Coquettish Rebirth

After inviting the crew members to dinner, the crew members left one by one, leaving only Chris Nolan and his wife in Jia Hongjian's "new house". "Thank you for your hard work this time." Jia Hongjian said with a smile after clinking glasses with Nolan. "It's really hard work, and the real hard work is yet to come," Nolan said with a smile, "Mr. Jia, do you know that your story's linear logic is too strong, so I can't change it casually. Makes me very frustrated!"

"What? You still want to mess up the narrative line, and then talk a little bit here?" Jia Hongjian laughed.He has watched many films made by Nolan's later generations. What Nolan likes to play most is the disruption of various time and space and narrative lines.However, Nolan finally has a bit of conscience, so except for "Memory Fragments", which needs to concentrate on memorizing lines to match the front and back, the other films are basically useless for Jia Hongjian. No matter how smart you are, you can understand it after reading it all over again. It's better than Jia Hongjian who didn't understand "Mulholland Drive". Is it a good movie to understand twice?

From this point of view, Nolan is still a very conscientious young man.So, at this time, Jia Hongjian did not feel that Nolan wanted to change the narrative method so much. He thought that Nolan was just complaining half-jokingly. After all, his story was actually quite linear—on the surface On the surface, it seems that there is no problem with the reverse order of this story, but because his ending is designed to be an O'Henry-style ending.If this ending is revealed in advance, it will not be shocking at all!It can't cause all kinds of suspense like other endings released in advance!Therefore, the ending of such a story basically stipulates that even if the story is told in reverse order, everything must basically be narrated linearly!

Knowing this, Jia Hongjian smiled and said to Nolan half-jokingly: "If you can not weaken the shock of the ending, I allow you to disturb the rhythm of the narrative. Anyway, you are not ready to start editing and editing. Have you done any special effects? But first you have to prove that you can cut a good plot..." Jia Hongjian teased Nolan, he really wanted to see what tricks this young man could come up with.

But who knew that Nolan's eyes lit up instantly after hearing this! "Really?" "Really, as long as the plot you edited can convince me. As long as you can not reduce the shock of the plot..." Jia Hongjian was still talking.But who knew that Nolan directly interrupted Jia Hongjian: "Okay! I've already thought about it, we can extend the first scene of Tang Seng returning to your China, not only as a reverse sequence, but also to Make it into an interlude. Let the two time and space scenes be interspersed. For example, at the beginning, Tang Seng returned to the border gate of China alone with a beard. Then the person next to him asked him why he didn’t go in. He said that he was smuggled out 17 years ago. Yes, now I don't know if I will be caught if I go in... Then when he led the camel team to the gate of the city, the camera turned. He started to talk about how he was sent by his master 17 years ago as a Drifting servant, and then he was going to hide Such a process of going out of the city in the caravan... Then the camera changed again, and it changed to 17 years later, the soldiers found that Tang Monk had not passed the customs at all, so your Chinese soldiers surrounded him all of a sudden, suspicious He is a spy who came from the Western Regions and wanted to sneak into the city..."

Having said this, Nolan's nature suddenly came, "Then after he was caught, we continued to switch perspectives, saying that he encountered wolves in the desert and was surrounded. At the critical moment Our perspective changed again, and changed to him being thrown into a prison in the dark after 17 years, and then the local governor...or what to call it, anyway, it was the chief of your Chinese border post who came and asked Tang Seng questions, and then We cut out the scene described by Tang Seng, and converted it to a few tens of seconds of wolves, and then turned it back. The officer asked in surprise [You said you were saved by a monkey? A monkey?] Then we turn back to 17 years ago and show Monkey King with a frontal lens!"

What the hell!What Jia Hongjian heard at the time was a little silly!Why is this buddy...why did he say so many things all at once?And it's in order, as if it's been planned a long time ago?Did your sister really think about it a long time ago, and then she just waited for Jia Hongjian to nod and said it quickly?Is this a hole specially dug for Jia Hongjian?Jia Hongjian didn't bother about this kind of petty means that Nolan might have.He, Jia Hongjian, is a resultist. If the result is good for him, even if he digs a hole for him, then he won't care too much, especially now that he is still in power.As a high-ranking person, you always have to have a little stomach.

"You kid... didn't you think about it a long time ago? Did you want to change it according to your method, but you were afraid that I would not allow it, so you used the method just now to test my attitude?" Jia Hongjian asked with a smile road. "Hehe... Mr. Jia, you know that I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and I feel uncomfortable when I tell a story! But I can assure you that even if I show off my skills in different ways, the things I make will never Obscure and difficult to understand! I guarantee that the audience can understand it once! After all, our story itself does not have such things as amnesia, and I deliberately want to tell the story clearly so that the audience will not be confused. And We have made obvious differences in the characters before and after. The Tang Seng at the end of the story looks a lot darker and thinner, while the Tang Seng at the beginning is a bit fat. The audience directly understands that different shots represent different time periods..."

Should Nolan be allowed to do this?Jia Hongjian thought about it for a while, "So, you can use the nonlinear editing system to edit a raw film and show me the effect. If the effect is good, follow your method, and if the effect is not good, follow mine. "Jia Hongjian said so.He is now the owner of a film company, not a simple film creator.If you are the main creator, you may be quite disgusted with this kind of ostentatious skills-according to what we Chinese say, this kind of deliberate approach is a bit ingenious!Although Nolan can take care of the market more and ensure that the audience can understand on the basis of showing off his skills, sometimes it is not necessarily a mature performance to deliberately show off his skills for the sake of a good performance.According to the Chinese philosophy, everything should be back to basics in the end, it should be out of the ordinary, it should use skills where they should be used, and not use them where they should not be used. In this way, the whole film is Focusing on telling stories is to express the characteristics of the story itself.Just like good ingredients, they should not be overcooked in various ways. In many cases, as long as they are cooked, they are already delicious, and their own flavor is already very good!

From a certain point of view, the old man Spielberg fits the philosophy of the Chinese people—is the old man an all-round genius in literary and commercial films?Has the old man never missed a commercial film?As a result, when people made commercial films, when did they make random cuts?Even the old man seldom uses interludes and reverses the sequence, and basically talks all the way to the end like a running account!Does this mean that the old man has no storytelling skills?No!There are too many directors who tell stories in a straightforward manner. How can the old man be so good at commercial and artistic films?Why does the old man praise every commercial film?How come the old man doesn't have Michael Bay's reputation in the industry as relying on the recognized three-axes to make a living?You must know that Michael Bay's storytelling is straightforward, but this guy's movie hits are based on explosions and big scenes, so that the audience can spend money to watch special effects!As for the logic of the plot, Michael Bay himself didn't care too much, he still became a well-known commercial director!That's why he was evaluated by the industry as a man who only relies on three axes to make a living.

However, although Jia Hongjian didn't seem to be used to Nolan's actions, it didn't mean he was going to straighten Nolan forcibly.As a boss, we also have to agree that some employees have different worldviews, values ​​and outlooks on life from ours!Therefore, Jia Hongjian generously prepared to let Nolan try it out. If the result of showing off the skills does not affect the story too much, then it’s okay to show off the skills, and it can even be promoted as a concept similar to a "magic movie"-after all For the common people in any country, suddenly there is something that they almost don't understand, and people will immediately think that this thing is very powerful, right?

However, considering that Nolan played very well in the memory fragments, Jia Hongjian subconsciously focused on memorizing lines to understand, so we can't unconditionally believe in Nolan's play. Erfa, therefore, as the boss, Jia Hongjian still has to reserve the final decision.Moreover, as a producer, he does have this kind of power-although it seems that Hollywood directors seem to have great power, and there will be a director's cut version at every turn, but in fact, the version cut by the editor is also It needs to be approved by the producer.For example, the version edited by the editor is 2 hours and 10 minutes, but the producer can order the editor to cut it down by another 10 minutes—because according to Jia Hongjian’s previous experience at DreamWorks, the time limit for two hours is [-] minutes. The copy of the film is better sold in the market, and it is easier to attract the purchase desire of the film manager!

It is for this reason that some directors make the so-called "director's cut" according to their own artistic aesthetics. Otherwise, the public version should be the director's cut. Where will there be a special "director's cut"? version"? (To be continued..)