Chapter 611

Chen Hong led her son over, her face beaming with smiles.

"Lin Dao, Director Jiang."

"Sister Chen, you've come to the school today... Is this in preparation for the art exams?"

Lin Nan gestured with his eyes toward the "little Chen" beside her and asked with a smile.

"Not at all. There are no plans for him to take the art exams yet; I just want him to audit classes at the school for half a year to learn a few things, so he won't be completely clueless when he joins a crew later."

After speaking, Chen Hong urged her son, "Hurry up and greet them, this child."

"Hello Lin Dao, hello Teacher Jiang." The "little Chen" beside her hurriedly bowed slightly, looking very obedient.

"Oh, that's right, I forgot to introduce him to Lin Dao. This is my youngest son, Feiyu;

You can also call him Arthur. This was the English name Director Chen personally chose for him when we sent him abroad to study."

"Arthur? Arthur!"

Lin Nan nodded with a smile. He glanced at Chen Feiyu, who had been maintaining a smile and looking very respectful beside Chen Hong, and then recalled to Chen Hong:

"I have an impression of him. I saw him at the premiere of *The Promise* back then. He was just a five or six-year-old kid... It's been 10 years already."

"Lin Dao has a good memory. My eldest son was there too, but he won't be entering the film and television industry. We plan for Feiyu to be an actor, and he has the willingness to do so..."

Watching Chen Hong's "garrulous" and enthusiastic demeanor, Lin Nan exchanged a subtle look with Lao Jiang. Both of them knew: the real topic was coming!

"I still hope Lin Dao will look after our Feiyu in the future... We aren't outsiders..."

"Director Chen's resources are likely inexhaustible; where would there be any need for others to look after him? Haha..."

Lin Nan smiled and deflected. In this kind of social interaction, it was impossible to refuse to their face.

"It is still necessary. Our Director Chen is not like Lin Dao... He is getting on in age... and Lin Nan Film Industry is the top-tier production company in the circle..."

Good heavens, Lin Nan and Lao Jiang were instantly stunned!

This really is Chen Hong's own son. For the sake of her son, she actually said a tiny bit of "bad things" about the great Director Chen?

If the great Director Chen were to find out about this... well, Chen Kaige probably wouldn't be angry. After all, this is Chen Hong, the "greatest love" he has publicly professed countless times over so many years!

After another ten minutes of small talk, Lin Nan intentionally raised his wrist to check his watch.

Lao Jiang understood and immediately took the initiative to help end the conversation:

"Producer Chen, I'm afraid you'll have to find another time to chat with Lin Nan. He has to go teach the students; it's almost time."

"Ah? Then I've really delayed Lin Dao's time. I saw you from afar and couldn't help but bring Feiyu over to say hello.

I won't disturb you any further. Lin Dao, you go ahead and get busy. We have to head over to the Performance Academy as well. Let's chat again later..."

Laughing and talking, the four of them parted ways.

But not long after they walked away, Lao Jiang began to sigh and complain: "When have I ever seen such an approachable Chen Hong before?

Although she isn't as stuck-up as the great Director Chen, she has always been cold and aloof, holding onto her status! Thanks to the great Lin Dao, I've finally seen it for myself.

But I could tell, she came specifically for you, the great director. She didn't even look at me properly the whole time... Of course, I'm just a small fry."

"It's good that you have self-awareness!"

Lin Nan immediately smiled and added a jab. Before Lao Jiang could grumble, he added: "But you're right. This is the first time I've seen Chen Hong in this state.

But it's understandable, after all, she has to pave the way for her son. Director Chen cares too much about status and face and is always keeping up appearances, so these kinds of things can only be done by Chen Hong."

"Hmm, that makes sense. Hey, don't say I didn't tell you, the name the great Director Chen chose is actually quite grand. Arthur, Arthur, he's aiming for 'King Arthur'!"

Lao Jiang exclaimed in hindsight, and then he became playful:

"Lin Nan, if you really think about it, that kid just now is actually of the same generation as you. His dad and Director Tian were classmates!"

"Heh, Director Kaige wouldn't dare say that I'm of the same generation as his son!" Lin Nan retorted irritably.

"Fine, that's true. With your achievements and status in the circle, you're already at the level of a master-disciple relationship with Director Tian, and you've long been of the same generation as the other Fifth Generation directors!"

On the other side, on the way to the Performance Academy, Chen Hong was also "teaching" her son with earnest instructions.

"You are destined to be different from those ordinary actors. The resources, connections, and background they lack, you will never lack. The road has already been paved for you; you just need to walk it step by step.

But you must still value the very few big figures in the circle and put effort into befriending and maintaining relationships with them... Lin Dao Nan, whom we just met, is one of them, and a very, very important one at that..."

Chen Feiyu followed beside her, nodding and responding, staying close to Chen Hong.

Chen Hong saw this and was very satisfied. In her view, her son was more outstanding than the other second-generation stars in the circle—obedient, humble, well-behaved, and polite...

This was thanks to the way Chen Kaige had educated him since he was small... Although it was very strict, harsh, and overbearing, with her protecting him... it was alright.

……

In the afternoon, the trending searches for film and entertainment news online should have been just as explosive as *Mojin: The Lost Legend* was yesterday.

But as it neared three o'clock, the news about Alibaba Pictures directly overturned all the film and entertainment information on the trending list, landing at number one.

To be precise, Alibaba Pictures had once again flipped the table—flipping the table on the film and television industry.

At last year's Shanghai International Film Festival, Zhang Qiang pointed out the direction, stating bluntly that in the creation of film and television works in the internet era, Alibaba Pictures would not hire professional directors to direct films;

And this afternoon, they held a large-scale industry forum event titled "Why the Rush to Destroy Originality and IP in the Film and Television Industry."

Facing numerous media and industry figures, Alibaba Pictures President Zhang Qiang made another "bold statement":

"After a year and a half, big data applications have matured. Starting today, following our refusal to hire professional directors, Alibaba Pictures will also no longer hire professional screenwriters for script creation! For future film scripts, we will invite the moderators of relevant IP forums and countless fan-fiction authors to complete them;

That is, we will select the best few dozen people and have them write script stories based on the IP, constantly eliminating them just like a 'killer' game. The one who writes the best in the end will be kept, given a large monetary reward, and retain the screenwriter credit... At most, we will then find professional screenwriters to organize and format it, which doesn't count as participating in script creation!

This is the research and development process for a super IP—that is, starting from the audience's perspective, not the screenwriter's perspective..."

With just this one public statement, Alibaba Pictures effectively blew up the screenwriter circle!

In less than two hours, the entire screenwriter industry rose up to encircle and suppress Alibaba Pictures; hundreds of well-known screenwriters bombarded Alibaba Pictures online!

You have to say, professional screenwriters are still the best; their pens and mouths are swords and guns! The big screenwriters were even fighting on the front lines:

"This isn't screenwriting; this is raising poisonous insects, this is a beast fight!"

"Please reject Alibaba Pictures just as you would reject drugs..."

"Screenwriting isn't just knowing more than others; the core skill of a screenwriter is selecting and combining what they know into a good story with substance.

Inviting IP forum moderators and fan-fiction authors into a beast-fighting arena to kill each other is using capital to enslave internet writers;

After the slaughter, they bring in professionals to harvest the blood-washed IP from the pile of corpses. Professional screenwriters won't necessarily cooperate, and internet writers will also rise up. We are not a slave system..."

……

After finishing class and coming out, the moment Lin Nan sat in his car and turned on his phone, he was completely dumbfounded.

Because his phone was constantly popping up notifications, and a massive amount of messages were flooding in all at once:

Text messages, social media apps, and on Weibo... dozens of top-tier screenwriters Lin Nan knew were all publicly tagging him, hoping he would speak out as well. After all, Lin Nan was also a screenwriter!

"Tsk tsk tsk, last time the screenwriter circle jointly boycotted Yu Zheng, it seemed there were only 156 screenwriters. This time it's actually doubled? As expected of Alibaba Pictures!"

Lin Nan was quite astonished. He discovered that the Screenwriters Association was also publicly condemning Alibaba Pictures, which was very interesting.

But one phenomenon was also very obvious: many filmmakers in the circle who were both screenwriters and held other professions didn't speak up; only those whose main profession was screenwriting were fighting on the front lines!

As for the reason, you don't even need to think to know it's just fear of offending Alibaba. After all, the Alibaba system at this moment, even among capital, is a behemoth!

Many students coming and going were intentionally or unintentionally looking at the red Ferrari, and Lin Nan was inside.

After hesitating for a few minutes, Lin Nan decided to post on Weibo.

After all, he was a person from the traditional film and television industry. Although he was capital, he was also a director, a screenwriter, and a filmmaker:

"During last year's Shanghai International Film Festival, I refuted Alibaba Pictures' 'internet production model' on the spot, and until now I still think it's a fallacy! Without professional directors, without professional screenwriters, what is being made? Is it edible?

Even Wall Street only dares to invest in Hollywood, and even then, they get played around; yet Alibaba Pictures, with its internet background, wants to cross industries to subvert the professionalism of the film and television industry... Sometimes when I think about it, it really feels like running a pyramid scheme..."

Lin Nan's participation made the industry even more chaotic.

In less than ten minutes, phone call after phone call came in; but the great Lin Dao was driving, so he rejected them all.

However, although the calls here couldn't get through, the other side might not be the same.

……

Liu Yifei was very helpless; this was already the third call. Shu Chang was watching the excitement happily on the side.

"Your great Lin Dao is too direct. I only forwarded it to boycott them, and he actually came up with original content!"

Xing Aina's voice came from the phone, and there was Ning Hao's laughter on the side.

"Hmm, but it's the truth, isn't it? I see that quite a few big directors who started as screenwriters are also expressing their stance one after another. Director Jia Zhangke, Director Xue Xiaolu, Director Cao Baoping..."

Liu Yifei counted them one by one, and took a sip of juice through a straw in her spare time. What could she do? Of course, she would support Lin Nan!

On the other side, Alibaba Pictures.

"Every industry we enter, the final result is success. For the film and television industry, naturally, there is no second result.

This year is only the second year since Alibaba Pictures was established. Take it slow; the traditional film and television industry will sooner or later be changed by us and led by us.

Look, hasn't the 'traffic star' aspect already shown results? The future will also be a major trend. This is the first change we have brought to the film and television industry!"

In the conference room, Zhang Qiang spoke eloquently.

Regarding those traditional film and television industry figures jumping up and down online, he looked down on them completely, including big directors like Lin Nan and Jia Zhangke, and traditional film and television capital.

"By the way, how is *See You Tomorrow* going?"

"President Zhang, Director Wong Kar-wai is resting, and Director Zhang Jiajia is listening completely to Director Wong... But during the shutdown period, the costs are constantly increasing!"

Hearing this, Zhang Qiang couldn't help but frown.

"Then urge them. I've only heard that Wong Kar-wai is dawdling before; this is the first time I've seen it so directly... He really is dawdling! Although we have great confidence in this 'Big Data + Big IP + Big Director' model, unnecessary cost increases should be avoided as much as possible!"

After speaking, Zhang Qiang looked at his subordinate again, "Did Wong Kar-wai say when he plans to wrap up?"

"I'm... I'm afraid it will be until next year. As for exactly how long, Director Wong said it's impossible to estimate and depends on his state."

Hearing this, Zhang Qiang was shocked.

They started filming at the beginning of July, and it will go until next year, and he can't even estimate roughly when it will wrap up? Does he really think he's filming *The Grandmaster 2*?! Wouldn't the costs be..."

……

(End of chapter)

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