Chapter 12 Chapter 12 Want the Market or Art

Wang Shuo: Where is the ridiculousness of Chinese movies?That is, both ends must be taken care of, and the two ends are not human.What movies need is a market economy, and the pressure is here, so it's easy to handle.But it is a planned economy in control there.Therefore, in terms of the operation of the film industry, it is not really engaged in the film industry, but a film workshop.As a result, the new young directors with ideas do not stick to either side, and they can still produce something real.As long as you touch one end, you must touch the other end. Once you touch both ends, it is neither a donkey nor a horse.

The U.S. has only one end of the market, and their writers are all geniuses. Once they become famous, they are quickly absorbed by commercial films. The box office requires you to only make very well-typed and perfect commercial films, which is fine, simple.I think the technical level reached by the fifth-generation directors can completely make very beautiful commercial films. Like "Titanic", it can also be said that there is an artistic pursuit here.Why so tired?Want to pursue but can't pursue.Your technology is very good, you respect the market, and if you want to survive, you might as well throw away the pretense of an art film, tear your face, and make a genre film. Simply doing it like this can also make the audience Ah, screenwriters, film critics, don't be at a loss.

Old Xia: Most of Zhang Yimou's films are adapted from novels.He and Xie Jin were backwards. Back then, Xie Jin shot every popular novel from "Legend of Tianyun Mountain" and "The Wrangler" to "Wreath under the Mountain", and became a housewife who knew the market best.Apart from Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum", which grabbed the hit novels, other novels such as "Ju Dou", "Red Lantern", "Qiu Ju", and "Speak Well", the novels he shoots will become popular.Compared with Director Xie, this is considered capable and superior.

Wang Shuo: It is really tiring for Zhang Yimou to read novels and then make movies, and now this road is difficult, and he can't go on.Now, the novels written by others are no longer suitable for him to read, because the film is moving towards the commercial road very quickly, and the basic film is essentially compatible with commercial things and the kind of things that the public needs, so why do you need novels? Woolen cloth?Novels, first of all, are things for young people. Young people's things are unpredictable. They don't have that ability. They can't form specific image associations after reading young people's novels.Second, novels are written in cities, and rural novels are mostly read by urbanites.That is to say, Zhang Yimou couldn’t find a camera seat in the city, and he felt that everything in the city was the same, not good-looking, and he couldn’t make a movie.He has succeeded in filming the city, and he doesn't know where to start the scene, what the character should be like, he doesn't know, how do you ask him to shoot this kind of novel that can't produce images?It is simply impossible to produce any image. How can it be possible to read novels and make movies?

Lao Xia: So Zhang Yimou almost never touches the city. From the beginning of filming, he has dealt with the soil and sorghum. Wang Shuo: Well, I think they have been pretending for so many years. They should return to their true colors and honestly shoot a certain thing, be it the market or the main theme.Because this kind of prescribed thing does not prevent them from talking about truth, goodness and beauty, which can be transformed through modeled things.Only others, such as pessimistic, hopeless, dark... are various, and those things require special perception and special shooting techniques.And their works should be touching and make the audience cry. This is too simple, and TV dramas are doing this.I insist on a model, and if everyone does not recognize this model, it will be very tiring, and there will be many misunderstandings.

In fact, everyone has the same purpose, and there is no difference in the final analysis.Then don't pretend to hide this purpose. That way it will be done irregularly, and the story itself will not be told in a pattern, which makes people wonder whether your director has another pursuit?No.So why should I feel suspicious?Make a sneaky look. Old Xia: Actually, making Lunar New Year films like Feng Xiaogang's is a commercial way for the masses, and it's over.Originally, this is what I wanted in my heart, but I insisted on showing a lofty artistic pursuit, which was too tiring.Perhaps, you are hypocritical from the root, and you don't feel tired of it.

Wang Shuo: The biggest enemy of Chinese directors is themselves. Chinese people's pursuit of art has harmed many people.If they don't like it, they always try to make a show.Feng Xiaogang will be ruined here in the future.Look at him, he wants to switch from Lunar New Year films to art films, and he must succeed in the film festival. This is probably the beginning of his "badness". If you don't eat a good bowl of rice, you also want to learn to go there to pursue . Old Xia: Among these well-known directors, maybe there will be a director of the film bureau in the future. With this kind of cunning and cunning trained in the film circle, he will become a professional authority and a humble and approachable director. It is really not difficult for an official with the power of life and death.

Wang Shuo: Whoever reaches this level is doomed.Others will stare at him, don't do this, do that, don't pass this, pass that, the directors are pitiful, and they are even more pitiful. Old Xia: What happened to these directors?That kind of high-pitched singing is almost like the ancient saints.Wealth and honor cannot be promiscuous, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and might cannot be subdued.Dayu never entered the house three times, whether it was his wife or children, he abandoned his wife and children for his own reputation, and his later ideology continued to strengthen, strengthen, and strengthen this thing to the extreme.They can achieve extreme perfection personally, perfect to extreme selfishness, and even their relatives or everyone around them are tools for their self-improvement.In fact, in his bones, he is prostitute when he is rich, he is moved when he is poor, and he is subdued when he is mighty.

Wang Shuo: There is a saying that I really can't stand.They said it when they were filming "Red Sorghum", and it was Mo Yan who said that our ancestors used to be heroic and heroic, but now they are quite useless.When filming, Chen Kaige still said this. In history, there have been such people with lofty ideals in China, but now they are gone.The purpose of shooting these things is to tell the public: the Chinese people in the past were not as useless as they are now, they used to be awesome. Old Xia: They don’t need to talk about what happened in history. Let’s talk about the history of our Han nationality’s previous wars with foreign countries. A few Mongolians, riding on pony horses, occupied the Central Plains with a bang, and divided the people into How many and so on, the Han people are at the bottom.There are not many Manchu people, and they also ride pony horses. After passing the Shanhai Pass, they will sweep the Central Plains and let you grow big braids.But the Han people are also quite humorous, and now they regard these foreign invaders as their own national heroes. Lu Xun said this kind of humorous tricks earlier, and Yu Qiuyu will write specifically about how Emperor Kangxi ruled martial arts and how many tigers he shot. , Shoot the tiger in the royal garden, shoot the tiger that has long been prepared to make the royal family happy.Besides the Japanese, how could the Japanese occupy a place as big as China, but they did.How to occupy, a Japanese soldier riding a carbine and carrying the sun flag, one person can occupy a village or a town.Once occupied, there will be a large group of puppet troops immediately, and then his regime will appear... In my history reading experience, the Chinese kill their own people, but there are always victors.

Peasant uprisings, bandits and rebels were suppressed, civil wars were fought, and countless people died.Bai Qi, a general of the Qin Dynasty, buried more than 400,000 captives alive at a time. At that time, there were only a few people fighting.It also depends on the fact that there are so many Chinese people, so many are like grass.