The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 181: Changing skills into ways (updated since 1900)
Originally, when he heard Han Jiadong say that he wanted to cooperate with Dragon TV, Ren Zhonglun thought that Han Jiadong wanted to cooperate with Dragon TV in a TV series.

But then I thought about it, Han Jiadong's TV series have now become the hot cakes that major TV stations are competing for, why should I deliberately call myself and go around looking for Dragon TV to ask for cooperation?

Then I heard Han Jiadong say that he wanted to collaborate on a variety show.

Ren Zhonglun understood.

Variety shows are all independently produced by the television station itself. As an individual, Han Jiadong wants to have a piece of this cake, but the television station may not necessarily agree.

But if Shanghai Film Group is the producer to negotiate with TV stations, especially Dragon TV, which has a close relationship... Ren Zhonglun is at least 90% sure that the negotiation can be successful.

At the same time, it also solved the problem he was worrying about just now.

Before the special effects department was established, he was worried about how to solve Han Jiadong's staffing problem!
If this matter can be negotiated, wouldn't it be possible to give Han Jiadong a manager position and make him fully responsible for this cooperation with Dragon TV?
The only thing that needs to be worried about is the effectiveness of this variety show.

Although Han Jiadong has achieved success in the field of movies and TV series, variety shows and movies and TV series are completely different things.

There has been no precedent for cross-border success in this area in China before.

When they arrived at their destination, Shi Zheng was already waiting here in advance.

Lido.

After discussing some follow-up arrangements, Han Jiadong ended the call and returned to the lobby to celebrate Liu Yifei's birthday with everyone.

Don't mess around, just wait and see. Once the special effects department is established, it will naturally be under your control.

He silently took the luggage and led the way.

However, based on Han Jiadong's previous successful experience and his recognition of Han Jiadong's ability, Ren Zhonglun still chose to believe in Han Jiadong, and told Han Jiadong the company's arrangements, allowing Han Jiadong to make his own choice.

"Do you think we have a chance to win the prize this time?"

He is the best gangster film director in Hong Kong after Wu Yusen.

Han Jiadong asked him to take care of his mother for a while.

Han Jiadong asked Xu Qin to find someone to teach him some basic principles of bodyguarding.

Taking a deep breath and exhaling it slowly, Han Jiadong's expression returned to calm.

To be honest, among all the people paying attention to this issue, he himself is the one with the least confidence.

Typical thankless job.

Together with other judges, we watched the films on the shortlist.

Only he knows that the results he achieved in the past are all fake!

There are 21 films in total, which is not a heavy workload.

He has won the Academy Award for Best Director three times and the Golden Horse Award for Best Director once, which shows his strength.

Du Qifeng, who is a member of the jury of this Venice Film Festival, was invited here this time.

After his mother had the operation and rested for a while, Shi Zheng called Han Jiadong's number.

A sandbar located southeast of Venice.

It's not an exaggeration to say it's two movies.

But Han Jiadong agreed immediately after hearing this without hesitation.

Until this month, after his mother had recovered well, he finally couldn't sit still and went directly to the capital.

But with the domestic security situation and Han Jiadong's low profile, he really doesn't need any bodyguards.

Go to work on a variety show, and after it’s done, you still have to manage the special effects department.

And once the effect does not meet expectations, when the special effects department is established, there will be another setback.

If it doesn't work well, maybe even the management position in the special effects department will be lost.

Although there are many similarities in the plot with the original "Those Years", the things it wants to express, or the core of the two movies, are completely different.

After taking a short rest, Du Qifeng got back to work.

Others will have more or less certain expectations of him based on his previous achievements.

It’s all other people’s!
And now this "Those Years" is his first work in the true sense.

It is also the actual venue of the Venice Film Festival.

The style is dark, violent, dynamic, and fateful.

For example, at this time, when Shi Zheng saw this woman holding the boss's hand and wearing sunglasses and hat, but she was obviously not Tong Liya, Shi Zheng neither looked at her nor asked any questions.

After getting on the plane, when he saw Liu Yifei taking off her sunglasses to reveal her true face, he just pretended not to see it.

As soon as Liu Yifei sat down, she started chatting with Han Jiadong again.

"Who knows? Before the award is announced, anything is possible."

Representative works include "The Inquisitor", "Gunfire", "PTU", "Underworld"...

He drove Liu Yifei and her daughter to the airport.

Han Jiadong fell silent when asked.

It's about two o'clock in the afternoon.

Being able to pass the initial screening and be shortlisted means that the quality is also guaranteed.

It won't look boring, stuck in your throat, or sitting on pins and needles like watching a bad movie.

Most of the movies here are even enjoyable to watch and there's a lot to be learned from them.

For example, the first movie I watched was "The Hurt Locker," a war-themed film directed by Spielberg's ex-wife.

Although it is an American-themed movie, it can still be very touching.

It has the potential to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

Unfortunately, this is not the United States.

Anyway, Du Qifeng will not vote for it after reading it.

After a short rest and discussion, they started watching the next movie.

——"Ponyo on the Cliff"

An animated film directed by animation master Hayao Miyazaki.

The standard is still as high as ever. After reading it in one sitting, I felt like I was lying on the grass in the shade in midsummer, being gently blown by the cool breeze.

But compared to Hayao Miyazaki's peak works such as "Spirited Away" and "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", there is still a big gap.

Then I watched a few more, and finally saw a domestic movie.

——"The girl we chased together in those years"

The feeling of fatigue that Du Qifeng had just felt disappeared in an instant.

To be honest, he has already accumulated enough curiosity and interest in the name Han Jiadong.

Variable styles, unlimited themes, and disregard of cultural differences...

It seems that whatever you do, you can succeed wherever you go.

He was simply born to make movies.

"What kind of work will you bring this time?"

Du Qifeng pushed up his glasses.

Soon, the movie starts.

After seeing the first scene of the movie and combining it with the title of the movie, he already had an idea of ​​the movie's theme.

A youth movie?

It’s not easy to win awards in this genre.

"Sunny Days" is the only film in China that has won awards at three major awards.

Could it be that the success of "Boys Over Flowers" made him want to replicate the success of "Boys Over Flowers" in youth films?

Du Qifeng hoped that Han Jiadong could do it.

Although many of Han Jiadong's films have been successful around the world, "Interstellar" has earned more than 1.5 billion US dollars at the global box office.

But in terms of domestic films, even for Han Jiadong, only martial arts films can barely have a certain market in other countries and regions.

It is still difficult for other types to go abroad.

If this youth film can break this pattern, it will undoubtedly be an inspiration to domestic films.

But if it were such a commercial-focused film, it would obviously be impossible to win an award.

However, looking at the quality of this shot, it is obvious that Han Jiadong is not only satisfied with business, but also has considerable ambitions for awards.

Gu Changwei's photography skills have also improved greatly compared to those in "Farewell My Concubine"!

No wonder you can now gain a foothold in Hollywood.

Huh?
Why does the lens have a hazy feel?

Is it to express something?

"Sunny Day" also uses red, yellow, blue, and black and white tones, each with a different meaning.

What is this yellowish tone for?
Based on the previous plot, Du Qifeng temporarily gave a guess: adolescent desire?
If you are a new director, you may have some ideas.

But Han Jiadong is such a big director, and if he just expresses such a simple thing, it will be a bit unsightly. A movie like this should not be shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival.

Du Qifeng temporarily put away his speculations and continued to read patiently.

But soon he frowned again.

The heroine's acting was too deliberate.

It's obviously a concave shape on purpose. It's beautiful, but... points are deducted.

Is the use of this hazy shot to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
Such a low-level mistake, such a low-level method... Du Qifeng had to wonder if this film was shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival because he took a fancy to the market behind Han Jiadong and Han Jiadong's name, and wanted to use him to The film festival carries a sedan chair.

Du Qifeng adjusted his sitting posture and continued to look down.

The male protagonist's eyes are very dramatic, and his innate qualities are not inferior to Chaowei's.

The interaction between the male and female protagonists is also quite good, capturing the beauty and sweet-sour feeling of adolescence.

The plot of the male protagonist's counterattack against a poor student and his seemingly trying to chase the goddess is too unreal, almost like a dream.

Why does the male protagonist back down every time at the critical moment?

Aren't you very brave?

It’s a confession, I’m so anxious.

call! calm!

Being able to bring himself, as a judge, into the plot without even realizing it, Han Jiadong is able to achieve such an achievement because he really has two skills.

Seeing that the plot had entered the college stage, Du Qifeng calmed down and continued reading.

Queuing up to make a phone call...it really feels like an era!

The window paper between the male and female protagonists should be almost broken, right?
Tsk tsk! It's so childish to fight with people over trivial matters!
No, why did it fall apart out of nowhere?

You almost caught up with such a beautiful woman, and then gave up completely because of a little conflict?

What do you like? What about your contribution? What about your IQ?
Am I watching a science fiction movie?
It’s getting more and more incomprehensible to me. The male protagonist has not succeeded yet. How can a fat man pursue such a beautiful woman?

What does this lens mean again?
Huh? Why did it end?

There are still a lot of unresolved problems!

Anticlimactic?

It’s still this cliche ending, with the first love marrying an old and ugly man for money…

The previous plot is obviously so sci-fi, but in the end you try to sublimate it into something realistic?
It’s really both upright and upright!

Du Qifeng's impression of this movie has hit rock bottom.

But even so, he had to admit that the box office of this movie would definitely be impressive if it made him feel so involved, but he wanted to win an award... Haha!
Du Qifeng was about to take off his glasses and take a break when he suddenly realized that although the theme song was playing, the plot was still continuing as the wedding ended.

When a group of old classmates were playing basketball in suits, Fatty confessed that he was bragging after chasing Shen Jiayi.

Ke Jingteng was complaining about the groom's ugliness, while others were complaining about his aesthetics.

At the same time, it shows the groom in the eyes of others.

——Tall and handsome Huang Xiaoming.

Ke Jingteng was hit by a basketball while in a daze, and the film ended.

Also looking like he was hit was Du Qifeng.

Those dreamy shots that I had never understood in my mind finally made sense to me at this moment.

Fantasy is the male protagonist’s fantasy!
hiss~
The plot was so smooth that I didn't notice it at all. It actually included a lot of fantasies of the male protagonist!

What exactly is fantasy?
Have to watch it again to be sure.

Du Qifeng looked at the other judges, and sure enough, the other judges had similar reactions to him.

After final discussion, we unanimously decided to watch it again!
And this is the first of so many movies to be replayed today.

As the replay began, Du Qifeng quickly noticed details that he had not noticed the first time he watched it.

For example, Fatty's line on the way to the wedding: Bai Yueguang is awesome because even she herself can't do it!
When he first saw it, he just thought it was the fat man's self-comfort when he saw that the person he liked wanted to marry someone else.

But now I watch it again, and I find that this is reflected in countless places throughout the film.

After the accumulation and beautification of memory, it is true that even I cannot keep up with the white moonlight in my memory.

At first, he only thought that beauty was in the eye of the beholder.

Nowadays, I feel that the more I taste this sentence, the more it tastes.

There is also a line in the back where Ke Jingteng mocks Cao Guosheng: "The three major misconceptions in life are that I am handsome, she is looking at me, and she likes me."

Looking back now, is this not talking about the male protagonist himself?
Maybe Shen Jiayi just glanced at him accidentally, and he thought Shen Jiayi was paying attention to him.

Maybe Shen Jiayi just showed a little kindness to him, and he thought that Shen Jiayi was interested in him.

Those dreamlike scenes can be said to be the male protagonist’s fantasy, or they can be said to be the male protagonist’s delusion.

No wonder the two of them obviously like each other so much, but they never dare to pierce the window paper.

Because the heroine doesn't like the hero that much at all.

The two of them have never really been together.

Those picturesque scenes are all fantasy and illusion based on reality, far from being outrageous to the point of obscenity. Naturally, there will be no plot to chase the heroine.

No wonder it has no impact on the plot at all.

No wonder the two fell out so easily.

According to the character setting of the male protagonist in the film, he should have asked the female protagonist to apologize to him later, but the female protagonist didn’t like him that much, so naturally the redemption failed.

It just wasn't shown in the film.

The heroine's acting skills actually fooled me at first, and the male lead's skills are also very good...

Are all young mainland actors so good now?

Thinking of the current situation in Xiangjiang, Du Qifeng couldn't help but feel a little heavy.

After reading it for the second time, he finally found the answers to all the questions in his mind.

At the same time, I suddenly discovered a very shocking fact.

This movie seems to have created a brand new shooting technique!

There are obviously so many fantasy plots in the whole film, but it also seems more realistic.

Because adolescent boys and girls love to fantasize.

This movie just shows the fantasy part.

Normally realistic movies are often not pleasing to the eye.

This is also the reason why literary and artistic films often don’t do well at the box office.

But this movie, because of its fantasy plot, has strong commercial attributes.

There was also a plot in "Sunny Days" where Ma Xiaojun fantasized about raping Milan, but it was just a pure fantasy and could only be regarded as a show off of skills.

This movie turns "skill" into "tao"!
Fantasy serves art while also taking into account commercial attributes... It is simply a genius idea!

Art films have always had a difficult market, but this film pointed out a direction for art films. It is not an exaggeration to say that it invented a genre!
Du Qifeng thought about himself again.

Gambling movies are popular in Hong Kong, and he has actually always had the idea of ​​making a movie about quitting gambling. The core purpose is to publicize the dangers of gambling and make people quit gambling and stay away from gambling.

Naturally, this kind of movie cannot be as enjoyable as "God of Gamblers".

So I never found anyone willing to invest.

But now, he had one idea after another in his mind.

The male protagonist won a lot of money through gambling, despised his rotten wife, divorced her, drove beautiful women every day, and was followed by bodyguards when traveling, as if his life had reached its peak...

But all this is just that the male protagonist lost the bet and had a mental problem.

His wife didn't want to live with him, so she chose to divorce him, not that he didn't want his wife.

The people following him were not bodyguards, but debt collectors.

The early stages of the movie seem to be about counterattacks through gambling, with climaxes one after another and a sense of excitement comparable to "God of Gamblers".

It was later discovered that the male protagonist actually lost all his money from gambling, his wife and children were separated, and he even suffered from mental problems. It can be said that he ended up miserable...

To Qifeng conceived his new movie according to this new genre.

As he was thinking about it, he was suddenly startled again.

etc! New genre?

He thought about the Venice Film Festival's tendency in judging awards.

Compared with the Berlin Film Festival, which is more serious and focuses on films that focus on politics and society, the Cannes Film Festival focuses on the combination of art and business.

The Venice Film Festival is the most artistic and artistically innovative of the three major film festivals!
A movie that created a genre, and its quality is impeccable...

Gee!

Could it be that after the Golden Bear Award, Han Jiadong will get another Golden Lion Award?

(End of this chapter)