Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 198 197. You two are just two crooked old men.

"Director Chen, welcome."

As the host, Wei Wu was the first to express his warm and hospitable side.

After all, if you don't reach out to hit the smiling person, he is here to cheer him up today.

Since Chen Kaige has taken the initiative to lower his profile, of course he has to give something back.

And really speaking, from the beginning to the end, he took the initiative to flirt with Chen Kaige, and Chen Kaige could only passively defend and say a few words to him.

Since everyone has come to support him today, if Wei Wu still holds on to him, it will appear that he is too incompetent!

Chen Kaige was also very considerate and said with a smile on his face:

"Congratulations, Director Wei. Two movies that have exceeded 100 million yuan in one year. You are totally going to shoot us old guys to death on the beach."

Wei Wu said with a smile: "No, it's mainly because the number of screens has increased and I've reaped some dividends from the rapid growth of the market!"

Chen Kaige also smiled and said: "Director Wei is too humble. No matter how the film market changes, but now your two films are among the top two in the annual box office list, this is always a real achievement, right?"

Putting aside the past grievances between the two, Chen Kaige actually admired Wei Wu quite a lot.

Because he does have real talent, especially in the directing industry, which is a talent that can be seen by the blind.

In fact, the first time Chen Kaige watched Wei Wu's movie was "On the Road", and of course he asked his assistant to buy a pirated version.

After all, he was not getting along well with Wei Wu at that time, and it was not convenient for him to go to the cinema!

Although the picture quality was slightly poor, Chen Kaige was still shocked.

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the door. Chen Kaige only watched the first two minutes of the clip and already concluded that the director Wei Wu was indeed of a terrifyingly high level!

To have such a level at such a young age is an out-and-out genius!

No wonder this kid dares to deliberately provoke and is eager to step on himself to get the upper hand. This is indeed a confident and well-thought-out thing!

Chen Kaige praised him a few times, and Wei Wu reciprocated by saying:

"Then it's mainly because Director Chen doesn't have any new films released this year, otherwise how could I still be there?

"If "The Promise" had been released this year, wouldn't I have been ranked second or third already?"

Chen Kaige sighed and said: "Although the box office of "The Promise" is acceptable, its reputation is really unsatisfactory. It is completely incomparable with "Those Years" and "Silver Driver" which were both popular and popular!"

Mentioning "The Promise", Chen Kaige felt his heart aching again.

well! If it weren't for the popularity of this movie, there would be no need for me to compromise with a junior like Wei Wu.

Everything was fine before this movie was released!

At that time, he was still a top Mainland director who was qualified to compete with Zhang Yimou.

How could he imagine that a movie like "Steamed Buns" would knock him off the altar and destroy everything he had accumulated over the years!

In fact, until now, Chen Kaige still doesn't think there is a big problem with the filming of "The Promise".

It is indeed not good enough to please the audience. He does not deny this, but it is definitely not that bad!

How can I put it? I can only say that this movie was mainly promoted too much!

As a result, the audience's expectations for this movie were too high, so it suffered a backlash in the end.

If you don’t believe me, you can watch Feng Xiaogang’s “The Night Banquet”!

To be fair, is "The Banquet" better than his "The Promise"? How strong can it be?

But the audience is obviously more tolerant of "The Night Banquet".

Although there was some criticism of Feng Xiaogang, compared with his experience, it was simply insignificant.

"Kaige, you're here too!"

Chen Kaige turned around and saw that his old classmate Zhang Huijun was also here, so he smiled and said hello:

"Yes, I just arrived. Huijun, are you here to cut the ribbon too?"

"Yes." Zhang Huijun nodded, gossiping and saying:

"What were you two talking about just now?"

Wei Wu took advantage of the situation to greet the guests and naturally picked up the topic:

"Dean, I was just saying that thanks to Director Chen's lack of new films being released this year, I was lucky enough to get a place on the box office list..."

Zhang Huijun looked at Wei Wu and said seriously: "You have two movies on the list, and they happen to be in the top two. Can this be explained by a fluke?"

Wei Wu still didn't dare to raise his eyebrows: "Well, there are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkeys are the kings.

“Director Chen has no new films this year, and Director Zhang’s new film hasn’t been released yet, so I’m temporarily missing out!”

Zhang Huijun smiled and shook his head and said: "You are so humble! But you have achieved such brilliant results at a young age. Only by being humble can you continue to improve.

"Don't be arrogant when you win, and don't be discouraged when you lose. Wei Wuqian, just go ahead and do it boldly! No matter what, we, Beidian, are your family and your most solid backing!"

Wei Wu immediately burst into tears and said, "Okay, thank you, Dean."

"Zhang Huijun, you are different now that you have become the dean. You are becoming more and more proficient in official accent!"

Wei Wu turned around and saw that the person speaking was Li Shaohong who had just arrived, so he said hello:

"Director Shao Hong."

Li Shaohong nodded in greeting: "Congratulations to you Wei Wu, and I also want to say thank you for taking care of Chen Kun some time ago.

"After he came back, he told me that during the filming of "Painted Skin", thanks to your selfless guidance, he learned a lot from you and his acting skills improved greatly."

Although Wei Wu poached Yang Mi from Rong Xinda, Li Shaohong was still fine.

After all, Yang Mi hasn't become popular yet, so Li Shaohong naturally can't say he has much regret.

Anyway, if Yang Mi is gone, we still have Zhang Jingchu. If things go bad, we can still recruit people at any time, so it’s no big deal.

On the contrary, the attention of "Painted Skin" continues to rise, which makes Li Shaohong particularly happy.

In her opinion, if Yang Mi was exchanged for the male lead of such an important movie, she must have made a lot of money!

Wei Wu quickly waved his hand and said: "No, I don't dare to take it seriously, and I only did what I should do."

Li Shaohong is also an old classmate of Zhang Huijun and Chen Kaige, otherwise he might not have been so wantonly teasing Zhang Huijun, who is now the dean of Nortel.

Zhang Huijun, who was teased, was a little embarrassed and immediately laughed and joked:

"Ah, I haven't seen you for so many years, Shao Hong, you are still so young and beautiful, and your style is still the same as before!"

Li Shaohong sneered and said: "Come on, you have already become old and sallow, but you still have the same style as before?

"The key point is that I was just a firewood girl back then, not even remotely beautiful, so how could I have any style!"

Zhang Huijun deliberately pretended to be stupid and said: "No way! You were the class star of our class at that time! Right Kaige?"

Chen Kaige also suppressed his laughter and said nonsense seriously:

"Yes. Why not? When you were in school, Shao Hong, you were exactly the Shen Jiayi that the boys in our class thought of! Many people secretly liked you!"

Li Shaohong rolled his eyes and said, "Tch! You two are just two old and crooked people, both in their 50s. You just talk nonsense!"

Zhang Huijun and Chen Kaige looked at each other, and then laughed in unison.

At this moment, Wei Wu saw his secretary Zhang Wenwen coming over and secretly giving him a gesture, so he suggested:

"Well, it's almost ten o'clock, and the press conference is about to start. How about we go there first?"

Zhang Huijun immediately answered: "Okay, let's leave quickly!"

Chen Kaige and Li Shaohong naturally had no objection, so the four of them started to walk inside...