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Chapter 198 197. You two are just two old perverts

"Director Chen, welcome, welcome."

As the host, Wei Wu took the lead in expressing his warm hospitality.

After all, you should not hit a smiling person. Today, he came to support him.

Since Chen Kaige has taken the initiative to lower his posture, he must give something back.

And to be honest, he took the initiative to touch and tease Chen Kaige from beginning to end. Chen Kaige at most passively defended and said a few words to him.

Since he came to support him today, if Wei Wu still insisted, it would seem that he is too unmanly!

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

"Congratulations, Director Wei. With two movies that broke 100 million yuan in one year, you are completely going to beat us old guys to death on the beach."

Wei Wu smiled and said, "No, no, it's mainly because the number of screens has increased now, and we have benefited from the rapid growth of the market!"

Chen Kaige also smiled and said, "Director Wei is too modest. No matter how the movie market changes, your two movies are now ranked in the top two of the annual box office list. This is always a solid achievement, right?"

Putting aside the past grudges between the two, Chen Kaige actually admires Wei Wu.

Because he really has real talent, especially in the field of directing, it is really a talent that can be seen with blind eyes.

In fact, the first movie Chen Kaige watched by Wei Wu was "Lost on Journey", of course, he asked his assistant to buy a pirated disc.

After all, he didn't get 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 a little poor, Chen Kaige was still shocked.

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while experts watch the doorway. Chen Kaige only watched the first two minutes of the clip and he was sure that Wei Wu was a terrifyingly good director!

He was so young and had such a high level. He was an absolute genius!

No wonder this guy dared to deliberately provoke him and was eager to step on him to get to the top. He was really confident and had something in his mind!

Chen Kaige praised him and Wei Wu also returned the favor by praising him:

“That’s mainly because Director Chen has no new films released this year, otherwise how could I have a share?”

“If The Promise was released this year, wouldn’t I have been ranked second or third by now?”

Chen Kaige sighed and said, “Although The Promise’s box office was okay, its reputation was really unsatisfactory. It was completely incomparable to the popular films Those Years and Silver Driver! ”

When mentioning "The Promise", Chen Kaige felt a dull pain in his heart again.

Alas! If it weren't for the bad reputation of this movie, why would he need to be so hypocritical with a youngster like Wei Wu?

Before the release of this movie, everything was fine!

At that time, he was still the second best director in the mainland, qualified to compete with Zhang Yimou.

Who would have thought that a movie "Mantou" would directly pull 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, He did not deny that the film was not popular with the audience, but it was definitely not that bad!

How can I put it? I can only say that the main reason for this film was that the publicity was too much!

As a result, the audience's expectations for this film were too high, so it was finally backfired.

If you don't believe it, you can watch Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet"!

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

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

Although there are some criticisms of Feng Xiaogang, compared with his experience, it is purely insignificant.

"Kaige, you are here too!"

Chen Kaige turned his head and saw that it was his old classmate Zhang Huijun who was also here, so he smiled and greeted:

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

"Yes", Zhang Huijun nodded, and gossiped a little by the way:

"What were you two talking about just now? ”

Wei Wu greeted the guests and took over the topic naturally:

"President, I was just saying that it was thanks to Director Chen's lack of new films this year that 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 films on the list, and they happen to be ranked in the top two. Can this be explained by luck?"

Wei Wu still didn't dare to die: "Well, it's just that when there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey will be the king.

"Director Chen has no new films this year, and Director Zhang's new film has not been released yet, so I have temporarily picked up a loophole!"

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

"Don't be arrogant when you win, and don't be discouraged when you lose. Wei Wu, just go ahead! In any case, our Beijing Film Academy is your mother's home and your strongest backing!"

Wei Wu immediately burst into tears of gratitude: "Okay, thank you, President. ”

“Zhang Huijun, you are different now that you are the dean. You are getting better and better at using official language!”

Wei Wu turned his head and saw that it was Li Shaohong who had just come over, so he greeted her:

“Director Shaohong.”

Li Shaohong nodded and said, “Congratulations, Wei Wu. By the way, I have to say thank you for your care for Chen Kun some time ago.

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

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 always recruit people, 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 leading actor 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 be 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've 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, and you just talk nonsense!"

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

At this moment, Wei Wu saw 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...