Chapter 358 Find a director who makes movies honestly and doesn't carry private goods [3320 monthly ticket plus change]

"The failure of "The Great Wall" was doomed from the beginning, and the blame was not very objective in terms of editing rights. Director Zhang, with all due respect, "The Great Wall" will not succeed even if you edit it yourself. In the final analysis, if two foreigners run to our country to save the world, the story is not intended to be a big seller. ”

In the previous life, the knees of the Chinese people were not so soft, and in this life, the Dragon Kingdom is even stronger, even if it is not as good as Hollywood in terms of movies, but this kind of story theme, the audience is definitely impossible to accept.

Even if the picture of "The Great Wall" is really good, the special effects are quite good, and Da Tiantian's appearance is also very good.

But if the audience doesn't accept it, it doesn't accept.

Our country has been the first in the world for thousands of years in ancient times, and we need to let a few Western savages save it?

Who is disgusting?

The audience watches movies for the sake of coolness, and they are not happy to watch any movies.

Zhang Yimou is not very able to accept Yue Guan's point of view: "That's to get out of the Dragon Country, if you don't choose a Hollywood first-line actor as the leading actor, "The Great Wall" will not be able to open the world at all." ”

"Director Zhang, if you lose it, you lose it, and it doesn't matter what you want. And it's not for me to say that the big directors of your generation have an obsession with Hollywood and the Oscars. Yue Guan shook his head: "Hollywood is indeed awesome, but not all movies are awesome, they have more bad movies, and it is impossible for a pure Dragon Country person to win an Oscar, and you are not a banana person like Li An." There's no need to praise Hollywood's stinky feet and put your own reputation on the line. ”

Yue Guan's words were a little too polite.

Zhang Yimou couldn't accept it for a while.

Mo Xiangwan gave Yue Guan a look and came forward to ease the atmosphere: "Director Zhang, what Yue Guan means is that you are already a top director, even if you don't have an Oscar award, your achievements are undoubted, and you don't have to blindly cater to the Oscars." ”

"Yes, my respect for Director Zhang is from the heart. In my heart, Director Zhang is the first person among the older generation of directors. Yue Guan added.

That's true.

Xiao Gang Cannon was also a master of commercial films before he was not hypocritical, but after he embarked on the path of an art master, it was equivalent to walking on the same track with Zhang Yimou, and there was no doubt that he was beaten by the national teacher. To make a literary film, the sum of ten small steel cannons is not enough for Zhang Yimou to fight.

Chen Kaige won't talk about it, "Farewell My Concubine" is basically his masterpiece.

Jiang Wen...... In people's hearts, I don't put the audience first at all, and it's all over when I shoot it, the investors are a fart, the audience is a fart, and they don't understand my movie at all.

is also a national teacher, and he really has the heart to make a good commercial film, but his ability to tell stories is really weak.

Judging from various awards, the national teacher is indeed the first director in China.

This cannot be denied just because his time has passed.

But his time has indeed passed.

That's why Yue Guancai said that the national teacher is the first director of the older generation in his mind.

Zhang Yimou didn't hear Yue Guan's subtext, and when he heard Yue Guan praise himself so much, a smile finally appeared on his face, and he said modestly: "Our generation is old, and our thinking has been ossified, as Yue Guan said, your obsession with Oscar has been engraved in your bones, and you are not as confident as your generation of young people, and you are very confident from the bones." ”

The atmosphere eased, and Mo Xiangwan breathed a sigh of relief.

From her heart, she wants to cooperate with Zhang Yimou, after all, Zhang Yimou is too famous, and the combination of Zhang Yimou + Yue Guan can make fans full of expectations from the lineup.

However, she knew that Yue Guan would definitely not give up the dominance, so she said tentatively: "Director Zhang, our company's budget for the "Fengshen Series" is 600 million for the time being, and it may be more in the future. With such a huge project, it is impossible for our company to give up the dominant rights, and the final editing rights must belong to our company, is this really non-negotiable?"

The national teacher was silent for a moment, but still shook his head firmly: "It's not negotiable, editing has too much impact on the success or failure of a movie." If I make a movie that is edited by another person, it may be cut out of another film that is very different from what I had in mind. ”

Mo Xiangwan still wanted to persuade two more sentences.

But Yue Guan spoke: "Then I can only express regret, Director Zhang, next time I have the opportunity to cooperate." ”

Yue Guan took the initiative to stretch out his hand.

Zhang Yimou shook hands with Yue Guan, and he was also very regretful: "Yue Guan, I really want to cooperate with you." ”

He is basically a master in other aspects, but his storytelling ability is weak.

Working with Yue Guan to make up for this defect, Zhang Yimou felt that he was very likely to climb to the top.

But a big director has the pride and persistence of a big director.

There are some principles that he is not willing to break.

There is no way around that.

Yue Guan could only say: "There will definitely be a chance in the future." ”

After sending Zhang Yimou away, Mo Xiangwan said regretfully: "Yue Guan, really don't give it a try again? After the official announcement of the Wang Bang combination between you and Zhang Yimou, everyone will definitely be in the spotlight." ”

Zhang Min raised his hand: "I agree." ”

Yue Guan shook his head and said: "It's no show, Zhang Yimou will bow to the Hollywood industrial system and give up the final editing right, but our company doesn't have such a big face." And Zhang Yimou thinks that he was cheated by giving up the editing right before, and he was afraid of the well rope after being bitten by a snake for ten years, and now he will definitely not agree to give up the final editing right again. ”

"Is the final editing right so important to our company?" asked Mo Xiangwan.

Yue Guan's answer did not hesitate: "It is very important, the directors of our country, especially the big directors, always like to export values with private goods when telling stories, but they will not tell a good story in a proper manner." If they don't get the final edit, God knows what they'll be able to shoot. ”

Wenqing is not a problem.

If you can't even shoot a good story, it's a big problem.

You tell the story to the level of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", and you can export values as you like.

But you can't even tell a story well, and you still want the audience to accept your values, is it a fool to be an audience?

Wu Baige, Feng Xiaogang, Jiang Wen, Chen Kaige, Xu Zheng after "Thai Embarrassment...... In fact, they all have this problem.

It's too difficult to find an honest director who makes commercial films.

Therefore, Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown" series exploded at the box office one by one.

Regardless of Mr. Chen's character, people just tell stories honestly, how to make the audience hilarious.

This is really a rare quality among directors.

"Do you want to find a director who doesn't carry private goods and doesn't pretend to be forced to make movies honestly?" asked Mo Xiangwan.

Yue Guan nodded.

"Wang Jing. ”

"Wang Jing can't do it, he's not good at shooting this kind of subject. ”

"Who else can do that?"

"There's a guy I asked to meet tomorrow. ”