"Someone still has to ask, now that the audience's tastes have changed, if we make a movie where grandparents and grandchildren depend on each other, even if we cry a lot, the audience will not come to watch it. Because there are only two of you, I have a movie ticket for dozens of dollars, just watching an old man with a child, I have a toothache? ”

"Haha." There was a burst of laughter below, and some people were thoughtful.

Therefore, many filmmakers say that the audience's taste is too heavy, so they have to watch nonsense blockbusters. Even if it's two people, you have to be close in age and do everything in one room. For example, if you invite a friend, we are not limited to men or women, and you tell your friend that we go to see the main theme, will the friend think that you are sick? Because the main theme means it's not good-looking. ”

"It's really not a good sign, because our audience can't and shouldn't hate the main theme. This society needs the main theme, and our next generation needs the main theme. We need Lei Feng, Jiao Yulu, and Sister Jiang, and we need to use the power of example to educate and inspire, so that we will not pollute ourselves in the dye vat of society. I also said in "High-end Interview" that the main theme should be a little more. ”

"I have indeed filmed a lot of main themes over the years, but why did I shoot it? Many directors have very simple ideas when they shoot the main theme, what award can I get when I shoot it, I can get one million state subsidies, and then sell it to the movie channel and get another million, which is not a loss. I shoot other things at a loss, and I make money when I shoot the main theme, right? So we're now faced with a Hollywood blockbuster invasion and our own movies are not competitive. Hidden under the growth of the box office is the decline of domestic films. ”

Shao Shuaijun raised his eyes and looked at the students who were listening carefully, as well as the unfathomable expressions of filmmakers from all walks of life, licked his lips, and continued: "Think about it, is the question I just asked on behalf of the directors reasonable? The audience likes to watch blockbusters, so we naturally have to learn blockbusters. I can get money by playing with the main theme casually, why should I be careful? And then the rest is to talk about life, art, and some inexplicability. ”

"The directors have a point, and the analysis is also in place. But isn't this just a kind of fooling the audience? Because we don't even know it ourselves. What exactly do we need to do to bring Chinese films on the right track? We walked around, except for those few movies that made money every year, the rest was still losing money. Today there is an investor. Tomorrow there is another investor. After the pit, the investors went to the pit movie theater, and in the end, many domestic movies were considered good movies. The movie theater won't show you anymore, and it's all changed to a Hollywood movie! ”

"Our film market has been reformed, our five generations of directors have explored the commercial path, we seem to have found a way out to save Chinese films, we want to keep up with blockbusters, we seem to have rushed out of the domestic market, began to go to the world, and won awards frequently. But looking back and looking at the road again, in addition to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero", "Source Code", and "Painted Skin", which other movies have we made money overseas and made a lot of money? We walked and walked, thinking that we had walked out of a Chinese film road, and suddenly found that in fact, we had been wandering around the door of our house all this time, and we couldn't get out. ”

"We didn't do anything, we didn't do anything, our so-called Chinese film succeeded, it's not that one or two directors succeeded, one or two films succeeded, we didn't get out of our way. Because we didn't let ourselves become rich from the bottom of our hearts, no matter how bright we dressed, we were also a poor man's life! We have a 5,000-year-old cultural heritage, and we have to make movies according to the tastes of foreigners, and then we can take a little step. Many of us filmmakers scoff at Hollywood, but we see that Hollywood movies have conquered the world. ”

"Our movies have to follow the Hollywood way to keep up with some light and some soup. Many of us directors, I am also one, why do we all go to Hollywood to make movies, aren't movies all movies made everywhere, why can only we succeed in Hollywood, can we achieve worldwide appeals, and can we prove ourselves? Because the history of the United States for 200 years is magnificent? Compared with our 5,000-year history, does the United States have a history, and why does Hollywood export culture to the world? We are one of the four ancient countries, papermaking, gunpowder, compass, printing, we should be able to use our splendid culture to show the world, right? ”

"But we didn't, we closed the door, and we were all lying to ourselves." There was no sound in the audience, except for Shao Shuaijun's indignant words, "I can already imagine that after today's speech, countless people will definitely come to scold me tomorrow." Say that you Shao Shuaijun know a fart, what kind of thing are you, why are you pointing fingers at Chinese movies? Yes, I, Shao Shuaijun, am nothing, compared with the leaders, seniors, and colleagues who came to attend this ceremony today, I am a newcomer, a rookie who has just entered the film industry. In fact, I'm just an angry young man. ”

"I just wanted to be the little boy who said that the emperor was undressed, of course, I could be the emperor without clothes, so I stood here and was stupid, you guys quickly help me see, am I dressed?"

There were three or two laughs, maybe the topic just now was too heavy.

Shao Shuaijun didn't care, since he had started, he continued to say what he wanted to say: "I have been in the entertainment industry for five years, I am lucky, I made a movie and made money, and I have a relatively large company, and then I can be here today, talking some nonsense without holding back." Looking back at it, I didn't contribute to Chinese films at all, whether it was "Source Code", "Painted Skin" or "Inception", they were all filmed in Hollywood, and I was also one of the people who were affected, and I couldn't figure out how we should solve it in order to get Chinese films on the right track as soon as possible. ”

"Where is the road of Chinese films, it is very heavy, very heavy. To say that foreign cinema is a peaceful evolution for us, we would say that this is. But we make a lot of money every year from foreign films, and this is indisputable, at least, we haven't made money back from foreign countries. The same problem is in Russia, in India, in England, in Italy. In Spain, in these countries where the film industry is more developed, they have encountered it, but they have all kinds of ways and countermeasures. ”

"For example, when Russia couldn't hold back at that time, it canceled the film quota. Very simply, American films can come in, and at most, 280 of the 320 films released in a year are American films, and soon Russian audiences get tired of watching them and begin to miss their Russian films again. In the past two years, Russian cinema has been recovering. They also made their own blockbusters. Very popular with the Russian audience. ”

"And Indian cinema is very interesting, it's one of their pillar industries. I was recently producing a film in India, and if you look at the poster at the entrance of an Indian cinema, there is no introduction of the main actors. It's all about who sings the songs. Who danced. Because their movie must have three songs and five dances. ”

The audience laughed, Indian films have begun to go international in recent years, and Chinese audiences are also familiar with them. Know their style.

"It's a feature of Indian cinema that it's hard for Hollywood to play there. Hollywood has also thought of a way to co-make movies with them, movies like Once Upon a Time in India. There's a lot of investment in co-productions, and Indian filmmakers are smart, and they spend all that money, how do they spend it? It used to be 20 people dancing, but now it has been changed to 200 people dancing. ”

"Hahahaha." Everyone laughed again.

"When I was making the film, I also talked to the Chinese ambassador to India, and I asked him if Hollywood movies had a big impact on India. He said that it doesn't matter, Indians don't like to watch them, Indians like to watch Indian movies. Moreover, in the past two years, many Indian and Pakistani movies have been sold to the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries, making a lot of money. You can see this, Russians love to watch Russian movies, Indians love to watch Indian movies, it makes no sense that Chinese only love to watch Hollywood movies? ”

"In fact, many of the Hollywood movies we watch are also the main theme movies of the United States, so it makes no sense that you don't watch the main theme of China, but you go to watch the main theme of foreign countries? But that's really the way it is. There are some domestic films that have landed in the United States, but what is very difficult is that our films have been sold, and we don't even have the editing rights. American filmmakers are going to edit, disrupt and ravage you again, a difference of 108,000 miles, and then release it. Why is this happening? Because they despise us, they don't believe our films will sell. In Hollywood, in the United States, how many Chinese directors have editing rights? Li Yu, Wu Yusen, Zhang Yimou and me, apart from the four of us, are there any more? Without. ”

"Sometimes I really feel heartache, why can't our films develop? We have an audience of more than one billion people, we have a history of 5,000 years, and we can't make movies that we can't make, but we can make movies very well. What do you mean by 'making a good movie'? That is to say, our movies are not good, but the TV shows that are related to the movies are good. ”

"Because there are too many things in the process of filming, there are scandals, fights, role changes, strikes, salary increases, and director changes...... There are all sorts of things. Some were planned by the crew, and some were not solved by the crew. The salaries of celebrities are getting higher and higher, and the acting skills are still the same, every time a big movie is filmed, it is like a big gossip array, in which countless news will be generated, so that everyone can fry enough. These blockbusters will spare no effort to spend a lot of money to create a premiere, usually the impact of the premiere is much greater than the impact of the film itself, and the experience of making a movie is far more complex than the plot shown in the movie, which is the current situation of Chinese films. ”

Shao Shuaijun was silent for more than ten seconds, and exhaled a breath of turbidity: "I said this, maybe you have to ask at the bottom, today is the entrance ceremony of the new electrical technology research institute, what are you doing so far?" I said that I have not contributed much to Chinese films, and I personally do lack the strength to change the status quo of Chinese films. I think I should try to understand Chinese films, and then find a group of like-minded people to work together for the rise of Chinese films. ”

"Didn't people who practice martial arts say a truth, that is, 'practice muscles and bones on the outside, and practice one breath on the inside'. In my superficial opinion, can Chinese movies also be classified as muscles and bones? Therefore, we first established the China Young Pioneer Directors Alliance to tap potential young directors and pioneer directors. This can be called a breath in the cultivation film, what is the breath of Chinese films, I don't know, but I hope that in the excavation process of the Youth Directors' League, we can see such a breath in more and more young pioneer directors. ”

"It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, no matter how many classic movies we have left, it is better for more Chinese directors to make classic films, which is more important for the development of Chinese films. The Youth Mentor League is such a platform...... So what is the muscles, you all know this, the packaging of the movie is the muscles, and the special effects and new technologies are the muscles. I invested in the establishment of the Dream Chasing New Film Technology Research Institute, just to temper the muscles and bones of Chinese films. ”

"I hope that from here, a group of top special effects talents, top photography talents and technical talents will come out, and I also hope that the students and students who go out from here can use the technology here to serve Chinese films. We don't need to pursue a few years to surpass Hollywood, we just need to do a solid job of ourselves, and improve, develop and pass on the technology, which has achieved a goal of muscles and bones. ”

"Today, a lot of leaders and filmmakers came, and our prime minister also made a special trip to come. The country attaches more and more importance to the film industry, we don't expect to be here, we are chasing new electronic technology, and we have made many contributions to the film industry. I hope that in 10 or 20 years, Chinese filmmakers will look back here and be able to nod and say, 'Oh, this was once the source of technology for Chinese films, and there was a group of excellent filmmakers'. ”

Shao Shuaijun smiled and said loudly: "This is the end of my speech, and finally, I would like to transfer a piece of writing given to me by Mr. Zhang Xianliang to add to you, 'Those who have established great things in ancient times will not only have supernatural talents, but also have perseverance and perseverance. 'On the road of cinema, there are thorns that can destroy us at any time. When you are tired, think about this sentence, it will make you more aware of yourself, thank you. ”

Bending down, he walked back to the rostrum, took a sip of water, and there was a brief silence.

Then.

The applause was thunderous and enduring. (To be continued......)