During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 399: One Out of a Hundred Awarded
The annual art examination of Beijing Film Academy has already started for several days, and today is the day for the re-examination of the Department of Performance.

Liu Yifei got up early for a rare occasion and dressed herself quite formally.

A slim-fitting women's suit, showing a bit of coolness and capability.

With heavy makeup, red lips, diamond earrings and long hair, she really looks like a strong woman.

"Yifei, don't say it, you really look like a boss picking people, haha"

Sitting in the car, Wei Jin made teasing remarks.

Today is the day he and Teacher Cao have agreed on. Wei Jin plans to hand over the script of "Dear" to the latter.

The meeting place was at Beijing Film Academy, and I happened to give the girl a ride.

"What? Brother, do you think it doesn't look good?" Liu Yifei raised his eyebrows, his tone somewhat provocative.

"That's not the case, it's just that if you do this, I'm afraid you'll scare the candidates for the retest. After all, you're not a fairy at all, haha."

"Hate it, I don't want the label of a fairy."

While laughing and joking, the two of them had already arrived at Beijing Film Academy.

As expected, Beijing Film Academy was crowded with people today, and a long queue had formed at the school gate.

Seeing this scene, Wei Jin couldn't help but sigh that the number of art exam candidates is increasing every year.

Moreover, each of them has great appearance advantages, which is obviously the result of selection by Beijing Film Academy.

You have to know that when Wei and Jin were in school, even Huang Bai could enter the school.

"Brother, I'll go first then?"

Liu Yifei asked while hanging up the work badge issued by the school.

"Well, go ahead. Call me when you're done and I'll go directly to Teacher Cao."

"Well, okay, brother."

As soon as Liu Yifei entered the campus, she was recognized and instantly attracted the attention of all the candidates.

"Is it Liu Yifei? Wow, so pretty and cool."

“She’s the most popular actress now, right?”

"I'm sorry, I'm a fan of Senior Jing Tian, ​​I don't agree with what you said."

"Have you all forgotten me, Da Meiyuan? She is a billionaire heroine. Yuanyuan is the most beautiful in the world."

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The person who spoke did not expect that there were fans from various groups here. The queue, which had been neatly lined up, suddenly became chaotic.

Liu Yifei had no idea that she had caused a commotion in the team and went straight to the art exam site. From a distance, Teacher Zhou from the Performance Department saw her and began to greet her.

"Yifei."

"Teacher Zhou, I'm not late, am I?"

"No, no, it's still about an hour away."

Teacher Zhou and Liu Yifei hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they started chatting at the entrance of the examination room.

"By the way, let me introduce you to Yang Zi and Zhang Yishan, sophomores."

"Hello, senior sister."

"Hello, I haven't missed a single episode of your TV series Home With Kids."

While talking, Liu Yifei was also looking at the two of them, wondering whether it was necessary to sign them.

Well, she thought about it for a long time and still felt that she could try being a boss, but the most important thing was whether they had a good rapport.

"Well, let's observe first."

Lao Zhu drove from the examination room to the directing department, where parking was convenient.

Wei Jin went straight to Teacher Cao's office. As a professor in the college, the latter obviously deserved this treatment.

Along the way, he met a few familiar teachers. Wei Jin just greeted them briefly and didn't chat much.

When they arrived, Wei Jin knocked on the door and went in, only to see Cao Baoping sitting behind the desk wearing glasses.

"Teacher Cao, are you busy?"

"Wei Jin is here, please sit down."

Cao Baoping greeted him and raised the notebook in his hand.

"Well, I'm working on a script. It's just an idea at the moment."

In the vague Wei and Jin dynasties, one seems to see the key words youth, girl, and family.

"Oh? Will I delay you here?"

"No, I have to think slowly and polish it carefully, I can't compare with you, haha."

"Teacher Cao, you are too modest. You are a director with a salary of 3 million yuan at Beijing Film Academy, haha."

After chatting for a while, Wei Jin didn't waste any time and directly handed over the script from his briefcase.

"Teacher Cao, please take a look at the script first."

"it is good."

After taking the script, Cao Baoping didn't say much and started reading it by himself.

About ten minutes later, he looked up with some emotion.

"The script is very good, with both literary and commercial qualities. This is what directors like us should focus on. What a pity."

Wei Jin nodded. It is actually not easy for art film directors to transform themselves. But if these art film directors do not focus too much on marginal and painful events, they can actually achieve some results.

For example, "Dear", "Dying to Survive", "Snail House" and other themes focus on social phenomena such as searching for children, drug prices, and housing prices.

"So what do you mean, Mr. Cao?"

"I took it. As for the crew, you should arrange it. It will be more efficient."

"Okay, that's no problem. I'll arrange for the producer to connect with Teacher Cao."

Wei Jin agreed immediately. It was just right. This time, he could also put Wen Mu into the crew to train him. His cheap junior brother was quite good at realistic themes.
The total time spent with Teacher Cao was only over half an hour. It was too early, so Wei Jin took the opportunity to go to the Directing Department and see the teachers.

When they arrived, Wei Jin first went to see Teacher Jiang, who was drinking water from a thermos cup in his office.

"Teacher Jiang, are you drinking black wolfberry tea again?"

Wei Jin smiled and joked that Lao Jiang was getting old and had started to take care of himself since last year. Teacher Zhang Jiandong often laughed at him.

"You kid, you make me angry as soon as you come here, right?"

"How can that be possible? Look at what this is?"

Wei Jin said as he pulled out a gift box wrapped in plastic and glass from his briefcase and handed it over.

"Teacher Jiang, this is authentic black wolfberry from the Western Regions. I guarantee it will be good for you."

Wei Jin was not kidding, this thing was given to him by Nazar, who said it could nourish the kidneys and replenish qi, but he didn't need it, so wasn't this just the right thing to nourish Lao Jiang?

"You have a conscience, kid."

Lao Jiang took the things with a big smile on his face. As for whether he would be laughed at, he would wait until those people's urine split into two parts and then see if they could still laugh.
Teacher Jiang then started chatting with Wei Jin. As it happened to be the art exam, related topics were inevitable.

The more Wei Jin listened, the more surprised he was. The competition at Beijing Film Academy this year was too fierce. There were more than 2.5 applicants, but only 455 were admitted.

Because it is a peak year for enrollment in the Department of Performance, the number of admissions has increased, nearly doubling from last year's 30 to 85.

But the competition is even more intense, as there are more than 8000 candidates applying for the acting department.

This admission rate is almost one in a hundred, which is really crazy.

Wei Jin understood this. With the influx of hot money in the past two years, the entertainment industry has become increasingly prosperous. Many artists have become famous overnight, and more people have begun to dream of becoming stars.

To put it nicely, I like being an actor and I like the spotlight.

To put it bluntly, they just want to make a fortune in this industry. Who says celebrities earn more?

When Wei Jin first appeared on the Forbes Celebrity List, there were few celebrity artists in the top ten.

But according to last year's data, except for Yao Ming, the rest of the top ten were all actors and singers.

But I don’t know, once they actually enter this industry, how many of them will be able to stand out?
You have to know that the top resources are in the hands of a few people, and every star who rises to the top has to step on countless competitors of the same level.

After chatting with Teacher Jiang for nearly an hour, Wei Jin came to Tian Zhuangzhuang's office again.

Compared to Teacher Jiang, who likes to chat about interesting things with Wei Jin, Tian Zhuangzhuang cares more about Wei Jin's career.

"When are you going to Venice again?"

"Teacher, I have made arrangements. Next year, I will charge forward again."

Speaking of this, Wei Jin suddenly remembered that some scripts in his mind were actually quite suitable for Tian Zhuangzhuang.

If Tian Zhuangzhuang could also receive the honor, this would be the best reward for the mentor, right?

In addition, it can continue to expand its influence and add fuel to the establishment of new awards in the future!

Then Wei Jin told his plan one by one
Not surprisingly, Tianzhuangzhuang expressed cautious support for Wei Jin's plan.

According to his original words, the old pattern is not so easy to break, and we need to wait for the right time.

Wei Jin certainly agreed with this. He was still young and had enough patience.

After picking up Liu Yifei and taking her home, the little girl kept chattering about today's art exam.

"Brother, you don't know how hard it was for me to hold it in. You almost made me die of laughter. These art students have many talents, but their academic performance is too poor. They can't even name all the four great inventions."

Wei Jin was not surprised at all. There were so many people who slipped through the nine-year compulsory education in the entertainment industry. It was normal.

In later generations, there are many celebrities who market themselves as top students, but it’s all nonsense.

Can you be called a top student if you get 500 points in the college entrance examination? This is an insult to the word top student!

"By the way, brother, you're right. I really scared a lot of students today, which made me a little nervous during the interview. I plan to go without makeup tomorrow. Should that be okay?"

"That's not necessarily true. If you don't change your face, you'll probably still attract attention, haha."

"Brother, you only know how to say nice things to coax me."

Before the girl finished speaking, Wei Jin kissed her, and it was another night of romance.
Lin Yufen's speed is even faster than Wei Jin imagined, but it's no wonder, after all, she is a senior film and television worker who has been in the industry for more than 20 years.

"Very good, Director Lin did a good job on this storyboard. Let's do it according to your idea. Have you done the budget?"

In the office, Wei Jin put down the documents in his hand and looked up to ask.

"Boss Wei, the film production department has already done the calculations. If we can control the cost of the actors, it's estimated to be around 2000 million."

Lin Yufen's tone was a little uneasy, and she was sighing in her heart that movies and TV dramas are different after all.

No matter who the director of a TV series is, as long as it is produced by Shanhe Media, there will be no shortage of TV stations to take the bait.

But movies are different. With a production cost of 2000 million, including publicity and promotion, the movie must have a box office of over million to make a profit. The risk is indeed too great.

So Lin Yufen was even prepared for a cut in production funding, but unexpectedly Wei Jin's answer was very straightforward.

"Director Lin, let's stick with this budget. Do you have any ideas for the actors?"

Lin Yufen was stunned when she heard this, and then immediately said, "Boss Wei, I haven't thought about this, but there are so many artists in the company, I think we should be able to find a few suitable ones."

Wei Jin laughed when he heard this. Lin Yufen had been working at Tangren for quite some time and had learned Miss Cai's style of only praising her own people.

Moreover, as a TV drama director, her previous working method was for the company to consider roles, and she couldn't adapt to it for a while.

Or maybe he is very smart and is waiting for the boss's decision.

But honestly speaking, youth films don’t require much acting skills as long as the image fits the role, and this type of subject matter basically doesn’t rely on actors as a selling point.

"Okay, the script company will submit it for review, you should make the preliminary preparations first."

At this point, Wei Jin paused and had some ideas about the character.

"As for the role, I'll think about it first."

"Okay, Mr. Wei."

It was just the end of February when a piece of news from Berlin instantly set the entertainment industry on fire.

Ning Hao won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at this year's Berlin Film Festival with "The Great Buddha"!

"Commercial director Ning Hao, first conquered the European Big Three and captured the Silver Bear!"

"Ning Hao gave a speech accepting the award, thanking Director Wei Jin for the script and promising to continue striving for awards in the future!"

"The Wei and Jin scripts helped win the Silver Bear, and the reputation of the gold medal screenwriter is well-deserved!"

In his first battle, he directly won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director. When there was no win for any Chinese-language film this year, the entire film and television news page was filled with the news of Ning Hao capturing the bear.

The most crucial point is that Ning Hao won the Silver Bear with Wei Jin's script. Does this mean that others can copy this route?

It happened to be the Beijing Film Academy's art exam, and the school leaders were very happy at the moment.

The big red banner had been prepared long ago and was put up as soon as the news came back, in a determined effort to maintain the tradition.

"Congratulations, senior brother. You got what you wanted. Haha."

Wei Jin calculated the time and called Ning Hao, with joy in his tone.

"Hahaha, I'm lucky this time. I thought I would just get an Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award, but I didn't expect it to be Best Director, haha."

Ning Hao laughed a little exaggeratedly, and Wei Jin could hear Xing Ai's reminder voice coming from the phone.

"How is it? When do you plan to come back? I have a notebook waiting for you here."

"Wait until the copyright deal is over, you don't know these foreigners"

Ning Hao started mumbling again over the phone. In fact, Wei Jin already knew about this.

Because it was the first time to participate in the film festival, despite the gimmick of Wei and Jin Dynasty scripts, the copyright sales of "The Great Buddha" were not optimistic.

Even though the film received unanimous praise after the premiere, the film company only offered $140 million. Wei Jin suggested waiting until after the closing ceremony.

In response to this, Ning Hao held his breath and kept it secret without selling it, even though he could not guarantee a prize.

Fortunately, all the persistence is worth it now.

According to Ning Hao's complaints, the current offer price has reached 680 million, and it is estimated that it can reach 800 million after some negotiation.

The production cost of this film did not exceed 10 million yuan. Although it is unlikely to be released in mainland China, the copyright price alone has already generated excess profits!

After chatting for a while, Wei Jin hung up the phone, feeling somewhat refreshed.

Once Tian Zhuangzhuang has chosen the script and Zhang Yimou has started work, Shanhe Media may become even more dazzling next year, and my plans will be realized step by step!

(End of this chapter)