Coquettish Rebirth

Jia Hongjian's anger here is mainly caused by another problem, that is, Jiang Wen's over-persistence, in the eyes of many others, means dedication and earnestness, and others don't restrict Jiang Wen very much, at most they persuade him to pay attention to his body, but There is absolutely no way to force Jiang Wen not to work too tired!If the athletes are overtired during training, the coach must not force the athletes to rest?So Jiang Wen, who uses a lot of brains, should of course be limited to working hours!

Here, after Jia Hongjian trained Jiang Wen, Jiang Wen also knew that he was in the wrong—who told him to promise Jia Hongjian, but when Jia Hongjian was not around, he would just talk to the unattended children. In the same way, he started to let his temper go, and he also knew that he had a bad temper, otherwise he could easily give up according to his temper?

However, Jia Hongjian also had something to talk about here. After training Jiang Wen and telling everyone that he must keep an eye on Jiang Wen, the matter is over.After Jia Hongjian dragged Jiang Wen back to the dormitory, he expressed his idea of ​​"Tang Xuanzang's Magical Journey", and then asked Jiang Wen what he thought of it.

After Jiang Wen thought for a while, he spoke very sincerely and unpretentiously, but he didn't answer how to shoot, but instead asked Jia Hongjian a question, "Mr. Jia, you have to tell me whose this is first. The style of the play depends on who shoots it. Different people have different styles of filming. Some people want a gown, while others want a pair of trousers. What I think is not necessarily the same as what they think. It depends on who shoots it, and what kind of movie you want to make. For example, if it is for Zhang Yimou, then we can try our best to give him suggestions according to Lao Mouzi's direction. If this is He Ping's movie, then Follow his path..."

Hey!How could Jiang Wen, director of Wen Qing, still be so sensible?Why didn't this guy put his heart on himself? "Then if it's for you, how would you do it?" Jia Hongjian asked. "I shoot it? Then I have to figure out who I want to shoot this thing for. Do I want to shoot it for everyone, or for some specific people, do I want the market, or I want to win an award. In other words, If we want to show it to some people, such as all kinds of literary and artistic film lovers, such as film critics, then we have to make it more complicated. But this may not be popular with ordinary audiences... It’s like brewing A bottle of wine. It will definitely make non-drinkers stop paying. To make it acceptable to everyone, you have to make drinks and Coke, which can be suitable for all ages..."

Whoops!Jiang Wen has been working on such a cartoon for several years, not to mention that the director's skills are not good enough.But at least this head is sober.Do you even know how to position a film according to the market?No wonder Jiang Wen watched cartoons with his children in history.After watching it for a year, he felt that he could also make this kind of thing, and then he made a cartoon for adult audiences - "Let the Bullets Fly".In that film, he made it look good for ordinary audiences.A lot of jokes were added, and a lot of funny scenes were added to make the hidden story he wanted to express at least superficially happy, so that it became a "drink" that almost everyone could accept!

"Then how about making money while standing up, not being kitsch and making a lot of money at the box office, and winning prizes in the end?" Jia Hongjian asked Jiang Wen with interest.Jiang Wen lowered his head to ponder at this moment, then looked at Jia Hongjian, his eyes were full of sincerity, without any affectation, "Mr. Jia, then you are asking too much, I may not be able to do it, but I Let’s talk about it...then we should at least add some things on the surface of the film that can attract ordinary audiences, whether it’s special effects or jokes, in short, we need to add some clips that make audiences who watch movies without brains have fun. For example, when Bai Juyi wrote poems, he had to read them to the old woman. If the old woman could not understand, she would change them. If it was to be popular, it must not be too artistic in appearance. People who treat movies as entertainment have some fun."

Having said this, Jiang Wen paused, "Journey to the West is such a subject matter, it seems that it is not easy to add jokes... It must attract ordinary audiences, and it can also make everyone praise... If Mr. Jia, you are not afraid to spend money , we can find Hollywood to do special effects, similar to "Titanic" and "Jurassic Park", use that kind of visual shock to impress the audience, and make the audience feel that it is worth the money to go to the cinema at least! If you want to save As for Qian Xiaozhuo, then we may have to think of other ways to add highlights..."

Whoops!This Jiang Wen has a good brain!Thinking deeply enough!In this way, if you spend money on special effects, it will be a bit like a Hollywood blockbuster, right?Is there really the rush of "Youth Pie"?

"Then if you use Hollywood special effects, how do you plan to shoot?" Jia Hongjian continued to ask with great interest. "I... I might find a group of old actors who have just finished filming "Journey to the West" to come over and let them guide the audience into the play through the same characters as the characters in the TV series. This way, the adaptation will not be too big. The audience will subconsciously think that what we are shooting is to change the Journey to the West TV series into a movie! It means that we have added a lot of special effects, and the Journey to the West is the same as the blockbuster movie. After all, the actors and costumes are still the same as the TV series. Almost! Then, through such a story that looks similar to the original on the surface, we can add some tricks and clues into it, and then we can set up a second layer of story, which is the bloody story you mentioned, Mr. Jia. But what? , for those clues and techniques that paved the way for the second layer, we can leave logical loopholes again! Leave unreasonable places! In this way, the first layer of stories we can actually make is not true, And the second story may not be true... As for the third story, we will not tell, let them guess!" Jiang Wen said here, squinting his eyes and smiling wickedly!

wipe!As soon as Jiang Wen said it, there was a rush like "Let the Bullets Fly", right?Originally designed by Jia Hongjian, it was just a two-story story. As a result, Jiang Wen deliberately laid down the front line and made a few specious "disadvantages" to lure film critics into thinking that there will be more after this. There is a third story!In fact, Jiang Wen didn't have a third story at all. The so-called "third" story was a hole he dug!As for this trap, if you want to say it in your arms, it is deliberately cheating film critics.It is equivalent to the feeling when a writer writes an article, the article is compiled into the textbook, and then sees those foolish experts writing on the syllabus what is the author's mood and meaning when writing this sentence, that pure It is a kind of ridicule and mockery!But if you look at it from another good point of view, Jiang Wen's approach is to "leave blank", that is, to deliberately leave only the clues of the existence of the third story, but it does not describe the whole story, which just makes people feel vaguely. The third story, just like the blank space of the painting, is like the open ending of a movie game, which is left to the audience to guess and discuss!

Hearing this, Jia Hongjian had to say that this Jiang Wen really has directing skills - he went to act first and then became a director, but in the end, he has such a talent for directing!It can be said that after only a few plays, Jiang Wen found a way to be a good director by relying on his talent!It can be said that people walk a little casually, which is exactly in line with the direction that a good film director should do and learn!

However, Jia Hongjian felt something from Jiang Wen's description - in Jiang Wen's planning of this story and this movie, he subconsciously regarded the domestic audience as the audience group, such as this kind of Using the original crew and original story of Journey to the West to design the superficial story is aimed at domestic audiences!It is through this domestic audience's familiarity with the TV series Journey to the West that the effect of deceiving the world is achieved!On the other hand, Jiang Wen didn't consider the audience in North America!That's right!People in North America may not be familiar with Journey to the West!When people see the so-called original team, they may feel that they are not familiar with it, so the effect of this deception will be weakened a lot!From this point of view, it may also be a huge difference between Jiang Wen and Ang Lee - Ang Lee developed in Hollywood after all, so the films he makes try to be understandable by both Chinese and Western sides.As for Jiang Wen's side, since he was developed on the mainland side, he would naturally think of the audience on the mainland side first, and he would target the audience on the mainland side!

Comparing the "interview" results of the two directors Jiang Wen and Li An, Jia Hongjian is really satisfied with both directors.But the two have different advantages and different characteristics. Jiang Wen is more sophisticated than Li An in concealing the truth, and is more comfortable and "obscure" in the overall structure design.As for Ang Lee, he is more able to cater to the tastes of Western audiences as a whole, that is, if he can really do well, it must be a best-selling film that can be sold in both Chinese and Western countries, and Jia Hongjian can make a lot of money!As for Jiang Wen, Jia Hongjian may only be able to make a lot of money in the mainland, but Li Ando may not be able to make as much money in the United States!In the end, maybe a film like Jiang Wen’s would be more suitable to compete for the Oscar in the name of best foreign language film, and then Ang Lee might be able to use the name of Sino-US co-production and the English film’s Go to the Oscars in name!

So, who should you choose?Should he choose Jiang Wen, who is more sophisticated, or Ang Lee, who is more international?This is a happy trouble facing Jia Hongjian now!He has two good directors in his hands, but who to choose to make this film can actually become a trouble, which will let other investors know that they will definitely envy them and wake up from their dreams! (To be continued..)