Chapter 153: The Contribution of Seniors
When it comes to Chinese movies now, we have to mention a few people.
The first in line is, of course, Han Sanye!
The third master, the big brother of the Chinese film industry.
Someone has counted that at the Oscars, Weinstein, the biggest name in the distribution industry, was thanked more times than God. At the Huabiao Awards, Han Sanye was definitely thanked more times than Weinstein.
He led Chinese films from almost zero box office to hundreds of millions of box office to billions of box office to the current box office of 10 billion, realizing the triple jump of Chinese films, and his main contribution is to realize the leap of Chinese films from a planned economy to a market economy, so that Chinese films can keep up with the overall pace of China's economic reform.
In addition, the third master has helped countless people, especially the director, Feng Xiaogang, Ning Hao, Lao Xu, etc., all have respect for the third master and are grateful to Dade.
The world only knows that Feng Xiaogang created a Chinese New Year file, and Han Sanye is the real behind-the-scenes military advisor.
Just after the Spring Festival in 1997, the third master called the depressed Feng Xiaogang into the office and asked him to shoot a comedy, this comedy is "Party A and Party B", with an investment of 6 million yuan, it successfully achieved a box office of 33 million, and successfully created a Chinese New Year file in the mainland.
Later, "Endless" was also asked by Han Sanye to shoot it, Feng Xiaogang was still a promising young man at that time, and he wanted to shoot "Never Lose My Love", "A Place of Chicken Feathers", "The Back of the Moon" and other works with realistic criticism...
Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone", after the filming, there was no distribution company that wanted to do it, or Han Sanye came forward, and the distribution was done by China Film, and the third master used the 9 million yuan he earned, plus 2 million yuan of "additional rewards", all of which were handed over to Ning Hao to start filming "Crazy Racing", and the box office exceeded 100 million.
Therefore, Ning Hao's next few films have the investment of China Film, and after the third master retired, Ning Hao will not play with China Film...
Lao Xu, not to mention, she wants to film "Du Lala's Promotion", no one invests, or the third master trusts her and gives her investment...
In a certain sense, the past fifteen years have been 15 years of manipulation of Chinese films by the third master, and he has made great achievements.
Normal.
Yin Hong, an expert in film industry research, once commented on Han Sanping's greatest contribution: "The structure of this business model he gave to China Film Group has made this largest state-owned group have a real direction of industrialization development, and it has also promoted the industrialization of Chinese films." ”
Robert Kane, a Hollywood expert on the Chinese film industry, once said: His position in China is equivalent to that of Jack Valenty (former president of the Motion Picture Association of America), Lou Worthharn (former head of Universal Pictures) and Steven Spielberg combined...
It seems that in those years, the third master was so awesome!
Time flies, with the expansion of the film market, with the rise of private companies, and with the surge of Hollywood blockbusters from 20 to 34, the influence of Sanye will gradually decline.
The third master is old, the rivers and lakes have changed, there are many things, the inside story is frequently seen in tabloids, and the evening festival is not guaranteed...
As soon as Xiao Cui fired the gun, he bombarded the entire film circle, of course, including Han Sanye, the story that Sanye and 30 million had to tell...
The surface of the rivers and lakes is turbulent, and the undercurrents in the depths are surging, and the third master may slowly abdicate from a guy to become a prince.
The second place should be Zhang Weipin!
To put it mildly, the blockbuster era is mainly created by him and Zhang Yimou!
"Titanic" sounded the alarm for a group of big directors in China, it turns out that the audience is not unwilling to watch movies, they just don't want to watch dull literary films!
So, I began to transform into a commercial production!
With the development of the economy and the prosperity of the film market, the atmosphere of art films at the time when the country was weak and the people's micro market was small will inevitably be washed away by the surging commercial atmosphere, which is the inevitable law of market development, and no one can stop it.
Only those who conform to it can survive and progress.
Of course, from the perspective of the history of film development, Zhang Guoshi has a mixed reputation, although after taking the lead in opening the blockbuster era of domestic films, his film reputation has always been on a downward trend, but I have to admit that he still contributed to the commercial production process of domestic films!
Zhang Weipin accompanied him all the way!
made Zhang Yimou eleven movies, starting from the first "My Father and Mother" to the last "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins".
It was Lao Zhang who raised the proportion of China's film production industry from 35% to 43%, arching one point every year, and arching one point for each film.
Once "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was about to arch to 45%, but it was cut off by Yu Dong, and the latter's "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" took the initiative to give profits to the theater...
Also, he was the first to charter a plane to pull Zhang Yimou for the premiere;
the first to hold a premiere at the Workers' Sports Concert;
The first to replace the street signs of many real estate projects in the country with movie posters;
The first at the airport exchanged various resources for commercials.
It can be said that today's movie marketing routines are basically left over from Lao Zhang!
It has been eight years since Zhang Weipin left Jianghu, and the number of screens in China has long been the largest in the world, but the account sharing ratio is still maintained at 43%, and no one dares to touch the cake of the cinema chain...
Miss Lao Zhang...
The third place is Feng Xiaogang.
Because of the problem of big and small contracts, many people began to bombard a few people named by Xiao Cui, especially Feng Xiaogang, who had a deep holiday with Xiao Cui, and became the target of public criticism!
A bunch of public accounts even named him and scolded him for being a scumbag - catering to the psychology of many netizens...
Don't be in a hurry to scold just yet, look at his contributions!
The first to set foot in the field of commercial films was Feng Xiaogang, in 99's "Don't See Restlessness", Feng Xiaogang also opened up an era of Chinese films - the Chinese New Year file!
It can be said that in China's commercial films, Feng Xiaogang is the first person to eat crabs, and he is also a banner figure, and the emergence of the concept of Chinese New Year files has also laid the foundation for the National Day files and summer files in the future.
His film style is very different, in the environment at the time, completely give people a sense of whimsy, is a director with a strong sense of civilianism, there is a sense of the most ordinary and most civic intimacy, mostly from the perspective of civilians, to express the ideals of citizens, to the greatest extent to meet the inner desires and consumption requirements of the citizen class, to cater to the psychological interests and moral tendencies of ordinary people, to bring people happiness and at the same time to trigger social thinking.
He pioneered an alternative narrative in Chinese cinema.
It can be said that in the early years, it was Feng Xiaogang who carried the banner of "Chinese New Year Comedy", brought new ideas to Chinese films, and injected a booster into Chinese films that were sluggish in that era, which has far-reaching significance for the development of Chinese films and the promotion of film culture.
And in that era, he single-handedly created the golden sign of Feng's comedy.
In addition to the popular works, the most obvious characteristic of Director Feng is that the "mouth battle" is first-class, scaring the air, and countless people have been sprayed by him in the circle, movies, television, culture, variety shows, "Little Steel Cannon" Director Feng once he opened his mouth, when did he lose?
But there was only one person who made his exception.
This person is Xiao Cui, another actor who broke out in the entertainment industry some time ago to operate the dark box "Yin and Yang Contract" and push "Mobile Phone 2" to the wave.
In the face of Xiao Cui's continuous public opinion shells, Feng Xiaogang chose to respond with silence from beginning to end. Thought "Don't look! Don't listen! Don't say it! Don't want to! "If the six ears are pure, you can receive the supreme bodhi, and you can get through this level by not changing to all changes.
It's hard...
The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, Zhang Yimou was scolded as a sieve after filming "Three Guns", so much so that he filmed "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" later, which is obviously a good movie, but it was still sprayed...
By the way, he also shook out a bunch of bad things about Lao Zhang, but fortunately, Lao Zhang didn't have anything to worry about, except for having a few more babies.
Director Feng, tsk...
Merry characters!
No one is perfect...
However, the contributions of these three people to Chinese cinema can almost be said to have set the tone at this stage, without their contributions, the audience would not have walked into the cinema at all!
Without an audience, there is no market, and it is impossible to have a living space for a new director like Bai Xiaofei!