Chapter 57 So, the Times Chose Us!
Director Feng has only taken himself more and more seriously since filming "Assembly" and "1942"!
Last year's Directors Guild's commendation conference slammed China's censorship, which was more energetic than variety shows some time ago, and this time it jumped out to accuse the audience of spicy chicken!
"It is the audience who is poisoned by bad movies, and it is also the audience who spends money and is scolded, and the audience is really aggrieved!
Shen Lin shook his head a little helplessly, saying that Director Feng really felt a little like his brain was in water this time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Without the audience, there would be no room for garbage movies, which sounds very reasonable.
According to this logic, if no one makes garbage movies, where will garbage audiences go to cheer for garbage movies?
Whether there is a garbage audience or a garbage movie first, it is as difficult to figure out whether there is an egg or a chicken first.
However, as a director, I am afraid that it is unreasonable to use this as a reason to make garbage movies openly and confidently.
Even if the aesthetic level of Chinese audiences is not high, they can distinguish between good and bad.
A true classic, which has never stood the test of time and the market, has never suffered a loss.
The choice between stinky dog poop and flies is never a two-way street.
Flies like to hang around stinky shit, that's right.
But if you're a piece of shitty shit, and you have to say it's because there are too many flies, it's unreasonable.
As a director, it is inappropriate not to call on everyone to shoot more good works, but to throw the pot on the audience.
It's quite inappropriate!
There is no one who likes to watch bad movies and doesn't like to watch good movies, to paraphrase Jiang Wen: "Making a good quality movie is not as difficult as people say." If you make a bad movie, it's not someone else's fault, it's your own fault! You may want to make a bad movie in the back of your mind, and then pretend to say all kinds of excuses, but in fact you keep going in the direction of rottenness. ”
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On July 6, 2014, the Modu International Film Festival opened.
Shen Lin, who hadn't shown up for a long time, walked on the red carpet with Yingbao in his arms.
The reporters along the way followed all kinds of photos, of course, and some asked questions, most of them asked 'what do you think of the audience garbage that Director Feng said'.
Shen Lin could answer directly, laughing and not speaking.
The organizers invited many big directors, including Chen Kexing, Feng Xiaogang and Jia Zhangke.
The Modu International Film Festival is the first international A-level film festival in China, and a large number of domestic and foreign filmmakers participate in the competition with their films every year to compete for the Golden Goblet Award.
Although the influence is not very large, it can be regarded as an A-level film festival.
There are only 15 A-class international film festivals in the world, and China's Magic City International Film Festival is one of them, and the Beijing Film Festival is not counted!
It's very lively, of course, Shen Lin doesn't know many directors, and there are few actors who are familiar with their faces, but the appearance of Guo Xiaosi and Xu Zheng made Shen Lin a little surprised.
After thinking about it, the "Little Times" series seems to be still in theaters, so I figured it out!
After the lunch break, these people came to the middle of the lobby in the afternoon to talk about Chinese films, and the theme of this year's session was 'Create Chinese films with the spirit of craftsmanship!'
I don't know what's going on lately, no matter what stuff I mention, I like to use 'craftsman spirit' as an adjective!
The interlocutors were mainly Feng Xiaogang and Jia Zhangke, and Shen Lin was in charge of the audit.
In fact, the organizer really wanted Shen Lin to say something on stage, but Shen Lin directly refused, he really didn't want to confront Feng Xiaogang on this cusp.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned.
"Now many viewers complain about the pile of bad domestic movies, and domestic movies can't be watched!"
"The occurrence of this phenomenon may be related to a large number of spicy chicken audiences! I may offend you when I say this, but we think that if there were no spicy chicken audiences, the producers would not invest in spicy chicken movies, and our domestic movies would get better and better!"
"Moreover, there is another phenomenon now, that is, a bad movie, the more people scold, the better his box office!"
Feng Xiaogang became more and more energetic the more he talked, and then talked about his new work "Lao Pao'er", "This is the first time I have starred in a feature film, I think it's very good! We respect the audience! I make movies to please myself, so I'm happy."
Walt!
Do you call scolding the audience for garbage and respecting the audience?
Whether it was the audience or the media, they all whispered, and the key was that when Feng Xiaogang said this, his tone was very sincere!
"Director Feng, can I interrupt?"
Shen Lin couldn't help it: "I remember when you were promoting "1942", you said, 'I make movies to please myself, so I'm happy.'" ’”
"I don't quite understand your current mentality, is it a bad movie that pleases the audience, and a good movie that pleases yourself?"
Don't forget, the audience has to pay for tickets to watch a movie, in the final analysis, it is a kind of consumption behavior, you make a movie yourself, you can enjoy it yourself, there is no need to put it in the market!"
Shen Lin couldn't help it and asked directly.
Feng Xiaogang didn't expect Shen Lin to be so planted, and he was a little speechless for a while.
"There must be problems with China's film industry, with weak creativity, shoddy production, incorrect views, and exaggerated trends... These can be criticized. After all, the current Chinese-language film industry is supported by the audience's ticket-buying behavior, so the producers of the film will inevitably have to cater to the audience's tastes.
You can blame the market, just like you can blame the screenwriter and the actors, but you can't blame him, the audience needs us filmmakers to guide slowly! How to turn the market into a benign market needs to be done step by step. When making a movie, you can consider both the audience and the quality of the movie, you have to say that most audiences can't enjoy a good movie, that's nonsense, you can't make a good movie that the audience can enjoy. It may take a long way to go from the worst to the best, but it can't be like it is now: there is no worst, only worse, and if you don't lower your lower limit, how can I make money.
There is really no need to put the responsibility on the market and the audience! The market can be guided slowly, and we must not overdo it, and we must not leave it alone!"
"Finally, let me add that China's film market is booming, and I myself have made four Chinese films with a box office of more than one billion, but no one has ever said that I am making a bad movie!
"One imposes one's understanding of a certain cultural form on an entire field, either lacking thoughtful crude logic or having some hidden intentions. ”
"If a director really complains about the market from the bottom of his heart, then he should really retire!