Chapter Seventy-Four: Face to Face

"It's just a person who goes up and shares his experience..."

Xu Zheng answered: "Last time I shared my experience of watching "The Path" at Xiaoxitian's Art Cinema...

I remember that the lamp that shone on us was a stage lamp for drama, and it was hot on people's faces, like an oven! My sweat is like oil... It's not hot anymore!"

"The Path?" "Jia Zhangke's documentary..."

It's a documentary again...

No wonder Lao Jia's technique is not good, if you shoot a documentary, you must use a long lens, so it will always be a long lens!

"Lao Jia does some of the work that a director should do all day long, you look at Zhang Yimou, now he has launched two movies..."

"Two?"

"Yes, "Big Buddha" and "Lu Guilty Knowledge", "Big Buddha" is a script written by me, and "Lu Guilty Knowledge" is Yan Geling's script..."

"The Big Buddha... What's the plot?"

"It's a murder caused by a dashcam... It's just a literary film..."

Shen Xudong probably talked about the plot of "Big Buddha", the male protagonist Ah Wang is a garbage collector, and his friend Brother Qiang is a night guard in the factory, both of them have no money, and time is not valuable, so they decided to peek at the dash cam of the boss Huang Qiwen to pass the time.

Then through the dashcam to get a glimpse of the rich man's world, but also witness a murder...

This story didn't sound interesting, and Shen Xudong said: "I said a concept, and director Zhang Yi immediately became interested!"

"What concept?"

"The world of the poor is black and white, and the world of the rich is color..."

"Sketching two different worlds through a dashcam?"

"That's right!"

Ning Hao nodded frantically: "No wonder... If it's me, I'll shoot it too."

「… You're not doing No Man's Land anymore?"

Ning Hao glanced at Xu Zheng, and then said, "What are you doing... originally wanted Xu Zheng to lose 60 pounds, but he didn't do it... Then I'll find Zhu Yilong!"

Xu Zheng explained: "No, I'm going to shoot "Modern Times" and "Meet My Father-in-law" soon... I have to be in my current shape..."

Shen Xudong scratched his head: "... Zhu Yilong's acting skills are a little jerky... Let's change it, you look for Deng Chao or Zhang Yi..."

"I've talked to Zhu Yilong..."

"Then forget it, remember to sharpen it..."

Xu Zheng interjected: ""Thai Embarrassment" is confirmed to be released in early December?"

"Hmm... December 7th, and then "One Shot to the End" December 22nd... Two comedies reign over the Lunar New Year!"

"But I heard that Feng Xiaogang's "1942" is also going to be released in December?"

"Shangbei, although that movie is good, but... The plot is so miserable, no one will watch it for the New Year..."

……

The Young Directors Symposium sounds very high-end and serious, but in fact, they are pretending to be forced to promote a wave of their own movies by the way.

For example, Guan Hu said, """Killing" is now in the late stage, and I am ready to work with Yang Yang Shupeng's "Piff", not alone, which is good for our film, in fact, it should have been done together a long time ago. Just because Hollywood movies come in doesn't mean you're dead, and now you're taking Hollywood blockbusters a little too seriously."

Then Yang Shupeng said, "The incense of domestic films depends on us to keep it!" Wouldn't it be better to fight for industrial technology with Hollywood? The way I'm going to go, to make stylized commercial films.

It's a hard road, but it has to be walked. In fact, including Guan Hu and Zhang Yang, we are all doing such things.

The main reason is that China's old directors have no bottom line, and they make that kind of costume blockbuster at every turn, one after another, and I am about to collapse when I watch it.

Of course, I'm not saying that you can't shoot it, but at least it has to be new. Look at what they filmed, it's a waste of money and it's not good-looking, and it's not new in aesthetics, it's good that you want to make it into a foreign kind of "Chaos" and "Shadow Samurai", but here, let's just say something half-literate, what "I want to take your life", what's the point?"

Zhang Yang said, "Choose May Day at the end of April

file, at least everyone's competition is benign, we have no harm and slander, no water army "black" each other, jointly retain fans, stick to the signboard of domestic films, this is our common mission."

Speaking of which... It's pretty good.

It can be seen that these people are still confident in their works.

Then Lu Chuan came out - there are rumors that "The King's Feast" has a difficult birth...

Because I can't pass the trial...

Zhen Nyima is, a costume film, about a meal, what can't be reviewed?

Lu Chuan was very aggrieved: "Can you give Chinese films and Hollywood blockbusters a starting line for fair competition? Why can we consume history but not face it?"

"We were originally scheduled to be released on July 5, but now we can't release it, I heard that it is to pave the way for a film invested by China Film..."

Then I cried: "The producer has always given me the greatest support, and I thought that I should use the producer's money for a while. But this time the filming of "The King's Feast" was particularly touching, I learned a lot through this play, I can no longer have a coquettish mentality, we are now facing a steel giant, we must be strong. I'm going to do the next drama in an industrial way, not coquettishly..."

Shen Xudong was a little speechless, and touched Xu Zheng's elbow: "He seems to cry every time!"

Xu Zheng nodded... didn't look at him at all - a bunch of "young directors" next to him were staring at Shen Xudong.

Shen Xudong was thinking, too, Lu Chuan cried on different occasions - he has a bit of a comprehensive performance certificate.

Ning Hao couldn't stand it anymore, and whispered: "The movie released on July 5th, invested by China Film, don't you think it's familiar?"

「… What is it?"

"Our company's "Painted Skin 2"!"

Shen Xudong instantly understood: "***, this thing scolds me!"

Then the host Yin Hong glanced at Shen Xudong's: "Director Shen, do you have anything to say?"

Shen Xudong lifted his frame: "... Can I say that?"

「… Aren't you ready?"

"It's okay..." Shen Xudong got up directly, took the microphone, and smiled: "When I was in school, for a while, many media boasted about the director of "Looking for a Gun", saying that he was a young talent and a leading figure in Chinese directors, so I rented a disc and watched it... That's it? This thing is also a youth leader? To be honest, I once doubted my aesthetic ability for beautiful things... Later, I chatted with the teacher, and the teacher said, "Don't watch this movie, just two words: pretend!" 」

"Actually, my understanding of pretending to be forced has always been quite positive, art needs to pretend, Li Bai is quite capable of pretending, everyone goes to Lushan to play, and when they see the waterfall, they will say, "Wow, what a big water", just he pretended to be forced, but he wanted to say, "Flying down 3,000 feet is suspected of the Milky Way falling for nine days"!"

"Art is for pretending. It's not just art; As long as it can appear that a person is a little different from others, a little more interesting, a little more unique, it is a suspicion of pretending!"

"But pretending to be awesome is not the same as being awesome, if you think you are really awesome, you pay for it yourself or borrow money to make a movie by yourself, and it is your own to lose money and make money, don't take the investor's money as money, if you think you are really awesome, you can make a film for yourself, don't care if others can't understand it, close the door, put it for yourself, and be moved to see yourself!

Cry him for three days and three nights!

If you feel that you will win awards for literature and art, don't try for money, if you want to take the road of box office, you will honestly serve the audience, and now entering the cinema is an entertainment act, just to have fun, not to be educated, not to improve artistic taste!

The things in the Forbidden City are much more tasteful than yours, don't always think that you are higher than the audience, you can shoot the overlord Farewell My Concubine, I also want to convince you once!

The question is, did you shoot it? The entire "Nanjing! Nanking! >> Still from the perspective of the Japanese Ben people? What's wrong, you're not Chinese?

What defines you as a person is not what you say, but what you do.

It's the same for the director, no matter how much we say outside of the work, we don't have to take it too seriously, what can define him is, in the final analysis, the work itself."

"In addition, Painting

Leather 2" was announced last year to be set for July 5th, you tell me clearly, what obstacle has been cleared? Don't think I don't know, I said that I didn't finish the post-production before I finished the post-production, and I made a movie with a cost of more than 100 million, and I still have a coquettish mentality? Is it your father?"

"Restore history? On what basis do you say restore history? After looking at a few local stalls, you dare to say that you are facing history? Have you read the Book of Han? Why don't we have a debate?"