Chapter 199: Innovation and Breakthrough

Film is known as one of the world's seven major art forms, and it has only appeared for 100 years, compared with literature, architecture, drama, music, art, dance, these art forms that have accompanied the development of human beings, it is still a newborn baby. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But it is a giant baby born powerful, because the film contains six other art forms, and it is a new type of art in the industrial age that is contained in one.

Cinema is like a hodgepodge, subdividing and organizing other art forms, and then stimulating the audience's brain to produce other resonant emotions through both visual and auditory aspects, and then extending to the deep inner thinking.

In terms of limitations, it is not as good as literature, if the film is a towering giant tree, then literature is a whole forest, no matter how profound the movie is, it will not have the power of words to penetrate deep into the bone marrow.

In terms of art, film is a collection of layers that combine art, and compared with static images, dynamic images always make people's minds unable to immerse themselves.

The performance of the drama is to create a dream from the reality, creating four walls to let the audience understand objectively, but the performance in the film is to create a kind of reality in the dream through editing and patchwork.

Therefore, when acting actors, they must enter the play and forget themselves to complete their dreams, and film and television actors need to grasp the scale of the play in the process of performance, because too exaggerated will make the audience play, too real and lack of drama.

But the charm of cinema is that it can incorporate other forms of art into itself, and then present a new form of expression, which is different from literature, fine arts, or theater.

But most people agree that film is the art of the director, and in the film, the director is like God, guiding the development of the film and the actors, so a good director is the key to the success of the film.

The script and actors are the same, but if they are all the same as the script of "Farewell My Concubine", then even if Chen Kaige is replaced, this movie will definitely succeed, because the script is too full.

But the original work of "Farewell My Concubine" was written by the famous writer Li Bihua in Xiangjiang, this writer's writing is well-known in the Xiangjiang literary circle, and she is low-key, no one has seen her in public so far, but her works are widely sung on both sides of the strait.

Among them, "Green Snake" directed by Tsui Hark and Xu Laowei, "Kawashima Yoshiko" directed by Fang Lingzheng, and "Rouge Buckle" directed by Guan Jinpeng are all her works, and these films have a huge influence in the history of Dragon Kingdom films.

If these movies are made by another director of the same level, they are all successful movies, because the script is too full.

But Zhang Yiyan's original script is different now, it can be said that the story of this script is very single in Wang Yao's view, if it is in the theme of a plot movie, this book is unqualified, but due to the rich entanglements and character relationships, as well as the deep mapping of performance, this book is plump.

Wang Yao has watched Zhang Yiyan's other films, and his deep impression of his films is the pictures, especially some freeze-frame pictures, each frame has a poetic sense extending from the land of China, and also carries the loess style of his hometown Qindi.

So for this theme that originated in Zhang Yimai's hometown, Wang Yao is looking forward to it, because Zhang Yiyan is a native of Qin.

But the script is over, and converting words into images is really the director's art, a book that is not mature, whether it can be filmed successfully, the director must occupy 60% of the importance, and the rest is the soundtrack and acting.

Before shooting a movie, he will draw a storyboard first, so as to ensure the shooting frame and set needs, Wang Yao watched those peers draw scorescores, and felt that there is indeed a different kind of beauty, at least visually, if it can really be restored, it must be very shocking.

But Zhang Yiyan and the two screenwriters had a dispute because of disagreement.

In this movie, Zhang Yiyan is ambitious and wants to create a new theme that belongs to the domestic film market, so he wants to break the single form of expression of the traditional film narrative of the Dragon Kingdom, weaken the function of the protagonist, and make the story prominent.

This method is to absorb the multi-perspective, segmented narration that was popular in the Western world in the 90s, describing the same story line from different perspectives, giving the audience a diversified and open-ended experience, making the story more prominent and active.

This narrative form is mainly produced from the early ideology of the West, dialecticism, in Western philosophical thought, "truth" and "experience" dialectically dialectically with each other, multi-perspective, multi-directional repeated scrutiny of a thing, as the saying goes, is to go around in circles, circle after circle, people confuse their own subjective judgment, and turn to objective judgment.

From thinking about a single individual to thinking about a single thing, to thinking about the connection of an entire group.

But this kind of attempt is a test for the domestic audience, this is like a multiple-choice question, the previous Dragon Kingdom movies had only one option for the audience, but this option gave the audience countless options at once, if there is a slight problem with the description and narrative, it will make the story collapse and become fragmented, then this movie is a failure.

Audiences who are accustomed to the traditional way of thinking of the East will definitely feel inexplicably confused about this way of expression that integrates Western thinking, which will make many viewers feel foggy and incomprehensible.

Several screenwriters are top veteran screenwriters in China, insisting that they should be conservative and not take too big steps.

But Zhang Yiyan insisted that this part must go, if not, how can it be created.

The success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" lies not only in director Li Yu's grasp of the aesthetics of Western audiences and his understanding and interpretation of Chinese culture, but more importantly, the narrative technique, his narrative technique is a typical Western-style narrative, but he weakened this multi-style, or maintained the importance of the protagonist, for both Eastern and Western audiences, there will be a hazy sense of familiarity.

However, Zhang Yiyan's proposal is a different approach, even beyond the Western narrative, which can be said to be a fusion of the Eastern narrative and the Western narrative.

However, this kind of addition does not necessarily have a positive effect, although it is said that negative and negative are positive, but when doing addition, positive and positive may also be negative.

This is a huge consideration for both the writer and the director, and the current story is divided into four areas, Nameless and King Qin, Feixue and Remnant Sword, Changkong and Nameless, Nameless and Three Zhao Knights.

These four stories, five characters, are all protagonists, and the script is written in a ring with a style of reasoning and suspense, and three fake stories made up by unknown people to coax the king of Qin are a true story.

As long as one of these stories makes the audience feel abrupt, then the play will be wasted.

But if this drama is successful, then the theme of the future Dragon Kingdom movie will be enriched all of a sudden, because this breakthrough of keeping pace with the times and integrating Eastern and Western narratives and thinking will play a role in the general importance of the 'Westernization Movement' at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

It truly broadens the aesthetic and thinking vision of the Dragon Kingdom audience.

The pros and cons are mixed, this is the most difficult to choose, after several discussions, quarrels, and in the end there is no result.

Several seniors were quarreling, and the younger ones were silent and did not dare to interject, for fear of causing trouble.

Zheng Xixi sat next to Wang Yao and watched Wang Yao draw, his big eyes were aimed at the few people who were arguing in the living room, for fear that they would get excited and fight.

Wang Yao glanced at her and laughed quietly, "You still have to take care of this." ”

"Of course. Zheng Xixi lowered his voice, "In addition to investing money, our investors also have to take into account the market, and Director Zhang is now challenging the entire traditional market." ”

Wang Yao blinked, "What's the impact?"

"If this drama is really successful, then the domestic market will really become diversified in the future, and it will enter a peak period, because this kind of film is a new type of narrative for domestic audiences, and the films introduced in China in recent years are also based on the needs of the traditional market, but if Director Zhang succeeds, then it will be a market innovation, and the risk of investment will increase in the future. Zheng Xixi whispered, frowning, "But if we don't innovate, in the future, Western films will come in, and the money of our investors will be made by Western films." ”

Wang Yaoleng paused: "Is there anything to do with the two?"

"Market choice, this kind of film debut is a new type for domestic audiences, foreign countries have been playing for decades, and it has long matured, you think, a mature model is put in China, even if it loses money in the early stage, but it will also cause a monopoly effect, and then the country wants to create it, and it will have to be controlled by others. Zheng Xixi tore a piece of paper, one big and a few small.

Pointing to the big one, he said, "This is the market." ”

Then he put a couple of small pieces of paper on it, "These are movie models, the market is so big, but the audience will be attracted by new things, especially after getting tired of watching traditional movies, all the audience will go to watch Hollywood blockbusters." Zheng Xixi pointed to the largest piece of paper on it.

"Regardless of whether this kind of film is good or not, the audience will be attracted, and coupled with the mature technology and marketing of the West, it can capture the audience in terms of technology and quantity, so that we, the investors, will not easily invest in traditional domestic films." Zheng Xixi said again.

"Why? Wang Yao was stunned.

"Stupid, invest in a mature model, and invest in a developing concept model, which one do you choose? From a businessman's point of view, it's all about making money." Zheng Xixi knocked Wang Yao.

Wang Yao frowned, "So, these traditional classes are destined to be eliminated?"

"Liking the new and hating the old is the root of human instinct. Zheng Xixi pursed his lips, "If the tradition can't be broken, then all that awaits is elimination and the next reincarnation." ”

Wang Yao turned the pencil in his hand and chuckled, "So, it seems that the market still guides the audience." ”