Chapter 472 Film Industry
Since "Painted Skin" exceeded 300 million, Zhang Chen has become the only domestic film and has become the target that all directors must catch up.
Whether others admit it or not, he is the veritable number one director in China.
While the media celebrated, overseas film business came to the door.
I couldn't sell it before, but now I take the initiative to come to me.
The door that Director Chen personally closed was finally quietly opened.
Although the Chinese costume blockbusters are still high-risk films internationally, at least they will not be able to produce any grains.
Zhang Chen calmed down and calmed down.
No matter how great the honor is, it is already a thing of the past.
"Painted Skin" has become history, and Zhang Chen began to restrain his mind and focus more on "Pacific Rim".
He has been connecting with Guo Fan in the past two days to "Pacific Rim". During this period, he is busy promoting "Painted Skin". In terms of his understanding of "Pacific Rim", he is not as good as Guo Fan.
"The company has received a lot of invitations in the past two days, all of which are inviting you to attend some events..."
Chen Xiaowei held a stack of envelopes and recited names one by one: "The exchange meeting held at the end of the year at the Youth Writers Forum invites you to speak, the seminar of the Film Association also invites you to attend, Peking Normal University invites you to give a speech on traditional culture, Peking University also invites you to give a speech, you can make a speech at your own theme, Beijing Film Academy also invites you to give a speech, and Wanda's flagship theater in Beijing opens, invites you to cut the ribbon..."
Zhang Chen was looking at the shooting schedule. He didn't raise his head when he heard this, and waved his hand indifferently: "You'll push it for me~"
Every time it is like this at the end of the year, there are a lot of seminars.
Zhang Chen didn't understand these before, so he tried to participate in two games, and it was smelly and long~
Just listen to a large group of people bragging about it~
Zhang Chen goes, and sometimes he becomes the target of public criticism~
Because the commercial films he advocates have always been unpopular with those associations.
Just as I was watching, I suddenly felt aroused in my heart. I remembered the phone call from Teacher Fu two days ago. It seemed that he had to take time to go back to school and analyze "Painted Skin" before the students' holiday...
This seems to be what Director Tian Zhuangzhuang meant.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen raised his head.
Although I have graduated, the relationship between my alma mater still needs to be maintained.
The department head needs to give face.
Teacher Fu also needs to give face.
"Forget it, except for Nortel, let's just say that "Pacific Rim" is about to start filming, and I'm weak~
For Nortel, let’s set this Saturday and let them prepare for the auditorium. I will take the Moon over there, and by the way…”
"Moon" was not released publicly in North America and was directly released.
In the mainland, it is scheduled to celebrate March of the New Year.
Zhang Chen's past this time was previewed at Beijing Electric Power in advance.
Usually, Zhang Chen will preview any new movies in advance at Beijing Film Academy, which has almost become a tradition.
...
Saturday
At eight o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock of Dingling's cell phone rang on time.
There was a lot of complaints in the dormitory:
"Shanshan, what are you doing? It's a Saturday, don't let people sleep in~"
Yuan Shanshan: "You guys are not getting up quickly. Don't you know if you have a senior Zhang Chen's speech today?"
Zhang Xiaofei opened her loose eyes and looked at her watch: "It's only eight o'clock, and I remember that the senior's speech was ten o'clock."
Yuan Shanshan kept squeezing toothpaste for the toothbrush: "Don't blame me for not reminding you. You'll be able to squeeze in at 10 o'clock~"
As soon as she finished speaking, Jiao Junyan and Zhang Xiaofei on the other two beds immediately collapsed.
"If you don't say it, you will forget it. Get up quickly. If you go late, you will have no seat~"
Then, the dormitory immediately became a mess.
"Oh, I'm in my slippers~"
"Who touched my toothpaste?"
...
Half an hour later, the three girls went out neatly.
Not only are they neatly arranged, but they are all dressed up in a shiny way.
Today, Zhang Chen came here.
If he falls in love with it, wouldn’t it be a success?
Don’t ask them how they know. Isn’t Yang Xiaomi from the same dormitory the best example?
Passing by the cafeteria, Zhang Xiaofei ran two steps quickly, "I'll buy buns, you can take my seat~"
"No problem, I want meat buns~"
"I'm the same~"
The division of labor among the three is clear.
A moment later, Zhang Xiaofei came to the auditorium.
What a good guy, all of them are early birds~
The large auditorium was already half full. Except for the first row left for the school leaders, the other front rows were seated tightly.
As soon as Zhang Xiaofei entered, she saw Jiao Junyan and Yuan Shanshan in the third row waving to her: "Here, here~"
"Are so many people?"
"Yes, the second row was snatched when we came. Then after five minutes we arrived, the back rows were snatched away~"
"Good~, Senior Brother Zhang is really charming~"
"Luckily we listened to Shanshan, otherwise we would have been lined up outside."
Jiao Junyan looked at her watch: "Isn't that true? It's less than 9 o'clock, and she's already halfway through~"
"For you, buns and soy milk~"
Zhang Xiaofei distributed the breakfast to everyone, and the three of them ate leisurely.
This has made the people around them suffer.
Zhang Xiaofei and the other two have a division of labor, some take up seats, and some buy breakfast.
But no one else.
In order to take a seat early, I came here with an empty stomach.
It was soon nine:30 and the auditorium was already crowded.
From time to time, you can see someone cursing without finding a seat.
Twisting in the auditorium~
Zhang Xiaofei looked around: "Do we, Beijing Electric, have so many people?"
Yuan Shanshan next to her immediately said, "How is that possible? I saw several familiar faces from the Central Academy of Drama next door~"
Jiao Junyan was beside him, looking at the crowd in Wuyang and stuck out his tongue, "Fortunately we came early today~"
When it was nearly ten o'clock, Zhang Chen finally entered the auditorium with a group of school leaders.
The noisy voices were quiet.
The school leaders took their seats, and Zhang Chen took the microphone to the podium.
Looking at the dense crowd below, he had long been accustomed to such a scene.
"I thought I was on a roadshow when I saw so many people~"
Zhang Chen started speaking, and a low laugh came from below.
"The school wants me to give another speech to my juniors before the holiday. It happened that "Painted Skin" was also drawn during this period. Just as I had time, I came here.
By the way, have you all watched "Painted Skin"? ”
"Look~"
Seeing the continuous nodding below, Zhang Chen nodded with relief.
"The school leaders want me to tell you about the production and promotion of 300 million movies, but I don't want to talk about this today. I want to talk about science fiction movies with you. Just so happened that I brought a movie "The Moon". Everyone watch the movie first, and then talk about it after watching~"
After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he stepped down.
The light in the auditorium dimmed, and the factory logo of Star Entertainment appeared on the curtain. Earth's energy crisis~
Yueneng Industry~
Helium-3~
Sam ~
Clones No. 5 ~
Clones No. 6 ~
Countless clones ~
The dormant warehouse is an incinerator~
An hour and a half passed quickly, and when the lights in the auditorium lights turned on again, many people had not yet come out of the plot of the movie.
It was not until Zhang Chen reappeared on the podium with a microphone that people's minds came back to life.
"This movie is called "Moon", which is a soft science fiction I made. What do you think?"
"Very alternative~"
“It was very good to take a photo~”
“The style is strange~”
There are all kinds of chattering below.
Zhang Chen did not continue to say it, but said, "Since I announced that I would develop Pacific Rim, people have been saying in my ears that Chinese people cannot make science fiction movies, and the reason is very simple, because domestic special effects are not good...
Then, everyone also saw what special effects does "Moon" have? Is it a science fiction film? ”
Without waiting for an answer, Zhang Chen replied by himself: "Of course he is~"
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"Who said that there is no special effects to make a science fiction film?
"Moon" is a typical soft science fiction film, and it is the two completely opposite types to "Pacific Rim" which is about to be launched~"
"In the past, I always heard a saying that Orientals can't shoot science fiction, and Westerners can't shoot martial arts~
At first I thought it was a famous saying, but later I found out that Westerners began to shoot martial arts.
"The Matrix" incorporates many oriental kung fu elements. They even used instruments to record the movement characteristics of martial arts actors~
In other words, in the future, Hollywood can make martial arts movies at will~
Then why can't we shoot science fiction?
I admit that the threshold for science fiction movies is indeed relatively high, but we look at it completely based on our own situation.
If you have money, then you can do hard science fiction, like "Pacific Rim", you can sharpen your sword a year;
If you don’t have money, then work hard on the story and setting to create a soft science fiction like "The Moon"~
"Moon" has no special effects, it is not full of science fiction~"
"We won't talk about "The Moon" today. What I really want to talk about is the film industry, or heavy industry movies!"
"You are all studying movies, so many people should know the history of Hollywood and the history of Hong Kong.
There was a time in Hollywood that the TV industry had a huge impact on the film industry, and no one watched the movies.
What survived later?
Depend on blockbusters!
Heavy industry movie blockbuster!
"Star Wars"!
"Jurassic Park"!
It's about the same in Hong Kong.
It is known as Oriental Hollywood, but it declined later.
Everyone says that the decline of the Hong Kong film market is due to the loss of support from the Taiwan market.
Then why did they lose the support of the Taiwan market?
I once talked about this in detail with Mr. Zou Wenhuai from Jiahe. In addition to doing it myself, there is another reason because theaters have begun to play Hollywood movies.
You know, at first, Taiwanese theaters did not broadcast Hollywood movies.
Hong Kong movies dominate there.
Later, Hong Kong filmmakers committed suicide and cheated money from all kinds of films. Taiwanese theaters could not stand it, so they introduced Hollywood movies to play.
Then he was defeated by Jurassic Park.
Hong Kong was very good at following the trend at that time, and it was hot and following the trend.
"007" became popular, and immediately created "Best Partner" and "The First Blood" became popular, so I will create "Oriental Vulture" here...
Then they found that they couldn't follow Jurassic Park, and they couldn't copy them even if they were...
This is the heavy industry movie.
It is closely related to your industrial capabilities.
The industrial ability is not enough, and you can't even make good movies.
Why do domestic films shout, "Wolf is here, wolf is here" every time they are released?
Because it's impossible to beat.
You can shoot love, and others can also shoot~
People can’t take photos of dinosaurs~
People can’t take photos of aliens~
If this continues, domestic audiences will become dependent and think that foreign movies are good.
I don’t believe that Europe is now our lesson.
Is their movie not strong?
Good movies are born every year.
But like us, we can't beat Hollywood.
To put it bluntly, movies are the art of dream creation, and Hollywood can satisfy all your dreams~”
“Let’s talk about our country:
When I was a child, cinemas were once depressed and video halls, and I felt that the entire industry was about to end.
At that time, Feng Xiaogang's New Year films supported the sky, at least allowing the cinema to open.
Then Zhang Yimou's "Hero" opened the era of blockbusters.
But "Hero" is not an industrial film.
He is more like a work supported by Zhang Yimou with his strong personal appeal.
The so-called industrial film must have a complete industrial system.
It is a whole production process.
Instead of relying on the personal appeal of the director or actor.
If a country wants to become a strong country, it must develop industry, and so is film.
Internationally, Chinese films are not weak.
Every year, some people think we are a big film country.
But the country’s demand for us is to be a film power.
Why actively promote blockbuster film strategies is to make the industrialization of films formal as soon as possible.
Complete industrial upgrading!
We have advantages in this regard.
We are the only country in the world with a complete range of industrial categories.
In other words, we are most likely to catch up with Hollywood in terms of film industrialization.
Since the "First Five-Year Plan" period, China has firmly embarked on the journey of building a complete industrial system, and has achieved many brilliant achievements that have attracted worldwide attention after decades of development.
There is also a film industry in Europe, but they are mainly drama and comedy;
This kind of film has no power to fight back against large-scale commercial films in Hollywood.
To put it bluntly, everyone wants to see what they have never seen before.
What have you never seen before?
Aliens invade the earth ~
Robots fight each other ~
This is a dream, a dream created by a movie~
The future development direction of movies will definitely be big investments and big special effects.
Top commercial blockbusters with high concepts, high technology and high investment will sweep the world~
The future is the world of visual effects blockbusters~”
What Zhang Chen said was entirely from the insights of later generations.
At this point in time, if anyone has the clearest understanding of the future, it must be him.
The next ten years will be a decade of rapid development of visual effects blockbusters.
"Avatar" and "2012", to the Marvel series in the future~
Speaking of "Avatar", we have to talk about the God of Card.
The God of Card is really a great man. He is obviously a truck driver. He can make his dreams into classics when he makes a movie for the first time.
The big ship behind didn't feel anything, and became the king of the world.
Everyone seems to be just using his set.
"Avatar" has promoted the development of 3D movies around the world with its own strength.
In the decade after Avatar, 3D cinemas around the world have been building crazily, and almost all blockbusters have 3D versions.
But this is actually the wrong direction.
After watching it for ten years, no one will make 3D movies again?
(This chapter ends)