Chinese films belong to Eastern culture in the final analysis, but Western values are still common around the world!

If you want to do movie output, it's hard!

Even Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Halftime Fight" is closed, for the simple reason that in addition to the fact that the theme is politically incorrect in the United States and conflicts with their values, it is more that Ang Lee's oriental narrative technique and the appreciation habits of Western audiences are still not in sync!

There is always a subtle and hidden emotion in the film, which is a kind of "silence is better than sound" that Oriental people are very accustomed to, and for Westerners, this emotion is unclear and depressing, and even incomprehensible to some Western audiences.

In fact, Chinese films don't need to go abroad at all!

We have the world's largest film market, and those imported foreign films will continue to improve to meet the viewing needs of domestic audiences, starting with the placement of a few lace supporting roles, and slowly using Chinese actors as the protagonists, and then developing, the way of film will also be oriental!

At that time, many famous and powerful foreign directors and filmmakers will also join Chinese films.

In the end, Chinese cinema became world cinema.

It's like Hollywood.

Why does Hollywood dominate the world?

Isn't it because it gathers the world's top film talents?

Nolan and Guy Ritchie are both British directors, the Mexican trio, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárrido, they are Mexican!

Even Hong Kong films, which were once powerful, can only be forced to pretend to be in Asia...

It is unrealistic to expect Chinese films to achieve cultural export in a short period of time, or to catch up with Hollywood...

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"It's normal for any film that conflicts with culture and values to get a cold reception at the box office! Why doesn't anyone study how our films are doing at the box office in the North American market?"

Xu Hui then asked rhetorically.

“… So do you think directors should know more about the audience?"

"Yes, only if you understand what the audience thinks, the audience will support your work... I'm talking about commercial films, not literary films!"

suddenly thought that the big guy Chen Kai was sitting next to him!

Director Chen thinks more about his own ideas when filming, first establishes his own logic and philosophical concepts, and then stuffs the story into it...

This is just the opposite of market-oriented movies!

This is also the main reason why he has become more and more unrecognized by the market in recent years!

“… I said before that there are two kinds of movies, the good ones and the bad ones, at the time, it was more arrogant, and I take this sentence back now. ”

"Any new perspectives?"

Brother Chen Kai was interested and asked.

"I now think that movies belong to the director's personal expression, and when what you want to express happens to be in line with the market and win the audience, your film is a good movie!"

Lao Chen's mouth opened slightly and did not speak.

"We all know that the two directors representing different eras, Director Chen, do you think there are any characteristics of Xu Hui's type of director?"

The host changed the topic and threw the question to Brother Chen Kai.

The latter didn't think about it, and directly praised: "The world is yours and ours, but in the final analysis, it is yours! Chinese films are now becoming more and more prosperous, and the market is getting bigger and bigger, and a group of young filmmakers like Xu Hui have appeared, and they are very popular with the audience, I think it's very good!"

"I have represented the Chinese film industry and participated in the Cannes Film Festival many times. It has also been nominated for the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. But I have always felt that as a film director, I have not done enough, I always need to learn from the times, from future generations, and from young friends!"

"Actually, today, cinema has fundamentally changed. In my opinion, the era of cinema has passed, and cinema has unfolded the visual age, in which cinema has to some extent changed from a sacred art to an instantaneous commercial consumption, and to a well-known form of entertainment!"

"We used to say so reverently, it just so happens that today this building is like a church, that the movie is the invisible church of mankind, we pray here, we see clearly here, we find it here!"

"These features, in today's movies, are basically gone. What I say here does not in any way mean that I am against such a trend. This is the general trend of the times, and this is not a reality that can be changed by individual power. ”

"I always believe that a new era of cinema will come, and cinema will be part of the era of entertainment and part of spiritual products, and it will come to us. That's exactly what I was looking forward to!"

Xu Hui was stunned!

Brother Chen Kai, this is prepared!

How do you memorize such a large number of lines?

"What do you think of Director Xu Hui?"

"I think it may have something to do with the times, and a great movie must be connected to the era in which it is located. Now is a second-rate era, everyone is struggling, don't degenerate into a third-rate director! I have always felt that in terms of directing, I am a second-rate goods, maybe it happens that my things fit in with this era, even if I am given Zhang Guorong, I will not be able to shoot "Farewell My Concubine"!"

Xu Hui replied very humbly.

In fact, he has some opinions about Brother Chen Kai, if he wants to talk about killing investors, he said second, no one in domestic filmmakers dares to say first!

Brother Chen Kai said to entertainment reporters: "I don't accept interviews with reporters under the age of 40, and I don't have anything to talk to them." ”

When "Mei Lanfang" came out, he said again that he wanted to surpass "Farewell My Concubine"...

It seems that the people in the capital are so good at talking guns!

His directing skills are not good, but unfortunately, the vision is really not good!

There are ups and downs in creation, and there are many people who have experienced imitation age, and none of them have been reduced for a long time.

Zhang Yimou also experienced "Three Guns", "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Return" to get back into one percent!

But, what about Lao Chen?

After "Farewell My Concubine", there is no masterpiece!

even drummed up movies like "Wuji" and "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain"...

Hongchen is drunk, and he is willing to fall...

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On July 8, "Search" was released.

Unlike Brother Chen Kai and Chen Hong, who were a little nervous and expectant, this was the first time Xu Hui was in a relaxed mood when his movie was released!

"Searching" sold well, except for his most loyal fans, no one will attribute the credit to him, and if it sells poorly, no one will say that his acting skills are too bad or something.

Because, in the final analysis, "Search" is the work of Chen Kaige!

From beginning to end, Xu Hui has not expressed any opinions about the movie, what he does is just a fixed obligation of an actor!

Occasionally help to brag about the movie and praise Director Chen.

Other than that, he's safely invisible...