On the cover of the August 31 issue of the "Film Handbook", there was a photo of He Fang smoking and contemplating, and then the bold headline was "The Master's Reflections - He Fang: There Are Too Many Shackles of Literary Films, It's Time to Change".

During the three major film festivals, you can imagine how many filmmakers pay attention to the articles of these top magazines? Almost every one of them is a key interview with the master, and it is the trend of future films.

Although He Fang is young, his influence in the film industry is very great. However, although the fame is great, no one has yet called him a master.

Now it's okay, "Film Manual" directly called He Fang a film master, the key is that this film master is still unashamed to say that literary films have shackles and need to be changed.

As a result, many filmmakers are not convinced, what are the shackles of literary films? What to change?

It's just that after reading this interview, everyone fell into deep thought, what he said is not unreasonable.

There are too many rules and regulations in literary films, which in turn limits the expression of thoughts and emotions in films. As far as he can say, there are more than a dozen important indicators for literary films, each of which puts shackles on literary films, and is also the reason why literary films are not treated by ordinary audiences.

Because if ordinary audiences want to understand literary films, they must learn what the various meanings of these ten or so important indicators are, and what they express in audiovisual language.

But how is this possible? Audiovisual language as a language, how difficult is it for you to get a layman of that language to understand what you are saying?

It's like if you ask someone who only knows spoken English in the London countryside to understand Chinese, an advanced two-dimensional language, how can they understand it? How could they learn it all at once?

So, aren't you pushing the audience away? The audience has pushed it away, who do you want to express your thoughts and emotions in literary films?

Well, even if your literary movies are only shown to people who understand the audiovisual language of literary films, then after so many years, what tricks can you play with just a dozen or so rules?

So, who is the example of Picasso. Why was Picasso great? Because he broke the rules and regulations of painting, he did not paint according to the conventional definition of painting. Therefore, his paintings are free, abstract, and beyond the imagination of the picture itself.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the concept proposed by He Fang is enough to shock everyone and arouse everyone's deep thinking and exploration.

And the contrast between the neoliberalism he said and the frame of literary films makes it easy to understand what it means. The framework of these literary films restricts the freedom of thought, and also restricts the free expression of thoughts and feelings.

He Fang proposed to remove the rules and regulations, and only retain the new form of literary and artistic films such as 'exploring and excavating the thoughts and emotions of the essence of the world'.

This is an epoch-making idea, a film master's analysis and thinking about movies, regardless of where this statement is true, his thinking alone is enough to be called a master.

So...... After watching this interview, the media and filmmakers were silent and then crazy, and some filmmakers seemed to have an epiphany, and finally saw where the shackles that restricted his films were.

Learn from Picasso, learn from neoliberalism, break down obstacles, let go of shackles, and find new forms of literary cinema.

So......

Many filmmakers came to the hotel of "Dallas Buyers Club" and unanimously asked to see him and hear his explanation of the new form of literary film......

Leonardo was a little confused, Jared was stupid, and Jennifer didn't understand what was going on...... It wasn't until their assistant inquired that they figured out what was going on.

"Oh Maiga, so we've been working with God." Jared exaggerated.

"He is indeed a master, his thinking is epoch-making, and he is destined to leave a name in film history." Leonardo nodded in agreement.

"Hah, let's go and see what Ho has to say to those filmmakers......" Jennifer said with interest.

So the three of them came to Where's room, but he was already out.

After inquiring again, I went to the café downstairs of the hotel, where to chat with Da.

"He, how do you think that the expression of literary films will be shackles?"

He Fang sat in a position against the wall of the café, and there were already more than a dozen filmmakers sitting opposite him, all of whom were people with strong literary temperament, and there were more than a dozen reporters who were recording, and each of them had a cup of coffee.

A middle-aged white man with glasses was asking where he was, and after Leonardo and the three of them came over, he didn't interrupt, but just waved and found a place to sit down.

"If cinema is an expression of thoughts and emotions, it has to be free. And now the way of expression of literary films, do you feel free? Why should emotions be expressed in long shots? Why pursue a form of video that resembles documentary? Is natural sound necessarily true? So is thought objective or subjective? ”

He Fang asked several questions in a row, and he continued without waiting for anyone to answer.

"Isn't it contradictory that the author's film requires the filmmaker to try his best to pursue authenticity, documentary, and objectification, and on the other hand, requires the film to be the expression of the director's thoughts and emotions? How can the expression of personal thoughts and emotions be documented and objectified? An individual's thoughts and emotions are always subjective, and even if he tries to be as close to the objective as possible, he cannot be completely objective.

Therefore, in order to pursue the expression of personal thoughts and emotions, it should not require documentary and objectification. However, if documentary and objectification are required, there can be no personal thoughts and emotions of the creator, and it is almost impossible for the two to be expressed at the same time. ”

"No, the author's film is not what you understand." At this time, someone raised a rebuttal, a high-spirited white young man in his thirties.

"The author's film requires the director to use elements such as documentary and objectival as much as possible, that is, he hopes that the director will use objective things close to the real to express the director's thoughts and emotions. For example, he saw the cruelty of society to a woman, so the director picked up a camera to film the oppression of this woman, in order to express the director's dissatisfaction with society and the idea of pursuing fairness.

This does not exist that you can't have both, and it has been proved that many excellent works have been produced in literary films over the years...... "The more this young man talked, the more excited he became, as if he could become famous in one fell swoop if he argued about where to go.

He Fang didn't interrupt him, let him give various examples there, and when this person finished speaking, He Fang nodded.

"So is this a documentary, or is it a film with a story? If it's a documentary, it's not a feature film, we can say it's a documentary film festival, not to mention a feature film festival.

Secondly, if this is not a documentary, it is designed with a human script, then is it really unreal? Where does authenticity come from? Because the designed plot is not objective, but subjective.

Just like some Chinese directors, they wanted to shoot some dirty messes in Shanghai, but there are few such places in Shanghai, so they found a dilapidated place, built some such scenes, hired a few actors, and pretended to be the bottom of the society and the homeless.

Excuse me, is this kind of documentary and objective art? Or is it a subjective pose by the director? Is this the best of both worlds? And which of the award-winning films we have seen at the three major film festivals over the years has not been artificially designed? How many of them are truly documentary and objective? ”

He Fang's rhetorical question stumped the young filmmaker, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

However, another filmmaker, who was about sixty years old, spoke.

"Literary films are to express the author's thoughts and emotions while pursuing as much objectivity as possible, taking the middle value, if it is more documentary, it must also be dramatized, so that it can be both objective and thoughtful, which is the uniqueness of literary films."

The old man's answer was much more precise.

That is to say, this is a pseudo-objective subjective expression, and under the guise of pursuing documentary, it is really an act of selling the author's thoughts and emotions. This is teaching directors to do things that are false and deceive the audience, and if this kind of development continues, a large number of directors will ignore the facts, falsify the truth, and then help him to criticize in order to achieve the purpose of selling his thoughts and emotions.

Isn't this a good character, and shouldn't a person with good character express his thoughts and emotions while respecting the facts? When a director uses a fake 'truth' to participate in an award, and a group of people give honor to the fake 'truth', what is the behavior of this group of people called? ”

He Fang sarcastically said that all the literary filmmakers were unhappy all of a sudden, but they couldn't refute it for a while.

"You are deliberately smearing, this is not the case with literary movies."

"I don't dare to judge if that's the case, I'm just saying that if you shoot like you say, will there be such a possible result?" He Fang felt a cigarette and lit it.

By this time, more and more people had joined the café, and the number had grown to hundreds.

"Then you say you're exploring a new form of literary film, what kind of art is "Dallas Buyers Club"? What did you explore? Someone asked.

He Fang took a puff on his cigarette and shrugged his shoulders.

"The Dallas Buyers Club is pursuing two things, one is documentary, and the other is the expression of the thoughts and emotions of the film, and I think the film does two of those."

"Watts? You are a commercial film, where is the documentary, where is the ......" The man didn't speak halfway through the rebuttal, as if he had thought of something.

Everyone looked at him in confusion, but He Fang smiled.

"See, he figured it out. I think the closest thing to an objective documentary in the world is that history that has happened and has been confirmed, and it is clear that the events of Ron Woodruff are confirmed things, so, is this a documentary?

Secondly, the film has undergone a certain degree of artistic treatment on the basis of documentary, especially the criticism of the American medical system. So, is this an expression of thoughts and emotions?

Who said that you must use long shots, performances by non-professional actors, and de-storytelling...... Wait for more than a dozen frameworks to express the true meaning of art films? So, excuse me, is this an exploration? ”

He Fang's rhetorical question made a group of filmmakers confused, because what He Fang said was reasonable.

And Leonardo and Jared, who were sitting on the side, all laughed, who said it was really relieved, it was really in place.

"No, according to what you say, aren't all those biographical films art films?" A rebuttal was raised.

"You can say that, but most of the biographical films are too heavily processed, and they are not critical and ideological. But even so, you can see that every year in Hollywood, there are still a large number of biographical films that become Oscar favorites. What does this mean? So, I wanted to explore a possibility in this way. ”

He Fang said as if there was a reason.

"And what kind of possibility have you explored?" Someone asked with interest.

"No, I tried my best, but I don't have a concept in my head yet, I said, it's exploration." He Fang spread his hands.

"He, you said you want to get rid of the shackles and learn from neoliberalism and Picasso, what specific actions do you think can be taken?"

"Oh, this ......"

Next, He Fang discussed the new form of literary film he proposed that filmmakers are concerned about, mainly to discuss how to be more free and how to make new forms of literary and artistic films......

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Although the jury can't go to the outside world, they can still see magazines, newspapers, news, etc. from the outside world.

After Jiang Wen took the "Movie Manual" and watched He Fang's interview, he walked around excitedly smoking a cigarette.

"My little brother is awesome, he's really awesome, master, this is the thinking of a real master." Jiang Wen shook his head in admiration and sighed, "Why didn't I think of it?" Why didn't I think of it? Break down boundaries, create more freely, and learn from Picasso...... Tsk, it's really yours, Brother He. ”

And several other judges of the jury also saw this interview, and everyone immediately had their own thoughts.

It's as if they didn't have a correct understanding of where the movie was before, is he really exploring? Exploring in the form of a commercial film? I don't see anything.

And the discussion between He Fang and the filmmaker in the café is not over, although He Fang still has to participate in the interview and his film activities, but as soon as he finishes the event, someone invites him to the café to discuss.

The position where He Fang sits is always in the air is reserved for He Fang. This made He Fang cry and laugh, feeling that he had done something to dig a hole for himself, why should he brag about this bull? Why go for some nonsense?

Well, there have been people around him to discuss.

And this kind of discussion has been done for several days, and the media has commonly known this as "Movie Cafe Change", and it has been reported for days, and some media have even released videos, which are completely documentary.

Reuters: This is the most failed Venice film festival, but it is also the one that most remembers history. Because of Venice's poor opening ceremony and organizational skills, it really made people exclaim that Venice held a film festival full of problems. However, because of the new literary film theory of He Fang, it is now attracting heated discussions among filmmakers around the world, as if this is a revolution in the film industry and a progressive brewing. So, who will become the Truffaut of the new era?

BBC: Cinema originated in the West and has changed in the West, but this year's Venice Film Festival ushered in an oriental face who tried to use his methods to subvert the development of long-established European literary cinema......

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