Chapter 946 The Leader Is Very Happy

The leaders of the Film Bureau expressed warm welcome and sincere greetings to Tang En's arrival, expressed great concern for strengthening the cooperation between China and the United States, and made long-term deployments for deepening the friendship between the two sides.

In short, Tang En received a lot of courtesy.

As an international friend, he also participated in a large-scale film industry seminar.

At the seminar, film people paid more attention to the "Film Promotion Law", which is related to their vital interests; leaders paid more attention to the World Chinese Film Festival, which related to their official achievements.

Of course, Tang En didn't care. In his opinion, the two things were out of the question.

Hypocrisy and submissiveness are all.

In the end, the leader has more power to speak. In Tang En's limited time, I hope he can provide valuable advice on the establishment of the "World Chinese Film Festival".

Tang En didn't need to hide his secrets, so he said seriously: "If you want to run a film festival well, especially a world-class film festival, you must have an accurate idea of ​​how to start it. For example, the three major film festivals in Europe, the Berlin Film Festival, etc. It is characterized by seriousness and politics; the Venice Film Festival emphasizes the avant-garde nature of films and encourages film experimentation and innovation; the Cannes Film Festival likes masters and is more humanistic."

"Emperors want to hold film festivals, first of all they need to define their positioning. Is it A-type film festival, B-type film festival, or C-type film festival? There are tens of thousands of film festivals in the world, and there are 11 A-type film festivals. There is no need, for ridiculous and absurd film festivals like the 'Rome Chinese Film Festival', not only will not have the slightest promotion effect on Chinese-language films, but will become a laughing stock."

Tang En is a foreigner, so he doesn't need to be scruples when speaking.

Lao Mouzi's complaints at the dinner table yesterday can be said through his mouth.

What is the significance of the Chinese Film Festival held in Rome?

Specially went abroad to present awards to the films made by the leaders of the film academy?

Brush international reputation?

Reliance on job titles?

Ms. Zhang's complaints are not unreasonable. If Tang En wants to donate, it is really necessary to donate to the Drama Academy.

The leaders were all very serious, holding a small notebook and trying to record what, and finally the big leader said: "If we want to do it, we must hold an A-level film festival! The best film festival!"

Tang En had guessed it long ago, but shook his head and said: "It's difficult! In my opinion, it is more reliable to hold a C-category film festival. Except for the three major European film festivals, including Tokyo, Montreal and other 8 A-category film festivals, all of them are In order to be second-rate, we can only follow the three major film festivals to drink soup and pick up some leftovers. Even if Chinese film festivals will also target foreign language films, they started too late and have already lost the opportunity to compete for the market.”

A leader said: "We have a market!"

Some leaders said: "We have policies!"

Another leader said: "We have 1.3 billion people!"

Another leader said: "We have the fastest GDP growth rate in the world!"

Tang En was speechless.

The filmmakers present also said: "Actually, it would be good to have a C-category film festival, focusing on exhibitions and not awards. If we can attract enough excellent films to participate in the exhibition or even come to the premiere, then our Chinese-language film The reputation of the festival will also be played out."

Another film personality said: "Indeed, C-type film festivals may not be worse than A-type film festivals. In the past few years, apart from the three major European film festivals, the most popular film festivals are not the remaining 8 A-type film festivals. It’s the C-category Toronto Film Festival! We can’t compare with the top three, and it’s not a big problem to win Toronto.”

Tang En laughed and said, "That's true. Why is the Toronto Film Festival so strong? Because Toronto is backed by North America, the world's largest film market. In the same way, the Cannes Film Festival is so powerful because Cannes is the largest film trading platform in Europe. Holding a film festival is the same as opening a hypermarket, it’s enough to be able to exhibit and make money!”

The leader was very satisfied, "Mr. Walker, you mean... the mainland market is completely comparable to the North American and European film markets?"

Tang En said sternly: "The difference won't be too big! As long as the market-oriented reform is firm enough and the power is delegated to the maximum on the basis of reasonable supervision, the film market can flourish and grow rapidly. After all, it has the largest population in the world. base and fastest economic growth.”

China's film reform has undergone two major changes before.

One is the abolition of unified sales and purchase in 1993; the other is the reform of theaters in 2002.

But in fact, the policy was issued, but it was not implemented at all.

If it weren't for the birth of "Hero" and the formation of industrial promotion policies, Chinese movies would still be lifeless.

The leader said very seriously: "Resolutely implementing the reform of the film market is our unshakable basic policy in the future!"

All the filmmakers got excited, as if they saw the arrival of Chinese film spring.

They began to offer ideas and suggestions one after another.

"As long as the reform policy is put in place, our movie market will take off quickly!"

"The film festival is also very simple. Our film market is getting bigger and more important, and it will definitely attract the attention of foreign film companies. As long as the Chinese film festival introduces a policy, only the films that come here can be shown in the domestic market." Released! By then, will the World Chinese Film Festival still be popular?"

"That's right! At that time, in order to be released here, those foreign films will have to rush to participate in the exhibition. Even Hollywood stars will have to come in batches!"

"Haha, maybe you came to the premiere in the Imperial Capital crying and shouting!"

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Tang En was a little dumbfounded.

Staring blankly at this group of laughing filmmakers, a word came to mind—mentally retarded!

What kind of bad idea is this?

The problem of Chinese films seems to be far more than a problem of leadership!

It's really full of idiots.

Including Lao Mouzi, they all think that this method of promoting the World Discourse Film Festival through the method of "exhibition can only be screened" is very feasible.

In contrast, the leaders are more prescient.

"Nonsense! Now it's a market economy, how can we forcefully intervene with policies?" The big leader who presided over the meeting immediately interrupted the group of filmmakers, and glanced at Tang En cautiously, and said with a smile, "We will definitely abide by the WTO trade agreement, and welcome excellent Hollywood movies with a free and open mind.”

Tang En smiled slightly, "I understand!"

The current national policy is centered on economic development.

To put it bluntly, it is to make a fortune in silence.

The WTO is about free trade, which is aimed at both parties. As a result, the other party opened up the market and accepted everything, but their own side used administrative intervention, which was too much!

Even if you use administrative intervention, you have to keep a low profile, right? Quietly, don't be caught by someone, right?

Hold a film festival, and then tell the world in a high-profile way that China just doesn't abide by the WTO agreement, what the hell!

This is crazy, right?

It was not until 2012 that the United States signed the "Memorandum of Understanding between China and the United States on Solving WTO Film-related Issues" with China in response to the WTO film breach of contract. Dare to come up with such a moth now, not to mention that the leaders of the film bureau will step down, and the country's thriving economic situation will be deeply affected.

Tang En has seen the huge destructive power of the trade war.

Sensitive topic, did not continue.

The leader cleverly changed the topic and said some other relatively easy proposals.

Tang En also expressed his position at the right time, saying that he attaches great importance to the Chinese film market, and will deepen the cooperation between New Universal and Chinese films in the future. In the next two years, there will be two blockbuster films with Chinese elements released globally, one is the cartoon " Kung Fu Panda, one is the live-action movie "Mulan".

In order to further bring the Chinese temperament to the world.

This naturally attracted bursts of surprises from the leaders.

This kind of image engineering is very important, especially Hollywood movies, the influence is too great! It is much better than investing huge sums of money to build Confucius Institutes abroad to fool foreigners to show the strength of a big country.

Next, Tang En naturally mentioned the real estate project in Shanghai, and expressed his willingness to deepen the cooperation between the two parties and develop more peripheral industries through movies.

In short, there are many benefits!

The leaders are happy.

When Tang En said that he planned to donate 100 million yuan to the Academy of Drama to help China's film industry, the leader was even happier.