Literary films or biopics actually face the same situation.
If The Orphan of Mengshi is a literary film that wants to compete in three major film festivals, then its plot is not very important.
Movie fans just don't care.
As long as you can be recognized by those filmmakers with tricky tastes, it is considered a success. If you can win awards, you are a hero!
However, Brother Hai's desire to win awards from international film festivals has gradually faded as he gets older.
His artistic sense can no longer reach its peak state, and he seems to be aware of this tendency himself.
Therefore, we no longer cater to the tastes of the judges. Of course, such operations can also be packaged as having backbone and confidence, but in fact, only you know the real situation best.
Where can his current film works still have the lightness and elegance of his youth?
No la!
It’s long gone!
As people get older, their swords become dull.
Now Brother Hai is about to jump into the trend of commercial films. As for the outcome, it is not something he can control alone.
Even the reputation and reputation he has accumulated over the years can only serve as a guide for his commercial works.
As for whether it can achieve the desired high box office in the end, that depends on the quality of the finished product produced by Brother Hai.
In fact, when a great director of literary and artistic films like Hai Ge comes down to shoot a commercial film, it is equivalent to a change of track.
Even if he is famous, it will not prevent him from making investors lose money, and the investors will scold him, and the audience will also scold him.
His reputation and the honors he has received may become obstacles for him to compete in the field of commercial films. At that time, if his performance is not good, he may get even more bricks!
To be able to perform quite well in such a featureless film that can be seen as bad by the naked eye is a new challenge for Wu Di.
Speaking of which, Wu Di's situation is much worse than that of Steamed Buns. Speaking of Steamed Buns, although a movie is bad, it can create a kind of emotion and reach another level of badness, so that it even derives a kind of badness.
The ultimate beauty of the film!
You see, this is what happened.
Although the steamed buns were also terrible, Brother Hai still had pursuits at that time, and the celebrities he invited were basically handsome men and beauties, which was in line with his usual shooting style.
Generally speaking, the makeup they were given was gorgeous and golden, and Hai Ge's style of photography has always been very beautiful, but the story is sparse.
In the movie "Steamed Buns", this characteristic is taken to the extreme.
If you look at the scene and the ecstatic feeling, you will never think that this is a bad movie.
But the beauty of the lens is still a work of a master.
Don't underestimate the visuals of movies. This is really a science, and it is very profound. If we dig into the roots, we will find that movies have always been the art of music and painting.
Especially in movies, the picture takes up a larger proportion. After entering the cinema, people pay more attention to the story conveyed by the picture than the sound provided by the movie.
Therefore, only directors who can form their own unique lens aesthetics can be called masters, and Brother Hai is such a director.
However, compared to the beautiful lens language, Hai Ge's storytelling ability is really shameful. If it can be improved by just one centimeter, I believe that Hai Ge's current film achievements will not be just a little bit.
In fact, Maicheng will not be defeated just because of the movie "Steamed Buns". In fact, "Steamed Buns" has received bad reviews one after another, and even Brother Hai has tried to fight back several times without success. The problem is not just caused by the movie "Steamed Buns".
Ever since Brother Hai became famous, the problem of unfair storytelling has always been with him. Before Steamed Buns, he also had many works, which were already widely criticized by movie fans at that time.
Many of the stories he told with great creativity ended in an anticlimactic manner, or had a beginning but no end, and the completion was never able to achieve a very good effect.
On the contrary, one year, Brother Hai shot a short film. It was only ten minutes long, but it gained wide recognition and was hailed as a masterpiece.
It can be seen that as a director, Brother Hai is not incompetent. He may have some problems with his ability to control feature films.
Or maybe, as a poet, he is good at seven-character and five-character quatrains, and long-form Yuefu is not his specialty.
If Brother Hai focuses on making short films or platter movies, maybe no one will notice his shortcomings in his lifetime.
What a pity, who allowed Brother Hai to gain honors at such a young age?
With such a great reputation and the following of countless investors and movie fans, Hai Ge’s ambition will never be satisfied with just shooting short films.
You have to know that in today's film industry, there has never been a director who made a name for himself by shooting short films.
no way!
In the film industry, whether it is short films or documentaries, they are all minor in the end and cannot be put on the stage at all. They are too marginalized.
If a director wants to become famous, he still has to make feature films.
In fact, as the film director industry has developed to this day, its judging standards have become more obviously polarized.
The first type of film directors are generally award-winning directors. The films they make are generally feature films, filled with all kinds of sad and sad atmosphere. It is a fool's dream to find such films to earn box office.
And directors of this type naturally know their own baggage. Their eyes are not set on theaters, and they are not pursuing box office at all.
Their goal is just to win prizes.
The three major ones are holy places, the goals they pursue throughout their lives, and the major international A-class film festivals are also good.
Even if they can get one, it will be their bright red resume.
With these awards, they can continue to shoot the movies they like and delve deeper into the field of literary and artistic films.
The film directors of the other group are naturally fundamentally different from these award-winning groups.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! What they pursue is high box office. They shoot commercial films. In the field of their commercial film directors, only box office is the key to success or failure.
Except for the box office, all other standards are not good enough.
In other words, commercial film directors sometimes feel like they are a mixed bag, and they feel like anyone can do it.
Many actors who have gone on to become directors basically shoot commercial films.
This is also closely related to the measurement standards of commercial films. After all, in this field, even if you make a shocking bad film, it doesn't matter.
As long as your box office is good, no one cares where you come from or whether the movies you make are bad.
If you have the ability, what if it’s a bad movie?
As long as the box office is good, you can even make this bad movie into a series. If the box office of this series is high, it can only mean one problem.
The audience's aesthetics are here. Even if it is a bad movie, the audience likes it. What do you professional directors say?
As long as the box office is good, we investors will still provide money to support the director to continue making movies.
This is the difference between commercial directors and artistic film directors.
Directors of commercial films only judge success or failure based on box office, while directors of artistic films only pursue those international awards.
You go to directors of artistic films to get box office, and you go to directors of commercial films to get awards. This is putting the cart before the horse.
It's simply impossible to succeed.
So, you can see that Hai Ge, a high-minded and self-sufficient literary and artistic film director, now has to turn around and pursue box office results. In fact, it is very uncomfortable for him and the audience.
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Steamed Bun is a masterpiece that was shot under such ambivalence. On the one hand, Brother Hai certainly knows that blockbuster commercial films also have some fixed elements.
So, he was ruthless and summoned many handsome and beautiful stars to make this movie a blockbuster with unlimited stars.
The foundation for a blockbuster movie is there.
Next, we have to see what kind of delicious dishes the director, the chef, can cook from this rich table of ingredients.
The results of it?
Everyone has seen the result.
It would be really acclimatized to shoot a commercial film using the shooting techniques of an art film. Moreover, the situation faced by Brother Hai is not just acclimatization.
In the minds of most movie fans, literary and artistic films are inherently of a higher grade than commercial films, and this is especially true for directors.
In the hearts of movie fans, Brother Hai's status is very high, at the level of a great master. As a result, he is now making commercial films, which is a self-destruction.
Although Lao Zhang, who is more famous than Hai Ge, got involved in commercial films earlier than Hai Ge, Lao Zhang's reputation seems to be much stronger than Hai Ge's.
The main reason is that Lao Zhang achieved success as soon as he made the film. Not only did it perform well at the box office, but the quality of the film was also basically guaranteed.
Although the style of the movie has been lowered due to the need to take into account commercial film elements, the spiritual core of the entire movie is still very unified and cohesive.
As for the ability to tell stories, that goes without saying.
Not to mention in the field of commercial films, even in the field of literary and artistic films, Lao Zhang's narrative ability was much stronger than that of Brother Hai.
This advantage extends to the field of commercial films, and is naturally expanded, because commercial films are inherently more particular about narrative structure and narrative fluency.
Hai Ge's original unstructured, stream-of-consciousness shooting style will definitely not work. Seeing Lao Zhang prospering in the field of commercial films, it is impossible to say that Hai Ge is not jealous or jealous at all.
of.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be that after Lao Zhang became famous in the field of commercial films, he quickly declined.
He could obviously choose to be the eldest brother by himself, but he didn't choose this way back then, which shows that he didn't have the courage.
So now, at this time when steamed buns are facing controversy, Brother Hai strikes again, aiming for a big turnaround.
This time, he put away those scattered thoughts and began to tell stories seriously. At the same time, in order to make the plot of the movie more cohesive, he also specially selected classical stories that were extremely controversial and had a certain social awareness.
Tell.
He thinks that this time he can restore his declining reputation and gain recognition from the audience. It can only be said that Brother Hai is still too naive.
Making a movie is just making a movie. If we just shoot with the intention of making a good movie and making use of our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses, then we can make a movie of good quality.
And if you hold back your energy and always have to argue with the audience, to be honest, this kind of thinking is wrong.
The resulting movie will definitely not be popular with the audience.
Mengshi's Orphan is such a movie. It is a masterpiece that carries Brother Hai's wish for revenge. However, its finished product gives people a lingering sense of mediocrity.
When the audience walked into the cinema to watch this movie, they came with the intention of watching the excitement.
In fact, many people hold back their thoughts to watch Hai Ge's jokes. As a result, if Hai Ge continues to take the crazy route, I am afraid that things will turn against each other and receive a wave of praise.
such a pity.
He is still too conservative.
He actually restrained himself and made the movie in a decent manner, and the story was told completely. For Brother Hai, this is actually a huge improvement.
However, the majority of movie fans will not be satisfied with this. If a great director like you, Brother Hai, can only deliver such a passing movie, then what dignity do you have to be called a great director?
What is the difference between you and those first-time directors?
You are not even as good as them!
They don't have the support of various foreign awards, and they don't have decades of experience in making movies, but they won't make a movie so boring.
Originally, movies with historical themes did not have an advantage in theaters, but after Brother Hai's performance, it became even less interesting.
So what hope is there?
It will definitely not receive much praise from public opinion. However, Hai Ge's movie is not meaningless.
As the saying goes, Brother Hai's bad luck is Boss Wu's good luck.
Although Meng's Orphans could not help Brother Hai reverse his decline, the fact that a new actor like Wu Di could perform well in such a mediocre movie is enough to prove that his acting skills are already very proficient.
He will not be pulled down in terms of reputation just because The Orphans is a bad movie. On the contrary, because he is a much-anticipated new actor, once he can turn the tide in a bad movie, his reputation will be even higher.
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And now, Wu Di is about to fulfill his promise.
Shining brightly among bad movies!
After a period of practice, Wu Di was already familiar with this new set of moves. Since the focus was not on fighting, the martial arts scene arranged by Brother Hai was honestly very difficult.
The main thing you pursue is a good-looking picture, which is understandable.
The plot of the story was originally impossible to grasp. If by then, even the good scenes were lost, then Brother Hai would no longer have to continue making movies.
It's time to retire.
Brother Hai is also eager to give it a try. Although Wu Di is playing very well now, he is already ready. When the official filming begins, she will give full play to her picky skills.
Let Wu Di suffer a lot.
You won't let him take it easy!
At this moment, Wu Di jumped down from the high platform!