On November 5, another director-led variety show was launched, that is, "Director Please Advise", which gathered 16 directors, many powerful producers such as Wang Jing and Hao Lei, as well as many powerful old drama bones and traffic actors. The variety show, the first phase of the line, detonated the topic, the second day of broadcasting, the network popularity also soared to the second place.
Different from the previous acting competition variety shows, "Director Please Advise" tests the strength of the participating directors, so it is particularly important in the selection of actors, a good actor can collide with the director's creative spark, and vice versa may destroy a work. Sixteen directors riveted themselves to the actors on the scene, including newcomer directors who had won awards but were not well-known, as well as recognized "box office poisons", and more "cross-border directors" such as Wu Zhenyu and Bao Bao'er, from the time they issued invitations to the actors on the scene, the examination for them quietly pressed the start button.
After watching the premiere content, the two characters that triggered the audience's hot discussion were Bi Zhifei, the "Wang Yuyan" of the film circle, and the other was Li Chengru, an old friend of the audience.
To be honest, when I saw the show "Director Please Give More Advice" and invited Bi Zhifei and Li Chengru to participate in the show at the same time, many viewers booked a lively seat early, and bet that Li Chengru, who dared to say and scold, would not be able to help but be afraid in the first few issues. Obviously, the two did not disappoint the audience, even the first three hours of the show did not last, Li Chengru after watching the fragment of The Classic Movie "Spring in a Small Town" adapted by Zhifei, said from the bottom of his heart that Bi Zhifei's previous film ratings should be low, because he is an academic school with empty theory and no practice.
This sentence seems painless, in fact, completely hit on Bi Zhifei's death hole, when the original "Dream Showbiz" was released after the lowest score of Douban ever 2.2, he also became the object of ridicule and attack by many netizens, but looking closely at his resume, he found that he was a doctoral student who had read film-related majors for 11 years, understanding and mastering various film knowledge, but can you make a good movie with a theory?
Judging from director Bi Zhifei, this matter is obviously not established.
So must a director from a class perform better than a director from a non-class? This question became the first professional question seriously discussed by film practitioners on the screen and off-screen audiences after the launch of "Director Please Advise", and the answer to this question depends on the performance of 16 directors with completely different experiences.
For example, the first newcomer director to stand out in the selection process has been gifted, as the first recommended member of the "Bad Monkey Movie Project", she is talented and has been nominated for the Rotterdam International Film Festival Award, Ning Hao and Hao Lei are full of praise for her, but for some traffic actors on the scene, Zeng Gift is obviously not as competitive as some familiar faces.
So zeng gave after getting his choice to adapt the "Journey to the West" clip, wanted to invite a 20- to 25-year-old actor to cooperate with him, and the first reaction of the actor at this age was to bow his head and avoid the eyes of Zeng Gift, which may be that the young director was too angry, and finally no one accepted the olive branch handed out by her.
This phenomenon immediately triggered the dissatisfaction of hui Yinghong and other old actors, who did not understand why these young actors should let a great opportunity slip away in vain, if they blindly chose the director and the right role for themselves, they did not touch the challenging characters, how could this kind of low-handed state of eyes and masters be favored by excellent directors.
In fact, this paragraph also triggered the audience's reflection after the broadcast, although in this kind of acting competition variety show, the competitiveness of the powerful actors is far greater than that of the traffic actors, but in the real film and television circle, the phenomenon of capital appointing traffic to replace the old drama bones abounds. In the eyes of the audience, Hui Yinghong and Hu Xing'er and Yang Qianwei and other powerful actors do have the strength to refuse directors and select directors, and some young actors with empty traffic and no acting skills are so indifferent to the raw faces in the director, does this mean that in their hearts, their competitiveness is actually equal to the old drama bones?
"Director Please Advise" this show because it is from the director's home to the actor's home, in the fresh perspective to let the audience see the hidden rules of the industry in the variety show, but also caused a lot of hot discussion, the 16 directors participating in the program is to a certain extent the pillar of the future of the Chinese film industry, what kind of works they hand over in the program also means what kind of movies the audience may see on the big screen in the future.
Whether it is the rise of good filmmakers, or the expulsion of good money by bad money, let's wait and see!