Chapter 532 Is This Your Dream? (Down)

What Li Qian said was a bit messy, and even later, his tone was a little excited, but that didn't matter, whether it was Lu Lingxi or Chen Kefang, they were all interested in movies since they were young, and then they were more than a dozen or less than 20 years old. I started professional studies at the age of 10, and have been engaged in related education since then. I have my own thinking and judgment about movies, the history, current situation and future development of movies. Therefore, it doesn’t matter what Li Qian said is messy. If it is important, one or two sentences are enough, and for important ideas, what is actually needed is only one direction.

For expert practitioners like the two of them, it's not a lie.

In fact, what Li Qian said may not be all correct. His thesis that movies must be based on market demand is also a topic that has been discussed and mentioned in the domestic film industry in the past two years-with a market. The fact of the two consecutive years of landslides is based on the fact that it is better than all eloquence. Up to now, even if there are still many people who do not agree with this point of view, even they have found it difficult to reject the commercialization of movies in their hearts. The big development direction of marketization and entertainment.

But, at least right now, whether it's Chen Kefang or Lu Lingxi, it's the first time they've heard such a description from a single population——

The domestic market is huge! The future will be bigger!

We should not only consider our own one-acre three-point land, we should start from now, and consider taking the markets of Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia first in the future!

This assertion is not surprising, but at least until now, no one has dared to say it!

At the end of last year, at a high-end tea party in the film industry, the great director Qin Wei once pessimistically believed that the domestic film market will take at least 15 to 20 years to recover from this big downturn, which is his judgment. It will not be until 2012, or even 2017, that the domestic film market may break through the 8 billion box office mark again and return to the level of 1997.

It should be based on this conclusion. The new movie that Qin Wei is preparing recently is said to have received some capital injection from Hollywood film companies. According to industry rumors, his new movie plans to test the waters of international distribution, and he wants to get a bigger market in his eyes. In the English-speaking market, get a share.

What is even more pessimistic than his conclusion is that in recent years, several major countries in Southeast Asia have been tightening the openings for Chinese-language literary and artistic works in unison, and instead giving this opening to the obvious quality of works. English works that are higher and are not likely to have too much influence on their own country due to geographical proximity and cultural similarity. Among them, Hollywood movies have overwhelmed the declining Chinese-language movies in one fell swoop, which is a very important one.

For example, from the latest policy in November 1998, Singapore allows the import of 20 foreign-language films to be screened in the country every year, but the quota for Chinese-language films is only five to eight.

However, in a country where Chinese account for nearly 70% of the country's total population, its official language is English. Therefore, Hollywood movies that speak English do not need to be restricted by this quota.

Chinese-language movies, internal troubles, external troubles, wind and rain like darkness.

In this context, it is really difficult for someone to have enough confidence to say something like that.

What's more, Li Qian didn't even have a film work until now.

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Li Qian spoke at length, and the two teachers sat quietly, listening and thinking at the same time.

But in fact, there are still many emotions that Li Qian can't say, and they are destined to be suppressed in the bottom of their hearts for the rest of their lives, which they can't know.

For example, domestic movies in another time and space, such as Hong Kong movies that are regrettable.

In another time and space, Hong Kong movies reached great prosperity in the 1980s. At that time, Hong Kong movies were sold in South Korea, Bay Area, and even Southeast Asia were the backyard of Hong Kong movies and Hong Kong entertainment culture. The limelight is not even lost to the declining European films, and Hollywood, which has not yet joined the world.

However, the local box office base that a population of 6 million can have makes Hong Kong movies greatly affected by the external market. Once the external market changes, it loses its foundation in an instant. After more than ten years of great prosperity, Hong Kong movies have fallen rapidly.

Instead, Hollywood blockbusters represented by "Jurassic Park" and "Titanic" swept Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

For all those who understand and study this period of film history in later generations, this is a story full of helplessness. As for domestic films, it is even more...

Of course, the current domestic films in this time and space are much stronger than those in the other time and space in 2000, both in terms of market base and industrial base. When Hollywood, whose overall industrial capabilities are clearly a big step ahead of the entire world, the gap between the two time and space seems a bit insignificant.

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"The current situation of domestic movies must be broken!"

"Instead of letting Hollywood movies completely break it, it is better for us to break it in China!"

"If possible, I am willing to work hard for it!"

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Unknowingly, Lu Lingxi rested her chin on one hand and stared at Li Qian fixedly. Between the eyebrows and eyes, there was a hint of admiration that was not easy to be noticed.

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Talking and talking, it has changed from a lecture to a discussion meeting.

Chen Kefang has been teaching for many years. Although she is definitely not too old and her qualifications are not too old, the fact that she can stay in the film academy to teach already shows that she is by no means just an ordinary film lover.

So, her question was sharp——

"What do you mean by breaking? What is breaking? What is breaking? What is breaking?"

"Many things have to be broken. Our country has a vast territory and a large population, and there are certain differences in accents and cultures in different places. Therefore, the phenomenon of regionalized movies is too common in China now. A large local theater chain, They dare to make a movie with just two to three million yuan and find a director, and many of them are extremely regional movies. They don’t expect to sell this kind of movie, and they just show it in their own theaters for a long time. Sooner or later, it can always pay back, but this kind of film is crudely produced, and many of them contain a lot of pornographic content. In the next market reshuffle, this pattern of filming things for local people to see , must be broken!"

"Of course, this kind of regional cultural film is not without value, and we can even encourage it in the future, but it shouldn't be this kind of shoddy, this kind of film, in the face of the upcoming crushing of the Hollywood film industry , will have no resistance, and can only waste resources in vain."

"Zhao Meicheng's films and Liu Chengzhang's films actually have a certain degree of regional attributes, but the aesthetics in their films belong to the whole nation. Therefore, Zhao Meicheng filmed stories in the north, and Liu Chengzhang filmed the customs of the southern country. But they all became big directors and sold well all over the country! This proves that films with regional culture can be sold all over the country. For example, Zhao Meicheng can sell the official language of Shuntian Mansion to Guangzhou Mansion. People in Guangzhou Mansion can accept many memes. , Zhao Meicheng likes to add some Wu Nong's soft language Suzhou Pingtan, and Shenyang people can also appreciate its beauty, so what about Sichuan dialect? Henan dialect? Or Cantonese? It's a good work!"

"Second, we also made commercial films in China before, but what are our commercial films? They are police films, urban comedies, and cheap martial arts, but careful people can notice that in recent years, what is the main reason why Hollywood has captured the global market? special effects!"

"I set up a special effects studio, and the level is not bad in China. "Legend of the White Snake" was shot for the purpose of advertising my special effects department, but compared with the standard of Hollywood, it is still far behind. It’s far away. Apart from my special effects studio, there is no better special effects company in the domestic film industry! Besides, our digital photography technology is very weak, and we have to go to Japan for printing and copying. , because the picture quality produced in China is not good. In short, as an industry, our domestic foundation is too poor.”

"So, in my opinion, it is necessary to break the current market atmosphere in China where people dare not make blockbuster films and only want to invest in small money to win the box office. Break it! Drive the development of the domestic film industry."

"Third, the theaters are aging. Nowadays, the theaters in many places are even so backward that they only play movies with a big speaker, and they don't even have the most basic stereo. You know, many high-end theaters in the United States have been equipped with DTS 7.1 channels. This time, the avalanche of the film market is an opportunity in my opinion, just to weed out the dross and save the best!"

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The three of them probably didn't expect that Li Qian's knock on the door would eventually turn into a big discussion that lasted nearly two hours. It was gradually formed through observation and understanding, but he himself felt that it was not complete. Next, he was going to think while doing it, and he was going to tell others about his ideas after a few years.

But in the end, for some unknown reason, he unreservedly expressed his observations and thoughts on current domestic films in the past few years.

During the discussion, it was a coincidence that no one interrupted, and the filming crew led by Sun Yuting had already left at some point.

Seeing that it was noon, Chen Kefang was very excited about talking, but Li Qian felt that after expressing a lot of thoughts in his heart, the pressure on his whole body was relieved, and his mood became very good, so when Chen Kefang suggested, "Let's go, let's Find a place to eat, and then chat! Li Qian, you are a rich man, you treat me!" At that time, Li Qian responded without hesitation: "Okay, I treat you!"

So after eating, after eating, we changed to a coffee shop, ordered a cup of coffee each, and continued to chat.

But while chatting, Li Qian still did not forget his original intention of coming here, so he reminded again and again: "Mr. Chen, you have taught screenwriting in the film academy for so many years, and you have passed countless good students and seedlings. After chatting for so long, you basically know what my plan is, so you can help me check and pick a few good seedlings?"

Undoubtedly, what Li Qian needs is a screenwriter who has a solid foundation and outstanding talent, but is not obsessed with a certain type or type.

They need to have the ability to create independently. After a certain amount of tempering, they must be able to produce works full of personal characteristics and thinking alone, but they must also be able to adapt to streamlined script production and writing, and contribute to a script at any time. ability to detail.

This kind of talent is not easy to find for screenwriters from Ye Luzi, but it is not difficult for the Screenwriting Department of Shuntian Film Academy, which specializes in training screenwriters.

So Chen Kefang responded boldly.

Then, she counted down on her fingers the outstanding students she had taught in the past few years.

Those who are too outstanding, especially those who have graduated for several years, have basically found suitable positions and jobs, or have joined a large company in the industry as a contract screenwriter, or entered a TV station as a director, and some have even started running. Zola Investment is ready to cast his own movie, which of course is not easy to win over.

For those who are too mediocre, it doesn't even take too long, three to five years is enough to eliminate them from the film and television circle. Don't say you can't find it, if you can find it, Li Qian won't want it.

However, there are still talented young people who are still underappreciated at the moment, or have not yet had time to shine. There are still some good seedlings—two or three minutes of work, starting from 1991 when Chen Kefang started coaching, and down to 1999. There are as many as a dozen names of the batch of freshmen who have just entered school, and Chen Kefang's mouth popped out.

Li Qian hurriedly asked the waiter for a pen and paper, and asked in detail about each person's name, class, personality, specialty, and if they had graduated for many years, they also asked about their previous encounters in detail.

For any company planning to make some achievements in film and television, scripts, and screenwriters, are an extremely important step.

As for Li Qian, there is no shortage of good stories and good ideas in his mind, but he does not have so much time to slowly create each work, and, to be honest, he is neither , and didn’t bring a big hard drive with him, he couldn’t remember all the stories of a TV series with dozens of episodes that he watched many years ago. So for him, it is a long-term feasible way to propose the outline of the story, and then throw it to a group of reliable screenwriters for collective creation, and then bring it back for certain revisions.

After all, in his plan, with the accumulation of experience, human resources and market reputation, Minghu Culture in the future will have a large number of works to shoot every year.

Therefore, in the future, only some of the scripts that he particularly valued will be created by himself, and the rest will be entrusted to the group of screenwriters who signed the contract with the company.

Therefore, if there is no accident, Li Qian is going to find these people in person, and then talk to them one by one.

The position is a contracted screenwriter of the Minghu Culture Film and Television Department, and the salary is a high salary in the industry plus future box office bonuses.

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From the time when Li Qian knocked on the office door a few hours ago and finally formed a big discussion, until now, Lu Lingxi has rarely spoken.

She is always listening, and thinking.

Except for turning her head to look at Chen Kefang occasionally, she either looked at Li Qian or stared at the cup in her hand most of the time.

At this time, I can't help but look at Li Qian's words.

And look with interest.

Li Qian's handwriting is not very good-looking. In the past two lives, his handwriting can only be regarded as not ugly. After coming to this time and space, traditional Chinese characters can be used quickly, and there is no problem. Write down a lot of content, the more scribbled the font, the more unreadable it will be.

When the two of them talked and wrote, Li Qian sorted out several sheets of paper and wrote down about a dozen names, and the "elite list" in Chen Kefang's hand was almost empty.

So Li Qian finished tidying up, holding a few pieces of paper full of scribbled characters in his hand, with an uncontrollable excitement on his face, and took advantage of the situation: "Mr. Chen, there are a few senior brothers, and I have to ask you to help speak in advance when the time comes." Ha!"

Chen Kefang smiled and replied, "No problem!"

So Li Qian showed a satisfied smile, took a deep breath, folded the paper twice, and put it in his pocket.

Finally, Lu Lingxi couldn't help but asked him, "Is this your dream?"

"Huh?" Li Qian was a little confused.

When he reacted, he subconsciously wanted to reach out for the information he had just recorded, but Lu Lingxi hurriedly waved his hand, "It has nothing to do with that, I mean, you have to break a lot of things that the two of you talked about for so long just now, It takes a lot of construction... I want to ask, are those your dreams?"

Li Qian thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Yes."

Lu Lingxi nodded with a calm face. After a while, she smiled a little, looked at Li Qian, and said, "Your dream is very good."