my time as a director

"The film industry has become a bit unfamiliar to me. What kind of films are they now?" Guo Fan said.

"What's wrong with the movie now?" Everyone was even more surprised.

Li Qian smiled, "Old Guo is right, the past two years have been special years for the film industry, although there has been no change at the top of the box office, the entire industry has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Especially this year, films with over 3 million box office such as "Where's Dad?" The backbone of the market, except for "Wolf Warrior" and "Beijing No. 81", is almost the same.

Baking tricks, TV remakes, remakes, and the other "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", which broke a billion dollars, was also a remake, and it was surprisingly bad.

The emergence of these "new forces", coupled with Wu Yusen and Jiang Wen's continuous attacks on the street, especially Jiang Wen, who has high hopes from the industry and the audience, has exceeded everyone's expectations this time. The great directors are almost wiped out.

The industry seems to have changed suddenly, and it is these remakes, adaptations, and films directed by cross-industry, which account for 80% of the market's backbone. "

This......

Hearing what Li Qian said, everyone was a little stunned.

They are in China, watching the changes in the industry every day, but they don't feel anything.

It's like a child, if you look at him every day, you won't find obvious changes, but if you only see him once in two years, when you see him again, you will feel that this child has grown up too fast.

After thinking about it, it seems that this is really the case? The industry has changed too much? Especially the top ten domestic films at the annual box office, most of them are remakes.

And those familiar directors in the past? All disappeared? Even those big-name actors appear less and less frequently in the top ten movies at the box office.

"We can't do what Director Li does? A movie is released repeatedly every year." Xu Zheng smiled wryly.

How many of them this year, except for Wu Jing? Not a single movie was released.

The script for the sequel of "囧囧" hasn't come out yet? "Detective Chinatown" will be released during the Spring Festival, and "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" will be released next summer. Zhou Xingchi's script for the sequel to "The Truman Show" has not yet been released. It's finished and I haven't done the post-production yet.

Two to three years, three to four years to make a movie? Is this the normal frequency? Even this is considered fast, after all, you need a suitable script, if you don’t have one, you can create it yourself, it takes time to get inspiration.

Li Qian shook his head, "It's not just that you didn't release the film? Maybe you didn't realize it, but the creative community and audience have changed.

There are more and more audiences? Economic conditions have improved, coupled with long-term movie-watching habits? Watching movies is just an ordinary entertainment activity. As long as there is a little entertainment, audiences are willing to spend money to enter the cinema? The audience is not so high Require.

Seeing that money is so easy to make? So driven by profit? More and more unprofessional directors are involved. In order to make money, they must cater to the tastes of the public, and they can shoot whatever they like to watch.

It’s like a youth movie, it’s a very simple thing, find a girl who feels like first love, find a boy who is a bit naughty, and then arrange secret love, open love, love triangle, skipping class, and fights, it’s best to add some nostalgia, For example, the skating rink and the like are euphemistically called youth, and young audiences and elderly audiences all eat this.

After discovering that it is so easy for others to make money, more and more people will follow suit. Those films that have already been approved, such as the "Pancake Man" that the big friend who makes a mini-series is doing.

The sequels of "Slaying the Wolf" and "Omen Style" have all been filmed,

"Why Shengxiaomo", "Let's Get Married", and "Rushing to the Sky" are film versions of popular TV series.

"Never Expected", a very popular short drama on the Internet, has also been made into a movie, and it is still about Journey to the West.

Even the variety show "Where's Dad?" is also making a sequel.

Not to mention youth films, there will be a lot of films released next year, and there will definitely be good films among these films, but 80% of them will be bad films, and they will be bad films that can make money.

Follow the trend, you can make money by making a bad movie, who would put in effort to make original and good movies, after all, most of them are just to make money, and there is no ideal. "

Li Qian's words made everyone who was supposed to welcome Guo Fan happily look a little serious.

Although they also want to make money, they basically have ideals.

Needless to say, Guo Fan, as soon as he graduated, he gave up his legal major and went to do odd jobs for other people's crews to do art.

Qi Yukun devoted himself to making his films reflecting realistic themes. He went to coal mines and rural areas to find materials for more than a year, and never touched commercial films.

Su Lun dropped out of a key university in order to run errands for the crew in his freshman year. Bei Piao re-entered the Chinese opera exams for several years. An invitation to a romance film.

The sequel of Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior" will feature Chinese superheroes, with a more powerful protagonist than the first one, but I just can't stand some people on the Internet.

Wen Muye is also idle, without a good book, other film companies will not be able to hire him no matter how high the salary is.

Ning Hao's family is quite rich. His father used to be a worker. He gave up his salary and iron rice bowl and went into business.

When he was 20 years old, his father gave him 40 yuan to start a business in Taiyuan, but Ning Hao came to Beijing with only 2000 yuan to pursue his dream.

At first he wanted to be a painter. He had studied painting for ten years before, but he was weak in the physical examination in the Academy of Fine Arts exam.

In despair, I accompanied my friends to take the Beijing Normal University exam, but I passed the exam myself, and then made a living by filming MTV, just to make money, not ideal.

However, after his graduation work "Thursday, Wednesday" won the award, he began to feel that he could be a director, which became his new ideal.

If he can't be a good director, he will go back to inherit his father's family property.

In the beginning, he was a literary film director. The reason why he abandoned literary films was because when he traveled around the world with these literary works, he became suspicious of the dozen or so blond foreigners sitting in the audience. .

Whether these people can really understand Huaguo's literary films, whether they can really understand what the director wants to express, whether it is valuable to make movies for these people, so I chose to make commercial films that most audiences can see.

Xu Zheng also has ideals. Sometimes he feels that he is a literary youth, and sometimes he suspects that he is a literary youth pretending to follow the crowd, but sometimes he suspects that he is wrong in his suspicions. In fact, he is a literary youth.

The sequel script of "Lost in Thailand" is full of literary taste, even the protagonist was a literary youth when he was young. This can also be said to be his ideal. The original purpose of filming what he wants to film is not only for money.

They are all directors with ideals. Although they are not all so tall, they don’t have any dedication to the industry, throw their heads and blood, and want to make money, but at least they really want to make movies, as a career, not as a tool to make money.

At least for now!

Serious film directors, they don't want to see the industry gradually become like what Li Qian said, the blockbuster films keep breaking through the lower limit, after all, there are two directions.

However, more and more people come to "pick up money", and they are also helpless.

"But, what can we really do, and we can't stop those who come to collect money." Ning Hao said.

"Boss, when "Little Times" was released last year, you also publicly said that no matter what kind of movie it is, it must be of high quality, but no one listened to it, so what should be done or what should be done." Qi Yukun said with emotion.

"That's right, people who just want to make money don't care so much." Xu Zheng continued, "As long as you taste the sweetness, capital can do anything. The previous movie "Where's Dad?" was a big box office hit, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV not only released a sequel, but also plans to launch a big movie of "Running Man", there is no bottom line at all."

Wen Muye pushed down his glasses and said seriously, "It's not in the film industry, of course there is no bottom line, these capitals don't care about the life and death of the industry."

After speaking, he looked at Li Qian, "Boss, what do you think?"

Others also looked at Li Qian.

Li Qian shook his head, "There is no way, the industry is too big now, the entertainment is getting stronger and stronger, we can't control its direction.

However, the only thing we can do is, if we have the ability to make money standing up, we should not bend down and kneel on the ground shamelessly.

Make some good movies so that audiences still have good movies to watch, so that the lower limit of aesthetics will not be slowly lowered by this bad movie. As long as there is a comparison of good movies, audiences can at least distinguish between good and bad. "

Ning Hao sighed, "I kind of agree with what Ma Xiaogang said. There are more and more bad movies in China, which is caused by the lower appreciation level of the audience."

"That said, it really makes sense."