Chapter 16 Nine Knives Cut Movies: Love Is Not the Way to Survive "People are assholes and heavens don't accept them"

In Taiwan, if you want to make a movie, you can force a director to say a lot of sentences about ideals. Without ideals, you have to learn to pretend.After all, if you are not naive, there is absolutely no way to touch movies. In fact, there have always been many people who want to make movies. Movies are the ultimate dream of almost everyone who holds a camera or walks around in front of a camera. "I was responsible for the lighting of a certain movie." It must be a favorite sentence for a lighting engineer to introduce himself. as "I was responsible for the soundtrack of a certain movie." It must be the most catchy words of the soundtrack artist when he picks up girls.

as "I am responsible for the costumes of a certain movie." Definitely is the mantra of costume design. as "I taught Andy Lau how to kill the 370 people in a certain movie." As soon as I heard it, I knew it was from a martial arts instructor. Not to mention the director. A director who shoots commercials, MVs, and TV dramas, no matter how many years he has been shooting and how much money he has earned behind the camera, has never made a movie in his life, so there must be a gap in his heart. This gap has to be filled after all, not because directors who have made movies are necessarily a head higher than directors who have not made movies (it’s not a big deal if you keep making bad movies, but because every director 100% likes watching movies ( If you are a director but you don't like to watch movies, welcome to shoot me in all directions) I have been deeply moved by many film directors in my life.

And any director who thinks he is talented can't resist making a movie to prove himself. As for the stars. It's not to deny the actors in local dramas, eight o'clock files or idol dramas, but movie actors are just different. Given the opportunity, every actor wants to make a movie. After all, the power of the lens on the body of a movie star is definitely more profound and sensuous.The only huge bright screen allowed in the dark is expected to become the actor's "career masterpiece". As an actor, we are all ordinary people, and the life we ​​lived before becoming a star must not be much different. Although personal characteristics, temperament, acting skills, and even luck are all important, movie stars are of course "slowly" by the camera. Slow Manufacturing".

The meaning of slowly manufacturing means that there are many opportunities to be placed on these stars or quasi-stars. Too many people say that what a movie needs most is a star. Many of these people said that in Asia, the real movie stars are almost concentrated in Hong Kong. There are many outstanding singers and TV drama actors in Japan, but movie stars? South Korea has many outstanding singers, TV drama actors, but movie stars? Both Japan and South Korea are rich countries, but they don't make a lot of movies, so how can there be many movie stars. Many people will say that quality is more important than quantity, but in fact: "Without quantity, there will be no environment."

Without an environment, it is difficult to cultivate first-class technical personnel. The technical team that can change anything is the hero that supports the film industry. It can be easily known by using the simple mathematical concept of numerator and denominator. Yes, the film industry that shoots a lot of films produces many bad films in a mess. This is the usage of the familiar idiom "shoddy". But it is not surprising that as a result of a large number of filming, there must be a lot of classic masterpieces. Compared with Taiwan's "small and beautiful" filming method, the former has cultivated dozens of times more talents.The film industry and the larger entertainment industry are closely linked and reflect each other. There are more talents who rely on this industry to make a living, and these talents have nourished and fattened the big pie.

The movie "Swordsman" in the cinema in the sixth grade of my country (my dad took our three brothers to see it at the time, so I couldn't go to the next hall to watch Chow Yun-fat's God of Gamblers, and my mood was greatly affected), almost no computer special effects , the simple wire stunts helped Xu Guanjie dangle on the grass, there was no strange synthetic sound and light, and a few flying sands and stones made the sword qi burst into excitement.Although the dialogue has not been passed down through the ages, even I can't help but watch it once and applaud it once.Not to mention the soundtrack of the film, it is completely soul.

This is the skill of director Hu Jinquan. It is also the technical capability of the Hong Kong film industry. I once read a saying in a report that because there are many people in Taiwan who want to be directors, as soon as they learn how to shoot, they eagerly want to do it themselves.So Taiwan has a lot of cutting-edge directors who are eager to try, but there are not enough mature, outstanding, and professional technical behind-the-scenes productions. My understanding of the film industry is limited to my experience with filmmakers, but I have heard too many rumors and whispers, and this report is somewhat correct.

If you're a great technician, I think you'll get more job quota in the line than someone who wants to be a director. The day before yesterday, I went to see "Love Is Not a Way to Survive" directed by Doze Niu with Xiao Nei. From the point of choosing theaters, we know that it is not easy for domestic films to survive. Because there is no need to pick a theater at all. Changhua has not been screened, and as powerful as Taichung, only D'Ann Warner Village Show is shown. "Love is not the way to survive" has two themes. In vernacular terms, these two themes are "making a movie is not practical" and "I'm sorry I'm under so much pressure". The gods don't accept it."

It looks good, and the reasonable fare is two hundred yuan.Recommended. Under the banner of pseudo-documentary, in fact, the whole film has no "necessary point of view" to adopt shaky documentary-style lens processing. I think the pseudo-documentary should be misplaced, but it is just a point to be dealt with in the plot of this movie.However, this kind of shooting method naturally has a kind of interest close to reality. We often make a mistake in making movies, that is, the dialogue is flat, and it is not what we would say in our daily life, so it sounds very hypocritical, very fake, and there is no way to invest. The dialogue of "Love is not" is very close to the world I know, there are a lot of foul language and swear words, and it is also very close to the world I know --- the place where everyone is stuffed on the sofa and filming in a bad environment kind of occasion.

I have always hated that kind of occasion, and there is a kind of inertia of fatigue in that kind of conversation space, which is contagious.In the smog, many people don't come to criticize and suppress, as if they think that others will think that they have no brains, and they are even more afraid that if they don't criticize, they are not "having the same ideal front." It is much easier to suppress others who don't know how to make movies or rob the resources of tutoring funds than making movies and robbing tutoring funds in person.I have been criticizing for a long time, and I suspect that people who originally wanted to make movies can only become film critics or talkers in the end.

There are many descriptions of the plight of making movies in the play, and I feel very sympathetic after watching it.Presumably, many filmmakers have watched it, and there must be many, many times of knowing smiles.People with little knowledge will be entertained after watching it. With the help of very colloquial dialogue, it helped me make the most basic "investment" in watching movies. The plot is also very full. Due to personal interests, I am not interested in "prose structure" movies. "Love is not" is very complete in terms of plot design, and the sense of paragraphs is also well grasped. The plot timeline is based on "the process of a group of people making a movie", and the emotional timeline is running on "the struggle of this filmmaker". . Discussing the dark side of filmmaking is only an aid, and self-disclosure is the real theme. I don’t deliberately emphasize growth, sublimation, and upward advancement. When necessary, I have to say things to some people that I don’t even believe in for my own dreams. Some people sell their humanity with a smiley face. There is not much great love for Falun, so I don't think it is bad. How much money do you have to make a big movie? You don’t necessarily have to mobilize thousands of troops to invite the audience into the theater. Chen Kexin’s "Certificate of Fame" was shot very well, but "Three Kingdoms: Seeing the Dragon Disarming the Armor" was also galloping. It is simply a waste of Andy Lau's branded film. (Zhao Yun: "Prime Minister! Zilong wants to be a hero!") Jay Chou's "Secrets That Can't Be Tell" has a small structure, but it is well mastered and the effect is surprisingly good. Doze Niu's "Qing Fei" has the same feeling. There are two disadvantages. One is that it is very tiring to watch. People in "Love is not" often smoke, drink, smoke and touch their breasts. I have no other habits that harm my body except staying up late, so I can't help but feel healthy after watching it. One is that the ending is a bit dragged. Maybe the ending is not really dragging, but the whole film is too full of things to roar, which makes it a little impatient to watch the back.When I couldn't help putting on my coat, I actually "looked" for five more minutes. My philosophy is that no matter how much you want to say, if you talk too much at once, you lose your appeal. I think this has something to do with the Taiwanese director not knowing when the next filming will be, so I have to say as much as possible when I can, but this way of speaking is unnecessary for a movie. The beauty of a movie does not lie in its "completeness". People who understand this truth may not be willing to do this. In the end, I don’t have the noble idea of ​​supporting Chinese films at all, and if I do, I just support them casually, which is manifested in “If this Chinese film is bad, then I will pretend at most that I don’t know it”. People who really love watching movies will not be absorbed or persuaded by ideologies like "We want to be united".If one day my work is adapted into a movie, it must not be to make the national film shine, but I want to make a good movie that even I am willing to buy a DVD for home collection, and then think how cool I am .So easy, so difficult. Compared to going to movies everywhere, I'm really glad that my dream is to write novels. Will be good is what I'm doing. No matter how big the blasting scene is, no cost is required. No matter how amazing the special effects are, I can easily complete them in a few minutes. No matter how beautiful the heroine is, I can order them around. I play one. What I want to deal with with blood is the core --- to make the novel in your hand look good. It's nice to blog once in a while, but what's exciting is what I pick up after I turn it off!