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Shen Changlin still doesn’t want to be in the limelight!

If you want to be in the limelight, you can talk about scams, yin and yang contracts, money laundering, etc...

This year’s focus is on the fifth generation of directors, so we can’t steal their limelight, right?

The fifth generation director, a memory that cannot be erased in Chinese movies!

"One and Eight" marked the beginning of the fifth generation of directors, and then the poetry master followed up with "Yellow Earth" and Gianzhuangzhuang produced "Zhaza in the Hunting Ground"...

Then Ah Mou made his debut and won the Golden Bear Award for "Red Sorghum"!

In the 1990s, the fifth-generation directors won the top prizes at the three major European international film festivals, including the Golden Lion, Golden Bear, and Palme d'Or, and were nominated four times for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film...

In a sense, he is the most brilliant generation of directors among all Chinese directors so far.

Of course, there has always been a debate in academic circles about whether the fifth generation is following the interests of the West and making films to please film festivals. That is, from the perspective of post-colonialism, it analyzes whether Chinese films are othering themselves and targeting Western audiences. Create with the premise of being present!

From the perspective of the post-colonial context, what Western judges like is: taboo sex, ignorant and backward systems, and ugly Chinese people who live like maggots in isolation!

If you look at these award-winning works, these elements are more or less present.

By the sixth generation, they simply flatter foreigners...

I don’t care whether the movie is good or bad...

Jia Zhangke has publicly said that movies should consider an international perspective. What perspective does he mean by international perspective?

Self-explanatory!

In fact, it is quite normal. The desire for international recognition is, in a sense, the desire for recognition from the West...

Due to the limitations of the times, directors of that era wore heavy historical shackles. In their minds, films must be critical, profound, and open to scars!

…

The commendation meeting ended and a group of people gathered for dinner...

Shen Changlin was planning to leave, but Ah Mou insisted on letting him stay too!

You said, you old men, looking back on the past, have something to do with him?

There is no room for him to interfere in this thing!

Well, there are still some...

Gianzhuangzhuang has always wanted to film "Tree King", but has never been able to find the funds...

This stuff is normal!

According to normal market logic, it is indeed difficult to establish a project for this type of subject matter.

First, the box office potential is low, second, the chances of winning awards are not high, and third, the risk of censorship is extremely high...

The original work of "The Tree King" is full of fables, and the story is very simple: when they went to the countryside in the 1960s, they wanted to cut down a big tree on the top of the mountain and plant a new one, but a local man named Xiao Geda refused. Try your best to stop it.

This story can be summed up in one sentence - I have never really seen fire, nor destruction, nor rebirth!

How to take pictures?

Gianzhuangzhuang wanted to take this photo, which is essentially a private image to satisfy himself...

The key is that the cost of this thing will not be too low, no matter how you calculate it, it will not be less than 50 million!

Judging from Grange's historical achievements...well, he has never made a blockbuster movie.

The only film with a box office of over 10 million is "Wolf", which was released in 2009.

In other words, it is basically impossible to make a profit by investing in "Tree King", and the probability of even getting your money back is extremely low!

Director Tian is an honest person, so he naturally informed investors about the risks...

Then no one will invest!

Ah Mou suggested in a low voice: "If you have anything you want to take pictures of, just tell this guy, he has money!"

"...I can't trick people...you're the only one who said that a movie like "Tree King" can be a hit?"

Well, I don’t know if it will be a hit or not, but...it’s true that even though the title was changed, it still wasn’t released.

Later, it was renamed "Birds Singing" - taken from "The Book of Songs - Xiaoya: Logging": Ding Ding is logged, and the birds are singing...

Ah Mou thought for a while: "It's simple. Just ask him for a script again and make up for the missing parts. That's it!"

"Does he have something in his hand?"

"...There should be," Ah Mou simply called to Shen Changlin who was bored: "Come here!"

Shen Changlin came over quickly: "...director, master..."

"Your master is going to film "Tree King"...do you know about this?"

"I know..." Shen Changlin suddenly realized: "Master, if there is a lack of investors, I will cover it!"

"...You have also watched "The King of Chess". What do you think of this scene?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "Just follow the original work and there is no way to change it. If the historical background is cancelled, there will be no need for this movie to exist."

That's true...

The background of this story itself is a special product...

According to business logic, movies that don’t make money shouldn’t be made!

But...what business logic are you talking to Shen Changlin?

Does he lack this little money?

"...Then you can't spend your money in vain...In this way, you can make a good script..."

"I really have a movie suitable for Master!"

"What movie?"

""Year, Month, Day", the work of teacher Yan Lianke!"

…

Yan Lianke, writer…

This man has ‘great love’!

Let’s take a look at a section of Yan Lianke’s acceptance speech for the Newman Chinese Literature Award: “…that mother will always remember that in 1945, when the Japanese and Benchmarked troops retreated from China, a Japanese and Benchmarked soldier in tattered clothes and colorful clothes pulled a cane from his pocket. He took out a small candy and gave it to her. The mother said that this was the first candy she had eaten in her life. She knew that there was something called sugar in the world and it was so sweet. So she remembered the meaning of sugar for the rest of her life. The smell and the bloody Japanese soldier's face made me yearn to give something back to that Japanese soldier all my life.

In 2014, I brought the wish of this mother in the village to Riben. Since then, more Riben readers and elderly people have been eager to visit this village and meet the people in this village. Love is possible To resolve everything.”

His "great love" transcends narrow ideas and is truly breathtaking and extraordinary. It is the pinnacle of etiquette, justice and integrity in our generation. There is no one in the country that is bigger than this!

(This paragraph is sarcastic)

Many people say that Yan Lianke is self-analyzing, but this is not true. He is just dissolving the sublime.

Just like Zhu Sujin's New Three Kingdoms, if some office politics were involved, Zhuge Liang would be like a frustrated little daughter-in-law.

This group of people cannot understand heroes and outstanding people, and can only use the wretched images around them to dwarf them.

But... to evaluate a writer, you should still look at the works...

In fact, he has quite a lot of works, some of which are quite good, such as "Fleeting Time in the Sun", "Dream of Dingzhuang", "Shouhuo" and "Ode to Fengya"...

Especially in "Ode to Elegance", one of them focuses on the debauchery of university professors, their shabby lives and the unspoken rules in the education system...

But the ending was a little too hasty. The protagonist took a group of prostitutes to class and established a world of great harmony. It was too blunt...

In fact, contemporary literary works are almost in ruins!

Yan Lianke is not a master...at most he is a best-selling author - his books sell very well in Japan!

If literary works only have cruelty but no compassion, only deconstruction but no construction, only suffering but no redemption, then such literary works will not transcend the times.

Writers who write such things are probably only second-rate!

Ah Mou, Tianzhuangzhuang, including the poetry-reciting master who was sitting over, and Gu Changwei all frowned when they heard Yan Lianke's name...

"His works...are not easy to modify!"

Gu Changwei interjected: "I revised "Dingzhuang Dream" and it was too difficult!"

"Dingzhuang Dream" is actually "The Favorite"...

Tianzhuangzhuang waved his hand to stop the group, and then asked Shen Changlin: "What is "Year, Month, Day" about?"

Shen Changlin briefly talked about "Year, Month, Day"...

In fact, it is the Chinese version of "The Old Man and the Sea"...

The story is very simple: an old man and a dog guard a grain seedling until the end of their lives...

A novel about suffering, companionship, loneliness, local love and hope.
Chapter completed!