Entertainment 1998

Chapter 121 120, waste utilization?
Zhang Yimou is coming to the Film Academy again, and he will focus on visiting the 96 undergraduate class of the Department of Acting!
The students in the class were shocked when they heard the news.

Damn...

What happened?
Is director Zhang Yimou so productive? He just finished shooting two movies last year, one is "Not One Less" and the other is "My Father and Mother". Is he going to the Film Academy to select actors now?

Therefore, everyone went to find their homeroom teacher, Ms. Cui Xinqin, and strongly requested that the submission of the final assignments be done collectively tomorrow afternoon. Isn't it just 20 minutes of performance time for each work?
It can definitely be done in one afternoon!

As for the post-performance comments and review, we can do it the day after tomorrow.

Cui Xinqin naturally nodded in agreement to everyone's request. After all, she also wanted to give her students more opportunities to appear in front of famous directors.

So, after lunch, the students of the 96 undergraduate class of the Department of Performance began to rehearse.

If there is not enough space in the classroom, go to the corridor. If there is not enough space in the corridor, go to the rehearsal room or even the lecture hall.

Although Guo Xiaodong and Liu Mu were performing last year's work and had rehearsed it countless times, today they decided to familiarize themselves with it and see if they could add some plots that would fully showcase their acting skills.

It was too late. They couldn't find a rehearsal space in the teaching building, so they had no choice but to rehearse in dormitory 413.

But just as Guo Xiaodong and Liu Mu were rehearsing and entering the plot, there was a knock on the dormitory door.

"Dangdangdang..."

"Uh..., Teacher Cui."

Guo Xiaodong is an honest child.

When he opened the door and saw Cui Xinqin, he was a little surprised, but then he said, "Teacher Cui, it seems that Jiang Feng and Xu Jinglei have gone to the Beijing Film Academy area. They are followed by two senior brothers from the 95 photography department. The two senior brothers are carrying cameras and seem to be filming something."

"Well... Jiang Feng is preparing for his final assignment. I know about this, but I came to see you today because I have something to ask you."

Liu Mu is very perceptive.

Seeing the head teacher say this, she immediately covered her stomach and said, "Teacher Cui, you guys talk first. I'm going to the bathroom. My stomach hurts a little."

After saying this, without caring whether Teacher Cui Xinqin agreed or not, he opened the door and ran towards the bathroom next to the stairs.

After looking at Liu Mu's back, Cui Xinqin immediately turned to look at Guo Xiaodong.

"Guo Xiaodong, tell me in detail, what happened during the filming of "My Father and Mother"?

Well, let's put it this way, what happened during the filming that made Director Zhang Yimou interested in Jiang Feng and insisted on coming to the Film Academy to find him as soon as the filming was finished? "

"Oh…"

Guo Xiaodong felt as if he had suddenly realized something.

I thought, it’s almost the New Year.

Director Zhang Yimou, who had just finished filming "My Father and Mother", didn't take a good rest and insisted on coming to the Film Academy in this heavy snow...

It turns out he was here to find Jiang Feng!

"Um…"

Guo Xiaodong thought for a moment and then quickly started talking.

"Teacher Cui, this story has to start from when I went to experience life in Bashang. When I first experienced life in Donggou Village, Fengning County, the heroine Zhang Ziyi didn't know how to make a fire to cook, nor did she know how to fetch water to wash clothes. Regarding these things, she really wanted me, who was born in the countryside, to help her.

But I remembered what Jiang Feng said to me before I left. He said, Brother Xiaodong, you can experience life, but you must protect your face, because when teachers from the city go to the countryside to teach, they must keep their faces clean and their skin delicate at the beginning.

The most important thing is the hands. The hands should not look weathered, and certainly not have the dryness and cracking feeling from doing farm work frequently. You have to wait until the actual filming of the movie, and then do farm work with your hands, and let your hands and face become weathered step by step.

So I didn't help her.

Zhang Ziyi reported me to director Zhang Yimou, who asked me why. So I told him Jiang Feng's analysis. Also, before leaving, Jiang Feng told me to bring some candy with me, and to spend more time with the local children in Bashang, talk about what the children like, and have more fun together. When the official performance begins, even in front of the camera, there will be no sense of alienation between you and the children..."

……

Coming out of the boys' dormitory, Cui Xinqin knew why Zhang Yimou came, because of curiosity.

Yes, it’s because of curiosity!

A boy who has not even graduated from school, not only calculated what Zhao Di looks like in his mind, but also wholesaled more than a dozen of them; as for what Teacher Luo looks like in his mind, he hasn’t even started to say it yet, but this boy has explained all these performance details to the male lead in a comprehensive manner...

Hehe..., if I were Zhang Yimou, I would also be very curious, how could you think of what I am thinking?
Is this the collision of art?

Smiling and shaking his head, Cui Xinqin walked towards the teaching building. Zhang Yimou would be here tomorrow, and the students in the class were preparing their final works. As an acting teacher, he would have to go over and give some pointers, at least not let the students embarrass themselves in front of the famous director.

However, when Cui Xinqin walked to the entrance of the teaching building, he saw a man running out of the building in a hurry.

"Teacher Cui, I was just about to look for you. The phone call seemed to be from the United States."

Long distance travel in the United States...

Cui Xinqin thought for a moment. The St. Denis Film Festival delegation from the Beijing Film Studio left yesterday afternoon. It has been 24 hours since then. They should have arrived in Park City, Utah a long time ago...

Could it be Han Shanye calling?

Thinking this in his mind, Cui Xinqin took two steps at a time and ran towards the office.

In the office, the telephone receiver was placed on his desk. Cui Xinqin ran over and put the receiver to his ear before he even caught his breath.

"Hey, is it Xiao Han?"

"Haha..., it's me, Teacher Cui."

Han Shanye on the phone was obviously very happy, even his laughter was very hearty.

"Teacher Cui, I am calling you on this international call for two purposes:
First, since this is the first time that our Chinese films have participated in the St. Denis Film Festival, we received a grand reception here. The organizing committee of the film festival not only invited us to dinner, but also organized a film screening for us before the opening of the film festival.

At the film screening, there were 7 film distribution companies from 26 countries. After our movie "Moon" was screened, these people were stunned, you know?

They didn't expect that science fiction movies could be played like this.

One person, one lunar module, and a very long-winded performance.

On the spot, Mr. Cui, I mean on the spot, 15 film companies made offers for our film. Among them, Lionsgate, which was just established in 97, made the highest offer. They were willing to bid 170 million US dollars to buy out the distribution rights of "Moon" in the North American film market.

On the European side, the most sincere ones were the London Film Distribution Company and the Gaumont Film Distribution Company of France. The London Distribution Company of the UK offered 75 pounds, and the Gaumont Film Distribution Company of France offered 240 million francs. Although their bids were low, what they wanted was the distribution rights of "Moon" in their countries.

Mr. Cui, let’s discuss this here. If we sell the distribution rights of this film now, our minimum income will be more than 320 million US dollars…”

Cui Xinqin could tell that Han Shanye was really happy. The first project he invested in, Qiankun Duduan, had a net income of more than 1 million US dollars, even though no one was optimistic about it. This made him feel excited.

It also laid a solid foundation for him to get a good position in the soon-to-be-established China Film Group.

So, Cui Xinqin listened carefully and never interrupted Han Shanye.

Only when Han Shanye was tired of talking did Cui Xinqin smile and say, "Xiao Han, then...what is the second purpose of your call?"

"Teacher Cui, the 'Moon Base' used in the filming of 'Moon' is still in the warehouse of the Beijing Film Studio, and I didn't let anyone move it.

I just want you to ask Jiang Feng to see if we can make use of the waste and film the "Oxygen Crisis" that he talked about at the beginning?

Um..., Mr. Cui, tell him that this time, just like last time, I will definitely not interfere with his freedom to shoot."

(End of this chapter)