Chapter 60 A Sigh (2/5)
Many people cannot understand that Mao Lao Chen is so energetic?
Because he is a strong man!
A bunch of seniors who grew up watching them grow up, and after graduation, they went to Beijing Film Studio!
Beijing Film Studio is the film production center in Beijing. How many people have been produced?
Not to mention anything else, Sanye used to be the director of Beijing Film Studio, and Yu Dong was the deputy department-level publisher of Beijing Film Studio. Later, Beijing Film Studio and China Film Studio merged...
So, although Old Chen seems to have nothing to do with Wang Shuo’s people, he is also in the same circle. Everyone has to call him Master Kai when they see him!
Feng Xiaogang's autobiography "I Dedicate Youth to You" has a passage written like this: The most suitable place for Kai Ye to stay is the ivory tower. Every nation has two or three masters, and no matter how poor the country is, it must be maintained. The task is simple, there is only one. If you want to shoot, you have to shoot an epic that has great value for your nation. There is no need to consider entertainment at all. The deeper it is, the more valuable it is. The audience is also a group of minority scholars who study the spiritual history of the nation. Others like to watch it or not, and they don't plan to take back the money from your pocket anyway.
Gao Xiaosong also said, "When Master Kai makes a movie, there will always be a big theme, a big humanity, and then stuff a story into it!"
In fact, Li An’s early films are the same, but he mixed his humanities into the story, and explained them clearly in a simple way - "Pushing Hands", "Wedding Banquet", "Food Men and Women", and the world of family warmth and emotionality. Looking at these three movies, there is always a feeling of reading textbooks when he was in school. It seems plain, but in fact, life philosophy has already been hidden in it!
We really don’t lack directors who like to talk about big principles, but we lack the kind of directors who can explain the big principles clearly!
You asked Mr. Chen to film "Inception"...
I can't imagine it!
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The story of "Orphans of Zhao" is very simple. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Dun, the Shangqing of Jin State, was framed by General Tu Anjia, and his family was killed more than 300. In order to eliminate the roots, Tu Anjia ordered the nationwide search for Zhao Wu. The Zhao family's guest Cheng Ying and the old minister Gongsun Chujiu made a plan to rescue Zhao Wu. In order to rescue Zhao Wu, the Jin princess, Han Jue and Gongsun Chujiu sacrificed their lives. Twenty years later, Zhao Wu was raised by Cheng Ying, and learned all his grievances, reported to the king, took Tu Anjia himself and sentenced him to death, and finally avenged the whole family.
In Ji Junxiang's "Orphan of Zhao", Cheng Ying took the initiative to give her child to save the orphan of Zhao, while Lao Chen's "Orphan of Zhao" was changed to Cheng Ying accidentally involved.
Lao Chen believes that taking the initiative to give his children is too anti-human, but he ignores a very important point. The "normal culture" in culture refers to ethics and morality. There is no distinction between high and low in this part, and the theory of who is good and who is bad.
Ji Junxiang's "Orphan of Zhao" fully reflects the ancient Chinese's idea of "loyalty and righteousness", and reflects the important part of Chinese culture where ministers are loyal to the monarch and friends pay attention to loyalty. However, after Lao Chen changed this way, the part of the standardized culture in Chinese culture was completely gone.
But if this is the case, more people will definitely find it inappropriate...
Just like worrying about tasting feces and burying children to worship their mothers, the twenty-four filial piety in ancient times is really not suitable today!
What does it mean?
It is really not necessary for the movie "Orphan of Zhao" to exist!
The story of "Orphan of Zhao" uses this extreme way to interpret loyalty and righteousness, which is really too far from what the public understands - people can destroy their relatives for justice, but they cannot pursue righteousness with their children. This is the bottom line of human nature.
But Old Chen likes it very much...
Then he took a photo. The resources he could mobilize were terrible. Ge You, Wang Xueqi, Huang Xiaoming, Fan Xiaopang, Haiqing, Bao Guoan, Zhang Fengyi...
After watching the movie, Lu Xiaoran sighed.
Get up and applaud, then sit down, thinking about how to praise you later...
I must praise you. I invite you to say good things!
Tangtang pulled his clothes and asked in a low voice: "…Who is the protagonist of this drama?"
"…Mr. Ge!"
"Isn't it "Orphan of Zhao"?"
"...You just praise the lights in the movie, the colors are so good, let alone the others!"
"oh…"
Tangtang sat down with peace of mind and waited for the interview. Then the host really called her name and she stood up and said, "I always felt that it was unnecessary to discuss Director Chen's film techniques, because his movies are of top-notch quality in this regard!"
I waited for a long time and there was no further text...
Has it stuck?
Lu Xiaoran took her microphone: "She means that this movie has an exciting part and an amazing part. For a movie, that's enough!"
"Then what do you think of our "Orphan of Zhao"?"
"Very good, very much like Li He's poem!"
Li He's poems are not good overall, but there are always good sentences that shock people's chin, such as "The black clouds are pressing against the city and want to destroy", "The rooster sounds like white in the world", "If the sky has feelings, the sky will grow old" and other peerless sentences!
The good passages of "Orphan of Zhao" are really good, and the light part is really unsatisfactory.
The plot of the murder, coup and the search for orphans at the beginning is compact, and the fate of the characters has been leading people down, and it has indeed been as stated in the poster, "Although we all know the ending, we still can't help but worry until the last minute." The magnificence and tragic scene of the palace coup can be paralleled with most epic film masterpieces without any shame. Whether it is art, photography, lines and performance, they effectively support the film's aura!
But, afterwards, it was flooded...
It's a bit like some of us are in bed, and they start very hard, and they become soft after a few pokes... I just can't stand up a few more times...
This movie is hard to get a high box office!
This is indeed the case...
On December 6, "The Laughing World" won a box office of 43 million on its first weekend, and "The Orphan of Zhao" won a box office of 31 million in two days.
"The Lonely Agent" closed at 92 million on the weekend, with a cumulative box office of 310 million, continuing to lead the single-day box office list...
According to the theater's prediction, "Lonely Agent" has been a foregone conclusion. Whether it can go further depends on whether the subsequent "Let the Bullets Fly" will be effective!
...
Tangtang was helping Lu Xiaoran pack his luggage.
"You really won't go?"
"If you don't go, you go to the audition, what's going on?"
"Look at Tom Cruise, I heard that he is only 1.7 meters tall, and you are taller than him in high heels!"
“…Not interested!”
"You go, the capitalist world is full of temptations of bright lights and wine. Without you, I can't control it. What if I'm tempted!"
“…Do you like them?”
"I don't like it!"
Who doesn’t like Ocean Horse?
"Will it be over? The end of the year is coming. I have to attend all kinds of award ceremony parties and I can't get away with it!"
“…then let it go.”
Chapter completed!