"But I just lack the last realm, right......?" Li Xiaole shook his head self-deprecatingly, he is actually a bit like Feng Xiaogang, although he conquered all ordinary audiences, but he still encountered a bottleneck, he could only look at the top characters in the movie constantly holding the trophy, and he was staring at it, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't grasp the essentials.

"What exactly is the realm of art?" Li Xiaole simply asked Fred directly.

"The so-called realm of art...... Fred's eyes suddenly appeared with a look of fascination, and he said slowly:

"It's transcendence, the senses, the story, the characters......... The supreme realm of the movie, no matter how beautiful the picture is, it will make the senses tired, no matter how good the story is repeated too much, it will become boring, and no matter how classic the characters are, they will be limited by the framework of the times......

And only art~~~ No matter how many teenagers, how many years have passed, you look back, he is still so moving, still fascinating not to ~~ The so-called art is the realm of God, whether you are painting, music, or even dance, reaching the highest point, you will eventually enter a realm~~"

Fred said this, looking at Li Xiaole: "And the highest level of film art is to transcend the first three realms and shoot the face of the gorgeous and incomparable film god hidden under all these appearances......"

"The face of the god of cinema?" Li Xiaole listened to this mysterious word, but he didn't feel that Fred's words were anything crazy, because he suddenly thought of what Ang Lee said after winning the Oscar for the second time: "Thank you to the god of movies." ”

Who is the god of cinema? How can I get his face shot~~? Li Xiaole suddenly felt that he was approaching the thing he had been dreaming of for a long time......

Fred looked at him and said a very old-fashioned passage, but it made Li Xiaole feel deafening at this moment:

"The god of movies is real life, that is, the fate that people open their eyes to face every day~~

And the real face of life is the truths that people show in real life, which are not created by you, the director, with your own imagination and the theory of 'saving cats' that cater to people's hearts, but those truths that remain unchanged in human society.

These truths are love, honor, pity, self-esteem, compassion, and sacrifice...... All these beautiful and true feelings~~~

Unless you can really shoot these truths, otherwise, what you shoot is not love, it is lust, in the failure you shoot, no one loses what is really valuable, and you can't see any hope for the victory, and what's worse is that people can't see the compassion and sympathy inside, and even the sadness in the film, can't tolerate the real scars~~~"

Fred took a deep breath and said: "If your movie lacks real fate, then no matter how well the actor acts, the story is touching, and what is filmed is not the heart, but an endocrine ~~~"

Li Xiaole was completely stunned when he heard this, and he instantly understood Fred's evaluation of him: "It's because your desire for success and the purpose of the movie itself have always been too strong, so no matter what movies you made in the past, no matter how hard you worked and how good your skills were, you couldn't make the best movie." ”

Yes, he made a serious mistake from the beginning, that is, his movies have always been in the first three realms, he has always thought that he is the god in the movie, and has always followed the theory of "saving the cat" that the public likes, he believes that the director should go beyond the movie itself, to control it, to adjust it, to make the story "perfect", so as to really mobilize the audience's emotions, and never describe those real "fate, life". ”

What is Destiny? What is Life? That is, when it really comes, it cannot be transferred by people's consciousness, and we can only choose to accept it or escape it, but it is impossible to completely change it......

In World War II, Schindler cried in the car because he couldn't save all the Jews, in the flow of time, Forrest Gump couldn't save Jenny's fate no matter how much he did......

Because when faced with real life, real destiny, those wars, diseases, car accidents......... People are always small, and we are far more powerless than we think......

In real life, no one is a superhero who can save the world, no one is a unique God's favorite, no one is different, everyone is the same insignificance, what we can do is often how to face him better...... Pluck up the courage to face him......

Li Xiaole suddenly understood that he couldn't get the Oscar, not because the screenwriter was bad, not because the special effects were bad, not because the actors were not good, but because he was not good enough as a director, because he didn't shoot the "God of Movies" in his movie, let alone show the face of the God of Movies~~~

He is now the same as Spielberg's before 1993, and can make "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "E· T", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", these so-called popular movies by the audience and box office hits, sensory effects, storylines, and character performances can be said to have reached the peak, and they can also win countless technical awards...... But because of the lack of real fate in the film, it has always been insulated from the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director.

1993's "Schindler's List" is Spielberg's metamorphosis, because he did not control the fate in the movie according to the audience's preferences, but filmed the true face of the great fate of "war", and filmed the cruelty, cold-bloodedness, warmth, and redemption of people in the face of this fate......

1995's "Forrest Gump" is what can defeat the great "Shawshank Redemption"? Not because his actor performed better than the latter, but because "Forrest Gump" filmed the great changes in the overall fate of the United States in the past few decades, and filmed "Life is like a piece of chocolate, you never know what the next piece is." "The true meaning of life.

The feathers fluttering in the wind in the soft music are like each of us, fluttering with the wind of fate, everyone doesn't know where they will be taken by fate, all we can do is choose to face it like Forrest Gump, or escape like a colonel......

In 1997's "Titanic", James Cameron's fate for the first time was the emotions of people in that unchangeable real shipwreck...... 2006's "Brokeback Mountain" filmed the helplessness of love between men in the face of that desolate world.

Wong Kar-wai's movies have no plot, no special effects, only life and destiny throughout the whole story, the rivers and lakes in "East Evil and West Poison", "Chongqing Forest", "In the Mood for Love", and "2046" all describe different aspects of life......

All these works that can truly stand and be immortalized in the temple of cinema are doing a little bit to describe the true face of life and destiny... And in fate, people show the most beautiful and glorious emotions ~~

"Fred~~!! I understand~! I understand~!! "When Li Xiaole thought of this, he suddenly felt like he had been empowered, and the countless doubts in his heart disappeared at once~!!" Teng jumped up from the bench, patted his head excitedly, hugged old Fred and kissed him hard, I really wanted to find a place to run wild~~

He finally understood the true meaning of the movie!

"What do you understand?" Fred was also prepared to talk in depth for a few hours after Li Xiaole listened to his loud remarks and was detoured into the clouds, so that this kid could open up a little bit of preparation, why did he just say a few words, and this kid understood?

"I understand what the Oscars are~~!! It's the four realms you said~!! Li Xiaole excitedly shouted:

"All the soundtracks, photography, and special effects are the realm of the senses of judging, and the best screenwriter and best adapted screenplay are the level of the story realm, the best actor and actress, and the best supporting actor and actress are the level of judging the character realm~~!"

Li Xiaole said here, his eyes flashed with a bright light and said:

"And whether you can get the best director and the best film is the fourth realm of watching movies, that is, the high level of art~~! If we want to get the Oscar, we are filming the true meaning of life and destiny~~ In this fate, each character shows the most beautiful emotions of human beings, love, honor, pity, self-esteem, sympathy and sacrifice~~!! ”

Fred listened to Li Xiaole's words, stunned on the spot, and couldn't help exclaiming in his heart, oh my God...... This kid is so direct...... I obviously want to bring him into the field of art and let him experience the beauty of art itself, but this kid actually directly linked this kind of realm that he can't even explain to the Oscar awards...... This statement really doesn't look like a director!!

"Am I not right?" Li Xiaole looked at Fred's sluggish expression, looked at him and asked.

"Yes, yes...... That's what it means. Fred was stunned for a long time, and he really couldn't say that Li Xiaole's understanding was wrong, although his conclusion that he was directly bound to the award was speechless, but it did make sense, so he could only cough dryly:

"Now that you know this, you should know what kind of work you should make if you want to win an Oscar, right?"

"This ......" Li Xiaole hesitated, although he understood this truth, but there is still a difference between understanding and really doing, there is a fate in every story, and he also has it in his past movies, but he lacks how to "embody" this fate, so that the audience can feel it clearly, how to clearly show the fate in front of the audience?

Like "Brokeback Mountain", "Mr. and Mrs. Kramer", with the ordinary and delicate description of the true meaning of life is not something he can do, what he likes is "Forrest Gump", "Titanic", "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", etc., with a huge fate background, similar to wars, disasters, this kind of magnificent events, which can best describe the outline of fate.

But where to find such a story?

"Actually, you have always had a good script, a story of a person facing the ocean, and a work that uses the ocean to express the true meaning of life......" Fred saw that the time was almost right, and finally opened the script in his hand, took out his real trump card, unfolded the script, and saw that the name on it was "Life·of·Pi" (Life of Pi).