Chapter 261

"Roland told me that the most advanced ground crack can reach twenty meters, the team on the Korean side can reach four meters, and the technology we currently master can only reach eight meters."

Although he spoke modestly, Boss Lu's face was full of pride.

He called Xie Ning over again: "This ground crack needs to be combined with CG; there should be some small cracks branching out next to the big crack, otherwise it's too fake."

"Okay, Director Lu."

Han Han Shanping smiled: "I am from Sichuan Province; I have experienced countless small earthquakes since I was a child; what you just said is correct."

He then sighed deeply: "With the work done to this point, I think there is no problem with this movie at all."

"Director Yao, I think you and your secretary can also give a good account of yourselves now? Haha!"

"Of course, of course, all of us in Tangshan trust Director Lu one hundred percent!"

Whether Zhao Yong, Yao Yao Jianguo, and others trust him or not, Boss Lu doesn't care; he currently has doubts about the efficiency and quality of these people in the system.

A few days later, Lu Kuan led the special effects team of Butian Film to the Tangshan site to inspect the model construction situation on the spot.

A vacant lot on the west side of the East Suburban Park in the city was surrounded by construction demolition barriers, vehicles were coming in and out, and staff wearing crew uniforms were coming and going in an endless stream.

There were infrastructure personnel, art designers, prop masters, aging masters...

"Director Lu, you're here."

Art director Cao Cao Jiuping handed him a hard hat, and the two walked inside with a smile.

"Teacher Cao, thank you for your hard work; it's still the time when the north is cold and warm, and this construction site is very dusty."

Cao Cao Jiuping and Huo Huo Tingxiao are both art directors who have a good relationship with Zhang Zhang Yimou; Old Old Mouzi has to be busy with the bidding work for the Olympic opening ceremony plan this year, so he was borrowed by Boss Lu for use.

His main works include "The Road Home," "Raise the Red Lantern," and Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" next year in later generations.

What he took Yao Yao Jianguo and Han Han Shanping to see before were special effects models; now what he is looking at are real-life scenes, which are equally important.

On both sides of this street, which is less than five hundred meters long, there are all kinds of buildings from the 70s, such as supply and marketing cooperatives, bathhouses, non-staple food stores, car repair points, small shops, water towers, etc.

"Really good, it's like returning to that era."

Cao Cao Jiuping smiled: "The elders and folks in Tangshan are very cooperative; the city even organized several comrades who survived the earthquake area back then to recall the scenes and provide guidance for us."

This street is an old street in the city that was moved away; it only needs to age some old buildings according to the standards of the 70s, build some bungalows, and carry out art processing.

It is easier to do than special effects models, but the details must be more exquisite; they are all life scenes in the movie.

For such a period film, as long as there is a trace of detail wrong, the audience will immediately be taken out of the play, and the sense of immersion will plummet.

After walking around, Boss Lu was very satisfied with the scene and made some requirements for the details.

"Are there any other difficulties, regarding the life of the team?"

"No problem, the elders and folks are very enthusiastic; we can't finish eating the boiled eggs and roasted sweet potatoes every day!"

Cao Cao Jiuping changed the subject: "But there is one thing that is quite tricky at the moment."

"Speak."

"Props, we need a large number of props from the 70s."

He counted with his fingers: "Enamel cups, Forever and Flying Pigeon bicycles, old calendars."

"The most critical thing is the fire trucks, water trucks, military trucks, etc., used for disaster relief at that time."

Lu Kuan frowned: "Military trucks are fine, Secretary Zhao has already agreed to coordinate."

"Water trucks and fire trucks are a bit troublesome."

"By the way, there is an Yate in Tangshan that specializes in large vehicles; you contact Secretary Li and ask, as long as there is a chassis, it will do."

"Okay."

Cao Cao Jiuping said in a dilemma: "Then so many aging props..."

Lu Kuan's crew has always had extremely high requirements for costumes, makeup, and props; even for TV dramas, they are not allowed to be sloppy.

These massive daily necessities props are a headache for every period film; the "Aftershock" by "Pants" in later generations was collected from all over the country through online media and print media.

"Let me ask the crew to collect them on the blog; you leave a mailing address."

"Also..."

Boss Lu suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "You know Fan Fan Jianchuan, right? Go find him; no, I'll go there myself."

Fan Fan Jianchuan has a museum covering an area of 500 acres in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, with more than 10 million collections; it was only awarded the title of "National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base" by the Ministry of Culture last year.

The collections include many categories such as the War of Resistance, folklore, the Red Era, and earthquake relief; there must be many old objects from the 70s.

Cao Cao Jiuping asked in confusion: "Can he give them to us?"

"Don't worry about that, I'll go talk to him."

There was no airport in Tangshan in 2005; Boss Lu, with some small thoughts, called Secretary Li and declined the meeting with Secretary Zhao in the evening, and asked the crew to send him to Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan Airport.

Flew directly to Chengdu.

In the afternoon, Han Han Shanping and Zhang Yuan Heping brought a middle-aged man who was slightly bald and wearing an administrative jacket to the set.

The order of walking shows the respect and inferiority.

Cao Cao Jiuping asked in surprise: "Han Zong, Chairman Zhang, why are you here?"

Seeing that this middle-aged man did not introduce himself, it was not convenient for him to ask in detail.

"Where is Lu Kuan? He won't answer the phone either."

"Director Lu?"

"He should be on the plane right now, he went to Chengdu."

Han Han Shanping almost spat out a mouthful of old blood: "When did he leave?"

Cao Cao Jiuping looked at his watch: "He left before lunch, I estimate he flew an hour ago."

"Chairman Yu, Old Zhang, what do you think?"

Yu Zaiqing sighed; he really hurried and hurried but was still a step late.

He looked up and smiled at Zhang Yuan Heping: "Yuan Heping, please trouble this comrade to send us on another trip."

"Okay, Chairman Yu."

Yu Zaiqing went to the side to answer the phone, and Zhang Yuan Heping pulled Han Han Shanping further away.

"Old Han, don't even think about slipping away; this time, if we don't drag that kid back to Beiping, neither of us can account for it."

Han Han Shanping laughed loudly: "Then let's go! Back to Chengdu, I'll just treat it as returning to my hometown!"

"Cao Jiuping, what did he go to Chengdu for?"

"Director Lu said he was going to find Fan Fan Jianchuan to buy some movie props."

Han Han Shanping took out his phone hatefully and started putting on an act in front of Yu Zaiqing.

"Fine, he has time to do these trivial things himself, but he just won't agree to participate in the Olympic plan solicitation."

"Alright Old Zhang, leave this matter to me when we get to Chengdu; I'll contact someone now to intercept him at the Fan Jianchuan Museum!"

Han Han Shanping is the old factory director of the Emei Film Studio; although he has been away for many years, his position is there, and he made a phone call to the factory office.

"Hello? I'm Han Han Shanping!"

Factory office secretary Zhu Ermao was stunned: "Old Factory Director?"

Then he said excitedly: "Old Factory Director, I'm Ermao, my father is Zhu Zhiguo!"

"Ermao? Haha, how did you get transferred to the factory office again."

"That, I don't have Old Li's phone number, you help me notify him, help me intercept Lu Kuan at the Fan Jianchuan Museum, keep him here today no matter what, wait until I arrive!"

The Old Li he mentioned is the current factory director of Emei Film Studio, Li Li Kangsheng.

If it were another factory director, even if you are the chairman of China Film, so what? No one would assign people like this.

However, Li Li Kangsheng is his old subordinate; although the age difference is not much, the Emei Film Studio underwent a share reform in 2003, establishing the Emei Film Group, and Old Han strongly supported his rise.

This old subordinate also has the grace of promotion, so he spoke more casually.

"Yes! Old Factory Director, executing immediately!"

An hour and a half later, Boss Lu, with a sore back and aching legs, got off the plane and took a taxi straight to Dayi County, Chengdu.

Li Li Kangsheng brought the factory office secretary and had been waiting bitterly in front; Han Han Shanping, Zhang Yuan Heping, and other pursuers were behind.

Boss Lu is in danger!

Yingbin Road, Anren Town, Dayi County, Chengdu; the Fan Jianchuan Museum, covering an area of 500 acres, is located on an open flat ground, surrounded by green trees, elegant and exquisite, a place with good feng shui.

It was the first time for Boss Lu to come here in his past and present lives; walking to the front door, he caught a glimpse of a corner inside the museum, the main buildings of each exhibition area were scattered, having a unique sense of historical weight.

After paying the 60 yuan ticket, he was told that he must leave the museum before 6 o'clock, so he couldn't care about appreciating it for the time being and asked directly for the location of the curator's office.

If he didn't meet him today, he would stay first and then find a middleman to contact him.

Fan Fan Jianchuan was drinking tea with Li Li Kangsheng in the office, although he didn't know why the other party came to find him.

Previously, he had received several movie props and brochures from the model opera period through Li Li Kangsheng, and they were quite familiar with each other.

"Oh my, Old Fan, don't ask me, even if you ask, I can't explain it clearly; Han Zong didn't tell me either!"

"The Lu Kuan you mentioned, the Lu Kuan of your 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'?"

"Yes, just him."

Fan Fan Jianchuan was a bit excited: "He's really coming? What for?"

Li Li Kangsheng said helplessly: "How many times have you asked? I don't know! You'll know in a while!"

"Hey, you come to my territory, and you're getting impatient!"

Old Fan was slightly excited; he really likes this young director's movies, especially this recent "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which was shot right into his heart!

This person is also a legendary figure.

Born into a military family, two years as an educated youth, he performed excellently after joining the army and was directly promoted to an officer.

After transferring to politics, Old Fan became the vice mayor of Wuliangye City, but for the sake of his collection dream, he resolutely went into business and invested all his earnings into this grand museum under his feet.

Serving the country in the army, being a public servant, and exhausting his family wealth to fulfill his dream, he also published many works on anti-Japanese themes.

He made a will while alive, deciding to donate all his personal property after his death to the country; he is worthy of being called a righteous man.

Therefore, he greatly appreciated the content of the national line metaphorized in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," and he was truly a bit teary-eyed looking at him.

"Knock knock!"

"Please come in."

A young face pushed open the heavy wooden office door; joy was visibly appearing on the faces of Fan Fan Jianchuan and Li Li Kangsheng!

Fan Fan Jianchuan: Director Lu is here, let's have a good chat about movies!

Li Li Kangsheng: Director Lu is here, hurry up and lock the door!

"Oh my, nice to meet you, Director Lu, I am Fan Fan Jianchuan."

Old Fan, with a round head and brain, looked like a lucky person, smiling and shaking hands with Boss Lu.

"Curator Fan, it was my presumptuous visit, I'm sorry!"

Before Old Fan could be modest, Li Li Kangsheng stepped forward and closed the door, turned around, and snatched the "jade hand" of the Berlin Film Emperor from Fan Fan Jianchuan's hand.

"Director Lu, I am Li Li Kangsheng from the Emei Film Studio, I have been waiting for a long time!"

Boss Lu was startled by his strange behavior; this identity is also very bizarre, why has he been waiting for a long time?

"Factory Director Li, hello, this is our first time meeting, right?"

He was a bit uncertain; he hoped he hadn't met him before and didn't remember who he was, that would be rude.

"First time, first time!"

Li Li Kangsheng ignored Fan Fan Jianchuan's dissatisfied face: "Director Lu, Han Zong should have called you several times, you see..."

"Oh! My phone is out of battery, does Curator Fan have a universal charger here? Lend it to me."

"Yes, please come over and have some tea first!"

Fan Fan Jianchuan let him in and took out the treasured Wuchuan water-ground black tea with joy.

"Director Lu, taste this, authentic Wuchuan water-ground, it's extremely fragrant!"

Boss Lu felt his temples jump; this trip was to find an opportunity to discuss this matter, and someone bringing it up is just right.

"Wuchuan black tea, is there any story to it?"

Fan Fan Jianchuan is a person with very broad knowledge, and immediately introduced: "Wuchuan, it is the starting point of the western route of the Sichuan-Tibet Tea Horse Road."

"Since the Ming Dynasty, this Wuchuan water-ground black tea has been sent north as tribute to the imperial court; later, places like Yinxiu and Shuimo started planting tea, and it formed an industry over time; the history is very long."

"Besides this water-ground black tea, there are also Wuchuan Red, Chuxiu Lingya, and Chuxiu Xuecui, all of which are excellent teas."

Li Li Kangsheng secretly slandered on the side, you dog-day Old Fan just lied to me saying that broken tea was fragrant, and only took out good things when there were distinguished guests.

"Hmm! Really good, Curator Fan, when you have time, take me around, I'll buy some to take back as gifts."

Fan Fan Jianchuan agreed repeatedly.

The distinguished guest knows the goods, and everyone praises it; this is the happiest thing for a hospitable host.

"Director Lu, I don't know why you came this time?"

"Oh! It's like this."

"I just took on a movie called 'Aftershock,' which needs tens of thousands of old objects from the 70s."

"This isn't it, I was in Tangshan this morning, and I came here presumptuously to seek help in the afternoon, hehe."

Fan Fan Jianchuan slapped the table: "Good! Director Lu, to tell you the truth, I am your fan, especially this recent 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'!"

"I'm not ashamed to say it, I, Old Fan, am almost 50 this year, and I really couldn't stop crying when I saw that air battle scene!"

When it comes to movies, Li Li Kangsheng is not sleepy at all.

"Director Lu, don't rush to leave this time, come to our Emei Film Studio to sit."

"We are all in the same industry, can you give some lectures to our directors and actors?"

Boss Lu said modestly: "Factory Director Li, these words are too much; Emei Film Studio has a history of nearly 50 years, even if I go, I am going to learn."

Fan Fan Jianchuan was a bit unhappy; you old thing always interrupts, delaying me from chatting about movies with Director Lu!

"Director Lu, I know what you want; you ask someone to list a detailed list for me, it's enough!"

"Good, good, good! Brother Fan, can I call you Brother Fan?"

"Good! Great, brother, let's not mention these for now, let's go have a drink tonight!"

Old Fan, who came from the army and has a heart of a child, felt that this young director was very agreeable no matter how he looked at him.

Being able to shoot such a magnificent movie and doing a project on the theme of the earthquake is too much to his taste!

Li Li Kangsheng tried to persuade: "Old Fan, don't be in a hurry, I still have two leaders who haven't arrived, I'll arrange the evening, don't worry about it!"

"Get lost! What does it have to do with you!"

Men all over the country care about face when treating guests, and they don't allow others to snatch it, especially in front of guests they value.

Boss Lu was dumbfounded; he wanted to find an opportunity to discuss the Wuchuan topic but didn't know how to say it.

Fan Fan Jianchuan and Boss Lu are both knowledgeable people; the three of them chatted from all over the world, talking about the Flying Tigers to the concessions, and from the Lugou Bridge to Pearl Harbor; it was a very lively chat.

"I'll put in the battery, I guess there are many calls coming in."

Boss Lu walked to one end of the office corridor; as soon as he turned it on, there were more than a dozen messages, besides Han Han Shanping, there were also messages from A Fei and Little Liu.

Unread SMS:

【Little Liu】: Why did you turn it off?

【Little Liu】: Where are you?

【Little Liu】: Washing machine?

【Little Liu】: I talked it down today! Zhang Yong and his wife agreed to let me buy shares! Very smooth!

Boss Lu looked at it with a head full of sweat, having a sense of being bombarded by his college girlfriend's text messages and essays in his past life.

"Hello?"

"Why did you turn it off, where are you?"

"I'm in Sichuan Province, Chengdu, my phone just ran out of battery."

Liu Liu Yifei took leave from the crew today to talk about business, and with the coordination of Wenjie's chief lawyer and a vice president of Focus Media, she successfully bought 35% of the shares of Haidilao, which is in a period of rapid expansion, for 30 million.

In 2005, Haidilao opened two stores in Beiping, just entered Shanghai, and there were less than twenty stores in the whole country, so the valuation itself was average.

This 30 million plus Liu Liu Yifei's personal commercial reputation endorsement, buying 35% can be considered the limit.

The husband-and-wife store will not give up more shares; after all, subsequent financing still needs to continue to dilute shares.

She wanted to share the good news with Lu Kuan, but didn't expect that seven or eight calls wouldn't get through.

"Let me tell you, you don't know how awesome I was today, I..."

A new call came in, Lu Kuan glanced at it: "I'll call you back later, I have something to do."

"Dudu dudu..."

Little Liu was going crazy!

"Dog thing! Damn washing machine!"

"Hello, Han Zong?"

Han Han Shanping, who had just gotten off the plane, pretended to be angry: "Little Lu, tell me, were you doing it on purpose?"

"We arrived in Tangshan after you, and you slipped away; who are you hiding from?"

Lu Kuan was confused, and then thought of Li Li Kangsheng, and had some realization in his heart: "What are you?"

"Alright, don't talk about you or me; we just got off the plane, we'll be there in an hour or so, wait!"

He hung up the phone, sent a message to A Fei saying he didn't need to come, and put his phone back in his pocket.

Lu Kuan didn't have the heart to consider what he was saying right now; he stood by the window in the corridor and lit a cigarette, his mind extremely heavy.

How can he send out the money and the building without making a sound?

Evening, Tianfu Restaurant.

"Comrade Lu Kuan, hello, I am Yu Zaiqing, working at the Beiping Olympic Organizing Committee."

Boss Lu was a bit surprised; this is not work, this is a vice chairman.

This Vice Chairman Yu was appointed as the Vice Chairman of the Beiping Olympic Organizing Committee and a member of the International Relations Committee in 2002, and became the Chairman of the Basketball Association in 2007 in later generations.

Han Han Shanping was rolling his eyes at him from behind, and Zhang Yuan Heping, seeing Lu Kuan for the first time, was looking at him with interest.

Chairman Yu sat down with a calm expression, thinking to himself that today's "thousand-mile pursuit" finally pinned this Monkey King here.

Tired the old man to death.

Fan Fan Jianchuan had been a vice mayor and was very observant; seeing this situation, he pulled Li Li Kangsheng out to order food, leaving space for the few to talk.

The door closed, and Chairman Yu looked at him with a smile: "Comrade Lu Kuan, let's get straight to the point; I am here to invite you to participate in the opening ceremony plan solicitation work."

"Oh my! You're killing me, leader; if you had called earlier, I wouldn't have had to run so far!"

Han Han Shanping behind him wanted to learn from Liu Liu Yifei and roll his eyes, but didn't have the talent.

Chairman Yu had high cultivation, and said unhurriedly: "Good things take time; even Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times; talents all have the privilege of pride, we understand."

The leader's level is still high; he put a hat on you, let's see how you explain it.

Lu Kuan smiled: "Doesn't exist, doesn't exist."

"Actually, I talked to Chairman Zhang on the phone, and after careful and prudent consideration, I still feel that I don't have the possibility of participating in the bidding, whether in terms of time or ability."

"Oh? Tell me more."

Lu Kuan said seriously: "I have told Han Zong about the time arrangement, he must have reported it to the leader truthfully, so I won't repeat it."

"In the solicitation of Olympic plans, the most important thing for such large-scale activities is experience; I can't even say I have little experience, I have no experience at all."

"Director Zhang Yimou directed the large-scale ballet 'Raise the Red Lantern' in 2001, and directed the large-scale landscape performance 'Impression Liu Sanjie' in 2004."

"In this regard, Director Zhang Yimou is the best candidate without a doubt."

Chairman Yu smiled: "Little comrade, don't belittle yourself; when I communicated with Director Zhang Yimou, he strongly recommended you to me?"

"This?"

Boss Lu was dumbfounded.

Previously, Zhang Zhang Yimou had called to invite him to join his bidding team, but was pushed away by Lu Kuan on the grounds of work; how did this Old Old Mouzi randomly point the "mandarin duck score"!

Yu Zaiqing was quite patient.

Previously, he had visited directors like Chen Kaige and Feng Feng Xiaogang; everyone had movies in progress, so worrying about time arrangements was normal.

However, after multiple visits and communications, these two had already agreed to participate in the plan solicitation team.

Mentioning Zhang Zhang Yimou, Yu Zaiqing also had to explain a few more words.

"The water imagery of the Athens Olympic opening ceremony was too amazing, setting a huge test for us."

"Director Zhang Yimou's performance in the eight minutes before had some small controversy, so the leaders decided to solicit plans from all over the world, pooling wisdom to make our centennial Olympics a success."

Chairman Yu sighed, his gaze sincere, and his tone became much more intimate: "Comrade Little Lu, you are Chinese, you are a Chinese artist."

"Adding bricks and tiles to the centennial Olympics is a responsibility that you and I cannot shirk; I hope you consider it carefully."

His tone paused, and he glanced at the closed door.

"Before coming, a leader highly praised your promotion of traditional culture and patriotic ideology in the two movies 'The Fountain' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'."

"He gave instructions that artists and comrades who are young, energetic, and have a stance and faith like this must sweat and contribute to our Olympic cause."

"What do you think?"

Boss Lu looked at Old Han, who was watching his nose and mouth behind him, without changing his expression; he didn't know if he knew the identity of this leader.

"I..."

"Ding ding ding ding ding~~~"

Good, good, good, this call came at a wonderful time!

"Leader, please wait a moment."

Yu Zaiqing nodded slightly.

Lu Kuan walked outside the door: "Hello? Senior brother?"

"Is it convenient to talk?"

He walked to the end of the corridor, with his back to the window: "Speak."

"A financial staff member who resigned from Blog. com before was taken away by the agency."

Boss Lu didn't understand: "Resigned personnel, what's the reason."

"Embezzlement of public funds; after returning the compensation, considering the influence, I only handled it internally and fired him."

"The agency won't rush to investigate this kind of thing; do you have any clues?"

Zhuang Xu said in a deep voice: "Not yet, but that leader Liu from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently brought up the video incident from last time again at the meeting."

"Will there be any connection between the two?"

"I know." Lu Kuan had a flash of realization in his heart, but he wasn't sure yet.

"Let's observe a little more."

Boss Lu's temples jumped; there were some things he didn't want to touch, but some people and things stuck to him like glue.

Liu's father didn't conduct himself properly, and the materials appeared on Blog. com, so he became the scapegoat.

Where can one go to reason?

Returning to the room, Boss Lu was full of spring breeze again.

"Sorry, sorry, there are too many trivial matters in the company; that's why I said I was too busy, hehe."

Perhaps during the time he left, Chairman Yu gave Old Han some administrative instructions; Han Han Shanping coughed twice.

"Director Lu, this is what I think."

"Time being tight is definitely not an excuse; your filming is all Hollywood industrial processes; to put it bluntly, you can just lie in the director's chair and watch them play."

"If it really doesn't work, you can set up another table next to the crew and communicate with the team about the opening ceremony plan, right?"

Han Han Shanping became more fluent as he spoke, trying his best to persuade him to surrender: "Experience or not is even less of a reason."

"Olympic bidding is all team warfare; what you are good at is high-tech special effects technology and aesthetic design; for the experience of large-scale evening parties and activities, you can find song and dance troupes to cooperate with; there are many song and dance troupes in Beiping with qualifications and experience!"

"Furthermore, regardless of the fact that we Chinese must all go through fire and water to support this, let's talk about you personally!"

"You have many channels in Europe and Hollywood; Travel TV is still up to you; Wenjie also maintains close contact and cooperation with companies like Blog. com."

"Your volume at home and abroad is very large now! The Olympics really need an international director like you who has a firm stance and controls public opinion to stand up and shout!"

Stance? Controlling public opinion?

Lu Kuan's mind was still on Zhuang Xu's warning; Han Han Shanping's unintentional words pierced the core of the problem!

Dong Dong Shuangqiang told him that he didn't worry about Zhou Jun investigating Wenjie.

Zhuang Xu told him that the investigation of Blog. com's finance and the erotic video incident was fine when looked at separately.

But combining the two, and then combining with Travel TV?

Blog. com has 80 million users, occupying 80% of domestic netizens;

Travel TV can radiate to 400 million households with TV sets nationwide!

If his identity as the actual controller of Blog. com is exposed, an actual controller who controls a huge amount of public opinion channels and has been involved in sensitive erotic videos...

No matter what the reason for the conflict was, for the sake of stability, the authorities would carefully decide whether to allow him to continue to maintain such public opinion power.

"Little Lu! Little Lu!"

The little eyes of the flat-headed man were about to disappear, and this called the thoughtful Lu Kuan back.

He placed his hands naturally on his legs, already sweating profusely.

Filming movies and winning awards, obtaining international reputation, entering the CPPCC, and founding the Pan-Asia Film Academy with the Film Academy as the center.

Even this "Aftershock" right now.

These are all means for him to cultivate prestige and seek political capital outside the system.

It's just that these accumulations still seem weak in the face of Zhou Jun's possible sniping.

This was also a master, and a master who started his own company, worked as a producer, and worked as a director. He couldn't be invited, and he couldn't afford him.

Other big commercial film directors in Hollywood were James Cameron, Peter Jackson, and Nolan.

The first two didn't need to be considered. From the perspective of landing possibility, Nolan was the only choice.

Of course, there was also Boss Lu's "wolf-friend" Quentin, who had already been attracted by the invitation from Beiping's Heaven on Earth and happily agreed.

Looking at the director type and style, first of all, Nolan basically had no literary works; the vast majority of his works were commercial films.

Nolan filmed mainly to make money. The few times he tried to lean toward literary films, like *Dunkirk*, it still catered to the mass aesthetic.

He was like a top chef for commercial films, very good at picking the best ingredients and turning them into a delicious dish.

From *Oppenheimer*, which won him the little golden man in the later era, it could be seen that the film's score, cinematography, actors, and editing were all at the top level of commercial films.

Nolan had just emerged through big films this year and wasn't yet a guest of honor for major film companies, but his techniques for big commercial films had already matured.

For the first batch of students at the Pan-Asia Film Academy, this level was enough to teach them until graduation.

Nolan was stunned for a while, then shook his head and smiled: "Please forgive me for not being able to agree. I still prefer filming."

"Besides, I don't think I have anything I can teach others right now."

Harvey had heard Lu Kuan and Quentin chat before, but he didn't know how the Eastern Little Immortal had found Nolan.

Could it be that he had some genius aspect that he hadn't discovered?

Harvey decided to pay attention to the performance of Warner's *Batman Begins* this year.

Nolan wasn't Bethune; he wouldn't travel thousands of miles to sow the seeds of film culture in the mainland, where the film industry was slightly withered.

To persuade him, one could only offer sufficient benefits.

"Let me first introduce the situation of this school?"

"Pan-Asia Film Academy, co-organized by China, Japan, and South Korea, with a teaching model similar to your American AFI."

"Currently, it's tentatively a three-year system. The first year is basic theory and short film shooting, one to two months per film."

"The second year is large-scale crew internships, going to excellent big commercial film crews all over the world, especially Hollywood crews, for internships."

"The third year, we will provide funds for them to film feature films. Of course, the cost won't be too high."

Nolan's eyes widened: "Feature films? Your school is a bit too extravagant, isn't it?"

"Even AFI doesn't have such courage!"

Boss Lu laughed: "The academy's professors and I will check the scripts. The short films filmed will be broadcast on video websites and TV stations in China and the US."

"A few particularly excellent feature films will be released in theaters according to standard procedures."

"For students who don't pass the feature film assessment, I will provide them with opportunities to film web dramas, and the finished films can be broadcast on my TV stations and video websites."

Provide filming opportunities? It was just treating them like cattle and horses.

I, Boss Lu, never lose money.

Also, short films and web dramas can all drive traffic, providing high-quality content resources for video websites, and then recouping costs through advertising.

Not only Nolan, but even Harvey, who was hearing such a detailed plan for the first time, was listening intently.

It was just that this future big commercial film director still didn't have much interest.

"I'm very sorry, I don't think this project is suitable for me."