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In November 2003, Wang Qinian received a notice from Beijing Film School to attend a school meeting. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Meeting, what's going on?" Wang Qinian was puzzled.

"It's not the sixth-generation directors who have been heartbroken." The school's teacher said.

"It seems that I am also the sixth generation." Wang Qinian said.

"How to say it, I mean that the directors who made underground movies in the sixth generation are all on the domestic blacklist. Before you, Zhang Yuan, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Jia Zhangke were very worried. The teacher said, "However, it was also a special era, and the director had no way out, so there was no way out!" ”

"Why is there no way out? Go to work in the crew, shoot commercials, shoot TV series, and even, become a drama director, why is there no way out? Wang Qinian said disapprerovingly.

"Who wants to make commercials and TV series if they can make movies?"

"That's right!"

Even in the most depressed period of the film market, the graduation of a film director is equivalent to losing his job. But the big movies are still far more powerful than the money-making TV series and commercials. In addition, witnessing the fifth generation of directors, as soon as they debuted, they were the pride of the sky, and they were able to make movies directly. Therefore, the sixth generation of directors is very ambitious, and most of them are reluctant to let them go to the crew to do miscellaneous exercises for others.

Therefore, many directors insist on taking the road of big movies. Because there is no market for domestic commercial films, it is impossible to find newcomers such as the main theme of the government-funded filming. ★ In the end, many directors accepted overseas funding to shoot what is called "underground film" in China and "** movie" in the world.

** Cinema was emerging in the United States at the end of the 20th century.

Because, the American film industry is monopolized by Hollywood giants, and the subject matter of the film is too deeply affected by commercial factors. At the same time, a rookie director. The chances of getting an investment are slim to none. A simple statistic is that Hollywood studios receive tens of thousands of script submissions every year, and in the end, only a few hundred are made. Often, out of hundreds of enthusiasts, only one person can come out on top. Most of the others are miserable.

Exactly because of this. The ** film movement in the United States broke out, and some movie lovers, with very simple tools and low budgets, shot their own film works. Often a few thousand dollars, tens of thousands of dollars, a work is made. Most of this kind of small-cost ** films are taken to film festivals, and if they can win awards, they will even. It can be released in some niche movie theaters.

Some niche ** movies have even become dark horses in the box office market. The cost of tens of thousands of yuan has won millions, tens of millions, and even hundreds of millions of box office.

This has attracted many movie lovers to start shooting ** movies one after another. Movies, just like grassroots entrepreneurship, the vast majority of them are lost. But there are some success stories. Inspires countless enthusiasts, one after another to participate.

In the Chinese film market. Although there is no such thing as the existence of Hollywood's eight movie giants. However, the film also flourished. The sixth generation of directors began to appear on the film stage, starting with ** movies.

The sixth generation of Chinese directors, according to the time, should start from 85. Among them, the 85-year-old young directors Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Tang Danian, Lou Ye, Senior Lu, Guan Hu and other students who graduated from Beiying are the mainstay. Later, some directors of Chinese opera were also included.

The vast majority of these directors shoot ** movies, participate in overseas film festivals and film awards, and after winning the award, they are banned in China.

The reason why the sixth generation of directors were banned after winning awards overseas. Because, most of their films are not approved and supported by the Film Bureau.

Back then, the fifth-generation directors took the state's money to shoot personal films, and the honor belonged to the individual. Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are all catching up with the good times.

During the period of the sixth generation of directors, the domestic economy was transformed, and it was difficult for domestic film companies to protect themselves. Newly graduated directors, many of whom are unemployed after graduation, are no longer as lucky as the fifth generation of directors. is not like the later domestic film market, where countless businessmen competed for new directors.

Therefore, after graduating, the biggest confusion for the directors of the sixth road is their own way out. Domestic film studios did not arrange jobs for them, and because the film studios were very poor, the salaries of old employees could not be paid. will not recruit newcomers, nor will they give these rookies film investment.

And commercial films, they tried. Since, most of them are art film directors, and they can't make films that the audience loves to watch. Therefore, it is even more impossible to take the route of domestic commercial films.

Because, the domestic film education system does not teach commercial films. Therefore, when many directors debut, if they are academic, it is often difficult to make movies that the audience likes to watch.

For example, in the 80s, Zhang Yuan's movie "Mom" was only a small-budget movie with an investment of tens of thousands of yuan. For the average viewer, the film was so bad that only 6 copies were made in the country. This proves that the sixth generation of directors has just debuted and is a commercial failure.

But this very unpopular movie participated in the European Film Awards and won the grand prize. After participating in dozens of film festivals, Zhang Yuan seems to have embarked on the old path of fifth-generation directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and has become a Chinese director with high attention in international film festivals.

But...... The problem is that Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige participated in the exhibition that year, which was supported and approved by the state, and they went out to win awards for cultural exchanges and to win glory for the country.

Zhang Yuan's film "Mom" was exhibited internationally, but it was never approved by the relevant authorities. According to policy regulations, this is not allowed. Therefore, Zhang Yuan became the director of the banned film.

But being banned in China does not seem to affect his overseas participation in awards and awards, and even the films that also won awards can also be released in overseas literary theaters. A niche movie is chicken ribs for large companies, but it is still possible to earn hundreds of thousands of yuan or even millions of yuan. can earn so much, for the domestic directors at that time, it was an astronomical amount.

After Zhang Yuan tasted the sweetness, he filmed "Beijing Hybrid", Wang Xiaoshuai filmed "Days of Winter and Spring", He Jian filmed "Suspense", and Jia Zhangke filmed "Xiao Wu...... They all won awards overseas, and they were banned at home.

Of course, in order to cater to foreign film awards, it is natural to smear Chinese. As a result, the more you smear China, the more sensitive the sexual, political, disabled, ethnic minorities, thieves, sex workers, and other topics in the country, the easier it will be to win awards. As a result, the films created by the sixth generation of directors are becoming more and more extreme, and the confrontation between them and the domestic film bureau is also getting higher and higher, and even some directors are gradually proud of being banned. It seems that if you are banned and become popular, and if you are on the list of banned film directors, it will be easier to win awards overseas.

However, as the domestic film market gradually became popular, these blacklisted directors began to petition to talk to the high-level.

Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Zhang Xianmin and other most famous directors of banned films began to write books, seeking to have a dialogue with the high-level. There are seven people who took the lead in the petition, collectively known as the ** Seven Gentlemen of the Movie.

This incident is also known as the Seven Gentlemen's Petition Incident.

The Film Bureau also accepted the petition, and the two sides agreed to hold a symposium at Beiying. It's not a negotiation, it's a conversation between the two sides.

In November, the symposium was held as scheduled.

The leaders of the Film Bureau, the school, the first film director and some people in the film industry gathered together and participated in the discussion in the conference room of Beijing Film Co., Ltd.

Soon after the meeting began, the ** film director seemed very angry, one by one like a resentful woman, one by one complaining about grievances and unfair treatment.

The leaders of the Film Bureau also felt that they were wronged, Nima's, a group of thorns, kindly reasoned with you, but none of them took the policies and regulations seriously. One by one, they broke the law, made money, and became famous. didn't go to jail, and there was no fine, just banned your film in China, what are you wronged about?

The school is a peacemaker, giving these ** film directors and the film bureau a relaxed atmosphere. After all, most of the film directors came out of school. The officials in the Film Bureau, well, there are also many graduates of Beijing Film School.

As for some well-known film personalities, most of them are alumni of Beijing Film Film. The circle is so big, many people are alumni, and pure vindictiveness and confrontation are not interesting.

Originally, Wang Qinian was playing soy sauce, watching the two sides arguing.

Unexpectedly, the leaders of the Film Bureau brought Wang Qinian out and said: "The sixth generation of directors is not all of you who make banned films. For example, this classmate Wang Qinian is a good example. When he was in school, he invested in the filming of the commercial movie "Destiny's Gate", which won tens of millions of box office. Take a different path from you and look at what he has achieved so far! Look at you again...... Think about it, don't think that it's everyone else who is wrong, and don't reflect on yourself! ”

All of a sudden, dozens of low-level ** film directors looked at Wang Qinian with complicated expressions.

"We're not like him, he's ...... It's a completely commercial movie, and I didn't win a single award! A literary film director muttered.

"The films made have no depth of thought!"

"Hmph, didn't you just make a few stinky money?"

Countless voices of envy and jealousy!

Measuring a director's achievements is certainly not just about how much money he makes. But...... This society is a money society, and many people are more and more inclined to use money to measure career achievements.

Even if they win awards for directors...... To be honest, if there is no financial return for winning a little award, it is not like attracting countless directors to take the road of art films one after another.

It can be said that ...... As long as you win the prize, and the investment amount is not too high, you will basically make money!

Of course, the money made from art films is often hundreds of thousands or millions. Compared with Wang Qinian's commercial blockbuster of weighing gold and silver with scales, it can obviously only be said to be diao silk! (To be continued......)

ps: The second update, thank you for the support of my brother and sister in June!

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