Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 164 Let’s go back to the room
Hou Keming, as the vice president of Beijing Film Academy and director of Qingdao Film Studio, was promoted from the directing department. So to a certain extent, he does not think much of the Golden Globe Awards, thinking that it is an award with more hype than practical significance.

The United States has many film awards, but there is not a single international A-level film festival. To be honest, there is nothing that Hou Keming looks up to. Only the Oscars can barely be considered.

However, looking down on something and taking it seriously are two different things.

Being selected for an Oscar proves that you have the ability to gain a foothold in Hollywood and can be accepted to a certain extent by the world's largest film market.

Just like Li An, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" received a historic ten Oscar nominations. When the awards were finally presented, even though it did not win major awards such as Best Picture, Best Director or Best Actor or Actress, it had already become a hot topic in Hollywood.

After "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was released on a large scale in North America, it earned 1.28 million US dollars at the box office. Since then, Li An has become an A-level director in Hollywood.

He is already qualified to access resources above A level.

This is indeed the case. Then Universal Pictures invested 1.5 million US dollars to create "The Incredible Hulk" and asked Lee An to direct it.

Although this movie, which was released in North America in June 03, only made a little over 6 million in North America, it immediately devastated Li An and he had to return to art films.

But no matter what, if he didn't have ten Oscar nominations, he would never have had the opportunity to receive Hollywood's top A-level resources.

Therefore, after Cao Yang received five Golden Globe nominations, Hou Keming had been secretly hoping that Cao Yang would also get several Oscar nominations.

Until yesterday when Cao Yang won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay, and Depp also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor, Hou Keming could no longer suppress the impulse and hope in his heart.

Is it possible for Beijing Film Academy to produce a Hollywood A-level director?
The attitude of these people in the domestic circle towards Hollywood is a mixture of contempt and yearning in their hearts.

On the surface, it is an artistic desert, filled with the disgusting smell of money.

But if there is a chance to develop in Hollywood, well, that would be great.

Even if I can't break into Hollywood and be recognized by Hollywood, as long as the relevant stakeholders can be recognized, that's... not bad!
Cao Yang has vested interests with a large group of people at Beijing Film Academy.

This benefit is not only reflected in money, but more in political achievements.

For example, Hou Keming's term at Qingying Studio should have ended in 02, but because of Cao Yang, it is already 04 and he is still serving as the director of Qingying Studio.

Moreover, Qingying Studio is now developing better and better, winning numerous awards (mainly Cao Yang's films are all under the name of Qingying Studio), and also took on the above tasks and participated in the production of the commercial blockbuster "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox".

There is also the record-breaking co-production "District 9", in which Qingying Studio also has an investment share.

This was absolutely unimaginable in the past.

What is Qingying Studio?
It is an experimental school-run factory with limited funds, and the maximum investment is three to four million yuan a year.

What now?
Hou Keming can pat his chest and proudly say that among all your state-owned film studios put together, including China Film and Shanghai Film, none of them can compete with us. The honors achieved by our Qingying Studio are far better than yours!
Look at the three major honors in recent years, almost all of them were won by our Qingying Studio!
In recent years, especially since the new century.

Do you have a Golden Lion?

Do you have a Palme d'Or?
Do you have a Berlin Grand Jury Prize?
Do you have a Cannes Best Director?

Do you have a Berlin Film Festival winner?

Do you have a Venice Film Festival winner?
Do you have a Cannes Film Festival winner?

Why do you compare with Qingying Studio?

What can you compare with Qingying Studio?

Not long ago, the higher-ups had a talk with Hou Keming and were planning to transfer him to a previously very famous state-owned film studio to be the head.

Hou Keming didn't even hesitate and almost rejected it immediately.

The reason why he didn't refuse immediately was that as a person in the system, he would definitely hesitate, think, and hesitate at this time, otherwise, how would the higher-ups look at him? People who didn't know the truth heard that Hou Keming gave up the position of the head of a large state-owned film studio, and they were a little confused and thought that this was not a promotion? Why not go?
In the system, is there anything more important than promotion of rank?

Even when Hou Keming heard the discussions, he just smiled and said nothing.

You laymen know nothing. What is level upgrade? What is that?
What’s the level? Look at my current title.

He also serves as the Secretary-General of the National Primary and Secondary School Students Film and Television Education Coordination Committee of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television;

Member of the Film Censorship Committee of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television;
President of the China Children's Film Society;

Vice President of the Chinese Taiwan and Hong Kong Film Research Association;

Vice President of the China Film Directors Association;
Director of the Chinese Film Association;
Director of China Film Foundation;
Director of Beijing Film and Television Artists Association;
……

I was at the level with parentheses last year, okay?

What about the head of a state-owned film studio that was once glorious? Is he qualified to participate in a co-production that claims to have an investment of more than 5 million yuan? Can there be a big director like Cao Yang who constantly "feeds" resources to the school?

At 9:30 in the evening, when the Oscar nominations were announced on the other side of the ocean, Hou Keming got the news first from a familiar foreign correspondent. After confirming it again and again, his hands were shaking a little when he hung up the phone.

He opened the web page immediately and kept refreshing various forums and portals. After what seemed like a very long few dozen seconds, some news finally appeared on the Internet.

Hou Keming breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn’t that he didn’t believe the reporter, but the news was really a little hard to believe.

Ten nominations, ten Oscar nominations, and this movie was made by a graduate student from our school!

He lit a cigarette and ignored his wife's nagging. He just listened and laughed without refutation.

"What's wrong with you? Why do you feel a little weird?"

"Why am I abnormal?"

Hou Keming held a cigarette in his hand but didn't smoke it. He smiled happily and a little proudly.

"Virtue, if you want to smoke, go to the balcony. If you don't want to smoke, put it out for me."

Unexpectedly, Hou Keming actually put out the cigarette, then took his wife away.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Hey, come on, into the room."

"It's only a few hours now. By night..."

"It's already ten o'clock. What evening is this? Let's go..."

After some hesitation, the door of the room was closed and a faint whisper could be heard.

"...Ah, you are so..."

Time passed little by little, and the singing lasted for a long time, until the singer stopped singing, and a whisper was heard again.

"Is there some happy news? I noticed that you started to behave a little abnormally after receiving the phone call..."

"Hey, it's nothing, I just thought about it a little bit, isn't that normal?"

"Normal bullshit, I don't know you yet. The last time I announced the parentheses after your position, it was like this. You dragged me into the room in broad daylight..."

(End of this chapter)