Chapter 1131 The Audience Is so Innocent (Part 2)
In the original time and space, Chen Kexin finally chose to run out...
In addition to censorship reasons, like Chen Kexin's own film "Chinese Women's Volleyball" turned into "Win the Championship", the failure of "Li Na" to be released was a blow to him, but there is another important reason for Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers: the Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television circles are increasingly The more competition they face from mainland director teams, the more they lose their right to speak.
When "CEPA" was signed, the Hong Kong film industry was still the afterglow of its peak. At that time, Hong Kong directors and actors occupied an absolute C position in mainland film and television productions. Officials, capital, and audiences all liked investing in them. What about now?
Except for Tsui Hark, Lam Chiu-hsien, and Chan Ke-hsin, other directors are becoming increasingly marginalized.
Although there are a few rising stars in Hong Kong directors, there are only a few of them, such as Weng Tse-kwong from "Blood Seeking Plum Blossoms", Mak Chun-lung from "Fenglin Huoshan", and Huang Jin from "A Thought of Ignorance"...
To be honest, in the field of literary and artistic films, there is a huge gap between Hong Kong's literary and artistic film directors and those from the Mainland. They are even inferior to Taiwan's young directors of artistic films who are more eccentric.
Although the mainland has censorship, it cannot withstand the scale effects brought about by economic growth, population size, and film and television industrialization.
This has supported the rise of many young directors, and there are still many of them.
For example, the team of Rao Xiaozhi and Guo Fan...
Rao Xiaozhi's next work "Escape from Youth" supports young director Zeng Hairuo;
The literary science fiction film "Space Exploration Editorial Department" directed by Kong Dashan and supported by Guo Fan;
It is rumored that director Kong Dashan's next film may be an adaptation of Liu Cixin's science fiction film "Micro Era".
Guo Fan's circle only started with "The Wandering Earth", and in just four or five years now, it has formed a creative team with three or four directors as the main directors and a mature team of its own.
There are many creative teams like this in the Mainland, let’s talk about a few more:
The iron triangle of Ning Hao, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo.
In addition to the films they directed, they have also supported young directors, and their achievements cannot be underestimated.
Ning Hao has the Bad Monkey 72 Transformation. The directors he has supported include Lu Yang of "Xiuchungdao" and "Assassination of Novelists", Wen Muye of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" and "Miracle", the Olympic bid of "The Beneficiary", "Once Upon a Time in the Tropics" 》Temperature training;
Xu Zheng’s name is “Producing N Movies by New Directors”.
The young directors supported include Su Lun of "Cohabitation in Time and Space", the next film is "Exchange Life" by Lei Jiayin and Zhang Xiaofei, and there are also "The Player Behind the Scenes", "Beloved", "The Myth of Love" and so on.
Huang Bo is part of HB+U's new director project, and has created "The Man Caught by the Light", "Calm" and "Study Dad"...
Chen Sicheng also has his own team. In addition to Chen Sicheng himself, the young directors currently supported include Ke Wenli of "Manslaughter" and "The Psycho", and Dai Mo of "Manslaughter 2"...
The director of the TV series version of "Ball Lightning" is Dai Mo, and the director of the police film "The Third Brigade" starring Zhang Yi is Zhang Dapeng...
In this regard, Hong Kong and even Taiwan are not enough~
Chen Kexin feels that Korean film and television can go global with the help of Netflix. The problem is that the Korean film and television industry is at its peak, and Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment is already a thing of the past. Can Hong Kong and Taiwan directors and actors who have even lost the mainland market re-emerge through overseas streaming media?
Bringing it back, Chen Kexin talked about the Internet, and the focus is PPTV. As the chairman of PPTV, Shen Xudong will definitely have to speak.
"Actually, I have always felt that streaming media will subvert theaters to a certain extent, because, unlike the United States, we have always been a country with a weak cultural and sports industry but a very developed Internet..."
"Of course, the disruption I'm talking about is not replacement. Replacing an industry... is impossible!
Just like movies have been around for so many years, have stage plays died? There is still a stage play! "
"When I talk about subversion, first of all, the concept of window period in traditional theaters has almost disappeared. Nowadays, movies can be released on the streaming media the next day after they are released in the theater. You don't even need to wait until they are released, they can be released on the streaming media directly..."
"The second is to expand the genre... Just like "The Case of Jiang Yuan Nong's Husband" includes "One Second" directed by Zhang Yi, Wanma Tseden's "Killing a Sheep", including "Under the Sun" and "Martial Arts Orphans" "Sweet Potatoes and Rice" and "Rabbit Violence"...If these movies only rely on the market, it will be difficult to recover the cost, but after PPTV joined, they will directly cover the cost..."
“I have always felt that a subject or a story that cannot be told in two hours can be filmed for 3 hours, 8 hours, or even several seasons!
I don't call this a 'web drama', I think it should be called a 'free-length movie'. This is the way out for film craftsmen, you have to do your job best...
If you don’t believe it, the American TV series you have watched in the past five years are definitely better than American movies. "
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Shen Xudong and Chen Kexin focused on the online platform, that is, streaming media. In fact, they went off topic - the theme was the spirit of craftsmanship!
When Feng Xiaogang arrived, he talked about the spirit of craftsmanship...
In fact, the word "craftsman spirit" was originally used to brag about Nippon. After Luo Taijun Luo Yonghao made mobile phones, this craftsman spirit never left his mouth. Later, it was used to brag about Nippon people...
At first, Shen Xudong scoffed...
Then something happened that proved that they indeed had the spirit of craftsmanship.
False craftsmanship: It takes decades to cook rice, decades to fry skewers, and decades to make sushi...
True craftsmanship: In a country with strict gun control, I relied on daily necessities to rub a double-barreled pistol. Two rounds went into my soul, and I personally proved that the rumor that "Japan's steel pipes can really make pistols" is true!
Personally represent the spirit of craftsmanship...
This is true craftsmanship!
Ahem...
Feng Xiaogang had been bragging about Liu Zhenyun for a long time, and then he mentioned that the movie market was full of bad movies, and he said, "Why are there so many rubbish movies in China? It's not because there are so many rubbish viewers." If you don’t support it, there won’t be anything like this, and junk movies often do well at the box office! ’
Then he said: "Some investors said that they got this IP today and that IP tomorrow. They are all P..."
Shen Xudong fully agreed with the second half, but there was a problem with the first half...
Shen Xudong interrupted him: "I don't think so. There are so many bad films in the film market because the overall business capabilities of filmmakers are not high, and they only have the ability to cater to low-level aesthetic audiences...
Explaining a complex story to a low-level audience is actually a matter of great technical ability;
I have always felt that it is much more complicated to convey one's thoughts and opinions to the majority of the audience than to a small group. Filmmakers who can do this are truly awesome! "
"Secondly, many investors don't understand movies at all. A few years ago, the Internet wanted to subvert the film industry, advocated big data, and invented a set of big IP + small fresh meat, telling laymen that this can make money... the evolution speed of the audience's aesthetics But soon, after eating cake, I can go back to eat steamed buns, can I go back?"
"In the past few years, no matter whether it is a marketing account or a public account, when it comes to domestic movies, "Tiny Times" must be mentioned... From the beginning to the end, the criticism is that the director is bad, the actors are bad, and they even use three views and money worship. , poisoning the souls of young people...Okay, maybe these accusations are reasonable. So, as the de facto opponent of "Tiny Times", it still occupies the leading position in education, criticism, and awards in the domestic film industry, and even a large part of the projects What kind of films have the "film artists" who own production rights made in recent years?"
"A bunch of directors are unwilling to give up "Only the dark side is supreme", and are obsessed with finding subjects that reach the limit of censorship tolerance. They deliberately take pride in being lengthy, fragmented, chaotic, and boring, and try their best in all aspects such as subject matter, content, styling, shots, and editing. They try their best to create various difficulties for the audience to appreciate and understand... Is this kind of movie profound and meaningful? Will there be an audience to watch it?"
"The audience is so innocent..."
"Actually, most viewers just watch movies to watch the excitement. But the problem is, the word "entertainment industry" is not supported by the public's leisurely intention to watch the excitement!"
"What if one day all the people who eat melons become gorgeous and start to be serious and cold, start poetry and poetry, start classics and history, start French New Wave, Italian New Realism, start Truffaut, Godard, Fellini, start library Sturica, Wim Wenders, the Dardenne brothers, Kielovsky, then... I think I can retire!"