World-class directors in the entertainment industry

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Great Hall.

The 4th Film Directors Guild was officially held.

Two forty-five.

Qin Dong took a car and arrived at the location.

"Director Qin, welcome, everyone is waiting for you."

A person whom Qin Dong didn't know came to the front of the car after Qin Dong got out of the car and spoke enthusiastically.

"Lead the way."

It seems to be a staff member, because he is very young, maybe he is an insider. Who knows, Qin Dong doesn't know him and doesn't bother to ask.

"Okay, Director Qin, please come over here."

Apart from the staff, Qin Dong didn't see any acquaintances along the way, so he thought he would have arrived a long time ago.

"Director Qin, I've heard of him for a long time, but I just met him today. I am Liu Yiwei, the current secretary-general of the Directors Association. I welcome Director Qin."

As soon as we entered the auditorium, a smiling middle-aged man wearing glasses laughed loudly and extended his hand from a distance away.

"Secretary-General Liu, hello."

Qin Dong knew the person in front of him because he had seen it on TV. He was once a host and later became a chef. The host of a cooking show also worked part-time as a chef.

As for whether the other party is a director and why he is the secretary-general of the Film Directors Association, Qin Dong really doesn't know.

"Welcome, welcome. This is Director Qin's first time visiting the Directors Association. Let me lead the way and introduce you to Director Qin."

Liu Yiwei smiled and held Qin Dong's hand, not showing any signs of surprise.

He looked familiar, and from just a short encounter, Qin Dong knew that the person in front of him was a well-spoken person, the kind of person who knew what to do.

"Then I'll trouble Secretary-General Liu."

Since he was being polite, Qin Dong naturally responded and responded politely.

"This is... [someone]'s masterpiece. It was shot very well."

"Who is this..."

"..."

Liu Yiwei is worthy of being the secretary-general of the association. For the members of the association, everyone's works are treasured, and every one of them is cherished. He seems to be smiling and very sociable.

This person was very experienced in his work. He did not rush to introduce famous people first. Instead, he took Qin Dong and introduced them one by one to a group of old people.

To be honest, even though Qin Dong is now a director, I really don’t know a few of these old people, and even have heard of very few of them.

Because these people are very old, some have severe age spots on their faces.

Facing these people, Qin Dong greeted each one politely.

Respecting the old and loving the young is a traditional Chinese virtue and an indispensable quality.

"This is teacher Wu Tianming, his masterpiece..."

"Hello, Director Wu."

"Director Qin, hello, hello. I've wanted to meet you for a long time. Good boy. I've seen all of your movies. They are indeed very good."

An old man with a bald head and healthy skin cheerfully extended his hand.

"Director Wu and Liao praised it."

It was rare for Qin Dong to be humble.

The person in front of me may not be famous to outsiders. After all, he is at this age. When he was active, he was still in the 1970s and 1980s to the late 1990s.

The Wu Tianming in front of me looks good, but he is actually 73 years old.

After the new century, there is still a movie produced every few years, but they are all small-budget movies that are not known to the public. Most ordinary people do not know the director.

"I have seen your old movies [Laojing], [Red Sorghum] and this year's [Leap Over the Bedlam], and I love them with one word. The human thoughts in the film are very profound."

The nonsense came out of his mouth, and Qin Dong expressed that he was very familiar with this martial art.

In fact, he hasn't seen it at all, he just knows a little bit about it.

In his previous life, he didn't know that Wu Tianming in front of him was a director until 16 years or four years later.

But at that time, the director had already passed away. On March 4, 2014, director Wu Tianming died of myocardial infarction at the age of 75.

Qin Dong was an ordinary person in his previous life. The reason why he knew this director was because in 2016, the director's last posthumous work "A Hundred Birds Pay Attendance to the Phoenix" was released in cinemas two years after his death.

It's a pity that it's an art film with a low budget, some unknown actors, and it's about traditional crafts.

As a result, after its release, the box office was only over 10,000 yuan per day, which led Wu Tianming's disciples to record a video on the ground begging fans to support and begging movie theaters to schedule the film.

This incident was very sensational at the time. Many celebrities in the industry spoke out, and theaters also expressed their intention to increase the number of films. From the original film arranging rate of a few tenths of a percent, it increased to more than 20 percent.

The final box office was more than RMB 80 million. Don’t think that the box office in 2016 is not worth mentioning. As a low-cost art film, this box office is very good.

At that time, Qin Dong also donated a movie ticket and watched the film "A Hundred Birds Pay Attendance to the Phoenix". At that time, he also learned a little about the director Wu Tianming from the Internet.

As a fourth-generation director, Director Wu Tianming is also the leader of Director Zhang Shi.

At that time, when director Zhang Shi made his debut, the movie that won him the first Best Actor title thanks to his career as an actor was Wu Tianming's "Lao Jing", in which Zhang Shi was the leading actor.

As for the film "Red Sorghum" that later made Master Zhang famous as a director, Wu Tianming was the producer, so it is absolutely correct to say that he was Master Zhang's leader.

"Oh, I didn't expect Director Qin to have seen my movies. I thought young people nowadays like to watch commercial movies. When I look at the movies made by Director Qin, they all seem to be commercial movies."

Wu Tianming touched his bald head and looked at Qin Dong with a somewhat suspicious look.

The person in front of him is really young, but Wu Tianming has heard about this young man's achievements as a director, and he admires him very much. He is a very talented young director.

"Director Wu, times are different. As a young man, it is normal for me to make commercial films. Just like many fifth-generation directors are influenced by you, most of them make literary films. But now is the Internet age, and the relationship between the world

In Laijian, each generation is influenced differently by the outside world."

Qin Dong was happy to chat with the old man in front of him and talk freely.

"Oh, come on, come on, Director Qin, sit down first, let's have a good chat, and I'll take the sutra from you too."

Wu Tianming became interested, pulled Qin Dong to sit down, and continued to ask:

"Today's young people in China seem to like watching commercial films. You can find this out by looking at the annual movie box office data."

"Director Qin's films have all gone out of the country. Can you tell me, in today's era, literary and artistic films have completely withdrawn from the market and are a backward product of the times? Do literary and artistic films still have a future?"

Qin Dong's eyes glazed over for a moment, this question was not easy to answer.

Looking around, many people gathered around me.

In fact, after Qin Dong came in, many directors in the auditorium followed Qin Dong involuntarily.

After all, Qin Dong's current reputation and status are really not based on people's boasts, but on real achievements.

Although only two movies were released globally, their influence was very large.

"Well, Director Wu really stumped me. How can a young man like me dare to be arbitrary about this kind of thing?"

With so many people watching, Qin Dong didn't want to say anything more.

You must know that most of the domestic directors here are mainly engaged in making literary films.

This is because of the limitations of the times. According to the age of these people, young people cannot see directors who are thirty or under forty years old. Only Qin Dong is in this auditorium.

The remaining people all started at the age of forty, and many were in their sixties.

In other words, the earliest of these people were born in the 1960s, and the rest were born in the 1940s and 1950s, and even some were born in the 1930s. For example, the Wu Tianming in front of me,

People who are in their 30s or 90s have experienced different environments.