In the evening, Nortel held a reception party, and all the teachers and students from Japan University were present, and the people from Korea's Central University also arrived. However, there were no students in Nortel, only relevant teachers and leaders.

As the most popular young director in Asia, Zhang Ran was naturally popular with several Japanese girls. Japanese girls were more relaxed than Chinese girls. At the beginning, the girls were a little shy, but after a few minutes, they completely let go, pulled Zhang Ran to ask various questions, and asked Zhang Ran to sign them.

The Japanese teachers led by Kenhei Numada were so full of eyes that they were all teachers. Why is the gap so big? These girls are not so enthusiastic about us! Damn, Zhang Ran is a beast teacher who has a teacher-student love with students! It’s simply a teacher’s shame!

Zhang Ran was having a happy chat, and Li Xinyue ran over: "Director Zhang asked you to come over, I have something to talk about!"

Zhang Ran said to the girls, followed Li Xinyue and walked to the location where Zhang Huijun was. Sitting with Zhang Huijun were Choi Zhengyi from the Central University of South Korea and Ichihei from the School of Art of the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Seeing Cui Zhengyi and the others, Zhang Ran guessed what Zhang Huijun called him to come for, but he did not reveal it. After saying hello, he asked, "Dean, don't know what's wrong with you calling me here?"

Zhang Huijun waved, let Zhang Ran sit down, and said with a smile: "Our Film Academy is preparing to join forces with Japanese and Korean universities to concentrate the advantageous resources of all parties and set up a training center to cultivate new directors. You are responsible for this matter, let's talk about it!"

Zhang Ran thought to himself, Dean, you are more fooling than me! There is nothing to say about the eight characters, and I will become the person in charge as soon as you open your mouth! He smiled and said, "In fact, no matter China, Japan, or South Korea, the biggest enemy we face is Hollywood. This opponent is too strong. Only by uniting and complementing talents, resources, and technology can we fight against Hollywood and keep our own culture! The values ​​of our East Asian region are all in a system with Confucian culture as the core, which is very valuable. With this foundation, we can share each other's markets, which is much easier than selling them to Europe and the United States. Japanese movies were all the same in China in the early 1980s, and Hong Kong movies were a big seller throughout Asia.

Everyone knows this truth. Since 1993, the United States has broken through cultural protection of various countries through trade negotiations. Hollywood movies have swept the world, and the film industry of ethnic groups in various countries around the world has been greatly damaged. For example, in the Taiwan area, Hollywood movie screenings have accounted for 90 years, and local movies have almost disappeared.

Almost Asian filmmakers now have a consensus that Asian countries and regions must unite to share investment risks, gather their respective advantages, and produce high-quality, large-scale movies that cannot be achieved by a country and region, form a common market to fight against Hollywood.

Koreans are the most active promoters of the concept of Asian films. Korean films have risen strongly in the past two years, but they are facing a huge dilemma. The local market is too narrow to support large productions. Therefore, South Korea has been actively expanding overseas markets, among which China and Japan are their most important goals.

Therefore, Cui Zhengyi was quite interested in Zhang Ran’s plan: “So what do you think we should do?”

Zhang Ran organized a language: "The advantage of Hollywood blockbusters lies in their technology and scenes. It is difficult for us to compete with Hollywood for technology and scenes. To defend the local market, we must work hard on the story. The story is better, it can move people and resonate with the audience. This is easy, but it is actually difficult. Whether Japan, South Korea, or China, we lack excellent commercial film directors. This requires the efforts of us educators. I think we can gather the advantages of three companies and run a film training institution. It takes two or three years to train some excellent students to become the main force in the market!"

The situation of Japanese movies is quite bad. Japanese movies have been suppressed by Hollywood movies since 1986. It has been almost twenty years since now, and I have not found the right direction. Hara Yiping felt that Zhang Ran’s idea was good, at least it was a useful attempt, and asked: “What is the specific content? Can you talk about it in detail?”

Zhang Ran said slowly: "There is no detailed plan yet, only some ideas. Simply put, it is to choose students who are interested in commercial films and have certain abilities to conduct training in a concentrated manner. First, let them make short films, then let them serve as assistants to some excellent directors and participate in the production of the entire film, such as the Korean Park Chan-yu's films, and even Luke Besson's project. Finally, we give them the opportunity to make a feature film!"

Zhang Ran first briefly introduced his plan and then began to explain his ideas in detail. His entire training plan is similar to the directorship courses at the American Film Academy. It is held every two years or three years, and it is selected from the outstanding students of three universities. Of course, students outside of the three universities can also apply. The school selects 12 students from all applicants to provide them with a good creative environment.

Commercial film directors must be particularly good at telling stories. The school’s courses focus on narrative, visual language and presentation. Training from script creation to picture production allows students to have a comprehensive understanding. At the same time, the school’s tutor will lead these 12 students to conduct a series of short film practical shooting, technical tutoring, project sharing and discussion, and then let these students be assistants under some directors to participate in the production of movies, and may even participate in some Hollywood film projects. In the end, the school will select 4 of the best students from the 12 students to provide funds to help them complete a feature film.

Cui Zhengyi and Yuan Yiping both thought that this plan was good, but it only required a large amount of funds to make a large amount of films, especially feature films, which required at least millions of funds. Where the money came from was a big question. However, Zhang Ran quickly solved their doubts. He was preparing to invest 50 million in the entire plan to provide students with financial guarantees. If necessary, he could also add funds.

If someone else was to host the entire plan, Cui Zhengyi and the others might have doubts. After all, it is very difficult to achieve when contacting a big director and participating in a Hollywood project. However, if Zhang Ran operates the entire project, things may be possible. After all, Zhang Ran can raise 120 million yuan to shoot time and space warriors on only two small-cost movies, and eventually achieved a box office of more than 500 million US dollars worldwide.

Zhang Ran is familiar with the Hollywood film industry and has good cooperation with France's Europa Films and the United States' Lionsgate Films. He has enough connections to allow students to participate in commercial blockbusters, allowing students to gain valuable practical opportunities. What's more, Zhang Ran is not only an excellent director, but also an excellent teacher. The director named Ning Hao he brought out, the first film, the sad man, achieved remarkable results in both Japan and South Korea.

Hara Yiping picked up the wine glass and took a sip, and said with a smile: "If we can really make Asian movies, then in twenty or thirty years, we can challenge the Western market that has allowed us to spend countless money to watch their cultural products in the past 100 years and bewildered by them and then buy their products. In the next 100 years, it is time for the West to pay for the money to watch oriental movies and buy their products!"

Cui Zhengyi smiled and said, "Since we take it as our mission to make Asian movies, I think this training machine is worse than called Asian Film Academy. In addition, we can also hold an award, which is called Asian Film Academy Award, which is evaluated and awarded by our three universities. The entire Asian region will select and commend the movies released in the previous year!"

When Zhang Huijun heard the college award, he sighed slightly: "This idea is good. Our Film Academy has had an college award before, but it was closed for various reasons."

Zhang Ran looked at Cui Zhengyi and nodded slightly, "This idea is very good. It not only promotes our school, but also highlights authority. But what should I do with this award? Where to put it on requires careful consideration!"

Choi Zhengyi immediately said: "I think it's better to put it in our South Korea. We can join forces with the Busan Film Festival to be held at the Busan Film Festival. The Busan Film Festival is held every October, which is just a list of previous movies!"

Hara Ichihei immediately retorted: "No, you can put it at the Tokyo Film Festival. The Tokyo Film Festival is also October, and the influence of the Tokyo Film Festival is much greater than that of the Busan Film Festival, which can make our award more influential!"

Zhang Ran doesn't care much about where the award is held. He values ​​training young directors. If he can really train a director like Ning Hao, it will naturally be a big profit. However, even if Ning Hao cannot be trained, as long as he can train a director with excellent skills, it can be used by me.

If a group of excellent commercial film directors can be cultivated, then in ten years, Chinese-language films will become the mainstream of Asian films again!

Can it be successful? Zhang Ran doesn't know, but he wants to give it a try.

This plan involves too many things. Even if Zhang Ran and the others said it, it would not be decided casually. Many things need to be studied and discussed repeatedly, and they need approval from government departments. It would be good to do it within one year.

After the cocktail party, when Zhang Ran returned home, Zhang Jingchu was pondering the lines. Recently, she was filming us. She liked this drama very much and really worked hard on the role. When she saw Zhang Ran coming back, she smelled drunk again, so she put down the script and poured Zhang Ran a cup of strong tea to sober up.

Zhang Ran took a few sips of tea, turned on the TV, and was about to check the evening news, when the phone suddenly rang. It was Chen Daoming's phone. He thought about it and found that he had never called Chen Daoming. Chen Daoming had a cell phone, but the phone was not turned on. He called him and went to the secretary desk, and then he came back.

Zhang Ran answered the phone: "Teacher Chen, why did you remember to call me?"

Chen Daoming is very familiar with Zhang Ran, and he is also a straightforward person, so he doesn't beat around the bush: "Zhang Ran, recently, two actors from Xiangjiang beat up Wang Bozhao, the same crew, and were seriously injured and hospitalized. Do you know this?"

In recent days, Zhang Weijian and Nicholas Ting’s beating Wang Bozhao have caused a lot of controversy, which is the most popular event in the entire entertainment industry. Zhang Ran couldn’t not know that, he sighed slightly in his heart. On the surface, this matter seems to be big stars bullying young actors, but the deep reason is the contradiction between the Hong Kong film and television industry and the mainland film and television industry. Hong Kong and the mainland are still a family, and cooperation can lead to such a thing. Japan and South Korea have a greater cultural difference, and I don’t know how many tricks will be caused during the cooperation process.

Zhang Ran didn't know what Chen Daoming asked about this, so he couldn't help asking: "I know, but I've been busy scheduled graduation dramas in our class recently, so I'm not too concerned about it. What's wrong?"

Chen Daoming's tone was a bit stern, obviously he was a little angry: "It's normal for crews to fight. Many crews have fights, but Xiangjiang's approach is too much. Not only does it not apologize, but it also says that others hype it. It's a tradition of Xiangjiang movies, it's simply nonsense! I can't stand it anymore, so I wrote a statement to jointly support Wang Bozhao. Are you free? If you have time, sign a name!" To be continued
Chapter completed!