"The world of light and shadow, the first decade of Chinese cinema in the new century. ”

Just after "I Am Legend" broke 800 million, that night, the movie channel produced a summary column about Chinese films in the first decade of the 21st century.

On the TV screen, domestic movies from the past ten years continue to flash, accompanied by an atmospheric and peaceful female voice.

"This is the best era of Chinese films, and in the grand process of commercialization of Chinese films, countless characters have taken the stage happily.

The disturbing debates and doubts, the ups and downs of fame and power, everything is hidden in the big waves of historical progress, and the Chinese-language movies of the past 10 years are full of noise and commotion, who knows, where we will go in the end?

Thinking of the year 2000, Li Press is heroic. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" swept the international film scene, and the Chinese led the Chinese at the Oscars.

Looking at Zhang Yimou in 2002, he was full of ambition. A "Hero" commanded the world, superstars gathered, and thousands of people were empty, and Chinese films took this as a watershed and officially entered the blockbuster era.

Cheng Kaige, who filmed "Wu Ji", Ma Xiaogang, who created "Night Banquet", and the fifth-generation directors who have achieved fame, which one is not high-spirited and stands on the cusp of Chinese films, and the golden generation that has created brilliant achievements in Xiangjiang films are also going north at this time, gearing up.

Zhou Xingchi's "Kung Fu", Xu Ke's "Seven Swords", Chen Kexin's "Casting Names", and Wu Yusen's "Red Cliff" are all menacing and pompous.

The Chinese blockbusters at the beginning of the century often gathered the top all-star lineups from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and sometimes even invited internationally renowned actors and technical teams to join. ”

As the female voice on the TV begins to introduce the pivotal Chinese-language films of the first decade of the 21st century.

One blockbuster movie after another is summarized in three minutes.

Immediately afterward, the tone became a little passionate.

The new director quickly changed the appearance of Chinese films with his own works, and now, the faces of the film industry have also ushered in a new generation.

On December 30, 2007, "Frequency of Life and Death" was released, and Li Qian was born and won a box office of 100 million yuan at the age of 24, officially opening the prelude to the rise of the younger generation of directors.

After that, Ning Hao entered the 100 million yuan box office club with "Crazy Racing", and Su Lun's two sci-fi romance films "Living Together in Time and Space" and "Warm and Warm Light" sold 500 million box office, and romance films became a popular genre.

Wu Jing's highly creative "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" opened up a new genre of action films, and Xu Zheng's "People in Embarrassment" is a clear stream among a number of vulgar comedy films.

As the leader of the new generation of directors, Li Qian has become the audience's favorite director with one high-efficiency and high-reputation wonderful movie a year.

Father-son affection, children's education, human morality, entertainment and depth, business and art coexist, not only popular with the audience, but also a huge success at the box office, but also aroused social thinking.

In the first decade of the 21st century, Chinese films have achieved complete success, and in the second decade, Chinese films will usher in a new chapter with Li Qian and other new generation directors. ”

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The movie channel does not say what is a master or not like the media, but the content is already very straightforward.

The first decade of the 21st century is the era of the fifth generation of directors and a group of directors who have gone north, and the second decade that has begun will be the era of young directors.

And Li Qian is the leader of the new generation of directors, it goes without saying that Li Qian is the number one person in Chinese films in the second decade.

After the show was broadcast, it once again added a fire to Li Qian's popularity.

Although there are many different voices in the masters of commercial films, at least most of the media and audiences have accepted them.

In terms of momentum, no one is outstanding, I am afraid that there are only Zhang Yimou after "Hero", Cheng Kaige after "Farewell My Concubine", and Li Press after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

However, for the older generation of famous directors, even if they recognize Li Qian's achievements, they will not recognize that the new decade is led by Li Qian.

It's just that Zhang Yimou is a typical middle-of-the-road character, Cheng Kaige is like an old cadre, Jiang Wenxin is arrogant, but he is not a person who likes to amplify words in front of the media.

And Ma Xiaogang, who should have stood up and made a big statement, is not available now.

On January 28, when the Spring Festival was approaching, the competition for Ma Xiaogang in the industry finally came to an end.

Huayang Media and Wanda Pictures invested 200 million yuan to acquire 70% of the shares of Ma Xiaogang's newly established film and television company, and Ma Xiaogang signed the directing contract of five films again.

A piece of paperwork, a name, and 200 million cash into the account, Ma Xiaogang was busy collecting money, how could he still care about Li Qian.

made 200 million at once, which also sparked a strong discussion among netizens.

200 million, how many movies can be made to earn back, and how many listed companies have less than half of their profits in a year.

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"I worked hard to make four movies and invested in so many movies, and I only made hundreds of millions, and I made 200 million yuan from selling a shell company, and the money is too easy to make. ”

Li Qian, who saw the news, was speechless.

This Huayang and Wanda, aren't they just sending money to Ma Xiaogang to bind him.

This operation is also awesome, why doesn't anyone send money to themselves.

It's just that this Ma Xiaogang has not only sold one, but Wanda has also been involved, Huang Zhongjun must have been distressed to death, and his own treasure has become shared by the two companies.

Song Ge has been in Wanda for more than a month, and he has done a big thing quietly.

However, it has nothing to do with Li Qian, I just received a notice from Han Sanping that the literary script of "I Am Not the God of Medicine" has been reviewed, and multiple departments have been coordinated to agree to shoot in principle.

It's just that I took a shot, and I agree in principle, and I really have a level of speaking.

As with government documents, what kind of principle consent, basic consent and so on.

But just shoot it, Li Qian also began to prepare the crew and ponder the actors.

There are only a few days left before the Chinese New Year, and Li Qian still wants to determine the protagonist before the New Year and start filming as soon as possible.

If he could, Li Qian didn't want the Lunar New Year file to be released again this time, and the Lunar New Year file was still a more suitable and relaxed film.

Moreover, shoot it as soon as possible, release it as soon as possible, and don't drag it out.

If "No Man's Land" had been filmed half a year earlier and released before July 09, it would not have been banned.

It didn't take long for the completion of the 7.5 incident to encounter the incident, which is so coincidental.

Shoot early and release it early, don't look at it now that you agree to shoot, if you really know the content of the movie, it is 100% not allowed to shoot.

A group of laymen, relying on literary scripts, can't imagine what is filmed, they can only look at a rough idea.

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To prepare the crew, first find the actors, and then talk about the location after the Chinese New Year, and the actors also need enough time to study the script and characters.

Actors, first of all, must fit the style of the movie, the style does not match, no matter how good the acting skills are, it is for nothing.

There are many actors with very distinctive characteristics in China, although their acting skills are very good, but they are not suitable for all types.

"I Am Not the God of Medicine" is first and foremost a realistic movie, which must be life-like, down-to-earth, and so that ordinary audiences can feel as if it is happening around them.

Dialects are a common way.

Most of the dialects used in domestic movies are Xichuan dialect, Northeast dialect, and Beijing dialect.

It is also familiar to most audiences, after all, if it is a niche dialect, you can't understand it, and it is not much different from foreign dialects.

The background of the story must not be in a small city.

Topics that reflect the nature of society are also equivalent to the dark side of society.

Only the darkness exposed to the sun, the darkness that is visible to all, is the most widespread and fundamental problem of society.

is not afraid of the sun, it doesn't matter if it is exposed, everyone knows that it is the most difficult to solve, which is darker than the darkness at the bottom of the society in a small county.

What could be darker than the darkness that can face the sun.

And in the big modern cities, that kind of dramatic conflict is even stronger.

It's like on a few hundred meters tall building in the center of the city, looking down, the surrounding dense dilapidated bungalows are densely packed with shabby bungalows, and the impact is stronger than seeing this kind of house in a small county town.

The story is set in a big city, and some dialects are occasionally used.

It's also the capital and the magic capital.

As for Yangcheng, the eastern Guangdong dialect spoken is a bit mismatched.

The capital is also excluded, and the capital is not very convenient.

is still the same as the original, the story is set in the magic capital.

For the leading actor, Li Qian has listed several candidates.

In addition to Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, who is also good at playing small people, and even Wang Baoqiang and Guo Tao can also act.

However, first of all, excluding Wang Baoqiang, Guo Tao looks too upright.

As for Huang Bo.

Cheng Yong in the movie is a little decadent, greasy, and philistine, and he has to be righteous in the later stage, and he has to be a little lonely hero, so I let go of that kind of spirit.

Everything else is easy to say, but if a middle-aged greasy man is a middle-aged man, Huang Bo feels a little worse.

Speaking of which, Huang Bo looks mediocre, but he doesn't have any greasy feeling of a middle-aged man at all.

Even if it is "Crazy Alien", looking at the appearance of Huang Bo and Shen Teng, it is by no means a work of recent years.

At that time, Huang Bo was estimated to be 45 years old, although he didn't look good in the film, and he was lucky again, but in terms of greasy, he was not as good as Shen Teng.

Shen Teng is still a little famous in the drama circle, Li Qian has gone to watch a drama, it seems to be 79 years, almost post-80s, more greasy than Huang Bo in 74.

Greasy is a common appearance of ordinary middle-aged men in the market, and it is a very important label.

Jumping around, actors around 40 years old, there is really no perfect fit.

can be an actor of this age, there seems to be some fault in China.

The old actors generally play roles in their fifties and sixties, and they are also 40 years old in the 70s, but they all play some roles around 30.

However, there are indeed few male characters around forty years old, or the protagonists.

There was no way, Li Qian first called Xu Zheng, who was writing the script for the sequel to "People in Embarrassment" in the magic capital.

According to the prediction, this film should come out after 18 years, eight years earlier, I really don't know if Xu Zheng can perfectly interpret that state, although he is now 39.

You know, Xu Zheng was a cream kid back then.

Hearing the news of the actor of Li Qian's new film, Xu Zheng, who was far away in the magic capital, did not delay for a moment, put down the phone and took the latest flight to the capital.

In the afternoon, the dusty Xu Zheng appeared in Li Qian's office and asked a little eagerly, "Director Li, what type of new film is it?"

The actor of Li Qian's new film, if he changes anyone, he will not be too calm, but he has boasted about Haikou in front of the media before, and he wants to break the record.

Although "People in Awkward Journey" is a big hit, he himself is also popular again, and he is confident that the sequel can continue the fire of "People in Awkward Journey", but there are not too many good films, let alone Li Qian's new film.

Looking at Li Qian's previous four movies, all of them have both box office and connotation.

Although he is almost 40 years old, Xu Zheng also has a heart that has become popular.

"Brother Zheng will take a break and take a breath. ”

Li Qian smiled, poured a glass of water, and handed over the script.

"This time it's a reality-themed film, let's take a look at the script first. ”

"Then I'll take a look first, Director Li will wait for me. ”

Xu Zheng poured a big mouthful of water, took the script and read it.

"I Am Not the God of Medicine"?

The title of the film is a little strange, but there is also so much thought about it, continue to scroll down.

The 30,000-word literary script doesn't take long to read, even if it's a word-by-word pondering, after half an hour, Xu Zheng finished reading it completely.

The story is very simple, Cheng Yong, the owner of Yindu Shenyou Shop, has a poor life, there is no business in the store, his father is critically ill, the operation fee is not ready, his ex-wife is pregnant with a rich man, and he has to take away the custody of his son.

is such a miserable actor, Xu Zheng once thought that Li Qian was going to make some literary film.

But then, his face became a little heavy.

One day, a leukemia patient came to the store and begged him to bring back a batch of generic drugs from Yindu, so that patients who could not afford to buy sky-high genuine drugs could save their lives.

Cheng Yong, who was reluctant but desperate, finally agreed, and unexpectedly turned over once, and the affordable special medicine saved countless people.

However, after making money, there was no pressure in life, Cheng Yong was afraid that things would fail, so he chose to close the mountain.

Because of the discovery of conscience, after some ideological struggle, he went back to Yindu and brought back special medicines for the patients, and sold them cheaper, and he didn't make money at all.

In the end, after all, the incident happened, and he was caught by the police on the way to transport the drugs and sentenced by the court.

But looking at this story, it is not so amazing.

Even the deaths of Lu Ying and Huang Mao, compared with many film and television dramas, are not too tragic from the perspective of literary scripts.

However, with the specific drugs involved in leukemia, it is different.

Saving countless people, a role of the Buddha of ten thousand families, just like when Cheng Yong was sent to prison from the court in the script, the majority of patients stood in two rows on both sides of the street, watching the bailiff's vehicle move slowly.

With this feeling, Xu Zheng rewatched the script twice, and Li Qian was not in a hurry, just waiting for him to finish it.

After more than an hour, Xu Zheng put down the script and said with a wry smile, "Director Li, such a heroic character is in great contrast with the image of the character itself." ”

Li Qian smiled and said, "Let's not talk about this first, what does Brother Zheng think, are you sure that you can act well?" ”