Gaoleng sat beside Director Zhang. Director Zhang had asked him to move his seat. He wanted to keep Su Su’s seat.

This was embarrassing.

Gaoleng stood up and sat down next door.

“You are President Gao of Xingsheng Magazine, right? This year’s Annual Meeting of Huantai is your exclusive publicity.” A producer next to him handed over a business card, “Yes, we know each other. We have a few shows coming up recently, and we hope that our brothers can help with the publicity. We met at Huang Cong’s birthday dinner last time, but there were too many people and we didn’t exchange business cards.”

There were many people, but at that time, he felt that Gaoleng was not qualified to exchange business cards.

After hearing this, Director Zhang turned to look at Gaoleng again. After thinking for a while, he took out a cigarette and handed it over, “Xiaogao, give me a cigarette.”

Perhaps it was a little disrespectful for Gaoleng to make way just now. Huang Cong and Su Su’s banquet was actually taken by him alone. Thinking about how this young man was also a character in the media circle, handing him a cigarette could be considered an apology.

Face had to be fought by oneself. If you have the ability, Director Zhang will give you this face.

“Thank you.” Although Gaoleng did not smoke, he also received it, “Director Zhang wants to shoot a literary film?”

“Yes, I want to take it.” Director Zhang took a puff of his cigarette and heavily spat it out, “I’ve had this art film in my hands for several years. I’ve always wanted to make it. The problem is that I failed to pass the examination for several movies a few years ago and spent a lot of money on those big shots. No one is willing to give me money to make art films these days. No, I came to Su Su’s place to ask for money.”

Now, the director’s life was easy. Once the famous director made his move, even if it was a rotten movie, there were still a bunch of big shots rushing to shoot it. Especially those with small flesh and flowers. The box office appeal of these small flesh and flowers was astonishing. With the box office, the producers could earn money. And because Xiaohua Xiaomiao worked with the big director, the quality of the small flesh and flowers was also high.

Win-win.

The only thing that doesn’t win is the audience, because it’s a bad movie.

So, the director’s life is easy, if you just want to make money.

However, the days of a big director with a bit of ambition are not too easy. For example, Director Zhang, he makes New Year movies. However, he despises New Year movies very much. People from Wen Qing don’t like New Year movies. They think they are lacking in quality. Also, have you seen New Year movies win international awards?

To be able to win an influential award in the international arena was the final goal for a top director like Director Zhang, who had been famous in China for a long time. Filming has been going on for decades. People in their sixties don’t want to make commercial movies for money anymore.

Winning an international award was Director Zhang’s greatest wish.

If you can win a grand prize in the world, you have to compete for a literary film or a life film. The country is afraid that you will make a literary film or a life film. Look at the types of literary films that have won awards abroad, all of which are made in the countryside. Satirize this and that.

Even Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, why did he win? His writing is also satirical.

Don’t talk about Ang Lee. His films always win awards. However, he is not an imperial citizen at all. He is an American citizen. Of course, it was much easier for those of American nationality to win the Hollywood Awards, just like how American students took the Harvard entrance exam, and the enrollment quotas for American students far exceeded those of the Empire; Students in Beijing take the Peking University exam, which means that their scores are much lower than those in other provinces.

The group of people from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television were also very familiar with these big directors, so it was reasonable to instruct these big directors to make fewer satirical scenes and more New Year movies that could stimulate consumption and stimulate box office receipts.

Do you think the director can do whatever he wants?

That’s too much of a Jian Dan.

“The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television wants you to make four commercial movies. Let’s just make one literary movie. You only have three commercial movies now.” Gaoleng asked.

“Yes.” President Zhang took a sad puff of his cigarette. “That’s what I’m thinking. A commercial is finished in two months. I’ll just have my assistant shoot it and hang up my name. I’m a major artist myself. I’m old. This artist is my last hope.”

Gao Leng nodded and didn’t say anything else. He just raised his glass and drank.

In the upper right corner was a documentary director. He was famous in the domestic documentary industry, but his face was full of loneliness. Documentary? What good documentaries have been produced in Empire over the past ten years? If you die, you have China on the tip of your tongue, and the second part changes flavor.

A documentary takes time and place. It takes years to make a documentary about real life. Singapore has a particularly famous documentary. The director installed a camera at 360 degrees in a kindergarten, and dozens of teams followed him in the studio, targeting seven children in a class for five years.

How much does it cost?

Not to mention the late-stage clipping, these cameramen’s three-year fees were enough.

In the end, this documentary shook the entire educational world. There were a total of ten episodes. From kindergarten to early primary school, the growth of these seven children was recorded. Parents knew that there would be problems picking up the first child every day after school. The last child picked up every day would have mental illness after a long time. The teachers knew that if there were mistakes in the mediation and blame the good child, it might affect her future development.

This was a successful documentary, which would take at least 100 million to 200 million yuan, and it would take several years.

What about unsuccessful documentaries? There are countless documentaries that haven’t made good stuff yet, and there are even more overseas documentaries that have made good stuff but don’t sell well. Few of Empire’s big shots are willing to invest in documentaries.

There were no literary films, let alone documentaries that cheated on money.

Gaoleng’s gaze fell on the documentary director’s face. He drank alone proudly. When he heard the other directors chatting about the box office, his face would occasionally reveal a sneer of disdain. He was lonely but arrogant. He was a typical literary genius.

On the other side, there was a new director who was filled with high spirits. Director Li was a professional commercial filmmaker. There were now a lot of commercial filmmakers. All kinds of stars, writers, and hosts had taken up commercial filmmaking. There were also some new directors who had come back from studying abroad with money and experience who had joined the ranks of commercial filmmakers. It wasn’t easy to create a world in a commercial movie. And this Director Li is clearly the leader of the commercial movies.

“Director Zhang, I think that the movie you want to shoot will most likely be rejected again. You stepped on the line.” Director Li handed over a cigarette and said, “Besides, you still lack a commercial film to finish. President Su is a very skilled person. I think she will definitely be the first to enter the movie and television industry. You, there’s no chance.”

They were all competitors, and the directors all felt that their notebooks were good.

She had her eyes on Su Su’s fat meat. She was the patron, and she was the producer. She would choose the producer and director.

Gaoleng looked at these directors. These directors were all coming for Su Su, but he wanted to snatch meat from Su Su.

Which piece of meat?

Literary, documentary or commercial?