Chapter 258

Hou Keming was in a terrible mood.

He held a copy of the Venice Film Festival's daily program—not the original, but one printed from the internet—and went straight to Tian Zhuangzhuang's office.

"Old Tian, what is going on?"

Hou Keming handed the thing in his hand to Tian Zhuangzhuang and asked, suppressing his anger.

Tian Zhuangzhuang was stunned. His first reaction was that a student in the Director Department had caused trouble, leading Old Hou to come and hold him accountable.

He took the item from Hou Keming's hand and looked at it quickly. His heart first relaxed—it wasn't a student from the Director Department causing trouble—but then, like Old Hou, his anger flared up instantly.

"Bastard!"

Old Tian slapped the table.

He didn't know the film review published in the program, but he happened to know the person who wrote it.

At the time, Cao Yang was in his office, and Teacher Jiang Shixiong had come personally to ask for a small favor. Yes, that special guest film critic for the program, in the eyes of Old Tian and Cao Yang, was just a trivial matter.

Jiang Shixiong's student wanted to become a film critic for the program, probably to get closer to the Venice Film Festival, brush up on some goodwill, and at the same time add a glorious entry to their own resume.

This was easy.

Jiang Shixiong was of the same generation as Old Situ. Since the old lady had spoken, Cao Yang and Old Tian certainly couldn't refuse.

Consequently, Cao Yang, in front of Jiang Shixiong, didn't call Old Ma directly but instead called Luca Pierno.

Luca Pierno was the artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, the person promoted by Old Ma second only to the artistic director, and he knew the relationship between Cao Yang and Old Ma.

Regarding such a small matter, Luca Pierno said it was no problem; he would send the invitation directly when the time came. It was a very simple matter.

When the time came, the invitation would be sent to the school, and they could just fill in the name of the invitee.

Cao Yang didn't pay attention to such small matters and went off to get busy afterward.

Because the invitation was sent to Old Tian's office, Old Tian knew the name of Jiang Shixiong's student.

After hearing Old Tian's explanation, Hou Keming was even angrier.

Isn't this the typical case of eating from the bowl and cursing the mother when putting the bowl down?

"Dean Hou, your status is different now, it's not easy to handle this matter. Leave it to me." Old Tian thought for a moment and felt it was indeed not good for Old Hou to come forward, and since he didn't want to get promoted or anything, it didn't matter to him to handle such things.

"Bullshit status is different, you can't handle shit!"

Old Hou scolded him impolitely. It wasn't that he looked down on Old Tian; given Old Tian's current influence, how many people could he mobilize? And how many people could he influence?

"Don't worry about this matter, I'll handle it personally."

Old Hou left this sentence and was about to leave, but then stopped and said to Tian Zhuangzhuang: "There is one more thing, it just depends on whether you, the Director Department head, dare to do it."

"Speak."

Old Tian glared and said unhappily.

Damn Old Hou, looking down on me, aren't you!

"Cao Dao has won the Golden Lion again. Our school must hang banners to celebrate. Cao Dao is from your Director Department, so you should celebrate even more properly."

After Old Hou finished speaking, he glanced at Old Tian with a bit of contempt.

Old Tian's anger flared up immediately. "If you have shit... just say what you have to say." "The professors in your Director Department..."

Hou Keming paused, as if the film shot by a professor winning the Golden Lion wasn't shocking enough, and Cao Yang was still a doctoral student, and doctoral students were also students, so he changed his words:

"Your Director Department's student won the Golden Lion. For the Director Department, this is definitely a great joy. You should hang banners at the door of every teacher and old professor, so everyone can be happy."

After saying this, Hou Keming left on his own.

Old Tian didn't react at first. What was the point of hanging banners at the door of every teacher and old professor's office?

After thinking about it, he suddenly realized that the "door" Old Hou mentioned shouldn't just be the office door, right? Should they also be hung at the entrance of the family residential area?

In this way, as the old leader of the Director Department, shouldn't a celebratory banner also be hung at Teacher Jiang Shixiong's door?

This... isn't that a bit too much?

Jiang Shixiong's student published a film review in the program, secretly implying that Cao Yang couldn't win any awards, and at most could win a consolation-type Jury Prize.

This was not the Jury Grand Prize; the Jury Grand Prize was a serious second-place award, also known as the second-best film.

And the Jury Prize was just a consolation prize, not regularly set up, and had no influence.

And the result?

Cao Yang not only brought out another Venice Best Actress but also won the Golden Lion. This slap in the face was too loud.

If a celebratory banner were hung at Teacher Jiang Shixiong's door, he was really afraid of pissing Teacher Jiang to death.

Old Tian was kind-hearted, not as ruthless as Old Hou, and finally decided to just hang a banner downstairs at the old professors' family residential area.

!

Old Hou's handling of this matter was also very simple. He personally called some well-known directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy, called alumni who were doing well at TV stations, and called some well-known alumni working in film studios...

Just catching up, mentioning that our Beijing Film Academy's Cao Dao Yang had won the Golden Lion again, and finally telling that incident as a joke.

Then, he even privately let it be known that the Beijing Film Academy was a school with a tradition of respecting teachers and the Dao, and for those ungrateful villains who ate from the bowl and cursed the mother when putting the bowl down, it was not worth cooperating with them.

The words Old Hou spread privately, like "not worth cooperating with," looked painless, but as long as people were slightly smart, those who understood, understood.

Actually, Old Hou was still a bit radical. At his status, many things and many words didn't need to be done personally; as long as he revealed a hint of meaning, there were plenty of people to do it for him.

However, Old Hou chose the most radical method, which was a bit unfavorable for his future.

Old Han's way of doing things was different.

Han Zong was still in Venice, and he actually knew about this matter earlier.

Originally, according to his idea, it would be enough to put such people on the China Film Group's blacklist.

It's not that Han Zong was bragging, but in the current domestic film and television circle, China Film Group was the biggest one. As long as China Film Group blacklisted a director, that director's future would be over.

Old Hou's approach reached Han Zong.

Han Zong thought about it and felt that there was no need to wait until he went back to blacklist them; he would just respond now.

On the second day after "Black Swan" won the Golden Lion, when he was interviewed by domestic media in Venice, he said:

"'Black Swan' had the highest rating in the official Venice Film Festival program and the best word-of-mouth. Winning the Golden Lion is a well-deserved matter.

Cao Dao Yang is a talented person and also a person with good character. For a great director like Cao Dao who has good character and talent, China Film Group has always spared no effort to provide full-scale support."

Subsequently, Han Zong's tone changed.

"However, for some directors who steal fame, for some directors who plagiarize others' labor results, China Film Group will not cooperate with such directors, nor will it have any cooperation with institutions that cooperate with such directors..."

(End of chapter)