Huayu, my wife, I support myself

Chapter 250 251. Harvest 【Subscription】

In the 90s and [-]s, Xiangcheng movies could be said to be all the rage.

It is very popular throughout Asia, but in the late 90s, Hong Kong films were rapidly deteriorating, and the local market was no longer good, so many Hong Kong actors and directors chose to go north to the mainland to develop.

Compared with actors, the films made by Xiangcheng directors in the mainland are even more embarrassing. Some directors who made many classic movies in Hong Kong in the last century have become professionals in bad movies in the mainland.

These directors either keep copying cold food, repeating the things they filmed in Hong Kong before.

Such as Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, etc., are all recidivists.

One is either unaccustomed to the climate, and if the filming is not good, it can belong to the subject matter of the mainland.

For example, Climber, everything else is good, but the director is from Hong Kong, so it collapsed in the end, and the reason why the fresh meat business is rotten, besides the participation of many fresh meat, there is also a big reason why the director is from Xiangcheng.

There are basically few Xiangcheng directors who can control themes that are exclusive to the mainland, that is, they can't be grounded. Even if they can make good movies in the mainland, they are themes such as action, martial arts, and gun battles that Hong Kong directors are good at.

For example, Old Freak Xu and Lin Chaoxian.

However, Chen Kexin can be said to be an exception among the directors who went north to Xiangcheng. He has filmed several films in the mainland with unique themes. He is not only grounded but also has a good reputation.

For example, "Chinese Partner" and "Dear" later, it is hard to believe that this was actually filmed by a Xiangcheng director.

Although some movies still have many slots and shortcomings.

But overall the filming is okay, and the balance between realistic documentary and fictional exaggeration is not bad. It can be said that among the Xiangcheng directors who developed in the mainland, Chen Kexin is relatively down-to-earth.

Chen Kexin is good at expressing commercial discourse with secular stories and grassroots characters, embodying the appeal of commercial value, and expressing elite thinking with the theme of the film, thus completing the stitching of commerciality and artistry.

At the same time, it deconstructs the traditional historicist view of reality in the way of new historicist narration, and interprets history from multiple perspectives and angles from the life experiences of small characters and historical anecdotes from the perspective of the secular public, and performs commercial expression. It reflects its traditional values, life ideals, life meaning, and humanistic feelings, so that commerciality and artistry interpenetrate and are reflected in the works, which are unanimously respected by mainstream culture, elite culture and mass culture.

"Movies don't care about form."

On the stage at the moment, Chen Kexin is talking about his understanding of the film.

"Commercial films, literary films and even documentaries can be injected with the director's emotions, but the outside world understands it as the style of a certain director. In fact, I think the director without style is the most powerful director."

With that said, Chen Kexin turned his gaze to Lu Chen's side.

After a pause, he continued: "In this regard, I admire Director Lu Chen more..."

Lu Chen was taken aback for a moment.

The camera's reaction was not slow, and immediately projected Lu Chen's opponent's portrait onto the big screen.

As a result, many people saw Lu Chen's stunned expression instantly.

At this moment, Lu Chen is like a student caught by the teacher,
Somewhat at a loss.

Looking around.

"Director Lu Chen, don't be nervous."

Chen Kexin said with a smile: "Although we will become rivals in the future, this does not hinder my personal liking. After "Shark Beach" was released, I watched it many times at home and gained a lot."

Lu Chen smiled.

The reporters at the scene kept taking pictures, which was the recognition of Lu Chen by the older generation of directors.

After Chen Kexin finished speaking,

Then it was Old Monster Xu's turn.

After Mr. Xu went up, he also flattered Lu Chen for a while.

The outside world must be very interested in this kind of thing.

After all, there will be gossip about the relationship between these powerful directors from time to time on the Internet.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten minutes passed.

It was finally Lu Chen's turn to play, as the youngest of the powerful directors.

Lu Chen must be at the end.

Even if the organizer puts Lu Chen at the front, Lu Chen has to respect the old and love the young.

"The organizer should arrange me to sit with several other directors, so that I won't be suddenly frightened by the names of the seniors..."

The people in the audience laughed.

Then Lu Chen raised his voice again and said, "Thank you for the praise from the seniors, this kid is a little flattered..."

The atmosphere at the scene was a bit good.

When the camera was shown to several directors, several directors also showed satisfied smiles.

Lu Chen cleared his throat.Kaikai started to talk about the business: "Thank you for the invitation of the Huabiao Award, I will just talk about my thoughts here."

"Don't think about it, the future will definitely be the era of blockbuster movies. If you want to fight against the invasion of Hollywood commercial blockbusters, the investment in domestic blockbusters must increase. Big investment will bring big returns. We can't expect an ordinary urban police movie to fight against superhero blockbusters. The innate gap is too great.”

"Everyone should have seen it. In recent years, movies have become increasingly innovative. Compared with others, I am more optimistic about the development of movie technology. You should have noticed that whether it is "Eight Hundred" or "Shark Beach". There are a lot of film techniques."

"Although my company has a department specializing in special effects, compared with the West, we have lagged behind a lot. For example, various superhero blockbusters that have attracted attention in China are the best examples, while most of our domestic films are still Staying on the simple Diaoweiya, limited blockbusters, and more chose to co-produce with the West. This kind of shooting method will inevitably lead to our Chinese-language films being at a disadvantage in the competition of the global film industry."

"It cannot be said that blockbuster special effects are the way out for our Chinese-language films, but blockbuster special effects must be the cornerstone of supporting the film market, and these are what our domestic directors need to learn and explore..."

Lu Chen's words were meant for the directors in the audience.

It is also for the organizers to listen to.

What he meant was simple.

Only commercial special effects blockbusters can support the domestic film market.

Art films don't work at all.

In the past few years, Huaguo's film and television industry has broken historical records time and time again.

From a scale of less than [-] billion to now faintly ranking the largest film market in the world, it can be said that Huaguo Film has made great progress.

But the problem we are facing now is how to find a road of film industrialization suitable for Huaguo?
How to improve the industrialization level of Huaguo's film industry and make it comparable to Hollywood?
As we all know, the wave of the Hollywood film industry has swept the world, but the current film industrialization in Huaguo is still in its infancy.

Most of Huaguo's film industry is scattered small forces, and these forces cannot be gathered together to produce mature industrialized films.

Because the traditional leader effect is no longer available, everyone is relying on their own cognition to make film and television, relying on personal experience and ability to make choices and judgments about the current environment, just like organized actions and personal unconscious risks. worlds apart.

Therefore, if Huaguo wants to upgrade from a big film country to a film powerhouse, a mature and perfect film industrialization system is the key.

This contains the support, promotion and protection of industry organizations and public power.

The people in the audience listened carefully.

In fact, the country is also arguing recently, what is the most correct way to go in the country.

Especially after Lu Chen's "Shark Beach" entered Hollywood.

The online quarrel is even more fierce.

The most debated topic is nothing more than can money-burning special effects movies still make money?

Is there a higher ceiling for the film market?

Lu Chen's meaning is very simple.
That is his advocacy of blockbusters.

Some people in the audience were thoughtful.

Some scoffed.

When the camera showed the national teacher and the others, they were all lost in thought.

Obviously, they also agree with Lu Chen's theory.

Now the domestic film market is not what it used to be.

It is definitely no problem to support several blockbuster films at the same time.

After Lu Chen stepped down.

Some people came to the stage. This kind of scene is for everyone to come and exchange ideas.

Therefore, everyone is more relaxed.

Just say what you want.

After another half an hour, the speech finally came to an end.

The media also started recording the program.

At this moment, the five major video websites in China have started the live broadcast of the Huabiao Awards Ceremony.

The host takes the stage.

When the awards ceremony started, Yu Long quietly gave Lu Chen a thumbs up: "Director Lu, you are so brave!"

Lu Chen shook his head helplessly.

That's right.

There is another layer of meaning to what Lu Chen said.

That is to say to the organizers of the other two awards. Through these words, I expressed my dissatisfaction.

However, he can only say hello.

Awards are biased towards literary films.

This is not only at home, but also abroad.

About this.

Lu Chen couldn't say anything at all, which is why some people scoffed.

What is the most important thing about commercial films is the rhythm, picture processing, narrative advancement, etc.

These are things that are very in line with the audience's viewing habits. To put it simply, the audience will not be bored watching this kind of movie.

At the same time, because of the down-to-earth issues reflected in the subject matter and the plot, this often arouses public opinion from the audience.

However, what Lu Chen said was quite reasonable.

Instead of supporting literary films, commercial films should be supported.

Domestic audiences complain all day long that domestic films are dead. In fact, it’s not that literary and artistic films are dead. On the contrary, literary and artistic films are very good because of ecological reasons.

Because few people watch it.

And the commercial films that the audience liked to watch failed to meet their requirements.

That's why he said that.

After all, ordinary people don't like to watch literary films.It is mainly commercial films, as well as commercial drama films and genre films that support the film industry.

Especially the commercial drama films that reflect realistic themes, anyway, movies like "I'm Not the God of Medicine" will not work.

The audience of this literary film has always been very small. For this type of film, commercial drama films and commercial special effects blockbusters are the mainstream films in the market. The rich genre films can satisfy the public opinion trend of literary youth and movie fans. This commercial drama film can even be used as a real public opinion. The relief is also the most popular with audiences and comments, commercial blockbusters are purely entertainment products.

The problem of domestic movies is more like that of Chinese music. Do netizens scold the Chinese music scene all the time, and miss the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene before. In fact, the mainstream popularity is not good. Independent music such as literary and artistic films have been played well, and there are many great masters, but ordinary people don't listen to them, public opinion is in their hands, and capital repeatedly pushes these things based on public opinion.

The above is that if there is no accident, they will be too lazy to take care of it, and if there is an accident, they will be one size fits all, and finally form a vicious circle.

This reason is more complicated, and it can be roughly explained as a triple squeeze caused by historical reasons.

The audience is not well educated in aesthetics, and they are used to reporting cultural problems when they encounter them;
Once the above cultural works have public opinion, they will be across the board.

Because capital only wants to make money because it is in control,

The continuous extrusion of cultural products by the three parties has caused the main popular culture to become like this.

"It's no use!"

Xie Han continued, "Didn't you see that many people scoffed? They didn't think what Lu Chen said was wrong, they just felt that Director Lu used this method to express dissatisfaction. In their opinion, some of them couldn't get on the stage. .”

"I didn't even want to be on stage, it was just pure oral sex."

Lu Chen smiled and said: "I just want to remind the higher-ups that it is necessary to support commercial films, at least not suppress them, if everyone goes to make literary films, then such a huge domestic market can only be harvested by foreign blockbusters. "

"It seems to be the same thing."

Yu Long nodded.

Lu Chen's meaning is very simple, even if it is not encouraged, it cannot be suppressed.

After all, commercial special effects blockbusters are the cornerstone of the film market.

If there is no cornerstone.

This market will soon wither away.

Literary films cannot support such a huge film market.

"Then Director Lu is going to make a literary film?" At this moment, Yang Mi asked in a low voice.

Listening to this tone, Yang Mi seemed to have guessed what Lu Chen was thinking.

Lu Chen said: "Yes, they made me very unhappy this time, so I plan to make them very unhappy next year."

Well, Lu Chen is going to show those directors who sniffed at him just now to see his strength.

"So, Director Lu plans to sweep all major domestic awards next year?" Yu Long asked directly.

"Maybe. I haven't thought about it yet. Let's finish filming "Fast and Furious 1" first. I am planning to shoot "Fast and Furious 1" as a series, so I can't mess it up."

Yu Long nodded slightly.

He also knew about this.

Yang Mi's eyes revealed anticipation when she heard this.

She vaguely felt that Lu Chen had countless big plans in his heart.

Perhaps "Fast and Furious 1" is the beginning of this grand plan.

She is also looking forward to what kind of scenery she will experience in the future.

However, she didn't realize that she might be thinking too much.

future landscape.

Lu Chen didn't say that he would take her with him.

While Lu Chen and the others were chatting off the stage, the awards ceremony on stage was also going on.

The awards were given out one by one by the guests interspersed with the words of the host.

Interspersed with speeches of different degrees of excitement of the winners.

The audience responded with applause from time to time.

The initial awards are average.

The further you get to the back, the higher the weight of the award.

Among them, the awards for which Yu Long and Xie Han were nominated have also been announced.

No accidents.

Both of them went up to the stage excitedly and took down the two cups.

This made many stars and directors present turn their attention to Lu Chen.

It seems to be the rhythm of Hundred Flowers Awards and Golden Rooster Awards again.

Could it be that Lu Chen and Lu Chen are going to return empty-handed again.

Such thoughts appeared in the minds of countless people.

In this regard.

Lu Chen was not surprised at all.

All the works that participated in the competition were unrivaled in the other two awards.

Same here.

When the two took down the two cups.

Both Yu Long and Xie Han were comforting Lu Chen, but they felt even more disappointed after seeing them win the prize.

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will win this time. The National Teacher's "Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" is useless, and the higher ups won't award the best director to such a film that makes people ugly."

"Then there are "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate" by Old Freak Xu and "Martial Arts" directed by Chen Kexin?" Yu Long said with a look of disbelief.

"You forgot, "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate" is a co-production, and an excellent foreign co-production is his destination." Lu Chen said calmly.

"It really is."

"What about "Martial Arts"!"

"So, only Director Chen's "Martial Arts" can compete with me. Compared with "Martial Arts" and "Eight Hundred", I am more optimistic about myself."

That's right.

Compared with "Martial Arts", "Eight Hundred" is more competitive in this award.

Just at this time.

The male host on the stage smiled and said: "Congratulations to everyone who has won the awards before. Next, we will announce the Best Actress Award. The shortlisted teachers are Yang Mi from "Shark Beach" and "Martial Arts" Tang Wei and Du Li from "The Lonely Brave."

Yang Mi tensed up instantly.

Seeing the nervous Yang Mi, Yu Long and Xie Han immediately comforted her.

Yang Mi smiled bitterly and said, "Yu Long took the best photography, and Xie Han took the best make-up. As the third nomination for "Shark Beach", my chances of winning the award should not be high. This is one of the rules of the award."

That's right.

The previous two awards were taken by "Shark Beach", and it seems to make up for them.

"Stable."

Just when Yang Mi couldn't help but patted her chest nervously to relieve it.

Lu Chen said suddenly.

And just when the three of them turned their attention to Lu Chen in an instant, hoping to hear the reason from him.

The host on the stage announced the result with a smile on his face.

"Congratulations to Yang Mi and "Shark Beach" for winning the Best Actress."

Crash, applause instantly remembered.

It was a bit of a surprise to everyone, many people did not expect that the best heroine would fall on Yang Mi.

More people should think about Zhou Xun.

However, it is normal to think about it.

Co-productions are not welcome here.

And there is nothing to say about Yang Mi's "Shark Beach", this movie has indeed led the Internet topic for a long time.

The box office results and reputation in the industry are very good.

Speaking of it.

I have to mention that the Hundred Flowers Award represents the audience.

Who knew that the audience did not choose Yang Mi, but instead chose a queen who starred in a literary film.

It's a bit ridiculous.

This is what makes Lu Chen very angry.

In other words, does that literary film really have audiences watching it?
If so, why is there only less than 2000 million at the box office?
This is the data checked by Lu Chen himself.

Yang Mi was so excited that she hugged Lu Chen and the others.

Step onto the stage and receive the trophy handed over by the award presenter.

Yang Mi's emotions still haven't completely calmed down.

It can be heard from her stuttering acceptance speech.

You know, her acceptance speech was prepared months in advance.

Although it didn't work.

But it must be memorized thoroughly.

who knows.

There are still some words I forgot.

(End of this chapter)