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Chapter 856 The book is over!
"Hello, viewers, you are watching the Huaguo TV open class "Lecture Begins". I am the host, Xiao Sa."

In September 2024, Huaguo Communication University, the recording site of a new issue of "Let's Talk".

Xiao Sa, who is nearly fifty years old, is still handsome, enough to fascinate an eight-year-old girl or an 80-year-old grandmother.

"Today, our program came to Communication University of Huaguo. Among the young people present today, there will be my colleagues in the future.

Students who want to be hosts, I have to tell you that some TV programs are particularly tormenting hosts.For example, on this podium, there used to be a person named Ma Yun. After recording that episode, I was about to cry, and I fell into deep self-denial.

But I still stand here full of courage, because I think today's guest should not put too much pressure on me on this stage. On the contrary, I think that maybe when he appears, I will feel inexplicably kind, because We've all grown up watching his movies for the past 20 years.

Let us welcome today's lucky draw guest - Tang An! "

"Clap clap clap."

Amid the applause of the enthusiastic students in the audience, Tang An, who is now 44 years old, came to the stage.

"Hi Xiaosa, I grew up watching your show."

"Hi everyone, I'm Tang An."

There was another round of applause. Although this is not a film school, Communication University of Huaguo is also considered to be half an art theater. I don't know how excited I am to see Tang An, who has not appeared in front of the public for a long time.

"Oh, I'm not nervous, but I'm really nervous now. Director Tang is also my boss. If I don't perform well today, my variety show might be canceled."

Xiao Sa also made a joke.

"how do you know?"

Tang An was a little surprised, "The day before yesterday, Tudou Films was planning to adjust the budget and promotion resources of its various variety shows."

Xiao Sa pulled his face, wanted to say something but didn't dare to say anything, and fell into autism.

"Hahaha"

The students in the audience couldn't help laughing.

Tang An also smiled and asked them, "Students, do you think I should talk to Tudou Films about cutting half of the budget and promotional resources for the show hosted by Xiao Sa?"

"want!!!"

Everyone shouted in unison.

Xiao Sa continued to be autistic.

"That"

Tang An pondered for a second, "Then I'll go back and ask them to double the budget for Xiao Sa and give the best promotional resources."

Everyone was slightly taken aback.

"Actually, I haven't been on a TV show for five years, and I don't know what to say to everyone and the audience in front of the TV."

Tang An said with a smile, "Until I met Xiao Sa half a year ago, he said that it had been 20 years since my first movie was released, and he joked that he invited me to give a lecture on this, and it was the twentieth anniversary."

"I thought so too, 20 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and I still vaguely remember that I was filming "Shark Beach" with Mi Mi, that is, my wife, on the beach of Xiangshan."

"The kind-hearted village chief and his two lovely grandsons, Dabao and Sanbao, I wondered why they skipped Erbao when choosing their names."

"Then have you figured it out now?" Xiao Sa couldn't help interjecting next to him.

It was the first time for the students in the audience to hear Tang An mention this matter, and they also looked at him curiously.

"No."

Tang An felt a little regretful, "Actually, in 19, when I passed by Ninghang once, I suddenly remembered this and went to the village at that time."

"However, the small village back then is no longer there, only tall buildings remain."

Things changed, and suddenly the atmosphere became a little sad.

"It seems to be a bit off topic."

Tang An shook his head, "At that time, Xiao Sa told me to talk about some experiences and insights from the past 20 years,"

"In fact, whether it is experience or perception, it is a summary of what has happened."

"As for you, your life has just begun, and what lies ahead of you is the future."

"No one knows what the future will be like. It is not advisable to use what has happened to me and my own experience to use on your future path."

"The same drug, some people can cure the disease, but some people will cause various side effects."

"But I've come here, I have to say something. Just now is the first sentence I said to everyone. Life is unsatisfactory in all likelihood. It is impossible for everything to go smoothly."

"You guys are booing and want me to cut Xiao Sa's show, but I don't want to, if you say no, maybe I will really cut it.

Similar things will continue to happen in your life in the future. Sometimes when you wake up in the morning and think about all the things yesterday, you will even find that nothing is satisfactory. "

Rory babbled a lot, and it seems that this problem cannot be changed. Once he talks, he can't stop. It's like a meeting, and he doesn't stop until he doesn't want to talk.

Seeing Tang An finally finished speaking, Xiao Sa hurriedly said, "Director Tang, in the past 20 years, you have experienced and led the development of Huaguo's film industry. Today, Huaguo has become the world's largest box office market, and Chinese-language movies are also popular all over the world. There is a certain market within the scope, can you briefly summarize the development of the film industry in recent years?"

"Everyone is a student of Communication University of Huaguo, and some of them may also be engaged in the film and television industry in the future. Let me just say it briefly."

Tang An thought for a while and smiled, "I won't talk about it if it's too far away, let's talk about the last ten years.

About ten years ago, I was working on The Jungle Book, which was a live-action animated film, an adaptation, not an original.

At that time, many people didn't understand why I made this movie. In fact, I made this movie mainly to let Americans, Europeans, and all foreigners understand the special effects technology of our country.

Some people said why it was not this movie, not other genres. What they thought at the time was that the original cartoon had a certain reputation in the United States, and everyone in the United States knew it, and the style of painting after my adaptation was in line with Eastern aesthetics, but also in line with Western aesthetics. , after all there is only one actor.

If the genres of Journey to the West and Fengshen are changed, American people are not used to them, but we are not used to it ourselves if we let them get used to it.

When we are weak, we have to do as the Romans do, and then slowly let them accept our things, which is a long process.

Except for the protagonist boy, all the animals, plants and trees in the movie were made by CG. The movie took five years to produce, and more than 3000 special effects personnel were employed. The cloud rendering farm of Huawei Cloud and Kingsoft Cloud was the final result A near-perfect live-action animated film was presented to the world.

At that time, people in the United States were scolding me, saying that I was a Chinese who had ruined their childhood classics, and there were many ugly words in China.

Some people, how do you say that word, it’s called cents, they crazily criticized me on the Internet, saying that Tang An would also be fried in Hollywood, and some excited people also scolded me for xenophobia, with tone Especially intense.

In addition, there are some colleagues who are also watching jokes.

However, after the film was released overseas, foreigners were overwhelmed, and they began to have a new impression of Chinese films. In their impression, Chinese films were no longer shoddy, and there were no longer only niche literary films, as well as specialized films. A "realistic" film that shows the lives of the people at the bottom.

At that time, the best special effects of the Oscars could basically be determined by default after the movie was released around the world for a week, which was the consensus of the entire Hollywood.

With such a huge cost, the global box office of 13 billion US dollars is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to let foreigners know Chinese movies again.

Since then, many Chinese-language films have often been released simultaneously around the world, and the box office has gradually improved.

North America, Europe, Asia, mainly Asia, because I have jointly established a distribution company with many countries in Southeast Asia, and I have also cooperated with many movie theaters in various countries.

Up to now, there are more than 80 cinemas in Southeast Asia, including those under construction, covering almost most countries in Southeast Asia except South Korea and Japan, and it is still growing.

And it has also opened up the video tape market channels in various countries in Southeast Asia. Chinese-language movies are already the highest-selling type in the Southeast Asian video tape market.

And Xiangjiang, through the cooperation with Huarun, has opened 38 movie theaters in Xiangjiang. It can be said that 70% of the theaters in Xiangjiang belong to the branch of Xiangjiang Cinemas of Hantang Cinema Line. "

Having said so much, Tang An took a breath.

At this time, a student under the stage raised his hand to indicate that there was a problem.

"Tang Dong, Han Tang Media didn't open a movie theater in Omen, and I heard that you also blocked Sun Entertainment in Aomen in all aspects in the mainland?"

"Yes."

There's no need to hide this little thing.

"Zhou Zhuohua, the boss of Sun Entertainment, has a nickname called Xi Mihua, do you know what it means?"

The crowd shook their heads.

"Xi Mi Hua is called nice, but it should actually be called Qian Hua!"

"The literal meaning should be easy to understand, and it will be difficult to elaborate for a while, that is, money laundering through his blockade. As a result, he entered the film industry. After co-producing films with some companies, he also used films as a tool for money laundering."

"Some money cannot be earned, and this is also a kind of harm to the film industry, so, after I have enough capital, I began to prohibit all the films that Sun Entertainment participated in from being released in its theaters, including other films released by Wuzhou. Cooperative cinema."

"All the companies under the group, including Toutiao, Douyin, Douyu, Bilibili, Zhihu, and other short video apps and websites that hold certain shares, have completely blocked the movies that Sun Entertainment participated in."

"Dong Tang, don't you think this is too domineering, and those films are also participated by other companies?" Another student questioned.

Tang An smiled, "First, I haven't violated any contract. My own company, my own cinema, can show whoever's movie I want, and it doesn't violate any laws."

"Second, I gave a one-year buffer time. I can't control what other people want to make money, but I just don't allow people to use movies as a tool for money laundering."

"However, it seems that I heard that when you were filming "You Now You See Me" in Omen, you had some troubles with Zhou Zhuohua. Did you intend to take revenge?"

"That's right, there is such a thing, and it can also be seen as my lack of guts and revenge."

Such a quick admission made the doubters suddenly not know what to say.

When a person is really awesome to a certain extent, these small things will not affect his reputation.

Tang An now owns more than 20 listed companies under his own control, countless other companies that he participates in, and hundreds of companies he indirectly controls. He has been the richest man in China for many years, and even defeated Mukesh, the richest man in India three years ago · Ambani, Asia's richest man, and for three consecutive years.

Someone also mentioned that Tang An pulled Liu Dongqiang at a critical moment a few years ago.

"That incident has been going on for several years. In fact, there is nothing to say. From the beginning to the end, I believed that Liu Dongqiang would not do such a stupid thing at such a critical time. Otherwise, he would not be Liu Dongqiang."

"Before the accident, the capital of the United States reduced its holdings of Jingdong's shares in a large amount, and as a listed company in the United States, Wall Street has been eyeing Jingdong."

"Before Liu Dongqiang stripped the two high-quality assets of Jingdong Finance and Jingdong Logistics from Jingdong, the capitalists on Wall Street have long been dissatisfied. I judged in advance that Wall Street was going to empty Jingdong, so I found Ma Huateng. He He is also a shareholder of Jingdong, talked for a long time, and gave some money to help Liu Dongqiang stabilize the situation a little bit."

"Of course, I didn't lose money during this process. Later, I also used Jingdong to promote our Nuomi.com, and Jingdong connected to my own payment channel. It is very important for me to compete with Meituan in the online or offline market. played a role."

"Tang Dong is so sure that Liu Dongqiang has not sexually assaulted?"

"From the reports of so many mainstream media in the United States at that time, we can see the clues. Even if the Wall Street capital behind Jingdong can't completely suppress the news, it will not make such a big fuss.

But I don’t care whether he does it or not. Jingdong is one of the most important Internet companies in Huaguo. As an entrepreneur, Liu Dongqiang controls Jingdong’s contribution to society, which is definitely much stronger than foreign capital. Of course, it has also been proved afterwards. He is indeed innocent. "

"Tang Dong is really an entrepreneur with a sense of social responsibility."

Xiao Sa also flattered his boss against his will.

"What kind of social responsibility is it? It's just too much money. And I have always admired Liu Dongqiang. He has come to this point from a poor rural student with no background, and it is worth learning for all young people."

Tang An shook his head, "According to the statistics of Forbes, what is my net worth?"

"813 billion US dollars." Xiao Sa reminded.

"It's less than $[-] billion, but it's a lot."

I am special.
Less than [-] billion U.S. dollars, which is a lot.
Xiao Sa seemed to have been hit by tons of critical blows, and this situation made him feel a little familiar.

Why am I always the one who's hurt!
"In fact, when the wealth reaches a certain value, I feel very uncomfortable."

Tang An continued, "Look at the money, there are hundreds of companies under it, and many of them are first-class or even number one in the industry. Even if I don't care about the wealth these companies have created for me, there are thousands of families I live by these companies, and if they go bankrupt, it won’t be that I lose a little money.”

"So even if I don't care about the money, I have to let my company have a good development."

"It is also very tiring to think that the lives of thousands of families may be affected by the failure of one of my decisions."

Well, you're right, let me get tired too.

Xiao Sa continued to be autistic.

"Director Tang, do you think Huaguo's film and television industry can surpass Hollywood one day? This is a topic that has been frequently discussed on the Internet in the past two years."

"Of course it is possible. After all, the future is full of infinite possibilities."

Tang An said with a smile, "Chinese films have begun to gain certain competitiveness overseas. The three series "Fengshen", "The Wilderness", and "Journey to the West" are extremely popular in the Southeast Asian market, and sometimes they can overwhelm Hollywood blockbusters."

"In the European and North American markets, after Western audiences have a new understanding of Chinese-language movies and their special effects, they will try to watch Chinese-language movies. "

"What we filmmakers have to do is to keep making good movies so that foreign audiences can see more excellent Chinese-language movies. After time, let them accept our culture. become mainstream around the world.”

"That will be a new era, everything is possible in the future, it depends on how we work hard for it."

After talking so much, my mouth is dry and I am tired.

Looking at the time, it's almost time.

"Why don't we stop here for this episode, and I have to go to the amusement park with my daughter in the afternoon. Now that the kindergarten is starting, if I don't take her to play well, I won't study seriously in class."

"This"

Even though he was very experienced, Xiao Sa was a little confused. Today's program did not follow the flow at all. It was Tang An who was talking there alone. He occasionally interjected a few words, and the audience asked few questions.

The key point is that Tang An can be regarded as his own boss, and he finally hired him, so it's too casual.

However, as a host, Xiao Sa still has basic professionalism, rounded up the words, and announced the end of this episode.

Tang An remembered something again, and said, "By the way, it doesn't matter if I advertise?"

Xiao Sa was taken aback for a moment, "It's okay."

"Next Saturday night, Ma Yun and I will have a crosstalk performance at the Hantang Grand Theater in Beijing. Everyone is welcome to come and listen to the crosstalk."

"You said that Ma Yun came from a family of opera, and I'm not even an amateur. Isn't this a bully? I'm really retired!"

Shaking his head, he left the recording site and came backstage.

"father!"

A soft and cute five-year-old girl opened her chubby hands, trotted over with her short legs and threw herself on Tang An's lap.

Tang An hugged the little girl dotingly, "Let's go baby, Dad will take you to the amusement park!"

Yang Mi followed, straightened the little girl's clothes, and complained, "Don't spoil her all the time, she's becoming more and more disobedient now."

"Mom is bad!"

The little girl lying on Tang An's shoulder made a face at Yang Mi, snorted, hugged Tang An's neck tightly, and stopped looking at her.

"Haha."

(End of the book!)
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