On the morning of June 31, Bai Jie, a reporter from the Peking Evening News, came to the Peking Film Academy early to report on the grand occasion of the Asian Film Academy graduation ceremony. The graduates of the Asian Film Academy are very much anticipated, but the school teachers are even more anticipated. Zhang Ran, Amaba, Park Chan-yu and other major directors gathered together, which is definitely worth reporting.

When he walked into the Beijing Film Academy, Bai Jie felt the strong sense of parting. There were farewell banners hanging everywhere on the campus. Because it was the film school, the banners were not as serious as other universities, and there were even some very fun, such as "In the future, you should think of me when you eat alone! Stay at the cafeteria."

Bai Jie has been a reporter for three or four years. This is not the first time she has been to the Beijing Television News to report the graduation ceremony. She knew that the graduation ceremony was held in the standard screening hall. After entering Beijing Television, she went straight to the standard.

Before she could reach Biao Fang, Bai Jie saw the open space in front of Biao Fang full of people. In the crowd, she saw students wearing blue master's robes and saw Stephen Chow, Ning Hao, and other directors wearing red black-clad mentor's robes. However, her eyes did not stop on these people for a long time, but fell on Zhang Ran wearing a full-red principal's robe.

Bai Jie picked up the camera in her hand and quickly pressed the shutter at Zhang Ran. At the same time, she sighed in her heart that the principal's robe was so ugly that she cried. Unexpectedly, Zhang Ran was quite handsome! She looked good even if she had a sack!

After taking several photos in a row, Bai Jie put down her camera and noticed that there were huge display boards arranged on both sides of the open space, one was a huge graduation certificate and the other was a huge marriage certificate. The place where the two documents were posted with photos was hollowed out. At this moment, there were people standing in the hollowed out of the two documents, taking pictures as a souvenir.

At this moment, Zhang Ran in the crowd suddenly smiled and said, "Guo Zijian, Teacher Stephen Chow has spent a lot of effort to guide you. You must take a photo with Teacher Zhou and stand behind the marriage certificate! Teacher Stephen Chow, don't hide in the crowd, hurry up and take a wedding photo with Guo Zijian!"

Guo Zijian stood up generously behind the marriage certificate; Stephen Chow was shy and waved his hands with a smile, but was finally dragged by Urshan and the others to the back of the marriage certificate. Guo Zijian seemed very relaxed and kept making faces at everyone; while Stephen Chow seemed very serious and a little serious.

Zhang Ran said, "Xingzai, what's wrong with your expression? It's like an arranged marriage!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the onlookers burst into laughter, and Bai Jie couldn't help laughing: "Whose idea is this? This graduation photo is so funny!"

After taking two photos, Stephen Chow flashed out from the wedding photo. Seeing Zhang Ran looking at him and laughing loudly, he said loudly: "Urshan, come here! You are Zhang Ran's most optimistic student. How can you not take a photo with Teacher Zhang Ran?"

Urshan looked at Stephen Chow, then Zhang Ran, scratched his head, and said with a smile: "Teacher Zhang, then let's take a photo together!"

"No problem, let's take a photo!" Zhang Ran laughed and said to the other students, "When I finish taking photos with Urshan, you guys will come over and each one will take a photo with me." After that, he stood behind the marriage certificate.

Seeing Zhang Ran smiling, Stephen Chow seemed very relaxed, while Urshan's expression was a little slight and sarcastic, he said, "Zhang Ran, you are laughing so happily, but Urshan can't laugh, as if you were snatching it. Are you snatching the marriage?"

A huge burst of laughter broke out throughout the scene, and the onlookers laughed so hard that they were slacking off.

After a burst of laughter, Bai Jie suddenly heard a girl next to her say, "Xiao Ranran is so excessive. I want to take a photo with him and don't agree. He is such a stingy!"

Another girl said: "Today is someone else's class and graduation photos, why are you going to join in the fun?"

The girl was very dissatisfied: "So what's wrong with taking one photo? Urshan is his student, aren't we?"

Bai Jie felt that the girl's voice sounded familiar, so she turned her head and saw that this was Yang Mi. She quickly took out her camera and took two photos at Yang Mi.

When Yang Mi saw someone taking pictures of her with the camera, she glared at Bai Jie fiercely and said to Yuan Shanshan: "Shanshan, what's so good about taking pictures? We're in!" As she said that, she pulled Yuan Shanshan up and put it in the mark.

It was almost nine o'clock, and Zhang Ran and the others stopped taking photos and walked into the Bian Han. Bai Jie also carried the camera on her back and walked towards the Bian Han. However, as soon as she walked to the door of the Bian Han, she was stopped by a few girls in flight attendant costumes. The girls were very beautiful and had good figures and temperaments. They were obviously students in the performance department.

Bai Jie quickly took out the admission ticket. The admission ticket for this graduation ceremony was a bit different from previous years. It was made according to the boarding pass, with information such as the origin, terminal, and boarding time. The entire graduation ceremony was called "Dream" to take off.

Entering the standard screening hall, Bai Jie looked up and saw that the entire hall was crowded with people. The auditorium with more than 1,000 people had been crowded. The big screen was played with photos of students studying and activities at school, and each picture represented a memory, and the atmosphere on the entire scene was warm and friendly.

Not long after, the leaders of Beijing Film Academy and guests from all walks of life came one after another. Most of these people Bai Jie knew, including Zhao Shi, deputy director of the General Administration, Han Shanping, chairman of China Film Group, Wu Ruide, chairman of China Film Group, Ren Zhonglun, etc., all of whom are famous figures in the circle.

The graduation ceremony officially began at 9:30 in the morning.

The national anthem was played, and everyone stood up. The atmosphere on the scene was solemn and grand. Immediately afterwards, the lights in the hall went out, the large screen on the stage lighted up, and the short video began to be played.

The short film was filmed by students, named "Inception". The short film has a bit of an 11-arrogant feeling. It tells the story of twelve bad film directors in order to become a big director to steal the legendary "Movie Book" from the movie city. The entire short film was filmed very thrillingly, and it used a lot of special effects, which was very Hollywood style. During the entire movie viewing process, the audience on the scene burst into screams from time to time. However, at the end of the short film, when the directors stole "Movie Book", they opened it and saw that it was a steamed bun. This was simply a theft caused by a steamed bun, and the audience on the scene laughed crazy.

After the short film ended, the teachers' blessings began to be played on the big screen; next, the blessings sent by the bosses of various film and television companies and well-known producers.

Bai Jie sighed in her heart that the bosses of mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and the United States have sent blessings. This network of connections is spread all over the world, and these students don’t need to worry about their future! These students are the first, with only one major. Today, the school will recruit the second major and expand to five majors, and will cultivate more talents who are in line with the international community. This is what Zhang Ran said about industrialization?

The short film was finished soon, and the host walked onto the stage and said with a smile: "Next, please invite Dean Zhang Ran of the Asian Film Academy to give a speech!"

In the screening room, both graduates and students from Beijing Film Academy cheered loudly and the crowds were filled with people.

"Zhang Ran! Zhang Ran! Zhang Ran!"

The students clapped and shouted Zhang Ran's name loudly.

Amidst the shocking cheers, Zhang Ran walked onto the stage with a smile.

Zhang Ran stood on the stage, looking at the students in the audience, and said affectionately: "Dear President Zhang Huijun, leaders, teachers, friends, and students from the 2006th class of the Asian Film Academy. Today is a special day, the day when the twelve students of the 2006th class of the Asian Film Academy graduated, and the day when you ended your three years of school life and officially entered the film industry. In the past three years, I have been looking forward to this day, hoping that you will graduate as soon as possible. But now, when you really want to leave, I feel that time passes so quickly!"

The same is true for the students. They were all hit by Zhang Ran's words, and the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became sad.

Zhang Ran looked at the twelve students in the audience and took a breath and said: "Asian movies were once very brilliant. In the 1950s and 1960s, a group of masters emerged in Japan, Kurosawa Akira, Ozu, Mizuguchi and others influenced the whole world. Their movies still inspire countless latecomers today; in the 1970s and 1980s, Xiangjiang movies were sold all over the world, and they were known as the Hollywood in the East, and a group of superstars with wide influence in the world, such as Bruce Lee and Cheng Long, appeared. However, in the past decade, Asian movies have declined, and their influence in the world has become increasingly weak.

One thing I heard at the Shanghai Film Festival a few days ago is that in recent years, the Shanghai Film Festival has begun to invite international stars to support the show. The most concerned question for reporters is always: 'What do you think of Chinese films?''Which Chinese director do you want to work with?'. However, the reality is cruel. None of these big-name stars can name more than three Chinese films."

The students of Beijing Film Academy were very surprised by the "ah" sound. In many people's impression, Chinese films are more influential overseas, because there are internationally renowned directors like Zhang Ran and Zhang Yimou, as well as art film directors such as Jia Zhangke who have won countless honors for Chinese films at the film festival.

Now they couldn't believe it when they heard these international stars that couldn't even say three Chinese movies; but they had to believe it.

Zhang Ran continued: "In 2006, Meryl Streep attended the Shanghai Film Festival. Faced with the above problems, she said at the time, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen many Chinese movies. I have only watched "The Aviator" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the past two years. The filming was so beautiful that the United States should screen more Chinese movies. At that time, many media were feeling uncomfortable and said that Streep did not do their homework and was purely a family travel to attend the film festival. In the following years, reporters found that Streep could say at least two more movies.

Many celebrities can't even say one of the Chinese movies. When Harry Berry was asked about Chinese movies this year, he couldn't even say the name of a Chinese director; when Cliff Irving faced the question of "What do you think of Chinese movies?", he said sorry, I don't know much about Chinese movies. Ayelet Zuriel, the heroine of "Angels and the Devil", said a movie, but after he finished speaking, the reporters' faces turned green because she was talking about "The Last Emperor".

Many students present were shocked, and they did not expect that the influence of Chinese films was so weak.

Bai Jie nodded slightly. She participated in the Shanghai Film Festival report this year. Zhang Ran said everything she saw with her own eyes. When those stars couldn't say anything, she felt very sad. Fortunately, not all stars are like this. Yupel, Andy McDowell, Ewan McGregor and others can more or less say some Chinese films and Chinese directors. The Chinese director they mentioned the most was Zhang Ran, and the movies mentioned the most were "The Aviator" and "The Tangshan Earthquake".

In the past, Bai Jie admired art film directors such as Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye very much, and thought they were very talented and had won honors for Chinese films overseas. However, when she was at the Shanghai Film Festival this year, and Wang Xiaoshuai criticized Zhang Ran and the others, she was speechless. She suddenly realized that no matter how many awards these art film directors won, it would also promote Chinese films and could not change the dilemma of Chinese films. Only Zhang Ran and the others had this possibility, so she took the initiative to ask to report on this graduation ceremony.

Bai Jie looked at Zhang Ran on the stage and waited for him to continue talking.
Chapter completed!