Chapter 320: Winning Mode
"Spring in a Small Town" is a movie that is literary to the bones. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Through the emotional story of three people who seem to be unable to advance or retreat, unable to stop, and entangled, the implicit and forbearance of the Oriental people are expressed just right, without pretentiousness, and the rhythm is soothing.
The inner drama of the characters is the highlight of the film.
The film does not use realistic techniques and is slightly abstract.
In this decadent town, there are no streets, shops, or neighbors on camera, just a family of five characters.
The city wall that appears many times is undoubtedly a symbol, a symbol of traditional culture, but also a symbol of the wall in the heart of each person.
The whole film is not only about the relationship between men and women, but also about the confusion and depression that came with the end of the war, the old things have been dilapidated, and the new world outside does not know what to do.
No one can say for sure what the future holds.
Lin Zixuan thought of "Spring in a Small Town" through "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a martial arts drama is not comparable to a literary film, mainly because the characters have similarities in feelings.
That is the emotional concept of intellectuals who are influenced by traditional culture.
He felt that "Spring in a Small Town" should be filmed, and the actors were the three in front of him, Chen Daoming and Yu Feihong to play Dai Liyan and Zhou Yuwen, and Wang Zhiwen to play Zhang Zhichen, a young doctor who came back from Shanghai.
All three are Southerners.
Wang Zhiwen is a native of Shanghai, Yu Feihong is a native of Zhejiang Province, and Chen Daoming was born in Jinmen, but his hometown is from Zhejiang Province.
It should have a good effect for them to interpret an emotional entanglement that takes place in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.
Haomeng Company has been making entertainment films, and it has made a lot of money, but in the domestic film and television industry, looking at the background of a company, capital is one thing, and whether there are works that can be done is another.
This work refers to being recognized by insiders and winning heavyweight awards, especially international awards.
In the final analysis, in the domestic film circle, art films still have the upper hand.
Feng Xiaogang's Chinese New Year film was a big hit at the box office, and some people still criticized it, and if you want to be recognized, you have to use awards to gag their mouths.
Haomeng Company has taken a good path in commercial films, and will open the award-winning mode in the future, so as to enhance its heritage and become a film and television company with achievements in business and art.
There will be no Chinese New Year films next year, and Lin Zixuan plans to invest in two or three art films.
Art films are meticulously crafted, unlike low-cost entertainment films, where you can invest a few million, just look at Zhang Yimou, you can know that people have at least tens of millions of big investments.
Whether it is the layout of the scene or the photographer, it is to find the top talents in the industry and strive for excellence.
However, there are also low-cost art films, such as "The Two of Us", which can be shot for hundreds of thousands, but there is no way to compare with Zhang Yimou's films in terms of picture and structure.
Lin Zixuan didn't plan to compare with Zhang Yimou, he took the route of low-budget art films.
The film itself is not complicated, the plot is simple, there are only five actors, and there is no need for flashy props, just a Jiangnan-style dilapidated mansion and a mottled city wall.
According to Lin Zixuan's estimate, as long as the salary of the actors and behind-the-scenes staff can be controlled, three million can be filmed.
One of the reasons why he made this movie is that the company needs to transform and make two art films that can win awards, and he thinks that this movie is very meaningful in this era.
In the 90s, the Chinese society developed rapidly, and people's desires were growing wildly, and they did not know moderation.
This movie may be able to bring something different to the current society.
To be honest, under the impact of the current Hollywood blockbusters, this kind of slow-paced literary film is not in line with the taste of domestic audiences, and it will definitely lose money in the domestic film market, so it can only take the international route.
In this way, Chen Daoming and Yu Feihong and others can be introduced to the international film industry and have a certain influence in the West.
Then when the movie version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is filmed in the future, the chance of success will be greater, and it will take it step by step.
Lin Zixuan didn't tell them for the time being, he had to wait for the script to come out, maybe they had different opinions on the role, this is all an impossibility, anyway, it's still early, don't worry.
At the end of June, director Li Yu returned to Baodao to promote one of his films.
A native of Treasure Island, he graduated from the Film and Drama Department of the Treasure Island National Art School, and then went to the United States to further his studies and study filmmaking at New York University.
After graduation, he spent six years at home, and later shot a number of award-winning literary films, became famous, successfully broke into the mainstream Hollywood film circle, and was recognized by Hollywood studios.
Among the Chinese directors in Hollywood, he is a good mix.
This time back to Treasure Island, Li Yu will not stay for too long, and there is still a movie waiting for him to shoot in Hollywood.
In the American film circle, there are not many opportunities for Chinese directors to get films, and if they do, they are low-budget independent films, such as thrillers and horror films.
It's not easy to get a big production with an investment of tens of millions of dollars.
This is the difference between the mainstream film industry and the non-mainstream film industry, if you haven't made a big production, you won't be considered to have entered the ranks of mainstream Hollywood directors, and Li Yan's next film will have an investment of tens of millions of dollars.
After years of hard work, he was given a pass into the mainstream Hollywood film industry.
At home on Treasure Island, Li Yu occasionally saw a TV series, and when he looked at the actors and scenes, he knew that it was not a drama from Hong Kong and Taiwan, but a martial arts drama filmed in the mainland.
In recent years, with the boom in the mainland TV drama market, TV stations in Baodao will buy dramas produced in the mainland.
The most popular is the historical drama starring Zhang Guoli and Li Baotian, which has achieved extremely high ratings in Hong Kong and Taiwan, which has strengthened the confidence of Hong Kong and Taiwan TV stations in mainland TV dramas.
They try to buy genres that local audiences like, mainly historical themes, and martial arts dramas are among them.
Lin Zixuan has cooperated with the TV station of Treasure Island and sold "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to Treasure Island.
Although the price is not high, it is a little bit to be able to make a little money, what he didn't expect was that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was more popular in Treasure Island than in the mainland.
This is the first time that Baodao audiences have come into contact with martial arts dramas in the mainland, and they feel fresh.
It's like eating the same flavor of food every day, and it's good to change it occasionally, especially the two actors, Chen Daoming and Yu Feihong, which brought different feelings to the audience on Treasure Island.
Chen Daoming has become the idol of middle-aged and elderly women on the treasure island, and Yu Feihong has also gained the admiration of countless men on the treasure island.
Baodao TV wanted to invite the two to Baodao for promotional activities, but Chen Daoming did not agree.
Li Yu watched a few episodes of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and felt that this story was a bit interesting, mainland TV dramas pay more attention to scenes and literary dramas, this drama has cultural heritage, and it is more atmospheric than the martial arts dramas of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
He paid attention to it and learned that the author of the original book was a mainlander named Lin Zixuan. (To be continued.) )