Chapter 414: Telling Stories Through the Lens (2/4 Subscription Requested)
Coming to the long-lost play? I can't say that I haven't seen it for a long time, if I say where I haven't seen it for a long time, maybe it's in my heart!
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Otherwise, it's not good to hide it from the school.
"Director Lu, I'm here. Wang Meng came to Director Lu's office.
This is a very important guide in his life, who has not looked old for a few years, and now he looks a little radiant.
"Here, let's do it. "Director Lu is still so calm.
There are probably one of the few people who don't regard Wang Meng as a star, and this old man is one of them.
"Hey, time is so fast, you're going to graduate in a blink of an eye. Hehe...... You're a very disrespectful student!hehe......" Director Lu said with a smile.
"You can't blame me for your indulgence. Wang Meng said with a smile.
Here, Wang Meng's appearance at this moment would be incredible if other reporters saw it.
It's a bit of a childlike 'coquettish' feeling.
"Alright, I'm looking for you for something. Director Lu waved his hand.
"You say?"
"That's right, you're graduating in a blink of an eye. It may be the most famous graduate since the establishment of our school, which is unprecedented! I want to ask about your graduation work?" Director Lu looked at Wang Mengdao, who was a little dumbfounded.
"Uh...... Is this this?" Wang Meng was confused.
"I wasn't prepared. "I had to tell the truth.
"It's also my fault, I didn't tell you in advance, some time ago you were filming "The Matrix" and participating in the Olympics, and even writing novels, which is also busy. "Director Lu didn't mind.
"What then?" Wang Meng asked.
"You ask me?" Director Lu smiled, "What about you?"
"Uh" Wang Meng was stunned, embarrassed, and sneered: "Do you think this is good, my "The Matrix" will be almost in October, how about taking this as a graduation work?"
"No way!"
Director Lu's words were a bit arbitrary, and he didn't think about it, and said directly: No.
"It's not that I'm strict with you, it's that I have to be strict with who you are now. To be honest, after watching your development in the past few years, I have been relieved, and even you are better than me?
Then he sighed: "Perhaps, the only thing I am dissatisfied with is that your business temperament is too strong. I'll admit I'm a bad old man with biased ideas. I'll admit it, I'd like to see something special, and I'd love for you to meet my requirements. ā
At the end, Director Lu said, "Of course, if you think I'm embarrassed for you, I didn't say it." ā
"Hey!" Wang Meng laughed when he heard this, and the old man began to agitate himself.
Naturally, I also know that it is precisely because of the deep responsibility of love that Wang Meng has high requirements.
It's not an embarrassment, maybe it's an alternative kind of pride.
Perhaps, Lao Lu just entrusted all his pride to Wang Meng.
That's how it's explained on the market.
Since Wang Meng was not reborn, Lao Lu has been very optimistic about this student who is particularly fond of art.
Later, there was a crew that arranged for Wang Meng to enter Liangshan.
also had Wang Meng's "This Man is from Earth" later.
The opinions on the market are all said - Director Lu's wisdom and interpretation of talents led to Wang Meng's miraculous rise.
Sometimes it's hard to understand the older generation, the older generation of filmmakers' dedication to art.
Take Wang Meng as an example, he looked down on conformist art directors at first, and felt that he was like a woman's footwrap and should be completely abandoned.
Now I understand a little bit, the idea of the older generation of filmmakers.
Maybe what they want to keep is a 'truth'.
"Don't you have any ideas?" Seeing that Wang Meng was pondering there, Director Lu asked.
After Wang Meng heard this, he smiled: "Don't say it, there really is." ā
Wang Meng was called by Director Lu, but Wang Meng also brought a script and an art film.
That is, "The True Story of A Niu".
Maybe, it is always more difficult to do than when you think, and when Wang Meng really started to write the outline, consider the dialogue, and the handling of the shots, he found that movies with artistic themes are not as simple as imagined.
Especially "The True Story of A Niu" and the original version have changed a time and space, this is not Midi, this is China.
It is not easy to combine China's special invitations and events, and to arrange them brilliantly.
Generations can speak, and generations can communicate.
Chaotic dialogue out of thin air, you can never write that sense of vicissitudes of the times, there is only a sense of disobedience.
In this time and space, in the 70s, Taizu resolutely abdicated, which was sensational, and brought a lot of contradictions and incidents. No worse than the original.
But Wang Meng doesn't know much, and it can be said that he hasn't experienced it. Yes, it is just a book record after the precipitation of history. It's hard to depict that atmosphere.
As an old man who has experienced vicissitudes, Director Lu has experienced them all.
Presumably, his understanding is not what Wang Meng can have.
Of course, if you want to shoot it, you can shoot it, and some people still like it.
However, if you think about it out of thin air, it will never become a real original, and after missing this important sense of age, Wang Meng personally thinks that this will be a failed movie. Not what he wanted.
Therefore, with the attitude of seeking advice, Wang Meng brought the script, wanting this old man to add a sense of vicissitudes of the times.
This sense of vicissitudes does not require acting skills, what is needed is for the director to depict it with a lens, like a pen in the hands of a painter.
"This is my first art film in the sense of the word, and I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I have never been able to find a sense of the vicissitudes of the times. And what I found from the book, I didn't have a sense of integration. To be honest, it's a bit difficult, you take a look and point it out. Wang Meng took out "The True Story of A Niu" and handed it to Director Lu.
"Oh!" Director Lu was stunned for a moment, took the script and read it: ""The True Story of A Niu"? Isn't this your novel? ā
After speaking, he didn't wait for Wang Meng's words, so he watched it.
made Wang Meng, who was just about to speak, hold back.
About half an hour later, Wang Meng finally waited for Director Lu, and Lao Lu felt relieved after reading it.
"The script is ordinary, the story is simple. Director Lu said.
"Yes. Wang Meng did not deny it.
Forrest Gump's true story is not how good the script is, but the acting skills of the actors and the artistic understanding of the director that make the movie.
This movie is very bland, but the great thing is to understand the true meaning from the bland, this is Forrest Gump.
Or rather, the greatness of art films.
"You are the name of miracles, and you are the name of geniuses. But such a script doesn't seem to come from your hand, because it's very ordinary. And it's not the same as your novel?" Director Lu smiled, "Can you tell me why?"
"I used to like to tell stories with plots, and I liked to tell stories with actors. Now I want to tell a story with a lens. I can use words to hit the heart with the novel, but I don't think it's enough to hit the heart with the camera. So the script is not the same as the novel. ā
"Good!"
After listening to Wang Meng's words, Lao Lu couldn't help but applaud.
"It's not easy, it's not easy, you always surprise me. I just want you to be a little more artistic, you actually want to create a classic?"
"Do you know why art films can be called classics? Do you know why it is easy for art directors to turn to business, but it is difficult for commercial directors to turn into art? Do you know why movies are called art and why they are called art?" Director Lu seemed a little excited.
"Literary and artistic movies are made thousands of times a year, but none of them have become classics, and even one will appear in a few years or so, not because the director is stupid, but because it is really difficult.
Turning into a business as an art director may not be easy at first, but it's always easier to learn. And business to art, it is not simple. A director, in fact, only has one real art-themed movie to make in his life, which is his life's insight.
Cinema is called art because cinema is the ...... of life"
Lao Lu told Wang Meng a lot, and technically Wang Meng learned well, and even made a unique step in China.
Wang Meng has a lot of experience in the use of technology.
But the use of the lens, the superb skills that can speak with the lens, Wang Meng is insignificant.
Forrest Gump's true story is the camera and the director's monologue. Unlike novels, which are depicted in words, it is much more difficult for the camera to speak than to speak in words.
Forrest Gump uses memories to tell the story, and the director uses lenses and perceptions to present texture.
It's not that the script, the set, etc. aren't important, but it's not so important here.
It's like a line, maybe what we remember is what our mother said......
And the perception is in all aspects.
Wang Meng can understand a lot from the simple Forrest Gump sitting on a chair waiting for the car, and the feathers floating.
So?-- The shouts of Forrest Gump and Captain Dan in the storm are also insights.
It's like Jenny said to Forrest Gump - Gan, run. This is also full of insight.
We can understand a lot from different lenses and images, plus language dialogue.
Therefore, these perceptions cannot be presented by simple layouts, lines, scripts, and shots.
It is a comprehensive perception, and it is not against the harmony.
This is the presentation of art and the ability of the director.
ā¦ā¦ (To be continued.) )