Chapter 42: Liu Zhaohong

"In 2005, the number of applicants for the acting department of the Film Academy exceeded 6,000 for the first time. 3/4 of them were eliminated in the preliminary exam, and only about 1,500 people entered the re-exam, which is not fierce. However, this is just the beginning, after the re-exam there is a third exam, and the final number of undergraduate students recruited is only 30, with an overall recruitment ratio reaching 200:1."

The news broadcast coming from the TV made Liu Zhaohong's mouth curl into a smile, the number of applicants hitting new highs, naturally inseparable from his work performance as the deputy director of the admissions office, every year at this time, he would watch the 6 o'clock news on Beijing TV on time, just like his annual work summary report.

"Our reporter also arrived at the Beijing Film Academy admissions scene, let's take a look at their on-site report."

Afterwards, the TV screen switched, a female reporter stood at the gate of the Film Academy, holding a microphone and saying: "We are now at the scene of the preliminary exam of the Film Academy, we can see that the scene is a sea of people. We will now interview some students who came to take the exam, and ask them the reasons for applying for the Film Academy."

Liu Zhaohong picked up a mouthful of food, sipped a mouthful of wine, his old partner frowned with dissatisfaction on the side, "Drink less, today's amount is almost enough."

"Known, known, rare, happy."

"All are people who are going to retire, what are you happy about."

"I have worked in the Film Academy for a lifetime, seeing it flourish every year, of course I am happy."

Chatting with his wife, the news on TV continued to play.

The female host holding a microphone started interviewing students at the gate. The pair of men and women appearing on the screen made Liu Zhaohong nod silently. The quality of this year's freshmen should be better than last year.

Especially this boy.

He felt that, actually, admissions are like farming, whether the harvest is good or not, it all depends on the sky, there is no standard at all.

After the 96 grade, Beijing Film has been withered for many sessions, currently there is Liu Yifei in the 02 grade whose momentum is good, others don't look like they can become big weapons. Hope this year will improve.

"May I ask what the names of the two are?" On the screen, only a microphone could be seen, the woman's face could not be seen, of course, she could not be seen talking either.

However, as an ordinary audience, it is impossible to think about whether this simple interview at the school gate has been cut from beginning to end, and whether it has been dubbed and spliced.

After all, just like no one would think that someone would target a student like this.

"Yang Mi."

"Wang Xiang."

"May I ask why you want to take the Film Academy exam?"

The girl replied: "Because I have liked acting since I was little, love performance, the profession of actor is my ideal, I want to enter the Film Academy, and be an excellent performing arts worker in the future."

Liu Zhaohong smiled.

This young man has ideals, can speak, is generous, and his appearance has recognition. Yang Mi. Liu Zhaohong silently remembered this name in his heart.

"However, among these students, we also noticed that some people just treat applying for the Film Academy as a shortcut to go to university."

Then on the TV screen, the microphone was held to the boy's mouth: "How about this student, may I ask you, today you came to take the Film Academy exam, are you particularly excited?"

"No."

Liu Zhaohong's brows suddenly wrinkled. "Then do you want to be an actor? Do you have such a dream?"

"No, no."

"Ah? Then why did you come to take the Film Academy exam?"

"Forget it, you interview her, I'll forget it."

"Okay, then I'll ask one last question, do you have anything you want to say to our Film Academy teachers?"

"No, I'm not good at speaking."

Afterwards, the screen switched to the panoramic view of the Beijing Film gate—

"The uneven quality of the candidates is a common problem in the admissions of Beijing Film in recent years, how to find those young people who truly love the film industry among these candidates, and ensure the inheritance of generation after generation of excellent filmmakers, should be the top priority of Beijing Film's admissions work. Beijing TV reporter Yan Yan reports from the scene."

The screen returned to the studio and started playing the next news.

Liu Zhaohong drank the half cup of white wine in his glass in one gulp.

Afterwards, he picked up his phone, dialed a few numbers, but hesitated in the end and didn't dial the phone.

Although this student's attitude was really a bit annoying, looking at that appearance, he didn't have a trace of respect for actors, the Film Academy, or even all the teachers in the school, but let's wait and see.

Such a student, even if he passed the preliminary exam by virtue of his appearance, it is estimated that he could not pass the next re-exam, there is no need to make a big fuss.

In the following days, the admissions work of the Beijing Film Academy was in full swing, and Liu Zhaohong's work was also extremely heavy, and he threw this matter to the back of his mind.

Time passed very quickly in busyness, after the preliminary exam was the re-exam, the 1,500+ candidates left in the preliminary exam were eliminated in large numbers in the re-exam again, and the number of students who finally entered the third exam was only 386. These 386 people, after the third exam, would have about 100 left, and then after the final physical examination and cultural course exam results came out, they would choose the best from the best and recruit 30 of them.

Saying that going to take the Film Academy exam is a single-plank bridge for thousands of troops is not an exaggeration at all.

The number of examiners in the third exam was different from the first two rounds, exploding from 5 to 20, sitting in three rows in the exam room, besides the chief examiner and various professional teachers sitting in the first row, other leaders responsible for admissions work also lined up in the second and third rows. Although they didn't participate in scoring, they also had the right to express their opinions in the final recruitment link.

As the deputy director of the admissions office, on the first day of the third exam of the acting department, Liu Zhaohong sat in the middle-left position of the second row. He had also thought about whether one day he could sit in the middle, but as time passed, he crossed the threshold of 58 years old, and no longer had luxury expectations.

"Old Liu, you've worked hard." Zheng Zhongjian, who was sitting in the middle, was about 40 years old, just at the prime of his life, and said to Liu Zhaohong with encouragement, "I heard from Professor Li of the acting department that the quality of the students in the acting department this year is good, Old Liu, you have made great contributions."

Liu Zhaohong showed a smile, "Thank you for the praise, President Zheng, the little achievements made by our admissions office are all under your leadership, and the results of the efforts of the comrades together."

Zheng Zhongjian is the vice president of the Film Academy and the director of the admissions office, but generally doesn't intervene in specific admissions work, just doing planning, specific things are arranged by Liu Zhaohong and several other deputy directors. At the same time, Zheng Zhongjian is also the biggest leader at the scene, even the dean of the acting academy, Zhang Tianyou, can only sit on his left hand, at this time hearing Liu Zhaohong's words, Zhang Tianyou interjected: "President Zheng is right, Deputy Director Liu has worked hard, it can be said that without Deputy Director Liu, there would be no flourishing of our Film Academy today."

Heh, Dog Zhang, giving me eye drops again. Liu Zhaohong sneered twice in his heart.

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