Whether the movie is good or not depends on whether it sells well at the box office.

This is the most intuitive feeling of the general public, although many box office blockbusters have been criticized by countless insiders for being nutritious, meaningless, and meaningless, no one listens, no one believes, and no one cares about their words.

Why are literary films called niche, because most of them are self-congratulatory by some insiders, and at most some viewers who like literary films.

In fact, Ning Yuan feels that literary films are not niche, but they have been distorted into a niche by those high-level people who vainly want to be superior.

A good literary film, appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar, is like Bai Juyi's poem, an old woman who doesn't know a single big character can also understand it, even if it is Wang Bo's "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion", even if you can't distinguish the endless allusions in it, but if you listen to someone reciting, the majestic feeling will arise spontaneously.

But those people just made the literary film so that no one could understand it, and they were complacent: "I'm advanced!"

Senior your sister!

Use some unnecessary filters, which are called to increase the texture, and edit the narrative rhythm upside down, claiming to be super time and space, and if you can't understand it, your realm is not enough.

As for the problem of the movie itself, there are even more, because Zhang Yimou's "Alive" won the Cannes Jury Prize, and many people also deliberately made this kind of tragic movie, and boasted that this is revealing human nature and analyzing fate.

Because "My Father and Mother" won the award, and a group of people are swarming to make movies with rural themes, not to mention the dirty and messy, the bloody and chaotic interpersonal relationships are so complicated that you doubt life.

Then "In the Mood for Love" won the award, and another group of people only learned an empty and ethereal skin, and "Happy Spring" won the award, and went to shoot this kind of avant-garde and subversive.

In fact, it is to follow the trend, and most of the motives and purposes are just to win awards - although Zhang Yimou and they also have the purpose of winning awards, at least they are also telling stories: tell good stories first and then have literature and art.

And these people are just putting the cart before the horse, first engaging in literature and art, and then telling stories, in fact, they can't say one, two, or three of what the film is about, they only far-fetched some unfathomable concepts, just like Lu Xun's article was over-interpreted.

It's all about giving new words and saying that it's going to be sad, and in the end, the literary film is dead.

But in fact, a good literary film has its uniqueness in terms of narrative, rhythm or style, even if it is a plot, it is complete and unified.

Looking at the gray tone of the film, you also use this tone, but you don't understand why people use this tone here, anyway, it doesn't matter if he is 3721, turn on the camera and do it.

The art circle is similar, except for the works of a few masters, most of the other schools of painting other than realism are fame and hype.

Van Gogh's "Starry Night", if you just look at the prints, of course, I think it's the same thing, but if you can see the real handwriting, the oil paint brushstrokes, colorful color blocks stacked, the visual impact is very strong, just like "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng", many people can't say where he is good, and which classics are cited, but listening to and reading is very emotional, there is a kind of hearty drinking wine.

A good literary film has a main storyline, not a mess, just like "Farewell My Concubine", "In the Mood for Love", as well as Tom's "Forrest Gump", Neon Country's "Kyoto Story" and so on.

In a good literary film, the suffering of the protagonist is revealing and inspiring, and no matter how bad it is, it is attacking some things, rather than suffering for the sake of suffering.

Chasing awards is not a bad thing, but Dong Shi followed suit, and ridiculed and ridiculed those who said that he was not good and couldn't understand it, that is, blindness, covering his ears and stealing the bell: "I don't listen, I don't listen, you don't want to chant the scriptures!"

Similar to the pursuit of awards for literary films, the future of swarming youth films is to pursue profits.

In the future, the public will narrowly define literary films as low box office, few stars, rough production, and dull rhythm, and the "inherent impression" that they are exclusively for overseas film festivals, which will make the public and literary films drift apart.

But who is to blame?

definitely don't blame the audience, and it is impossible to blame them for not being able to understand.

At the end of the 80s, Victory Art Cinema exclusively screened "Half of the Flames, Half of the Sea" - not Liao Fan's, and the grand viewing of the film at that time was very different from people's impression of literary films in the future.

The theater's 443 seats were often full for three months in a row, and at the end of the box office, an iron fence had to be pulled up to divert the audience.

Even in the future, "Biluo Snow Mountain", directed by Liu Jie and released in 11, this film that was not originally ready to be released at all, was screened for a whole year and a half at the newly built MOMA Art Center in Beijing, and it is often difficult to find a ticket.

And similar to "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog", it is only shown in this theater, and the evaluation is similar - there are not too many ups and downs of the plot, deliberately exaggerated performances, and uses very simple techniques to record the stories that happen between the green mountains and green waters with calm and concise shots.

Because the dialogue of this movie is almost all in Lisu language, even if it is a Chinese movie, the audience can only read the subtitles, which is similar to Ning Yuan's movie being released in the neon country.

Even this way has such a grand occasion, it can be seen that there is never a shortage of audiences for good literary films.

Therefore, whenever the director and producer hit the street at the box office, dumping the pot on literary films, saying how they have advanced concepts and the audience doesn't understand them, they don't have to watch their movies in the future.

This also leads to the fact that even if it is a literary film in the future, they will not dare to classify their own films in this category when they are announced.

"Fireworks in the Day" - this time it was performed by Liao Fan, it seems that this guy is on the bar with fireworks.

No matter from which dimension, it is a standard literary film. However, after returning to China after participating in the German competition, he starred in Liao Fan + Gui Lunmei, starring in the Berlin Golden Bear Award. Draw a clear line between movies and "literary films" and promote them as a crime genre film.

It wasn't until the box office broke 100 million that the film changed its words and claimed that it was a literary film.

At school, as well as in the theater, Ning Yuan discussed this issue with Qin Li, Meng Hui and Liao Fan more than once, especially after drinking with Liao Fan, they all scolded those bastards for smashing the signboard of literary films!

After blocking a lot of interviews for Ning Yuan, Qin Li said when she gave Ning Yuan a leave:

"Since this is the case now, I hope you can correct the name of literary films in the future, so that the audience knows that it not only has connotation, but can also be sold for money. ”

"Sell for money?haha, teacher, when did you start to be vulgar, this is not like your style?"

"Vulgarity is elegance, don't worry that the general public can't understand a good film, if there is a problem, it can only be a lack of learning - okay, go ahead, pay attention to safety over there, and pay attention to your words and deeds, because you don't just represent yourself, as a public figure, every word and deed will be magnified. ”

"Thank you, teacher. ”

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