Chapter 2 Reputation is important
Rebirth, what a noble word.
In his previous life, Cao Yang also graduated from an art school with a major in directing. He has been in the industry for more than 30 years. His greatest achievement is that as an executive director and assistant director, he helps those directors who are nominal directors or directors who have changed careers to have an overview of the overall situation and act as directors. things, and not once or twice.
And the amazing thing is that it still achieves good box office results every time.
As a result, he finally got an opportunity to direct a low-budget film.
However, the movie failed miserably.
Cao Yang was very angry. Why could someone else's movie be a big hit even if he directed it, but if he was the director, it would not even make a splash?
Just because someone else is famous?
Is it because the actors who were inserted into the crew through various connections have poor acting skills?
Just because the script was randomly deleted?
Maybe because of my strong obsession, I was reborn with a reputation system.
This piece of shit doesn't have any messy abilities, it only has one function, which can consume your existing reputation and convert it into a game-playing experience.
Cao Yang didn't know whether the theatrical experience was literally what it meant, allowing the actors to experience the experiences of the characters in the play. There was no explanation for this broken system.
Cao Yang checked it. The current reputation is 10627, the available reputation is 10627, and the experience of entering the game is +1.
Why is there a theatrical experience? Cao Yang still doesn't know, maybe it was a gift?
At present, reputation cannot be converted into a game experience. Once converted, -89373 will be displayed. In other words, one hundred thousand reputation points are needed to change the game experience.
Fortunately, the system provides a free experience of entering the drama, which can be used by the protagonist to increase the protagonist's acting skills. But I don’t know how effective the experience will be once I enter the drama, so I still have to try my best to find actors with good acting skills.
The top priority is to improve your reputation and gain more theater experience.
Although the broken system does not prompt how to improve reputation, but thinking about it, I know that it is nothing more than box office and winning awards.
It’s only 2000, and the domestic film industry is still struggling to survive.
The number of screens in domestic statistics is less than 2,000.
Twenty years later, the amount was more than 80,000 yuan!
Such a huge difference.
The market for commercial films is not good, so don’t worry about the box office for the time being.
But fortunately there are still literary films.
Whether the market is good or not, for literary films, it doesn't matter.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to go to the three major European film festivals and win awards, and then sell foreign copyrights, gain both fame and fortune, and keep your reputation growing?
This is the correct way to open a literary film.
The key is how to win the prize.
How can domestic directors more easily win awards abroad?
Backwardness, criticism, the dark side of society, the evil of human nature... randomly arrange and combine them, and you will have a chance to be selected for the main competition unit.
Of course, if you want to win a prize in the main competition unit, these alone are not enough.
The three major film festivals have different focuses, the members of the jury that change every year have different preferences, and the themes of the film festivals are also different every year...
It is difficult to win an award because there are so many factors that affect it.
It's easy to win awards. As long as a few judges like your film, or the chairman of the jury supports you, you can at least win one of several awards.
In this era, the awards from the three major European film festivals are still very impressive and accepted all over the world.
Cao Yang didn't want to film the ignorance, backwardness and pain of scars in China to please those foreigners, but he was very interested in the foreign scar series and wanted to shoot it very much.
But it’s not realistic to shoot now. We have no funds and no reputation.
Then find another way and make an author's film with a very personal style.
There is a very interesting director in Nanbang. The types of films he shoots are very narrow, but he is an award-winning professional and has an appetite for European and American people.
He neither films pornographic violence, nor the evil of human nature, nor the dark side of society. His award-winning films only focus on photographing women.
It captures and refines a series of speeches and behaviors that are familiar to everyone but have profound meanings in life. It gives philosophical meaning to daily trivial matters and love between men and women, thereby exploring the complexity and fickleness of human nature.
"Alone on the Beach at Night" is such a movie.
For Cao Yang, this movie is the best choice at the moment. The scene is simple, no special effects are needed, there are few actors, the shooting is not cumbersome, and the key is saving money.
This is another author's film with a very strong personal style. The entire film makes extensive use of fixed long lenses and simple and slow panning shots, which a traditional director like Gian Zhuangzhuang would disdain to use.
Too simple and straightforward.
When the movie was made, no one thought it was a Grange movie. The style was obviously different.
If Gianzhuangzhuang were to shoot this movie, with his style that focuses on humanistic care, he might be able to give you an alternative version of "Spring in a Small Town."
The plot of the movie is very simple. The heroine is a famous actress who falls in love with a married director and has an extramarital affair. This is the pre-plot.
At the beginning of the movie, the heroine cannot stand the pressure of public opinion and escapes to a foreign country to relax, eat, walk and talk with friends.
Next, the heroine returned to China and had dinner and talked with friends.
In the end, he seemed to wake up from a dream, met the married director, and had dinner and conversation.
It looks bland and boring.
In fact, it is boring and unremarkable.
Especially for moviegoers who seek sensory stimulation, this movie is simply torture.
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There is no dark side of society, no violence, no sentimentality, just two words, plain.
The current version in Europe has not evolved yet, and more attention is still paid to women. Including the works of female directors, the creation of female characters and the discussion of female themes.
As long as these are involved, it is easy to get nominated for the main competition unit.
If there are fewer films of this type in the nominations, there is a high probability that it will win a grand prize. Political correctness is still very powerful.
This movie unfolds from a female perspective, with almost all the shots focusing on the female protagonist. Reflect social issues and gender equality by exploring female themes. It not only shows the growth and changes of women, but also criticizes sexism and gender stereotypes.
It is in line with the appetite of the three major European film festivals.
It was already the second day when Cao Yang saw Tianzhuangzhuang again.
In the hotel conference room rented in the name of the crew, Lao Tian was listless and yawning repeatedly. He didn't know what the situation was like last night.
Tianzhuangzhuang glanced at Cao Yang and said nothing. After saying hello, the two quickly got into work.
It's good that Lao Tian doesn't have any trouble.
Today is the last day to audition for the heroine.
Calling it an interview is actually a euphemistic way of saying it. The invitations I sent out to several of my favorite candidates were either rejected or fell into the dust.
There was no way. Before this, the films of Mr. Lu and Wang Xiaoshuai produced by Tianzhuangzhuang had been stuck in censorship for a long time. This time, he was not allowed to take up a temporary position on the crew.
On the surface, Grange is just an actor on the set.
So in the eyes of outsiders, a director in his twenties with a small investment, isn't this just nonsense?
Therefore, it is difficult for the heroine to give birth.
In fact, Cao Yang's favorite heroine candidate is Gong Li.
At the beginning, before the National Master was divorced, Gong Li and the National Master fell in love due to drama and got together. An actress fell in love with a married director and had an extramarital affair...
Sound familiar?
This is exactly the same as the setting of the movie. This similar experience, coupled with Gong Li's acting skills, made it difficult to act with ease.
Unfortunately, it was too expensive and I couldn't afford it. The budget for the entire movie was not enough to cover the film's salary.
Although the coal boss is happy to spend money, he is not a fool. He paid hundreds of thousands to let Xiaomi play an important role. The purpose is to cultivate him, and what he wants is a sense of accomplishment.
Pay more? That's another way to play.
Cao Yang once thought about inviting a national master to play the role of director in the film.
As soon as the imperial master came, Gong Li read the content of the script, especially the last part, where the great director who had an extramarital affair with the heroine burst into tears and said in front of the heroine that he never regretted falling in love with the heroine, but that he was too cowardly and too Care about worldly perspectives...
Just because of this scene, Gong Li would join the film even if he paid any money.
If she could have waited for the words of the National Master, even if they were said in a movie, she would definitely feel that her life was complete.
What a gimmick!
This film was not shocking enough to explode the entire Chinese-speaking community.
But then I thought that if the Imperial Preceptor knew the content of the script and dared to invite him, one of himself and the Imperial Preceptor would definitely die, so he put out this crazy and brilliant idea.
I can only work hard for Lao Tian to play this role.
(End of chapter)