Many people complain that there are too few domestic movies, especially in recent years, youth films have gathered together, and decent art films have almost disappeared.

You don’t think about it. Even the Golden Age film directed by a literary film like Xu Anhua is no longer popular. Who dares to invest?

Only some investors who truly respect movies will make independent movies with small investments, but their minimum requirement is to make a return. Therefore, there are still people who invest in the movies of Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai because their movies can be sold to other places.

Some young directors who truly have literary and artistic hearts are becoming increasingly difficult to gain the confidence of investors!

Chen Yang's arrival in Thailand not only saved Chen Lin's most of the detailed coordination work, but also brought him a script - "Funeral Coffin".

It is a work written by Qi Yukun.

Qi Yukun is an associate director who filmed "Please Answer 199o". He is Chen Yang's classmate.

To be honest, when Chen Lin saw this title, he no longer had the idea of ​​opening the script.

The title of Chinese movies is that words such as funerals or coffins are not allowed.

Xiao Qi is so amateur!

This thing is common sense!

However, Chen Yang said that the script was very good, so Chen Lin just looked through it.

Very good movie script.

The story consists of three parts: the son and the lover escape from trouble, the middle-aged old lover is exposed, and the village chief’s father protects his son.

What's even more rare is that this is a movie with a rural suspense theme.

Many people say that Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are just microcosms of China, and small counties are the truth of China. Without considering the correctness of this sentence, China is an indisputable fact. China is an agricultural country, and the majority of the population is farmers.

However, most of the people who are willing to pay for movies in the theater are urban people, and this is the truth!

So, this alone limits the box office results of this movie!

If Chen Lin was asked to shoot this movie, it would be unlikely that such a movie would be destined to be too high.

Let’s roughly analyze the script "Funeral Coffin".

First, it involves murder.

But this murder case is not at all like the narrative pattern of a commercial film about the case in the usual sense.

Death in general commercial movies is ingenious, full of strange motives and strong sense of ritual packaging. The death presented in "The Funeral Coffin" is dark and dull, full of randomness, life and death for a moment without any signs or warnings.

Many people will say that this is in line with the truth, life and death are destined, but that's it.

But what audiences who enter theaters watch movies are still willing to see strangeness, deaths after multiple designs!

If we want to see the truth, we can choose to read it!

Then, it also involves lies.

We are all full of yearning for exploring the truth, because the operation of this world is actually based on lies, which is a cruel reality.

Judging from the script "Funeral Coffin", this initial lie is actually nothing. It is more like a little girl acting coquettishly, willful and unruly play. But after that, the lies are amplified little by little and become bullets that are truly enough to penetrate life. When it comes to the uncontrollable ending, when you look back at the ridiculous beginning, you will understand what impermanence is.

The husband met with his first love girlfriend without telling her pregnant wife;

The cripple man took advantage of the two without telling his wife and mistress;

The son hangs out with the girl in the village without telling his parents;

The village chief cleaned up the mess without hiding his conscience...

Everyone is thinking that they can keep others in the dark, but in fact, they are always standing in the trap set by others.

After this, Chen Lin also saw the disintegration of emotions and spirits of almost everyone.

Whether it is the seemingly happy village chief’s family or the unfortunate widow, they are all hollow, and life is just spending time to them.

And beyond all this, there is a layer of secret but ubiquitous patriarchy in the outermost circle.

In the name of "love", the father arranged everything for his children and deprived them of everything. Later, the father wanted to save his son, but eventually everyone fell into a more hopeless abyss.

At the end of the script, the father and son stood silently on both sides of the funeral coffin, and everything returned to the starting point. Absurdity was covered with absurdity, and impermanence folded with impermanence.

After years of alienation and hatred, the son called out "Dad"!

The script ends.

Full of picture!

"Serious subject matters are not suitable for me, and I don't have the idea of ​​transformation now..."

Chen Lin closed the script and talked to Chen Yang, "Although this subject is very novel and the story is good, I will not direct such works!"

"Who asked you to direct it? I'm asking you, how is this script? Xiao Qi wants to be a director!"

Chen Yang gave him a blank look and then said his heart: "I think your current identity can be fully invested and supported by some young directors. They have ideas, but they don't have money, and they don't have any..."

"I have been doing it all the time. I have support for your "Strange Her" and Xu Guangtou's "Lost in Thailand"!"

Chen Lin was very dissatisfied.

"But those are pure commercial films!"

Chen Yang looked at Chen Lin and continued, "Some time ago, Xining Youth Film Festival contacted me and hoped that you could pay for a group of young directors..."

"Wait a minute, Xining Youth Film Festival? Are you talking about FIRsT?"

"Yes, have you heard of it?"

Of course Chen Lin knew about this film festival.

It is known as the largest young director exchange event in Asia. It has been trending to catch up with the Magic City Film Festival just eight years ago.

Let me talk about a data. In 2016, a total of 13o7 movies around the world were collected and entered the FIRsT Youth Film Festival, most of which were independent small-budget movies.

Young directors around the world who dream of film are eager to be recognized by FIRsT!

Absolutely up-and-coming show!

Not only domestic film companies, but many foreign film companies have established good relationships with FIRsT.

At the same time, Chen Lin remembered the movie "Funeral Coffin". Isn't this the "My Heart Maze"?

"Okay, please contact them and say I am willing to contribute to the film festival, and I will spend some money to establish special funds to support young directors participating in the film!"

After thinking about it, Chen Lin added: "This money is established in my personal name. Don't go through the studio channel, and don't inform the light."

"I understand, do you still have it?"

Chen Yang wrote down the words of Shenmeng in the notebook, then looked up and continued to look at him.

"And? Oh, by the way, I like this "Funeral Coffin". I decided to invest. You ask Qi Yukun to make a cost budget and a planned cast. You will be responsible for following up at that time."

"I almost forgot, so I asked him to change his name, "Funeral Coffin", would the Optoelectronics Bureau give it to "The Maze of Heart", anyway, Qi Yukun is a fan of the Coen brothers."

After saying this, Chen Lin looked at Chen Yang, but she still had no intention of walking away: "Is there anything else?"

"Have you not been on Weibo these days?"

"I don't have time to go to Weibo. I've been too busy these days, and the crew is completely inseparable from it..."
Chapter completed!