Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 15 Return to school and accept the interview

The next day, Zhou Mo took some time to go back to school.

He went back to school to complete the graduate school admission procedures.

A year ago, his head teacher approached him and asked if he had any thoughts on pursuing a master's degree.

Zhou Mo didn't agree at first. After all, it was the film and television industry, and the academic requirements were not so strict. What was more important was resources and opportunities.

He is not an academic person, so it doesn't make much difference to him whether he goes to graduate school or not.

It might even waste time.

The film and television industry changes every year. If we waste two or three years, the outside world will probably be completely different.

The teacher advised him directly:

"You don't have to go to school on weekdays. I have already notified the teachers in the department for you. Why are you delaying?
Besides, I didn’t expect you to study hard with them. During your four years of undergraduate studies, the ones who taught you were Zhang Qian and Li Guoli. I heard that Jiang Wen also contacted you a few days ago?
In the film and television industry, no matter how much theory you have, you still have to rely on practice. How many teachers in the school can compare to them?

Your grades are also good, so you can be admitted to graduate school.

I let you go to graduate school not so that you can study, but because the multiple identities will only benefit you in the future and not harm you.

Your family conditions are okay, but after all, it has nothing to do with the film and television industry. You can't see anything now, but when you compete for resources after graduation, the difference in family conditions will become apparent.

Look at Huang Sanshi, he hasn’t studied acting for many years, but he still has endless resources. Why?

In the future, when you become a graduate student, or go further and even become a teacher, you will be one of our own in the school.

If for no other reason than when you go for awards in the future, your school will be standing behind you. Have you ever thought about how many of the judges are from your school?
No matter how you develop in the future, as long as you are still in the industry, as long as you say that our school at least recognizes you, undergraduates don’t have this treatment…”

These words were spoken from the bottom of his heart.

Zhou Mo stood up on the spot and bowed to the teacher.

Then I submitted my application for admission to graduate school.

Last September, the school released the list of students guaranteed admission to graduate school, and his name was on it.

Zhou Mo's coming today is equivalent to handing over the materials in advance, and then he can be considered a prospective graduate student.

The head teacher took the materials and gave another instruction:
"Your junior classmates have always wanted to do an interview with you. Now that you are back, you can chat with them for a while."

Zhou Mo made a bitter face: "That's not necessary."

The head teacher patted him on the shoulder and said, "What do you mean it's unnecessary? You and Tiantian have won 400 million yuan at the box office. Logically, you are both excellent students and should come back to attend the meeting. But you two are running around outside every day and don't even come back to see me.

You must attend the interview today, otherwise when graduate school starts, you will have to give a speech to the freshmen."

Zhou Mo admitted his mistake obediently.

"By the way." The head teacher said, "You will be interviewed later. Remember to be more restrained and not be too ostentatious. Do you hear me?"

Zhou Mo was confused: "Huh?"

The head teacher didn't explain much, just said you would understand after a while.

A moment later, a junior student came over and took Zhou Mo to the Student Activity Center.

Along the way, I "accidentally met" many younger classmates.

"Senior, please remember to contact me."

Zhou Mo secretly complained: "You are not Celia, I can't remember..."

The junior student who led the way smiled and said, "Senior, you are really welcome."

Zhou Mo laughed and asked, "What is the topic of our interview?"

He thought the content of the interview would be about the filming process of "Love Is Not Blind" and sharing of experiences, which are all old-fashioned topics.

This is also a classic model for campus interviews.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the junior student opened his mouth, he was surprised.

"It's about the competition between new and old directors from both places in Taiwan and Ip Man 2."

Zhou Mo's eyelids twitched.

Wow, is this a wild way?
He has only been out there for two years. Are the contents of campus interviews so explosive now?

In his impression, the topics of campus interviews are either industry-related popular science introductions or the deeds of outstanding students.

There are generally no controversial topics.

It’s a campus newspaper, those who understand will understand.

The content of competition and even stepping on each other between new and old directors is obviously a slide that is not usually encountered in campus interviews.

“This should not be the original content of the interview.”

The junior nodded: "It was originally a normal interview, but after learning that it was you, senior, we decided to change the topic of the interview."

Recalling what the head teacher had told him, Zhou Mo suddenly had an idea.

Obviously, the head teacher knew something.

"This should be the teacher's instruction."

The junior nodded.

"Yes, but it was indeed a junior in the department who first proposed it, saying that it would be better to do something more exciting."

Zhou Mo sighed that they were indeed the most energetic group of people in the school and they were very courageous.

"Good! You look very energetic. I will accompany you for the interview."

"Thank you, senior." "But I have a question, why did you think of this interview topic? Logically speaking, this matter has nothing to do with you."

The junior student chuckled and said, “An interview is nothing more than a communication. Have you ever thought about whether you can really learn something from a conversation? The most important thing is to make it interesting.

Rather than so-called sharing of methods and imparting of experience, students still prefer to see confrontation and obviously controversial topics.”

Zhou Mo had been a college student for two lifetimes and he thought it was true.

The ones who last longer than fans are always the fun people.

Everybody likes to see rivers of blood.

Seeing that Zhou Mo did not express his opinion, the junior student continued:

“Senior, you don’t know that over the past few years, we have summarized some data and found that there is a big gap between the two places in terms of pay, treatment and even status in the crew.

In the crew, as long as the people from there are willing to come over, their status will automatically be raised to a higher level, and they will also make all kinds of demands.

We students have actually been dissatisfied with this matter for a long time. We all graduated from the same school, and no one is better than anyone else. Why do we have such good conditions over there?

So, when you took the lead in April, we all admired you. But we didn't expect you to be so amazing and take 400 million at the box office. "

Zhou Mo thought about it and actually resonated with these words.

It is an old tradition that the people there have high status.

Even after the millennium, the market there had shrunk, and the casting was just changing the island owner into an inner supporting role, and the island man into an inner woman.

A big part of the reason for the rise of the four great actresses back then was due to this.

As for male actors from the mainland, no matter how big a star you are, if you want to develop in the island film industry, you can only play supporting roles.

There were even incidents where the little white dragon was beaten.

But even those at the level of the Four Great Dan Actresses have to give way when they meet the female stars over there.

When Megatron was filming "Red Cliff" last year, she originally thought she was the female lead, but when she arrived on the set she actually had to play supporting role to Kurosawa's model. That was the situation.

Fortunately, the incident involving Mr. Chen’s photo two years ago was equivalent to overwhelming the young generation over there, which added fuel to the change.

In a few years, the situation will be almost reversed.

"This may be an opportunity for me to establish myself as a fortune teller."

Zhou Mo is preparing to snatch Huang Sanshi’s character.

"By the way, do you want to add a content about the market development of the film and television industry in the two places?"

The junior's eyes lit up.

After half an hour.

In the office, the head teacher yelled at Zhou Mo: "I asked you to interview me, not to step on me. Look at what you said."

Zhou Mo felt aggrieved.

"I just gave an evaluation of the market. I couldn't refuse the kindness of my juniors, so I said a few more words."

"No?"

"Did you say a few more words?"

The head teacher was so angry that he was shaking: "What are those two sentences? The students asked you about the future of Island Films, and you just said, 'It's hopeless, wait for death, goodbye'.

Are you going to piss me off to death?"

Zhou Mo argued: "I'm not wrong. After 08, there haven't been any particularly good movies produced there. They will only get worse in the future. This is no secret in the industry."

"It's not a secret and it's not your turn to speak up. How old are you to judge an entire market? Are you qualified? Just send it off.

And it also said that 'within two years' the domestic entertainment film and television box office will usher in a huge growth, and the box office will exceed 1 billion.' Can you predict it, or have you seen the future?"

Zhou Mo thought to himself that you are really right.

I have really seen the future.

Have you ever seen a movie with a budget of 3000 million yuan that raked in 12 billion yuan at the box office?
I have seen.

Zhou Mo tasted the sweetness of publicity last time, and this time he wanted to take the opportunity to try it again.

It was just a campus interview, and the scope was relatively controllable.

When the box office is high in the future, this interview of his will definitely be dug up, and then...

Gee tut.

Being pretentious is a pursuit in life.

You have traveled through time, but you don't pretend to be cool. What's the difference between you and a salted fish?
The head teacher panted, "I will tell them to modify part of your conversation so that you don't have to eat too much spit."

Zhou Mo was anxious: "Don't worry, teacher, just say it as it is."

"Are you really going to piss me off to death, Zhou Mo? Do you know that if you say this you will offend a lot of people?"

“The louder the waves, the more expensive the fish.”

"You &￥@@SDG..."

As they were talking, the cell phone rang: "Hi, shua, shua, shua."

The head teacher clearly distinguished between public and private matters. He waved his hand to let Zhou Mo answer the phone first, and said that he would deal with him after he finished his work.

Zhou Mo opened his phone, and the first thing Da Tiantian said was:
"Zhou Mo, Cheng Long has agreed."

(End of this chapter)