The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 359 Mr. Dongguo
Friday, July 2016, 12.

He Yinglin gasped as she looked at the computer screen, embarrassing her in the advanced stage of cancer, she immediately had an attack.

The roommates around her either covered their mouths or were dumbfounded.

"It's too embarrassing..."

"Fuck, is it true or not, so rigid?"

"So handsome, he looks like a domineering president."

He Yinglin rolled her eyes, ignoring her nympho roommate, and continued to stare at the computer screen. Although she was embarrassed and had cancer, there seemed to be a strange magic that prevented her from looking away.

The camera on the screen focused on a handsome young man sitting on the seat, that's right, it was Chen Jingxing.

Chen Jingxing swore that he did not have an acting personality, but he really couldn't contain his anger.

After more than two months of preparation and a large number of submissions, after the preliminary selection, a total of 35 directors were shortlisted for the main competition. They were divided into seven groups of five, and the programs were recorded in batches.

Everyone submits their own topic, applies for funding from DreamWorks, and has one month to shoot their own work. The work should be no less than 5 minutes and no longer than 30 minutes. The introduction will be divided into seven episodes.

In each episode, in addition to playing the short films submitted by the director before, and then playing the works shot in the past month, the director and actors will go on stage to receive comments from the judges, and the audience will ask questions. Professional and non-professional audiences will vote to select the star of tomorrow in this episode. .

After all the seven episodes have passed, three awards of gold, silver and bronze will be selected from a total of 35 works based on the audience and online voting. The awards will be presented in the eighth episode, and Chen Jingxing will announce that 35 directors will be selected from the 5 directors. To be responsible for the shooting of the five stories of "Black Mirror II".

The entire program flow was relatively perfect, but unexpectedly, there was an accident in the first episode of the program.

The third director to appear is Fan Cunyan. His work is a 20-minute sci-fi short film called "Black Box". The story obviously pays tribute to "Fatal Identity" and talks about the treatment of schizophrenia.

What makes Chen Jingxing angry is not the name "Black Box" which is similar to "Black Mirror" - Fan Cunyan's explanation is that the human brain is a black box, which is very mysterious, so the name is not too far-fetched.

It is not a tribute to "Fatal Identity", which is of course allowed. Many of the short films shot by the directors are inspired by classic movies, and being paid tribute will only make people happy. I am afraid that Fan Cunyan named "Black Box" and paid tribute to it. "Fatal Identity" was intended to please Chen Jingxing.

It's not even that the short film was badly shot, it's a bit of an insult to the creativity, making Chen Jingxing unable to even feel the joy of being paid tribute, but it's not that bad short films are not allowed.

What surprised Chen Jingxing, Tian Xinye and other judges was that the quality of this short film, which took a month and cost 140 million yuan provided by DreamWorks, was far from the quality of the short film that Fan Cunyan signed up for.

The work Fan Cunyan signed up for is a very simple short film of less than 10 minutes. It tells the story of a woman who lost her child and walked around the city looking for her child. Although the picture is very rough, it seems to be shot with a mobile phone Yes, but you can see the language of the camera, and it can bring people into a woman's perspective.

Moreover, the time of the short film is fragmented, seemingly messy, but actually orderly, and the level is quite high.

Even Tian Xinye rated this short film as being among the top five among the 35 selected applicants.

The registered short film was also broadcast on the big screen at the recording site before the director appeared, followed by Fan Cunyan's "Black Box", which took a month to shoot.

Maybe some non-professional audiences didn't see it, but professional audiences could clearly see the huge gap in level. The four judges, Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan, were also very surprised.

After Chen Jingxing and Tian Xinye looked at each other, he asked a question in a tentative and deep voice.

"Did you shoot the short film you signed up for?"

Although Fan Cunyan insisted that he took the picture, Chen Jingxing caught the panic in his eyes.

Guo Fan and the other three judges were a little overwhelmed. Obviously, they didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, and they didn't want to expose it directly.

This is a variety show, so it's better to just fool around.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jingxing did not meet Guo Fan's comforting eyes, but continued to make moves, preparing to expose the liar.

The 140 million he spent was DreamWorks' money!Rounding up is Chen Jingxing's money!

Moreover, Chen Jingxing and others spent a lot of time and effort to select the 35 directors who were shortlisted for the main competition from so many entries. Wouldn't it be nice for him to spend time with his wife?Isn't it good to perfect the script?Wouldn't it be better to start filming "Matrix II" directly?

This is a direct insult to his labor achievements. Chen Jingxing can't suppress this unknown fire at all, and he doesn't want to suppress it. The rapid rise of his status in recent years has also made him lack of patience.

So Chen Jingxing turned his head to look at the director in the audience, and calmly said: "Play his documentary!"

Each director who shoots the competition works has a production team with him. At that time, the process of each director's preparation and shooting of short films will be edited into a short documentary and played. It can also be regarded as a way for the audience to see how the directors shot the competition works.

And the level of the director named Fan Cunyan in the documentary was exposed even more thoroughly. He had no opinion at all, the script was edited and revised, and even the actors couldn't stand it so much that they took the lead.

Then it became Chen Jingxing's performance. He asked Fan Cunyan a few questions about the short film he had signed up for, including where it was shot, what was the inspiration, and what was expressed by a certain shot.

Under Chen Jingxing's offensive, Fan Cunyan still couldn't hold back, exposing the true face of Mr. Dong Guo. The short film he signed up for was a graduation work bought at a high price from someone who had graduated from the central opera for a long time.

Didn't expect this person to be so courageous, thinking that the filming of the competition works would pay homage to Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks to succeed in speculation?
However, Chen Jingxing didn't scold people directly, although he wanted to scold in his heart, he just sneered and signaled to the director: "Next!"

However, this change not only caught the director and program crew by surprise, but naturally also shocked the audience inexplicably.

Of course, there are also the audience in front of the computer and mobile phone screens who watched the first episode of the program two days later.

After He Yinglin survived the embarrassing scene of the cancer attack, she said in shock: "I didn't expect Director Chen to have this side."

Since Chen Jingxing's debut, the interviews or interviews he has accepted have basically been in a humorous and relaxed style. I have never seen the appearance of full firepower, full of momentum, calmly questioning, and giving orders with a sneer.

It really looks like the domineering president that my roommate said.

The barrage was obviously also surprised by this paragraph, which set off a climax of discussion.

[Director Chen is really awesome, he was amiable at the beginning, I didn’t realize it, and suddenly started to question, nm exposed it in a few words]

[It’s so immersive, it feels like I’m interviewing, and my heart beats faster]

[The other judges have also started to be strict, dare to speak, great, I like to catch horses]

[This is no more exciting than any idol talent show! ? 】

[It's just a show at first glance, it's been discussed earlier, this is not a live broadcast but a recorded broadcast, why don't you cut it when something like this happens]

[NC, what is the status of director Chen, do you need to show off for the broadcast volume of this program? 】

[I think the judges, including Director Chen, are quite sincere and straightforward in their speeches]

[That is, the directors shortlisted for the main competition are basically not well-known, it's really true, I feel that this show is really a clean stream]

"Directors Tian and Director Guo have already mentioned other issues with this work, so let me add.

The performance of the actors is a big shortcoming. It stands to reason that the three actors are all insiders who have acted in film and television dramas. This level of performance is too low. I don’t want to directly criticize the actors here.

As a director, have you explained the tricks to the actors?Did you direct the actors' performances?Did you just pass it by acting like this?I have always believed that the director is the fundamental reason that determines what level of performance an actor can dedicate on the big screen or on the screen.

If the director has no requirements for the performance, the actors will naturally be perfunctory, and the play is made..."

A man wearing glasses and slightly bald at the sideburns, about 50 years old, looked at the young man talking on the TV screen and asked, "Is he Chen Jingxing?"

Wen Zhian stared at the TV screen and nodded nervously: "Yes, he filmed "Gravity" and "Matrix" that I took you to the cinema to watch."

"That's amazing." The middle-aged woman sitting next to me exclaimed, "The last time you told me about this director named Chen Jingxing, I thought he must be at least 60 or [-] years old, so young? It looks like you It's almost the same, you can be a judge at such a young age..."

"This young director Chen has a level of speech, hits the nail on the head, and is not perfunctory, very sincere, and a serious person. No wonder he can achieve such great achievements at such a young age." Wen Zhian's father said with emotion.

Wen Zhian's mother overheard his wife's words, and said, "You're not a professional, yet you can tell the truth?"

"Hey, why can't you see this? It's not that I haven't watched TV dramas and movies. There are some truths that you will understand when people talk about it."

Wen Zhian's father turned to look at his son after finishing speaking: "How are you doing, are you confident?"

"No." Wen Zhian didn't hide his nervousness.

He didn't expect that his original whim would have an echo. The staff of DreamWorks informed him that he had passed the primary election, and the news of entering the main match made him ecstatic.

Wen Zhian also resigned directly from the company. After all, he will spend a month shooting competition works, and with the exposure of the program, even if he does not win the gold award or be selected by DreamWorks, he is still far away from his dream of making a movie. A big step forward.

He was assigned to the seventh group. The filming of the competition works has been finished, and the seventh episode has not yet been recorded. Seeing the dramatic plot in the first episode, and the sharp comments and questions from several judges and professional audiences, made him even more nervous up.

Wen Zhian's parents also changed their attitude because of this. Not only was his son able to appear on the show and appear in front of hundreds of millions of people, but DreamWorks also directly allocated more than 100 million funds for his son to shoot some competition works.

Has his son's director's dream really come true for him?
(End of this chapter)