In fact, this is not the first time Xia Tian has dealt with director Xie Jin. .

When filming "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High", Xia Tian intended to let Liu Xiaoqing play the third concubine. As a result, Liu Xiaoqing disliked that the role was a supporting role and was unwilling to be suppressed by his junior Gong Li, so he refused to obey.

Afterwards, Liu Xiaoqing was blocked by the company. She immediately terminated the contract with the company, but she lost several lawsuits, and she also had to compensate Xia Tian for millions of RMB losses.

At that time, Liu Xiaoqing was frightened. Because she sold herself and couldn't even pay back the account, she asked her mentor Xie Jin to come forward and help him with the peace. Xia Tian then canceled the compensation. Otherwise, those two lawsuits would make Liu Xiaoqing unable to turn over.

However, when we were dealing with each other, we just asked someone to pass the message, and Xia Tian had never talked to Xie Jin directly.

This time we visited, it was the first time that the two of them met officially.

"Mr. Xia, you are so young and promising." Xie Jin looked at Xia Tian and said in admiration.

At a young age, he has achieved remarkable achievements, which is really amazing.

"Director Xie is also getting stronger and stronger, and it is worth learning from our younger generations." Xia Tian said with a smile.

While chatting, the two talked about the future development of Chinese-language films.

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Xie Jin is a living fossil of the development of Chinese films. From the 1970s to the present, he has been at the forefront for nearly thirty years.

In his opinion, the future development of Chinese-language films is not optimistic.

First, with the popularity of television, fewer people are willing to go to the cinema to watch movies. Before television became popular, movies were the best way to enter the ordinary people.

It was really cost-effective to spend a few cents to enter the cinema, so although the ticket price was only a few cents, many movies achieved a box office of over 100 million yuan. This shows how high the number of movies was viewed by the people.

However, after the popularity of TV, people can get good audio-visual enjoyment at home without leaving home. Although it is not as high-definition and exciting as movies, who can watch TV for free?

Chinese people are the best at living. Although a few cents are cheap, they can save as much as possible, so fewer and fewer people go to the cinema to watch movies.

Especially with the fact that video recorders, VDs, etc. are now available, and you don’t have to go to the theater to watch movies, and you can enjoy them all, so there is even more hope for the box office of the movies. In fact, since 1992, the box office of the movies in the mainland has already shown a turning point, from prosperity to decline.

In addition, the mainland is actively preparing to enter the country, negotiate with countries around the world, and sign trade agreements, it is bound to involve the import of foreign films.

At that time, I am afraid that the mainland will open its doors to foreign movies. He has also watched the latest Hollywood movies. "Terminator 2" and "Jurassic Park" have amazing special effects and wonderful stories, and domestic movies are incomparable. So Xie Jin is pessimistic about future Chinese-language movies.

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In Xia Tian's opinion, what Xie Jin was worried about was not wrong, it was completely right.

Under the attacks of TV sets, VDs, thief discs, foreign language films, etc., it is a general trend that Chinese movies gradually lose their box office, and it is not necessary to deny that this is the case. At least in the next ten years, the situation of Chinese movies will not change much.

But despite this, we cannot completely give up hope. The more difficult the situation is, the more we must work hard to improve ourselves, accumulate strength, strengthen ourselves, and wait for opportunities. Just as the saying goes, "A spark can start a prairie fire."

Xie Jin was deeply moved after hearing Xia Tian's words.

As a young man, Xia Tian has such a broad vision of things and is indeed an outstanding person. No wonder he was able to achieve such great achievements at a young age. It is really amazing.

"Mr. Xia is right. The more difficult the situation is, the less we can give up." Xie Jin nodded and praised.

"Not bad." Xia Tian smiled, "I know Director Xie is the leader in the domestic film industry, and I hope you can recommend more talents to me."

Xie Jin has been in the art for more than 30 years and has promoted and cultivated countless disciples. It was mentioned earlier that Huang Shuqin, a well-known female director in the mainland, was one of his disciples. In addition, there are stars such as Liu Xiaoqing, Congshan, Zhu Shimao, Zhang Yu, Chen, Pan Hong, etc. It can be said that the peaches and plums are silent and they form their own paths.

If Xie Jin recommends talents, Tianxia Entertainment will have a more sufficient talent reserve. Moreover, with his status in the film industry, as long as he reaches the top, other filmmakers will follow him, which is also very helpful for the expansion of Tianxia Entertainment's talents.

"Yes. Mr. Xia doesn't like me to be dizzy." Xie Jin nodded and smiled.

Tianxia Entertainment is now in the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, not to mention the US and Fuso markets, which can be said to be large multinational entertainment companies, and their strength is even much stronger than state-owned film companies.

It is said that it is good to be on the back of a big tree to enjoy the cool air. If his disciples and friends can join the world entertainment, it will be a good thing for them.

Just like Zhang Yimou, before Xia Tian, ​​he was just a small director at Changan Film Studio. But now he is a world-class director who is famous internationally.

The reason why he was able to leap at the dragon gate was indeed because his directorial talent was very high, but on the other hand, it was also the support of Tianxia Entertainment, which made him so popular in the foreign market.

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"By the way, I am planning to build a performing arts school that cultivates talents recently. If Mr. Xia is interested, you are welcome to invest." Xie Jin said again.

Nowadays, education reform allows private schools to be run. Xie Jin thus came up with the idea of ​​promoting education and nurturing talents.

On the one hand, establishing film and television schools will help cultivate talents and pass on your talents; on the other hand, establishing film and television schools with his reputation will also make money.

Since the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, the mainland's economy began to take off, but at the same time, some bad phenomena have also appeared, that is, "brain-body upside down". It is better to sell tea eggs than to hold on to the point where the courageous ones starve to death.

Like Xie Jin, who was originally the first-class film director in the country, his pay was not even one percent of that of Zhang Yimou, a junior. Zhang Yimou directed a movie with a pay of 2 million yuan, making him the highest-paid director in the mainland.

In this case, it is also a good thing for him to start a film and television school and collect some students to earn some money.

"Yes." Xia Tian nodded when he heard this.

He knew that Xie Jin Film and Television School had launched many outstanding students in his previous life, such as Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing, Yan, Chen Sicheng, etc., who all graduated from this school.
Chapter completed!