Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 791 Wanting a Vacation (44)

My first time selling products live...

At first I was a little nervous, then I was very excited, and then I felt calm!

After all, he's the spokesperson.

"Filming for 'Love O2O' has already started... It's estimated to premiere next August... It's tentatively scheduled to air on Hunan TV."

"I think it should be alright. The director and screenwriter teams are all acquaintances. I've worked with Dilraba a few times, and she's also a contracted artist with our company. Our company doesn't sign artists anymore, but we used to. Dilraba, Chen Yao, and Li Xian, that's all!"

"Li Xian... is a nice person. His acting skills are so-so, not particularly good, but not bad either... He plays basketball quite well."

"Our first project with the company, 'Love Through a Millennium,' required several new actors, and Ji Xiang selected three from among them to sign."

"Now, our company, Spark Studio, no longer has an artist management department; they each have their own studios... Meng Ziyi... Sister Meng is signed with another company of Ji Xiang's, which specializes in artist management, and I also have a stake in it..."

"Does Dilraba have a boyfriend? Dude, you're not a fan of hers, are you? If you are, you can look at her schedule over the past few years. She's hardly had a break since her debut. Do you think she has time to date with such a schedule? And who would she date?"

"...Did they send you an invitation for 'I Am Not Madame Bovary'?...Yes, Director Feng sent me the invitation himself, but I didn't have time. I have five film contracts, how could I have time to go to the movies?"

Uh, speaking of "I Am Not Madame Bovary," the main reason is that this film helped Feng Xiaogang win the Golden Horse Award for Best Director the day before yesterday...

"Best Feature Film... 'August,' I know this movie. Maoyan releases three to five independent films every year... This year's selections are 'Summer in Xixiahe,' 'The Funeral,' and 'Kaili Blues.' 'Kaili Blues' is truly an awesome movie!"

Ah seems to be a combination of "Goodbye South" and "Blessing", especially the moment she appears in the opening credits.

As his feature film debut, the director's own aesthetic style is extremely complete, and the unique elements in the short film, such as the recitation of poetry, folk songs and pop music, and the father and watch, are also continued.

Those regrets of life and the passage of time are all intertwined in this dreamlike journey.

When I first watched "Kaili Blues," it reminded me of Tarkovsky and Tsai Ming-liang. He pays great attention to form and basically doesn't care about content. If you're looking at the audiovisual language, it's very entertaining, but if you're trying to find something in it, it's somewhat dispensable.

However, it doesn't matter, there's no rule that movies have to explore any particular topic!
Therefore, I got Maoyan to handle the distribution of this movie.

"August"... The director wanted to express something, but unfortunately, his skill was insufficient... He attempted to integrate a rapidly changing era, including the vicissitudes of ordinary people, into a vague summer vacation timeframe, resulting in a large but fragmented narrative. The director, burdened by nostalgia, relied entirely on intuition, which, like the use of black and white imagery, was perplexing. Aside from the beautiful cinematography, the overall film was uninteresting and tiring.

This kind of movie actually won Best Feature Film...

"August is far inferior to Yi Yi, yet Yi Yi didn't win the Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film!"

"Among Chinese filmmakers, my favorite is Edward Yang, followed by Zhang Yimou... Many people say that Edward Yang was a science and engineering graduate, so his films have a very good logical structure, and I think that's quite true!"

"Edward Yang was the first person to make films based on ideas. Each of his films has a question or a sentence. The entire film is an extension of this sentence, pursuing the beauty brought about by philosophical precision."

Hou Hsiao-hsien pursues aesthetic beauty in terms of emotion or atmosphere.

Of course, Edward Yang's films "Yi Yi" and "The Terrorizers" are both philosophically precise and atmospheric.

As a director, Edward Yang's greatest innovation was his technique of separating sound and image. His dialogue, especially the sound recording, was top-notch. In fact, if you watch Yang's films, you can clearly feel that his goal was to create a film like *Dream of the Red Chamber*, with subtle foreshadowing, revealing the big picture through small details, leaving no unnecessary strokes, and showing the backstory of each character. However, he only truly achieved this goal in *Yi Yi*.

After a pause, Shen Yan said, "Hou Hsiao-hsien's films pursue natural performances, which means he has to largely abandon narrative structure, which can be concealed in realistic themes. But once he tries to preserve the narrative structure, he fails miserably. 'The Assassin' is a very bad example. The natural performances are still very good, but the lack of a lot of narrative information makes understanding a huge obstacle... So, 'The Assassin' is actually a failed work!"

"Cannes Best Director...that's normal, he was named the best Asian director by Cahiers du Cinéma!"

"Why don't I participate in the Golden Horse Awards... To be honest, it's simply because going to Taiwan is too much trouble, and you have to apply for a permit... When we can go to Taiwan freely without needing permits, then I'll participate in the Golden Horse Awards!"

……

The live stream lasted for over an hour, then Shen Yan ended the broadcast…

Among them, the ten-minute live-streaming sales event became a trending topic.

It's obvious that Anta bought the trending topic, with the title #ShenYan'sFirstLiveStreamingSales, 200 Million Yuan in Sales in Ten Minutes#... Then, many people clicked on it out of curiosity—it was because Shen Yan had added a link to Anta, the brand he endorses, during his live stream.

I guess you could call it live-streaming sales, though!
However, many more people were impressed by the attractive discounts.

Then they asked, "When is the next time?" and "I want Fila at this price too!"

Unfortunately, Shen Yan won't be doing live-streaming e-commerce for the time being...

Unless Maoyan launches a shopping channel!
It's not possible for the time being...

Who can say for sure what will happen in the future?
Maoyan Short Video now has over 600 million users, second only to Kuaishou, making it the short video platform with the most users in the market.

According to Shen Yan's plan, once daily active users exceed ten million, the platform can become independent...

Oh, Shen Yan invested another billion yuan in Maoyan…

Anyway, he has money now...

Burn it!

We aim to spin off Maoyan Short Video as an independent platform before the end of the year.

Maoyan Live... has also become lively, with many celebrities and artists starting live streams on Maoyan...

The market has valued Maoyan at over 300 billion yuan.

No rush...

Take it slow. Shen Yan's ultimate goal is to make Maoyan a community-based app, like Xiaohongshu...

Let's focus on filming for now!
To be honest, he underestimated Dilraba...

Ethnic minorities are indeed skilled in singing and dancing, and possess great physical strength and energy...

This has been going on for half a month, more than three times a day...

Yan Ge was thinking of surrendering.

But I can't just say, "Give me two days off..."

That's so cowardly!

So, after get off work today, he returned to the hotel, prepared a meal, and then took out two bottles of red wine…

I'm ready to have a drinking contest with her!
Drink her until she's passed out...

Then I took a day off...

Then Dilraba entered the room and saw the food and drinks on the table. She was very excited: "Want to drink today?"

Shen Yan swallowed hard: "How's your alcohol tolerance?"

"I'm from Xinjiang, don't you think?" Reba sat down: "Quickly, quickly, fill it up, fill it up!"

"Didn't you say you couldn't handle one bottle of beer?"

"That's what they said in an interview, how can you take it seriously!"

(End of this chapter)