Since 1983

A provincial film company.

The representative had just returned from a business trip in the capital, and when he entered the office, he yelled, Xiao Li, bring that document!

There is such a tacit understanding between superiors and subordinates. One is unclear, but the other actually understands, and the subordinate handed over a document. He turned two pages and stared at a line of words:

Fifty First Dates? Humph!

The one with the surname Xu has been popular in the market for a few years, so I don't know what my surname is anymore.

Xiao Li, immediately contact the theaters and ask them to come to a meeting!

You are...

As long as you don't let go of this first love this year, it will be easy to talk about in the future, go!

The subordinates did not dare to speak, but before they could leave, one of them ran in first: Old Wang, old Wang!

Why are you in a hurry?

Look at this!

boom! The man threw down a copy of New Film and Television, with a big title on the cover: 1999 Special Issue--Investigation on the Survival Status of Cinemas in my country.

The representative's heart twitched, and he quickly opened it.

Each issue of New Film and Television is very thick, and the special issue accounts for one-third. The text is detailed and the pictures are rich. It breaks with readers one by one. Let's start with the investigation report:

Quancheng, Xiaoguanghan, opened in 1906, it can be called the earliest movie theater in China, and later changed its name to Star Cinema.

I met an old viewer who told me with great interest that The Manhunt was released in Quancheng in 1978.

‘I waited in line for an hour to buy a night pass, got up at three in the morning to watch a movie at four, and got beaten up by my mother when I got home.

It was so hot at that time, I still remember the line: Look, what a blue sky! If you walk over, you will melt into the blue sky, go straight ahead, don't look to the sides...

He suddenly became very serious, and pointed at the Star Cinema with some nostalgia, 'I haven't gone to the movies for a long time. '

Zhuzhou, People's Cinema.

66-year-old Lin Jirong has just retired. He is the first generation of film projectionists in Zhuzhou. His son Lin Yixiang entered the People's Cinema in 1987 and became the second-generation projectionist.

‘At the earliest meeting, there were no seats, but benches, which could accommodate about 1,000 people. I remember playing Shangganling and The Flower Girl. There were 8 shows a day, and the shows were full.

At that time, it was called a key film, and tickets could only be bought two or three days in advance, and sometimes standing tickets were also sold. My son couldn't do it anymore. In the first two years, there was a big fire in the theater, and after the reconstruction, it was changed to a smaller size.

It can only seat 300-400 people.

Rent out other places, such as dance halls, video halls, game halls, and restaurants. No one watches movies anymore. Sometimes I come to sit, and no one buys a ticket for a whole day.

Rongcheng, Victory Theater.

In the nearby tea garden, the 40-year-old master Chen recalled the prosperity of the year.

A documentary costs 5 cents a movie, 20 cents for a regular screen, 25 cents for a letterbox, and 30 cents for a widescreen. Then there will be Love in Lushan Mountain, which is really a sensation in the city.

Ticket prices have all gone up now, and some theaters in the city have raised it to 10 yuan, but Victory is still 2.5 yuan. But no one watched the two yuan five, and every day was worse than every day. I heard that after the year, I completely stopped letting it go and changed it to a badminton court.

Those seats can be reserved for retired employees to use for meetings...

A city, a theater, a witness, an essay, and a photo. But in the eyes of some people, it looks like a bayonet pierced into the heart, and the whole body feels cold.

Everyone knows that the operating environment of theaters is not good, but no one investigates carefully and comes up with a report.

There is a report, there is no report, the meaning is completely different.

And at this moment, there is such a large article, Chi Guoguo, presented in front of the employees of the film system across the country, and it continues to spread outward.

...

The representative was speechless for a moment, This, this, this is wrong!

Go online and look again.

The representative does not yet know how to surf the Internet, so someone came to help him get on Sohu. A lot of the content was reproduced from New Film and Television, but the rhetoric was far more intense than the paper media, especially the topic:

Chinese cinema is dying!

The negotiations were successful, and the accession to the WTO is imminent. This long marathon is about to reach the end. But when we are about to usher in an unprecedented openness, Chinese filmmakers are not in a happy mood.

Everyone shouted that the wolf is coming, and one seminar after another, but they didn't even reach an agreement on the most basic understanding of the future.

Compared with the rapid development of TV art, our movies have not yet got rid of the planned economic system. Can our current game of chess be called a market?

This year, under the circumstance that imported films have been banned for half a year, the national box office is expected to drop by 50%. In the past five years, imported blockbusters have already accounted for two-thirds of the share.

...

Production, distribution, screening, review, creation, filming, from top to bottom.

The monopoly of the provincial companies is deeply rooted, and they are firmly stuck in the necks of the theaters on the grounds of not giving copies of blockbuster movies.

He regards theaters as his company's taboo, regards public rights as private rights, regards the overall situation as nothing, regards reform as a stumbling block, and regards the coming tide of opening up as food for his own survival!

...

With such an environment to meet the big market after China's accession to the WTO, can China's film industry answer ready?

Chinese movies will die!

The early Internet was a magical land, where anyone dared to say anything, and there were countless times more intense than this.

But the content of this article has already made the few people tremble with fear, their hands and feet are cold, and the dirty thoughts protected by the unspoken rules are suddenly revealed.

Murder!

After the article, there is a poll:

Do you like watching movies?

What do you think of the future of Chinese films?

Tens of thousands of people have participated, 41% like it, 20% don't like it, and 39% don't like it.

21% will rise, 18% will die, 34% will be swallowed up by Hollywood, and 27% will not care.

On the BBS, an article was extremely popular with many comments:

Do Chinese people like to watch movies?

This is a very delicate question. Many people may answer that movies are for leisure, and you can watch them or not, and they will not affect your life. What's more, there are so many entertainment methods now, this one is not bad.

At first I thought I had the same opinion, but when I think about it carefully, in my 28 years of life, movies are not as dispensable as I thought.

I still clearly remember the open-air Shaolin Temple that was played in the village. I lay on the haystack to watch it, fell asleep unconsciously, and was easily found by my mother.

Later, when I went to school, I organized to watch Youth Delinquent. At that time, I didn't understand much. I just felt that every time I watched a movie, it was like a holiday.

After I went to university, my living expenses were limited, so I was reluctant to go to the cinema.

After working, I have less free time, but I still go to watch New Year’s movies every year, and naturally there are big boats.

Even now, my wife and I are keen on TV dramas and VCDs, but I can't say that I don't like watching movies.

Just now, I called my mother and talked about this topic. She happily told me her memories of that era, Liu Sanjie, Ashima, The Flower Girl...

Movies seem to be a way of leisure, but it is more than that.

…………

Historically, there has never been a large-scale, detailed survey of theaters in the 1990s.

Now, it took half a year.

With black and white text and clear photos, the depressed theaters were presented unreservedly in front of millions of readers, and quickly spread to a larger area.

Reasonable and well-founded, these four words are very, very important.

This is a survey commissioned by the radio and television station New Film and Television, and the teacher is famous.

And this report was handed over to the big leader's desk. In the next few days, Leader Tian, ​​Wu Mengchen, Han Sanping, including Teacher Xu, were called in for questioning in turn.

The film industry is no longer undercurrents, and everything is on the bright side.

The so-called 500,000-strong army couldn't sleep anyway, and could only read the words through the cracks. There were two words written all over the book: reform!

(besides……)