"What is the reason?"

"I think it's a kind of contempt, they can't look at the script of a non-mainstream literary film, they can't look down on your creation, and they offer it with the idea that the movie will fail. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This is a little unacceptable to me, I don't accept this contempt, so I said, I'll shoot it myself, I don't believe it, domestic literary films, with a good script, can't make a good movie. ”

"That's a very good thing, it's not the script of a commercial film that qualifies for making a movie, so have you thought about it yourself, I mean, when will you shoot your next literary film?" Yang Lan asked.

Wan Xiaohu thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's in the next one!" Because I don't really care about all the honors and achievements that commercial films bring me. ”

"You even think like that? No matter what you say, no matter how you criticize it, it's still the mainstream, how can you not care about the results that commercial films bring you? ”

"Now make commercial films. In fact, it is more because the market for commercial films is very large, the money is made a lot, and the investment is also large. Moreover, the distribution and influence of commercial films are also greater than those of other types of films, which is very convenient for the release of films. It's like if I've made a movie now, if it's a commercial film, the mainstream film industry might pay attention to it, but if it's not, it won't pay attention to you at all. So everyone needs to shoot a commercial film to prove themselves. ”

"You don't want to prove yourself?"

"Proof of what?" Chen Ge smiled casually, "I don't need to prove myself now, at least for twenty years, I don't think I need to continue making commercial films to prove myself." ”

"Can I understand that your view of cinema is that in terms of artistic value, other types of films tend to be higher than commercial films?"

Chen Ge nodded: "It can be understood that in the current situation of the film industry, the box office is an affirmation of filmmakers, so directors are eager for commercial films in the vast market." ”

"Then tell me about your filming of "East Evil and West Poison". It also gives more directors who want to shoot other types of films as a reference. ”

"I found someone to invest in this movie myself, and then made it myself, I don't have a deep understanding of literary films and directing skills, let's say some simple feelings, literary films, it is difficult to produce box office, but it is very simple to produce results, the reason why I say this sentence is that you can refer to "East Evil and West Poison" by yourself."

"Oh, haha, the results of "East Evil and West Poison" have indeed been seen by everyone. said so much about the feelings of literary films. You can find that you still focus on the quality of the movie. So what do you think of the controversy against you now, many fans and audiences, and many media? Do you still maintain the attitude of the passage I just said about my New Year? ”

Chen Ge owed himself and said: "I only cared about making movies during this time, and I didn't pay too much attention to this controversy, but sometimes my agent told me that your current image is a little too arrogant in the eyes of many people." Then there are a lot of things I want to say, but I don't know how to express them, and three years ago, I may have been sad why everyone didn't understand me, but now I want to open it. I'll just say four words, the tree is a big wind. ”

"You still have something to say? Let's talk about it, there are a lot of viewers here today, and they definitely want to hear what you have to say. Guys, isn't it? ”

"Yes." The audience replied in unison.

Chen Ge smiled, and finally said: "I am a person with complex ideas, not only limited to making movies, but also trying many things. And now the media will circle you and arrange an identity for you, they say that Chen Ge is the standard-bearer of the new generation of directors, actors, including screenwriters, I have never admitted it, they say that you are a commercial film director, I will make commercial films but it doesn't mean that I don't like to make literary films, they say that you Chen Ge want to compete with Feng Gang and other seniors, I never thought about it. I'm not a pure director, and I like fame and fortune, but I'm more inclined to creative freedom and do it while I'm still young. ”

"You're only 23 years old now, and the media is asking too much of you."

"If you make achievements, others will demand from you. I'm grateful for the recognition of me. The creation of a film is a very sacred thing, and you can't do it half-heartedly. Now everyone says that Chen Ge makes movies too shoddy, and every time he is too fast, I can only say that every director has his own mode of making movies, and I don't make movies quickly, because before making movies, I may have spent a long time to conceive, the shooting time is two months, but the time to conceive is two years. I'm a very open-minded person, some people understand you, some people don't understand you, it doesn't matter if you make a 10 or a 5, so I don't care what people think of me. ”

"So you say in your ******, 'I'm not going to walk according to a script that somebody has designed for me,' because you're doing everything in order."

"Yes."

After saying that, the TV screen switches. A summary narrative was made.

"Wan Xiaohu, who has come all the way from "East Evil and West Poison", is not as everyone thinks. Lost in success, he still followed his own script...... And he recently brought "New Police Story" to the screen, completing another piece of the dream puzzle in his hand. ”

"In next week's program, we will continue to enter Chen Ge's world, see how he views the creation and formation of a movie, and appreciate what kind of blockbuster "New Police Story" is."

The picture cuts to Chen Ge, and Chen Ge said with a smile: "Guan Zu actually has a certain degree of similarity with me, so sometimes, although the experiences are different, they will produce the same personality." ”

"What are his feelings and expectations for the future and the present?"

The picture cuts to Chen Ge again: "For a while, I wanted to do everything, and then someone asked me, she said that you are tired so hard, and I am tired if you are not tired......"

The subtitles scroll at the bottom of the screen.

The camera rotated and rose over the studio hall, and Chen Ge and **** seemed to be interacting with the audience, laughing loudly.

"How did Chen Ge answer the questions of the audience that made people laugh?"

"Next Saturday, pay attention to "Interview with Yang Lan" and "Movies in the Eyes of Chen Ge (Part II)", and share his thoughts on movies."

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The broadcast of "Interview with Yang Lan" has brought the unstopped controversy over Chen Ge, a new generation of super directors, to an end. made a lot of content that was wantonly reported by the media turn to a reasonable track, and also made the fans who were not calm gradually understand Chen Ge. This is not an inflated director, he is a truly spontaneous person.

After being interviewed, Chen Ge didn't even take a breath and went to Xiangjiang.

The day after Chen Ge returned to Xiangjiang, "Ming Pao" reported: "Xiangjiang News (Chief Reporter Sun Lin) In the notice of the national film script filing and project publicity, a movie called "There Will Be No Future" is indicated in the screenwriter column of Chen Ge. The reporter then learned from an insider that in addition to serving as a screenwriter, "After the End" is also Chen Ge's second time directing a literary film, and the film is planned to start shooting in the near future.

According to insiders, the film "After the End" is independently invested by Chen Ge, and the synopsis of the story is: Several young people who grew up together in the easternmost part decided to choose their own future again. On the self-driving journey across the continent, those legendary experiences and encounters gave them their own different destinies. According to insiders, "After the End" is very likely to be a literary film, positioned as a highway genre film, and Chen Ge has been thinking about the story in this film for four or five years.

Unlike "East Evil and West Poison", "After the End" has created a new story. According to an insider, "This time, as usual, Chen Ge wrote the script alone, and there was no screenwriting team." In addition, although the film is positioned as a literary road movie, insiders said, "This film will be filmed in many places across the country and will not be launched in the future." ”

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"Raise the lens a little higher, raise the lens a little higher!"

Over the cliffs by the sea, a red model helicopter hovers and swoops around the cliff from time to time, and an aerial camera in the nose is taking in the scenery of the cliff. Chen Ge sat on a stone platform on the top of the mountain not far away, stretched out his head, and gave instructions to the photographer who operated the model helicopter from time to time.

Aerial photography is still a difficult means for film shooting on the mainland, from operating model machines to expensive equipment and equipment, it needs to be carried out by very professional people in order to shoot perfect pictures. In order to shoot the aerial photography well, Chen Ge invited a special effects team from abroad, that is, the famous cinema Hollywood.

Strive to shoot the most beautiful picture, the most shocking scene.

"Buzz Buzz Buzz ......"

Don't look at the model machine is big, but it is a cost of millions, flying in the sky, every minute is money. The filming equipment loaded on the plane is even more expensive than thousands of dollars per hour, as well as the salaries of the staff. Add up to 60,000 or 70,000 yuan for aerial photography an hour and get out!

Of course, for Chen Ge, money is not a problem, the problem is to shoot the scenery well and learn the technique.

As an aspiring director, as long as you can improve your directing ability, this is the most important thing.

The entire aerial shooting lasted three days, from the beach to the island, shooting the exterior in all directions, and more than 20 rolls of 400 feet of film alone. After the aerial shooting, another challenge was the restoration of the desolate scene of the island, and the mobilization of more than 3,000 extras.

Most of the extras are residents of nearby towns, 40 yuan a day, change clothes, and just stand there for a while.

This paragraph is the opening scene of the film, the protagonist Haohan stands on the stage and shouts: "I am on stage today, I am not afraid that I will not be able to get off the stage!" "The audience was a crowd that didn't care about his speech and turned to leave.

The crew selected a village on this nameless island, and filming on this street requires permission from more than a dozen relevant departments, including public security, transportation, and landscape offices.

During the preparation for filming, when Chen Ge explained, Shi Zhimin shook his head and said, "Impossible." ”

There were too many design departments, and the relationships were too complicated, and there was no way to get permission to shoot.

In the end, it took two months, a lot of money, and a leader to come forward in person, and all the formalities were run. After running down. According to the relevant regulations, there can be nothing that affects the local order.

I spent a lot of money to build a stage and create the scene. Then the camera jib, the rail locomotive, and all kinds of equipment were all set up one by one.

In order to create a unique shooting style, Chen Ge tried to shoot the same scene in 16 different shooting methods, and then handed it over to the post-production department to select the most natural one.

Chen Ge held a loudspeaker and shouted from time to time: "Group A, Group A, take your people away, don't surround your rocker arms!" ”

"Group B, which is the leader of Group B, rearrange your route, it's a mess!"

"Where's the people of Group G, it's your turn!"

"Photography group, push the 8-meter rocker away and replace it with a 12-meter rocker!"

It was noisy and noisy, and it took more than a dozen stops to arrange the line, and the shooting started at eight o'clock in the evening, and it was half past eleven in the evening that this set of shots was completed. The next day, I re-shot a few sets of overhead shots of the big swingarm before it was over.

That night in the small restaurant, Chen Ge, assistant director Lu Liang, and several main actors drank small wine and sighed: "The two-day play cost so much money!" Tsk, I feel sorry for money for the first time I made a movie! ”

"You get what you pay for."

Chen Ge nodded, a little pretentious: "Actually, the pattern of this movie is still a little smaller, and the skeleton is a little thinner." If you want to shoot this kind of main theme, you must at least put up a shelf, and now the plot can't stand up, so you can only work on the details. Why did I shoot aeratively, why did I arrange various shooting methods and angles, these plots are all to strengthen the pattern of this drama. ”

Seeing that several leading actors, including Lu Liang, the assistant director, listened carefully, Chen Ge continued to be a good teacher: "In itself, literary films are very subtle shots, and they take the inner drama, without the fierce scenes of commercial films." But the inner drama is a little good, it can sublimate the idea of the movie, you add some good pictures, and the taste of the movie will be pulled up at once. It has the shelf for this movie. ”

"Several assistant directors I worked with in the past films, including the leading actors, are now basically in the position of directors. I often tell them that movies are storytelling, and the director's level is the storytelling level. If the story is too straightforward, you have to cut it up, if the story is too trivial, you have to jump to tell it, if the story is too hard, you have to soften the shot, and if the story is too soft, you have to use the scene to support the shelf. For the same story, a good director can make a classic, and a bad director can only arrange a bunch of inexplicable things, that's the reason. ”

Drink and chat, and the location scenes are all over.

On May 16th, everyone in the crew entered the studio.

started the post-production, as for when to shoot, Chen Ge had already planned.

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"**** Interview" played "Movies in the Eyes of Chen Ge (II)" in the second week, from "New Police Story" to "After the End", a simple publicity, followed by talking about life ideals, talking about daily life, talking about movies and peers.

Chen Ge is now more and more characterful, and his speech is becoming more and more casual, and he no longer cares about it so much. Chinese films are becoming more and more daring to express their own ideas, and they are no longer blindly touting other directors, and they will not be soft when they should criticize.

For example, when talking about Wu Yu, the representative of Xiangjiang movies, Chen Ge smiled and said that Wu Yu has become more and more impetuous in recent years.

"I still admire Wu Yu very much, he has a strong smell of rivers and lakes, I think he should belong to a specialized director, and he can let the actors play a twelve-point performance, but in war films and science fiction films, it is a bit far-fetched...... Of course, I am looking forward to Director Wu's new work, and I hope he can break the shackles and achieve better results! ”

Talking about He Man again, Chen Ge said: "He Man, the director, has cooperated with me, Director He Man has learned everything from East to West, and he is the only director who can express Eastern philosophy in Western form. Watching his films, you don't see those empty scenes, but his fusion of Eastern and Western cultures and contemplation. ”

At the end of the show, Chen Ge and Yang Lan talked about how to make domestic films rise.

Chen Ge thought for a long time before saying: "With the development of technology, film has now become an art and an indispensable entertainment pastime for us. But a little bit puzzled me, why is the quality of our country deteriorating under the rapid development of computer stunts and three-dimensional space technology? ”

"The mainstay of domestic films is Xiangjiang films, and mainland films have no value for criticism at all. Speaking of Xiangjiang movies, anyone who knows a little bit about movies knows that the golden age of Xiangjiang movies was in the 90s of the last century. At that time, the Hong Kong movies gave us great satisfaction in both art and pastime.

But since 2000, including my own films, I don't think they can be compared with my predecessors in the 90s, maybe because domestic directors are increasingly lacking literary and artistic feelings.

More than 100 years of world film history tells us that commercial films and art films have always been interdependent and develop together. The film industry is a large-investment, heavy equipment, high-tech, and intelligence-intensive industry, so high profits have always been one of the necessary prerequisites to support the development of this industry. There is no doubt that commercial films will always be the main body of the market.

However, without a large number of niche films that are unknown behind the scenes, it is difficult for domestic films to develop sustainably. In this sense, it is unconvincing to ask the sixth generation of directors to get rid of the literary complex and go to the market, there are too few domestic literary and artistic films, and the stock is too low, I hope that we filmmakers can stick to this position.

Low-budget art films are not dispensable supporting roles, but the foundation for supporting commercial blockbusters. Hollywood can have the scale it has today precisely because there are a large number of art films behind it as the foundation, providing talents, inspiration, themes and aesthetic styles for Hollywood commercial films. George Lucas and Woody Allen were both born in literary films, and then they were recruited by Hollywood. On the other hand, in China, where is the foundation that can hold up commercial blockbusters? In the final analysis, there are too few people making literary films in China, and the stock is too low

In the context that Western culture is still strong, it is the fate of Eastern films to gain the recognition of the world by gaining Western recognition. But this does not mean that we can only give up our own beliefs and ideals, and give up the unique expression of national culture and distinctive aesthetic style. The development of domestic films, in the final analysis, is not only a problem of the film itself, but also closely related to social mechanisms, cultural platforms, and the trend of globalization. ”

As for his positioning, Chen Ge also sketched it in the subtitle rolling: "I make movies as an interest and ideal, director and actor are my chosen professions, and I may have some part-time jobs." I don't want people to call me a master, or say that you are a big business director. Just like calling a person who does engineering a certain worker, calling me Director Chen, I think that's enough. ”

"I don't dare to say that all the movies I make will be good, and I don't dare to say that the movies I make are all sincere works, and everyone criticizes me if I shoot badly, don't buy a ticket to watch it, it's okay, urge me to make better in the future." If you shoot well, you can go into the cinema and take a look, right? The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and I like this distance very much. ”

With the two issues of "Interview with Yang Lan", the controversy against Chen Ge was completely extinguished, whether it was for or against.

As one netizen said: "I feel that Chen Ge is deliberately stripping himself of the ingredients of his star, deliberately alienating and concealing himself." 'You see or don't see me, I'm there, not sad or happy.' I like what he said, the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water. ”

The outside world gradually cooled down, but the filming of "After the End" was in full swing.

The story of "The Future" begins on the fictional easternmost island in China, Dongji Island, where Hu Sheng, a young man with low intelligence, tells the story of his two buddies, Ma Haohan and Jiang He. Hao Han returns to his hometown after many years of wandering, only to find that the whole island is facing demolition problems, and his best friend, Jiang He, the only teacher on the island, will be transferred to a more remote area. So Haohan made a decision, that is, to drive Jiang He to report to the school more than 3,000 kilometers away. The three brothers embark on an unprecedented journey, along the way they meet their childhood playmate Zhou Mo, who is an extra, Su Mi, who has gone astray, Liu Yingying, a pen pal whom Haohan has loved and has not seen for many years, and Alu, an unruly motorcyclist. The seemingly ordinary journey is hidden foreshadowing, Haohan and Jiang He finally come to the end and begin a completely different life trajectory.

Chen Ge liked this "After the End" very much in his previous life, not because of the beauty of his story, but just a feeling of simply liking this movie, to be honest, the directing skills of this film in his previous life and the handling of many shots of "The Future" Chen Ge couldn't look at it, but Chen Ge still wanted to shoot it.

Chen Ge was very strange at first, after watching so many movies, this is the first time that the entire movie theater has sat together until the end of the subtitles, and in a trance he felt that he was chasing a drama, because he felt that the plot had not been finished yet, and there should be another episode after this episode.

Overall, the movie is better than Chen Ge imagined, and can give four stars, the advantage of road movies is that you can insert any strange story and person with a strange story that may have nothing to do with your previous life at any point, without having to bear his previous and subsequent lives, just like Pingju, we meet by chance and then leave, on this road of never return. This is also a kind of freshness and freedom that people who like to be "on the road" yearn for.

However, the director of Chen Ge's previous life did not treat the appearance of those supporting roles in this film as "Pingshui Encounter", he added two "reunions after a long absence". In this way, the whole film has both space and time dimensions, and it can be especially tragic when dreams and trusts and the like are shattered.

The first "reunion after a long absence" is Haohan going to visit Zhou Mo, a childhood sweetheart girl he hasn't seen for a few years. Zhou Mo, who thinks that leaving his hometown is to get ahead, said with a smile that there are several dramas waiting for him, but in fact, he has been out for a few years and is just a stand-in. How many opportunities can a girl with no background have when she comes out of a small place? She has feelings for Haohan, but Haohan's pursuit, her pursuit, can't even ask Haohan if he likes her, they won't be together, Zhou Mo was very clear at the beginning, so she didn't keep it and just tactfully said that she didn't mix well and came to her, and Haohan wouldn't know if she turned back, but Chen Ge remembered a pair of eyes that were as pure as water that looked at the bottom of people's hearts.

The second "reunion after a long absence" is an emotional reunion after a long absence, Haohan has been communicating with Liu Yingying, a "pen pal" for 19 years, "reunited" with his father who has been "dead" for nearly 20 years, and the image of this father is no longer the father he knew before the age of ten, and the image of this father is no longer the father he imagined. This newfound father instantly changed the person he admired most in his heart and the person who most resembled the lover of his dreams in his heart, and turned into the most absurd and ridiculous appearance.

Let's talk about "Pingshui Encounter", Su Mi and Ah Lu, a heart-warming girl and an admirable lone wanderer, are all liars, and they all appear after Haohan and Jianghe have paid enough trust and help. I was a little surprised when I watched it, according to Haohan's social experience, it's not a newcomer, and the heart of defense shouldn't be so little, is it because the nature is too pure? Maybe it's because it's not strong enough, or because it's because I'm cautious, but I think you should always be wary of unidentified people you meet on the road. But then again, no matter how careful we are in life, our feelings and trust will still encounter the possibility of being deceived, causing both spiritual and material damage.

Sumi's final performance makes it possible to reverse the problem of trust in strangers, does the teacher love Sumi? I can't tell, it should be a kind of good feeling mixed with pity and curiosity. The third uncle's words almost made people agree that the liars were all incapable people.

Memories come to an abrupt end here.

Chen Ge thought, what will his "After the End" be like?

In short, it will be more exciting than the previous life!

(To be continued.) )