01.
All right, let's be quiet! Don't turn your head to ear! It is very serious that we are having this meeting today.
This meeting is related to the development direction of mainland film art creation, the centennial plan of the film circle money industry, and how to harvest the audience's wallet more concretely, more fullly and more vertically. If we don't understand this problem, our film investment business is going to have a big problem.
The main task of today's meeting is to talk about the issue of Jiang Wen's concept of creation. I recently read some information and found that the time has come to correct this problem. If we do not correct deviations, our money will be spent more and more confused, and if we do not correct deviations, the foundation of mainland commercial films will be shaken.
I think you have heard it too, and I have already used five "questions" on this question. What does this mean? This shows that the situation has developed to a very serious point. Below, I will fully demonstrate this point to you with a series of facts.
Lay out the facts and be reasonable, we will not blame a good person, and we will never let go of a bad person. The stars in the sky participate in the Big Dipper, and when it is time to shoot...
Frozen three feet, not a day's cold. In my opinion, many bad habits in Jiang Wen's creative career were cultivated as early as when he was studying. This jun has not been in the right position from the root, and it is too late to change the estimate. Comrade Jiang Wen graduated from Beijing 72 Middle School, and it is said that during the middle school period, he did not show the mountains and dew, and even his mother-in-law did not dare to shoot, but he did not expect that it was all an illusion. After being admitted to the Chinese opera, the true temperament could not be hidden.
This is also the bane of the heavy schoolwork of the Chinese opera. What level of Chinese drama is now, I am not quite clear, every week in those years, I had to let students submit a life observation, arrange a sketch to write and direct themselves. 4 years, that's more than 200 works. This has fully exercised Jiang Wen's creative ability and tapped his creative potential.
The key is that during this period, Jiang Wen received a lot of affirmations, both classmates and teachers felt that he was more directed than the directing department, and he could write more than the drama department, and his life observation ability was extremely strong. For example, it is said that when he rehearsed the graduation drama, he and Lu Liping played an old couple, and the script wrote that he called Lu "old wife", but he made up his own mind and changed it to "I say". The crowd listened and shouted wonderfully. There are countless such things, which have led to Jiang Wen's arrogance and infinite expansion when he participated in the film in the future.
What a profound historical lesson.
After graduation, in the Qingyi drama, Jiang Wen's bad habits of becoming more and more serious became more and more serious. Whatever script, makeup, costumes, he has to point fingers. No wonder after finishing "Konok or Triumph of Medicine" and leaving. I want to say that I am afraid that I have offended someone. Hey, it's also a fate. If he doesn't leave, maybe he will stay in the drama circle and not harm us.
Of course, we still have time to reflect.
In the film circle, Comrade Jiang Wen is still restless. When playing Puyi in "The Last Empress", he made suggestions to the makeup artist. People threw him a sentence "The oil shuttle is white----------------- He was not ashamed, but proud. Later, in an interview, he even showed off this matter many times.
There are also reasons for the times. In the 1980s, a hundred flowers blossomed, the tide of thought surged, and many directors had an artistic supremacy and an eclectic talent, so that Jiang Wen could take advantage of the opportunity to do more things. On this issue, the three directors, Xie Jin, Xie Fei and Zhang Yimou, bear unshirkable responsibility.
If I remember correctly, when Xie Jin filmed "Furong Town", he always encouraged Jiang Wen to change his words, not only to change it, but also to ask him to write a script and pull Liu Xiaoqing to rehearse. Xie Fei filmed "The Year of The Life" and also respected his opinion. There was a scene where Jiang Wen said that he wanted to smoke by leaning on the pillar, Xie Fei got him a pillar, Jiang Wen suggested that he would shoot at a different angle, and Xie Fei would change the angle to shoot. As for the fledgling Zhang Yimou, when filming "Red Sorghum", he relied too much on Jiang Wen. Historical data show that during the filming, Jiang Wen did not sleep all night, everyone was sleepy, he also pulled Zhang Yimou to chat about the play, talked about every detail, even the upside down car scene was designed by him...
In the face of the interview, Zhang Dao said that it was Jiang Wen who injected wildness and passion into "Red Sorghum". Privately, I think that this kind of words rot in the stomach can be. Have to be publicly touted? All of the above has activated the desire to create in Jiang Wen's body. He said that if you change the play, you will change the play, he designs the shooting method, and you will shoot it, is this not nonsense? I can't help but ask, who is the director? Who's creating? On set, who has the final say? Plus a Tian Zhuangzhuang, a vigorous to shake him as a director, borrowing the words of Master Tang:
"Is this necessary? Is this necessary? ”
At that time, there was only one clear-eyed person, that is, director Chen Kaige, only he bravely stood up and reminded Jiang Wen that the great actor came out of 70 years, and the director was everywhere, Jiang Wen You have this potential, you should act well.
In the first half of his life, Director Chen only did two major things, one was to shoot "Farewell to the Overlord", and the other was to say these words to Jiang Wen.
Unfortunately, the former succeeded, while the latter failed.
02.
It is not enough to have a creative desire in the air, nor is it enough to have a world-shattering talent. The movie is a money-burning commodity, actor Jiang Wen wants to become director Jiang Wen, there are not millions of dollars, he can only dream. In "The Birth of a Movie", he himself said that in 1992, after getting the novel "Animal Fierce" from Wang Shuo and spending a month and a half to change the 90,000-word script, no one invested in him at all. So he was idle and did not have anything to do, so he went to act in "Beijingers in New York".
At this time, Liu Xiaoqing helped him pull investment.
Comrade Liu Xiaoqing also has many historical problems, such as conceit, domineering, tax turmoil, love to pretend to be tender... But mainly it is still too spoiled Jiang Wen. Without her, there would be no "Sunny Day", without her, there would be no jiang Wen's successful transformation, without her, there would be no meeting we have today.
At the beginning, she was zhang Luo for Jiang Wen!!!
Cough, sorry, I'm too emotional...
It is said that it was in March 1992, Jiang Wen went to the United States for talent exchange, met his idol Martin Scorsese, asked lao ma if he could make a movie, and lao ma said to shoot! As we all know, this is just a scene of a famous director. Turning his head, Jiang Wen said to Liu Xiaoqing, or should I stay in the United States to study film?
Liu Xiaoqing said, silly brother, the director is not learned, you have to be a director, seize the time to shoot. This is good, as soon as he returned to China, Jiang Wen found Su Tong and proposed to shoot "Red Pink". Fortunately, director Li Shaohong took the lead.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Wang Shuo sent "Animals" to Jiang Wen's hand. With my understanding of Teacher Wang, he is definitely a person who has intentions, and he is definitely not a casual shot. Jiang Wen's compound background, can he not know? Sure enough, Jiang Wen went up to his path. Even if he knows how many pounds he has, he is not crazy enough to take over the work of a screenwriter, otherwise it will be infamy for eternity.
But I guess, Wang Shuo is not unable to make up, or wants to sit back and enjoy his success, early to see that Jiang Wen's talent is above him, let Jiang Wen write, Jiang Wen shoot, and finally pick up a big bargain.
How Jiang Wen changed the script and how to choose Xia Yu, I will not repeat it here. After you have adjourned the meeting, go back and study the information at hand. Next, we focus on the industry shortcomings exposed in the filming of "Yang Can". Turning to page 12 of the material, please refer to the third paragraph:
In 1993, Hong Kong Ganglong Company, Taiwan Concordia Company and a real estate company in Yunnan formed the Yangcan Investment Group, with a capital of 1 million US dollars. Before filming began, Yunnan suddenly withdrew...
Why did Yunnan divest? I seriously suspect they've backtracked. It was because he fully realized that Jiang Wen was an unprofitable lamp that he made such a wise decision. Especially before the start-up, Comrade Jiang Wen actually sent xia yu and tranquility to the outskirts of Beijing, closed training for a month, did not allow money to spend money, did not allow contact with his family, read Soviet newspapers every day, learned to sing Soviet songs, and practiced bicycle skills. Back to the crew, each one is like crossing back in the 70s. How much time and money was wasted on such a closed training? How long was the shooting delayed? Comrade Jiang Wen called him a "pickled actor", did he ever consider the mood of investors?
When the filming officially begins, it is even more absurd.
In the first scene of the boot, Yu Beibei went into the bathhouse to flirt with the boys, and he filmed for three days. Summer rain washed all over the skin. Ma Xiaojun sent his father to the scene, the script on the three lines, he was stunned to mobilize 20 tanks, more than a dozen planes, spent half a month to shoot up to 4 hours of material. Finally cut into the positive film, what is the effect? Just 3 minutes! Also, at the end of the film, Ma Xiaojun struggled in the water, he took four cameras to shoot repeatedly, and actually shot a film for an hour and a half.
At that time, the national film ratio was 1:3, and he improved to 1:15 in one breath! It's horrible!
Photographer Gu Changwei has been advising him:
"You shoot so much, you end up cutting it."
But he didn't listen. Why? Jiang Wen claimed that when he watched "Animal Fierce", he smelled the smell of the big canteen and the Xinjiang song appeared in his head. When the script is rewritten, the colors, sounds, and smells of the past are rubbing out. These three things kept guiding him to find the movie in his mind. So he patted and looked for it, not restoring the picture in his mind, and vowing not to give up. For their own selfishness, squander the trust of investors.
Either the plane is brushed again, or the chimney is brushed again. The opening song of the film, "Revolutionary Wind and Thunder", did not have a stereo version, and was re-recorded by an 80-member symphony orchestra and a 100-member choir. Later added car sound, because the engine sound is different, look around, can not find the Chinese car of the year, spent half a day of effort, found the material of the East German car. In the novel, the picture of Milan is too moving, in order to restore its impact on Ma Xiaojun, he actually took 23,040 photos of Tranquility and selected one.
Even the floor of Milan's house, going door to door, had to find the same light color as the memory of the 70s.
Luckily, he found it, or he would have to lay it again.
Comrades, this is all money, money!
The silver of the white flowers was scattered to the waste pieces, and they were sinful!
If you think about it, according to his creation, how many investors' money can withstand spending? Sure enough, halfway through the filming, there was no money, and many people in the crew ran away. When Jiang Wen sent telegrams everywhere and asked for help from the Taiwan company, there were only 10 people left. Wen Jun in Hong Kong couldn't help, and the production director Er Yong went everywhere on credit. Some of the attractions that the crew went to went to, and people didn't let them in. Wang Shuo and Liu Xiaoqing successively paid their private property to lend a helping hand, and Er Yong took out all the family treasury bills, all of which were a cup of water.
No amount of money could stop Jiang Wen's burning speed.
He is a person, I can see through, even if he has no money, he will never make a slight compromise on the quality of the film. You say that's okay? So "Yang Can" became a movie that could not be finished, no wonder some actors joked at the time, saying that they simply changed the name to "About Winter".
If it were not for the fact that Guo Youliang of Kunming Hongda sent 1.8 million to Liu Xiaoqing at the time of the first attack, Jiang Wen would definitely be finished. 1.8 million burned out, and there was no money to do the later stage. Wang Shuo introduced Jean Louis to him, and only then did he exchange the German copyright for later resources.
I want to say ah, 1.8 million to do something bad? Even if you give it to Zhang Mazi to suppress the bandits, take Liu Dutong's thigh.
03.
Yes, the film won the award, the world's top ten of the year, and it is also the box office champion. But when we look at things, we can't look at things from the perspective of one time and one place, but we should look at them from a more long-term perspective. The success of "Yang Can" has made a cattle film appear in Chinese films. On the surface, this is a good thing, but if you look deeper, it will suffer endlessly!
Through the help of friends, in several desperate situations to make "Yang Can", Comrade Jiang Wen learned a lesson? Did Comrade Jiang Wen reflect on his creation? Is Comrade Jiang Wen aware of his paranoia?
Not really. Not even a little bit.
On the contrary, "Yang Can" has received a flood of praise, which has set off his superiority, highlighted his talent, and strengthened his confidence. The end result is to make him unrepentant and go into a rage.
Since then, it has been a road to the end.
Filming "The Devil Is Coming", Jiang Wen almost copied the creative mode of "Yang Can". From the moment he changed the script and wrote the first word, "Devil" was destined to be a troublesome, time-consuming, expensive, and labor-intensive movie. From the script to the setting to the actors to the shooting, every link is the experience of moving from "Yang Can". Come, we have a territory one by one. As I said, we will not engage in desire and sin, of course we will not engage in exaggeration, and all our attitudes are based on facts.
Be friends with the facts, the waist plate is always hard.
The movie "Here Comes the Devil" is adapted from the novel "Survival". When Jiang Wen and Dong Ping went to the "Have Something to Say" press conference, there was a good thing that the audience who ate turnips and worried about it asked Jiang Wen not to do the right thing, and asked him why he didn't make a movie. Back jiang Wen told this story to his friends, and everyone supported him to shoot. I want to say that there are two kinds of friends, of course, not the ones that Teacher Wang wrote in "The Stubborn Lord" that can and cannot have sex, but one is a slanderous friend and the other is a friend.
Comrade Jiang Wen's side, obviously the latter is huge.
Changing the script, Jiang Wen appeared to be the same as writing "Yang Can". It is said that listening to the Japanese military song and the album "Single-minded" by The Chinese Ruan player Liu Xing, my mind is full of various pictures. Even the actors can see clearly what clothes they wear and what they say, as if they had experienced it in previous lives. I think that's. Don't you a child from a military compound understand what historical materialism is? Where do we come from past lives and this life?
After writing, Jiang Wen pulled a blank piece of paper, drew the turret, the Great Wall, drew a village in the middle, and told the crew, you find me this scene. After people listened, they thought he was crazy. Counting his boy's good luck, he really found a reservoir in Panjiakou, and the mountain shape and the Great Wall were exactly the same as his paintings. He was stunned to build a turret there, and spent 170,000 ah! Another 800,000 yuan was spent to build a courtyard wall and a village. It is said that the roof was transported from Yunnan. The color has also moved its hands. mad at me—
Didn't you make a black-and-white film?
As for the actors, it goes without saying that Jiang Hongbo first went to the countryside to experience a month of life, killing chickens, feeding pigs, and spinning threads. On the Japanese actor's side, according to Kagawa Teruyuki's recollection, as soon as he pulled to China and said a few words, he sent a piece of paper with a dense military training schedule written on it, sent to the crew, and for half a month, he carried a gun, stood upright, and practiced. The military stand for an hour. During this period, Jiang Wen went to visit, and when he listened, his voice was all dumb, and some people smashed their butts when they practiced carrying guns.
How bitter it was, Kagawa Teruyuki's memoirs are clearly written. The materials everyone go back to see. All in all, after the film began, Jiang Wen's vices did not change, and he still repeated his excessively critical perfectionist tendencies. When talking to Cheng Qingsong, he also said proudly that as soon as he opened his eyes, it was a movie, sometimes he saw that the camera was like this, sometimes he saw that it was like that, and he had to shoot it all. This leads to repeated performances by actors and non-stop rotation of film.
The scene of the beheading was originally filmed, and Kagawa Teruyuki's performance was extremely exciting. As a result, the next day, he gathered everyone together and said that he would put an ant on Ma Dasan's neck and retake it. Art, I don't understand, subjective psychological implications, I don't understand. I just want to ask, just an ant, it can show the cowardice and ferocity of the character? Show the subtleties of human nature?
I think it's all about adding drama to myself.
It's really the old cow who ploughs the piano as a field—
Just your mom away from (plough) spectrum.
Post-editing, frame by frame, frame by frame, every 1/8th of a second of the shot is in pursuit of perfection. I don't believe the difference is so great. Are you making a movie for the audience? Or do you make your own movies?
People who hold this concept, I still know one in the jianghu, this person is not from our film circle, it is the science and technology circle, and now he is holding back and wanting to enter the entertainment circle. This gentleman's name is Luo Yonghao, it is said that when making mobile phones, self-esteem is very high, even a pixel point has to be cut dead, and the result is that the company collapsed, and he also owes 600 million.
Isn't such a lesson painful enough?
Filming "Devil", Jiang Wen can be described as ambitious, and before he started eating, he told Kagawa Teruyuki that they remembered to learn French, because the film would definitely go to Cannes to get the award. Yes, Lady Luck took care of him. But this favor is at the expense of the investor's blood! Tell me, what's going on? Your director's name is in history, and we are ruined?
Is our money blown by the wind!?
We are also poor, self-made, risking death and hard work... Who! Who says there is gray and there is original sin? Security guard! Security guard! Drag him out for me! How did this man get mixed in!
Ok ok! Be quiet! It is normal for the enemy lurking in the team. We went on to say ours. Where did I just say that? Oh, we are also from a poor background, why should we pay for your Jiang Wen's film history status with our hard-earned money? Didn't you think about the risk of censorship before you wrote?
That's not to say, sensitive. Heavenly Dao is good reincarnation, he himself has also been punished, and he will not let it be filmed. Not to let the shooting, is to persuade you to calm down, reflect, and change the previous wrong, such an obvious opinion can not be heard? As a result, you don't appreciate it, and you still hold the old bad way to change Ye Mi's "Velvet". This is good, eat up.
The bitter lesson, it's your turn.
Whoever you are, you come over and help me change a cup of tea, everyone should smoke, you should go to the toilet, and after twenty minutes we will continue to talk about "The Sun Also Rises".
04.
About this "Sun", the material is also very clear. Our "domestic film circle money industry in-depth reform conspiracy association and film and television leek harvesting department" has given a clear certainty, which represents Jiang Wen out of the creative circle of "going into the fire" and turning into the creative misunderstanding of "madness". Whether it is for him personally, in the mainland film circle money business, or in the development of domestic films, it is an irreparable disaster.
Arouse great attention and vigilance, comrades! How did this project stand up in the first place, and who is responsible? Didn't read the script? Isn't there a rating for risk control?
Well, this account will be calculated later, let's talk about the movie first.
Hey, what are you crying about this lesbian, the account will not be counted on your head alone. When the box office collapsed, not a single snowflake was innocent. All of us here have responsibilities. Come, whoever has a tissue on them, hand it to this lesbian. Knowing mistakes can be corrected, good is great, you don't have too heavy ideological baggage.
Well, let's get back to business. The script of "Sun" was dictated by Jiang Wen at that time. But what he dictated was not a story, but an image. It's all scattered. Then repeatedly tortured the screenwriter, stripped away the cocoon to change the book, all the way to the effect he wanted. Of course, music is also indispensable. When reading the novel, Jiang Wen thought of Soviet songs and thought of marches. For this song, he tortured another Japanese, Hisaishi Jean.
Instead of giving Mozart's pieces as a sample, you just have to write them at this level.
You say angry people are not angry people?
After "Devil" was banned, Jiang Wen was fierce. There are endless words in the heart, there are thousands of concepts in the brain, and there is a gushing passion in the blood. Therefore, the desire to express itself for several years was all compressed in "The Sun". This time, he did it again. No, it should be called intensification.
I have heard that Jiang Wen attaches great importance to Chairman Mao's strategic theory, but how come this man does not know how to seek truth from facts, does not know how to objectively understand things, and relies on subjective fantasies in doing things?
Come, turn to page 32 of the material.
Let me read to you how he got out of touch with reality:
It cost a huge amount of money, took a year, from Yunnan to Gansu, using hundreds of birds and beasts, and the texture of the coat was changed to what he wanted. More than 300 cubic meters of Tibetan-style houses, dozens of tons of pebbles and laterite soil were transported from thousands of miles away to the location. The place where the crazy mother ran to mourn is Yumen Railway Station, the station is in a semi-abandoned state, the large workshop is empty, because the factory has been painted with colored paint, in order to achieve the effect of Jiang Wenyao, the art uses the best local loess, sprayed inside and out, calculating a total of tens of thousands of square meters. In order to let the factory achieve the effect of being eroded by time, the crew let it wind and rain for a year before going to shoot.
The steam locomotive in the movie has long been gone. The crew spelled out a train alive, re-oiled and painted, which satisfied Jiang Wen. There are also a pair of fish shoes, looking around for folk embroidery artists to make, like Jiang Wen's requirements of "sea wave fish scales" and "fish eyes to live". Finally, the sole is from Jianchuan, Yunnan, the upper is a horsetail embroidery of the Guizhou aquarium, and the fish eye is from Dali.
It's more expensive than a car!!!
Not to mention the selection of scenery.
The place where Fang Zuming and Zhou Yun are located looks like a village, but it is actually composed of several scenes thousands of miles apart. The wooden frame of the Tibetan house is fitted with a Hani-style grass roof. In the movie, it looks like a river, but it is actually made of three or four rivers.
Also, how to float the crazy mother's clothes, how to walk on the water lawn, the underwear belt of the 70s is right, the flashlight of the hooligans is not right, every detail is cut to death, and it must not be wrong. The lens of the train putting steam requires two locomotives, one to burn 30 tons of water. After 60 tons of water was boiled, I had to go back and add water to start again. The design speed of the old train is only 60 km/h. They had to be dismantled and transported back by new train. This tosses from beginning to end, where is the water burning?
The burning is clearly the investor's renminbi!
So yeah, halfway through the shoot, there's no money left.
After spending 18 million, the film was made less than a third. Investor Wang Wei was introduced by Wang Shuo again, and it was not okay to see if it could continue like this, so he withdrew first. Third Master Han stepped forward, and La Yang was admitted. The emperor invested 22 million, still not enough to spend. Jiang Wen had to give up the director and actor's salary of 10 million yuan, ask Jiang Wu to borrow 8 million, ask Zhou Yun to borrow 4 million, and finish the film. During this period, Wen Jun of Hong Kong went to visit the class, and Jiang Wen told him that there was still a gap of 5 million. Wen Jun said that he couldn't do anything. In fact, what I think in my heart is that when I filmed "Yang Can" with you, I knew your temper, no one can control you, who knows if 5 million is enough?
The funds continued, the film was finished, Jiang Wen's heart must be beautiful, waiting to be praised by the masses and canonized.
Who thought of the words that became Master Tang:
"Zhang Mazi, you are really not ashamed, play with it!"
After the release of "The Sun", everyone has heard about it. What's that called at the box office? That's called a rage. Originally, Comrade Wang Zhongjun wanted to vote, but he hesitated and finally gave up. After the release, he called 20 people to estimate the box office, Yang Shoucheng said 160 million, Yu Dong said 120 million. After all, there were 700 copies in the country at that time, more than "Transformers" and "Spider-Man 3". The result was the final box office, 18 million!
Hey hey hey. Surprised, surprised? We escaped the disaster for Wang Zhongjun and applauded!!!
Word of mouth, that is even more gratifying, all said to understand, do not know the clouds. Chaotic stewing, out of control, narcissism, is the unanimous feedback given by the film critics at that time. Applaud!!!
Then go to Venice, thinking that foreigners can understand, but the result is not eaten? Applaud!!!
It can be seen that Comrade Jiang Wen's filming of "The Sun" is to leave a mark in the history of Chinese and even world cinema. He said it all, it was made by chopping his own flesh, and if the audience watched "The Sun", he would definitely become a fan of the director. What else to say that "Yang Can" is not a play ticket, "Sun" is the right eight classics to dig out the spiritual history to serve everyone, is a delicate, vital meal.
He also said that after the popularity of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000, foreign distributors told him that in the future, China must produce a bunch of ancient costume martial arts blockbusters hanging in the sky, and it will be filmed until it is rotten. Jiang Wen has not made a film for 7 years, and when he saw that Chinese films had become like that, his overconfidence could not be contained, and he wanted to get a "Sun" to open up a new benchmark for domestic films. The result? The Chinese people can't understand it, and the foreigners don't eat your set.
Failure is a fait accompli, and Jiang Wenzui is still quite hard. Say you can't understand it and go back to see it twice, and say you can't understand why you are proud? I am also ashamed to say that I have not shot in 7 years, the speed is fast, the corners are big, and people who can't keep up with my speed will of course get lost. And take the European film to step on our domestic films, saying that people are dressing up with the audience, and our domestic films are not trim, feeding the audience to eat chaff. Fawn over foreign things! I think it's very difficult.
Why don't you like to find reasons from yourself?
Ten thousand steps back, I don't understand what's wrong?
What's wrong with being proud if you can't understand me?
Joke, what am I afraid of? Are you going to make someone beat me up? Will you prick my tire and frame me?
No one is rare in this broken movie!
05.
But then again, Jiang Wen's talent is there, and his skill is cattle. But just like Ah Cheng said, you go back to the leg of lamb, not even an appetizing dish, who the can stand it? Especially your unrepentant filming model, I really feel sorry for Yang Shoucheng, Yu Dong, Wang Wei and the three investors.
Fortunately, Saion is not blessed to lose his horse, and people always grow in failures and lessons. Without the beating of "Sun", it is difficult for Jiang Wen to see the truth of this world. When "Yang Can" was released, domestic commercial films had just started, and after the birth of "Devil", it did not undergo market tests, and it was only in "Sun" that Comrade Jiang Wen could touch the true face of this capital era.
How, you're awesome, you're talented, but when you're at the table, don't you have to play according to our rules? Otherwise I'll see where your talent will burst out.
Investor Gao Jun said that "Let the Bullets Fly" was a persecuted result, because "Sun" failed, and Jiang Wen had to prove in the market that he was still the first echelon of Chinese directors. And one of the hard tests of this echelon is how much box office you can create. This is the requirement for directors in the current era of capital.
By implication, there seems to be a bit of sympathy for our great ginger artists. What's wrong, do you not need to eat properly to engage in art? Investors don't have to eat properly? Is there a sense of sympathy for Sen Mo?
In business, business.
I think of this very clearly when I see the old strategist. Filming "Full of Golden Armor", said Jay Chou will come to Jay Chou, shoot "Three Guns", said to use small Shenyang to use small Shenyang. Reed was still not convinced, saying that Zhang Yimou was no longer the thinking of being a director, but the thinking of being a boss.
Hey, you've been a screenwriter who deserves to be unconvinced? Facts speak louder than words. Jiang Wen went to "Gong Zhen" and said that he was actually a Zhang Weiping, but could you listen to Zhang Weiping's words? Is there Zhang Weiping under the heavens who can hold you down?
Here we must praise Comrade Ma Ke.
Ma Ke is a good comrade, not only has produced a series of excellent police dramas, is a rich second generation with pursuits, but also very good at judging the situation. It is also a life number. When filming "Sun", he looked for Jiang Wen and wanted to cooperate and use commercial thinking to escort Jiang Wen's artistic pursuits. Missed.
After the release of "Sun", Jiang Wen felt that the situation was not right before going to him, and it turned out that it was too late and it was difficult to make up for it.
Subsequently, the two set up a company, selected Ma Zhitu's "Ten Notes of night tan", and agreed to make a work that had both an audience and a box office. With Ma Ke, many of the previous problems were solved. During the writing of the script, Jiang Wen found a bunch of painters, critics, and writers to talk to, and Ma Ke secretly found some non-professionals such as surgeons to listen.
The most important thing is financing, Ma Ke blocked a large number of miscellaneous brands, analyzed the publicity, theater and overseas promotion, and found the right investors. This guarantees the basic box office of the film.
This is called business.
How to spend the money of the movie, how to catch up with the filming progress, Ma Ke has been checked. Take care of Jiang Wen to the maximum extent. Of course, Ginger artists still have that virtue when making films. The script was changed in more than a dozen versions. When the shooting started, the lines that Zhou Runfa got every day were different. At the beginning of the hijacking of the train, Ge You soaked in the water for an hour. Chen Kun played Hu Wan's body, also lay down for three hours, and ran over to make up a close-up when rough cutting. The scene of "Cool Powder" spent 100,000 feet of film, and the "Hongmen Feast" was filmed back and forth 35 times. Marco accepted.
When "Let the Bullets Fly" shut down, Yang Shoucheng sighed:
"Jiang Wen's movie never shuts down and has since become a legend."
Then, word of mouth exploded, and so did the box office. Standing and earning money became the line of the year. Jiang Da artist can be regarded as raising his eyebrows, right? Prove yourself. What does it depend on? Is it domineering? Is it a tiger? Is it six relatives who do not recognize? Isn't it still a good talent in our team of investors? I originally thought that after earning money and having a box office, Jiang Wen would be a little more humble, would reflect on his previous mistakes, and reflect on the smoothness and sophistication that a man should have, but I didn't expect it, and I didn't expect it! Bigotry!
Isn't the success of Bullets something to be proud of?
But what did you Jiang Wen say in an interview?
"From the perspective of the market and the company, the bullet is a good thing, which contributes to the operation of industry and commerce, finance and taxation, but not necessarily for the screenwriter and director, because it is a very easy thing."
It is also said that "people cannot only do easy things all their lives."
In the end, I can't forget the revenge written down by the failure of "Sun", everyone has praised you to heaven, but you have a sentence:
"Those who can make 'Sun' can make 'Bullet', and those who can shoot 'Bullet' may not be able to make 'Sun'."
Look what you can do.
Yes, as long as you can, why don't you call Jiang Neng?
What else to say, in the past, no one paid attention to your good movies, but it was for the sake of "right to speak" to make "Bullets". Your Excellency's implication is that the audience and the director can't do it? People think the most awesome thing, put you here is a licensed, is sprinkled water, people's ceiling, is your floor leather?
"Bullet" sample meeting, Han Sanping was so excited after watching it that he couldn't sleep, saying that after Feng Xiaogang created comedy, Jiang Wen was afraid to create a new genre of domestic films. Gao Jun looked at the box office figures and predicted that Jiang Wen would continue to work hard, because in China, there is no director who is not stimulated by the box office, fights a victorious battle, cannot not want to fight a second time, wants to fight a second time, simple, in a word, then must bow to business!
No one told you to kneel, it's always okay to bow your head, right?
But as soon as I watched the interview, I knew it was going to be over sooner or later.
The second "Bullet", definitely no drama.
What do you think? Let me guess it, right?
06.
Okay, the next two works, I'll pack up and talk about. Because these two films are enough to show that Jiang Wen is embarrassingly useful in the field of commercial films. First of all, the first problem is that Jiang Wen can't abandon his personal selfishness and can't abandon his own artistic pursuits. This is a big taboo in the commercial film circle.
In order to appear that you are smart, in order to appear that you are superior, do you not follow the business logic of the product?
The screenwriting team of "One Step Away" is really too luxurious. Luxury aside, compressing the capacity of 10 movies into one movie, is this artistic creation? The group performance exceeded 20,000 people, the costume exceeded 27,249 pieces, the big handsome tried to dress, a button higher, it had to be redone. The screenwriter wrote for several months, looking for Liao Yimei to write again and again to Find Wang Shuo to write again, but also called "painting", what is the final result?
It took so much effort, is it not a loss?
1 billion to recover investment, the result is less than 500 million. What is causing this situation? It is Comrade Jiang Wen's obstinate behavior, the smuggling of goods, the refusal to compromise, the domination of personal tastes, and the disregard for the viewing level of the broad masses of the people. In the name of "exquisite dress nourishing the audience", it is necessary to "satisfy the selfish desires of personal creation".
Saying that it is giving the people refined food is actually self-deprecating. Or that sentence, in the business of business, are you going to make a commercial film? If you want to do it, you can't do something like Wang Jing? Don't you have no bottom line, making a third-rate film like "Tang Detective 3" is easy for you, why can't you always turn this corner?
Of course, this time Jiang Wen's attitude is very good, unlike "The Sun", leaving a sentence of "watch it twice". Honestly come out and explain, patiently accept the interview. But there is a point, why do those who say that the movie is bad are "Wang Tianwang"? What, I don't like you Jiang Wen is the King of Heaven? Don't you pay attention to Marx's dialectics? To say that you are self-deprecating and narcissistic is brainless?
I yawn! We just don't want to understand you, we just don't want to understand you, we investors spend money for profit, the audience spend money for fun, not to be your confidant.
Art movies, that last century.
Now watch the movie, just three things:
Amusement! Amusement! Amusement!
You made a movie like an Olympiad problem, so how can we, the broad masses of the people, be entertained?
"One Step Away" obviously brought frustration to Jiang Wen, so he also made some gestures. No, "Evil Doesn't Pressure Justice" was announced and was willing to go to "Creation 101" to show his face. It is said that after the fact, he also sought out Wang Wei and said that he would make another one to make money and earn back the money he lost. Yes, that's right.
Do you look down on the members of our circle money industry association, can you still be sorry for those friends who are friendly with their hearts and guts?
Unfortunately, I don't think the posture is low enough.
"Evil Does Not Pressure the Right" is still a work with Too strong Personal Imprint of Jiang Wen, showing a bunch of historical views, lacking the 12345 that a commercial film should have. We have high hopes for you, thinking that you can make another Bullet, or not a bullet, and get a Wolf Warrior 2, Red Sea Operation, or even pull down your bottoms a little further and expose some dirty fur edges. Earn money, not chilling, the scholar Feng Xiaogang, endure a moment of fame and fortune, take a step back from the sea and the sky. Of course, I'm not saying that Feng Dao reveals the rough edges, I mean that you can expose, you Jiang Wen dare to show the hairy edges, that is called a small step of the individual, a big step in the history of the film.
Reed said that Jiang Wen's problem is that he is very good, but always relies too much on the bull. In my opinion, this is not a problem at the root, but a problem at the root, but a wrong attitude.
Specifically reflected in what Gao Jun said, when Jiang Wen created, he never paid attention to problems other than creation, did not pay attention to creating what he wanted in his mind, what kind of price he needed to pay, and how much money he wasted, as if it had nothing to do with him.
Niang Xipi! That's our money!
This arrogant creative attitude is obviously contrary to our consistent and clear proposition of "the domestic film circle money industry in-depth reform conspiracy association and film and television leek harvesting department". Guys, this kind of director, must stay away from him, otherwise when Thunder strikes him, he will definitely chop you and your company first.
Comrade Jiang Wen's view of creation is completely based on the erroneous cognition of the small gadget of film, and it is sublime, sacred and refined. As early as the birth of the film, it was such a thing, but after the great business system and the circle of money subdivision work dominated the world, the film, it is nothing more than a vassal of money, it has no moral responsibility and no historical responsibility, and it does not even deserve to have any Rausch's indoctrination...
Thought? Hahahahahaha, who said thought? Comrade, which unit are you in? You give me out!
I don't want to debate the utility of cinema here. Don't you artists always emphasize that art is useless? Why do you want to preach the function? Even if there is, yes, yes. Jiang Wen, you are alone in your way, you can pull investment is your skill, why for a long time, to preach your set of "don't worry about investors" and "what is the budget" crazy doctrine?
It's intolerable!
Look at the places marked in red in the materials, what Jiang Wen said when he went to those cultural interview programs...
What heartache investors are very cute mentality, like Yang Shoucheng, Dong Ping, these people, are business geniuses, tens of billions of net worth, they choose to invest in me, are based on super business acumen, do not need everyone's heartache. He also said that Wang Wei had failed, saying that "Sun" had failed, and people sent a special message to tell him, "It doesn't matter, this film is worth it!" Shoot me again and vote for you." That's a kind word, are you serious?
What is even more disappointing is Jiang Wen's attitude towards the box office.
When "Bullets" was popular, he did not boast about the box office, and always emphasized that "the box office is the least valuable". Oh, you don't talk about it, say what "a lot of foreign high-grossing directors have no status, no one wants to talk to them about art", what "Angry Bull" and "Citizen Kane" are not without box office? ”。 Especially the sentence "making money is not called horizontal, no money to play horizontal is called horizontal, talented, that is called horizontal", yo yo yo, I open your interview records, look at it, horizontal vertical writing three words: I am bullish!
If you don't talk about money, you don't talk about it, arch your art and talent above the pyramid, saying that money can't buy wisdom and the future, and only by contributing to society is valuable. Folks, this man is selfish and sinister, how vicious! You've invested money in you, and you in turn insinuated that we have no value and no meaning to art?
This is not only stupid, it is simply stupid!
07.
What I despise the most is that Jiang Wen always likes to use the audience as a shield. I often tell my friends that Chinese audiences face a lot of bad things every day, and it is difficult to enter the cinema, and they should not be allowed to look at bad things again.
It is said that there are two kinds of movies, one is to make people see self-confidence, one is to make people see self-esteem, the former is those instant noodle movies, fast food, crunchy, let people have a sense of intelligence and psychological superiority, the latter is the work you Jiang Wen wants to work hard to make, for a while and a half may not be able to keep up, but one day will understand.
He also said that instant noodles can of course be eaten, but they cannot be eaten forever, and occasionally they have to have a nutritious meal.
He also said that I Jiang Wen can also get instant noodles and buy cars and houses on it, but I can't lose my artistic conscience.
Sigh, the world is the only one you are clear. What instant noodles are not instant noodles, it's all nonsense!
Movies are movies, how can they get to the instant noodles? In our view of the "Domestic Film Circle Money Industry In-depth Reform Conspiracy Association and Film and Television Leek Harvesting Department", it is not profitable to make movies, and the sky is thundering! Artistic conscience counts a ball, the dignity of the audience counts a ball, this year's first circle of money, what you want is mass production, big dry fast, ten days a script, two months a blockbuster, special effects code, fresh meat together, first trick the audience into the cinema and then say.
Less do not know that leeks are expensive, and the old man holds the sickle and sheds tears.
Leeks can be cut straight and must be cut, do not wait for no leeks to fold branches!
Eh? Am I telling the truth?
That who, this recording remembers to erase...
Jiang Wen ran to "Round Table Pie" and said that entertainment is not standing on the street. I disagree with this, how come entertainment is not standing on the street? Is there something wrong with Station Street? Pretty boys flirt with each other, don't you like to watch? Don't you like to watch the brainless special effects that bombard the bombing? What is the definition of cinema? A visual art. Vision, ah, these two things are not visual? On this street, we stand with dignity, stand in a famous way, and stand majestically and majestically.
We not only stand on the street by ourselves, but also let more industries and more industries stand together, so that everyone can stand the real station. Our ideal is to plant the flag standing on the street all over the world! Don't overestimate the audience's aesthetics, and don't talk about self-esteem. How many people live with self-respect? Nowhere else can give him self-esteem, you make a movie to tell him what self-esteem is, he can't feel it, what is the use of eggs? He in turn scolded you for being stupid!
Instead of respecting the audience, it is better to earn the audience some money.
We're not showing the lower limit, nor are we wearing three-point styles. How good are we to stand decently, to stand gracefully?
As for worrying about the audience's money, the plot is stupid, the three views are not correct, and the taste is vulgar, we can't manage so much. Every industry has a period of pain, shouldn't we make money first, the money is enough, and then consider taste and three views?
Money can't be circled, let alone talk about higher pursuits?
Today's meeting, to say the above, is to put forward a point of view and set the right attitude. Jiang Wen, we are not counting on it, he is old and stubborn, and he does not understand our good intentions. But all of you, first, you must reach a consensus not to be seduced by the enemy and support any art; second, the directors who cooperate with you should say hello, and also not be seduced by the enemy and pursue any artistic conscience; third, we must pull new people into our ranks as much as possible, and do not let them go to the enemy camp. Every time you pull down a director with artistic pursuits, it is a sharp bullet that will be polished for our money industry!
In addition, the ugly words come to the front, if any of you here are found to invest money in Jiang Wen's movie, I am sorry, it is forbidden to join the club for life! Our ultimate goal is to link all the forces that can be linked, and it is best for investors around the world not to invest in Jiang Wen's movies! Like this kind of director who makes films with heart, respects the audience, is exquisitely polished, does not feel pain in burning money, only for art, and regards money as dung, the less China is, the better!
The wind is blowing, and the Andersons are going around - we circle the money industry to boycott Jiang Wen, at any time to talk, do not talk about no, you think, you drive a luxury car, arm the beauty, watch the stock rub up, suddenly the box office collapsed! Therefore, the day without Jiang Wen is a good day!
Well, the main content of today's meeting, that's it. After going back, please deeply review, engrave the instructions and spirit into the bones, give full play to enthusiasm in the future money circle work, be vigilant against ginger-style thinking, and get rid of the artistic demon. If the broom does not arrive, the dust will not disappear on its own. Everyone must be mentally prepared, this is a long-term and arduous struggle.
The merits of all the worlds, in one fell swoop!
Next, we have a three-hour buffet dinner, everyone should eat and drink, there are strippers on the scene to help, play mahjong please go to the fourth floor, there is an outdoor pool next door, waiting for so long, the girls are afraid that they are too cold to open their legs...
What's that, Secretary Jiao! Secretary Jiao! Here you come!
Where did you put my room card for me?
"The full text is finished, I'll see you next time"
Some references in this article:
[1] The Birth of a Movie, Jiang Wen
[2] Why So Many People Misunderstand Jiang Wen, Handbook for Youth Films
[3] The Hard Ginger, Triptych
[4] The Sun Rises Again, triptych
[5] "Box Office Sometimes Nothing", Southern Weekly
[6] "Screenwriters Who Can't Act Are Not Good Directors", Triptych
[7] "The Favor and Loss of Jiang Wen", a character
[8] "Jiang Wen Film, Looking for a Movie-Watching Relationship", Triptych
[9] "Jiang Wen Goes Down the Mountain", Lei Xiaoyu
[10] "Jiang Wen: Entertainment is not a standing street", Round Table Pie
[11] Jiang Wen: The Myth of the Mixed World, a new film
[12] "Thankfully the Sun Is Floating in the Air", triptych