Author / Long live entertainment
The ultimate destination of filmmakers may be to go on variety shows. Since 2017's "The Birth of an Actor", the talent show has not been satisfied with singing and dancing, and actors have been a hot word in the past few years, and starting this year, this hot word may have to be replaced by a director.
"Director Please Advise" and "Let's Start Shooting" two variety shows with the director as the protagonist were broadcast one after another, putting the director, who was originally a bit mysterious behind-the-scenes role, in front of the stage and opening the director 101 mode.
At present, the model and theme of the two programs are similar. There are production teams escorted, actors can be selected, there are film critics' views output, the purpose is to give young directors the opportunity to shoot short films, through the competitive mode, multi-dimensional competition, restore the director's filmmaking process, so that the audience is more familiar with these directors.
Having said that, the effect of the program's broadcast is still a matter of opinion. Entertainment Sir does not want to compare the two shows, purely from the perspective of variety shows and movies, director 101 is not OK? Do directors have a chance at the variety show track?
Variety vs Movies
"Director Please Advise", which took the lead first, won a lot of topics in the lineup, and there were many characters with hot search physiques in the list of participants. There is Bi Zhifei, the winner of the lowest score of douban movies, Bao Bell, who made a controversial film, Wang Wenye, Huayi Qianjin, Cai Kangyong, who can speak the truth, and Guan Jinpeng, the director who made "Rouge Buckle".
Any one of these guests is worth a hot search topic, but until now, even the directors with such a topical degree have not become the protagonists, and the program is based on quarrels. Almost every trailer is choking each other, some between the director and the producer, some between the critic and the producer, and some between the critic and the audience... It is said that the support of new directors, can act back and forth, or engage in conflicts and quarrels, the directors who should be the focus of the most have become supporting roles.
However, from the perspective of variety shows, "Director Please Advise" is qualified in terms of heat, although Douban is now stuck at 4.0 points, but the strategy of noisy noise is also quite in line with the audience's curiosity to eat melons.
The other "Let's Shoot" may be influenced by the word of mouth of "Director Please Advise", and it is obviously strategically intended to focus on word of mouth. There is no hot topic and large-scale mutual tearing scene, but the topic degree is not as good as "Director Please Advise", so as to avoid becoming a quarrel program, "Start Shooting" is still a bit "gunpowder" in the review stage of the work.
After the screening of Yi Xiaoxing's short film "Who Took My Takeaway", film critics commented that this short film was a sketch rather than a movie. Yi Xiaoxing was also scolding during the interview, and no one could stipulate what the movie was like.
However, this period of remorse is placed in the interview, it is obvious that the program team does not want to do things, but the contradiction and conflict between variety shows and movies cannot be hidden. Most of the film critics are "variety artists" who know how to create topics, while most directors are not very good at coping with such scenes. Either lie flat and ridicule like Cai Kangyong and Bao Bell, or argue with reason like Xiang Guoqiang, and finally become more and more intense.
Obviously, the topicality of variety shows and the quality of the short films themselves are sometimes separated. If it is really a draft, neither show has achieved the most basic point: the contestants should stand on the same running line.
"Let's Shoot" has only 6 directors, 6 people are also from the class, some are cross-border transformation, some have already had representative works, "Director Please Advise" The director's qualifications are even more diverse, from the perspective of resources and other points of view, this is not a fair "game".
Judging from the setting of the link, the two programs do not seem to have a clear evaluation system at present. Taking "Director Please Advise" as an example, in the director PK link, Bao Bell to Xiang Guoqiang, Bi Zhifei to Liang Long, it is obvious that this is for the topic of such a grouping, otherwise from the perspective of the director's type, Bao Bell should be on Bi Zhifei, Liang Long on Xiang Guoqiang, business to business, art to art, but this is fair from the rules, but from the topic point of view, it is "failed".
Can variety shows save directors?
In the early years, there was a director variety show called "I Want to Make a Movie" that was personally conducted by Long Dani, which was the first civilian director selection activity in China. The gimmick of this show is more than "Director Please Advise", the same is a gimmick to live the draft, "I want to make a movie" Douban 8.4 points, very grounded, walking that kind of black and red style, daily is the difficulty of the family, or which male director is tired to urine blood, listening to enough dog blood, but also quite real.
"I want to make a movie" is a play in the variety show, and many of the contestants in the show are grassroots people, and they have no previous experience in the film industry. Obviously, "I want to make a movie" is a pure variety show. At that time, Long Dani also promised to make a serial program like Supergirl, and later everyone knew that this program became a masterpiece.
However, this show still has a lot of vicissitudes, and the players who were eliminated were Wen Muye, the director of "I Am Not a Medicine God", Deng Ke, the director of "Son-in-law", and the director of "Beneficiary", but they were recognized many years later in this show.
After all, variety shows can't save the director. When the acting show became popular, many people said that the spring of good actors came, and the acting school was saved.
Although "The Birth of an Actor" is well-known, it has indeed made some powerful factions receive attention in the show. But now ask you, who is the champion of "The Birth of an Actor", you may not be able to answer it, but when it comes to Ouyang Nana," "ants have been racing for ten years," Zheng Shuang's laughter field has caused Liu Ye, Zhang Ziyi to quarrel, Huang Shengyi's star girl filter shattered and dedicated "Haiwa is dead", Yuan Li complained bitterly about the black curtain of the program group... You must remember all this gossip vividly.
This is the strength of variety shows, it can't save acting, but it can retain a lot of topics. And those powerful actors who have glimpsed in the acting show have not undergone such a blessing in the world because of this show. Ni Hongjie and Wen Zhengrong, who are very eye-catching, are still silent in the mothers or supporting roles of various film and television dramas. Although Niu Junfeng, the champion of "Actors Please Take Place", received a lot of attention on the show, his own resources did not soar, or he was hovering in the second and third lines.
Compared with actors, newcomer directors lack variety shows and topicality, they are more difficult to "go out of the circle", and it is difficult to get so-called resources through a program. Just like an excellent industry drama, the audience should be curious about this industry, and even understand and engage in related industries. A good director's variety show should also make the audience curious about the profession of director, so that the audience can better understand the industrialization system of filmmaking, rather than leaving only various gimmicks in the end.
Insiders often say, "Film is the art of the director", and the importance of the director is self-evident. Entertainment Sir hopes that the director variety show can bring fire to a group of truly powerful newcomer directors, officially speaking, it is for the development of the film industry, and in layman's terms, the audience hopes that directors will make fewer bad films. In the future, the track of director variety shows will definitely be more abundant, and I hope that everyone will support it, after all, everything is for Chinese films.