Chapter 1038 Everyone Misunderstood (asking for monthly votes)
The first day of the Directors Association Exchange Conference went smoothly.

This is a grand event for the directing industry across both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau. Never before have thousands of directors and students gathered together.

Moreover, the form and content of the communication are very practical.

The exchange meeting on the second day was even more lively, with many people arranged to come in on short notice.

Some of them didn’t come yesterday because they were stuck in traffic until today. They were probably driving Mazdas.

Some of them heard about this meeting and came to participate.

Moreover, many actors and other film professionals also came this time.

The experience shared by great directors is also useful for actors and other practitioners.

Besides, who doesn’t have a dream of becoming a director?

Before becoming a famous director, Li An worked as a “househusband” for six years; Quentin Tarantino was a video store clerk, so he was able to watch so many movies; and Kitano Takeshi, can you imagine that the serious-looking Master Kitano actually worked with Guo Degang?

Zhang Yimou’s first job could not be compared with that of Ma Dagang, who was an artist.

He was just a lathe operator in a cotton mill.

Fortunately, Zhang Yimou’s “weathered” face makes it easy for people to accept this fact.

However, maybe Zhang’s love for all kinds of weird colors really comes from his experience in the cotton mill…

Today, Zhang Yimou is here too.

He didn’t come yesterday, not because he looked down on the meeting, but because he was not in the country and couldn’t make it in time.

Hao Yun just didn’t expect that he was bringing a little girl with him.

“This is the director Hao Yun you’ve been thinking about, and this is Zhou Dongyu, the heroine of my new movie.” Zhang Yimou introduced Hao Yun.

For a new actor, being able to meet a young and prolific director like Hao Yun is definitely the best opportunity.

“Hello, I’m really envious of you being able to star in Director Zhang’s movie. This is a much higher starting point than me.”

However, Hao Yun was complaining about the Imperial Master in his heart – his vision was getting worse and worse.

Not only are the movies getting worse and worse, but the casting is also getting worse with each generation. Just look at these “Mou girls”.

The first Gong Huang directly became the pinnacle of Mou Girl.

The second heroine of “Not One Less” couldn’t find a job, so she had to go abroad to study and married a foreigner.

The third one is Aunt Zhang Zi, who is now going in and out of various doors.

However, Aunt Zhang Ziyi can probably be considered to have had a last gasp, and at least she can be considered a top-tier actress with an international reputation.

Dong Bailian has played a good hand badly, and now there is Zhou Dongyu, who has an average look and figure.

“Hello, Director Hao Yun, I… I am a fan of your movies. I especially like your movies. I really hope to see your “Misterbonwe by the Sea” as soon as possible.”

Zhou Dongyu was obviously a little excited.

She would rather act in Hao Yun’s movie. She feels that as long as she is used, they will know that she is much more useful than An Xiaoxi.

Hao Yun pretended not to hear, nodded at her and started chatting with Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou could only sigh in his heart.

Give you a chance, you are not good.

I’d like to introduce you to Hao Yun. Even if I can’t snatch Mrs. Hao’s position away, I can at least get some movie resources.

Have a pleasant chat with him, and I will praise your acting skills again.

Isn’t that how you enter the circle?

But look at you…

What an unlearned person!
What is “Mesterbonwe by the Sea”? Why don’t you just say “Benelu by the Sea”?

“I heard that Lao Huang intends to nominate you as the next president?”

Zhang Yimou is also a member of the Directors Association. He was the vice president of the first leadership team. The president at that time was Xie Tieli.

But after serving one term as vice president, he did nothing else.

“It’s hard to put it into words…” Hao Yun sighed, lowered his voice, and poured out all his grievances to Zhang Yimou.

When he returned home yesterday, he received calls from many people.

Every word he said was in support of his promotion.

Although leaders have the final say on such matters, they generally don’t care about such “small matters”, and the public opinion below is also very important.

Otherwise, what will I do if I fail to win the election?

Are we going to arrange three thousand thugs to surround the venue and not let people leave until a president that satisfies everyone is elected?

Naturally, Hao Yun still had to “pretend to be innocent”. He didn’t mean that and everyone misunderstood him.

In fact, he is really innocent.

However, the originally innocent Huang Jianxin suddenly changed his position.

When he discovered that his leader was indeed willing to make an exception and comply with public opinion, he carefully considered the matter and found that it was too difficult to change his leader’s mind.

The difficulty lies not in the operation but in the mentality.

The leader finally made up his mind.

Indeed, the 30-year-old president is a bit exaggerated, but isn’t the 30-year-old Golden Lion Award winner also an exaggeration?
Other countries value young talents, so we cannot fall behind.

The leader communicated this matter to his leader and finally convinced his leader.

Now, you have to tell him that it was all just a misunderstanding.

If your leader doesn’t want to become a joke, he can only make you a joke.

Compared with the difficulty of getting the leader to change his mind, Huang Jianxin thought it would be better to persuade Hao Yun to change his mind.

However, he had just talked to Hao Yun in the afternoon, so it was not appropriate for him to persuade him.

So this important task was given to Jiang Wen.

By the time Jiang Wen called Hao Yun, it was already past ten o’clock in the evening.

Jiang Wen was not at all interested in being the president of an organization like the Directors Association. For so many years, he had been just an ordinary member of the Directors Association.

He also didn’t think there was any point in Hao Yun being the president of the Directors Association.

If you have that much time, you might as well shoot a few more movies.

But Huang Jianxin begged him.

Huang Jianxin went to the door in person, explained the situation, and then analyzed the pros and cons.

Anyway, Hao Yun has to be the president whether he wants to or not. Otherwise, not only will Huang Jianxin not be able to handle it, but the entire Directors Association will be implicated.

A lack of positive thinking can be a big or small problem.

So Jiang Wen called Hao Yun and persuaded him to put the overall situation first and if it really didn’t work out, he could just give it a try.

Five years later, let them choose another person to take charge.

Hao Yun did not act too pretentiously since Jiang Wen had stepped forward to act as a peacemaker.

It would be fake for him to refuse again.

Moreover, as things have developed to this point, the best outcome is indeed for him to “helplessly” accept this arrangement.

After hearing this story, Zhang Yimou was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

“Young people like new things, and you can bring them new things. Even if they act a little more radically, it may not be a bad thing for Chinese films.”

“If I really encounter any problems, I will need Director Zhang’s help. I don’t have the confidence at all.”

Hao Yun will turn 28 next month.

If I take over as president of the Directors Association at this time next year, I will be exactly 30 years old, which is considered the traditional age of 30.

“If you have anything to say, just ask.” Zhang Yimou and Hao Yun shook hands.

With the disastrous failure of “Three Guns”, he and Zhang Weiping had more and more conflicts. Although they could continue to cooperate for the sake of business, once the idea of ​​parting ways was planted, it would never go away.

Hao Yun is the behind-the-scenes boss of the No. 1 film label in the mainland, and has already managed large-scale international film projects with investments exceeding RMB 1 billion.

There may be opportunities for cooperation in the future.

Anyway, Zhang Yimou didn’t want to be the president, so it made no difference to him whether Li Shaohong or Hao Yun was the president.

Hao Yun might be able to bring him funds, but what can Li Shaohong give him?

He simply disdained such old onions.

In this way, the Directors Association Conference led by Hao Yun was held day after day.

Becoming more successful every day.

In the past few days, the scale of the Directors Association Conference has been getting bigger and bigger, from a few hundred directors in the beginning, plus a few hundred students and passers-by, to the end it has basically gathered most of the directors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong, and even directors from Japan and Bangbang have come here to attend.

In the first few days, most of the people who took the stage were well-known directors of Chinese-language films.

Even Li An, Zhang Yimou, and even Wang Jiawei were invited to the stage to discuss movies with everyone.

According to what Hao Yun advocates, no matter what it is about, whether it is a film concept or a life perception, as long as it is beneficial to today’s young people, it’s fine.

On the first day, famous Hong Kong directors took turns to perform on stage.

The next day, Taiwanese directors took turns to perform on stage.

The third day is for mainland directors…

The fourth day offers even greater freedom.

It is a combination of the invitation system and the application system, that is, the Directors Association invites some directors to come up, and then directors who are not invited can write their own topics and then apply to go on stage to exchange ideas.

If people in the audience want to communicate with people on the stage, they can also make temporary requests.

On the fifth day, we even invited several directors with similar styles to sit on the stage and chat while drinking tea.

The sixth day was more free.

Anyone who wants to go on stage can do so, which results in some inexplicable people going on stage.

After going up, I completely forgot what I wanted to say.

“My name is Xin…Shuang, I…I used to be a guitarist in a band, I…I…I’m sorry, I forgot what I was going to say.”

After raising my hand for a long time, I finally got a chance to go on stage.

In the end, I only completed the self-introduction, and that was the most insignificant part.

The audience burst into laughter.

At this time, Hao Yun left his seat and walked onto the stage.

Don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t trying to drive the young man away.

If they really wanted to kick people out, there was no need for him, the vice president and organizer of this event, to take action. He took another microphone from the staff.

“Although I have never joined a band, I can play the guitar. When I had no money to eat, I liked to play on the roadside in front of Peking University and Tsinghua University. The seniors in the school not only gave me money, but also taught me how to prepare for the college entrance examination…”

Hao Yun came up and calmed Xin Shuang’s nervousness.

“Ahem, thank you Director Hao. I’d like to share my views on ‘The Labyrinth of the Heart’ and my thoughts on suspense films.” Seeing that the great director Hao Yun was so humble, Xin Shuang immediately dared to speak.

“This movie is quite old. Thank you for your love for it. You can speak freely and tell us your opinion. If you were the director, how would you shoot this movie or deal with this type of movie?

Don’t hide it. Look, there are many of your senior colleagues and bosses of film investment companies sitting in the audience. As long as you have the ability, don’t worry about not having a mentor.”

After these words were spoken, not only was Xin Shuang extremely grateful to Hao Yun, but even the other young people’s eyes towards Hao Yun became extremely passionate.

Grandmaster!

This is the true demeanor of a master.

Hao Yun did not leave either. He found that Xin Shuang was too nervous and kept forgetting what he was going to say.

This requires Hao Yun to help with the “supporting role”.

In the past few days, Hao Yun did not go on stage to share his experience in filming, but he was actually sharing it in such subtle details.

Share how to make a movie and also share how to be a human being.

What Xin Shuang said was still a bit superficial, but it was also clear that he did have a lot of ideas, especially about suspense themes.

So Hao Yun took the lead in giving him warm applause.

After Xin Shuang, one after another ran up to talk.

There are not many people like Xin Shuang who have something of their own. To the big directors, many people’s ideas sound like playing house.

It’s nonsense.

However, they gradually understood the significance of what Hao Yun was doing.

Give young people a chance…

Everyone keeps saying that they want to give young people opportunities, but few people can actually explain clearly how to give young people opportunities.

What Hao Yun is doing now is very much in line with the wishes of young people.

On the fourth day, he began to arrange for young people in the audience to ask questions and even interact with the director.

By the sixth day, anyone was allowed to go on stage.

As long as you tell the staff what you want to say and they don’t think it’s too outrageous, they will let you try it.

As Hao Yun said, the bosses of the film companies can see it.

If you really have a good idea that catches their eye, they might even invest in you on the spot to let you make a movie.

Hao Yun was not worried that these people would not speak well after taking office.

It is normal that he does not speak well, after all, geniuses like him are a minority.

As long as young people dare to speak, give them an environment where they dare to speak and act.

It will give these young people the courage to join this industry and give confused grassroots practitioners the motivation to persevere.

It can also reduce the probability of those who fall into despair and go around cheating for sex under the guise of being a director.

On the sixth day, even the director of Neon Bang Bang took the initiative to go up and communicate.

For example, Junichi Mori, the director of Gravity Joker, came uninvited and applied to go on stage after listening to the exchange meeting for a few days.

Although Hao Yun emphasized that this was an exchange conference for Chinese directors, he was unable to truly eliminate these uninvited Japanese and Korean directors.

And the most important thing is that the leader likes it.

This custom has been passed down for thousands of years.

There is a sense of déjà vu of all nations coming to pay tribute…

Therefore, he had no way of turning these people away, let alone preventing them from going on stage.

Hao Yun was quite looking forward to seeing Junichi Mori coming on stage.

It would be nice if he could talk about movies like “Nanjing” and “Tokyo Negotiations”.

Welcome Comrade Junichi Mori.

Unfortunately, Mori Jun started talking about Hao Yun’s “Little Forest” right away.

He believes that the films of Hao Yun, Zhang Yimou, Wang Jiawei and King Hu all have their own artistic characteristics in terms of pictures.

The movie “Little Forest” is his favorite work.

Hao Yun has brought both music and pictures to perfection.

Many Japanese and Korean directors came up that day. Some of them analyzed classic films from their country, and some analyzed what they considered to be good Chinese films.

Generally speaking, the Japanese and Korean directors who are able to come here and make some fun all have some talents.

It also contributes to the communication.

On the seventh day, more people came because it was the last day and the closing ceremony of the Directors Association Conference.

We also had a movie exchange in the morning.

Near noon, Hao Yun went up to give a summary of the various gains from this Directors Association conference.

Hao Yun has been attending on time these days just for his “exclusive speech” today. He has a good memory and has made sufficient preparations, so his summary speech of more than an hour won rounds of applause.

These things can definitely be written into a paper.

In fact, Hao Yun did plan to organize it and write it into a paper, and then he would sign it as the Director’s Association.

The Directors Association held a meeting at noon.

Including the president Huang Jianxin, as well as other vice presidents and executive committee members, they discussed the commendation matter.

Which people and movies should be honored?

On-site voting is unrealistic. Hao Yun just wants to give young people opportunities, not power.

Because they are not professional and do not have enough vision.

The Directors Association’s commendation conference struggled to survive in the cracks and was finally reopened under the name of “commendation”.

It is destined to be a professional award rather than a popular award.

The judging process went smoothly. A total of seven awards were selected, including the Best Director Award, Best Young Director Award, Best New Director Award, Box Office Director of the Year Award, Director Lifetime Achievement Award, Best Hong Kong Director Award, and Best Taiwan Director Award.

Of course, it is nominally a recognition, but it will not be justified under the name of an award.

Seven people were commended and given certificates of commendation.

Not even a trophy.

At the same time, there are no Best Actor or Best Actress awards, nor any other film functions. It is simply a recognition of the director.

Neither the president nor the vice president will take up any of these seven commendation spots.

Hao Yun had no objection as he had no shortage of scripts for the time being.

Moreover, for a “commendation conference” that doesn’t even dare to have a serious name, one can imagine the value of the awards.

Rather than taking some temporary attributes, or a paper that he is capable of writing now, it is better to choose to withdraw from the selection to win people’s hearts.

Of course, the only ones who avoided the award this time were the president and the vice president.

Executive committee members and members of the Directors Association are not included in this list, otherwise the entire circle of directors would be caught in one fell swoop.

Even so, many people who were closely related to Hao Yun were commended.

For example, Jiang Wen won the Box Office Director of the Year Award without any controversy.

The box office of “Aftershock” is pretty good, and it would not be a problem to get 500 million or even 600 million, but it is still a bit difficult to surpass “Let the Bullets Fly”.

“Let the Bullets Fly” grossed over 700 million in mainland China.

Besides, “Aftershock” is still in theaters, so there’s no need to use the estimated box office to make a fuss.

The title of young director was given to Ning Hao. If Hao Yun is not counted, Ning Hao is definitely the well-deserved No. 35 among directors under the age of 1.

The Best New Director award went to Lu Yang, whose film “A Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart” won numerous awards at home and abroad.

Then the other directors will share other awards.

If Hao Yun had not withdrawn from the selection, no one else would have had anything to do with it.

There is no way around it, since Hao Yun has so many good directors under his banner.

Hao Yun has already withdrawn from the selection. It is impossible to let people from his company withdraw from the selection as well. That would be the greatest injustice.

Moreover, it was clearly stated that it was just a commendation, not an award.

After a week of wonderful exchanges, no one would have any objection to this result.

In the afternoon, the red carpet walk for the Directors Association Conference began.

Because there were too many people, they had to go up in groups.

For example, there are people who have worked together before, and there are people who graduated from the same school and the same class…

The scene didn’t seem too dull.

There will definitely be no shortage of celebrities at such occasions. They have long been eager to show their presence in front of the director and the media.

The red carpet at the closing ceremony of the Directors Association Conference was more lively than many formal award ceremonies.

At least, ordinary awards would not have so many big directors and first-line stars attending.

After the commendation conference officially began, there were not too many complicated procedures.

Each “winner” who was honored went on stage, expressed his feelings about being honored, and then stayed on the stage to share his or her own “dry goods”.

This format fits the purpose of the “Guide Association Exchange and Commendation Conference” very well, and communication is the key point.

This commendation conference is actually a continuation of the previous few days.

Because everyone’s time for communication and sharing was not fixed, this conference lasted from 6pm to 10:30pm.

A complete success!

It’s just that there are too many people, so forget about the celebratory dinner.

During the days when the Directors Association Conference was held, too many dinners and drinking parties were organized.

Others were able to leave, but Hao Yun couldn’t.

He was called to accompany the leader for tea and supper and listen to the leader’s teachings.

After finishing his midnight snack, he was clearly told that he had to prepare to take office as the president of the Guidance Association next year.

Hello, President Hao!

(End of this chapter)