Huayu started as a lecturer at Beijing Film Academy

Chapter 186 Return to school speech

In the Beijing Film Academy, Nazha walked out of the classroom nervously. Yang Caiyu beside her comforted her: "Don't worry, you may not fail, and even if you fail this time, you will definitely not be the only one."

"Humph! Of course you don't worry, you have the best academic performance in our class."

Because she had been filming for such a long time in Chang'an before, Nazha's academic performance fell behind again. This time, she was almost blind in the surprise test of film history, which made the substitute teacher Guan Yue very dissatisfied.

Nazha was not worried about failing the course. The main film history was the class that Gu Zhongyu taught before. If she failed, it would probably make Teacher Gu unhappy, which was what she cared about.

Yang Caiyu smiled and said nothing. She just felt that this woman really didn't know any manners. She comforted you with good intentions, but she didn't appreciate it at all. If it weren't for Teacher Gu's feelings, I wouldn't bother to pay attention to you!

"By the way, you didn't join Zongheng at the beginning, but now you chose Liu Yufei's studio. Isn't that a bit too stupid? Isn't Teacher Gu better than your boss? If you regret it, I can go and plead for you."

Yang Caiyu heard that she was testing herself, afraid of stealing his Teacher Gu.

The reason why I didn't join Zongheng was to avoid competing with a little bitch like you.

Now she is the first artist of Liu Yufei's studio. Boss Xixi has said that she will play the second female in the new drama. She can get such a role before graduation, which is much better than most of her classmates. She doesn't want to change jobs!

"Oh! There are too many female artists in Zongheng, and it's not easy to get ahead. I'm not like you, who is favored by Teacher Gu."

Naza was very happy to hear this. When she was about to be Versailles, suddenly a person rushed out from the side, running fast with short legs and knocking away the two people blocking the road!

"I bumped into someone! Liu Mengmeng, why are you running so fast?"

Liu Mengmeng looked back at the two people who didn't know yet, stopped and said to them: "Haven't you heard? Teacher Gu is going to give a speech at school. If you go too late, there will be no good seats!"

"Really? Why didn't Teacher Gu tell me in advance?"

Naza felt ignored again. She had done that to him in the bathroom that day, but Gu Zhongyu always treated her as transparent and ignored her.

"Of course it's true. The teacher just notified them and they will be here soon."

Yang Caiyu asked: "Such important things should be notified in advance. Why didn't I see the notice?"

"It should be a temporary decision. It was posted this morning. You didn't notice it."

Naza asked: "Where is the speech?"

"It starts in half an hour, in the auditorium."

Hearing that it would start in half an hour, Naza was too lazy to worry about failing the course. She took Yang Caiyu's hand and ran towards the auditorium.

Gu Zhongyu had been preparing for a new movie during this period, but Principal Zhang invited him to come and share his experience with everyone.

Since the principal gave him such a face, Gu Zhongyu naturally couldn't refuse, so he had to go back to his alma mater today to chat casually.

This is because he won the Cannes Award, which made the teachers and students of Beijing Film Academy very happy, so they invited him to give a speech. If Gu Zhongyu won a domestic award like the Golden Rooster this time, the other party would definitely not even bother to ask.

As soon as he came back, he invested in the filming of the first domestic science fiction blockbuster "Ball Lightning", which also achieved a box office of 1 billion and broke the domestic record. If that were the case, it would be fine, but the key is that he won the jury's grand prize. In the eyes of the students of the film academy who have been "poisoned", movies with high box office are not artistic, and winning awards is the first priority.

It has been almost four years since Lou Ye won an award at Cannes. It is rare for another Beijing Film Academy graduate to win a big prize at an international A-class film festival. Although Gu Zhongyu is not a director, he is the producer and screenwriter of "Ball Lightning". Since Guo Fan is not here, it is appropriate to ask him to give a speech.

Huang Lei saw Gu Zhongyu and pulled him over enthusiastically: "I asked you to come to my house for dinner last time when I came back to school to film, but you never showed up. Now that the speech is over, let's go to my house!"

"Okay, then I'm going to taste Mr. Huang's cooking today." Since he was here, Gu Zhongyu was not in a hurry to go back. He went to see Senior Sister Sun by the way. He hadn't seen her for a long time and missed her.

In the past, when Gu Zhongyu gave lectures, he only faced students from the acting department. This time, it was different. The audience was crowded with students from the directing department, the acting department, and those studying screenwriting and photography. They all came to join in the fun.

Several leaders who were rarely seen came to listen to Gu Zhongyu's speech.

Gu Zhongyu was preparing on the stage, and suddenly saw Nazha below winking at him. This girl is really busy and wants to flirt with him whenever she gets the chance.

Because Gu Zhongyu has been a teacher at Beijing Film Academy for two and a half years, even if he doesn't have many classes, everyone is very familiar with him. Students keep greeting him, and they are basically those who have taken his class.

He swept his eyes across the stage and began his speech: "Today, I am not going to talk to you about any profound topics. As for theoretical knowledge, you have already mastered it. Let's talk about the most important things, such as the future!"

Before coming, Gu Zhongyu was still struggling with what to talk about. After all, some topics cannot be touched at all, and it is meaningless to repeat the old sayings. After thinking about it, he decided to talk about the film market. This is not taboo and he is also good at it.

"After decades of development, China's film market has finally exceeded 10 billion in annual box office since 2010! And it is still growing rapidly. Students, this is the beginning of a new spring for film practitioners!"

"The increasingly large film market means that there will be more investment in production and higher box office movies. Many of the blockbusters we could only watch in Hollywood before, now we have the opportunity to practice it ourselves!"

"Just a few years ago, the highest domestic box office was only 100 million or 200 million. Such a volume cannot support our film dream. For example, "Ball Lightning" cost more than 100 million. If it was released, I couldn't even get back the capital."

"Movies are not just about money, but if there is no continuous profit delivery from film capital, our Chinese-language films will not be able to go further..."

Gu Zhongyu's speech rhythm is quite brisk, and his words are very down-to-earth. From time to time, he inserts one or two small jokes, which makes the atmosphere in the auditorium quite harmonious.

Soon, the speech ended, and then it was the highlight of today, the free question time.

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