The "Asian Rising Star Director" project has been ongoing so far, and all 6 films have been announced.

The earliest "Mermaid Duoduo" was released in October last year, and the box office was not ideal, with only 1 million.

But it won last year’s Golden Horse Award for Best Art Design.

Lin Zicong's "Have Your Time to Drink Tea", Cheng Er's "Sunflower" and three other films have either been completed and are being scheduled in post-production, or have been announced to be filming.

In another year or so, the first phase of the "Asian Rising Star Mentoring Program" will usher in the final acceptance of results.

The "Asian Rising Star Director Program" targets theater movies, but theater resources are always limited, and making movies is indeed a relatively luxury thing these days.

Therefore, we are preparing to create a "TV and Movie Star Project" for the majority of directors who cannot go to theaters.

This is not something Cheng Yuan came up with because of his fever.

As early as last year, his teacher Professor Hou Kenming came to him and said that the college thought their "Rising Star Mentoring Program" was very good and wanted to set one up for the students of the school.

The college had no money, so Hou Kenming found Cheng Yu'an and contacted the movie channel. Together, the three parties thought something was going on.

On the one hand, it allows newly graduated actors and directors to have jobs for the purpose of training, and on the other hand, it can also discover talents.

Long-range definitely wants to select elites from the newcomers every year to enrich their team.

The movie channel can also complete its annual self-made KPIs, and with remote participation, there is no need to worry about the quality of the videos.

If Cheng Yu'an uses the name of director system, he will not ruin his own brand.

The three parties held a press conference in the middle of the month and announced the "Movie Channel·TV and Movie Star Plan".

"This plan has been brewing for a long time." As a representative of the leading unit, Mu Tiejun, deputy director of the TV and Film Department of the Movie Channel Program Center, spoke first, "It took more than half a year of discussion and preparation before we came up with a specific plan.

"The first phase is to shoot a martial arts series, "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng".

"The chief director of this series is our director Deng Yancheng."

Mu Tiejun introduced some specific situations, and the question turned to Cheng Yu'an: "Director Cheng, since we have the 'New Star Director Project', why do we still need to launch this 'TV and Movie Star Project'?"

"It's like this. According to the current specific situation in our country, there are still only a few directors who can appear on the big screen. That's why we set up such a TV and movie project. The purpose is to give newly graduated directors the opportunity to practice."

"Then what role will you and your remote play in this plan?"

"Remote will provide part of the financial and technical support for this plan, and I will also participate in this plan as a supervisor."

This press conference did not attract a lot of attention in the industry. Similar plans have been held in the past, but they were all loud and light, and sometimes there was only thunder but no rain.

"The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" should be the best TV movie about the Six Princesses.

The second best-looking one is the "The Wire" series.

Now that "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" is in my hands, the first thing I do is to replace Ximen Chuixue!

Cheng Yu'an basically didn't interfere in the casting of this project, but he really wanted to replace He Rundong.

He just doesn’t look like Simon in any way!

With Cheng Yu'an's intervention, Yan Kuan, who was originally scheduled to play Ye Gucheng, played Ximen, while Shen Xiaohai was arranged to play Ye Gucheng.

Both of them have worked remotely in "The World's No. 1".

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"Fearless" was not included in 2005.

Otherwise, China Film’s KPIs will be better this year.

"Fearless" relied on Li Lianlian's strong appeal to earn 100 million at the box office when it was released on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month.

There is no concept of Spring Festival stalls these days.

Both "Clues of Time" and "The Promise" got the majority of their box office revenue before the Spring Festival.

But this film, how should I put it, Cheng Yuan felt bad about it!

But he didn't dare to say it publicly. Dare he say that Li Lianjie was not good?

What's more, he photographed Chinese Kung Fu and heroes with national integrity such as Fearless.

Do you dare to say something bad about him?

But we can’t sing praises to him just because he’s filming a main theme. If it’s not good, it’s just not good.

Later generations of movies with the title "Jian" as the main theme would still criticize them if they didn't work well.

In Cheng Yu'an's view, "Huo Yuanjia" is too straightforward.

A standard three-act play: a young man who is frivolous and gets into trouble, a paradise where he purifies his mind and realizes great wisdom, and a sublime theme of beating foreigners after he comes out of isolation.

Of course, this is not a fault. Three-act drama is the most practical form of drama. "The Promise" also has a three-act drama structure. Director Chen must have messed up.

The problem with "Fearless" is that it is too eager to sublimate the theme, so that it falls into blunt preaching.

It is precisely because of this that there is a problem with the film's values.

The director wanted to portray Fearless as a harmless idol-like hero like Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

It also deliberately obscures the causal relationship between the self-improvement of the Chinese people and the fight against the invaders. As a result, the theme of the second half becomes a Madonna-like preaching dream.

For example, in the end, Huo Yuanjia was poisoned and vomited blood. At this time, the director and screenwriter should direct the audience's anger towards the great powers, but Master Huo advised everyone: "What you have to do is not to seek revenge. Hatred will only breed more hatred."

, I don’t want to see hatred, the most important thing is to strengthen yourself.”

what is this?

At this time of national crisis, when the country is being subjugated and the race is being destroyed, do we need our countrymen to put aside their hatred?

Li Lianjie wanted to make a breakthrough in traditional kung fu movies and embody philosophy and speculation, but he chose the worst path.

He reflected on his own culture and tried to put his own culture in a low profile to cater to the international community.

But this is exactly the opposite of painting a tiger. Compared with his past "Fist of Fury" and "Once Upon a Time" series, the depth of thought has gone backwards.

"Fist of Fury" and "Once Upon a Time" are also about traditional kung fu and strong ships and artillery against the great powers. The theme song of "Once Upon a Time" is "Men Should Be Strong". He never hides his patriotic stance and expresses it strongly

Practicing martial arts to strengthen your body is to protect your home and country.

Of course, both Chen Zhen and Huang Feihong failed, so the ending will reveal a sense of helplessness and confusion.

But "Fearless" deliberately avoids the conflict between the invader and the invaded, and instead talks about love and peace.

He even said: "Chinese people should strengthen themselves. It is true that over the years, our own people have been fighting each other, looking down on each other, and making people laugh. Foreigners regard us as the 'sick men of East Asia', but in fact they are not terrible. The terrible thing is us

Some people don’t even know they are sick.”

Listen carefully and everything he says is correct, even extremely correct.

But in that special environment, saying this is just a weak point.

When signing the certificate of life and death in the ring, Huo Yuanjia's words almost made Cheng Yu'an leave the stage early: "Fighting with one's life in the ring is a historically bad habit in China."

Isn’t it a bad habit for Westerners to draw swords and duel at every turn?

Master Huo even advised everyone: "Don't abuse martial arts to be foreign and xenophobic."

You've already been strung up on your neck and shit, so you're not allowed to resist?

After Master Huo was poisoned, everyone in the audience remained silent, but a ruthless person angrily denounced the person who poisoned him.

At the end, when the movie ended, the director did not forget to write about the international influence of the Jingwu Society in the end credits, praising the contribution of the Jingwu Society to cultural exchanges between China and the West.

The director just missed typing the word "filial piety" on the screen.

The only redeeming feature of "Fearless" is that its action design is really good.

The fighting scenes are very beautiful.

Cheng Yu'an didn't know why this kind of movie had a box office of 100 million. If it had been more than ten years later, the director and actors would have been bombarded.

Cheng Yu'an thought about the reason for the big sales, and it was probably because of good marketing.

This movie is regarded as "Li Lianjie's last action movie".

Of course Cheng Yu'an knows this is fake, and he will film "The King of Kung Fu" next year.

Why are you talking about "Fearless"?
Chapter completed!