Chapter 305 Ting Xianghao

When Park Dehuan called Jung Sang-ho on his cell phone, Jung Sang-ho was attending the dinner of the Baeksang Arts Awards in South Korea.

There are three major awards related to domestic films in South Korea.

Blue Dragon Film Awards, Daejong Film Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards.

The Blue Dragon Film Awards is a specialized film festival. Like our country’s Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards, it is the most famous film award in South Korea.

The Golden Bell Awards is a film festival hosted by the South Korean government.

The Baeksang Arts Awards is the only comprehensive arts award in South Korea, covering various types of awards such as movies, TV dramas and variety shows. This award is usually held at the end of February and has always been known as the "South Korean Oscars."

Today's dinner is a follow-up exchange activity after the end of the Baeksang Arts Awards in South Korea. It brings together many talents involved in the creation of Korean film and television art, both from home and abroad.

Jung Sang-ho attended today's dinner because he won the Best New Director Award at the Baeksang Arts Awards for his animated zombie movie "Seoul Station".

"Teacher Park, has China's Shen Lang agreed to join the crew of "The King of Pigs"? " Ting Xianghao was very confident. His confidence was not the mysterious confidence of ordinary Koreans, but came from his own work.

"Lord of the Pigs" is a script that he spent several years polishing while serving in the army.

The story deals with a very sensitive and heavy subject...school violence.

The roots of Prince of the Pigs take place in a high school.

On the surface, these are just some ordinary teachers and students, but in fact, this is a small society.

Rich and powerful students are naturally separated from poor students. The most powerful children will treat the poor students as "pigs" to torture and humiliate them, and recruit children with average power to be "dogs" to act as lackeys.

Even teachers look down on these "pig" students and condone the illegal and disorderly behavior of the rich.

"Pig" students are bullied in school all year round. The slightest thought of resistance will lead to even more brutal beatings, and they gradually become willing to endure the bullying.

This situation continued until a new transfer student came to the school. Unlike those weak "pig" students, he dared to resist and was particularly good at fighting. He beat the bullies who bullied his classmates to a pulp. He thus became the "king of pigs" in the hearts of the "pig" students.

This movie reveals many social realities. When he handed the script to Park Dehuan and asked for guidance, Park Dehuan, who was a member of the Blue Dragon Awards jury, praised his work highly and solemnly recommended a film screenwriter and director from China to him, saying that this person might be able to give his movie more sublimation.

Ting Xianghao is a very demanding person. After hearing that the Chinese man could help him, he asked Park Dehuan for help in making the contact without hesitation, which led to the call that Shen Lang received before.

"Xiang Hao, the situation has changed a bit!"

Jung Sang-ho stood up, left the noisy hall and came to the emergency passage and asked, "Teacher Park, what's changed?"

"The other party is not interested in your "Lord of the Pigs". He wrote a script, a sequel to "Seoul Station"..."

"A sequel to Seoul Station?" Ting Xianghao asked in surprise, "Teacher Park, if I remember correctly, the Chinese man you mentioned is a screenwriter of niche films with realistic tendencies. The subject matter involved seems to be some social crimes. He is writing a sequel to Seoul Station? A zombie movie?"

Park Dehuan coughed twice and said, "Xianghao, listen to me, his script is very interesting. My suggestion is that you take the initiative to talk to him, and it's better to be sincere, and then bring the script over, and we will study it carefully. I have seen a clip of his script..." Before Park Dehuan finished speaking, Ting Xianghao interrupted and said, "Teacher Park, you should know me. I have been preparing for the movie "King of Pigs" for a long time, and I am confident that after polishing it for a while, I can hit an international award!"

"So I won't give up my plan easily!"

Pu Dehuan helplessly thought to himself: "Sure enough, talented guys are more stubborn than each other!"

Jung Sang-ho didn't know what Park De-hwan was thinking, so he continued, "Also, Mr. Park, I don't think anyone else can write a sequel to Seoul Station that satisfies me. Only I can write this sequel."

"Xiang Hao, I think you should talk to Shen Lang. Many of his ideas can inspire you!" Park Dehuan was still making his final effort.

Ting Xianghao nodded and thanked him, "I understand, Mr. Park, don't worry, I will find out more about this person."

"Well, you should stop being so immersed in your own movie world. Try to step out of it. The movie world is changing with each passing day, and the TV world is also expanding!"

"Okay, Mr. Park, I understand. I'm still attending the dinner, so I won't say more. Thank you!"

After Ting Xianghao hung up the phone, he looked at his phone, then suddenly smiled and said, "Teacher Park is saying those weird things again. What does the expansion of the film world have to do with a director like me? That's your job as a Blue Dragon Award judge. I just need to concentrate on writing my story! A story that can move people!"

After saying that, he opened the security door and walked back to the banquet hall.

Ting Xianghao returned to his seat, but he was actually not familiar with the person sitting at the same table.

Because his film "Love is Protein" won the Silver Crow Award at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, the organizers put him at the same table with several other directors from Europe and the United States who were making fantasy films.

The topics of conversations between these Europeans and Americans were almost all Western movies. Although he had also studied Western movies, that was when he was in college. Ting Xianghao believed that the Koreans only needed to endow the spiritual connotations of their own country and nation into the movies. Some of the European and American values ​​were just that, and not only could they not improve their screenwriting skills, they could even have a counterproductive effect.

Therefore, he has been deliberately avoiding European and American films in recent years.

At this time, a Polish director at the same table was discussing the latest blockbusters in the United States with an American director.

The American director proudly said: "This year is a bumper year in the history of our country's film industry. Forrest Gump is expected to sweep the Oscars this year!"

Everyone at the table nodded repeatedly. Indeed, the movie "Forrest Gump" is now extremely influential all over the world and many people are discussing this movie.

Some even say that this is one of the top five films in American film history.

At this time, the Polish director said: "I heard that there is an independent film called Pulp Fiction, which was also nominated for an Oscar?"

The American director nodded and said, "Yes, the director is a crazy genius named Quentin. By the way..."

At this point, he turned to look at the only Asian face at the table: "The screenwriter of this movie is Asian, just like Director Ting Xianghao! His name is Jeff. Do you know this guy named Jeff? He is a genius!"

Ting Xianghao shook his head in confusion. Jeff? I don't know him!
(End of this chapter)