Han Zhou arrived at Shen Xixiong's office. Shen Xixiong poured Han Zhou a cup of tea and then said, "I have two things to talk to you about. One is official and the other is personal."
Han Zhou was puzzled: "Hmm? Let me listen to the official business first."
Shen Xixiong: "Are you interested in being the chief director of this year's Spring Festival Gala?"
Han Zhou retreated tactically: "Forget it...right?"
Shen Xixiong: "You are a young person, you know what young people like to watch."
"We are now caught in a vicious circle. The more we try to please young people, the worse our products become."
Actually, there is nothing we can do about it.
Ordinary audiences know that Chen Yin is a person with cerebral palsy and many black spots. Does the Spring Festival Gala preparation team know this?
Chen Yin’s negative information is mainly circulated on short video websites and various comment sections.
The people in the Spring Festival Gala preparation team are all in their forties and don’t read these things at all.
They have no idea how bad Chen Yin is.
Even if I know, I've only heard about it.
However, if we observe their own working environment, we will see another side.
That is, every time Chen Yin participates in a TV show, his fans will crowd the entrance of the TV station.
Every time he performs at the scene, there are always a large number of his fans who are in extremely high spirits, much more excited than ordinary audiences.
From this perspective, even if there are some negative things about this person, it is not unacceptable? After all, he is very popular?
Their only interaction with the Internet is Weibo.
Anyone who understands Weibo will understand.
On the short video platforms and major penguin groups, stars like Chen Yin are the ones who get beaten.
Many passers-by believe that some second-tier singers from ten years ago who performed on the Spring Festival Gala were more interesting than Chen Yin.
However, the Spring Festival Gala preparation team knew nothing about this.
In their environment, they hear the names of Chen Yin and others every day, but for those second-tier singers from ten years ago, they think, "What kind of outdated eighteen-tier star are you? Who knows you?"
Those who know the real situation are often in the preparatory group and are ordinary staff.
You said that last year Liu Cheng, who had ups and downs, finally became the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala. Would he listen to a 22 or 23-year-old college graduate?
Who are you? You want to tell me what to do?
How many years have I been in the entertainment industry? How can you, a fresh graduate, guide me?
Do you know the entertainment industry?
This vicious circle is the vicious circle of those in power. It's not that they don't want to know what ordinary people think. They want to know, but they have no way to know.
Some people think that just by opening the short video platform and watching a few videos, you should understand?
No, they are too busy to watch these.
Many people, especially those who have reached this position, always believe in one thing.
That is, as long as you work hard, you will succeed.
At this point, they have already succeeded and become authorities, so they will continue to work according to their usual habits.
Do you really think these people are too arrogant and don’t want to please the audience? No, they want to please, but they are just trying to please the wrong people.
Otherwise, Chen Yin and his ilk would be on the Spring Festival Gala? Does anyone really think that the director of the Spring Festival Gala thinks he sings well?
Which Spring Festival Gala director has not been to the Youth Song Contest? No matter who ranks second, third, fourth or fifth from the bottom, who doesn’t sing better than Chen Yin?
And this problem has basically no solution.
Why?
Because it is the young people who know the preferences and habits of young people.
Young people are not qualified enough to serve as the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala.
Even if it was for gilding, Shen Xixiong wouldn't dare to arrange a relative in his twenties to do it. Wouldn't that make him ready to be investigated?
But now, the opportunity has come.
During this year's Spring Festival, Han Zhou's "Kung Fu" has grossed 580 million in three days!
What does that mean? There are only three directors under the age of 35 in China who have made over 100 million yuan at the box office.
There are only five directors under the age of 40 who have broken 500 million.
This kind of box office revenue that can generate real money proves that Han Zhou is a top commercial director.
As for the evening show experience? If Han Zhou agreed, then Han Zhou could directly serve as assistant director of a certain evening show in the first half of CCTV1 and get the experience of evening show director.
Then it will be announced that Han Zhou will be the director of the new year's Spring Festival Gala.
This is what Shen Xixiong could think of, the only way to solve the problem of the Spring Festival Gala being constantly criticized.
It’s true, Han Zhou really has this ability.
However, Han Zhou really didn't want to do this.
According to Han Zhou's three-step strategy, this year and next year, in two years, he will dominate the market and defeat other film and television companies.
And during this period, we must maintain the popularity of ACE9 and the future new entertainment trio and HNT.
Lu Jin also needs to complete his transformation from a Korean idol to a first-line star.
We also need to help Li Xinqi make a comeback.
I also helped An Lan release her second album so that she could raise enough songs for her concert.
These jobs are all S-level jobs.
It’s not about the difficulty, but that once you want to do one of these things, you will inevitably have to compete for resources with top entertainment companies.
To do so many things at once is to break a dog's brain.
Stir up the storm.
If, if Han Zhou takes over the Spring Festival Gala, will he use people from his own company next time?
If Han Zhou were to be the director of the Spring Festival Gala, he would have to use his own people, and he would have to include all those who could be on the show.
Han Zhou himself felt that if he handled the matter this way, there would definitely be big pitfalls.
If you are not careful, you will be tricked.
But if they don’t use it, they can use the Spring Festival Gala as a resource to help New World pave the way in the entertainment industry.
Then another problem arises.
Han Zhou is not very interested in working directly with celebrities he doesn't know.
How do you know who he is in private?
Anyone can throw out a sacrifice, just like Li's bomb yesterday, which will explode on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month next year.
How else do you play?
Han Zhou never believes in the moral standards of his competitors.
Shen Xixiong told Han Zhou what he had thought.
It's just one thing.
Han Zhou is the only young person in the country who is qualified to lead the preparatory group.
Han Zhou also expressed his concerns.
That's just one thing.
It is easy to get beaten if you appoint people based on personal connections, but if you only promote the talented and avoid personal connections... then how can I know whether someone I don't know is virtuous or not?
Shen Xixiong looked at Han Zhou: "Han Zhou, I find that you are sometimes very smart, but sometimes very stupid."
Han Zhou: “???”
Shen Xixiong: "Han Laosi told me that you and Hong Chengxu had a falling out. You were so unscrupulous that you told Hong Chengxu that he would never be able to become the chairman of Huaying Group."
"In that case, you should have figured out who will be the chairman of Huaying Group next year, right?"
Han Zhou was stunned: "Wait a minute? This is what Uncle Han told you?"
"How did Fourth Uncle Han know?"
Shen Xixiong smiled and said, "Han Laosi doesn't hang out in the circle, but you don't think there are no people like him in the Beijing circle, do you?"
"Is there a possibility that he has more people in the Beijing circle than Hong Chengxu?"
Shen Xixiong's words gave Han Zhou a little shock.
This fucking...
Just like the joke on the Internet, in a certain gang, there are ten senior managers and nine undercover agents.
Nine people accompany one person to act out a play.
This fucking...
Well, that's awesome.
Han Zhou: "What does this have to do with my worries?"
Shen Xixiong: "Next year during the Spring Festival, your Fourth Uncle Han will finally pave a way for you. Plus, as the director of the Spring Festival Gala, your power in the entire entertainment industry will be more powerful than the official one, not the official one?"
Han Zhou nodded: "Indeed."
Although Han Zhou was calm when he said this, his heart was actually filled with the sound of gongs and firecrackers!
Han Sisheng told Shen Xixiong that before he retired, he had to pave a way for himself? ! !
This is fucking windfall!
Shen Xixiong: "After the first half of next year, Han Laosi will step down and our deputy director Tan Wulin will take over."
"By then, I will be in the TV industry, and Tan Wulin will be in the film industry."
"Who are you afraid of?"
"Who dares to settle accounts with you at that time?"
"I promise that if someone retaliates against you because you offended someone during the Spring Festival Gala, I will protect you."
Then he added: "Unless you have committed a crime and need to be tried, everything else is not a problem."
Han Zhou was surprised: "Deputy Director Tan, have you confirmed that you are going to launch it?"
Shen Xixiong nodded: "Old Tan and I have been fighting for a lifetime, from Dongshantai to the General Administration of Press and Publication, and even to the Central Bank."
"I've always been one step ahead of him."
"And yet I am a year younger than he is."
"If he doesn't go to Huaying Group this time, he will have no choice but to step down as the deputy director of CCTV."
“He had no choice.”
Han Zhou clearly saw Shen Xixiong's dissatisfaction.
It was like... Shen Xixiong first climbed to the top of the mountain, then saw a peach, and then ate too much.
As a result, when Tan Wulin went up the mountain later, Shen Xixiong told him that there were no fruits on the tree.
At this time, the sun rises in Jinshan Mountain and the clouds and fog dissipate.
In the clouds and mist, a peach tree showed its sturdy branches and leaves and huge fruits.
At this time, Shen Xixiong was already full, and there was nothing he could do but let Tan Wulin eat.
Tan Wulin, who went up the mountain later, ate the best-quality peaches.
Shen Xixiong, who went up the mountain first, only ate the second-grade peaches.
Han Zhou: "Life is really like this, winning is losing, and losing is winning."
Shen Xixiong was still pretending to smile indifferently, but when Han Zhou's words came out, Shen Xixiong couldn't hold it anymore and turned around to get something.
He gritted his teeth and said, "What Han Laosi said is right. Han Zhou is a little bastard who is really good at hurting people."
Turning around, Shen Xixiong said calmly, "Tan Wulin got all the benefits."
"This last collaboration on a large-scale evening party will put a perfect exclamation point on his television career, and it is also his hope."
"The two of us will work together to protect you, is that enough?"
Han Zhou thought: Just now he was calling me Old Tan, but now he is calling me Tan Wulin, right? I guessed it right.
but……
Enough? More than enough! Absolutely enough!
In fact, Shen Xixiong alone can completely protect Han Zhou.
The only problem is that Shen Xixiong can only really keep Han Zhou if the future chairman of Huaying Group does not take action.
If a big shot of this level opens fire, Han Zhou will be affected.
Now that Tan Wulin and Shen Xixiong have reached a consensus.
Then the third person below, what he said is just like farting.
There really is no one who can do anything to Han Zhou.
"This..." Han Zhou has already made up his mind that he must win the Spring Festival Gala.
Even if we can't shoot movies in the last two months of next year, and have to spend time examining programs every month in the first six months, it's worth it.
The stage is set, but if you don't dare to go up and perform, then all the ten years of practice backstage would be in vain, wouldn't it?
However, Han Zhou was still prepared to decline.
After all, there is an old saying that only by asking and declining three times can one demonstrate one's moral level.
Han Zhou: "This is such a great bargain, I'm still embarrassed to take advantage of it."
Shen Xixiong was puzzled.
Now that things have come to this, you still want to refuse?
What the hell?
What kind of IQ does Shen Xixiong have? He immediately knew why: "You think you are Cao Cao!"
"You still need to ask for resignation three times, right?"
"Just this once. If you refuse, I'll find someone else."
As he spoke, Shen Xixiong was about to close the contract in front of him.
Han Zhou stood up suddenly and held the contract: "Director Shen, I think this matter can be discussed, it can be discussed!!"
Shen Xixiong smiled and said, "Okay, what do you want to discuss?"
Han Zhou: "Does it include food and lodging? Hotels in Yanjing are too expensive!"
Shen Xixiong took a deep breath and wanted to complain, but he held back: "The station has two villas in Yanjing, east and west."
“The west side has a good location, good air and environment, and is a good place for retirement and recuperation.”
"The east side is closer to the airport and has newer living facilities. It is usually reserved for receiving guests and sold internally to the station's hosts."
"Do you want to go east or west?"
Han Zhou thought for a moment and said, "East."
It is very important to be close to the airport. Anyone who has been to Yanjing knows the transportation.
Han Zhou: "I have a house and a car..."
Shen Xixiong took out his keys and said, "This car is not expensive. You can drive it if you want."
"Anyway, I bought a private car, so I don't need to use the public bus."
Han Zhou laughed: "Oh, how can this be so embarrassing."
As he spoke, he put the keys in his pocket.
Shen Xixiong blew his beard and glared: "Little bastard, can you at least wait until next time you come before driving away? Don't I have to go home today?"
Han Zhou withdrew his hand and smiled awkwardly: "Of course I should."
However, after taking this job, Han Zhou smiled bitterly in his heart.
I need to adjust my own film strategy.
The filming of "Drawing Sword" is about to start, which will take at least three months, and I have agreed to play an important supporting role, which will take at least one and a half months.
If I want to have some party experience, it seems like the ones to be held will be either the Dragon Boat Festival or the Children's Day.
In the second half of the year, I had to take time out every month to contact various programs. After October, there were many rehearsals and I had to stay at CCTV for a long time.
If you calculate it this way.
I have a maximum of five months this year to shoot movies and produce shows.
In five months, even if you work very quickly, you can only make two movies at most, and they cannot be blockbusters.
However, for the sake of resources, we have to fight.
Over the past year, Fourth Uncle Han casually slipped some stuff from between his fingernails to Han Zhou, and the new world expanded into what it is today.
If he gets the position of chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, next year will be the year of New World's overall take-off.
The choice is between awards + box office, and New World Second Stage Takeoff + overall revenue.
Han Zhou chose the latter.
After all, it is impossible for Han Zhou to make New World a top entertainment company in the country by himself.
There must be a huge, rigorous and dynamic structure to provide logistical support.
Shen Xixiong: "Let's finish talking about business. Now I want to tell you something personal."
Han Zhou was very happy at this time: "I will do my best to achieve it!"
Shen Xixiong: "Tan Wulin has a daughter."
Han Zhou nodded: "Yeah."
Shen Xixiong: "When I was at Dongshan TV Station, his daughter had just graduated. I was also a director at that time, and then his daughter learned from me and became a director."
Han Zhou retreated tactically.
So, this pair of old enemies, Tan Wulin’s daughter actually calls Shen Xixiong Master?
Where is Boruto?
Shen Xixiong continued: "There is also Han Laosi's daughter. She was a musician many years ago, but it became difficult to make a living, so she became a screenwriter."
Han Zhou nodded: "Yeah, what's the matter?"
Shen Xixiong: "They collaborated on a movie."
Han Zhou was puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Shen Xixiong thought about how to say this.
Shen Xixiong thought about it carefully and said, "Let me put it this way. As a director, I am just a third-rate director, far inferior to Han Laosi."
Han Zhou nodded: "Yeah, I understand."
Then he felt something was wrong and shook his head again: "You are too modest!"
Shen Xixiong glanced at Han Zhou and said, "The cooperation between Tan Ailin and Han Jiaxin on this film poses no threat to my position in the film industry."
Han Zhou understood.
For someone of Shen Xixiong's level, if he says that he is a bad director, then he really is bad, extremely bad.
Tan Aileen's film does not pose any threat to Shen Xixiong's position as a director.
Then it can be classified as a top-notch bad movie.
Shen Xixiong: "But this movie will bring me discredit in the education community."
As the director of CCTV, he has served as the director of Dongshan TV Station and the head of the General Administration of Press and Publication.
Shen Xixiong also has many students all over the world, and he is the same as Han Sisheng in the film industry.
If Shen Xixiong said so, then this movie... is probably extremely bad, probably even worse than "Tiny Times".
After all, the money from fans of shows like "Tiny Times" is enough.
At least it's a little better than something like "The Fortress of Devil City" which is so disgusting.
Han Zhou probed: "So, what do you want me to do?"
Shen Xixiong laughed awkwardly: "If you have time, take a look at the footage they shot, and then... fill in the gaps, bring out the actors and shoot some more scenes, at least make this movie worth watching."
"It will probably take about a month."
Han Zhou's thoughts were not here at the moment, but he remembered something strange.
Why did Shen Xixiong appear in the parking lot of Huaying Group today?
Could it be that he went to see Han Sisheng just for this matter?
Of course Han Sisheng was embarrassed to find someone to take over his daughter's unfinished building, but Shen Xixiong arrived and asked Han Sisheng for help in the name of Tan Ailein's master.
Of course Han Sisheng took advantage of the situation and pushed Han Zhou out.
Han Zhou thought about it again.
That’s not right. If I hadn’t hit that car, would Shen Xixiong have gotten out and seen me?
Han Zhou suddenly asked, "Could the car have deliberately stopped at the bottom of the gentle slope today, waiting for An Lan's car to slide over?"
Facing Han Zhou's erratic thinking, Shen Xixiong was caught off guard and failed to defend himself.
"Uh-huh???"
Han Zhou couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
These old foxes are indeed one step ahead.
How could they come up with such a lousy trick to scam people? Is this a routine that a decent person could arrange?
Isn't it said that people of this level are all deep-minded and have sophisticated means? How could it be such a lousy trick? !
It’s hard to guard against!!!
This was obviously Han Sisheng's idea...
After all, Shen Xixiong looks like an old cadre.
Han Zhou took a deep breath.
When this matter came to Han Zhou, he really couldn't refuse.
Shen Xixiong mentioned the benefits of being a Spring Festival Gala director and then brought up this matter.
Moreover, by doing this, Han Zhou could gain a favor from Shen Xixiong. In addition, there was also a hidden favor from Tan Wulin.
In addition, there is also an opportunity to repay Han Sisheng a favor.
It was almost impossible to say no.
If he refuses and this matter gets out, who will be friends with Han Zhou in the future?
Everyone knows that Han Sisheng is your fourth uncle, Han Zhou. But when your elder sister is in trouble, you become the one who takes advantage of her?
Han Zhou forced a smile: "Let me take a look at the materials first."
Okay, there is work to do.
Han Zhou was taken to Liu Jianxi's courtyard by the CCTV driver.
There are few people everywhere in Yanjing during the New Year, but there are many people in the alleys.
However, Liu Jianxi's yard is too big and there is not much noise.
An Lan originally wanted to go to see The Center of the Earth with Han Zhou, but Han Zhou said he wanted to watch a movie, so An Lan accompanied Han Zhou to watch "The Fragrance of Green Grass".
After watching a third of it, An Lan felt physically uncomfortable: "I... go to the toilet. "
Han Zhou was in great pain seeing that An Lan was about to pee and was unwilling to share the joys and sorrows with him.
Instead, Liu Jianxi came over and watched the second half.
After reading it, Han Zhou closed his eyes and thought.
Liu Jianxi: "This movie is pretty good. Which new college student shot it? It's pretty good. It looks like a movie that cost three million yuan."
"I heard that you sent 20 people to Hollywood to study last year. Are you planning to select new people to continue this year?"
Han Zhou: "The director of this movie is almost 38 years old."
Liu Jianxi's admiration turned into astonishment, and then into confusion.
What idiot invested in this movie?
This movie can't even be released in theaters, it's a waste of plastic even if it's printed on discs!
Han Zhou thought about it and felt that the movie was very strange.
The strange thing is that every little plot is actually pretty good.
But put together, it relies on the defense.
How should I put it, shit-tasting dark chocolate sprinkled with sweet milk chocolate chips.
It is obvious that Han Sisheng's daughter, Han Jiaxin, is very good at writing short stories, but the main plot of the whole movie is vague and unclear, with some parts here and there.
If he was not a screenwriter but a planner, he would be a top talent.
How could she be a screenwriter? Didn't Fourth Uncle Han arrange a career for his daughter?
Let's talk about the one shot by Tan Ailin...
The sense of camera is good, and the short story written in the script is also well-written.
The plot continuity...
It’s just... the first time Han Zhou saw a prose-style movie.
To put it simply, I have absolutely no idea what the movie is about.
It's like a diary with half of the secrets written in a blur. Only the person who wrote it knows the conditions under which it was not written, and can know what he wrote.
Too stream-of-consciousness.
Moreover, the theme of this movie is university, but it is a university that happened decades ago.
I guess they wanted to create a rural feel to the film, but the protagonist doesn’t give people the feeling of a country handsome guy, but rather a greasy one.
The heroine is just a little city princess, without any brains.
The whole story together is like a diary.
It records a story about two people who fell in love, broke up, went their separate ways, and then met again 20 years later and continued their relationship.
This... looks familiar?!
Han Zhou opened the material library.
I looked at them one by one.
Han Zhou's brain was working at high speed at this moment, quickly extracting scenes from previous life movies that were similar to the one he was watching.
Soon, Han Zhou discovered that there was a movie that was becoming more and more similar to these movie materials.
The numbering is weird though.
For example, the footage that was originally supposed to be selected between the 10th and 20th minutes has to be moved to the 50th to 60th minutes so that it can be inserted.
In a coherent plot, the shots of the same piece of clothing can be split up and put in the fifth minute, the eighteenth minute, and the thirty-seventh minute, which can just form the shots that make up three new short stories.
Han Zhou deeply understood what the memory of an era was.
In this era, campus youth themes are all about these trivial things.
How could it not be suitable?!
The more material he looks at, the more complete the automatic matching in Han Zhou's mind becomes.
There are even extra themes that can modify the original plot!
After all, the film has thirty hours of material.
Although twenty hours of footage are repeated, each shot is different because of the different performances and the actors' emotions, so they can be used as shots to express different emotions.
Han Zhou listened to "Jiliguala" and watched the material at four times the speed.
By twelve o'clock in the evening, I had completed about 95% of the movie in my mind.
That's enough.
The remaining 5% is not a big deal, after all, many movies themselves lack a lot of things to connect the story lines.
Use other shots to fill in the gaps and the story will flow more smoothly.
Han Zhou took action.
Start editing.
The next day, Han Zhou was still editing at An Lan's house.
Instead, An Lan ran to Tianle.
On Tianle's side, the attack on "Moye Sword" has reached its peak, and a large number of people are madly criticizing "Moye Sword".
Netizens all felt that "Kung Fu" had been wronged, so they were spontaneously promoting "Kung Fu" while criticizing "Sword of Moye".
As a result, "Kung Fu" still maintained a stable box office of 100 million yuan on the fifth day of the Spring Festival when people were almost returning home.
Everyone knows that after returning to their hometown, many people don’t have time to watch movies.
With such a strong online promotion, "Kung Fu" is sure to be a hit during the first working week's weekend.
If it does explode, it might continue into the second workweek weekend.
In this case, the estimated box office will exceed 1.9 billion! Impacting the highest box office of Chinese domestic films!!!
Since the experts said so, An Lan was still very concerned about this, so she went to help Han Zhou check the work.
It was called inspection work, but in fact, Lu Xiaosheng and his team were so busy that their scalps were numb, while An Lan and Wang Xiya were studying this year's spring fashion...
Late at night on the sixth day of the Spring Festival, Han Zhou finally finished editing the movie.
I changed the name of the movie and wrote some music, two songs.
Shen Xixiong was sleeping in the middle of the night.
The phone call woke him up.
When Shen Xixiong saw that it was Han Zhou, he asked in a daze: "Han Zhou, what are you doing in the middle of the night?"
Han Zhou: "Is Director Shen sleeping?"
"Um."
Han Zhou shouted: "I haven't slept yet!!!"
Shen Xixiong woke up immediately and thought that Han Zhou's condition was considered an illness. He had always heard that Han Zhou often had illnesses, but had never seen it himself. He had felt uncomfortable until one of his shoes touched the ground, but now he felt relieved.
Han Zhou: "The movie is done."
Shen Xixiong: "What movie is ready?"
Han Zhou: "The one with Tan Ailin and Han Jiaxin."
Shen Xixiong: “!!!”
"???"
“…”
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