Nortel Standard Screening Hall.

Light and shadow flow on the screen, and the conflict between student Zhou Xu and teacher Chen Wei is intensifying. Chen Wei's roar made every audience member on the scene frightened.

At this moment, "Explosive Drummer" is being screened. This is a movie-watching party specially organized for school leaders and teachers. Beijing Film Academy has a tradition. Whether it is the school teachers or graduates, as long as they make movies, they will take the movie back to school to organize movies.

"Explosive Drummer" completed its post-production work in early July and has been sent to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for review, but Zhang Ran was busy filming "Before Dawn" and has been delayed until now.

The one hundred minutes of the movie will be broadcast soon.

I don’t know who started the applause first, and then the applause was full. The leaders and teachers present knew that Zhang Ran had a definition of "Explosive Drummer". Now they completely felt this. They just felt excited and excited inside, and they wanted to yell twice, and they were like they were injected with chicken blood.

Zhang Ran heard everyone's applause without any special expressions, and this reaction was as expected.

Zheng Dongtian said incredibly: "When I first read the script, I felt that the story was good. It would be a good movie, but I didn't expect it to be so good. The whole movie has a very good rhythm, and it didn't delay for an hour and a half. I was so excited that I could only be described as refreshing!"

Other teachers also praised the movie: "A very satisfying inspirational film, perhaps only paranoid can reach a situation that ordinary people cannot reach. When you watch it, you can't help but feel a sense of sigh!"

"This is not an inspirational movie. I really can't agree with Chen Wei's three views. If a teacher does not know how to pluck seedlings and teach according to his aptitude, then he is a spiritual thug who is addicted to the personal world. It's so terrible!"

"Yes, I feel so too. I feel the whole movie makes my back feel cold!"

Zhang Huijun looked at Zhang Ran and said, "This movie is very well filmed, but the Hollywood style is too obvious. I wonder which film festival you are going to send to participate?"

Zhang Ran said: "The three major films with obvious Hollywood style will not be accepted, so we plan to send them to the Tokyo Film Festival first and then to the Sundance Film Festival!"

Zhang Huijun nodded and said, "The Tokyo Film Festival focuses more on discovering new people and gives new people more opportunities. Our Qing Film Studio has not been able to show off in recent years. Now we rely on your movie to make a comeback. If there are any difficulties, we can report it to the school!"

In the afternoon after watching the film, Zhang Ran signed up on the official website of the Tokyo Film Festival, and then went to the post office to send the CD of "Breaking Drummer" to the film festival organizing committee.

The mail was sent out, and the rest was waiting for the film festival to announce its shortlist in mid-September.

Zhang Ran is very confident in this.

The original "Breaking Drummer" won multiple nominations, including the Oscar for Best Picture. This version shot by Zhang Ran has different aspects and the original, but the camera language is much richer, so it should not be a big problem to be shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival.

Now everything he should do has been done, and nothing else was done. Zhang Ran was relatively leisurely, so he planned to write out the next movie script he would film within this period of time.

Zhang Ran had already made up his mind that the next movie would be made in science fiction films and to go to the United States to shoot. There are two main considerations: the first is to take students to the United States at that time, so that they can avoid **; the second is to hope to train their team through cooperation with the American team.

Zhang Ran has always been confused about what to shoot, whether to copy other people's movies from memory or find a novel he likes to shoot. It is relatively simple to copy the movies in memory directly, and there are many choices. He has a greater grasp of success, but he always feels that shooting pure American stories is not very meaningful; and if you find a novel to shoot, it is difficult not to say, the key is that the risk is relatively high.

However, after watching the final film of "The Breaking Drummer", Zhang Ran became more confident in his abilities. He felt that he had enough ability to shoot the movies he wanted. Therefore, after weighing the trade-offs, he decided to find a story he liked to shoot.

After making this decision, Zhang Ran took a plane to Rongcheng, then stopped a taxi to No. 11, Section 4, Renmin South Road. This is the holy place in the hearts of Chinese science fiction fans and the location of "Science Fiction World" magazine.

In 1979, the Xichuan Science and Technology Association founded a popular science magazine called "Science Literature and Art", which is the predecessor of the magazine "Science Fiction World". At that time, publications with the same style as it were include "Science Fiction Ocean" in Peking, "Smart Tree" in Tianjin, "Science Age" and "Science Fiction News" in Heilongjiang, which were known as the "four issues and one newspaper" of Chinese science fiction.

In that era of inaction, "Science and Literature" easily reached 200,000 copies of the circulation. The same was true for several other science fiction newspapers. But soon, under the pressure of politics and the market, the sales of science fiction magazines plummeted, and the other magazines could not resist and went bankrupt one after another. Only "Science Fiction World" was struggling to persist.

At the most difficult time, "Science Fiction World" only sold 700 copies in one issue, so the editors had to push a cart to sell books. With their love for the science fiction industry, "Science Fiction World" survived the most difficult years and slowly moved towards glory. Today, "Science Fiction World" has become the most sales science fiction monthly magazine in the world.

Zhang Ran is a science fiction fan. He has visited the magazine before, and now he is familiar with the journey. He took the elevator to the 6th floor. The editorial department of "Science Fiction World" is the same as in my memory, with a large office with more than a dozen people working inside. Zhang Ran took a look at the door and was about to walk in.

At this moment, a beautiful girl of eighteen or nineteen years old came towards me. As a teacher at Beijing Film Academy, Zhang Ran had seen too many beautiful girls, so his eyes almost stopped on the other person's face.

But the girl was stunned when she saw Zhang Ran, her eyes were circling on Zhang Ran. Just as she was about to pass by Zhang Ran, she asked, "May I ask, are you Zhang Ran right?"

When Zhang Ran heard this, he couldn't help but look at the girl. He seemed to have seen it somewhere. When he thought about it carefully, he remembered who it was. It was Xia Jia, a famous beautiful science fiction writer in later generations. Science fiction is generally divided into hard science fiction and soft science fiction, while Xia Jia's works are softer than soft science fiction because they are nicknamed "Porridge Science Fiction". Although Zhang Ran has no love for her works, he still said very friendly: "I am Zhang Ran, hello!"

"It's really you! I didn't expect to meet you when I came to the Science Fiction World magazine to visit, so I was so lucky!" Xia Jia looked at Zhang Ran and cheered, and she seemed very excited. She is a science fiction fan and was admitted to the Physics Department of Peking University this year. Therefore, she made a special trip to Rongcheng to visit her favorite "Science Fiction World", but she didn't expect to meet her favorite director. She originally planned to wait until she went to Peking to go to school in September and sneak into Beijing Film Academy to find Zhang Ran's autograph, but she didn't expect to meet her here.

She opened her backpack excitedly, took out a pen and a small book and handed it to Zhang Ran, looked at Zhang Ran expectantly, and asked, "Can you sign an autograph for me?"

"Of course!" Zhang Ran smiled kindly. He must have greeted his supporters with a smile. He took the pen and wrote in his notebook: "I wish you happiness every day and all your wishes come true!"

Xia Jia put away Zhang Ran’s signature and said with a smile: “I like your “Prisoner of Time” in particular, it’s really great! Cao Lin and Cai Yan are very good, it’s a pity that they haven’t been together. When your new movie is released, I will definitely go to the cinema to support it!”

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded: "The movie has been finished, and you can see it at the end of the year. It is a particularly great movie!"

Not far away, a tall and thin male editor heard "Prisoner of Time" and couldn't help but look at Zhang Ran. When he saw Zhang Ran's appearance clearly, he showed a shocked expression on his face and couldn't help but scream: "Oh, isn't this Zhang Ran!"

With his shout, the entire editorial department looked at the door, and almost everyone recognized Zhang Ran. The male editor was relatively calm, but several female editors and fans saw their idols and immediately threw their lives down and surrounded Zhang Ran.

"Zhang Ran, I especially like your "Prisoner of Time" and I have watched it several times!"

"Sign me a name!"

Zhang Ran didn't expect the editors to be so enthusiastic and was shocked. He was neither a star nor an idol, and he never expected that he would be so popular.

In fact, the editors of "Science Fiction World" are more eager to see Chinese science fiction movies than ordinary audiences. However, in terms of the situation of Chinese movies, they cannot see any hope. However, the appearance of "Prisoner of Time" allows them to see this possibility. Zhang Ran's identity as a reader in "Science Fiction World" allows them to see the possibility that the novels in their hands become movies, so they pay special attention to Zhang Ran. At this moment, they suddenly saw Zhang Ran appearing in the editorial department, and they were naturally overjoyed.

Zhang Ran did not rush to tell his purpose. After meeting the editors, he signed and took photos for them, and then visited the entire magazine under the leadership of the two female editors.

After chatting with the editors for a while, Zhang Ran came to the editor-in-chief's office and met the editor-in-chief's Alai.

Alai is a very famous writer. Two years ago, his novel "The Dust Set" won the Mao Dun Award. He originally thought that science fiction needs economic foundation and technical support, and it was too early to shoot science fiction films in China, but the success of "Prisoner of Time" made him change his mind. He felt that although it was impossible to shoot science fiction blockbusters like Hollywood under the current conditions, it was still possible to make some low-cost science fiction films.

Now that he saw Zhang Ran visiting, he was very happy and talked to Zhang Ran endlessly about his views on Chinese movies and Chinese science fiction, and he was full of surprises.

Zhang Ran also talked about his many opinions, film technology, Chinese science fiction, and American science fiction. After a while, he expressed his purpose: "I am planning a new film recently. This time I am planning to make a science fiction film, but I don't have a suitable story in my hands for the time being. There are many good stories in "Science Fiction World", so I'm going to buy a few novels."

Alai was stunned when he heard this. Zhang Ran was about to bring the novel from "Science Fiction World" to the screen. This is a good thing worth celebrating for "Science Fiction World" or Chinese science fiction. He couldn't help but ask: "I don't know which novel you want?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "There are quite a lot, including Liu Cixin's "The Teacher of the Mountain Village" and "The Wandering Earth", He Xi's "Exotic World" and "Six Paths of All beings", Wang Jinkang's "Mercury Sowing" and "Seven-Level Shell", and Zhang Xiaoyu's comic "Flying"!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!