Since Shen Mengxi's debut, he has rarely participated in the recording as a director, and in recent years, he has simply rejected most of the interview invitations.

When promoting the movie, I will show my face...

This time he returned with the honor of the Oscar for Best Director, and many people will definitely pay attention to him, and even interpret his words one by one...

Why admit PR?

lest some people with ulterior motives exalt him to the altar...

Dou Wentao asked him if the focus of his next work would continue to revolve around the Oscars, and he shook his head: "No, I am a Chinese filmmaker, even if I shoot, I will make Chinese films..."

"When it comes to Chinese-language movies, does "The Great Wall" count?"

Shen Mengxi was entangled for a moment: ""The Great Wall" should be regarded as a Sino-American co-production, the main plot is the growth of knights, and the male protagonist was influenced by the stubborn resistance of the Chinese army to the monster and joined in..."

"Is it the traditional messianic model?"

Shen Mengxi hurriedly shook his head: "How is it possible, I can't write such a stupid story!"

After a pause, he added: "Hollywood's lone hero saves the galaxy... This kind of film is very easy to shoot, and it is easy to do special effects, but it can't withstand logical analysis at all, Americans feel that they can, because they have a short time of founding and have not seen the world, in the adult thinking of Chinese for 5,000 years of development, a certain individual, alone can solve the planet-level disaster, such obscenity, don't even think about it, our values tell us that the monster invasion must be united front, all of us are united, and we can only succeed!"

"I really want to see that!"

"Still working on special effects... It is estimated that the special effects will be almost completed by the end of the year, and then 3D, editing, color grading, subtitles, and we are scheduled to release it globally on June 14 next year... At least 80 countries and regions will open paintings!"

Dou Wentao continued: "Aren't you going to continue to cooperate with Leonardo?"

"Well, there was originally a "Untouchable", which was adapted from real people and real events, and the script I wrote... But I was busy with "The Great Wall" and didn't have time, so I found Neil Borg as the director..."

After that, the topic talked about the "Memorandum of Understanding on Chinese and American Films"...

"That's what Hollywood is all about? The best ones are put in? The rest of the dramas that can't get in are some more vulgar, pornographic, nude or pornographic jokes, and the real first-line dramas have really come in? There is not much difference between 34 imported films and 20 imported films? You don't have to make a big deal of it..."

"So you're not worried at all?"

"Worry is definitely worry, you asked me to take "Walking with God", which took two years to prepare, against "Transformers 3"? I'm definitely not going to do it..."

talked a lot, and Shen Mengxi also opened his heart:

"After typing? The most important thing is to determine the definition of mainstream cinema? Fan movies are a subculture and can't go mainstream..."

"The theme that is compatible with entertainment attributes and social attributes must be mainstream themes, and the "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" we are going to do belongs to the mainstream movie, which is slightly related to the main theme..."

"We have a short time in the film market? And if you need an exact point in time? I have to start counting from A's "Hero", it was still at the end of 2002, and it has only been more than ten years since I was full, and there were movies before, but at that time movies were a tool? Making movies is a privilege, before making movies? Do you have to join the studio and learn from the group? Start from the field and upgrade a little bit? Almost 40 years old? It's time to make your first movie!so? Zhang Yuan's "Mother", Wang Xiaoshuai's "Extreme Cold", Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu" and Lou Ye's "Suzhou River" are all banned, because you are not a person in the system, you can't make movies casually!"

"Why do you advocate the New Wave? Because the equipment used by the directors of the New Wave is the simplest, large-scale commercial films, the crew is often hundreds of people, all kinds of new machines, not to mention many directors, even I don't know how to operate!"

"I stayed in the United States for half a year and learned a lot of rules, for example, commercial films can't kill children, in the field of horror films, the conventional rule: men die first, then they die with big breasts, those who don't look good, those who wear glasses are often the last lucky ones, etc..."

"Given absolute freedom, you're more likely to come up with a worse one! It's the ability to make unexpected things within the framework! Believe it or not, a necessary condition for creation is limitation. ”

even talked about why he watched movies, Shen Mengxi said with a smile: "There is a passage in "Yiyi", which I think says very well, 'If movies are the same as life, then who would want to go to the movies, just live life.'" But after the invention of the movie, human life was at least three times longer than before. ’”

"The things that taste in the world, including poetry, wine, philosophy, and love, are often useless. Chanting useless poems, getting drunk with useless wine, reading useless books, and feeling useless, he finally became a useless person, but he lived a good life because of it. - Zhou Guoping's movie is also useless but flavorful. ”

"This may have been my first acquaintance with cinema, and it will continue throughout my life!"

At the end, Dou Wentao asked Shen Mengxi to talk about his 'successful' experience...

Shen Mengxi frowned and thought for a while, and then summed up a sentence: "You must be exposed to new things, I talked to director Yi, and he said that he would take two months out every year to watch new movies and understand the current film situation..."

"Actually, I don't think there is a shortage of good directors in our country, and there is a lack of directors who can explain one thing clearly!"

"Take your time, don't rush..."

......

At the end of the recording, Shen Mengxi discussed with Dou Wentao the positioning of "Potato Playing Big Names" - Dou Wentao wanted to add a few guests to make it into the form of "Qiang Qiang Threesome".

Shen Mengxi didn't have an opinion, but just reminded him not to talk about political topics!

At almost eleven o'clock, Shen Mengxi returned to the hotel and rested in Xiangshan tonight, Liu Yifei had to shoot advertisements and stay in the United States temporarily.

I'm finally able to calm down alone...

To be honest, he has thought about winning the best director for "Hunting", on the one hand, none of the directors shortlisted this year are particularly strong, and "Hunting" has the highest topicality;

That's why he's going all out for PR...

On the other hand, the strategy against Harvey worked.

But the best picture still exceeded expectations a bit!

It can only be said that Michael Jackson's hand is very good.

When I turned on my phone, there were several missed calls, and there were many WeChat messages, the content was similar, congratulations to him on winning the award...

You dialed Zhao Jinsong's phone: "Hey..."

"Celebration... Okay, celebrate..."

"Invite a few less media outlets..."

"By the way, I need to take a vacation... At least two weeks now, I feel like throwing up when I see the project report!"