Chapter 381 Lao Chen was silent, and there was a vague figure of his father!

Chapter 381 Lao Chen was silent, and there was a vague figure of his father!

The days when I got the gold alarm clock can be said to be the most painful period for Brother Chen Kai.

If your ears are not quiet, your heart will not be quiet either!

While still working as a professor at the New York University Film School in the United States, he was most stimulated by the fact that he was not a professional and technical expert in the film and television industry.

But...money!

The year when Zhang Yimou won the award, he knew very well that Zhang Yimou could sell for a lot of money.

As for his "The King of Children", the filming of the film was painstaking and even tortuous. There was a problem with the camera in the middle. All 114 lenses were scrapped, and 300,000 yuan was wasted.

Three hundred thousand in 1987.

At that time, he almost burned his own heart and put it in.

Later, the case was overturned and the film's overseas copy went awry, making it the worst-produced film among Cannes' entries in more than 30 years.

At that time, Chen Kai had not experienced the feeling of failure for a long time. What happened after that was that he felt proud and proud. "Farewell My Concubine" washed away all the shame on his body and made him the most stubborn director in the film industry.

Because before this movie, his "Walking and Singing" had already been nominated for the Palme d'Or, but he just missed it.

From this perspective, for the director who won the Palme d'Or in China, he and Guan Ling are still about the same, except that Guan Ling has won more Best Actor and Best Actress than him.

The movie "Farewell My Concubine" was released in the mainland with a box office of 48 million yuan.

Sold for 30 million US dollars worldwide.

That was 1994.

So since then, Brother Chen Kai has paid special attention to box office data and the feeling of making money.

But it has to be said that although his box office performance after "Farewell My Concubine" did not meet his psychological expectations, no one, whether it was investors, actors, or other directors, was right in front of him. He said.

He is only suitable to be a photographer.

This sentence directly broke Brother Chen Kai's defense.

His mind was spinning, from being so high-spirited to now sitting in front of Guan Ling, it took sixteen years.

He experienced the unfinished ending of "Feng Yue",

He experienced the great failure of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin". At that time, he built the 27-hall Qin Palace, allowing Mel Gibson to Uncle Beaver gasped in shock.

This exterior set is bigger than Warner's entire studio.

With an investment of only 80 million, the box office sales were only 10 million, and this is still global. Mainland box office... 2 million.

He has also experienced ruthless abandonment by Hollywood, and also experienced the ridicule of the entire Internet for "The Promise". Although "Mei Lanfang" helped his reputation a little bit, he has never turned around.

People say that he followed the taste of the market, but failed to grasp the market.

Some people put a big label on him, saying that he is the most talented person in the Chinese film industry.

But he always had a strong desire in his heart to prove that he was not.

No one in the industry would say anything bad about him in front of him.

But today, Guan Ling tore off the mask on his face and the most fragile defense in his heart!

He is broken!

And he also knew very well that he did have a problem.

No matter what the box office of "The Orphan of Zhao" is this time, purely in terms of word of mouth, Brother Chen Kai has already made it very clear that people who criticize him on the Internet cannot be said to be trolls.

Many people praise him for the first half of his work, which is a masterpiece, and the second half, which is rubbish.

These words are not unreasonable.

Just like Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine", there are many rumors about the two of them. Even when "The Promise" collapsed, there were rumors that Lu Wei had reviewed "The Promise": Watch "The Promise" After ", I have full confidence in Chinese magical blockbusters. At one point I thought that was the starting point. I never imagined that that would be the end.

But in fact, only Chen Kai himself knows that after "Farewell My Concubine", as well as "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" and "The Promise", the two completely parted ways and never collaborated again.

Only for the script, Lu Wei put forward more than 20 opinions on "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin".

At that time, Jiang Wen also thought there was something wrong with the script.

But he turned a deaf ear and couldn't listen at all.

He also gave Lu Wei the script of "The Promise". Lu Wei told him countless times that the script was no good. He couldn't understand it. He also told Lu Wei countless times that this was a good script.

Is Reed a sunspot?

Is Jiang Wen a black man?

Brother Chen Kai knew it very well, but he never wanted to admit it.

But at this moment, Guan Ling pointed at his nose and squeezed the abscess in front of him!

......

"Director Guan, what do you think I should do?"

After the two of them were embarrassed for a few minutes, Brother Chen Kai didn't get angry or get up. , but sat there, raised his head and asked.

“If you don’t know how to read or make up a story, then just follow the script. Don’t add scenes, you just need to film the script according to the content of the script and your personal directing style. , everything comes first, you can still be saved.”

Guan Ling did not point his nose too much and added, "You always immerse your so-called sincerity in the cultural mission. You have great ambitions. You want to transcend history and seize some of you." The characteristics you want to illustrate, you plan to present your pattern in your movie, just like reciting poetry.

You plan to express your high level, but your lines are empty and your characters are scattered. And all this is because the audience is paying for you.

So you must fail.

It’s not because the audience and movie fans are not ambitious enough, and the ideas are not grand, but because you add more. There are too many dramas, too many secrets, but you don’t have the ability.

But you need a good screenwriter to give you a lighthouse, and you need a good producer. You don't seem to have noticed the path that guides you. Your only advantage is one.

Your lens language is very sophisticated.

Other than that, you are very good at it. . ”

…………

After Guan Ling finished speaking, Brother Chen Kai was stunned.

If the sentence he just said that he was only suitable to be a photographer made him swallow his breath, then with the series of words that followed, Brother Chen Kai suppressed his urge to take pictures of the table.

But Guan Ling's words are not over yet: "Actually, before you came, I also read many viewers' comments about you. You have many epic perspectives, but you can't shoot them at all.
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Brother Chen Kai has been silent.

Guan Ling's words gave him a wake-up call.

Brother Chen Kai was choked for a moment and didn't know how to reply at all.

After thinking about it for a moment, he was indeed like this. In just a few sentences, the other party actually summarized some of the most common elements in his movies.

Actually, he understood what Guan Ling said.

Although what the other party said was straightforward enough, the other party did not completely criticize his own thoughts.

In fact, there is a hidden judgment in the other party’s words!

self!

Form is greater than content. I am not willing to let go of my body and want to instill my own thoughts into the audience!

Brother Chen Kai admits these shortcomings.

Because he really always wanted to express his point of view.

Online netizens have actually been discussing for a long time whether "Farewell My Concubine" and "The Promise" were filmed by one person?

Some people say that his father acted as the gunman.

But no one knew that when the film was first given to him, he didn’t want to film it.

The producer Xu Feng at the time told him that although his story was not strong, the storytelling atmosphere was good, and the script was derived from popular novels, so everything was scripted.

The other party persuaded him for a full year, and told him that shooting things requires an audience.

Otherwise, no matter how good the photograph is, it will only be self-admiration.

It's better to take a video with a camera and watch it slowly when you go home.

At that time, his father also expressed the same view as the producer.

And he was not a big international director at that time, so he solved the problem. He filmed "Farewell My Concubine" exactly as planned, and it became a great success.

Since then, there has been no more successful work.

Occasionally, compared with Guan Ling, it is a big investment and a low box office return.

If Guan Ling is an absolute hot potato in the eyes of investors, he has become a piece of cake.

It is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away. Netizens ridiculed him, and investors seemed to no longer respect him as freely as before.

Of course Chen Kai feels these changes.

But that sentence

"Other than that, you are very good."

It still brought him to a complete shutdown.

......

"I understand the truth, but not many people dare to say that to me." Brother Chen Kai's mood was ups and downs at the moment, "My wife has never said that. "

He was stunned for a moment, "What's your opinion, Director Guan?"

"I think the best thing for you is to work for a film company and let specific people plan you. "You just have to make a good movie seriously."

Guan Ling extended an olive branch.

“Alternatively, you can set up your own company to invest, but you can’t use your own company’s people to handle screenwriters and producers. If you do your own thing, the movie box office will be completely ruined. Your profession, In terms of lens language. In other aspects, you are not professional.”

This is the best way Guan Ling can think of for Chen Kai to shoot a movie.

Brother Chen Kai is a good director, but he is only suitable to be a tool man.

"So, does Director Guan have any movies for me to shoot now?"

Brother Chen Kai suppressed his complicated mood. He is a tool, so he can bear it. As long as it makes a good movie, he accepts it.

“Yes.”

Guan Ling looked up at him with calm and indifferent eyes,

“To tell you the truth, I have so many movie scripts that I am worried. It’s impossible to take a picture!”

“Are you human?”

Brother Chen Kai was dumbfounded on the spot! Confused. In fact, for great directors like them, they have seen countless scripts.

When someone else said this, he just smiled.

But Guan Ling said to eat.

He really almost couldn't even breathe.

This is the winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay!

Brother Chen Kai could not help but breathe heavily.

“I heard before that when Cheng Long came to Lingyun Media for the first time, Director Guan used the script to stun him. Now it seems that what he said was true.”

“He is here. At that time, I took 10 films, but now he has only filmed three films. Not only can I not film it, but he can't act it either. "

Guan Ling's voice was extremely calm.

Brother Chen Kai raised his head in fear several times, almost cursing in his heart.

Can’t take a photo?

Can’t act?

"Are they all good scripts?" he asked a question.

"It will never be worse than "The Promise" and "The Orphan of Zhao"." Guan Ling's answer made Brother Chen Kai choke half to death.

My head is buzzing.

There was another long silence.

"Can I see the script?"

"Yes."

Guan Ling took out a script and gave it to Brother Chen Kai.

When he saw the name of the script, Brother Chen Kai was a little surprised.

"Along with the Gods: Crime and Punishment"

What script is this? A myth?

After watching it with a baffled mood, Brother Chen Kai became more and more excited.

This is a fantasy movie.

It's the same genre as another one his team was talking about before.

Just before "The Orphan of Zhao" was released, his team looked for a good story for him.

Based on the masterpiece "Kukai Kukai: The Ghost Banquet of the Tang Dynasty" by the master of Japanese fantasy literature Yumezhen Tapir.

The original author Mengzhen Tapir went to Xi'an alone for investigation when he was 30 years old, and then spent 15 years creating this magical novel. The story takes the protagonist Kukai, a Japanese monk who went to the Tang Dynasty to seek Buddhism, as the protagonist. A series of stories triggered by the death of Concubine Yang.

At first, he was planning to talk about this movie.

However, the huge scale of the production and the requirements for joint investment from China, Japan and the United States made Brother Chen Kai feel unsure.

Not to mention the news about the cooperation between Guan Ling and Zhang Yimou.

It completely stimulated him.

He envied Guan Ling's unbridled imagination and wild galloping.

The play was shelved.

And it was also because of fantasy movies, he didn’t think he could make them.

But this one is also a fantasy.

Guan Ling just mentioned his shortcomings, but for a movie like this, is it because of his ability?

Brother Chen Kai lowered his head to read the script.

There are laws in the underworld. All the dead must go through seven trials within 49 days after death.

They are in the prison of murder, the prison of laziness, the prison of deception, the prison of injustice, the prison of betrayal, and the prison of violence. It is carried out in prison and family prison.

Only the dead who have passed seven trials and been acquitted have a chance to get a new life.

"Reincarnation?"

This description gave Brother Chen Kai a vague feeling of watching Infernal Affairs, and a sense of alienation and absurdity.

He had never photographed anything of this type.

He loves real shots, not special effects.

Continue reading,

Fireman Li Zihong died trying to save a girl in a fire.

Hell messengers Jie Yuanmai and De Chun appeared in front of Li Zihong.

Although Li Zihong could not believe his death, De Chun told him with a serious face that he was both a dead person and a good person.

At the entrance to hell, Li Zihong met Jiang Lin, another messenger waiting for him at Chujunmen. He is in charge of the two envoys Jie Yuanmai and De Chun, and will also defend Zi Hong in the seven trials that Zi Li Hong is about to accept.

The more he looked at it, the more confused Chen Kai’s mind became.

He really didn’t know how Guan Ling came up with such an unconstrained thing.

It seems to be the underworld.

It seems not.

There seemed to be many Judges of Yama, but they were not exactly the same.

This made his curiosity rise to the top.

As he continued to look down, his breathing became heavier.

The hell of grinding stone for the crime of laziness,

The hell of fire for the crime of murder,

The hell of the abyss for the crime of violence,

The crime of lying The Tongue Pulling Hell,

The Mirror Hell that judges the sin of betrayal,

The Ice Hell that judges the sin of injustice,

The Fosha Hell that judges the sin of family relationship...

"By the way, if you want to film this script, I can be the producer. But you are not allowed to change a word of the script."

When he was reading the script, Guan Ling suddenly said something.

Brother Chen Kai, who was immersed in the world of the script, only heard the sentence of supervisor.

In a daze, he raised his head and thought he saw his father's figure.

Guan Ling's voice seemed to be echoing in his ears:

My child, go boldly, my father will help you!

(End of this chapter)