This director is very reliable

Chapter 296 The Ignorant is Fearless! (twenty four)

The directors of literary and artistic films at this stage are miserable!
The era of entertainment means that investing in literary films is unlikely to recover the cost...

This can also be regarded as a drawback of market regulation-art films are difficult to accommodate in a purely free and commercial market!

Didn’t watch Martin Scorsese come out to criticize Marvel—it’s because mainstream commercial films like Marvel have invaded the market for art films, so Martin and Alfonso Cuaron had to film for Wangda!

"The Irishman" and "Roma" are both produced by Netflix and screened online...

In a reasonable market environment, there should be a place for high and low works.Instead of simply letting the market drive out all non-popular works.

However, a group of people in the literary and art circles demanded that the country compel the "diversification of cinema movie broadcasting types", demand financial subsidies to establish and maintain "literary and artistic film theaters", and demand direct funding for outstanding filmmakers...

But it is not allowed to overestimate the material and content of the question, and the reasons of lobbyists with status and face are "we can't let good Chinese movies die out"!
This is disgusting!

If I give you money, you are not allowed to pass the question material and content?
Why don't you have such a big face?
There is no solution to this problem for the time being, and we can only wait for time. After the audience's aesthetic rating, perhaps art films will emerge with a group of supporters!
In fact, literary movies have not disappeared. In the next few years, a large number of high-quality movies were born: "Over the Spring", "Xiaowei", "Spring River Plumbing", "Sherlock on the Plain", "Evening Mist Garden", "Red Flowers and Green Leaves"...

There's no need to be so worried...

……

It's time for Xu Zheng...

After "Lost in Thailand", Xu Zheng was more or less swollen, and dared to say what he said: "I haven't received an invitation from a director for more than a year, and I feel that I have failed as an actor. But if I shoot by myself, I can't shoot a big director. The kind of film that carries culture. My only method is genre films. And I am a movie fan, and I do a lot of comedies, so I choose comedies!"

He also criticized He Ping, because director He Ping actually praised "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains": "Although "Fuchun" has a bad reputation, I think it is good to have an experience. Use an international team, including many teams that are world-class, and dare to use a cost of 60 million [-] million.Do you think it is necessary for such an adventurous person?Of course you need to.We need to encourage multiple creations of Chinese-language films! '

Xu Zheng directly retorted: "I have never distinguished movies by big or small movies, only bad movies, good movies, and excellent works. I have too many puzzles about "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". Since there is such a large investment, please Hollywood special effects team, why don't you hire a Hollywood screenwriter? Why can you screw up a movie when you have all the resources?"

Shen Changlin answered: "Maybe he is confident!"

"Does he know what he's photographing?"

"Don't say that, do you know how difficult it is to spend [-] million to create a movie with a rating of less than three points?"

After a pause, Shen Changlin continued: "Actually, Director Han approached me before and wanted me to shoot "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". At that time, he said it would be best not to, so I lost my mind... I really can't think of why someone would steal "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains"..."

"Looked for you?"

"Yeah, because it was not allowed to be filmed, so I wanted to make a bandit movie. At first it was "Thieves", but I thought it would be more suitable to create a visual spectacle with magic elements, and then I wrote "The Bandit". ..."

"The "Thieves" project has already started preparations, and it is also a big production with an investment of 1.5 million!"

"Let me explain why I transformed into a large-scale production," Shen Changlin said: "Nowadays is the Internet age, and there are more and more video media, and even have ipads, iphones, large-screen mobile phones, various boxes at home, and 47-inch color TVs. They are already too small. Our movie-watching mentality will soon change. Movies that require audiences to pay to watch movies must have a feeling that they cannot feel at home, on mobile phones, or on pads. Therefore, Hollywood big productions are becoming more and more popular. The more Disney has given up making productions under $5000 million…”

"But the box office of "BJ Meets Seattle" has exceeded [-] million!"

Shen Changlin waved his hand: "I'm talking about trends. In our market, it's very rare to be able to tell a good story... This process may be five years, maybe three years... who knows!"

"Also, I'm not saying that big productions don't need a story basis. For the script of "The Thief", the three of us screenwriters brainstormed in the room for half a month, and finally sorted out the logic of the story, and then added characters around the story. Features, such as the hypnotist played by Xu Zheng, a charlatan who is deceived and abducted, for him, being able to make money and gain professional recognition are the two essentials of life. We have retained the characteristics of the characters during the script creation stage. There is enough room for the development of the follow-up series!"

Xu Zheng also helped to say: "I watched a trial screening of "The Thief". After watching it, I completely understood the "Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord that Chang Lin had recommended to me. This movie is built like a visual spectacle, and such a movie can only feel the charm in the cinema!"

"How long did the post-production special effects take?"

"We let the person in charge of special effects join in the script development stage, and it took about 16 months... I dare not say that it has reached Hollywood standards, but it is definitely the first time for a Chinese-language film!"

After touting "The Thief" for a while, it was Guo Xiaosi's speech...

Guo Xiaosi is really...

"Why did I make "Little Times"? No one knows the story of "Little Times" better than me. Rather than destroying it in the hands of others, it is better to destroy it in your own hands."

"The reason why I see many great directors occasionally making mistakes is because the audience in the Chinese film market has changed from the previous generation to the next generation.

In 2009, the average age of watching movies was 25.7 years old, but by 2013 it had become 21.7 years old, and 21 years old is a college student.

If you still use the ideas of the previous generation to make movies, there will be problems, because more and more new audiences join the market, but there are no new types of movies for them.Although many people think it is very controversial or has great opinions, I don't think it is important, you just stick to yourself. "

"What people are facing now is not the struggle of survival. The struggle of people has become the struggle of material choices, the struggle of the gap between the rich and the poor, and the struggle of inequality in family background."

"A novelist is born with the potential to become a director. When a novelist writes a novel, he already has pictures and shots in his mind!"

He Ping first retorted: "A director does not mature until he is 55 years old, and many of the director's best works are made after he is 50 years old."

"He may not understand!" Shen Changlin helped to add: "It means that the director's aesthetics and values ​​determine the upper limit of a movie! The box office is only a part of the movie! Commercial success does not mean everything!"

"The ignorant are truly fearless!"

"Your understanding of movies and the market is too superficial. After all, the art of movies is called the seventh art. Box office revenue and the artistic value of movies are two-dimensional things. Among the series of factors that determine the box office , the type and subject matter of a movie actually determine its upper limit to a large extent!"

"Your "Little Times" I estimate the minimum box office is 3 million, the highest should be 5 million, just this data, but A Mou's "Hunting" We knew from the very beginning that the box office of this movie might not be good, including A Mou's success. The box office of "The Great Buddha" that came down may not be good, does it mean that Ah Mou has not kept up with the times?"

"If you simply use money as a comparison, then I am richer than Prime Minister Z, does it mean that my achievements have surpassed Prime Minister Z?"

Guo Xiaosi felt a little uncomfortable being bullied, tears were about to fall.

Shen Changlin squinted at him, and then said: "Don't cry, I advise you to apologize quickly. The "China-EU Investment Agreement" is about to start negotiations, and one of the most important items is about the protection of intellectual property rights. How to protect them? We are If you are a copycat country, then you need to make an example and change the public perception, if you don’t apologize, maybe even the director won’t let you do it!”

(End of this chapter)