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Chapter 713 Who Are You? (5.6K begging for subscription!)

In the Dongyu Banquet Hall on the first floor of the International Conference Center, a roundtable meeting on the film, media, and cultural industries was held as scheduled on the morning of the 9th.

Attending together with Tang An were Kong Deming, Director of Hainan Provincial Radio and Television Station, Su Yantao, President of American Universal Oriental and Chairman of China-US Film Festival, Han De, Director of Central Daily Research Institute, and Indo New Generation Media Development and Planning. Department Director Mania, CDC Chairman Wang Fanghuai, Singapore New Media Group President Zhou Yongqiang and others, as well as directors of radio and television stations in Southeast Asian countries.

Wang Gengnian, a member of the National Radio and Television Party Group and director of the International Radio and Television Station, presided over the meeting as the chairman of the meeting.

The main topics are film and television, media, culture, innovation and responsibility in the digital age.

There was a host at the meeting, so he introduced everyone first. Except for the Hua people, most of the people present were the director of a national radio and television station, which is equivalent to the level of the director of CCTV in China, and even the boss of Optoelectronics. this level.

However, these countries in Southeast Asia are far from being comparable to those in China.

Put on the earphones, and choose Chinese for the simultaneous interpretation machine.

Nowadays, some important international conferences use simultaneous interpretation, and the larger conferences do not need interpreters.

You don’t need to speak English, you can speak Chinese, Arabic, etc., and there will be special people who will relay the words in different languages ​​at a frequency of three or four seconds behind the speaker.

There are earphones and simultaneous interpretation machines on each seat, and you can choose one of six mainstream languages: Chinese, English, Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish.

It is also equivalent to dubbing, but the requirements are very high. After all, the interpreter has no idea what the speaker will say.

Chairman Wang Gengnian made a speech:
Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, on behalf of the organizers of the conference, Boao Asia Forum and Huaguo International Radio Station, I would like to extend my warmest welcome to all the representatives and guests attending this conference.
The theme of this media leaders conference is innovation and responsibility of media in the digital age, reflecting people's concerns about the development and transformation of the media industry in the new era.I hope to build a platform for media exchanges and cooperation, release new development momentum, and realize the good wishes of common development!
In the two-hour round table meeting, whether it is long or short, no one has to say a long paragraph, basically there is not much nutrition.

It's Tang An's turn, "The digital era of the Internet is a new era for cultural media, and it also means new opportunities and new hopes.

The new era bears new dreams. In today's world, with the rapid economic and social development and scientific and technological progress, information transmission and acquisition are becoming faster and faster, and digital and network development have spread to all aspects of life. The global media industry is undergoing unprecedented profound changes. Opportunities and challenges coexist.

In this era, we are facing brand-new difficulties. There are more and more channels for users to receive news and news, and they are getting faster and faster.

For example, the impact of online media on paper media, and the deteriorating income, the current priority of paper media around the world is to get rid of this status quo.

Mr. Han gave an example just now. South Korea's "Central Weekly News" is a newspaper that is only published on Sundays, with a circulation of about 12. advanced analytics news and commentary composition.

The target readers are elites who rest leisurely at home on Sundays. Flipping through this newspaper, you can clearly know all the events that happened in a week.

As there are more and more channels for receiving news, the masses do not necessarily receive news through newspapers. At this time, print media needs to be more professional and purposeful, and specifically create content for the audience why they buy newspapers.

Just like paper media, the same is true for film and television dramas. Now that a film and television drama is released, word of mouth can spread to any corner of the Internet in at most two days.

Movies and TV dramas also need to be professional and purposeful. For example, if a comedy is released, many audience comments on the Internet are about how funny the movie is, which can attract potential audiences for the movie.

Regardless of newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, movies, novels, it is very important to grasp the core selling points and capture the accurate audience, and this is inseparable from the Internet industry. We also need the support of cloud computing and big data. The digital age has comprehensively affected every aspect of the media industry. "

It was also an unnutritious speech, but it was very standard. The tone and speed of the speech seemed to be more and more similar to that of the leader.

Take a break at noon, and in the afternoon it will be another sub-venue for the film and television culture industry.

When the situation changed, it was no longer a round table meeting. Apart from Tang An, there were only three people from the cultural circles and a host, and there were a group of people from related industries and many reporters sitting under the stage.

This becomes an interview.

The moderator is Hu Wei, a reporter from the Beijing News. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting started on time.

"Good afternoon, all the guests at the scene, welcome to the Boao Forum Cultural Branch today."

He introduced the four people on stage one by one, including Tian Bin, chairman of Xinhuanet, Yang Gongda, a professor and well-known cultural scholar at Tsinghua University, and Meng Shengli, director of the National Cultural Innovation Research Center of Fudan University.

Two famous university professors and scholars, one CEO of Xinhuanet, and one CEO of a film and television company, this configuration is really strange.

In the Boao Forum in the past few years, there were very few representatives from the film and television industry, and occasionally there were representatives of actors to walk through the scene.

What's more, in this cultural sub-venue, although film and television practitioners were also regarded as cultural workers back then, today, when film and television dramas are becoming more and more commercialized, the cultural circle despises the film and television industry.

There are a lot of experts, professors, and scholars in the audience, watching a film and television company boss who is at the bottom of the chain of contempt sitting on the stage, but they can only be in the audience, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.

Tang An was the last one to speak. He had no choice but to have no objections. He listened to the three of them finish their speech one by one.

Tian Bin, president of Xinhuanet, said: We need to promote the Internet-based transformation of traditional literary and art institutions and art workers, have a larger digital platform and space, and give full play to the positive role of new art organizations, art groups, and art platforms. Construct new ways of cultural production.

Professor Yang Gongda of Qinghua said: Social order cannot be maintained only by laws, but also by humanistic education.

Meng Shengli, director of the National Cultural Innovation Research Center of Fudan University: The same culture promotes the connection between people.

What the two university professors said was very high-spirited, but also a little fake.

Maintain social order with humanistic education. It is too early to talk about this when the law cannot restrain the people.

The same culture promotes the connection between people and people. It seems that there is something, but it seems that nothing is said.

That is to say, the boss of Xinhua Net said something practical about the transformation of literary and artistic workers and cultural and artistic institutions to the Internet.

However, there is no plan, and it is said to be transformed. After the transformation, with a larger platform, we can launch more, better, and excellent works that can better meet people's growing spiritual and cultural needs.

It's just chanting slogans, without any practical content. I hear this kind of talk every day these two days.

It's Tang An, and everyone at the scene wants to hear what Tang An, a talker in the film and television industry, can talk about.

"As a film and television worker, I have been committed to spreading our unique Chinese culture to the world through film and television dramas, so that more Chinese culture can be known and understood by foreign audiences."

There was nothing to say, so Tang An memorized the prepared manuscript, and quickly finished the four or five hundred words.

After one person talked for a while, the host Hu Wei began to randomly invite people from the audience to speak and ask questions.

A middle-aged fat man wearing glasses asked Tang An a question.

"Hi Mr. Tang, just now you said that you want to spread Chinese culture through film and television dramas, so how much do you know about Chinese culture?"

According to the rules, at least the first one should ask the boss of Xinhuanet, after all, it is under the Xinhua News Agency, and it is also one of the organizers of the Boao Forum.

The visitor was not kind, Tang An knew it from the eyes of some people under the stage.

A group of cultural workers, just myself, a person in the entertainment industry who makes movies, is a bit out of place.

Just like those who make movies look down on those who make TV dramas, and those who make TV dramas look down on those who make online dramas. Any industry has a chain of contempt, not to mention that the entertainment industry was originally considered a cultural worker.

Before Tang An entered the arena, he heard these people talking about him behind his back, and there was nothing good to say.

Even when two people were discussing, Tang An was by his side, but they didn't recognize it.

Tang An is a director after all, and these people are not fans who watch movies every day, so it's normal not to recognize them.

Even Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, Li Hongyan, Lei Jun, Ren Zhengfei, Liu Dongqiang, Zhang Jingdong and other business tycoons who frequently appear on the screen, it is difficult for ordinary people to recognize them immediately when they meet them on the street.

Except for Ma Yun, it is estimated that 99 out of [-] can be recognized at a glance, after all, they are too recognizable.

Tang An said with a smile, "I think culture should be based on people, and any behavior of people is always related to culture."

Tang An's answer obviously did not satisfy the people in the audience, and many people even began to criticize in a low voice.

"A film director, what culture does he know!"

"It's ridiculous, why did the organizer ask him to be on stage?"

"It's this Tang An who has been making some meaningless movies for the past few years, and even the current movies are getting more and more kitsch!"

The contempt for the entertainment industry, and the gap between one stage and one stage, many people are quite upset.

As soon as Tang An finished speaking, the middle-aged fat man began to correct Tang An's statement and began to talk about it.

"Mr. Tang's statement may be a bit wrong. Culture is the sum of all the social phenomena of the intelligent group and the inner spirit of the group. It is the sum of inheritance, creation and development.

Culture covers the history of intelligent groups from the past to the future, and is the content of all activities of the group based on nature.It is the whole of all material appearance and spiritual innerness of the group.

Culture can be divided into three aspects: material culture, institutional culture and psychological culture, and institutional culture refers to the

Tang An was somewhat familiar with this long speech.

Since it was a cultural forum, Tang An also checked some information, and he definitely read these words in many articles.

The contempt in the eyes of these people was almost engraved on the eyeballs, Tang An was not polite and interrupted him directly.

"This gentleman can stop. I don't think your words are your own understanding. You can find the original words if you search for one of them in Baidu."

The middle-aged fat man's face changed slightly, "Mr. Tang, what do you mean?"

Tang An didn't answer, but turned to the host Hu Wei next to him and said, "Can I trouble the host to search the Internet?"

Hu Wei glanced at the boss of Xinhuanet, and saw that he didn't react much, so he used his laptop to casually search for what the man said just now.

On the big screen at the back, Baidu searched, and a whole paragraph of an article containing what the person said just now appeared, which was obvious.

Tang An said, "These are summed up by predecessors. From my point of view, you don't know much about culture. Endorsing shouldn't be counted as culture. Otherwise, if I memorize all of Lu Xun's books, wouldn't I also become a literary giant?"

The man's face was flushed, but he couldn't find any words to refute, so he could only sit down resentfully.

Many experts and scholars these days are the same. After all, there are a lot of plagiarism in graduate theses, doctoral and postdoctoral theses.

Tang An sternly said, "It is culture for us to eat rice, and it is culture for Westerners to eat beef. In ancient Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods, we used knives and forks. The fork was eliminated, and we switched to using chopsticks as a culture, and Westerners have gradually switched from grasping to knives and forks, which is still a culture.”

"Culture is affected by time and space. Cultures are different at different times and regions. There are also many oriental cultures in film and television dramas. As the largest film and television production company in China, it is my responsibility and mission to spread Chinese culture. It is also the responsibility of all film and television workers."

"It's still the same, then why have you never made a literary film, Mr. Tang?"

Another question was raised.

"Why do I want to make a literary film?" Tang An asked back.

"Because commercial films have no artistic value at all!"

Tang An asked again, "Then, what is artistic value?"

"Artistic value refers to the author's artistic personality, style, and national and regional characteristics represented by a work of art!"

Tang An shook his head, "Many people don't understand what artistic value is. When it comes to a movie, as long as the public likes to watch it, it is kitsch and vulgar in the eyes of some people. On the contrary, some niche movies, maybe he himself I don’t understand, in order to show my level, praise it as art!”

Now the so-called artistic value has gone too far. It is extremely ridiculous to be addicted to petty bourgeoisie and alternative art and to regard this as the whole of "artistic value".

Tang An's words knocked a boatload of people away. Many cultural workers at the scene saw it this way. They even didn't watch many movies. Some of them didn't. As long as they heard that the box office was high, they would criticize .

But Tang An was in no mood, and had no time to talk nonsense with these people, it was a waste of saliva.

Before they could refute, Tang An went on to say, "Many years ago, Premier Zhou gave a wonderful speech at the symposium on literature and art work and the feature film creation conference, in which he criticized the vice minister of the Ministry of Culture.

He said: "A deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture and Culture went to western Sichuan and said that Sichuan opera was backward. At that time, a comrade replied: whether it is backward or not depends on the 7000 million people in western Sichuan to answer and decide. I think this comrade is very brave and answered well! The people like to hear and see it, but if you don’t like it, who are you? Our words are not reliable, and everyone has their own hobbies, so how can it be used as a standard? Art needs the approval of the people, as long as the people like it, it has value.”

"Here, I also want to pass on Premier Zhou's words to everyone here. Art needs the approval of the people. As long as the people like it, it has value!"

There was silence at the scene. Tang An had moved Premier Zhou out, so what else could he say.

Looking at the group of people in the audience who were a little bit upset, Tang An didn't feel at ease either.

Tang An never cared about what these people said, he just didn't want to talk nonsense. He never thought of changing the views of these people. Whether they like it or not has no effect on Tang An. Tang An also automatically filtered the troublesome voices, jumping as much as he likes, and he doesn't even bother to complain.

After being interrupted by Tang An, it will be more harmonious later, and Tang An also handed over the meeting scene to the other three, occasionally making a noise, and then returning to the scene of high-spirited discussions.

It was really boring. After the meeting, Tang An was about to go back to the hotel, but the host Hu Wei approached him.

Hu Wei was later the founder of Mobike, and he came here to find investment.

Tang An listened to her thoughts. She didn't have time to read the PPT, so she asked her to go back to the capital to find the investment and development department of the group. The angel round of this level can be decided by the following people.

After playing in Bo'ao for a few days, Tang An returned to the capital on the 12th.

In terms of movie editing, a professional editor will sort out all the materials first, and Tang An will still edit it himself after a while.

In mid-April, two major events also took place. With Xinli Media as the main body, Fujixun formally established Penguin Film and Television, and entered the film industry in an all-round way.

Ye Shun, the vice president of Wanda Cultural Industry Group, officially resigned and was replaced by Jiang Defu, the former general manager of China Film Marketing Branch. Ye Shun then joined Huayi as the vice president of Huayi and the president of Kyushu Distribution.

These two incidents had been foreshadowed before, and there was nothing strange about them.

In the past few days, Tang An has followed up the progress of several investments and asked the Investment Development Department to purchase and apply for some licenses. There are too many licenses needed for finance. There are more than ten kinds of licenses. Get it as soon as possible.

I also met with several giants of local private enterprises in Beijing to discuss the establishment of private banks.

In addition, I also went to the executive vice minister of the Ministry of Propaganda to ask about entering the Xiangjiang Cinemas, and see if they can give some support.

With so many things going on, a week or two passed in the blink of an eye.

On April 4th, approaching May 24st, two new films, "Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth" and "You at the Same Table" were released on the same day.

The former is a fantasy action sci-fi comedy romance blockbuster produced by several medium-sized film and television companies, starring popular stars Donnie Yen and Wang Baoqiang, and released by Leshi.

The latter is a youth film co-invested and co-published by Guangxian and Wanda.

In the evening, Tang An also took the time to come to Wanda CBD to attend the premiere of "You at the Same Table".

Of course, the main thing is to meet Jiang Defu, the trusted helmsman of Wanda Films. Fuji Xun has just cooperated with Guangxian, and some people will probably go.

Sure enough, Jiang Defu showed up in person, Yu Dong came, and Sun Huaizhong, the newly established president of Penguin Film and Television, also came.

Almost all the big companies are here. It's not surprising that Fan Luyuan from Ah Li didn't come, but Wang Zhongjun didn't come either. Wang Zhonglei came.

Tang An asked with a smile. "Mr. Wang, it's rare that everyone is so well organized today. Why is Director Wang not here?"

Wang Zhonglei said, "He went to "Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth", invited by Director Cao."

This film is invested by German International Cultural Films, a subsidiary of the Radio and Television International Division. It is still reasonable to say that the leader invited it.

However, several people also knew why Wang Zhongjun went there, so Yu Dong smiled and said, "I guess Wang Dong is going to see how the combination of Yen Zidan and Wang Baoqiang works. "Wulin" was released, starring Donnie Yen and Wang Baoqiang."

Donnie Yen is considered to be the best of the Mesozoic in Hong Kong. The "Ip Man" series has gained enough popularity and reputation. Although the next few films are so-so, they have not had a great impact.

"Havoc in Heaven" broke [-] million at the box office, but its reputation was relatively poor.

But even so, "Rebirth: The Frozen Gate" and "One Man's Martial Arts" are both action movies, and Wang Baoqiang is also a star, so they still have potential.

(End of this chapter)