Li Xiaole saw that Fred on the other side had a solemn expression and a demeanor, and suddenly felt that this old-fashioned old man was completely different from the usual feeling he usually gave him, and his heart was in a mood, and he quickly sat up straight.

"Lee, can you tell me what your goal is? What exactly do you want to do with your movie? Fred looked at Li Xiaole and asked slowly, the Oscar is just a quantitative standard, not the ultimate goal of making a movie alone.

"Is this a test of your willingness to be my art director?" Li Xiaole looked at the script in Fred's hand and said curiously.

"You can think of it this way, I just want to know what level of understanding you have reached in the movie." Fred squinted his eyes as he said this and added, "I used to ask Nolan the same question......

Hearing Nolan's name, Li Xiaole immediately put away his hippie smile, he knew that there was some kind of subtle gap between himself and Nolan, but he couldn't know what it was, maybe this secret was on Fred, he knew that his answer today might be able to change this gap, so he also thought carefully in his heart, and then said slowly:

"My goal for movies has been changing, and when I first entered the industry, I actually wanted to make others recognize my value through film, so that I could make a fortune and get ahead......

Later, when I actually made movies, I became obsessed with this industry, and I felt that I could put my own thoughts, my own values, in good films, and then share them with others, so that they could identify with me, like me, and use my thoughts to influence the world...... It's just a small corner of the world...... Hundreds of fans ......"

"And now?" Fred asked, looking at him.

"Now?" Li Xiaole suddenly became arrogant, his eyes were full of light, and his voice was raised: "Now I have a new goal, that is, to establish a film base like Hollywood in China, so that all film and television companies in Asia have their own bases, so that we can make really large-scale and high-quality global movies, not just to learn Hollywood, but to make works beyond Hollywood like Peter Jackson in New Zealand, and compete with Hollywood with our own films~~"

Li Xiaole's face was slightly red, this was a dream he had never told others, and now he suddenly said it to Fred:

"I want to establish a series of digital special effects companies in China with Weta to develop the best film equipment, and to walk in front of Hollywood in 3D technology, we have a large number of good directors such as Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Wu Yusen, Jiang Wen, Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige, Ning Hao, Lu Chuan, and countless good actors, all they lack is good screenwriters and good film skills.

I want Hollywood's screenwriting system to be brought over, gather those scattered editors across the country, and let them write a script in the Hollywood way, a dozen or two dozen screenwriters, improve the status of screenwriters, and build up the entire industry, I believe that China will become stronger and stronger in the future, and the film market will eventually surpass the United States, and I believe that people need someone to do such a thing. ”

The more Li Xiaole spoke, the more excited he became, dancing and gushing, Fred listened intently, sometimes nodding, sometimes he would interject, adding some details to Li Xiaole's dream, they drank all the drinks in the Xiaoice box in the office, and the ashtray was also full of cigarette butts.

It wasn't until Li Xiaole finished describing excitedly that Fred finally spoke up:

"It's a good dream, but ...... Lee, have you ever noticed that you use the film as a tool for you from beginning to end, and you don't seem to really feel what the movie really is? You're just using movies as a way for you to succeed, and that could be a stock flip, build a house, or whatever? Why do you want to make a movie? Was that why you wanted to make a movie in the first place? ”

As soon as he said this, Li Xiaole, who was in high spirits, was stunned for a moment, yes...... It seems that what he said has little to do with the movie itself? After he came to the United States, he kept his head buried and rushed forward, as if he had forgotten what he was for? What did he do for this? Isn't it because when I saw "Huo Yuanjia", I felt carefree, cried and laughed with the people in the story, and was extremely happy, and I wanted to make a work like "Huo Yuanjia"?

Fred saw him thinking, and couldn't help but ask him, "With your understanding of movies, can you tell me what the quality of movies is?" What is it about the movie that really touches people? ”

What are the criteria for the quality of the movie? The question may sound simple, the music, the picture, the plot, the acting skills of the actors, the special effects...... There are a lot of standards, but what are the standards that really go to the top level? Box office? This is obviously not the criterion for judging movies, otherwise pornographic movies such as "3D Jin Pinmei" will definitely be ranked first......

If it is a plot and characters, how could "The Shawshank Redemption" lose to "Forrest Gump"? If it was compared to special effects, "Iron Man" would have been the best Oscar movie a long time ago, so what happened to "Titanic" winning 11 Oscars? Wong Kar-wai, who can't understand movies, why can he win so many international awards?

A bunch of questions made Li Xiaole look down and think for a long time, before he raised his eyes and looked at Fred with a wry smile and shook his head: "I don't know how to do it......" He knew that Fred, the president of the Drama Council, would definitely tell him the answer, and he had prepared all the notebooks in his head in his heart.

As expected, Fred finally began to take out the contents of the bottom of his box, and saw him say slowly:

"In my opinion, a good movie has four standards, the sensory realm, the story realm, the character realm, and the artistic realm......"

"What do you mean by that?" Li Xiaole's eyes widened, and he asked intently, and finally Fred's began to straighten out the concept that had been vague in his mind, and the four realms he said were high and low!

Fred suddenly sat up straight and said to Li Xiaole:

"The so-called sensory realm means very simply, it is a variety of light, shadow, sound, and photographic effects that stimulate the sight, hearing, and even psychology of the characters, such as the terrifying and bloody horror film "Death is Coming", the song and dance film "Moulin Rouge" full of pleasant songs, and even those big superhero movies,, or some Hong Kong action movies......

And this is just the most basic foundation, no matter how well these things are done, they are the icing on the cake for a movie, whether it is for ordinary audiences or those filmmakers in the industry who really have a connoisseurship, the sensory realm is the lowest realm......

Just a movie that stays in this realm can only be regarded as a very rudimentary ......"

"Hmm...... This is indeed something that any director can shoot as long as it costs money. Li Xiaole nodded, this is the first major misunderstanding of mainland directors after seeing Hollywood blockbusters, thinking that Hollywood movies rely on the big battlefield and dazzling stunts, isn't it just thrown at money? If we have money, we can do it too~~

The famous director Xu Ke was also obsessed with visual effects and filmed "The Legend of Shushan", but the box office was a failure......

"And when the movie enters the second stage of the story realm, it is the foundation for the movie to really get the likes of most people." When Fred said this, he glanced at Li Xiaole with a look full of meaning:

"The so-called story realm is to arrange a story from beginning to end with a reasonable rhythm, and then assist in wonderful dialogues and unforgettable character descriptions...... And your teacher H is recognized as one of the top screenwriters among them......"

Li Xiaole was also dumbfounded in his heart, indeed, the script ~ script ~ the book of a drama ~~ whether the movie is good or not, to a large extent, depends on whether the script story is good or not, such as China's Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, top directors like Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Li Bihua, and the works of a group of great writers in the golden age of Chinese new culture were filmed to produce classics such as "Farewell My Concubine", "Red Sorghum", and "Alive".

But in the later stage, after Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, two big directors, became screenwriters, the level of the film dropped sharply, which is the lack of story......

And Hollywood is the film country that attaches the most importance to screenwriters in the world, and their perfect screenwriting system can always maintain the "Harry Potter" series, no matter who the director is, the standard of the film will not be reduced.

This is the most powerful part of Hollywood, the reserve of screenwriters is too strong, so the blockbusters that other countries can come up with are usually their own literary masterpieces, rather than stories written by ready-made screenwriters......

Fred saw that Li Xiaole lowered his head and thought about it for a while, before he continued:

"The other of the two elements of the box office is the realm of the characters, the actors pull the audience into it through the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the characters in the story, so that the audience can identify with the character and follow the character to feel and experience everything in the movie~~

The level of this realm is usually determined by the actor himself, a good actor can make the original character more sublimated, make a mediocre story have a more attractive charm, while a third-rate actor will ruin a good story......

That's why the actors are so important to the movie itself, because many times the audience is directly facing the actors themselves, and when they are fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, they tend to ignore the overall quality of the story...... Therefore, when this realm is done well, it will far exceed the importance of the previous two realms......"

Speaking of this, Fred suddenly stopped, looked at Li Xiaole appreciatively, and said: "And these three realms, you have mastered them perfectly, I have never seen a director as young as you, who can have such deep attainments in audio-visual effects, grasp the rhythm of the story, and **** actors......"