"Where am I?"

Wan Xiaohu looked in the mirror, his pink face, sparse stubble, and the Sanqikai who looked like a traitor, and was confused.

It was very simple. He was electrocuted by the high-voltage wire hanging from the roadside, but he did not go to hell, but returned to his student days. In the smelly dormitory, various quilts, socks, DVDs, lunch boxes, and calendars on the wall were clearly displayed.

Today is February 24, 2000.

After experiencing the initial surprise, Wan Xiaohu had to accept that his current situation had returned to fourteen years ago.

This year, Teacher Chen’s camera has not become famous yet, and Teacher Cang is still there...

Ahem!

This year was Wan Xiaohu's third year at the Beijing Film Academy. The second semester of the second semester was in 1998. After layers of selection, he was finally admitted to the 98 Director Department of Beijing Film Academy with excellent results. With the dream of a great director, he wasted four years at Beijing Film Academy and then graduated in disgrace.

Graduation is due to unemployment, and because of the bad opportunities, he has played many supporting roles, but he has never been able to make a move.

In fact, the entire 1998-level Beijing Film Academy student was the dimest class, so he did not do well. He did not produce big stars or big directors. Among his classmates, the most famous one is the nursery that has never become popular.

The opportunity is not good, and the classmates are not good. For children from ordinary working-class families, Wan Xiaohu's director journey is particularly bumpy. He first did a memorial, props, and lighting, and then worked as an assistant director of several TV series. Later, he planned to work alone, but he could not attract investment, and no one was willing to give him a chance to be a director.

After being abandoned for a few years, Wan Xiaohu no longer wanted to be a big director unrealistic, but chose to direct advertisements and MVs, and in his spare time, he played with micro-films.

Just think it's a director's dream to remember him.

Until his rebirth, he had never made a TV series or a movie seriously.

Basically, the past fourteen years of life are in vain. There are no climaxes, no twists and turns, no one is interested in saying it, and no earth-shaking when it is done. It is like a pool of stagnant water, gradually becoming black and smelly, and rotting in despair.

Until one day.

He bought the latest version of the entertainment newspaper, and looked at the entertainment report "Where Are We Going, Dad?" for 680 million yuan. He thought to himself that a broken movie adapted from a broken program could be so successful. The world is really unfair. Then he began to look forward to it, if he could live again, with memories and countless good movies...

Then when it touched high voltage, it came to 2000.

"I was really reborn!"

Wan Xiaohu muttered to himself in the mirror and suddenly swallowed and spitted: "Damn it! I'm reborn! Then, let's get on with a coquettish life!"

Smile slightly.

The dreams buried deep in the heart by time begin to take root and sprout.

Once upon a time, Wan Xiaohu could only remember his past wishes in the late night, or complain about his own life, so boring and desolate. In the most coquettish student days, he looked down on ordinary girls, always wanted to make a name for himself when he left society, and ignored interactions. When he realized the reality, he was already old.

Over the past decade, I have had several relationships, but in the end I failed and have been alone.

It’s different now, he is going to be a big director!

He wants to pick up everything he has never obtained in the previous track!

"Wan Xiaohu, what are you waiting for? Make a movie!"

Looking at himself in the mirror, Wan Xiaohu made up his mind. However, it is not easy to make a movie. At least he thought about it for more than ten years but couldn't do it. Now a good movie with all his brains is true. The key is to find investment and make the movie!

"First of all, you have to determine a script!"

In the empty and dirty dormitory, Wan Xiaohu frowned and bitterly. With fourteen years of memory, he had too many good movies in his mind, but it was difficult to find one that was suitable for shooting at the moment.

First, he is not famous yet, and cannot attract big investments, and many high-cost movies cannot be achieved. Second, he has not made movies seriously, but theoretically a top student in the director department, and difficult movies cannot be made well. Third, many movies that rely on good actors to support a movie framework cannot be shot. Which star will give a student face?

Based on these three reasons, Wan Xiaohu suddenly realized that there were not many choices given to him.

"I have no way to publish and no connections to invest. Even if I happen to attract some investment and make a movie, how can I make money? It's 2000. The mainland Chinese market has not yet begun the reform of the theater system. Instead, I can go to the theater one by one and let them show my movies. But this is also a treatment for the symptoms but not the root cause. In recent years, pirated DVDs have been rampant, and no one has come in to watch the movies. What kind of low-cost movies can I shoot to attract audiences?"

"Crazy Stones? I can't shoot it without three or four million, and I can't control the multi-line transportation mirror and the mountain city dialect now. "Lost in the Road"? It will take millions to shoot it. Without Wang Baoqiang and Xu Ting's support, the effect of filming comedy is not good. Is this really a problem? Or, change your mind?"

Wan Xiaohu touched his chin and made movies in the mainland. He didn’t have to make commercial movies or sell them for sale, so that he could make money. Of course, making a big shot is something Wan Xiaohu must do in the future. As for now, what he needs is to solve the problem of food and clothing.

During this period of time in the mainland, commercial films have just begun. The fifth generation of director Feng Xiaogang is opening up the New Year's holiday. "Party A and Party B" in 1997, "See You" in 1998 and "Endless" last year can be said to be the precedents of mainland business. Even the famous director Zhang Yimou is still wandering on the road of art films.

It can be said that at this time, art films are the mainstream films. How do so many directors make art films that are not profitable? It’s very simple, someone raises them!

The movies made by famous directors are basically paid by state-owned film studios, and then they are planned to be released in their theaters, so no one has to worry about the movies they shoot.

There are two other roads at the worst.

The first is to win the award. The Radio, Film and Film Bureau has an unwritten rule that any movie that wins in the international award can receive a subsidy of 500,000 to 2 million yuan when it comes back. Compared with the unanswered things like winning the award, the second is simple, which is to sell the films to the Central Liberation Bureau.

The Central Sixth is a movie channel. When acquiring movies, it is a unified price of one million.

"Sold to the movie channel! That's it!"

After the decision, Wan Xiaohu was relaxed. The framework of the movie was already positioned. First, it was small costs, guaranteed to be less than one million, second, it had a reputation to attract the purchase of the Central Sixth Company, and third, it was simple. Simple movies were easy to control and shoot, which was suitable for his current situation.
Chapter completed!