Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 269 Rejection
The scenes shot in Beijing were mainly simple interior and indoor scenes.

At that time, Colombia listed a large number of countries and cities that offered tax refund benefits to Cao Yang, and then Cao Yang did the math for them.

If you only shoot indoor scenes and simple interior scenes, with China's prices and cheap labor, even without tax refunds, you can still save money than in European and American countries and cities after tax refunds.

Of course, Cao Yang also understands that when filming in some places in Colombia, what matters is not only the tax refund, but also some other things.

For example, tax avoidance through a Cayman Islands structure, or tax incentives in Ireland and Luxembourg can reduce production costs.

Some places not only offer tax refunds, but also a lot of government subsidies. As long as certain conditions are met, you can get both the tax refund and the subsidy.

Therefore, Cao Yang only shot the indoor scenes and simple interior scenes in Beijing.

Compared to the huge investment in "Inception", these don't cost much.

But this is real money, US dollars. For the domestic market, especially Qingying Studio, it can not only earn foreign exchange, but also bring jobs and extra income, and also get the reputation of being the filming location of "Inception".

Although the last so-called "filming location" may not seem very impressive, for state-owned enterprises with assessment indicators, these are all qualifications and political achievements.

The shooting of indoor scenes once again made Claire Danes mentally unbalanced.

As more and more actors participated in the filming, especially those who were eligible to receive script briefings before filming, all of them had their parts filmed.

Claire Denis discovered that these people not only understood the characters thoroughly, but also acted as well as she did! Even Tom Hardy and the unknown actress in China acted no worse than she did.

This really subverts cognition.

She knew the Hong Kong actor from Hua Xia, who had acted in many literary and artistic films directed by Cao Yang, and had also played the alien prawn in "District 9". With his good acting skills, it was understandable that he could work well with Director Cao Yang.

what about others?

At this moment, she felt that the psychology she studied was bullshit!

What a match.

What resonance.

What cognitive transformation.

What a destined lady!
shit!

It's all bullshit!

It turns out that some things can subvert our cognition.

It turns out that some people exist to subvert cognition.

Director Cao Yang is such a person.

Claire Denis confirmed that director Cao Yang is the legendary "succubus" and that there is no such thing as co-acting actors in what he explained.

He can make all the actors understand what he says and perform beyond their expectations!
No wonder director Cao Yang can produce so many film queens.

At this moment, Claire Denis felt that no matter what the reason was, it didn't matter anymore. What was important was that she must seize the opportunity and establish a good relationship with Director Cao Yang.

Director Cao Yang is a director who can act with ease and give full play to his acting skills.

Just realizing this is enough.

Cao Yang's filming in Beijing was very easy. After the important actors had gained some experience in playing the role, shooting the indoor scenes was really simple.

However, some scenes also require other minor supporting roles and extras, and these people will have problems of one kind or another, resulting in many shots not being able to pass in one take and needing to be reshot. Otherwise, it would be really easy to shoot the movie.

It feels like you're making money right away.

Of course, relaxation only applies to indoor scenes. The scenes in other scenes cannot be supported by the actors' performances alone.

While Cao Yang was filming in Beijing, Hou Keming came to him.

As soon as he came over, Cao Yang knew something was wrong, otherwise, a senior dean would never come to watch him film a movie for no reason.

"Ka, very good, take a break for half an hour."

Cao Yang shouted and followed Hou Yuan out.

"Alas, every time I see you filming, I get the urge to direct again, but once I calm down, I no longer have the slightest urge to do so."

Hou Yuan shook his head and couldn't help but sigh.

Every time he sees Cao Yang filming, he would wonder from the bottom of his heart how filming could be so simple, if I could do it, could I?
Afterwards, I would think about how I worried myself to death and yelled my throat out while making the movie, and how stressed I was... When I was rejected from the film festival, I felt so lost that it took me ten days or half a month to recover. It's hard to describe in words.

Ever since he met Cao Yang, Hou Keming knew that being a film director also requires talent, and Cao Yang is the kind of person who can make you feel his talent intuitively.

"Well... maybe you haven't met a good actor. I'm luckier. I always meet good actors and their acting is great. I'm just a lucky person."

Cao Yang explained with a smile.

If Hou Keming wasn't so proud of his status, he would have wanted to roll his eyes.

Look what you said?

Good actor?
Tell me, before I met you, was Li Xiaoran a better actress, or was Yu Feihong a better actress? Or was Gao Yuanyuan a better actress?
Don’t think I don’t know. Many teachers and professors in our school have looked through these people’s previous film and television works for comparison and came to a conclusion, that is... these are all vases!
Of course, this is a polite statement. To use the words of a more straightforward professor, these people's acting is rubbish.

Perhaps you don’t know much about her just by watching her movies and TV shows. But everyone knows Yu Feihong very well, a graduate of Beijing Film Academy who taught there for a while.

If you say that Yu Feihong's acting is bad, maybe out of friendship, everyone will politely say that her acting is okay.

If you say that Yu Feihong has good acting skills, I guess all the teachers at Beijing Film Academy will be silent.

Of course, this was before.

Now she is the Venice Film Festival winner and has a high status. After being trained by Cao Yang, her acting skills are actually quite good. This is what makes everyone admire Cao Yang.

Well, just like now, Dong Xuan, an actress who graduated from Beijing Film Academy, also won the Venice Film Festival Best Actress Award, once again proving that Beijing Film Academy not only produces directors, but also actresses.

Who says that actors from Beijing Film Academy are worse than those from the Central Academy of Drama?

In recent years, Beijing Film Academy has also produced two Venice Film Festival winners!
Apart from Gong Li, who won the three major European Best Actress awards many years ago, who else in your Central Academy of Drama has won world-class awards?
Not to mention International Zhang, it’s even a question whether she can keep the title of one of the Four Great Qingyi.

Isn’t it a joke out there now that among the top actresses in the country, five are among the four Qingyi and four are among the three Huadan.

The reason for saying this is that after Dong Xuan won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival, she was automatically included in the list of the four major Qingyi actresses, so there are currently five of them.

Well, four of them were promoted by Cao Yang and won the three major international film actress awards in Europe, but there is only the international Zhang, and a few other film actresses who won awards that are not well-known.

Zhang Ziyi is in an awkward situation.

The so-called four out of the three major actresses are because after Pang Bing was banned by Huayi, Shou Bing took advantage of the situation to market herself and wanted to turn the three major actresses into four major actresses, so now there are four out of the three major actresses.

"The Golden Rooster Awards wants you to go. According to insiders, if you go, you will win at least one of the Best Feature Film and Best Director awards. Do you want to go?"

Dean Hou started talking about business. To be honest, he really wanted Cao Yang to go. The director of the film was Cao Yang, and Qingying Studio also participated in the investment. For the school, winning the award would be an achievement in this year's year-end report.

Cao Yang was a little reluctant to go, so he said directly: "According to the plan, I should be shooting abroad on the day of the Golden Rooster Awards. With such a large investment, I am under a lot of pressure. I have to catch up with the progress, so I won't come back."

"alright."

Hou Yuan nodded. He had expected this and decided not to go.

"Then I'll try to create a special situation for you and see if I can get the award."

Hou Keming went to deal with the matter.

However, not long after, Cao Yang received an unexpected call from Li Qiankuan, deputy director of this year's Golden Rooster Awards selection committee.

Li Qiankuan also graduated from Beijing Film Academy, but he graduated earlier. He was from the Fine Arts Department of Beijing Film Academy and graduated in 1964. At that time, the undergraduate program of Beijing Film Academy was still a five-year program.

After graduation, he was assigned to Changchun Film Studio, where he directed many classic films.

For example, "The Founding Ceremony of the Nation", "The Chongqing Negotiations", "The July 7 Incident", "Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea", etc.

Of course, he has another identity. He and Lao Situ are classmates. Both of them graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 64.

Although they were in the directing department and fine arts department respectively at the time, they were in the same classroom and had the same teachers, so they had a good relationship.

"Hello, Mr. Li, long time no see."

When he first started working at Beijing Film Academy, Cao Yang had met Li Qiankuan. Lao Tian had even introduced him to him and talked about his relationship with Lao Situ.

"Director Cao, I know you're very busy, so I won't be polite with you. Do you have time to come over for the Golden Rooster Awards?"

“You can just call me Cao Yang. You know I’m currently filming Inception, which is a huge investment and I’m under a lot of pressure.

I calculated that I would be filming in Canada during the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, and the delay in going back and forth might have taken a week. Even if I wanted to come, the investors would definitely not let me go.”

After all, I have the relationship with old Situ, and we are both from Beijing Film Academy, so of course I have to explain when someone calls me.

Li Qiankuan was silent for a while on the phone. As the deputy director of the selection committee, he certainly hoped that Cao Yang could attend this year's Golden Rooster Awards.

This is also the reason why he called Cao Yang after receiving Hou Keming's call.

Hou Keming told him that Cao Yang would not be in the country at that time. He thought it was Hou Keming's excuse. After all, who in the selection committee didn't know that "Inception" was filming in Ludong Island?
That launch conference really overshadowed the announcement of the Golden Rooster Awards nominations, without causing any splash at all.

As a result, the committee member ended his role as a judge for the Golden Rooster Awards ahead of schedule due to "illness".

Li Qiankuan thought Cao Yang was still angry about this matter.

Now it seems that Cao Yang was not really hurt by that incident.

As a director, he could understand what Cao Yang said.

After all, it's an investment of 1.5 billion RMB. Not to mention the round trip would take about a week, the investors would not be willing to even delay the filming for a day.

"Cao Yang, since you can't come, can you record a video? It would be best if the background is at the shooting site. Of course, it would be best if some Hollywood stars could say a few words of blessing for the Golden Rooster Awards, so that I can make some arrangements on my end."

Li Qiankuan did not say anything ambiguous and directly told Cao Yang that he would find a way to deal with the award.

There is an unspoken rule in the Golden Rooster Awards: unless there are special circumstances, no award will be given if you do not attend the awards ceremony.

If Cao Yang could get some Hollywood celebrities to say a few words like "I wish the Golden Rooster Awards will get better and better", it would be very easy for him to operate the award for Cao Yang.

(End of this chapter)