Chapter 11 Who is the ace decision-maker of Beijing Film Academy?

Not long after, Chen An returned to China with the large group.

As soon as he got off the airport, Chen An was still wondering if a group of reporters would come over to interview him.

In the end, nothing happened.

Everyone dispersed, and Lin Dajiang took his people to Shanghai via connecting flight. Before leaving, he said he would contact them later.

The people from the Beijing Film Studio also left, leaving Chen An alone to go to school.

Now the school has started, but I haven’t paid my tuition yet.

Carrying his small bag containing the trophy, Chen An started rushing to school.

After arriving at school, the first thing Chen An saw was a banner hanging at the school gate.

It says: Congratulations to Chen An, an outstanding student from our school's Photography Department, Class of 1994, for winning the Golden Lion Award for Best Short Film at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival!

Although it was a bit embarrassing to watch, Chen An finally felt a little famous.

"I didn't expect that the first school to see my publicity would be a school." Chen An touched his head, feeling both excited and embarrassed.

"I'm really embarrassed."

Although he said so, Chen An immediately held his head high and chest out, walking with a breeze.

He walked towards Teacher Mu’s office with great praise.

I finally got a trophy, so I have to show it off, right? What? How can this be called showing off?
I just like being looked at with jealousy and envy.

But just as he walked to the office building, before he went upstairs, Chen An ran into Teacher Mu holding a textbook:

"Hey, hey, hey~ What are you doing? You've got your head up in the air, aren't you looking at the road?"

Hearing the voice, Chen An also pretended to walk up to him in a shy manner.

Without saying anything, he handed over the bag containing the trophy.

Teacher Mu opened it, took out the trophy, and understood:

"I was wondering what he was doing. It turns out he was pretending. He even walked in a weird way with his head held high in the air."

After hearing Teacher Mu's reply, Chen An immediately returned to his original state and grinned:
"After all, you taught me. When I first entered school, the conditions were poor, and Teacher Mu took a lot of care of me. I still remember you as a student."

"I brought it here for you to see as soon as possible. Is it okay?"

Listening to Chen An's words, Teacher Mu squinted his eyes and smiled and said:
"You're quite sensible, but, no matter how good this is, it's just a short film. You still have a long way to learn."

"Next time you win a Golden Lion for a feature film, bring it to me and show it off."

"I just happened to come back and was caught. He happened to be at a meeting with me. I'll show it to them too. After all, they are my students. Let's go!"

Although he said so, Teacher Mu did not return the award. He planned to take it to impress his colleagues.

"How about waiting for a moment? I'll go pay the tuition first. You can just put your things down first."

Chen An originally planned to pay the tuition after showing the trophy to Teacher Mu. He didn't really want to go because he would easily be targeted, so he preferred to develop slowly.

"Come on, why do you have to pay? The school has already waived your tuition fees, and there are also scholarships every year as a reward for your winning the award."

As he spoke, Teacher Mu pulled Chen An up. He couldn't wait to let them see the students he had taught personally.

What are people saying outside?

Cancel the directing department and focus on developing the photography department.

Today, I will show you that our Photography Department is the trump card of Beijing Film Academy!
"Hey hey hey ~ Okay, I'll go with you, please go slowly!"

Chen An, who was being dragged, spoke repeatedly.

When Teacher Mu arrived at the meeting point, he attracted all the attention as soon as he entered the door.

"Oh, they are all here. My student just came back with a trophy. I brought it here for you to see."

"This is it, everyone take a look."

As he said this, he placed the trophy on the table, which immediately attracted the attention of the entire audience.

And Chen An just stood obediently by the side.

The people at this table are not simple. After all, even Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige were taught by some of them.

They are all masters with many talented students.

Professor Gan Quan was the first to reach out, took it and looked at it once or twice.

He said, "That's right. Even Yimou and Kaige only became famous after they graduated from school. Xiao Chen, you are really young and promising. You went abroad and won an award while you were still in school. You brought honor to the school."

Dean Liu was also very happy. After all, he recommended the student to the school, so he was very proud to receive the award:
"Xiao Chen is great, a young hero. This time the school is famous. The Central Academy of Drama next door only knows how to perform drama. In the end, we still have to watch movies!"

"That's right. Aren't all the famous directors from our school?"

"If nothing else, our school would be well-known to the whole world!"

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When talking about the school next door, others also laughed.

Although he didn't teach them, they were from his school, so he was very proud. Teacher Mu smiled the whole time, and only after the meeting started did Chen An get away and take his things back to the dormitory.

Returning to the dormitory, Chen An also saw his only roommate, Chen Wei.

A man wearing glasses and growing a beard at a young age.

He is still my senior, but we are assigned to the same dormitory.

This is a four-person room, and it was given to Chen An by Teacher Mu out of consideration for him.

The other two have residences off campus.

Those who are into photography are all rich and their families are all from Beijing.

When the school started, the moment Chen An moved in with a sack on his back, they all moved out, and only Chen Wei stayed.

So the two of them had a good relationship, and I even borrowed the radio from him for the New Year.

Seeing Chen Wei lying on the bed reading a magazine, Chen An walked directly to his bedside:

"Brother Wei, look at this, what the hell is this!"

He took out the trophy and handed it to him.

"I know your story. You're a 19-year-old genius director, right? You won the Venice Short Film Golden Lion Award. Just bring it here for me to see what it is like."

Chen Wei threw the magazine in his hand aside and took the trophy from Chen An.

Hold it in your hand and turn it left and right to look at it carefully.

Chen An stood by and watched, he liked the look of others holding the trophy.

"You are really awesome! Even after being cheated, you still managed to convince the boss to make a short film, and then won an award at the Big Three. Even Zhang Yimou was not as awesome as you when he was in school."

Chen Wei handed the trophy to Chen An and said with some admiration.

"So, let's have a meal and some drinks tonight?"

"Fuck, you're back, glad!"

"Okay then, I'll pack my things and go get ready."

"Ok, I'll help you hurry up."

The two of them worked together and quickly packed up everything.

I went out directly to buy some snacks to prepare a meal for the two of us in the evening.

In the evening, the two drank and chatted.

It was mainly Chen An who was talking, imitating Jiang Wen's gesticulations as he described what happened at that time.

Chen Wei also listened patiently. After all, he was also quite interested.

Chen An, the person involved, also described the situation vividly.

After returning to school.

Chen An still attends class seriously, but now he seems a little conspicuous when he walks into the classroom.

However, no one came up to talk to him, after all, Chen An was the oddball in this class.

My family was poor and I was busy every day, so I often went to the directing department to attend classes.

Occasionally, he would pick up scraps from the theater and sell them. In the eyes of these students, who were still students, they all wanted to stay away from them.

They look down on him a little bit. Even though he won the Golden Lion Award for Short Film, they still think he is lucky.

Deep down, I still don't think highly of Chen An.

Chen An knew more or less what they were thinking, but he was too lazy to pay attention to them.

I live my life and it doesn't bother you.

They are not looking for you to date or live with you, so don’t care what they think. Just live your own life.

However, when teaching, Teacher Mu often called on Chen An to answer questions.

As the days passed, Chen An attended classes while writing scripts.

In the meantime, he also contacted Jiang Wen and had a few drinks with him, and took out the trophy that he had promised to bring back for him to show off.

After all, the heroine still has to find him, and she has to act quickly, otherwise the heroine will run away.

Uncle Ge came once or twice, but I haven't seen him since he got a film contract.

In addition to teaching, Chen An mainly writes scripts, and this is his first long novel.

He could only polish it bit by bit, and there were several scrapped drafts. It took him nearly a month to finally finish the script.

Run Lola Run

A few big words were written on the cover.

　Ask for everything, ask for everything

　　
　
(End of this chapter)