The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 33

Chen Jingxing had turned down many interviews and even invitations to online variety shows before, but he still couldn't survive Zhang Jingyan's phone hypnosis. Even Xu Wenshen suggested that he accept this interview.

"Southern People Weekly" is not limited to entertainment, film and television, and even rarely invites interviews with practitioners in the film and television industry. Its reporting figures have always been mainly business people.

According to the "Southern People Weekly", the target of the report is the person who has had a major impact on the progress of China and people's lives, and the person who demonstrates the human force for good and the profound and complicated charm of human nature in the struggle against fate.

Chen Jingxing could not meet the standard no matter what.

Thanks to Netflix, "Night of the Comet" became No. 6 on the US Twitter trend. At the same time, it took advantage of the popularity in the highlands of American film and television culture, and also realized the spread to other countries such as Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia.

Huaguo has not had a film and television work that has won widespread popularity in Europe and the United States for more than ten years, and all this has been achieved by a low-cost online movie.

After the popularity of the export was returned by domestic sales, the editor-in-chief of "Southern People Weekly" temporarily changed the topic selection and sent an invitation to Chen Jingxing through Huanshiwang.com.

Obviously, "Southern People Weekly" wants to discuss more than just the movie itself.

The interviewing reporter wears glasses and is an elegant and intellectual woman.

"Hello Director Chen."

"Hello."

"Do you like being called Director Chen?"

"I like it. Being a director and making movies is my very early dream."

"I noticed that you are not from a major. Your major in university is mathematics, which has nothing to do with movies. In the public's perception, directing should be a very professional job. Many other cross-border directors are often in the same field. The film and television industry has been invading for many years, and you have the confidence to direct after you have been deeply influenced by it. What motivated you to put film production into practice?"

It has to be said that, after all, it is an influential professional media, the questions raised at the beginning are quite sharp, completely different from the tone of the Huanshiwang variety show.

"I think first of all, I think I am talented. I was also learning about photography and film production when I was in college. The story of "Comet" is three-dimensional in my brain, and it is composed of pictures one by one. I drew a rough draft of the film’s shot script very early on. Secondly, the filming background required for this film is very simple, that is, a room with eight people. The plot is mainly driven by dialogue, without even changes in light and shadow. No special effects needed to be implemented, in fact just a hand-held camera or two to shoot.”

"The above two points are the source of my confidence in shooting "Comet". I just need to turn the picture in my mind into a simple shot without light and shadow. In fact, the most difficult part for me is how to Get actors to play the movie."

"Since the trend of martial arts in the world receded, it has been a long time since there has been a domestic film that has caused widespread repercussions across the ocean. In your opinion, is the success of "Comet" in the United States an unrepeatable accident or inevitability? "

""Comet" can be loved by many people overseas, and it has sparked a lot of topics. Of course, this is the result of the right time and place. For example, the American film critics are tired of blockbuster comics. For example, it just caters to the new young users of Netflix. This is a natural social topic, and the contrast between the low cost of the film itself and a fairly complicated story, the low cost itself is a gimmick, but I think such success is not Can not be copied."

"how to say?"

"We say film is the language of the world, because film is an audio-visual language, but film is also a carrier of culture. If we simply want to promote our film and television cultural works overseas, we may have to abandon some traditional cultural expressions. I think if we can add some modern elements to our film and television works, it will be more conducive to the acceptance of overseas audiences. After all, the aesthetics of foreign cultures is difficult to last for a long time. The most common common memory of mankind is the memory of modernization and industrialization. After all, In ancient times, everyone was an isolated island. The problems and ways of thinking faced by modernization are common to all countries. Of course, behind this requires the support of the film industry. Only with stable output can more blockbusters appear.”

Chen Jingxing mentioned his own thoughts a little bit, but he didn't go deeper. He is not a big shot in the film industry, so if he commented on other directors' works, wouldn't this attract hatred?
The reporter accepted Chen Jingxing as soon as he saw it, and didn't say much, feeling a little regretful in his heart. After all, the interviewee can't be forced to express his opinion, can he?But you can't let this kid go easily.

"Director Chen, there is a very interesting fact that "Comet" was originally an online movie broadcast on Huanshi.com, but it was broadcast on Netflix overseas. Regardless of whether it was domestic or foreign, "Comet" was not released in theaters, but Both have won wide dissemination, and have even become topical works on social media. Now there are such remarks on the Internet, "Comet" is the first successful film work driven by streaming media in the whole process, without traditional film production and distribution in the middle And the participation of theaters, as a person who has experienced it personally, do you think this will be the beginning of the revolution of the Internet or streaming media to the film industry?"

Good guy, this is one pitfall after another, you should ask the president of Netflix and Huanshiwang this question.

The conflict between streaming media and theater chains has already begun, and it has caused heated discussions abroad. In China, many radical Internet company executives have expressed their views on replacing theater chains, but Chen Jingxing does not want to get involved. Benxin said that he himself is a supporter of cinema, and some of the sci-fi blockbusters he plans to shoot in the future are pure cinema works. The characteristic of heavy industrial films is that only in cinemas, what you see is the complete movie.

For example, "Avatar" in the previous life, the effect of watching movies in movie theaters or even giant screens, IMAX is completely different from that of watching movies on computers and mobile phones. To be more serious, these are not the same movie. Chen Jingxing will shoot in the future All the sci-fi blockbusters are without exception born for the cinema, and only in the cinema can the audience feel the shocking effect.

Taking a ten thousand step back, no matter whether Chen Jingxing is optimistic about the future of the cinema or not, he is still far from the status of Xu Zheng in the previous world at this time. This small arm and leg can't afford to offend the cinema.

"I don't agree with the idea of ​​revolution. The next movie I'm preparing is a work co-produced by Huanshi.com and our DreamWorks and distributed in theaters. I think streaming media is actually trying to integrate into the movie industry. I think I also believe that Internet companies will be a powerful supplement to the faster development of the film industry in the future. The process here is not to replace but to integrate and supplement, and of course it will not be a revolution.”

Chen Jingxing tried his best to prevent "Southern People Weekly" from making big news about him.

The reporter was not discouraged when he failed in one hit. It was originally a test. The debate on reducing or even canceling the window period of theaters across the ocean is now very fierce. After all, the window period of Hollywood theaters is three months.

But there is no such controversy in China. First, the window period is short, only 30 days. Secondly, the strength of the domestic Internet platform is also qualitatively different from that of Netflix. The theaters did not feel too much threat. Finally, in 2013 Now, the country supports theaters to expand the number of screens desperately, and the box office market is protected by policies. The so-called streaming media revolution of theaters is just a fashionable international issue in Huaguo at this time.

The intellectual and elegant reporter raised his eyes, and his smile became even sweeter: "You just said that domestic film and television works may need more modern themes if they want to go abroad. There are also some directors in the film and television industry who have similar opinions as you, but for Director Wang Molin pointed out that films with modern themes face more obstacles in review than those with fantasy themes of ancient costume martial arts. Do you agree with Director Wang’s point of view? Do you have any specific suggestions and opinions on the review standards for films with modern themes? ?”

Chen Jingxing almost rolled his eyes, do I have any grudges against you Southern Newspaper?Why are you doing this to me?

(End of this chapter)