Feng Xiaogang's attitude made Song Zheng feel inexplicable, and after recalling it carefully for a long time, he didn't remember when he had offended this little steel cannon, because the two had never crossed paths at all. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Even when Song Zheng was in Huayi Brothers before, the two of them had never met, and after leaving Huayi Brothers, he was always busy filming, and Feng Xiaogang's family was even busier, and he had a big mess under his hands.

If there is any intersection between the two, the only time is that the crew of "Big Names" embezzled the funds of the crew of "Life and Death".

If you talk about this, Song Zheng is the victim!

Why did Feng Xiaogang put on a posture of asking for guilt as soon as he came today?

"Zhengzi, you haven't offended him before, have you?" Wu Xiubo was just beside him, looked at it for a while, and saw Song Zheng enter the door of the hotel, avoiding reporters, so he came over to ask.

Song Zheng frowned and said, "No, what can I offend him!? I haven't met before at all, so I'm still wondering here!"

Song Zheng is really confused now, speaking of which, he is still a fan of Feng Xiaogang, but he is certainly not an iron fan, and Song Zheng is not blindly applauded for his works, such as the inexplicable "Night Banquet", the dog-tailed mink-like "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2", Song Zheng doesn't like it very much, and as for the "Private Custom" that wants to reproduce the glory, it feels even rougher.

But in terms of the overall quality of Feng Xiaogang's past works and his struggles in the film industry, he deserves Song Zheng's respect.

After all, no one can guarantee that their works will always go up, and everyone will have ups and downs, even Spielberg, James Cameron, and Peter Jackson can't guarantee that they will not be able to make bad movies in their lifetime, and they can't completely deny a person because of a temporary trough.

For Feng Xiaogang's several dramas, although they are not perfect classics, they are all worth remembering, thought-provoking, and prove his inner feelings, at least Song Zheng likes it.

Since Song Zheng got involved in the film and television industry, he deeply felt the difficulties involved, writing scripts, finding resources, and opening up channels were all extremely laborious, far from being as simple as standing aside and being a troll in the past.

Feng Xiaogang has been in this circle for so many years, he has been sought after, criticized, and in the future, he will be scolded for directing the Spring Festival Gala, but Song Zheng has always been very kind to him.

Therefore, Feng Xiaogang has always been a template for Song Zheng's efforts, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is an idol.

Because Feng Xiaogang is a person who Song Zheng has a deep memory from childhood, in his previous life when he was a child in the village, he often went to the neighbor's house to watch TV, there is a TV series called "Triumph in the Midnight", which is about the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, at that time, Song Zheng watched the blood boiling, and loudly announced that he would be a martyr when he grew up, and the old man of their family was so angry that he chased and killed Song Zheng all over the village with a stick.

The old Song family is such a lone seedling as him, if he becomes a martyr, the old Song family will be extinct!

However, it turns out that even if he is not a martyr, the ancestors of his previous life are also extinct, because until he was reborn, Song Zheng failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter with a certain girlfriend, which is really ashamed of his ancestors.

A bit off topic!

Back to the proposition of the little steel cannon!

When I was a child, I felt very enjoyable watching "Triumph in the Midnight", and when I grew up, after I arrived in Hengdian, Song Zheng heard from others and knew that this TV series was limited by the cost of filming.

There is a name in the production staff of this film that impresses Song Zheng deeply, the scene note, the art Feng Xiaogang, the reason why he can remember this name is because other people's names appear once, but his name appears three times, and one time is a special appearance.

What is a special appearance, Song Zheng only found out after he arrived in Hengdian, it is the kind of role with few scenes, but there are lines.

However, Song Zheng really can't remember what Feng Xiaogang played in the play, and he only found out after watching a film and television talk show.

Because Feng Xiaogang laughed and blackened himself in this interview, that is, when filming "Triumph in the Midnight", he was not only a scene note, an artist, but also an actor, as well as several lines and close-ups.

Who does he play?

Vietnamese officer, shot dead on the position.

Because everyone thinks that he looks like a Vietnamese, thin and withered, roe deer, especially the distinctive front teeth, he doesn't need makeup to play the bad guy, he comes with his own womb, and he is sorry for him if he doesn't play this negative role, so he is obliged to go into battle.

This incident reflects an important feature of Feng Xiaogang's ability to get to this day, that is, he will not let go of the opportunity, even if the opportunity seems very difficult, but he will definitely reach out and seize it, so he can step by step from a small field to a well-known domestic director, the king of the box office of Chinese film directors, and can catch up with Xu Fan, a big Tsing Yi, with his respect.

So many people say that Feng Xiaogang's efforts in the film and television industry started from "Beijingers in New York", or from "The Story of the Editorial Department", but in fact, from "Triumph in the Midnight", he has worked hard to climb up little by little, his main work at that time is scene notes, drama affairs, and what is not good is miscellaneous, plus he understands art and can give a hand to the artist, and slowly starts from the position of the artist, step by step into the film and television circle.

Just like his best little Chinese New Year films, those characters are struggling at every opportunity in the face of adversity, smiling and facing every embarrassment and ridicule, just for a little space given by the powerful to live better. So he filmed the bitterness from civilians is particularly moving, for no other reason, because he is shooting himself.

Feng Xiaogang is good at greeting and seizing opportunities, this is something he himself admits, in his autobiography "I Dedicate My Youth to You", he once wrote such a story: In order to win the opportunity for the film to pass the review, he once invited senior cadres to dinner, and patted himself like this during the banquet: "Who are you, you are standing on the upper floor of Tian'an Gate City, look at Yanjing City and say that there are too many lights here and it is a bit dazzling, and the lights here will be extinguished immediately." ”

This kind of flattery, anyone who sounds a little numb, may even think that he is so lowly and loses his personality in order to make a movie.

But looking at the films he made, they are not the kind of vulgar and boring, you can understand the bitterness behind his lowliness.

In order to make a passable movie, is it easy to wronged yourself so much?

In addition to "The Story of the Editorial Department" and "Beijingers in New York", which made Feng Xiaogang gain a foothold in the film and television industry, the film in which he really established his own brand in the hearts of the people was the movie "Party A and Party B".

However, Song Zheng's favorite is different from others, what he likes is Feng Xiaogang's directorial debut "Never Lose My Love".

To be honest, this is a sullen movie, full of Wang Shuo's and his ilk of unhesitant and rigid style, of course, the picture and camera movement are excellent, but this movie is a cup or a gorgeous cup.

It is said that Feng Xiaogang was killed in three movies in a row, and at first he thought that he was not deep enough, like "Yellow Earth", so he played deeply, and later thought that it was not beautiful enough, so he tried his best to be beautiful, and kept up with "Red Sorghum", but as a result, he was banned three times in a row, which made him cry.

Finally, a well-wisher who reviewed the film nodded to him: "Why do you always want to film tragedies? Is the life of the masses in our country so miserable? After so many years of reform and opening up, the more you live, the more you go back?"

So Feng Xiaogang came to his senses and switched to a comedy.

"Never Lose My Love" is actually not a comedy, but it is indeed a bit of a master, Song Zheng remembers the opening scene of the movie, when the flight attendant played by Xu Fan came out, the light gave a good call, and the angle was called a perfect one!

However, Song Zheng was still very superficial at that time, and the number of "Never Lose My Love" was not his cup of tea at all, but he still watched the film very seriously for Xu Fan's amazing appearance.

Song Zheng remembered that when he watched this film, he was just 17 years old, underage, and strong-blooded, except for action movies, science fiction films and A. movies, he couldn't bear to be so boring for more than an hour, but he was stunned that day.

And I saw that Guo Tao later forced the unwitting Xu Fan to go because he suffered from myasthenia gravis, Xu Fan cried and made trouble, beat and scolded and refused to leave, and finally hit his head on the door of their hard-decorated home, a wisp of bright red snaked down from the glass door, and a tragic cry "You are too ruthless!"

Song Zheng is such a man, he was stunned and almost cried.

From this Feng Xiaogang's film debut, it is not difficult to see that when Feng Xiaogang first switched to the film industry, he did not want to continue the style of "The Story of the Editorial Department", he really wanted to be a good and affectionate director, like Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and even the older Jiang Jin.

Speaking of which, the films he started to shoot are also quite good, "Never Lose My Love" is an out-and-out youth film, even if it is placed at the time of Song Zheng's rebirth, it may not be worse than "To Youth", it must be better than "Little Times".

But time is also fate, catching up with the era when Chinese films were at their lowest point, at that time, making this type of film was basically a dead end, this first shot was basically dumb, and the last two films were not censored.

Later, directed by Wang Shuo and starring Feng Xiaogang himself, "I Am Your Dad" also failed the review, basically what to shoot and what to finish, a proper box office poison.

This kind of unlucky status quo, if it were left on others, I would have been stuck in the dung pit and suffocated to death, but Feng Xiaogang not only came up, but also wiped his mouth and told others confidently that I have an idea again.

How did Feng Xiaogang get up, whether it was in his personal autobiography later, there were a lot of things said in various interviews, the key is that Han Sanye gave him a chance, and he seized it.

And he sniffed out the taboo against Wang Shuo above, whether it was intentional or not, slowly distanced himself from Wang Shuo, began to cooperate more and more with Liu Heng and Liu Zhenyun, and befriended Zhang Guoli, which can be regarded as really coming out.

For this reason, he later served wine to Wang Shuo to apologize for his sins, which was regarded as a snobbish holiday, and then there was "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", and even later "Private Customization".

Even so, the former iron buddy Ye Jing, in "Party A and Party B", the big money squatting on the broken cave at the entrance of the village, stealing chickens and eating in the village, still looks down on him, saying that he "faces forward when he uses it, and faces backward when he doesn't use it", this is a very vulgar metaphor, comparable to a slap in the face, Feng Xiaogang, who has become famous, did not speak, and also served wine to make amends.

can go up and down, bend and stretch, Feng Xiaogang can finally become the box office king of Chinese films.

But this doesn't mean that Feng Xiaogang got mixed up with no skin and no face, the audience is very smart, just shameless, no ability, even if he keeps moving forward, he still can't go far, there are many shameless directors, who else is mixed up?

Feng Xiaogang knows where his own advantages are, he has China's best urban civilian writer Wang Shuo, China's most characteristic rural urbanization writer Liu Zhenyun, and Liu Heng, a writer who has a very good balance in business and art, and Ge You, one of the best actors in China, who has an accurate grasp of the struggle experience and mentality of urban people.

But Feng Xiaogang didn't have a way to go to the black, he was really a little ambitious, he wanted to try a different way, and he also wanted to work hard towards Kurosawa Minnu, so he filmed "Night Banquet", proving that he can also make costume blockbusters, filming "A Sigh", as well as "Tang Mountain Earthquake", "Assembly Number", and even "1942", these dramas have different opinions, but Song Zheng likes them very much, these films are indeed sentimental and compassionate, and the story is also very good, because there are big names like Liu Heng and Liu Zhenyun to check for him.

It wasn't until "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb" that the problem began to come out, that is, after getting rid of Liu Heng and Liu Zhenyun's grasp of the script, Wang Shuo alone could no longer meet the audience's exquisite requirements for the details of the film, Wang Shuo is an excellent writer, but not a qualified screenwriter, just relying on mouth spray, it can't support a good movie.

China's lack of good screenwriters is already a recognized problem in the industry, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang.

In terms of the imagination of the image, the fifth-generation directors inherited and surpassed the Russian film aesthetics of their predecessors, and moved towards a more local visual narrative, but they fell into a dead end of symbolization and abstraction.

Feng Xiaogang inadvertently made an important contribution to breaking this shackle, but what he never forgot was the youthful ideals of his era and Jiang Wen, Feng Xiaoning and others, so that he was in a dilemma later.

The audience hopes that Feng Xiaogang will continue to be a civilian director like Yoji Yamada, but he can't turn around as skillfully as Yoji Yamada and make a masterpiece that combines the times and personal perspectives like the "Samurai Trilogy".

In the final analysis, Zhang Yimou was born in photography, Feng Xiaogang was born in art, and only Chen Kaige was born as a director, and none of them can have enough grasp and control of words like their predecessors.

They all need good screenwriters to adapt literature first, and then further revise it, breaking away from screenwriters who are familiar with literature and scripts, no matter how famous they are, they will either serve a large collection of sketches, or empty and gorgeous stage plays.

This is not Feng Xiaogang's problem alone, this is a problem faced by this generation and even the next generation of directors. Imaging has the advantage of visualization, but literature is the foundation of all stories, and without literary literacy, it is impossible to support a "feeling" movie with the gorgeous editing of the MV style.

When a director wants to put a label on his work as "emotional", it is not because he can't let go of anything, he can do it with a knot, and he can say concise and meaningful words such as "never forget, there will be repercussions", which is the embodiment of feelings.

And if you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it well, how to say that your feelings are all nonsense, and you can use the work to prove that the audience's recognition is true.

Therefore, Feng Xiaogang is actually in a very embarrassing position, his age, identity, business positioning, auxiliary team and personal ability do not allow him to make too many transformation efforts, but he still wants to try, like Akira Kurosawa, do whatever he wants, and make a movie as gorgeous and philosophical as "Nine Dreams", but he really can't support this huge dream alone.

What does the movie "Night Banquet" say?

In short, when Song Zheng saw it, he felt very bad, and he was full of expectations, hoping to see Feng Xiaogang's gorgeous turn, who knows, after turning around, Hua Hua didn't, those two small plate teeth almost blinded his eyes.

But no matter what, Song Zheng still respects people like Feng Xiaogang.

Because, Feng Xiaogang originally relied on the popularity and wealth accumulated in the previous movies, he could live a better and easier life, and shoot comedies that the masses like all the way, without seeking box office records, as long as he can give investors an explanation.

But he didn't, under the vitiligo tired of filming, the pressure of Huayi's stocks, and the infamy of "pretending", he made the movies he wanted.

He spoke out in public for the Chinese film classification system and censorship, and he took up the case for the criticized actress, all of which offended people, and he did it without hesitation, he was already a vested interest, but he still dared to come forward.

Replace it with someone else, do you dare?

In Song Zheng's eyes, Feng Xiaogang is like Don Quixote single-handedly taking on a big windmill with a broken gun, knowing that his ability is limited, but for the sake of how far Chinese films can go, desperately plucking every gear that may be turned, and finding a way out, maybe his ability is limited, but for those who dare to try like this and have responsibility, Song Zheng has always maintained his respect from the bottom of his heart.

Therefore, just now, Feng Xiaogang's mouth was full of gunpowder, and his expression was full of words, I am here to find trouble today, how can you drop me!

Song Zheng is still polite, he is not groveling, just because the little man in front of him who is not good-looking is a man, a real man!