This director is very reliable

Chapter 954 I can't reach that level! (33)

The photographer set up the machine, no make-up, no shading, behind is the white wall of the office, on which is hung 'Du Fu can move', well, it's actually 'diligence can make up for one's weakness'...

The staff served tea, and Shen Changlin chatted with Xu Zhiyuan while drinking tea...

"There is no text for this program?"

"No... Just chatting casually... Do you smoke?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "I don't smoke much..."

Xu Zhiyuan took out a cigarette: "Then do you mind?"

"do not mind…"

After lighting a cigarette, Xu Zhiyuan asked, "How did you know how to make "The God of Medicine"?"

"...I am also an academic, and I prefer realistic themes, but many events are not easy to adapt. "The God of Medicine" is very suitable for a mature commercial film!"

"What do you mean by realistic themes are close to reality? Similar to Jia Zhangke's movies?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "It's not the same. The overall value of "The God of Medicine" is upward. Director Jia's realism is to expose the darkness~ If you have to say that "exposing the dark side" is a necessary existence, I have no objection, absolutely cannot object, but Realistic themes have been very unpopular in the past two years. One very important reason is that audiences don’t buy it, and if audiences don’t buy it, no investors are willing to invest. Therefore, I want to make a realistic theme that audiences buy!”

"Is it important to you that audience buy-in?"

Shen Changlin nodded: "Of course, the most important thing about movies is to spread..."

"Propagation?" Xu Zhiyuan smirked: "Didn't you win a prize?"

"No, movies are literary and artistic works in the final analysis. The teacher clearly stated in his speech at the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium that 'literature and art serve the people's goal'. How can it be considered as serving the people? It is accepted by the people!"

"In fact, I have always disliked Western film festivals, including our college education. It is still the Qing Dynasty's set of Chinese learning as the body and Western learning as the application. But I never thought that the so-called Western learning is the foundation of modern civilization and the soil of philosophy and logic. What. Most of the modern civilizations transplanted in the end can't survive, and can only wither like rootless grass."

"So, on the one hand, audiences in your country don't welcome this kind of film, and on the other hand, if you don't accept the recruitment of Western film festivals and integrate into their system, then you can't prove that you are an artist!"

"Once the relationship between film and art is removed, it becomes a business. When the film does not make money, the money will go elsewhere."

"You don't like Jia Zhangke?"

"I can't say whether I like it or not. I only look at the works, not the people... In fact, Director Jia's "Platform" is an epic movie, and its artistic achievements are beyond his own.

But it's hard to speculate what the motivation of Director Jia is. At least for a long time, there have been rumors that it doesn't matter whether it can be released in China or not. What matters is that winning an award abroad means that it will definitely make money. "

"Is there?"

"some!"

"Then do you think Chinese films have improved in recent years?"

Shen Changlin nodded affirmatively: "Actually, after two thousand years, the film art of the world is just like that. It's just new wine in old bottles. Compared with the progress of the film industry, art is really lackluster! Look at the Cannes Film Festival by yourself. Whether it’s the Palm or the Oscars, award-winning movies are hard to give people a refreshing feeling. The first time I watched "Wild Strawberry", it directly shocked me..."

"Shock?"

"It's just... the feeling that movies can still be made like this..."

"Wild Strawberries", a masterpiece of film history...

The plot of the movie is very simple, and can be summed up in one sentence: when the 89-year-old actor is about to receive a lifelong honor, he experiences lifelong regret in hallucinations again and again...

About dreams, time, space, entanglement...

"There is no development in art, then what?"

"But in the past twenty years, our film industry has made rapid progress. One of the outstanding performances is the rapid development of genre films, and the second is the progress of film special effects... The special effects of "The Wandering Earth 2" are not weaker than those of major Hollywood productions. !"

……

After talking about this, Xu Zhiyuan asked Shen Changlin some... strange questions, such as 'You have been making movies for so many years, do you have any regrets? ' and 'unspoken rules...'

"There are still regrets... The biggest regret is "Search". I was too conceited at the time, I wanted to play a multi-line narrative, and I didn't worry about the role distribution..."

"Unspoken rules... not at all. I am a well-known writer who changed careers, and the first movie was invested by Guangguang and helped to distribute... The box office and word-of-mouth of the first movie were not bad. Who will unspoken rules for me?"

Xu Zhiyuan smirked again: "I mean you unspoken rules for others?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "No... I don't have the energy to think about these things!"

"I remember you saying 'never give an opinion when a movie is in theaters' before, why?"

"Didn't I always scold this and that on the Internet... After making a movie, I still have to restrain myself, after all, everyone bows their heads and sees them when they look up!"

"Then what do you think about Xiao Cui and Director Feng?"

Shen Changlin froze for a moment, frowned, thought for a while, and then said: "I can't say this, but to be honest, it wasn't that big at the beginning, but it was related to the water method... Then it became a big problem, probably Hua Yi At the beginning, I didn't take Teacher Cui seriously... I think this matter is really inappropriate!"

"Isn't this created from, dedicated to art?"

"Let's put it down, if it's really a good thing to devote oneself to art, why didn't he dedicate himself to it? It's perfectly possible to shoot a story about a director who has a wife at home and two or three mistresses outside..."

"... two mistresses?"

"Hooking up wives, engaging in broken shoes, the entertainment industry, fooling myself to entertain others... So, I'm too lazy to communicate with them. Except for public occasions, there are some award ceremonies and so on. I have to attend, meet, and be polite..."

……

It stands to reason that this is the end of the conversation...

Generally speaking, this is the most you can talk about in an interview, and then let the interviewee talk about the movie—the basic routine of publicity. If a celebrity spends a few hours to appear on your show, do they really want to chat with you?
Not for the sake of publicity, who is willing to take on variety shows?

Besides, how can there be so much to talk about?
Shen Changlin's ability to speak to this extent has given the program crew enough face.

Then...Xu Zhiyuan actually asked about 'the length of life', 'human value', 'have you ever thought about becoming a film master' and 'movie works that crossed the era'...

Shen Changlin was a little speechless...

This is probably the idealism of intellectuals!

But he still answered: "What era is it now? We are at a turning point in the historical evolution of human society, and not only a turning point in social systems or social forms, but also a turning point in the civilization stage of human society. Therefore, all countries and The nation has fallen into a certain degree of confusion, confusion and loss of direction....

This period began a hundred years ago. Therefore, in this century, our human society has experienced unprecedented chaos and turmoil. Wars, conflicts, cold wars, massacres... are all its specific manifestations! "

"Occasionally, I care about the big propositions of human beings, but more often I focus on the present... I don't have so much energy to think about these issues. I'm just a director. I shoot works I like and tell stories I'm interested in. I don't think about it. I never thought that I would become a master, let alone that my works could transcend the times!"

After a pause, Shen Changlin added: "You have thought about profound things, you have said profound things, you have been moved by profound things, and you have been moved by what you said, and you really feel that you have done it. Many Sometimes, this is a kind of self-deception! I can't do this!"

"So, you made "The Donkey Gets Water"?"

"...It wasn't made by me, it was recommended by Mahua, I thought it was good, so I voted..."

(End of this chapter)