In the screening hall, the applause sounded like thunder. The distinguished guests stood up one after another in a dignified manner, and there was wave after wave of applause.
It wasn't until the dazzling lights suddenly turned on and the large screen came to the end of the carousel show that the guests slowly calmed down their excellent appreciation for the movie as if they were waking up from a dream.
What is Chinese science fiction? The attendees were all people from the film and television industry, and most of them found an answer in this movie.
The cultural color hidden in that scene was not elaborated with too many lines, and was mostly shown in the language of the high-altitude lens. The movie did not go out of its way to show its excellence and greatness, but it was as dazzling and shocking as a shining pearl.
The settings of each character in the movie are also like carefully crafted works of art. After careful consideration, a lifelike realistic portrayal can be found in each character.
The most important underlying logic of humanity, whether it is the reconciliation of the three leaders of Gunsan House after the estrangement, the trust of the country's military in the male and female protagonists, or the joint cooperation between the male and female protagonists, the military and Gunsan House in the end.
The Chinese-style humanistic writing that expresses cohesion, unity, and friendly cooperation is very strong.
From the beginning to the end of the movie, there is no explanation or elaboration on any scene or humanistic logic. It is just like a trickling stream, subtly expressing the Chinese nature of this movie.
These Chinese attributes are the answer to what Chinese science fiction is. Is this answer correct?
There is no absolute right or wrong in art, but in the face of this only domestic science fiction masterpiece, without comparison with other works, this answer can be said to be correct, and it can be tentatively designated as a Chinese science fiction film.
The weather vane.
"Yes, it's rewarding. It's a good movie." Zhang Yimou said after everyone applauded and sat down on the chair.
"What's so good about it?" Gong Li sat down and smiled, deliberately asking him.
Zhang Yimou crossed his legs and said: "Let's not talk about the general direction, let's just talk about the movie itself. It is a popcorn movie like Hollywood science fiction movies, but it is a Chinese popcorn movie."
"In a market where we have never had anything like this, it can provide the entire industry, including us directors, with a model, a template, a template for Chinese films. This is the industry value brought by the film itself.
.”
Gong Li nodded. After hearing what her old friend said, she felt the same way.
Ever since Lao Mouzi pried open the door to domestic commercial films with his movie "Hero", many commercial films have appeared in China in the past few years. Most of the so-called commercial films can be called enjoyable films.
But these cool movies have a common feature, which is that they are not divorced from literary and artistic attributes. Every movie that can be called a cool movie has designs that reflect society, reflect reality, strip away human nature, or hide deep connotations to enhance the depth of the movie.
, this is the structure of domestic cool films.
As a result, if the director or producer cannot grasp the balance between commercial attributes and literary and artistic attributes, then there will be a problem with these cool films. For example, the profound connotation of Chen Kaige's "The Promise" will be incomprehensible to the audience.
While "The Myth" in Tang Dynasty was enjoyable to watch, it forced a cross-age literary love story, which made the audience very uncomfortable.
As for the current movie, Tang Jili has changed its previous style, completely abandoning the literary and artistic attributes and focusing on the commercial pleasure, making it enjoyable to watch from beginning to end without having to use your brain.
This is what Lao Mouzi said, this movie created a good movie template for the industry.
It stands to reason that there are so many exciting movies like this in Hollywood, how can we create one?
As Lao Mouzi said, he pioneered Chinese-style cool movies.
The difference is that once the domestic creative environment loses its "literary" attribute, the work will be biased towards Hollywood culture.
The literary and artistic attributes of China are unique to China.
The commercial attributes are something brought by Western film and television and Western capital.
In an environment where Chinese and Western cultures are intertwined, if domestic creators abandon literature and art and move toward business, those whose cultural level is shallow or whose cultural will is not strong will default to the commercial culture of Hollywood.
But at the moment, this movie is not lost. It has no literary and artistic attributes. It is a purely enjoyable film. However, the strong Chinese attributes from beginning to end show that it is not a commercial film culture of Hollywood.
In this way, Lao Mouzi called it a Chinese-style cool movie, and gave it the word "pioneering" when there is no such cool movie in the market today.
"The artistic structure is often well understood. The cool structure of this movie is not limited to science fiction. All the themes that you want to make a cool movie can be used as a reference." Gong Li said.
"Yes, artistic creation has the same goal. Any script structure can be applied to all themes. The core question is whether there are more Chinese things or Western things. This depends on the cultural height and design level of the creator."
Zhang Yimou said this.
Gong Li turned her head and looked at him: "Then what is the general direction you are talking about?"
Zhang Yimou said with profound thoughts: "This movie is likely to launch a science fiction field for the industry. Once such a new field is launched, it means that the investment market will expand. After all, the cost of science fiction is very high. This is a well-known fact."
“Since the investment market is expanding, it means that our country’s special effects technology, high-definition camera technology, laser equipment technology for green cloth positioning, job technology in building studios, and Wia equipment technology for large special effects, etc., will all receive funds for comprehensive development.
promote."
"And this movie also involves peripherals. If peripheral products become popular because of the movie, it will allow theaters to see the scalability of the local peripheral market and gain a strong profit channel."
"Then, if theater chains expand their theaters, or capital from outside the industry enters to invest in theater lines or establish new theater lines, this can bring about a leap-forward development for domestic theater lines and the box office market."
"So, whether it is setting sail in the field of science fiction themes or increasing the profit channels of theaters, the industry benefits that this film may bring will be of far-reaching significance to the development of the entire film industry and even the TV drama industry."
"Even those of us who have nothing to do with this movie can benefit from this."
Gong Li took a deep breath, never expecting that a movie would have such great significance.
She calmed down and said: "No wonder Han Sanping, Wang Jinhua and Ying Huangyang were present in person, and Han Sanping seems to be more interested in this movie than "The Founding of the People's Republic of China". I heard you said that the secretary-general of China Film Group Co., Ltd. was dispatched to schedule this movie.
, a division-level cadre like the deputy secretary of the party committee is put in charge, so that’s what it is, then I understand.”
Zhang Yimou said: ""The Founding of the People's Republic of China" has its own official endorsement, and some big figures and official media are watching it. Han Sanping doesn't need to worry about it. If the movie "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" is launched and promotes the development of the industry, then Han Sanping's political achievements will be
It will be bigger.”
Gong Li nodded and watched as the host came on stage to speak, and the couple stopped talking.
"We would like to invite the entire crew of "The Sky: The Enemy" to appear on stage..."
Standing high you can see far, standing low you can see shallow. Some artists do not have Zhang Yimou's foresight and foresight. They did not see too much from this movie, and only thought that the various special effects and big scenes were indeed stunning blockbusters.
Seeing the actors appear on stage, these colleagues were very moved and whispered among themselves.
"I'm afraid this will become an instant hit, and one work will establish itself." Zhang Ziyi looked at Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei on the stage with envy from the bottom of her heart.
Although the movie has not been released yet, judging from the current market popularity and the quality of the movie that I have seen with my own eyes, I think this movie will fly high when placed on the National Day schedule.
Thinking about how much sadness and price she had paid for fame and fortune over the years, seeing that these two people could reach the heights she did in the film industry with just one work made her feel a little unbalanced.
"Time is also destiny." Feng Xiaogang said next to her: "It's okay for you actors. These two couples have no direct competition with you. Their works are all created, produced and sold by themselves. If we don't compete with you for roles, we will do it."
It’s the director who is in charge of production who worries, should we just play along or should we continue as usual? That’s something we have to think about carefully.”
Hearing this, Zhang Ziyi, Zhao Wei, Zou Xun, Huang Xiaoming and other people nearby stopped talking because Feng Xiaogang made sense.
No matter how popular Ren Chuxuan and Liu Yifei are, whether they have guaranteed ratings in the TV series industry or are about to become rising stars in the film industry, they really have no direct competition with actors like them.
The competition among artists lies in film and television drama roles, endorsements, and various business announcements.
But this couple created their own roles in film and television dramas, and they don’t seem to have received many endorsements. They haven’t been seen in business announcements for several years.
The only impact is that the TV series or the movie becomes so popular that it impacts the market for their works.
However, whether a work is popular or not is not directly related to the actors. It is a question of the quality of the director and producer.
From these two points, the couple Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are somewhat clear, or in other words, their level of competition has separated from the level of actors. What can really compete with them is the corporate level competition at the producer level.
Somewhat fortunately, these two couples are not in direct competition with them as capital.
I feel a little disappointed. The lack of competition means that they are not on the same level as these two couples.
The actors on the stage were introducing themselves one by one, while overseas people who didn't know them well were whispering.
"This movie..." "Avatar" producer Jon mused: "The potential Chinese flavor seems to be very strong. Even if it is supported by UA theaters, it may not be accepted by all theaters, especially those with so-called
Those who are motivated by political correctness will definitely attack the overseas release of this movie."
"The Day After Tomorrow" director Emmerich looked at him and smiled meaningfully: "What about you? Twentieth Century Pictures, one of the eight largest Hollywood companies, seems to be biased against China. Your theater chains will suppress it.
Will Time Warner and Paramount suppress it? Do you still want your "Avatar", their "Transformers" and "2012" to be released in China?"
Jon's face twitched and he suddenly woke up.
No wonder the three Hollywood movies were scheduled to be released after the National Day release at the prompt of China Film Group. It turns out that this is not a coincidence, but intentional!
The key point is to make way for China's first domestically produced science fiction film, "Skyfall". There is also a bigger plan, which is probably what Emmerich said. If Hollywood dares to suppress the overseas release of this movie, China will
The film group dares to prevent these three Hollywood movies from being released in China!
This is equivalent to saying that if you want to live in peace, then in addition to the UA theater chain, three of the eight major Hollywood theater chains must open normal channels for the release of this movie and cannot cause trouble.
"This Huaying Group is so cunning!" Jon cursed in his heart.
He knew very well that three of the eight major Hollywood figures would compromise, or in other words, they would open the door to facilitate this movie.
Nothing else. They are 1v3. If they don’t compromise, they will lose the interests of three movies in China. They will only lose the overseas interests of one movie. If they don’t compromise, they will suffer no matter what.
Moreover, the three films also have the purpose of cultural export, which makes it even more necessary to compromise.
"It is undeniable that this movie is really excellent."
A word from Emmerich brought Jon back to his senses after he was deep in thought.
Jon sighed: "Yes, it is indeed excellent."
The reason why he thought that this movie would be suppressed when it was released overseas was because he had already recognized the excellence and high quality of this movie in his heart.
As one of the eight Hollywood producers of the 20th century, Jon has reached a high level. He has had many contacts with, listened to, and been brainwashed by Western high-level leaders in the cultural field. This is due to his inexplicable arrogance.
, will naturally reject Chinese culture.
Before watching this movie, he didn't think China could make any kind of science fiction blockbuster.
But after watching this movie, he was amazed and shocked.
The most important thing is that this movie obviously has many things that are deeply familiar with Chinese culture, but he is not disgusted with it. Instead, he looks at it all with a high level of curiosity.
As a producer who is deeply involved in the field of Hollywood culture, if this is the case, what will happen to the Western movie-watching public if this movie is released overseas?
So he thought, with his dark mind just now, that this movie would definitely be suppressed overseas.
Only if you don't want to see the good in others will you subconsciously think about the bad situations of others.
Just after Emmerich's reminder, it now seems that everything is planned by the China Film Group.
They can use movies to export culture in China, but Huaying can’t use movies to export culture overseas?
They are preparing three science fiction films, and Huaying is also preparing one science fiction film, so don’t find fault with culture or anything like that.
If they say that this movie is not allowed to be released because of cultural differences, then Huaying can also say that their three films also have such problems and are not allowed to be released in China.
Obviously, this calculation is a boomerang that will make Hollywood's previous strategies for targeting Chinese films completely unreasonable.
"This Chinese man is so smart... no, he is so cunning!" Jon cursed secretly again.
Emmerich glanced at him, then looked away calmly.
The producer-centered system in Hollywood is very strict, and the hierarchy is very clear. Not only him, but also Spielberg and Cameron have to obey the instructions of the producers.
It's okay if both parties reach a consensus, no matter who listens to it, then as a director, you can just make your own work with peace of mind.
However, when the position is high, there are always people who like to point fingers at will to show the status of the producer. This makes directors like them very unhappy, and it is even more unhappy with the eight major capital groups in Hollywood that have formulated the producer-centered system.
This iron-clad standard system has been a rule that has been adhered to for nearly a hundred years. Even if they are unhappy, they have no other way to do anything.
But when I have the opportunity to see these producers struggling, I feel secretly happy and comfortable.
Besides, as an old American, he is proud, and his country is the most powerful country in the world. So such a being should open up the cultural market, but he is biased against Chinese culture and always makes trouble.
This is not the behavior of a big country, and it makes them seem to be afraid of Chinese civilization.
If you are not afraid, why are you blocking and suppressing it?
Why don't you just introduce it to the United States and compare it with the glory of our United States to see which one is stronger and which one is weaker?
Emmerich has always hoped for global cultural exchanges, which will allow directors to gain greater knowledge and progress faster, and make their works more artistic. Although he is proud of his identity as an American, he is not too fond of Hollywood's style of conduct.
cold.
Compared with Jon's dark psychology, he is more looking forward to talking about his opinions with his old friends after the movie is released overseas, and sharing his experiences from Chinese science fiction with fans and netizens on the Internet. This will be very meaningful.
thing.
"Mostow, what do you want to say?" Emmerich turned around and saw Mostow, the director of "Space Men" pouting, looking like he was having trouble saying what he wanted to say. He couldn't help but wonder.
Mostow was only a third-rate director in Hollywood. Under the Western system with very strict hierarchies, he was very reserved when facing a world-class director like Emmerich. He stuttered slightly and said: "Hello, senior."
, I just find it hard to believe that this movie was made in China."
Emmerich chuckled: "Don't listen to the nonsense from the media. They will hack anything as long as you give them money. As one of the oldest countries in the world, China's cultural heritage and creative level can't be bad. Everything can be done."
If you use your brain to think about problems, your director level will be better."
"Okay, I'll teach you." Mosto was dissatisfied, but due to the huge gap in status, he had no choice but to reply honestly.
Jon interrupted the topic: "Mostow, your "Space Men" will also be released on the National Day schedule. I wish you good luck."
Jon's tone was obviously sarcastic.
If you haven't seen "Skyfall", you will think that "Spacemen", a junk science fiction film from Hollywood, may be able to show its talents in China because of its popularity in the West.
There are many lessons learned from this. In the past, many Western blockbuster movies became popular in China and even Asia, making a huge sum of money to make up for the losses caused by blockbusters in the West.
But now after watching "Skyfall", he can only wish Mosto good luck.
Putting aside the conflict of positions based on the idea of cultural differences, and putting aside the dark psychology just now, as a senior producer, he believes that this movie is on the same level as "2012" and "Transformers", only better than "Avatar"
Almost.
After all, "Avatar" is his own work, so other people's works must be worse than his own.
His "Avatar" is top-notch, "Canopy" and "2012" are top-notch, and "Transformers" is top-notch, while Mostow's "Spacemen" has been proven to be a third-rate hit in the Western market.
If a first-rate movie and a third-rate movie are released at the same time, as long as the mainstream Chinese audience has normal aesthetics, the result can be imagined.
It was heard that "Space Men" is currently in a deficit of 20 million US dollars, so Mosto contacted China to try to make money by releasing it in the Chinese market. Otherwise, Mosto's future would be worrying.
For a third-rate director like Mosto, if his work cannot be sold but he can maintain his capital, there will still be capital investment to invest in his potential.
But if the losses are too great, the capital market will abandon him.
Mostow's last bad movie also cost him 20 to 30 million US dollars. If he doesn't prove himself with this one, his future as a director will be almost over.
Hearing Jon's slightly joking words, Mosto's mood dropped to the bottom. It was okay to be laughed at by his colleagues in Hollywood. When he came to a foreign country, he was not laughed at by foreigners but was treated with courtesy. Unexpectedly, he was laughed at by his own people.
ridicule.
"Evil capitalism!" He cursed fiercely in his heart.
But back to the subject, the current problem is that his movie may lose the market due to the existence of "Sky Curtain". How to save the situation or find a way out is the difficulty he urgently needs to solve.
However, his guaranteed film schedule for "Spoilers" is only 10%, while the film "Top" has a guaranteed film schedule of 26%. This is too much pressure.
Now he really wants to be like the space warriors in his movies, falling from the sky and hacking this super villain who is blocking his way to death.
In the hearts of the two kings of Huayi, Brilliant Era is the villain blocking their way.
In the heart of this third-rate director, this movie is also the villain in his heart.
It's just that the two kings of Huayi and Art have lost. What can he, a third-rate director, do on someone else's home court?
"Now, please come to the stage to take a group photo and leave. We have prepared a dinner for you at the Shangri-La Hotel. After everyone leaves..."
With no other choice, Mosto was very frustrated. He didn't expect to go on stage to take photos with the crew of this movie. He was going to be killed by the crew, and he had to take photos with them. If he had known it, he wouldn't have come.
Just like that, the guests stood up in rows, took photos on the stage in an orderly manner, and then left from the other side of the stage. They went downstairs and got on the welcoming vehicles and went straight to the Shangri-La Hotel to participate in the evening's post-screening interview and dinner.