Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 549 Going abroad, flowers bloom inside the walls and fragrance outside the walls
When He Yuzhu and Lou Xiao'e were eating and drinking together in the Peace Hotel, reminiscing about the past and talking to each other, Cao Zhiqiang was also inviting someone to dinner in the Jianguo Hotel, and he was also reminiscing about the past, but he was not inviting a girl, but a man.

Because the person Cao Zhiqiang invited was none other than the director Xu Qingdong.

Unlike Zhu Lin, Xu Qingdong was not taken seriously in Beiying at this time, so it was not difficult for him to transfer relationships. He only needed to report to the leader, and the leader quickly approved Xu Qingdong's application for transfer.

The original unit agreed to release him, and Xu Qingdong immediately transferred to Hongguang Film Studio and became the deputy director and director of Hongguang Film Studio.

Although the Hongguang Film Factory is only a small temple now, as the saying goes, although the sparrow is small and complete, it really has everything it should have.

For example, Hongguang Film Studio has all the hardware such as film studio licenses, cameras, and office space.

As for personnel issues, internal staff such as accountants can be recruited by the accountants of Hongguang Publishing House first, and actors and film crews can be recruited at a later time.

As long as the brand is available and the money is in place, there is no need to worry about not being able to recruit filmmakers now.

Not to mention anything else, the large number of graduates related to Nortel every year is enough to eat.

Although universities in this era are assigned by package, students are not completely without autonomy.

As long as you can contact the relevant unit to ask for you before you graduate from university, and then ask the relevant unit to say hello to the relevant personnel in charge of assigning students to the university, generally speaking, unless there are special circumstances, the cadres in charge of assignment will not stop you.

For a unit like Nortel, the last year of the university is generally an internship period, and students have to find ways to complete their graduation works.

In general, although Hongguang Film Factory is a newly established unit, it is not well-known at present, but this unit has an advantage, that is, this unit is a unit in the capital, and if you come to work here, you can stay in the capital.

Therefore, just being able to stay and work in the capital is the biggest temptation for most college students.

At present, the film studios in the capital are basically full, and under normal circumstances they don't need people, so when Nortel students graduate at this time, most of them are assigned to other places.

For example, Zhang Yimou, because of his weak background, was assigned to Guangxi Film Studio after graduation, and Guangxi Film Studio, in this era, is almost like being assigned to the frontier, and is synonymous with poor places.

Of course, poor places also have the benefits of poor places.

As the saying goes, poverty leads to change, so poor factories like Guangxi Film Factory were the first to change their minds, and they are also keen to cooperate with Hong Kong and other places.

If it weren't for Guangxi Film Factory's thinking of thinking of changing when you are poor, people like Zhang Yimou would not be so easy to stand out.

In short, the capital status of Hongguang Film Factory is a very attractive business card at this time.

Because in this period, where the work unit is, it basically means where the residence is settled.

As for Zhu Lin, she is a special case.

When Zhu Lin was transferred to the Emei Film Factory to be an actress, she was already married, and her husband had a registered permanent residence in Beijing, so as long as Zhu Lin didn't get divorced, she didn't need to go to Chengdu to settle down.

At that time, the relationship between Zhu Lin and her husband was very weak, because there was less gathering and more separation.

It's just that Zhu Lin didn't want to give up her capital account easily, and her family objected, so she continued to maintain her marriage with that Mr. Wang.

Later, Zhu Lin once thought of easing the relationship, such as trying to find a way to work in the capital.

For example, when Zhu Lin came to the capital this time, he knew through his friends that Xu Qingdong was going to film a music TV series in the capital, so he took the initiative to contact Xu Qingdong, hoping to take the opportunity to come to the capital to stay for a while, and re-ease with her husband. relation.

As for Xu Qingdong, he was casting actors at the time, and felt that Zhu Lin had a good temperament, and he was from the capital. When Zhu Lin was acting in the movie "Little Courtyard", he met Xu Qingdong through his relationship with Tian Zhuangzhuang. We had dinner together a few times So Xu Qingdong agreed to Zhu Lin's self-recommendation.

It can be said that Zhu Lin was able to come to the capital this time. Although it was an accident, it was actually inevitable. After all, Zhu Lin had been operating to return to the capital.

It can be seen that, at least for now, Zhu Lin is a person with a wide range of friends, a strong purpose, and a strong ability to execute.

As for why Zhu Lin's personality changed drastically and he gradually disappeared in front of people, that's a story from another time and space.

According to Cao Zhiqiang's estimation, if she hadn't appeared, there was a high probability that Zhu Lin would continue to maintain her marriage with her ex-husband just for the sake of a capital account.

And in the history of another time and space, Zhu Lin divorced her first husband. Most likely, it was the man's request. After all, Zhu Lin was so focused on her career at this time that she probably didn't have the mood to care about it.

Maybe it was because Zhu Lin was so utilitarian during this period that she became disheartened later.

In other words, it is precisely because Zhu Lin's job transfer issue is still pending, and the work relationship is still in the Emei factory, so Zhu Lin did not immediately file for divorce from her husband. As long as Cao Zhiqiang can solve Zhu Lin's job transfer, Zhu Lin's work Since the relationship was transferred to Hongguang Film Studio, Zhu Lin must have divorced her husband immediately, and then settled in the capital by himself.

If it wasn't like this, it would be difficult for Zhu Lin to accept Cao Zhiqiang's flirtatiousness.

But for Xu Qingdong, this is not a problem.

Xu Qingdong's original work unit was Beijing Film Studio, which originally had a Beijing hukou, but when he transferred to Hongguang Film Studio, he still had a Beijing hukou, so there is no difference.

However, Xu Qingdong was originally just an unpopular little director. Once he came to Hongguang Factory, he immediately became a powerful director and deputy director of the factory.

Although there are not many people in Hongguang Film Factory at present, they have everything they should have.

Moreover, Hongguang Film Factory also has the best cameras in China, which is unmatched by other film studios.

Others, like the freedom of filming and financial freedom, are even more commendable.

Cao Zhiqiang promised Xu Qingdong a long time ago. After Xu Qingdong came to Hongguang Film Factory, he not only gave him the power of affairs, but also could recruit personnel freely, and manage personnel. He also gave him at least 100 million filming funds every year. He can use these filming funds as he wants. You have absolute freedom to shoot whatever you want.

It's just that once Cao Zhiqiang needs it, Xu Qingdong will give priority to shooting the movie Cao Zhiqiang wants to make, or recommend a reliable crew to Cao Zhiqiang.

In a word, Cao Zhiqiang gave Xu Qingdong sufficient power and freedom, allowing him to give full play to his abilities.

With such a condition, Xu Qingdong would be foolish to refuse.

But for now, Xu Qingdong hasn't thought about the specific personnel structure. What he wants to do most now is to finish the film "Love in the Guting" that has just been filmed before, and then release it as soon as possible.

However, after the filming of this film, Xu Qingdong can't really do much work, and it can be summed up in two words - dubbing.

As for the soundtrack and post-production special effects, those are the work of Cao Zhiqiang.

And this time the meal was half public and half private, at least half of the content was that Xu Qingdong hoped that Cao Zhiqiang could finish the post-production of the movie as soon as possible, and then release it early.

"What? Cao Zhiqiang, you want to take this movie to Japan for post-production special effects, and release it in Japan first? Did I hear correctly?"

Seeing Xu Qingdong being so surprised, Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "You heard me right, I am going to Japan this time with the intention of taking the film we shot, first going to Japan to find a company to produce the soundtrack and special effects, and then release the film first in Japan." movie.

I thought about it, our movie should be very suitable for Japanese tastes. Once it premieres in Japan and achieves good results, it can go abroad, creating an effect of blooming inside the wall and outside the wall.

At that time, not only can you earn a wave of foreign exchange first, but once you become famous, the domestic censorship will be faster and the release will be easier. "

Xu Qingdong frowned and said, "If it can be released in Japan first, that would be great. After all, it can be regarded as going abroad, but the problem is, it is very difficult to release a movie in Japan, right? Do you have a connection?"

"You don't have to worry about this." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "Japan is a western country, and their film censorship is much more relaxed than ours.

Our movie is a romantic movie with proper energy. Although it involves a teacher-student relationship, it may be a bit problematic here, but in Japan, this is not a problem at all.

In addition, I also met some big shots in Japan. Through their words, it should be easy to pass the review of the Japanese Film Ethics Management Committee.

As long as we pass Yinglun's review, we can negotiate copyright with Japanese film distribution companies.

Our movie is so good, and now we are in the honeymoon period between China and Japan, as long as we are in the name of cultural exchanges between China and Japan, it should not be difficult to find a distribution company to release it.

In addition, even if it doesn't work, Japan's film post-production capabilities are more advanced than ours, especially film special effects are better.

I went over there to find someone to make some special effects, and it would add a lot to our movie, don't you think? "

"If you want to say that, it's true." Xu Qingdong nodded.

Seeing that Xu Qingdong agreed, Cao Zhiqiang laughed.

In fact, when Cao Zhiqiang first made "Love in the Guting", he mainly targeted the Japanese market. After all, he plagiarized, no, the content of the film he borrowed was originally the famous Japanese work "The Garden of Words and Leaves".

It's just that "The Garden of Words and Leaves" is an animation movie, while "Love in the Guting" shot by Cao Zhiqiang is a live-action movie, but if you put aside the surface, in terms of the movie style, it is actually full of Japanese style everywhere.

Or it can be said that "Love in the Guting" looks like a modern urban movie with a typical Chinese style on the surface, but the core is Japanese style.

In addition to the teacher-student relationship, the real core is loneliness, sadness, restraint, restraint, courtyard, rain, feet, and forbidden love.

These elements are precisely the elements that Japan likes most at this time.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang has prepared a lot of soundtracks for this movie that are absolutely king in this world, coupled with the ability to produce special effects in the audio-visual production-type dream space, once the work is completely completed, it is hard to say in China, but at least in Japan at present , can definitely produce the same effect as a nuclear explosion.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang also has the confidence to make this movie popular in China, after all, truly excellent works are appreciated by both refined and popular tastes.

But the problem is that the current domestic film distribution is a monopoly plus a buyout system. No matter how good your film is or how much you invest, you have to sell it to China Film Group, and China Film Group will give you a relatively high buyout price at most, which is only 90 yuan. .

In other words, even if "Love in the Guting" received rave reviews in China and its attendance rate was extremely high, it could be compared to "Shaolin Temple" back then, but as a film production company, its income was only that little, and it was stuck.

No matter how good the movie is, no matter how high the income is, it has nothing to do with your production company, it's all China Film's business.

In comparison, Xiangjiang is only a small place, far inferior to the mainland in terms of market, but Hong Kong films are worse than the mainland in terms of system and resources.

Once a Hong Kong film is finished at this time, it will easily fetch tens of millions of box office in the local market, supporting countless filmmakers, not to mention the Asian market.

Among other things, at least in the current South Korea, the film market is basically dominated by Hong Kong films.

It is also the high income of Hong Kong films that has supported a large number of outstanding filmmakers, which makes Hong Kong films shine in Asia now.

However, in terms of the real film market in Asia at present, the best and most profitable place is Japan.

Japan's economy at this time is the largest in Asia and the second in the world, and it is a relatively small economy.

Relying on Japan's strong economy and population, Japan's film industry is also quite strong at this time. At least in terms of box office revenue, it is currently No. [-] in Asia.

In addition, Japanese movies are relatively open at this time, and there are fewer restrictions on imported movies.

Not to mention Hong Kong movies, even mainland movies, because of the Sino-Japanese honeymoon relationship, there are actually special discounts for mainland movies.

It's just that the inland movies at this time are really not very good, at least the movies made are not very suitable for Japanese tastes.

The only inland movie that can be regarded as Japanese is tasted, and it is a co-production movie with a Hong Kong flavor, and that is "Burning the Old Summer Palace".

When "Burning the Old Summer Palace" was released in Japan, it was called "The Empress Dowager".

As for this movie, the total box office in Japan, which is the so-called Xingxing income, reached 11 billion yen.

You know, when this movie was released in Japan, it was 1984. At that time, the RMB had not depreciated significantly, and the yen was still very valuable relative to the RMB.

In 1984, the ratio of RMB to Japanese Yen was generally 1 to 102, so 11 billion Japanese Yen was approximately equal to 1000 million RMB, which was a remarkable figure.

If you don’t have an idea, you can exchange it for the Hong Kong box office market at that time.

In 1984, the ratio of RMB to Hong Kong dollar was 1 to 3.4, that is to say, 1000 million RMB was equivalent to about 400 million Hong Kong dollars. This box office is definitely No. 1 in Hong Kong.

Because in 1984, the Hong Kong movie box office champion "Best Partner 3: The Queen's Secret Order", the box office was only 2929 million Hong Kong dollars.

Even if the points are divided, there are not many who can really get into the hands of Cao Zhiqiang, but Cao Zhiqiang's shooting cost is also low.

When filming "Love in Guting", the most expensive equipment and film were rewarded by the system, which was equivalent to free.

Other hard expenses, that is, the film crew's travel expenses, food expenses, filming allowances, etc., even including Cao Zhiqiang's personal hotel expenses, even these expenses add up, in fact, it does not exceed 20.

In other words, as long as the sales share of this movie can give Cao Zhiqiang 50 yuan, he will make a lot of money.

However, the domestic buyout price is likely to be the highest buyout fee of 90 yuan.

As for Japan, if there are no accidents, Cao Zhiqiang estimates that the box office of this movie will be at least one billion yen after its release.

If the film is released in Japan, it can be screened in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, South Korea and other places with the help of the Japanese platform, or even in Europe and the United States, and another wave can be harvested.

The combined income of miscellaneous things is likely to exceed tens of millions of RMB!

If that's the case, then the film is a real hit, not to mention the benefits of expanding its popularity.

(End of this chapter)