"Movies are the feedback of the times, and the stories they tell are also the stories of the times. In China, in the past decade, the biggest change is the rapid urbanization brought about by the rapid development of the country as a whole, and its impact on traditional cultural values in people's hearts. ”

"Everyone has to adapt to this shock, and the people who are at the forefront of this shock are your post-80s generation."

For this passage, Sun Yi agrees with it very much in his heart.

The first batch of post-80s generations have just gained a foothold in cities of all sizes, and they are about to face the goal of starting a family, and what the movie "Those Years" wants to shoot is their youth memories.

Today, Director Tian Zhuang came and started his on-site "teaching" on the set.

It happened to be the crew's transition break, and Sun Yi followed Sister Yu to listen carefully like a good baby.

Xue Xiaolu had already experienced this scene when she was filming "Send You a Little Red Flower", and when she saw Director Tian Zhuang's posture, she immediately excused herself that the crew had something to do, got up and walked away, and did not forget to give her sister and brother a look of self-help when she left.

In the director's monitoring studio, Tian Zhuang moved the stool back a little, peeked at Senior Sister Yu, and then lit a cigarette very neatly and asked Sun Yi:

"Sun Yi, tell me, are youth films and romance films the same?"

This question is really something that Sun Yi hadn't considered before.

Thinking about the previous life, many movies are under the banner of youth films, but they just change the cliché love into a vest and put it on the beautiful and full of selling points of youth on the shelf for publicity.

The affectionate paragraph for no reason, the love between the two people without a cause and no foundation, is to keep sprinkling sugar on the audience, and later learned the routine of Korean dramas, and played sugar first and then knife.

How to abuse how to come, and then forcibly follow the routine on the plot, what love triangles, family obstacles, leg splitting, terminal illness, and car accidents and abortions.

Thinking of this, Sun Yi didn't bother to continue complaining, shook his head at Tian Zhuang, and denied:

"Mr. Tian, I think youth films are different from love."

"Romance films revolve more around emotions, and all plots revolve around emotions."

"And youth films are not like this, memories, emotions, experiences, accompanied by many words such as beauty, regret, nostalgia, etc., are fused into the word youth. He is a microcosm of people's past. ”

After hearing this, Tian Zhuang nodded approvingly, expressing his approval of Sun Yi's answer, and Sun Yi continued:

"It is true that the film must have an aesthetic effect and something to watch. Emotion is the beautiful existence in the film. This is very reasonable, whose youth has not experienced those beautiful little throbbings?"

"But, if a youth film is just about love, I want to ask, is this in line with the facts?"

"The source of the film is life, in addition to the delicate emotions between the male and female protagonists, the campus where the film is filmed, and the school uniforms on the actors, are the epitome of our era, and life, growth, and learning are things that occupy most of the time of our life in that era."

"Only by showing all of these can we reflect the values of the whole film and make the audience aware of ......"

In the end, Sun Yi's tone became softer and softer, until he stopped completely, and he realized that he seemed to have become one of the directors he hated the most, and he no longer wanted to preach to the audience all the time, and he was always thinking about conveying his values to the audience.

His mind was a little confused at the moment.

On the one hand, he felt that he was not wrong, and youth films should be filmed like this, and on the other hand, the experience of his previous life told him that he hated such a person who preached all day long.

The two thoughts were constantly entangled in Sun Yi's mind, and his brows became tighter and tighter.

At this moment, Sun Yi's chaotic state was in Tian Zhuang's eyes.

However, he didn't speak, just hooked the corners of his mouth, crossed Erlang's legs, smoked by himself, and let Sun Yi be entangled there.

He came to the crew today, and through a morning of observation, he noticed that Sun Yi's guidance level was far from being comparable to that of a novice, and his talent was terrifying, and even shocked him. is already at the point where he can form his own independent directorial style.

Sun Yi is a halfway monk, and he has not systematically studied the directing profession, and some concepts are indistinguishable, which has caused confusion in his own thinking.

And Tian Zhuang wanted to take this opportunity to give Sun Yi the most critical lesson on the road to directing.

"What is a director's personal style."

Just like Jia Zhangke, from "Xiao Wu" to "Heaven Destined", "Mountains and Rivers", his style will always be a mirror of society.

Maybe many people don't like his style and don't like to watch this kind of film, but such films are really indispensable.

A director without a personal style will only become more and more ingenious, and eventually become a filming machine.

......

Time passed quickly, Tian Zhuang finished smoking one cigarette, and he looked at Sun Yi for a long time.

"Mr. Tian, I don't understand it, I think this film should be made like this, but I am extremely disgusted with using the director's identity to preach to the audience."

"Our generation has been subjected to too much, too many constraints from all sides, and we have been breathless. Mom and dad don't talk about it at home, I am taught by teachers at school, I am managed by the company at work, and there are all kinds of moral kidnapping in society, I really don't want to add those preaching to the movie. ”

"I just want the audience to be happy and spend two hours in the cinema."

After hearing this, Tian Zhuang smiled contemptuously.

"Boy, ironically our old men like to preach all day long, hmph, I'll talk about this later, let's talk about your entanglements first."

was heard by Tian Zhuang, Sun Yi was not embarrassed, he really thought so in his heart.

Tian Zhuang talked about the topic just now.

"Youth films and romance films are actually different, you are right, they have something in common, but compared with romance films, the core element of youth films is commemoration, as a director, you must show the audience the commemoration of youth in the film, so as to stimulate the audience's resonance."

As he spoke, Tian Zhuang raised his hand and pointed at Sun Yi.

"Your problem is that you confuse preaching to the audience with empathizing with the audience."

"Every director inevitably adds his own thoughts to a film when making a film. As long as the director is still a human profession, this must exist.

"It's like every writer expresses his or her own experience to a greater or lesser extent in his book."

"If you are human, you can't avoid it, there is a degree of preaching and resonance, and a clever director can master this degree, and transform the boring preaching into stimulating the audience's resonance through color, structure and plot, and finally form his own independent style."

"This degree cannot be explained in words, this requires the director's own experience, and the ability to grasp the pulse of the current times, the answer I can give you is to learn more, reflect more, experience more, think about what the audience thinks, and shoot what the audience thinks."

After Sun Yi heard this, he looked at Tian Zhuang in surprise.

Is this still Tian Zhuang, who specializes in making bitter and hateful movies, and is this still one of the fifth-generation directors who pursues all kinds of characters and an incomparably profound spiritual world?

Tian Zhuang saw Sun Yi's surprise, and said with a somewhat self-deprecating smile:

"Why, I didn't expect this to come out of the mouth of an old stubborn man like me?"

With that, he sighed and lit another cigarette.

"Tsk, this truth was also figured out when I was banned a few years ago. Times are different, we are outdated, it's time to give way. ”

Sun Yi followed up and asked.

"Then why not ......."

"Why not keep up with the times and make changes?"

Tian Zhuang glanced at Sun Yi with a smile.

"It can't be changed, the education that our generation has received is deeply ingrained."

As he spoke, he pointed to his head with a cigarette in his hand.

"What's more, at my age, my thoughts have been solidified. For example, I can't watch your film, we were big yard disciples at that time......"

"It's impossible for a director to make everyone like his film, in the current fashionable words, you are not RMB, why should everyone like you."

Oh, this old man is sober in the world, and he can see it very clearly.

Hearing this, Sun Yi couldn't help but feel a little admiration in his heart.

Tian Zhuang ignored Sun Yi's gaze and continued:

"The creative ability of most directors is limited, and after that period, they can only keep repeating themselves, or even walking down the road, and can only eat their old books."

Can this all be said?

Sun Yi smiled and looked at Tian Zhuang with a surprised expression, his eyes full of curiosity.

Tian Zhuang directly opened his mouth and scolded with a smile:

"You get out of the way, I'm talking about phenomena, not people."

was scolded without pain or itching, and Sun Yi honestly sat down again.

Tian Zhuang flicked the cigarette ash in his hand and said solemnly:

"Right now, for you young people, it's the best of times and it's the worst of times."

"With the rapid development of society, all kinds of new things are all-encompassing, which can be understood and experienced by young directors of your generation, and I am self-aware. I can't keep up with the times, so I stay in school to teach, lay a good foundation for you young people, and occasionally make a few films that impress you and have a good time. ”

Tian Zhuang in front of him was a little lonely, his beard was gray, and the smile on the corner of his mouth looked a little bitter, but his eyes were still bright, and he gave Sun Yi a compulsory lesson as a director.

The fifth-generation directors of Huaxia have created a generation of glory in Chinese-language films.

They not only completely changed the historical outlook of the Chinese film tradition, but also fulfilled the long-cherished wish of Chinese filmmakers for decades, realized the synchronization of Chinese films with the world, and achieved the early dreams of the film ancestors who "stood among the nations of the world".

Their rise foreshadows the future and hope of Chinese films. It was they who brought Chinese films to the world and the market, and created a new artistic atmosphere for Chinese films.

However, with the rapid growth of China's national strength, after the Chinese people's confidence in Chinese traditional culture has increased, there are many different voices for the fifth generation of directors.

believes that those award-winning films reflect China in the eyes of Westerners, which is extremely inconsistent with the real status quo of China in reality, and there is a huge contrast between the two.

It is believed that their films are more to cater to the centrism of the West, and the "East" in the eyes of those foreigners is actually the East constructed under the prejudice and ideology of Westerners, with a demeaning and curious Western mentality, not the real China.

Later, the "squinting eyes" incident of a certain academy of fine arts, and even the controversy of "Wolf Warrior" going abroad, are actually ideological collisions.

Sun Yi is noncommittal about this, he believes that this is the limitation of the times, and it is also the inevitability of the development of the times, just like the film from silent to sound, from a single picture to editing, from stand-in to special effects, it must change with the progress of technology.

In the same way, people think differently in different eras.

For example, in the current 06 years, the sci-fi blockbuster Huaxia landed on Mars, which is easy to cause a lot of complaints, although it is a sci-fi film, but it is too detached from reality, and the audience has no sense of substitution.

Of course, excellent movies can transcend the era, but how many such movies can there be.

Movies are popular art, and they should be made for a wide audience.

Sun Yi felt that his biggest gain today was that sentence.

"Think what the audience thinks, shoot what the audience thinks."

......

Xue Xiaolu turned around and came back, the scene on the crew's side was arranged, and it was time to continue filming.

Now the progress of the entire crew is maintained very well, the scenes of the male and female protagonists have been filmed, there is also a scene in the rain, and the exterior of the seaside.

In the rain scene, Sun Yi discussed with Xue Xiaolu, and they all thought that the current time is still enough, you can wait for the real rainy day, the scene by the sea is not difficult, one day there is enough time, wait for the final filming, and let everyone relax and relax.

Now what I want to shoot is some marginal scenes, the scenes of teachers in the school, and the direct interaction between the male and female protagonists and their classmates.

The teachers in the film are all cameos by teachers from Beiying, and the character modeling is no problem.

Grumpy math homeroom teacher, chattering Chinese teacher, young and fashionable English teacher.

The lines are also worked on.

"You guys are the worst class I've ever led, think about the last ......"

"Don't move, I'll talk for another minute."

"The physical education teacher has something to do, I'll ..... this class"

"If you don't study hard now, you will regret it later."

And so on, these were the mantras of the teachers of that era.

There is also an interactive plot between the male and female protagonists and their classmates.

In one of them, Sun Yi was lifted up by several brothers, rubbing his legs back and forth on the tree.

When filming at that time, Liu Yifei did not shy away from standing aside to observe.

She's never seen this, she's so curious.

She covered her mouth tightly with her hands to prevent her laughter from being heard, but the crooked corners of her eyes and her trembling shoulders betrayed her.

How embarrassing and embarrassing this posture is, Sun Yi originally wanted to delete it, but thinking that many boys have really experienced it, he kept it.

After filming, Sun Yi walked with a little crotch.

"Mud Horse, you guys are really ......"

That night, Yang Fan specially came to the crew to find Sun Yi and talked about the situation of "Soldier Assault......

PS: If nothing else, this book should be officially on the shelves at 0:00 tonight. In order to be able to make a small explosion after it is put on the shelves, this chapter will be changed today, but it is also a two-in-one 4000-word chapter.

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