Chapter 31: The Aesthetics of Violence

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When Wu Yusen knew the box office of "Two Tigers", he was speechless for a long time, and finally a thousand words turned into a helpless sigh.

This film is a comedy invested and produced by the Taiwan branch of New Art City, he served as the director and also participated in the screenwriting, and the play brought together Xu Ke, Teddy Robin, Pan Yingzi and other famous movie stars, which shows that New Art City also has great expectations for this drama.

In fact, after watching the finished film before the release, Wu Yusen also thought that it was not bad, and he should be able to achieve an objective box office result, but the reality is always so cruel. After the movie was released, the audience reacted coldly, and the media did not pay much attention, and the final result can be imagined.

Counting the previous film "Laughing Maker", "Two Tigers" is the second film he directed in Taiwan, both films are invested by Xinyicheng, both are comedies, and they both hit the streets, which makes him wonder if he chose to come to Taiwan to develop in the first place.

Two years ago, due to a career bottleneck, he switched to Taiwan for development, in order to make a breakthrough, at first he was full of confidence, but the hit of "Laughing Maker" hit his confidence a lot, and he also realized that Taiwan's film industry is rapidly declining.

The hit of "Two Tigers" on the street this time certainly hit his self-confidence again, but the decline of Taiwan's film industry was also more intuitively displayed in front of him. Perhaps his choice to come to Taiwan for development was itself a wrong decision, and he wasted two years in vain.

"What's the matter, wasn't it okay just now, how did you answer the phone and that's it. A cup of coffee was placed on the table in front of Wu Yusen.

Leaning back on the sofa, staring at the ceiling, he sighed after a while and said, "Maybe I shouldn't have come to Taiwan in the first place." ”

Hearing this, Niu Chunlong suddenly had a guess in his heart, and stroked his husband's frowning brow with his hand: "Is the box office of "Two Tigers" out?"

"When I watched Hong Kong movies, I could often get 10 million or 20 million at the box office in Taiwan, I thought this was an undeveloped virgin land, but I didn't expect that this was not the case at all, whether it was the environment, culture, or theoretical foundation, it was extremely immature, and it was not something I could change. ”

From these words, it can be heard that Wu Yusen has really lost confidence in Taiwan completely, and Niu Chunlong can also hear it, but he doesn't know what to say comfortingly.

"Xu Ke said another thing on the phone just now, he wants me to help in his studio, do you think I should agree?"

In life, Niu Chunlong has always played the role of a virtuous helper, so every time they encounter something difficult to choose, the couple will discuss with each other, but this time Niu Chunlong didn't know how to answer for a while, if it was from the perspective of a friend, Wu Yusen should agree.

But Xu Ke and Wu Yusen are not suitable to work together at all, because Xu Ke is the kind of person who has a strong desire for manipulation and control, for example, in many movies, Xu Ke is in the name of a producer, but he does the work of a director. And Wu Yusen is a very assertive person.

If he directs a film, the producer will never be allowed to dictate him. The conflict between the two is irreconcilable.

"Since you don't think there is any future in Taiwan, it's certain to go back to Hong Kong, as for whether to go to Xu Ke's studio or not, it's not too late to wait until you return to Hong Kong to see the situation. ”

Wu Yusen didn't say anything, but sighed again in his heart. At this moment, the phone next to him rang, and he picked it up casually: "Hey, which one?"

"Wei Xiong?"

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is still that café, Wei Xiong met Wu Yusen, who had just returned to Hong Kong from Taiwan, and the two got to the point after a polite exchange, but the first thing Wei Xiong said made Wu Yusen frown secretly: "With all due respect, I don't think Director Wu is suitable for making comedies." ”

"How can you see it?" Wu Yusen maintained the demeanor that a man should have, although he was already a little unhappy in his heart, you must know that most of the reason why he was invited to come today was out of politeness, after all, both parties were insiders, and people couldn't help but give face when they invited him.

"The two films you shot in Taiwan are the best proof of this, although there is an objective factor in the decline of Taiwanese film products, but you have never wondered if your films do not meet the audience's taste? I'm sorry, maybe my words are a little too straightforward. ”

Wei Xiong's words were finished, and he took out the script of "The True Color of Heroes" and put it on the table: "This is the movie I want to invest in, you can take a look." ”

When Wu Yusen opened the script, he couldn't help but pause, and then raised his head in surprise to look at Wei Xiong, who was sitting in front of him, smiling.

"I drew the script, and it's not surprising, but there are very few people in Hong Kong who can draw storyboards, which is why it seems different. ”

"In Hollywood, film companies will require screenwriters to create scripts that must be storyboards, which is very correct, it represents an attitude, a responsible attitude, and I can't imagine how you can make a good movie even if you can't even write a script. ”

Wu Yusen suddenly felt a little embarrassed, because he agreed with Wei Xiong's point of view, but he never used a storyboard script when making movies, and sometimes the script was created while shooting. In fact, it is not only him, many directors in Hong Kong and Taiwan are like this now, which is a relatively common practice.

"Now I'm more interested in the script. ”

For the next hour or so, Wu Yusen was completely immersed in the script, Wei Xiong didn't bother, drinking coffee by himself, flipping through magazines, and looking up from time to time, until Wu Yusen closed the script, he asked: "What does Director Wu think of my script." ”

"The story and characters of the script are very good. But I just read the script, and some of the scenes in the play seem to be a little different from the usual?"

"I knew that Director Wu could see that there was something different, which I call the aesthetics of violence. As we all know, violence and aesthetics are two words that are incompatible, and they are two completely different concepts, but in fact they can be combined in a unified and harmonious way......"

At this moment, Wei Xiong seemed to have become a teacher, while Wu Yusen was a student who humbly sought advice. However, only Wei Xiong himself knew that he was memorizing textbooks. It's like reading a recipe and knowing how to make a dish, but you may not be able to make it well.

Of course, Wu Yusen didn't know this, although he was not shocked by Wei Xiong at this time, he also had a little reverence, and he was directly fooled.