"Mr. Na Lin believes that the most fundamental reason for the decline of Hong Kong and Hong Kong films is what . Why? Han Sanping then asked. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Lack of creativity, brain drain, rigid systems are the factors that seem to me. It's all very superficial, and more importantly, the decision-makers of these entertainment companies lack a sense of awareness, and they spend their minds on how to gain market share in the competition, but they don't seriously think about how to make this cake bigger and stronger. When the cake is eaten up, the decline of the market becomes inevitable. Lin Mu paused, and said with some regret: "In fact, with the market capacity of Hong Kong/Hong Kong films, if it is used reasonably, it will not fall to the point where it is today." Some previous movies were too dead and too desperate, and often when a movie becomes popular, it will attract countless followers, and the market for this series of movies will be exhausted in advance. In fact, as early as the glorious era of Hong Kong/Hong Kong films, they were already doomed to today's decline. ”

Han Sanping nodded silently, Lin Mu was interested in the Hong Kong/Hong Kong movie. The analysis shocked him greatly, and some of the insights even subverted some of the conclusions in his mind, but he could not find any reason to refute them.

"The green mountains are still there, several. Sunset red? Looking back on the development process of Hong Kong/Hong Kong films, Lin Mu also felt a little emotional for a while. It is "the world is out of my generation, and the years of the rivers and lakes are urging." As said in the film "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2 Undefeated in the East", the glory of the Shaw Brothers movies in the Hong Kong film industry is no longer there, such as Run Run Shaw, who is a man of the year in Hong Kong films, has entered the twilight of life, and the grievances and grievances of the year are also better than a drunk in life in talking and laughing, and what is left to Lin Mu is a deep recollection.

"What a 'world is out of my generation', I don't know how many people in today's Chinese film industry can be regarded as heroes in Mr. Lin's eyes?" On a whim, Han Sanping wanted Lin Mu to make a comment on the influential figures in Chinese films.

"The mainland and Hong Kong are one, and Mr. Han has a lot of research on Chinese films, so why don't you talk about the general trend of Chinese films in the next ten years?" Lin Mu kicked the ball to Han Sanping again.

"Golden Harvest Zou Wenhuai, ten years of joining forces with Run Run Shaw, has achieved the take-off of Hong Kong/Hong Kong films, discovered Ang Lee Xiaolong, made Cheng Long popular, Sammo Hung , and now Golden Harvest has a superior status in Chinese films, with this, Zou Wenhuai can be regarded as a hero?"

"Jiahe is now at the end of the crossbow, after all, Mr. Zou Wenhuai is already at the age of the sixtieth year, and I am afraid it will be difficult to make great achievements in the future." Lin Mu shook his head.

Huang Baiming of Oriental Films, like Mr. Lin, entered the showbiz as a screenwriter, and "The Wrong Car", "Best Partner", "Why Have Me" and "Ah Lang's Story" written by him made the four male protagonists actors. Later, he served as both a director and an actor, and the director's 5 films broke the Hong Kong/Hong Kong box office record, and he himself is also a representative of Hong Kong/Hong Kong Chinese New Year films, participating in more than 200 films, discovering stars such as Wu Qianlian and beyond, he may get a share of the Chinese film pie in the future? ”

"Huang Baiming in the era of New Art City is indeed a character, but it is difficult for today's oriental movies to reproduce the glory of the past!" Lin Mu still shook his head.

"Ze. Wong Kar-wai of East Films, the company is not very productive, but it is a classic. In the next ten years of Chinese films, I am afraid that Wong Kar-wai is indispensable! ”

"To be precise, Wong Kar-wai as a director is indispensable, but as the owner of a film company, Wong Kar-wai's business vision is not as outstanding as his directorial talent!" Lin Mu once again denied Han Sanping's statement.

"To Qifeng, a frequent visitor to the Hong Kong/Hong Kong Film Awards, To's films have become a new symbol of Hong Kong/Hong Kong films."

"I have to admire Johnny To's directorial talent, but unfortunately he is still just an excellent director."

"Apart from these people, I really can't think of anyone else who will be able to dominate the Chinese film industry in the next ten years." Han Sanping almost clicked all the famous bigwigs in the Hong Kong/Hong Kong film industry, but Lin Mu still shook his head.

"A person who can be called a hero should be a person with great ambitions, good intentions, and far-sightedness." Han Sanping said that these people do not meet the standards of Lin Mu, "Run Run Shaw in the 60s and Zou Wenhuai in the 80s can be regarded as such characters, but unfortunately Hong Kong/Hong Kong in the 90s can no longer find such characters." ”

"In Mr. Lin's opinion, in the next ten years, who can be called a hero in Chinese films?" Han Sanping asked curiously.

Lin Mu said with a smile: "Mr. Han understands why people should pretend to be confused, you counted the Hong Kong/Hong Kong filmmakers one by one, why did you forget yourself?" ”

"Me?" Han Sanping said with a wry smile: "I'm just the director of a film studio, and I still eat public meals, how can I compare with those famous people?" ”

"Why should Mr. Han be arrogant, since the government of China and the government already has the idea of integrating superior resources, then the future of commercial films in China's huge market is promising. In my opinion, the Chinese film market will still be one-third in the future. Paramount's entry into Asia is a foregone conclusion, and Hollywood films, which have absolute advantages in terms of funding and technology, have taken advantage of the time; Hong Kong/Hong Kong films have been operating for several generations, with deep roots, and it is not important to disperse one family, but if they are united, they can monopolize the land; Mainland films are catching up with the latter, developing rapidly, and the local market has huge potential, which can be regarded as a benefit from sitting on people. ”

The cooperation with Beiying is only a small part of Linmu's strategy in Asia, and the investment in the construction of a film and television base is only an additional project of the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon". At this time, he already faintly smelled the uneasy breath before the storm.

At the same time, Lin Mu also had to prepare for the new script, DreamWorks is okay, the company is not large, and it is taking the route of high-quality, "Toy Story" and "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" in production are enough to cope for a while, but Paramount is different, and the huge industry cannot be supported by one or two movies. During this period of time, Lin Mu was thinking about the theme of the new script, and a conversation with Han Sanping made Lin Mu think of the gang/gang movie in Hong Kong. Gangster movies have always been one of the most important genre films in Hong Kong films, but in recent years, they have not felt the same as they used to be, and many such films are difficult to make new ideas, so the audience is lost, and the film business has lost confidence in it for a while.

Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of Mariop Zo's novel, The Godfather, became the first classic of Hollywood gangster cinema, an insurmountable peak in the history of gangster cinema. Every subsequent gangster movie is under its observation, or extracts one of its rich themes to develop, or deliberately does the opposite, but it just proves to be influenced by it. However, although the overall performance of "The Godfather 3" filmed in the early 90s was not as good as the first two, it still made an epic conclusion to the history of the Corleone family.

A "Godfather" has taken gang/gangster movies to the extreme, so much so that throughout the 90s, there was no similar commendable film in Hollywood. Lin Mu, who was fascinated by gangster/gangster movies in his previous life, decided to create a gang/gangster movie by himself, and he had already thought of the director before he even had any ideas in the script. Working with Francis Ford Coppola has always been Lin Mu's dream, but that stubborn old man is not so easy to be easily moved.

After the international success of the two episodes of The Godfather, Coppola financed his own film Apocalypse Now, a film about the Vietnam War. This ambitious filming plan was shrouded in the shadow of a buzzing frustration and budget overrun. The American magazine Entertainment Weekly called Coppola a "madman who has lost his supervision." However, Apocalypse Now has turned into a masterpiece again. Although the cost of $30 million was considered an astronomical amount under the conditions of the time, he actually made a lot of money, totaling 180 million guan yuan.

After making four best-selling films, the bearded, long-haired man who scared studio owners was seen as a creative genius. Everyone was waiting for his prank again. As he eventually got on his toes, he became even crazier. He intends to show Hollywood how he can make films completely independently. However, in 1981 he hired Nastasiki. Kinsky's "Sweetheart" gave him a slap in the face, and the film failed miserably, both artistically and economically. Because he didn't want to go to Las Vegas to shoot, he spent $6 million on the set alone.

In the end, the $30 million film was only. Recovered costs of 1 million. Coppola is heavily indebted, with almost $50 million in debt. As he himself admitted, he was in the midst of "dire straits". This was just the beginning, and his personal tragedies (such as the death of his son Gian Carlo in a car accident) and failures followed. In 1988, Coppola left Hollywood in disgust, telling the New York Times: "I don't work with him anymore, I'm almost 50 years old, and I have to focus on doing what I really want to do." Although he later filmed "The Godfather 3" for financial reasons, he faded out of sight after that.

The forest has once tens of millions of Napa Valley. Visiting Francis Ford Coppola, a 60-year-old man sitting in front of his wine-keeping cottage with an oak tree on his head, told Lin Mu with a smile: "As I get old, I want to do something unusual." I don't have much time to lose on things that don't matter to me. So my next work has to be an unbeatable truly ambitious classic, xylon, bring your script with you the next time you come, and it's not your cheque that can really move me right now, it's your script! ”

Francis Ford Coppola looked meaningfully at Lin Mu Yi. Eye, looking over his vineyard bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, "Utilitarian business purposes can't write really good works, Xylon, I admit you're very good, but what you need most now is patience!" Tolstoy wrote "War and Peace" ten times! Remember, what I need is a real boutique! ”

On the way back, Lin Mu had been chewing on Francis Fo. With Te-Coppola's words, he found that he was indeed a little impatient in this matter. In the past, he could quickly come up with a script because he already had a suitable template in memory, or he already had a mature idea. But he found that it was not very easy to really write a script on his own. There are a lot of thoughts and ideas, but it is not as easy as what Lin Mu did before to implement these ideas into the plot one by one.

If he compared writing a script to a decoration before, the current . He was undoubtedly going to build a house himself. He had to construct his own framework and form his own logic. Francis Ford Coppola is very demanding, and Lin Mu doesn't think that he can convince this veritable "godfather" of Hollywood gangster movies by taking a random script.

Although I have seen it in a previous life. Lots of black. help movies, but this does not mean that Lin Mu knows the so-called black very well. Help. This is a very unfamiliar subject to Lin Mu and many screenwriters, most of the movies, novels and literary works about gangs/gangs are the author's imagination, and if you want to truly portray gangs/gangs, you can't watch a few movies or a few novels.

For the real feeling and understanding of black. In the life of the gang, Lin Mu first opened the door to several large prisons in the United States, and got the opportunity to talk to prisoners detained for underworld crimes, many of them are leaders of underworld organizations, and some even have murders in their hands.

The meeting and conversation with these people subverted Lin Mu's previous understanding of the gang/gang, and in his influence, black. The people in the Dao are all full of flesh and look fierce, but the gang/gang leaders who Lin Mu came into contact with who are willing to talk to him give Lin Mu a common feeling, if he is not in prison, Lin Mu will definitely not think that what he is sitting in front of him is a black/Taoist character who is responsible for murder and murder without blinking.

These people all look suave and elegant, and you will never be in the dark when you meet them. Tao is connected. And as the conversation deepened, Lin Mu was surprised to find that these people were all well-educated without exception. The kind of temperament they exude gives Lin Mu a feeling that is definitely not something that can be cultivated after a few years of reading.

Talking to these people, Lin Mu felt that they were all very calm, and even talked about many illegal experiences, they were telling them in an understated tone, as if it was a trivial matter that was not worth mentioning. This kind of attitude of ignoring rules and laws is something that Lin Mu can't feel in movies or books.

Lin Mu found a vague shadow from these people, he felt that this was the character and life he wanted to show, but it was not enough to understand these, Lin Mu knew that these people he came into contact with were all people hidden behind the darkness, and they were manipulating everything in secret. Without clever means, even people will never find out who they really are. So what kind of state are the people walking in the front desk of the black road, Lin Mu decided to feel it for himself. (To be continued.) )