On January 5th, the 34th China Film Golden Rooster Awards Guangzhou Winning Film Media Sharing Meeting was held. In the recently announced winners of the 34th Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese Films, Guangzhou Film is on the list. The Cantonese opera film "Nanyue Palace Words", jointly produced by Guangzhou Radio and Television Station and Guangzhou Cantonese Theatre Co., Ltd., won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Opera Film; Zhong Weizhao, editor of "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", which was co-produced by Guangzhou Yingming Culture Communication Co., Ltd., won the Best Editing Award; and "Chinese Doctor" produced by Guangdong Bona Film Media Co., Ltd. won the Best Music Award.
In fact, as early as the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards, "Cantonese films" showed a lot of strength. For example, "Water Moon in Hand" and "A Little Starlight" won the Best Record/Science and Education Film Award and the Best Children's Film Award respectively.
There is a code hidden behind the awards, combing through the Cantonese films in recent years, you will find that local themes, technical support, Guangdong-Hong Kong cooperation and other elements have provided help for these films. Behind these supporting elements, what is hidden is the film exchange and innovative methods provided by Guangdong Film from the aspects of theaters, film and television bases, film festivals, and film enterprises.
1 The Golden Rooster "Code" of "Cantonese Movies":
Local theme + technical support + Guangdong-Hong Kong cooperation
The films that brought back the "Golden Rooster" from the 34th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Films all pointed to the three characteristics of local themes, technical support and Guangdong-Hong Kong cooperation.
Based on Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, telling the story of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has brought infinite charm to Cantonese films.
As early as the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Films, the children's film "A Little Starlight", which is based on local stories, has won the Best Children's Film Award. The story is based on the experience of the students of Guangzhou Qixing Primary School using "a rope to change their destiny", using poetic film language to show the life and training of several children in the jump rope team, tracking how the jump rope team of Seven Star Primary School created a result that can be described as a "miracle", showing the imagination and tenacity of children who are poor and difficult to limit; and the Cantonese opera film "Wedding on the Execution Ground" produced by Guangzhou Radio and Television Station is rooted in local Cantonese opera culture and was also shortlisted for the best opera film of the Golden Rooster Award.
In the 34th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Films, films based on local stories sprinted again. For example, "Chinese Doctor", which has earned more than 1.3 billion box office, once chose the roadshow location on the first day of the film screening in Guangzhou, director Liu Weiqiang once told Nandu reporters that he had gone to Guangzhou in July 2020 to collect wind and communicate with many medical staff who had been to Wuhan, and Tao Jun, played by Zhu Yawen in the film, was also one of the core members of the new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control team of Academician Zhong Nanshan and the first doctor in Guangdong to support Hubei.
The "Nanyue Palace Words" produced by Guangzhou Radio and Television Station is adapted from the Cantonese opera of the same name, telling the story of the late Qin and early Han Dynasties that sent Zhao Tuo to the south to conquer Baiyue, and Zhao Tuo boycotted the war and sought peace and finally integrated the Hanyue nation and became the king of Nanyue. The story and the Cantonese opera film "Wedding on the Execution Ground", which was nominated for the Best Drama Film of the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards, belong to the "Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Film Quality Project" sponsored by the Publicity Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, which plans to shoot 10 large-scale Cantonese opera into Cantonese opera films and distribute them worldwide. At present, Guangzhou Radio and Television Station and Guangzhou Cantonese Opera House are continuing to work together to promote the creation of new Cantonese opera films such as "Rui Wang and Zhuang Fei" and "Fan Li Xian Xi Shi".
In addition to local themes, technical support is also an important guarantee for Cantonese films to continue to win good results.
Yang Lu, deputy director of Guangzhou Radio and Television Station, revealed at the sharing meeting that "Nanyue Palace Words" is an opera film that can be fully produced and released license in China in 2020.
"The film adopts ultra-high-definition technology to shoot, and a total of 3 studios are used for scene construction throughout the filming, including the core scenes such as the Nanyue Royal Palace, the Underground Palace, the Royal Garden, and the Cottage, and the settings and props reproduce various bronze vessels, ancient totems, golden flute statues and other elements, supplemented by virtual scenes showing the majestic and magnificent palace complex and the magical and romantic ancient style of South Vietnam. In addition, the film also makes a lot of use of digital technology, so that each scene has the realism of the film scene and the freehand of the dramatic stage. Yang Lu said.
Yang Lu, deputy director of Guangzhou Radio and Television Station
In addition to "Nanyue Palace Words", "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", which won the Golden Rooster Award this time, is also quite attentive at the technical level. Wu Wei, head of the film project of Guangzhou Yingming Culture Communication Co., Ltd., mentioned at the scene that "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" has done a lot of work in terms of special effects and authenticity.
"There are a lot of explosion scenes in the movie, at the beginning it was a very large explosion scene, and then there were intermittent explosions in the later stage, and we all studied these scenes carefully, including the messiness of the scene. There is also a place where the protagonist Andy Lau wears prosthetics in many places in the movie, involving difficult actions, including running, climbing, and jumping in residential buildings, streets and alleys, overpasses and other places, which require actors and special effects technical teams to cooperate well. Wu Wei shared.
With the deepening of exchanges in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in film has also become increasingly close.
"Bomb Disposal Expert 2", which won the Golden Rooster Best Editing Award, was evaluated by the Golden Rooster Award as "skilled in technique" and "perfectly highlighting the character's mental journey". Editor Zhong Weizhao served as the editor of "Bomb Disposal Expert", and "Bomb Disposal Expert" was nominated for Best Editing at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards. The film's more than 120 shooting scenes, explosion scenes, Hong Kong landmarks and other places are presented and connected in the lens language, and the scene scheduling and film editing are extremely difficult, testing the techniques of film directors and film editors.
Wu Wei, head of the film project of Guangzhou Yingming Culture Communication Co., Ltd
In this regard, Wu Wei, head of the film project of Guangzhou Yingming Culture Communication Co., Ltd., revealed that "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" has the gene of "Greater Bay Area" and has absorbed the technical advantages of the Hong Kong film industry. "The film industry base in Hong Kong has given us a great experience. Combining the experience and technology of Hong Kong and Macao films, coupled with the shooting and content control of the mainland, can better enhance the depth of the film, and there are great opportunities for Guangdong-Hong Kong film cooperation. ”
2 The "Cantonese" approach to film exchange and innovation:
From the base to the film festival, film enterprises, open up the whole industry
At the sharing meeting, Xia Qingwen, director of the Film Management Department of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee, proposed that in terms of creation and production, Guangdong films have always been in the forefront, and in film consumption, Guangdong has always been the first "ticket warehouse". In order to promote the development of Guangdong film, he announced more details about the future layout of the Guangdong film industry. "At the institutional level, we are currently revising the province's special fund management measures, clarifying some standards for film awards and funding from an institutionalized point of view; the next step will also be to introduce implementation opinions on the high-quality development of the film market in the province, and strive to better layout, promote the balanced development of urban and rural cinemas, and better meet the needs of the grass-roots people for high-quality cultural life."
Xia Qingwen, director of the Film Management Department of the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee
In addition, Xia Qingwen revealed that it will explore the establishment of a provincial key film project database, strengthen cooperation with film enterprises, strengthen cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao film and television related enterprises, strengthen cooperation between provinces and cities, attract more good films to set up projects in Guangdong, better play the advantages of Lingnan culture, and tell Chinese stories, Bay Area stories, and Guangdong stories.
Chen Xiaodan, deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and director of the Municipal Press and Publication Bureau (Municipal Copyright Bureau), said that the works that won the Gold Award in Guangzhou this year have achieved the unity of people's nature, era and artistry.
For example, "Nanyue Palace Words" is an opera film focusing on the inheritance and innovation of Cantonese opera, "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" is a Guangdong-Hong Kong cooperation film based on the cultural integration and development of the Greater Bay Area, and "Chinese Doctor" is a key film celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Party by acura's great anti-epidemic spirit. Among them, the two films "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" and "Chinese Doctor" both grossed more than 1.3 billion yuan, jointly setting a box office record for Cantonese films, which also strongly confirmed that the excellent films with the main theme can achieve both social and economic benefits. ”
Chen Xiaodan, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and director of the Municipal Press and Publication Bureau (Municipal Copyright Bureau).
In fact, the award-winning results reflect Guangzhou's layout of the film industry in recent years. It is worth noting that the layout of the film industry has gradually returned from the cinema facilities that directly contact the audience to the construction of the film and television base in the upstream of the film industry, providing a certain foundation for realizing the unity of the people's nature, the times and artistry of the film industry.
Cinema facilities in Guangzhou are gradually being improved. According to statistics, as of the end of November 2021, Guangzhou has 254 cinemas, 1823 screens, 224615 seats, 2.7767 million movies, and 32.093 million movie audiences. Among the top ten cinemas in the country, 2 are from Guangzhou, and Guangdong Dadi and Jinyi Zhujiang rank second and seventh respectively.
In the upstream of the film - the construction of the film and television base, the Cantonese film industry is also gradually advancing. Previously, Nandu had produced a report on the film and television base in Guangdong Province (click to view). The report shows that Guangdong film and television bases or industrial parks are mostly concentrated in the Pearl River Delta region, and there are 8 film and television bases or film and television industrial parks in Guangzhou.
It is worth noting that the film exchange and cooperation platform in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is also gradually being built. In 2021, the film head enterprise Bona Pictures has settled in Guangzhou, the establishment of the Greater Bay Area headquarters, the Golden Rooster Award for Best Music Award "Chinese Doctor" was born here, Bona President Yu Dong once said that it will work with pearl river film group, Guangdong film industry talents, to create a highland of Chinese film creation, the third pole of China's film development. In addition, Emperor Entertainment, a well-known film company in Hong Kong, has set up a Greater Bay Area headquarters in Yuexiu District, and the production company Yindu Agency has also strengthened its core film business in Guangzhou.
The holding of related film festivals and activities is also gradually creating a better industrial and creative atmosphere for Cantonese films. Up to now, Guangzhou has successively held international and domestic film festivals such as China (Guangzhou) International Children's Film Festival, China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Film Night, Guangzhou University Students Film Festival and so on. In addition, it regularly invites domestic film masters to come to Sui for exchanges, jointly builds the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Filmmakers' Home", and continues to carry out activities such as "Premiere in Guangzhou", which also continuously enhances the brand influence of Cantonese films.
Under the opening of industrial channels such as film and television bases to theaters and film festivals, a number of excellent Cantonese films have gradually "developed": "A Little Starlight", "Water Moon in Hand", "Wedding on the Execution Ground", "Chinese Doctor", "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", "Nanyue Palace Words", "Pig Pig Man Movie Dinosaur Diary", "Lion Boy"...
Written by: Nandu reporter Lin Wenqi
Photo: Nandu reporter Zhong Ruijun