How important is "networking" to people in the film industry?

This is very important. The more contact, the wider the news. Entertainment opportunities are the most important. If you can't get the news, it's useless even if you have strength.

It is really important for the film industry to expand all the "contacts". But if it is not the "second generation" or has a very strong "backing", the network can only be a stepping stone, and then it is necessary to rely on strength to speak.

They are all in China, and contacts are very important in all aspects. To be honest, those seniors who don't give you "opportunities" easily are your real nobles.

In a film company, project editing is the most unreliable and the easiest to kill two birds with one stone. They often like to bully new people, especially screenwriters. In front of a new screenwriter and director, they often boast that they know this and that. In fact, they probably know those big names, but they hardly know them.

Here we can take Ang Lee as an example.

After graduating from the Film Academy of new york University, Ang Lee stayed in Hollywood for several years, and there was no improvement. As he himself said, these days are extremely depressing. He never lacks contacts, because his graduation work "Boundary Line" has won the favor of gold brokers of Hollywood's largest brokerage company from the beginning. They copied a lot of Ang Lee's documents and sent them to major production companies: Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, Milla Max and so on. This is because the United States is a country with a complete market economy system, and the society's thirst for talents has reached the extreme. In the United States, cinemas are completely private and belong to major production and distribution companies, such as Sony Columbia and time warner Inc.. In this context, the challenges faced by any film are relatively fair, and there will be no "State Administration of Radio, Film and Television" saying: You all have to show XX films, which is the task of XX … and so on. Therefore, in the United States, any film will face severe market choices. No cinema will show a movie at a loss, nor will it give up other profitable movies for you to show at the same time.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Ang Lee's struggle was much easier than that of China filmmakers, because the fair competition brought about by this system would make waves wash sand. However, under the complete market economy system, the formal film industry system will also help outstanding newcomers successfully overcome the so-called "network constraints" because they need the best works to make profits.