Chapter 14 The ignorant are fearless! (2/4)
The director of art films at this stage is very miserable!
The entertainment era means that investing in art films is unlikely to recover costs...
This is also a disadvantage of market regulation - a purely free, commercial market, and art films are difficult to accommodate!
Didn't you watch Martin Scorsese come out to criticize Marvel? It is because mainstream commercial films like Marvel have occupied the market for art films, which forced Martin and Alfonso Caron to shoot the Internet!
"The Irishman" and "Rome" are all works produced by Netflix and screened online...
In a reasonable market environment, works with high and low levels should also have a place to survive. Instead of simply letting the market expel all works that are not popular.
However, a group of people in the literary and artistic circles require the state to force "diversification of theater movie playback types", require financial subsidies to establish and maintain "art film theaters", and require direct allocation of funds to outstanding filmmakers...
But you are not allowed to go through the problem material, content, and the reasons for the lobbyist who have identities and face are "You can't let good Chinese movies die."
This is very disgusting!
I'll give you money, but I'm not allowed to pass the problem material or content?
Why don’t you have such a big face?
This problem is currently unsolvable, so I can only wait for time. After the audience's aesthetic rating is rated, perhaps a group of supporters may emerge in art films!
In fact, literary and artistic movies have not disappeared. In the next few years, a large number of high-quality movies were born: "Spring", "Xiaowei", "Spring River Warm", "Shelock on the Plain", "Sunny Garden", "Red Flowers and Green Leaves"...
There is no need to worry so much...
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It's time to Xu Zheng...
After "Lost in Thailand", Xu Zheng was a little more or less inflated and dared to say his heart: "I haven't received an invitation from the director for more than a year. I feel that I'm a failure to be an actor. But if I shoot myself, I can't make a movie like a big director that carries cultural support. My only way is to type films. Moreover, I am a fan and have a lot of comedy, so I choose the type of comedy!"
He also criticized He Ping because director He Ping actually praised "Fuchun Mountain Residence": "Although "Fuchun" has a bad reputation, I think it is good to have an experience. As the director of his debut work, he dares to think and use international teams, including many teams, who are world-class and dares to use 160 million yuan. Do you think this kind of adventurer needs? Of course, we need to encourage diversified creation of Chinese films!'
Xu Zheng directly refuted: "My standard for distinguishing movies has never been blockbusters, small movies, only bad movies, good movies and excellent works. I have too many questions about "Fuchun Mountain Residence". Since I have made such a big investment, I have hired a Hollywood special effects team, why not invite a Hollywood screenwriter? Why can I mess up a movie with all the resources?"
Shen Changlin responded: "Maybe they are confident!"
"Does he know what he was shooting?"
"Don't say that, you know how difficult it is to spend 100 million to create a movie with a score of only three points?"
After a pause, Shen Changlin continued: "Actually, Dong Han had asked me to shoot "Fuchun Mountain Residence Picture". I was quite interested, but when I asked the villain's identity, could it be set as an anti-China force, he said it would be better not to do so, and I lost my mind... I really couldn't think of why someone wanted to steal "Fuchun Mountain Residence Picture Picture"..."
"Have you found?"
"Yes, because I was not allowed to shoot, I wanted to make a group thieves movie. It was originally "The Thieves", but I think adding magic elements is more suitable for creating visual wonders, and then I wrote "The Thieves Group"..."
"The "Thieves" project has started preparations and is also a big production with an investment of 150 million yuan!"
"I'll explain why I've transformed into big productions," Chen Changlin said: "Now in the Internet era, there are more and more video communication media, and even have iPads, iPhones, large-screen mobile phones, various boxes at home, and 47-inch color TVs are already small. Our movie-watching mentality will soon change, allowing viewers to pay for movies to watch in the cinema to have a feeling that they can't feel at home, on mobile phones, and on pads. Therefore, there are more and more big productions in Hollywood, and Disney has given up making works under $50 million..."
"But "BJ Meet Seattle" has exceeded 600 million!"
Chen Changlin waved his hand: "I'm talking about trends. It's very rare for our market to tell a good story... This process may be five years, maybe three years... Who knows!"
"Also, I'm not saying that big productions don't need a story foundation. The script of "The Magic Thieves Group" was locked in the room and brainstormed for half a month. Finally, we clarified the story logic and then added character characteristics around the story. For example, the hypnotist played by Xu Zheng and the scammer of the world who cheated and cheated. For him, being able to make money and get professional recognition are the two major key points of life. In the script creation stage, we retained the character characteristics and left enough space for subsequent series development!"
Xu Zheng also helped to say: "I watched the preview of "The Magic Thieves". After watching it, I fully understood Guy Debo's "Landscape Society" recommended to me by Changlin. He created this movie like a visual wonder show. Such a movie can only feel the charm in the cinema!"
"How long did the later special effects take?"
"We asked the special effects manager to join in the script development stage, which was about 16 months... I dare not say that I reached Hollywood level, but it was definitely the first time in a Chinese-language movie!"
After praising "The Demonic Thieves" for a while, Guo Xiaosi made a speech...
Guo Xiaosi is really...
"Why did I want to film "Tiny Times"? No one knows the story of "Tiny Times" better than me. It is better to destroy it in your own hands than to destroy it in others' hands."
"Why do you see many big directors occasionally fail? It's because the Chinese film market audience has changed from the previous generation to the next generation.
In 2009, the average age for watching movies was 25.7 years old, but by 2013, it had become 21.7 years old, 21 years old, and was a college student.
If you still use the previous generation idea to make movies, there will be problems because more and more new audiences have joined the market, but no new types of videos are provided for them. Although many people find it controversial or have a lot of opinions, I don’t think it’s important, just stick to yourself.”
"What people nowadays face is not the struggle of survival. People's struggle has become a struggle of material choices, a struggle of the gap between the rich and the poor, and a struggle of inequality in family background."
"Novelists have the potential to become directors, and when novelists write novels, they already have pictures and storyboards in their minds!"
He Ping first refuted: "The director did not mature until he was 55 years old, and many of the director's best works were made after he was 50 years old."
"He may not understand!" Chen Changlin helped add: "It means the director's aesthetics, and values determine the upper limit of a movie! The box office is only part of the movie! Commercial success does not mean everything!"
"It's really the ignorant who is fearless!"
"Your understanding of movies and markets is too superficial. After all, film art is called the seventh art. Box office revenue and the artistic value of movies are two dimensions. Among the factors that determine box office, the type and theme of the movie actually determine its upper limit to a large extent!"
"I estimate that your "Tiny Times" has a minimum box office of 300 million, and the highest box office should be 500 million. This is the data, but from the very beginning, we knew that the box office of this movie might be bad, including Amou's next "Big Buddha", which may also be bad. Does it mean that Amou can't keep up with the times?"
"If I simply use money for comparison, then I am much richer than Prime Minister Z. Does it mean that my achievements surpass Prime Minister Z?"
Guo Xiaosi was a little uncomfortable being criticized, and tears were almost falling.
Chapter completed!