director of the millennium

Zhang Guorong, who is 63 years old this year, has long lost interest in interests.

For him, there is only one pursuit left in this life, and that is to win the highest honor in the field of directing - Best Director or Best Film!
These two honors are obviously not something that a commercial film can win.

Even though the current Hundred Flowers Awards are very biased towards commercial films, and the films that have won the Best Picture in recent years are all commercial films, for "old-school" filmmaker Zhang Guorong, art films are definitely the real art!

"Director Wu, you know." Zhang Guorong smiled faintly, "Becoming a director is my last dream, and the reason why I have this dream is largely due to the influence of Director Wang and you."

"I really admire excellent directors like Director Wang and you, who can interpret the art of film very well."

"The art films you made are all excellent and left a deep impression on me."

"I also want to make a movie like this. Although I don't know if I have the ability to do it, I really want to give it a try."

"I'm already in my sixties, and I don't have much time left to try."

"So, in the next few years, I want to focus on art films, and let others shoot the company's commercial films."

Zhang Guorong has shares in Guangying Times. For him, making commercial films for Guangying Times is also making money for himself.

But he still firmly refused to make another commercial film, and it was obvious that he had made up his mind.

Seeing Zhang Guorong smiling but with a determined look in his eyes, Wu Yuan also smiled and said, "Leslie, go ahead and shoot whatever you want. The company will fully support you."

Looking at the mottled white hair on Zhang Guorong's head, Wu Yuan felt extremely emotional.

Time is really a butcher's knife.

In a blink of an eye, Zhang Guorong is already in his sixties.

Even without that leap in 2004, Zhang Guorong has remained mentally healthy to this day. It can be said that his life has been completely changed by Wu Yuan.

Now he is free and relaxed, enjoying life and pursuing his dream of becoming a director.

Wu Yuan had no reason to stop him from realizing his last dream in life.

He also didn't want to use what he had said to Liu Yifei as a reason to stop it and tell Zhang Guorong.

Even if the next few years are a cold winter for the global film industry, it will not have much impact on art films.

After all, art films do not have too much financial pressure, especially with Zhang Guorong backed by Guangying Times. Spending tens of millions to make an art film is not a big deal for Guangying Times, and it doesn't matter even if it is shelved for three to five years.

Even if it is not released to the public, and is just a participating film, it doesn't matter.

After all, art films are primarily designed to win awards, and don’t have too many expectations for box office success.

Looking at Zhang Guorong's half-white hair, Wu Yuan really couldn't say anything like asking him to wait a few years before filming again.

It is rare for a person to live to be seventy, and no one can predict the future. While Zhang Guorong is still in good health, he should realize his dream as soon as possible.

Anyway, the company will not lack commercial film directors in the next few years.
Wu Yuan privately told Li Xiaoping that the company's film shooting plan would only be arranged until the first half of 2019, and that it would not approve film scripts from the second half of 2019. The company would temporarily stop filming for one or two years. When he told Li Xiaoping this, Li Xiaoping didn't understand at all, and for the first time strongly rejected Wu Yuan's "unreasonable" request.

Wu Yuan's statement that the industry is overheated and may face a bubble burst may fool Liu Yifei, but it cannot fool Li Xiaoping.

Even if there is an industry bubble, Guangying Times is still the leader among the leaders and will not be greatly affected. There is no way it will need to stop operations completely.

It is even more impossible to stop production prematurely when there is no obvious bubble yet. This is just groundless worry!
But Wu Yuan couldn't come up with a more reasonable reason, so he and Li Xiaoping actually didn't reach an agreement on this matter, and he forced her to do so in the name of the boss.

This caused Li Xiaoping to feel some resentment towards him during this period, and their originally close cooperative relationship also had some cracks.

But it is not a big problem. Wu Yuan believes that by the end of next year, Li Xiaoping will know how wise and powerful his decision is.

As for how to explain the “foresight” at that time?
Not everything has an answer.

At that time, as long as Wu Yuan refused to give in, he would insist that the industry was overheated and there was a possibility that the market bubble would burst, so he wanted to step on the brakes and cool down the industry. He didn't expect to encounter the epidemic. Everything was just a coincidence.

Li Xiaoping had to believe it even if she didn't want to.

Because there's no better explanation.

You can't say that Wu Yuan really came from the future, right?
Although the theme of the protagonist traveling through time, being reborn, and returning from the future has been overused in movies and novels, few people really believe that such a thing can actually happen in real life.

Moreover, Wu Yuan also agreed to Zhang Guorong's filming of an art film. No matter how fast he prepares, this film will inevitably collide with the epidemic. By that time, Guangying Times will have a film in production and shooting, which also shows that Wu Yuan is not a "prophet". Everything is really just a "coincidence".

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan's smile became even more pronounced.

"Leslie, do you have a suitable script?" He said to Zhang Guorong with a smile: "Since it is your movie, there is nothing I can do to help you."

"Of course I don't need your help, I can write the script myself!" Zhang Guorong said firmly.

For Zhang Guorong, only the movies he wrote and directed himself were completely his own. If he won a film award based on the script given by Wu Yuan, it would not be a perfect thing for him.

If you want to win the prize, then do everything yourself!
"I already have a good script, which I spent five years polishing to write." Zhang Guorong, who was well prepared, took out a script from the small bag he carried with him and handed it to Wu Yuan.

"If possible, I would also like to ask for your advice and suggestions."

Well, this doesn't count as asking someone else to help write the script.

Wu Yuan took the script and read it carefully.

"Glass Love?" Wu Yuan felt that it looked familiar, as if it was the title of a song by Zhang Guorong.

The script itself was not too long, so he quickly read through it, then looked up at Zhang Guorong with a complicated expression, "Leslie, is this a script adapted from your own emotional experience?"

"I guess so." Zhang Guorong said with emotion, "I wrote this script after re-examining my life."

"Cannes or Venice will probably like this movie." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows and said with certainty. (End of this chapter)