Many people complain that there are too few types of domestic films, especially in recent years, youth films have piled up, and decent literary films have almost disappeared. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

You don't want to think about it, even the "Golden Age" made by a literary film director like Xu Anhua is not popular, who would dare to invest?

There are also some independent films that investors who really have respect for movies will make some small investments, but the least they ask is to return to their original costs, so Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai's films are still invested, because their films can be sold to other cities.

Some young directors who really have a literary heart are becoming more and more difficult to gain the confidence of investors!

Chen Yang's arrival in Thailand not only saved Shen Lin most of the detailed coordination work, but also brought him a script - "Funeral Coffin".

It is a work written by Qi Yukun.

Qi Yukun is an assistant director who filmed "Please Answer 1990", and he is Chen Yang's classmate.

To be honest, seeing this title, Shen Lin no longer had the idea of opening the script.

The title of a Chinese film does not allow the words "funeral" or "coffin".

Xiao Qi is so amateurish!

This thing is common sense!

However, Chen Yang said that this script was very good, and Shen Linjiang took a look at it.

Very good movie script.

The story consists of three parts: the son and the person he likes to run away, the middle-aged old lover who steals the joy and is exposed, and the village chief's father tries to protect his son.

What's even more rare is that this is still a rural suspense movie.

Many people say that Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are just a microcosm of China, and small county towns are the truth of China, regardless of the correctness of this sentence, but China is a big agricultural country, and it is an indisputable fact that the majority of the population is farmers.

However, most of the people who are willing to pay to go to the theater to watch movies are urban people, and this is also the truth!

So, that alone limits the film's box office results!

If Shen Lin is asked to shoot this movie, it is probably unlikely, such a movie, the box office is destined not to be too high.

Roughly analyze the script of "Funeral Coffin".

First, it involves homicide.

But this murder case is not at all like the usual narrative mode of commercial films.

Death in general commercial films is ingenious, full of strange motives and strong ritual packaging, but the death presented in "The Funeral Coffin" is gray and dull, full of randomness, life and death in an instant, without warning and warning.

Many people will say that this is in line with the truth, life and death, but that's it.

What audiences who can enter the theater to watch the movie want to see is still bizarre, multi-engineered death!

If we want to see the truth, we can choose to read it!

Then, it also involves lies.

We all yearn for the truth, because the world works on a lie, which is a cruel reality.

Judging from the script of "Funeral Coffin", this initial lie is actually nothing, it is more like a little girl's coquettish, willful and brutal play, but after that, the lie was amplified little by little and turned into bullets that are really enough to penetrate life. At the end of the uncontrollable, if you look back at the absurd beginning, you will understand what impermanence is.

The husband meets his first girlfriend without telling his pregnant wife;

The lame man hid from his wife and the mistress, taking advantage of the two;

The son hid from his parents and messed with the girls in the village;

The village chief hides his conscience and cleans up the mess...

Everyone thinks that they can keep everyone else in the dark, but in fact, they are always standing in the trap set by others.

After this, Shen Lin also saw the collapse of almost everyone's emotions and spirits.

Whether it is the seemingly happy village chief's family or the unfortunate widow, they are hollow, and life for them is just to spend time.

And in addition to all this, there is a hidden but ubiquitous patriarchy in the outermost circle.

In the name of "love", the father arranges everything for his children and deprives them of everything, and later, the father wants to save his son, but in the end everyone falls into an even more hopeless abyss.

At the end of the script, the father and son stand silently on both sides of the funeral coffin, and everything returns to the starting point, absurdity covers absurdity, and impermanence folds impermanence.

After years of alienation and hatred, the son called "Dad"!

End of script.

The picture is full of sense!

"Serious subjects are not for me, and I don't have the idea of transforming now..."

Shen Lin closed the script and talked to Chen Yang, "Although this theme is very novel and the story is good, I will not direct such a work!"

"Who asked you to direct? I'm asking you, how is this script, Xiao Qi wants to be a director!"

Chen Yang glanced at him, and then said what was in his heart: "I think your current identity can completely invest in and support some young directors, they have ideas, but they don't have money, and they don't..."

"I've been doing it, the flying "Witness to the Whole People", your "Strange Her" including Xu Guangtou's "Thai Embarrassment", I have support!"

Shen Lin was very dissatisfied.

"But those are pure commercial films!"

Chen Yang looked at Shen Lin, and then said: "Some time ago, the Xining Youth Film Festival contacted me, hoping that you can pay to help these young directors..."

"Wait a minute, Xining Youth Film Festival?

"Yes, you've heard that?"

Of course, Shen Lin knew about this film festival.

Known as Asia's largest young director exchange event, it has only been established for eight years, and it has already had a tendency to catch up with and surpass the Magic City Film Festival.

In 2016, a total of 1,307 films from all over the world were called for entry into the FIRST Youth Film Festival, most of which were independently produced and low-budget films.

Young directors with film dreams all over the world are eager to be recognized by FIRST!

An absolute rising star!

Not only domestic film companies, but also many foreign film companies have established a good relationship with FIRST.

At the same time, Shen Lin remembered the movie "Funeral Coffin", isn't this "Heart Labyrinth"!

"Okay, you contact them and say that I am willing to contribute to the film festival, and I will set up a special fund to support the young directors participating in the film!"

After thinking about it, Shen Lin added: "This money is established in my personal name, don't go through the channels of the studio, and don't tell the light side." ”

"Got it, anything else?"

Chen Yang wrote down Shen Lin's words in his notebook, then looked up and continued to look at him.

"Oh, by the way, I like this "Funeral Coffin" a lot, I decided to invest, you ask Qi Yukun to make a cost budget, as well as the proposed cast, and you will be responsible for following up when the time comes. ”

"I almost forgot, let him change the name, what "Funeral Coffin", such a title will be given by the Optoelectronics Bureau? Change it to "Heart Labyrinth", anyway, Qi Yukun is a fan of the Coen brothers. ”

After saying this, Shen Lin looked at Chen Yang, she still didn't mean to walk away: "Is there anything else?"

"Haven't you been on Weibo for the past few days?"

"How can I have time on Weibo, I've been too busy these days, and the crew can't do without it at all..."