Coquettish Rebirth

"Huaxia Hi-Tech acquired DreamWorks, and Spielberg will start shooting Chinese-background war movies!" Such a headline caused a huge sensation across the country!You must know that in this era, the concepts of the United States and Hollywood are very far away in the eyes of Chinese people, so far away that they are like art masters standing in the clouds!And such a master of art has to stoop to shoot war films with a Chinese background!God!What could be more exciting than this!You must know that the current Chinese film industry simply has no status in the world!Europe is the land of art films, the United States is a paradise for commercial films, and Japan has all kinds of very individual films, but what can China have?

Now a great director like Spielberg who made "Jurassic Park" is going to shoot a war movie with a Chinese background. Can this not make the Chinese proud?This is simply the most patriotic educational news this year!And the second place is that this year is the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and it is also the 50th anniversary of the end of the Anti-Japanese War!

After the interview between Jia Hongjian and Spielberg was broadcast on CCTV, it can be said to have caused a huge sensation in the Chinese film circle. ◎Smart children remember to update with super fast hands.◎Before this, people in the Chinese film circle had no idea how to make market-oriented films!Such a disgraceful work as "Operation Jaguar" is the commercialization attempt of Zhang Yimou and other fifth-generation directors!But such an attempt really makes everyone feel that they lack talent!If even Zhang Yimou has nothing to do, and even the work is so inferior that Zhang Yimou dare not say that it is his own sincere work, how can other directors dare to try it?

In their view, this commercial film is simply a maze!It is simply a maze in the fog, no one knows how to get out of this maze!No one even knows what direction the right path to try is in!But after this interview was broadcast, it was different!After the interview between Jia Hongjian and Spielberg, Zhang Yimou knew that there was such a period of leftist movies in the United States before!It turns out that the so-called commercial film is to tell a story that ordinary people are willing to listen to!

Although from a certain point of view, it seems that Zhang Yimou does not need to know the principle of "telling stories that ordinary people are willing to listen to", because "Operation Jaguar" is not just a movie that tries to tell a story according to the American Hollywood blockbuster model?But Zhang Yimou still understood something!Because he didn't know why he told the story like that before.It's just a rough imitation of a Hollywood concept!At that time, he had no idea what the narrative rhythm should be like in such a commercial movie, and he didn't know what kind of production concept he should maintain behind such a story, as if he was telling a hot story, the story There is no "soul core" in it.Is it possible for such a story not to fail?

Through Spielberg's interview, Zhang Yimou learned about a situation, which is the so-called hiding what he wants to express under a story!In this way, the seemingly soulless hot story on the surface can have an inner soul core, so of course he can shoot the whole story relatively better!

If Spielberg's statement is very inspiring to Zhang Yimou, it is even more inspiring to many new domestic directors and potential directors.In the past, these people were a tangle, as an art worker with a professional background.Of course, they have a very high evaluation of various so-called techniques and various European art genre films.But on the other hand, they want to make a lot of money, but they don't know how to do it. They always feel as if they are ashamed to make commercial films, as if they are heinous for money.Of course, the more important thing is that they don't know how to make commercial movies.Now hearing the experience of such a commercial film master, they only feel that there is a big road ahead of them!And God also said it.Their major American directors also learned from Italian and French film styles, and then hid them in commercial films. Isn't this pointing out a way to combine business and art for these troubled literary youths?Although know that this is achieved.Although they may not be able to do well when they do it by themselves, they have already sharpened their knives and feel that they will become the most famous director in China who can combine business and art the next day!

Zhang Yimou is different from these entangled young people. He feels more things, and even has more puzzles and confusions about the details in his heart, so he needs to consult Spielberg.After he called Jia Hongjian and got permission to come to the Xijiao Hotel, he was surprised to find that Jiang Wen was there at this time!It seemed that Jiang Wen was chatting with Jia Hongjian and Spielberg.

"The four protagonists may have been found by the troops stationed in Myanmar. They followed the Yunnan-Burma Highway to China's Tiannan Province to find the Flying Tigers stationed in Tiannan Province. As a result, halfway through, they encountered When the Japanese army launched an air strike, the American Flying Tigers were fighting the Japanese plane in the sky. They saw the American plane crash with their own eyes. They all prayed that it was not the person they were looking for, but their car was destroyed by the bomb , I can only wait slowly nearby, and then take a taxi to Tiannan after waiting for a convoy to come. I don’t know why I haven’t encountered it, so I can only walk there..."

Listening to what Jia Hongjian and the others were talking about, Zhang Yimou suddenly felt it.They seem to be talking about the content of some movie!Could it be... Could it be that Jia Hongjian and Jiang Wen were asking Spielberg to listen to their stories and find fault with them?He never thought that Jia Hongjian and Jiang Wen were helping Spielberg think of a story now!How can ordinary people think of such a thing?Moreover, he had heard about Jiang Wen being hired by Jia Hongjian to make a film before, so it was only natural that Jiang Wen was asking Spielberg for advice!

At this time, I heard Spielberg suddenly say: "Very good, I will write this down, wait..." Although Zhang Yimou's English is not very good, he has been to Cannes after all, so he can't speak English at all. A little bit, now listening to Spielberg's words, he is simply shocked!What?Are Jia Hongjian and Jiang Wen helping Spielberg with ideas?How is this possible?This, this, and this, simply made him unable to understand Zhang Yimou!

But no matter how much Zhang Yimou rubbed his eyes, the scene was still the same, nothing changed!This surprised him.When there was a break in Jia Hongjian's discussion with them, Zhang Yimou approached Jia Hongjian secretly and asked, "Mr. Jia, are you advising Spielberg? Helping him discuss the creation of the script?"

"Yes!" Jia Hongjian nodded as he should. "But how...how could it be?" Zhang Yimou's head was still a bit unable to deal with this problem. "Because I told him the whole story. The story itself is an adaptation of a big discussion about college students saving old peasants in our country in 82. It is basically completely changed. Because it is mainly for Americans. After all, they That is the largest market in the world right now. If you want to show them, the protagonist must be Americans. If Americans have a story in China, it is best that the whole story has something to do with Americans, so that they can Be more interested. So in the end it became a story like this... The question of whose life is more important, a college student or an old farmer, was triggered by a college student saving an old farmer, and finally evolved into whether it is worthwhile to exchange eight people for one person's life Worthy question. The core is still the same question whether life is equal, whether there is a question of who is more noble than who at the level of life, it is a question of personality, but the external performance of the story is different..."

Jia Hongjian was completely crushed and explained to Zhang Yimou. If he didn't need to explain it so clearly to others, could they force him to ask him?But for a director like Zhang Yimou, Jia Hongjian is willing to explain it to him, because in fact, in the 21st century, even many people who like foreign movies look down on Zhang Yimou, but Lao Mouzi is still the most self-motivated in China and he came from Jiang Wenzhi. The most reliable director outside.

Zhang Yimou is considered to be the first director in China who started to try the purely commercial blockbuster model, and also the first director who succeeded in the Chinese commercial blockbuster model. Even after he brought others to shoot and produce Chinese blockbusters, Zhang Yimou was also the first to try Chinese local genres. director of the film.Therefore, in Jia Hongjian's eyes, even if Zhang Yimou is not the most talented director like Jiang Wen, he is definitely the most serious, the most willing to improve and the most willing to ponder!In his previous life, after he became famous all over the world for his land-type films, he was not satisfied and started to switch to commercial films. In the end, he single-handedly started the era of blockbuster films in China!At this time, he was still not satisfied, and made a genre film "Three Shots Surprise", which was criticized as kitsch.After this film was made, the Chinese film circle basically believed that Zhang Yimou had betrayed art, because in this film he had unconditionally surrendered to the vulgar or vulgar, and was willing to tell stories from an angle that ordinary people might like, although he may not necessarily tell the story. Very neat, but this attitude is the only one among Chinese directors who is so sincere!

This is why Jia Hongjian is always willing to find him, the person who is always willing to give him a chance!After all, this is the same as what Milu said, attitude is everything, isn't it?And Zhang Yimou began to ponder after hearing Jia Hongjian's words... rq