Chapter 250: Position

With the Venice Film Festival announcing the list of films selected for the main competition unit, domestic media were a little disappointed after getting the list.

Overall, the media's reaction was a bit flat.

Cao Yang's *Black Swan* entering the list is not news; if it were brushed off, that would be news.

Not only the media, but many netizens' reactions on the Internet were also very flat. For example, in the "Cao Yang Bar," the most common comment under this news was: Got it.

Most of the media's reports on *Black Swan* just mentioned it; instead, they talked more about others who entered the main competition unit.

For example, Stanley Kwan's *Everlasting Regret*.

For example, another great Chinese director Ang Lee's *Brokeback Mountain*.

Ang Lee still shot *Brokeback Mountain*.

After messing up *Hulk*, Ang Lee's glory is no longer there, and it is almost impossible to take on commercial blockbusters in Hollywood again.

On this point, he is actually not as good as Wu Wu Yusen.

Because Wu Wu Yusen had two successful works, *Face/Off* and *Mission: Impossible 2*, even though *Windtalkers* made MGM vomit blood, he could still get opportunities and directed Paramount's *Paycheck*.

However, when *Paycheck* lost money again, Wu Wu Yusen's blood bar was cleared, and he could no longer get opportunities in Hollywood.

To be honest, *Paycheck* is still okay; at least the first half is very exciting, and the suspense is set well, but the second half is a bit tiger-headed and snake-tailed, the plot becomes rotten and vulgar, and it cannot stand scrutiny.

This film is a bit of a pity.

Ang Lee also has strengths over Wu Wu Yusen.

That is, he originally became famous for art films. After losing opportunities in the commercial film field, returning to the art film field, there is still a chance.

It is estimated that he was hit, so Ang Lee chose the relatively speculative *Brokeback Mountain*, aiming entirely at the old white left in the academy.

Think about it, American cowboys, that is, rednecks, also known as old white right, these conservative people who support the Republican Party, actually started gay!

In some respects, this is equivalent to poking the lungs of the president on the stage!

Hollywood is known as the base camp of the Democratic Party, full of old white left.

*Brokeback Mountain* is, in some respects, a certificate of submission; this is the greatest political correctness.

However, it is a pity that Cao Yang won the Oscar for Best Picture last year with *Milk*, and this year he won the Oscar for Best Director with *District 9*.

It depends on whether those people in the academy have the courage to give the Oscar for Best Director or Best Picture to a Chinese person next year.

It is estimated to be a bit difficult.

After all, Ang Lee's *Brokeback Mountain* flattered a bit late.

*Milk* is actually similar to *Brokeback Mountain* in terms of core.

It is also about Milk, a conservative, who, in order to get the support of that group, pretended to be gay, which also satirized the conservatives.

Even *Milk* is more satirical.

Conservatives can pretend to be gay to get votes and mix into that group.

Okay, wish Ang Lee good luck.

*Seven Swords* was released as scheduled. Maybe because *Crazy Stone* exploded, the pressure was too great. After all, *Seven Swords* claimed an investment of 140 million Hong Kong dollars, and the pressure to break even was too great.

*Seven Swords* made a big move; on the day of release, it announced that the film was selected as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival.

This is generally announced by the Venice Film Festival Organizing Committee, but after *Seven Swords* communicated with the film festival organizing committee, it announced it on the day of release.

This can indeed be counted as an explosion point. There are too many people who don't know the truth, and everyone instinctively thinks that the films selected as opening films are extremely good.

In fact, in a sense, this statement is also correct.

Because the quota for the main competition unit is limited, under normal circumstances, the film festival organizing committee will pick one from the films that failed to be selected as the opening film.

Old Han saw it and suddenly felt that it was a correct choice not to report the matter of Wu Qihua and Fan Bingbing starring in *Inception* in advance; now it is used.

What are you waiting for? Otherwise, if *Seven Swords* makes this sudden attack, it is really possible to suppress the heat and box office of *Crazy Stone*.

Less than an hour after *Seven Swords* announced that it had become the Venice opening film, Boss Han announced in an interview that the 1.5 billion *Inception* had already selected Chinese actors.

That is the big thief Mike in *Crazy Stone* and Dao Ge's girlfriend Fan Bingbing.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The 1.5 billion *Inception* was already the biggest hot spot, and who the two Chinese actors would be was always the focus of outside discussion. Once this was reported, it instantly suppressed the heat of *Seven Swords*.

Wang Jinghua has been considering Cao Yang's proposal these days.

It wasn't until the media reported extensively that Fan Bingbing joined *Inception* that Wang Jinghua made up her mind.

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Setting up her own business and letting these big stars become partners is better than living under someone else's roof.

Besides, big stars can certainly bring a lot of resources. Since they are one of the company's bosses, they will certainly give resources to others in the company.

To put it bluntly, for a newcomer, the resources leaked from the fingers of first-tier big stars like Li Xiaoran or Gao Yuanyuan are very good opportunities.

For example, if Li Xiaoran takes on *The Banquet* and asks Feng Dao for a supporting role with lines, it is very easy.

For a newcomer, being able to be in Feng Dao's play is certainly something they are eager for.

Of course, this is only one aspect. For Wang Jinghua, who Cao Yang supports to become her partner is the most important thing.

If you talk about the quality of resources in China, it is certainly the top-tier resources that Cao Yang controls.

Cao Yang's defense was arranged for August 12th. As for why it was this day, it was because Cao Yang's thesis was finished on August 10th.

For this defense of Cao Yang, Tian Zhuangzhuang, as the head of the Directing Department, finally mixed into a member of the defense committee, and didn't have to be assigned the job of defense secretary like when Cao Yang was an undergraduate.

For others, there are many good teachers and good directors in the Beijing Film Academy, and many veteran professors are qualified to be the chairman of the master's degree defense committee.

But for Cao Yang, in the entire Beijing Film Academy, only Xie Fei, who won the Berlin Golden Bear, can barely do this. As for others, even if they were asked to do it, they certainly wouldn't dare.

The master's degree defense committee is generally composed of an odd number of people of no less than five, and some schools also have to invite no less than one off-campus expert.

However, Cao Yang's defense didn't invite off-campus experts; Xie Fei was the chairman of the defense committee, and Old Hou, Old Tian, Jiang Shixiong, and Zheng Dongtian were members.

Everything went according to the process.

After the defense, Cao Yang became a doctoral student under Old Situ again.

And, perhaps because Cao Yang had a master's degree, the Youth Film Studio decided to appoint Cao Yang as the general producer of the Youth Film Studio.

According to Jiang Shixiong, this general producer is equivalent to the level of deputy factory director, participating in the management of the Youth Film Studio, and can intervene in all the films established by the Youth Film Studio.

Of course, you can also choose not to manage anything.

Immediately after, as if by appointment, Cao Yang was appointed as the vice chairman of the Youth Federation, added as the vice chairman of the Directors Association, and officially became a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, and no longer a specially appointed professor.

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