Vol 2 Chapter 513: Duke's speech

The sun was shining on the stone road on the campus, and the two young people hurriedly walked across the tree-lined road. They were very fast and almost all ran up. It seemed that something particularly important was waiting for them.
One of them complained as he ran, "Jiang Qingfeng, I blame you for forgetting where the files are. I want to kill you now!"
"It's my fault, my fault!"
The man named Jiang Qingfeng held a file bag tightly and urged as he walked, "Zuo Qiang, let's just say a few words, let's hurry up! Hurry up!"
They ran towards the school's auditorium.
Although it is not a speech by a politician or a well-known wealthy man, the speeches of the best directors in the world also attract them.
Moreover, Zuo Qiang and Jiang Qingfeng are both from the Department of Literature. They are particularly interested in movies. They are especially prepared to ask the great director for advice during the interactive session.
When they walked into the auditorium, the two turned their heads to look around, and it was full of people. Fortunately, this kind of occasion is not open to the public. Those who can enter it have basically been reviewed by the application and the college, and arranged earlier. The seat will only give a good impression of being full and not chaotic.
Zuo Qiang and Jiang Qingfeng's seats were closer to the front row. After squeezing in, they sat there quietly waiting for the speech to begin. ▲▽,
There were students from the Student Union to maintain order. Although there were chats in the auditorium, it was not messy.
After waiting for about ten minutes, a dozen people walked in from outside the auditorium. The eyes of Zuo Qiang and Jiang Qingfeng immediately caught one of them.
The other party is about 185 cm tall. His figure is a little thin, but he feels full of power. He is dressed simply and decently, his facial lines are tough, and his dark brown short hair roots stand up. Appears extremely shrewd and capable.
Without any special ceremony, the other party took a speech and walked directly onto the stage.
"Students, good afternoon, I am glad to be here..."
Although I have read the interview with Yang Lan before, I have already seen the other party's Chinese level. But hearing this character's round, slightly blunt Mandarin, Zuo Qiang and Jiang Qingfeng unconsciously developed a sense of intimacy and identification.
If a foreigner can speak Chinese so fluently, he must have studied and practiced for a long time, and he must have a good impression of this country in his heart.
Unlike the old foxes at the film festival, Duke knows very well that these young people who have not been involved in the world are more likely to be affected. In fact, this is also the most suitable occasion to show Chinese.
In front of people such as the mountain eagle, even if the Chinese is more standard than the announcer, it is of no real use, but in front of ordinary people, they can often unknowingly narrow the distance between each other.
"In North America, according to the tradition of university lectures, speakers should say something like'chasing dreams'."
Standing on the podium, Duke looked at the seats in the auditorium. There were hundreds of people sitting below, just like his style of doing things. The speech he prepared didn’t have so many illusory things,
but I don’t want to say these, because I don’t believe in this. I believe you don’t lack dreams, you don’t lack the determination to pursue your dreams, and you don’t need me to say it. And I think It’s even more important to grasp reality."
The auditorium was very quiet, and only Duke’s voice was floating,
I have this feeling time and time again. To some extent, we began to see reality as dreaming of a tragic cousin. But I want to tell you To convey such a concept, whether it is our dreams or the reality we feel, the abstract concepts around us that we are passionate about are subsets of reality, and these subsets are easier for us to grasp."
After taking a final look at the manuscript, Duke began to make a speech.
"Just like the film industry where I have worked for more than ten years, film is a dream-making machine, but the process of dream-making is extremely realistic, and no romantic imagination is allowed. If you do not treat the film in a realistic manner, you will only have to wait for failure. ."
"This is a personal point of view. It is my own experience. At the very beginning of my career, I once hit a wall one after another. In order to shoot "Life and Death", I went to all the film companies that could be famous in Hollywood at that time. Ten filmmakers peddled my dreams to them, but the dreams did not match reality. No company or one person would invest in my films until my mother appeared."
A burst of laughter broke out below, Duke also smiled, and then continued, "I am a lucky guy. I never shy away from this. The support of my family has saved me a lot of detours."
"The opportunity is here, I seized it, but to turn the opportunity into success requires a lot of knowledge. I always feel that I have accumulated as much knowledge as a plate of Brie cheese!" He joked, "But When I was directing the film, I discovered that the knowledge accumulated over the past ten years is far from enough. The plate is more like Swiss cheese—the cognitive gap is the problem. Knowledge is important because even if you leave here, you still have to Fill up the gaps in these cheeses, even if you don’t even know that you have them, you will make up for them with experience."
"During the period, some of your life and work are wonderful and some are terrible, but then you will learn more slowly."
"The achievements you have here will help you through the difficulties. You have not only learned a set of knowledge; what you learn is how to learn, what you learn is the value of learning," Duke continued, "the most important thing , Some gaps will be filled by the most important things in all this-new ideas, new ideas, and all the things that can change the world."
There was a burst of applause from the audience, and Duke made a downward gesture and said, "People can implant some ideas and believe in them from then on."
"As someone who has come, I want to remind you that when you walk out of campus, you should keep in mind to move forward and don't stop your steps when you encounter any obstacles."
Duke said it very seriously, and he still attached great importance to this speech. "Seeing you, I think of social injustice, income inequality, and continuous wars when I graduated from college-I believe you all know what happened in the early 1990s. What the world is like, and the reason you know is because, in fact, the world is still that way today."
There was another burst of laughter, and Duke deliberately shrugged, "What have we done in the past twenty years? The world is still a mess. It is not easy to succeed in this world. You have both knowledge and realistic opportunities, so there is one more thing to remember-never neglect teamwork!"
"A lot of people have asked me, why are you continuously successful? Why do you have today's results? Why are you so beautiful?"
Duke paused for a while before he said, "I won the Oscar for best director. The box office of personally directed movies is an astronomical sum. It seems that this is my personal honor. In fact? Behind me, With the support of countless people, such as Miss Tina Fei sitting among you, such as the filming team that has worked with me for more than ten years, if I leave these people, I have the confidence to shoot "Speed ​​of Life and Death" and "Break into Death Island" ", but it is absolutely impossible to complete the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a short time."
"I learned a lot during the journey of making movies. I learned not only scientific knowledge, but also leadership. Many people think that as a director, you must have a high level of leadership, but I learned from shooting. How to lead the team."
He knows very well that even if he has a special experience, it is impossible to get to where he is today without a team that works together and tacitly. "When making a movie, I sometimes ask myself, why am I here? Why continue Making a movie? What did I get from it?"
"For the challenge-the movie is like the ocean and the mountains waiting for us to explore; for the discovery; and for a strange relationship-a tightly formed team. The dozen or so people at the core of my production team have worked together for many years. , Sometimes stay together most of the year. In this relationship, I find that the most important thing is respect. I am here for you, and you are here for me. Everyone’s work cannot be explained to others. , We must establish a relationship and establish respect."
"When I started filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I tried to apply this respectful leadership principle to the filming, and the situation soon changed. During the filming process, my team was very large. Working in an unknown territory and creating a new world is very interesting and very challenging. In a few years, we became a family, which completely changed the way I used to make movies."
In fact, the speeches are much the same, and in the end they have to involve themselves.
"There is a commentary saying that Duke Rosenberg’s placing some monsters on the earth is the reason for the success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and for me, the basic rules of doing things and the process itself brought the results today. ."
"Finally, let me talk about a few key elements of my career success."
Duke extended his first finger, "Curiosity, this is the most important thing you have."
He stretched out his second finger, "Appropriately meet the imagination of reality, this is your most important power."
As he said, the third finger stood up, "Respect for the team, this is a more important law than other laws in the world."
Walking to the podium, Duke got closer to these young faces and said,
Many young film directors asked me for their successful experience. I told them-Don’t set boundaries for yourself, others will draw boundaries for you, but you Don’t go by yourself. You have to take risks. Failure is one of your options, but fear is not. No movie has ever been completed with complete security. You must be willing to take these risks."
"Thank you!"
There was enthusiastic applause in the auditorium. Although the speech is over, the activity will continue, and there will be interactions necessary for celebrity speeches. (To be continued...)
ps: I'm getting married. . . .