As the end of the year approaches, the progress of Lu Hao's work has gradually slowed down.
Whether it is the work on DreamWorks' side or the promotion and financing of Dream Video.
This year has passed by so quickly. Time flies like a white horse, or like sand between fingers, it slipped away without you noticing.
Lu Hao had heard this statement before.
When I was a child, I felt that every year passed very slowly. This was because for a five-year-old child, every year he or she grew older, he or she would experience one-fifth more of his or her life. For a ten-year-old child, every year he or she grew older, he or she would experience one-tenth more of his or her life.
As you get older, by the time you reach 20, each year you gain more experience, you only gain 5%.
The older you are, the less you experience the increase.
Moreover, as you understand the world more and more, and become more and more clear about it, as you grow from a teenager to a middle-aged person, you also understand yourself more deeply and become more realistic. Slowly, you change from a teenager with dreams and lofty ambitions to a middle-aged person who is bent by life but still has to move forward with heavy burdens.
I am really not that sensitive to time and experience anymore.
Because life and work are about persistence day after day.
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Overall, I only did two things this year.
The first thing was to make "The Swordsman".
It can be regarded as a new milestone in his film career. From plagiarism to originality, this step was very difficult, but he finally made it and it was very successful.
Lu Hao felt that he had reason to be proud of himself.
After all, although no one knew about my plagiarism of classics in the past, I knew about it, and I always felt an inexplicable sense of frustration and guilt in my heart.
Even though I have achieved great success in the secular sense, I still feel inexplicably anxious when I wake up in the middle of the night while dreaming.
Lu Hao had had a dream more than once. He dreamed that one day, another time traveler came into the world and exposed his so-called talent and fame. Then he started a desperate fight with him and used his resources and status to kill him.
The storyteller has such wild imagination even in his dreams.
However, since I finished filming "The Swordsman", I have never had this dream again, and I feel completely at peace with it.
It is a kind of firm and steady recognition and confidence in one's own talents.
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As for the second thing I accomplished this year, it was getting married, becoming a husband, and becoming a prospective father.
This feeling also made Lu Hao feel very comfortable.
So he took the trouble to shoot and record the video, wanting to capture the scenes of Xiao Meng after she became pregnant as a commemoration.
After getting married, Lu Hao felt that he was no longer a teenager, but had entered middle age.
Although I am only 25 years old, that is indeed my mentality.
Mature, responsible, calm, steady, cautious, humble, wise...
These qualities began to emerge naturally in me.
Maybe it was a bit beautified, but it really made Lu Hao feel that he benefited a lot.
Take the matter of Dream Video accepting investment as an example. If it were in the past, I would really be too lazy to look for external investors and would find it too troublesome to cooperate with other film and television companies.
But now I feel that a so-called businessman is someone with whom everything can be negotiated.
You need to have extensive connections in the circle, a good reputation, and a considerable status. You need to be someone who has a deep understanding of business laws and human nature and can manipulate them for your own benefit.
Because he is no longer a young man who conquers the world alone.
There is a home behind me that needs protection.
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Because Xiaomeng is pregnant, I won’t go back to my hometown or go to Qiongdao for the New Year this year.
My parents and Xiao Meng's parents originally wanted to come to the capital, but after Lu Hao's repeated persuasion, they gave up coming.
It's too much trouble.
After all, it's a special period.
Xiao Meng's belly is now so big that she even has difficulty getting out of bed. The due date is estimated to be April next year, which is about a hundred days away.
Lu Hao inexplicably felt like he was facing the college entrance examination: nervous, excited, and expectant.
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DreamWorks' Q4 annual report is also very impressive, with an increase of 29% compared to Q3.
For the company's current size, such a high growth rate is already a very impressive achievement.
The reasons for the surge in performance are mainly the long-tail effect of film and television works, the development of copyright derivatives surrounding "The Swordsman", the box office success of the second film "3 Idiots" in the Indian market, and the box office success of the film adaptation of "No Longer Human" in the island market after its completion, as well as the concentrated release of three TV series that started filming this year.
For Lu Hao, these also have a different feeling.
A person's vision will really expand little by little as his wealth increases and he grows older.
In the past, every DreamWorks movie required a huge amount of energy from me, and I wanted to do every one of them myself and make them the best.
At least the best within your ability.
After all, it was the stage of primitive accumulation, and it was not yet time to make money without doing anything.
If you don’t work hard, your employees will not work hard either.
But now, these movies have become just a string of numbers in the financial report, and they are only a small proportion.
According to DreamWorks' annual statistical report -
This year, we have started filming and invested in 23 feature films, 7 online short films, 3 TV series, 12 online dramas, and 3 online variety shows...
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