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Now people's most attention is naturally the first work of Song Zheng and Lin Xinru after the incident of beating reporters subsides, in addition, people are also full of expectations for Ning Hao's new work "No Man's Land" that is about to meet the audience.

The high box office of the previous works has made Ning Hao's fame in the circle more and more famous, and the audience even has a kind of blind confidence in his new work.

Earlier, 1+1 also announced that "No Man's Land" will meet the audience during the National Day in October, but the development of things is obviously not as smooth as people imagined.

After a long time of preparation, Ning Hao was finally willing to submit "No Man's Land" for review, but it was ~~~~~~

Just when Song Zheng was busy doing the post-production of "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", he received a call from Ning Hao, and as he expected, after "No Man's Land" was submitted for review, he was still killed.

"What's the opinion over there?"

It was expected, and Song Zheng didn't feel disappointed, it was a stroke of luck to submit it for review after completing post-production before, but now it's just a re-walk of the old path of the previous life, and there is no pity.

Song Zheng also followed Ning Hao to do the later stage of "No Man's Land" before, but the further he went, the less courageous Song Zheng became, and in the end, he simply threw away his hand and let Ning Hao toss alone.

The movie was killed, and Song Zheng had already been mentally prepared, but Ning Hao ~~~~~~~ there

Song Zheng knows very well what this drama means to Ning Hao, but he has deep expectations and is counting on the transformation with this movie.

Although the previous "Crazy Stone", "Crazy Racing", and even the previous "Nightclub" were all successful, Ning Hao obviously didn't want to be stereotyped by the audience, especially as a theater director.

He filmed "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", just to practice the filming techniques he has always wanted to try, and now that the goal has been achieved, he naturally does not want to be trapped in the circle of comedy anymore.

Feng Xiaogang, who has been playing comedy for half his life, is still holding back to transform, let alone Ning Hao, a cutting-edge director with strong blood.

Ning Hao was silent for a long time, and said, "I have no opinion, and I didn't say what the reason is, that is, I can't pass the trial!"

Holy!

And so it was.

There's no reason, it's just not going to let it go.

As far as Song Zheng knows, I don't know how many movies have been killed in this way.

Zhang Yuan, Lou Ye, Jia Zhangke!

Chinese movies are being drained little by little by this invincible Shang Fang sword.

"Don't worry, I'll inquire, I have to give the reason, whether to change it, or what, you can't just forget it so clearly!"

Of course, Song Zheng won't just give up, of course, he didn't expect to find someone to get the relationship to make this drama pass the trial, just looking forward to it, don't be like in the previous life, wait for four years, even if he dies, he has to die to understand.

It's just that what Song Zheng didn't expect was that the killing of "No Man's Land" was quickly exposed by the media, which made fans who had been looking forward to this drama since the start of filming couldn't help but be disappointed.

You must know that Ning Hao is not a nobody when he was filming "Nightclub", he has become the "box office elixir" and "popular fried chicken" in the mainland film industry with "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing".

The same was true in the previous life, but no one expected that this wait would be four years.

Four years is enough time for a child to go from croaking to becoming a "little star" in "Where Are You Going, Dad", four years is enough time for an athlete to prepare for an Olympic Games, from the screening room to the cinema, the "No Man's Land" in the previous life has also taken four years.

Why is it "hidden"?

What's really going on behind the scenes?

No one knows, and people can only guess to find out.

In the previous life, "No Man's Land" was filmed in 2009 and was not allowed to be released until 2013, during which a full four years have passed.

The first time most people heard about the movie "No Man's Land" was in 2009, during the Magic Capital International Film Festival, "No Man's Land" held a press conference, saying that it was expected to be released for the Chinese New Year.

However, that year, the audience in the cinema did not wait for this movie, its copy is still on the road, the wheel of time is turning, but the "No Man's Land" in the car has not yet left the "No Man's Land" in reality.

Instead, it was Zhao Baohua's blog post titled "Young Directors Don't Be Narcissistic", in which Zhao Baohua listed a number of criticisms of the ideology and character image presented in "No Man's Land", such as "The image of the police is stupid and incompetent", "Most of the negative characters in the movie who are active in the no-man's land", "The tone of the movie is too gloomy", etc., instantly stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and "No Man's Land" "was killed" seems to have become a fact.

But soon after, the article was deleted by Zhao Baohua himself, but then he published a new article "The World Cup Teaches Chinese Films a Lesson".

This time, he said that the previous article "Young Directors Don't Be Narcissistic" was misinterpreted by many media, and said, "I never said which film was shot, and I never said that so-and-so film should be shot", "Everything will be clear after the release of "No Man's Land", and I hope that "No Man's Land" will be changed wonderfully. ”

Zhao Baohua's two blog posts are also the only public statements from censors in the past four years, it is not difficult to see two key points, first, "No Man's Land" did get "*" after it was submitted for review, so that it failed to pass the review smoothly at that time, and second, the film may have received a lot of revisions, if Ning Hao and other main creators can modify according to these opinions, there is still room for the release of this movie.

And a tug-of-war of "how to pass the trial" began, until 2012, when the movie "The Great Gold Robbery" directed by Ning Hao was released.

The "younger brother" was born, but the "elder brother" was not yet able to be brought out to meet someone.

So, when Ning Hao was constantly asked about when "No Man's Land" would be released during the promotion period of "The Great Gold Robbery", there was still no clear answer.

It wasn't until the next year that "No Man's Land" passed the review and was approved for release, and this "tug-of-war" came to an end.

Obviously, during this period, "No Man's Land" must have undergone countless revisions, how much has it been modified, and what is the original version of the movie like?

All this, no one knows, in this long tug-of-war over the trial of "No Man's Land", whether it is Ning Hao himself, or the staff related to this movie, and even the peers who know a thing or two about the review process, they are all silent.

The tacit understanding formed by everyone is that the General Administration cannot afford to offend, the insider is limited to private exchanges in the circle, gossip needs to be incognito, and official institutions will not leak the slightest rumor.

Because there is too little reliable information, there will be more and more rumors.

Although Ning Hao later insisted that many changes to the movie were made because he wanted to make the film more clear: "I think it's an unnecessary misunderstanding, then I'll fix it, right, and I also think that it is indeed facing the audience, and there are children or something, you have to let the family explain this matter and this value thing." ”

Regarding the details of the censorship, Ning Hao said that he had decided not to talk about it to the outside world again, including the staff around him and the former producers, everyone was silent, afraid of bringing unnecessary trouble.

Even about the time when "No Man's Land" was first submitted for review, the answer given by everyone was vague.

The more official statement is that in the second half of 2009, the film was sent for review for the first time, but it was not long before it was beaten back, and the reason for being beaten back is also the most widely circulated and the most sensitive one among the rumors that the film was "banned": In 2009, there was a regional violence incident in a certain place, which happened to be close to the filming location.

Although the film itself has no obvious connection to it, no one can guarantee what the above will think about these things ~~~~~~~ the filming area.

According to the staff who participated in post-production, after learning of the revisions, the film removed the obvious regional characteristics, and the geographical location was also diluted, so it was said that it was the west.

Another main reason why "No Man's Land" was killed is the problem mentioned in Zhao Baohua's blog post: the police, as the defender of the country's citizen security, are stupid and incompetent in "No Man's Land".

Zhao Baohua specifically mentioned the image of the police in his blog post, because in his opinion, in the no-man's land created by Ning Hao, you can kill people and extort goods, you can extort money, you can get away with it, you can do whatever you want, and most of the characters who are active in "No Man's Land" are negative characters.

In addition, he also raised the gloom of this film to the height of social responsibility: the main mistake is the loss of an artist's social responsibility, and such an artistic setting and artistic expression are not conducive to the national image, the national image, and the public safety.

As a result, many people speculate that the reason why "No Man's Land" could not be released is because the image of the police in the film is too bad, which angered the relevant departments.

Ning Hao also talked about Zhao Baohua's blog post in an interview in his previous life, and he first clarified that the reason why the first trial was not passed was not because of the unfavorable image of the police in the film.

The various revisions that were made afterwards were also his own ideas: "I later wondered if it was because this thing was too unclear, so it would make the teacher unable to understand it, so I thought it should be made a little clearer, if many people can't understand it, and I really think it's a movie that is too bad for people and bad things, I thought about it, and I still have to make it clear." ”

In the previous life, "No Man's Land" finally chose to revise and reshoot some scenes, many people, including Song Zheng, were very curious at the time, why they chose to reshoot a year later, and it was still at the upcoming juncture of the original schedule, announcing the refilming of the scenes, what kind of plot is it, important enough to postpone the release.

So the second wave of "rumors" began to ferment, and everyone generally believed that this must be a failure to pass the review, and the key plot needed to be modified, and then, Ning Hao said that the refilming scene would be used for the end, so there were rumors later that this was an order from the General Administration.

In the final release, the five-minute ending scene of the reshoot takes place in a slightly old dance studio in a city very far from no man's land, and Yu Nan's character sits in front of her middle school classmates, kneeling on the ground with the children to put the tatami mats together, which seems too warm compared to the previous cold, even somewhat brutal scene, and is accompanied by sensational music.

A staff member once revealed to the media that after the first trial, the amendment given by the General Administration of the Second Instance was that "the content of the paragraph needs to be rectified", so Ning Hao added some scenes as required, and asked Yu Nan to reshoot a few scenes, follow the leader's intention to amend, and make the ending closer to the main theme.

Of course, Ning Hao denied in an interview that the revision of the ending was due to the pressure of censorship, and said that the addition of the ending was purely his own idea, and at the same time, he also wanted to make the story clearer and the ending clearer.

In fact, "the content of the paragraph needs to be rectified" is a very "false" opinion.

According to relevant sources, after Ning Hao got the advice from above, he began to look for materials again and chose scenes that were not too aggressive, but the plot did not make much adjustments.

To put it bluntly, the deleted content is a violent scene, the biggest highlight of the film "No Man's Land", it challenges the violent level of domestic films, there are many films that depict the darkness of the world, but it is rare to play violence in a realistic style.

It's a pity that these scenes that are enough to go down in the history of Chinese cinema have been cut out, and ordinary audiences will never see them.

The last big change Ning Hao made for "No Man's Land" was to add a narration about monkeys at the beginning, telling how the monkeys, the ancestors of humans, were distinguished from other animals by working with each other, which was probably also to emphasize the theme and avoid making people have "bad associations" with the next story.

In short, all poison is speculation, and everything is an unsolvable mystery.

However, at least in the previous life, the killing of "No Man's Land" also gave birth to many incidents.

For example, Xu Zheng, the actor of "No Man's Land", once said that if "No Man's Land" is released as scheduled, there may no longer be "Thai Embarrassment" with a box office of 1.2 billion, and he may not be defined as a comedian by the public.

Huang Bo said that before and in the future, he will never find the way to perform in "No Man's Land".

Film critics believe that "No Man's Land" is Ning Hao's most important masterpiece since filming.

In the past four years, the discussion and assumptions about "No Man's Land" inside and outside the circle have never stopped.

Onlookers who don't know the truth are curious about how the film has offended the sensitive nerves of the censors and why the release has been repeatedly stopped, and many true or false jokes have been spread all over the Internet and in the streets.

For four years, "No Man's Land" stayed in the copy workshop more often, but outside the workshop, the speed of development of the Chinese film market is unimaginable.

According to the perspective of market economics, in the face of the 2013 version of the film market, has the "futures" of the 2009 version of "No Man's Land" "increased in value" or "depreciated"?

Ning Hao once said half-jokingly: "After putting it there, I didn't mention it, and Zhongying didn't bother to mention it, and finally I finally said, I'm almost done, I said let's give it too, I said Xu Zheng is also expensive now, Huang Bo is also expensive, right! It's been covering it for so long, the market is good, and the screen has risen from 4,000 yuan to 17,000." ”

In fact, Ning Hao's statement is also a widely accepted opinion in the industry.

First of all, the "struggle" with censorship in the past four years has attracted enough audience curiosity, and countless people are looking forward to this movie.

In addition, the filming cost of "No Man's Land" is 20 million, which may be a lot of money for 2009, but for 2013, it may only be enough to pay Huang Bo of "2.5 billion emperors" and Xu Zheng's salary of "1.2 billion".

There have also been domestic box office analysis experts who have given a more ambiguous opinion, believing that compared with 2013, this film may be more popular when it was released in 2009.

In his opinion, the young cutting-edge directors at that time were rare, and Ning Hao's new work after the "Crazy" series was also a work that everyone was looking forward to at that time, and the scarcity and topicality were "hotter" than now.

In 2013, new directors have already carried more than 100 million box office, such as Xue Xiaolu in "Beijing Meets Seattle", Liang Lemin and Lu Jianqing in "Cold War".

In addition, Ning Hao's "The Great Gold Robbery" did not have a warm response to the previous works, which more or less made the audience's response a little sluggish, and the audience who went to the cinema to watch the movie was also different from 2009, so many new audiences were added every year, and their preferences were also changing.

These statements that appeared in the previous life may be very reasonable, but they can only stay at the level of speculation and ifs.

Now, "No Man's Land" is the same as what happened in the previous life, after it was submitted for review, there was no result for a long time, and it was finally able to get the result, and it was the same as the previous life, there was no reason, that is, it could not pass the trial.

And Song Zheng wanted to die clearly, but it turned out to be a luxury.

There is no reason, nothing, just can't live, is there anything in the world that is more unrewarding?

This is equivalent to a suspect going to court for trial, and the other party did not even bother to show evidence, and directly pronounced a sentence of life imprisonment, and there was no way to even appeal.