Writing about entertainment was approached by a female villain archetype

Chapter 229 Stars Shine (Revised)
"...Everyone here is my senior. As a latecomer, I feel ashamed to stand here today and make some superficial remarks.

However, since the organization trusts me and has put this fund in my hands, no matter how scared I am and no matter how many challenges I face in the future, I have to grit my teeth and work hard to live up to..."

At the symposium, Xu Chuan stood behind the podium and had been speaking for about 10 minutes.

The content of his speech was naturally printed and distributed to everyone.But when he actually started speaking, there were still many differences between the spoken content and the written content.

For example, what Xu Chuan is saying now will definitely not be written in the manuscript.

Not only could he not write, but Xu Chuan's performance in the ten minutes he took the stage was beyond the expectations of most of the directors present.

In everyone's expectation, today can be said to be another highlight moment in Xu Chuan's life.

Why do you say that?
Because in the eyes of these directors, managing advance funds is not just a matter of managing 10 billion funds.If you just manage money, with the current film production costs, how many movies can you make even if all 10 billion is invested?
What everyone really pays attention to is the follow-up policy after investing in this fund.You know, Xu Zhaoqi, who is in charge of film review, is sitting on the stage right now.

Could this fund be that simple?
Therefore, in everyone's opinion, Xu Chuan at this time is not only high-spirited and high-spirited, but at least his face is glowing, right?

But the reality is that Xu Chuan is very calm, as calm as an "old monk".His posture is quite low, and his words are also modest.

In the 10-minute explanation, the most mentioned word was "learning".

This performance made Zhao Kangnian and Xu Zhaoqi on the stage a little amused. They just felt that this kid was really interesting, with a thick skin and a dark heart.

Why did Xu Chuan do this?

That's because he never thought that he could accomplish anything by himself, even if he was a time traveler.

Therefore, in the past few years, he did not live without money like many "travelers", and he had to earn all the money himself, no matter how small it was.

On the contrary, he generously helped many people.

However, Xu Chuan also told himself all the time that there are still many white-eyed wolves in this world who cannot be fed enough.Especially the entertainment industry, which is a moral depression affected by long-term unhealthy trends.

Xu Chuan doesn't know how many people he has seen who regard other people's kindness to him as a benefit she has gained through her "intelligence".

In this state of mind, not only would she not feel grateful, but she would also feel that the person who helped him was a fool and was being manipulated by her.

The question is, should we beat and kill such people?
Of course not.

In fact, one thing that needs to be clear is that no matter what mentality the other party is based on.As long as the other party "asks" for you, you can exert unavoidable influence on it and use it to achieve your desired goals.

In other words, don’t act like a good old guy and try to help everyone with all your heart and soul.But don’t be like Leng Touqing who only wants to help the so-called “good people”.

Because some "help" itself is an exchange of interests.The other person thinks he is taking advantage of you, but you are actually taking advantage of him.

The so-called "unite all those who can be united" is the core concept.But how to unite really requires methods.

Fortunately, Xu Chuan had carefully studied both the concepts and methods.

As mentioned before, this symposium is to get a baseline understanding of these directors.

The purpose of the thorough investigation is to distinguish those that can be supported with effort and those that can be driven by profit.Of course, there are others who can be "sacrifice" in the future.

Therefore, no matter what these directors say, Xu Chuan will not openly refute them.This is a symposium, not a debate competition, let alone a criticism and education conference.

Not only that, his low profile and modesty are actually part of "finding out the bottom".Because, when faced with their own low profile, different people will have different reactions.

Depending on their different reactions, Xu Chuan will have different coping strategies in the future.

For example, some people really look down on Xu Chuan because of his modesty and low profile.Don't ever think that there won't be such fools.In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find that there are many such people.

The question is, how should we use this kind of person?
The answer is actually obvious, no need to read too much into it.

As for when Zhao Kangnian asked him just now, "How is this story?", why did he answer so directly and straightforwardly, "Not very well."

It was because Xu Chuan knew very well that Zhao Kangnian was not really asking for his opinion, but that Old Zhao also felt that the story was not good.

He asked the question just to confirm whether Xu Chuan's ideas were right for him or not.In other words, whether Xu Chuan can understand his meaning in a short time.

This is very important. If you cannot understand the meaning and spirit of the leader, it will be more troublesome to do things.

Obviously, Xu Chuan's answer satisfied Zhao Kangnian.

Moreover, if someone else said "there is a better story", Zhao Kangnian might not believe it too much.But since Xu Chuan said this, Zhao Kangnian always felt that what this boy said was true.

However, whether it is true or not, Xu Chuan will definitely not tell a story about "alien invasion of the earth" on stage.If he told it, it would be a public slap in Huan Ze’s face.

But, with Huan Ze as the introduction to storytelling, Xu Chuan really planned to tell another story to the director present.

He hopes to use this story to open up a new way of thinking to the directors on site.

At the same time, I also want to hint to those present not to think about creating under the Western narrative system.The purpose of establishing the fund is to hope that everyone can tell stories about Chinese people’s thinking.

The so-called cultural export, first of all, must grasp the essence of Chinese culture, that is, the spiritual core of us Chinese people.With this lining, no matter what background the story is told on the surface, it is a Chinese story.

On the contrary, if there is no lining, no matter how many Chinese elements you use like Sanxingdui, it will not be a Chinese story.

Therefore, when he finished talking about the contents of the manuscript on the stage, he smiled and said: "I am the last one to speak this time.

So, I shamelessly stay on stage for a few more minutes and talk about some of the things I learned after listening to the speeches of my seniors.

Speaking of which, Director Hu’s speech just now made me very emotional. I think this concept is quite feasible to use hard science fiction themes to help upgrade our film industry. "

As soon as Xu Chuan said this, many people at the scene realized what he meant.

Not only that, these people also realized that Xu Chuan's next words represented his true thoughts on the investment direction of this fund.

Suddenly, everyone started to get serious.

"I am a science fiction enthusiast myself. Speaking of which, I have an interesting thing to share with you. Didn't I go back some time ago?

After returning home, I went to the home of one of my teachers. This teacher is 70 years old and has retired.After retirement, I don’t have any entertainment hobbies. I just like to watch TV.

The day I went there, there happened to be a movie playing on TV. Everyone has seen this movie called "The End of the World". "

Xu Chuan said "The End of Days" is a famously bad movie, with a rating equivalent to "Shanghai Fortress".

"I believe you all know what is going on in this movie, so I really couldn't stand it. My teacher seemed to be a little bit unable to stand it either, so he chatted with me while watching the movie.

As we were chatting, my teacher said to me, "Xu Chuan, you are now a director, do you have any ideas to make a movie of this type?" '

I was really bored at that time, so I told the old man with great interest that I was very interested.Not only was he interested, I also made up a story for the old man on the spot. "Xu Chuan paused here.

Then he continued: "I said let's imagine a situation. Suppose that one day in the future, something goes wrong with the sun. What went wrong?

That is, the sun is accelerating its aging and developing towards a red giant. In other words, the sun is accelerating its expansion, and the earth is beginning to inevitably heat up.

The most terrible thing is that in one or two hundred years, this sun will expand to the orbit of the earth and engulf the entire earth.It will only take a few decades for the earth to become uninhabitable.

Therefore, humans will have to respond within these decades.As a result, the rulers of various countries united to build five very large space stations in the name of scientific research.

This space station stores the seeds of all plants on our planet, as well as the sperm and eggs of many animals.But the number of people the space station can carry is very limited.We assume that these five space stations can accommodate 100 million people, which is already a very scary data.

But one million people is still too few compared to the number of humans on the entire planet.This involves a question, that is, who is one of these 100 million.

The above is the background, but our real story starts with the male protagonist.The male protagonist is a Chinese astronomer. He is very kind, has a wife who loves him, and a pair of lovely children.

During a study, he also discovered the fact of the aging of the sun and gained insight into the conspiracy to build a space station based on scientific research.That is to let the rich and the ruling class escape the earth on the space station, leaving the civilians to die on the earth..."

Xu Chuan is a good storyteller. His voice kept ringing in the venue, and the stories he told were concise and clear.

In fact, the story he told was a mixture of the background of "The Wandering Earth" and the plot of "2012".The plot of "2012" is actually a typical Hollywood narrative.

In his story, the astronomer hero discovered the conspiracy.Through a series of operations, the rich and rulers finally had to give up one of the five space stations to the civilians.

Then the male protagonist became a hero among the civilians. He resisted the ruler, won the victory, and finally set foot on the road to the universe with his wife and children.

About seven or eight minutes later, Xu Chuan finished telling the story. The directors in the audience frowned and thought about Xu Chuan's intentions.

Even Zhao Kangnian frowned because he felt that there was no essential difference between this story and the story Huan Ze just told.

It was at this time that Xu Chuan suddenly changed his tone and said: "Everyone, do you know what my teacher's first reaction was after hearing my story? He said this story is unrealistic."

Without waiting for anyone to answer, Xu Chuan continued: "I thought the old man wanted to say that in this story, the setting of the sun engulfing the earth is unrealistic, or that a space station that can hold 100 million people is unrealistic.

So, I gave the old man some popular science about science fiction movies. The charm of science fiction movies lies in imagination.

However, what the old man said next was beyond my expectations. He said that what he thought was unrealistic was if this story was set in China.

It is impossible for him to go to the space station for those who are qualified.He also said that he did not know about foreign countries, but there would never be any secret construction of a space station in China.

Then the ruling class and the rich go up and leave the common people to die.First, we underestimated the Chinese people’s united spirit in dealing with disasters.

Secondly, I didn’t realize that in our land water can both carry and capsize a boat.It is impossible to hide this kind of thing. Once you can't hide it, you will be abandoned by this person if you haven't abandoned him.

In other words, the old man felt that the movies I made were too petty.If it was really such an inescapable disaster, then he thought I should shoot the magnificent scenes of human beings united to deal with the disaster.

Since we can secretly build 5 space stations without telling everyone.If we don't hide it from everyone, maybe we can build 500 or 5000?

Since I just said that the charm of science fiction movies lies in imagination, why do they have to be limited to this kind of narrative routine where everyone else is dark and stupid, and only the male protagonist is brilliant?
He said that the reason why humans have become the top of the biological chain and the reason why they have been able to develop such a splendid civilization has never been due to such petty conspiracy and conspiracy.

One of the first things our ancestors learned was cooperation.One person may not be able to withstand natural disasters and dangers in nature, but a group of people can resist them.

We humans form a society to resist risks.At least every time our country responds to a crisis, countless famous and unknown heroes emerge.

These heroes are real in our past and present.Since there is the past and the present, why is there no future?Why is it that in the future only the male protagonist is left to be great and upright? "

At this point, Xu Chuan paused and continued: "I said, teacher, this is making a movie, there must be a protagonist.

The old man nodded when he heard this and told me that a movie must have a protagonist.So he gave me an idea.It’s based on the background of my five space stations.

During the voyage of the universe, a new male protagonist suddenly encountered a problem with a certain facility on the space station.If it is not resolved, the space station will be destroyed and all 20 people inside will die.

If it were me, how would I film this plot.

After hearing this question, I thought about it carefully before replying that I would arrange for the new actor to be the first to discover this problem and inform everyone on the space station.

Then everyone on the space station doubted him and thought he was making a fuss out of a molehill.But the protagonist sticks to his judgment and sets about solving the problem.

In the process of solving the problem, the male protagonist will meet a woman who believes in him unconditionally, an assistant who makes jokes, and a dull but skilled talent.

In the end, the male protagonist led these people to overcome difficulties and obstacles under the watchful eyes of everyone, even sacrificing assistants and talents, and then solved the problem at the most critical moment.Received support and gratitude from everyone on the space station. "

Hearing this, the director on the scene was completely impressed.Isn’t what Xu Chuan just said still a standard Hollywood routine?

By repeatedly using this format as an example, is he emphasizing that he does not recognize this kind of thing?

Sure enough, Xu Chuan stopped pretending here and continued: "The old man quite approves of my story, after all, I am telling a classic plot.

The only problem is that he still doesn’t think this is a story in the Chinese context.He said that if such a day comes, after the male protagonist raises a question, no matter whether it is true or false.

If we Chinese were the managers of the space station, he would definitely arrange for someone to verify the hero's words.You know, this is a matter of life and death.

Once it is verified that this problem is real, people will be organized immediately, and many people will solve the problem.It is simply impossible for everyone to watch helplessly as the male protagonist solves the problem with just a few people.

To take a step back, managers are not Chinese, and they don’t verify it.But as long as among these 20 people, there are other Chinese people like us.

There must be some people who will pay attention to related issues because of the male protagonist's prompts.Since someone is paying attention, someone will definitely find that there is indeed a problem.

After discovering the problem, these people will definitely be able to find ways to solve it.Again, because this is a matter of life and death.

The old man said that in times of life and death, we have never lacked brave and wise men.Whether it’s what the ancients said about self-improvement, or what we sing now about how there has never been a fairy emperor.

All prove that under our Chinese thinking system, success can lie with the male protagonist, but success cannot only lie with the male protagonist.He said that this is the story of our country.Expanding further, this is the story of the historical process of human development.

Regardless of China or foreign countries, when night falls, the sky will be filled with stars.He thinks that what I need to do is to tell the story of one or two stars well, and at the same time tell everyone that this is one of the shining stars.

Rather than imitating others who single out a star and say it is the starry sky.

First of all, because of this way of telling stories, the old man thought that I personally could not win against Hollywood, which has a first-mover advantage.

Secondly, the reason why people still do this is probably because no one has told them how shining the sky really is.No one told them that there were other solutions when facing these things.

And this solution did not appear out of thin air, but is what we humans, at least in our country of China, have used in the past and now.

The most important thing is that the so-called "stars shining" is just one of the many characteristics of our country; we have many other characteristics and other spiritual cores that can be explored.

Everyone just mentioned cultural export.I also very much agree with this matter and am willing to work hard for it.

But before exporting culture, there is one thing I have to figure out: what kind of culture do we want to export?How can we export culture in different types of movies?
Of course, you are all my seniors, and I think many things may sound new to me, but they may not matter to you seniors.

I just said so much, that is, I want to share my learning results with you.

Finally, I think everyone is very concerned about the information of pioneer funds. One point I want to emphasize is that what the pioneer funds must do must be consistent with the word pioneer.

This concludes my speech, thank you all! "

After Xu Chuan finished speaking, he bowed twice to the people on and off the stage, and then walked to his seat.

However, at this time, the venue became silent because of Xu Chuan's last speech.It wasn't until Zhao Kangnian's applause sounded at the scene that everyone came back to their senses and clapped along.

But applause is applause, the directors on the scene were very confused.

Now there are three things that everyone is sure of.First, the Pioneer Fund managed by Xu Chuan will definitely support movies in the hard science fiction category.Otherwise, he wouldn't talk about so many science fiction things here.

The second thing is that Xu Chuan will support everyone in exploring Chinese culture in movies.This culture is no longer a collection of elements.Wearing Hanfu to play Hamlet would be impossible for him.

The third thing is that Xu Chuan emphasized the “first move” of advance funds.In other words, films without innovation can't get a buck from him.

(End of this chapter)