Chapter 500: The General Trend
Xu Qian also promoted "Wolf Warrior" on the Internet.
He wrote on his scarf: "The movie "Wolf Warrior" I filmed will be released in theaters, please support it!"
The publicity about "Wolf Warrior" can be said to be in full swing.
"The first heavy industry military film in China, Xu Qian, he really dares to shoot it. ”
"It's a subject that no one dares to talk about. ”
"My God, I hope Xu Qian will succeed. ”
"If Xu Qian succeeds, I believe that more people will follow one another to shoot this type of movie, and Xu Gan will be regarded as a great meritorious. ”
"I hope Xu Qian can succeed, if Xu Qian can succeed, there will be another category of domestic films. ”
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Many people are looking forward to Xu Qian's success, because China needs "heavy industry type" movies, and why Hollywood blockbusters have swept the world is because they have a large number of heavy industry type movies.
Chinese films are like an intensively cultivated small-scale peasant economy, and they will naturally collapse at the touch of a button in the face of the menacing steel torrent. So we also have our own heavy industry films.
Of course, there are also people who are skeptical: "I admit that Xu Qian is a genius, but his shooting of this kind of heavy industry type of film is a dead end, he can't control such a theme at all, and no one in China can control it." ”
It was Ning Que who spoke out.
He was also annoyed by reporters, and he was unwilling to praise Xu Qian, so naturally he belittled Xu Qian.
No one in China dares to shoot "heavy industry military films", because making movies is about ways and methods.
Capital has long mastered the formula, saying that it is okay to feed to the audience, as long as it is in accordance with the "traffic circle money law", is it not good to make money lying down like this? Why should I shoot heavy industry military films?
It can be said that Xu Qian's filming of heavy industry military films is completely thankless. What you offend is all the groups of capital, who want to keep the audience in captivity and become a tool for them to make money.
If the movie is bad, they will come with the sentence "Because the audience is bad, the movie is bad", which is really not wrong at all.
Many public knowledge, Internet celebrities take the opportunity to hype!
What is the fastest in this world, that is squirting, spraying authority!
Although Xu Qian is young, he is already an authority in the hearts of many people!
Therefore some people sprayed him under the pretext.
Some people say that he can't shoot heavy industrial military films like "Wolf Warrior", and he has no experience in making similar movies before.
Xu Qian didn't take these people's criticism to heart at all, he knew too well what kind of criticism the movie "Wolf Warrior" would cause when it was filmed, it would be a film that would change the pattern of Chinese film history.
And not just because of the box office.
Rather, because it is a film in the "heavy industry" genre!
In the last life, Chinese literary films were very good, but so what?
Films such as "Ju Dou" and "The Red Lantern Hangs High" certainly have quite high artistic achievements, but when viewed in two, they also try their best to show China's backward period, which is poor and white, dirty, messy and all kinds of bad customs, and the Chinese people in it are even more portrayed as ignorant and ignorant, so to a large extent, they cater to the psychology of Europeans and Americans who position China as a barbaric and backward country, and they are quite praised for their talents.
The epic masterpiece "Farewell My Concubine", which can still represent the highest artistic achievement of Chinese films, won two heavyweight awards at the Cannes Palme d'Or and the Golden Globe Award in the United States, but in the final selection of the Oscar Foreign Language Film Awards, it lost to a little-known "The Lover of Four Thousand Gold", but most fans who have watched the film "Four Thousand Gold" know that it is just a comedy with no connotation, exaggerated performance, and a very boring plot.
This film can defeat "Farewell My Concubine" and Ang Lee, who won the Berlin Golden Bear Award, "The Wedding Banquet", is it because of the happy encounter of "a deserter who has a relationship with four sisters at the same time", a beautiful scene like heaven on earth, which made those old male judges envious and moved?
Is it really good to shoot these literary films? The ending has already told us.
Domestic films have long been defeated by commercial films on Hong Kong Island. Everyone would rather huddle in a small video hall to watch even the Hong Kong Island videos, which were rated as "shoddy, vulgar and funny" at the time, rather than go to the cinema to buy tickets to support our international directors.
The bankruptcy of the movie theater chain, the change of careers, and the change of careers, don't even have to wait for Hollywood to enter in a big way a few years later. Even those good actors with superb acting skills, except for a few people, all changed their careers to make TV series - it was a disguised creation of the prosperity of the domestic TV drama industry at that time.
In the past, China's film education was to learn from European art films and the French New Wave for decades, taking pride in making art films and being ashamed of making commercial films, from film writers and directors to teachers and students in art academies, who had long admired art films in Europe and even in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and despised Hollywood's "industrial films", so at the turn of the century, these filmmakers, who had been separated from the people for too long, finally completely killed Chinese films.
It wasn't until Lao Mouzi changed his mind and ignored the "traitor" who was scolded by film critics as a "traitor" who "deviated from the path of art", and cooperated with the Hong Kong Island team to open the road of domestic commercial blockbusters, and several other directors also followed up one after another, that he saved the dying mainland film industry at that time.
The film industry has always been about business being king, and the box office comes first. Art films are like the cherry on the cake, although beautiful, they can only be decorations.
Even French cinema, the mecca of art films, could not hold its homeland and was losing ground in the face of Hollywood commercial blockbusters.
Even the three major European film festivals, the temple of art films, have been trying their best to cater to and curry favor with Hollywood superstars over the years.
It was he and Yang Dechang's art films that won international awards, and countless filmmakers on the island followed suit, indirectly ruining Taiwanese films for 20 years, and only then did they fall into the tragic situation of only 1% of the island's total box office in the 90s.
The meaning of "Wolf Warrior" is extraordinary.
This is because among the commercial films, science fiction films, action-adventure films, and war films are the three genres that stimulate the audience's senses the most, and they are also the three major weapons that Hollywood has persisted in conquering the world film industry since the seventies and eighties of the last century. It is the continuous production of these three types of films, and the increasingly updated demand for film technological innovation, that has created the Hollywood film industry, which is now unique in the world.
If Chinese films are always satisfied with making campus youth films, local comedies, and costume martial arts films that cannot be replaced by Hollywood movies for a while, as the so-called "promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses", then they can only hide in a few specific "domestic protection months" every year, and eat the leftovers left after Hollywood movies are swept away.
And "Wolf Warrior" also made everyone realize that those who can represent the right direction of Chinese films will never be a few of them who are addicted to literary films from Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, or Hong Kong and Taiwan!
On the contrary, it is while calling friends and friends that we and others have supported the 5.6 billion box office of "Wolf Warrior".
"The era when the whole country generally admired foreigners and regarded foreigners' awards and events as lofty is long gone! China, which has developed and risen rapidly, has long passed the era when foreigners need foreigners' grand events and awards to affirm itself, and Chinese films no longer need any Oscars to prove their worth. ”
"Therefore, the advent of "Wolf Warrior" is the trend of the times, and it will definitely change the lives of many people. ”