Chapter 812 You Understand the Audience!

A collection of short stories...actually a platter of movies!

Different from the "Me and My XX" series that we are familiar with, our domestic platter movies were first of the love genre!

Perhaps the earliest one was "Love Malatang" directed by Zhang Yang in 1999. Although this film had little influence in the film market, the platter of many love stories between men and women provided a basic reference for subsequent imitators.

Most of the time, love platter movies are small-probability events that directors make occasionally. Until the birth of "Love in the City", love platter movies have become a genre film with Chinese characteristics.

In 2010, Wang Jiawei used photographer Xia Yongkang to shoot his first feature film. The contacts he accumulated in the Hong Kong circle allowed him to invite many celebrity guest stars. The format of the platter movie also reduced the difficulty of script writing and shooting to a certain extent, and finally gained 1.29 With a box office of over 100 million, it became an example of the unprecedented success of platter movies, and also promoted the popularity of love platter movies in the future.

After "Love in the City" achieved high box office, Shai Yongkang struck while the iron was hot, and together with his partner Chen Guohui, invited many well-known actors to film "Love in the World" in the same format, which once again received a box office of 58.18 million.

In fact, this type of movie is all a formula, a love story and a gathering of stars.

The selling point is the star!

Because it is a collection of short films, the shooting time is short and will not delay these celebrities for too long. As long as the money is in place or the connections are in place, it can basically be done.

In Shen Xudong's impression, the largest love-themed movie is "Running for Love", with five directors Guan Hu, Teng Huatao, Gao Qunshu, Zhang Meng, and Zhang Yibai. The five stories take place in five regions around the world. There are also Zhang Ziyi, Big-name stars such as Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, and Zhou Dongyu participated in the show...

And it was also released on Valentine's Day. The final box office was 47 million, with a Douban score of 4.0...

Miserable failure!

"Northern Love" movie version... Shen Xudong has no impression, I just remember that the box office was good...

Therefore, Shen Xudong took the initiative to propose that he make a version...

Chen Sicheng understands commercial movies - the essence of commercial movies can be summed up in one sentence: do enough superficial work.

Don't think that this is very simple. Many directors don't even bother with this matter. For example, "The Promise" not only fails to please, but also waits for the audience to worship...

There are also many younger generations who have no skills and a lot of accents!

Shen Xudong chatted with him for a while...

It's quite speculative, but the occasion isn't right. I've made an appointment to discuss it in detail tomorrow morning...

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The most powerful thing about Xu Ke’s movies is his aesthetics and editing...

His martial arts in one fell swoop revolutionized the old Hong Kong-style martial arts pattern of the brocade hat and mink fur, and the sword that frosted fourteen states!

But to say that he is a film artist is not enough, after all, he is a Hong Kong director!

There are many, many directors in Hong Kong, but only a few can be considered pure film art directors, that is, they treat movies as works of art as diligently and uncompromisingly.

Not so Xu!

Although he created many Hong Kong film pioneers and eras, he is not the kind of person who treats movies as art.

Therefore, most of his works are full of imagination, bold production, and even profound truths, but they are ultimately rough in many details and lack the will to go deeper in art.

To put it bluntly: the text is a bit rough, the narrative line is often sacrificed, the rationality is often questioned, and behind the unbridled imagination is a lack of logic!

He is more pursuing an effect.

So when he thinks about achieving this result, he won't work hard on details, and often even compromises, focusing on time progress, capital, etc...

Even with Shen Xudong's blessing, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is still not qualified to become a classic movie...

Shen Xudong changed the main plot - Yu Huatian's perverted 'love' for Zhao Huaian...

Yuhuatian wanted to gain power by killing Zhao Huaian. This was an obvious motive and an ambition, so he spent all his efforts and manpower to do this. The boss and second stall manager of the West Factory even went to Longmen in person. There is a saying: I will take care of the things that your Dongchang can handle, and I will also take care of the things that your Dongchang cannot handle! He is fulfilling his promise.

In his mind, Concubine Wan Gui is just a tool, Dongchang is a bunch of trash, and only Zhao Pei is his opponent.

Power and wealth can no longer satisfy him. What he wants is to defeat Zhao Huaian head-on!

In the original version, this mentality needs to be guessed slowly. This time Shen Xudong added a few words to express it directly...

In addition, the changes brought by 3D to the audio-visual language may be similar to the widescreen of the year. The widescreen generally increased the length of the lens, and Xu Ke's scissors were therefore restricted. This time, I mainly relied on wires, and they were "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"-style wires. The processing of small spaces that Xu Ke is good at is not as elegant as large spaces. This may be due to the emphasis on wire effects this time.

And the action design is far from awesome...

Thrills and thrills rely more on throwing darts - because the martial arts instructors don't know how to use 3D to express hand-to-hand combat and cold weapon combat. Basically, the battles are all about hidden weapons flying around...

Also...Xu Ke's purpose in doing this scene is to experiment with 3D martial arts...

Therefore, a big scene is needed!

There are still tornadoes...

However, it's all worth it: the 3D effect is really good!

After the movie screening ended, Shen Xudong came on stage to express his thoughts:

"Cameron used 3D to shoot "Avatar", and director Tsui Hark used 3D to shoot "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate". Now it seems that this is reliable.

Hollywood's 3D blockbusters use a lot of motion capture and CG technology. The main 3D pictures are actually mostly done with CG, and the animation is rich in color. "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" mainly relies on real-life performances. From this point of view, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is placed in the It also has a place in the world of 3D movies, especially compared to pseudo-3D movies like "Clash of the Gods", "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" is even more impressive.

From the perspective of Chinese film history, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" can be called the first truly Chinese 3D film.

It can be seen that the entire "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate", photography, art, and editing, from the early stage to the late stage, are all built around 3D effects. From the shipyard sequence in the opening film, the 3D effects are shocking! "

Before the host could ask another question, Shen Xudong pointed to Zhang Yi who was sitting in the audience: "Why don't you let Director Zhang comment?"

"It's really powerful, more powerful than I thought..."

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As usual, Shen Xudong praised "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" on his Weibo.

Let’s not talk about the plot, just talk about 3D…

Oh, "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" was released at 6 pm on December 23, and the box office on the first day was 14.8 million - the 3D ticket price is five yuan more than ordinary movies!

The reputation is not bad, at least it beats Xu Jinglei's "Close Enemies" at the same time - I really don't understand why Xu Jinglei released the movie at this time. The two movies "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" and "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" dominated all Media resources, no one cares about it being released at this time.

It doesn’t matter, it’s produced by Bona anyway…

The next morning, Shen Xudong met with Chen Sicheng and Ning Hao at the racecourse...

Ning Hao was also met during the premiere of "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate"...