Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 250 Position
As the Venice Film Festival announced the list of films selected for the main competition unit, domestic media could not help but feel a little disappointed after receiving the list.

Overall, the media response was somewhat muted.

It is not news that Cao Yang's "Black Swan" is included in the list. It would be news if it was removed.

Not only the media, but many netizens also reacted indifferently online. For example, in the "Caoyang Bar", the most common comment under this news was: I get it.

The media's coverage of "Black Swan" mostly just mentioned it briefly, but they talked more about other films that entered the main competition unit.

For example, Guan Jinpeng’s "Song of Everlasting Sorrow".

For example, "Brokeback Mountain" by another great Chinese director Li An.

Li An still filmed "Brokeback Mountain".

After messing up "The Incredible Hulk", Li An's glory days are gone, and it is almost impossible for him to get another commercial blockbuster in Hollywood.

In this regard, he is not as good as Wu Yusen.

Because Wu Yusen had two successful works, "Face/Off" and "Mission Impossible 2", even though "Windtalkers" made MGM lose a lot of money, he still got the opportunity to direct Paramount's "Memento Mobilier".

However, when "Memento Mobili" lost money again, Wu Yusen was cleared of his talents and never got any more opportunities in Hollywood.

To be honest, "Memento" is pretty good. At least the first half is very exciting and the suspense is well set up, but the second half is a bit anticlimactic and the plot becomes clichéd and cannot stand scrutiny.

This movie is a bit of a shame.

Li An is also better than Wu Yusen in some aspects.

That is, he originally became famous for his art films. After losing opportunities in the commercial film field, he still has a chance to return to the art film field.

Probably because he was hit hard, Li An chose the more speculative "Brokeback Mountain", which was completely aimed at the old white leftists in the academy.

Think about it, American cowboys, also known as rednecks, also known as old white rightists, these conservatives who support the Republican Party, are actually having sex with gays!
In a way, this is like poking a direct blow to the president on the stage!

Hollywood is known as the Democratic Party's stronghold, and is full of old white leftists.

In a way, "Brokeback Mountain" is a letter of surrender, which is the greatest political correctness.

It's a pity that Cao Yang won the Oscar for Best Picture last year for "Mean Milk" and the Oscar for Best Director this year for "District 9".

It depends on whether the people in the Academy have the courage to give the Oscar for Best Director or Best Picture to a Chinese person next year.

I guess it’s a bit difficult.

After all, it was a little late for Li An to flatter the emperor with "Brokeback Mountain".

In terms of its core, "Mean Milk" is actually similar to "Brokeback Mountain".

Milk, who is a conservative, pretended to be a gay in order to gain support from that group, which also satirized conservatives.

Even "Mean Milk" is more ironic.

In order to get votes, conservatives can pretend to be gay and blend into that group.

Okay, wish Li An good luck.

"Seven Swords" was released as scheduled, probably because of the huge success of "Crazy Stone", which put too much pressure on it. After all, "Seven Swords" is said to have an investment of 140 million Hong Kong dollars, and the pressure to make a profit is too great.

"Seven Swords" made a big move. On the day of its release, it was announced that the film was selected as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival.

This is usually announced by the Venice Film Festival Organizing Committee, but "Seven Swords" announced it on the day of its release after communicating with the festival organizing committee.

This can indeed be regarded as a hot topic. There are too many people who do not know the truth, and everyone instinctively thinks that the movies selected as the opening films are extremely good.

In fact, in a sense, this statement is correct.

Because the number of places in the main competition unit is limited, the film festival organizing committee will generally select one of the unsuccessful films as the opening film.

When Old Han saw it, he suddenly felt that it was the right decision not to report in advance that Wu Qihua and Pang Bing would star in "Inception", because it came in handy now.

What are you waiting for? Otherwise, this surprise attack by "Seven Swords" might really suppress the popularity and box office of "Crazy Stone".

Less than an hour after "Seven Swords" was announced as the opening film in Venice, President Han announced in an interview that the Chinese actors for "Inception", a film with an investment of 15 billion yuan, had been selected.

That is the thief Mike in "Crazy Stone" and Dao Ge's girlfriend Pang Bing.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

"Inception", which cost 15 billion yuan, was originally the biggest hot topic. Who of the two Chinese actors would be chosen has always been the focus of discussion. Once this news came out, the popularity of "Seven Swords" was instantly suppressed.

Wang Jinghua has been considering Cao Yang's proposal these days.

It was not until the media reported extensively that Pang Bing joined "Inception" that Wang Jinghua made up her mind.

It is much better to set up your own business and have these big stars become partners than to rely on others.

Besides, big stars can definitely bring a lot of resources. Since they are one of the bosses of the company, they will definitely give some resources to other people in the company.

To put it bluntly, any resources that slip through the fingers of first-tier big stars like Li Xiaoran or Gao Yuanyuan are very good opportunities for newcomers.

For example, when Li Xiaoran took on the role in "Night Banquet", it was very easy for her to ask Xiao Gangpao for a supporting role with an appearance and lines.

For this new couple, being able to act in the role of Little Cannon is something they are definitely looking forward to.

Of course, this is only one aspect. For Wang Jinghua, the most important thing is who Cao Yang supports to become her partner.

If we talk about the quality of resources in the country, the resources controlled by Cao Yang are definitely the best ones.

Cao Yang's defense was scheduled for August 12. As for why this day was chosen, it was because Cao Yang's thesis was completed on August 10.

For Cao Yang's defense, Tian Zhuangzhuang, the head of the directing department, finally became a member of the defense committee. He no longer had to be assigned the job of a defense secretary as he had been doing during Cao Yang's undergraduate defense.

For others, Beijing Film Academy has many good teachers and directors, and many old professors are qualified to be the chairperson of the master's thesis defense committee.

But for Cao Yang, in the entire Beijing Film Academy, only Xie Fei, who won the Berlin Golden Bear, could barely do this. As for the others, they would definitely not dare to do it even if they were asked to do it.

The master's degree defense committee is generally composed of an odd number of no less than five people. Some schools also invite no less than one outside expert.

However, no outside experts were invited to Cao Yang's defense. Xie Fei was the chairman of the defense committee, and Lao Hou, Lao Tian, ​​Xie Xiaojing and Zheng Dongtian were members.

Everything is done according to the process.

After the defense, Cao Yang became a doctoral student under the guidance of Old Situ.

And, probably because Cao Yang had a master's degree, Qingying Studio decided to appoint Cao Yang as the general producer of Qingying Studio.

According to Xie Xiaojing, this chief producer is equivalent to the deputy director level, participates in the management of Qingying Studio, and can intervene in all the film projects of Qingying Studio.

Of course, you can also choose to do nothing.

Immediately afterwards, as if it was agreed upon, Cao Yang was appointed as the vice chairman of the Youth Federation, added as the vice president of the Directors Association, and officially became a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, rather than a distinguished professor.

(End of this chapter)