Chapter 572 Back to Shanghai Film Festival

Oh, it was so easy to say, I forgot the identity of Director Han...

Director Han is the chairman of China Film Group Corporation.

China Film Group cooperates with the above policy!

Today's big trend is co-production, to be precise: Hong Kong director + Hong Kong male protagonist + Mainland female vase + Hong Kong behind-the-scenes team...

Because their business model is mature and they know how to make commercial films!

Of course, Director Han emphasized cooperation: "We must carry forward our style and serve the role."

Shen Xudong subconsciously wanted to say, 'Why do we need to carry forward our style...', but... he held it back: "Director Han, you are right!"

"...Then you should give Hong Kong and Taiwan actors a chance..."

"No, every one of our co-productions has Hong Kong actors!"

"What about Taiwanese actors?"

"You can't blame me. The Taiwanese accent spoken by a Taiwanese actor doesn't fit the character at all!"

"...It's hard to change an accent."

"There are a large number of actors from the United Kingdom, Australia and other places in American movies and television. They all have their own accents in life, but when they act, they all speak fluent American English without any trace of accent. This is professionalism, Deng Chao is from Jiangxi, but he was able to create a Wuhan accent in a month for "Life Events". This is called professionalism!"

After a pause, Shen Xudong said in a serious tone: "In my opinion, if you speak with a Taiwanese accent, you are not professional enough... When making a movie, I don't care who you are or where you come from. If you are not professional enough, you cannot reach me." request, then I will never use it.”

Director Han smiled: "Okay, I understand..."

"What's wrong? Are they complaining to you?"

"...Well, you have never used Taiwanese artists in your movies...discriminating against them..."

"Nonsense, I have used Li Liqun and Jin Shijie... By the way, "Crazy Racing" used a group of Taiwanese comedians!"

…

Bringing it back, last night, Shen Xudong asked Director Han, 'Why did they target Tianmei and himself?'

Director Han replied, ‘Don’t you know your strength at all? ’

Well, "Glory of the Tang Dynasty", "Zhao Zilong", "New World", "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" are just a collection of games, the latter two are fully controlled, plus "opened up" the Hollywood channel, Shen Xudong is already a mainland Chinese A banner for the movie!

His attitude represents the attitude of his circle.

It just so happens that there are many Taiwanese filmmakers at this Shanghai International Film Festival.

Well, actually only Hou Xiaoxian!

Hou Xiaoxian is famously upright - it will take at least ten years for Taiwanese movies to recover!

He has publicly said, "Chinese-language films and mainland films will play a Hollywood-style role, attracting outstanding filmmakers from all over the world to film there." "

He is still very far-sighted. In addition, he himself said, "Taiwanese cinema was ruined by two directors, Hou and Yang!" ’

——The success of "Sad City" is an excellent publicity for Taiwan. As a kind of cultural output, movies naturally hope to gain a higher reputation internationally. The official letter from the Information Bureau of that year clearly pointed out that promoting Taiwan to the world through movies is the best way.

As a result, the Taiwan Film Tutoring Fund tends to favor literary and artistic films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang, and pays less attention to commercial and genre-oriented films.

This has led to a large number of people studying film to devote themselves to literary films in order to obtain "tutoring money" support.

When these movies are made, Taiwanese people don’t like to watch them at all.

Hong Kong's commercial films are crazy and deeply loved by the public. Although under the "Tutoring Fund" program, Ang Lee's "Pushing Hands", "The Wedding Banquet", "Eating Man and Woman" and Tsai Ming-Liang's "Young Nezha" and "Long Live Love" were produced, the Taiwanese market was completely lost.

Film production plummeted every year.

…

Although it is not midsummer in Shanghai in June, the atmosphere of summer is already strong enough.

Although there were not many foreign faces at the opening ceremony, a group of well-known actors from the Chinese film industry such as Gong Li, Feng Xiaogang, Zhou Xun, Huang Xiaoming, Chen Kun, Deng Chao, etc. gathered at the opening ceremony and the stars were already shining.

Shanghai in June indeed fits the adjective "international" film festival.

But this is just the beginning.

In the following days, "Flower Detective", "Life Events", "Mobile Phone 2", "Secrets That Cannot Be Told", and "Stalking" successively held promotional activities...

One after another, directors, stars, and star producers have appeared in Shanghai.

According to the original words of the media: For a moment, the Huangpu River seemed to have returned to the 1930s, with singing and dancing, and shengxiao playing every night.

Opening ceremony... too many people!

Dazzling with jewels and stars, every appearance of a star will elicit long-lasting screams.

Shen Xudong walked the red carpet three times, namely in "Life Events", "Lady" and "Tornado 2"...

They are all movies produced by their own company, and they are all used for promotion...

The Shanghai International Film Festival is truly unique. On the one hand, it can summarize the gains and losses in the first half of the year, and on the other hand, it can look forward to the second half of the year.

Shen Xudong... I feel that all the female stars are so powerful. Gong Li is wearing a golden low-cut dress...

According to the media: Not only is she sexy in every gesture, but she also has the nobility and domineering look of an international superstar...

But in Shen Xudong’s opinion, this outfit is really tacky!

Well, it’s not as good as Sister Jiuyi, who just wore a leopard print...

Really hard work!

After the opening ceremony, Shen Xudong originally planned to go directly to the Shanghai Film Studio with a capacity of 1,000 people to watch a movie - "Life Events" was the opening film. However, he received a notice from the organizing committee and asked him to go to the Jinjue Forum first...

The first topic this year is ‘How to make co-productions together’.

Many people came, including Feng Xiaogang, Du Qifeng, Wen Jun, Luo Yongchang...

The first topic is about grading...

A group of people talked about the benefits of grading. Marketization and industrialization must have grading...

It feels like a bitter experience, as if the decline of Hong Kong films is caused by mainland censorship rules.

When it came to Shen Xudong, he only said, "Don't Hong Kong movies have ratings?" Yes, the local market is still being beaten down by PG-level Hollywood blockbusters! ’

‘The main reason why Hollywood blockbusters are able to travel around the world is because their ratings are suitable for all ages! ’

'To be honest, censorship has indeed restricted a large group of outstanding filmmakers, but from my point of view, the quality of directors cannot be said to be restricted at all...'

‘You can’t even figure out why Hong Kong movies declined, so why bother talking about the benefits of classification? What do you think of the benefits of classification? we do not know? ’