Director’s Legend

"Someone still has to ask. Now the audience's tastes have changed. If we make a movie about grandparents and grandchildren living together, the audience won't watch it even if they cry a lot. Because there are only two of you. A movie ticket, just watching an old man with a child, I have a toothache?"

"Haha." There were bursts of laughter below, and someone was thoughtful.

"So, many filmmakers say that the audience's taste is too strong, so they have to watch blockbuster movies. Even if there are two people, you have to be similar in age, and you have to do things in the same room. For example, if you invite a friend, a man and a woman We are not limited, if you tell your friends we go to see the main theme, will your friends think you are sick? Because the main theme means that it is not good-looking."

"This is indeed not a good phenomenon, because our audience cannot and should not hate the main theme. This society needs the main theme, and our next generation needs the main theme. We need Lei Feng, Jiao Yulu, Jiang Jie, and we need the power of role models Come to educate and inspire, so that we will not pollute ourselves in the dye vat of society. I also said in "High-end Interview", the main theme should be more."

"In recent years, I have indeed filmed a lot of main themes, but why? Many directors have a very simple idea when they shoot the main theme. I can get any award if I shoot the main theme, and I can get a one million state subsidy, and then sell it to others. The movie channel got another one million, so it’s not a loss. I’m making other losses, and I’m making money for the main theme, right? So now we are facing the invasion of Hollywood blockbusters, and we ourselves The film is not up to expectations. What is concealed by the growth of the box office is the decline of domestic films."

Shao Shuaijun raised his eyes to see how the students were listening attentively, and the unpredictable expressions of filmmakers from all walks of life, licked his lips, and continued: "Think about it, is there something wrong with the question I asked on behalf of the directors just now? The reason? Audiences like to watch blockbuster movies, so we naturally have to learn from blockbuster movies. You can get money by playing with the main theme, why should I carefully craft it? Then the rest is talking about life, art, and some inexplicable things.”

"The directors are reasonable, and their analysis is in place. But is this just a way to deceive the audience? Because we don't know. What should we do to bring Chinese films on the right track. We come here Going forward, every year except for those few movies that make money, the others are still losing money. One investor was cheated today, and another investor was cheated tomorrow. After cheating the investor, he went to cheat the cinema. Good movie. The movie theater won’t show it for you anymore, change it to a Hollywood movie!”

"Our film market has been reformed, and our five generations of directors have explored commercial roads. We seem to have found a way out to save Chinese films. We have to keep pace with blockbuster films. We seem to have rushed out of the domestic market and started to go global, winning awards frequently. But looking back and looking at the road, besides "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero", "Source Code", and "Painted Skin", which other films have we made money overseas, making a lot of money? We Walking and walking, I thought I had stepped out of a path of Chinese movies, but suddenly found that, in fact, we have been wandering around the door of our house, unable to get out."

"We didn't do anything, we didn't make anything, our so-called Chinese films were successful, not one or two directors were successful, one or two films were successful, we didn't go out of our way. Because we didn't let We have become rich from the bottom of our hearts, no matter how well we dress, we are still poor! We have five thousand years of cultural heritage, and we have to follow the tastes of foreigners when we make movies, and then we can make a little progress. Make a move. A lot of us filmmakers scoff at Hollywood, but we see that Hollywood conquers the world."

"Our movies have to follow the Hollywood way to catch up with some light and drink some soup. Many of our directors, I am also one, why do we all go to Hollywood to make movies? It doesn't matter where the movies are shot Movies, why can they succeed only in Hollywood, gain worldwide appeal, and prove themselves? Because the two-hundred-year history of the United States is brilliant? Compared with our five-thousand-year history, does the United States have a history? Why does Hollywood have a right? The world is exporting culture? We are the four ancient countries, papermaking, gunpowder, compass, printing, we should be able to use our splendid culture to show the world, right?"

"But, we didn't do it. We closed the door and lied to ourselves." There was no sound in the audience, except for Shao Shuaijun's indignant words, "I can already imagine that after today's speech, there must be countless people coming tomorrow Scold me. Say you Shao Shuaijun understands a fart, what are you, why do you dictate to Chinese movies? Yes, I, Shao Shuaijun, is nothing, and the leaders, seniors, and colleagues who are here today to attend this ceremony Compared to them, I am a newcomer, a rookie who has just entered the film industry. In fact, I am just a cynic."

"I just wanted to be the little boy who said that the emperor had no clothes on. Of course, I might be the emperor who didn't wear clothes, so I stood here in a daze. Please help me to see if I have clothes on. ?”

There were three or two laughs, maybe the topic just now was too heavy.

Shao Shuaijun didn't care, and since he started, he continued as he wanted to say: "I have been in the entertainment industry for five years, I was lucky, I made a movie and made money, and I have a relatively large company, and today I can Here, I am talking nonsense. After careful investigation, I have not made any contribution to Chinese movies. Whether it is "Source Code", "Painted Skin" or "Inception", they are all done in the way of Hollywood. I am also one of the affected people, and I can't figure out how we can solve it so that Chinese films can get on the right track as soon as possible."

"Where is the road for Chinese movies? It is very heavy, very heavy. We would say that it is nonsense to say that foreign movies have peacefully evolved for us. But we are made a lot of money by foreign movies every year. This is indisputable. At least, we have not yet Earning money from foreign countries. The same problem has been encountered in Russia, India, the United Kingdom, and Italy. In Spain, these countries with a relatively developed film industry have encountered it, but they have various methods and countermeasures. "

"For example, when Russia couldn't restrain itself, it abolished the movie quota. It was a very simple method, and all American movies could come in. At most, 280 of the 320 movies released a year were American movies. Soon Russia The audience got tired of watching it, and began to miss their own Russian movies. Russian movies have been recovering in the past two years. They have also made their own blockbuster movies. They are very popular with Russian audiences."

"And Indian films are very interesting, and this is one of their pillar industries. I recently supervised a film in India. If you look at the posters at the entrance of Indian cinemas, there is no introduction of the main actors. They are all songs about who sings. Who dances. Because their movies must have three songs and five dances."

Everyone laughed. Indian movies have started to go international in recent years, and Chinese audiences are familiar with them. know their style.

"This is a characteristic of Indian movies. It is difficult for Hollywood movies to be used there. Hollywood has also thought of ways to co-produce movies with them, such as "Once Upon a Time in India". The investment in co-production movies is very large, and Indian filmmakers are very smart. , They spent all the money, how did they spend it? It used to be 20 people dancing, but now it has been changed to 200 people dancing."

"Hahahaha." Everyone laughed again.

"When I was filming, I also chatted with the Chinese ambassador to India. I asked him whether Hollywood movies had a great influence on India? He said that it had no influence. Indians don't like to watch their movies, but Indians like to watch Indian movies. And in the past two years, many Indian and Pakistani movies have been sold to countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States, making a lot of money. You can see this, Russians love to watch Russian movies, Indians like to watch Indian movies, It doesn't make sense that Chinese people only love to watch Hollywood movies?"

"In fact, many of the Hollywood movies we watch are also American-themed movies. It makes no sense not to watch Chinese-themed ones, but to watch foreign-themed ones? But the real situation is like this. Some domestic movies have landed in the United States. But what is very difficult is that our movie is sold, and we don’t even have the right to edit it. The American film studios want to edit it, disrupt it for you, and then ravage it. It’s a thousand miles away, and then it’s released. Why? Like this? Because they look down on us, they don’t believe our films can be sold. How many Chinese directors have editing rights in Hollywood and in the United States? Li An, Wu Yusen, Zhang Yimou and me, except the four of us , is there any more? Not anymore."

"Sometimes I really feel heartbroken. Why can't our movies develop? We have an audience of more than one billion people, and we have a history of five thousand years. We can't make movies, but we can't make movies. Very good’. What do you mean by ‘making movies is very good’? It means that our movies are not good, but the TV shows that are related to movies are good.”

"Because there are too many things happening during the filming process, there are scandals, fights, role changes, strikes, salary increases, director changes... There are all kinds of things. Some are planned by the crew, There are some things that the film crew can’t solve. Stars’ salaries are getting higher and higher, but their acting skills are still the same. Every time a big film is shot, it’s like a big gossip circle, where countless news will be generated, and everyone will be full of speculation. These Big movies will spare no effort to spend huge sums of money to create a premiere, usually the impact of the premiere is much greater than the impact of the movie itself, the experience of making a movie is far more complicated than the plot of the movie, this is the status quo of Chinese movies.”

Shao Shuaijun was silent for more than ten seconds, and let out a foul breath: "I said this, maybe you will ask below, today is the new student entrance ceremony of the New Electronic Technology Research Institute, what are you doing so far? Movies don’t contribute much, and I’m really not strong enough to change the status quo of Chinese movies. I think I should try to understand Chinese movies, and then find a group of like-minded people to work together for the rise of Chinese movies.”

"Doesn't people who practice martial arts say one thing, that is, to 'train the muscles and bones outside, and practice the breath inside'. In my humble opinion, can Chinese movies also be classified as muscles, bones, skin and breath? So we first established The China Young Pioneering Directors Alliance was established to tap potential young directors and pioneering directors. This can be called a breath in the practice of film. I don’t know exactly what is a breath of Chinese film, but I hope that in the Youth Directors League During the excavation process, we can see such a breath in more and more young pioneer directors."

"Teaching a man to fish is worse than giving him a fish. No matter how many classic films we have left behind, it is better to let more Chinese directors make classic films, which is more important to the development of Chinese films. The Youth League is such a platform …Then what is the bone skin, you all know this, the packaging of the film is the skin, special effects and new technologies are the skin. I invested in the establishment of the Chasing Dream New Film Technology Research Institute, just to temper the skin of the Chinese film .”

"I hope that a group of top special effects talents, top photography talents and technical talents can emerge from here. I also hope that the students and trainees who go out from here can use the technology here to serve Chinese films. We don't need Pursuing to surpass Hollywood in a few years, we only need to do our best to be ourselves, improve, develop and pass on the technology, and this has achieved the goal of a muscle.”

"Today, a lot of leaders and filmmakers came here, and our prime minister also made a special trip to come here. The country attaches more and more importance to the film industry. We don't expect to be here. We are chasing dreams of new electronic technology. How much we have done for the film industry How much contribution. I hope that in ten or twenty years, when Chinese filmmakers look back at this place, they can nod and say, 'Oh, here used to be the source of Chinese film technology, and a group of outstanding filmmakers came out of it'. What could be more fulfilling than this?"

With a smile on his face, Shao Shuaijun said loudly: "This is the end of my speech. Finally, I would like to share with you a piece of writing that Mr. Zhang Xianliang gave me. , You must also have perseverance.' On the road of film, thorns are densely covered, and they will destroy us at any time. When you are tired, think about this sentence, it will make you understand yourself more clearly, Thanks."

Bowed and bowed, walked back to the rostrum, took a sip of water, and there was a brief silence.

then.

Crash la la la la la, the applause thundered and lasted for a long time. (to be continued..)