Chapter 418: Beijing Film Studio is in trouble
Beijing Film Studio.

Zheng Kangmei is the director of the administrative department of Beijing Film Studio, mainly responsible for the administrative and office affairs of the studio.

After work that day, he was pushing his bicycle home as usual. When he passed the door of the mailroom, Lao Zhang from the mailroom leaned out of the window and called him:

“Director Zheng!”

“Hey, Lao Zhang, have you eaten?”

“have eaten.”

Lao Zhang smiled and replied, “You’re going back to eat?”

“Yes.”

“Please stay for now!”

Lao Zhang retracted his head, quickly pushed open the door of the mail room, and came out carrying a snakeskin bag.

Zheng Kangmei glanced at the snakeskin bag, which was bulging.

“Lao Zhang, what is this?”

Lao Zhang opened the snakeskin bag and revealed the letter inside:
“Director Zheng, I don’t know what’s going on. I received so many letters in this morning, but there’s no indication of who they’re addressed to. Either they say they’re addressed to the Beijing Film Studio, or they say they’re addressed to the leaders of the Beijing Film Studio. I don’t know which leader they’re addressed to, and I don’t dare to make a decision. Why don’t you take them over and have a look?”

“You mean, you collected so much in just this morning?”

“Not really. I received dozens of them over the past two days, but there were a lot this morning.”

“Hey, let me see.”

Zheng Kangmei kicked down the bicycle’s support stand, took out a letter from the snakeskin bag, took a look at the letter, and just as Lao Zhang said, it was addressed to “Leaders of Beijing Film Studio.”

He tore open the letter in two quick motions, adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and glanced at the contents of the letter:

“Dear leaders of Beijing Film Studio:
Hello! Teacher Zhu Lin has been working diligently in her performing arts career and has brought countless wonderful works to the audience.

However, we were extremely angry when we heard that she had to resign due to being squeezed by the Beijing Film Studio!
Teacher Zhu Lin dedicated her talent and youth to the Beijing Film Studio, but in return she was treated so unfairly.

The Beijing Film Studio should have been a platform that provided development space for outstanding actors, but now it has done such a chilling thing, which is really unworthy of a big studio.

We strongly demand that the Beijing Film Studio give a reasonable explanation and properly handle what happened to Teacher Zhu Lin, otherwise we will not let it go!
——An enraged worker at Shougang No. 1 Wire Rod Factory

November 1984, 9″

Zheng Kangmei’s eyelids twitched.

Of course, he had heard about Zhu Lin’s resignation. After all, she was one of the five golden flowers in the Beijing Film Studio. Not only was the news reported in major newspapers and magazines, but even the after-dinner discussions among the employees in the studio in the past two days were all about her.

“Are these fans here to curse?”

Zheng Kangmei quickly opened another letter:
“.
Teacher Zhu Lin has won the love of the public with her superb acting skills. She is the pride of Beijing Film Studio, but what the Beijing Film Studio has done is heartbreaking.

“

As expected, it was another letter from fans speaking up for Zhu Lin.

Zheng Kangmei frowned, forming several deep furrows on his brows. He mechanically opened a few more letters, and the contents were all condemnations:
“I cannot understand why Beijing Film Studio would treat an actor who has made so many contributions to the studio in this way. This not only hurts teacher Zhu Lin, but also hurts us fans who have always supported the works of Beijing Film Studio.”

“How unfair this is! Beijing Film Studio should be a cradle for nurturing outstanding actors, but it has become a place that hurts actors!”

“I feel incredibly angry and disappointed.”

“I hope the Beijing Film Studio can face up to its mistakes and sincerely apologize to teacher Zhu Lin!”

“Please ask Beijing Film Studio to reflect on its own behavior and give teacher Zhu Lin justice!”

“If Beijing Film Studio remains indifferent to this, we fans will unite to boycott the works of Beijing Film Studio!”

“.”

Zheng Kangmei opened a few letters, but the number was less than one-tenth of the full pile of letters in the snakeskin bag.

His face turned pale and his lips pursed unconsciously.

“What’s wrong, Director Zheng? What letter is this?” Old Zhang asked loudly from the side.

“His.”

Zheng Kangmei took a deep breath and then slapped his thigh.

“broken!”

These days are different from later times.

These days, the opinions of the people must be taken particularly seriously.

In the future, when someone makes “Fengshen 2”, if it fails, they can just pretend to be dead.

But these days, anyone who dares to make a “Fengshen 2” must stand up and apologize to the people of the country.

At this moment, the opinions of the people need to be referred to and the voices of the people need to be listened to.

Even though the Beijing Film Studio is a big company, there is no way they can ignore this bag of letters of condemnation.

“Lao Zhang, please deliver these letters to my office.” Zheng Kangmei pushed his bicycle, turned around, and went back under the carport.

After something like this happened, he couldn’t go home from get off work normally.

Chen Peisi’s home.

“Shi Mao is here!”

“Uncle Chen.”

Zhu Shimao greeted old man Chen Qiang, and Chen Peisi quickly came out of the house.

Last year, a skit performed by the duo, “Eating Noodles”, became popular all over the country. This year, the duo is preparing to perform together on the Spring Festival Gala stage again to present another skit for the people of the country.

The planning started from now on.

“Why did I hear that Comrade Zhu Lin resigned from your Beijing Film Studio?” Zhu Shimao asked Chen Peisi.

He was an actor of the Bayi Film Studio, and Chen Peisi had been successfully transferred to the Beijing Film Studio because he had previously participated in several films of the Beijing Film Studio, and his image as a father and son with his father Chen was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

This was of course also influenced by Jiang Xian. In the original history, Chen Peisi was an actor from the Bayi Film Studio.

“Oh, you know all this?”

“Look at what you said, how could I not know? It’s been spread all over the place, major newspapers and tabloids are all reporting on this matter.”

“Anyway, our factory is about to be scolded to death this time.”

Chen Peisi touched his forehead and said, “You don’t know, the fans sent us sacks of letters, and the mailroom was almost full, so they had to be put outside the mailroom. Who could bear this?

I heard that some people even called to curse us, not caring about the high phone bills. They almost flooded our factory’s phone lines with calls.”

“Pace, let me be fair, the fans are right to criticize!”

Zhu Shimao said with emotion, “You said the cause and effect of this matter, isn’t it just the leaders of your film studio bullying the actors?”

“It’s really infuriating.” Chen Peisi agreed, “Most of our colleagues in the factory still think that this matter is not Zhu Lin’s fault.”

“exactly.”

Zhu Shimao chatted with him for a while and then scolded him for a while. Both of them were young and could not tolerate any grain of sand in their eyes.

“Hey? How about this.”

Zhu Shimao suddenly had an inspiration.
“Why don’t we stage a skit to let the audience understand how difficult it is to be an actor.”

Chen Peisi hesitated and said with concern:
“Isn’t that a repetition of the central idea of ​​last year’s “Eating Noodles”?”

“Repetitive and timeless.”

Zhu Shimao said: “I just want to stage such a skit, and it would be best if it could satirize Comrade Zhu Lin’s incident.”

“Row.”

Chen Peisi nodded in agreement and said, “Then let’s make a sequel to last year’s “Eating Noodles.”

Capital Cinema.

Xu Qiubai is an employee of the Capital Cinema.

He was so young, and being able to work in the Capital Cinema was something that made people around him particularly envious.

But in fact, although the work you do looks glamorous, it is actually very hard work behind the scenes.

He was a film runner at a cinema, and was usually responsible for transporting single-reel copies back and forth between several nearby cinemas on a motorcycle.

Whenever a new movie comes out, he’ll be so busy that he can’t leave his motorcycle.

A few days ago, Beijing Film Studio’s new film “Ruyi” was released.

This is a film directed by Huang Jianzhong.

Huang Jianzhong later starred in “The Great Rice Shop”, “The Qin Empire: Splitting”, and Li Yapeng’s version of “Swordsman”. Although Huang Jianzhong has no representative works and is not very famous, the screenwriter of this movie is Liu Xinwu, who is quite famous in the literary world!

This “Ruyi” is also a novel of the same name by Mr. Liu Xinwu.

Therefore, as soon as “Ruyi” was released, it quickly attracted the attention of a large number of movie fans.

In addition, the deep and simple emotional portrayal attracted many young couples to watch.

Xu Qiubai worked hard for several days.

Based on his experience with the film, he will be increasingly busy in the next half month.

But to his surprise, he was unexpectedly free these two days.

“What’s going on? Why has the number of screenings of Ruyi dropped in the past two days?” Xu Qiubai asked his partner at the ticket office.

“We’re pretty weird too.”

His partner was equally confused. “In the beginning, the tickets were snapped up very quickly. Every show was sold out. We could even sell dozens of tickets. The manager was planning to add a few more shows. Who knew that no one would watch this movie all of a sudden?”

“No one is watching?”

“Yes, if half of the seats in the theater are empty, the number of films scheduled must be reduced.”

“What’s going on?” Xu Qiubai was puzzled.

If this was the case with only their Capital Cinema, he could still understand it as a coincidence.

But I heard from other film runners that the number of screenings of this film has also been reduced.

Xu Qiubai pondered for a while, but still couldn’t figure it out.

The popularity of this movie has faded so quickly?
This is unreasonable!
“I heard from someone.”

His girlfriend suddenly asked mysteriously, “Did you know about Zhu Lin’s resignation?”

“I know. Her company is really a piece of shit.”

“It seems that because of this incident, Zhu Lin’s fans are now boycotting the films of Beijing Film Studio.”

“Oh, that makes sense!”

Xu Qiubai reacted immediately.

“No wonder there are fewer copies of the movie ‘Cold Night’ these days.”

“Cold Nights” is a movie previously produced by Beijing Film Studio. It is a remake of Ba Jin’s novel of the same name. It was remade once in Hong Kong in the 50s and was hailed as one of the “Top Ten Cantonese Business Cards”. This is the first time that Beijing Film Studio has remade it in the mainland, and it can be regarded as the second remake.

The next day, Xu Qiubai got up early and went to work. When he arrived at the entrance of the cinema, he was stopped by several young people.

“You, stop.”

He glanced at the other person and said, “Comrade, what’s wrong?”

“Are you going to the movies?” the other party asked.

Xu Qiubai was cautious and did not answer, but asked, “What’s wrong? What’s wrong with watching a movie?”

“Don’t watch the films produced by Beijing Film Studio!” said a female comrade.

“Correct!”

Another taller one immediately followed with a threat.

“You are not allowed to watch the two films “Ruyi” and “Cold Night”! Do you hear me?”

“Uh”

“If I find out that you went to see it, you’ll be punished!”

Since there are people who chase stars, there are naturally strange groups such as sasaeng fans and brainless fans.

Xu Qiubai didn’t want to cause trouble either.

He stammered and agreed, “I understand, comrade. Don’t worry, I won’t watch the movie.”

The other party let him go with satisfaction, “Let’s go.”

“thanks, thanks.”

Xu Qiubai bowed and quickly left.

He doesn’t bother to care about these people since he gets paid.

Not to mention not allowing him to watch movies produced by the Beijing Film Studio, even if he were not allowed to watch movies, it would not affect him.

Anyway, he gets a fixed salary every month.

As he was thinking, he turned around and looked at those young men.

Those people have stopped other passers-by again, still intimidating and threatening them, and still using the same rhetoric as before.

“This is a commotion.”

Xu Qiubai shook his head.

The Beijing Film Studio is really in trouble this time.

Beijing Film Studio conference room.

Hu Qiming sat on the chair in the middle, sighing constantly. At the other scattered tables were several deputy factory managers and department heads. Each of them had a letter in his hand, reading it with a serious look on his face.

“Have you seen it all?”

Hu Qiming looked around at everyone’s faces and said seriously:
“This incident has seriously affected the reputation of our factory. I called you all here today to discuss how to properly resolve this matter and how to suppress it as soon as possible.”

“Hu Factory.”

Hu Qiming’s words were interrupted by Han Zetao, who said in a relaxed tone:
“Hu Chang, I think you are taking this matter too seriously.

The reputation of our Beijing Film Studio is built on one good film after another. Can the departure of one actor shake our foundation? It’s impossible.

The most important thing at the moment is to make a good film of Dream of Red Mansions.

As long as the movie is released, the audience will see all the good intentions of our Beijing Film Studio, and all misunderstandings will be automatically eliminated by then.”

Han Zetao spoke eloquently.

He is worthy of being the deputy director of Beijing Film Studio.

With just a few words, he turned the big trouble, which he had caused to the factory, into a small one, and the small one into nothing.

Hu Qiming glanced at him. If it were normal times, he would have endured it and tried not to offend this deputy director.

But now that things have come to this, seeing that Han Zetao still has this attitude, he became a little angry.

“Han Chang, I don’t agree with what you said.

As long as we manage “Dream of the Red Chamber” well, we don’t need to listen to the opinions of the masses?

Do you want our Beijing Film Studio to be separated from the masses? ! “

How could Han Zetao wear such a big hat? He said hurriedly: “Hu Chang, of course I don’t mean that. I just think…”

“What do you think?”

Hu Qiming was rarely angry. “Do you think I’m making a big deal out of nothing? Are you scaremongering?”

“.”

Han Zetao didn’t dare to speak.

He sighed and lowered his head.

There was silence in the conference room for a while.

Hu Qiming lit a cigarette and was about to say something when his secretary knocked on the door.

“Director.”

“speak.”

“There’s a phone call.”

“Tell him to wait a moment. I’ll answer after the meeting.”

“.”

A look of difficulty flashed across the secretary’s face.

He walked forward a few steps, leaned close to Hu Qiming’s ear, and added in a low voice:
“Comrade Chen Huangmei’s phone number.”

(End of this chapter)