I Forged the Myth of the Old Ones

"It's a new movie."

Lu Jian didn't make a fool of himself, but got straight to the point.

Hearing this sentence, Bai Qiquan was taken aback for a moment, and then his first reaction was—is there going to be a bonus again?

"Boss, isn't your efficiency too fast?"

"That's right, you don't take a vacation at all, do you?"

"Boss, be nice to yourself, you are still young, you should enjoy life more!"

"Boss, I think we are already very good, so we don't need to work so hard!"

Instead, the employees persuaded Lu Jian not to be so anxious.

Bai Qiquan pondered for a while, and it seemed to be the reason.

Today Lu Jian can finish one movie in one and a half months, and tomorrow he can finish one movie in four weeks. With such continuous rotation, four or five movies a year are entirely possible.

These people, under normal circumstances, two movies a year are already very saturated, three movies are considered overtime, and four or five movies are simply squeezed!

Moreover, under normal circumstances, not every one of their post-production films has high requirements, and some simple tricks are enough. It is also common to go to work for one hour and chat for nine hours.

But Lu Jian's movies, not to mention world-class, are also highly anticipated, and there is no room for sloppy, which means that they must concentrate on their work.

Coupled with the subject matter of Lu Yi's movie, if he continues like this, he may retire in two years!

Those who have worked in the workplace know very well that if your colleague is involved in you, it is his fault, and the leader is oppressing you, but if the boss is more desperate than you, it will be really fatal.

"Don't worry, our film this time is a warm and healing literary film, and the work intensity is not high."

Lu Jian saw the worries of these people.

"Also, our goal is not to box office, but to win prizes."

"Award? What award?"

Bai Qiquan was puzzled.

"Win whatever prize you can get."

Lu Jian took out a piece of paper and glanced at it.

"Let's set a small goal first, which is the Palme d'Or in May this year..."

"???"

Several question marks appeared on the heads of those present.

"Boss, the Palme d'Or, is that the Palme d'Or?"

someone asked.

"Why do you put it on here?"

Lu Jian asked back, and then spoke.

"The Palme d'Or in May, the Golden Bear in June, and the Golden Lion in August, these three awards are the current priorities."

"..."

The employees present were speechless.

If Lu Lian was a newcomer, everyone would just laugh, thinking that Lu Lian was joking or arrogant.

However, Lu Yi is already a successful director.

His works have reached the top five box office in film history, and his commercial performance is already the first in China, and he is also well-known in the world.

These words seemed to have a little taste when they came out of his mouth.

"...boss, are you serious?"

Some employees asked tentatively.

"What did I lie to you for?"

Lu Jian felt strange.

"But, uh, boss, I think it's necessary to remind me that so far, no film has won these three awards at the same time, only two at most."

In the early years, the judges of the three major film festivals still communicated with each other. Sometimes, a very good film would be nominated for three film festivals, and although it was rare to win awards at two film festivals, it still existed.

Later, the three major film festivals gradually formed differences. In order to highlight the characteristics of the film festivals, the respective judges sometimes even deliberately avoided those works that won awards in other film festivals.

The grand slam that people mention the most is the grand slam of actors or directors. For example, there are actresses in China who have won awards at the three major film festivals with three films and become grand slams.

Therefore, anyone who has a little knowledge of the common sense of film festival judging will realize how outrageous Lu Yi's statement is.

Normally, at this time, you should start to question Lu Lian, thinking that Lu Lian opened his mouth and thought he was already inflated.

Many employees are indeed like this, the first reaction in their hearts is like this.

but.

But this is a land trip.

That Lu Jian who said he was at the top of the global box office for a month in a row really topped the box office for a month in a row.

He works miracles.

This time, maybe it can?

The employees suddenly became motivated again.

If this goal can be achieved.

No, don't talk about this goal, just to win an award at random, and I will be a famous person in film history.

People who devote themselves to the film industry more or less have the desire to make a film that will be famous in history and written in textbooks, but because of the pressure of life and the hardships of the industry, they can only waste time in the room.

Now, they must consider whether this is their only chance in this lifetime.

To be honest, this temptation is a bit big.

"Wait a minute, boss, May is the film festival, so we have to submit films at least by the end of March, and it's halfway through February now, isn't the time tight?"

Even if it is a literary film, it takes a long time to shoot. Rather, it is precisely because it is a literary film that the actors' acting skills are required to be higher. Every look is a play, and that's what I said.

Casting, script finalization, shooting, post-production, more than a month is not enough time.

It's impossible for Lu Jian to shoot an original film somewhere else during the more than a month when everyone is on vacation, right?

Everyone looked at each other and looked at Lu Jian at the same time.

No way?

"Let me show you some clips first, and grasp the tone."

Lu Jian didn't hide it either.

He asked everyone to go to the screening room, and then called up a short clip of Hedao's scenery and characters that he had randomly drawn before.

In the dark, Bai Qiquan saw the screen suddenly light up.

The spring breeze blows towards my face as if it is about to overflow the screen.

He saw the cherry blossoms falling.

===369. Warmth Heals Growth===

The clips are very short, just the sea, cherry blossoms, spring, and pedestrians.

There is no camera language, no plot, just pure pictures.

But it was this scene that made Bai Qiquan, who was in winter, feel the spring.

It is hard for him to imagine that this effect can be achieved only by relying on pictures.

Can really empathize.

This light, this water, this flower, no matter how many filters can compare, this is the purest spring.

What is a spring breeze like a mush!

However, what Bai Qiquan finds a little strange is that the local conditions and customs shown in this clip don't feel very domestic, but more like foreign countries, Southeast Asia or island countries.

At the beginning when Lu Juan talked about literary films, Bai Qiquan thought they were about urban life, and he hadn’t figured out how to connect them with the previous movies to become a part of the silent universe, but now a backward village and town by the seaside popped up. He understood some of Lu Jian's ideas, but didn't fully understand them.

"Director Lu, isn't this background a bit strange, isn't it an ancient costume?"

Someone asked the question that Bai Qiquan thought of.

Domestic movies are either modern cities or ancient historical fairy tales, and there are very few movies that shoot the style of other countries.

If "Magic Tide" used a different world background to meet the needs of Hollywood and global releases, then now, in order to win the awards at the three major film festivals, Lu Yi should have chosen a domestic background.

Domestic films have also won these awards. Most of the award-winning films show the domestic situation in the backward period of the last century, or they show the tragedy of the times, do they have a humanistic atmosphere, or they show that young people in modern society have lost their goals.

This is also one of the reasons why some domestic audiences feel that the judges of these film festivals have crooked buttocks.

Although those films are good enough, there is always a feeling that the judges favor them because of their poverty and hardship.

"It's not a problem to make a movie with a foreign background, as long as the artistic conception is in place, there is no problem."

Lu Jian didn't find it strange.

A director doesn't have to be limited to filming his hometown.

In the past, there was a movie with Oscars. European and American directors hired a few domestic actresses to film the story of the island country, with English dialogue throughout, and won several Oscars just for this.

A major international director should be able to control all styles in all regions.

"Boss, have all the filming of this movie been finished?"

Someone asked.

"Correct."

Lu Jian looked at the employees in the projection hall.

"In this movie, we focus on warmth, growth, and healing. We hope that the audience can feel love and hope from the movie."

he explained.