Light and shadow player

Chapter 38
In mid-July, the entertainment industry on Hong Kong Island suffered an earthquake.

"Operation Dancing Shadow" took away a large number of people, including the boss of Yinhuang Yang and artist director Ms. Huo.

As for the process, Cheng Yu'an didn't care, because the result was nothing.

Does traveling alone feel lonely?
Others might, but Cheng Yu'an wouldn't.

There are too many places he wants to go but he doesn't go, too many delicacies he wants to eat but he doesn't eat, and there are too many strangers on the road that he wants to hear their stories.

This is the freest moment for a creator.

After a month of wandering, until the end of July, I was scolded by Cheng Lingfeng on the phone:
"How long are you going to play! I'm not in the company and neither are you. "Sniper Phone Booth" has two days of trial screenings, and it's still not dead!"

Cheng Yu'an had no choice but to return to the capital in despair to apologize to Cheng Lingfeng.

After coming back, Cheng Lingfeng said something again, and then his anger dissipated.

"The Sky" has been bought by Dragon TV, and the filming is also in the final stage.

There are not many actors in "Sniper Phone Booth", two male protagonists, two female protagonists, and one policeman, there are only 5 people, plus the director, it is just right for six people to stand on stage.

Nortel has a tradition that the films made by students are usually screened in the college first to see the feedback from teachers and students.

Of course, there is generally nothing good to say.

The current teachers and students, who call themselves avant-garde art, sneer at commercial films, and most of the trial films will be sprayed to pieces.

I heard that some directors were sprayed and cried on the spot.

Over time, spraying test screenings of movies has become the monopoly of students-teachers are not easy to speak.

Some students secretly compared who sprayed harder and better.

Cheng Yu'an brought "Sniping the Phone Booth" to the school theater with trepidation.

Hou Keming hosted the trial screening, and seeing Cheng Yu'an sitting silently under the stage, he smiled and said, "Are you nervous?"

"Yeah." Cheng Yu'an admitted honestly, "I just hope that the younger brothers and younger sisters will not scold too harshly later, and show mercy."

"Are you still afraid of this? How did you scold others at school before? It's back to you."

"Hey." Cheng Yu'an didn't do this kind of thing less during his school days.

It can only be said that the wind and water are turning.

"Sniping the Phone Booth" is a purely commercial film, and it is going to the box office. Cheng Yu'an can already imagine how the film-watching students will complain.

Su Peng has always been the most dazzling existence in the 98-level director class. He comes from an artistic family, his parents are both famous writers and screenwriters, and his grandfather is Mr. Cao Yu.

It can be said that any director and screenwriter whose name you can name has friendship with his family.

After graduation, Su Peng joined CCTV to work as an on-the-spot reporter, screenwriter, and assistant director.

Prepare your own feature film while accumulating experience.

Born in a family of artists, Su Peng has a good self-cultivation and a proud vision.

He is not the kind of person who can't see the good of his classmates. On the contrary, he is very happy to see his classmates get ahead.

Because the entertainment industry is still a circle to put it bluntly, and the classmates get along well, and everyone can help each other with anything.

He can still figure this out.

So he came to participate in Cheng Yu'an's trial screening. He wanted to see what the youngest classmate in the class would look like when he made the first feature film in the class.

If the result of the film is good, I will definitely not hesitate to praise it, but if the effect of the film is poor, I will definitely criticize it on the spot.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the [-]-seat theater was full.

There are teachers and students of the college, audiences in the society, and some friends from the media.

After the audience entered the arena, Hou Keming took the stage to host, read the opening remarks, and then began to play the video.

At the beginning of the chapter, Su Peng nodded straight. The relationship between the characters and the character of the characters were clearly explained, fluent and not blunt.

The film continued to show, and Cheng Yuan sat in the first row, faintly hearing the whispers of the audience.

Presently there was a commotion from behind the theatre.

"Why are you doing this! You are breaking the law!" Cheng Yuan turned his head and looked back, only to see a dispute between the security personnel and a man.

"Please cooperate with our work." The security personnel did not have any physical contact with the man, but stood up and surrounded him.

"Why do you search me? You are violating my right to privacy," the man argued.

Xie Xiaojing, as the director of the director department, walked over to ask the cause and effect of the matter.

The security guard said, "Director, we saw him secretly filming with a DV camera."

Piracy!

Xie Xiaojing turned to order: "Take it down, be polite, let him go if you delete the video, or go through legal procedures if you don't delete it."

Xie Xiaojing sat back in her original seat and whispered into Cheng Yu'an's ear, Cheng Yu'an nodded.

Such things as piracy, not to mention the present, cannot be avoided in future generations, and we can only do our best to prevent them.

The film continued to be screened. Although the main creators had watched it countless times, they were still extremely nervous.

The mainland release is the big test they really have to face.

"Sniper Phone Booth" is only 80 minutes long, the rhythm is tense and lively, and the time passes quickly.

There was polite applause from the audience.

"Let's invite the director and leading actors of "Sniper Phone Booth" to come on stage." Hou Keming came on stage.

"Garbage! Grandstanding!"

As soon as Cheng Yu'an and his party took the stage, they heard scolding from the audience.

"Who?" Xie Xiaojing and Tian Zhuang asked as they sat under the stage.

The college preview, although it was sprayed, it was not allowed to scold.

There was a buzzing sound from the audience, and the audience looked around, wondering who scolded this sentence.

Cheng Yu'an was quite relaxed on the stage, holding the microphone and laughing: "I think the self-introduction part will be skipped, please ask the staff to pass the microphone to the classmate just now, please discuss with us if you have any questions."

This is a male student. The staff quickly found him. His face was flushed and he was furious. After taking the microphone, he said impatiently: "I am ashamed that our school has trained such a director as you."

Cheng Yu'an said, "Why did I embarrass the school?"

"Movies are art, and should not be based on simple entertainment and sensual enjoyment. With all due respect, I can't see any thinking and expression in Director Cheng's film. Such a film can still be completed by another director. Does not reflect the author's personality.

"If all the students taught by our college make such films, then our film education will undoubtedly fail."

Cheng Yu'an listened carefully to what the boy said, and said, "Thank you for this classmate's speech." Then he looked away from this man, looked around at everyone present, and asked, "I think students who hold the same point of view should There are not a few, right? Do you think that I treat movies as commodities, and I have become a movie businessman."

"Yes!" A voice came from nowhere.

"This classmate is right." Cheng Yu'an smiled, and paused for a while, "That's right, I do treat movies as commodities."

The scene was a little chaotic for a while, and the audience was buzzing. Cheng Yuan continued: "I won't talk about theoretical knowledge. Everyone is a professional filmmaker and knows as much as I do. Let me talk about something else.

"Everyone has watched "Spider-Man" last year. Do you know how much it grossed? It was 4300 million yuan domestically and 8.21 million US dollars worldwide. "The Lord of the Rings 1" was 5600 million domestically and 8.78 million US dollars worldwide. "Harry Wave "Special 1", domestic 5900 million, and the global box office is 9.74 million US dollars.

"Then I have a question for all of you here. How can we fight against foreign films with large investments and large productions? Art films with an investment of two to three million yuan? You said just now that if the students taught by our college are all If you make a film like mine, then our film education will fail. Let me tell you now, if all the students taught by our college go to make art films, our domestic films will undoubtedly die!

"France, the stronghold of the New Wave, has been captured by Hollywood blockbusters. Have you paid attention to our WTO accession clauses? One of them is to open up the film market. my country's film market will gradually expand and open to the outside world, and there will be more and more Hollywood films in the future. Come on in, let’s just imagine, if our screens are full of big-budget movies like "The Lord of the Rings", and our directors are still indulging in the so-called artistic expression, what will happen to our movie market? Our audiences still Will you watch domestic movies again?
"So I am very happy that director Zhang Yimou made "Hero", which is a real domestic blockbuster with big investment, big production and star cast.

"Of course, I'm not saying that there can't be art films. Art films are an integral part of a healthy film market, but art films must not occupy the mainstream."

　coming!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)