Chapter 31 Propaganda
What Chen Yuanguang said is true in a certain sense. Time travel can be seen as an overly vivid dream, and "Once Upon a Time in Kuala Lumpur" is indeed an adaptation based on the images in his mind.

However, no one in the audience or the host knew the real meaning behind it. They thought that Chen Yuanguang was a person with a very big imagination and that dreams were the source of his inspiration.

"We noticed during the early promotion of the film that Brother had a title of special consultant. We were all very curious about what specific work this person required to do during the filming of the film?" the host continued to ask.

Lin Jia helped Chen Yuanguang negotiate the position of assistant director, but later Chen Yuanguang himself refused, thinking that he did not have the energy to do the job of assistant director. He only asked for the title of special consultant.

He feels that being a special consultant is more in line with his actual job: "The most important job is to describe the world I dream of and accurately convey my understanding of the future world to the director."

There were not many questions from the host before the movie started, and the movie officially began.

Chen Yuanguang sat in the first row of the audience, together with the leader of Jiangnan University, namely President Shu.

The School of Life Sciences is a strong discipline at Jiangnan University, and Dean Shu is also a member of the school leadership team.

As the movie played, he said with emotion: “Yuan Guang, I didn’t expect you to have such talent.

I am very pleased that our School of Biology has produced talents like you."

In the darkness of the night, Chen Yuanguang simply replied, "Thank you, Dean."

Chen Yuanguang had heard from his familiar classmates that because of his sudden emergence this year, the admission score line of Jiangnan University’s School of Chemistry had been slightly increased in many provinces.

A more intuitive data is that the number of freshmen applying to transfer out of the School of Chemistry has dropped significantly this year.

It’s the power of role models.

This is a direct benefit to the School of Chemistry. For Jiangnan University as a whole, Chen Yuanguang is too young and his future is worth looking forward to. It is still unknown how many pages Chen Yuanguang will be on the list of outstanding alumni in the future.

"Brother, compared to the thrilling tricks in the movies, I am more curious about how you design the future world.

I have a general understanding of the future world from the details. This world is a utopian society, which is different from the current mainstream science fiction works' deductions about the future.

Most science fiction works now believe that the future will be tragic, and even extend the concept of cyberpunk, believing that the gap between the upper and lower classes will become larger and larger in the future. How do you view the future? "

After the movie screening, there was a question-and-answer session. Before the question-and-answer session, the students in the audience burst into applause to express their admiration for the movie.

Some people even shouted that it looked good.

Precisely because the movie is so wonderful, during the interview session after the screening, many people raised their hands and wanted to ask Chen Yuanguang questions.

Chen Yuanguang took the microphone from the host: "I think the future world I depict is just material satisfaction, which is actually very basic considering the productivity at that time.

After the explosion of productivity, the lower classes will not be unable to survive simply out of the need for social stability.

Moreover, in the world I depict, the gap between the lower and upper classes is getting bigger and bigger, but this gap is not reflected too much.

In the movie, those who are killed can live in villas, while ordinary people can only live in public housing with an average area of ​​40 square meters per person.

AI controls everything, and ordinary people have very few opportunities. The probability of them moving from a 40-square-meter public housing unit to a villa in a wealthy area is much smaller than in modern society. As for the upper class, they can extend their lifespan through hibernation technology, experience virtual reality technology, and use a variety of technological means to enrich their life experience.

The lower classes enjoy similar technological benefits as we do. What I depict is not a utopia, but despair hidden under the calmness,” Chen Yuanguang explained.

In order to increase the conflict of the novel and lay the groundwork for the sequel, Chen Yuanguang adopted the logic of the world described by Samad.

Chen Yuanguang saw that the student who asked the question had already sat down and the student in charge of the activity had already taken the microphone. He thought for a moment and added two more sentences:
“For humans before the Industrial Revolution, having food to eat and clothes to wear was already a rare treat. For most people in modern society, would they be satisfied with this?

Obviously not, people in the future will not be satisfied with these basic needs either. But because their basic needs have been met, they have no motivation to change the status quo, so I would say it is despair hidden under calmness. "

"Yuan Guang, Tencent sent me news that the box office on the first day exceeded 1.2 million yuan, reaching million yuan."

"The next day, the box office rose against the trend and reached 1.5 million yuan."

Tencent synchronizes the latest box office data to Lin Jia at around 1 a.m. every day, and Lin Jia tells Chen Yuanguang the next morning.

Chen Yuanguang was very happy on the first day. The first day box office alone proved that their investment would not be a loss. You have to know that 800 million yuan out of the 600 million yuan was his investment.

When the numbers came out the next day, Chen Yuanguang said while eating breakfast: "It seems that the movie is a big hit. The trend is heading towards 20 billion."

Lin Jia quickly replied: "Not only that, it is a very good sign of a counter-trend rise. You know, yesterday was Sunday and today is Monday.

This proves that the marketing is effective and the quality of the movie itself is good enough. It has earned at least 20 billion.

We invested 800 million yuan. The total investment in this film is about 8000 million yuan. If we calculate the box office at a minimum of 20 billion yuan, the total revenue will be 6 to 7 million yuan, and our revenue will be between and million yuan.

After deducting 20% ​​income tax, the final profit will be between million and million.

If you had listened to me and registered a film and television investment company in Horgos, you could have been exempted from all personal income tax.

Even for a personal studio, the tax rate is only 0.5%, so why bother paying 20% ​​personal income tax now? "

Lin Jia became angry when he thought that Chen Yuanguang refused to listen to him and did not go to Horgos to register his personal studio.

She thought to herself, why be so morally obsessed? So many celebrity directors use this method to avoid taxes, and the name of Horgos can be seen on the company's name on movie tickets every year.

Everyone does this, it's okay, no one will bother you.

Chen Yuanguang felt that it was unnecessary. This amount of money was nothing, and there was no need to give others an excuse for this matter.

Through future history, he realized that many times the most important thing is to have no weaknesses, and only without weaknesses can you survive to the end.

"It feels like it was a bit too easy to achieve the goal of financial freedom," Chen Yuanguang sighed.

Lin Jia complained: "Ten million is already the goal of financial freedom for many people, and you just gave up so easily."

(End of this chapter)