One year, a fourth-year college student at the Beijing Film Academy, considered a slacker by his advisor, drunkenly boasted to his friends about creating an era that would make Hollywood tremble. He thought it was just drunken talk, but a week later, his friends, having scraped together money to build a film crew, waited expectantly for him to start filming. He panicked. What happened after that year sent shockwaves through the world film industry.