Chapter 360 "Far Cry" (3/4)
Asked Zhang Junsheng.
"Many people say that the 1980s is the best era in China. What do you think?"
Zhang Junsheng waved his hand: "I haven't experienced the 1980s, so I'm not good at commenting!"
Rewarding literati, industry regression, compradors rampant, military business, social turmoil, public security chaos, new aristocrats rise...
I'm talking about the Republic of China!
Of course, the 1980s laid the foundation of this era, which was stronger than yesterday, and had hope for tomorrow. After a long thirst, I finally lived a normal life, and desire has not yet eroded people's whole body and mind.
For many people, it is indeed a golden age!
At that time, college students were discussing poetry and the future of the country...
However, what Zhang Junsheng felt most about is that there was a film like "Liu Panshan" in the 1980s, which was no longer available now...
(That movie is shocking, it is simply not national unity at all...)
A professor from Jiaotong University said: "There are now movies that lack humanistic care in the market. Many times when you enter the cinema, you feel that those movies are not called movies."
Wu Yanyan interjected: "In fact, it's not just the country, but the situation in the United States is also relatively bad. Hollywood only shoots Marvel. I know many filmmakers. They also say they are very boring, but the Six Das not dare to take risks, so they appeared and burned after reading. Young children were brainwashed by Marvel, but there is indeed nothing on the market that can be shown for them. Everyone is discussing this confusion - what movies should be made? What can be left in history? But Marvel certainly won't. At best, it's just entertainment, and it won't stay in history like "Schindler's List"!"
Zhang Junsheng curled his lips and said nothing...
Zhang Yimou shook his head: "In order to let Chinese films go out, we participated in various film festivals and won awards at film festivals. This has been decades, and people have always been doing it, and I have done it many times. But you know that the space for these communication is limited. The blockbusters released in mainstream theaters that affect most young people in the world have always been short versions of Chinese films. If the film is an industrial system, it is a heavy industry. I personally think it is a pillar industry."
"But you yourself say that Hollywood industrialization is a blasphemy to the art of film, and you don't like the producer system and have no creative freedom..."
"I don't like it, but it's good for Chinese movies..."
"But it lacks artisticity!"
"…I'll answer this!"
Zhang Junsheng really couldn't hold it in, and he was always artistic. Why not eat meat minced meat?
"I have produced many mainstream movies in the United States and made several independent movies. It is more appropriate for me to answer this question!"
"Why is Hollywood scary? It is because it has a complete industrial division of labor. The most important thing is that it has a bottom-up industrial chain. In addition to the common Hollywood blockbusters we have, there are thousands of independent film companies specializing in low-cost shooting. The movies made by these people rarely appear on the big screen. However, once talents are released, they are easily identified and then attracted to mainstream commercial films!"
"Their mainstream movies are always big productions of commercial types, and independent movies belong to marginal culture..."
Wu Yanyan immediately retorted: "Oscars every year..."
"Oscars are just participants in North American movies, witnesses, not terminators. Winning the Oscars does not mean that you are very powerful!"
"Mainstream audiences like movies that are commercial and entertaining more powerful. Only a small number of viewers like literary, emotional, or the mission of the movie. I don't understand one thing very much, why do those who like to watch art films have a sense of superiority, and where does the sense of superiority come from?"
"The strength of Hollywood lies in its inclusiveness. It can absorb different cultures, but Japanese movies are no longer possible. In the past, Japanese movies were also popular in large-scale productions. Later, the two-dimensional culture emerged, and the mainstream moved closer to the edge, and then the two-dimensional world became mainstream..."
"If we all make art films as you said, we are not developing Chinese movies, but killing Chinese movies! Any artificial separation of commercial and art films is a very old mindset. Every director has his own artistic dream, but art films are not arrogant. If a movie is made without audiences, it is a failure."
"You said that the six major films are all making superhero films? Actually, this is not the case. A large number of the movies produced by Paramount are medium-sized."
Wu Yanyan continued to refute: "But the problem now is that art films can no longer survive. The reality is so serious, the small amount of screenings, and the edge of screenings are all beyond our imagination!"
"Mr. Zhang, you have a theater chain in your hand. Will you deliberately schedule a few more scenes for art films when you shoot?"
"Movies should adhere to the basic cultural bottom line, and movies should carry cultural missions. In the case of such a difficult survival of art films, I think director Wang Xiaoshuai said very well. Putting art films on the market is unfair. Throwing cultural undertakings into the market will definitely be distorted. Art films cannot and should not be tested by the market, and they need to be protected."
“…That’s what it means, it seems that commercial movies do not carry cultural missions!”
Zhang Junsheng was speechless. It was already 2011, so why are there such a stupid person?
"Why can Hollywood movies travel around the world? Is it because its movies have historical heritage?"
"Commercial films are so high that they are more powerful than art films in disseminating culture. What is the biggest influence of Chinese films overseas? Are art films? No, they are kung fu films! They are Cheng Long!"
Wang Xiaoshuai is a lunatic. He knows it all day long. He used to say that he wanted to create freely and blamed Zhengfu for being too ungrateful. Now, he called Zhengfu to use money to build a literary and artistic theater for him. Why? Are you a director of a literary film, awesome?
...
It is impossible to really make a noise like a shrew scolding the street.
After all, they are all people with identities, and they have made a lot of media and students off the field.
The host smooths out the situation, and then the reporter asks the time.
"Far Cry" has exceeded 50 million in the box office, what do you think?"
“… “Far Cry?”
This really stumped Zhang Junsheng...
It was released in the same period and was originally a cannon fodder film with an investment of 5 million yuan, a three-day tour of theaters. It can earn a little bit of domestic thriller film, and then directly defeated "Martial Arts" and ranked second in the box office list!
It won a box office of 26 million in the first weekend. Although it is incomparable to "The Great Wall", the investment in "The Great Wall" is one hundred times that of it!
The movie circle was shocked.
They can't film "The Great Wall", can't they handle "Far Cry"?
Chapter completed!