Chapter 857 When the New Wave Meets Hollywood (24)
"Hearing the Wind" is actually quite sincere!
If there is no sincerity, Mai Zhaohui and Zhuang Wenqiang will not use Liang Chaowei.
After "The Wind", spy films became a new trend.
Then... "Dongfengyu" encountered another problem - review!
Because of the issue of united front, many things cannot be done...
It's obviously a revolutionary historical subject, but it's unclear all the way...
Therefore, "Hearing the Wind" directly abandons faith and only talks about "part-time work", which is likely to blur the political background of the civil war, leaving only a very vague framework of confrontation between ourselves and the enemy.
“Everyone is just looking for food to eat”, “Everyone is their own boss, it’s just a part-time job.”
Therefore, regardless of ideology and political beliefs, "The Listener" is still the police film model that Mai Zhuang is good at...
They really worked hard to make the most of the story of "The Wind Listener" for their own use. But the harder he tries, the more he proves in the climax that these efforts are still in vain.
It is in line with the public's perception of Hong Kong movies: beautiful environments, ever-changing costumes, and touching love scenes...
But it's of no use, "The Wind Listener" is a spy movie!
The original work was originally very good, but the resulting movie turned out not to be touching at all. There was no feeling at all when the character Zhou Xun died...
It proves that Hong Kong directors are not good at this subject!
Bringing it back, there were naturally interviewees in the interview area, and "Painted Skin 2" was mentioned. Shen Xudong explained: ""Painted Skin 2" continues the theme of Painted Skin, and at the same time expands the world view of Liaozhai..."
"We will definitely continue to make the "Liao Zhai" series of movies. Hollywood can make series films and movie universes. There is no reason why we can't make Chinese-language films!"
"Of course I hope the box office is as high as possible..."
After a brief chat, Shen Xudong left the interview area - he still had to attend the industry forum!
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In fact, the discussion about "Hunting" in the circle mainly focuses on Shen Xudong. Shen Xudong is the producer, screenwriter, and supervisor. Even in the early days of Shanghai Film Festival, Shen Xudong's name was the one who was in charge of publicity...
It was released for a while before it was changed to Wen Mino + Chen Daoming.
This is normal, because Shen Xudong = quality + box office!
Theaters are buying it, and many movie fans are willing to believe it.
Therefore, many people in the industry summarize Fumino as a lucky person...
When we arrived at the forum, the host He Ping asked this question at the beginning, and Shen Xudong shook his head: "Wen Muye, like me, grew up watching Hong Kong movies, European movies, and American movies. To boast, we actually have a certain level of literature and art. , it’s not impossible for me to make a literary film!
But we take commercial genre films as our creative direction because we firmly believe that movies should be made for people to watch. "
"So, I was very relieved when I handed over the movie "Hunting" to him, because he told the story from a straight-up perspective, not looking down, let alone looking up. Many of our directors tell the story from a bird's-eye perspective. !”
"Wen Mino and I both like "The White-Haired Girl". We think this movie is good at empathizing with people. Therefore, when "The White-Haired Girl" was performed in the liberated areas, it was welcomed by the People's Liberation Army and the masses. It made the soldiers so excited that they wanted to pick up guns. Playing actors... We also like "Ma Dashuai"... Nowadays, many so-called movies that reflect the poverty of the people are not watched by the people at all. In their hearts, they look down on them, just like the attitude of Western society towards third world countries..."
"You are obviously a spectator, but you still insist on saying that you are speaking for the bottom..."
Speaking of this, Shen Xudong glanced at Jia Zhangke, who was sitting next to him: "Director Jia, does what I said make sense?"
Jia Zhangke was a little embarrassed: "...but we filmmakers should always leave something behind..."
"I think if you want to leave something behind, you might as well look at what Hong Kong movies have left behind. I would say "The Cage Man" and "Spring Dawn in a Dangerous Building". How many people do you think know these movies?"
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Our theme today is when the new wave meets Hollywood! Who starts first? Xiaoshuai!"
Then Wang Xiaoshuai talked about the problems encountered in "Me 11".
"I 11" is actually a Sino-French co-production, and the filming funds are mainly provided by France, ARTE France - French art channel.
By the way, both Lou Ye and Zhang Jian have received their sponsorship.
"I 11" is distributed by Fujian Hengye. Fujian Hengye started out by making horror films and thrillers. It has experience and channels for film distribution. It is entirely possible for "I 11" to spread to movie theaters across the country...
There was no problem so far, but then Wang Xiaoshuai started complaining that after the poor performance on the first day, theaters refused to schedule films and there was online piracy...
He Bing interrupted him: "Xudong is also in the theater chain business. How do you arrange the film schedule for the theater chain?"
Shen Xudong thought for a while and said: "Before the film is released, the film distributor and the theater chain negotiate the number of films to be scheduled. But during the screening, if the film sales are good, the number of films will be increased to a certain extent. Note that it is the sales volume of the film Rather than word of mouth, of course, film schedules are sometimes affected by politics..."
"Then why is there talk of a three-day tour?"
"Generally speaking, regardless of whether there is publicity or not, theaters will basically schedule movies in the first three days after a new movie is released. But there are many new movies released every week, and the number of screening halls in theaters is limited, so the attendance rate of which movie can only be determined. Which one will be shown? In fact, there are many movies now that are called "three-day tours in the theater". Basically, if you can't make it in one day, you won't be scheduled..."
"Do you think this is fair?"
"...It's not fair or unfair. The current cinema model is actually a real estate model. Basically, wherever there is a shopping mall, there are cinemas. But the rent in the shopping mall is very expensive. Take the five Jiahe Cinemas in Shanghai as an example. The rent The highest is 9 million a year, the lowest is 6 million... Moreover, they want to increase it next year, plus water and electricity, employee wages, equipment updates... the annual expenditure is at least 15 million...
We must arrange movies that can make money, otherwise, there is no way to survive! "
Speaking of this, Shen Xudong spread his hands: "If we can't even solve the problem of survival, who has the time to care about the so-called art? This is a very real problem!"
"Then let art films disappear?"
"Art films will not disappear. There is a saying that one waxes and wanes, and there will be troughs when there are highs. Now that literature and art are replaced by popular, it must be that the development of literature and art has reached a bottleneck, which has caused the same aesthetic fatigue and led to popular novels and novels. , special and fast have become advantages. When the crowd wants to see more profound information, and when art with profound cultural heritage also finds a breakthrough, the right time, place and people work together, and a new round of Renaissance will be arrival…"
Host He Ping quickly said: "Speaking of Hollywood, Xudong thinks the increase in Hollywood movies is a good thing or a bad thing for Chinese movies?"
"Good thing!"