Chapter 1454 1456 [Good birds choose wood to live in]
In September, Zhang Yimou took his "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" to the Venice Film Festival.
This movie is shot from multiple perspectives in the way of memories.
Although since "Rashomon", this kind of narrative technique is no longer unusual, but as the saying goes, the bridge is not afraid of the old, the most important thing is to accept. Because the story of "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" is concise, multi-angle, and multi-person shooting, it does not appear complicated at all.
On the contrary, they advance layer by layer and reflect each other, thus presenting a very exquisite story, no less than "Rashomon" decades ago, bringing audiences and judges an extraordinary viewing experience.
Therefore, "Shake Ah Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" finally won the Jury Award Silver Lion Award, Best Screenplay Award, and Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award, that is, Best Photography Award, which can be said to be a complete victory.
And this film also became Xiang Nan's first international film festival award.
"Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" was also released by China Film.
However, despite the affirmation of the Venice Silver Lion Award, because Chinese people are not familiar with multi-angle movies, after watching them, many viewers reported that they did not understand, which affected the box office of movies in the mainland.
In the end, the box office was less than 20 million yuan, and what Kylin Pictures got was only more than 6 million yuan. Fortunately, at the Venice Film Festival, the film was relatively popular, so in the end, Kirin Pictures still made a profit, about 15 million in profit, which is not bad.
However, compared with the profit of Kunpeng Real Estate, the profit of Kylin Films can only be regarded as sprinkling water.
In 1993, although the real estate market fell into a period of freezing because of the emergency braking of the country.
But in the past two years, the real estate market has gradually picked up.
The reason is very simple. First, the country's economic development is getting better and better, and the GDP has been growing at double digits for many years. The average income of residents has also grown at double digits for many years in a row. As the economy grows and income increases, house prices will naturally rise.
Second, in recent years, the situation of welfare housing distribution has become less and less. In the era of the planned economy, state-owned units had good returns, so they had money to build buildings and housing for welfare.
In recent years, with the rapid development of the private economy, the benefits of state-owned units have declined year by year. For example, Yili Food Factory, which once flourished, could not even pay wages. In this case, the factory has no money to build buildings at all. Therefore, if the people want to solve the housing problem, they have to buy a house by themselves. This is also an important element of rising house prices.
Also because of the recovery of the real estate market, the prices of land, real estate, and projects obtained by Kunpeng Real Estate at a low price in 1993 have doubled now.
This also caused the assets of Kunpeng Real Estate to skyrocket from one billion yuan in 1993 to three billion yuan now. Moreover, the debt ratio has dropped from 95% at the peak to only 55% now, and the financial situation is very healthy.
Xiang Nan is ready to arrange for Kunpeng Real Estate to be listed on the Hong Kong stock market.
In this case, financing is easier, and it can also help the company develop faster and better.
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In the same month, Xiang Nan recruited Zhao Baogang from the TV Art Center.
Zhao Baogang entered the iron and steel factory at the age of sixteen as a foundry worker. Later, through his own efforts, he entered the Yanjing TV Art Center. At the beginning, he also worked as a handyman, and Feng Xiaogang was a pair of difficult brothers.
Later, Feng Xiaogang was promoted to be his assistant director after Xiang Nan’s support, and he led him to direct “Desire”, “The Story of the Editorial Department”, “Yanjing People in New York” and so on.
After Feng Xiaogang was poached by Xiang Nan, the Art Center, which lacked people, helped Zhao Baogang straighten up and asked him to make dramas such as "The Roots of the Imperial City", "Having Fun", "Sunrise in the East and Rain in the West", all of which achieved great success. little repercussions.
The so-called good birds choose trees to live in, so Zhao Baogang naturally wants to make more money. He was at the TV Art Center, and his basic salary was only a few hundred yuan, and he could only get a few thousand yuan in bonuses for one film.
In comparison, Feng Xiaogang made millions of dollars for his film "Jade Guanyin", no one would be envious. So Zhao Baogang readily quit.
After job-hopping, the first film he started filming was "Carry Love Through to the End" written by Xiang Nan.
This drama is known as China's first youth idol drama. The main actors are handsome men and beautiful women, and the plot is full of hypocritical passages such as you love me, I love him, and he loves you.
However, isn’t that the tone of idol dramas? They are good-looking because of their blood. Falling in love at first sight and staying together for a lifetime is beautiful, but without drama, it is not good-looking.
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After Zhao Baogang got the script of "Will Love", he was shocked, and immediately began to find suitable actors for filming.
After his choice, Li Yipeng was chosen as the male lead. He played the role of Mao Jie in "Jade Guanyin", but he was very popular and fascinated many little girls.
As the heroine, Xu Jinglei from the 1993 Beijing Film Festival was chosen. Zhao Baogang liked her pure temperament and thought she was more suitable to play the heroine.
As for other roles, Huang Zhizhong, Xin Boqing, Duan Yihong, Fu Dalong, Gong Beibi and other professional actors of the same age were also selected.
Unlike in the real world, many idol dramas set the male and female protagonists to be students, but the leading actors are all greasy middle-aged men in their thirties.
Xiang Nan still supports Zhao Baogang's choice.
Li Yupeng's appearance and acting skills are both good, and Xu Jinglei is one of the four major actresses, and her appearance and acting skills are well-known. Huang Zhizhong, Xin Boqing, and Fu Dalong are representatives of the acting school, so Xiang Nan is very optimistic about this drama.
"Not bad, Director Zhao, you are very discerning." Xiang Nan nodded with a smile.
Zhao Baogang laughed when he saw that Xiang Nan was satisfied, so the TV series was officially prepared to start filming.
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Perhaps under Feng Xiaogang's instruction, Zhao Baogang then brought Xu Jinglei to Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan had no interest in Lao Xu at first, because she is a typical girl whose temperament is more important than appearance. It's not too pretty in itself, it's just a little fresh. The figure is not exquisite, thin and dry.
Xiang Nan still prefers women with stunning looks and protruding figures, like Gong Li, Xu Qing, and Zhu Lin. But after getting in touch with him, he realized that Xu Jinglei is actually very attractive.
The most prominent thing is her character, one word—Sa! He has a hearty personality, is generous, not entangled, not twitchy, and is very comfortable to get along with.
According to what Old Yanjing said, she is a standard Da Sammi!
The so-called Da Sammi is a beautiful girl who [fights to support you, has no money to support you, draws a sword to help you in trouble, but still loves you].
There is no man who doesn't like a woman like this.
Xiang Nan is the same. Not long after contact, he fell into the law of true fragrance and got together with Xu Jinglei.
(end of this chapter)