Li Tang looked at Ning Hao, who was entangled, and asked in a deep voice, "Then if you didn't come to Cannes this time and didn't win this award, then what would you do?" ”

“……”

Ning Hao's eyes were confused, he lowered his head and thought about it: "It must be the same as before, be an assistant director, or continue to shoot commercials or MVs." If you have the chance, you can also take pictures of your own work or something......"

Halfway through his words, he suddenly came to his senses, looked up at Li Tang, and smiled embarrassedly: "Teacher Li, look at me, do you feel that I can't get off when I am suddenly put in the air?" ”

"You just found out!" Li Tang scolded with a smile.

But all great joys and sorrows will give rise to some unrealistic ideas.

Let's talk about Ning Hao, half a year ago, he was just a senior student in Nortel's photography department who took private jobs everywhere. Suddenly, one day he received a private job from an assistant director, and in the process, he felt that the boss of the film company looked a bit like a wronged boss, so he tried to get the other party to invest in his graduation work, and the result was very successful and he cheated the money.

The process after that was like a fantasy drama for him, first the company recommended his graduation work to Cannes to participate in the competition, but he didn't expect it to be shortlisted, and what he didn't expect was that it won the award, which is still a weighty award.

The three major film festivals in Europe are the holy places and dreams in the hearts of countless directors, and he has fantasized about them before. And all this came so smoothly that he didn't expect it, and even had a very unreal feeling.

So, he ran to Li Tang and said a bunch of inexplicable words.

In fact, this is a very simple truth, but he was stunned for a while, or he enjoyed this dreamlike feeling very much, and he didn't want to return to reality, and he needed someone to wake him up.

It's like the Buddhist phrase "drinking on the head."

At this time, Ning Hao breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling that his legs, which were still fluttering when he were walking, were finally able to be grounded.

"Oh yes, I just said that you still want to continue to shoot your own works, do you have an idea?" Li Tang asked.

Ning Hao is the contracted director of Shengtang Film and Television, otherwise Li Tang would not have been able to invest in him to shoot the so-called graduation work, the idea at that time was very simple, that is, there were dates or no dates.

Unexpectedly, this graduation work he filmed was unique and experienced, so he was recommended to MK2 to participate in Cannes.

This time, "Incense" won the Special Attention Award of the Attention Unit, and it can be expected that after returning to China, Ning Hao will definitely be a new young director sought after by the media, and maybe he will become the first person of the so-called "seventh generation director".

What do you think, just last year, Lu Chuan was shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival with "Looking for a Gun", and in the end he didn't win any awards, but he was still touted by all kinds of people. To paraphrase a phrase that has been particularly familiar recently, "being shortlisted for the three major European film festivals is an honor in itself".

Therefore, Li Tang, the boss of the company, came up with the idea of striking while the iron was hot, and launched a new work as soon as possible while Ning Hao was now hot. Just like Lu Chuan under Huayi Brothers today, "Looking for a Gun" was a success last year, you don't care whose work "Looking for a Gun" is, after all, Lu Chuan is already famous. Not long ago, there was news that Huayi Brothers would spend tens of millions of dollars to invest in Lu Chuan's new works.

Another reason is that Li Tang is now being scared by Cheng Er's guy. It should be said that he became a blockbuster with "The Third Man", and the starting point is far beyond the current Lu Chuan. But this guy is really grinding, it's been almost three years since "The Third Man" to now, and he is still looking for inspiration in the middle, but he hasn't even seen the first draft of the script for a new work.

Sometimes Li Tang really doubts that this product will regret signing a contract with his company, so he wants to grind until the end of the five-year period, and then launch his new work on his own.

"Yes, yes, there are two books written before, but now that I think about it, these two books don't seem to be on the table.。 Ning Hao hesitated.

"What subject can't be on the table? Show it to me when you get back. Li Tang suddenly said with interest.

In these years, movies are still considered art, just like this year's "Hero" has set a box office record for domestic films, but it is still scolded by many people, in addition to scolding the movie, but also scolding the director for degenerating, compromising all kinds of clouds for the market.

But in Li Tang's view, it is true that film is art, but at the same time, it is also an industry, and making money is king. If everyone goes to the so-called art, and the film does not make money or even loses money, then it will become a source of no water, then who will invest in the movie?

As for the kind of art film he is working on now, there is no way to do it, it is nothing more than being forced by the current extremely bad domestic film market. Just imagine, in a large country with a population of more than one billion, the box office of movies in a year is less than one billion, and half of the contribution comes from Hollywood blockbusters.

In this environment, who would dare to take the risk of making a commercial film! And even if "Hero" set a domestic box office record of 250 million this year, it can't recover an investment of up to $30 million just by relying on the domestic box office, and in the end, it has to rely on the strong appeal of directors Li Lian and Zhang Yimou to recover costs and make money in overseas markets.

However, in view of the memory of his previous life, China's domestic box office market has long grown into a huge market second only to the North American market, and even surpasses the North American market in some cases, and the domestic box office market in the future presented in front of Li Tang is undoubtedly a huge blue ocean.

With the development of society and the improvement of various laws and regulations, even if it is a piracy industry that "depends on the food and clothing of millions of workers", it will eventually come to an end one day, and then the domestic film box office market will begin to take off.

Li Tang feels that he can now try to start a slow transformation into the field of commercial films, in fact, Zhang Baibai's "Going" was mixed with elements of half of commercial films.

As for saying that "The Third Man" and "Going" have achieved good box office in China, in fact, to put it bluntly, these two films have gone to Venice for a while, and the flowers bloom outside the wall and the fragrance inside the wall. When it comes to real commercial value, it is far from being talked about, and it is more just a matter of relying on foreign countries to gain self-respect.

In fact, the directors currently signed by the company, whether they are Cheng Er, who is known as a "ghost talent", or Diao Yinan, they are all directors who are more artistic. Cheng Erzhi is to Lou Ye, Diao Yinan is to Section Chief Jia, and at a glance, you can see that they are very similar to the styles of their respective idols.

Zhang Baibai can develop into the field of commercial films, but he seems to make people feel that he may lack talent or ability.

But Ning Hao is different, you can see his humor and chicken thief from "Incense", humor is an element of the movie, and the chicken thief is the director's character. At the very beginning, he knew how to attract the audience's attention. Therefore, what he pays attention to in the movie "Incense" is not his so-called style, but the integrity of the story, so that you can understand, make you laugh when you watch it, and experience the core of what he wants to show in laughter.

Hearing Li Tang say the request to take a look, Ning Hao said with a hesitant look on his face again: "I haven't thought about one of the books yet, and the other one has been written two years ago, and I have revised several drafts one after another, that is, uh......"

He showed a sneer, squirmed and said, "It's still the same sentence, it's just a little off the stage." ”

The more this product was swallowed, the more curious Li Tang became, and hurriedly asked: "What's not on the table, what kind of subject matter?" ”

"It's just a comedy...... It's probably similar to the theme of black crime, and I also said that it's not too good to fight, it's just some stories of a group of people who happened by accident. ”

Li Tang immediately became interested when he heard this, and the best selling thing now is Feng's New Year comedy. Although there are many followers, no one can replicate Feng Xiaogang's success.

But you can't deny that the audience's favorite thing to watch, in addition to the so-called blockbusters with huge investments, is undoubtedly comedy.

As for saying that no one can replicate Feng Xiaogang's success, he feels that he still hasn't done it well. It's like Xu Guanwen, who was known as the "cold-faced laugher" in the Hong Kong film industry back then, was outstanding, but was finally replaced by Zhou Xingxing's nonsense.

In the final analysis, it depends on whether the quality of the movie can be recognized by the audience. And more importantly, the investment in comedy is usually not large, the cost of trial and error is small, and even if it fails a few times, it is not a big problem.

So he hurriedly said: "Hey, isn't this very good, what is it called not on the stage, as long as the audience loves to watch it, it is a good movie and a good story, and there is nothing that cannot be put on the stage." The director's "Hero" has been scolded, you just won a small award now, do you feel that you have surpassed director Zhang Yimou? ”

When Ning Hao heard this, he almost jumped up from the chair, and hurriedly said, "Yo, Teacher Li, how dare I do this, don't say that." I'll show you it right away when I get back, okay? ”

It's a similar attitude.

Li Tang snorted lightly and pointed to the computer on the table: "Is there an electronic text, send it directly to my mailbox." ”

"Hey, okay, I'll send it to you when I get back."

At this moment, there was another knock on the room door.

There is no need to ask this time, it must be Xiao Zhao who is here.

Li Tang was about to get up to open the door, but Ning Hao had already stood up before him.

"I'll open the door, and you can just sit down."

After saying that, he ran towards the door.

"Director Ning, you're here too!"

As the door opened, Zeng Jia's voice was heard.

Then there was Ning Hao's grinning voice: "Mr. Zeng, Yaoyao, good morning!" Isn't this the excitement of winning the award, I can't sleep, I came over early in the morning to chat with Mr. Li, and asked Mr. Li to help enlighten and enlighten. ”

Hearing Ning Hao's words, the corners of Li Tang's mouth couldn't help but show a hint of a smile. Compared with the directors he has seen before, there is more or less a sense of superiority. Of course, except for director Zhang Yimou, he is another type, that is, the kind that is particularly sincere, giving people a particularly sincere feeling.

And Ning Hao is obviously an alternative in the group of directors, on the surface, you may think that he is a little too philistine and slippery, and it seems that he does not match the profession of a tall director.

But don't forget that Feng Xiaogang, who was born as a third-level artist, is also said to be very good at slapping horses and whiskers, and he has become what he is today by being Wang Shuo's horse boy.

And it is precisely their down-to-earth directors who can accurately grasp the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the little people, so that the audience can see the sincerity in your work, so that you can really win the audience's recognition.

Li Tang felt that Ning Hao had the potential to become "Feng Xiaogang's second", or go further, be able to become "Zhou Xingxing's second" who defeated Xu Guanwen.

However, he hopes that Ning Hao can become Ning Hao's first in the future.

The second update! It's the end of the month, so be cheeky and ask for a ticket!

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