The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 516 Guan Hu's Invitation

In recent years, Da Guangming Cinema has been an important theater that undertakes the film screenings of the Shanghai Film Festival, especially the opening films, which are basically screened in this theater.

However, the scene of the opening film screening of this year's Magic City Film Festival is obviously much higher.

Basically, all the celebrities who have walked the red carpet before gathered here, as well as a large number of directors and producers, who vividly screened the opening films of the film festival like a premiere ceremony.

Although many of the opening films in the history of the Shanghai Film Festival are upcoming commercial films, it is the first time that a film of such weight as "The Wandering Earth" has been released.

Guo Fan and the main creator of the film are the busiest, always surrounded by media reporters.

Since the blockbuster "Spike II" in the summer vacation of the previous year, Wu Jing has only received two gift films, "My [-]" and "Shuimen Bridge", and they have not yet been released. Prepare the script of "Spike III" and prepare for shooting.

But even if he is a little low-key, he is the well-deserved ace star of "The Wandering Earth", and he is the most eye-catching.

Self-directed and self-acted set the box office record in Huaguo film history. This achievement is enough to make an actor a superstar, and the silence of the past two years will not make him lose his luster.

In addition, the commercial value and exposure of Bai Yu, the leading actor of "The Wandering Earth", has also improved a lot since "Inception".

Not to mention Zhao Jinmai, "The Walking Dead" made her famous beyond the competition of her age, catching up with Yan Xiaoyue.

The lineup of "The Wandering Earth" is enough to be described as star-studded, and it has been the protagonist of the media and the camera since walking on the red carpet.

It is also speechless to say that today, from the red carpet to the opening ceremony, and then to the opening film screening, the main film creators such as Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan did not even say a word.

Of course, Guo Fan and the others took most of the attention away, Chen Jingxing did feel a lot more relaxed, and met Guan Hu in the theater lobby.

As a century-old store, Daguangming Cinema has the largest cinema lobby and the largest cinema art gallery in China, which is why many premieres and film festival screenings like to be held here.

Guan Hu is the director of "Eight Hundred Apocalypses". Because he has never competed with "The Wandering Earth" for the opening film of the film festival, the relationship between these two directors may be delicate in the eyes of outsiders.

So when Guan Hu walked over, the company bosses and celebrities surrounding Chen Jingxing also wisely left a one-on-one space for the two of them—mainly because DreamWorks had three new dramas, although there were still three new dramas. It has not been filed, but the industry basically knows it. Of course, good resources must be obtained quickly. In the entertainment industry, luck and opportunity are the most important. If you can win a role, you may be able to rise in one step.

Chen Jingxing and Guan Hu didn't meet much, but they met and communicated on many occasions, so they were still very warm on the surface.

Chen Jingxing was also a little curious about Guan Hu taking the initiative to talk to him.

Although in the eyes of most of the audience, Guan Hu's status is clearly inferior to Chen Jingxing's, but he is now considered a leading domestic director.

Although the career of this first-generation ghost director in Huaguo has been somewhat bumpy, he is far less successful than the second-generation ghost director Ning Hao and the third-generation ghost director Chen Jingxing. However, after Feng Xiaogang began to retreat to the second line, he has now become the No. Otherwise, he would not be able to helm a blockbuster movie with a cost of more than 5 million yuan like "Eight Hundred Revelations".

There are many people who want to come to him, there is really no need to take the initiative to come to Chen Jingxing.

After all, Chen Jingxing's own [-] million blockbuster film was supposed to be able to show his face at the Magic Capital Film Festival, but Cheng Yaojin came out and snatched the opening film, which disrupted the rhythm of the announcement. It is also impossible.

No one really cares about face.

Sure enough, Guan Hu revealed his true intentions in a few words.

It turned out that Chen Jingxing was invited to join his new project.

The tribute task piece explained above, the Battle of Jincheng.

Originally, this proposition was intended to be pressured on Chen Jingxing, but President Jiang of China Film Group was fooled back by Chen Jingxing's big picture.

Unexpectedly, it was Guan Hu who went round and round.

This is consistent with the development of the plane in the previous life, but a year earlier.

Maybe the review of "Apocalypse Eight Hundred" has something to do with Guan Hu's acceptance of this proposition.

Could it be that Guan Hu had the same idea again?
"The Battle of Jincheng..." Chen Jingxing pretended to be curious: "Could it be possible that Director Guan wants to make a platter movie?"

Guan Hu replied mysteriously and excitedly: "It's not a platter movie, Lao Zhao, Zhao Ningyu's idea, I want to shoot some new ideas, after much deliberation, Lao Zhao and I feel that if Director Chen joins, it will be a good idea." It's not necessarily that the movie can't be a war classic."

Zhao Ningyu is also a bigwig in the Beijing circle, a professor of Beijing Film, a member of the Film Theory Working Committee, the deputy director of the Criticism Research Department of the Critics Society, a director of the National Dramatists Association, and the deputy secretary-general of the Directors Committee and Screenwriters Committee.

Many screenwriters and producers of Jingying Films cannot do without him.

Obviously, Guan Hu also felt that it was difficult after receiving this proposition composition, so he brought in this big boss to help out.

Chen Jingxing pretended to think about it and asked tentatively, "Isn't the director Guan going to shoot the defense battle of the King Kong River wooden bridge before the Battle of Jincheng?"

Guan Hu couldn't hide the astonishment on his face for a moment: "I haven't even come out with the script yet..."

This is how to guess it.

Chen Jingxing had an expression of "Did I really guess it?": "If it was me who took the picture, I would also choose this part to make a fuss about."

Regardless of how the filming of "King Kong River" in the previous life was, Chen Jingxing actually approved of Guan Hu's choice of this angle to cut in.

Because the Battle of Jincheng was the last major battle of the Korean War, and the opponent was mainly the Southern Dynasty Army, and achieved a brilliant victory, such a subject matter is actually not easy to make into a movie.

Today's war action movies are no longer suitable for war movies with a grand perspective like "Armageddon".

To choose a plot suitable for visualization, under the bombing of the enemy, a small engineer company repaired, defended, and reconstructed the important passages for material personnel-this point of the King Kong River Wooden Bridge is very suitable for movie stories, and it is easy to use The small sees the big, and the rhythm is tense and exciting enough.

Of course, the right entry point does not mean that the final presentation will be excellent.

Guan Hu looked complicated, but soon regained his excitement: "It seems that we are heroes who see the same thing."

Chen Jingxing had the same idea as him, which strengthened his confidence in the idea of ​​writing this script.

"It is indeed the chosen story, but the idea of ​​Lao Zhao and I is to use multi-angle and multi-perspective narratives. The time is the story of crossing the bridge from that afternoon to the next morning. We will tell a story three times from three perspectives!
From the three perspectives of infantry, U.S. military pilots, and gunners, and finally converge on the bridge, different perspectives combine different styles of different directors to give the audience a more novel viewing experience. "

Sometimes multi-line narrative can indeed make a film show a more novel viewing experience.

Among domestic directors who are good at multi-line narrative, Chen Jingxing is definitely the number one. His first theatrical film "Fatal Identity" is a multi-line narrative. The three lines of police pursuit, murderer's escape in reality and personality battle royale in his brain are synchronized. carried out, and deceived many viewers.

The two film and television versions of "Signal", "Mirage" and the animated film "Your Name" also show multi-line narratives. Although the director of these films is not Chen Jingxing, he is included in the list of screenwriters, and most people agree that this This brain-burning style is indeed Chen Jingxing's specialty.

And if before "Inception" was released, Ning Hao could still stand against Chen Jingxing in terms of multi-line narrative, after "Inception" was released, in terms of multi-line narrative, Chen Jingxing was undoubtedly the number one in China.

Guan Hu invited Chen Jingxing because of his talent in multi-line narrative, and another director wanted to invite Guo Fan, and the three of them worked together to make a war movie with multi-line narrative.

Chen Jingxing himself likes multi-line narratives, and he is quite optimistic about Guan Hu's idea.

In the previous world, the time was too tight, the script was obviously rough, and there were many repeated shots in the film, which was actually on the passing line.

At this time, Guan Hu took over the task a year in advance, and the preparation time was sufficient. Carefully polishing the script may not necessarily make a good movie.

But Chen Jingxing really didn't have time, so he had no choice but to decline.

"Director Guan, you also know that I'm filming "Interstellar", and it will take at least three months to finish..."

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry for this movie, it's okay to join after you finish filming."

Chen Jingxing showed a helpless expression: "After the filming of "Interstellar" is finished, I can't take it easy. I also have two tasks on me."

Guan Hu asked suspiciously: "Is it "Li Yannian"? Is this movie directed by you?"

Although Chen Jingxing drew a total of three big pies when explaining his secrets to President Jiang of the National Film and Television Corporation, currently only "Li Yannian" has been filed, and the director is not Chen Jingxing, and "[-]" has not yet been filed, and Jiang Ruoping has not disclosed it to the outside world. .

So Guan Hu didn't know about Chen Jingxing's bold plan to make an unprecedented "one shot to the end" (pseudo) war movie.

Of course, Chen Jingxing didn't intend to make "One Shot to the End" public, his own fame is enough to become a movie gimmick.

The first non-sci-fi film directed by Chen Jingxing, the first war film, is already very topical, and there is no need to expose the real gimmick prematurely.

Guan Hu has a little understanding of the already filed gift films. The brief introduction of "Li Yannian" is how the fighting hero Li Yannian withstood the enemy's repeated counterattacks and regained the 346.6 highland. I feel that this story is a bit small and too ordinary.

He and many people in Jingying thought that DreamWorks was simply dealing with the tasks assigned by the higher-ups. After all, Chen Jingxing had never made a war movie.

"It's not "Li Yannian". It's another gift film. It hasn't been approved yet, but the script is already being created."

It seems that Chen Jingxing really received the task, and that's right, who among the top leaders in the country didn't receive the task.

Afterwards, he couldn't help feeling a bit of sympathy. The movie with the main theme of Chaozhan was really difficult to make, and he himself was a little bit burnt out.

However, although Guan Hu was a little disappointed that Chen Jingxing could not join, he was still very confident in the project he had planned. In China, Chen Jingxing was not the only one who was good at multi-line narrative. There was no Butcher Chen, but Butcher Ning and Butcher Xin.

(End of this chapter)