Chapter 360: Far Cry (3/4)
Question: Zhang Junsheng is born.
"Many people say that the 80s were the best years in China, what do you think?"
Zhang Junsheng waved his hand: "I haven't experienced the eighties, it's not good to evaluate!"
Preferential treatment of literati, industrial regression, compradors run rampant, military business, social unrest, law and order chaos, the rise of a new aristocracy...
I'm talking about the Republic of China!
Of course, the eighties laid the foundations of this era, lived stronger than yesterday, had hope for tomorrow, and after a long thirst, finally lived a normal life, and desire had not yet eroded the whole body and mind of people.
For many, it was indeed a golden age!
At that time, college students were discussing poetry, the future of the country...
However, what Zhang Junsheng feels most about is that in the 80s, there were anti-extreme green religion movies like "Liupan Mountain", but now they are gone...
(The movie was shocking, it's literal, not at all national... )
A professor at Jiao Tong University said: "Nowadays, there is a lack of humanistic care for movies on the market, and many times when you enter the cinema, you feel that those movies are 'not called movies'. ”
Wu Yanyan interjected: "In fact, not only in China, but also in the United States, the situation is also relatively bad, Hollywood only shoots Marvel, I know a lot of filmmakers, they also say that it is very boring, but the Big Six dare not take risks, so there is a burning after reading, young children are brainwashed by Marvel, but there is really nothing on the market that can be shown to them, everyone is discussing this confusion - what to make a film? What can remain in history? But Marvel will definitely not, at best it is just entertainment, and it will not remain in history like "Schindler's List"!"
Zhang Junsheng pursed his lips and did not speak...
Zhang Yimou shook his head: "In order to let Chinese films go out, we participate in various film festivals and win awards at film festivals, this has been decades, there are always people doing it, and I have done it many times." But you know that the space for these transmissions is limited. The kind of blockbusters released in mainstream theaters that affect most of the world's young people have always been short versions of Chinese films. If film is an industrial system, this is heavy industry, and I personally think that it is a pillar industry. ”
"But you yourself say that Hollywood industrialization is a desecration of film art, and you yourself don't like the producer system and have no creative freedom..."
"I don't like it, but it's good for Chinese films..."
"But it's not artistic!"
“… I'll answer that!"
Zhang Junsheng really can't hold back, he is artistic, what is the difference between why not eat minced meat?
"I've executive produced a lot of mainstream films in the U.S., and I've made a few independent films, so it's a good question for me to answer!"
"Why is Hollywood terrible? is because it has a perfect industrial division of labor, and most importantly, it has a bottom-up industrial chain, the North American film market, in addition to our common Hollywood blockbusters, there are thousands of independent film companies specializing in small-budget shooting, the films made by these people are rarely on the big screen, but once there is a talent in it, it is easy to be identified, and then attracted to mainstream commercial films!"
"Their mainstream films are always big commercial productions, and independent films belong to the fringe culture..."
Wu Yanyan immediately retorted: "The Oscars every year..."
"The Oscar is only a participant and witness of North American films, not a terminator, and winning the Oscar does not mean that you are very good!"
"Mainstream audiences like movies that are more commercial and entertaining, and only a small part of the audience likes things like literary and artistic, feelings or the mission of the film. I don't understand one thing, why do people who like to watch literary films have a sense of superiority, where does the superiority come from?"
"The strength of Hollywood lies in its inclusiveness, it can absorb different cultures, Japanese movies are not good, Japanese movies used to be popular for big productions, and then the two-dimensional culture rose, the mainstream came closer to the periphery, and then the two-dimensional became the mainstream..."
"If, as you said, we all make literary films, this is not to develop Chinese films, but to stifle Chinese films! Any artificial separation between commercial films and art films is very outdated thinking, every director has his own artistic dreams, but art films are not high, and if a film is made without the audience, that is a failure. ”
"You say that the Big Six are making superhero movies? Actually, that's not the case, a large part of Paramount's movies are medium-production. ”
Wu Yanyan continued to retort: "But the problem now is that art films can't survive anymore. The severity of the reality, the small number of films, and the edge of the film schedule are beyond our imagination!"
"Mr. Zhang, you have a cinema chain in your hand, will you deliberately arrange a few more shows for literary films when you are filming?"
"Films should stick to the basic cultural bottom line, films should carry cultural missions, in the case of such a difficult survival of art films, I think director Wang Xiaoshuai is right, it is unfair to put art films on the market, throwing cultural undertakings into the market will definitely be distorted, literary films cannot and should not be tested by the market, it needs to be protected. ”
“… This is said as if commercial films do not carry a cultural mission!"
Zhang Junsheng was speechless, it's all 2011, how can there be such a stupid person?
"Why do Hollywood movies go all over the world? Is it because there is history in them?"
"In terms of disseminating culture, commercial films are not known to be higher than art films. What is the most influential film of Chinese films overseas? Art films? No, they are kung fu films! It is Jackie Chan!"
Wang Xiaoshuai, that's a psychopath, he knows blind beep all day long, he used to say that he wanted to create freedom, and blamed the political axe for being too wide, but now, he called on the political axe to take money to build a literary theater for him, why? Are you a literary film director, are you awesome?
……
It can't really be as noisy as a shrew scolding the street.
After all, they are all people with status, and they do a bunch of media and students off the field.
The moderator played a round, followed by a question time for reporters.
"Far Cry" has passed 50 million at the box office, what do you think?"
"Far Cry?"
This really stumped Zhang Junsheng...
Released on the same schedule, it was originally a cannon fodder film, with an investment of 5 million yuan, a three-day tour of the theater, a domestic thriller that can earn a little bit, and then directly defeated "Martial Arts" and ranked second on the box office list!
won a box office result of 26 million in the first weekend, although it cannot be compared with "The Great Wall", but the investment of "The Great Wall" is a hundred times that of it!
The film world was shocked.
They can't shoot "The Great Wall", can't they still make "Far Cry"?
This reporter obviously deliberately wanted Zhang Junsheng to comment on "Far Cry"...