Since Fang Yi began to appear as a well-known literary and artistic worker, he has contributed many popular roles. Some people will think of his debut role as "Tianshui Qilin'er" Jiang Wei, and some people will think of "My Captain, I"
Zhang Lixian, the Kuomintang officer in "The Regiment", if you still remember, he also planned some special programs and Internet short dramas such as "Inspiring China".
But Fang Yi's influence is more clearly demonstrated through his identity as a director. For four consecutive years, the box office champion of domestic films has been him or the films he participated in, including screenings, test screenings, small and medium-cost feature films, and gradually promoted
To the special effects industry blockbuster, a domestically important production company, Asia's first-class special effects team, a group of creative teams of different ages but with high standards, best director, best actor, best film, including the top films in the three places across the Taiwan Strait
Awards... He really changed the mainland film industry.
After the National Day holiday of "I Come from the Future" ended, there was an outbreak period. This trend is quite abnormal, but considering the lengthy reports in the press that "China and South Korea have begun to transfer the remains of volunteer martyrs", it is not surprising. 1
This kind of recognition from the official to the private sector is condensed in one representative person. Most people add fuel to the flames, a few people look on with cold eyes, and a very small number of people try to contain it but are quickly defeated.
This year is not ordinary. There are heavy news both at home and abroad, from Syrian vegetable vendors to the London Olympics, from South China Sea islands to special planes over South Korea... As a Chinese, their attention will be occupied by many news, economic and
The golden age is not over yet, and a new round of housing price increases is beginning. Life is always spent in make do, but when you look back, you realize that you have come a long way. This is what Fang Yi and others are experiencing.
era.
The box office of the movie "I Come from the Future" has exceeded 100 million, 500 million and 1 billion. "I Come from the Future" has received the postponement key and will be postponed for two months. All government agencies and institutions organized to watch the main theme movie "I Come from the Future"
...At the end of October, the film's sales exceeded 2 billion.
For a whole month, Fang Yi and his movies got almost all the headlines. He was different from everyone else and was pushed to a new status.
New media with the rise of the Internet and traditional paper media have jointly built momentum for Fang Yi. Some people dug up the "China Past" series that Fang Yi told in an interview with "Forbes". At that time, Fang Yi counted on his fingers and said, "I can do it backwards."
Shoot forward, select these three key eras, and record them on film... Does this kind of series make sense? It has no meaning at all. If it must be said, aliens may have come to this planet after the extinction of human beings, and archaeological discoveries have been made.
I chose our series of films and treated it as a condensed documentary. I wanted to be this kind of witness..."
Contemporary, modern, founding period, and the eras where filming was allowed within the rules were all recorded by him, and he completed this arduous series. The awesome thing about some things is that the person involved does not feel it himself, but still has the feeling of "I am lucky"
With a sincere heart, others such as Jiang Wen, before this series was completely released, had already admitted defeat from the bottom of their hearts, "For the director who came out of the Yangzhou Opera, from now on he will be the first, and I will be the second."
There are also some people who believe that there is no longer any doubt about Fang Yi’s status among directors of his generation, and instead move him to previous decades to compete with the elders in history. “Fang Yi is not the number one now.
People's problem, he is actually the best director in the country, ever."
Is there a reason?
Of course these people have their reasons. If director Xie Jin is ranked in front of Fang Yi, it is because Xie Jin has completed the transformation of mainland films from revolutionary narratives to citizen narratives. Then, when you regard the citizens of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen as citizens, you should also regard the second-tier
, the third tier and even the citizens of various small counties and cities with household registration are regarded as citizens. "In the past five years, more audiences have watched Fang Yi's movies than all the directors in the past fifty years combined. Fang Yi represents the citizens more than Xie Jin."
Class, because at the time of Xie Jin, China had not yet produced a truly large-scale citizen class."
The media will not take economic growth, the largest urbanization process in history, the fastest and largest cinema chain construction, and increasingly lower ticket prices as prerequisites. They will ignore the above foundations and directly attribute it to one person, Fang Yi.
Because he is in this era and others are not, he is a local who deserves to be honored.
Unless you think this era is not as great as the past.
Some people will rank Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others ahead of Fang Yi because they have been brilliant. However, the embarrassing thing about the director's profession is that the career period is too long. Some directors have been dismissed even in their golden creative period.
Later, people repeatedly tortured me. The former top-tier directors did not die or disappear. They were still making movies tirelessly, and were defeated time and time again. They failed at the box office and failed to win awards. How many more times would they lose before they can admit that Fang Yi is the current director?
the first person.
Chen Kaige said that he was better than Fang Yi. Except for his die-hard fans, fans only thought it was a joke. When Zhang Yimou said this sentence, how many people subconsciously affirmed it instead of thinking carefully and coming up with an order?
Shocking conclusion for yourself?
Under this kind of publicity, the impression that "Fang Yi is already the first person of this era" began to form. The news that the single market of "I Come from the Future" exceeded 2.2 billion even affected Hollywood. Many directors expressed their love to each other and expressed their desire to
You have to cooperate with the "hugo side", and the domestic media regards this as a victory for China. When you unintentionally elevate a movie and a person to this status, you are no longer willing to belittle him.
Because belittling him is belittling yourself.
The New York Times calculated that the number of moviegoers in mainland China exceeded "100 million" and included research information that "China's movie market will eventually reach four times that of the United States and one-third to one-half that of the world."
They gave this report the title "Hugo Fang, a popular superstar loved by both Chinese officials and people has appeared."
"Hugo Fang is a humble gentleman. He is a genius who you cannot hate from any angle, but will most likely like and admire. He is also a pragmatic promoter of film industrialization. In addition, he is also a young rich man worth billions of dollars.
…Chinese people are humble, simple, tolerant, and don’t like to be in the limelight, but they also long for a perfect giant who possesses the above qualities but continues to create records and steal the limelight. His fame must be unintentional, and his achievements must be in a league of his own.
, his life experience must be dramatic rather than utilitarian and step-by-step. This common aesthetic tendency is combined with the inherent worship of authority in East Asian culture..."
"In short, when such a person is born, he may become a symbol in a certain field. Hugo has become such a person."