Life in the Light and Shadow of Chinese Entertainment

This has caused Huayi's stock to decline every day, and now the price per share has fallen below 70 yuan.

In an effort to reverse public opinion, Huayi has taken the lead in exposing Wu Yang and Liu Yifei's scandals over the past month.

As long as the audience thinks that everyone is a bad guy, as long as they feel disgusted by Wu Yang and Liu Yifei.

That way, the negative label attached to Huayi by the outside world can be dispelled, and the heat surrounding this matter will dissipate.

The negative stories about Liu Yifei that were exposed are actually the same old stuff, nothing new.

Wu Yang only became known to domestic audiences after winning the Oscar for Best Director, and his fame was achieved in a very short period of time.

It's only been a year and a half since then, and there's not much to criticize, but then the Zhang Ziyi incident broke out at the beginning of the year.

They brought Wu Yang along, and in 08, Wu Yang had just graduated and was still a junior.

Indeed, no donations were made, and under the influence of online trolls, Wu Yang became the epitome of a heartless rich man.

In a climate of conformity, many uninformed people lose their rationality and join in the criticism.

In the end, it was Guangxian and Berna who, in order to curry favor with Wu Yang, joined forces to prevent this unhealthy trend from taking hold.

Today, a natural disaster struck the Guangxi region, and coincidentally, Wu Yang returned to China yesterday.

If he doesn't come forward and donate money soon, the blame for being rich but heartless will definitely be placed on Wu Yang's head.

Han Sanye's phone call actually represents his desire to protect Wu Yang!

The fact that Master Han is so attentive to Wu Yang suggests that he has a much higher opinion of Wu Yang compared to the opportunistic and scheming individuals at Huayi.

At least many of Wu Yang's registered scripts have been successful, and have indirectly achieved the strategic goal of cultural export.

Both China Film Group and he himself have already gained many hidden benefits.

I recently attended a meeting at the ministry and received praise from the leadership.

The film and television industry in various countries is neither a pillar industry nor does it provide a large employment environment.

The reason it has gained support from various countries is because it can export its culture and gain global recognition for its cultural symbols.

Just like how Hollywood movies can be distributed globally, although it's due to the country's strong power, their special effects blockbusters do indeed have a large market.

These special effects movies have shown other countries the strength and prosperity of the United States.

The movie attracted many people who longed for it, and these people either went abroad to study or sold their assets to immigrate to the United States.

The wealth and knowledge they brought further enhanced America's prosperity, making America stronger and stronger.

Capitalists are becoming increasingly wealthy, while the poor who grew up with a "happy education" continue to live in poverty.

In the future, Goryeo will also rehabilitate its image through a large number of cultural and entertainment works, winning over many people who once disliked them.

I've come to like Goryeo again because of these cultural and entertainment works; this is the significance of cultural export.

Looking at the domestic entertainment industry today, only a handful of people, including Wu Yang, have a certain international influence.

Wu Yang, being the youngest and most promising among them, naturally deserves special attention.

Both Wu Yang's personal and public image need to be maintained, and he also needs the protection of people like Han Sanye.

Huayi was blinded by greed because it cared too much about the stock price.

So he was unaware that he was on a certain leader's blacklist, and now nothing has happened and everything is fine.

Once something goes wrong, Huayi will definitely not have a good ending!

For the cultural authorities, domestic box office revenue is just a number.

Compared to real estate and finance, there are also pillar industries such as manufacturing, which contribute significantly in terms of both tax revenue and employment opportunities.

The entertainment industry is always at the bottom; only cultural export is what the cultural departments are pursuing.

It is not only a reflection of national strength, but also a source of national confidence!

The poet Chen before the millennium, and the director Zhang Yimou after the millennium, have both received recognition from Europe and America.

Unfortunately, they were both internationally renowned directors of art films, but their global influence was very limited. Later, they both ventured into commercial films.

They're just not good at commercial films; they're still using the cinematic language of art films to shoot commercial movies.

The plot is extremely dull and uninteresting, and only the first installment sold for a high price.

Starting with the second installment, the price continued to decline, and eventually, they could only collaborate with others to distribute the film and earn a share of the profits.

As a result, they suffered repeated defeats!

They put on a brave face and claimed to have made a profit, but in reality, the box office performance was terrible!

Since the film "The Promise", Chen Shiren has been labeled as someone who "relies on his father's connections".

Many people outside the industry speculate that "Farewell My Concubine" was made by Chen Shiren with the help of his father.

Even those within the industry are mostly unsure whether this statement is accurate.

As a professional director, Wu Yang has studied several of Chen Shiren's films.

It can be confirmed that these films were indeed made by Chen Shiren, at least in terms of color and cinematic language.

To talk about the differences between these films, or rather, their successes and failures.

It all comes down to the plot. I heard that Chen Shi is very arrogant, has a lot of say on set, and likes to revise the script himself.

When filming "Farewell My Concubine," with his father keeping him in check, Chen Shiren (Chen Poet) hadn't become arrogant yet, so the filming proceeded according to the script.

In the following films, especially during the filming of "The Promise", Chen Shiren became arrogant. Everyone on set fawned over him, and without any checks and balances, Chen Shiren completely let himself go!

Then, after pulling a big one, he completely lost the audience's favor!

Despite relying on the older generation and his past glory, Chen Shishi has no shortage of investors and upper-level supporters.

However, in the eyes of the leaders of the cultural department, the poet Chen could only entertain himself within the country!

Although Zhang Yimou is registered with the cultural department, unfortunately, Zhang Dazui likes to eat alone and acts arrogantly outside because of Zhang Yimou.

They even dared to openly give Han Sanye a nickname, and repeatedly created tense situations with the cinema operators.

Therefore, neither the cultural authorities, nor Han Sanye, nor the cinema chains like him. They will wait until he breaks up with Zhang Yimou in the future.

He vanished without a trace, and the entertainment industry has been unable to find him since!

As a beneficiary of the system, Wu Yang did not approve of Zhang Dazui's character, but was grateful for his contributions.

Without Zhang Dazui's manipulation of cinemas, the current 43% revenue share for production companies wouldn't exist.

In the future, thanks to "The Flowers of War", the revenue sharing ratio was once increased to 45%.

Unfortunately, it didn't last long; one of the inherent weaknesses of the Chinese people is involution.

When doing business, people from Youtai usually open a gas station in the desert and wait for the gas station to become popular.

Other Youtai people would open supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, communities, schools, and hospitals around the gas station, basically developing in all aspects around a single attraction point.

Therefore, the Thai people are known as the best business people, while the Chinese are known as the smartest people.

Sometimes, being too clever for one's own good can backfire. The Chinese business philosophy is to do whatever is popular.

If you open a gas station in the desert and it becomes popular, many other gas stations will inevitably appear in the surrounding area.

Then, in order to grab customers, everyone started lowering prices and running promotions, which led to fierce competition and gradually killed the industry!