Disaster Artist

For laymen, this is also the first time they have experienced Lu Qian's professionalism. Even many face value fans are seeing this side of Lu Qian for the first time——

No wonder as the saying goes, the most attractive time for everyone is when they are fully engrossed in their work.

For the insiders, they have always known that Lu Qian is an excellent director, and now they can hear Lu Qian's in-depth explanation of the work——

This is undoubtedly a huge gain, and it really makes them mesmerize and wander into the world of the movie.

And the biggest surprise is that this is still not all.

Planning is like this. Before something happens, we should expand as much as possible, plan in depth, and take into account all aspects, but the reality is that the plan cannot keep up with the changes. No matter how comprehensive and perfect the plan is, there may be potential accidents—

Sometimes the unexpected is bad, turning the whole plan upside down and turning into a disaster.

Sometimes, accidents are positive, colliding with wonderful chemical reactions, just like the birth of penicillin, but an accident turns into a beautiful encounter.

The interviews between "Entertainment Weekly" and Lu Qian belonged to the latter.

Originally, Lu Qian was only discussing the professional issues of "Raid 2", but Jiang Shiqi's question accidentally collided with sparks, so he led to a new content outside the interview outline——

The second part revolves around the "movie sense".

Lu Qian discussed his views on the Internet age in depth. In the Internet wave, everything is accelerated, time and space become faster and faster, and the huge information ocean further magnifies the fragmentation of information, and the final result is presented. that is:

Information came flooding in, but in the end there was not one out of ten.

Correspondingly, people are getting more and more impatient and impatient.

Not only is the condensed movie viewing of "one movie in three minutes" more and more prosperous, but it is also impatient to immerse in a world shaped by light and shadow.

How to say?

That is to say, everyone believes that the most important thing to watch a movie is the "story", so they either listen to a story in three minutes, or look forward to the surprise brought by the reversal. This is all they expect from the movie.

But the point is that in terms of storytelling, movies are far inferior to novels and dramas, because the special feature of movies is the unique audio-visual experience constructed by pictures and sounds. If the movie is condensed into three minutes, the charm of the movie will be enhanced. will also be gone.

Therefore, when people discuss the sense of film, they are not discussing the artistry of the film, but the immersion and experience of the film, and do not pursue the refreshing feeling of fast food.

Therefore, when people discuss Lu Qian's refusal of social networking, it is not that Lu Qian is maverick, but that he refuses to be involved in the torrent of fragmentation in his life.

"I'm a director, and I need to calm down, keep feeling life, keep watching life."

"I believe that many people are used to looking down at their mobile phones, but they haven't stopped for a long time, looked up at the sky, or looked at the pedestrians on the street. If you lose your ability to observe things around you, how can you be patient? What about sitting in the cinema and watching a two-hour movie?"

As Jiang Shiqi said, Lu Qian is also a young man, and he naturally knows that the impact brought by the Internet era has completely disrupted the context of the entire era——

These changes originally happened slowly with the passage of time, so it is not difficult for the older generation to accept TV and movies; but for the younger generation, those changes are earth-shaking in just a few years, and they are getting faster and faster. This also leaves the young generation trapped in a paradoxical position.

On the one hand, they try to keep up with the trend of the times; on the other hand, they are nostalgic for the past.

Only after such contradictions and conflicts have been fully magnified has it further led to more and more turbulent and complex disputes over the art form of film.

To be more precise, the younger generation does not even have enough mind and energy to understand, what is the so-called "movie sense"? When people are resisting the theme parkization of movies, what are they opposing?

Among them, Lu Qian remembered a very direct example, in his original time and space, the latest Spider-Man actor Tom Holland (Tom-).

In an interview, he said,

"You can ask Scorsese, 'Do you want to make a Marvel movie,' but he doesn't know how to do it because he's never done it."

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"I've made a Marvel movie, and I've made a movie that has a chance to compete for an Oscar, and the only difference between them is that one is more expensive than the other."

"But the way I analyze the characters, the way the director carves the story and the characters, it's all the same, just on a different scale. So, I think Marvel movies are also real art."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Be-Cumberbatch, or Robert-Downey-Jr., or Scarlett-Johansson. Johansson, they've all done Oscar-quality art films, but they've also done superhero blockbusters."

"They'll tell you -- the two films are the same, it's just the size of the investment."

Obviously, the young Spider-Man didn't know what he was talking about—

He made two mistakes in a row by equating art films with "cinematics" and "Oscar films" with art films.

Perhaps, art films do have a sense of cinema, but the sense of cinema is not the same as art films. The lens language of some art films is also terrible, and some commercial films can show the sense of cinema vividly.

In addition, the Oscars have basically nothing to do with art films~www.readwn.com~ Of course, the Oscars and commercial films are not too directly related. To be precise, a series of "awards season films" have emerged around the Oscars.

The sense of cinema itself is an artistic presentation of the language of the lens, the presentation of the picture, the collision of characters and stories, etc., and should not be confused with the above two types.

Perhaps, for actors, the way to analyze scripts and characters is the same; but for directors, the way to tell stories and carve characters is completely different.

Tom Holland thought he knew what he was talking about, but in fact these words just revealed his naivety, even stupidity and ignorance.

So what did he get in response?

In fact, all of his Marvel colleagues refused to respond to his words, and even Marvel did nothing for him.

At the same time, his words were ridiculed by peers in the industry and netizens, so that he continued to expose his ignorance of the movie.

Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal during an interview while promoting "Spider-Man 3".

When Jack was asked which director he would most like to work with, Jack said, Pedro-Almodovar—

This is a Spanish national treasure director. The three major film festivals and the Oscars have won awards more than once, and there are more than two hands that are regarded as classics that go down in history.

But Tom asked, "Who is Almodovar?"

Jack explained, but Tom was still confused.

So much so that Jack was a little embarrassed.

Obviously, Tom is a microcosm of the younger generation, who don't understand anything, refuse to understand, and end up opposing just for the sake of opposing it.