"People's imagination is very scarce. For example, Hollywood. As outsiders, you may think that Hollywood is blooming, but if you understand it in depth, you can find that Hollywood has been going on for a hundred years."

In the underground screening hall, the screening of "Wormhole" ended. Simon continued to hold Zhu Momo who was standing in his arms and said to Ren Jingxi beside him: "I won't talk too far. I just say that in the past twenty years, "Star Wars" has been successful, and a large number of science fiction films have appeared. "The Godfather" has been successful, and a large number of gangster films have appeared. "The Field Platoon" has been successful, and a large number of Vietnam War films have appeared..."

Before Simon finished speaking, Zhu Momo in his arms said mischievously: "Simon, you succeeded, but unfortunately no group of Simon Westeros appeared."

Simon kissed the girl on the neck and continued to say to Ren Jingxi: "Anyway, do you know what this means?"

Ren Jingxi thought for a while and said, "It is important to explore new types, right? Simon you said."

"No," Simon shook his head, and did not keep it too close, and then said, "Actually, what I just said, human imagination is very scarce. Before Star Wars, were there no science fiction movies? Before "The Godfather", were there no gangster movies? Before "The Field Platoon", were there no war movies?"

Ren Jingxi understood a little, but still couldn't grasp the key.

Simon quickly continued: "I mean, all the types of movies that humans can imagine, in fact, whether it is Hollywood or the once very prosperous European film market, have actually been done. The difference may be just technological advancements such as silent to audio and black and white to color. Then there is China. Because all types of people have explored, China does not need to repeat this exploration. You only need to study, imitate, and convert it into your own things."

Zhu Momo interrupted again: "Simon, are you encouraging plagiarism?"

Simon bit the girl's slender neck with a little punishment this time, and then looked at Ren Jingxi again: "You won't have the psychological barrier that Momo just mentioned, right?"

Ren Jingxi smiled and shook her head: "No."

"Very good," Simon said: "The greatest advantage of human beings is that we have strong learning ability. The so-called learning means transforming the knowledge accumulated by our predecessors into our own. In this world, there are very few people who can go further and achieve innovation after achieving this level. Therefore, it is enough for most people to take learning to the extreme. Of course, in the industrial field, a group of people build another exactly the same internal combustion engine based on an internal combustion engine, which is fine. But in the film and television field, some changes are still needed. Just so, this change is not difficult compared to the industrial field."

"I always feel it," said Mo Wuling, who was sitting on the other side of Ren Jingxi: "Simon, you are teaching Jingxi to do bad things."

"I'm enlightening," Simon said, giving birth to an index finger: "The hand of God will let you understand the world."

Seeing Simon's actions, Ren Jingxi smiled and cooperated with her fingers, touching the man's fingertips for a while.

Everyone smiled, and was somewhat envious.

Zhu Momo also wanted to be tweaked, so he stretched out his slender index finger, but Simon tried to open his mouth to bite it, and he shrank back with a smile.

Mo Wuling couldn't help but speak again, and she felt a little bitch in her heart, and wanted to change the topic: "Simon, what do you think of the movie just now?"

"It's great, low-cost, and it's already very good to be able to do this," Simon said. "The next key is marketing. If you can do it well, a box office of 30 to 50 million may not be a problem."

"Can it be so much?" Ren Jingxi himself was a little surprised: "I think I'm very satisfied if I can sell 20 million, and the cost is only 2 million."

"It depends on whether you have the courage to spend 5 million or even more to do marketing," Simon said. "The Chinese film market is not mature enough, so it is more likely to have dark horses because many things are uncertain. For example, this movie, you just said that the cost of 2 million is a promotional point. After an outstanding young filmmaker worked hard on many aspects, he finally raised 2 million yuan and filmed his first feature film. First of all, it is a very inspiring story."

Jill, who was sitting behind, interjected: "Just like Simon's "Running Roll" back then."

"That's right," Simon nodded and said with a smile: "Although I was not as bumpy as the outside world imagined, what the audience needed was a story. In addition, this is a very innovative film. Although creativity about time is already very common around the world, in China, this is innovation. Finally, the film itself is also very interesting. Do you feel impatient during the movie just now?"

The girls around him shook their heads together.

Simon said: "This is the most successful thing about the film. The rhythm is well controlled and completed in one go. I have told people around me more than once that this is actually the commercial film I admire most. It makes the audience feel that two hours have passed. After the subtitles rise, I realize that two hours have passed. Based on my experience over the years, any film with this trait is often very successful in commercial use."

Teacher Yu in the front row said, "Simon, this kind of thing depends on luck, right?"

"Luck, the early script, and the ability of the main creator involve a lot of things," Simon did not deny it, saying: "However, there are actually certain ways to save the situation in the later stage, namely, the management trial, the film critics trial, the random audience trial, etc., and then modify it."

Jill in the back row said, "Simon, you are doing bad things in Tao Jingxi again."

Everyone obviously knows what Jill is referring to.

After all, if you have a little understanding of the inside story of the film and television industry, you will know many cases of failures caused by Hollywood studios cutting classic films by a certain director into garbage, such as the most typical "The Past of the United States".

Seeing that the girls were all clear and did not explain Jill's words, Simon said directly: "The problem is that if you completely let go of the project for the director, if you want to count it, there are also many cases of failure. As for Hollywood, if you go deep into it, you will find that there are very few projects that have not been interfered with in the editing factory. The key is a balanced issue. First of all, the senior executives who intervene in the editing need to understand the movie. If you ask a lawyer or an accountant to do this job, they will interfere randomly. Of course, the possibility of failure is very high, but if you understand movies yourself and understand how to balance business and art, you can do this job well."

Zhu Momo shook his head: "It's not easy."

It echoes the discussion before watching the movie about the development of the Chinese film market.

Simon smiled, but did not respond this time, but hugged the girl and stood up, and said to the others: "Everyone should rest early. Momo and I will take a bath in the east swimming pool and discuss some life ideals by the way."

Zhu Momo was giggling and was taken out of the seat. He was about to reach the door and leaned his head on the man's arm and looked at him: "You fox, Jill, come too, I can't stand him alone."

He said that he had already gone out.

The atmosphere in the screening hall was slightly strange for a moment. Li Youhu stood up first, smiled, and then pulled up Teacher Yu next to him: "Let's go too."

Teacher Yu gave up half the time.

Jill Pector even stood up and pulled Zhao Annie up. In a blink of an eye, only Ren Jingxi and Mo Wuling were left.

Ren Jingxi quickly lowered her head and remembered some of the man's words in her notebook. After a moment, she looked up, glanced at her good friend beside her, and bent her lips: "Why, let's go too?"

Mo Wuling rolled her eyes.

If there is no Momo there...well, no, even if there is, it cannot be.

So he stood up and said, "I'll go back to the yard above first."

Ren Jingxi closed the notebook and held Mo Wuling's arm: "I think it's better to go up with you, so as not to get lost and run into the wrong place."

"You're just lost."

"I don't need an excuse to get lost."

“…”

The next day is November 23.

Tuesday.

Simon is still in Beijing, and at the same time, it is also a very special day for China.

Simon was not sure about the day it was, but this time on November 23, 1999, China and the United States officially signed a bilateral agreement on China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), declaring that the biggest obstacle to China's accession to the WTO was successfully overcome.

Of course, things will not be easy after all.

After all, after finalizing a bilateral agreement with the United States in 1999, it was not until 2001 that China completely settled all the WTO members and officially joined the WTO.

Compared to these big things, Simon's schedule here is still very relaxed.

I didn't get up at around 7 o'clock in the morning. After all, it was winter, so the reason for staying in bed was very legitimate.

Go to Jinshu in the morning.

The projects identified last time were progressing very quickly. In addition, this time, I watched another sample film just like last night.

It is not the Mongolian director's "Tongtian Tu" and although Simon is more interested, Jinshu still focuses more on two pillars, Zhang Guoshi and Feng Kuzi. This time I watched a new film that Feng Kuzi will be released at the end of this year, and it is also a Feng comedy called "A Failed", which still comes from the book of writer Wang. It tells the story of a small clothing store owner who is trying to get along between two women and fails to steal.

The core of this is a satire of some current social phenomena in China.

Next, this is a completely butterfly film.

The quality of the films of the Feng Wang group is very guaranteed. What's more, director Feng Da has not yet reached the state of being older and angry young, and is still down-to-earth. In addition, the current market is recovering rapidly, and the New Year holiday at the beginning of next year will be worth another 100 million yuan in box office. There is a great hope.

After watching the movie, at the lunch dinner, in addition to the senior executives of the Jinshu Department and some big names in the circle, Simon also met the old monster Xu who came from Hong Kong.

At the dinner, I discussed the story of "Di Renjie's God Capital Dragon King" in person.

Simon did not keep it, and talked about some of the outstanding features of the past versions in his memory and everyone was here to see. Next, of course, the performance of Mr. Xu.

Furthermore, regarding the actors, Simon also made a statement in front of the old monster Xu, trying to use the mainland as much as possible to cooperate with Simon's last idea of ​​cultivating mainland film talents.

As for Hong Kong, it’s the same thing. Simon doesn’t have much prejudice, just thinks that the accent over there is not suitable for mainland-style ancient costumes.

The more I talked about it, I didn't forget about the style.

In the past "Die Renjie" series, what Simon couldn't stand the most was Wu Zetian's style. Anyway, this time it was definitely not Kalina Liu. Wu Zetian should have a queen-like style. For someone, Simon saw more of a deep palace resentment woman who could only be said to be mean from her face to personality.

And the shape.

Perhaps some people refer to some pictures of ladies, and say that they are very restored. However, looking at the shapes of Tang Dynasty TV series such as "The Emperor of Tang Ming Dynasty" and "Wu Zetian" in the 1990s, they look at the shapes of those beautiful and beautiful. Moreover, they are also recorded in the pictures of ladies. After all, different periods, different regions and even different painters have different styles of Tang Dynasty women.

Why choose an ugly and weird one?

Anyway, Simon couldn't stand it. Since he could intervene, he would never allow such a thing to happen again.

After lunch, there were some routine schedules until after three o'clock in the afternoon, Simon rushed to the airport and flew to Shanghai.

A gathering for the human meeting was arranged here, in the evening.

Or eat, drink and have fun.

By the way, I watched a performance by the girls of the National Style Art Troupe.

Recently, it is the first Shanghai International Art Festival, mainly traditional folk art types such as opera and drama around the world. The Chinese Style Art Troupe was invited and came here at the end of October.

After the two major themes of "Book of Songs" and "Tang Yun", Simon did not arrange specific goals for the National Style Art Troupe.

Well, men are fond of the old and the instinct.

Although I still watch it occasionally and the girls spend a lot of money to raise it, they are not as interested as they were at first.

Therefore, more arrangements are all handled by the small team of the Guofeng Art Troupe. This time, the invitation from the Shanghai International Art Festival was also a decision made by the side. Shirley, who has completely become the top leader of the art troupe, led the team here in person.

I had a social event until late at night last night and woke up in the building on the 18th Bund the next day.

Around me are one big and one small, Shirley and Miao Miao.

Although I am not old enough to eat the little girl, I am just in my mood. Last night I thought I could teach my sister something I should know. Well, it was actually natural, and then it was natural.

After breakfast, this trip to China was over.
Chapter completed!