Tencent Video's new variety show "Director Please Advise" has not been launched to win a lot of attention through successive official announcements of guests, trailers and other forms, and the first episode and the addition of more parts are even more topical, and there are similar topics on social media like #Director Please Advise is to spit on the conference# to trigger discussions. However, the hustle and bustle and mounting of the lively cannot stop the program's concept of "heavy topic, light creation".
From the perspective of traffic, this show is full of topicality, which can be called a "circle-breaking" network roundup. But for ordinary audiences, in addition to the liveliness and entertainment of the show itself, what other qualities does this variety show have, is it really worth continuing to watch?
The program form of "Director Please Advise" is not complicated, the so-called "film and television directors competitive reality show", is by 16 directors in the program to select guest actors, create and shoot film and television works. Like all competitive variety shows, there are four "mentors" in the setting; in addition, there are also "film identification groups" composed of practitioners, professional film critics and audiences in the program who can express their opinions on the works.
Simply put, the show is well staffed and free of loopholes. However, the personnel allocation of the program has brought a lot of doubts to the audience - "producers", actors and directors are uneven in terms of professionalism and popularity. Mentors "producers" include Wang Jing, Fang Li, Chen Zhixi and Hao Lei, whose industry responsibilities and respective past achievements can convince ordinary audiences to a certain extent. In terms of actor configuration, there are also well-known artists such as Hui Yinghong, Yang Qianwei, Hu Xing'er, Xue Kaiqi, Li Chengru and so on. But the casting of directors, which should be the core of this show, has made the audience have mixed feelings. The mixed casting of directors seems to be able to see that the program team laid down the idea of making a lively topic variety show or a controversial variety show at the beginning of the project.
Therefore, after the program was broadcast, the directors who should have been the protagonists became the bottom of the program's chain of contempt, standing on the stage to be criticized. Regardless of the fact that the group of directors selected by the program group has uneven abilities and experiences, and the comparability between them is not great; in terms of the fact that these "directors" really need to be "instructed" to discuss, "mentors" and "film critics" and others should never be arrogant and above the creators.
Even, taking ten thousand steps back, this variety show does not even reflect the basic respect between people, and all that remains is the meaningless dispute between the tip of the needle to Mai Mang. According to "One Piece Movie", this is "squeezing the director dry, consuming the film, and catering to the public".
In the first episode of the 90-minute program, the content of the filming process recorded by the two directors is only 20 minutes in total, and the rest of the time is mainly a tit-for-tat quarrel in addition to the film - the producer, the film critic, the audience, and the director are arranged and combined to argue with each other, which is extremely noisy. The so-called "Director Please Advise" is just a gimmick with the director and the movie, and the main content is still the "tearing each other" and "quarreling" that some variety shows are best at.
Film critics have become the backbone of "quarrels" and "mutual tearing", in addition to the internal disputes between different preferences, but also questioned the director, educated the audience, some professional, advanced things blurted out, but is not willing to use the vernacular to express the advantages and disadvantages of the film, it is no wonder that some media directly commented on its "daddy taste is too heavy".
As The Surging has said: This is not a dialogue that respects the director, faces the audience, is simple and simple, and you come and go, but like the "preaching" of the tutor on the graduation defense.
Originally, the main audience of the variety show was the "unprofessional" ordinary audience, but after watching this show, the ordinary audience who wanted to know more about the film industry may sadly find that they were not only held by various high-ranking preaching "daddies", but also buckled a cauldron - "not understanding the film and feeling that the film is not good is the problem of the audience." ”
In the introduction of the program, "Director Please Advise" is intended to "let the audience have a deeper understanding of the profession of director after the program is broadcast, so that excellent directors can be seen." However, as far as the content currently online is concerned, excellent directors have not yet seen it, and hastily produced short films have seen four; respect for the audience's preferences and feedback have not been seen, and sharp-toothed "film critics" have seen a lot.
Does this make Chinese movies better? No, maybe for many people, the emergence of this show only provides an explanation for the frequent appearance of some domestic movies.