Disaster Artist

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Chen Mu frowned slightly, and shook his head lightly, "Self-examination? Lu Qian, please, this doesn't look like you at all, you really don't need to be like this."

"It's really scary."

A word of complaint made Lu Qian chuckle, "It's so rare for me to reflect on myself once, to express my humility and humility, can't you cooperate with the performance once?"

Neither Su Ziyi nor Chen Mu could laugh.

But Bai Cheng laughed out loud, as if he had thought of something interesting, the more he laughed, the happier he was, noticing the gazes cast by Su Ziyi and Chen Mu, Bai Cheng quickly withdrew his smile, as if nothing had happened , but looked back innocently, as if asking:

What's the matter? Is there something wrong?

"Ha ha!"

Lu Qian was amused by Bai Cheng's innocent expression, and his mood relaxed.

"Don't worry, I have no intention of belittling myself."

"I was just thinking, if I'm always sure I'm right, does that mean I'm never going to be wrong?"

Director, this job is very special.

On the one hand, they need self-confidence, even arrogance, because they are the "creators" who build the entire movie world. He must clarify his own creative philosophy, otherwise he will never be able to create an "orderly and wonderful" world.

On the one hand, like public figures, they are bathed in the spotlight. Applause and cheers, praise and screams surround them continuously, further amplifying this arrogance and narcissism, as if they are really the creators. .

It is precisely because of this that many directors are megalomaniacs.

Maybe they are not bad people, but they are far from being good people.

"Of course, I don't mind that I'm always right, and who can resist the temptation to never make mistakes?"

"But what I care about is that if I am too determined and reject other people's opinions, it will affect the creation and deviate from the conception of the film."

"To some extent, this is also one of the important reasons why I challenge a new project."

"Ji Xu probably hasn't mentioned it to you, has he? I encountered a bottleneck when I was writing the finale of the 'Marriage Trilogy'. The progress of the script has been stagnant at around 50% for a while."

"It just so happened that I came across another inspiration at that time, so I grabbed this inspiration along the way and made some different attempts."

Chen Mu didn't quite believe it.

It's not that he suspects that Lu Qian is lying, but that he can't believe that Lu Qian also encountered a creative bottleneck.

Subconsciously, Chen Mu complained, "So you also have such a day."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Chen Mu regretted it, no matter how harsh these words sounded.

Su Zi gave Chen Mu a vicious look.

On the contrary, Lu Qian looked very calm and laughed, "Yeah, I didn't expect that I would have such a day, but from another perspective, this also proves that I am making continuous progress, at least trying to make progress, that's why I am making progress." Feeling the bottleneck, how about it, are you a little envious?"

Chen Mu: ...

The swear words had reached the edge of his mouth, but he swallowed them in the end, turned his head with a depressed face.

"However, that uncertainty is always there."

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Lu Qian is serious.

Originally, he didn't want to discuss these things, but as he talked, the chatterbox opened up. Perhaps, he faced himself calmly and asked for help—

This is a good thing.

"About the sense of film, believe me, it is still my goal, but we must realize that this is an audio-visual experience, but it should not be limited to this."

"If the picture presented by the movie is only to show an idea or a concept, but cannot form intertextuality with the movie itself, the plot and characters, and the information conveyed by the movie, then is this a pure popcorn? Try it, or show off your skills?"

I see.

It turned out that this was what Lu Qian was really worried about—

show off.

In fact, this is a common problem among directors. An inspiration or an idea pops up in the mind. From the perspective of audio-visual experience, it must be an attempt, an innovation, and a challenge. So the director showed it with great interest, but in fact, There is no fit or echo between these stunts and the movie itself.

It's flashy, but it's not useful.

So, is this kind of showmanship a manifestation of the director's arrogance? Or, could it be a kind of arrogance for the director to push the audience out of the big screen?

One thing to note here, showing off skills is sometimes a good thing, sometimes it is not—

As far as the point goes, take the measure.

A little gimmick can be the finishing touch; but too much gimmick may overwhelm the audience and destroy the integrity of the movie.

It’s not to say that movies must be ingenious and useless, and the epee has no sharpness. Movie skills are always worthy of recognition, but these skills should not be allowed to take away the light of the movie itself. The balance between is a truth, "skills" should also be just right.

The simplest and most direct is the "long shot".

Indeed, long shots look very cool, not only difficult to shoot, but also thrilling to present, but the key lies in:

is it necessary?

Some long shots perfectly fit the story, the characters, and the state of the movie. Even a three- to five-minute long shot can create a thrilling movie-watching experience, recording a kind of reality, a kind of dazzling, and a kind of immersion.

Some long shots are purely for the sake of showing off skills, presenting all living beings, and then? First of all, these group portraits have no meaning in themselves; secondly, this long shot has no connection with the film, so technology is technology, and it does not help the film except for lamenting the time and energy spent by the crew.

There is no doubt that this is a question that every director needs to consider—

What technology should be used to present what images ~www.readwn.com~ Which images need to be bold and which ones are not, which gimmicks can create a unique viewing experience and which gimmicks are nothing but hubris?

In fact, from "Lover" to "Deadpool", Lu Qian has already started to enter such attempts one after another.

In "Lover", all the shots showing off skills have been deleted, but it shows the charm of camera scheduling and light and shadow changes in a narrow space.

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"Deadpool", add some trick shots to present a different viewing experience, and increase the surprise effect of popcorn.

So what about this time?

"In this project, I mentioned to you that I plan to shoot a long shot at the beginning of the movie, a long shot of a traffic jam on the Lanchuan Viaduct."

In this regard, Lu Qian only mentioned it to them a little bit, but it still hasn't entered the formal planning stage—

It is precisely because of this that Su Ziyi and the others are still on vacation, and have not yet started working, nor have they launched specific cooperation discussions.

Obviously, they all agreed that they should join Lu Qian's crew again.

But during this period, the successive invitations have never been interrupted. After all, they all know that Lu Qian is preparing a new project, which can be regarded as a customary default agreement.

The variable lies in the fact that they finally had a heart-warming invitation that they couldn't refuse, so they appeared here.

Inadvertently, the focus of the discussion seems to go off track, and then off track again, into an unknown territory.