Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 120 Happiness is the Most Important
"Dad, when I was traveling in Rome, Italy, I once thought about one thing. What was the role of the ancient Roman Colosseum? Was it to boost Rome's economy, or to demonstrate military power to hostile forces through competitions? After careful investigation, I found that neither was true. The most important role of the Colosseum was entertainment. Through gladiator competitions, ordinary citizens could vent their anger, thereby reducing riots in the city.

The same is true of modern sports games, which use the form of sports competitions to replace the confrontation of weapons. At the same time, all the strong people are gathered together and managed, allowing them to play with a ball, without having to worry about these people turning into Spartacus-like thugs after being stimulated.

From a global perspective, all countries with good public security are relatively strong in international competitions.

The same is true from sports to movies, to painting, music, dance, novels, etc.

The main function of movies is to entertain, to allow ordinary people to kill time in their spare time, to focus on entertainment news and celebrities instead of plotting riots, and to let ordinary people dream of becoming stars and entertaining the public since childhood instead of becoming politicians and warlords.

For example, if Hitler had a good job and was a famous painter, would he have changed from an art student to a devil who messed up the world?"

Sophia looked at everyone with a smile.

Everyone frowned. When they first heard her talk about the Colosseum and sports competitions, many people wanted to speak up and refute her, accusing her of talking nonsense, but finally they heard her use Hitler as an example.

This topic suddenly became heavy. This year is only 1992, less than 50 years since the end of World War II. Many people present have experienced that war that affected the whole world.

"Sophia, don't talk nonsense. You are still too young and have never made a movie. You don't understand what film art is. Starting next year, you will study directing theory for two years and then you will know how important artistry is to movies."

Director Coppola glared at his daughter, thinking that Sofia had only been working on Link's crew for less than a month and her ideas had become so unorthodox.

Link is toxic.

From now on, no matter what, Sophia and Link cannot be allowed to get together.

If he continues to mess around, his daughter will be ruined.

"Dad, I certainly know what the artistry of a film is. I think the artistry you're talking about should be included in entertainment. Uncle Scorsese, please don't interrupt me."

Seeing that director Martin Scorsese was about to speak, Sofia waved her hand.

Director Martin Scorsese, a professor of directing at New York University, closed his mouth helplessly. Although he had a lot of words to refute Sofia, Sofia didn't give him a chance to speak.

“I think what I said is right. The artistic quality of a film should be included in its entertainment value, because the role of ordinary films is to entertain ordinary people, who have not received higher education, do not understand art, and have a low level of aesthetic taste.

For movies that ordinary people like, high-level intellectuals and people with a high level of aesthetics may not like them.

So what should we do if we want to entertain this group of people with movies?
It's very simple. Add what you call artistry to ordinary movies, use artistry to rub their G-spots, make them feel good, and let them spend their time watching movies instead of participating in the new-age 'Paris Commune'.

So artistry is also a form of entertainment, but it targets a more culturally advanced group, Uncle Scorsese, am I right?"

Sophia laughed.

Martin Scorsese frowned and thought for a while, "No, that's very one-sided. Art is also a kind of wealth, such as the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. The same is true for film art. Artistic films are still worth watching no matter how many years have passed."

"Director Scorsese is right."

Everyone nodded in unison.

"Uncle Scorsese, when you say artistic films, do you mean silent films? In the era of talkies, how many people still watch such films? How much value do films that no one watches have?
As for the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso that you mentioned, how many ordinary people can understand the artistry in them? Not many. Everyone only knows that their paintings are valuable. So the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso are also tools used to entertain the time of high intellectuals, and they are also a form of entertainment. "

Sophia spoke faster and faster during the debate, her face flushed, as if she was doing something very exciting.

"Sophia, stop talking."

Director Coppola's face darkened. Although he agreed with some of what Sofia said, this was not a place for a young person like her to express her opinions. If she had anything to say, she could go back and say it at the dinner table instead of in front of many filmmakers who valued film art. Suddenly, Director Coppola noticed that Link was also smiling. He couldn't help but snorted, "Director Link, do you also agree with Sofia's argument?"

"Yes, very much so."

Link laughed.

Sophia touched his arm affectionately.

"Is that why Director Lin made a gimmicky movie like Paranormal Activity?"

Dustin Hoffman laughed as he stood in the crowd.

Because he is not tall, he looks a little inconspicuous standing next to the tall Keanu Reeves.

Link glanced at him. "I agree with what Sofia said about the artistry being included in the entertainment attribute. As for my movies Buried and Paranormal Activity, I always believe that a movie is valuable only when people watch it, regardless of whether its audience is ordinary people with a low level of appreciation or high-level intellectuals who like art films.

In July 1776, the United States signed the Declaration of Independence, which stated that all people were created equally by God. In 7, France promulgated the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which stated that all people are equal before the law.

From then on, equality for all became a consensus among mankind.

However, the film industry seems to have not achieved this yet. People who watch art films look down on ordinary people who watch ordinary films. Filmmakers who work in art films disdain their peers who make commercial films and think they are superior to others.

this is not good.

Commercial films serve 90% of the general public, and art films serve the 10% of the elite. We are all in the service industry, so there is no need to be complacent just because we serve the elite, nor do we need to be bothered by the fact that we are making commercial films or gimmicky films. In the entertainment industry, we just need to be happy. "

"well said!"

Sophia clapped excitedly and reached out to high-five Link, as if the two of them had joined forces to win a battle.

The others looked at Link unhappily. Although what he said was true, the truth was too ugly and no one would be happy to see the ugly side of themselves.

clap clap clap!
Director Martin Scorsese, who looked festive, suddenly clapped his hands.

"Haha, Link, Sofia, you both said very well. Your opinions are refreshing to me. I hope we can talk more when we have time, so that an old guy like me can listen to the ideas of you, the younger generation of directors."

"Ok, no problem."

Sophia smiled.

Link nodded in agreement.

Seeing director Martin Scorsese clapping, several young people including Keanu Reeves and Nicolas Cage also clapped.

But most of those present remained silent.

The silence lasted until the movie "Dracula" started, and the theater became lively and cheerful again.

In the entertainment industry, the most important thing is that everyone is happy.

(End of this chapter)