The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Although Guoshi's influence in the Chinese film industry has been greatly weakened, the contacts accumulated over the past few decades should not be underestimated.

There are even some that are difficult for DreamWorks to touch.

Especially its academic background.

Lao Mouzi graduated from Jingying.

The main reason why Feng Xiaogang is not recognized as a fifth-generation director is that he was born in Yeluzi.

Usually the fifth generation of directors is defined as directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the 80s.

This is a prerequisite.

You have to be a cultural person, a college student, and a member of the academic circle.

The judges of the Golden Rooster Awards are actually academics.

This is the biggest difference between the Golden Rooster Award and the other two awards.

Throughout the previous Golden Rooster Awards, most of the judges were from colleges.

For example, the list of judges for this year's Golden Rooster Awards has been announced, with a total of 17 people.

The three directors: Yin Li, Li Shaohong, and Cao Baoping all graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.

A screenwriter: Li Qiang, graduated from Central Opera.

Three actors: Pan Hong, Lu Qi, and Wang Jingchun, either from the art troupe or from the Shanghai Academy of Drama.

There are also ten film critics, film technicians, etc., eight of whom have teaching positions at Beijing Film Academy, five associate professors, one professor, one dean of the art department, and one is also the vice president of Beijing Film Academy.

It can be described in one sentence, that is the Beijing Film Academy Gala.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Golden Rooster Award is the academy award of the Beijing Film Academy. Apart from the Beijing Film Academy itself, those who can squeeze into the Golden Rooster Award judges must either be the other two academies, or they must have the identity of the roots, whether it is CCTV, art troupe , the Directors Association, the Writers Association, and the Screenwriters Association must have a serious identity.

Therefore, although Lao Mouzi is not a judge of this year's Golden Rooster Award, he said that this year's Golden Rooster Award will receive three awards, which made Chen Jingxing not take it seriously.

Chen Jingxing said jokingly, "I thought I would have to be tested again."

There is only one person in history who has won the Golden Rooster Award three times, and that is the national teacher.

According to common sense, the Golden Rooster Award will not allow people to achieve such achievements casually.

To be honest, Chen Jingxing didn't care much about the simple best director, even the Golden Rooster Award, the most famous and most concerned award in the Chinese film industry.

But the three seals are different after all, and this weight is quite tempting.

Lao Mouzi sighed: "Actually, it's not that there are such voices saying that it was wrong to give you the best director in 15, and you should suppress it again."

Awards, especially domestic awards, have always attached great importance to qualifications.

This is the same whether it is a movie award or a TV drama award.

Of course, after the arrival of the traffic era, many considerations have been broken.

However, after all, the Golden Rooster Award is not the Hundred Flowers Award, which focuses on popular awards. As an academy award or an elite award, it should be more or less reserved.

Especially directors and actors are different.

The director's ecological position and discourse power are more important and higher, and no one would like young people to grab the class and seize power again and again.

It’s just that because it was still held every two years, in the two years between 13 and 15, DreamWorks came up with the rise of DreamWorks, and three films, “Fatal Identity”, “Signal” and “Source Code” were released in a row.

Not only opened the sci-fi era of domestic films, but also the box office performance is also rising.

"Source Code" snatched back the box office champion of film history from Hollywood movies.

And the key is cultural output.

It happened that the cultural propaganda department began to support the main theme of commercial films that the people are satisfied with, and even multiple central ministries and commissions jointly issued a document to explore, support, and guide the production of a batch of excellent film and television works to hold the cultural position.

I won’t say whether these measures and slogans will work or not, but I am really lucky. As soon as the saplings were planted, they grew fruits, and the cultural propaganda outlets caught the political achievements that fell from the sky.

To be valuable, to have business, to have business, to have cultural output, to have cultural output.

And the subject matter is still a breakthrough science fiction genre.

It can be called a purple star from the sky.

With multiple effects, Chen Jingxing won the first Golden Rooster Best Director trophy with "Signal".

Also made history.

Unexpectedly, two years later, when the Golden Rooster Awards were held again in 17, "Gravity" had already set countless records, created unprecedented influence at home and abroad, and even won it under the operation of Universal Pictures. Oscar for Best Director.

Huaguo's first space movie, the value is also very main theme, and it has won almost all the awards at home and abroad.

For the Golden Rooster Awards, which are held every two years and are really lagging behind, the situation is quite passive.

The atmosphere has already been heightened to that point, just waiting for you to shiver.

If the Golden Rooster Award is not given, it will be a big upset.

That's why Chen Jingxing won the best director consecutively after Zhang Yimou.

That's why the problem of the Golden Rooster Award came so quickly.

After changing from 17 to once a year, everyone thought that this moment would come sooner or later, after all, Chen Jingxing was still at the peak of his creation.

I didn't expect that when this day came, it would be so hard to refuse.

If it weren't for Chen Jingxing being too young, the Golden Rooster Award might have wished to give him a lifetime achievement award to dismiss him.

""Interstellar" is too perfect..." Lao Mouzi said softly.

"Interstellar" is indeed quite in line with the academic appetite.

"Interstellar" is a near-perfect movie. This kind of evaluation was not only publicly praised by the National Teacher, but also Chen Kaige once said so.

"Whether it's the lens language or humanistic care, as well as the progressive bedding of images and emotions, they are all impeccable."

As for the degree of hard core of science fiction, whether it is in line with science, and whether there are bugs, it is not the focus of the academic school. In fact, the film evaluation education system in China does not pay attention to these.

It can be seen that the fifth-generation directors like it so much.

Lao Mouzi's words were extremely firm: "'Interstellar' getting all the previous twelve nominations already represents a certain attitude of the organizing committee, and the judges will not understand."

The reason why the Golden Rooster Awards select judges are basically based on academics and within the system, and it is also to better convey the intentions of the competent authorities.

This is also the reason why it has been criticized repeatedly.

The Golden Rooster Award Organizing Committee has already expressed its attitude by giving "Interstellar" such a grand treatment, and the judges can naturally understand it.

Maybe some people don't like Chen Jingxing, or they don't want Chen Jingxing to achieve such an achievement too soon - after all, they can realize that the level of the film and the talent of the director are one and the same. Another matter.

The idea of ​​"give young people more grinding" or advocate "seniority ranking" that is prevalent in many industries is generally based on the subtle psychology of the elderly who have the right to speak.

To put it bluntly, it is also human nature that "a daughter-in-law has been boiled for many years to become a mother-in-law".

But the attitude of the competent department is here, no matter how dissatisfied, they have to hold their noses and admit it.

After being so determined by the national teacher to "explore the question", Chen Jingxing couldn't help but feel a little bit depressed after the secret excitement.

He could only complain to himself in his heart: "Sure enough, people are cheap."

Just like how we publicized the Golden Globes and Oscars with Universal back then, even if we are still uncertain before the Oscars are drawn, many things will lose their attractiveness once they are disenchanted.

The discussion on the Golden Rooster Awards was over, and Lao Mouzi, who loves movies, turned the topic to movies again. Of course, whether "King Kong River" is a hero or a bear can be seen at the premiere soon, so we are still talking about each other's projects.

In particular, Zhang Yimou is about to co-direct the gift film "Sniper" with his precious daughter, and it will start shooting in November.

"...The reason why I made up my mind to make "Sniper" actually has something to do with you."

"It has something to do with me?"

Lao Mouzi nodded: "Isn't the first part of your "[-]" shot from the perspective of two ordinary soldiers? "Sniper" is also a movie with such a small angle.

I had this idea at the beginning of the year. I wanted to dig deeper and focus more on the subject of the Korean War, and avoid shooting all-out war and grand narrative content.

At that time, I was looking for someone to write the script, but Guoying didn't quite agree. Lao Jiang also called me several times, saying that it was somewhat perfunctory for me to make a movie like this. It will be difficult for me to get a good schedule for this kind of movie.

I said what status I am, how many years ago, there are so many war movies with big scenes, and I can shoot better effects than others?
After "The Great Wall", I have made a decision. At this age, I will shoot what I want, and I will not do any big projects. The pressure is too high, and the money is less now. If I screw up, someone will vote for me. what?

But even though I think so, there are still all kinds of voices persuading you around, making people unable to make up their minds. After hearing about your project, I really want to open it.

Even a top commercial director like you is willing to make this kind of film that depicts the subtleties of war. How dare I, a half-destroyed veteran, show off and put on airs. "

Lao Mouzi's words were both relaxed and sincere, but Chen Jingxing sighed secretly, saying that he was the national teacher.

The fifth generation of directors, Zhang Yimou is indeed the only one.

When discussing the possibility of the Golden Rooster Award and his three awards before, Lao Mouzi's tone was completely devoid of any sourness towards young people catching up from behind and equaling the brilliant achievements he had created.

This can be explained by generosity, or high realm.

Of course, with the honor he has won, he is also qualified to be open-minded and indifferent to the Golden Rooster Award.

But Guoshi's love for movies is really admirable.

Chen Jingxing is recognized as a fast shooter and a model worker, basically maintaining the rhythm of three movies in two years.

But now in Huaguo's film industry, the only one who can compare with Chen Jingxing's "diligence" is the National Teacher.

"Above the Cliff", "Sturdy as a Rock", "Sniper", and "Man Jianghong", the schedule of the four films is so full that it is staggering, especially considering that this is a director who is over 70 years old.

For a successful and famous director who is getting older and older, this creative passion and creative energy are simply full of frightening.

Moreover, the scope of its films, such as local, martial arts, comedy, fantasy, history, war, spy war, and love, is too wide, and even set foot in the new field of police suspense.

The older I get, the more open I am.

The style of Chen Jingxing's films is already considered open. The media even praised Chen Jingxing's changeable style, but he still sticks to science fiction themes. Of course, he has touched the theme of war now.

Compared with the national teacher, it is insignificant again. Regardless of the quality, this pioneering spirit is enough to make people stare. Moreover, although the quality of the national teacher's works since "The Great Wall" cannot be said to be excellent, it is definitely in the works. above standard.

Just from this conversation, Chen Jingxing couldn't feel that he was communicating with an old man in his seventies.

Perhaps Lao Mouzi has no extraordinary talent in script creation—among outstanding directors—but his thinking speed is quite fast, and he can accept different ideas and ideas. Chen Jingxing is discussing with him some recent films at home and abroad At that time, the generation gap was basically not felt.

It's a pity that the pleasant communication came to an abrupt end after the beginning of "King Kong River".

Lao Mouzi and he are the kind of people who are very serious about movies, especially such a heavyweight movie from a famous director that everyone pays attention to.