This director is very reliable

Chapter 197 Symposium (first update)
(Happy Lantern Festival!)
When Shen Changlin is working on a project now, he basically makes a framework, and then finds a screenwriter to fill it in...

His ability is limited to the general direction, and the small details are really not good!
Including the screenplay for "I'm a Witness"…

Of course, he didn't treat other screenwriters badly either, the salary must be the highest level in the industry, and he also gave the authorship right.

The same is true for the script of "The Thieves". He worked out the framework. In addition to Zhong Wei, Dong Runnian was also hired to write the specific script...

Together with Shen Changlin, the three met and discussed in various ways every day.

keep alive~
Occasionally, Yang Fan, Guo Songjiang, including the photographer Han Qiming and the special effects director will also join in, because when talking about scripts, they will directly draw storyboards, scenes, props, etc. Lao Guo and Yang Fan will directly give the budget.

The special effects director is responsible for controlling Shen Changlin's whimsical ideas - you have to say something we can do.

As for the script, the logic is straightened out, and the rest is easy to handle. The general framework is extended from "The Thieves" and the element of revenge is added. The male protagonist really wants revenge and uses the Thieves to steal the treasury...

Dong Runnian was a little dissatisfied: "The plot after that is very clichéd!"

"...genre film, it's impossible to be good..."

Shen Changlin also figured it out...

There is no need to be so entangled, the logic is smooth, the picture is amazing, and a bunch of handsome men and women are gathered together. This is what a top commercial film should look like.

"Do you have any recommendations for actors?"

"This kind of pure entertainment film, it is best to use Hong Kong and Taiwan actors!"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "...they are too old."

Yang Fan interjected: "I don't think there is a need for a Chinese-Korean co-production...you only have five actors!"

Well, the original plan was ten actors...

China and South Korea each contribute half.

I thought about adding a group of Korean thieves before...

I still rejected this idea. If there are too many people, the main line will be easily scattered, and the audience will find it inexplicable. If the audience finds it inexplicable for a commercial film, it must be a failure!
"It's okay, let's do "The Thieves" first, and we will do "The Alliance" later..."

"Do you want to prepare the script?"

"Let's get ready... I'm definitely going to shoot it!"

"The Thieves" and "League of the Treasure", two large-scale commercial films, established his position in Asian commercial films in one fell swoop.

……

On April 4nd, the film archives held a symposium for young directors.

Ning Hao, Lu Chuan, Gao Qunshu...

Shen Changlin also attended...

Everyone is talking about Hollywood.

Shen Changlin felt the deepest. "Search" was released for one month, with a box office of 4.02 million.

Not a bad result, but could have been better!
The opponent is too strong, "Alien Battlefield", "Wrath of the Gods" and "Desperate Tracker", the three films monopolized the market at the end of March, otherwise, "Search" would have already reached 4.5 million!

Human beings have always been more strict with others than self-discipline.

Referred to as double standard.

If other movies meet Hollywood blockbusters and still get 4 million at the box office, he may think 'it's already very good, what else do you want'?
If it was him, he would feel a little bit of resentment in his heart...

What the heck, how does the General Administration do things? Why do you put so many movies in it?

It's normal, like... Nie Yuan, Brother Yuan said in an interview before, "There are some things that people dare not say, but I dare to say. We actors know this profession better, and actors are more likely to develop emotions in this industry."If you want to be together for two or three months, fall in love again, and be together every day, the relationship will grow slowly. '

Very rigid.

Therefore, let his wife Xiying withdraw from the circle.

what's the result?
He fell in love with an actress from the same crew and divorced his wife!
Gee.

Why is Shen Changlin so distracted? Because now is the time for Lu Chuan to speak, and he is talking about the impact of doubling the share of imported Hollywood films on Chinese films...

Just some old-fashioned things, thieves are boring!
I thought of "Search", and then I thought of "Sister Tao". This film was unlucky, but when I met "Search", the market performance was directly discounted by half...

Then suddenly woke up, because Lu Chuan was crying again...

With a choked voice, he said: "This filming of "The King's Feast" was very touching. I learned a lot through this film. I can no longer have a coquettish mentality. What we are facing now is a steel giant. We must be strong."I will use an industrial way to do the next play without acting coquettishly. '

Originally, "The King's Feast" was scheduled for July 7th, but now it cannot be released.

In fact, the work was not completed in the later stage. According to the words of the later director: there is no commerciality at all, so how can you challenge "Painted Skin 2"?
But explaining 'non-commercial reasons' externally gives the impression that censorship is stuck with them...

Shen Changlin rolled his eyes...

With an investment of more than [-] million yuan, it is only now that I say "you can't use a coquettish form"...

The host Yin Hong smiled: "Speaking of commercial films, our Director Shen should have the right to speak..."

Shen Changlin took over the microphone: "The commercial film I understand is a genre film. Hollywood has been researching it for 100 years. We follow the rules summarized by others and combine it with our own market to shoot!"

"It's too general, can you be more specific?"

"I just want to figure out where my selling point is. The selling point of war movies is war scenes, and the selling point of comedy movies is baggage..." After a pause, Shen Changlin suddenly asked: "By the way, speaking of this, I want to ask Senior Brother Lu Chuan, " The King's Feast is based on the theme of "Hongmen Banquet". Of course, the movie is to restore the scenes of the Chu-Han War. The audience went to the theater to watch the big scene. I don't understand why such a movie will be postponed, and some people say that the censorship is stuck. Show it? Can you explain it?"

Lu Chuan didn't even look at him, and replied directly: "The "King's Feast" as I understand it is not a Hongmen banquet, it is about the fate of an era, about the fate of a group of people, it is not a meal at all..."

Shen Changlin was astonished, and Lu Chuan continued: "What I want to express is a brand-new Chu-Han historical movie, which only tells about Liu Bang's power life. I want to make a movie that is useful to China's present and future..."

"So you spent [-] million investors just to talk about your understanding of Hongmen Banquet?"

Lu Chuan also explained that Shen Changlin ignored him: "I said before that the biggest problem with Chinese films is that there are too many Chinese filmmakers. Frankly speaking, they are the mainstream of Chinese filmmakers, and they are too keen on emphasizing and defending themselves." As an artist, I still neither understand nor disdain purely commercial films.”

"I always think that movies will change China, and movies will affect the world... In fact, movies are just movies. If you want your movies to be seen by more people in the world, in addition to improving the quality of movie production, you still have to rely on the country's economic strength. In the final analysis , National strength determines everything!"

"Chinese movies must first be recognized by Chinese audiences, just like a chef needs to be widely recognized by diners, chefs and the society, instead of being praised by each other in a small circle like the masters of the Republic of China."

"This is my opinion…"

There was a bit of silence.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with what Shen Changlin said, but... In the early days in China, making movies was considered a privileged tool, which caused many directors to get used to preaching to the audience, telling the audience about the director's feelings, and getting used to this superiority.

This is a habit that has been formed for a long time, and it is difficult for you to correct your mentality all at once...

Really, let alone the fifth generation, A Mou is just a special case, most of them are little masters of poetry, like Tianlong people, living in their own small circle, and feel that they are better than the audience...

——A group of media, including the main creator, told us that aesthetics should be diversified through "Lion Boy".

I step on a horse and you tell me?

It is you who hyped the aesthetics of the underworld in the opening ceremony of the Benzene Olympic Games, and now you are jumping out to tell us that aesthetics should be diversified.

To Nima's...

(End of this chapter)