This director needs to apologize

Chapter 375 There is light in the eyes

Chen Yiming was sitting in the last row of the minibus, speaking somewhat feebly. He kept talking all day long, and by the end he didn't know what he was talking about, and his brain almost stopped.

Therefore, he naturally couldn't feel An Xixi's emotions on the other end of the phone, and his reply was just humming and haha, which was perfunctory.

The strange thing was that he had this attitude, and the girl didn't hang up the phone, and just kept talking until the car stopped at the hotel.

Chen Yiming tilted his head, holding his mobile phone between his legs, and walked into the hotel with his backpack in one hand. The state of the group was quite different at the moment. They all looked listless. They had stopped talking to each other after leaving the road show, simply because they had no money. strength.

After forcing himself to say hello, Chen Yiming said goodbye to the others and went straight back to the room. He didn't even notice that the door was ajar, so he naturally opened the door and entered the room.

As soon as he raised his head, he realized that the person sitting on the sofa and looking at him with a smile was not An Xixi.

The moment he saw the girl's smiling face, all the fatigue in Chen Yiming's body seemed to have disappeared. No wonder it is said that emotional value can break through physiological limits. The science of the human body is so magical.

He walked over and sat on the sofa opposite the girl, put down his phone and turned on the speakerphone and said, "You said this is a five-star hotel, and you just let people into the guest room casually, I want to complain!"

An Xixi also turned on the speaker in a tacit understanding, put her mobile phones side by side, turned around and suppressed a smile and replied, "Could it be done by your friend who stayed in the hotel? Don't blame the hotel wrongly, public figures can Pay attention to the impact.”

Chen Yiming forced himself to put on a fierce expression, "Who sent you here? What is the purpose of entering my room? Tell me honestly!"

The girl followed suit, lowered her head and replied pitifully, "An Xixi asked me to come. She said that someone in the same city didn't have time to meet, and she was going to be angry. She can't coax him."

Now Chen Yiming couldn't continue acting. The time the two got together was still too short. He couldn't figure out the girl's true thoughts for a while, and it was difficult to judge whether the other party was complaining or joking.

Chen Yiming decisively stepped back from the brink, reached out and clicked the call to get down to business, "After we finish the road show for this movie, let's go on a trip together. You decide the place."

An Xixi was a little embarrassed, waving her little hand and said, "I don't blame you. I know you are very busy during this period, and work matters are of course more important. Besides, I will join the group at the end of this month, and will be participating in "Five Hundred Days of the Summer Solstice" "We have to shoot the spring part until May. I can't leave."

Chen Yiming then remembered, wasn't it? Xiangrui's film had to be filmed according to the seasons for more than a year. Last year, it was filmed in autumn and winter. This year, wouldn't it be filmed in spring and summer? With Director Fu's slowness and stubborn temper, An Xi Xi will definitely be detained in the crew for the whole time and will not be able to escape for a day.

After An Xixi finished filming and had some free time, it was Chen Yiming's turn to join the team to perform producer duties. After finishing An Xixi's post-production work, it was time to get busy with the release and distribution. In short, it was perfectly staggered.

I really want to spare a lot of time to hang out together, but I'm afraid it won't be postponed until the National Day.

Chen Yiming became numb after just a few minutes. Seeing his bitter look, An Xixi covered her mouth and smiled to comfort him, "You can find a place to play in the country. You can always spare three or two days."

Chen Yiming sighed speechlessly, "What's the fun in wrapping yourself up into a rice dumpling? If someone sees us hanging out together as a team, we won't be able to hide anything. Why don't we just make it public?"

The two looked at each other and began to seriously consider this possibility. After a moment of silence, they slowly shook their heads in unison. It was not the right time.

When An Xixi's popularity is still high, even if she takes advantage of the trend after the release of "500 Days of Summer Solstice" to transform, she still needs a buffering time, because impulsiveness can mess up the normal pace of life and cause a huge amount of food. It’s really not worthwhile for fans to turn around and backlash, and it’s unnecessary.

Therefore, it is the right time to postpone the announcement until next year, if the relationship between the two is still stable by then.

In fact, Chen Yiming himself does not dare to imagine this kind of fairy tale with all his heart. The relationship in the entertainment industry is full of uncertainties. Even if there is no interest dispute between the two and they are just talking about friends, the bad public opinion environment will It's enough to easily bury a fragile relationship.

Chen Yiming couldn't help but secretly complain that he was talking nonsense, why should he say things that he couldn't do anything about, and there was no benefit except to improve his mentality. After a long separation, the girl took the initiative to come to the hotel to see him at night, but he made the atmosphere a mess.

He could only change the subject abruptly, "How is your story coming along? When are you going to switch to director?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he wanted to slap himself. Apart from movies, didn't you have anything else to talk about? The dead straight man is hopeless!

Unexpectedly, An Xixi really answered seriously, "My instructor told me before returning to China that female directors will be subject to extra scrutiny in the film industry, which may be more tolerant or more stringent.

The advice he gave me was that I must be cautious in my debut novel. If I am not sure, it is best to focus on female themes, such as love, youth, marriage, and family relationships. This can lay a solid foundation for the business. Only with a basic base can we talk about subsequent transformation.

I know what she said makes sense, but after thinking about it, I still can't convince myself. I don't want to play the female card right from the beginning. I want to make an adventure-themed movie. This is the ideal I had when I was a child, and also My original intention was to study film and television at Nuts. "

When the two of them talked about this before, they only touched on it but didn't go into it deeply. Chen Yiming really didn't know that An Xixi's quiet appearance hid a "wild" heart, and she actually loved adventure stories.

This type of movie was a powerful tool for Hollywood to expand its global footprint in the early years. Because the visual effects are good and there are few cultural barriers, it can be easily understood without even needing too many lines.

It's just that good adventure stories are not easy to shoot. The design and visual presentation of the plot have a high threshold, and the investment is expensive and the risks are huge. Once the audience's threshold is raised to a high level, this genre will naturally become unsustainable.

Nowadays, Hollywood rarely produces such movies, and more of them make comic-book movies and use IP basics to hedge risks. Pure originality has disappeared for a long time.

Reason told Chen Yiming that he should give up this unrealistic idea of ​​a girl as soon as he came up. There is no one who has not learned to walk and starts running quickly. If he can't catch the egg, he will fall down.

But emotions prevent Chen Yiming from pouring cold water on the girl. Analyzing the specific issues in detail, our country has its own national conditions. In addition to openly making ghost movies to promote feudal superstition, other themes are really not impossible.

This is also Chen Yiming's consistent point of view. Most people in China have only begun to develop the habit of going to cinemas to watch movies in recent years. In other words, they have not experienced the years of iterative education from overseas audiences at all, at least in the next few years. Inside, they definitely showed no problem to anyone who came.

When reviewing the history of Chinese films, it is said that the golden years of directors of Sun Wangquan's generation, that is, the first ten years of the new century after the restructuring, were the pioneering era. Chen Yiming himself does not agree with this view. The so-called pioneering must also have the possibility of wilderness. Tuocaixing, a big country with a population of more than one billion, has less than 2 million moviegoers a year. Putting aside the core user group of repeat moviegoers, nine-tenths of the population has nothing to do with the industry. In this case, the movie No matter how much you try, you can't make a name for yourself, because movies at this time have already fallen out of the scope of mass consumption.

When it comes to pioneering, we have truly entered the pioneering period now. A large number of novice users who have never been beaten by fake and shoddy products have entered the market, allowing the industry to gradually match the growth of national power, and begin to show a bit of the brutal growth of heroes in the blue ocean. Signs.

At this stage, the economic laws that need to be applied are not those of the mature Hollywood market, but the famous saying "A black cat and a white cat that catches mice are good cats."

There is no version of the answer in the current Chinese film industry. Novice audiences do not reject any genre or subject matter, as long as it is good-looking, it doesn't even matter if you make the movie into a TV series.

Taking Chen Yiming's past life experience as an example, several movies during the Spring Festival of a certain year were simply pimped-out versions of Spring Festival Gala sketches, and even the actors were directly recruited from the Spring Festival Gala stage.

From a professional point of view, the sense of rhythm is particularly popular in the Spring Festival Gala skits. After all, the latter has strict requirements for the beginning and end due to the time limit. Uncle Benshan’s unique skill of three seconds and one stem is not a joke, it was the work of a whole year. Think carefully.

If you make a movie with this kind of professional attitude, I'm afraid it won't take you half a lifetime.

It stands to reason that in terms of cost-effectiveness, the adventure theme An Xixi wanted to shoot was obviously a bit out of date. There are obviously more labor-saving and more profitable options, and it is really thankless to tinker with adventure blockbusters.

If you take a look at the debut films of Hua Guo directors, you will know that youth films and comedies are the overwhelming choices. The routines are mature and the risks are controllable. Director Guo, who is tossing the small pieces, is not just a sci-fi blockbuster. He is not the same. First, I filmed a movie about practicing with my deskmate.

Director Guo is quite ambitious. After leaving Novice Village, he went all out to pursue his ideals. Most people just stay in their comfort zone and indulge in making money. The audience keeps making progress, but they stay still.

The girl has ambitions and the external environment is feasible. What reason does Chen Yiming have for not supporting her?
"Okay, adventure movies are a good idea. Nowadays, special effects and photography technology have greatly improved, and the production threshold of this type is not as high as before. Do you have a general idea in mind?"

An Xixi said sheepishly, "I never thought about making a big production directly. In fact, I just wanted to recreate the experience I had when I first went abroad. At that time, I was not familiar with the place and my mother was not around. As soon as I went out every day, It feels like opening a new map in the game.

So I used random thoughts to comfort myself, likening dealing with people to talking to NPCs. Every time I experienced something new, I treated it as doing a task. The feeling of novelty and panic mixed with each other is something I will never forget.

I also thought from this that the essence of adventure is to explore the unknown, and this unknown varies from person to person, and there is no standard answer.

My filming this may be criticized by many people as making a fuss out of a molehill, but as long as it can arouse a sense of resonance in the hearts of viewers who have had similar experiences to me, they will definitely be able to gain the same emotional experience as I did. If they then recall similar experiences in their lives, The memories would be even better. "

When she said these words, the girl's eyes were shining.

(End of this chapter)