Xing Bo
Well-known Chinese film director, producer and producer
Outstanding Young Artist of Virtue and Art Shuangxin
Outstanding representative of the eighth generation of Chinese film directors
Won the Special Asian Film Award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival
Won the Young Director of the Year Award in Asia
Special worldwide screening at the Cannes International Film Festival in France
In 2021, as the chief planner, he won the Best Family Feature Film Award at the Cannes International Film Festival in France
In 2021, China Post will issue stamps for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
1. What is the most memorable thing for you in the past 2021?
Xing Bo: 2021 is a year of great significance for us, always maintaining the original intention and committing to innovation.
2, It is reported that you won the honor of Outstanding Young Artist of Virtue and Art Shuangxin, how do you feel about this?
Xing Bo: It is a great honor to be awarded the honor of Outstanding Young Artist of Virtue and Art Shuangxin in 2021, as a young artist, this is the highest honor, thank you to the motherland, thank you for the times!
3, As an excellent filmmaker who has been in the film for more than ten years, can you talk about your creative philosophy?
Xing Bo: I have always advocated the creative concept of genre films, determined to create and explore genre films, being an excellent creator of genre films has always been what I pursue, I advocate the integration of artistry and commerciality of films, the integration of multi-genre elements of films and the integration of commerciality, I personally feel that excellent filmmakers should pursue the highest level, both business and art. I think that an excellent film must cater to the audience's viewing interest while integrating into the expression of personal emotions, and strive to create a film with a good market reputation with the temperament of a literary and artistic film.
4, you have cooperated with a lot of stars, but also have been digging for good newcomer actors, what do you think are the standards for good actors?
Xing Bo: In my opinion, a good actor must be a typical character with a distinct personality, natural and real. I personally think that actors don't have to be particularly delicate and handsome, but they must have understanding and charm. Years of experience have made me realize that the combination of "experiential performance" and "expressionist performance" is the best performance, and both experience and performance are the best performance state. The actor must convey the thoughts, psychology, emotions, personality, and everything of the characters he experiences to the audience through performance, action, and line language. Therefore, the actor is created according to the character through his own experience, and the character created by the actor should make the audience have a sense of identity and touch the audience's heart.
5, in your opinion, what kind of script is a good script?
Xing Bo: The principle I have always adhered to when choosing the script is that the story must be able to impress me emotionally, the most important thing in the script is to see whether the characters can stand, the script story is mainly driven by the characters, and it is difficult for the characters to move the plot smoothly, let alone move the audience. If the character relationship and contradictions and conflicts are established, the narrative idea of the entire script will be very clear, so that the main story line is wonderful and compact. Excellent script must be a comprehensive consideration of the overall design of the shot picture when shooting, the film lines must be subtracted, less than the last resort to try not to use the lines, the charm of the movie is to rely on the picture to tell the story, I do not like to put the film expression of things directly hard to the audience, I hope that the audience follows the characters to find, discover, bring the audience into the story, and experience an audiovisual feast given to us by the movie.
6, ten years ago, you were once known as the gold medal director of Chinese suspense thriller films, and now you are more involved in the creation of such films as a producer, how do you think of thrillers?
Xing Bo: Yes, at the beginning of my career, I started my filmmaking career through suspense thriller genre films, and through shooting this type of film, I laid a solid foundation for my narrative control, light and shadow processing, and rhythm control.
In recent years, I have mainly been a producer for some directors in the production of the gate, I hope that my experience can help these young directors.
Overall, today's domestic thrillers are generally not good in script and production. I think that horror is scary or to take the psychological thriller route, and thriller movies should shift from intuitive horror and so on to people's psychological horror. To learn to set the thriller point very restrained, very deliberately to scare the audience, may have the opposite effect, I think psychological thriller combined with the disclosure of gray is the highest state of creating thrillers.
7. What is your favorite film director in the world at present?
Xing Bo: There is no doubt that this is Nolan! Nolan's penchant for non-linear storytelling is evident in his work Follow, which followed, and the subsequent Fragments of Memory was a great success. In 2010, "Inception", which swept the global box office, marked the peak of Nolan's trend of complex narrative, he brought exquisite narrative strategy to the blockbuster, so that all viewers indulged in his labyrinth of thinking and were willing to contribute to the box office. In the Dark Knight trilogy, he broke with the conventional perception of superheroes and opened up a new model for superhero movies. I particularly appreciate a quote from Nolan: "A movie is an unfinished movie until the audience finishes watching it."
8, Chinese films have made rapid progress in recent years, behind the prosperity, what problems do you think there are in Chinese films?
Xing Bo: The biggest problem is the scarcity of good scripts, and then there is a good script, the director is not good, and domestic cinema films are always not accurate emotional expression, which cannot cause the audience's emotional resonance! The trend of differentiation of Chinese films is taking shape, and at the same time, the shortcomings of our genre films are very obvious, and there is even no concept of genre films. There is also a relatively single Chinese film distribution and screening system, mainly based on cinema lines, the vast majority of cinemas in order to maximize economic benefits, most of the films they screen are large-scale production, big stars of commercial blockbusters, it is inevitable to produce homogenization problems. Most of the small and medium-sized costs are squeezed out in theaters, and some movies are made without the opportunity to meet the audience. Therefore, I think it is imperative to establish a differentiated and differentiated screening system.
9, It is understood that you will serve as the producer of many movies and TV series next?
Xing Bo: I have always felt that the competition in the film and television industry is actually a competition between producers. First of all, a good producer must have a keen literacy, take the latest film and television industry policy as the guide, and strive to create good works that tell Chinese stories and spread Chinese voices. There is also the need to be a producer with a keen judgment on the director's skill, quality and expertise, script potential, film quality and film prospects. Good at choosing a good script is especially important for the producer, the theme of the selected script should be clear, the plot should be true and typical, the concept should be ingenious and innovative, the structure should be rigorous, and the rhythm should be undulating, because the film literary script is the foundation of the film, and the most important thing is to grasp the psychology of the audience and meet the taste of the audience. For the producer of the film and television drama production funds of the operation, management ability is a necessary condition, according to different film and television drama projects to understand the cost control and accounting, the producer must be responsible for investors, to ensure the interests, this is the trust of investors is the greatest return!