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Chapter 291 Who has become a movie master?Are you promoting film change?

On the cover of the special issue of "Cinema Handbook" on August 8, there is a photo of He Fang smoking and meditating, and the bold title is "Master's Thoughts-He Fang: There are too many shackles in literary and artistic films, it is time to change."

During the three major film festivals, one can imagine how many filmmakers paid attention to the articles of these top magazines?Almost every one is a key interview with the master, which is the trend of future movies.

Although He Fang is young, his influence in the film industry is very great.However, despite his great reputation, no one has yet called He Fang a master.

Now, "Movie Handbook" directly called He Fang a film master. The key point is that this film master still brazenly said that there are shackles in literary and artistic films, and they have to change.

Ever since, many filmmakers are not convinced. What kind of shackles do literary films have?What to change?
However, after everyone finished reading this interview, they all fell into deep thought. What He Fang said was not unreasonable.

There are too many rules and regulations in literary films, which on the contrary limit the film as an expression of thoughts and emotions.As He Fang said, there are a dozen or so important indicators for literary films, and each of these indicators puts shackles on literary films, and it is also the reason why literary films are not seen by ordinary audiences.

Because if ordinary audiences want to understand literary and artistic films, they must learn what the various meanings in these ten or so important indicators are, and they must learn what audiovisual language expresses.

But how is this possible?As a language, audio-visual language, do you know how difficult it is for a layman of this language to understand what you say?
This is like asking a person who only knows English spoken in rural London to understand an advanced two-dimensional language like Chinese. How can they understand it?How could they learn it all at once?
So, aren't you pushing the audience away?The audience has pushed away, who should you express your literary and artistic film thoughts and emotions to?

Well, even if your literary films are only for people who understand the audio-visual language of literary films, after so many years, what tricks can you play with just a dozen rules and regulations?
So, where is the example of Picasso.Why is Picasso great?Because he broke the rules and regulations of painting, he did not paint according to the conventional definition of painting.Therefore, his paintings are free, abstract, and beyond the imagination of the picture itself.

Among other things, the concept put forward by He Fang is enough to shock everyone and arouse everyone's deep thinking and exploration.

As for the frame-by-frame comparison between neo-liberalism and literary films, it is easy for people to understand what it means.The framework of these literary and artistic films restricts the freedom of thought, and also restricts the free expression of thoughts and emotions.

He Fang proposed to remove the rules and regulations, and only retain the new form of literary and artistic films such as "discussing and digging out the thoughts and emotions of the essence of the world".

This is an epoch-making idea, a film master's analysis and thinking about movies, regardless of whether this statement is true or not, his thinking alone is enough to be called a master.

So... After watching this interview, the media and filmmakers were silent at first, and then became crazy. Some filmmakers seemed to have an epiphany, and finally saw where the shackles that restricted their films were.

Learn from Picasso, learn from neo-liberalism, get rid of obstacles, let go of the shackles, and find a new form of literary and artistic films.

So...

Many filmmakers came to the hotel of "Dallas Buyers Club", unanimously asking where to meet, to hear his explanation of the new form of literary and artistic films...

Leonardo was a little confused, Jared was stupid, Jennifer didn't understand what was going on...they didn't figure out what was going on until their assistant went to ask.

"Oh Maika, it turns out that we have been working with God." Jared said exaggeratedly.

"He is indeed a master. His thinking is epoch-making. He is destined to be famous in the history of film." Leonardo nodded in agreement.

"Ha, let's go and see what He told those filmmakers..." Jennifer said with great interest.

So the three came to He Fang's room, but he had already gone out.

After San asked about it again, he went to the coffee shop downstairs of the hotel, where He Fang chatted with Da.

"He, why do you think that the expression of literary and artistic films will be a shackle?"

He Fang was sitting in a place next to the wall in the coffee shop, and opposite him were already sitting around a dozen filmmakers, all of whom had a strong literary and artistic temperament. There were also a dozen reporters who were recording video, and they each had a cup of coffee.

A middle-aged Caucasian man wearing glasses was asking where he was. After Leonardo and the three of them came over, they didn't interrupt, but after waving, they found a seat and sat down.

"If film is a way of expressing thoughts and emotions, it must be free. But do you feel free in the way of expressing literary and artistic films now? Why should emotions be expressed in long shots? Why should we pursue a documentary-like image? form? Natural sounds must be true words? So is thought objective or subjective?”

He Fang asked several questions in a row, and continued without waiting for someone to answer.

"The author's film requires the filmmakers to try their best to pursue authenticity, documentary, and objectivity, and at the same time requires the film to be the expression of the director's thoughts and emotions. Isn't this contradictory? How can personal thoughts and emotional expressions be documentary? , Objectification? Personal thoughts and emotions are always subjective, even if he tries to be as close to objective as possible, he cannot be completely objective.

Therefore, to pursue the expression of personal thoughts and emotions should not require documentary and objectification.However, if documentary and objectification are required, the creator's personal thoughts and emotions cannot be expressed at the same time. "

"No, the author's film is not your understanding." At this time, someone made a rebuttal, a high-spirited white youth in his 30s.

"The author's film requires the director to use elements such as documentary and objectification as much as possible. It is hoped that the director will express the director's thoughts and emotions with objective things that are close to the real. For example, he saw the cruelty of society to a woman, so the director picked up A camera was set up to film the oppression of this woman, in order to express the director's dissatisfaction with the society and his pursuit of fairness.

There is no such thing as not being able to have both, and the facts have proved that many excellent works have been produced in these years of literary and artistic films..." The young man became more and more excited as he talked, as if he could become famous in one fell swoop if he could argue nowhere.

He Fang didn't interrupt him, and let him give various examples there, and He Fang nodded when the man finished speaking.

"Then is this a documentary or a film with a story? If it is a documentary, it is not a feature film. We can completely say that this is a documentary film festival, not to mention a feature film festival.

Secondly, if this is not a documentary, but is designed with a man-made script, then is it really unreal?Where does authenticity come from?Because the designed plot is not objective, but subjective.

Just like some Chinese directors, they want to shoot some messy things in Shanghai, but there are few places like this in Shanghai, so they found a dilapidated place, built some scenes like this, hired a few actors, and pretended to be social Bottom and homeless.

Excuse me, is this kind of documentary and objective art?Or does it belong to the director's artificial subjective posing?Is this what you mean by having both?And among the award-winning movies we have seen at the three major film festivals in recent years, which one is not a human-designed plot movie?How many of them are truly documentary and objective? "

He Fang's rhetorical question stumped the young filmmaker, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

But another filmmaker, about sixty years old, spoke up.

"Literary and artistic films are aimed at expressing the author's thoughts and emotions while pursuing as objectively as possible. What is taken is the middle value. If it is more documentary, it must be dramatized, so that it can be both objective and thoughtful. This is the essence of literary and artistic films. Special feature."

The old man's answer was much more precise.

"That is to say, this is a pseudo-objective subjective expression. Under the guise of pursuing documentary, it is really an act of selling the author's thoughts and emotions. This is teaching directors to do false things and deceive the audience. If this development continues It will cause a large number of directors to ignore the facts, forge the truth, and then help him to criticize in order to sell his thoughts and emotions.

Isn't this a good moral character? Shouldn't people with good moral character express their personal thoughts and emotions while respecting the facts?When a director uses a fake 'truth' to participate in an award, and a group of people give honor to this fake 'truth', what is the behavior of this group of people called? "

He Fang sarcastically said that all literary filmmakers were upset immediately, but he couldn't refute it for a while.

"You're trying to smear on purpose, that's not the case with literary movies."

"I don't dare to judge whether it's like this. I just said that if the filming is done according to what you said, will there be such a possible result?" He Fang took out a cigarette and lit it.

At this time, more and more people joined in the coffee shop, and the number had grown to hundreds of people.

"Then you said you were exploring a new form of literary and artistic films. What literary and artistic is "Dallas Buyers Club"? What have you explored?" someone asked.

He Fang took a drag on his cigarette and shrugged.

""Dallas Buyers Club" is pursuing two things, one is documentary, and the other is the expression of thoughts and emotions in the film. I think the film has achieved two of these points."

"Watt? You are a commercial film, where is it a documentary, where..." The man didn't speak in the middle of his rebuttal, as if he had thought of something.

Everyone looked at him puzzled, but He Fang smiled.

"See, he figured it out. I think the world is the closest to an objective record, that is the history that has happened and been verified. Obviously, the incident of Ron Woodruff is a verified thing, so, this Is it documentary?

Secondly, this film has carried out a certain degree of artistic treatment on the basis of documentary, especially the criticism of the American medical system.So, is this the expression of thoughts and emotions?

Who said that it is necessary to use long shots, performances by non-professional actors, de-storytelling, etc., to express the true meaning of art films?So, may I ask, am I a kind of exploration? "

He Fang's rhetorical question stunned a group of filmmakers, because what He Fang said was reasonable.

Leonardo and Jared, who were sitting on the side, all laughed. What He Fang said was really relieved, and it was really on point.

"No, according to what you say, aren't those who make biographical films all art films?" Someone raised a rebuttal.

"It can be said, but most of the biographical films are too serious and not critical and thoughtful. But even so, you can see that there are still a large number of biographical films in Hollywood every year that become Oscar-winning favorites. This shows that What? So, I want to explore a possibility in this way.”

What Fang said seems reasonable.

"Then what kind of possibility have you explored?" Someone asked with interest.

"No, I tried my best, but I still don't have a concept in my mind. I said, this is exploration." He Fang spread his hands.

"He, you said you want to get rid of the shackles and learn from neoliberalism and Picasso's approach. What specific actions do you think can be taken?"

"Oh, this..."

Next, He Fang discussed the new form of literary and artistic films he proposed that filmmakers are concerned about, mainly discussing how to be more free and how to make new forms of literary and artistic films...

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Although the jury cannot go to the outside world, they can still see outside magazines, newspapers, news, etc.

After Jiang Wen finished watching He Fang's interview with "Movie Handbook", he walked around smoking a cigarette excitedly.

"My little brother is awesome, so fucking awesome, master, this is the thinking of a real master." Jiang Wen shook his head and sighed in admiration, "Why didn't I think of it? Why didn't I think of it? Breaking the boundary , to make creation more free, to learn from Picasso... Tsk tsk, I really have you, Brother He Fang."

Several other judges on the jury also saw this interview, and immediately everyone had their own thoughts.

It seems that they didn't have a correct understanding of He Fang's movie before, is he really exploring?Exploring in the form of a commercial film?I didn't see anything.

The discussion between He Fang and the filmmakers in the coffee shop did not end. Although He Fang still had to participate in interviews and film activities, he was invited to discuss in the coffee shop as soon as he finished the activities.

The seat that He Fang was sitting in was always in the air, and it was reserved for He Fang.This made He Fang dumbfounded, feeling that he had done something to dig a hole for himself, why should he brag about it?Why do you want to talk nonsense?
Now it's all right, people have been discussing around him.

And this kind of discussion has been going on for several days. The media commonly called this "Movie Cafe Revolution", and it was reported for days, and some media even released a video, which is completely documentary.

"Reuters": This is the most failed Venice Film Festival, but it is also the film festival that can remember history the most.Because of Venice's poor opening ceremony and organizational skills, it really makes people exclaim that Venice has hosted a film festival full of problems.But because of He Fang's new literary and artistic film theory, it is now attracting heated discussions among filmmakers all over the world, as if this is a revolution in the film industry, a brewing of progress.So, where will become Truffaut in the new era?
"BBC": Movies originated from the West and also changed in the West, but this year's Venice Film Festival ushered in an oriental face. He tried to use his methods to subvert the long-established development of European literary and artistic films...

(End of this chapter)