The Year of the Pig is only one foot away, and the annual film market carnival - the Spring Festival stalls are coming as promised, and are destined to create an amazing box office miracle again. After a series of game competitions, there were finally a number of strong films, including "Crazy Aliens", "The King of New Comedy", "The Wandering Earth", "Honest Government", "Detective Pu Songling", etc., which were painted on the first day of the New Year, so that this New Year festival, which has long become a must for major film and television companies, is filled with gun smoke and war.
"Now the industry threshold for directing is low, and anyone can be a director," Zhang Yimou, who used "One Second" to return to this year's main competition in Berlin, once summed it up. In recent years, with the influx of hot money in the mainland film market, the box office is hot, a large number of actors, singers, screenwriters, and hosts have changed careers, turned into a director, and directed the tube, as for the good story of "x and excellent director", it has long been left behind, and actors must have acting skills like drowning in the tide of the times. And Han Han, who turned from a writer to a director, also returned with his third work", "Flying Life", and became a seed player in this year's lively Spring Festival file. I would like to take this opportunity to summarize the writers and directors who have been in the limelight in recent years.
Han
Exactly twenty years have passed since he made a splash in the first national new concept essay competition with "Peeping in the Cup", and Han Han has long since transformed from a literary teenager into a national father-in-law. Han Han further consolidated his identity as a writer through works such as "Triple Gate", "Like a Teenager Flying", "A City Pool", "Glory Day", and "His Country", and became a regular on the book best-seller list. Han Han is not only a professional racing driver, but also has made records, filled in lyrics, worked as an actor, and worked as a screenwriter, and interpreted the profound connotation of "two blossoms of style" with a strong sense of existence.
In 2014, Han Han's self-written and self-directed film debut "After The End" grabbed the summer file, and the Douban 7.1 rating and 630 million box office were a clear stream in the change of directors, and the first answer sheet was excellent. Gathering Deng Chao, Peng Yuyan, Zhao Liying and other super strong kasi, "Riding the Wind and Waves" resolutely entered the fiercely competitive Spring Festival slot in 2017, and in the case of the schedule and pre-sale were not optimistic, together with Jackie Chan's "Kung Fu Yoga", staged a counterattack on "Journey to the West" and "Big Trouble Tianzhu", and the low-cost ticket supplement could not defeat the audience's reputation after all. After "Flying Life", I hope that the "Triple Door" and "Made in the Sky" that have been passed down for many years can be put on the agenda, and director Han Han can maintain his original intention and continue to "fly like a teenager"!
Guo Jingming
Speaking of Han Han, we have to mention Guo Jingming, a descendant who also originated in the national new concept composition. Similar life trajectories are destined to be compared all the time, helpless. In 2002, Guo Jingming published his first personal collection of works, "The Edge of Love and Pain", and after the college entrance examination, he published his first novel "Magic City" in "Sprouts", and the road to creation has become wider and wider since then, and works such as "The Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived", "Sorrow Against the River", "Small Times" series and "Traces" series have caused a sensation as soon as they came out.
In 2013, Guo Jingming put his best-selling novel "Little Times" on the screen, and since then he has been out of control. The "Little Times" quadrilogy grossed nearly 1.8 billion at the box office, demonstrating its amazing market appeal. The successful trend continued to the fifth film "Jueji", and "Jueji 2", which was originally scheduled to be released last summer, was temporarily withdrawn due to "production reasons", and the future is uncertain. Guo Jingming's follow-up directorial plans also include the theatrical version of "Yin and Yang Division" and the science fiction film "Future future". After the emergence of "The Wandering Earth" adapted from Liu Cixin's original book of the same name, the first year of domestic science fiction that has been shouted for many years is finally no longer an endless sigh and wait, and Guo Jingming and Han Han's "Made in the Sky" will continue to compete in the field of science fiction films.
Falling
Luo Luo is Guo Jingming's friend, and I have to sigh that writers are also a circle. Zhao Jiarong, whose original name was Zhao Jiarong, was the same age as Han Han, but became famous later, and only became famous at the age of 23 through his first novel "Nianhua is an Invalid Letter". Although the relationship between the two once rose and fell, Guo Jingming's label of contracted writers still let the fall fall back against the tree to cool off, "Dust Planet", "Su Wei", "Immortal", "The Leftover is King", "The Whole Universe is at the End of the Drama" and so on have become the "youth literature" that has swept the country.
Guo Jingming's success in the film industry has inspired a large number of directors who have turned around with capital, and they naturally cannot stay out of the matter. Luo Luo also adapted his hit work "The Leftovers are King" into a movie, time flies, four years ago, "leftover women hate to marry" is still a hot topic, and now "Little Wolf Dog" is the best choice. The pace of the director has not stopped, and his "Sorrow Against the River" actually relied on word of mouth to counterattack in September last year, and "campus violence" just fits the latest trend of Chinese film realism in 2018.
Zhang Jiajia
Compared with the three mentioned above, Zhang Jiajia, who caught the last train after the 1980s, is particularly like a "neighbor's child", with excellent academic performance and extracurricular activities. Just two years after graduating from college, Zhang Jiajia published her first novel, "Almost Becoming a Hero", which was printed in astonishing numbers. Zhang Jiajia continued to write while actively exploring the film industry, and the first time she participated in the screenwriting of "Knife to Smile", it was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, which can be described as a spring breeze. The Weibo story collection "Passing Through Your World" pushed Zhang Jiajia's popularity to the peak, and the warm text healed thousands of readers in the Steel Forest.
At a time when genre films such as science fiction and thriller continue to stagnate, comedy, love and other themes have always been the best choice for major newcomer directors. Zhang Jiajia picked one of his own Weibo stories "The Ferryman", and then invited the director Wong Kar-wai as the screenwriter and producer, plus Liang Chaowei, Jin Chengwu, Eason Chan, Angelababy, Lu Han and other all-star lineups, which aroused the audience's high expectations, a good hand was finally broken, and the market box office of 700 million yuan became the best fig leaf after the collapse of word-of-mouth.
Xu Haofeng
Xu Haofeng, who graduated from nortel's directing department, did not rush to make films, but collected folk martial arts at home, wrote hardcore martial arts novels, and became obsessed with academic research. And the same jia zhangke has long been famous internationally. Xu Haofeng compiled what Li Zhongxuan, a master of shape and intention boxing, felt and realized in his later years into "The Lost Martial Forest", which shocked the entire martial arts community and achieved great success. After "The Lost Martial Forest", "Dacheng Ruoqi" and "Wuren Qinyin" came into being, forming a martial arts trilogy. Works such as "Taoist Descending the Mountain", "Guoshuguan", "Great Sun Mandala", "Samurai Society" and so on emerge in an endless stream, and the script-like style of the film is matched with the realistic skills of the hard bridge and hard horse, which is full of pleasure and refreshing to read.
Director Xu Haofeng, who insists on using two different names, has four works from 2011 to the present, promoting the Qi family's saber method of "The Trail of Wukou", "The Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape", which is actually a martial arts arbiter, "Master", which finally tasted the sweetness of fame, and "Hide behind the knife", which claimed to give up the director's signature.
Wan Ma Tse-dan
Tibetan-language director Wan Ma Tse-dan has always had a strong creative talent for novels, and since his university years, he has won many literary awards through works such as "Temptation", "Gang", and "Beggar". Almost every movie of Wan Ma Tse-dan has a corresponding novel base, and I have to think of the Japanese literary and art film director is Kore-eda and the leader of the cruel youth school, Shunji Iwai, there will always be a novel of the same name published, and the connection between the two different worlds of text and image is incomparably magical.
Wan Ma Tse-dan, who has long been the representative of the "New Wave of Tibet", has been telling the fate of national culture with the lens from beginning to end, and telling the story of the Tibetan people themselves in Tibetan. "Tharlo" pushes Wan Ma Tse-dan in front of more audiences, which also happens to be the best footnote in the direction of his efforts for many years, even in the seemingly cold black and white tones, Wan Ma Tse-dan also shows a colorful color dipped in deep affection.
Writers and directors are inherently cut-and-cut, and the transformation between two different artistic vehicles, novels and films, is even more commonplace. In fact, it is not uncommon for mainland writers to crossover with the nature of playing tickets, for example, Wang Shuo once adapted his novel "I Am Your Father" into a movie "Wronged Father and Son", written and starred by Feng Xiaogang, a good partner at the time.
From the experience of Han Han, Wan Ma Tsedan, Xu Haofeng and others, it can be seen that the identity transformation from writer to screenwriter to director has a high probability of success. And South Korean director Lee Cangdong is a leader, he wrote a number of novels in the 80s, won the "Korea Daily" creative literature award, after participating in the screenwriting of "Want to Go to that Island", "Beautiful Young Man All Thai One" and other works, Lee Cangdong launched his directorial debut "Green Fish", and then continued to bring "Mints", "Poetry", "Miyang", "Oasis" and many other good films, the recent work "Burning" won the highest score in the history of the field magazine in Cannes last year, which was called "Fairy Fight", and was shortlisted for the top 9 lists of foreign language films in this year's Oscar. Leave a strong name in the international film industry.
The explosion of the Spring Festival stall has attracted worldwide attention and will surely give film practitioners more market confidence. It is hoped that in the following Year of the Pig, more cross-border directors will bring fresh blood to the film market, create excellent works that deserve everyone's attention, continue the good trend of word-of-mouth determining the market trend in 2018, and truly achieve "two blossoms of culture and sports".