Rebirth: I'm filming extra scenes on the set

Chapter 170: Teach three big guys a lesson.

After having supper last night, Chen Cheng got up early and went to the Beijing Film Academy cafeteria to have breakfast.

Xiao Fei, Shan Shan and Mi Mi also entered the cafeteria.

See Chen Cheng.

The three of them were a little surprised: "Chen Cheng, why are you eating in the cafeteria?"

"Why can't I eat in the cafeteria?"

"You're so busy, aren't you going to film a movie?"

"What are you busy with? Didn't I tell you last night that I don't have any movies to shoot right now?"

Chen Cheng left a seat vacant and let the three of them sit together: "I thought, since we have nowhere to go anyway, I will just go back to school and study hard like you guys."

"You are already Director Chen, do you still need to study?"

Chen Cheng said helplessly, "Didn't the great man say that we should study hard all the time? Look, Mimi is back, isn't she?"

"Tsk, tsk, such a high level of awareness."

Mimi also admired him: "No wonder you are doing so well in the circle."

"What's so good about it? It's dangerous for us to be behind the scenes. If the movie fails at the box office, it will be worse than being an actor."

Last night, I met Hetian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong, and Brother Chen Kai...

Chen Kaige, who has always been full of vigor and vitality, has lost his former spirit.

Obviously.

He has not yet fully recovered from "The Promise".

As for the later film "Mei Lanfang", it has not been released yet and the box office performance is still unknown.

Especially when I met Feng Xiaogang at the annual directors' meeting.

Brother Chen Kai felt a little disappointed with Feng Xiaogang's cocky look.

Chen Cheng also saw all of this.

"Hey, Junior Brother Chen Cheng, you are here too."

Chatting with everyone.

A voice sounded nearby.

one look.

It was Senior Sister Li Shaohong.

"Teacher Li, please come to the cafeteria to eat too."

Chen Cheng greeted Li Shaohong.

Li Shaohong was unhappy: "It's too formal to call me Teacher Li, call me Senior Sister."

"Ahem... I would like to call you that, but the generation gap is too big."

There is a gap of several dozen years between the two, so it's really not appropriate to keep calling her senior sister.

But Li Shaohong didn't care: "What seniority? I just graduated before you. No matter where I go, I am still your senior sister."

Yang Mi, Zhang Xiaofei and Shan Shan beside them were stunned.

To know.

Such as Li Shaohong, Chen Kaige... although they also graduated from Beijing Film Academy.

But they have always been god-like figures in the eyes of many students at Beijing Film Academy.

Looking at the three people, Li Shaohong smiled and said, "Why, you don't dare to call me Senior Sister?"

The three of them were smart and quickly greeted Li Shaohong.

Li Shaohong smiled and said, "To be honest, I feel embarrassed when you call me Senior Sister. If other old men see me, they will say I am pretending to be young. But I like you calling me Senior Sister."

Chen Cheng brought a stool over from the side.

Li Shaohong put down his breakfast and chatted with everyone while eating: "Are you classmate Yang Mi?"

Looking at Yang Mi, Li Shaohong said.

Yang Mi was a little excited and replied, "Big Sister, you actually know me?"

"Haha, your performance as Little Guo Xiang is pretty good. I've paid attention to it."

As he spoke, Li Shaohong looked at Zhang Xiaofei and Yuan Shanshan again.

Obviously.

The two of them were not very well-known, so Li Shaohong didn't recognize them.

Chen Cheng quickly introduced: "Big sister, this is Xiao Fei, full name Zhang Xiao Fei, and this is Yuan Shanshan, we are in the same class."

"No wonder you guys had such a good chat."

Li Shaohong was also very happy: "Remember to keep this friendship between classmates. No matter what happens in the future, you must remember that you are classmates."

Chen Cheng nodded: "Big Sister, we will remember this."

Just like yesterday.

Decades have passed, but the friendship between Li Shaohong, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Chen Kaige... and others is still as strong as it was back then.

even.

As time goes by, the friendship between classmates becomes deeper and deeper.

"Chen Cheng, I remember you are all from the acting department."

Li Shaohong seemed to have thought of something and asked.

Chen Cheng nodded: "Yes."

"That's great. I recently accepted a role in a drama and will have auditions soon. I think the three of you have good looks. If you have time, you can come to my place for an audition."

Chen Cheng asked, "Big Sister, you are not talking about Dream of the Red Chamber, are you?"

Chen Shaohong nodded.

"Red Mansion?"

"Oh my God."

All three of them screamed in shock.

"Big sister, you think too highly of us."

Zhang Xiaofei couldn't believe it.

Yuan Shanshan didn't know what to say either.

This drama is just too big.

Even if it was Yang Mi, she couldn't hold it back.

However, Li Shaohong smiled and said, "We are all sisters, so of course I look up to you. It's okay, it's just an audition. Moreover, one of my ideas for directing Red Mansions this time is to make it younger. Here is my contact information. If you encounter any problems, feel free to call Senior Sister."

Done.

Li Shaohong stood up and said, "You guys eat, I won't disturb you anymore."

Chen Cheng said, "Senior sister, is this all you want to eat?"

Li Shaohong replied, "When you get old, you can't eat too much. By the way, Chen Cheng, are you free this afternoon? Brother Kai, Director Tian and I want to talk to you about something."

"available."

"Then I'll call you then."

With a wave of his hand, Li Shaohong left.

……

"Well, Chen Cheng, Senior Sister, this is true. Please be polite to us."

After Li Shaohong left, the three of them felt that something was unreal and asked.

"What do you think."

Chen Cheng drank soy milk and said, "If it was just a polite remark, there would be no reason to leave a business card for you."

"Too."

The three of them nodded: "So are you really going to audition?"

"Let's try."

"How can you audition successfully for such a large crew?"

"Who dares to say this kind of thing will be successful, but since Senior Sister has said so, I will take care of it to some extent."

of course.

Unless the acting is so bad that it's unbearable to watch, and the actor can't even be given a role with a few lines, that's another matter.

finish breakfast.

Chen Cheng and the other three returned to class.

See Chen Cheng come back.

The classmates were stunned: "Brother Cheng, what are you doing here?" "How can you talk like that? We are in class."

"You still have class?"

"Correct."

"Give us a lesson."

"Pfft..."

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "How can I have such strength?"

"You're being modest, aren't you? You're a great director, and you're more than qualified to teach us."

Chen Cheng replied: "It's fine to chat with you guys, but if you want to talk about a specific set of theories, I'll forget it."

Although Chen Cheng now has good practical experience.

But in terms of theory, Chen Cheng did not dare to say how great he was.

Fortunately, we were all classmates, although Chen Cheng’s appearance surprised everyone a little.

But after a while, everyone left the get out of class quietly.

in the afternoon.

Chen Cheng received a call from senior sister Li Shaohong.

Chen Cheng went to a teahouse near Beijing Film Academy according to the address given by Li Shaohong.

Chen Cheng just walked in.

Brother Chen Kai said, "Junior brother, I've been waiting for you. I've made tea for you."

Chen Cheng took a look.

There were 4 people in the tea room.

They are Li Shaohong, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, and Dean Wang Song.

Chen Cheng greeted everyone one by one.

And he also said to Li Shaohong: "Sister Shaohong, thank you for what you did this morning. Thank you for taking care of my classmates."

Need I talk about what happened this morning?

Although Li Shaohong is the senior sister of Beijing Film Academy, she likes her younger brothers and sisters very much whenever she sees them.

Over the past few decades, I don’t know how many junior and senior students have graduated from Beijing Film Academy.

If only everyone was taken care of like this.

Then they don't want to film anymore.

obviously.

The reason why Li Shaohong asked the three to go to the Red Mansion for audition was all because of Chen Cheng.

Li Shaohong smiled and replied, "Junior brother, it's just a small matter, don't take it to heart."

Li Shaohong said this, but he was extremely happy in his heart.

Although Li Shaohong's invitation was just a small one, she knew that Chen Cheng remembered her kindness.

……

"Junior brother, did you watch the new broadcast yesterday?"

After exchanging a few polite words with everyone, Brother Chen Kai suddenly asked.

Chen Cheng said helplessly: "Brother Kai, how could I not have seen such big news? There is no need to compete with the box office later, The Warlords lost."

We could have PKed.

result.

The killer weapon of CCTV-1 has arrived.

How can we compare this?
"Brother, victory and defeat are common in the military, and you are still honorable even though you lost."

Brother Chen Kai comforted Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng was drinking tea.

Seeing everyone smiling, he said, "Well, fellow brothers and sisters, you called me here today, are you here to make fun of me?"

"How could that be? It depends on what you said."

Li Shaohong said: "No one could have predicted this. However, the main theme you mentioned yesterday really hit the mark."

"Yes, that is the main theme. Chen Cheng, I thought about it all night yesterday and still couldn't figure it out. What do you think about the main theme?"

After all, Tian Zhuangzhuang is the head of the directing department.

Chen Cheng is still a student.

It wasn't good to call him junior brother all the time, so Tian Zhuangzhuang started calling him Chen Cheng.

Chen Shaohong next to him continued, "Chen Cheng, I called you here this time because I want to discuss this issue with you."

Chen Cheng thought for a moment and said, "How should I put it? This is a bit too broad to discuss. I want to know what everyone thinks."

"Let me tell you what I think first."

Li Shaohong propped up his glasses and said, "My understanding of the main theme is the mainstream ideology, which is what the higher-ups are willing to support. The fact that "Assembly" was included in the news must be in line with the mainstream ideology. However, I don't understand some of it. This kind of main theme movie has been made before, but the box office was not good, and the reputation was not particularly good. Some people even disliked it."

Tian Zhuangzhuang said: "Shao Hong is right. We have studied the issue of the main theme before, and the top authorities have occasionally supported the main theme policy, but it is really difficult to shoot a good main theme."

Next is Brother Chen Kai.

Chen Kai has studied the main theme more thoroughly and said: "I think so. There are two main themes in the market. One main theme is the commercial films we usually shoot, such as comedies, tragedies, etc. Although it has a certain positive energy orientation, it is mainly commercial value. The other is the main theme oriented towards publicity value."

"Generally, such main themes are led by the higher-ups, but there are very few commercial main-theme films. Assembly is an exception. I guess Feng Xiaogang didn't expect that his film Assembly would receive so much attention from the higher-ups."

"My current thought is that since Assembly has received so much attention from the higher-ups, although this is an intentional direction for us. But for us, the direction is very clear, and we just need to move in this direction. But how to grasp this direction and how to make a good mainstream film is a problem. After all, we are all commercial directors. The failure of a film is a huge blow to the director. We can move in this direction, but if the main theme causes a big drop in the box office... this is not what we want to see."

What Brother Chen Kai said was the collective thought of the three of them.

Chen Cheng also understood.

Before 07, the term “main theme” was still a very unfamiliar term.

Even if it's not unfamiliar.

They also don't associate the main theme with box office.

even.

Most people think so.

The main theme is that it has nothing to do with the box office.

However, for Chen Cheng, who understood the trends of future generations, he was very familiar with mainstream movies.

"Chen Cheng, we haven't fully realized the main theme you mentioned yesterday. Unexpectedly, Assembly gave us a vivid lesson. I think you should have a deep understanding of the main theme. Please share it with us."

Li Shaohong looked at Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng organized his speech and then said, "Actually, we all have one question: how to combine the main theme with business."

"Correct."

The three of them nodded: "We all mean this."

"In fact, many people have a misunderstanding that mainstream movies are not irrelevant to business. Main theme is not a term that has only appeared recently. It has appeared decades ago. For example, Hollywood movies like Star Wars, Indiana Jones and First Blood are all mainstream movies.

The most classic theme movie is Tom Cruise's "Top Gun". These movies not only achieved amazing box office results, but also performed well in mainstream consciousness. Under the influence of this, countless young people signed up to join the US Navy and Air Force... At the same time, the overall patriotic enthusiasm was extremely high. "

"There are also such examples in Hong Kong, such as Jackie Chan's Police Story series. This not only allows Jackie Chan to set Hong Kong box office records from time to time, but the Police Story series also greatly improves the image of Hong Kong police. Although such films are also mainstream, they do not affect the audience's love for them at all."

Chen Cheng gave the three people some simple examples.

With this example, the three of them understood a little bit.

However, Li Shaohong said, "Junior brother, the examples you cited are indeed very good, and I have also understood them to some extent. However, the Hong Kong Police Story series is still a minority after all. The mainstream is still mainly commercial films. If we focus on this mainstream value, I am afraid that most directors may not be recognized by the market."

"Sister Shao Hong, we need to change our mindset. The main theme does not mean low box office, nor does it mean that the main theme cannot be recognized by the market. On the contrary, I believe that the main theme is the most market-oriented. As for many main theme films made before, they were too preachy, too out of touch with the ground, and too detached from the masses. The reason why "Assembly" was successful is that it is down-to-earth."

I saw that everyone still didn’t quite understand.

Chen Cheng continued, "Take patriotism for example. Patriotism is the biggest theme. However, when many people talk about patriotism, they think it is lofty and out of touch with reality, and has nothing to do with ordinary people. It doesn't matter whether ordinary people are patriotic or not, as long as they live their lives well. No, no, no, I think this idea is wrong. Although, there are indeed many people who think this way. However, there are more ordinary people who have always been extremely patriotic in their hearts. It's just that many times they don't show it."

"For example, in our film market, we have a population of more than one billion, but why is the box office so low? This is because our traditional commercial blockbusters have not stimulated the potential of domestic audiences. Once a classic theme work comes out, I believe that its box office will be terrifying."

The Wolf Warrior and Operation Red Sea in the previous life...all of them.

Why are their box office so high?

That's it.

This kind of main theme film strongly inspires people's patriotic enthusiasm.

Under such patriotic enthusiasm, even some friends who had never been to the cinema went to the cinema.

If it were a movie of a different subject.

Excuse me.

No matter how wonderful your filming is, it has nothing to do with us ordinary people.

(End of this chapter)