Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 160 I only like to conquer

In the dark room, the bright moonlight adds a different style to the room.

The white window screens swayed leisurely, and the evening breeze blew in slowly, bringing with it a hint of cool water vapor.

The rocking chair by the window squeaked back and forth, and a white and tender foot tiptoed on the old floor.

The window screen swayed leisurely and fell on Zhu Lin's body, covering her smooth and white back, like the veil of a wedding dress hanging down.

Zhu Lin knelt on the rocking chair with one leg and grabbed the back of the chair with both hands, rocking back and forth.

The floor under the rocking chair was stained with water, and the air smelled of hormones.

Under the moonlight, Chen Shiping looks like a holy monk in the West, looking at the gentle and jade-like turtle in front of him with piety. This is a work of art!

But now Chen Shiping is regarded as a white horse.

Grabbing the beautiful black hair with one hand and gently pulling it back, Zhu Lin raised his head and took a deep breath.

Chen Shiping leaned down and pressed close to her, stretched out his other hand to hold her slender neck, and shouted in her ear: "Your Majesty, come with me to learn the scriptures."

Zhu Lin's little face was red and he was out of breath, his beautiful eyes were covered with mist, and he pushed his body back hard, trying to end this suffocating game as soon as possible.

In the dim room, under the bright moonlight, His Majesty the King seemed to be suffering, but he was immersed in it and couldn't extricate himself.

Unable to extricate himself, His Majesty the King could only look up at Chen Shiping, hoping that he would take the initiative to extricate himself.

It's just that you started the game, and it's not up to you to end it.

Chen Shiping raised his hand and patted it gently, causing a wave to rise immediately.

His Majesty the King rolled his eyes and lay weakly on the back of the rocking chair.

A line of drool dripped slowly from the wooden chair back onto the floor, just like the puddle in front of the rocking chair.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Shiping came to the bar counter on the first floor, ordered a bottle of wine and went upstairs.

In the quiet corridor, Chen Shiping lowered his head and smelled the smell on his clothes. After confirming that there was only the smell of alcohol, he opened the door and went in.

The only sound in the dark room was Tao Huimin's steady breathing. Chen Shiping carefully took off his clothes for fear of waking her up.

After climbing into bed, Chen Shiping felt confused. He had just drank a lot of wine, and now he was getting drunk.

When Chen Shiping got up the next day, it was already past ten o'clock, and Tao Huimin was no longer in the room. He probably went shopping with Xu Feng and the others.

Everyone has a day off today, so they should all go out to play.

When Chen Shiping went downstairs to eat, a colleague from the circulation department who had not gone out to play immediately came over with several newspapers.

"Director, if you look at today's newspapers, they are full of praise for the Mongolian spirit, praising it from various angles."

Chen Shiping took the newspaper and glanced at it quickly, and found that these media and film critics were really good at bragging.

The movie "Spirit of Mongolia" is almost touted as number one in the world!

These people are really good at getting paid!

But this is not surprising. I was supposed to write articles and film reviews, and I was supposed to praise him, but now I just make the praise more exaggerated.

Chen Shiping put down the newspaper and said with a smile: "Well done, why didn't you go out to play?"

"It's boring and I don't want to go."

Mei Juan is a top student who graduated from Peking University. She was recruited by Chen Shiping into the co-production department last year and was sent to Nortel to study for a year before joining the distribution department.

Chen Shiping was very optimistic about her and said with a smile: "If you don't go play today, you won't have time in the future."

Mei Juan hesitated but shook her head and said, "It's okay, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

"That's not wrong." Chen Shiping smiled and took out his wallet, took out a few bills and handed them to her and said, "It's your first time here to have some fun. You can use the money first, and you can get your bonus later. Li buckle."

Chen Shiping knew her situation. Her family's conditions were not very good, and she didn't even bother to apply for foreign exchange when she came here.

I don’t go out to play now, most likely because I don’t have money.

When you go out to play, you have to spend your own money. Following Chen Shiping in the hotel is money from the flower factory. This is different.

Mei Juan looked at the banknotes in front of her hesitantly, wanting to take it but afraid that she wouldn't be able to get it.

"You think it's too little?" Chen Shiping deliberately said with a straight face: "Your bonus is only one thousand U.S. dollars, I can only give you two hundred dollars, is it too much?"

Hearing Chen Shiping's words, Mei Juan immediately picked up the banknotes and said seriously to him: "Thank you, director! Then I'll go out to play!"

After saying that, Mei Juan ran away, and Chen Shiping didn't even have time to say thank you.

Chen Shiping shook his head helplessly. Mei Juan performed well this time, and she can be responsible for the overseas distribution of the studio's movies in the future.

Everyone went out to play, and Chen Shiping had nothing to do alone. After eating, he was about to go upstairs when he saw Zhu Lin coming downstairs.

The two of them looked at each other and felt a little embarrassed.

Chen Shiping coughed lightly and said, "I just got up. The seafood pasta downstairs is pretty good. You can try it."

"Have eaten." Zhu Lin replied softly, his mind couldn't help but recall what happened yesterday.

Especially the words I said when I begged for mercy, now that I think about it, I want to jump into the river outside the hotel and drown.

Chen Shiping hummed and didn't know what to say. Yesterday he was just too high-spirited.

After Chen Shiping bypassed her and went upstairs, Zhu Lin also turned around and followed her. He even took a few steps faster to pass Chen Shiping, twisting and turning towards his room.

Chen Shiping tilted his head and looked at her back. He was a little worried about His Majesty the King's condition and followed her.

Everyone is going out to play, why doesn't she go? Is she feeling unwell?

Go take some care!

The rocking chair squeaked and rocked.

At about five o'clock in the evening, the people who went out to play came back.

Tao Huimin saw Chen Shiping sitting on the bench outside the hotel with a sleepy face and yawning, so he ran over and said, "You just got up? Have you eaten? Why did you drink so much wine yesterday?"

"It's more fun to chat with a few old friends." Chen Shiping explained casually, and then said apologetically: "I can't go out with you today. Let's go out alone in a few days."

"Okay, by the way, I bought a nice hat today."

Tao Huimin took out a top hat from her handbag and put it on her head. She turned around in front of Chen Shiping and said, "Does it look good? Does it look like Marilyn Monroe?!"

Chen Shiping smiled and said: "You are much prettier than Marilyn Monroe."

After chatting at the door for a while, a few people went in.

Tao Huimin also asked Chen Shiping if she had seen Zhu Lin and said that she did not go out today.

Of course Chen Shiping replied that he had seen it, but he seemed guilty if he said that he had not.

The hotel is so big, how could we not see it?

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Chen Shiping called the people from the distribution department together for a meeting.

The day after tomorrow is the release of Wives and Concubines, and a lot of work needs to be arranged.

Distribute movie brochures, attract people to watch movies, contact film producers, etc. At the same time, the film festival's jury also sat together to discuss the films in the competition.

"Have you read the newspaper today? There is a lot of discussion about the Mongolian spirit."

"It's indeed a lot. It looks like it cost a lot of money."

"Yes, some articles are obviously boastful."

At this time, the nine-member jury felt a little disgusted with the over-promotion of the Mongolian spirit. Although the movie was very good, excessive publicity would make people uncomfortable.

What's more, this is Venice, and what's important is art, not commerce.

"I thought of Chen Shiping's comment. I checked the information today and felt that his comment was right."

"Don't you think it's objective enough?"

"Yes, this confuses me. The Mongolian spirit is well shot, but now I don't want to vote."

"Then you can join me in voting for Wives and Concubines!" A female director on the jury said with a smile: "I like Wives and Concubines very much, the filming is so beautiful."

"The colors of the picture are bold, and the composition and story are also very good. The most important thing is that he does not just focus on the feudal persecution of women, but emphasizes material and desire, and the limitations of the times are eliminated."

The judges sat together and had a heated discussion, none of them aware that they were invisibly affected by Chen Shiping's public relations tactics.

Who told them not to have contact with the outside world now? Otherwise, if you ask some familiar friends, you might be able to find out who is promoting the Mongolian spirit.

However, there is a high probability that you will not be able to find out. How can film critics and media pay to do things and tell them? This will affect their impartiality and will be worthless in the future.

The director of Mongolian Spirit was also worried at this time. The evaluation of the movie in the newspaper was even more unobjective than his own movie!

No, my movie is very objective and shows Mongolia on the edge of the Soviet Union.

But now he has been ruined by Chen Shiping's comment, and most people think he is not objective anymore.

He now regrets that maybe he really shouldn't have called the movie Spirit of Mongolia.

Chen Shiping was looking at the current affairs newspaper and the analysis of Big Brother, and couldn't help but sigh.

Big Brother will be disbanded in a few months, and America is awesome.

However, this also made Chen Shiping a little wary. As early as the 1960s, Hollywood had used movies to influence the world.

Comrade Lieutenant General of Big Brother discovered the huge role of movies at that time, so he established the Moscow Film Studio with his own hands.

It's a pity that before it had time to have an effect, a series of things happened. The latecomers did not pay attention to movies at all, but paid more attention to industrial development.

And there is also a very interesting theory. No matter how many movies are made, there will only be one or two classics in the end.

Then why not pool the funds and manpower to make two classics.

Mosfilm then lay dormant until Paramount filmed War and Peace .

The quality of the movie is so bad that the filmmakers over at Big Brother can't stand it!

Who is Audrey Hepburn, why can she play Natasha Rostova! And Henry Fonda, that old man, actually played a handsome twenty-year-old boy!

What was even more unbearable for Soviet filmmakers was that after the film was introduced, it became so popular among the people!

Damn it, the greatest book ever made into a Hollywood movie!

If we can't bear it, we'll do it ourselves! Teach them a lesson!

This led to the birth of the most heavily invested film in history, the Soviet version of War and Peace.

But it was just a flash in the pan. Soviet films were later overthrown by Hollywood, and even the cultural invasion could not stop it.

Chen Shiping knew that China would also be impacted in the future. To be precise, it had already been impacted.

The era of Hollywood blockbusters is not far away, sweeping the world.

Later, the mainland also specially implemented a domestic protection month, which is really sad to say.

Chen Shiping felt that he had to do something big after all this time. If he changed the co-production now, he would change history in the future!

Before that, we must bring out the team, all kinds of talents are needed!

From behind-the-scenes production to post-distribution and screening, talents in the entire industry must be cultivated. Only when there are enough talents can the industry get better and better.

Early the next morning, Chen Shiping sent people from the distribution department out.

Some are responsible for recruiting people for promotion, some are responsible for communicating with film producers, and some are responsible for inviting the media and film critics.

Let them all go out to exercise. If they don't practice at such a good opportunity, we can't let them find the theater manager to exercise their drinking ability after returning to China.

On the day of the screening, Chen Shiping came to the screening room early in the morning. At this time, many viewers were already queuing outside the screening room with movie brochures.

The results of yesterday's work were not bad. There were so many people queuing up early in the morning, which shows that the audience is still looking forward to it.

There were four shows in total today, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Chen Shiping and the others spent the whole day in the screening room.

The chairman of the film festival is also here. When Chen Shiping's film is released, he will definitely stand up to show his face.

Soon the screening time came and the audience lined up to enter. Chen Shiping also went in together with some well-known film critics and the chairman of the film festival.

In the dark theater, movie scenes soon appeared on the screen.

Tao Huimin looked at the screen nervously and couldn't help but grab Chen Shiping's arm when he heard his own voice in the movie.

"Mom, I've thought about it."

"You have been talking to me for several days, don't you just want me to get married?"

Xiao Baicai's beautiful face slowly appeared on the screen.

A glimmer of life appeared on the numb face, his eyes slowly turned red, and the last tear fell.

Then the movie's title and credits appear.

Chen Shiping's name appeared four more times.

Screenwriter, director, producer, Chen Shiping's works! .

Many film critics in the screening hall were very familiar with this scene, and it was the same at Cannes that time.

Many people still can't figure out how Chen Shiping did it.

Doing so many things by yourself is really full of energy.

Soon the main film officially started, with several wives fighting each other in the compound for rights and desires, and they were slowly swallowed by the desires in their hearts.

The master in the movie never shows his face, he is like a symbol, representing rights and rules, like a hook that draws out everyone's deepest desires.

He is more like a bystander, sitting and watching these women fight with each other, even if they die in the end and go crazy, he doesn't care.

Because as long as he is there, the next woman will jump in.

Just like twenty years later in the 21st century, gold-worshiping women and phoenix men also exist. No matter how the times develop, as long as people have desires in their hearts, these things will never disappear!

feudal? It's just an appearance.

Wouldn't it be feudalism if it changed its form in the new era?

When the movie ended with Songlian standing in a circle in the yard, the theater burst into warm applause!

All the audience stood up and applauded, and the applause in the auditorium lasted for four and a half minutes!

Chen Shiping's works will never disappoint!

He is here to conquer the three major European film festivals, not beg for a trophy!

(End of this chapter)