Started as an independent producer in 1988

Chapter 246 Cheng Kaige surrenders
In the Beijing Film Studio, Xu Qing strolled to Chen Shiping's office.

She is going to collect debt!

Chen Shiping still owed her a heroine, and it's been several years!
It's time to make good on your promise.

Xu Qing knocked on the door of the office. After entering, she sat opposite Chen Shiping and stared at him.

Chen Shiping looked up at her and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Debt!"

Xu Qing said angrily: "At that time, we agreed to give me a female lead, but later we only gave me the second female lead. You said you wanted to give me back."

Chen Shiping: "." I thought Xu Qing had forgotten it.

Chen Shiping thought about the recent projects being prepared in the factory, but there was no suitable role for her.

I can't write a script for Xu Qing alone anymore.

Then you are at a huge loss!
Just when Chen Shiping was thinking about how to send Xu Qing away, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

Chen Shiping suddenly felt happy when this call came.

"Hello, who's there?" Chen Shiping answered the phone and asked.

"Director! Something big happened in Cannes!"

Chen Shiping said calmly: "What can happen? Zhang Yimo won the award, or Jiang Wen won the award."

If Cheng Kaige wins the award, that will be a big deal!

"Director Cheng attempted suicide!"

Chen Shiping immediately sat up straight and asked in surprise: "Who did you say attempted suicide?"

When Xu Qing heard Chen Shiping's words, she immediately started gossiping and lay down on the table to eavesdrop.

Chen Shiping was not in the mood to look at her butt right now.

"Tell me clearly what's going on!"

"Director Cheng! He failed to get anything out of the award ceremony tonight, and the film was scolded by the critics. He left before the ceremony was over, and was found at the beach with the water up to his waist!"

"Is it okay?"

"It's okay. I was pulled back. I'm in the hotel now."

Chen Shiping breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a moment and said, "Could he be going swimming?"

"I really went swimming! I didn't want to commit suicide!"

Cheng Kaige looked at Zhang Yimo and Jiang Wen in front of him and loudly denied it.

Zhang Yimo sighed and said: "Brother Kai, I know you are proud, but it's not like that. Cannes doesn't only have one session."

"That's right, Director Cheng, next time you ask me to be an actor, I promise to win face for you!" Jiang Wen also comforted.

Gong Li leaned against the door and didn't know what to say.

What a man, if you didn’t win the prize, you didn’t win the prize, so why can’t you think about it?

There are many people who did not win the award, and many of them are not even qualified to be shortlisted.

Cheng Kaige stood up and shouted angrily: "I really don't want to commit suicide, I'm just in a bad mood and want to relax!"

Jiang Wen didn't want to continue this topic and make Cheng Kaige unable to come off stage, so he pulled him and said:
"Then let's change our approach. Let's go. I'll buy you a drink. I know a very nice place!"

"I don't think about it now. I just want to sleep. You can go out."

As he spoke, Cheng Kaige rushed out. He was already in a bad mood because he didn't win the prize, and he felt even worse when he saw Jiang Wen and Zhang Yimo.

It's just that he was fished out just now, and Jiang Wen and Zhang Yimo didn't dare to let him be alone in the room.

Ten minutes later, Cheng Kaige looked at Jiang Wen lying on his bed, and his whole body felt bad.

Cheng Kaige shouted excitedly: "You want to sleep with me?!"

Jiang Wen was stunned for a moment and nodded, not sure if he was angry or something.

Cheng Kaige sighed and reluctantly accepted the reality.

In the Beijing Film Studio, Xu Qing lay on the table and asked in surprise: "Cheng Kaige committed suicide?"

Chen Shiping glanced at the two squashed balls on the table, coughed slightly and said, "Sit down or not, sit down and then talk!"

Xu Qing looked down and silently slid off the table.

"You heard wrong, no one committed suicide, don't go out and talk nonsense!" Chen Shiping warned worriedly.

Xu Qing said oh, already determined in her heart.

He secretly thought that he was lucky that he didn't go to Cannes, otherwise what if Cheng Kaige didn't win the award and became so angry that he dragged himself to death.

She is only in her early twenties, and her good years have just begun!
Chen Shiping looked at Xu Qing who was still sitting there and said, "Okay, you go out first, I'm busy."

Xu Qing stood up obediently and walked to the door before realizing that she was not here to gossip!

"Where's my leading lady?!"

Xu Qing ran back and lay on the table and asked.

Chen Shiping: "." I haven’t forgotten it yet!
Looking at the squeezed ball, Chen Shiping was embarrassed to continue cheating.

"I recently conceived a novel and I will look for you when I turn it into a movie."

Hearing Chen Shiping's words, Xu Qing immediately became happy. If it weren't for the fact that she was across the table, she would have wanted to go up and kiss him twice.

Every one of Chen Shiping's novels is very popular. If adapted into a movie, it will definitely be successful!

No matter how bad he is, he is still better than Cheng Kaige.

Everyone believes in successful people, and Xu Qing is no exception.

"Can you tell me what novel it is?" Xu Qing couldn't help but asked curiously.

Chen Shiping thought for a moment and said, "Suspense, love, crime, and humanity, the name is White Night Walk."

"So complicated?" Xu Qing couldn't help but repeat the name Bai Yexing, which sounded surprisingly good.

I couldn't help but pull Chen Shiping to ask about the specific content of the novel.

Xu Qing lay there and stretched out her hand to swing Chen Shiping around, causing the ball on the table to squeeze left and right and roll back and forth.

Chen Shiping felt that his pupils had shrunk.

Very focused!

In order to get Xu Qing to clean her desk, Chen Shiping slowly told the plot of the novel.

Every time he reaches a key place, he stops for a moment, waiting for Xu Qing to wander back and forth anxiously, and wipes the table with a ball.

A story took more than ten minutes to be roughly finished.

Chen Shiping's desktop also became extremely clean, but Xu Qing's shirt was a little wrinkled.

Xu Qing left with satisfaction.

After she left, Chen Shiping had time to think about Cheng Kaige.

Although Cheng Kaige has a poor character, he is not willing to watch him end himself.

There is no deep grudge, it is better to save one person or the other.

But he himself had to live up to his expectations, otherwise Chen Shiping wouldn't be able to help even if he wanted to.

Let’s wait and see his condition after he returns to China.

If he could just put down his attitude and film the movie honestly, Chen Shiping would be willing to help.

But Chen Shiping was even more puzzled: Why was Cannes so popular this time and why would it give so many awards?

A total of five awards were given to Chinese-language films. This is not right!
Chen Shiping sat in the office and thought carefully for a while, and finally came to an uncertain conclusion.

Cannes wants to continue to influence the direction of Chinese-language films!
Because of Chen Shiping's interference in the past two years, the domestic film trend has gone towards the road of commercial films and will never return.

If Chinese filmmakers don't take literary films and international film festivals seriously, this is a situation that Western filmmakers don't want to see.

The three major European films have given awards to Chinese painful literary films time and time again, not just to embarrass Chinese filmmakers.

Without the emergence of Chen Shiping, the influence of Europe's top three and the Oscars would have lasted until more than ten years later.

Everyone inside and outside the industry is proud of artistic films and the awards from the three major film festivals, but the development of commercial films is extremely slow. Mainland China is a little better, Wanwan is moving a little faster, and now it has mastered commercial films.

If the mainland develops on its original track, sooner or later it will be like the Bay Area.

Chen Shiping tapped the pen in his hand and couldn't help but shake his head. Cannes really spent a lot of money this time.

If the news spreads back to China, I don’t know how many directors will be affected and start shooting literary films.

Chen Shiping really couldn't avoid this kind of influence.

Soon the news of the Cannes Film Festival spread back to China.

Three films were shortlisted, two films won awards, and they also won Best Actor and Actor.

There is great joy in the country. Chinese films have finally risen and gained international recognition!
For a time, many film studios that were not in a recession were thinking about making a few art films to try their luck.

What if it works!
We don’t have the ability to make commercial blockbusters, but it’s okay to make artistic films.

Many directors also think the same way. They don't like commercial films and they can't make them well.

Then you might as well make a literary film. At least you can get honors, and the overseas copyright of the film is a very high income!

Chen Shiping has heard a lot of news these days and feels quite helpless.

The commercial films I made were too difficult, which scared off many people.

It seems that we have to make a few low-budget commercial films to set an example.

Otherwise, once everyone forms a fixed idea, it will be even worse!
When everyone thinks that blockbuster films are commercial films, then commercial films are useless.

This is how Hollywood blockbusters are formed.

Commercial blockbusters are willing to spend money, and the costs are also very high.

Several established film companies went bankrupt due to box office failures.

The domestic market is not as big as Europe and the United States, and there is no way to develop like Hollywood.

Otherwise, when the economy develops and the cost of filming increases, it will be difficult for the Southeast Asian market to support so many blockbusters.

If the cost of a movie easily exceeds 100 million, with the current size, it can only accommodate two movies at most.

If there are more, the market will not be able to sustain itself.

Chen Shiping really had a headache. Things were developing faster than he thought.

Originally, we were planning to wait until two years later.

Now it seems that the pace must be accelerated.

On the plane flying back to China from Paris, Jiang Wen sat next to Cheng Kaige, worried that something would happen to him again.

Cheng Kaige has been numb these past few days and is ready to be ridiculed and pitied when he returns home.

He committed suicide because he didn't win the award, and it's embarrassing to tell anyone!
It's more embarrassing than not getting the prize!

Cheng Kaige really wanted to die now.

Living like this is worse than death.

It was only when he stepped off the plane and a group of reporters gathered around to interview Zhang Yimou and the others that he felt something was wrong.

Why doesn’t anyone ask me about my suicide?

I can’t even attract media coverage if I commit suicide?

Zhang Yimo and the others received more attention than my suicide when they won the award? !
Cheng Kaige felt even more uncomfortable!
It would be better to just die that day!
Just when Cheng Kaige was about to leave, a reporter took the initiative to come over for an interview.

"Director Cheng Kaige, how do you feel about not winning this award?"

Cheng Kaige was a little surprised. He looked at the reporter and asked tentatively: "Don't you have anything else to ask me?"

The reporter was stunned for a moment, feeling a little strange, so he changed the topic and asked: "Then will you attend the Cannes Film Festival again in the future?"

Cheng Kaige frowned, feeling something was wrong. It seemed like no one knew about his suicide.

Hey, who blocked the news?
Cheng Kaige suddenly thought of someone and shook his head subconsciously.

The reporter thought Cheng Kaige had answered his own question, so he immediately asked: "So Director Cheng will no longer attend Cannes? Do you think Cannes is unfair or for other reasons?"

Cheng Kaige: "." Did I just speak?

But it doesn't matter whether he speaks or not, the reporter already thinks so anyway.

When Jiang Wen sent Cheng Kaige home, he immediately ran to find Liu Xiaoqing.

He must share the trophy in his hand with Liu Xiaoqing.

Although it’s not the Palme d’Or, it’s the first award I’ve won as a director!

Without Liu Xiaoqing's help, he would have no chance to be a director!
Jiang Wen knew very well what Liu Xiaoqing meant to him.

Not only a woman, but also a confidant and a bole.

In the Beijing Film Studio, Cheng Kaige looked at the banners hanging in the factory with a rather lonely look in his eyes.

Before going to Cannes, there were slogans in the banners wishing him a grand prize.

Among so many banners now, the only names are Zhang Yimo and Jiang Wen.

This gap made Cheng Kaige a little sad, but the sadness quickly dissipated.

This setback is not as big as the day of the award ceremony.

Mr. Cheng answered a phone call in the living room at this time, and then shouted to Cheng Kaige: "Kaige, the factory director asked you to find him."

Cheng Kaige, who was lying like a salted fish on the balcony, sighed and stopped moving.

Mr. Cheng was angry and helpless.

When Jiang Wen sent him back, he told Mr. Cheng alone what happened in Cannes.

But he didn't say suicide, but said that Cheng Kaige had been hit hard and it was better not to provoke him.

Mr. Cheng looked at Cheng Kaige, and finally couldn't help coming over and scolding: "Look at how you look now, how different you are from a useless person! You are only forty, not eighty!"

Cheng Kaige turned over and continued to lie down.

He has lost interest in everything now.

Mr. Cheng angrily walked over and slapped him on the face!

Cheng Kaige's face was burning, and he stood there in a daze.

This was the first time he was beaten by the old man. Even in those ten years, the old man never beat him after he came out.

Cheng Kaige suddenly couldn't control himself, huddled on the recliner and cried loudly.

Mr. Cheng looked at him like this and was silent for a long time. Finally, he knelt down and patted his shoulder to comfort him silently.

Chen Shiping waited in the office for almost an hour before Cheng Kaige came over.

Looking at Cheng Kaige, whose eyes were red, he was still a little puzzled.

Are you crying at home? Isn't it?
Seeing the confusion in Chen Shiping's eyes, Cheng Kaige sat directly opposite him and said, "I was slapped by the old man."

Chen Shiping said oh, he didn't quite understand this kind of thing, and there was no old man above him who could slap him, so he had never experienced that kind of emotion.

But looking at Cheng Kaige like this, he seems to be relieved.

Chen Shiping thought for a moment, took out two scripts and handed them to him, saying, "See which one you like."

Cheng Kaige didn't read the script on the table, but stared at Chen Shiping and said, "I hated you before, just like you hated me, but now I admire you very much."

Chen Shiping leaned back in his chair and asked with a smile: "Can I know why?"

"It's nothing. I took the script and will send it back to you after reading it."

Cheng Kaige picked up the script and left.

In the long and narrow corridor, he suddenly smiled, and he smiled happily.

Listening to the laughter coming from outside, Chen Shiping couldn't help but smile.

Cheng Kaige is still as baffled as before!
　I'll resume the second update tomorrow. I've been busy with other things these past two days. I'm sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)