Chapter 390: Positioning
After watching "Spring in a Small Town", everyone generally thinks that this is a good film, but it is difficult to evaluate how good it is. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is not to say that the people here are unprofessional and do not know how to appreciate movies, but a film needs to stand the test of time.
Under the ruthless washing of time, most of the movies have disappeared into history, and those that remain in people's memories can be regarded as classics.
For example, Jiang Wen's "Sunny Day", the domestic film industry does not have a high evaluation of this film, and the general consensus is that Jiang Wen has made a new idea, but the specific positioning of this film in domestic films is not accurate.
Some people feel that Jiang Wen has broken through the dilemma of the fifth generation of directors and brought a new atmosphere to domestic films.
Some people also feel that Jiang Wen has deviated from the track of artistic creation, is too subversive of tradition, and is not the right way.
Such arguments will become more and more convergent over time.
Wait until 20 years later, you can roughly judge the status of the film, and 50 years later, there will be a more objective and fair evaluation, which will be written into the history of Chinese film and be conclusive.
"Spring in a Small Town" has just been filmed, and no one will rush to conclude that this is a classic that can be passed on.
According to their own impressions, they talked about the lens language of the film, the artistic conception expressed, and the performances of the actors.
Yu Feihong became a surprise, Chen Daoming and Wang Zhiwen's superb performances were taken for granted, Yu Feihong was still very young, and he played a major role in this film, successfully shaping the image of Zhou Yuwen, a lonely young woman.
Some people even think that she has the potential to become the next Gong Li.
Of course, it is only possible, whether she can become Gong Li depends on her future works and performance.
In the end, the actor still has to rely on the work to speak, and if she can't meet a good role in the future, she can only be out of the ordinary.
Everyone congratulated Tian Zhuangzhuang, since 93 years, Tian Zhuangzhuang has not made a film for four years, and it is a masterpiece as soon as it is released.
The script of this film is good, the actors are good, and the director is also indispensable.
As a film theorist, Zheng Dongtian spoke highly of "Spring in a Small Town", which he felt was a return to tradition.
Over the years, starting from the fifth generation of directors, Chinese filmmakers have always admired Western films, literary films imitate European films, and commercial films borrow Hollywood models, but they have no tradition of their own.
This tradition was founded and developed by previous generations of Chinese directors, and is closely linked to the traditional culture of China.
It is possible to absorb and learn from Western art forms, but it is not possible to lose the cultural heritage of the nation, and in this increasingly impetuous society, making films is more about pursuing interests and lacking cultural atmosphere.
There are traditional things in "Spring in a Small Town", which needs to be carefully experienced by today's filmmakers.
Zheng Dongtian is a representative of the fourth generation of directors and a member of the review committee of the Film Bureau.
This is a senior-level character, and he said this to give this film a position.
It's not because he is the nominal director of this film that he said so, this is Zheng Dongtian's true thoughts.
Moreover, his words will definitely spread out, and others will have to weigh it after hearing it, whether it is worth it to have a conflict with Zheng Dongtian in this matter, the movie circle is really not big.
Therefore, Jiang is still old and spicy, which is Zheng Dongtian's intention.
This internal screening was very successful, and two days later the film was sent to the General Administration for review, and Zheng Dongtian's influence in the circle was also needed.
"Thank you, Professor Zheng, this time." After the end, Lin Zixuan thanked him.
"Let's say okay, I'll take care of the problem, and the honor is mine." Zheng Dongtian said with a smile.
This is a joke, everyone in the circle knows that the film was filmed in the shape of a field, even if it wins the Best Director Award or something, no one who understands it will be counted on Zheng Dongtian's head, it is just a false name.
With Zheng Dongtian's status at this time, he doesn't care much about this kind of false name, he is more of a kind of protection of the field.
In the film circle, the support and help of the seniors to the younger generations is also the tradition of Chinese films.
The two chatted for a few words and talked about Lin Xiaoling.
Zheng Dongtian felt that Lin Xiaoling should finish graduate school and then come out to make films, at that time, both in terms of understanding and mental aspects of movies tended to be rational and mature, and she could avoid detours.
The current Lin Xiaoling is not very mature, and I am afraid that she will encounter a lot of setbacks.
At the Beijing Film Academy, Zheng Dongtian is a graduate tutor in the directing department, and letting Lin Xiaoling go to graduate school is a matter of his words.
Zheng Dongtian emphasized that young directors should accumulate, be patient, wait for opportunities, and not blindly go to make films, and be clear about what they want to shoot, but he doesn't know much about the mentality of young people now.
Not many people are willing to learn theory in school, and when they have some experience, they want to find funds to make films and make a name for themselves in the international film industry.
Times are different, the pace of life is getting faster and faster, and everyone has a sense of urgency.
"We don't have many female directors in China, I think Xiaolin has this potential and can make good films, you have to watch more as a brother." Zheng Dongtian explained.
Since Lin Xiaoling got her graduation certificate, she began to get the materials she brought back from Xiangjiang, the images of those interviews in Xiangjiang.
The scenes of this documentary cover most of the tourist attractions in Hong Kong, and the interviewees include Hong Kong locals, mainlanders, foreign tourists, etc., which looks very unprofessional.
Lin Xiaoling didn't tell the little tour guide who was pretending to be a reporter to ask any questions, the little tour guide thought it was funny, and the topic asked was very casual.
It's basically what comes to mind and what to ask, which makes the documentary look different from the traditional documentary, with a lively and playful twist.
Lin Xiaoling is mixed with media news reports on the return of Xiangjiang, as well as various entertainment tabloids.
There is a newspaper that is exactly where Ge You and Lin Zixuan were reported, and you can feel the various lives of the city from the newspaper.
She wanted to reflect the state of the whole of Xiangjiang on the eve of the handover, not with the official attitude of the government, but from a private perspective, which was different from the perspective of the official report.
Lin Xiaoling gave the documentary a name called "Next Stop, Xiangjiang".
This is something she made on a whim, and it took more than a month to make the editing, which was regarded as a practice for herself.
Lin Zixuan thought it was quite interesting after watching it, Lin Xiaoling is talented in documentaries and is very good at grasping angles.
This documentary may seem like nothing now, but ten years later, I may have a different feeling, and twenty years later, Lin Zixuan feels that it will become a very meaningful video material.
This is the role of documentaries, not for the people of the present, but for the memory of those who come after them. (To be continued.) )