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Chapter 134 Deputy Director Chen? !

In the quiet car, when Chen Shiping was hesitating whether to agree to Zhongshan Meihui, the mobile phone placed on the passenger seat suddenly rang.

After picking up the phone, Yu Hua's voice came from the other end.

"Why haven't you arrived yet? All the classmates are here and waiting for you!"

Chen Shiping said immediately: "I just finished my work and will be there soon."

After hanging up the phone, he turned to Zhongshan Meihui and said, "Sorry, I have an appointment tonight."

"It's okay." Zhongshan Meihui said with some disappointment: "Then let's make an appointment next time."

After sending Zhongshan Meihui back to the hotel, Chen Shiping went to find Yu Hua and the others.

The literature research class is about to graduate, so it would be a bad idea not to go to this party, but Chen Shiping hasn't written his graduation work yet.

During this time, I have been busy filming movies, I haven’t attended a few classes, and I haven’t written a new novel.

The main reason is that Chen Shiping is still quite controversial in the literary circle. If he rushes to write a new book, I don’t know what the result will be.

Less than a year has passed since Red Wall was published, and the controversy over this novel in literary circles has not completely subsided.

A novel of hundreds of thousands of words has already received tens of millions of comments, and everyone seems to be on a crusade.

Chen Shiping sometimes feels that people in the literary world are really idle and becoming more and more narrow-minded. It is not surprising that after the millennium, literature has completely fallen into decline and Internet literature has emerged.

If it were not for the narrow-mindedness of the above group of people, contemporary literature would not have developed to the point it did.

The Chinese have always had a way of emasculating good things so that they will neither die nor grow stronger in their own hands.

Just like the national football team, just like literature, there are many such situations, and the root cause is nothing more than profit.

Just like now a group of people are fattening themselves up by sucking blood on Dream of Red Mansions. A book of more than 700,000 words can actually enable so many literati to study it for decades and all of them have become red scholars.

Literature seems to be developed into literary research, and it only needs to be studied by the predecessors.

Sometimes Chen Shiping also wonders why the Red Wall he wrote has attracted so many people's criticism and research. Is it because he has touched the sensitive area of ​​red scholars?

Is it because I'm tired of studying Red Mansions, so I want to criticize the Red Wall and Chen Shiping, a celebrity, to put a shiny stamp on my reputation as a Red Man scholar?

There is still a lot of controversy over whether or not to ban Red Wall. Chen Shiping has never come forward to respond. Whether it is banned or not is not important.

It doesn't matter if he is called a "rogue writer". After all, there is still the word writer, not just the former.

Chen Shiping drove to the vicinity of Taipingzhuang Shopping Mall and saw Yu Hua playing with the dog in front of the hotel far away.

When Hachigong saw Chen Shiping coming, he waggled his tail and ran over barking. Yu Hua couldn't help but cursed: "You're an immature bitch."

Chen Shiping stroked Hachigong's dog's head and raised his eyebrows provocatively at Yu Hua.

"Whoever keeps a dog!" Yu Hua couldn't help but scolded: "You are as heartless as you!"

Chen Shiping laughed loudly, walked up to him and asked, "Why are you so resentful?"

"Where's my script? Where's my adaptation!" Yu Hua rolled his eyes and said.

Chen Shiping smiled awkwardly and said, "Come on, the Literature Department has already found someone to compile the manuscript."

"Didn't you tell me you would write it?"

"I don't have time now. They write first and I'll revise it!"

"You're not fooling me, are you?"

"We are all brothers, so tell the truth!"

"roll!"

There are many people in the literature class who are close to Chen Shiping, and there are many people coming to dinner tonight.

In two days, they will go on vacation and go their separate ways. Everyone feels a little reluctant to leave. Although they are all adults, and many are middle-aged, the time spent studying in school is still nostalgic. .

A group of people drank an unknown amount of wine. When they came out of the restaurant, they were all drunk.

Chen Shiping led Hachigong to go home, but was held back by Yu Hua.

"I'll go back to Hangzhou tomorrow. Give Hachigong to me and I'll send it back to you tomorrow." Yu Hua said a little loudly.

Chen Shiping also knew that Yu Hua was anxious to go to Yanyu Tower to report, so he didn't think much about it. He handed the dog leash to his hand and walked back staggeringly singing a song with them.

When Chen Shiping woke up the next morning, it was already past nine o'clock. It took him a while to come back to his senses.

"No, there's my dog!" Chen Shiping suddenly realized that Yu Hua's train was at 9:30 in the morning, and it's now 9:45!

Chen Shiping jumped out of bed, put on his clothes and ran to Beijing Normal University.

This guy Yu Hua probably stole the dog!

When Chen Shiping rushed to the dormitory of Beijing Normal University, he didn't see his dog. After shaking Mo Yan awake, he realized that Yu Hua had left.

"What a fool! You stole my dog!"

Chen Shiping cursed angrily, and Mo Yan couldn't help but laugh beside him, bluntly saying that they were divorcing and robbing children.

On the highway at this time, Yu Hua, who was riding a ride with a friend, looked at the barking dog in the back seat and smiled so happily.

"Why do you smile so obscenely? Do you think you stole this dog?" Yu Hua's friend couldn't help but tease.

Yu Hua chuckled and said, "I stole it! This is Chen Shiping's dog."

My friend was speechless. Why did he steal the dog?

Yu Hua smiled and said you don't understand, then took out a piece of beef jerky and put it to Gouzi's mouth and said, "When we get to Hangzhou, I will find you a gentle Jiangnan puppy to be your wife."

The very spineless dog immediately let out a fit of laughter and bit into the beef jerky.

Chen Shiping, who had lost his beloved dog, was wondering whether he should take leave to get the dog back. However, considering that there were so many things going on in the factory and he would have to go to the upper level for a meeting in two days, he had to give up temporarily.

I can only wait until I get back on vacation to get the dog back.

"Shameless Yu Hua!" Chen Shiping couldn't help but curse, and almost wanted to get revenge on him by copying him alive, but he hadn't handed in his graduation project yet!

But this idea is just a thought. Doing this kind of thing once is enough. Doing it too many times is unethical. However, you really need to take the time to write your graduation project, otherwise it will be too late to hand it in.

Chen Shiping originally wanted to write "White Night Walk", but when he started writing, he thought of Zhongshan Meihui for some reason. In the end, the words "White Night Walk" became the words "Love Letter".

I just happened to have written a highly controversial "gangster novel" like Red Wall, and now I'm going to write a romantic love story to see how those people will criticize it.

Chen Shiping was full of bad taste in his heart. He wanted to see how the outside world would comment on him under such a contrast.

Love Letter is a good novel, but everyone’s focus is on the movie, ignoring the novel itself.

The discussion of youth and death in the book is very good, but it is much weaker than the explanation of death in The Mortician.

It took Chen Shiping a few days to write the novel. The full text has only 110,000 words in total. After changing the background, the number of words was even smaller. It changed from a novel to a novella, and it didn't take much effort to write.

Chen Shiping first made a copy and handed it to the school, and then sent another copy to a contemporary magazine.

After finishing his graduation project, Chen Shiping had nothing to do before. The only thing he was busy with was the meeting on film reform.

Chen Shiping had submitted his paper to the meeting, and on the third day after submitting it, he was called to a meeting for discussion.

The data written in Chen Shiping's research paper is very detailed, and his judgment on the future of the film market is also well-founded. The leaders above were very inspired after seeing it and felt that Chen Shiping's suggestions were very feasible.

The first is about abolishing unified purchasing and marketing and actively transforming into a market economy. The second is about suggestions on the reform of cinema chains, establishing professional cinema chains and forming a set of market standards. Finally, it is about suggestions about the reform of co-productions. Co-productions must be regulated. While studying, In the process, a genre of movies with its own characteristics and in line with mainland values ​​was formed.

In a conference room full of leaders and experts, Chen Shiping suppressed his nervousness and said: "Both Hollywood and Hong Kong movies are driven by the market economy. They make movies that the public loves to see and take the initiative to adapt to the market. Of course, the most important thing is Take the initiative to guide the market! Cultivate the audience and the market!”

"Monopolized purchasing and marketing has a great impact on the creative passion of film workers. If the producer has no profit, how can there be passion?"

"Many directors are troubled by financial problems in the early stages of creation. There is no money in the studio, and investors are worried that they will not be able to get their money back. Many good ideas and scripts are wasted."

"If there are no movies that the public likes to watch, the audience will gradually lose. The popularity of television sets has made a considerable number of viewers unwilling to spend money to go to the cinema, because the movies are not as good as the TV series!"

"Films are going to be submerged by TV series! The market is sluggish step by step. The economy is getting better and better, but the film market is getting smaller and smaller. If we don't reform, it will be too late!"

Chen Shiping eloquently analyzed and elaborated his views from various aspects, including the market, audience, economic development, and ideology.

Experts and leaders in the conference room also interrupted Chen Shiping from time to time to ask questions, and Chen Shiping was able to explain clearly and answer their doubts one by one.

The original symposium had turned into a battlefield where Chen Shiping was quarreling with fellow scholars. It lasted from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

"That's it for today's discussion." A leader from the Ministry of Culture took the initiative to end today's meeting, and then concluded: "Shi Ping's suggestions are very good, organized and feasible. Let's think about it carefully when we go back, and we will continue the discussion tomorrow. .”

Chen Shiping breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that today's efforts were still effective. The suggestions in his paper were not much different from the original film reform. They were just put forward in advance and were in line with the current film market in the mainland.

In the following ten days, a total of eight meetings were held on film reform.

At the ninth meeting everyone knew that the results would come out today.

The moment Chen Shiping arrived in the conference room, he was surrounded by many people, all with smiles on their faces. They had responded to reform suggestions many times before, but this was the first time that Chen Shiping was so prepared and determined to lead the reform.

Now there are finally results, and the unified purchase and sales model is finally going to be broken!

Chen Shiping saw them smiling so happily, but he was not so optimistic in his heart. The cancellation of unified purchasing and marketing would make it difficult for many film studios to survive.

Talents are scarce, funds are insufficient, and we don’t know whether we can survive in the market competition.

Chen Shiping knew very well how the eight major film studios disappeared. It is estimated that many film studios are thinking of co-producing, learning something and making money at the same time.

But what they don't know is that co-productions will also be restricted. Since the market is liberalized, the first thing to ensure is the development of mainland films, rather than giving the market to others.

In the past, the operation of directly selling factory labels would be restricted, the conditions for co-productions would also increase, and the indicators for co-productions would decrease year by year. The selection of imported films would also be more cautious, and films with more marketability would be selected to stimulate the mainland film market.

Mainland audiences have watched too many old-fashioned movies produced by film studios, and foreign commercial blockbusters will become the first choice for audiences.

If film studios cannot keep up, they will soon lose their living space.

Chen Shiping didn't feel sorry for these people in his heart. Supporting mainland films to restrict co-productions and abolishing monopoly on purchasing and marketing are all good things, but whether they can seize such opportunities depends on themselves.

The meeting started soon. The leaders came in and directly issued the final document. This was the final reform document and standard. The market price of movies in the future will be based on this standard.

All aspects from film studios to China Film to theaters to Chinese joint production are involved.

People in the office looked at each one one by one. They were surprised at first, but gradually fell silent in the end.

The challenges ahead are even greater! Which company can withstand the test of the market will survive!

After the abolition of unified purchasing and marketing, major film studios will also have to set up their own distribution departments. They will either find China Film for distribution, run the distribution themselves, or cooperate with China Film for distribution.

This is a test for the film studio and also a test for China Film.

In the past, China Film Group provided directly to theater chains. Now theater chains also have autonomy. If they want to be a professional theater chain, they must form a complete and mature set of distribution standards.

The document will officially take effect in April next year, leaving little time for everyone to react.

As soon as the meeting ended, Chen Shiping saw people from Tianshan Film Studio running out. Their factory was very poor. Now that there are restrictions on co-productions, they would not be able to get co-productions with high-quality services and low prices.

You must make more money quickly before the document takes effect!

Chen Shiping doesn't worry about this problem. He has the co-production department of Beijing Film Studio in his hands, so he will never worry about these problems.

Just when Chen Shiping was about to leave, someone from China Film Group suddenly came over.

"Shiping, let's talk."

"Director Chen, I'm looking for you. Mr. Li wants to talk to you."

People from China Co-production also came over to find Chen Shiping. As soon as they met with people from China Film, they knew clearly that their goals were the same!

As a result, the atmosphere became subtle, and Chen Shiping was also quite embarrassed. Where was he going now?

Chen Shiping turned to look at Song Tao, who was still chatting with others, and shouted silently in his heart, Director, if you don't come here, I will run away with someone else!

Song Zhu seemed to hear Chen Shiping's thoughts and came over after chatting with others for a few words.

He directly ignored the people from China Film and China Cooperation, walked up to Chen Shiping and said with a straight face: "What are you still doing here? Go back to the factory to set up a distribution and publicity department!"

Chen Shiping immediately smiled and said, "Okay! Let's go right away!"

After Chen Shiping left, Song Tao turned to look at the people from China Film and Zhonghe and said, "Do you two have anything to do with our deputy director Chen?"

The people from China Film and China Cooperation twitched their lips, why did Chen Shiping get promoted? You guys decided in a meeting! Does it meet the standards for cadre appointment?

(End of this chapter)