China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

"Director Chen Kaige is the leader of China's fifth generation of directors. His films are beautiful and sublime artistic masterpieces. This "Search" is Chen Kaige's second attempt at realism ten years after "With You" s work."

"The film is very relevant to today's real life. Topics such as personal privacy, head searches, media violence, and mistresses taking advantage of others are all reflected in the film, without losing the consistent humanistic sentiments of director Chen Kaige."

"Director Chen Kaige has always reflected on Chinese society and culture in his films."

Chen Kaige put down the newspaper in his hand with satisfaction.

Although Chen Kaige's works have been ignored in the market since "The Promise", there are only a few good works, and even a few works have been criticized a lot; but as long as a similar work comes out, the circle will be full of praises .

Yes, the first people to express their views were some seniors in the industry. They really praised "Search" without hesitation.

Many old professors from Nortel have spoken out:
"This is a work in which Chen Kaige has found a clear direction. From it, we can see some obvious attempts and progress. This film brings a lot of thinking to people. It no longer criticizes the ugliness of human nature in depth, but focuses on many aspects. It is a real social phenomenon, a social phenomenon happening right in front of our eyes, which is very good. China needs Chen Kaige and such profound and meaningful works as "Search"."

It can only be said that Chen Kaige's status in the circle and public influence are huge.

No way, who made his first three films "Yellow Earth", "Military Parade" and "King of Children" too brilliant? These three works have different themes and are each breakthrough. Therefore, once they were filmed, they established the He has established his important position as a representative director of the fifth generation.

Coupled with "Farewell My Concubine" which directly made his name, Chen Kaige has become one of the most representative Chinese filmmakers.

Of course, when talking about his status in the circle, his family background is also an indispensable part to be mentioned.

So as long as he has a good work, there will be many people in the circle who will support him sincerely, and many of them are from associations and institutions. These are the connections between him and his father.

In addition, many media are also following the trend and promoting "Search", but with such a scale, no one would believe the news if it was not bought by the producer or distributor.

Chen Kaige read the reviews on the computer for a while, and after confirming that there was no problem with the movie's reputation, he sighed quietly. Although "Search" did well, with a box office of 4200 million in the first three days in the first weekend, he still felt unsatisfied. You know , his set goal is He Hua's "One Day Tour of Sweet Dreams".

But there is no way. Although there are no imported blockbusters to steal the limelight during the same period, there is a "Painted Skin 2" that stirs up trouble.

"Zootopia" is not the same as their audience, so it is not considered among their competitors for the time being.

Completely different from the dismal box office performance of domestic films in the first half of this year, at the beginning of the second half of the year, "Painted Skin 2" gave countless people a surprise/scare, first achieving the highest single-day box office of 9000 million yuan, and then again on the 16th day of its release. Reaching 6 million yuan, it directly became the most popular film this summer.

This directly affected the box office performance of "Search".

Strangely enough, unlike "囧囧" at the beginning of the year, which had an unprecedented unanimous influence on public opinion, "Painted Skin II" is a film that has generated obvious controversy.

In the three weeks since its release, audiences and critics have not received a very good response from the film, generally pointing out its hollow plot, pale dialogue, and character designs that are obviously imitations of Hollywood.

The implication is that this is just an unsatisfactory movie, and its level is only just passing, far from excellent.

However, it is such a movie that can only be evaluated as unsatisfactory, but it has created such excellent box office results. This is surprising, and it is difficult to understand the high box office figures.

Even the film's main creators, like Chen Kun and Wu Ershan, bluntly said when talking about the hot box office numbers that "it did exceed expectations."

He Hua, Zhang Yimou, Zhao Xiaoding and others will also talk about these issues when they have free time. After all, the most basic thing for a good director is to have enough film viewing.

"Director Kai Ge is still capable, as long as he comes across a good script and doesn't act too casually."

Lao Mouzi raised his eyes and looked at He Hua, making sure that his words did not imply his own meaning before speaking:
"There is no way. What the director wants to do cannot be comprehensive. Sometimes we think it is a good story and a very special expression in our own minds. In fact, our subconscious is serving the camera. In fact, the story alone is very average."

“We don’t realize it ourselves, so this or that work appears.”

When Lao Mouzi said this, he was actually explaining Chen Kaige's previous works.

The two of them can be said to be the 'unparalleled twins' of the fifth generation, especially since they are still classmates, former comrades in the trenches, and long-term bright spots in the eyes of others, so they understand each other better than many of the people close to them. The other party naturally understood the problems Chen Kaige went through when creating.

He also has this problem himself:

Like his most popular works "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", "Raise the Red Lantern", "Red Sorghum", "To Live", and "No One Left Behind", these works have the blessing of original works and screenwriters. A wild dance within the frame.

However, later works such as "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers", "A City of Golden Armor" and other works that he participated in the screenwriting and creation were often criticized for poor storytelling.

But he is better than Chen Kaige, because he comes from a humble background, and his works are relatively down-to-earth, unlike Chen Kaige, who just floats in the air and does metaphysical things all day long.

"Well, he chose this theme quite well, 'cyber violence', where a large number of people who don't know the truth are coerced and harmed blindly. The "Hunting" I saw at Cannes was too dark."

In fact, the concepts of the two films are quite close, so He Hua quickly remembered and compared the two films.

Lao Mouzi also had the same opinion: "The review standards must be carefully grasped."

The main topics discussed by several people were Chen Kaige and "Search". As for Wuershan's "Painted Skin 2", only Lao Mouzi, who was also an artist, commented on Wuershan:

"The style is a bit confusing, but he is a very smart director. He knows what he wants, and he will do something great."

He Hua's evaluation is that "he is very suitable to be a large-scale production director."

At least he has heard from others that Wuershan's crew is somewhat similar to them. They hold frequent production meetings before the filming of the movie, and make sufficient preparations. The concept design and shot scripts are all ready. When they arrive at the scene, the filming crew will use this Come and shoot.

Oh, by the way, he also likes to use computer stunts to turn some shooting scenes into three-dimensional dynamic pictures, which suits He Hua very much.

I just heard that this person has some ideological problems. He has the elitist arrogance of Chen Kaige and the prejudice against the country and the nation influenced by Western public opinion. This is very problematic. Anyway, the internal evaluation of him at Youhua is The risk is extremely high, and cooperation is not recommended. He is several levels higher than Xu Zheng.

In addition, I can only say that "Painted Skin 2" has such a high box office

“Propaganda is mature”

“The domestic film market has very strong demand.”

"There are no tigers in the mountains, but monkeys are kings"

Because they really can't understand the 'beauty' of "Painted Skin 2".

Comparing it with "Painted Skin" directed by Chen Jiashang, I really don't need to say anything about aesthetics, everything is self-explanatory.

For this summer vacation of 2012, if you want to select the most popular actress, you will have more choices:

For example, the two leading actors in "Painted Skin 2", Zhou Xun and Zhao V, were commented by the media as the best double heroine pairing in China;
Or Gao Yuanyuan, whose beauty makes countless men turn into "uniform control" directly on the spot. Even Director Chen can ignore his wife and turn the movie into her personal fashion portrait.

Or Liu Yifei, a photo of her entering and exiting the hospital caused a stir on the Internet. Netizens came up with one after another bloody stories about the marital disputes of modern wealthy families. Many actresses who married into wealthy families such as Huang Yi, Wang Yan, Li Jiaxin, Da S and so on were therefore put on the spot.

But to say that it is the most topical and popular one, it must be Yang Mi.Because in addition to "Search", she starred in several relatively high-profile movies in the summer season, and she was the main focus of the announcement.

Although she was only the third female lead in "Painted Skin 2" and her role was just a little bird, she played a major role in the promotion and followed Fei Xiang throughout the whole process.

Not to mention her starring roles in "Four Famous Catchers" and "Wu-Tang".

He Hua heard from Li Ying that this girl basically didn't go home now. She was either in transition or on her way to transition.

Thinking about the news on the web, there is always one name that appears in the eyes, and the popularity is not high.

Netizens also gave Yang Mi a nickname: "Model Worker in the Entertainment Industry."

Liu Yifei sincerely admires her best friend.

He Hua smiled and commented: "You are less ambitious and competitive than her, otherwise you would become like her."

Liu Yifei pouted at that time: "Then which version of me do you like?"

"Of course I like you in uniform."

"roll."

"Would you like to try it? I haven't used the Hai N Air uniform yet. Let's give it a try."

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Of course, topicality and popularity do not represent her popularity. Throughout the summer, her reputation was always hovering on the passing line.

In "Painted Skin 2", her character Que'er begins a fresh romance with Feng Shaofeng, the successor of the demon hunter. Everyone's evaluation of her is pretty good. Overall, there are more praises than criticisms, and she is above the passing mark.

The ruthlessness in "Four Famous Catchers" is highly polarized, with both curses and praises coexisting. I can only say that the performance is acceptable, and it is on the passing line.

When it came to "Wu-Tang", the review was too bad.

First of all, the movie itself is not good to watch. The plot is unintentional and vulgar. Her performance in it is also average, and her actions are just fancy and frivolous, which is not interesting at all.

And it may be that Yang Mi's recent appearance rate is too high, which has aroused the audience's disgust.

The result is that this movie directly destroyed the little reputation accumulated by the first two movies.

However, her commercial value has increased a lot. Li Ying bluntly said that this girl has a tendency to follow Fan Bingbing's class.

He Hua thought about the Forbes Celebrity List’s evaluation of Fan Bingbing: “The focus of the red carpet, the darling of endorsements, and the commercial value is rising steadily” and “annual income is 1.01 million.”

The two are indeed somewhat similar now.

But he still said: "Let her pay attention. Don't accept any works. Reputation is still very important."

Li Ying agreed with her mouth, but she didn't agree in her heart. How many actresses could reach the level of Fan and Yang? Of course, the important thing now is to push her to take a step further. The market is king, let's talk about reputation.

And to be honest, it’s not like she hasn’t persuaded the Yang Mi Studio team to make choices in the past two years, but they didn’t listen and focused on grabbing resources, so there was nothing she could do.

People don't listen to good words and advice, and end up feeling disgusted with each other. Why bother?
It's better to follow their wishes and your company can make more money.

He Hua only reminded her because Yang Mi was his girlfriend, best friend, and an excellent employee. He actually didn't take these things to heart. He couldn't worry about his own affairs.

Today's shooting was particularly difficult. He Hua sat in front of the monitor a little irritably, waiting for the crew to return to their seats.

When they were ready he called start.

I saw Liu Yifei appearing in a space that looked like a hotel corridor. Her clothes were still the same as before, no change, except that there was an extra set of hospital surgical clothes outside.

She strode forward with gun in both hands.

The photographers, sound recordists and other staff immediately followed behind.

"stop"

This was not shouted by He Hua, but by the recording engineer Qi Rui who was following Liu Yifei.

After he finished shouting, he took off the headphones on his head and shouted in the direction of He Hua: "Director, no, there is still noise."

"I'm not deaf!"

Qi Rui immediately didn't dare to speak anymore, and everyone else at the scene was also silent.

Of course He Hua could hear it. In fact, when the noise appeared, he was so angry that he smashed the script in his hand on the monitor, but then he suppressed his anger and carefully distinguished the noise in the headphones.

After a long while, he was thoughtful. He raised his head and took the walkie-talkie to make arrangements: "Everyone, please take off your shoes. Field manager, go find plastic bags and put them on them."

I tried it this time, and it turned out to be much better than before, but it still had some effects.

But they had found the direction, and the next step was easy to deal with. He Hua immediately arranged for someone to change the carpet, and emphasized "noise reduction."

Now this scene cannot be filmed, so we can only wait for the scene to be re-decorated.

Liu Lu also got up immediately and ran to arrange the next scene.

An Zhijie and other men in suits soon appeared on the set.

Speaking of which, An Zhijie is quite miserable. There are only a few scenes in total, and most of them serve as background for the gangster Liang Jiahui. There are only two scenes where he can perform well:

One scene involves picking up Liu Yifei in the hotel lobby and taking her upstairs;
One scene was this 'finale scene', where Liu Yifei used her clairvoyance ability to shoot her to death with a gun while holding the door open. After opening the door, there was only a figure of him kneeling down and covering his neck.

That skill was not used at all.

Somewhat pitiful. (End of chapter)