In September, Zhang Yimou took his "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" to the Venice Film Festival.

This movie is shot from multiple perspectives in the form of memories.

Although this kind of narrative technique is no longer uncommon since "Rashomon", as the saying goes, bridges are not afraid of the old, the most important thing is to accept it. Because "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" has a concise story, multiple perspectives, and multiple characters, It doesn't look complicated at all.

Instead, it advances layer by layer and reflects each other, thus presenting a very exquisite story, no less than "Rashomon" decades ago, giving the audience and judges an extraordinary viewing experience.

Therefore, "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" finally won the Silver Lion, the Grand Jury Award, the Best Screenplay Award, and the Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award, which is the Best Cinematography Award. It can be said to be a great victory.

This film also became Xiang Nan's first international film festival award.

"Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" was later released by China Film.

However, despite the recognition of the Venice Silver Lion Award, because Chinese people are not familiar with multi-perspective movies, many viewers complained that they did not understand it after watching it, which affected the movie box office in the mainland.

The final box office was less than 20 million, and the share received by Kirin Pictures was only over 6 million. Fortunately, the film was relatively popular at the Venice Film Festival, so in the end Kirin Pictures still made a profit of about 1,000. A profit of five million is not bad.

But compared with the profits of Kunpeng Real Estate, the profits of Kirin Pictures can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.

In 1993, the real estate market fell into a freezing period due to the country's emergency brakes.

But in the past two years, the real estate market has gradually picked up.

The reasons are very simple. First, the country's economic development is getting better and better. GDP has been growing at double digits for many years in a row. The average income of residents has also been growing at double digits for many years in a row. As the economy grows and income increases, housing prices will naturally rise. .

Second, in recent years, welfare housing allocation has become less and less common. In the planned economy era, state-owned units performed well, so they had money to build buildings and provide welfare housing allocation.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the private economy, the efficiency of state-owned units has declined year by year. For example, the Yili Food Factory, which was once prosperous, could not even pay wages. Under such circumstances, the factory had no money to build a building. .So if people want to solve their housing problem, they have no choice but to buy their own houses. This is also an important factor in the rise in housing prices.

Also because the real estate market is picking up, the land, buildings, and projects that Kunpeng Real Estate acquired at bargain prices in 1993 have now doubled in price.

This has also allowed Kunpeng Real Estate's assets to skyrocket from one billion yuan in 1993 to three billion yuan now. Moreover, the debt ratio has also dropped from a peak of 95% to only 5% now. Fifteen, the financial situation is very healthy.

Xiang Nan is preparing to arrange for Kunpeng Real Estate to be listed on the Hong Kong stock market.

In this way, financing will be easier and it will help the company develop faster and better.

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In the same month, Xiang Nan hired Zhao Baogang from the Television Art Center.

Zhao Baogang entered the steel factory as a sand foundry worker at the age of sixteen. Later, through his own efforts, he entered the Yanjing Television Art Center. At first, he also worked as a handyman, and he and Feng Xiaogang were close friends.

Later, after Feng Xiaogang came to the position with the support of Xiang Nan, he also promoted him to be his assistant director, and successively led him to direct "Desire", "The Story of the Editorial Department", "Yenjing Man in New York" and so on.

After Feng Xiaogang was poached by Xiang Nan, the short-staffed art center helped Zhao Baogang get upright and let him film "Under the Roots of the Imperial City", "Enjoyed", "Sunrise in the East and Rain in the West" and other dramas, all of which achieved great success. Small repercussions.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan handed him an olive branch.

As the saying goes, a good bird chooses the right tree to roost, so Zhao Baogang naturally wants to make more money. At the Television Art Center, his basic salary is only a few hundred yuan, and he only gets a few thousand yuan bonus for filming a movie.

In comparison, Feng Xiaogang made millions by filming "Jade Guanyin", and who wouldn't be jealous of it? So Zhao Baogang happily changed jobs.

After changing jobs, the first drama he started filming was "Carry Love to the End" written by Xiang Nan.

This drama is claimed to be China's first youth idol drama. The main actors are all handsome men and beauties, and the plot is also full of pretentious paragraphs about you love me, I love him, and he loves you.

However, isn’t that what idol dramas are all about? It’s just because they are bloody that they are good to watch. Falling in love at first sight and staying together for a lifetime is beautiful, but without drama, it is not good to watch.

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After Zhao Baogang got the script of "Love", he was immediately shocked and started looking for suitable actors for filming.

After his selection, the male lead was chosen by Li Anpeng. His role as Mao Jie in "Jade Goddess of Mercy" was a hit and captivated countless young girls.

As the heroine, Xu Jinglei, who graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1993, was chosen. Zhao Baogang liked her pure temperament and thought she was more suitable to play the heroine.

As for other roles, Huang Zhizhong, Xin Boqing, Duan Yihong, Fu Dalong, Gong Beibi and other well-trained actors of the same age were also chosen.

Unlike in the real world, many idol dramas set the male and female protagonists to be students, but the leading actors are all greasy middle-aged people in their thirties.

Xiang Nan still supports Zhao Baogang's choice.

Li Anpeng has good looks and acting skills, and Xu Jinglei is one of the four great actresses, with good looks and acting skills. Huang Zhizhong, Xin Boqing, and Fu Dalong are representatives of the acting school, so Xiang Nan is very optimistic about this drama.

"Not bad, Director Zhao, he is very discerning." Xiang Nan smiled and nodded.

Seeing that Xiang Nan was satisfied, Zhao Baogang smiled himself, so the TV series was officially prepared to start filming.

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Perhaps under the guidance of Feng Xiaogang, Zhao Baogang also brought Xu Jinglei to Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan had no interest in Lao Xu at first, because she is a typical girl whose temperament is greater than her appearance. She is not too beautiful, just fresh and fresh. Her figure is not exquisite, she is thin and dry.

Xiang Nan still prefers women with stunning looks and bulging figures, such as Gong Li, Xu Qing, and Zhu Lin. But when he got in touch with her, he realized that Xu Jinglei was actually very attractive.

The most outstanding thing is her character, one word - Sa! She has a cheerful personality, is generous, not entangled or coy, and is very comfortable to get along with.

According to Lao Yanjing, she is a standard Dasa Mi!

The so-called Da Sa Mi is a beautiful girl who "will give you money when fighting, but can support you when she has no money, will help you when you are in trouble, and will still love you when she can't afford it".

There is no man who doesn't like a woman like this.
Chapter completed!