"Why has the industry changed so much!"

In a certain club in the capital, Li Qian, Wu Jing, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, Wen Muye, Qi Yukun, and Su Lun gathered together to give Guo Fan a pick-up.

After being full of wine and food, Guo Fan is also full of emotion about today's film industry.

"It's almost becoming a little unknown to me, it's only been more than two years, and if it weren't for the boss's movie coming out, I would almost think I'd been abroad for five or six years. ”

As soon as he was full of food and drink, he was sentimental about the Spring and Autumn Period, which made others a little strange, Qi Yukun was puzzled, "How has it changed, I have been stupid for two years in Mi Lijian?"

"The film industry has become a little unfamiliar to me, what kind of movies are they now. Guo Fan said.

"What's wrong with the movies now?" the crowd was even more strange.

Li Qian smiled, "Lao Guo is right, the past two years have been a special year for the film industry, although there has been no change at the top of the box office, but the entire industry has undergone earth-shaking changes."

Especially this year, "Where Did You Go, Dad", "The Future", "Little Times 3", "The Year in a Hurry", "Aomen Fengyun", "Beijing Love Story" and other films with a box office of more than 400 million, these backbones of the mainland market, except for "Wolf Warrior" and "Beijing No. 81", are almost the same.

Selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, TV series remakes, remakes, and another "Journey to the West: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", which broke one billion, is also a remake, and it is surprisingly rotten.

The emergence of these "new forces", coupled with the continuous hitting of Wu Yusen and Jiang Wen, especially Jiang Wen, who was pinned on by the industry and the audience, this time was beyond everyone's expectations.

The industry, all of a sudden, seems to have suddenly been updated, and it is these remakes, adaptations, and films directed across industries that account for 80% of the backbone of the market. ”

This......

Hearing Li Qian say this, everyone was a little stunned.

They are in the country, watching the changes in the industry every day, but they don't feel anything.

It's like a little child, you look at him every day, you won't notice obvious changes, but if you don't see him for two years, when you see it again, you will feel that this child has grown too fast.

Thinking about it, it seems that this is really the case, the industry has changed too much, especially the top ten domestic films at the annual box office, most of which are remakes.

And those familiar directors in the past are gone one by one, and even those big-name actors appear less and less frequently in the top ten movies at the box office.

"We can't do Director Li like this, one movie is released again and again a year. Xu Zheng smiled bitterly.

This year, several of them, except for Wu Jing, none of the movies have been released.

The script of the sequel to "Thai Embarrassment" has not yet come out, "Detective Chinatown" is on the Spring Festival, "Ghost Blows the Lantern" I don't know if it will be available next summer, the sequel to "Truman's World" Zhou Xingchi script has not come out, and "Heart Flower Road" has not been completed and has not yet done the post-production.

It takes two or three or three or four years to make a movie, this is the normal frequency, and even this is fast, after all, you need a suitable script, you need to create it yourself, you need inspiration and time.

Li Qian shook his head, "It's not just that you haven't released a film, maybe you haven't noticed that it's the creative group and the audience that have changed."

There are more and more audiences, the economic conditions have improved, coupled with the long-standing habit of watching movies, watching movies is just an ordinary entertainment activity, as long as there is a little entertainment, the audience is willing to spend money to enter the cinema, and the audience does not have high requirements.

Seeing that the money is so easy to make, so driven by interests, more and more unprofessional directors are involved, in order to make money, it must cater to the taste of the public, and the audience will shoot whatever they like to watch.

It's like a youth movie, it's a very simple thing, find a girl who has the feeling of first love, find a boy who is a little ruffian, and then have a secret love, open love, love triangle, skipping class, and fight arrangements, it's best to get some nostalgic places, such as skating rinks and the like, the beautiful name is youth, young audiences, and older audiences eat this set.

When it is found that it is so easy for others to make money, more and more people will follow suit, and those films that have already been established, what kind of "Pancake Man" is being filmed by the big friends who make miniseries.

The sequels to "Slaying the Wolf" and "Omen Wind" have been filmed,

"Why Sheng Xiaomo", "Let's Get Married", "Rushing to the Clouds" and other popular TV series made movie versions.

"Never Expected", a very popular short drama on the Internet, has also been filmed, and it is still about Journey to the West.

Even the variety movie "Where Did Dad Go" is making a sequel.

Not to mention youth films, there will be a lot of them released next year, and there will definitely be good films in these films, but 80% of them will be bad movies, and they will be bad movies that can make money.

Follow the trend and make a bad movie to make money, who still goes to the trouble of being original and making a good movie, after all, most of them are just to make money, and there is no ideal. ”

Li Qian's words made the expressions of everyone who should have happily picked up Guo Fan a little serious.

Although they also want to make money, they basically have ideals.

Needless to say, Guo Fan didn't work as soon as he graduated, and went to do odd jobs and art for other people's crews.

Qi Yukun devoted himself to making his films that reflected realistic themes, and went to the coal mine and the countryside to find materials for more than a year, and he didn't touch a commercial film.

Su Lun dropped out of a key university in order to run errands in the crew in his freshman year, re-examined Chinese drama in Beipiao for a few years, and has been giving himself a vacation after filming "Living Together in Time and Space" and "Warm Inner Light", and has refused countless invitations to romance films.

The sequel to Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior" wants to shoot Chinese superheroes, and the protagonists who are more awesome than the first part are just not used to watching some people on the Internet.

Wen Muye is also idle, he doesn't have a good book, and no matter how high the salary of other film companies is, he can't be moved.

Ning Hao's family is quite rich, his father turned out to be a worker, gave up the establishment and iron rice bowl to go to the sea to do business, the family is quite rich, rich and likes to play, the entire Taiyuan bar, roller skating rink owners knew him.

When he was 20 years old, his father gave him 400,000 yuan and wanted him to open a store in Taiyuan to do business, but Ning Hao only came to the capital with 2,000 yuan to pursue his dream.

At first, he wanted to be a painter, he had studied painting for ten years, but when he took the exam at the Academy of Fine Arts, he did well in the physical examination.

In despair, he accompanied his friend to take the entrance examination to Beijing Normal University, but he was admitted by himself, and then made a living by shooting MTV, just to make money, which is not ideal.

However, when his graduation work "Thursday, Wednesday" won the award, he began to feel that he could be a director, and this became a new ideal.

If you can't be a director, you have to go back to inherit his father's family property.

started as a literary film director, and the reason why he abandoned literary films was because when he traveled around the world's major film festivals with these literary and artistic works, he became suspicious of the dozen or so blonde and blue-eyed foreigners sitting in the audience.

Whether these people can really understand Huaguo's literary films, whether they can really understand what the director wants to express, and whether it is valuable to shoot movies for these people to show themselves, so they chose to make commercial films that most audiences can see.

Xu Zheng also has ideals, sometimes he feels that he is a literary and artistic youth, sometimes he suspects that he is a literary youth pretending to be with the trend, but sometimes he suspects that he is wrong, in fact, he is a literary and artistic youth.

The script of the sequel to "Thai Embarrassment" is full of literary and green flavor, and even the protagonist was a literary and artistic young man when he was young, which can also be said to be his ideal, and the original purpose of filming what he wanted to shoot was not just for money.

are all directors with ideals, although they are not all so lofty, they have nothing to dedicate to the industry, throw their heads and spill their blood, and they also want to make money, but at least they are sincerely making movies as a career, not a tool to make money.

At least that's for now!

Serious film directors, they don't want to see the industry slowly become like Li Qian's mouth, blockbuster movies continue to break through the lower limit, after all, there are two directions.

However, more and more people come to "pick up money", and they are also helpless.

"But what can we really do, and we can't stop those who come to collect money. Ning Hao said.

"Boss, when "Little Times" was released last year, you also publicly said that no matter what movie you are, you must do a good job of quality, but no one listens to it, what should it be or what it is. Qi Yukun said with emotion.

"No, where do you care so much about people who just want to make money. Xu Zheng continued, "As long as you taste the sweetness, the capital can do anything, the previous "Where Did You Go, Dad" movie was a big hit at the box office, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV not only released a sequel, but also prepared to launch the "Running Man" movie, and there is no bottom line at all." ”

Wen Muye pushed down his glasses and said seriously, "If it's not the film industry, of course there won't be a bottom line, and these capitals don't care about the life or death of the industry." ”

After speaking, he looked at Li Qian, "Boss, what do you think?"

The others also looked at Li Qian.

Li Qian shook his head, "There is no way, the industry is too big now, and the entertainment is getting stronger and stronger, and it is impossible for us to control its direction."

However, the only thing we can do is that if we have the ability to make money while standing, we should not bend down and kneel on the ground shamelessly.

Make some good movies, so that the audience still has good movies to watch, so that they will not be slowly lowered by this bad movie, as long as there is a comparison of good movies, the audience can at least distinguish the good from the bad. ”

Ning Hao sighed, "I kind of agree with what Ma Xiaogang said, there are more and more bad movies in China, which is caused by the audience's appreciation level." ”

"That makes sense. ”

"The same cannot be said for the audience, too. Li Qian shook his head, not agreeing with this kind of statement of throwing the pot to the audience.

"In the final analysis, there are still more bad movies, and if you watch too many bad movies, the acceptance will slowly decline, and the level of appreciation will be lowered by bad movies, so we should make more good movies, and if we watch more good movies, our tastes will naturally be in our mouths, and we can't watch bad movies. ”

"It's so simple, we can't make a few movies. Xu Zheng is pessimistic, just a few people, two or three years may not make a movie, it will not affect the entire market at all.

Li Qian said with a smile, "There are still a lot of directors with a bottom line, don't be so pessimistic, just be yourself, just stick to your heart, or come and listen to Lao Guo's sci-fi blockbuster, he has been staying in Mi Lijian for more than two years for this film." ”

I didn't continue the topic, just sigh once in a while, and it's not interesting to talk too much.

They are also directors, at most Guo Fan, and some middle and second places are bent on revitalizing domestic science fiction movies.

ended this somewhat heavy topic, and talked about Guo Fan's masterpiece with great interest.

"Lao Guo, I heard Director Li say that you went to Hollywood to study just to shoot real hard science fiction, what kind of theme is it?"

"I plan to adapt Da Liu's "The Wandering Earth", I thought about it before I went to Hollywood, in addition to studying in the crew and special effects company in the past two years, I was also thinking about the script and drawing some concept drawings. ”

Talking about the film he carefully prepared, Guo Fan was also very excited, and took out a thick pile of manuscript paper from his bag as he spoke, and everyone shared some.

"Look at it. ”

Everyone received concept drawings of the movie from Guo Fan's hand, including suspended excavators, heavy-duty off-road carriers, huge planetary engines, abandoned Beijing Guomao frozen into ice sculptures, missile launchers, and sci-fi cockpits......

The concept map full of heavy industry aesthetic style gave everyone a huge impact, and Ning Hao couldn't help but sigh after looking at it twice, "This is a science fiction film!"

There is no serious science fiction in China, the kind of film like "Cyborg" is not, and "Moon" is not a science fiction blockbuster, everyone is a young director, and there is no one who doesn't like science fiction.

After a long time, I put down the manuscript and admired Guo Fan.

"I feel like it's a little different from the style of Hollywood sci-fi films, but this feeling, the impact, is stronger than many sci-fi films. Wu Jing asked.

Li Qian flipped through the script of "The Wandering Earth" and said, "This is the aesthetic style of Sulian Heavy Industry. ”

Wu Jing was stunned, no wonder it looked different from Hollywood science fiction films, and asked, "Didn't Su Lian go to Hollywood to study the aesthetics of heavy industry, why don't you use Hollywood style?"

"Because I want to find the future path of Chinese sci-fi films, I thought about it for a long time before I decided. Guo Fan explained.

"The future of Chinese sci-fi films?"

Such a heavy sentence made everyone think about it carefully, Guo Fan is not only to be a pioneer of Chinese science fiction, but also to give Chinese science fiction a path of his own.

Guo Fan then explained his thoughts, "If I want to find the right aesthetics, all I can think of is Su Lian's things, Su Lian's big heavy industry things, which are related to us, we have a cognition of this thing, and we think we will be familiar with it."

It was also the unification of Bolshevik aesthetics, and at the beginning of the last century, Sulian wanted to create a new aesthetic that would resist the harassing influence of the bourgeoisie and prevent it from corrupting socialist art.

Of all the arts, architecture is the only symbol that is enduring and huge, and exhibited in public, and it can be said that architecture is a public expression of art.

After Sterein's rise to power in the late twenties of the twentieth century, architecture was increasingly called upon to strengthen Soviet rhetoric and collective identity throughout the field, and monuments, industrial motifs, and the close fusion of classicism and modernism became the heart of Sulen's architectural project.

These styles, with the construction of hundreds of construction projects in China with the help of Su Lian in that year, have been retained in China, and have been used in major cities to this day, and most of them are collective houses and workers' new villages.

In "The Wandering Earth", in the face of extreme environments and 100 generations of wandering plans, human beings all over the world must unite, and the dungeons are like new villages for workers who occupy a wide area and live collectively with tens of thousands of people.

A lot of the place, including the loading truck, is in the Soviet style, and this planetary engine is also based on the abandoned headquarters of the Bulgarian public property......"

Watching Guo Fan excitedly talk about his thoughts and the deep meaning in it, he only felt the sci-fi sense of the concept map before, but after listening to his thoughts, I realized that there are so many deep meanings in it.

"This is our Chinese science fiction film!"