Chapter 233 of the main text volume is shining

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When shooting a movie, the most tiring thing is not the actors, but the directors behind the scenes.

The director has to coordinate the entire crew, coordinate various relationships, arrange the filming schedule, and guide the actors to act.

It's just that the actors' exposure rate is high, and they have the opportunity to complain in front of the media, as if the entire crew is the hardest for the actors.

Jiang Wen has experienced too many twists and turns for this film, and it can be said that he has basically encountered all the bad things that the crew can encounter.

At this point, he was a bit desperate, no matter whether the film passed the review or not, he had to go to Venice, and even bought a ticket for tomorrow noon.

When he was in Xiangjiang, Wen Jun persuaded him to go directly to Venice.

With Zhang Yimou's experience, they think that there is little hope that this film will pass the trial, and they don't care about the mainland film market.

In fact, "Sunny Days" and "Alive" are different.

Its political meaning is not so strong, it mainly tells the story of a group of young people, taking that big era as the background, without too much irony, more of a nostalgia.

This is related to the director's own life experience.

Jiang Wen is thirteen years younger than Zhang Yimou, who has really experienced life in the sixties and seventies, and he has a reflective attitude towards that kind of miserable and chaotic life.

Jiang Wen was still young at that time, he and Zhang Yimou had different feelings, and while he was reflecting, there was also a kind of yearning and nostalgia.

Nostalgia for his youth that is gone forever.

He felt that those times were full of passion, but now they are full of materialism, without ideals, people have become mediocre.

He filmed "Sunny Day" with such a mood, which is a kind of beauty in memory.

This is the reason why Lin Zixuan asked Jiang Wen to take the film to the capital for review, as long as there is hope, he can't give up.

Lin Zixuan and Jiang Wen came to the General Administration at two o'clock in the afternoon, and it took half an hour for the General Administration to convene the members of the film review, and the screening began at half past two, the film duration was about two hours, and it took half an hour to discuss after watching the film.

In other words, the results will be available after 5 p.m.

The two of them sat in the General Bureau, smoking, drinking, chatting and waiting, Jiang Wen has been abroad for the past few months, and he doesn't know the situation at home.

Feng Xiaogang filmed "Party A and Party B" originally wanted Jiang Wen to play a cameo role and play General Patton in the film, but later saw that Jiang Wen really didn't have time, so he asked Ying Da to play it.

"He must be better than me, I used to tell him, it's a pity to be a director, he should be an actor, he is a graduate of the University of Missouri with a degree in theater performance. Jiang Wen praised.

Jiang Wen and Ying Da are both small, they are both children of the big yard, they are together in junior high school, and they have a good relationship.

They chatted with each other, looked at their watches from time to time, and waited for the final result.

After five o'clock, no one came to inform them, Lin Zixuan went out to inquire about the situation, he had been to the General Bureau a few times, and he knew a few people.

"There's a lot of argument in there, so you can wait. An acquaintance said.

"Sunny Days" is listed in the General Administration, one because of the subject matter, one because of the investment of more than 1.2 million US dollars, and the other is that this film is going to participate in the Venice Film Festival.

In China, there are not many films like this, and the General Administration should consider it carefully.

In China, whether or not to ban a movie may sometimes be a matter of a sentence from a big leader above, but more often it is a decision made after a heated debate.

Filmmakers from abroad, Hong Kong and Taiwan don't know much about China's film censorship system, and this body is called the Film Censorship Council.

The committee is composed of 36 members, and it is not necessary for all of them to be present to review a film, but only more than half of them are present.

These 36 members are not all officials of the General Administration, in fact, the proportion of officials in the General Administration is not high, and the members come from all walks of life in society, forming a pluralistic review team.

In addition to special members from the Ministry of Education, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Propaganda and Education Department of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Information Office of the Supreme People's Court and other departments, there are also scholars and film directors from the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, the Beijing Film Academy, the Huaguo Art Research Institute, and other academic circles.

For example, Zheng Dongtian, a professor at the Film Academy, is one of the censors.

The main responsibility of the special committee members is to see if there are any aspects of the film that conflict with the functions of their unit.

If there were scenes of students smoking and puppy love in the film, the commissioners from the Ministry of Education would object to it, and if there were scenes of prisoners abusing them, the prosecutor's office would ask for revisions.

Most of the remaining commissioners are people in the film industry, and they will look at films from an artistic point of view.

After watching the film, each committee member has a form in his hand with four options, one is to pass guò, the second is to pass guò after modification, the third is to retry after modification, and the fourth is not to pass guò.

Once more than half of the members chose "tongguò" or "not tongguò", there was little need for discussion.

If there is a majority of committee members who choose "revised" or "retried after revision", everyone will sit down and discuss the content of the revision, and then hand it over to the producer of the film for revision.

Of course, there must be a role of human affection in this.

For example, Zhang Yimou's "Alive", as a professor at the film academy at the time of censorship, Zheng Dongtian will definitely defend Zhang Yimou, this is a game of mutual persuasion.

Sometimes there is the possibility of opportunism, and all the committee members do not need to be present at the time of the review, and if the majority of the committee members present this time are from the film industry, then the chances of the film going through the censorship will be much greater.

It can be seen from this that whether a film is banned or whether it needs to be revised involves many factors.

Lin Zixuan is not a newcomer to the film industry, and he knows the doorway.

The fierce discussion among the committee members means that the film still has a chance to be saved, but it also shows that there are many problems in the film, and if there are too many revisions that affect the quality of the film, Jiang Wen may not compromise.

By half past six in the afternoon, everyone in the General Administration had left work, and the results had not yet come out.

Lin Zixuan was walking around in the corridor, feeling a little irritable, and at this time, someone came over and handed him a piece of paper.

"Okay, according to this opinion, hurry up and change it, and if you change it, you can come back tomorrow, and you can get through guò if there is no problem." The visitor reminded.

Lin Zixuan looked at it, this is the meeting minutes, and there are seven revisions to "Sunny Day".

Every opinion is clearly written, which shots to be deleted, there are dew points, there are violence, there are too strong politics, etc., which shows that this movie has the hope of being reviewed.

Lin Zixuan and Jiang Wen left the General Administration with the film and revision opinions and went to the Beijing Film Studio.

The two had a simple dinner on the street, and went to the editing studio of Beijing Film Studio to start cutting the film, which is not as simple as just deleting a certain scene, but also not affecting the overall storyline after deletion.

Jiang Wen needs to think carefully about how to make the film more complete.

Lin Zixuan was still coming up with ideas on the side at first, and then fell asleep on the sofa in the editing room.

When he woke up, it was already dawn, Jiang Wen was packing up the film, his eyes were red, and it seemed that he had stayed up all night.

"I'll squint first, you can send the film over, that's it if it doesn't work out, don't miss the noon flight." Jiang Wen admonished.

"Don't worry, you can't make a mistake. Lin Zixuan nodded.

He took the movie and drove out of the Beijing Film Studio, and the sun was shining outside. (To be continued.) )