Chapter 730: Golden Dragon Award: The Battle of the Short Films
Because the current film and television industry as a whole has entered a relatively powerful environment, few people care about documentaries whose profitability is not optimistic, and even if there are, they are either state-owned institutions, shooting some things with the main theme, and the methods are very old-fashioned, or they are the grass stage team pulled up by the small director.
Therefore, it can't be too harsh on domestic documentaries, in the selection of the Golden Dragon Awards, there is no distinction between feature films and short films, there are no requirements for the release area, and the requirements for the date of production are also very relaxed, as long as it is in recent years, at this time "A Bite of China" is particularly eye-catching.
The development of domestic documentaries has always been in its infancy, there are really not many good works, and the audience has not developed the habit of enjoying documentaries in the theater. Behan's "Ocean" served as a Chinese voice-over, but the mainland box office was still embarrassing.
In comparison, the development of documentaries in Taiwan is relatively healthy, and there is no shortage of high-quality products, such as "Seeing Taiwan", which won the Golden Horse Awards last year, and how many years has it taken for the mainland to produce such a "Bite of China" which has caused great repercussions at home and abroad, which can be regarded as opening a new era of domestic documentaries.
The next thing to be awarded is the Best Short Film Award, in order to distinguish it with the best animated short film in the back, it can be called the Best Live Action Short Film Award, the famous director Jia Zhangke presented the award, many future big directors may start from a short film of more than ten and a half minutes and a half, maybe one or two real directors can come out of these shortlisted directors.
As can be seen from the video footage on the screen. Among the five shortlisted works, there are "Call Me Dad", which shows the affection between father and daughter, "I want to be in the top ten", which shows the emotions and troubles of high school students, and "The Peerless Master of Hip Hop Trilogy", which spoofs the Shaw Brothers action movie style. There are also "Bad Future" with sci-fi overtones and "Scavenger Boy", which has already won the Golden Horse Award for Best Short Film.
The director of these five works, He Mu, basically knows and even knows, "Call Me Dad" Needless to say, the director is called Beast Yi Xiaoxing is a pioneer of online filming, and has a good relationship with He Mu, his Wanhe Tianyi and Tudou are strategic partners, "Never Expected" and "Report to the Boss" are all launched by Wanhe Tianyi and Tudou.
Bi Xinye, the director of "I want to be in the top ten", is a student of China Media and Li Pang's younger brother. His mother is an insider and has worked with Mizuki, and his directorial debut "Goodbye Jinhua Station" filmed at school was also recommended by He Mu on Weibo. He admires the talent of this young man, "I want to be in the top ten" is the second part of his high school trilogy, and it is said that he will invite stars to participate in the filming of the third part.
"Hip Hop Trilogy" has a total of three parts, directed by director Lu Zhengyu. "The Peerless Master" is the first one. Complete Shaw Brothers old Hong Kong film style, it looks interesting, and people are amazed by the director's whimsy, Lu Zhengyu has now signed a contract with Shuimu Forest, and previously served as one of the screenwriters of "Qin Shi Huang vs. Aliens", the film was a box office hit, and also gave Lu Zhengyu the capital to negotiate with Shuimu, and now his second big movie plan has been launched. It's the type of comedy he's good at.
Li Yang, the director of "Bad Future", is the "bad pilot" who created "The Adventures of Li Xianji", and He Mu bought the adaptation rights of the animated short film back then. However, there has been no mature adaptation idea for a long time, and now that Lan Mingzhu and Dewey have taken over the case, they will create a large-scale production full of whimsical ideas, and they can finally give an explanation to Li Yang.
The last "Scavenging Boy" has long been famous, and it has won an award in Golden Horse before it was broadcast on the Internet, and now it is a big favorite to win the award with Golden Horse Yuwei to fight the Golden Dragon again, after all, this is a very emotional film, and the shooting technique is also very mature.
Mainland online short films and micro-films have been very popular in recent years, with a large number of classic works emerging, and also exporting a lot of thoughtful talents to the mainland film industry. Those online photographers who are born at the grassroots level have great fame on the Internet, but the directors who don't want to go to theaters are not good directors, and the online directors who have ideas are definitely not satisfied that their works can only be spread on the Internet, make a feature film, and enter the theater for public screening, this is the wish of each of them, for this wish, all five directors came to the Golden Dragon Award site, waiting for the final results to be announced, even if they didn't win the award, it would be great if they could know one or two producers or big directors, Maybe it will help you in the future.
With Jia Zhangke's action of opening the envelope, five cameras pointed at the five directors in the venue, "The final winner is ...... "Call Me Dad", called Beast Yi Xiaoxing, congratulations!" ”
In the audience, the beast with a tea egg head stood up very calmly, very different from his previous funny style, and the white guest (Wang Da Hammer), Liu Xunzimo, Kong Lianshun and others around him all applauded desperately, and they were more excited than they won the award, and their boss won the award in the first Golden Dragon Award, and the road in the future will definitely be smoother, in fact, they are already very good now, Bai Ke and Kong Lianshun also joined Han Han's "After the End", although it is only a small role, But it is also an important step from the Internet to reality, and their achievements in the future will definitely not be limited to the Internet.
Yi Xiaoxing, who is known for his comedy and business, relied on a warm and slightly exaggerated and funny nine-minute short film to conquer the judges, and the award speech was also mainly sensational, but he was not sensationalizing himself, but sensationalizing for thousands of unknown little directors and actors who are fighting on the Internet.
The best live-action short film is followed by the best animated short film, the situation is similar to the two, making short films, there are many good works, the scores on Douban are basically above seven points, and there are many eight points, but when it comes to the feature film in theaters, it is often difficult to have a good evaluation. The five animated short films nominated are all well-made and have a good reputation, namely "Kung Fu Rabbit and Caibao Dog", "Entrance Exam", and "Running All the Way!! ", "The Legend of the Fox Fairy", "The Dream of Martial Arts".
After watching the clips of the five short films, there was a lot of discussion in the audience, because judging from the clips alone, these five works are really excellent, especially the two CG animation works of "Entrance Exam" and "The Story of the Fox Fairy", the animals and characters in them are vivid, and even have the level of Hollywood cartoons.
"The Legend of the Fox Fairy" is a story about a beautiful fox demon and two hunters by Ma Chao, a Chinese student who graduated from the French animation school Supinfocom, which lasted a year and was completed by four people working together.
"Entrance Exam" and "The Legend of the Fox Fairy" are both CG animations, close to the mainstream Hollywood animation style, and are sincere works created by a young couple in the city - Tang Boqing and Zeng Xiaolan with 5 computers and 15 months, telling the story of several little mice who were tested to steal eggs, and finally a little mouse realized the mystery after failing once, and completed the journey of stealing eggs. Once this animation was released on the Internet, it caused widespread praise, He Mu said to Ye Xuan after watching it, as long as their "Shuke and Beta" can have the agility and level of "Entrance Exam", it will definitely cause a sensation, this seven-minute short film also inspired all colleagues of Lotus Leaf Animation, they have so many animation elites, so sophisticated equipment, so advanced technology, if they are compared by a small couple, it will be a shame, their goal is to do better than "Entrance Exam".
Coincidentally, "Entrance Exam" won the Golden Dragon Award, the highest honor in the animation industry, last year, and I don't know if it can win the Golden Dragon Award in the film industry.
The other three shortlisted works, "Dream of Martial Arts" is also CG animation, the system is far less sophisticated than "Entrance Exam" and "The Legend of the Fox Fairy", which was completed independently by a teacher named Li Jin of Communication University for three years, although the system is slightly rough, but Zhen Zidan's PK Bruce Lee's setting has attracted the love of a large number of kung fu fans, in this animated short film, Bruce Lee was resurrected, and he also had a big battle with the latecomer Zhen Zidan, which made people's blood boiling, In the end, Bruce Lee jumped into the air and turned into a wisp of dust, which was also embarrassing.
"Kung Fu Rabbit and Caibao Dog" actually became famous on the Internet nine years ago, and its unique style is deeply loved by the majority of netizens, but at that time it was called "Shaolin Rabbit and Wudang Dog", and later changed its name to "Kung Fu Rabbit".
"Running all the way!! is a collective creation work, led by Liu Cong and Wang Tianfang, AnimeTaste animators each take running as the theme, and use a few seconds of video to show the texture and style of their animation, and finally collage all the short videos together in a pre-designed way to form an excellent animated short film.
The five shortlisted animated short films are all temporary masterpieces, compared to the embarrassment of the best animation award to pick out the five nominated works, in fact, there are a few animated short films that have not been shortlisted are also quite good, but the five shortlisted places cannot be changed, just as only one winner cannot be changed, "The final winner of the best animated short film is ......" award presenter Nicholas Tse paused slightly. (To be continued......)
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