Chapter 100: If you like it, the audience likes it
"Actually, I have always had a question that I haven't figured out, what is the difference between art films and commercial blockbusters?" asked Ge You curiously.
At this time, Wu Jianye thought that there is no so-called commercial blockbuster in China now, if you want to say that the prototype of a domestic commercial film is the prototype of a domestic commercial film, it is estimated that it is "The Mysterious Buddha" filmed by Yan Film Studio this year, and at the same time, "Peacock Princess" starring Wu Jianye can actually be counted in this category.
"In my own understanding, art film itself has its own critical or experimental nature, he is to let the audience see their expression of the world, society, life and other things from the perspective of film creators, and it is also an experimental attempt at film art. ”
"As for commercial blockbusters, the best thing to do now is naturally Hollywood movies in the United States, of course, the current Xiangjiang movies are also in this category, commercial films are more for ordinary movie audiences, they don't need this movie to have a profound educational significance, or connotation, the most important thing is to be worthy of the tickets that the audience spends money to buy. ”
Everyone didn't notice it at this time, they originally thought that they were the most knowledgeable about movies among the young people in China, but at this moment, they all wanted to be like primary school students, sitting here and listening to Wu Jianye talk about the various situations of the movie.
"And what about these domestic movies?" asked Grange.
"Didn't you just say that domestic movies have just started, although many of the movies you see now, every time they are screened, they will cause the audience to scramble to watch, that's just because we don't have more pastimes, with the popularity of TV sets later, it will definitely divert a part of the movie audience, or even a large part of the audience, and then buy you and Xiangjiang movies, the impact of Hollywood movies, domestic movies still have a long way to go. ”
"How do I feel that there is a lot of pessimism in your words?" Chen Kaige heard the meaning of Wu Jianye's words.
"This is not pessimistic, it is reality, the development of any new thing, must go through such a process, now we have many restrictions on watching domestic films, but that is because of the current social background, for our country, the film industry is a wild land, and a wild land means barbaric growth, and when the pace of the film is enlarged a little more, there will be a lot of shoddy films, which will definitely have a major impact on the domestic film industry at that time, coupled with the problems I talked about before, domestic films are destined to take some detours!”
This is not Wu Jianye's alarmism, nor is it Wu Jianye's use of the phenomenon decades later to talk about the current situation, in fact, the domestic film industry in the mid-to-late 80s saw the emergence of a number of shoddy and eye-catching films.
Its situation is no less than that of Xiangjiang films in the late 90s, and domestic films in the new century.
At that time, the film studios were no longer satisfied with just selling copies to make a profit from the film, but there was no way to change the country's regulations, so they could only produce a large number of low-cost films.
'Fists and pillows', 'Wen Shang Bed and Wu Shang Fang' are talking about the Chinese movies of that period, although the directors or creators of those films also have their own ideas, but it is undeniable that they did play too hard.
The scale is so large that some young people in later generations dare not imagine it.......
It is precisely because of this series of circumstances that the development of domestic films came to a standstill in the nineties, although some film practitioners contributed some high-quality films, such as Zhang Yimou's "Alive", "Red Sorghum", Chen Kaige's "Yellow Earth", "Farewell My Concubine".
But none of this can make up for the shortcomings of domestic commercial films.
"In short, it's just a sentence, Huaxia movies have a long way to go, and your responsibility in the future is not light!" Wu Jianye raised his wine glass.
Everyone was a little stunned by Wu Jianye's remarks, and now everyone can say that they are enthusiastic about the movie and want to display their ambitions, but Wu Jianye's current remarks are like a dull head for them.
"You don't have to have any burden, I believe that no matter how many detours you take, the development of things will definitely lead to a right path in the end!" Wu Jianye put down his wine glass, saw that everyone was a little silent, and smiled.
"What about you, Lao Wu, what do you think, now that you have acted in movies, and you have tried your work as a director, do you want to make that type of film in the future?" asked Chen Peisi.
Regarding Wu Jianye's performance in the crew, after Chen Hao came back, he treated Wu Jianye as someone else's child and educated Chen Peisi, so although Chen Peisi saw Wu Jianye for the first time today, he didn't know much about Wu Jianye.
Everyone also looked at Wu Jianye directly at this time, and unconsciously, Wu Jianye had become the center of everyone.
"Don't look at me like that, I'll be shy!" Wu Jianye smiled.
"!" immediately aroused everyone's dissatisfaction.
"Everyone has to talk about civilization, there are female comrades here!" Wu Jianye said, pointing to the several women present.
"Old Wu, tell me what you think, don't worry about us!" said a girl.
"Well, since you've asked, I'll give you my own thoughts. Wu Jianye looked at everyone for a long time, and when he saw that everyone looked like they were going to do it, he hurriedly said: "In fact, in my opinion, it doesn't matter whether it is a commercial film or an art film, in the final analysis, it is all made for the audience, but the audience of the two kinds of movies is different, I hope that I can make my own favorite movies in the future, and then this movie can be liked by more audiences, whether it is art film lovers or commercial film lovers." ”
"Of course, all of you here will become the backbone of the domestic film industry in the future, and I hope that everyone should show the history and culture of China from a different perspective than before, and show Chinese films to the world!"
"Cut, you're not the same as not saying it, who doesn't want to make their favorite movies, it's so easy, you can't get any money to make movies!"
Wu Jianye shrugged, for him, the budget for making a movie was really not a problem.......
As for making his favorite movies in the future, Wu Jianye didn't lie, in his opinion, the so-called art films are not so high and low, they have to be made like no one can understand, they are high-level, and he doesn't think that commercial films are really so low-level, and they all end up telling stories.
Just like the later generations who wrote online novels, he didn't think that traditional literature represented high-level, and online literature was low-level, as long as he was happy to write books and read books, it was fine, as for how to interpret it, it was the reader's business, not the author's business.
It boils down to one sentence, just make someone worthy of watching this movie!