"It's absolutely not going to work!"

Han Sanping categorically refused.

It's just child's play, the role of the director is self-evident for a movie, a juvenile writer and screenwriter who wants to be a director after only participating in one movie is not treating the Chinese director industry as a child's play.

China Film really did that, but it was a big disapproval in the world, and it is estimated that all the directors in China will come out to criticize them.

If Gu Zhi becomes a serious director now, it would be good if the movie he directed hit the street, but if the box office exploded, it would be equivalent to slapping all directors in Huaguo in the face, especially for the fifth-generation directors from the Beijing Film Academy.

A minor who has not systematically studied directing and dropped out of high school will guide works that are better than regular academic directors, so how much will these film schools be questioned and how serious will the pressure of public opinion be?

Thinking about it further, dropping out of high school and becoming a well-known writer in a blink of an eye, and becoming a famous director in less than a year, I am afraid that it will not only be as simple as the film school being questioned, but if someone with ill intentions deliberately incites it, it may lead to the entire Chinese education system being criticized.

The idea that reading is useless has been noisy in China, especially after the reform and opening up, in the current environment of the millennium, the profits brought by the demographic dividend are very considerable, so that some people with relatively low education also have the opportunity to become rich.

In addition, some public intellectuals with ulterior intentions have been advocating the theory that reading is useless, resulting in many students who have the opportunity to continue their studies, and because of such remarks, they give up their studies early and enter society.

People tend to see only the top floor of the pyramid and not the buried slave corpses below.

When Gu Zhi first came to Beijing, he had already publicly stated his attitude towards "dropping out", but there were still many accusations against him in society, and at the same time, there were many accusations against the current education system in China.

If he goes one step further and becomes a famous director now, he will be pushing himself to the opposite side of the entire Chinese education system.

Dropping out of school - to "succeed", learning - working for others.

Isn't it a living example of the fact that people accuse the education system of being rigid, brainwashing students, and erasing innovation?

You must know that Gu Zhi is much more popular now than Han Shao back then, and his influence far exceeds the latter.

At that time, I'm afraid that even if Gu Zhi doesn't want to do this, someone will try their best to shape him into such an opposing image.

How big will the impact be, what will be the ripple effect, what will be the consequences, what will be the end?

Gu Zhi suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and the hairs on his body stood up involuntarily.

Just thinking about it made him shudder.

Maybe it's because he just finished filming "The Butterfly Effect", which has improved his association a lot, and he thought of so much content in an instant.

"I don't approve of it either, even if you want to be a director, you can get adulthood, it's too early and it's not appropriate. ”

Liu Qi persuaded on the side.

What she thinks is not so complicated, she just thinks that if Gu Zhi is the director, she will definitely not be able to convince the public when she arrives at the filming site, and even if the crew doesn't say it, they will discuss it in their hearts.

"I'm sorry, but it was a whim. ”

Gu Zhi sneered at the two of them twice and scratched his head embarrassedly.

After imagining it just now, he found that this idea was really too naïve.

Han Sanping's originally deep face finally softened a little, he nodded, and said in a deep voice: "I know you are not willing to be a screenwriter, but you are still too young, too famous, and too influential. ”

"Some things are not done as soon as possible, and it is easy to cause trouble if you are too sharp. Now is not the time, you hone and hone in the crew, and in two years, the third master will support you as a director with practical actions. ”

After speaking, he also gave Gu Zhi two blows on the shoulder.

"Thank you, Third Master. ”

"Okay, the crew, I will let China Film arrange it quickly, and I will figure out how to choose the director, you and Xiaoqi will worry more about the actors, you two young people have a deeper understanding of the characters in this play than I do. ”

Gu Zhi nodded, and suddenly remembered something.

"Third master, this is a romance movie, I want to release this movie on Valentine's Day next year, there are still about four months to go, is the right time for you to watch it?"

"Time is indeed a bit tight, so let's try to prepare candidates in early November, hold a start-up ceremony, and officially start filming. ”

"Okay. ”

After discussing, Gu Zhi was ready to leave Zhongying, and Liu Qi sent him out together.

"Shall we wait for the director to settle down and then find actors, otherwise the person is well found, and the director is not willing to shoot?"

On the way, Liu Qi asked.

Hearing this, Gu Zhi sneered and laughed.

"Xiaoqi, we are both investors, and the director works for us, and he didn't invite big directors like Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yimou over, what do you care if he is happy or not. ”

"We don't invite a big Buddha back, we have to offer him every day. If you don't like to make it, you can invite another one, so many TV drama directors want to make movies, are you afraid that you won't find anyone? For this drama, it doesn't matter what the director thinks, just shoot it according to my ideas, if it really doesn't work, I'll go to Brother Hao. ”

Gu Zhi, as the only person who has watched "My Sassy Girlfriend" in this time and space, remembers every scene of the movie in his mind, and the director is really not important to this movie.

In the Chinese film and television industry, directors have always had too much power, as long as they are filmmakers, they all want to be directors, and even Gu Zhi himself was not spared just now.

The photographer has to be the director, the screenwriter has to be the director, the actor has to be the director, the writer has to be the director, the host has to be the director, the singer has to be the director, and even the 1.4 meter strong attacker has to be the director.

Few people are willing to do lighting, soundtrack, editing, and scene work all their lives, let alone special effects, makeup, and clothing teams, the crew is unwilling to spend money on it, and the director is unwilling to do it seriously, and it is difficult to imagine bringing the audience into the movie world just by acting skills.

A healthy film industry system should have a clear division of labor, each department performs its own duties, even the director cannot have much power, in Hollywood many directors just simply direct the film, not even the right to edit, only a very small number of super directors have this power.

For a large-scale co-production like "The Great Wall", Zhang Yimou is a pure director, and he can only provide advice when editing, and there are professional editors to operate.

"The Great Wall" is a mature Hollywood film industry product, but because of the investment of big productions, in order to ensure the box office, Zhang Yimou's reputation in China was invited to shoot.

Even if there is a change of director, there will be no change in this movie, Zhang Yimou is just the packaging of the movie, and the inside has already been decided.

The Huaguo film industry is still far from this degree of industrialization, the main reason is that in the early days, making movies generally did not make money, and all the achievements of a film were attributed to the director alone, which greatly delayed the process of film industrialization.

Therefore, if Gu Zhi wants to make a movie, he must have his own capital to join. Whether it's a director or a producer, don't think about being the boss in the crew, just do your own functions obediently.

Liu Qi listened to Gu Zhi's words, thought about it, and felt as if he really didn't care about the director's thoughts.

Then she suddenly recalled what Gu Zhi had just called her, her face suddenly turned blue, and a pink fist hit Gu Zhi's back blatantly, and she twisted it hard.

"Is Xiaoqi's name yours?"

“···”

The two walked to the door, and Gu Zhi remembered one more thing.

"By the way, don't look for actors from Wanwan and Hong Kong Island, I'll only use our own. ”

Today, after the fire of "Butterfly Effect", when the casting of this film project begins, I don't know how many actors will come to recommend themselves.

The range of choices is much larger, but Gu Zhi still wants to use mainland actors as much as possible.