Chapter 388 Scene 388 The gap is in the details
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"Director Wang~!" "Hurry up and find medicine in his jacket pocket, Director Wang has high blood pressure~" "Get out of the way, don't block the tuyere, let him breathe." ”
A group of Taiwanese filmmakers who have a relationship with Wang Qun rushed up, helping Wang Qun up in a panic, and staring at Li Xiaole angrily, but no one dared to say anything......
They were afraid that if they said more, they would get angry, Li Xiaole's lethality just now was too terrible, several sober people looked at Director Lin for the first time, and everyone understood that he was the core figure in this farce, although the argument on the surface was about the concept of the movie, but to put it bluntly, it was a struggle of interests, and the ownership of the film grant was the key! They hope that Director Lin will come out and administer justice.
But the fact in front of him is that Director Lin picked up his teacup and drank tea, as if nothing had happened at all, and Zhu Yanping and Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan's big directors, also looked at this side with cold eyes, and even the Taiwanese directors next to them who had made commercial films and were scolded by their group of people looked at them with the same indifferent gaze.
Enmity...... That kind of rising hostility, in Li Xiaole's words just now, really poked at the key point of this group of pseudo-New Wave directors who live on grants, and what is even more absolutely is that he scolded and scolded, but he also distinguished them from real art directors such as Hou Xiaoxian and Yang Dechang...... Only isolate Wang Qun's gang.
Yang Dechang and Hou Xiaoxian are highly respected representatives of the real New Wave, while Wang Qun is a pseudo-New Wave...... This is equivalent to saying that as long as Hou Xiaoxian, who was present, did not speak, whoever stood on Wang Qun's side would admit that he was a pseudo-New Wave......
And what is Hou Hsiao-hsien's reaction? Director Hou Da squinted his eyes as if he was asleep with nothing to do with himself......
Li Xiaole just hates them, and most Taiwanese directors really hate them! It was they who blocked the development of Taiwan's film industry, and today there is finally an opportunity for this group of stubborn shili to restrain a little, and they all show their positions in their own different ways.
In a desperate situation, everyone expects change, and although Li Xiaole's arrival seems too domineering, it has obviously brought some changes, at least Hou Xiaoxian, Zhu Yanping, Niu Chengze, Taiwan's biggest directors dare not offend the thorny Wang Qun scolded and fainted on the spot, this cooperation with the mainland is not only to bring a new movie, but also a new atmosphere.
Li Xiaole's laughter and scolding, although he offended a group of New Wave directors, he won the support of more Taiwanese filmmakers.
Moreover, Director Lin's attitude has made all Taiwanese filmmakers soberly aware of one thing, compared to these directors of the new wave in Taiwan, the Information Bureau attaches more importance to the mainland market, Li Xiaole represents not only a director in Taiwan, but a link of cooperation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait film industry, no one wants to break ground on his head!
Zuihou watched Wang Qun being embarrassed by those New Wave directors, and everyone continued the meeting as if nothing had happened, and the atmosphere was happy.
After the meeting, Director Lin invited the crew members of "Saidek Balai" and Hou Hsiao-hsien and Zhu Yanping to dine at the hotel, and during the meal, Director Lin couldn't wait to know how Li Xiaole would make the big-budget movie "Saidek Balai", the investment of NT$600 million is unprecedented, as long as the box office can exceed NT$100 million, then it will be a success for the Information Bureau, and they dare not think about it.
"Director Wang is too old-fashioned in thinking, and he only made such a fuss today, alas, Director Li, you have to bear with me." Director Lin's dark face had a simple smile, if it weren't for Li Xiaole who had seen his performance just now, I am afraid that he would think that he was a kind elder.
"I was so excited just now that I couldn't control my emotions all of a sudden." Li Xiaole licked his lips embarrassedly.
Director Lin ...... You should say this when you are fighting. Hou Xiaoxian, the old director, said with a calm face, although he didn't like Wang Qun, but what happened just now was indeed a little out of shape on both sides.
Director Lin smiled disapprovingly, he hoped that Li Xiaole would be more fierce and shock those new wave filmmakers who protested against the Information Bureau every day, and gave 100 million yuan in support to those people, who couldn't make a small splash in the theater, and at least opened up the mainland market for Li Xiaole, why not do it.
"Director Li, I have a question, I want to ask you, where do you think there is a significant gap between our Chinese movies and Hollywood movies?" Hou Xiaoxian drank a glass of wine, suddenly looked at Li Xiaole and asked.
"Well...... this" Li Xiaole knew that Hou Hsiao-hsien helped the Information Bureau find out, and wanted to test him, this is the real representative of Taiwanese films, and immediately said seriously: "Actually, I don't think we are much different from Hollywood in terms of main actors and shooting......
"Oh? So what's the difference? Director Lin and Hou Xiaoxian both showed puzzled expressions, everyone said that Hollywood movies are strong because their jishu is powerful, and Li Xiaole did say that the gap is not big.
"We mainly have two links that are very backward, one is the script, we in the Chinese region do not pay too much attention to the importance of the screenwriter, this is the most fundamental foundation of the film, the second film environment is not convincing enough, the movie we make is to create a shijie, when we star in the excellent, but the background shijie construction is often unconvincing, resulting in easy for the audience to play, so, our excellent movies usually have small scenes, small space, and only focus on the small scenes on the main actors, And when it comes to those big stories, the drawbacks are revealed.
We are okay with literary films and comedies, but war films, science fiction films, magic films, and historical themes, we are all many, many worse than Hollywood......"
"In the end, it's because of the lack of investment...... Hou Xiaoxian shook his head as a matter of course, expressing his disagreement: "If we have enough funds to invest in art and scenes, we can also shoot the story of a big scene." ”
"No, the creation of the movie shijie is not only about the scenery and art, the most important factor is the people." Li Xiaole interrupted Hou Xiaoxian's words.
"People? What do you mean? Hou Xiaoxian frowned slightly, he was good at shooting small-scale movies, and he didn't understand much about what Li Xiaole meant.
"The extras are the most important part of Shijie, much more important than any other scene art." Li Xiaole smiled and said:
"The gap between our top actors and Hollywood actors is not too big, but the quality of the extras is outrageous, for example, it is also a war movie, every American soldier in "Saving Private Ryan" in the background has an actor who has served in the background, and in our war films, usually the background soldiers are crooked and inferior dates, and they don't look like soldiers at all, so in the false background, no matter how hard we star, it looks like acting, and Tom Cruise only needs to appear in that shijie, and he doesn't need to show anything, Everyone thinks that he is a real officer, this is the persuasiveness of the background shijie, and the background shijie is the air of the movie. ”
Director Lin and Hou Xiaoxian both showed thoughtful expressions, yes, Hollywood has a strong actors' union, there are as many as 100,000 extras, and most of them are at the level of professional actors, and many of them are even second- and third-tier movie stars from other countries who are willing to play very small supporting roles in order to realize their Hollywood dreams.
There are several thousand Chinese full-time extras there, which is more than the number of extras in Taiwan, the mainland, and Hong Kong combined.
In mainland Taiwanese movies, there are extras, most of them are ordinary people with facial paralysis, and some of them play small roles in the movie, which will inevitably make the audience feel that they are playing.
"Our industry is not as good as Hollywood, what can be done ......" Director Lin shook his head helplessly, this is a shijie problem, the film industry in all other countries is similar, and Taiwan is not the only one.
"So if we want to compete with Hollywood movies on these themes, we have to use what they don't have, which belongs to our own culture, only our own culture, which Hollywood can't imitate, and at the same time be able to create real and credible shijie, such as "Sydek Balai", we can use real Aboriginal vegan extras." Li Xiaole squinted his eyes and finally pulled the topic to the point......
"Actors with Aboriginal vegans?" Director Lin's scalp was a little numb, and he immediately understood what Li Xiaole meant, frowned and asked, "I don't know how much Director Li needs?" ”
"1,500, including 1,000 young and middle-aged aborigines, 250 elderly and children, and 250 women."
“1…… 1500? Director Lin repeated this number with a stiff expression, Hou Xiaoxian and Zhu Yanping both opened their mouths slightly, this number was something they had never thought of.
"I know that the Information Bureau has a good relationship with the Ministry of Defense, so I have to trouble you to transfer those aboriginal active duty soldiers from the Ministry of Defense to help, and I am responsible for the elderly and children, and Miss Lin Zhiling will go to the tribal church to summon them...... After these extras were in place, they were handed over to director Wei Desheng for training. After Li Xiaole finished speaking, when everyone was stunned, he remembered something again and raised his voice:
"By the way, there are also extras who play Japanese soldiers, children and Han Chinese, and they also need 500 people, and these will also be troubled by Director Lin, and they will also be handed over to Director Wei for training."
Director Lin was stunned for a long time, looking at the sky with a smile and crying, and then nodded slowly, and smiled at Li Xiaole with a complicated expression: "Director Li, you are really a big person, if our Taiwanese directors are half of your level, I'm afraid that our Information Bureau will not have to meddle in the movie matter so much for a long time......"
Hou Xiaoxian and Zhu Yanping were stunned on the spot, they didn't understand at all how Director Lin, who had always liked to pretend to be confused, agreed so readily to Li Xiaole's excessive request today...... What the hell is going on here? Could it be that Li Xiaole is related to you Lin Changfeng!?
"Director Wang~!" "Hurry up and find medicine in his jacket pocket, Director Wang has high blood pressure~" "Get out of the way, don't block the tuyere, let him breathe." ”
A group of Taiwanese filmmakers who have a relationship with Wang Qun rushed up, helping Wang Qun up in a panic, and staring at Li Xiaole angrily, but no one dared to say anything......
They were afraid that if they said more, they would get angry, Li Xiaole's lethality just now was too terrible, several sober people looked at Director Lin for the first time, and everyone understood that he was the core figure in this farce, although the argument on the surface was about the concept of the movie, but to put it bluntly, it was a struggle of interests, and the ownership of the film grant was the key! They hope that Director Lin will come out and administer justice.
But the fact in front of him is that Director Lin picked up his teacup and drank tea, as if nothing had happened at all, and Zhu Yanping and Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan's big directors, also looked at this side with cold eyes, and even the Taiwanese directors next to them who had made commercial films and were scolded by their group of people looked at them with the same indifferent gaze.
Enmity...... That kind of rising hostility, in Li Xiaole's words just now, really poked at the key point of this group of pseudo-New Wave directors who live on grants, and what is even more absolutely is that he scolded and scolded, but he also distinguished them from real art directors such as Hou Xiaoxian and Yang Dechang...... Only isolate Wang Qun's gang.
Yang Dechang and Hou Xiaoxian are highly respected representatives of the real New Wave, while Wang Qun is a pseudo-New Wave...... This is equivalent to saying that as long as Hou Xiaoxian, who was present, did not speak, whoever stood on Wang Qun's side would admit that he was a pseudo-New Wave......
And what is Hou Hsiao-hsien's reaction? Director Hou Da squinted his eyes as if he was asleep with nothing to do with himself......
Li Xiaole just hates them, and most Taiwanese directors really hate them! It was they who blocked the development of Taiwan's film industry, and today there is finally an opportunity for this group of stubborn shili to restrain a little, and they all show their positions in their own different ways.
In a desperate situation, everyone expects change, and although Li Xiaole's arrival seems too domineering, it has obviously brought some changes, at least Hou Xiaoxian, Zhu Yanping, Niu Chengze, Taiwan's biggest directors dare not offend the thorny Wang Qun scolded and fainted on the spot, this cooperation with the mainland is not only to bring a new movie, but also a new atmosphere.
Li Xiaole's laughter and scolding, although he offended a group of New Wave directors, he won the support of more Taiwanese filmmakers.
Moreover, Director Lin's attitude has made all Taiwanese filmmakers soberly aware of one thing, compared to these directors of the new wave in Taiwan, the Information Bureau attaches more importance to the mainland market, Li Xiaole represents not only a director in Taiwan, but a link of cooperation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait film industry, no one wants to break ground on his head!
Zuihou watched Wang Qun being embarrassed by those New Wave directors, and everyone continued the meeting as if nothing had happened, and the atmosphere was happy.
After the meeting, Director Lin invited the crew members of "Saidek Balai" and Hou Hsiao-hsien and Zhu Yanping to dine at the hotel, and during the meal, Director Lin couldn't wait to know how Li Xiaole would make the big-budget movie "Saidek Balai", the investment of NT$600 million is unprecedented, as long as the box office can exceed NT$100 million, then it will be a success for the Information Bureau, and they dare not think about it.
"Director Wang is too old-fashioned in thinking, and he only made such a fuss today, alas, Director Li, you have to bear with me." Director Lin's dark face had a simple smile, if it weren't for Li Xiaole who had seen his performance just now, I am afraid that he would think that he was a kind elder.
"I was so excited just now that I couldn't control my emotions all of a sudden." Li Xiaole licked his lips embarrassedly.
Director Lin ...... You should say this when you are fighting. Hou Xiaoxian, the old director, said with a calm face, although he didn't like Wang Qun, but what happened just now was indeed a little out of shape on both sides.
Director Lin smiled disapprovingly, he hoped that Li Xiaole would be more fierce and shock those new wave filmmakers who protested against the Information Bureau every day, and gave 100 million yuan in support to those people, who couldn't make a small splash in the theater, and at least opened up the mainland market for Li Xiaole, why not do it.
"Director Li, I have a question, I want to ask you, where do you think there is a significant gap between our Chinese movies and Hollywood movies?" Hou Xiaoxian drank a glass of wine, suddenly looked at Li Xiaole and asked.
"Well...... this" Li Xiaole knew that Hou Hsiao-hsien helped the Information Bureau find out, and wanted to test him, this is the real representative of Taiwanese films, and immediately said seriously: "Actually, I don't think we are much different from Hollywood in terms of main actors and shooting......
"Oh? So what's the difference? Director Lin and Hou Xiaoxian both showed puzzled expressions, everyone said that Hollywood movies are strong because their jishu is powerful, and Li Xiaole did say that the gap is not big.
"We mainly have two links that are very backward, one is the script, we in the Chinese region do not pay too much attention to the importance of the screenwriter, this is the most fundamental foundation of the film, the second film environment is not convincing enough, the movie we make is to create a shijie, when we star in the excellent, but the background shijie construction is often unconvincing, resulting in easy for the audience to play, so, our excellent movies usually have small scenes, small space, and only focus on the small scenes on the main actors, And when it comes to those big stories, the drawbacks are revealed.
We are okay with literary films and comedies, but war films, science fiction films, magic films, and historical themes, we are all many, many worse than Hollywood......"
"In the end, it's because of the lack of investment...... Hou Xiaoxian shook his head as a matter of course, expressing his disagreement: "If we have enough funds to invest in art and scenes, we can also shoot the story of a big scene." ”
"No, the creation of the movie shijie is not only about the scenery and art, the most important factor is the people." Li Xiaole interrupted Hou Xiaoxian's words.
"People? What do you mean? Hou Xiaoxian frowned slightly, he was good at shooting small-scale movies, and he didn't understand much about what Li Xiaole meant.
"The extras are the most important part of Shijie, much more important than any other scene art." Li Xiaole smiled and said:
"The gap between our top actors and Hollywood actors is not too big, but the quality of the extras is outrageous, for example, it is also a war movie, every American soldier in "Saving Private Ryan" in the background has an actor who has served in the background, and in our war films, usually the background soldiers are crooked and inferior dates, and they don't look like soldiers at all, so in the false background, no matter how hard we star, it looks like acting, and Tom Cruise only needs to appear in that shijie, and he doesn't need to show anything, Everyone thinks that he is a real officer, this is the persuasiveness of the background shijie, and the background shijie is the air of the movie. ”
Director Lin and Hou Xiaoxian both showed thoughtful expressions, yes, Hollywood has a strong actors' union, there are as many as 100,000 extras, and most of them are at the level of professional actors, and many of them are even second- and third-tier movie stars from other countries who are willing to play very small supporting roles in order to realize their Hollywood dreams.
There are several thousand Chinese full-time extras there, which is more than the number of extras in Taiwan, the mainland, and Hong Kong combined.
In mainland Taiwanese movies, there are extras, most of them are ordinary people with facial paralysis, and some of them play small roles in the movie, which will inevitably make the audience feel that they are playing.
"Our industry is not as good as Hollywood, what can be done ......" Director Lin shook his head helplessly, this is a shijie problem, the film industry in all other countries is similar, and Taiwan is not the only one.
"So if we want to compete with Hollywood movies on these themes, we have to use what they don't have, which belongs to our own culture, only our own culture, which Hollywood can't imitate, and at the same time be able to create real and credible shijie, such as "Sydek Balai", we can use real Aboriginal vegan extras." Li Xiaole squinted his eyes and finally pulled the topic to the point......
"Actors with Aboriginal vegans?" Director Lin's scalp was a little numb, and he immediately understood what Li Xiaole meant, frowned and asked, "I don't know how much Director Li needs?" ”
"1,500, including 1,000 young and middle-aged aborigines, 250 elderly and children, and 250 women."
“1…… 1500? Director Lin repeated this number with a stiff expression, Hou Xiaoxian and Zhu Yanping both opened their mouths slightly, this number was something they had never thought of.
"I know that the Information Bureau has a good relationship with the Ministry of Defense, so I have to trouble you to transfer those aboriginal active duty soldiers from the Ministry of Defense to help, and I am responsible for the elderly and children, and Miss Lin Zhiling will go to the tribal church to summon them...... After these extras were in place, they were handed over to director Wei Desheng for training. After Li Xiaole finished speaking, when everyone was stunned, he remembered something again and raised his voice:
"By the way, there are also extras who play Japanese soldiers, children and Han Chinese, and they also need 500 people, and these will also be troubled by Director Lin, and they will also be handed over to Director Wei for training."
Director Lin was stunned for a long time, looking at the sky with a smile and crying, and then nodded slowly, and smiled at Li Xiaole with a complicated expression: "Director Li, you are really a big person, if our Taiwanese directors are half of your level, I'm afraid that our Information Bureau will not have to meddle in the movie matter so much for a long time......"
Hou Xiaoxian and Zhu Yanping were stunned on the spot, they didn't understand at all how Director Lin, who had always liked to pretend to be confused, agreed so readily to Li Xiaole's excessive request today...... What the hell is going on here? Could it be that Li Xiaole is related to you Lin Changfeng!?