At the age of thirty-three, Lu Xiaoran understands a lot of things.

First, he is just a director, just make movies, and when necessary, say two high-sounding words;

Second, movies are just movies, and life should come first!

Li An has a saying that is very right: If you become a father and husband of others, it does not mean that you will naturally gain their respect, and you still have to earn their respect through hard work every day! This is also a reason for me to never slack off!

Life is not a movie, life is much more difficult than a movie.

The creation of the film, because of the author's vision or life, or the narrowness of life experience, only grasps one side of life and deepens the description, so the coverage is narrower than life.

Life is different, life is too heavy, everything is important - and you can't want everything!

For example, Lu Xiaoran, after the child was born, his status in the family suddenly decreased...

It's a fact.

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On December 7, "Shadow" directed by A Mou was released.

Director A Mou was interviewed by the media:

Talked a lot - Ah Mou is really a talker!

"Many directors have a martial arts dream, and I believe that there are also many directors who have an ink dream, because this is our culture. Sometimes I often wonder, when will I make a film that can be like an ink painting, which is an idea that I have had for many years, and this time it happened to come true in "Shadow". ”

"Ancient Chinese themes have been filmed badly, and there have been no stand-ins, and there are very few stand-ins in Chinese historical records. Akira Kurosawa made a famous "Shadow Samurai", and I don't believe there has been a stand-in in China's long history. ”

"Why is it not recorded in the history?What happened to them?What kind of people were they?Where did they come from?It's funny, so I'm interested in this story. ”

"I'm very interested in the portrayal of this character, and in the story of the emperor and general, it is rare to have an angle and vision that is civilian. ”

"Carefully creating every detail and embodying it materially is also a kind of traditional inheritance, not a new technology!"

"The story goes, you live and die, swords and swords. Only with such strength can there be such shock, only then can the back of the paper be forced, and only then can the other side of human nature be highlighted. However, these are all superficial, and the core is still human nature and emotion. ”

"I see it like a structure of Shakespeare's tragedy, and the theme in it is also about human nature, human struggle, survival. I also use such a structure to convey an aesthetic concept of Chinese culture, and to explore human nature from an aesthetic perspective. ”

"It uses traditional Chinese aesthetic concepts, its black and white, ink style, its yin and yang, its gossip, tai chi, overcoming rigidity with softness, and forbearance. The so-called antithesis of the aesthetics inside is made into three people, and people's hearts are like shadows. It is a concentrated expression of Chinese cultural symbols, which also meets the requirements of this story. ”

"The actor chooses... It was recommended by Lu Xiaoran, he said that Deng Chao can, we tried the play, it's really good!"

Very rarely, Lu Xiaoran is also here...

It's not that Lu Xiaoran doesn't support Zhang Yimou, the main thing is that for more than a month, he has been almost isolated from the world, and there is no news on Weibo...

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Ah Lang stopped Lu Xiaoran for a brief interview and asked him to talk about his views on the film market.

Regarding "Shadow", Lu Xiaoran has already answered before.

- Very good, Director A Mou is still the most respectable contemporary mainland director. Shakespeare's tragic story + small pattern under the big world view, the performance form is also more inclined to drama. The aesthetic system of ink painting is very unified, and the sense of form is not inconsistent with the temperament of the film.

Now we are talking about the Marché du Film:

"Let's talk about the overall environment first: there are less than 200,000 screens in the world and more than 60,000 in China.

So the question is, does China have such a big market? Is there so many moviegoers?"

"I don't think so, when the increase in theaters reaches a certain level, there will only be so many audience reserves, and there will be so many people willing to buy tickets!"

"The famous saying of the bigwig in the circle says that there are too many viewers of spicy chicken, and they are jealous that their money has been earned by others. Now that there are fewer spicy chicken audiences, everyone has no money to earn, and they don't know whether to laugh or cry. ”

"Now the ticket price has risen to nearly 40 yuan, the movie ticket itself is a commodity, the ticket price is getting more and more expensive, and the audience is becoming more and more picky. No matter how high the box office is, it can't hide the fact that fewer and fewer people are watching movies!"

"Of course, there are also good things, there is a growing awareness of copyright in the country, and there is less and less piracy. It's good for the whole film industry!"

"You're also in favor of raising fares?"

"It's not up to me to say, theaters are going to raise prices, a bunch of people say that movies are light luxury, and the public has to accept high ticket prices... From the very beginning of the film industry, watching movies has been the cheapest form of mass entertainment, and the basis of the topicality and ritual is the extensive participation of the public. Without a large audience, movies are rootless! I don't approve of raising ticket prices!"

By the way, since the beginning of 18 years, the ticket price of the movie has risen to more than 35 yuan, and even as high as 50 yuan!

I used to watch a movie, at most 19.9, even if it was a bad movie, it was good to blow a cold wind, but now it doesn't work, more than 35 yuan, you can buy a good pack of cigarettes!

It is the consensus of many foreign practitioners that the box office is precious, which is also the reason why many countries, such as South Korea, only count the number of moviegoers.

Play in the theater like this, and you will find that the movie is not just a necessity...

"Do you have any new plans for the next few years?"

“... I should continue to make films, but of course I will focus more on other areas..."

"Other areas?"

"Life, movies are movies, life is life..."

"And how long will you rest this time?"

“... It won't be long before there is still a "New World" in hand that will be scheduled for next year's Qingming Festival, and a tribute film "My Motherland and Me" will be made!"

"My Motherland and Me?"

"Gift film, co-produced by seven directors, I am the chief director, Ning Hao and Yang Qing will also come!"

"Is it a mission?"

"How is that possible... We decided to shoot it ourselves, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China..."

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The box office of "Shadow" can't be too high!

This movie is actually a bit boring...

The story is a spiritual remake of "Shadow Samurai", but the story is a bit thin, and the reversal is actually only the one where Deng Chao killed himself, and the other whole film is a flat and direct narrative...

Of course the picture is good.

Fortunately, the films released on December 7 are not competitive, whether it is "Hurricane", "Indian Partner", "The Legend of Green-Haired Grimm" box office and word-of-mouth...

"Shadow" ushered in a half-month film and television window period, and forcibly pushed its box office to 800 million!

The cost has been recovered - the production cost of "Shadow" is 300 million, and the peripheral licensing and game adaptation have earned back 200 million...

Ah Mou is very stable!

Anyway, his movies don't lose much, and looking at his movie sequences, the only thing that can really be called a loss is "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling"...

Then, "Walking with God" was released.

This time, Lu Xiaoran did not attend the premiere and stayed at home - Hangzhou is too far away from Beijing, he is really too lazy to make a trip...

Delay his fishing!

At seven o'clock in the morning, he went out with a fishing bucket, sat on the boat, sat all morning, packed up his fishing tools, and turned to go home.

Sugar Candy is sitting on the sofa, and the TV is playing "Latent"...

Lu Xiaoran put down the bucket and asked her, "... What do you think of Latent?"

“... I have nothing to do, I think back to the past, I was so young!"

"Yes, it's really green, and the acting skills are also green!"

Sugar Candy is not happy: "... I'm not an acting school!"

"Haha... You actually admit it!"

Lu Xiaoran poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip, it tasted good...

Tangtang: "Why don't you say the current TV series is so interesting?"

In fact, in the four years from 2000 to 2003, many unique and interesting themes and characters appeared on the small screen, adding great vitality and creative prospects to the TV drama market, which can be said to be the four years in which the quality and quantity of mainland dramas soared. Not for a few years after that!"

Tangtang nodded: "Yes, I watched "Clever Little Don't Understand" two days ago, and found that the show is really a variety of dog blood elements, but the shooting is really good!"

"Another point, the previous film and television dramas paid attention to the story, and now the number of episodes - "The Wrong Sedan to Marry the Right Lang" is only twenty episodes, and six pairs of CPs are told with the house fight as the main line, if you change now, there will be no sixty episodes for you to finish filming?"

"The regression of domestic dramas is not overnight, and it is not possible to change this chaos in a day. ”

“... Hey, here's the golden sentence!"

Lu Xiaoran raised his head, and it was the line of Stationmaster Wu: "During the Anti-Japanese War, Tianjin Station was called a fortress by Director Dai. It's good now, like a bitch, what secrets are there!"

Lu Xiaoran smiled: "Mr. Feng Enhe, we haven't seen each other for a long time, right?"

"Well, I wanted to find him when I did "In the Name of the People" that year, and he rested that year!"

"It's okay, if you have time, Director Liu Jiang wants to shoot "Old Tavern", you can find him to act!"

Sugar then asked, "Do you remember the audition that day?"

"...Audition for "Latent"?"

"Yes!"

“... Remember, we had already set up Jiao Junyan to play Mu Wanqiu at the beginning, and then we saw you..."

"You've already decided on Jiao Junyan?"

“... She's my junior sister, I think she's pretty good, so it's settled..."

"Then what if she plays Mu Wanqiu?"

“... How can there be so many assumptions..."

"Wow wow..."

"The child is crying, hurry up..."

Tangtang immediately forgot what he wanted to ask, and rushed upstairs, and Lu Xiaoran also ran along...

In a trance, as if remembering the first time she saw Sugar Candy, she was wearing a white dress, and suddenly a voice came from her ears.

"Lu Xiaoran..."

"Big Golden Retriever..."

"Yes, it's me!"