Chapter 1067 Who is in favor and who is against (asking for monthly votes)

You definitely can’t just change the term right after you take office.

Unless Hao Yun takes the Fang Tian Hua Ji and stabs the current president Huang Jianxin to death with one halberd, and then asks who is in favor and who is against.

Do it or not? If you don’t want to do it, it’s up to you!

Or they would smash a cup as a signal, and three hundred swordsmen and axemen would rush in and chop people up to change the world.

The Directors Association is holding a general meeting at this time, and of course everyone is gathering together to cheer for the Capital International Film Festival.

As for why the commendation conference was not held together, firstly, we did not want to steal the limelight from the Capital International Film Festival, and secondly, we did not want the Directors Association Commendation Conference to become a vassal of the Capital International Film Festival like the College Students’ Film Festival.

There are a lot of tricks here. Although it is not officialdom, it also involves calculations of all parties.

First, Huang Jianxin went to give a work report for his second term in office.

Regardless of whether he made much contribution during his two terms in office, he at least did a lot of things.

It is no exaggeration to say that we have put all our efforts into it.

Therefore, he has deep feelings for the Directors Association, and is filled with emotion when he talks about touching things.

Then his predecessor, the second president Wu Yigong, evaluated him as his successor, and vice presidents and others also came up to speak.

After this set of steps, it finally comes to the election stage.

Although it was just a formality, it at least looked quite impressive. Several candidates including Hao Yun had votes, but in the final vote counting stage, Hao Yun’s votes were clearly far ahead of others.

Then comes the election of the vice president.

This was actually also selected, but the list was given by Hao Yun, and Huang Jianxin changed one person, which was considered to be a consensus with Hao Yun.

Vice presidents include Zhang Yang, He Ping, Jiang Wen, Li Shaohong, and Section Chief Jia.

The Secretary General is Jiang Ping.

Deputy Secretary-General Ning Hao.

The person Huang Jianxin added was not Li Shaohong.

In fact, Li Shaohong was the first person ordered by Hao Yun.

This is the Chinese officialdom, where you will never make enemies unless there is a direct conflict of interest.

If it weren’t for Hao Yun, Li Shaohong would have been the president elected this time.

She was ridiculed by the public for her performance in the New Dream of Red Mansions, and there were better candidates like Hao Yun, so she missed the opportunity to become the president.

However, her relationships are there.

If Hao Yun kicks her away, people in the Directors Association will become uneasy.

It would be better to give him the title of vice president to appease everyone.

Anyway, as long as the president does not delegate power, for example, Huang Jianxin let Hao Yun be in charge of the Directors Association’s commendation conference, the vice president will not have any real power.

Neither is as good as the Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General.

Huang Jianxin changed Lu Xuechang in Hao Yun’s list to He Ping.

This was actually Hao Yun’s fault, because He Ping had been re-elected as secretary-general for two terms, and he should have been given the dignity of vice-president.

He Ping is also an acquaintance, having directed the classic martial arts film “The Swordsman of Double Flag Town” and “Heroes of Heaven and Earth” starring Jiang Wen.

Senior Lu is not in good health and is indeed not suitable for hard work.

Hao Yun’s original plan was to let Senior Lu help him hold the position. He didn’t want to use someone who was too incompetent, so as to avoid being told what to do in the future.

Senior Lu and he have been friends for many years. When they were filming “Kara is a Dog”, he took good care of Hao Yun. Later, Hao Yun also invested in his filming of “Dou Dou”, which won the FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Pyramid Silver Statue Award at the Cairo International Film Festival.

Huang Jianxin replaced him with He Ping, which filled the gap.

As for Chief Jia…

He set up a film fund and began to support young directors. His reputation should not be underestimated.

Moreover, although Hao Yun was not very impressed by some of his remarks, he also believed that the existence of people like Chief Jia in the film industry had certain positive effects.

There is not much else to say.

Jiang Ping has served as the director of the Shanghai International Film Festival Office, vice president of the Shanghai Film Group, and deputy director of the Film Bureau of the General Administration. He is now the deputy general manager of the Huaying Group and director of the Children’s Film Studio.

He was recommended by Han Sanping. He has strong working ability and extensive personal connections, and can safeguard Hao Yun’s term as president.

It can also be said to be a protector of the Tao.

As for the deputy secretary-general, this position was assigned to Ning Hao.

It’s not that Hao Yun forgot his promise to Ning Hao as vice president, but it’s definitely not for this term.

Hao Yun asked Jiang Wen to be the vice president. Even though everyone knew what their relationship was, no one had the nerve to question it.

But Ning Hao is different.

Everyone knows that he is Hao Yun’s number one henchman.

Therefore, we cannot act too hastily. This is also Ning Hao’s own opinion. His goal is not just to become the vice president.

In another ten or twenty years, he may be able to be the one in charge.

As long as the boss supports him, he has a better chance than anyone else to be the one in charge.

And the Deputy Secretary-General is the one who actually does things.

If there is only one Secretary-General, then the Secretary-General is the chief steward. However, if there are both a principal and a deputy, then the Secretary-General is just a noble title used to raise the banner and get things done. The Deputy Secretary-General is the chief steward.

After working as a butler for a few years, Ning Hao’s reputation had risen.

As for the remaining executive committee members, it is even simpler. There is no limit on the number of people, so just squeeze in the suitable ones.

Finally, there is the vice president of the previous term.

Huang Jianxin was re-elected for two terms, and the vice presidents were Chen Kaige, Ma Dagang, Li Shaohong, Zhang Jianya and Chen Guoxing.

Li Shaohong continued to serve as vice president, but she had no further responsibility after one term.

This is compensation.

Zhang Jianya and Chen Guoxing were re-elected as vice presidents for two consecutive terms, but they did not have the opportunity to become president, so they naturally became executive members.

It’s Chen Kaige and Ma Dagang. They must be feeling unhappy.

Chen Kaige is arrogant and literary. Even if he is enthusiastic about being the president, he will show disdain. However, he values ​​his own face more. He certainly does not want Hao Yun to ride on his head. He might embarrass Hao Yun at any time.

Ma Dagang has been living a lowly life for so many years, but his movie “Aftershock” made a complete comeback and almost took the top spot at the box office. I guess he won’t be as low-key as before.

Fortunately, Huang Jianxin is there for everything.

The old president was very caring towards his successor and helped Hao Yun deal with these old guys.

And Jiang Wen is here. If Ma Dagang and Chen Kaige dare to confront them head-on, Jiang Wen will probably help Hao Yun fight back.

Therefore, the power transfer of the Directors Association went very smoothly.

After it was over, some people at the scene started calling Hao Yun “President Hao”.

With Hao Yun’s personality, he is naturally very humble: he said that he is still the little Hao from before, and that he was forced to become the president this time. In fact, it is you big film industry seniors who are in charge, and I am just here to execute everyone’s will and help you work.

Now that things have come to this, what else can I say?

Hao Yun has box office success and awards, and he is also very polite and considerate in dealing with people. He is much better than that old woman Li Shaohong.

The entertainment industry is an industry with a huge disparity in status between men and women, and there is no such thing as the right thing to do. A hen crowing at dawn means the family is poor. Most people don’t like having a female president.

As for those from Hong Kong and Taiwan who came to watch the ceremony, they naturally extended their congratulations.

Li An also came this time.

He expressed his desire to visit Hao Yun’s crew.

Last time I wanted to ask about “Life of Pi” but didn’t have the courage to ask. I didn’t expect Hao Yun to start filming directly.

He was stunned by the high efficiency.

Directors of their generation are very fast. Some of them can produce a movie in just two weeks.

However, it is a unanimous consensus that true works of art can only be produced through meticulous craftsmanship.

Wang Jiawei’s “The Grandmaster” is said to have been completed, and it took ten years in total.

If a movie like “Life of Pi” were given to Li An, he felt that it would take two to three years to prepare at the earliest.

How can anyone be like Hao Yun, who can turn on the machine at any time without saying a word?

Moreover, Li An also heard that Hao Yun was doing post-production while filming, and even invited Miguo’s special effects team to China to join the crew.

So, after the Capital International Film Festival ended, Li An went to Sanya to visit the crew of “Life of Pi” to see if Hao Yun was producing shoddy work.

When he arrived, Hao Yun was filming a movie in the swimming pool.

There are a lot of swimming pool scenes in this movie.

To borrow a statement from the original book, Mamaji (Pie’s uncle) once studied in Paris for two years. He had never been so happy in his life as he was in Paris. Later, he forgot what he had studied, forgot the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, but remembered all the swimming pools.

Mamaji taught Pi to swim in the swimming pool, which enabled Pi to survive the shipwreck.

It is not mentioned in the movie, but there is another thing about this Mamaji in the original novel, that is, Mamaji also taught Pi’s mother and brother, but neither of them learned it.

“Just keep filming, I’ll just watch.”

Old guy Li An is so cunning. He didn’t let Hao Yun entertain him because he wanted to stay a little longer and see how Hao Yun filmed.

If Hao Yun stopped filming to entertain him, he would feel embarrassed to stay too long.

“Okay, let’s continue!” Hao Yun didn’t bother to pay attention to him and told everyone else to continue filming.

The Indian actor who played Mamaji held an Indian child and threw him into the water for the third time.

It’s not that Hao Yun abused the child, it’s just that the shot just now was not to his liking. There are several filming locations for “Life of Pi”, but the most important one is Sanya, because Hao Yun’s family is on vacation here.

An Xiaoxi and the child were also there.

An Xiaoxi is about to join the crew of “July and Ansheng” and will take some time to accompany her husband.

The child is mainly taken care of by Aunt Liu and Hao’s mother, so as not to interfere with the fight between Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi.

Hao Yun was filming over there and Li An was observing over here.

He has been filming for so many years and knows very well how to explore the strength of a crew.

The most intuitive thing is the lineup.

Screenwriter, director, leading actor, etc.

“Life of Pi” is an adapted movie, but the original novel cannot be directly used for filming, so the screenwriter and director are both Hao Yun.

As for the leading cast, Hao Yun introduced them to Li An when he first arrived at the crew.

The people who could leave a deep impression on the international director Li An are probably Gérard Depardieu and Irrfan Khan.

Irrfan Khan played the villain in Slumdog Millionaire.

The most famous person in the crew is actually Gerard Depardieu.

He won the Best Actor Award at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, the Best Actor Award at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Actor Award at the 63rd Academy Awards.

However, the biggest impression that ordinary people have of him is probably “Hello, my name is Gangdan, and I’m from Montaki!”

This Gangdan from Montagne played the role of the cook, which was a friendly appearance.

Overall, the cast is very mediocre and is totally inconsistent with the production budget of $1.2 million.

However, Li An agreed with this very much.

This movie doesn’t need any big names at all. Even if he were to shoot it, he would make the same choice.

The real investment comes later.

I heard that Hao Yun hired a special effects team from Hollywood and rented several villas to accommodate these technical geeks, entertaining them with delicacies from land and sea every day.

Recently, many foreigners have arrived in Sanya because of the arrival of the crew of “Life of Pi”.

In addition, Li An discovered something else.

That is because the various equipment on Hao Yun’s side are so advanced that they have completely changed his impression of mainland film crews.

It is obvious that Hao Yun, who has established himself in Hollywood, has not only learned Hollywood’s filming techniques, but also upgraded his hardware in one step. These equipments, which are rarely seen in Hollywood, are proof of this.

“OK, this one’s passed. Give the little guy some ginger soup.”

The actor who played the protagonist’s childhood was a six or seven-year-old Indian boy. Hao Yun didn’t have a good impression of this neighboring country, but he would not treat a child harshly.

But the kid didn’t think so.

Looking at the ginger soup brought by the staff, he just wanted to go home to his mother.

The Chinese are truly horrible.

No wonder three people could chase down our entire battalion and even complain that we were slow to surrender.

“Where did this come from?” Li An asked, pointing at the camera.

“Oh, a friend gave it to me…” Hao Yun told the truth, but Li An didn’t believe it at all.

Seeing that Hao Yun was so secretive, he didn’t dare to continue asking about the parameters, let alone asking Hao Yun to build two machines.

“I talked to Yann Martel about his novel…” Li An sighed.

“Ah, what did you talk about?” Hao Yun seemed surprised.

He was actually not surprised at all, as Hao Yun and Yann Martel had always been in contact.

In fact, when the copyright of “Life of Pi” was purchased, it was agreed that it must be filmed within five years.

Yann Martel was worried that Hao Yun would hide his work.

However, as Hao Yun and Yann Martel communicated more and more, Hao Yun became the world’s most famous director and best-selling author, and Yann Martel stopped urging him.

A supplementary agreement was signed with Hao Yun, lifting the five-year restriction.

He even told Hao Yun that Li An had come to see him, and his words implied that he hoped he would support Li An to be the director.

Although Yann Martel has sold the copyright to Hao Yun, Li An will not be without a chance if a more capable director comes forward to snatch it away.

After all, we are all decent people.

Unfortunately, Yann Martel values ​​Hao Yun more. He thinks that Hao Yun, who can write best-selling books such as “The Martian” and “Gone Girl”, is his kindred spirit, understands his works better, and can ensure a more perfect film and television adaptation of his novels.

Li An’s efforts were completely in vain.

“I asked him why he wrote the story of Indians, and he talked to me a lot.” Li An didn’t know why he said this.

Hao Yun’s movie has already started shooting, so he no longer has a chance.

“Because India is a special country with many religions and animal love, countless gods, various animals and humans coexist on the same land. There is a software capital like Bangalore, as well as the unimaginably poor Bihar, countless vicious incidents, and a caste system that has not changed for thousands of years.

It is a land where man and nature, science and theology, humanity and barbarism, freedom and slavery are in fierce conflict, disharmonious and yet can coexist.

These include almost all the components that make up the human soul. Rather than saying that Pi is an Indian, it is better to say that he is a typical person, a microcosm of each of you and me.

So, whether or not you are Indian is not important at all.”

Hao Yun took over his words and directly analyzed why the Indians were chosen as the protagonists.

“Ah?!” Li An’s reaction made Hao Yun want to laugh.

He and Yann Martel had discussed this kind of problem a long time ago. When Li An went to discuss it with Yann Martel, he was actually just eating the leftovers of Hao Yun and Yann Martel.

Li An may not even know what he is doing.

He is now like an old pervert, telling Hao Yun that your woman Yann Martel is having an affair with me.

But I didn’t expect that Yann Martel and Hao Yun were very affectionate and they even communicated with each other about what I had said to him.

At this moment, he felt extremely embarrassed.

The smile on his face was a little hard to maintain.

“What does he mean?”

After Li An left, Guo Fan came over.

Li An did not leave immediately because of embarrassment, but chatted with Hao Yun for a long time, and left Sanya leisurely the next day.

If it were a naive second-generation person like Lu Yang, he would probably praise Hao Yun and Li An for their mutual respect.

However, the succubus Guo Fan is best at guessing people’s minds.

“He is jealous of me.” Hao Yun thought about it and gave this answer.

“Pfft!~” Guo Fan really couldn’t help it. In fact, anyone would have a similar reaction if they heard Hao Yun say such words.

That’s Li An.

It may be controversial to say that he is the number one Chinese director, but he definitely has a lot of supporters.

As for Hao Yun, although he has many works, he has also won many awards.

But to say that he is more powerful than Li An and Zhang Yimou is actually not supported in the Chinese cultural tradition.

Because qualifications are important in any industry.

Even being a duck is the same.

Hao Yun’s qualifications are really too shallow. Being the president of a directors association would make people feel that he is being promoted beyond his level. He needs support from above, not to mention being the number one director.

Hao Yun said that Li An was jealous of him, which made people feel that he was flattering himself.

Hao Yun stopped talking and just looked at the blue sky of Sanya in early summer. The clouds were scattered here and there, and the morning sun gave them a layer of golden edges.

“I see. No wonder he looked at you so strangely. I thought that old Dermatitis had sexual problems. Well, he has made a lot of movies about that.”

Guo Fan thought about it seriously. Although he couldn’t understand what Li An was thinking, he could make his own judgment based on some clues.

“Alas, Li An’s life has come to an end.” Hao Yun said with a sigh.

“No way, he’s not that old.” Guo Fan had a superficial understanding of Li An. After all, he and Li An didn’t have much in common.

“Because he was jealous of me, he thought he couldn’t be surpassed by me, so he got stuck in a dead end and became more and more entangled about the next play. It has reached the point where he can no longer create normally.”

The height is not cold.

Hao Yun didn’t know whether he would become like him in the future.

But he knew one person who wouldn’t.

That person is Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen never felt jealous of Hao Yun’s rapid growth, nor did he worry about being surpassed by Hao Yun.

From beginning to end, Jiang Wen remained true to his original intention.

In this situation, Li An is obviously no match for Jiang Wen.

The reason is probably because Li An gave up too many things, and his achievements were gained by constantly catering to certain people.

You give too much, and only feel wronged when you lose.

Jiang Wen makes movies just for his own pleasure. He never gives up or changes anything, so naturally he doesn’t care about being surpassed by others.

Moreover, he did not feel surpassed.

Ever since Hao Yun became more and more awesome, Jiang Wen also felt that he was becoming more and more awesome.

(End of this chapter)