Chapter 268 Golden Bear Award
With Wong Kam-ho as a reference, a Chinese who was able to run for mayor of an American city, and Su Yun having an award-winning movie in hand, the more Zhao Rifu listened to her words, the more relaxed his brows became.
I have to say that this child was really born at the best time: Hong Kong's economy and film and television industry were booming, and exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong were gradually relaxed due to the policy of reform and opening up. In addition, changes in Sino-Soviet relations led to the United States changing its old hostile policy to one of appeasement. With all these factors combined, as a Hong Konger and a Chinese, she no longer encountered the extreme prejudice and treatment in overseas markets.
On the contrary, due to the political changes, they have received a certain degree of preferential treatment.
Since she was able to win an Oscar as a Chinese, she has embarked on a path that her predecessors could hardly have imagined.
Although this road is full of thorns and twists and turns, there is no doubt that the future of this road will be endlessly bright and glorious.
"The 33rd Berlin International Film Festival will be held on the 18th of this month, which means there are only four days left." The second day of the Lunar New Year coincides with Valentine's Day, which should be a great day for developing relationships. Unfortunately, Su Yun is now busy with her career and has no time to pay attention. And those who want to ask her out, except for Zhuang Long who doesn't dare to ask her out, are all busier with work.
It was rare that Su Yun could squeeze out time in the evening, but she made an appointment to have dinner at the Zhao family's main residence. Not to mention that they, a group of artists working in the film and television industry, could not afford to offend the Zhao family, the leader of the film and television industry. In addition, according to the customs in the Cantonese area, many places set the second day of the Chinese New Year as the day for girls to return to their parents' homes...
It can be said that the reason why the Zhao family and Su Yun decided to have dinner on the second day of the Chinese New Year is not just because most of them only have time to have a reunion dinner on the second day of the Chinese New Year.
"I will hand over the next filming matters to the second filming unit led by Du Lifeng, and I will leave for Berlin tomorrow." Because of the busy work, although Su Yun has already left people in Berlin, as the award ceremony is approaching, she still has to go there in person.
Zhao Rifu knew that if Su Yun succeeded in her bid for the prize, her net worth would be greatly increased, so he did not dwell on it. Instead, he nodded and asked, "What do you want Liying and the others to do for you?"
So Su Yun told her plan, asking the experienced manager Zhao Liying to stay in Hong Kong with the young Zhao Lizhong, while Zhao Liming would accompany her to the Berlin Film Festival.
"That's no problem," Zhao Rifu said, and then added meaningfully, "If you come back with good grades, I'll give you a reward."
It was like telling a child that if he got good grades, he would get a prize. Su Yun smiled knowingly and said, "I will try my best."
The check that allows unlimited overdraft will soon be in her hands...
The next day, after Su Yun and Zhao Liming left for Berlin, Zhao Liying, who stayed in Hong Kong, also began to prepare according to Su Yun's plan and invited Jiahe and Zhen Yicheng, the two "rivals", to the company to discuss cooperation again.
This kind of tug-of-war in negotiating cooperation matters is more exhausting than a film festival competition. After just a few days, Zhao Liying, who had finally invited people to the company's meeting room, was exhausted.
However, no matter how tired he was, in order to achieve his goal, he still tried his best to maintain the most perfect state and talked about the benefits and development space of the three parties joining together to form a whole.
Zhao Liying, who was sitting at the main seat, spoke eloquently, but on both sides of the conference table, Zou Yunhua of Jiahe and the seven decision-makers of Zhen Yichen were silent: the most critical issue facing everyone right now is whether it is worth agreeing to Su Yun's plan and uniting with her to become a regional overall force.
Then, while retaining their small piece of land in Hong Kong, they will devote their energy to developing overseas markets that they have long coveted but have always been able to only linger on the periphery.
"Actually, you don't need to be too involved. What Mary left before going to Berlin was that we can try to cooperate first. After all, it's not like the three of us haven't fully cooperated before..." Zhao Liying looked at the other two parties present with a decent smile.
Zou Yunhua of Jiahe was an old acquaintance of his, and was obviously very concerned about the cooperation in developing overseas markets. Therefore, to this meeting, he even brought his most trusted and beloved general, Chen Xuanlong.
Chen Xuanlong also started out filming with Lu Shaolong, and was used by Lu Shaolong to train Su Yun's martial arts. He is also a loyal person - of course, even though these people who learned martial arts once had this kind of friendship, loyalty can only be helplessly defeated in the face of absolute interests.
After all, the martial arts circle in Hong Kong is so small that almost everyone who practices martial arts knows each other, but only a few can make it. To be lucky enough to become a martial arts star is a huge luxury and a dream.
For most people, being able to teach martial arts is a great outcome.
As for those who have not made it, most of them will either switch to other industries or continue to be stuntmen or martial arts stuntmen. This is the future direction for most of them.
Chen Xuanlong believes that he has luck, strength and perseverance, but unfortunately he just can't make a breakthrough in the overseas market, so he always lacks the ambition to make a breakthrough.
Therefore, although he has now successfully turned things around and reached a position where he can compete with the big boss he once was, when he thinks that the big boss in front of him is a world-renowned Kung Fu King - this is like a huge mountain that cannot be crossed. Even after retiring for many years, he still feels uneasy.
Zhao Liying saw Chen Xuanlong's worried look, and he smiled even more kindly: "By the way, I heard that Jiahe is also interested in expanding overseas markets in the past two years? And they want to make kung fu movies?"
"It's either a Kung Fu movie or a modern urban martial arts movie, with themes like police and gangsters or adventure." Zou Yunhua quickly expressed his attitude.
Seeing that he was so understanding, Zhao Liying took advantage of the halftime break when everyone was looking for another place to talk in private, and went up to him under the pretext of visiting an old friend: "You don't have to worry too much. Although Lu Shaolong, who has almost recovered, will officially appear in public this year, his schedule does not overlap with yours..."
"And Mary told me that your company's approach is more suitable for the current overseas market than Lu Shaolong's, and it is still a commercial type with large investments and large productions. As for Lu Shaolong...his current pursuit is more inclined to movies that combine literature, philosophy and business, and the focus will also shift from the previous overseas market back to the Asian market."
"Lu Shaolong has become a legendary symbol and icon of his time. Mary has also consulted him and confirmed that his future films will focus on artistry..."
Zou Yunhua nodded: "I know this. The movie he hadn't finished shooting that year also had the meaning of transformation."
"But I still have a question--" Seeing that Zou Yunhua was already interested, Chen Xuanlong spoke with some trepidation, "Su Yun's previous films have always selected handsome men and beautiful women. Will I... be able to do the same?"
This is not a waste of his worry. When Zou Yunhua wanted to give him the rights to remake the martial arts films of Gu Daxia, Gu Daxia directly rejected his appearance without any politeness, saying that Gu's classics were reserved for handsome actors such as Ti Lung, Jiang Dawei, and Zheng Zhaoqiu, not for people like him...
Compared to Gu Daxia's high requirement that the actors of his characters must be handsome men, Su Yun always chooses actors with good looks when filming, which is also an unspoken rule among people in the industry.
"You can rest assured about this. Mary never had such intentions - she herself has played many ugly roles!" Zhao Liying laughed, "If she really had requirements in this regard, she would not have given Lin Jingying the leading role in the zombie series."
After hearing this, Chen Xuanlong nodded in relief: Although at the beginning of the zombie series, people thought that Su Yun wrote the role for Qian Shaohao who played the role of "Qiu Sheng", after all, he was young, handsome and had a lot of roles. However, after the broadcast of "Mr. Zombie", he became famous for playing the role of the mature master "Uncle Nine" Lin Jingying. Only then did people believe that Su Yun really gave up the handsome boy and chose the uncle.
Moreover, Su Yun did play ugly roles in "Falling in Love" and "Song of Youth", especially the latter. The mainland girl in the early part was really "ugly" to a certain extent!
"If that's the case, I have no problem with it," Chen Xuanlong said.
"That's great. In the second part of 'Grave Robbers', Mary wanted to invite you to join." Zhao Liying smiled and threw out another bait without making a sound.
Zou Yunhua was satisfied now: Everyone knew that the "Grave Robbers" series was the next major project for Su Yun and Zhao to expand overseas markets, and Su Yun was acquainted with Spielberg, who had made the box office hit "Indiana Jones", so the chance of making a lot of money was quite high - with Su Yun's special effects technology making a comeback and Zhuang Long's current popularity overseas, once these two gimmicks were released, it was expected that even if there was a loss, the film would not suffer much.
Besides, I heard that the filming of "Grave Robbers" went quite smoothly, and it's not at all like "Blade Runner", a flop with a lot of problems!
With the first part as a warning, if it becomes popular, the second part's box office base will not be affected, and his new love will not become box office poison; and if it really does not become popular, the second part will definitely not be filmed, and Chen Xuanlong's time and schedule will not be dragged down...
“There’s no problem on my side, the main problem is Zhen Yicheng…” Jiahe and Zhao’s family almost cooperated to tear Zhen Yicheng apart back then. If it weren’t for the real estate company behind Zhen Yicheng that intervened and facilitated the cooperation on “My Three Dead Ex-Husbands”, the three parties would never be able to sit in the conference room so calmly to discuss cooperation matters.
"They are indeed more difficult to deal with. After all, they are not like us. There are seven of them and all of them have the right to express their opinions..." Zhao Liying also had a headache: Zhen Yicheng was made up of seven talented people. While everyone expressed their opinions and pooled their thoughts to come up with new ideas, it was inevitable that there would be delays and troubles when making major decisions.
Because management rights are overly decentralized, even though Su Yun's adopted grandfather Xu Gujie is the leading male star in their family, he has no right to join the vote on this decision.
The fact that they had defeated their predecessors Zhao and Jiahe to win the annual championship in single-film box office also gave them enough confidence to put on a high profile.
"Zhen Yi Cheng has deep cooperation with Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and the seven of them are not able to make all the decisions..." After all, Zhao Liying had just returned not long ago and did not have a deep understanding of this emerging company, Zhen Yi Cheng. Therefore, Zou Yunhua, who had a deep understanding of Zhen Yi Cheng and wanted to promote cooperation, decisively gave him an idea, "It doesn't matter if they can't negotiate, you can talk to the people behind them - as long as they can make a lot of money, those people will definitely not miss such an opportunity."
Zhao Liying nodded: "I am mainly waiting for a suitable opportunity——"
Before he finished speaking, Zhao Lizhong suddenly burst open the office door and shouted breathlessly: "I got it..."
"What did you get?" Zou Yunhua and Chen Xuanlong asked in confusion.
"The 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Bear Award for Best Film... my elder brother just called back and said!" Zhao Lizhong finally breathed, ""Rooftop Postman" won the Berlin Golden Bear Award!"