Chapter 30: Interlude (part 3 of 5)
Meet...
There is no need to talk in detail, Shen Mengxi probably knows his intention - there is a way out for literary films, help us...
In fact, in the original time and space, Shen Mengxi is also a young man in the circle, often complaining about capital, complaining about fan movies, blaming the audience for garbage, and not knowing how to appreciate the beauty of movies!
Especially when I saw a lot of comments from the audience: Why don't you tell the story well?
Just feel angry, is the movie just a story?
You like to read stories so much, why don't you buy "Story Club" and "Ancient Legends"?
I can't wait to be born a few years earlier and talk about movies with the masters...
Especially when I see a good movie being buried, it's very sad.
Therefore, when I was just reborn, I sprayed blockbusters with all kinds of scripts, spraying fifth-generation directors - from "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", "Heroes", "Ambush on All Sides" to "Wuji", he sprayed them one by one!
Actually, if you think about it, it's that he takes movies too seriously - art!
Yes, cinema is art, but there is another interpretation: the art that is closest to the public...
The audience doesn't like a movie, which shows that the movie itself is problematic.
Some time ago, he figured out one more thing - the natural industrial attributes of movies determine that their development trajectory is closely in line with the times. This is true abroad, and even more so in the mainland. Throughout the development process of Chinese films after the founding of the People's Republic of China, every advance, retreat, and swing from the system to the market has a distinct imprint of the times.
The peak of 85-95 years is the brilliant brilliance that has been accumulated after the previous ten years of depression and five years of accumulation.
This is also the characteristic of that era: reform, opening up, the sky is free to fly, and the sea is wide with the leap of the fish.
Since the 90s, with the booming economy and political tensions, mainland films have turned to entertainment, and the concept of "Chinese New Year stalls" has been established here.
Although there are also many excellent works in the same period, it is rare to be released, and secondly, the market has just started, so the "sixth generation" can only change the route of overseas film festivals, and finally form a situation of "flowers blooming inside the wall and fragrance outside the wall".
In the new century, economic liveliness and political seriousness have been further amplified, and market heat has continued to increase.
As a result, commercial film production has become more and more refined, and in some respects it is hardly inferior to the first-class level of Hollywood.
But artistry continues to regress...
In short, the development of film is like the change of our life, the quality of life is improving rapidly, more and more high-rise buildings, more and more refined services, but is our spiritual world full and sublimated at the same time?
Forget it, let's ask directly, does the audience need the artistry of the movie?
Or, after the entertainment of the movie is dissipated, are the audience still willing to buy tickets?
Short videos, long videos, games, and even online texts...
Will these be a substitute for movies?
He asked this question bluntly, and Gao Yitian was stunned for a moment: "I think the audience still needs art films, mature film market, literary films, independent films are an organic part of mainstream commercial films!"
“... I did S Studio, the North American market will launch literary genre films every year, compared to the saturation of commercial films in North America, the independent film market has a large uncultivated mass population... Can this thing be transplanted into the Chinese market?"
"I think so!"
“... There is no hope for at least ten or even twenty years!"
Why?
Because censorship, art means avant-garde, and avant-garde tends to be sharp, and sharp things may be liked by a small number of audiences, but not liked by the masses, and censorship is even less liked...
Gao Yitian just wanted to say something, Shen Mengxi waved his hand: "That's it, every year Frist launches a good movie, I will let Mingxi help release it..."
"Mingxi?"
Gao Yitian's expression was a little weird.
Well, let's put it this way, Mingxi shined in the first half of this year, even better than Tang Ren, because the three low-cost horror films they mainly invested and distributed were successful: "Embroidered Shoes", "Don't Look in the Mirror in the Middle of the Night", "Pen Fairy Horror", among them, the worst "Don't Look in the Mirror in the Middle of the Night" reported a box office result of 12 million!
Netizen message: It's all bad movies anyway, why don't you go and take a look at the big breasts and thighs?
Makes sense...
But many people in the industry look down on Mingxi and think that it is a film company that only has money in their eyes!
Litter!
Shen Mengxi waved his hand: "... Mingxi's positioning is a small and medium-budget movie... The distribution strength is very strong. ”
“... Thank you, Mr. Shen. ”
"Nothing to thank. ”
......
After sending Gao away one day, Shen Mengxi suddenly realized that Mingxi might be the most profitable and conscientious film company in the country...
not only makes low-cost bad films, but also helps distribute literary films that no one dares to take over!
I don't know what the outside world will say about Mingxi...
looked at Qi Yukun: "You haven't made a movie for almost two years, do you have any thoughts recently?"
“... There's nothing good about it..."
Qi Yukun was a little embarrassed...
In the past two years, he has not been very idle, running FRIST as a judge, helping Yang Qing and Han Yan manage the crew...
You have to make money to support your family!
Shen Mengxi admires him a lot, he is a very rare director in China who pays attention to humanistic connotation, and his orientation is very close to Shen Mengxi - crime film!
But the crime films he made were too direct in expression, without any twists and turns...
Shen Mengxi thought for a while and suggested, "There is a story that suits you quite well, it is a real event. After his brother was robbed and killed, his brother chased the murderer for thousands of miles..."
"Real events?"
"That's right!"
Qi Yukun decisively came to be interested...
It is indeed true, the five brothers of the Dai family in Guanxiang, Liupanshui Monkey Township, Guizhou, after the sixth brother was brutally robbed and killed and the police had no clue, they separately launched a "civil search" in their hometown villages and all over the country, which lasted more than a year, tracked tens of thousands of kilometers, traveled all over 100 cities in China, and finally captured the murderer of his brother in Liuzhou, Guangxi.
The third generation of Chengfu is the main force of arrest, is the "detective" among the five brothers, it is he who rides a motorcycle, a car, and a train, like a reckless man who has been exiled from all over the world, and finally found traces of the killer in the brick factory on the outskirts of Liuzhou, and then quickly notified the rest of the brothers, and everyone descended from the sky to put the fugitive who was still in a dream on a cold iron shackle.
He had one thought: kill to pay for his life, and pay the debt of the father and the son...
Well, the latter one is rubbing off on the popularity of idols...
The original time and space, this movie was adapted into the literary film "Renshan Renhai", netizens commented: In addition to the truth, "Renshan Renhai" is so boring that there is not much to watch, the restrained artistic method, and the lack of details do not bring much room for interpretation, but instead bring misunderstanding, and the causes and consequences of the characters' actions are also vague.
But this film won the best director in Venice...
"You can contact Tao Hong, she told me about this. ”
"Okay, I'll find her right away..."
Qi Yukun hurriedly took out his mobile phone...
Tao Hong is really quite sensitive to these things, and the source of the two movies "Li Mi's Conjecture" and "The Sea of People" is her...