New Age Artists

Chapter 536: Trillion-dollar market! The Lord of Time! The Archmage!
It is common sense that Internet companies have high market capitalizations. The reporter was stunned again and said, "It's determined by the market."

Shen Santong didn't talk much about the Internet, as this was not his path.

Focusing on movies, he has a big plan in mind.

Human energy is limited, and it is not advisable to try to develop everything.

Shen Santong explained his own words: "In my opinion, the future market of movies is unlimited."

“In 79, the number of moviegoers reached 293 billion, which is equivalent to million people entering the cinema every day.”

"In my opinion, the nearly 30 billion moviegoers are not the upper limit."

"In the mature US market, the average person watches movies four to five times a year. Considering that the US is a capitalist society and a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual country, there is no large market with a unified culture."

"Hollywood movies are just popcorn movies. They are impossible to truly touch the interest groups. They only sell superficial happiness."

"The nature of our society is different from that of the United States. The movies we produce can resonate more with people, and it is not a problem to increase the number of moviegoers five or six times."

"After the financial crisis, the leadership acted steadily and decisively. Next, first- and second-tier cities, then third- and fourth-tier cities, and towns will also develop and have cinemas."

"We can give a very reasonable forecast, a very conservative estimate."

"The future population will still be 13 billion, times per person, billion people, or to be conservative, only billion."

"A movie ticket costs thirty yuan, and the movie market is worth six hundred billion yuan."

"Santong Entertainment doesn't need much, less than 20% of the market share, and it will take one sixth of the billion market, billion."

"Take Disney and Universal as an example, and all kinds of peripheral products. The hundreds of billions of moviegoers, the drinks and popcorn that were derived from them, the customer traffic that was brought to the shopping malls, and the series of consumption that was generated are even more exaggerated figures."

"Conservatively speaking, if we multiply the revenue of the entire industry chain by ten, it will be no problem for the leading film companies to generate a trillion yuan in revenue."

Shen Santong talked endlessly about the future.

The reporter was stunned.

Shen Santong is either a genius or a madman!

The reporter asked: "Is this your business logic?"

Shen Santong said: "It was a commercial secret before, I didn't tell anyone but it was revealed today for the first time."

Reporter: "Have you ever thought that the grand occasion back then was because people were too depressed to watch movies? In the future, with more and more entertainment options, it is impossible for so many people to watch movies again."

Shen Santong: "My judgment is based on facts. I can't say more because it involves commercial secrets. I am very confident about the future."

The reason why movies in later generations are not popular is not because of the film form, but because of the practitioners.

Movies are irreplaceable and have their own unique ecological niche.

Shen Santong did not reveal the deep logic behind his judgment even at the executive meeting. It is a real business secret.

The reporter was curious, but Shen Santong didn't say anything, and it was difficult to ask: "You are not entangled or twisted, rational and calm, seemingly arrogant but self-consistent, you don't seem to care about the division between art and business?"

Shen Santong: “Art and business are conceptual settings, or binary opposition settings.”

"Movies are expensive, especially theatrical movies. Nowadays, digital filming has reduced the cost of filming, but publicity and distribution still require a lot of costs."

“As an expensive thing, it’s about investment and return first.”

Reporter: “Isn’t art important?”

Shen Santong: "People need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and then they have the energy to engage in culture. Food is grown in the fields, and goods are produced in factories. This is basic common sense."

"Without income and output, where does the money for making movies come from? There must be a source."

"For example, if someone is polite and talkative all day long and has endless money, this person is not without a job. Someone must be paying him to talk big. If the money is not inside, then it must be outside."

"Films are more expensive, and some of our directors get money from outside, so they serve the outside world and have nothing to do with art."

"Of course, I'm talking about a broader perspective, if you're just talking about the director."

“In my opinion, instead of making an ugly, brutal, dark movie, it’s better to make a warm, normal, and beautiful genre movie.”

“It’s meaningless and boring to oppose literature and art, or art and reality.”

"You start with subconscious criticism and deconstruction, but after a while you won't be able to construct anything. It's boring to talk about this. This is just some of the stuff that's going on out there."

This topic is also very sharp, so the reporter changed the subject: "You are controversial, do you care about the controversy?"

Shen Santong: "I must make it clear that I am just an ordinary director, a businessman at most."

"I only represent myself. In addition, I also represent the company where I am the legal representative, Santong Entertainment."

"I don't represent the others, so they can't be simply lumped together."

"We are now an industrial society, a society with a high degree of division of labor."

"I work in the film industry, and if I grow up a little bit, I'll work in the cultural industry, that's all."

The reporter wanted Shen Santong to respond to the controversy with the United States and South Korea.

Shen Santong also responded.

Anyway, it's done, and it looks like it won't change.

Reporter: "I can feel that you have a complete blueprint in your mind. Your movies are so amazing that you have developed naked-eye 3D technology and 3D movies, which are one step ahead of the United States."

"Can you tell me about your future plans?"

Shen Santong thought for a moment and said, "I want to become a great wizard."

The reporter was stunned again, hesitant, and glanced at the director who was not far away: "What are you, what is your faith?"

Shen Santong: "I have!"

The reporter became nervous. After all, something bad happened at the beginning of the month. "Think about it before you speak. Some words will still have an impact on you even if we edit them out."

Shen Santong: "I am an atheist, a believer in history."

Reporter: “Is history also a belief?”

Shen Santong: "Who defines faith, and who stipulates that faith can only be religion?"

The reporter found that Shen Santong's thinking was truly avant-garde and extremely sharp: "What is the meaning of being a great wizard?"

Shen Santong explained: "To be precise, I want to be the master of time! Traveling through the past, present, and future, swimming in history, strolling in the long river of time, transcending the dimensions of time and space."

The reporter's expression was out of control.

Big brother, no, we are a flower company, can you please not do this?
Fortunately, I did a lot of homework before coming here, so I didn’t let the words fall on the table: “You wrote a fantasy novel, “Emperor Qianyuan”, in which he ruled the world arbitrarily, turned his back on the common people, broke the cycle of reincarnation, and reached the other side, but we are not a novel.”

Shen Santong raised a finger: "This is my movie, telling the past, present and future."

"For me, movies are the past, the present, and the future."

“The ‘Lost on Journey’ series is the beginning of the ‘Country’ series.”

"After the Olympics, the public is very curious about foreign countries. I want to show this from a more objective perspective and in a comedic way."

"In the historical series, I did Red Cliff. This was an accident. Mr. Han approached me, so I did it."

"Then there was Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, and then there was Li Shimin, which opened the emperor series."

“Using an iconic approach, it brings together the highlights of historical figures.”

“Emperors and generals have a bit of a heroic view of history, but we should first solve the question of whether or not there is one and present the history.”

"The film market is still in its initial extensive stage and needs heavy-tasting and explosive material. In a few years, we can try something a little fresh."

The reporter found that Shen Santong's thoughts seemed to be jumping, and they were indeed jumping.

But there is also a very powerful logic.

The reporter asked: "Little fresh?"

Shen Santong explained: "Small and beautiful stories are relatively soothing and not very emotional, like listening to the rain behind a pearl curtain or green grass."

"I call these the 'Historical Images' series."

"'Inception', which will be released next year, is the beginning of the Beyonder Universe series, and it will provide some basic concepts."

"There is also a mythology series. I chose The Monkey King as the opening chapter. I am still working on the animated film."

"After ten years of hard work, the sword will be unveiled to the public on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 13."

“History is disenchanted myth, and myth is literary history.”

"History and mythology, I call it the antipodal point, the antipodal point."

The reporter introduced: "The antipodal point is the point on the Earth where you start from a certain point on the Earth towards the center of the Earth and the other end you reach after passing through the center of the Earth. This is the antipodal point of that point."

"According to what you said, history and mythology correspond to each other."

Shen Santong continued: "Country, history, mythology, to be precise, foreign history, ancient Chinese history, and prehistoric Chinese history." "In addition, there is also the 'Images of Industrialization' series, which is the history of New China."

"Major projects such as spaceflight and moon landing can be called the 'Starry Sea Series', while various projects such as the construction of the Three Gorges Dam and high-speed railways can be called the 'Down to Earth Series'."

"We suffered a big loss in the soybean war, and we can make it into a 'commercial series'."

"Third-line construction is also a good subject. When I was shooting Inception, I was shooting at a construction site and felt a strong force."

"It's the science fiction series that depicts the future and unleashes imagination. There's no rush for science fiction. I plan to do a good job of the past and present first, and then the future."

“Mythology is literary history, history is realistic myth, and science fiction is the history of the future.”

“Mythology, history, and science fiction are a trinity.”

The reporter exclaimed: "You have a grand plan and an extraordinary cognition."

It's really amazing.

Shen Santong stretched out his palm and looked at his hand: "If you feel it carefully, you can feel a powerful force that runs through the past, present and future."

"It's vague, but it follows you like a shadow."

The reporter felt that Shen Santong was talking nonsense and had a crazy temperament: "Can you tell me more about it?"

Shen Santong: "My belief is a belief in history. In my opinion, we have a civilization treasure called 'the long river of history'."

"Every descendant of Chinese civilization swims freely in the long river of history, gains enlightenment and inheritance, and acquires wisdom and glory from it. When history chooses us, we also become history, becoming the nourishment of the long river of history and nourishing future generations."

"Since ancient times, everyone has to die. Let us leave behind our loyalty to shine in history. All our glory will eventually be reflected in history."

"From family trees to local chronicles and then to official history, it has become a 'long river of history', roaring across time and space, resonating with every Chinese citizen."

“It is an imagined community, but it also exists in reality.”

Shen Santong said excitedly: "At the end of 75, bamboo slips from the Qin Dynasty to the late Warring States Period were unearthed in the Qin Tomb at Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, HUB Province. There are more than 4 bamboo slips with more than characters."

"The tomb owner, 'Xi', had served successively as a clerk, a prison historian, and an imperial censor. He had also served in the army three times, participated in many battles, and finally died in office. He did not choose any other valuable burial objects, only his 'work notes' were buried with him. The area under his head, on the right side, on his abdomen, and on his feet was filled with bamboo slips."

"These bamboo slips reflect the transition from seal script to official script, and contain legal systems, administrative documents, medical works, and divination books on auspicious and inauspicious days during the Qin Dynasty."

"In 02, more than Liye Qin bamboo slips were discovered in Liye Town, Longshan County, HUN Province. The bamboo slips contain partial copies of Qin laws, as well as explanations of Qin laws in the form of questions and answers, which is equivalent to the legal questions and answers of the Qin Dynasty."

"The Fengzhenshi is about the principles of trial and the rules and procedures for investigating, inspecting, interrogating and sealing cases. In addition, there are chronological tables of major events in the country and the tomb owner's family from the first year of King Zhao of Qin to the 30th year of Emperor Qin Shihuang, copies of aphorisms and dictionaries, and two superstitious daily books that talk about time and taboos."

"Do you know what this means?"

Reporter: “What does it mean?”

Shen Santong: "A system, a huge system. The county system is not a setting, not just a simple system, but also a set of supporting measures."

Reporter: "You mentioned the setting several times. Can you tell us more about it?"

Shen Santong: "For example, the division between movies, art and commerce is the setting. Scar literature is also a setting."

“The concept of domain cognition is binary, contradictory, and torn. It does not start from real matter. There is no beautiful curve, nor a sense of the unexpected and reasonable.”

"It's very abrupt, and seems to exist alone and independently. That's the setting."

Shen Santong continued: "Our ancient history is the best example. It is not false history at first glance. We can compare and verify each other."

"Between 59 and 75, archaeologists unearthed a large number of documents in Turpan, dating from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty, written in a variety of languages."

"Among them, in the fourth year of Tang Jinglong, now in Houfengli, Ningchang Township, Gaochang County, Turpan, 12-year-old primary school student Bu Tianshou finally finished his homework."

"On a scroll more than 5 meters long, he copied several chapters of two books, The Analects of Confucius and Zheng Xuan's Commentary, and Thousand Characters, an ancient children's literacy book, in his childish handwriting. Perhaps because Bu Tianshou was too young at the time, there were many typos in the copy."

"Interestingly, after copying the homework assigned by the teacher, he also wrote two doggerel poems full of childishness."

"One of them complained about the teacher's delay in class: I have finished writing today, but the teacher is not here. Tomorrow is a holiday, so let the students go home early."

"Another poem about making excuses for the wrong writing posture: He says it is easy to write sideways, I say it is difficult. To write sideways is to read sideways, and you also need to look sideways."

"You see, this is not much different from when we were in school. We can even recognize many words."

"Feel it carefully. After hundreds or thousands of years, we can still understand our ancestors."

"This is the long river of history! The power of our civilization transcends time and space."

“It is precisely because of this that we have been able to survive through thousands of years of wind and rain, to emerge from the depths of decline and to rise from the ruins.”

"A hundred years ago, China was divided up by the great powers. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it directly defeated the industrial countries as an agricultural country."

The reporter reminded: "Draw, ceasefire."

Shen Santong: "We won strategically. We were able to do this not by relying on human wave tactics, but by having material support."

"We were just an agricultural country back then. It was through a strong system that we doubled our efficiency and made up for the industrial gap."

"Let me give you a simple example. We are fighting coldly, eating cold fried noodles. Dozens of teams are dispersed and shuttled, and then at the scheduled time, they can reach the preset battlefield."

"Most troops in the world cannot do this alone. Even with advanced communications today, many still cannot do this. But we were able to do it back then."

"The soldiers who are interspersed dozens or even hundreds of miles away have a sense of space and the ability to sense each other. They know and believe that others will arrive."

"This is partly due to the superiority of our system, but it is definitely not just that. There is also the power that comes from the accumulation of history."

"We have emerged from the darkness of modern history, where the West has invaded so many countries, and only we have built such a strong country and have been able to forge our own path. There are definitely historical reasons for this."

"The long river of history is not just the past. Take the Peninsula War for example. We have injected new strength into our long river of history. Fresh strength, surging strength, and powerful strength."

"For example, six years ago, Xiaotangshan Hospital created one miracle after another and built the world's largest infectious disease hospital in seven days and seven nights."

"At peak times, the total number of construction workers on site was close to 1.5."

“This is a huge system, a social project that requires a strong organization and a shared vision among the people involved.”

"We succeeded. We successfully fought the epidemic, and our historical heritage has become even richer!"

"The achievements before the reform and opening up, and before that, the dark decline of modern history, and before that, before that, including the work that we like to do."

"During the Qin Dynasty, there were complete laws, a system that matched the county system, and a mailing system. If you sent clothes at home, you could receive them on the battlefield."

"This was two thousand years ago. How beautiful and incredible this social system was!"

"The most important thing is that it has never been cut off. We can recognize the characters from the Tang Dynasty."

"We have been perfecting our systems, dynasty after dynasty, like a relay, and we continue to move forward!"

“History has not gone far. It hangs high in the vast sea of ​​stars, rushing through time and space, becoming a magical element, blending into our flesh and blood.”

"When I started the Red Cliff project, I said that looking at the fingerprints left on the Terracotta Warriors' mouths, it felt as if the craftsman who lived more than 2,000 years ago had just walked by."

Shen Santong stretched out his five fingers again: "As a nation with a history, we should touch the places where our ancestors touched and feel the breath they left behind, just like we are making a seal with our five fingers across a glass."

“We not only have a history, but also a present and a future.”

"I want to gallop through the long river of history. Who preached it in the beginning of ancient times? From mythology, to history, and then to modern times."

"From the future, back to the present, and back to the past."

"Draw a picture, depict our history as long as possible."

“Our long history is similar to the existence of the fourth dimension. As a three-dimensional creature, I try to record it with two-dimensional movies.”

"If I can do this, I will have a place in history."

The reporter was amazed that Shen Santong was not making movies, but a magical existence.

To be honest, the reporters who heard it were all excited.

Shen Santong is too inflammatory.

He has great ambitions and wants to go down in history.

We also need to use movies to record the history of other countries.

Many years later, perhaps people in a certain country will learn about their country’s past through Shen Santong’s films.

Reporter: "Let's get back to the movie and your company. Can you briefly explain what Santong Entertainment is going to do in a way that is easy for everyone to understand, um, not so fantasy or science fiction?"

Shen Santong: "People must first satisfy their necessities of life before they can pursue art. Eating, drinking, defecating and urinating are the first, and art is the second."

"This is what makes it 'real', not a setting."

“Santong Entertainment draws nourishment from the past, present, and future, obtains nutrients from life and reality, produces high-quality cultural products, gains public recognition, and obtains profits to invest in cultural reproduction.”

"If one day, Santong Entertainment only pursues the second place, the more empty things, and is unable to extricate itself from the division, quarrels, darkness, and revelations, then we are finished."

“If one day, the movies we shoot are not what our subjects want to watch, it means that Santong Entertainment is doomed.”

"I promise that Santong Entertainment would rather go bankrupt than deteriorate!"

(End of this chapter)