Chapter 258 Do It Yourself! (14)
Shen Xudong has no plans to become a director for the time being...
This is real!
Otherwise, he would have recommended himself as the director of "Outstanding Citizen"!
In fact, around 2016, if you just threw a brick near BJ Gaobeidian, 3 out of 10 people were directors, and among the remaining few people there were one or two producers, one or two actors, etc.
It is not difficult to be a director, as long as you can raise money, you can become a director.
Of course, connecting with the audience is difficult!
Speaking of being in tune with the audience...the fifth generation, including the sixth generation, are all influenced by art films. In theory, they should also include film critics who are middle-aged and above.
Therefore, they are entangled in formalism, expressionism, postmodernism, avant-garde, new reality, new wave... changing their body to criticize reality, analyze the nation, and enjoy a special status that no one can compete with!
There really was no competition, making movies in those days was a privilege!
Later, after the theater chain expanded and Hollywood was introduced, young ordinary audiences were exposed to Hollywood movies.
Hollywood is formulaic. How to create conflicts and how to set climax are all verified through extensive verification and audience analysis surveys, and can exactly reach the audience's dopamine secretion threshold...
The first Hollywood blockbuster was "The Fugitive", starring Harrison Ford, and a typical Hollywood commercial film produced by Warner...
The train hit the bus and the mainland audience was shocked. Damn it, this horse riding is a movie!
The audience uses Hollywood to benchmark domestic films.
"The Great Wall" failed because it was a completely second-rate Hollywood movie.
Ah Mou was also very angry when he mentioned it later, because this project was built according to the Hollywood model, and the film was dominated by the screenwriters and producers.
But if the fifth and sixth generation directors such as A Mou, Poetry Master, Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai are given enough funds and leadership, can they create a phenomenal blockbuster movie?
Before this year’s Spring Festival, it was generally believed that it was impossible.
Because it is difficult for them to understand and integrate into the industrial process of Hollywood.
The new generation of directors do not have this problem. Most of them, such as Wu Jing, Chen Sicheng, and Guo Fan, have gone to Hollywood for further studies with government support. They can use the Hollywood process without any obstacles.
Using dozens of screenwriters to competitively write scripts and then filling them in, using a gradually mature industrial process, can make the movie look quite Hollywood.
Naturally, it can also sell well...
Of course, all this was crushed by this year's Spring Festival release of "Manzi" - top director + top Mesozoic comedian + popular star, a small-cost script-killing comedy movie, all the money was spent on the salary, and it was easy to shoot It took 51 days, no difficulty at all, I made money standing up!
By comparison, "The Wandering Earth 2" is a der!
I would like to advise Director Guo Fan here. If he still wants to make his director career more glorious, what he needs to do now is to fire his film industry team, special effects team, science team, screenwriting and setting team, art team, etc. Post-production team blah blah blah…
These people are worthless for the future of Chinese cinema...
The "Chinese people" have used the box office to give these filmmakers who are learning from Hollywood a solemn declaration: "We the audience" will not accept your tricks!
What film industrialization? Heavy industry, standardization?
The ‘audience’ doesn’t like it!
The "audience" has "independently" chosen a family movie path of popular stars + comedians + low-cost production. From now on, science fiction film directors will think of a science fiction setting, form a film industry team, and create a movie that is fake and real. Gone are the days when the science fiction world could reap massive box office revenue from China!
I advise Guo Fan, Da Liu, Wu Jing and other science fiction fans to recognize the situation clearly, give up illusions, and when facing the mighty and unstoppable historical trend, ask yourself: "The 'people' like what they hear and see, but if you don't like it, you don't care." Who are you?"
Just like this, a bunch of fans left messages saying, "I choose hope." If you choose Der, what right do you have to make a choice?
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the number of films ranked No. 1, the box office was No. 1, and the reputation was No. 1. On the Second Day of the Lunar New Year, the box office dropped by 22%...
(Dog head!)
(I'm being sarcastic...I'm an ally)
To bring it back, all in all, Shen Xudong has no intention of becoming a director!
At least not yet...
Therefore, director Tian Zhuangzhuang's proposal was rejected directly by him: "Teacher Tian, I am still a student. It takes at least ten months from the filming to the release of a movie...I still have to go to school~"
This reason is impeccable!
But Tian Zhuangzhuang is no longer interested...
Because Shen Xudong has already said it completely, if it is filmed, it will be Shen Xudong's work!
For ordinary directors, this is no problem, but for Tian Zhuangzhuang, it is simply an insult!
It's not your own work, but you want to direct it?
This is an insult to him...
"...Okay, if that's the case, forget it..."
When Shen Xudong was about to leave, Tian Zhuangzhuang suddenly said: "I am a graduate tutor at Nortel... majoring in directing..."
"...But I am a Chinese actor!"
"Has the director of the Chinese Theater Department ever been a film director?" Tian Zhuangzhuang smiled: "If you want to learn directing, you can come to Nortel to find me!"
"…Um…"
…
How should I put it, the director of the Chinese drama really has no achievements in movies!
The reason is quite simple. China National Theater does not have a film directing department. China National Theater's directing department is to train drama directors, not for the big screen.
Therefore, all the big-name directors in the drama industry are from China Theater...
In addition, the specifications of Nortel and China Theater are similar to those of Peking University and Minzu University of China. They were both built by the central government. The Shanghai Theater was built by Shanghai and the Ministry of Education...
Therefore, Nortel and China National Theater are really not the difference between the local government and the central government...
However, if Shen Xudong takes the postgraduate entrance examination after graduation and really wants to study directing, and then applies for Tian Zhuangzhuang from Nortel, then... the teacher will probably be furious!
Shen Xudong actually doesn’t think much of going to Nortel – there’s a guy called Mai, well, that’s not the case, it’s just that MC Tianyou went to a refresher course...
That's quite speechless...
It’s too shameful to step on the horse. After all, BJ Film Academy is a learning place for cultivating talents in the entertainment industry...
I went back to the dormitory and talked to a few people. They... didn't respond at all. They were all busy arranging actors for "The Great Butler"!
Well, Shen Xudong asked Gao Fenfen to send the information and photos of the actresses, and then choose the person based on the pictures...
The main thing is to give it to the brothers to choose from three, so that they can have a good time.
In fact, the protagonists have been determined, Zeng Li, Li Xiaoran, Qin Lan, Tang Yan, Yan Danchen, Jiang Xin, Yang Xiaomi - corresponding roles according to New Line...
Just to give them a good time.
That's also very enjoyable, this feeling of controlling other people's destiny...
Therefore, they didn't care at all about Tian Zhuangzhuang's refusal to be the director of "The Aviator"!
However, when Shen Xudong said, "I am going to find a director myself and then invest in "The Aviator", a group of people immediately advised him to be cautious...