Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 523 Mo Yan, Nobel Prize in Literature? (6k)

“It’s like this, how to shoot a movie so that the audience can quickly understand the plot and get into the story is actually a very important part of a commercial movie.

It is best to explain the main plot clearly in the first scene so that the audience can have some expectations for the subsequent plot.

It would be even better if the director and screenwriter could go beyond expectations and create a plot that is new and surprising to the audience in the later parts of the story.

Many of the domestic predecessors, because they come from literary and artistic film backgrounds, like to be restrained when telling stories, and also like to slowly show the inner emotions of the characters through the stories.

Some lenses, lighting, and colors can all be used as tools to express characters, so the older generation of directors are often particularly skilled in this area.

This is actually a completely different logic from commercial films.”

Chen Kaige frowned and said, "You mean, our efforts on the lens, color, and lighting are actually wrong?"

"Of course not. I'm trying my best to learn it, and I'm also using these techniques in my movies."

Chen Linfeng looked at everyone and said, "I'm talking about the starting point of thinking and the direction of expertise. You are all good at talking about characters and emotions, but you are not very good at telling stories in a simple, easy-to-understand and attractive way. I think I am right, right?"

Zhang Yimou said in a muffled voice, "No, I'm not as good at telling stories as you are."

If someone else said this, I would definitely not accept it, but facing the person in front of me, I became speechless.

Chen Kaige frowned, "Xiao Chen, please continue."

"I think that your directing skills are already very high. If it's hard to turn around the storytelling in a short time, it's better to play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses."

“How to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses?”

"This is about Director Zhang's recent film. It's not easy to come up with a good story. This is the same for anyone."

In the eyes of everyone who said "look at yourself before you say that", Chen Linfeng said calmly,

"There are so many good stories and wonderful historical events in history. As long as you don't make up your own stories and make some minor adaptations based on real stories that happened in history, you can easily come up with a good script."

Chen Linfeng made this suggestion because he really wanted to prevent these directors from falling behind too quickly.

At least make some movies that are worth watching to enrich the audience's viewing options, and don't let a bunch of completely bad movies occupy the market.

A higher pursuit is that if these directors really have a second spring and get good at historical themes, it would be a good thing.

Chen Linfeng really hopes that these directors can stand up.

In this era of shining stars, Director Chen is as bright as the moon in the sky, which is always better than Director Chen kicking the nursing home, or the lack of heroes making Director Chen famous.

Thinking about these things, Chen Linfeng suggested,
"Director Zhang is good at big scenes, so he shot historical war themes. What about Director Chen? Why don't you start with what you are good at?"

"What I'm good at?" Chen Kaige fell into deep thought.

"Let me give you an example. Farewell My Concubine reflects historical changes through the life experiences of Cheng Dieyi and others, using the small to highlight the big. To some extent, this is also a work with historical themes.

Then let's change the era, for example, through Li Bai's life, to reflect the history of the prosperous Tang Dynasty's decline, or change it to the end of the Han Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the turn of the Song Dynasty, etc. "

"There are so many wonderful things in Chinese history. Isn't this a natural material library?"

When Chen Kaige heard the example given by Chen Linfeng, he was inspired, but he quickly remembered that he had previously filmed "The Orphan of Zhao", which was a historical event, but he still did not achieve the desired results.

His question left Chen Linfeng speechless. Before he could answer, Feng Xiaogang spoke first.

"There are too many problems with your "The Orphan of Zhao". Apart from other things, the narrative rhythm is very chaotic. The beginning is too tight and the end is too scattered. There is no need to write about the plot of Zhao's son growing up."

Chen Kaige's face darkened. He could not accept such evaluation from Feng Xiaogang.

Then Chen Linfeng interjected, "That's true. The Yuan Dynasty drama "The Orphan of Zhao" focuses on the story of the retainer Cheng Ying saving the son of the Zhao family. Later, the son of the Zhao family grew up and took revenge, which was just mentioned briefly."

“I think when you filmed this story, you could either do it like the Yuan Dynasty drama version, unfolding it from Cheng Ying’s perspective and narrating this period of history in detail.

Either start with the story of Zhao Zi and describe his revenge, and use the story of Cheng Ying as the background.

The two parts together have an unbalanced rhythm, the first part is not detailed enough, and the latter part is a bit of a joke. "

As soon as these words were spoken, the others nodded, believing that this made sense.

"Besides, the story of 'The Orphan of Zhao' is a bit old. It is hard for people today to understand why a man sacrificed his own child for the lord's child." Zhang Yimou made a rare suggestion.

“Yes, this story is naturally not conducive to publicity in modern times.

Director Chen, you actually made a modern adaptation in the scene where Cheng Ying exchanges babies.

But because the public has a strong impression of the story of 'The Orphan of Zhao', many people will not pay special attention to how you adapt it."

Several directors analyzed and clearly stated the reasons for the failure of the movie "The Orphan of Zhao".

Chen Kaige listened quietly and agreed with it in his heart.

Of course, he was too shy to admit it verbally, so he could only listen carefully when facing the people in front of him.

"Xiao Chen, I understand what you mean. In other words, I can draw material from history and find someone to write the script?"

"Ah."

"Then, could you please help me look at the script?"

"Well... that's fine, but I've read the script afterwards. Director Chen, please don't make any more changes later."

Asking him to read the script is actually another way of saying changing the script and adding a name to it. This is what happened when I helped Zhang Yimou read the script before.

"That won't happen."

Chen Kaige remained silent. He began to think about which period of history or story he should choose.

Then, he thought of what Xiao Chen had said before, that the prosperous Tang Dynasty went from prosperity to decline.

This era should be talked about.

Zhang Yimou said that it should conform to the aesthetic tastes of modern people. Chinese people all have a fascination with the prosperous Tang Dynasty, so that should be fine.

Chen Linfeng didn't know that Da Chen already had an idea.

He noticed something strange, that is, Jiang Wen was unexpectedly silent today.

So Chen Linfeng asked, "Brother Jiang, what's wrong with you today? Why are you so quiet?"

"Oh, you don't know, I'm worried about the script of my new movie."

Jiang Wen sighed, showing a rare look of sadness.

Ever since Let the Bullets Fly, he decided to shoot a trilogy about the Republic of China. After the new script came out, he had a sudden idea to show it to people who had not seen many movies. As expected, he got the answer "I don't understand".

Feng Xiaogang was very surprised, "Why are you imitating Bai Juyi? Don't you care about this?"

Jiang Wen glanced at him and didn't want to say anything, but then he thought that the people present were all talented directors and he was not afraid of embarrassment, so he mentioned it.

It was like this before, but after Let the Bullets Fly, things became a little different.

Especially after chatting with Xiao Chen more often, there was a statement that he deeply agreed with.

“If you want others to understand your thoughts, it is best to explain them in a way that they can understand. Don’t be too proud.”

Especially when Xiao Chen used the example of a teacher, saying that this person always used plain language when writing books, fearing that people would not understand it, he asked, "How can you, Jiang Wen, be more proud than the teacher?"

After hearing these words, Jiang Wen felt a little changed.

Although the idea of ​​adding personal opinions remains unchanged, it would be good if it could have a wider audience like "Let the Bullets Fly".

But after having this idea, he found that it was not easy to write in a way that was easy for others to understand but not too simple, like "Let the Bullets Fly".

Feng Xiaogang was filled with questions, "Why would you just tell the story so simply?"

Jiang Wen, Zhang Yimou, and Chen Kaige all glanced at him, and everything was said without words.

Well, I shouldn't have said that.

Feng Xiaogang, who was looked down upon on a daily basis, became autistic.

"You should first remove all metaphors and personal opinions, and take the main body of the story apart to see if it is a logically complete story."

"Is this the 'Yan Ruisheng case' from the Republic of China? What have you changed it to? No, no, the story has to be changed drastically."

"..."

Afterwards, several people listened to Jiang Wen talk about the content of the new script, and then tried their best to give him advice.

Even Feng Xiaogang would interject from time to time.

Several directors seemed to have become accustomed to this mode of helping each other and formed a small circle.

After sitting and chatting together for most of the day, everyone went their separate ways.

back home.

Liu Qianqian was half lying on the sofa, holding Xiao Yunmiao in her arms. The man and the cat were watching TV intently.

"What are you looking at? Why are you so excited?"

Chen Linfeng glanced towards the TV and found that it was the "Chinese Character Writing Competition" on Central China Radio and Television, which should be a program produced by Longlin.

Liu Qianqian looked at it seriously. She turned back to see that it was her husband, then turned back.

On TV, the host gave the contestants a topic and asked them to write a few sentences: "An old man in a straw hat and raincoat is fishing alone in the snow on the cold river." "The clouds look like clothes and the flowers look like face, the spring breeze blows on the threshold and the dew is gorgeous." "Green ants and new wine, red clay stove."

They are all ancient poems with some uncommon characters, but they are not too difficult and should be the beginner level for beginners.

As soon as Liu Qianqian heard the host ask the question, she immediately started writing and drawing.

Chen Linfeng took two steps forward and found a notebook on the sofa. Xixi was writing attentively with a pen.

It seems that a lot has been written in the notebook.

Chen Linfeng didn't disturb her. He just sat next to Xixi and watched with great interest. He just picked up little Yunmiao and put her on his lap.

Little Yun Miao was too lazy to move. He just curled up in a ball and watched the colorful things on TV.

Chen Linfeng stroked Xiao Yunmiao's belly, thinking that his cat was almost 10 years old and should be an old cat.

No wonder it has become increasingly quiet in the past two years.

Thinking of this, he sighed somewhat melancholy.

Over there, Liu Qianqian had just checked the answers, which were basically all correct. She clapped her hands happily, then changed her lying position and rested her head on Chen Linfeng's thighs.

By the way, I asked lazily, "Didn't you have a dinner party with a few directors? How was the conversation?"

Little Yunmao was pushed away, and he meowed twice while cursing. Then he jumped away, found his own cat bed, and lay down on it.

Chen Linfeng's melancholy mood was interrupted, and he smiled and said, "It's okay, just a normal chat about the next movie to be released, or what kind of movie to shoot in the future."

He mentioned it briefly, and then suddenly thought of Xu Ke's new movie, "By the way, Director Xu Ke is planning to make a fairy-tale movie, and I wanted to ask if you are interested."

"A fairy-type role?"

"Ah."

Liu Qianqian thought about it and was actually quite interested. The TV shows she had watched recently were either about ancient mythology, such as "The Wild Age", or about traditional culture, such as "The Chinese Character Writing Competition", which had aroused some similar thoughts.

After being together for so long, Chen Linfeng could probably understand what her expressions and actions meant.

Seeing that she was interested, Chen Linfeng said, "Then wait until Director Xu finishes writing the script, and then we'll take a look at it?"

"Yeah...that's fine."

During the conversation, the host on TV had already started asking questions.

Liu Qianqian exclaimed "Yeah", picked up the notebook again and started writing and drawing.

"Hey, Sissi, you wrote this word wrong."

"Don't talk, just let me do it."

"..."

While Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian were enjoying a peaceful time at home, the domestic film market gradually began to compete for the National Day holiday.

But speaking of it, this year's National Day movie season is really lackluster.

Except for "1942", the rest are almost all bad movies.

This has instead allowed Feng Xiaogang's family to become the most powerful.

Chen Linfeng attended the premiere of "1942".

Several directors gave their opinions at the time, and the final film was quite different from the previous version.

After watching the whole movie, I found that the tragic plot did not decrease much, but increased. The core of the story changed from experiencing suffering to more thinking of the protagonists.

As a result, the overall temperament of the film has changed a lot.

After watching it, Chen Linfeng guessed that the movie would do well at the box office.

As expected, there are no strong opponents, the film itself has improved a lot, and the National Day schedule is relatively in line with the temperament of the film.

Taking various factors into consideration, it should be certain that "5" will eventually exceed million in box office revenue according to the trend.

Considering the cost of the film, there is no problem in making a profit.

And the word of mouth is also very good. The scores on Douban and V Station are currently over 8 points.

In late September and early October, some media began to hype news about the Nobel Prize.

In March and April, Chen Linfeng refused the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the topic was dormant for a while.

But now, this year's Nobel Prize in Literature is about to be announced.

Some media outlets are thinking of hyping this up again.

Chen Linfeng didn't care about this. It was just the beginning. When the results came out in October, if they were the same as in his previous life, that would be big news.

In early October, Han Shanping finally couldn't bear it anymore and called Chen Linfeng.

"You just heard about the new movie, nothing else? We are old partners, you won't forget about us, will you?"

"I haven't forgotten, but this time it's a little different. I don't know how to tell President Han."

Han Shanping's heart immediately skipped a beat. "What's going on?"

"It's like this. Last time I filmed Joker, I was mainly working with Warner. You should know this. Now, for the new movie, I have to work with Disney again, but Warner doesn't want to get out of it. You see..."

Han Shanping's mouth twitched, "This is another big crocodile joining in."

"Who said it wasn't?" Chen Linfeng also had a headache. "The key is that these two are a little unhappy and both want to get more shares."

"So what you mean is that you won't play with domestic companies anymore?"

"That's not the case. I'm not that kind of person. It's just that I have to reduce the share."

With the gradual rise of the domestic market, Chen Linfeng's investment share in his previous two films, except for his own share, was actually slightly more inclined towards the domestic market.

Disney had no objection to this at the time, and Warner also followed the rules when filming "Joker".

It's been 12 years already. In Transformers, there were special plots to please the domestic audience, and Iron Man 3 also had special offers.

Regardless of whether these actions are useful or not, they are a manifestation of importance.

But this time, when the two big bosses came in, they didn’t care about all that.

Han Shanping thought for a moment and said, "How about we go and fight with those two families?"

Chen Linfeng curled his lips, "That's what I mean, President Han, you still have to take action on this matter. Hollywood doesn't care about it, you have to suppress them."

"Go away, there's no such thing as that," Han Shanping said unhappily, "Does it seem easy to compete with the Big Six in Hollywood for a piece of the pie?"

"It's time to compete. The domestic market has grown, and we've allowed them to enter. We've gained benefits, so we have to establish some new rules."

Chen Linfeng said, "Why not start with my movie? If you want to enter the Chinese market, you have to make some concessions in this regard."

"What's your idea?"

"I think we can invest less, but we can send more people to the team. I'm the director, and I have a lot of my own people in the team, so I won't hide anything. What do you think?"

Han Shanping understood a little bit of what he meant. "You are really tolerant. Aren't you afraid of raising a tiger and causing trouble?"

"The meat is rotting in the pot. Besides, I want to make a special effects movie by myself in the future. The number of people I have is not enough. I need more manpower in China."

As major Internet companies entered the entertainment industry one after another, Chen Linfeng began to feel anxious.

Although Long Lin has set off a trend in the field of TV dramas, the situation seems to be pretty good.

But with the tide of the Internet, concepts such as "IP" and "data" have also become popular in the film and television circles.

Both sides are exerting their efforts. If they don't speed up, things might end up like in the previous life.

"Okay, I understand your idea..." Han Shanping thought about it and finally gave a "very good" comment.

After hanging up the phone, he couldn't help but sigh, "No wonder people can accomplish things. This situation is really getting bigger and bigger."

The preparations for Now You See Me are going relatively smoothly, both the props and the location selection for Emily Ken have been completed.

During the National Day holiday, Chen Linfeng spent two days going abroad to carry out acceptance inspection.

August 10, Yanjing.

At 7 o'clock, dinner time, Chen Linfeng and Liu Qianqian were eating and watching TV at home.

There was nothing to watch at this time, so Chen Linfeng switched to News Channel 13.

Suddenly, a foreigner appeared on the TV screen and the subtitles on the screen showed that this was Peter Enlund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.

Liu Qianqian could understand English, and she stopped moving while listening.

"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Chinese writer Mo Yan..."

"?"

Liu Qianqian opened her mouth slightly and asked in astonishment, "Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng, did you hear that?"

"Yes, I heard that Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature." Chen Linfeng remained calm as usual and continued to pick up food and eat.

"Then..." Liu Qianqian hesitated, "Will it involve you?"

"Of course," Chen Linfeng swallowed the food in his mouth, "It's going to be a good show."

He had an expression of enjoying a good show on his face.

There was nothing much to say about Mo Yan receiving the award in his previous life, but now that he has paved the way, I wonder if this person will go to receive the award?
How about some literary backbone?
Chen Linfeng's side was relatively calm, but the outside world was in an uproar.

The Swedish Academy announced that this year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded to Mo Yan.

The media across the country were shocked.

I never thought that Mo Yan could win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

At the first moment, the media basically issued reprint reports, no matter what, to spread the news throughout the country first.

Soon, related videos and news appeared on the Internet.

The most searched topic on Weibo was “Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize”, which was ranked first.

The v site also puts related videos on the homepage.

Although the boss doesn't seem to get along well with the Nobel Prize, basic journalistic ethics should still be maintained.

The news spread quickly, and it was the time when workers were getting off work and students were getting out of school.

By around 8 o'clock, most people who were online knew the news.

The entire Internet is in an uproar.

Netizens were happy at first, after all, it is a good thing that a Chinese can win the Nobel Prize.

But then, many netizens immediately thought of Chen Linfeng, who had a close relationship with the Nobel Prize in the first half of the year.

And his refusal of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Chen Linfeng refused the Nobel Prize, and then Sweden awarded the literature prize to Mo Yan, who is also a Chinese. Is there something going on here?
In particular, the most popular video on the Internet at that time is still circulating on the Internet.

There is a sentence in it:

"If such a day really comes, I just hope that the winner can have some backbone, learn from Jean-Paul Sartre, maintain his purity and refuse to accept the award."

"If you don't have the courage to say no, then it only proves that you write such works not to expose or criticize, but to curry favor with the Western world."

Little Chen Linfeng in the video looks at the camera very seriously, as if he has penetrated time and space.

You know, when he was doing the show that year, young Chen Linfeng even gave examples, among which was Mo Yan's name.

This is a really big problem.

What was said then has now come true.

So the question is, now, Mo Yan has been selected as the winner of this year's literature award.

Will he go to receive the award?

In other words, would he agree with what Chen Linfeng said?
It must be known that Chen Linfeng had just formally refused to participate in the Nobel Prize selection half a year ago.

The younger generation refused the Nobel Prize in order to practice their beliefs.

So what about the seniors? What do you think?
Even those who don’t understand know how embarrassing the situation Mo Yan is in.

The effect of the show was so strong that both netizens online and the media in real life felt that this was a bit strange.

For a time, no media even dared to speak out.

(End of this chapter)