Chapter 170 Dialogue
I met with a few seniors in the backstage and chatted and laughed a few times.
Chen Kexin has never met Xiaobai, but he said hello. Thanks to the original "Riding the Wind and Waves" on Weibo, he clarified that he did not copy "The New Brother in the Desperate". As for Feng Xiaogang, Xiaobai has never dealt with him, whether in his previous life or in this time and space.
Teacher Dai Jinghua, Xiaobai, has heard of it as a film scholar with a strong elite stance.
Simply put, it is a person who has nothing to do with Xiaobai!
However, she admires Bai Xiaofei very much, especially his "Knock on the Gate of Heaven"...
She feels it looks very similar to European movies and has a literary temperament.
The later "Riding the Wind and Waves" made her feel a bit like she was compromising the market...
After saying hello, several people came on stage.
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The first topic is about the relationship between filmmakers and audiences!
Feng Xiaogang spoke first, and he admitted that he treated the audience as respectable opponents and needed to give his all. Respect the audience's heart, respect the audience's feelings and respect the money in the audience's pockets are two kinds of respect. Regarding the current IP craze, he directly said that it was just for making money. He even hoped that the cold winter of the movie would make some people who don't love movies but only make money back.
Unlike many directors, he first made commercial films and then art films. Until now, no one can influence his choice of making movies. The latest "Youth" is his own investment!
"I don't waste other people's money, and I also oppose exploring my own corpse while stepping on the producer's corpse. I will step on my own corpse. Do you like to watch it?"
"I am financially free. If I spend my own money, I will please myself without any pressure. Of course I am happy. I can take pictures or not. Even if I don't take pictures in my life, it will be fine. If I take pictures, I will take pictures that I like and I will not be kidnapped by anything again. This is the root of my happiness."
Feng Xiaogang summarizes his current status.
By the way, I also disserted the stars: "Why do you talk about five bodyguards behind the script? There are a bunch of stars who join the group three days in advance and it's considered righteous!"
Well, I always feel that "Youth" is the key...
Chen Kexin expressed his point of view: "I have not reached the level of Director Feng yet! I can't completely put aside the market and make inner attempts, but there are also failures along with the market, such as "Martial Arts""
"I am not a technical director. I can only tell the story well, so I keep making myself younger in the trends in the entire market, being able to connect with the current audience, and finding what I like in their values."
It's Xiaobai's turn.
"Of course, the audience should respect it. This kind of respect is not cater to it, but guidance, because many of our audiences are not very mature and are easily fooled by some marketing and publicity."
"Actually, domestic filmmakers who are still struggling on the front line in our country are very depressed, because the audience we face are audiences in the Internet era. They can watch all the high-scoring movies in the world, especially Hollywood movies. To some extent, it is unfair for us directors to compare. If we compete for visual effects, how can we compare with Hollywood blockbusters? So, we can only start with the most Chinese stories, such as domestic comedy and domestic youth films!"
"For example, if I make a science fiction film now, you will definitely compare it with Hollywood science fiction films. They have been developing for decades. Where are we? We are just starting out and there is no comparison!"
The audience asked: "Then do you want to shoot the movies you make?"
"Of course, the movies I made were written by myself, or the works of the screenwriter!"
First of all, we must understand that the promotional party of this event is mainly aimed at Feng Xiaogang. Therefore, Xiaobai only said a few words and returned the topic to the host Liu Zhenyun, who raised the spirit of craftsmanship.
As an old partner who has been working together for many years, Feng Xiaogang used Liu Zhenyun as an example to explain the "craftsman spirit": without the airs of a great writer, he is willing to rewrite the scripts, and he never tires of revising them."
"It is understandable that you cannot do things you can't do well. I don't think you can forgive me if you can't do things you can't do well. It's not that others can't forgive, but that you can't forgive yourself."
Chen Kexin read a official explanation of the craftsman spirit on the spot, believing that it is okay to shoot movies that meet market demand, but movies that match market demand and inner hobbies must be made to achieve the craftsman spirit.
Dai Jinghua condensed how Chinese films have the spirit of craftsmanship into one sentence: technically qualified, and summarized it as the bottom line of the industry.
"I think the reason why everyone mentioned the 'craftsman spirit' now is mainly because there are too many hot money in the industry."
"Film production should at least focus on the basic process of industry. For example, a variety show movie that is filmed in three days and goes directly to theaters. That thing is not a movie!"
Dissed the variety show movies, and the topic finally came to why there are so many bad movies now!
Feng Xiaogang didn’t know what he was thinking. Maybe he wanted to guide the topic. After all, "Youth" was scheduled for National Day. Maybe he really thought so and said it directly: "There are so many bad movies in China now. I say that, which may be a bit offensive to everyone here, but I still want to say that it is not because there are a large number of garbage viewers. If you don’t support it, you will not have the living space for this thing, and the producers will not invest in such movies. But the current situation is that the box office of this kind of movie is still very good, which also encourages the living space for garbage movies..."
Liu Zhenyun was probably shocked by his old friend. He could guess that tomorrow's news must have a bunch of media spoke in "shocking" form, "Feng Xiaogang bombarded the audience with garbage..."
Of course, this is fine, if it was what Ang Lee said!
But if it were Feng Xiaogang, I always felt a little awkward.
"Old Cannon" was released, Feng Xiaogang said to the media: "Wu Yifan and Li Yifeng are both very sunny children, full of positive energy, I am very happy to be with them!" Then he said, "The young and handsome guys are so cute nowadays"!
"I Am Not Pan Jinlian" was released, and Feng Xiaogang told the media: "The viewing ability of Chinese movie audiences must not be underestimated." Now he said, "There is a group of garbage audiences in China."
Are you a little bit of a rat?
The depravity of a nation is first of all the depravity of the elite, and the sign of the depravity of the elite is the beginning of constant complaints about the depravity of the people!
Chen Kexin and Dai Jinghua were a little bit unfollowed by Director Feng's ideas, and the latter criticized the saying, "The responsibility is not on the audience, but on the high monopoly of film and television capital..."
Xiaobai took over the conversation: "I don't deny that there are indeed a group of garbage audiences in China, but the current situation has improved a lot! Since the second half of last year, some bad movies have really no support, so to the point where it has developed to the point where as long as you see some specific actors, the audience subconsciously believes that this is a bad movie! Don't buy tickets, no matter how loud you hype it, how many hot searches you bought on Weibo are useless!"
"For example, the "Legend of the Gods" was not very good. It took the audience's taste in the past few years. Such a big production has invited a bunch of big stars, and it would have to be a box office of 1 billion."
"Back to the problem of too many bad movies, I think it is mainly because the overall business ability of filmmakers is not high, and they only have the ability to cater to low-level aesthetic audiences. I don't know that most audience aesthetics have evolved to another stage. After eating cakes and then going back to eat steamed buns, I will definitely feel unhappy. However, those filmmakers feel that they have no problem because they did this before! Our filmmakers should indeed improve their aesthetics!"
"For example, I went to a guest star in a movie two days ago. When I went there, I knew it was a bad movie, but there was no way. I owed someone a favor debt and had to pay it back!"
"Have you taken the money?"
Chen Kexin asked suddenly.
"Of course I took the money, so I can't say which movie it is. I'll just talk about the phenomenon. The script of that movie is very old-fashioned. Anyway, I can't write that kind of script after I went to junior high school. I have a total of twelve scenes, and I've finished filming in one day and a half. Many times, I haven't gotten into the state myself, and the director directly shouted 'It's past'... With this attitude, can I make a good movie?"
"…I'm very interested now. What's the name of the movie? Who is the director?"
Feng Xiaogang looked at Xiaobai and asked.
The media off the stage wanted to stare at Bai Xiaofei.
"I really can't say this. After all, it's unethical to take other people's money!"
Liu Zhenyun is already satisfied. Xiaobai said this, and tomorrow's media reports are likely to turn into "Bai Xiaofei's bombardment of domestic directors and productions without care" and so on...
Haha, he still underestimated Feng Xiaogang's influence and didn't have to wait until tomorrow. That afternoon, Feng Xiaogang bombarded the audience with garbage and became a hot search on Weibo. Of course, this is a later story.
Chapter completed!