Speaking of which, although she attracted investment and was nominated for Best New Director, Miao Cuilan's first experience of directing a film was not a success!

Because there is a very impressive measure of filmmakers in the film industry, and that is called the box office!

Miao Cuilan's "Shaolin Eighteen Bronze Men" only received 60 million at the box office, which did not use any big-name stars, but instead pulled the budget of less than 25 million from the beginning to the time of investment, because Miao Cuilan's excellence in filming and lack of experience, the total investment has increased to more than 83 million after the final filming!

It is said that after the film's investors saw the box office record on the first day after its national release, they fainted on the same day and were sent to the emergency center of Yanjing's most famous hospital!

And Miao Cuilan did not win the Best New Director award in the end, which also made her director's path bleak, if Miao Cuilan continues to write scripts, she can still sell it, but if she wants to make another movie by herself, it is basically difficult, unless she invests in it......

However, from the perspective of the script, in fact, Miao Cuilan still has merits, which is why she is called a ghost screenwriter, one is because she writes scripts very quickly, and she can produce at least 20 scripts a year, and many themes are unique!

For example, her "Shaolin Eighteen Bronze Figures" is a good movie in Xiao Ran's opinion, when she originally saw the title, Xiao Ran thought it was a kung fu movie with a hard bridge and a hard horse, and she was still thinking about how a woman would make such a masculine movie, who knew that as soon as she entered the cinema, she knew that the kung fu plot of this drama was just an auxiliary. It's mainly funny!

From a funny level, Xiao Ran felt that Miao Cuilan did a good job. If her budget is to invite celebrities and do publicity, instead of needlessly shooting a shot and then abandoning it. Then the effect may be better, and this movie once made Xiao Ran have a certain attraction for Miao Cuilan!

However, in the end, Miao Cuilan has always been just a screenwriter, and Xiao Ran is not short of scripts now, so the two have not officially contacted, but as the inventory in Xiao Ran's mind becomes less and less in the future, he may recruit Miao Cuilan to join his screenwriting team!

Compared with Miao Cuilan, another award presenter, Situ Liang, is much better, first of all, he is a martial arts superstar and has been making movies for 30 years. Naturally, he is very familiar with the entire industry, with his fame as a guarantee, it is easy to attract investment, and he makes movies very fast, and he is also very pragmatic, and he has already thought about what content he wants to shoot, so although the final box office is not more than 100 million, but the cost of self-directed and self-acting is only 20 million. It's a small profit......

In any case, the two award presenters are considered senior and talented filmmakers at the moment, so many people still gave warm applause when they appeared, because these people are the mainstay of the entire film industry. In the eyes of people in the film industry, Xiao Ran's peerless genius is rare to see in a century, and more pillars of the film industry still come from those veteran filmmakers who have been in this circle for decades......

"The best action director of the 31st Chinese Film Golden Dragon Award are: "A Chinese Ghost Story" Xiao Ran...... "The True Color of Heroes" Xiao Yuanshan...... "Storm and Clouds Dominate the World" Xiao Ran...... "New Police Story" Yuan Biao...... "Chinese Lion" Xu Qixia ......"

This year's Best Action Direction nomination has one more person. That is Xiao Ran, originally he would hand over some of the work of action guidance to his father or other senior brothers. Because Xiao Ran is already a director and screenwriter plus an investor, there is really no need to rob his own people's jobs!

However, this year, Xiao Ran served as the action director of two films. "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Storm and Storm" are both special effects movies, because since my father and brothers joined the film industry, no one has made special effects movies for a long time, so they can't catch the rhythm of the movie, so they can only wait until Xiao Ran himself goes into battle.

So in the end, Xiao Ran's name was hung on the name of the action director, and this was the first time Xiao Ran was nominated for this award.

This time, the person who presented the best action director was naturally the former kung fu superstar Situ Liang, and he only listened to him: "The winner of the best action director at the 31st Chinese Film Golden Dragon Award is Xiao Ran of "Storm and Clouds Dominate the World"! ”

This year, "Storm and Storm Dominates the World" is Xiao Ran's rare high-cost and high-budget movie, although the final box office results are not as good as "The True Colors of Heroes" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", but in the later stage, it won a very high on-demand rate on online video websites on the Internet, and it can be regarded as a movie that is in the limelight, but it has been nominated for many awards but none of them have won awards, and it is rare to be able to get a best action director, so Xiao Ran is also very happy!

As soon as he took the stage, Xiao Ran started talking about the award-winning film: "When I decided to make "Storm and Clouds", many people, including my father, persuaded me not to take risks, because in the eyes of many filmmakers, special effects movies belong to a type of film that costs money but is not pleased, at least in the past Chinese film history There have been many precedents, but I am personally a person who does not believe in evil, I think our special effects movies are actually taking a detour, that is, too much to imitate the Hollywood special effects film model, has lost its local characteristics, so the elements used in the movie "Storm and Clouds Dominate the World" are all traditional Chinese elements combined with the mode of martial arts novels! ”

Xiao Ran told his own experience, and the filmmaker sitting in the audience couldn't wait to take out a notebook and write down what he said, because these words were likely to be the reason for Xiao Ran's success, so Xiao Ran continued: "I am actually very satisfied with the final box office results, especially knowing that many viewers still watched this movie on major online video sites after the movie was drawn, and the reviews were okay, and the little brother did not disappoint everyone, and in the next two years, I hope to put " The comic "Storm and Storm dominates the world" has been made into four movies, that is to say, there are three more in the planning, I hope you can support it at that time, I hope that our special effects movies in China can go out of their own way......"

Xiao Ran's speech attracted warm applause from the audience, and under his encouragement, there are already directors and producers in the audience who are eager to find the shooting content of special effects movies from the traditional elements of China, and Xiao Ran does assume a forward role for Chinese films! (To be continued......)