Cinema as an art, starting point in Europe and the United States.

In terms of invention, Edison of Europeans and Americans almost lost getting this thing out, but in terms of film art, Europeans started earlier than the United States. When Edison was still working on screenings, the Lumière brothers had already started making films.

France, a country with a deep cultural tradition, has a talent for art in the blood of almost everyone. In the history of film development, compared with commerce, French cinema is not Hollywood's opponent, but if it is engaged in art, Hollywood is largely inferior.

French cinema, along with the invention of cinema, was already very mature by 1940. Although it is not as good as the eight major Hollywood film companies, artistic creation is very active, especially film genres, which continue to emerge, which has greatly promoted the development of films.

Among them, the most famous is the poetic realism of France. And the representative of the most bullish fork is Jean. Renoir.

Poetic realism, originated in the thirties of the twentieth century, when the economic depression in France was delayed for a longer period than in other countries, during this period people had to think about the reality of how to live, and they also had to find a little fun and a little poetry from life. In this context, a group of promising young filmmakers began to combine the poetic artistic qualities of France with cinema. Claire and Jean. Viggo, in its heyday, was Jean. A group of directors led by Renoir.

Poetic realism is characterized by emphasizing that cinema should not be a simple fostering of reality, and that their films only retain the most peculiar parts of reality and then increase the use of spiritual lenses. The most characteristic. It is to exert the power of literature in film. In terms of narrative and image, the role of dialogue and screenwriting is emphasized, and the literary nature is emphasized and the audiovisual nature of the film is weakened.

This genre has had a great influence on films, especially art films, and a number of masterpieces have been filmed, all of which are closely linked to characters and society, focusing on the shaping of the inner world and emotions of the characters, which is deeply moving.

Let. Renoir is one of the most emblematic figures. He is also an out-and-out master of art in the history of cinema.

This French director has been very interesting all his life. His father, a famous impressionist painter, worked as a film director and actor. This affected Jean. Renoir for the rest of his life. When he was young, Renoir inherited his father's talent for painting, studied philosophy and mathematics, was wounded in the First World War, and became lame, and when he returned, he began to work in filmmaking, but with his talent he quickly became the most powerful young director in French cinema. Favored. From 1928 to 1939, Jean. Renaa has made a large number of films. shocked Europe, and also enjoyed a certain popularity among world filmmakers,

In particular, in 1937, he wrote and directed the film "The Great Disillusionment", which was based on life in a prisoner of war camp in World War I, revealing the hallucinatory nature of nationalist warfare, and achieved great artistic and commercial success, winning the Best Artistic Collective Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1937 and the Best Foreign Language Film Award in New York in 1938. He was called "a rare genius in film art" by the media.

After the outbreak of World War II, Renoir served in the army's film service with the rank of lieutenant, but the war situation took a turn for the worse, and in December 1940 Germany occupied France. Renoir then came to Hollywood and has lived in the United States ever since.

This is definitely a very good master.

"Victor, Jean. I've watched all of Renoir's movies in the past few days, and I have to say that artistically, he will be a rare genius, but if you want him to achieve great things in business, I'm afraid it's enough, some people are born to make money, and some people are born with money. Nicholas looked at Victor meaningfully: "So if you want to find a director who can make money, this guy is not suitable." ”

What Nicholas said, Victor naturally knew. Want to make. It is quite difficult for a director like Renoir to make money-making movies.

"Earning money is something that most people can earn, but not everyone understands art. What about this guy? Victor asked.

"On the 20th Century Fox side." Nicholas Road.

"What?" Victor was stunned: "Dragged by Fawkes?" ”

"He's also a big director, and when he comes to Hollywood, he goes to 20th Century Fox."

"Nicholas, are you old thing teasing me? It's all been dragged over by Fox, what are you talking to me! "Victor is so angry.

"Will you hear me?" Nicholas said: "This Frenchman came to Hollywood and signed a contract with Fox for a year, but after entering the Fox company, he found that his shooting concept and method could not communicate with those guys at all, and Fox actually handed him a love movie to make him shoot beautifully, so angry that the Frenchman slapped the table on the spot and wanted to beat Fox." ”

"Fox, that's." Victor laughed.

"Renoir wants to cancel the contract, but according to the rules, if he breaks the contract, he will pay Fox a sum of money. He doesn't have any money now. So ......"

Victor listened to it and understood: "You mean, you asked me to pay Renoir Nabi compensation!?" ”

"Yes. Clever. Nicholas laughed.

Victor clutched his chest: "Say, how much?" ”

"The contract he signed, if he broke the contract, he would be fined ten times his annual salary, and his annual salary was $20,000 a year......"

"Two hundred thousand!?" Victor stood up directly and grabbed Nicholas's neck with both hands: "Two hundred thousand!?" You're going to let me rob someone! ”

Victor's last movie earned more than 2 million, half of which was given to Anthony the Fat Bear to engage in arms, and the remaining half, 600,000 was given to Zenerman to shoot "No Country for Old Men", and the remaining 400,000 was kept for the filming of "The Shawshank Redemption", which is estimated to be tight, how can there be 200,000 spare money? !

Nicholas looked lively: "It's not my business, I'll only find someone for you, whether to accept this Renoir or not, you decide for yourself." ”

"I want to take it! I want to take it more fucking than anyone else! But what about the money!? Victor rubbed his head: "Damn, if I can make money, I am willing to do it as a cowherd!" ”

". You can't make a couple of jujubes in one night as a cowherd. Nicholas laughed, "Let's do it." Don't be busy making decisions. Shall we go meet this guy? ”

"Good!" Victor was curious about this master of the art in the history of cinema.

Hollywood Billy Manor.

It is said to be a manor, but it is actually an ordinary motel.

Victor and Nicholas stood at the counter, looking at the waiter.

"The Frenchman, right? Who are you? "The waiter.

"Friends." Victor was succinct and to the point.

"Aha!" The waiter was overjoyed: "That's easy to do!" Sir, we're worried, your friend signed us for two weeks, no, three weeks' money. It's a total of $570, please help him settle it. ”

"My day." Victor is so angry.

A master of art is too miserable.

"Nicholas, pay the money."

"What is me?"

"Go back and get reimbursed."

"I don't believe it." Nicholas pitifully paid out of his own pocket, and the two of them went up the stairs.

As soon as I went up to the second floor, I saw four or five workers in overalls working hard to move things down, all of which were frames covered with canvases, which looked like paintings.

A fat man with a bare head and a round face in his pajamas was nagging at the workers: "Light! These paintings are works of art! Absolute art! Don't break it! Alas, Americans, really don't understand what art is. ”

"Don't move, stop first." Nicholas called out to the workers blocking the road.

"Mr. Zink. What are you doing here? The fat man smiled when he saw Zinke.

"What are you doing here?" Nicholas Road.

Fatty: "What else can you do?" I'm penniless now. I have to pay $200,000 to Fox's fucking company, so I have to sell the paintings! ”

"Selling paintings? Can these words be worth 200,000? "Nicholas didn't believe it.

"I said, can we go in first?" Victor Road.

"Please come in, please come in." The fat man is very gentlemanly.

Three people went in.

Nicholas introduced each other: "Victor, this is Jean. Renoir, Jean, this is Victor I told you. Ferro, the owner of the legendary company. ”

"Mr. Ferro, it's a good thing." Let. Renoir looked at Victor and was a little surprised: "I didn't expect you to be so young." ”

"So-so." Victor looked at Jean. Renoir really can't connect the dead fat man in front of him with the master of art in the history of cinema.

The room was small, densely packed with messy things, most of which were picture frames, except for a bed.

"Can you buy these paintings for $200,000?" Nicholas seemed to be in tune with those words.

"It should be." Renoir nodded: "Many of these paintings are the relics of my father, his paintings are very famous in Europe, even if they are not so famous in the United States, the money is still worth it, among them, there are some of my paintings, and a few famous paintings of Impressionism, together, 200,000 should be bought, I have entrusted it to a gallery." ”

"Ugh." Renoir sighed: "When I escaped from France, I threw everything away and took these paintings with me. In the eyes of others, they are just paintings, but in my eyes, they mean a lot. It's a relic left to me by my father, and it's something I've loved all my life, if it weren't for this......"

Let. Renoir looked up to the sky and sighed.

There was silence in the room.

It is understandable that an artist can be forced to sell his favorite paintings and his father's relics.

"You Hollywood, it's so unbelievable." Let. Renoir added.

"That's just part of the people." Victor laughed as he walked over and uncovered a canvas to look at the impressionistic water lilies and the blurred light.

"Monet's." Renoir Road.

"Monet's!?" Victor stuck out his tongue, and in later generations, a painting by Monet was quite valuable.

Victor looked at a few more pictures, among which were painted by Renoir himself, to be honest, the old man's painting skills were quite good, no wonder the movie was so beautiful.

"What are your plans after selling the paintings?" Victor Road.

"What else can I do? I'm going to leave Hollywood and go to New York to paint and make a living, so I should be able to support myself. “

Victor: "Stop making movies?" ”

"Shoot what? You are only after money and box office, and my movies are not suitable for Hollywood at all. Renoir smiled bitterly: "In my life, my wish is actually very simple, I want to make movies that I like, but now for me, this is a luxury." ”

Looking at the aggrieved old man in front of him, Victor's heart was also heavy.

In this world, how many people like movies and love movies, but can't get into it in the end?

Let. Renoir is a master of film, and his love for movies must be more than painting, and it is really impossible for a French master to go to the United States to engage in painting.

"Well, you don't have to be so discouraged. What I told you last time, how did you think about it? Nicholas said.

Let. Renoir looked at Victor, then at Nicholas: "I watched that Mr. Ferro movie and liked it very much!" I feel that you have made a fatal mistake, Mr. Ferro, on this film. ”

"Oh?" Victor was curious.

A fatal mistake? What mistake did Lao Tzu make that would be fatal? (To be continued......)