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Chapter 122 "To Yueyang" (3)

After "In Yueyang" was finished, Xie Lansheng and Xin Ye went to an old castle for another four days of vacation.This old castle was bought by Xin Ye's father ten years ago, and it is also used for hotel operation, which can be regarded as an investment.

The castle is extremely beautiful. In front of it is a neat lawn and shrubs, and behind it is an endless coniferous forest and firs, which are pleasant.The castle building is Renaissance style, the furniture inside is very classical, there are old staircases, four-poster beds...

And right in front of the manor is a clear lake watered by the Alps.The emerald green is so beautiful that it is so violent that it seems to be mixed with paint, and it is also like a man-made gemstone, so dazzling that it is frivolous.The mountains, rivers and lakes are all in one.This lake is full of vitality. A large number of swans inhabit here, some are white and some are black. One of them is white and very huge. It is the leader. There is always a group of black and white swans closely surrounding it.

During the day, two people may go boating in the company of swans, or have a picnic, drink, chat, read a book on the lawn of the island in the middle of the lake, or dive at the bottom of the lake to see the original trees and mysterious buildings - there are many Catholic crosses at the bottom of the lake , or enjoy peace with fingers interlocked in the dense forest of thousands of acres, with soft soil under your feet and fresh aroma at the tip of your nose.

There is also a polo field.They either swing clubs, hit balls, practice skills again and again, or ride together and walk slowly on the mountain road.Generally speaking, if the horse goes out of the way or even runs to graze by itself, the rider should pull the rope vigorously, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right, to bring the horse back to the established track.But Lan Sheng and Xin Ye were leisurely and leisurely all the way. They waited for the horse to eat and go back. They sat on the horse, looked down, patiently, hugging and hugging each other.Only once, the black steed under the crotch of the two of them suddenly got mixed up and almost fell. Xie Lansheng, who was sitting tall, lay forward and was startled.

As for the evening, Xie Lansheng will carefully prepare lessons.He is now a professor at Nortel, and he also has to lead graduate students. He teaches for about 8 weeks in each semester of the year.Xie Lansheng's lecture method is very "80s". He likes to talk about film masters rather than commercial miracles. He shows everyone Fellini, Truffaut, Fassbinder, Bertolucci, Kubrick... It is not consistent with the teaching direction of Nortel in these years.He doesn't like teaching students to make "profitable" films, but likes to teach students to make "creative" films, because he himself was fed by the abundant milk of the masters.

At night, they liked to hug and make love on the ancient four-poster bed. Sometimes Lan Sheng felt tired, so they just kissed and dawdled.

In the past few days, Xie Lansheng also smoothed out the content of the next film "One Day".

"One Day" will only be screened in theaters affiliated with the Arts Federation.During the filming of "Going to Yueyang", the collection of answers for "One Day" as a documentary was also completed.Xie Lansheng read the materials intermittently before finishing, and found that the answers were even more touching than he expected, and he shed tears several times.

For the question "If your brain develops a disease and you lose your memory forever, you can only think of one day in the past, the only day, which day would you choose? What happened that day?" Someone said , she wanted to remember the day she gave birth to her baby; some said she wanted to remember the day she became a wife; I want to remember the day when I finally set off for a trip after living frugally for more than a year; someone said that his most precious thing was the day when he was declared cured by the doctor...

A judge said that she wanted to remember the day when she finally succeeded in the postgraduate entrance examination of the "Three World Wars" and transferred to her dream law major; a pilot said that he would never forget the day when he first took to the blue sky; a lead singer said , he wanted to remember the day he founded his orchestra; a CEO said he wanted to recall the day he got the first investment; a dancer said she would choose her debut, on that day, she Wearing a red dress, dancing desperately on the stage.

Some famous people wrote too.A well-known athlete said that he would choose the day when he won the Olympic gold medal for the first time, and a Beidou-level scholar also said that he would choose the day when he discovered a certain theorem...

Very unexpected by Lan Sheng, Ouyang Nannan also wrote to her.Ouyang Nannan has long been a well-known actress in the country, but she said that she was dragged out of the mountains to play "Caifeng", and one day, the director bought teaching materials to teach her Chinese pinyin and to teach her how to read and write , and said to her: "If you don't want to go back to your hometown, you can continue to be an actor."

Because there are too many materials, Xie Lansheng thought about how to shoot this "One Day" for a long time, and it was not until this vacation in the castle that he came up with a preliminary idea.

He was never in a hurry to make a move.

He always needs a period of time to carefully recognize his impulse, and then start from the most accurate point and create.This thing is more mysterious.Xie Lansheng often feels that since the day he was born, his body has been shared by countless people. Those people inadvertently tell their life fragments, while he listens carefully, feels seriously, and uses movies to interpret the story. .Sometimes, Xie Lansheng has some ideas, some ideas, but year after year, the protagonist in the story is always unwilling to talk to him, unwilling to hand himself over.They often appeared in Lan Sheng's heart like ghosts, as if they wanted to recommend him and be known, but after careful observation, they suddenly disappeared without a trace.At such a time, Xie Lansheng had no choice but to tell himself, well, the two of them are not compatible yet, and he needs to be more mature.

And such empathy is sometimes not a good thing.

Lan Sheng thought about it carefully later, and found that when he was filming "White Horse" in the year of the car accident, he actually realized that he overlapped too much with the character, but he still longed to make it at that time. It was a quixotic desire .Because the other party is counting on him.He was excited and terrified. During that time, he often felt that "my movie will kill me", and finally something happened.If he hadn't thought of Xinye, the foot brake would not have existed, and it was Xinye who made him completely walk out of "White Horse".

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They end their vacation soon.On the day they left the castle, Lan Sheng and Xin Ye visited the island in the middle of the lake before setting off.

"That's great," Xie Lansheng put his hands in his pockets, looking down at the black and white swans, "I prefer to be leisurely and leisurely, and I don't really like rushing to play."

"Ah."

"46, maybe old."

Xin Ye turned around, put his hands in his pockets, and said seriously, "No."

Lan Sheng smiled, and stood face to face with Xin Ye: "Really, I will be a serious little old man after we have been together for another 20 years, and I will be more and more different from the person you like, whether it is externally or internally. .”

"Time is always passing by." Xinye Lilansheng said, "I dare not talk about other things. However, I know that my heart will not be weakened by your change. At that time, I will I like every gray hair of yours, I will like every wrinkle of yours, even if you are no longer young, vigorous, and talented, even if you are weak and crazy, I will love you And trembling, crazy for you. All the changes in you come from yourself. What I love is the most essential things in your heart. I will love you any day, from the beginning to the end, whether you are young , or old, whether young or mature, happy or angry, whether..."

Xie Lansheng interrupted Xin Ye before he could finish his sentence.Xie Lansheng wrapped his arms around the other's neck, bit his lips, and said, "Me too..."

After kissing for a while, Lan Sheng pressed Xinye's lips and murmured: "Me too..."

The tongues of the two intertwined again.

The lake is emerald green, the grass is tender and green, and the golden sunlight seems to have painted it with gold powder. The breeze occasionally blows over the tip of the grass to set off green waves.In the lake by the bank, for some unknown reason, suddenly, a swan flapped its wings, and then a large group of black and white swans flapped their wings in unison, screaming loudly, pushing and shoving, and spread out to both sides. A few meters behind them, a pair of lovers are kissing.

I don't know how long it took before Lan Sheng said, "Okay... let's go, take the flight in the afternoon."

"……Um."

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Back in Beijing, Xie Lansheng edited "Going to Yueyang" and drew the storyboard of "One Day" at the same time.

Editing is always difficult for a director.In the process of shooting, there must be more material.He'll come up with new ideas and be inspired by the actors, but it means that part of the original storyboard has to be discarded.What to choose and what not to choose will make the director suffer.Often, a director seems to be unsure about "is this section repeating" or "can this section be removed" after looking at it, and he needs to be able to stay awake.And Lan Sheng has a habit. Every day before editing, he will go through the previous content carefully to check whether the editing points are smooth, as well as the content and rhythm. This is very time-consuming, and an hour or two disappears in an instant.

During this process, Xin Ye invited two friends of Xie Lansheng to join "Deep Blue".Xin Ye once asked Xie Lansheng if he had friends he could trust, and Xie Lansheng recommended a few, including Nortel roommates Zhang Shijie and Wang Zhongmin.After graduating, Shijie Zhongmin has been running an advertising company, but last year the advertising company was not doing well and closed down. Xin Ye invited the two of them to join the marketing department together as executives, and gave some shares of Deep Blue—to Gao The shares of the managers are 25% matured after one year of work, and 50% matured after two years of work.Zhang Shijie is vpofemailmarketing, Wang Zhongmin is vpofsocialmediamarketing.

They were mysterious, Xie Lansheng was quite strange, but Xin Ye didn't ask him unless he mentioned him.

Then, in August, when the post-production work of "To Yueyang" entered the final mixing, the peaceful life between him and Xinye was broken again.

——Dark Blue Shares was raided.

The surging film industry, which is also one of the "three major film companies in China" along with Deep Blue Films, has raised the flag for Deep Blue Films in the secondary market.

It bought 5% of Deep Blue's shares in the secondary stock market, and Deep Blue Pictures directly raised its limit.

And, just a week later, it raised its card for Deep Blue for the second time. This time, it notified Deep Blue Films that it had increased its holdings in Deep Blue to 10%.

At the same time, The Paper also revealed its identity as a financial investor and denied the statement of a strategic investor, saying that its intention is to return on investment, not to hold shares and so on.

However, on the second and fourth days after The Paper said this, The Paper's shareholder "Golden Crane Insurance" scrambled to raise funds for Deep Blue Pictures, forcing another 10% of Deep Blue. People acting in concert account for 20% of the total share capital.

At present, Shenye, the largest shareholder of Shenlan, holds 27.9% of the shares.

Due to financing, listing, and the acquisition of all equity and creditor's rights of a real estate company, founder Xin Ye's shares have been diluted to 27.9%, and this figure is relatively high among private companies.

This time, it is very obvious that Pengpai Pictures and Golden Crane Insurance intend to take control of Deep Blue Pictures, and as long as they take in another 7.9%, they can become the largest shareholder!

Deep Blue may change its name and surname, and the media is instantly excited!

Five hot searches on Weibo!

In 2015, under the stimulation of loose policies, Chinese capital was on fire.Leaving the real to the virtual, short-term loans and long-term investments, and high leverage abound.At the same time, due to the slump in the A-share market, barbarians frequently took action. In 2014, more than 2015 listed companies were raised. Later reports showed that by 350, more than [-] listed companies had been raised. This is unprecedented.

Against this background, the asset restructuring of film and television companies has also reached its peak. In 2014 and 2015, there were about 150 mergers and acquisitions.

And the dark blue is a piece of fat.

The current largest shareholder of The Paper, "Golden Crane Insurance", hopes to control both The Paper and Deep Blue among the "three major film companies", so as to make a fortune in this increasingly profitable film industry.You know, in this year, the box office of Chinese movies has reached about 500 billion, and the momentum is getting stronger and stronger, and the trend has not weakened at all.At the same time, in this acquisition, The Paper will definitely not suffer.

Deep Blue is better than Surging.In the past two or three years, The Paper's traditional model of "big director + star" has frequently failed. The arrangement of the ups and downs is also very standardized. Now, the market audience is much more mature, and they have watched more, so they don't buy it anymore.

But the few films of Deep Blue still made a lot of money.

In addition, in 2015, land prices and housing prices in almost all cities in China were still soaring—Beijing’s housing prices rose by another 10%, and Shanghai’s by 20%. This part alone is a reliable guarantee for investing in it.If things go on like this, after five years, those shopping malls and so on alone will be equivalent to the current market value.What's more, Deep Blue Film and Television also has a real estate company, which can acquire land and build entertainment projects such as movie theaters.

Lan Sheng felt quite worried, so he asked Xinye: "Paper Films, Golden Crane Insurance... what do they want to do?"

Xin Ye touched Lan Sheng's hair and said, "Deep Blue Films has a market value of 30 billion, it is too difficult for anyone to control it, no matter if it is an absolute holding of more than two-thirds of the shares, or a relative holding of more than one-half of the shares. I guess . . . they don't want to touch the [-]% tender offer line."

"What is the 'tender offer line'?"

"Well... in order to prevent hostile takeovers, whoever acquires 30% of a company's shares will trigger a takeover offer, request all stockholders to buy the other party's shares, and set the purchase price, purchase period, and so on. The price is often very favorable, far higher than the normal price of the stock in the stock market, and the stock holders who are offered to buy out can choose to sell to the other party, or choose not to sell to the other party. This is called Tenderoffer in the United States.”

"Oh……"

"However, the price of the full acquisition of Deep Blue Films is too high. Surging Films and Golden Crane Insurance do not have the strength to trigger the offer - they don't have that much money. So, I guess, they want to charge more than 7.9% but not more than 10% % of Deep Blue shares, and then became the largest shareholder of Deep Blue Films, using the status of the largest shareholder to interfere in some decisions, such as..."

Xinye actually scratched Xie Lansheng's small pointed chin with his fingers, and teased him: "For example, you can tell Deep Blue Cinema not to be a literary theater anymore. Another example, tell Deep Blue Film to stop producing literary films."

The author has something to say: Do you still remember The Paper?The baby son of the director of the Xiaoxiang factory opened it later, and produced many films of Li Xian~~

Raising placards: Anyone who acquires more than 5% of a company’s shares in the secondary market must immediately notify the listed company, the stock exchange and the securities regulatory agency.

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