The movie "Beijing Love Story" shows that Chen Shicheng has great ambitions. It talks about love and troubles of all ages, from teenagers to decades, and it also strives to be coherent in the structure.
However, the execution is not good enough, except for a few details. Each story itself is very contrived.
The lines are a bit stiff and boring, as if a group of people are reading sentences according to the romance.
There are five love stories in total, with Chen Shicheng and Tong Liya playing the protagonists in the first one.
Compared with the character setting of the two in the TV series, there is a difference. Chen Shicheng originally played the role of a rich and handsome man in the TV series, but this time he played a loser, while Tong Liya became an elite white-collar worker.
The innocent and good girl was so moved by the diaosi's literary accent that she immediately got into bed and got pregnant.
Apart from their appearance, there is nothing innocent about the characters in the film. They were playing games with other men in the bar, mouth to mouth, and there was only a slight hesitation.
Romance movies must have a love rival who is tall, rich and handsome. For a rich and handsome man who watched the woman he loved choose a house, a car and a registered permanent residence, he decided to buy a set worth 20 million in the city center.
House, trying to buy back a woman's two hours of time to prove to others or herself that love is nothing in the face of reality.
It's a pity that he lost in the end.
However, this first paragraph is not really a romance movie. When Tong Liya casually said the three words "beat me", you knew it.
A one-night stand makes you pregnant, you are about to have an abortion, get married, what kind of love is there to find your true love in a bar?
The second paragraph is about the cheating of young men and the collapse of love.
Love master Wang Xuebing walks between his wife and many lovers. With the idea of "you will get old if you don't play anymore", various mistresses and mistresses live until midnight every day. Before going home, they must drink wine downstairs to cover up the smell of perfume.
Then he goes home drunk and calls the client "really annoying."
When his wife Yu Nan said she wanted to divorce him, this emotional master almost collapsed.
Yu Nan, who has always been docile and loyal, tried to retaliate against her husband by indulging herself, but suddenly her "conscience" discovered that she did not do anything deviant in the end.
The third love story is about a couple who have been married for many years pretending to be a couple and playing cheating games to celebrate their anniversary. In the end, the man still calls his wife "slutty!"
The fourth story is the only two points. The young couple in school uniforms Liu Haoran and Ouyang Nana, their green and sweet first love, are very touching to watch.
Two people are sitting on a bus, each listening to headphones. This scene has happened to 90% of people when they were students.
Even if the plot is not very touching, looking at the two people wearing school uniforms will give you a good feeling.
The last part is love in old age. The wife has been diagnosed with cancer and may die before her husband at any time. In order to find someone who can take care of her husband after her death, the wife pretends to be her husband's cousin and goes on a blind date for her.
The innocent love of youth, the passionate love of youth, the jealous love after marriage, the unconfused love of middle-aged people, and the life-long love of old age span the five stages of life.
The lineup is also strong enough, including movie stars and movie queens.
Chen Shicheng had many ideas, but he didn't do them well.
The movie is originally short, and it is not easy to tell a complete and interesting story in 90 minutes.
Five stories, each section takes less than 20 minutes, making it even harder to explain clearly.
However, the response on site was okay, as long as the word-of-mouth was almost passable...
After the premiere, Wanda held a banquet at the nearby China World Trade Center.
After dealing with everyone's congratulations, Chen Shicheng immediately approached Tang An and wanted to get an evaluation from the mainland's number one director.
"Dr. Tang, what do you think of my film?"
Looking at Chen Shicheng's eager eyes, maybe he is a bit vulgar in appearance, so he feels a bit lewd.
Tang An quickly shook his head, with goosebumps rising. He glanced at his beautiful wife before feeling better.
Picking up the wine glass and taking a sip, Tang An thought for a while and commented, "It's my first time making a movie. It's pretty good to be able to do this."
Chen Shicheng's face said, "Very good." This comment came from Tang An, and it was definitely the best compliment for him.
However, he also knew that he had many shortcomings, so he waited for Tang An to continue talking.
Tang An continued, "Although it is divided into five sections, five separate stories, they are still connected to each other, and the overall structure is complete."
"However, the five-part story has compressed the length, and the overall plot is not smooth. This can easily lead to the next plot, but the audience's thinking is still on the previous story. And in terms of plot, in my opinion, there are some It’s wrong, especially the easter egg, “Marriage is when you meet the wrong person at the wrong time.”
Except for the story of first love, the other four are all a bit ridiculous, neither true nor in line with people's beautiful fantasies about love.
It almost insisted on the literary youth, but I also wanted to sell the box office, so I compromised a bit, and in the end it turned out to be unflattering and completely different.
After Tang An finished speaking, he glanced at his wife beside him without any trace. Although his expression did not change much, Tang An still caught a hint of something strange.
It is said that movies are a reflection of the director's inner thoughts. Even if they are not entirely true, at least there will be some of the director's true inner thoughts.
Chen Shicheng said in the film, "Marriage is the result of meeting the wrong person at the wrong time." And when this film was made, he was about to get married, and he was the only screenwriter.
It's possible that I just made this up casually.
But, could it be that it was inspired?
Only God knows.
As Tong Liya who participated in the filming, and it was taken before the wedding, she also noticed this line.
Although I didn't take it too seriously, women are very sensitive before marriage, so it's impossible to say that they didn't feel a little unhappy.
However, Chen Shicheng didn't notice anything wrong and was still discussing the movie with Tang An.
He believed deeply and said, "What you said, Director Tang, is really to the point. I didn't realize it when I was writing the script. When I look back at the script during filming, I will find that there are many problems, especially during editing, which are too difficult to solve." Well, if I want to explain it clearly, 20 minutes is too little time for a story.”
"So you cut the film to 121 minutes, which is two hours, which is very detrimental to film scheduling."
Tang An said, "It can be seen that you deliberately controlled the length of the film in order to compress time. Like the first paragraph, the beginning is abrupt and the ending is hasty. There have been many narrative structures like this before, and it was the same in Jia Zhangke's "Destined" last year. The way it is done is that it is a movie composed of four segments, and each segment is related to each other."
Few of Jia Zhangke's films have been released in China, and "Destined" is the same. Several stories in the film are adapted from real events.
The Hu Wenhai incident, the Foxconn incident, the Zhou Kehua incident and the Deng Yujiao incident are all real manifestations of the dark side of society. Negative real social themes have been wiped out by Optoelectronics.
This film was initially censored, but was banned more than a month before its release. However, a local station in the Black Province aired it.
In the first story, after Saner kills someone and leaves, he has a relationship with the sea in the second story;
In the second story, Sanming, a coal miner, buys a ticket to take the bus and meets Saner at the dock;
San'er left home and took a bus after the Chinese New Year. On the bus, she met Zhang Yaxian, a small factory in Guangdong who was going to meet Xiao San (Xiaoyu in story three);
And Zhang Yaxian is the boss of Xiaohui, a young man working in Guangdong in story four;
Xiaoyu finally found a job in Dahai's hometown, which brought the film scene back to its original form.
Tang An continued, "However, the storylines of the entire movie "Destined" can be connected, but these people who passed each other and are strangers to each other have no overlapping stories or emotional intersections.
From this point of view, the stories are connected, although coherent, but not close. Your movie should do a better job in this regard. The protagonists in the five clips are firmly connected to each other through friendship, family ties, and work relationships.
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"Director Tang praised me, but I am far worse than Director Jia." Chen Shicheng said quickly.
Tang An said that he did better than Jia Zhangke, and he was very proud of himself as a genius.
But Tang An can say this, but he can't admit it in public.
Tang An shook his head, "I'm not complimenting you. Although you did a better job in terms of correlation, the five fragments are related to each other, so it's better to blend them together."
If combined together, it will be similar to the structure of the later Hong Kong movie "The Big Tree Catches the Wind".
This film was also censored and could not be found on Douban. Later, Lin Jiadong, one of the three male leads at the Academy Awards, won the Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay, but all the news
No mention of this film.
All the news does not mention this film. If you click on any news about the Academy Awards, you will find that there are other awards, but there are no major awards such as Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture. The top one is Best Supporting Actor.
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Some news mentioning Best Actor or Best Director will not have the title of the film next to it, but other movies will have it.
Tang An thought for a while and said, "If you still want to maintain this narrative structure, I suggest you watch the Argentine crime comedy film "Wild Stories" released this year. This film has six stories in 122 minutes. The director
It completely makes up for the shortcomings of short story collection movies. It is a compact, smart, and entertaining film that you can go and watch."
Chen Shicheng said, "Thank you, Mr. Tang. Talking to you has inspired me a lot. I will go and watch this film tomorrow."
He didn't bother Tang An much. As the protagonist of this banquet, as the director, he had to deal with other people.
Tang An looked around and found Ye Xuan.
I had a drink with him and asked with a smile, "Mr. Ye, haven't the merger and acquisition negotiations for Legendary Pictures been concluded yet?"
Wanda has been negotiating the acquisition of Legendary Pictures for a year, and it is two years earlier than the original time and space. It will not be the same as before, and it will take another two years to win.
"Basically, it has been negotiated. There are also some other terms and specific details. It is estimated that there should be news within three months." Ye smiled and did not hide anything.
"That's really congratulations."
Tang An suggested, "Legendary Pictures is also one of the top second-tier studios in Hollywood. In the future, we can cooperate to develop the North American market. Kailu Pictures also has independent distribution capabilities. Although A-level productions cannot be independently distributed, they can distribute mid-level productions." The ability is still there.”
Legendary Pictures only has production capabilities but no distribution capabilities, and has long been controlled by Warner Bros.
"Pacific Rim" was the trigger that led to the breakup between the two parties. The investment was nearly 200 million U.S. dollars, but North America actually spent less than 100 million U.S. dollars.
If the film is so bad that there is nothing to say about it, but it sells over 300 million US dollars overseas, it at least proves that the film is not that bad. Legendary Pictures, as the largest investor, will naturally blame the distributor Warner, even though Warner also invested money.
However, Legendary Pictures has cooperated with Universal again. The cooperation has just begun, so it did not accept Wanda's acquisition. Now it seems that the cooperation between the two parties is not happy.
In Hollywood, producers are exploited by distributors, even the best of second-tier studios.
Even some major giants are cheating their own subsidiaries. Their production companies basically lose money every year, but their distribution business makes huge profits.
Kailu Pictures acquired by Tang An has the ability to independently distribute movies and DVDs. Legendary Pictures does not have the ability to distribute movies, so the two parties can cooperate.
However, Ye Xun can't look down on a mere Kailu Pictures. Legendary Pictures is also ranked high among Hollywood producers and invests in many A-level major productions every year.
"Haha, Mr. Tang, Legendary Pictures produces all blockbusters. This summer's "Godzilla", "Jurassic World", and "Warcraft" in preparation are all blockbusters. Kailu Pictures' I’m afraid the distribution capacity is not enough.”
Ye Xuan was still cautious. He finally had the opportunity to despise Tang An, and he would not let go of this opportunity.
A man with small eyes who wears glasses is not big-hearted.
The meaning is obvious, ours is a blockbuster film, and your Kailu Pictures is a small company and has no right to play with us!
Tang An was not annoyed after hearing this. Anyway, if the schedule in the Mainland was bumped up, he would just get rid of it. He smiled and said, "Kailu Pictures cannot do theatrical distribution of A-level large-scale productions, but in terms of DVD, it already has the ability to distribute across the United States. Besides, Kailu Pictures is still capable of distributing Legendary Pictures’ mid-budget films.”
"That's okay, but the merger has not been completed yet. Legendary Pictures will go through personnel changes for a period of time. We will talk about it when it stabilizes."
Ye Xuan said perfunctorily, to be honest, he definitely didn't want to cooperate with Tang An.
At this time, Huo Xiwen, Director of the Artist Management Department and Recording Department of Yinghuang Entertainment, and President of Operations of the Beijing Office, walked towards this direction, followed by Yong Zuer, Cai Zhuoyan, Gu Juji and other Yinghuang artists.
"Mr. Ye, Mr. Tang, what are you talking about? You are so happy."
Tang An smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just that the merger between Wanda and Legendary Pictures is about to be completed. We are preparing several big Hollywood productions and plan to add a few less important Chinese supporting actors. I am looking for a role in this film." Woolen cloth."
Huo Xiwen's eyes lit up and he quickly said, "If Mr. Ye is in need, our Yinghuang artists can choose at will."
Your uncle's!
Ye Xuan cursed secretly, he planned to add a vase role in the Hollywood blockbuster, yes, but what does it have to do with you, this is all prepared for that young lady.
Tang An didn't say much to them. It didn't matter that Ye Xiang didn't want to cooperate with Han and Tang in Hollywood. Anyway, the market there was not the main one, and it was impossible to open up the market in a few years.
As for Huo Xiwen, a mere British director, Tang An had no time to deal with him.
In the Mainland, she is not as powerful as any of the directors of Hantang Group's film and TV drama divisions.
As for the entertainment industry in Hong Kong, it has long been a thing of the past. If Yinghuang had only the entertainment industry and no other industries, it would not have been so easy for Yang Shou-cheng to come out after he was arrested during the Independent Commission Against Corruption's Shadow Dance operation ten years ago.
Then Tang An had a conversation with Deng Chao and Liu Haoran, and told them to return to the set as soon as possible if nothing happened and start filming "Detective Chinatown 2".
There was nothing to entertain at the banquet. As a publisher and half a host, staying here for so long was enough.
When he was about to leave, Yang Tianzhen from Yixin Entertainment came over with his artist Ouyang Nana, who is also one of the leading actors in the movie.
"Hello, Mr. Tang, I am Yang Tianzhen. I have never had the chance to meet you, but I finally met you this time."
Tang An nodded and said with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Yang, you are saying this as if I am some rare animal that you can't even see."
"Dr. Tang, you are a very busy man. I can't see you all year round."
Yang Tianzhen secretly thought, are you a rare animal? But for people who are not at that level, it is even harder to see than rare animals.
At least for her, other than on such occasions, she was really not qualified to meet Tang An. Even if there was cooperation, she would only meet the two vice presidents of the film and TV drama divisions, or the directors below.
"Dr. Tang, this is Nana, who studied cello and is currently studying at the Curtis Institute of Music."
Yang Tianzhen introduced the little girl next to her to Tang An.
"Curtis College, that is a world-famous music school. Nana is so young, so she must be very good at playing the piano." Tang An smiled at the little girl.
"Uncle Tang, if you want to hear it, I can play a song for you." The little girl said crisply, very cute.
Damn uncle, you have no manners at all!
"Nana, you called me wrong. You shouldn't call me uncle. What should you call me when you see such a young and handsome brother?" Tang An corrected her.
The little girl looked at Tang An, seemingly a little confused.
Tang An turned his head and glanced at Liu Haoran with a warning look.
However, Liu Haoran did not cooperate and pretended not to see it.
The young man was so careless, Tang An tilted his head slightly and whispered, "Do you like a girl?"
Everyone has a love for beauty. Just like Nie Yuan once said in an interview, if a man and a woman film together for several months, pretending to be a couple, something will easily happen.
Liu Haoran did have a crush on the little girl. Although it was not about love or like, but when Tang An said this, he immediately felt embarrassed and called Tang An "Brother An".
Seeing this, the little girl also shouted, "Brother An."
Yang Tianzhen just brought the little girl here to get acquainted, and left without talking much.
Deng Chao watched them leave and called Liu Haoran's agent to take him to meet some people. He turned to Tang An and said, "Director Tang, Yixin Entertainment is owned by Tengxun, and it actually signed Ouyang Long's daughter."
"Don't worry so much, just don't get involved with those people." Tang An shook his head.
Just a two-faced politician.
There are so many people like this. Most Baodao artists are like this. They do one thing here and another thing there. They are similar to Xiangjiang, but they are just bending down for RMB.
Those who are more obvious, Tang An never cooperates, the country doesn't care now, God knows when the direction will change.
"Okay, it's almost time. Let's go. There's nothing to stay here. Deng Chao, you have a heavy task. Hurry up and finish the filming."