Chapter 96

On the 19th, Jet Li and Jessica rushed over, while back home, CCTV's *Artistic Life* went on air. Having already been promoted through other programs where it was revealed that Zhang Tiancheng would be the guest, many viewers tuned in to watch specifically. Zhang Tiancheng's early answers were just like anyone else's responses to those kinds of questions, leaving the audience feeling it was all rather uninteresting. However, when the conversation turned to the differences between making movies in Hollywood and doing so in China, most viewers, much like Zhu Jun, found themselves developing a deep respect for Zhang Tiancheng. The differences between the Hollywood and domestic film and television industries was a topic many directors and actors had already discussed on television programs and in newspapers. But those directors and actors always talked endlessly about industry procedures—how before making a movie, Hollywood would hand out questionnaires to passersby to determine whether the film would turn a profit and minimize losses as much as possible, or how Hollywood operated on a producer-driven model where directors simply did whatever the producers told them...