Episode 250: The State of Cinema
The moon is like a hook, the dim moonlight pours down and scatters on the top peaks, making the cold wind even colder, Lin Feihong stood by the guardrail and looked at the few lights left in the distance, there were countless sentimentalities in his heart, the night was deep but there was no sleepiness at all, not because he was tired after a day's filming, but because the actor brothers under his command were just wasting a little saliva and not getting in the way.
I wasn't very happy to see the message sent by Feng Qingyang, but I felt a little sad in my heart. There is nothing to be proud of and happy about, isn't it just to participate in the Cannes Film Festival in France, what kind of achievement is this? It may seem good to the Chinese people, but it is nothing in the international world.
Although Qihong Film and Television is now in a leading position in the country, but the national film industry is still not optimistic, I thought that God gave me a chance, I have a playback system to gallop in this world, you can change the status quo of the film industry, let the film industry embark on the international road, and sit on an equal footing with the international bowl, but I didn't think that nothing has changed now, although there are several measures but none of them have played a certain role, and the country's film industry is still lagging behind the international.
I don't understand, the overseas market has opened the door, got rid of the confinement of self-shut-off, and reached the standard of reform and opening up.
Although compared with the past, the box office of domestic films overseas has a growing trend, and it has also been praised and loved by more and more overseas audiences, especially in film production, and some major international awards such as Oscars have also appeared in China, although at present, only one company has won it. But in any case, it is a kind of progress, and there are more other small award winners, so relatively speaking, the domestic film industry is improving, but the speed of progress is not fast, and this speed cannot fundamentally change the current status quo.
In terms of investment, the world film industry has a certain advantage, there are screenwriters, producers. Production, investment and other combination of specialized film and television companies as a strong backing, a film is not afraid of what the results are, as long as there are resources companies will invest, forming a kind of industrial chain development. Compared with the difficult investment characteristics of the film industry in the previous life, the film industry in this world is really a great improvement, and in the film industry in the previous life, a film was jointly produced by several companies. There are usually two or three companies involved, and the film is traded in the form of a typeset buyout, and because there are multiple companies, there are usually conflicts of interest.
Relatively. The world's film industry is much more advanced in this regard than in the previous life, although the early film management model has great flaws, but now it is on the right track, and it is slightly better under the same conditions. The most important thing is that there is no pedantic phenomenon of piracy in this world, which Lin Feihong has to admire for the national policy has done a good job, and the operating environment of the film industry without piracy is much cleaner, neat and orderly, which also alleviates a lot of unnecessary troubles in management.
The world itself has these two major advantages, and in addition, after continuous improvement under the influence of Lin Feihong in the later period, there is a market and technology, and the film has formed a form of industrial chain, and the development is not the film of the previous life, but it is just an artistic product, and the output is much more than that of the previous life. It stands to reason that there should not be today's status quo, at least it is much better than the film world in the previous life. In fact, there is not much difference between the two. As for comparison with international status, not to mention.
Why? The technology is available, the market is also smooth, there is no piracy with a strong economic backing, and the output is sufficient, but why can't it catch up with the international pace, why are there very few films that have won the Oscar. Why can't there be a classic movie like "Aragon" in China, is it really a matter of time?
Lin Feihong feels that it is not a matter of time, although time is also a problem, but this time problem refers to the fact that film technology needs time to accumulate, and now that the difficulty of technology has been in line with international standards, this problem is no longer a problem, in Lin Feihong's view, the root cause of the eternal status quo of the domestic film industry is still in the system, and the film problem is still a system problem.
The politics are too strong, this is a true portrayal of the domestic film industry, many things are politicized, so it is not so easy for artists to carry out very freely, because the film is more restrictive than the link between politics and politics, even if you have wild ideas, they can only rot in your head, and they must not be shown, even if they are filmed, they may not pass the review, and even if they pass the review, the movie will sell well, but then you have to spend endless days and nights in prison.
No filmmaker dares to take this risk, so artists in country Z are beware of this high-voltage line and be careful, for fear that they will be electrocuted if they are not careful.
The system restricts the majority of filmmakers, even if there are countless ideas in their minds, they can only sigh, who told you to be born in the wrong country. Under the suppression of this system, many talented filmmakers are rotting in their stomachs, and they can only conceive according to the current system, how can they create shocking masterpieces in a limited space, and how can they compare with those filmmakers abroad who have no restrictions on their free play, maybe the types of themes they conceive on the screen today are actually thought of earlier, but there is an uncrossable sea in the middle, so the credit and honor that belong to them are wasted.
No matter what country or dynasty, once something is involved in politics, it is not to mention development, especially in this creative third-party service industry. Talking about politics is talking about the system and constraints, and you can only obey what the state requires you, otherwise it will be a violation of the law, and everyone knows the consequences of violating the law.
Nostalgia, simplicity, education is a requirement in the system, which means to create a film of this concept to educate the next generation and let the next generation remember history. I have to say that country Z is a very practical country, and it is a good film to shoot a film that has practical significance, symbolic meaning and instruction.
It's just that there are so many nostalgic, quaint, educational, and substantive themes, and there are very few things filmed in this limited space, so there is only one version of thousands of years of history, war dramas have been filmed and filmed, dozens of versions of the four famous novels have been remade, and dozens of waves of actors have been replaced.
This is the real status quo of country Z films, there are a few Oscars that can't say anything, and there is nothing to be proud of if there is a chance to win the Cannes Film Festival in France, only by changing the current status quo can it be regarded as something to be proud of.
can't change it, Lin Feihong can't change this huge task by himself, because this is not a simple management problem, this is a political problem, how can he be a small director to pry into a country's political system? Unless the system is custom-made by him, or he has the right to change it.
This is simply impossible, if it is really possible, Lin Feihong will not only change the system problem, but also more problems, such as the living environment of artists, how to make this single industrial chain develop into an assembly line, production line, and form a real industry or enterprise, how to establish a trade union organization to protect artists such as screenwriters, actors, directors, etc., these are the problems existing in the domestic film industry, among which the system is the biggest problem, and the system problem is solved. The latter problems will be easily solved, or there will be no follow-up problems, because the follow-up problems arise because of the imperfection of the system. The premise of these is whether Lin Feihong, who is advanced and open-minded, has the right to dictatorship, and the probability of this is zero in the current form of country Z, so Lin Feihong is at most just meaningful. Get kinky.
If the system does not change, the artists of country Z will always be suppressed by the artists of country M, and there will be no day when they turn over, which is the most distressing thing, but no decision-maker who formulated this system has the slightest sense of introspection.
Lin Feihong is not extravagant to hope that one day which leader will come to his senses, the joint letter written by Lu Lijun is the best red one. Bare. The naked proof is that the only way to change the status quo of the film industry is for a filmmaker to make the decision-making of this system.
This possibility is very small, but it is not impossible, it is just a matter of time, maybe a few years, maybe a hundred years, maybe it will take several generations of filmmakers to continue to struggle and strive to make today's system more perfect. The film industry is a huge career, no matter how famous a director is, no matter how strong his ability is, it is only his own ability to change, which can only show that he has succeeded, but it is impossible for him to change the status quo of the film industry, even if Lin Feihong has stepped onto the international peak and sat on the throne of Hollywood, he still can't change the status quo of the film industry in country Z, at most, he will bring back the international leading technology, as for innovation and creativity, it is impossible to bring it back, because most of the international creativity is not applicable in China, Because there is a strong system that restricts the development of the film industry.
If a person wants a collective to become better, even if it is unity, the collective efforts may not necessarily become better, and the only way is to let the collective adjudicator have a clear understanding. The reason why the film industry is stagnant is because the ideology of the adjudicators who control this has not kept up with the pace of the times, and still retains the old model, nostalgia, practicality, and the model of education has been deeply ingrained in their minds, so it is only possible to change the status quo when the new generation goes up, and the adjudicators have not all changed their blood, even if one or two artists go up, it will not help, just like Jackie Chan in the previous life, Feng Xiaogang became a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the questions they asked were not also lost in the sea. Therefore, it will take several years to change the current status quo of film, and it will take several generations to really get on the right track.