After carefully reading the script in his hand, Deng Chao was amazed.
With a long sigh, he walked out of the plot and looked at Li Qian in disbelief, "Li Qian, you know, I really want to split your head open with an ax and see what's inside. You
My imagination is really getting bigger every time!”
Li Qian is far inferior to directors such as Zhang Yimou and Cheng Kaige in terms of skills and technology. The gap in art and photography is directly reflected in the beauty of the picture. He does not have their level where every frame can be regarded as a painting. This is recognized by the industry.
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But no matter who it is, even if there is a gap between Li Qian and Li Qian, they have to admit that in terms of creativity and imagination, no director in the country can compare with him, or even come close.
Not to mention the most imaginative "Moon", the creativity of "Frequency of Life and Death" about communication across time and space and mutual rescue is not available in China.
But this time, the script of "The Truman Show" before Deng Chao was completely more creative than any of Li Qian's previous movies.
To use an Internet term to describe Deng Chao’s current thoughts, it would be “Kneel down!”
"It's not that exaggerated. It's just that the directors are old and the young people have not yet come into their own. The era in which these older generations lived was destined to have little creativity."
Li Qian shook his head and said, "If you really want to see ideas, you might as well go online. Each idea is bigger than the next. Even if there was a lot of science fiction more than ten years ago, there was no shortage of ideas. They just lacked people to film them. The old one
Senior directors won’t shoot, newcomers won’t be able to shoot, and they won’t be able to attract big investment.”
"That's true." Deng Chao was slightly stunned, "The older generation has different ideas, but they are unwilling to shoot creative stories."
Li Qian waved his hand and stopped the off-topic chat, "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's talk about how you understand the character Truman."
"Truman."
When it comes to business, Deng Chao doesn't talk about anything else. He has been waiting for the leading actor in Li Qian's movie for more than a year, and the wait is almost gone.
He thought for a while and said, "First of all, he is both lucky and unlucky. As an orphan, he grew up safely and smoothly. He had parents who loved him since he was a child, and he had best friends who grew up together. Although these are all fake, Truman got
it is true.
Otherwise, being sent to an orphanage as an orphan, and being lucky enough to be adopted by a family with a fairly good financial background, may also be very bad, but all this was arranged by others, which on the other hand is sad.
He is a pitiful person. When he starts to try to leave, in the eyes of the audience, he is a pitiful person. I haven't thought about how to act in this aspect yet."
"How to act is something we should discuss later." Li Qian nodded and gestured to continue.
"However, Truman is also a person of contradictions. He is afraid of dogs, and because of the shadow caused by his father's fake death, he is afraid of water. After his father died, he was afraid of going to sea. As soon as the relatives around him said anything, he would give up immediately.
My own thoughts have no main thread and are cowardly.
But he is also a brave, curious, and crazy person.
Exploring the truth of things step by step is curiosity.
Be brave enough to find the truth, be brave enough to do it, be brave enough to escape, and finally walk out of that false world. This is bravery.
Dragging his wife and racing like crazy, this is crazy."
Deng Chao explained his understanding one by one, his expression was a little strange, his brows were furrowed, and he looked particularly distressed.
"Everything Truman did before and after was very logical, including suddenly driving a car crazily regardless of safety. It is easy to understand, but when everything is put together, this character feels particularly contradictory."
"Yes, Truman is a body of contradictions." Li Qian nodded.
Deng Chao also put down the script and listened to Li Qian's explanation of this character. After all, he had only read the script once, and he certainly didn't understand it better than Li Qian, the creator.
Li Qian smiled and said, "Actually, Truman is the epitome of ordinary people. He has most of the advantages of a good person from a moral and legal perspective, such as kindness, courtesy, enthusiasm, intelligence, and nostalgia. He also has a trait that most good people have.
Some shortcomings are cowardice and timidity.”
What this said made Deng Chao even more confused. Good people have shortcomings. This is not difficult to understand. Not being a good person means being perfect.
"But what does this moral and legal good person mean?"
"What is "The Truman Show"?" Li Qian asked him.
"It's a movie...no, it's a show!"
"Yes, it is a TV show. His character is mainly caused by the people and things around him. Because he is placed in a false world, and because all his life has to be shown to the audience, The Truman
This person must conform to universal values. He must be a good person in terms of morality and law. Otherwise, the audience will not like a second-rate protagonist, and it will not conform to the mainstream thinking of society.
Not only him, but everyone around him must be sunny and healthy, and everything that happens must be positive. This is why he is kind, cheerful, and enthusiastic.
Curiosity is something Truman has been born with since he was born. He is very curious about new things around him, and his cowardice is mainly due to the death of his father and the various interferences of his mother, wife and friends.
Under the pressure of conditions, he slowly became brave again.
The advantages are cultivated by the environment over a long period of time, and so are the shortcomings. However, this shortcoming is not formed slowly by oneself, but is imposed on him by external forces. Once he finds out that they are all false, he will no longer be cowardly and timid."
The amount of information was quite large, and Deng Chao did not fully absorb it for a while, "Wait a minute, I will go over it."
"Brother Chao, you don't have to understand it now. There are still a few months until filming begins."
Li Qian thought for a moment and then said, "Let me talk about another place so that you can understand it easily. Truman gave up looking for his beloved because his mother was ill. Although he felt that things around him were strange, he still believed in himself.
This shows that he is very nostalgic and can give up what he wants to do for the sake of his relatives and friends.
However, when he knew the truth, he decided to leave. At this time, he no longer missed the past at all, because everything was false, he no longer missed the falsehood, and he was no longer cowardly when faced with the falsehood.
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Deng Chao suddenly realized, "If you say this, I probably understand what it means."
"Slowly understand. Although this is a comedy, you don't need to think about how to be funny. As long as you can fully understand these qualities of Truman and put yourself into Truman, just understand it slowly. There is enough time."
There is no perfect actor, but Deng Chao is good enough. He is kind, free and easy, enthusiastic, smart, cheerful, and brave. Deng Chao has all these external conditions, and that smile that comes from the heart and is contagious is his nature.
Optimistic and cheerful person.
The rest was left to Deng Chao to study on his own. We had a meal together at noon, and then they each went about their own business.
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Li Qian is leisurely doing his own thing here, and "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling", which was first released during the Lunar New Year holiday, is in full swing at the box office.
25 million on the first day, and that’s just the box office for six hours from 6pm to 12pm.
Of course, during prime time at night, it is normal for the box office to be higher during these six hours than during the day.
Four days after its first weekend, "Jinling Thirteen Beauties" also received a high box office of 150 million with a 60 million subsidy from Minsheng Bank.
But the box office was okay, but the first night's revenue was 25 million, and the total in the four days was only 150 million. It was undoubtedly a failure, especially since it was Zhang Yimou's film.
The movie's reputation is pretty good, the plot itself is pretty good, the styling is exquisite, and the photography and editing can't be faulted.
However, the characters are too weak, and the characters of each female student are not three-dimensional enough. They almost have a story-telling role and a conflict with the prostitute. The same is true for the role of the prostitute in guiding the story. Basically, they all rely on
Ni Nilai supports the image of this group, and the only role of the rest is to answer the questions and serve as flower vases.
Li Qian actually had no interest in this movie at all, not to mention the prostitute who sacrificed herself to save the students, not to mention the serious disconnect between the plot before and after, not to mention the fact that Bell, a foreigner, gradually changed from a gangster image to a three-dimensional one, and the transformation was too blunt.
Li Qian didn't want to watch this kind of movie at all, depicting the tragic experience of women in his country facing invaders during the war. Moreover, it was a group of women who had no ability to resist. They were not even female soldiers, but just civilians.
This type of movie has nothing more than a function to make people feel grief, remember history, and not forget the bloody sacrifices of our ancestors.
However, Li Qian's biggest feeling was not passion, emotion, or grief, but more disgusting.
What to watch in this movie?
In the first half, it's okay to watch the Guo army soldiers fighting the Japanese. In the second half, it's okay to watch the Fengchen woman sacrifice herself to save a few students and children?
This is not a prostitute replacing a student, but an adult replacing a child. Some people's opinions on the Internet are still biased.
As for the movie itself, this is a good movie.
But from the perspective of an audience, Li Qian found it disgusting!
Anyone who takes pictures of civilians in their own country being brutally murdered by a group of beasts without any resistance in a war is disgusting and disgusting.
In war movies, it is never about how beautiful the cheongsam is or how realistic the demeanor of the prostitute is. These are all secondary. War movies are about war, resistance, blood, passion, hope, and touching, rather than being unilaterally tortured and killed. Jian Yin
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The reviews of this film are definitely not low. As a film itself, it is quite good, but the audience will definitely not like it.
The next week, "The Thirteen Beauties" took in a box office of RMB 180 million, with a total box office of RMB 330 million in two weeks. It was nowhere near Zhang Weiping's RMB 1 billion, and it would be difficult to even reach the RMB 600 million he mentioned.
This week "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" was released, with 140 million in 4 days, which is a little worse than "The Thirteen Hairpins" in its first week.
A national teacher is a national teacher. In terms of appeal, neither Xu Ke nor Jet Li are rivals.
However, the difference is not far apart, and anyone may win, making the Lunar New Year battle become complicated and confusing.