Govyn was taken aback by these well-known names in the film industry in later generations, he never thought that Guangxi Studio would have such a great ability to gather the fifth generation of Chinese directors in later generations, let alone that Běijīng Film Studio would have such a big foundation and would include nearly half of the fifth generation of directors.

The heritage is really profound!

Although the later generations of běijīng film studios have been downtrodden, but at this time, just hearing the names of Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Li Shaohong made Ge Wen have an attitude of awe of the behemoth of běijīng studio, young people are like this, what about those filmmakers of the older generation?!

Of course, Gewen is not unfamiliar with the names of Zhang Yimou and Wei Bida, these are all representatives of the fifth generation of Chinese directors!

Chen Kaige, who was a thriving person in the Chinese film industry in later generations, has directed many classic works such as "Yellow Earth", "Farewell My Concubine", "Mei Lanfang" and so on. He is the only Chinese director Gowen knows of who has won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

His first film, Yellow Earth, had a great impact on Chinese cinema with its breakthrough film language, and laid the foundation for the fifth generation of Chinese directors to go global. His "Farewell My Concubine" is considered by film critics to be the most artistic film in China after the Cultural Revolution, interpreting the ups and downs of China for half a century and the fate of characters, and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 47th Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece that year.

Before the fifth generation of directors, the standard of good Chinese movies was the characterization of characters based on good stories, and Chen Kaige set good movies to a new level. His films are full of speculative color, adding symbolism or metaphor to the traditional storytelling level. For example, his "Yellow Earth", "The Child King", and "Singing While Walking" all show that "the continuation of history and transformation in a specific period, and the reflection on the way of national survival has become a broader cultural background to understand society and life, so that the examination of reality in his works has jumped to a higher philosophical level".

Tian Zhuangzhuang, one of the representatives of the "fifth generation" of Chinese cinema who returned to his alma mater Běijīng Film School in later generations, has been repeatedly banned for some of his films due to his unfortunate avant-garde thinking, so although he was praised by the famous critic Tadao Zoten as "the most talented and outstanding film director in contemporary China", his works are not many. But every one that comes out is a classic.

In the summer of 1980, his debut film "Our Corner"

"The Horse Thief" won the "Swiss Third World Film Festival Award" with its unique charm and new film image, "Blue Kite" won the Golden Kirin Award at the Tokyo Film Festival in 1992, "Chūn in a Small Town" won the Best Director Award at the 3rd Chinese Film Media Awards in 2003, "Ancient Tea Horse Road" won the Best Director Award at the 1st China Film Directors Association in 2005, and "Drum" won the Best Film at the 5th Chinese Film Media Awards in 2005. Best Director Award, "Wu Qingyuan" won the Best Director Award at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2007 and the Most Concerned Director Award at the CC 7V6 Film Channel Media Award at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2007...... Tian Zhuangzhuang's films are distinctly different from other directors of the same era, he abandons the habit of the fifth generation of directors who do not pay attention to the portrayal of characters, and pushes the "character" to a crucial position in the creation of the film. He himself is bold and bold, and he often expresses a kind of wild xìng in front of the public, but his heart is full of the tenderness of children's affection, which makes the characters in his movies particularly rich.

Li Shaohong, female, is also one of the representatives of China's fifth generation of directors. In 1978, she was admitted to the directing department of the Běijīng Film Academy, and after graduating in 1982, she was assigned to the Běijīng Film Studio as a director. Because of his outstanding talent, as soon as he graduated, he successively became the assistant director of the films "Bao Father and Son", "The Man Who Went Out to Make Money", "Clear Water Bay, Tamsui Bay" and so on. In 1988, she directed the film "Murder of the Silver Snake", which was loved by the audience, and since then, she has won the right to direct the film, and she herself has attracted the attention of the film and television industry.

In 1990, she directed the film "Blood Sè Early Morning", revealing the other side of human beings and dissecting the inner world of people, which attracted great attention from experts and critics, and called it a masterpiece that shook the world, and the film won the Grand Prix at the Three Continents International Film Festival in Nantes, France. In 1992, he directed the film "Forty Not Confused", which was well received and won the Locarno International Film Critics Award in Switzerland. In 1994, he directed the film "Red Pink", which described the female xìng with different personalities, analyzed their psychological state, and strengthened the theme that the love of the characters in the film is also the theme of human xìng, and the film won the Silver Bear Award at the West Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Peacock Award for Best Film at the 27th Indian International Film Festival, and the Best Director Award at the University Student Film Festival. In 1998, "Red Suit" won the "Best Feature Film Award" at the 1998 China Zhèngfǔ Huabiao Awards, and the "Best Director Award" at the Shanghai Film Critics Association. In 2004, she directed the movie "Baby in Love", and in 2006, she directed the thriller "Door".

This female director has not only gained considerable prestige in the film industry, but also has a good time in TV works.

In later generations, Li Shaohong directed many TV series, the more famous ones are "Da Ming Fuci" in 1998, "Orange is Red" in 2001, "Dream of Red Mansions" in 2010, etc.

Among them, "Daming Fuci" was a sensation when it was released that year, and won the "Best TV Drama Award", "Best Cinematography Award", "Best Lighting Award", "Best Actor Award", "Best Actress Award", "Best Art Award" and the 21st Feitian Award "Best TV Drama Award" and "Best Art Award" at the 18th China TV Golden Eagle Awards...... It is no exaggeration to say that this drama was a well-deserved top brand back then!

In the film and television works directed by Li Shaohong, you can see her emphasis on the consciousness of women, and the kind of understanding and thinking about society, life and women themselves from the perspective of women.

It is precisely because of these unique characteristics that Li Shaohong's career has truly been achieved.

Now these ministries have been seconded by Wei Bida to the Guangxi factory to prepare for filming, does this mean that Wei Bida was not hit by the fact that "- One and Eight" could not be released, and he also plans to continue to train new talents in the Guangxi factory.

It seems that this time, this Wei Bida is really moving, is he planning to use these rookie directors to fight against the water?

As early as the description of Wei Bida and Zhang Yimou in his own home, Gewen already knew that their current situation was not good, although the failure of "One and Eight" was temporarily carried by Wei Bida, but this loss will have to be calculated sooner or later, if the next Zou movie still can't get out of the predicament, then the Guangxi factory will inevitably face the situation of pushing the card to reopen, and Wei Bida and even Zhang Yimou may not have good fruits to eat at that time.

Therefore, his "Soldier Assault" may be just the icing on the cake for Shanghai Film Studio or other big factories, but for Guangxi Factory, it is a rain sprinkled on the long-arid yellow earth, moist and happy.

It's just that the young film crew of the Guangxi factory can shoot "Soldier Assault" well?

Gowen's mind was filled with doubts.

"Tian Zhuangzhuang? Li Shaohong? I've heard of these two people.

Old Wei, are you going to do a big job? Xu Sangchu said to Wei Bida with some emotion. Of course, he knows Wei Bida's current situation, and at the national meeting of feature film directors held in Běijīng at the end of last year, "One and Eight" was regarded as a live target for "jīng god pollution" to be criticized. For a small factory like Guangxi Factory, a movie that has been made cannot be released, and this pressure is very great for it.

Wei Bida smiled bitterly, "No way, this time I will do my best to win the film adaptation rights of "Soldier Assault", and if I don't succeed, I will become a benevolent!" ”

The despondency and desperate bet in Wei Bida's words not only surprised Xu Sangchu, could it be that Wei Bida's situation was already so bad?

And Gewen is also sympathetic in his heart, he still has a good impression of Wei Bida in his heart, just his unruly and courageous excavation of newcomers makes him appreciate it very much, not to mention that he and Zhang Yimou's intentions have been written before they come, let him put forward conditions casually, his attitude is sincere and enthusiastic, and he and Zhang Yimou even carried the movie copy of "One and Eight" from Guangxi to Shanghai...... Such a courteous corporal, such a respectful is indeed the most sincere one among several film studios.

It's just that the director doesn't give it a try!

Ge Wen's heart was full of sighs, he wanted to help Wei Bida, so that he could not only make friends with Zhang Yimou in advance, and it would be much more convenient to deal with him in the future, but more importantly, he could get the friendship of the Guangxi factory. It's a pity that the hardware facilities of the Guangxi factory may not be much worse than those of the big factory, but the software facilities, such as the director and crew members, are much worse! Zhang Yimou can't compare to Xie Jin after all!

"I would like to ask Comrade Govern, what do you think is the most important thing for the success of a movie?" Zhang Yimou saw that Ge Wen remained silent after listening to his words and Director Wei, so he opened his mouth again and asked.

"Director!" Hearing Zhang Yimou's words, Gowen blurted out.

The film expresses the director's thoughts and consciousness, and to put it bluntly, the director is the person who uses the actor to express his thoughts. As a synthesizer of various artistic elements in film and television creation, the director organizes and unites all the creative personnel, technicians and performers in the crew, gives full play to their talents, and makes everyone's creative work into one. The quality of a film is largely determined by the director's supreme cultivation and cultivation; The style of a film often reflects the director's artistic style.

So the director is definitely one of the most critical factors in the success or failure of a film!

"Director? Director! Zhang Yimou muttered and repeated in a low voice, and then he raised his head and looked at Govin and said seriously: "Comrade Govern, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong and others, who were seconded from Běijīng Film Studio, are the most talented people in the new generation of filmmakers. Among these people, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Li Shaohong are also directors, and they and Zhang Junzhao, the director of our young film crew, are classmates in the same class as the běijīng film school, and they all know each other, and they often discussed and rehearsed film ...... together when they were students at the běijīng film school."

Zhang Yimou's words made Ge Wen, Wei Bida and Xu Sangchu who were present all confused, what did Zhang Yimou mean by this?

"Director Wei originally planned to give these comrades the right to shoot and let them open several movies at the same time, but unfortunately "One and Eight" could not be released, and the funds invested could not recover the cost, and the previous plan could not be implemented......"

Zhang Yimou was a little ashamed when he said this.

Then he took a deep breath, suppressed the emotion in his heart, raised his head and stared at Ge Wen and asked seriously: "If the Guangxi factory lets Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong, and Zhang Junzhao co-direct "Soldier Assault", what do you think?" Will the director no longer be a shortcoming of the movie? ”

Chen Kaige + Tian Zhuangzhuang + Li Shaohong Ten Zhang Junzhao? Co-directing?

Govin was moved by Zhang Yimou's statement!

If Zhang Yimou hadn't said this idea, he would have never imagined it, and Zhang Yimou's sudden change of thinking can also be seen from here. These plus Zhang Yimou are all the symbols of the fifth generation of Chinese directors, and their own artistic talent is absolutely undoubted, and just now Ge Wen listened to Wei Bida's introduction, at this time, these people have already had the experience of being directors or assistant directors, so they must be very clear about how to direct a movie.

What's more, these people are all students of the same class of the Běijīng Film School and know each other, so there is no problem of communication and understanding. And everyone is young, they are all newcomers in the film industry, and the kind of enthusiasm for movies and obsession with ideals must be different from those old-timers, they must be more motivated and motivated.

Let these people co-direct, and it is more likely that xìng will provoke a wonderful chemical reaction. In the process of learning, co-promote: in the process of discussion, seek better answers; In the process of arguing, make up for each other's shortcomings!

This will definitely make the whole movie have a huge chemical reaction, this reaction is definitely not a simple effect of one plus one equals two, it is more likely that xìng is one plus one equals three or even equal to the group of large!

Govin knew that he was moved, and he knew that he had been persuaded by Zhang Yimou's statement. However, Zhang Yimou's decision did not represent the Guangxi factory, so he turned his attention to Wei Bida on the side.

Wei Bida was already stunned by Zhang Yimou's whimsy.

We've said before that Webida isn't a professional in the film industry. The reason why Wei Bida became the director of the Guangxi factory was because the local government wanted to select a Zhuang cadre who could unite most people to work together, engage in all corners of the world, and not engage in great Zhuang nationalism to be the factory director.

In the end, Wei Bida, who worked at Guangxi Agricultural College, was selected by his superiors and transferred to the Guangxi factory as the factory director.

This way of selecting cadres is actually very inappropriate, this is actually a typical layman to manage insiders, the so-called interlaced is like a mountain, once a layman blindly commands is easy to cause huge losses. Fortunately, Wei Bida is indeed a good cadre, and when he served as the director of the Guangxi factory, he made great contributions to the reform of the Guangxi factory.

At this time, Wei Bida was already a semi-professional in the film industry, but he was still taken aback by what Zhang Yimou said about co-directing, and then he admired Zhang Yimou in his heart.

At this time, the Guangxi factory was unable to release "One and Eight", which caused the originally ambitious Guangxi factory to suffer a huge blow, and the most obvious symptom was that the personnel seconded from the běijīng film studio in the process of filming "One and/\ One" were no longer able to shoot several films at the same time according to the original plan, because the shortage of funds made the Guangxi factory have to consider carefully. Now, if these personnel seconded from the běijīng factory are also joined to the crew of "Soldier Assault", on the one hand, not only can the quality of "Soldier Assault" be improved, but on the other hand, it can save a lot of capital expenditure.

The most important thing is whether this bluff can take down Govin Nick?

Wei Bida looked at Govyn, and then saw Govin staring at him. He immediately nodded in agreement: "As long as Govin hands over the film adaptation rights of "Soldier Assault" to our Guangxi factory, nothing is a problem: you can mention it!" ”

Xu Sangchu on the side felt a little bad, and looking at the appearance of a few people, he was about to decide the film adaptation rights of "Soldier Assault".

He was willing to see this happen, and although he was very sympathetic to Wei Bida's predicament, Xu Sangchu was unwilling to use his own interests to save others. "Comrade Govyn, as long as you can hand over the adaptation rights to the Shanghai factory, I can give you a guarantee, the director of "Soldier Assault" must be Xie Jin! I'll definitely draw jīng sharp ......"

Xu Sangku tried to undo this sudden change, but unfortunately, at this time, Govin had been conquered by the plan that Zhang Yimou said.

Although these fifth-generation directors are still newcomers, they may not be more ashamed than one Xie Jin together, right? Moreover, if these big directors with different personalities and different tempers in the future can unite under their own scripts, such a thing will definitely become an allusion in the history of Chinese cinema in a few years, and be excavated and gossiped by later generations!

"Director Wei, I have one more request!" Govyn said.

Hearing Gowen's words, Wei Bida and Zhang Yimou glanced at each other, and a huge surprise involuntarily appeared on their faces, one by one, they finally persuaded Gewen!

"You say!" There was a forcibly suppressed excitement in Wei Pida's tone.

"I have no objection to this co-director, but I would like to add another person to the list of directors." "Who?" Wei Bida asked.

"Zhang Yimou!" Govyn said with a smile.

"Me?" At this time, Zhang Yimou couldn't see a little bit of the appearance of an international famous director in later generations, his rough right hand finger pointed at the bridge of his nose, an unexpected expression appeared on his face, and his eyes were staring at Govin full of doubts and surprises.