This director needs to apologize

Chapter 81: The Confucian Confucianism Outlines and Leads
Chen Yiming finished his speech, and there was silence in the conference room.

Obviously, no one expected that Director Chen would actually say such words.

Even Ma Erye and Deputy Director Sun, who were familiar with him, did not hide the surprised expressions on their faces.

The second uncle thought to himself, why are you so honest?
I asked you to deal with it casually in tomorrow's seminar, and I didn't ask you to dig your heart out in today's internal audit meeting!

Or do you think that Lao Sun is a monkey and can help you with anything?
Professor Yu, who finally asked the question, broke the awkward silence and said to Chen Yiming with a smile.

"You, little comrade, are still saving face for me, do you think I can't tell? You are obviously using the present to mock the past!
There are always high and low ideological consciousness, so we must promote the high and criticize the low, so that individuals, collectives and even society can continue to move forward.

And that’s the value of a theme movie, isn’t it? "

Chen Yiming grinned and touched his head rather artificially.

"Professor Yu, you are right, so as the story line progresses, the protagonist also experiences transformation and growth under the influence of his comrades. After all, the time span of the movie is only more than 2 hours, and the progress in the script is already rapid. "

Lao Yu nodded at him with a smile on his face, "You little slippery boy, that's it, you pass."

Times are changing, people are changing, and there is no reason why the main theme remains unchanged. You just lowered the starting point a little and broadened the space for expression. It is not a principled mistake, so you might as well give it a try. "

Yu Yufei's affirmation relaxed the atmosphere in the conference room a lot, and the two bosses, Ma and Sun, breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Jian felt that there was too little emphasis on the commander of Position 589, his attitude was too business-like, and his lines did not show his regret for the sacrifice of his comrades and his concern for the two men who sent the order.

As for supporting roles, Chen Yiming can figure out the creative rules, and the theory of contrast is universal.

Chen Yiming said that the subsequent river-crossing crisis was resolved by the machine guns of Position 589. For this reason, they took the huge risk of exposing heavy firepower.

Reflecting the comradeship through actual actions should be more impressive than speaking lines directly.

Guiding the audience to reason and think on their own will certainly give the audience a better sense of experience than actors performing it directly.

Wang Shubin is an old man who shoots red themes, and his questions are much more pointed than Li Jian's.

His evaluation of the script was that it was "too restrained" and even "so restrained that it seemed deliberate."

He asked Chen Yiming what he thought of our soldiers, whether they were professional soldiers with no feelings or homeless people struggling in the war.
The comrades the protagonist met sacrificed their lives without hesitation in order to protect him, but the script did not give any motivation or foreshadowing.

In the final analysis, the script does not answer the key question of why our army won. Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?

Chen Yiming let go completely. Not only did he not change his face, but he applauded Lao Wang.

"Teacher Wang, your reaction and doubts are the ideal feedback from watching the movie in my mind, which shows that I am on the right track.

In your opinion, are there any distortions or discredits in the script’s portrayal of each soldier, their actions and words? "

Wang Shubin thought for a moment and replied hesitantly, "No."

"Then I want to ask, is the battlefield where one second is alive and one second dead, the place to explain the reasons and motivations?"

Wang Shubin didn't speak, just shook his head.

“Of course the character’s key choices must have motivations and foreshadowing, but they don’t necessarily have to be stated directly through lines.

I think the final film should be able to answer Mr. Wang’s questions. After all, the actors in the camera can reflect their inner emotions through their bodies and expressions. This is not something I can explain clearly with one-sided words.

Finally, I would like to say that after visiting the veteran hero Li Yucheng in the Tianma Mountain Battle, I began to truly understand the choices of our soldiers.

First they were soldiers who fulfilled their duties, then they were civilians who were dragged into the flames of war by nuts, and finally they were heroes who pledged themselves to their country.

This is a gradual cognitive process. Some of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who participated in the war were aware of it, some were not fully aware of it, some were not aware that they had sacrificed their lives, and some only realized it after returning home.

Teacher Wang asked me if I knew the reason for our army’s victory. My answer was that most of the soldiers in our army were aware of the third level, while most of the soldiers of the coalition army on the opposite side only stayed on the first level, and even the first level was not visible. Can't reach it.

Different perceptions determine different choices.

To clearly reflect this kind of cognitive change is not a task that "1951" can undertake in a mere two-hour movie. I can't bear it.

I will only faithfully restore the fragments of the battlefield and leave the cognitive process behind it to the audience.

Audiences with different cognitive levels will naturally have different perceptions.

There must be viewers like Mr. Wang who try to delve deeply into the characters' inner motivations.

The second-level audience will be impressed by the bravery and fearlessness of our soldiers.

As for viewers whose beliefs are wavering, they will question the film's deliberate beautification.

No matter which kind of perception, it can trigger a discussion about that period of history, and "1951" has achieved its purpose.

In fact, the protagonist in the story has only reached the second stage of ideological understanding by the end of the film.

But even so, compared to when he first received the mission, his growth was already obvious.

The protagonist is only 17 years old. He completed the mission, survived and gained growth. Although the movie did not continue, I believe that the audience can continue the future of the protagonist in their imagination. "

……

The internal review meeting lasted until 8 o'clock in the evening. Chen Yiming tried his best to fight with the crowd and tried to prevent the characters of several main characters from being greatly deleted or changed. However, modifications to some lines and details were inevitable after all.

The biggest victim is actually Teacher Hou Yong. He didn't have many scenes to begin with, but at least one-third of his lines were transferred to the political commissar of the regiment.

Another big difference is the ending of the movie.At the end of the debate, it still ended with Chen Yiming's compromise. He agreed to shoot another segment based on the original ending, slightly boosting the overall "blue" tone of the film.

Having agreed to submit a revised version of the script by next Wednesday, Chen and Ma declined Deputy Director Sun's dinner and went directly back to the hotel.

The smooth success of "Holiday in the City" made Chen Yiming ignore the biggest pain point for Chinese filmmakers, censorship.

Now in "1951", those who should be found cannot escape after all.

Looking at Chen Yiming sitting next to him in a daze, the second uncle chuckled and shook his head. He was still too young and tender!
"Stop your pretentiousness. The core and skeleton of the script have not been changed. These changes are definitely not big.

If the General Political Literary and Art Center had not come forward, but had followed the formal path of the Film Bureau's review committee, you might not have been able to get it even until the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China based on the subject matter of your script.

It takes two months to review and two months to respond. Every feedback is stuck on the last day of 60 days. Just wait. "

Chen Yiming came back to his senses and turned to look at the second uncle in surprise.

"How is it possible? I believe that Bo Jue's movie is treated like this, but "1951" is a movie by Mo Ying."

The second uncle sneered, "Tomorrow's film will be Di Ying's.

It's time for you to open your eyes and understand what it means: "When a warrior takes five steps with his sword, blood spills out; when a scholar moves his pen, blood spills out thousands of feet." "

The next day, Chen Yiming walked into the campus of Imperial Film Academy for the first time in his life.

He followed the second uncle and poked his head around to look around. He saw a few beautiful girls, but they were not so stunning that he was amazed.

After entering the conference room where the seminar was held, not even the scattered flowers and plants could be seen. The people sitting around the long table were either uncles or older men, which seemed particularly irritating for this young man.

He followed Ma Dong quietly and sat on the chairs in the outer circle, waiting quietly for the meeting to begin.

At 9:[-] in the morning, everyone who was supposed to come arrived. A member of the Film Bureau named Zhang stood up and made an opening statement. Next, it was Mr. Han's turn to speak.

For the first time, Chen Yiming saw the famous Han San from the Imperial Circle with his own eyes. He had a thin hair, a face that was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and a thin figure.

Looking at it coldly, the two horizontal stripes of flesh carry a certain gangster air, and they do have a sense of sight as a "mountain eagle".

His speech was very concise. He described the origin of the "Founding Ceremony" project in a few words. The key was to list several names of Zhengxie big guys who were paying attention to the project.

Chen Yiming covered his mouth and snickered. It seemed that Old Han also knew that today was the Hongmen Banquet, so he first gave out a long list of names to endorse himself. This was called pulling out the tiger's skin to bluff people.

Next is the plot summary. After listening to it, Chen Yiming found that there are still some differences compared with the "Founding of the Republic" in his previous life.

"The Founding of the Nation" has a wider scope, covering the entire war from negotiations to war to the founding of the nation.

The "Founding Ceremony" is more focused, focusing on the story of the last year before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Based on Chen Yiming's rough understanding of the history of this time and space, there are basically no extraordinary "magic changes" in "The Founding Ceremony". The only breakthrough is that the chairman and his son have become more heroic.

As for the people from the Panzhu faction in the middle, they are all background boards for the audience to count stars.

First, a former member of the Film Bureau's censorship committee raised questions, but the wording was quite conciliatory.

"This kind of image creation is too groundbreaking, and the audience will misunderstand it."

Han San defended, "Isn't it normal to be happy or angry as you please? I think this way of shaping is more in line with history and more in line with the audience's imagination."

His creative logic is actually the same as Chen Yiming's, which is to bring the inherent image of the main theme movie from the third floor to the second floor, making it a little more grounded.

It's just that his treatment was far worse than that of Chen Yiming yesterday. He was criticized by many experts from different angles, and later it even rose to the point where he was clearly praised but actually criticized.

The cute little Chen huddled in his chair and shivered. This was the first time in his two lives that he had seen this battle.

Experts found a lot of "flaws" in the script. Chen Yiming used his mobile phone as an old man on the subway throughout the whole process, as if he was in the world of Truman, and the three laws of mechanics were different.

For example, in one-sided exaggeration of the role of the Lord of Disciple faction, don’t you know that the Three Magic Weapons United Front ranks third?
Uncle, this movie is about the first Zhenghe Association meeting. If you don’t film the Master faction, then there is no need to film it.

After the debate, both sides became a little angry, and Han San's words that were not in the script were refuted with excerpts.

After Han San, the other main creators of "The Founding Ceremony", co-director Xin Jian, screenwriters Wang Ruidong and Du Qiming, were all called up to hang on the wall one by one.

Chen Yiming looked at the second uncle pitifully. The earth is too scary. Let's go back to Mars quickly.

The seminar lasted until 4 p.m., and it was finally the turn of "1951" to appear.

To Chen Yiming's surprise, after he carefully described the plot of the movie in the most concise terms, he was ignored.

Yes, completely ignore it.

Only the former committee member questioned his qualifications to direct, but Deputy Director Sun gave him a perfunctory explanation, and then he was let go.

Three or two experts pointed out several "omissions" in the script. The reason why they are said to be omissions rather than flaws is because they are completely innocuous and not half as sharp as Wang Shubin's question yesterday.

There was no need for Chen Yiming to stand up and explain. Deputy Director Sun dismissed the matter in a few words. The reason was that "that's what the historical records of the war are like" or "the description comes from the accounts of those who witnessed the battle."

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the member named Zhang still delivered a speech, and the seminar ended with victory, unity, and success.

According to his statement, the insights of the experts played an outlining and guiding role in the production of the [-]th anniversary tribute film.

(End of this chapter)