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Chapter 215 The Road to Literature and Art!

Whether a movie is good or not depends on whether it sells well at the box office.

This is the most intuitive feeling of the general public. Although many box-office-selling films have been criticized by countless insiders as unnutritious, meaningless, and meaningless three-no products, no one listens to, believes, or care.

The reason why literary and artistic films are called a minority is because most of them are self-proclaimed by some insiders, and at most there are some audiences who like literary and artistic films.

In fact, Ning Yuan felt that literary and artistic films were not a minority, but were twisted into a minority by those senior people who tried to be superior to others.

Good literary and artistic films, both refined and popular, are like Bai Juyi's poems, which can be understood by an old woman who does not know a single big character. Even Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng", which is full of literary quotations, can't distinguish the endless allusions in it, but if Listening to people recite, the feeling of majesty will also arise spontaneously.

But those people just made the literary film so that no one could understand it, and they were complacent: "I am advanced!"

Senior sister!

Using some unnecessary filters, the name is to increase the texture, edit the rhythm of the narrative upside down, and call yourself a super time and space. If you don’t understand it, it’s because your realm is not enough.

As for the film itself, there are more problems, because Zhang Yimou's "To Live" won the Cannes Jury Prize, and many people deliberately made such a tragic film, boasting that it reveals human nature and analyzes fate.

Because "My Father and Mother" won the award, another group of people flocked to shoot rural-themed movies, not to mention dirty and messy, bloody and chaotic interpersonal relationships, so complicated that you doubt life.

Then "In the Mood for Love" won the award, and another group of people only learned the emptiness and ethereal superficiality, "Happy Together" won the award, and went to shoot this kind of avant-garde and subversive.

In fact, it is to follow the trend, most of the motives and purposes are just to win awards—although Zhang Yimou and the others also have the purpose of winning awards, at least they are also telling stories: first tell good stories and then have literature and art.

And these people, just put the cart before the horse, engage in literature and art first, and then tell stories. In fact, they can't tell what the film is about. Read the same.

It's all about expressing sorrow for the new words, and in the end, the literary film is dead.

But in fact, no matter the narrative, rhythm or style of a good literary film, it has its unique features. Even the plot is complete and unified.

Watching the dark tone of the film, you also use this tone, but you don’t understand why people use this tone here, anyway, just turn on the camera and do it.

The art circle is similar, other than realistic painting schools, except for the works of a few masters, most of the others are for fame and hype.

Van Gogh's "Starry Sky", if you just look at the printed matter, of course you think that's the case, but if you can see the real work, the oil paint brushstrokes and colorful color blocks stacked have a strong visual impact, just like "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng", Many people can't tell what is good about him, and what classics he quotes, but listening to and reading it is very touching, and it feels like drinking a good wine.

A good literary film has a main story line, rather than a mess, like "Farewell My Concubine", "In the Mood for Love", as well as Tom's "Forrest Gump", Neon Kingdom's "Kyoto Story" and so on.

In a good literary film, the suffering of the protagonist is revealing and inspiring, no matter how bad it is, it is criticizing some things, not suffering for the sake of suffering.

Chasing awards is not a bad thing, but Dong Shi imitated him, and even taunted people who said he was bad would not understand, that is blindness, deception: "I don't listen to me, I don't listen, don't chant sutras anymore!"

Similar to the chasing of awards in literary films, the rush to make youth films in the future is to chase profits.

In the future, the public will narrowly define literary and artistic films as low box office, few stars, rough production, dull rhythm, and exclusively for overseas film festivals. Such an "inherent impression" will gradually distance the public from literary and artistic films.

But who is to blame?
Certainly not to blame the audience, let alone blame them for not being able to understand.

At the end of the 80s, Victory Art Cinema exclusively screened "Half Flame, Half Sea Water"—not Liao Fan's film.

The theater's 443 seats were often full for three consecutive months, and in the end the box office had to pull up iron fences to divert the audience.

Even in the future, "Bi Luo Snow Mountain" directed by Liu Jie and released in 11, a film that was not planned to be released at first, has been screened at the newly built MOMA Art Center in Beijing for a whole year and a half, and tickets are often hard to come by. .

And similar to "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog", it was only screened in this theater, and the evaluation was similar - there were not too many ups and downs in the plot, deliberately exaggerated performances, using very simple techniques, calm and concise The camera records the stories that happened in the green mountains and green waters.

Because the dialogue in this movie is almost all in Lisu, even if it is a Chinese movie, the audience can only watch the subtitles, which is similar to Ningyuan's movie being released in Neon Country.

Even this method has such a grand occasion, it can be seen that good literary and artistic films will never lack audiences.

Therefore, whenever directors and producers hit the box office and blame literary films, saying that they have profound ideas and audiences don't understand them, they don't need to watch their films in the future.

This has also led to the fact that in the future, even if it is a work of literary and artistic films, they will not dare to classify their own films into this category when they are announced.

"Fireworks in the Day" - this time it was played by Liao Fan, it seems that this guy has got into trouble with fireworks.

No matter from which dimension you look at it, it is a standard literary film.However, after participating in the competition in Germany and returning to China, it mainly starred Liao Fan + Gui Lunmei, and was blessed by the Berlin Golden Bear Award.Draw a clear line between the film and the "literary film" and announce it as a crime genre film.

It wasn't until the box office exceeded [-] million yuan that the film changed its name to a literary film.

At school and in the drama theater, Ning Yuan discussed this issue with Qin Li, Meng Hui and Liao Fan more than once, especially after drinking with Liao Fan and the others, he yelled at those bastards for smashing the signs of literary films!

After blocking many interviews for Ning Yuan, Qin Li said when approving Ning Yuan's leave:
"Since this is the case now, I hope you can rectify the name of literary films in the future, so that audiences know that they not only have connotations, but can also be sold for money."

"Selling money? Haha, teacher, when did you become vulgar? Isn't this your style?"

"Vulgarity is elegance. Don't worry that good movies can't be understood by the general public. If there are problems, it can only be due to poor academic skills-well, go, pay attention to safety when you get there, and pay attention to your own words and deeds, because you not only Representing yourself only, as a public figure, everything you say and do will be magnified."

"Thank you, teacher."

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