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2442 [Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge]

When visiting Tianxia Technology in summer, major senior executives from eastern Guangdong Province and Dazhen City also accompanied them.

The reason why people give face is that Tianxia Technology is a star enterprise in Shenzhen and eastern Guangdong Province, which pays more taxes, provides many jobs, and drives many surrounding enterprises.

In Shenzhen alone, there are as many as 30 factories that provide components and assembly services for Tianxia Technology, which solved the employment problem of nearly 150,000 people.

Moreover, Tianxia Technology's tax payment accounts for nearly one-tenth of that in Shenzhen. Therefore, senior management of pillar enterprises like this naturally attaches great importance to it.

Second, Xia Tian is a super rich man with a lot of investments all over the world. Now it is the environment of reform and opening up, and introducing foreign capital. Super rich man like Xia Tian is naturally very popular, and everyone wants him to invest. So you naturally have to be more attentive to him.

"Mr. Xia, what kind of problems your company is facing, just tell us. As long as we can help you solve them, we will do our best." The senior executive said.

"Thank you for your concern to the senior management. The fact that Tianxia Technology can develop to its current scale is inseparable from the support of all senior management. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you." Xia Tian smiled, "If Tianxia Technology wants to further develop in the future, it requires funds, talents, and technology.

I have funds! We are recruiting talents too! Only technology is scarce! We have been discussing technical cooperation with China since last year, hoping to cooperate with them to build factories.

But so far, there has not been much progress, which restricts our development. If the senior management can mediate, I would be very grateful. Or, we can also cooperate with other technology companies, such as Huawei, etc.

"Okay, we will definitely pay attention to Mr. Xia's problem." The senior management nodded immediately when he heard this.

...

In addition to visiting Tianxia Technology, Xia Tian did something else to reunite with Gong Li and Chen Hong.

"I am now co-producing the movie "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" with director Zhang Yimou, which tells the story of old Shanghai." Gong Li said to Xia Tian.

Xia Tian nodded and knew about this movie.

"Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Award that year and the American Golden Globe Award for Best Photography. It can be said to be a masterpiece.

However, this movie also has its drawback, that is, the story is relatively weak. Although it was filmed in the old Shanghai story and the scene was grand, the pattern was actually very small, it was just a love story with no room for extension.

In comparison, "Titanic" also tells a love story, but it is not just a love story. The flashes of human nature and the despicableness and the collision of new and old ideas can all be seen from this movie.

This is actually a common problem for a group of directors in the mainland. They only focus on expressing their own ideas, but ignore the integrity of the story and the audience's impression.

This is because for a long time, they did not have to consider the market when filming films. They made films for national film factories, and they didn’t care whether they made money or not. They even despise those who made money. For example, when "The Mysterious Buddha" starring Liu Xiaoqing was criticized and was almost banned from the screening.

When the country later reformed the film industry, these directors had long developed their own shooting style and could not reverse it even if they wanted to. Some of them, after the film studio closed, had no filming, and were gradually eliminated by the times.

But there are still a group of directors who have become famous internationally and gained a foothold in the mainland entertainment industry. Although the film studios are closed, they still have a lot of resources, so they can still be willful. In addition, they are not useless and have some real skills, so those people have been in the glory for many years.

It was not until the new century that the newly emerging young directors, because they grew up completely in the business society, abandoned the style of the older generation of directors and began to pay attention to the audience and the market.

Even domestic horror films that frequently produce bad movies are actually aimed at the market. Their production costs are extremely low, only one million, but they usually get four or five million box offices when screened in theaters.

Eliminate the distribution of theaters, taxes, etc., and production companies usually make profits. So despite the criticism, such movies are still emerging one after another. Because it does have a market and although it is niche, it can still make money.

...

"You tell Director Zhang that in the future, he should pay attention to commercialism. He is now the number one director in mainland China and should set an example for other directors.

After the country restructured the film industry, many people's jobs were ruined. So now is not the time to show themselves, but the time to keep their jobs for everyone." Xia Tian said to Gong Li.

Gong Li was stunned and nodded.

After the film industry was reorganized, many film factories did have many problems. Before, the state purchased and sold movies, so film factories didn’t have to worry about the market at all, just just shoot movies.

But now, the country does not care about the release of movies. If the film factory wants to release movies, it must discuss them one by one, and the time and energy it takes will be more time and energy.

Moreover, after the reform, the market first. If the movie is not good, no distribution company is willing to publish it. Even if it is released, no audience will buy tickets, which has led to the difficulty of development of many film factories.

In this case, transforming into commercial films and compromising to the market is something that mainland filmmakers have to do.

As one of the most prestigious directors in the mainland, Zhang Yimou should indeed take the lead in setting an example.

But although his current directing "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" is nominally an old Shanghai black gang film, it actually tells the story of men and women. It is considered the old Shanghai version of "The Big Red Lantern" but it is not as good as "The Big Red Lantern".

So, in Gong Li's opinion, this story is indeed not very good, at least it is much worse than Xia Tian's writing.

"After you finish filming this movie, don't stay in the mainland film industry. Go to Hollywood with me. The mainland film industry will not have any good development in the next ten years. If you stay there, you can only be dimmed with it." Xia Tian said again.

With the reform of the film industry, the collapse of the old system and the failure of the new system, the collapse of the mainland film industry. Coupled with the invasion of the thief and the popularization of televisions, the mainland film industry has been unable to recover for at least ten years.

Gong Li is 30 years old this year, which is the time when a woman is most attractive. She should go to Hollywood to explore, and not stay in the mainland, as there is no development.

In fact, in the past few years, the mainland film industry did not release many good movies, and Gong Li did not have much good development.
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