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Chapter 385 The last time

"Then who are you going to marry?" Wang Shu asked, turning around.

"Why do you care who I marry? No matter who I marry, I won't marry you." Sun Li said proudly with a smile on her pretty face.

There was a reason why she didn't answer Deng Chao.

The two have only preliminarily confirmed their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend, and are still a long way from discussing marriage.

"Ha!" Upon hearing this, Wang Shu walked towards Sun Li fiercely and said angrily, "You won't marry me, right?"

"Ah? What do you want to do?" Sun Li quickly backed away pretending to be afraid.

"Hehe." Wang Shu laughed, "Let's make it a done deal first, and see if you will marry me?!"

As he said this, he hugged Sun Li.

"I won't make it a done deal with you." Sun Li said with a blushing face.

"That's not up to you." Wang Shu chuckled, then made some movements with his hands.

"Help! Someone is molesting me!" Sun Li screamed immediately.

"Haha, go ahead and scream. No one will respond even if you scream your throat out." Wang Shu first looked like a lecherous thief, then he said with a lecherous look, "My little beauty, just obey me obediently!"

"You pervert, you bad guy, I won't agree to it." Sun Li continued to spit with her cheeks flushed.

"That's not up to you." Wang Shu chuckled.

Sun Li struggled hard, and Wang Shu loosened his grip a little, and Sun Li immediately struggled and ran away.

Then he turned back to look at Wang Shu and said proudly, "You wish."

Wang Shu was "stimulated" and went to chase her, but Sun Li ran away.

Wang Shu caught Sun Li, and the two struggled for a while, then Wang Shu let go and allowed Sun Li to run away.

Sun Li ran away and sneered again with pride.

Wang Shu went to chase again.

The two of them kept playing and fighting in the villa until Sun Li was exhausted and was carried to the sofa by Wang Shu.

Sun Li put her arms around Wang Shu's neck, stared at him dimly, and whispered, "For the last time."

Wang Shu was stunned for a moment, then kissed her on the lips and said seriously, "Okay."

Seeing this, Sun Li gave Wang Shu a sweet smile in return and kissed him on the lips.

The two looked into each other's eyes and kissed each other.

After a while, Wang Shu whispered in Sun Li's ear: "Use"

Upon hearing this, Sun Li immediately revealed an expression of unwillingness to resist but difficulty in rejecting Wang Shu's slightly coquettish look.

Wang Shu pretended not to see it and started to do the preliminary work.

Sun Li looked disgusted, but because it was not a good time to reject Wang Shu directly, she never gave him a proper rejection.

Then, under Wang Shu's pull, he was reluctant but helpless.
In her heart, since she had said it to Wang Shu for the last time, it would be difficult for her to refuse Wang Shu's request.

Although he was reluctant, he was satisfied under Wang Shu's persistent request.

"..." Wang Shu, who entered the sage mode, looked at Sun Li and said something.

When Sun Li heard this, her face was full of reluctance.

Woo. Woo. Want to speak.

Then he saw Wang Shu's stern face and gritted his teeth in grievance.
Then, he glared at Wang Shu with resentment.

Wang Shu smiled and wanted to get a bottle of water for Sun Li to rinse her mouth, but found there was no water nearby, so he reached out and pinched her face.

A light of inspiration suddenly flashed in Sun Li's aggrieved eyes, and she stood up and deliberately kissed Wang Shu.

Wang Shu immediately covered her mouth with one hand to prevent Sun Li's plan from succeeding.

The two of them struggled for a while, and Sun Li said angrily: "You don't even want to, and you still want me to eat it."

"Haha." Wang Shu smiled awkwardly and changed the subject, "It's getting late. I have to go to the crew to start work."

Sun Li curled her lips when she heard that.

Of course she knew that Wang Shu was trying to change the subject, but she also knew that there was nothing wrong with what Wang Shu said.

Because it’s really late.

Wang Shu pinched Sun Li's face and smiled, "I'm going to change my clothes."

Sun Li stood up without saying anything.

After a while, they both got dressed and went out together.

Since Sun Li had no change of clothes and needed to go home, Wang Shuxian drove her back first.

Before getting off the car, Sun Li said, "I won't visit the set today. I'll visit Deng Chao after he returns to Beijing and joins the crew."

"Okay!" Wang Shu responded without asking why.

Just as Sun Li was about to open the door and get out of the car, Wang Shu grabbed her, and they looked into each other's eyes, then hugged and kissed each other.

After a long moment, Sun Li blushed and sighed, "For the last time."

Wang Shu pinched her face with a smile, without making any comment.

After watching Sun Li leave, Wang Shu drove to the set.

As soon as I arrived on the set, I received many polite New Year greetings.

Then, the filming started in a rush.

After a few days, the New Year holiday came to an end and the work boom began again across the country.

"How is the trailer preparation going?" Han Sanping, one of the producers, came to the crew and chatted with Wang Shu about work.

"The first edition should be available in a few days." Wang Shu continued.

Han Sanping nodded and replied, "As long as we can catch up with the Berlin Film Festival."

"We will definitely catch up." Wang Shu said without a doubt.

The Berlin International Film Festival learned that Wang Shu was planning to shoot a new film and invited him.

He was not invited to participate in the competition, but to bring "Travel to Taipei" to the screening.

If it were an ordinary director, he would naturally not receive such treatment.

Wang Shu not only won awards at the three major European film festivals, but also won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival and went to Hollywood to make a movie.

This achievement, coupled with the fact that he is a young director and has become a hot topic, was enough to make the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival invite him.

Originally, after "People Mountain People Sea", the Berlin Film Festival had invited Wang Shu to make a film and participate in the Berlin Film Festival.

Wang Shu also politely promised that he would bring an art film to participate in the competition again if he had the chance, but he had a commercial film to shoot right now, so he had to put it on hold for the time being.

The organizers of the Berlin Film Festival also knew that this was indeed the case, and immediately extended him an invitation to screen the film again.

This screening is not a full-film screening, but a trailer screening promotion.

It can be said that the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival gave Wang Shu enough face this time.

Of course, for the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival, it is just a chance to screen "Travel to Taipei", which is nothing.

After all, there are so many movies being screened, and one more "Travel to Taipei" won't make much difference, and one less "Travel to Taipei" won't make much difference either.

However, for Wang Shu, this incident gave "Travel to Taipei", a movie aimed at overseas markets, a very good opportunity to promote it internationally. He would not miss it, so Wang Shu worked overtime these days.

I am busy filming during the day and editing videos at night.

The filming of "Travel to Taipei" has been underway for less than a month, and only one-third of the shooting has been completed.

However, the trailer is only a few minutes long, and even though a lot of the content has not yet been filmed, it can still be put together into a few minutes of trailer content.

The two chatted about this for a while, and Han Sanping asked curiously, "I heard that the organizers have invited you to make an art film to participate in next year's Berlin Film Festival?"

"It's true." Wang Shu did not hide it.

Han Sanping sighed after hearing this: "In our mainland, there are only a handful of directors who have been actively invited by the three major European directors to participate in the competition, including Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others."

"Now, there is one more you."

"In just three or four years, while others are still spinning their wheels, you have transformed from a newcomer to a well-known director."

"For example, Ning Hao, if you don't count the time when he was in college, it's actually around the same time as your debut."

"So far, only Crazy Stone, a movie with a box office of over 20 million yuan, has gained some fame."

Wang Shu laughed after hearing this. After filming "Crazy Stone", Ning Hao filmed the love movie "Sensitive Summer" and the art film "Seven Dreams".

All pounce.

In contrast, the films directed by Wang Shu have never failed.

"I heard that Director Ning is preparing a new film similar to Crazy Stone?"

Wang Shu asked, trying to change the subject.

Han Sanping nodded and said, "We are indeed preparing."

"Is China Film Group participating in the investment again?" Wang Shu asked again.

"Again." Han Sanping continued with a smile.

Although "Crazy Stone" was funded and filmed by Liu Dehua's film company, Liu Dehua's film company belongs to Hong Kong Island, so China Film Group was also involved.

This time, China Film Group will continue to participate in the filming of a movie similar to "Crazy Stone", and Han Sanping will also serve as one of the producers.

In the original timeline, "Crazy Racing" was released in 2009. The film had a production cost of 1000 million yuan and earned over million yuan at the box office.

Ning Hao also became the fourth director in mainland China to have a single film box office of over 100 million yuan, following Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige.

But now we have Wang Shu, and he is the fifth.

Wang Shu is the fourth director after Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige to have a single film grossing over 100 million yuan in mainland China, and the second director after Zhang Yimou to have a single film grossing over 200 million yuan.

He is the first director in mainland China to have a single film grossing over 3 million yuan.

There are a lot of directors in the domestic entertainment industry. If you count them carefully, the two up-and-coming directors, Wang Shu and Ning Hao, can become the 4th and 5th directors whose single films have box office revenues of over million yuan.

In 2009, the highest-grossing movie in mainland China was the foreign-language film "2012," which grossed 4.6 million yuan.

In an era when a foreign language film can earn 4.6 million yuan, Ning Hao became the fifth director after Wang Shu to have a single film box office exceeding million yuan.

The facts have already shown that there are many good-for-nothings who just live a lazy life.

Because this is no longer a question of there being only a handful of directors who can make commercial films. Even the directors who have achieved success in the field of art films are only Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Gu Changwei, Jia Kechang and others.

The so-called art film honors won by other directors are all awards won in the domestic market.

"With the reputation of "Crazy Stone", this movie should have good box office," said Wang Shu.

Han Sanping smiled and said, "It's possible only if Ning Hao doesn't mess it up."

After that, he turned the topic back to Wang Shu and said, "Compared to you, I'm still far behind."

"He's still playing around a bit."

"You are already the first domestic director to earn 3 million yuan in box office revenue."

"So, what do you think of what I said before?"

"Hollywood can come later."

"In the past few years, we have worked together to bring China into the era of commercial films!"

After a pause, he continued, "Compared to other directors, I personally think that you are the only one who has the most ability to promote the development of our domestic commercial films."

"Because your script and your film are novel, they not only achieved high box office, but also made our domestic commercial films more diversified."

"If we only focus on commercial films directed by Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, our mainland commercial films will always be overshadowed by Hollywood films."

"Your commercial films can compete with Hollywood films."

“It’s not just a competition in terms of box office, but also a competition in terms of subject matter.”

"For example, no director in mainland China dares to make this type of movie, 'Travel to Taipei'."

"Although censorship is part of the reason, the main reason is that there are no directors who have the ability to make such a film well."

“They just stay in their comfort zone instead of innovating.”

"Although Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly" has some innovations this time, this film is still not as good as the war-themed films and TV series that have been made in China."

Wang Shu smiled after hearing this and said, "Boss Han, do you have so much confidence in me?"

Han Sanping sighed and replied, "It's not that I have confidence in you, but I want to pick the tallest one among the short ones."

"." Wang Shu was delighted when he heard that.

This is the truth.

At this stage, whether in terms of art film honors or commercial film box office results, there are many people who have achieved more brilliant results than Wang Shu.

In terms of art film honors, Wang Shu won the Venice Film Festival Best Director Award, which is considered a big prize.

Compared with Berlin and Cannes, the Venice Film Festival has the lowest gold content.

Therefore, in the field of art films, many people, including Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, are better than him.

Only by achieving success in commercial films can he stand out among the short people in the domestic entertainment industry.

"I've said it before, if the opportunity arose I wouldn't miss it."

"If there is no opportunity, of course I will return home."

It’s not that Wang Shu doesn’t want to stay in China, but after weighing the pros and cons, these years are the most suitable period for him to develop in Hollywood.

Because after this period, domestic entertainment has entered the era of multi-billion movie box office.

If Wang Shuruo had gone to Hollywood during that period, he would have suffered a huge loss.

And this period.
The highest-grossing Chinese-language film in 09 was If You Are the One, directed by Feng Xiaogang, which grossed over million yuan.

In 2010, the highest-grossing Chinese-language film was "Founding of a Republic", with 4.19 million yuan.

This movie is the main theme, so let's put it aside.
The second highest-grossing Chinese-language film by the studio was Red Cliff, with 2.6 million yuan.

Although the foreign language film "2012" has achieved a box office revenue of 4.6 million, the investment in this film was as high as 2 million US dollars, and the profits were made from the global box office.

If a Chinese-language film is blindly produced with an investment of $2 million, it will not be able to recoup the cost at all.

Anyone who claims that in this era, making blockbuster movies and grossing tens, hundreds of billions or even billions of dollars at the mainland theaters is talking nonsense.

Because, in this era, whether the box office can reach billions is not a question of the quality of the film, but rather that hard conditions such as the number of screens are insufficient to support it.

(End of this chapter)