After the age of 33, Lu Xiaoran understands many things.

First, he is just a director, just make a movie, and when needed, he says a few high-sounding words;

Second, movies are just movies, and life should be ranked first!

Li An said very well: If you become someone else's father and husband, it does not mean that you will naturally gain their respect. You still have to earn their respect through hard work every day! This is also a reason why I will not slackew!

Life is not a movie, life is much harder than movies.

The creation of movies is narrow because of the author's narrow vision, life, or life experience, and only grasps one side of life and deepens the description, so the coverage is narrower than life.

Life is different, life is too heavy, every item is very important and you can’t take everything!

For example, after the child was born, his status in the family suddenly decreased...

This is a fact.

...

On December 7, "Shadow" directed by A Mou was released.

Director Amou accepted the media interview:

After talking a lot, Amou is really a chatterbox!

"Many directors have a dream of martial arts, and I believe there are also many directors who have a dream of ink painting because this is our culture. Sometimes I often think, when will I make a movie like ink painting? This is an idea that I have potential for many years and will come up from time to time, and this time it happened to be realized in "Shadow".

"After all the ancient Chinese themes were shot, there was no substitute. There were very few records about substitutes in Chinese history. Kurosawa Akira filmed a famous "Shadow Samurai". I don't believe that there was no substitute in China's long history."

"Why is there no record in history? What happened to them? What kind of people are they? Where did they come from? It's quite fun, so I'm interested in this story."

"I am very interested in the shaping of this character. In the stories of emperors, generals and ministers, it is rare to have an angle and vision that is civilian."

"To create every detail carefully and reflect it materially is a traditional inheritance, but it is not a new technology!"

"The story goes, life and death, swords and swords. Only with such strength can there be such shock, only by force can you penetrate the back of the paper, and highlight the other side of human nature. However, these are all surfaces, the core is still human nature, and emotion."

"I think it looks like a structure of Shakespeare's great tragedy. The theme inside is also discussing human nature, human nature's struggle and survival. I also use this structure to convey an aesthetic concept of Chinese culture and explore human nature from an aesthetic perspective."

"They use traditional Chinese aesthetic concepts, including its black and white, ink and water style, its yin and yang, its Bagua, Tai Chi, using softness to overcome hardness and tolerance. The so-called shadow in the aesthetics becomes three people, and the human heart is like a shadow. It is a concentrated expression of Chinese cultural symbols and also meets the requirements of this story."

"The actor selection... was recommended by Lu Xiaoran. He said Deng Chao could. We tried the show and it was really good!"

It's very rare, Lu Xiaoran is here too...

It’s not that Lu Xiaoran does not support Zhang Yimou. It’s mainly because he has been almost isolated from the world for more than a month, and there is no news on Weibo…

...

Alang stopped Lu Xiaoran and asked him to talk about his views on the film market.

Regarding "Shadow", Lu Xiaoran has answered before.

Very good. Director Amou is still the most respectable person among the contemporary mainland directors. Shah’s tragic story + a small pattern under the big world view, and the performance form is more inclined to drama. The aesthetic system of ink painting is very unified, and the sense of form is not contrary to the temperament of the film.

Now we are talking about the film market:

"Let's talk about the overall environment first: the world's total is less than 200,000 yuan, and China's more than 60,000 yuan.

So the question is, does China have such a big market? Are there so many people watching movies?"

"I don't think so. When the theaters increase to a certain level, there are only so many viewers in reserves, and so many people are willing to buy tickets!"

"The famous saying of the big guys in the circle is that there are too many hot viewers, and they are jealous of their own money being earned by others. Now there are few hot viewers, and everyone has no money to earn. I don't know whether to laugh or cry."

"The ticket price has now risen to nearly 40 yuan. Movie tickets themselves are commodities, and the ticket prices are getting more and more expensive, and the audience's eyes are becoming more and more picky. No matter how high the box office is, it cannot conceal the fact that fewer and fewer people are watching movies!"

"Of course, there are also good things. The domestic copyright awareness is getting stronger and stronger, and there are fewer and fewer piracy. It is beneficial to the entire film industry!"

"You don't agree with raising the fare?"

"This is not my final say. The theaters need to increase prices. A group of people say that movies are light luxury goods, and the public has to accept high ticket prices... It's quite speechless! From the beginning of the film industry, watching movies is the cheapest popular entertainment. The topic and sense of rituals are the broad participation of the public. Without a massive audience, movies are the tree without roots! I don't agree with raising ticket prices!"

Let me add that since the beginning of 2018, the ticket price of movies has increased to more than 35 yuan, and even as high as 50 yuan!

I used to watch a movie that was up to 19.9 yuan. Even if it was a bad movie, it would be good to blow the cold air. Now it won’t work. It’s over 35 yuan, so you can buy a good pack of cigarettes!

The number of moviegoers is valuable in the box office, which is the consensus of many foreign practitioners. This is also the reason why many countries, such as South Korea, only count the number of moviegoers.

If you play the theater like this, you will find that movies are not a necessity...

“Do you have new plans for the next few years?”

"…It should continue to make movies, of course we will focus more on other areas..."

“Other areas?”

"Life, movies are movies, life is life..."

"How long will you rest this time?"

"...It's not long before, I have a "New World" on hand. I will make a tribute film "My Motherland and Me"!"

“My Motherland and Me?”

"The tribute film is produced by seven directors. I am the director of the director. Ning Hao, Yang Qing and others will come!"

"Is it a mission?"

"How is it possible...we decided to shoot it ourselves, it's the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China..."

...

The box office of "Shadow" cannot be too high!

This movie is actually a bit boring...

The story is a spiritual copy of "Shadow Warrior", but the story is a bit thin. In fact, only Deng Chao killed himself. The rest of the film is a straightforward narration...

Of course the picture is good.

Fortunately, the films released on December 7 are not very competitive. Whether it is "The Hurricane", "Indian Partner", and "The Legend of Green-Haired Green" box office, the reputation is not very good...

"Shadow" ushered in a half-month film and television window period, pushing its box office to 800 million!

The cost of "Shadow" has been recovered by 300 million yuan, and the peripheral authorization has been rewarded by 200 million yuan...

Amou is very stable!

Anyway, his movies are not losing much. Looking at his movie sequence, the only possibility that he can truly lose is "The Flowers of War"...

Then, "Walking with God" was released.

This time, Lu Xiaoran did not attend the premiere. He stayed at home and was too far from Beijing. He was too lazy to go there...

Wasting his time to fish!

At seven o'clock in the morning, he went out with a fishing bucket and sat on the boat. He sat all morning, packed up his fishing tools, turned around and went home.

Tangtang sat on the sofa, and the TV was playing "Luxing"...

Lu Xiaoran put down the bucket and asked her: "...Why do you think of "Luxing"?"

"…I have nothing to do, recall the past, I was so young!"

"Yes, it's really pretty young, and his acting skills are also pretty young!"

Tangtang was unhappy: "...I'm not an acting guy!"

"Haha...you actually admitted it!"

Lu Xiaoran poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip. It tasted good...

Tangtang: "Why are the TV series now not that interesting?"

"In fact, from 2000 to 2003, many unique and interesting themes and character appearances appeared on the small screen, adding huge vitality and creative prospects to the TV series market. It can be said that it will be four years that have soared the quality and quantity of mainland dramas. The next few years will not work!"

Tangtang nodded: "Yes, I watched "The Smart Little Don't Understand" two days ago and found that the drama is really full of bloody elements, but it was really good to shoot!"

"There is another point. In the past, the film and television dramas paid attention to stories. Now, the number of episodes of "Marrying the Right Man in the Wrong Seal" is only twenty episodes. They talked about six pairs of CPs with the main line of home fight. If this is the case, there would be no sixty episodes for you to finish filming?"

"The regression of domestic dramas is not a matter of a day or a night, and it is not possible to change this chaos in one day."

“…Hey, the golden sentence is here!”

Lu Xiaoran looked up and was the line from Station Manager Wu: "During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Director Dai called the fortress. Now, he is like a bitch, and what secrets are there to say!"

Lu Xiaoran smiled and said, "Mr. Feng Enhe, we haven't seen each other for a long time, right?"

"Well, I wanted to find him for "In the Name of People" that year, and he would take a break that year!"

"It's okay, if you have time, Director Liu Jiang wants to film "Old Tavern", so you can find him to act!"

Tangtang then asked: "Do you still remember the audition that day?"

“…Automatic audition?”

"right!"

"…Remember, we had already decided to play Jiao Junyan as Mu Wanqiu at the beginning, and then we saw you..."

"You have already decided on Jiao Junyan?"

"…She is my junior sister. I think she is pretty good, so I decided..."

"What if she played Mu Wanqiu?"

“…There are no so many assumptions…”

“Wow…”

"The child is crying, hurry up..."

Tangtang immediately forgot what she was going to ask, rushed upstairs, and Lu Xiaoran also ran...

In a trance, I seemed to remember the first time I saw Tangtang. She was wearing a white dress and suddenly heard the sound in her ears.

"Lu Xiaoran..."

"Big Golden Retriever..."
Chapter completed!