On Wednesday night, Wang Xiaoshuai, one of the representatives of China's sixth generation of directors, was a guest of the ninth season of "Lu Yu Has About a Day Trip", he was a regular guest of major international film festivals, and formed a unique personal image style with many literary and artistic works such as "Qinghong", "Rizhao Chongqing" and "Long Day". In this program, Wang Xiaoshuai returned to the Fujian Film Studio to revisit his hometown and talk about the anecdotes about youth and dreams about movies.
Fu Film Studio revisits the hometown to reminisce about youth and dreams, adhere to the original intention of the ideal and do not change the achievement of "film life"
Wang Xiaoshuai was born in Shanghai, and then moved with his parents to Guiyang, Wuhan and other places, until the age of 15 came to Beijing alone to study, when he was young, he moved to various places, lingering sense of wandering and fear of uncertainty about the future, so that the concept of "hometown" was vague to him, which also created his later attitude to life and unique image style to a certain extent.
In the show, Wang Xiaoshuai and his former friends gathered at the Fujian Film Studio, which is where he once worked and the first foothold of his film dreams. Recalling the scene when he first came to Fujian, Wang Xiaoshuai said that he came to a strange city alone, did not understand the dialect, and was not used to eating, but also met close friends. At that time, a young man who had just graduated from college wanted to make his own film, and he had to wait a long time, maybe three years, maybe five years... A year later, Wang Xiaoshuai, who could not wait, decided to leave and return to Beijing again to explore his "film life".
Respond to the controversy of netizens who directed the first web drama "Octagonal Pavilion Mist" in awe of the commercialization and marketization of the film
Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, "Seventeen-year-old bicycle", "Qinghong", "Sunset Chongqing", "Long Day" and other films have been nominated for the three major international film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin and have won some successes, although the best works continue to achieve remarkable results, he admits that a person cannot stop on the waves forever. This year, the suspense web drama "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Case" pushed Wang Xiaoshuai to the "cusp of the storm", this is his first time directing a web drama, netizens said that from the literary and art film market to the online drama market, Wang Xiaoshuai is still a bit "unsatisfied with the water and soil". In the show, Wang Xiaoshuai also responded that everyone is waiting to see the "highest-end suspense drama", and if you are not so "suspenseful", there will inevitably be some different sounds.
In the program, Wang Xiaoshuai and Lu Yu shared their views on the commercialization and marketization of movies. Back in 2003, when Chinese mainland film was initially liberalized into the market, he also discussed with Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke, thinking that the market would become larger and larger in the future, but it would not have any creative impact on himself. Wang Xiaoshuai also admitted that many investors have asked him to make commercial films, but they have all been rejected by him. In his view, the current business model has been formed, if you step into this model, you need to consider too much about the market, box office and the public, in a way will lose the dominance of the film. Wang Xiaoshuai bluntly said that he was in awe of the commercialization and marketization of movies, but this was not suitable for him.
The criterion for success that I envisioned was to photograph the creative state of enjoying savage growth at the age of eighty
When the program was filmed, during the "Second IM Cross-Strait Youth Film Festival", Wang Xiaoshuai, as the chairman of the jury of the film festival, worked with Hu Zhifeng, Chen Lingzhen, Zhang Dalei and other judges to judge the shortlisted works. During the film festival, he also came to the "Endless Life" creative training camp to bring a unique lecture to young directors, and he used his life experience and life experience to inspire young people with film dreams to live in today's "information explosion" era, to learn to find themselves, express themselves, and participate in the initial construction of the script as soon as possible.
Just like the theme of the film festival, "Toward the Sea Breeze: Savage Growth", Wang Xiaoshuai said that he enjoyed the creative state of "Savage Growth", and his expected success criterion was to make a film until he was eighty years old. Wang Xiaoshuai said that when he was young, he loved movies, but he often did not have the opportunity to shoot, and there were difficulties everywhere, he did not get a film license, did not break down technical barriers, and even did not have enough machines and films, but these did not stop him from chasing the footsteps of his film dreams.
Wang Xiaoshuai said that he treats every film as the last one, and perhaps it is precisely because of this mentality that he cherishes the image presentation and artistic expression of each work even more. In Wang Xiaoshuai's directorial career, there are many excellent works, which movie does he have a special love for? With the passage of time and age, how has his view of life and the world changed completely differently? More exciting content is available in the ninth season of Southeast Satellite TV's "Lu Yu Has About a Day Trip" this Wednesday night.