Coquettish Rebirth

"Crazy wood?" Jia Hongjian was taken aback for a moment. He had no intention of getting such a film to be released in the United States in the first place.Although the people from the film association didn't propose to have the film released in the United States, but if you want to participate in the Oscars, shouldn't it be shown in the United States?This is the most basic restriction!He asked why he was unwilling to release such a film in the United States?The reason is also very simple, such a film doesn't talk about borrowing from Guy Ritchie's "Two Smoking Barrels" or anything like that, just talking about a lot of jokes is just using language to make jokes.These jokes are very localized, and they are often expressed in dialects, for example, speaking a very bad dialect while acting very high-end.Let alone these jokes come to the United States, even if they are screened in Hong Kong, they still have no good results!Filmmakers from Hong Kong and Dawan really tried to introduce this film, but the box office was a mess, mainly because people on both sides couldn’t understand jokes in mainland dialects, especially northern dialects, let alone the United States. Here it is!It can be said that what Jia Hongjian expected was that after the film was released in North America, the box office would be about the same, and it would be really difficult to get into the re-election after the Oscar primaries!In other words, even nominations are hard to come by!Comedies from one country are not very popular in another country. This kind of thing is quite normal. Many Europeans and Americans watch comedies that they find funny, but not every comedy can be appreciated in China. After all, there is a kind of There are cultural differences, after all, some things really cannot cross borders!Although there are many things in comedy, the principle can be figured out, and there are many funny scenes can also be figured out, but since there is drama and it is a language comedy, the problem of language cannot be avoided.

So after thinking about this, did Jia Hongjian fall into such a proposal from the other party? "Crazy wood, let me just think about it. I don't think such a film will get any nominations in the Oscars. After all, it is too local." When he said this, the leaders of the film association at that time were stunned, "Director Jia, you If your movie is not in the market, who else can? You don’t know if you have been away from China for the past few months. Although many films that imitate your wood have come out in China, the box office is really not good, that is because you made it A mode of selling cheap video discs online. Let them recover the cost as much as possible, otherwise it will be a loss to grandma's family! Your film is already the best domestic film in the first half of the year, and we are not looking for you Who else can the movie turn to? It's really not that we deliberately trouble you..." It sounds like the Film Association also has difficulties?Thinking of this, Jia Hongjian simply said: "Forget it, let's do it. Crazy wood doesn't represent our mainland anymore. I'll take a look in the second half of the year and see if I can make another film. Then I'll see one of them." Can the film represent our mainland?" "Is that possible? Will it trouble you too much? If it bothers you and delays your vacation time, I'm sorry..." The leader of the Film Association was still a little Tangled.But Jia Hongjian knew that these words were just polite.What people said was that Jia Hongjian was too embarrassed to be in trouble, not whether it was good or bad to do so, so it was very simple. The other party was looking forward to such a move from Jia Hongjian, but he was just being polite.Just to make Jia Hongjian feel better.

As for this, Jia Hongjian took a more open view, "No trouble, let's just leave it at that. I'll think about it then, how can I make a better shot, and try my best to make our Film Association look better." "Hey Yo, thank you very much Mr. Jia, tell me, what would we do without you? You are really a gift from God, thanks to you, all of us in the Film Association Ah, thank you all of them one by one..." Although these words were only good things after Jia Hongjian made a firm decision to make a film for the Film Association, they still sound very good. comfortable!

After hanging up the phone here, Jia Hongjian began to think about it.If you want to make a new film for the film association to hit the Oscar, what film should you make?He, Jia Hongjian, is now the number one producer in the country, and even as a director, he is estimated to be among the top few in the market. If he is to do the thing that hits the Oscars, that is what everyone expects.After all, his identity is here. If he doesn't do it, who will do it?What kind of film can be taken more suitable?To be honest, at this time, Jia Hongjian's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is no longer his ambition.Although it can't be said that he has lost his desire for the best foreign language film award, after all, this desire is not as strong as before.In the era of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Jia Hongjian really wanted to win the best foreign language film, but now we have won it twice, of course not so eager!It's a bit like the impulse between old couples has weakened, it's a bit like the left hand touching the right hand!

But having said that, although the impulse for the best foreign language film is not great, the film still needs to be made, and things still need to be done.It's just that he doesn't seem to have any particularly great ideas in his mind now, such as "Tang Seng's Fantasy Journey", it can't be every year, right?So if he was asked to make a big-budget movie, he didn't think he had any good ideas, so he didn't plan to make it.After all, if you don’t have a good idea, you still have to spend money to shoot it. This is against yourself. You know that the idea you came up with is not exciting, but you still want to shoot it. If you don’t like it, can you still attract people to like it?Not to mention the group of old men who attracted Oscar!

And if you want to make a movie like "The Biography of Stephen Hawking", although it is aimed at the Oscar for best picture, the criteria for the best foreign language film selection also stipulate that the official language representing the country must be spoken in the film.So if this "Hawking Biography" is to represent mainland China to enter the Oscars, then it must speak Chinese!This turned into a very funny thing. Hawking, who is obviously a foreigner, insisted on speaking Mandarin in the play, and then all the characters had to speak Mandarin. Isn’t it strange?It's obviously a film that I invested in, but it turns out to be like a dubbed film, isn't it funny?

So if you don't make this kind of film, what kind of film will you make?Blockbusters and biographical movies can't be made, so what can you make?Genre film?In terms of genre movies, the only genre movie in China is martial arts movies!As far as martial arts movies are concerned, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has already entered the Oscars, so another martial arts movie seems a bit fried?In particular, a film like "Hero" still has something to do with martial arts. If there is another martial arts movie, wouldn't it be like China is going back and forth and relying on martial arts movies to win Oscars?These Oscar old men will be a little aesthetically tired, right?

Otherwise, what kind of comedy should we make?If you think about comedies, you should be more creative, because relatively speaking, comedies are not such a movie that requires absolutely brilliant ideas to be produced. Almost an idea, after a lot of manipulation, can always perform well in the end. Not bad, this is also the reason why countries in the world actually have relatively more comedy films, at least this is also a type of film that gives Jia Hongjian relatively less pressure.For comedy films, he can still shoot something like "囧囧".It is very easy to get the box office, as for whether it can enter the Oscars... I guess it depends on the face.

In fact, speaking of it, this comedy is really good if you say it is good, and it is really difficult if you say it is difficult to make.Because it is easy to shoot because you can really expand one or two small ideas, an idea that can only be used as a micro-movie for a few minutes, into a big movie, just need to continue to expand the plot and add jokes to it.But this is also the reason why it is not easy to shoot. In Jia Hongjian's view, it is not difficult for a comedy to make money. The difficulty is that it must at least have a good reputation and be able to at least be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, right?This is a relatively high requirement, otherwise, if he is not even nominated, then Jia Hongjian might as well send "Crazy Wood" to the Oscars!

Jia Hongjian, who had been thinking about making some kind of comedy film in his mind, really couldn't come up with a suitable idea.Even when Nolan and his wife came back from vacation for a month, the box office of "Batman Begins" reached 3 million. Jia Hongjian didn't think of any good solution!The way he stayed at home all day long, thinking hard all day, attracted Nolan and his wife to come over to persuade him!Seeing that Jia Hongjian was thinking like retreating all day without taking a break, Nolan couldn't help persuading his wife: "Mr. Jia, you should take a rest, after all, the idea of ​​this movie is to rest. It's too late to think about it after it's over. It's not bad for a few days, sometimes it's not good to be too serious and too persistent, and it's easy to make things worse, so you still have to relax..."

"Well, I see." Jia Hongjian nodded as if he had listened to Nolan's persuasion, but who knew that just after he nodded, he suddenly felt as if he had some inspiration, and this inspiration seemed to be inspired by Nolan just now. Words inspired! "Too serious and persistent is sometimes not good? It's easy to make things worse?" Why does this sound so interesting?Why does it seem to be related to some idea in your head?Why does it feel like expanding such a sentence is the main plot of some kind of movie?