An waved his hands and smiled, "Mr. Zhou is polite."

Tang An went upstairs with him, and it could be seen that Zhou Shiwei was not in a high mood. After asking a few words, Zhou Shiwei didn't hide it.

Not only this "Summer of Bubbles", but also a movie "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance 2", he also tried his best to persuade Wang Xiaoming not to accept it, but he didn't persuade, and the filming will start in a week or so.

I have to say that Zhou Shiwei's vision is quite good. Although Wang Xiaoming's acting skills are only mediocre in the eyes of the outside world, it is not to the extent that he will be automatically filtered when he hears Wang Xiaoming's movies later.

Since winning the leading role in "The Legend of Condor Heroes" in 04, Zhou Shiwei can be said to have pushed Wang Xiaoming to the point of a first-line niche step by step.

And every choice he made proved to be right. At the beginning of "The Deer and Ding Tale", Zhou Shiwei felt that it was not yet time to play such a subversive role at that stage. The direction he planned for Wang Xiaoming was to play something like Hugh Grant. Gentleman style light comedy, not the kind of crazy character.

Wang Xiaoming wanted to challenge, and the final result proved that Zhou Shiwei's judgment was correct to some extent. It was the first time that Wang Xiaoming was "slapped bricks" by netizens on a large scale.

Plus two "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" and one "Summer of Bubbles" are one of Wang Xiaoming's early "stains".

It was Zhou Shiwei's opinion that Wang Xiaoming went to sing in 07. At that time, Wang Xiaoming was already a top-notch in the TV industry. If he continued to shoot, he could make a lot of money, but the quality could not be guaranteed.

Zhou Shiwei was willing to let him take a break, and he would sing without a suitable script, and asked a professional vocal teacher to teach him.

Anyway, if an actor sings badly, it won't have much impact, and he can still maintain his popularity.

But Wang Xiaoming wanted to dance again later, of course Zhou Shiwei disagreed, the bouncing and bouncing was not in line with the character design.

It turned out he was right again.

Maybe because Zhou Shiwei was disobedient, Wang Xiaoming left to set up a studio and found Huang Bin, who he met at a party before.

Huang Bin wasn't originally an agent, he was in marketing. He had served as the marketing director of films such as "The Promise", "Mei Lanfang", and "Southern View of the South".

He has worked as a reporter and producer, and is a professional marketing talent. He only took over Wang Xiaoming's brokerage business 10 years later, and he is more like a businessman.

He focused on two things in building Wang Xiaoming, fame and money. After he took over, Wang Xiaoming began to have a lot of negative news, which is almost invisible now.

In the end, Wang Xiaoming also became rich and famous. On the one hand, he was considered very successful. After all, being an actor is just a profession.

There is almost a year left, and it is time for Wang Xiaoming to set up his own studio. It seems to be exactly one month after the filming of "Orphan of the Zhao Family".

Li Binbin will also work on his own next year, and with Fan Binbin who has already left, three of Huayi's top five artists will leave, leaving Zou Xun and Luo Haiqiong.

Tang An shook his head, not thinking about next year, when he will not be in Huayi, it has nothing to do with him.

I stayed in my office for a while, and at 8:19, I took Wang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, and Lu Yi to Beijing Normal University at No. [-] Xinjiekouwai Street, Haidian District.

I exchanged pleasantries with a director of the school for a while, and chatted with a student host. At 10 o'clock in the morning, the lecture officially started.

Previously at Peking University and Tsinghua University, they were talking about movies, which were Tang An's strengths, but now when it comes to entrepreneurship and struggle, this is not what Tang An is good at.

It's definitely not good to be too realistic, as chicken soup is everywhere.

Facing the applause of thousands of students in the audience, Tang An led the three of them onto the stage.

Sit down after some opening remarks.

"Hi everyone, I'm Tang An, and I'm also a director. Today, I'm entrusted by the school to give you a few words."

"Hi students, I'm Wang Xiaoming."

"I'm Deng Chao."

"I'm Lu Yi."

After four rounds of applause, the host spoke.

"Hello Tang, today you are talking about entrepreneurship and success. First of all, do you think you are successful now?"

Tang An pondered for a while, then smiled and said, "It depends on how I say it. If I look at my goal when I set foot in this industry, it can be considered a success."

The host interjected, "Does that mean Director Tang thinks he is not successful enough?"

This is not successful enough, what about bragging!

The students in the audience saw the routine at a glance. An entrepreneur came here before and said that although he had a lot of money, his life was a failure.

Pure pretense!
However, what Tang An said was not the routine words of "I am rich but I am not happy", "I am rich and I lose something".

"Everyone's goal changes with their position. When I first entered the industry, I just wanted the films I made to be on the big screen for the audience to see."

"Later, the goal was achieved, and I began to think that the box office breaking through [-] million, [-] million or even [-] million would be the box office records in front of me."

"Records have been broken one after another. Until now, I have broken the total box office of domestic film history. Has my goal been achieved?"

Tang An shook his head, facing the eyes of the audience who went up and down the stage, "Not really."

"Since the current record holder is myself, then my goal will be on myself and break the record I created"

"No matter what you do, people have to look forward. If you don't advance, you will retreat. If you are satisfied with the status quo and stop, the people behind will not stop."

I can't hold back my mouth as soon as I say it, how cool it is to pretend.

When Tang An stopped, the host continued to ask, "Director Tang, do you think the movie "Chinese Partner" has any educational significance for our contemporary college students?"

Tang An shook his head, "I strongly disagree with using movies as education, and I am a very pragmatic person, I will not be hypocritical, and I will not talk about dreams with everyone, because I think it is impossible, 99.9% of people will never You can't achieve your dreams, dreams are just a spiritual sustenance, and goals are the driving force for you to move forward and struggle."

At this time, someone in the audience suddenly yelled, "Dreams are dreams."

As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of laughter at the scene.

It seems that no matter what age, what kind of university, there will be all kinds of students.

Tang An was not annoyed either, he smiled and said, "That classmate just now said it well, dreams are actually things that you think about in your dreams, if your dream is to be the richest man in the world, then you might as well set a small goal and earn him a piece first [-] million"

"Hahaha"

Before Tang An finished speaking, a burst of violent laughter erupted from the audience.

"Tang An was telling a joke."

"Haha, this is the funniest joke of the year."

"Set a small goal, earn him [-] million first, I wrote down this sentence, let's use this sentence as a signature."

"This goal is really realistic, what a small goal."

(End of this chapter)