It's the same all over the world, and independent films are non-mainstream.

What is a mainstream movie?

Commercial films are the mainstream, and no country in the world regards literary films as the mainstream, even France, Italy...

As the birthplace of films, France, the country where the Cannes Film Festival is located, the top ten historical box office films, are all comedies, whether it is "Welcome to the North" that expresses regional differences, or "Untouchable" that shows racial differences, or various divine films that show class differences, gender differences, and belief differences, all of them are comedies.

Without the cloak of comedy, in 90% of cases, it will be a money-losing goods.

The same is true in Italy and Germany!

In addition to using local culture as a shield to make the audience laugh, they can only rely on the prize money of the film festival and government subsidies to survive.

Why?

Resist the Hollywood invasion!

In the world, only the Indian audience has a more strange aesthetic, so they resist the best...

In the eyes of Indian audiences, if a movie does not have more than 20 minutes of singing and dancing elements, it is not called a movie at all!

Neon, among the top ten at the historical box office, 6 are animated films, and 5 of them are the works of Hayao Miyazaki. The rest is the fan theater version of the TV series and the emotional tearjerker with animal themes - the two-dimensional kingdom of God!

It's the same in China, there used to be only comedy + ancient costumes, so those who can do comedy are very valuable!

Venture capital, but whenever there is a comedy genre that can make you laugh, it will inevitably be robbed...

Venture capital meeting, how to explain it...

is equivalent to "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb": there are a bunch of producers of film and television companies sitting at the bottom, and then, a group of young directors who have been shortlisted for the preliminary round have their own projects to recommend themselves, and each person introduces them for fifteen minutes, and if they can be seen, it is called holding hands successfully, of course, unlike "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", the guests have no qualifications for anti-selection...

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FIRST Youth Film Festival has been committed to the commercial operation of independent films, the so-called commercial operation, is to be able to enter the theater, this aspect is different from the China Independent Film Festival CIFF, CIFF wants to sell abroad...

Therefore, although the works of the First Youth Film Festival are cutting-edge, they are definitely in line with the process.

Shen Ming sat in the audience and listened to about three projects, one of which was the project of "Dog Father", which made him a little impressed: this is a story about reconciliation between himself and the world...

After the junior college entrance examination, he learned that his father had died two days ago, and he was very angry and hesitant...

The other two, he didn't listen carefully, because he knew from the synopsis of the script that they belonged to the sports theme, one about girl basketball, and the other about teenagers boxing, obviously influenced by "Wrestling, Dad"...

These two projects, if they were placed in the first half of last year, there would definitely be a bunch of people rushing to ask for them, this is not the cold winter period of the film and television industry, everyone is very cautious, and even Ahri Pictures did not act as the main leader.

Most of the films Shen Ming made before, including the works he was interested in, were relatively commercial.

He attaches great importance to the text and feels that the core three elements of the film: story, characters, and theme, the story comes first!

Of course, there are a lot of filmmakers who come up with the theme – start with a big theme, and then stuff the story into it.

That's how Lao Chen is.

The problem is that Lao Chen has been out of the lives of ordinary working people for too long, and the life materials he has stored are only those scenes from decades ago, because there is no life, so there is no story, so he can't shoot so many poverty alleviation cases worth mentioning, so he can only completely copy the story of "Les Miserables" in the key plot!

Therefore, the first thing he looks at when he looks at these new directors is the logic of the script, whether there is anything that does not conform to common sense...

The 'Girl Basketball Dream' was directly ignored by him - or a national competition?

……

In the evening, the organizer led a group of people to the hotel.

Shen Ming, Lao Hu and Wan Qian got together.

"Why do I feel like you're not in a good mood?"

“… The standard of these people is too low, and many of them just have an idea, and they dare to come to power and ask for money!"

Lao Hu smiled and didn't express his opinion...

Not to mention saying 'just support his dream'...

Dream?

The minimum investment is 3 million, real money!

"There are so many talented directors, but you can work hard,"

"Effort for what?"

"Make yourself the traffic of the director's world!"

Hello everyone, I'm a trainee director who has been practicing for two and a half years...

Lao Hu suddenly asked: "Sherlock on the Plains, where did you find this script?"

"Haha... Picked it up!"

Thinking of this movie, Shen Ming was very proud...

"Sherlock on the Plains" was released for 20 days, and the box office was close to 800 million, although the single-day performance has slipped to less than 5 million, and the total box office is about 840 million...

has set a return on investment that is not weaker than "33 Days of Broken Love", and probably only Guo Fan's "You at the Same Table" can compare with its profitability - 17 million investment,

"Next time you have a script like this, you must come to me..."

"It's a northern comedy, you're from Shanghai, and your accent doesn't look like it!"

"I can learn..."

Wan Qian stared at Shen Ming's wine glass: "Why don't you drink a drop of wine?"

"I'll have an interview later!"

“… There's an interview, and you're still coming out?"

"I'll just come over for dinner..."

……

Ming Tsai does have an interview,

Interview with CCAV6.

Of course, it's to promote "Flag Protection".

"All literary and artistic creations are inseparable from the times. ”

Shen Ming sat by the window, with the brightly lit Xining night scene in the background...

"The process of filming is the process of encountering and solving troubles. ”

"The biggest difficulty is the struggle between subject matter and talent. Shooting a well-established work tests the director's skills, and thinking about how to direct this subject matter well, our entire creative team encountered a lot of problems. ”

"If you shoot it too bluntly, it's equivalent to a documentary, it's not interesting, it's too explicit, and it's easy to cause a diplomatic storm..."

"Therefore, we intercepted three points in time, '94, '01 and '06, and used the experiences of young people of three different ages overseas, which not only recorded the times, but also recorded the psychology of the people. ”

"Why do you want to be a director?"

"I just want to try more. After thinking about it, Shen Ming made a joke: "I also want to tell those film critics that anyone can write film reviews, but not everyone can direct movies!"

"Ahem..."

The host coughed and motioned for him to shut up...

Shen Ming hurriedly switched: "The main thing, I want to have some changes, I'm only 23 years old, many people say that I am the actor with the strongest box office appeal, and then what? No one told me what to do then, I know that as an actor, it is unlikely that there will be a higher breakthrough in at least ten years..."

"In the past few years, I have been taking on dramas, in fact, I just want to prove my sense of existence, but if you look back and think about it, my sense of existence is enough!"

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