Many people don't know much about it. Directors are basically masters of painting. You can check the storyboards of some great directors. They are the scenes that you want to show before shooting. Only the director knows it, and no one else knows.
Then the director has to draw what is in his mind. Every director's manuscript can be called a cartoon, and the drawings are better than those drawn by the cartoonist. But there are also those who are not good at drawing, such as the director whose bullets are flying.
The manuscript is very abstract, so abstract that I need to write a lot of words to explain it.
Xu Jie threw away the cigarette butt, took Zhao Mingyang's mobile phone and looked at it carefully. After reading it, he knew where he had gone wrong. Zhao Mingyang wanted the effect. The eyes of the male and female protagonists were filled with fear, despair, expectation, and hope for all the unknown. Every time
The look in each shot is different.
There is also the heroine’s demeanor. In the early stage, she was dull and her eyes were dull. Liu Bingbing did not show it. The male protagonist’s expression was also wrong. The dismissed male protagonist’s eyes were muddy and his expression was so obvious that he was acting.
The most important thing is that the way the male protagonist looks at the female protagonist is drawn here by Zhao Mingyang. It is love rather than other evil thoughts.
Xu Jie was shocked by Zhao Mingyang. Zhao Mingyang was really not bragging about what he said before. He really understood.
Zhao Mingyang told Xu Jie before that he wanted Xu Jie to pay attention to it, but Xu Jie thought that Zhao Mingyang was just joining in the fun. He said he was sure, but he didn't do it in his heart. That's why Zhao Mingyang came here because he knew Xu Jie
This guy has such a bad habit.
So Zhao Mingyang asked him to do it first, and then attacked him. He had to give him a direction. He has a good camera sense and is good at shooting, but he still has arrogance, but he has never tasted the real sense of accomplishment. He has been living in
In a world of self-aggrandizement.
The reason why Zhao Mingyang signed him was because he knew that he had this ability, but his personality was too stubborn, stubborn and egotistical.
This time Zhao Mingyang is going to attack him. How to suppress this kind of people is to attack the strengths of this group of people. The most effective way is to let them know how good they are, so that they can lose themselves and cater to the public. According to
He has to shoot the designated things, otherwise he will never get up. He does not consider the market or investors at all, and keeps enjoying himself.
"You see, what is the story we want to shoot? It's a story about a village. What we want to shoot is. You have to figure it out. It's a marriage between a pair of people who have no feelings at all. It's a story about a couple in the village.
It's a matter of a pair of useless people getting married emotionally.
These two people have been ridiculed and disliked since childhood. What do you think is in their eyes? It is inferiority, fear, confusion, and expectation. Expectation will change, but the things they fear have not changed.
What do you think there is in the eyes of the male protagonist you chose? There are many women out there. If you choose such a thing, that is your failure as a director.
You will find problems when you are filming, but you may not be embarrassed to ask him to leave. You have no right. You are just a director, but you still chose the actor. You can only try your best to help him correct it and follow the original script.
Walk.
What was the final film? It was rubbish, a bad film. Why do you think the films you made are getting less and less attention? The audience is not a fool. People can tell the difference between feeding people delicacies and garbage.
Don't say that the audience doesn't understand art. Anything that a hundred people can't understand is not a cool thing and cannot be resonated with. If you try to interpret it, if it doesn't look cool at first glance, then it's not cool.
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Why are Van Gogh's paintings so popular? Because everyone was shocked when they saw them at the time. Why do some people think Van Gogh's paintings are not so shocking later? Because there are too many imitations, and they all imitate him, and even make improvements based on the original ones.
Correction and processing will only look better than the original paintings, so are the paintings of these people later good?
It’s not good, because they are all imitating Van Gogh. The world only needs one Van Gogh. He already exists. There is no need for copies, because things are rare and valuable. No matter how good your paintings are, if you learn from Van Gogh
You can't achieve much.
As long as you are a top painter, you must have your own style and be groundbreaking. Look what you are doing now.
You are constantly learning from the techniques of previous art-house filmmakers. No matter how good your shots are, what’s the use? There are too many on the market. You just show other people’s things in higher definition quality, and that’s it.
If an actor imitates Chaplin or Mr. Bean, do you think he will be popular?
Don't think that I don't understand your industry, especially what people who make movies like yours think about. You are not trying to make progress at all, and you are just using the usual methods to make movies.
So many, why is it that a domestic director’s films receive mediocre response domestically but always win awards internationally?
Fatty Wang's shooting skills are far inferior to those of Sunglasses King. How far behind is he? Let me tell you, it is also an art film, and his shooting skills are much worse than others, because he always shoots the same thing over and over again.
Is that suffering? If you shoot the same thing once, twice or three times, do you think the audience is a fool? Do the audience like it? Kindness is suffering, ignorance is suffering, numbness is suffering, everything is meaningless, show the most suffering side to your heart's content.
But around you, in a school, a town, or a county, how many people experience suffering every day? This magnifies the suffering.
Think about it, you change the background from the countryside to the city, you shoot a group of people working overtime every day and they can't make money, there are no good jobs after college, you can't afford a house, you can't get married, and suddenly your parents are seriously ill, and you
Seriously ill, your lover is seriously ill, you were defrauded, all your savings were defrauded, you finally gave birth to a child, but the child is not yours, etc.
Do you think if you add these things together and shoot too much, you will like to watch them? Shooting this kind of things and magnifying the suffering only satisfy some foreigners' sense of pleasure. You allow the director to have the ability to change the background to Europe and the United States.
Do you think he can get an award if he shoots foreigners shopping for zero dollars every day, makes foreigners homeless and sleep in tents, and takes more pictures of foreigners’ suffering? He can’t win, but if a foreigner shoots like this and it is released here, then maybe
Give him a prize. Why? You decide for yourself.
But there is a big pitfall here. You have to be aware that many directors and actors who work on this type of subject matter have won awards abroad that are not very valuable at all. After winning the awards, many of them are unable to take on roles in China.
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To put it bluntly, this is just doing the same thing over and over again, without much technical content, and winning awards for the sake of winning awards. Basically, there are not many awards that major directors would like, but this director has tasted the sweetness and satisfied his own needs.
vanity.
The story structure he shot is not complicated. If you want to make this kind of movie, many directors can make it, but the value of this kind of movie is that after watching it, what will you leave behind?
It’s uncomfortable, and I don’t remember much after watching it.
It's easy to make someone cry, it's easy to make someone scared, but it's too difficult to make someone laugh and keep laughing, and it's also too difficult to make someone keep listening to you.
What is difficult to film? For example, Farewell My Concubine, for example, why was it so well-received at the time, winning awards at home and abroad, and receiving good reviews? What is in Farewell My Concubine? There is a microcosm of feudal society, and there are unspeakable emotional lines.
National sentiments and so on are brought together.
For another example, if you carefully look at the things shot by Sunglasses King, his things have several characteristics: pretentious lines suitable for QQ signatures and WeChat signatures, high-quality dialogues, and exquisite picture quality.
But the content of each conversation is that after listening to it, you will say that I am stupid. This is very true and has a deep meaning.
But what about the structure of his stories? There are love series that reflect the world's unacceptable love, there are love stories between men and women in the city, there are stories about killers, stories about rivers and lakes, there is a story in a carriage, etc.
In fact, the content of the story is different, so you can win awards. This is because although many people have complained about him, at least his shooting techniques are technical and there are no tricks.
What is this film we made about? The background of the story is not now. The background of the story is ten or twenty years ago. If we film suffering and pain, we will never be able to film those professionals.
The person who photographed this subject.
Because you can't take pictures of them, they are used to taking pictures of this kind, where pain comes from whatever you want, and you don't agree with this in your heart, because you know that at the bottom there is not only pain, but also joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.
So you need to know what our story setting is.
We can’t shoot the same thing as that group of people, spend our whole lives doing this, and then win a bunch of awards that don’t have much gold content. What we want to win are the awards that can be won in China. You said, in addition to awards such as Oscar, Cannes, and Venice,
Are there any awards abroad that have too much gold content?
The value of these awards is also decreasing year by year. In the current film market, a domestic film can break several billion. What is the concept? This is that our domestic film market allows foreigners to make films to cater to us.
A movie costs billions of Chinese dollars, and with such a huge market, why are we going to make something and get a bad award to please foreigners? It’s not cost-effective, it’s not worth it.
Our film market has grown so big that we have to follow the same old path because we are stupid," said Zhao Mingyang.
Xu Jie seemed to understand what Zhao Mingyang meant. What Zhao Mingyang wanted to shoot was really easy to win awards in China.
Not only will he win an award, he will probably make a profit at the box office, but Xu Jie wanted to film according to his own ideas before. Now that he heard what Zhao Mingyang said, Xu Jie felt that he was too shallow, and Zhao Mingyang was much better than him.
He admitted that some of what Zhao Mingyang said was right. He just used routines and won awards just to win awards to satisfy his own vanity and reputation. He could not produce truly good works because he did not have the ability to rely on some big directors.
If you don’t win the prize, go get a few more to wrap yourself up.
None of the major domestic directors can't film the things that Zhao Mingyang mentioned about directors who make films about suffering, because they don't have any technical skills and they just magnify the suffering. But if others can film it, they won't film it, because it really doesn't highlight the director.
Basic skills.
For example, a small steel cannon can shoot comedies, wars, and social films. These are called director skills.
