A few years ago, director Bi Zhifei successfully won the crown of douban's lowest-scoring film with a "Dream Showbiz", which became the laughing stock of the whole world for a time.
After "Dream Showbiz" received a shocking Douban rating, he became famous overnight, just like Liang Long of the second-hand rose said, it is also remarkable to be able to get the first place in the 400,000 movies in Douban.
The same is a bad film, the fate of "Dream Showbiz" is much better than other bad films, it is bad enough to get the attention of the majority of netizens, better than people, that is better than people's rotten, anyway, horizontal and vertical is to take the first, whether it is counting positively or counting backwards, refusing to be mediocre, on the road to worse than rotten "Dream Showbiz" is indeed difficult to find opponents.
This movie really has nothing to talk about in terms of content, messy to the extreme, basically forget after watching it, the storyline is fragmented, what story it tells, it is not clear and unclear, just remember a group of young people bouncing around on the beach There is nothing too deeply impressive.
Technically, the director strives to be tall, interpolating, flashback, flashback, multi-line narrative, good or not lively, is completely ignorant. The use of the lens is terrible.
None of the actors are well-known, and none of the acting skills can be online, but they are on par with the overall level of the director.
Through such a surprisingly bad movie, Bi Zhifei also succeeded in catching fire, and for a time everyone knew what kind of character the director who created the historical rating record of Douban was.
During that time, he appeared on many interviews and variety shows, including "Four Tastes of Poisonous Uncle" by Wang Hailin, a screenwriter of poisonous tongues, and "Dr. Qi Ai Talks About Movies" by Yin Shanshan, a female teacher of Chinese opera.
It is particularly worth saying that he participated in Wang Hailin's "Four Tastes of Poison Uncle", when Wang Hailin wanted to invite Bi Zhifei to participate in his interview, Bi Zhifei of course has a lot of courage, we have to tell the truth, not all bad film directors and actors with poor acting skills dare to go on this show, everyone has to have some face.
But Bi Zhifei is not a mortal, others dare to invite him, he really dares to come, or others say that he has a kind of confidence in the fans. And learned that Wang Hailin wants to invite Bi Zhifei, all the main creative staff of "Four Tastes of Poison Uncle" have fried the pot, our show is an attitude, a professional talk show, before coming to our "Four Tastes of Poison Uncle" who are who? They are all acting schools like Hao Lei, Liao Fan, and Wang Jinsong. We can't hire such a poor level filmmaker for the sake of attracting people's attention, so as to reduce the quality and grade of the entire show. Even the cameraman is going on strike, visit yourself, we don't serve him.
Although everyone's opposition is very loud, Wang Hailin finally tried to exclude public opinion and invited Bi Zhifei to the scene, and the reason he persuaded everyone was: we not only have to study the successful experience of the film, sometimes the experience of failure is also very important, we need to know how a movie can be made so bad, how profound the meaning behind this is, we as a professional film and television industry media, we should have the responsibility and obligation to dig out the reasons behind the matter.
So, Bi Zhifei came, that day's program recorded for a full half day, and finally edited out of 45 minutes, for Bi Zhifei, it was quite embarrassing and painful 45 minutes.
Wang Hailin definitely criticized Bi Zhifei with enough sincerity, and the two first watched the film in a private room, and after the end of the film, the two sat together and began to talk.
Wang Hailin bluntly said that although he has been mentally prepared, the quality of the final film is beyond his imagination and refreshes his cognition of rottenness. What kind of person is that Wang Hailin, his face is shrugged, and he bombards Bi Zhifei with all kinds of high energy, only to see that Director Bi Zhifei's face is a burst of red and a burst of white.
As early as in the college, Bi Zhifei clarified his research direction, taking Martin Scorsese as his research object, and did not know what director Bi Zhifei's conclusion was in studying Martin Scorsese, and it is certain that he did not learn half a bit from his old man.
Looking at director Bi's information, he obtained a master's degree in the acting department at Nortel and a doctorate at Peking University, which is a high-achieving student from the highest film school in China and even Asia. For film theory, Bi Zhifei can always talk about it, one set after another, one mouth is Steadicam and Montage, discussing what methodological acting and experiential acting skills are superior, evaluating the achievements of David Griffiths and George Mérie, in a scolding, he also took this epic bad film to California in the United States to get the best film called the Emperor International Film Festival.
This "Pheasant" film festival is probably famous for Bi Zhifei's films. Otherwise, beijing Changping compatriots may hold a Tiantongyuan Film Festival a hundred times larger than this scale and popularity, one really dares to award, one really dares to take.
Of course, in fact, the audience does not need to be indignant, and there is no need to be too excited, because in fact, this movie was only screened in theaters for four days and then hastily withdrawn, so there are not many victims who are really entered the cinema by this movie. More people just casually look at the Internet, not to mention that no matter how small cities spend 8 yuan to experience a charter effect, it is also worth the ticket price.
In such an era, investors are more sophisticated than monkeys, a newcomer with no directing experience, and a cast of twenty-eight-line actors, the script is nothing new, why is anyone willing to invest in this movie? Wang Hailin also asked Bi Zhifei about this. And Bi Zhifei's answer also made people drop their jaws, and the investment of 25 million yuan was actually obtained by relying on crowdfunding. No wonder Wang Hailing praised his talent for financing far outweighing his artistic talent.
In fact, on Wang Hailin's program, Bi Zhifei is still relatively restrained and has always behaved more restrained. A "mistake must be recognized, beaten to stand up" attitude, however, to Yin Shanshan's program, it is obvious that Bi Zhifei let go of himself. After all, female compatriots, with a little pity, how to scold you behind the back, but when face to face, it is not very embarrassing, somewhat "reach out and do not hit the smiley face person" meaning.
This feeling Bi Zhifei can easily understand, he is very good at looking at other people's faces, and that aura can be felt, a completely different atmosphere.
Talking with girls, everyone understands, obviously only eighty also have to say themselves as one hundred and two, especially when the girl listens seriously, you suddenly come to a kind of self-confidence, bragging is no edge, talk about how you "cut off the face, the ugly", how "warm wine cut Huaxiong", how "flooded the Seventh Army" how "passed five levels and cut six generals", how "a thousand miles to go alone", and for their own "defeat of Maicheng", "carelessly lost Jingzhou" things are not mentioned.
He said a lot of things in a very serious way, such as "I am a director with literary feelings", what "sooner or later I will break into Hollywood", what "insist on taking the style of realism", and so on, which makes people cry and laugh.
In the variety show "Director Please Advise", he was ridiculed by the famous "crazy demon" Li Chengru, ridiculed by Liang Long, and disliked by young actors. But Bi Zhifei obviously did not stop his own directing path because of this, he once denounced Douban movies, saying that they maliciously smeared their own works, and in 2021, he once again directed an animated short film "Magic Parent", which continued his usual level, but the good news is that this time he received a Douban score of 2.6.
Perhaps it is precisely because his previous filming of "Dream Showbiz" is too secondary, so when he creates new works again, he has more room for improvement, other directors will be called "Waterloo" when making works like "Magic Parents", and Bi Zhifei's shooting of such works is a big step forward, which is exactly the sentence: Rookie abuse is only a process, and the abuse of masters is the result.