After Huang Jianxin's speech, the first topic of the seminar was "how to protect the creative rights of directors in the mainstream market environment".

In response to this topic, the discussion on the scene was very hot, although the country is a director-centered system, the director has a lot of rights, but this is only relative, in fact, except for a very small number of big directors, the directors' creative rights are not very autonomous, at the meeting, there was a director from Hong Kong Luo Yongchang with his own experience as an example, mentioning that he originally planned to shoot a movie, but because he and the investor could not agree on the choice of actors, and finally the investor gave up the investment, in fact, if the star chosen by the investor is suitable, of course, there will be no disagreement, The problem is that the investor is completely for the sake of praise, which is far from the movie character.

Lin Yuquan listened to everyone's discussion indifferently, he naturally didn't have any troubles in this regard, and Ning Hao and Xu Jinglei around him did the same, but he didn't think this topic was boring, he didn't need to worry about this, but this was a common problem faced by directors, and the discussion of directors also helped him understand the current situation of directors, so that he and Shuguang Film Company could recruit outstanding talents.

"It seems that in this regard, everyone is suffering from it, and some of our directors in this seminar are participating in the director's gathering for the first time, such as Director Lin Yuquan and Director Ning Hao have not yet spoken, so why don't you two talk about your views!" He Ping, who holds the position of secretary general of the Film Association, presided over the seminar, and after a director spoke, his eyes fell on Lin Yuquan and Ning Hao. Said with a smile.

With his words, the other directors present looked at the two of them in unison.

"Lao He, you didn't find the right person this time. Yuquan himself is the owner of the film company, just like Bao Gang, what he wants to shoot and how he wants to shoot is not all decided by themselves, so what are the troubles in this regard. Feng Xiaogang glanced at Zhao Baogang beside him and quipped.

Quite a few people had smiles on their faces.

"You say yours, don't talk about me." Zhao Baogang glanced at Feng Xiaogang. But he didn't mean to be angry, he and Feng Xiaogang were old friends. The two started almost at the same time, and the "Story of the Editorial Department" that really made him famous was written by Feng Xiaogang, although later, he and Feng Xiaogang took different paths. He became a top TV series director, and Feng Xiaogang became a top film director, but the friendship between the two has never changed.

Feng Xiaogang smiled.

"Whoever said I didn't bother." Lin Yuquan didn't push back, and after glancing at Ning Hao, he got up and took the microphone handed over by Liu Hui and said with a smile: "It is true that I can make my own decisions in terms of filming, and I will not be constrained by investors, but I don't shoot whatever I want, everyone knows that there is no film classification system in our country at present, so if it is a so-called oversized shot such as eroticism and blood." It can't be reviewed by guò, so you can only cut it out painfully, but it is precisely these erotic and bloody shots. It is often necessary for the film, and once it is cut, it will inevitably affect the effect of the film, and in this regard, I think it is necessary to implement film classification in our country.

The second is the limitation of the subject matter, which is different from Hollywood. In Hollywood, filmmakers have the freedom to create what they want to do. Even the president of the United States can pull out and scold, but in our country, this is absolutely not good, in order to pass the review, the creative space can only be compressed into a small space, and the TV screen is filled with a large number of revolutionary historical dramas and costume martial arts dramas, and there are very few excellent works that can really be called, spread, and retained, and the problem of low quality is extremely prominent.

If this problem cannot be solved, perhaps with the increase of investment, the quality of works can be improved to a certain extent, especially the audio-visual effects, but the symptoms are not cured, and the film and television industry cannot take off completely. ”

"Yes, this is a problem we all face, and it has been bothering you for many years, but it is not something we can solve on our own." Tian Zhuangzhuang sighed with a wry smile.

He has a deep sense of it, which comes from his experience, although his "Blue Kite" won the grand prize at the Tokyo Film Festival, but because the subject matter touched the red line, he was banned from making films for ten years, until the release of his new work "Spring in a Small Town" in 02.

There was a sigh at the scene, and everyone was full of helplessness.

Lin Yuquan shook his head, although he is now temporarily out of the country, he can make films in Hollywood without scruples, but in the end, the country is his roots, in the near future, he will inevitably come back to make his Xianxia blockbuster, and he will inevitably encounter these two major constraints again, not to mention the dawning film company that has been developing in China, for him, it can be said that the road ahead is long, and there is a long way to go!

"Okay, Director Ning Hao, tell me what you think!" He Ping smiled bitterly and said.

Lin Yuquan handed the microphone to Ning Hao, who took it and said with a smile: "Putting aside the two problems that Yuquan just mentioned, I don't have any trouble in this regard, to be exact, there have been, due to the lack of commerciality of art films, it is difficult to make profits, so I can't pull down the investment, I can only grit my teeth and pay for it myself, and the cost can't be recovered."

But after joining Shuguang Film Company, these are no longer a problem, Yuquan he, what he cares about is not whether I need too much investment to make a film, but whether it is too little, I filmed "Crazy Stone" originally only 3 million, he gave me 8 million, and brought in 2 million sponsorship, I filmed "Love Call Transfer", it was only 5 million, and he gave me 15 million. In terms of actor selection and specific filming, he basically doesn't ask, at most, he should try to consider the artists of our Yuquan family when filming, but this is not a trouble. ”

Lin Yuquan smiled and gave Ning Hao a thumbs up.

"If you don't have this, it's just an advertisement!" Zhang Guoli laughed loudly, and then the conversation changed abruptly: "But I can testify that Director Ning Hao's advertisement is not a false advertisement, it's just that it's good, but it's a bit stressful, I'm sleeping now, I'm thinking about it now, the investment is so big, what if my "It's Hard to Love" can't get back the investment?" ”

"Haha, indeed, I feel like walking on thin ice when I shoot "Painted Wall" now, with an investment of hundreds of millions, and two international superstars Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi, Liu Yifei, Jiang Yan, Wang Luodan, and Liu Ye are popular stars, if I can't even get my investment back, Director Lin probably won't believe me in the future." Chen Jiashang said with a smile that he was in the same situation as Lin Yuquan, he gave the crew two days off and rushed back to shoot tomorrow, but the filming of "Painted Wall" was originally in Hengdian Film and Television City and Shuguang Film and Television Base, which was much closer than him.

"This advertisement, Yuquan, Guoli, Chairman Chen, did you discuss it in advance, but don't say it, it's very exciting, if it weren't for the Huayi brothers, I would have thought about it." Feng Xiaogang laughed.

"Okay, that's the end of this topic, otherwise the seminar will become a promotion meeting for several of your companies." He Pingle said.

After another discussion, He Ping first summarized "how to protect the director's creative rights in the mainstream market environment", and then said: "According to the statistics of our film association, last year we shot a total of 324 films in China, an increase of 23% over 263 in 2005, and has become the world's fourth largest annual film output after India, the United States, and Japan in terms of film output, and has reached a new high for three consecutive years, compared with more than 140 films in 2003. The movie box office has continued to rise for four consecutive years, with the annual box office exceeding 2.8 billion, an increase of 32% over last year."

After the vigorous development of blockbusters in the first two years, 2006 is undoubtedly the heyday of the blockbuster era, "Painted Skin", "The City is Full of Golden Armor", "Night Banquet", "Baby Plan", "Battle of Red Cliffs", "Ink Attack", six domestic films with an investment of more than 100 million yuan have achieved historic box office success in mainstream theaters, and driven by these films, the growth of domestic box office is naturally a matter of course.

Not only that, in 06 years, the new construction of cinemas, renovation projects continue to be carried out on a large scale, the number of cinemas has reached more than 1300, the number of screens exceeds 3000, the development of digital cinema is more remarkable, digital projection multi-level professional pattern has been initially formed, compared with 37 in 2005, only in the first half of 06 years into the market distribution of digital films have been as many as 28, box office revenue of more than 50 million yuan.

And 06 is also known as the year in recent decades, the most domestic films in the international award, "looks beautiful", "Jiangcheng Summer", "Three Gorges Good Man", "Court on Horseback" and other films have won awards in Berlin, Venice and Cannes Film Festival, among which "Three Gorges Good Man" won the 63rd Venice Film Festival Best Film Golden Lion Award, is the first time in the past 7 years that Chinese films have won the highest award at the three major European film festivals, film director Jia Zhangke has also become the first person in the sixth generation of directors to win this award, and began to be internationally recognized as a master of contemporary cinema.

The brilliant achievements of the mainland last year made the mainland directors on the scene all smiles on their faces, and the younger ones were deeply excited and proud, while the directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan couldn't help but be depressed.

Once upon a time, Hong Kong was known as the Hollywood of the East, at the most glorious time, its momentum of sweeping Southeast Asia made all Chinese proud, and a Chinese superstar was also born at that time, Bruce Lee, Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, Zhou Yanfa, Leslie Cheung, Zhou Xingchi, Liang Chaowei, Liu Dehua, Lin Qingxia

However, 30 years in Hexi, 30 years in Hedong, "Hong Kong movies are dead!" Li Lizhi was so decisive when he said this, although it is a bit alarmist, but it is an indisputable fact that Hong Kong movies are now terminally ill. (To be continued) R655