The overseas film title of "The Legend of White Snake" is "Fa Hai". It was released in Hong Kong, and the title of the film in Southeast Asia is "The Legend of White Snake: Fa Hai"...

Therefore, this film is actually "The Legend of Fahai"!

To be honest, the adaptation of "The Legend of White Snake" is not bad. The changes he made are just to add an emotional branch line between Fahai's apprentice Neng Ren and Xiao Qing, and to dig a little deeper into Fahai's inner battle about love, reason and law.

, but they have little impact on the main plot, and the adaption is relatively faithful. At least it does not create a love triangle between Fa Hai, Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen.

Compared to the adaptation of "A Chinese Ghost Story", it's really good.

But again, the portrayal of White Snake in "The Legend of White Snake" is too poor - when you invite Li Lianjie, you must shift the focus of the character to him!

Another point is that this year's blockbusters are too bad, especially the blockbusters led by Hong Kong teams, "New Shaolin Temple", "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Guan Yunchang"...

After being exposed to so many bad movies, the audience has become much more cautious and not easily fooled.

At the same time, there was also "Xiu Chun Dao: Shura Battlefield" which was well-made and had an amazing reputation. Of course I would choose the latter!

However, Yang Zhi insists that his "Legend of White Snake" was hacked by trolls - it has been found that a certain netizen who made malicious revelations is a staff member of a film company and has been maliciously smearing many movies including "Legend of White Snake"

, we need to discuss solutions with industry insiders in the film industry.

Targeting Guang Guang, the publisher of "Xiuchundao: Shura Battlefield", the latter ignored him at all...

Shen Changlin didn't respond either.

He knew that Yang Zhi was a giant baby. When "The Match" was aired, some media said that Yang Zhi had a shoehorned face and stiff acting skills.

He bought 100 newspapers that reported on him and sent them to the president of the Journalists Association and relevant people in major media across the country - I just want an explanation!

I made 100,000 cups, and it said on the cup: There is an unscrupulous reporter living in a certain building...

Originally, his rich second-generation character design could still continue to operate, but later, Lao Wang and Xiao Ma personally ended the business, and his little money was no longer enough...

But Shen Changlin doesn’t believe that Raytheon didn’t hire a navy!

Otherwise, the sentence "The white snake played by Zhao Yazhi came from heaven to earth, and the white snake played by Huang Shengyi came from heaven and earth" would not be able to fill the entire Weibo in a short time...

Shen Changlin has no opinion on this stuff. Of course, he does not advocate such malicious slander.

But this thing exists objectively...

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When promoting "Assembly" back then, Pants once criticized, "Those Hong Kong directors who often compete abroad rely on their connections. Some films have not been finished yet, but they are confirmed by film festivals with good connections."

Making the opening film!'

Does what he said make sense?

Of course there is, Wang Jiawei's "Blueberry Nights" has been confirmed to be the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival even before it is finished filming!

This is really unfair to other movies.

Those film festivals in Europe are just a small-circle game. If you get into their circle, no matter how bad your film is, someone will still pay for it.

But if you can’t enter the circle, it’s useless no matter how good your photos are…

Let's put it this way, art films are controlled by a small circle. Those who pay for the film, those who take over and those who give awards are all in a closed loop. It is impossible to make money in the closed loop. They are all fake. They make a name for themselves and then rely on fame and fortune.

If you are famous, you will get money. Directors of commercial films sell projects, and directors of art films promote themselves.

Just like commercial films, they are systematic.

Commercial films, productions, and theater distributors must work together to operate.

The rules of the game are just different.

Speaking of which, by the way, the main purpose of many art films is to export cultural value. It doesn’t matter whether they pay for it or not. Some films that reflect the dark side of society, freedom, and American universal values ​​are art films, and they are all a kind of cultural value.

Export, even if everyone loses money and loses money for decades, there will still be people investing. Many domestic art film investors are foreigners!

Many foundations of foreigners have to steadily export cultural funds every year. Even if they lose all their money, it doesn't matter. These are subtle brainwashing, doing big things with small money, accurately understanding the hobbies of the middle class and elites of various countries, and investing in some new directors...

Of course, those that positively promote American values ​​really don’t have much status or market in the field of art films, that’s for sure.

Because, to put it bluntly, art films need to have an independent thinking stance. Even if there are political demands, they will definitely not be consistent with official things. This is true both at home and abroad.

From this perspective, pseudo-art films that cater to the audience are a bad ecology, just like shoddy commercial films that satisfy the audience's vulgar tastes.

Art films do not equate to high quality. But equally, high-quality art films should also be respected, rather than being dismissed with the phrase "niche will not sell for money"!

From Bergman, Fellini, Laota to the living Ceylan and Godard, all of them are artists with profound ideological connotations.

This is also true!

Shen Changlin attaches great importance to the European Film Festival. Although he is not a fan of it, it would certainly be good to go there!

After all, who doesn’t want to make a name for himself?

Therefore, Wang Qingqiang invited "Search" to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, and he agreed without thinking.

Berlin Film Festival, although it is not as good as Cannes and Oscars, it is still one of the three major ones in Europe. Back then, Aimou and Li Min both started taking off at the Berlin Film Festival.

After receiving a positive reply, Wang Qingqiang then asked him: "Can you guarantee that the film will be completed before the registration deadline in February next year?"

Shen Changlin thought about it and then said: "It's not a big problem, but you have to give me an accurate time!"

"I can submit your name first, but you have to promise to take the film to Berlin before February 15th!"

“February 15…no problem!”

"Search" is a realistic work. It uses mostly talented actors. The shots are all determined. It takes two months to shoot and one month to complete post-production. There is no reason why it can't be completed before February 15th!

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I talked with Wang Qingqiang about the precautions for participating in the film festival, and had a meal together in the evening. The latter asked to say goodbye...

It's normal. As a film selector for the Berlin Film Festival, he is very busy. There are too many film festivals around the world, and there is competition between them.

After Wang Qingqiang left, Shen Changlin had time to sort out his thoughts...

A little too excited...

After all, the Berlin Film Festival selector found him, which means that the film will definitely be shortlisted for the main competition.

However, if you think about the way "Search" is presented...

How can this damn person win an award?

So sloppy!

If you want to win an award, you have to at least use a more cruel way of expression... With the same theme, it has to be "Hunting"!

Probably going to fail!

Generally, those who participate in film festivals are small-scale productions. If they want to compete, blockbusters will be included in the exhibition, because if they do not win the award, it will not have a negative impact!

If "Search" doesn't win the first prize...

This is too embarrassing!
Chapter completed!