Huayu: Hard fight against Zhang Weiping at the beginning

Chapter 472 Film Industry
Ever since Painted Skin grossed over 300 million yuan, Zhang Chen has become the only one in the country and the target for all directors to catch up with.

Whether others admit it or not, he is truly the country's top director.

While the media was celebrating, overseas film business came knocking.

We couldn’t sell it before, but now people come to us on their own initiative.

The door that Director Chen had closed with his own hands was finally quietly opened a crack.

Although Chinese costume blockbusters are still a high-risk genre internationally, at least they are not a total failure.

Zhang Chen calmed down and remained calm.

No matter how great the honor is, it is already a thing of the past.

"Painted Skin" has become history. Zhang Chen began to focus his attention on "Pacific Rim".

In the past two days, he has been discussing the progress of "Pacific Rim" with Guo Fan. During this period, he was busy promoting "Painted Skin". In terms of understanding of "Pacific Rim", he is not as good as Guo Fan.

"The company has received many invitations in the past two days, all of which invite you to attend some activities..."

Chen Xiaowei held a pile of envelopes and read out the names one by one: "You are invited to speak at the exchange meeting held by the Young Writers Forum at the end of the year. You are also invited to attend the seminar of the Film Association. Beijing Normal University invites you to give a speech on traditional culture. Peking University also invites you to give a speech. You can choose the topic at will. Beijing Film Academy also invites you to give a speech. Wanda's flagship cinema in Beijing is opening, and you are invited to cut the ribbon..."

Zhang Chen was looking at the shooting schedule. Hearing this, he didn't even raise his head and waved his hand nonchalantly: "Please push them all off for me~"

It’s always like this at the end of the year, with a lot of seminars of all kinds.

Zhang Chen didn’t understand these things before, and tried to participate in two sessions, but they were boring and long~
Just listening to a bunch of people bragging.
If Zhang Chen goes there, he will sometimes become the target of public criticism~
Because the commercial films he advocates have never been welcomed by those associations.

As I was watching, I suddenly had an idea and remembered the phone call from Teacher Fu two days ago. It seemed that he was also asking him to take some time to come back to school and analyze "Painted Skin" before the students went on vacation...

This seems to be what Director Tian Zhuangzhuang meant.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen raised his head.

Although I have graduated, I still need to maintain the relationship with my alma mater.

You have to give face to the department head.

We also have to give face to Teacher Fu.

"Forget it, except for Beijing Film Academy, I'll turn down all the others. Just say Pacific Rim is about to start filming and I'm too busy to do it~
As for Beijing Film Academy, let’s schedule it for this Saturday. Let them prepare the auditorium. I’ll take “The Moon” with me and say a few words…”

"Moon" was not released publicly in North America, but was released directly to videotape.

In mainland China, it is set in March after the Chinese New Year.

Zhang Chen's visit this time was also considered an advance screening at the Beijing Film Academy.

Zhang Chen usually has advance screenings of any new movies he has at the Beijing Film Academy, and this has almost become a tradition.

……

Saturday

At eight o'clock in the morning, Dinglingling's cell phone alarm rang on time.

There was an immediate complaint in the dormitory:
"Shanshan, what are you doing? It's Saturday, why don't you let me sleep in~"

Yuan Shanshan: "Why don't you guys get up quickly? Don't you know that there will be a speech by Senior Zhang Chen today?"

Zhang Xiaofei opened her sparse eyes and looked at the clock: "It's only eight o'clock. I remember the senior's speech was at ten o'clock."

Yuan Shanshan kept squeezing toothpaste on her toothbrush: "Don't blame me for not reminding you. If you go there at 10 o'clock, you probably won't even be able to squeeze through the door~"

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiao Junyan and Zhang Xiaofei on the other two beds immediately collapsed.

"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten about it. Hurry up and get up. If you're late, there won't be any seats left~"

Then, there was chaos in the dormitory.

"Hey, where are my slippers~"

"Who touched my toothpaste?"

……

Half an hour later, the three girls went out in an orderly manner.

Not only are they neat and tidy, but each one of them is also dressed up beautifully.

Zhang Chen is coming today.

If he takes a fancy to me, wouldn't that mean I'll be very successful?
Don’t ask them how they knew this. Isn’t Yang Xiaomi, who lives in the same dormitory, the best example?
Passing by the cafeteria, Zhang Xiaofei ran a few steps and said, "I'm going to buy some buns. You guys save a seat for me~"

"No problem, I want meat buns~"

"Me too~"

The division of labor among the three is clear.

A moment later, Zhang Xiaofei arrived at the auditorium.

Wow, everything I see is early birds~
The large auditorium was already more than half full. Except for the first row reserved for school leaders, the rest of the first few rows were packed.

As soon as Zhang Xiaofei entered, she saw Jiao Junyan and Yuan Shanshan in the third row waving at her: "Here, here~"

"Are there so many people?"

"Yeah, when we arrived, the second row was already sold out. Then five minutes after we arrived, the rows behind it were also sold out~"

"Wow~, Senior Brother Zhang is really charming~"

"Fortunately we listened to Shanshan, otherwise we would have been lined up outside."

Jiao Junyan looked at her watch: "Isn't it? It's not even 9 o'clock yet and most of the seats are already occupied~"

"Here, buns and soy milk~"

Zhang Xiaofei distributed breakfast to everyone, and the three of them ate leisurely.

This has caused hardship to the people around them.

Zhang Xiaofei and the other two had a division of labor, some occupied seats, and some bought breakfast.

But others don't.

In order to grab a seat early, everyone came here with an empty stomach.

Soon it was half past nine and the auditorium was already packed.

From time to time, you can see people cursing because they can't find a seat.

There was a lot of chatter in the auditorium~
Zhang Xiaofei looked around and asked, "Do we have so many people in Beijing Film Academy?"

Yuan Shanshan next to her immediately said: "How is that possible? I saw several familiar faces from the Central Academy of Drama next door~"

Jiao Junyan stood by and looked at the crowded crowd and stuck out her tongue, "Luckily we came early today~"

Nearing ten o'clock, Zhang Chen finally walked into the small auditorium with a group of school leaders.

The noisy voices suddenly quieted down.

The school leaders took their seats, and Zhang Chen took the microphone and went to the podium.

Looking at the dense crowd below, he was already accustomed to such scenes.

“Seeing so many people, I thought it was a roadshow~”

As Zhang Chen began to speak, a burst of low laughter came from below.

“The school wanted me to give another speech to the younger students before the holiday, and Painted Skin happened to be released during this period, so I came here because I had the time.

By the way, have you all watched Painted Skin? "

"I saw it~"

Seeing the series of nods below, Zhang Chen nodded with satisfaction.

"The school leaders want me to talk to you about the production and promotion of the 300 million movie, but I don't want to talk about that today. I want to talk to you about science fiction movies. It just so happens that I brought a movie called "Moon". Let's watch the movie first and then talk about it~"

Zhang Chen finished speaking and stepped down.

The lights in the auditorium dimmed, and the logo of Xingchen Entertainment appeared on the screen. Earth Energy Crisis~
Yueneng Industry
Helium-3
Sam~
Clone No. 5
Clone No. 6
Countless clones~
The hibernation chamber is an incinerator~
An hour and a half passed quickly, and when the lights in the auditorium came back on, many people had not yet come out of the movie plot.

It was not until Zhang Chen reappeared on the podium with the microphone that people regained their consciousness.

"This movie is called Moon. It's a soft science fiction I shot. What do you think of it?"

"Very different~"

“Very good shot~”

“The style is very strange~”

There are all kinds of chatter below.

Zhang Chen did not continue, but said: "Since I announced that I would develop Pacific Rim, people have been telling me that Chinese people cannot make science fiction movies. The reason is very simple, because the special effects in China are not good enough...

Then, as you can see, what special effects does Moon have? Is it a science fiction film? "

Without waiting for an answer, Zhang Chen answered himself: "Of course he is~"

“Who says you can’t make a science fiction film without special effects?
"Moon" is a typical soft science fiction, and is completely opposite to the upcoming "Pacific Rim"~"

"In the past, I always heard a saying that Orientals can't make science fiction, and Westerners can't make martial arts.
At first I thought it was a wise saying, but later I found that Westerners had started filming martial arts movies.

The Matrix incorporates a lot of Eastern Kung Fu elements. They even used instruments to record the action characteristics of martial arts actors.
In other words, Hollywood can make martial arts movies at will from now on.
Then why can't we make science fiction?

I admit that the threshold for science fiction movies is indeed high, but we look at it completely based on our own situation.

If you have money, you can do hard science fiction, like Pacific Rim, which takes a year to make.
If you don't have money, then work hard on the story and setting, and make it a soft science fiction like "Moon"~
"Moon" doesn't have any special effects, but it's still full of sci-fi flavor~"

"Today we are not talking about "Moon", what I really want to talk about is the film industry, or heavy industry films!"

“You all study film, so many of you should know the film history of Hollywood and Hong Kong.

There was a time in Hollywood when the television industry had such a huge impact on the film industry that few people watched movies.

How did you survive later?
Thanks to blockbusters!
Heavy industry movie blockbuster!
"Star Wars"!
"Jurassic Park"!
It’s similar in Hong Kong.

It was known as the Hollywood of the East, but later declined.

Everyone says that the decline of the Hong Kong film market is due to the loss of support from the Taiwan market.

So why did they lose the support of the Taiwanese market?
I once discussed this in detail with Mr. Zou Wenhuai of Golden Harvest. In addition to the fact that we did it ourselves, another reason was that theaters started playing Hollywood movies.

You have to know that initially, Taiwan's cinemas did not show Hollywood movies.

Hong Kong films dominate there.

Later, Hong Kong filmmakers were courting disaster, using all kinds of trailers to cheat people out of money. Taiwan's theaters couldn't stand it anymore, so they started to introduce Hollywood movies for screening.

Then it was defeated by Jurassic Park.

Hong Kong was very good at following trends at that time, and would follow whatever was popular.

When "007" became popular, they immediately made a "Best Partner" based on it. When "Rambo" became popular, they made a "Eastern Condors"...

Then they found that they couldn’t follow Jurassic Park, and they couldn’t even copy it…

This is heavy industry cinema.

It is closely related to your industrial capabilities.

If you don’t have enough industrial capacity, you can’t even make a good movie.

Why is it that every time a Hollywood blockbuster is released, domestic filmmakers shout "Wolf, wolf"?
Because I can't beat him at all.

If you can shoot love, so can others~
Others take photos of dinosaurs, but you can't.
Others are taking photos of aliens, but you can't take photos~
If things go on like this, domestic audiences will become dependent on them and think that foreign films are good.

Don't believe it? Europe is now a lesson for us.

Aren't their movies strong?

There are good movies every year.

But like us, they can’t beat Hollywood.

To put it bluntly, movies are the art of dreaming, and Hollywood can satisfy all your dreams~"

"Let's talk about our country:

When I was a kid, movie theaters were as depressed as video halls, and it felt like the entire industry was doomed.

At that time, Feng Xiaogang's New Year films supported the economy and at least kept the cinemas open.

Then Zhang Yimou's "Hero" ushered in the era of blockbusters.

But "Hero" is not an industrial film either.

It is more like a work supported by Zhang Yimou's strong personal appeal.

The so-called industrial films must have a complete industrial system.

He is the entire production process.

Rather than relying on the personal appeal of the director or actor.

If a country wants to become a strong country, it must develop its industry, and the same goes for movies.

Internationally, Chinese films are not weak.

We win awards every year, and some people think we are a great film power.

But the country’s requirement for us is to become a strong film nation.

The reason why we actively promote the blockbuster strategy is to make the film industry formal as soon as possible.

Complete industrial upgrading!

We have an advantage in this regard.

We are the only country in the world with a complete range of industrial products.

In other words, we are the most likely to catch up with Hollywood in terms of film industrialization.

Since the First Five-Year Plan period, China has firmly embarked on the journey of building a complete industrial system. After decades of development, it has achieved many brilliant achievements that have attracted worldwide attention.

Europe also has a film industry, but they are mainly dramas and comedies;
This kind of movie is powerless against Hollywood's large-scale commercial films.

To put it bluntly, everyone wants to see something they have never seen before.

What haven't you seen?

Aliens invade Earth~
Robots fighting each other
This is a dream, a dream created by movies~
The future development direction of movies will definitely be big investment and big special effects.

High-concept, high-tech, high-investment top commercial blockbusters will sweep the world~
The future is dominated by visual effects blockbusters~"

What Zhang Chen said was entirely based on his insights from later generations.

At this point in time, if there is anyone who has the clearest understanding of the future, it must be him.

The next ten years will see rapid development of visual effects blockbusters.

"Avatar", "2012", and later Marvel series~
When talking about "Avatar", we have to talk about James Bond.

God of Cards is really an amazing person. He is just a truck driver, but he managed to turn his dream into a classic in his first movie.

The big ship behind didn't feel anything and became the king of the world.

Everyone seems to fall for his tricks.

"Avatar" has single-handedly promoted the development of 3D movies around the world.

In the decade after Avatar, 3D cinemas were built crazily all over the world, and almost all blockbuster movies had 3D versions.

But this is actually the wrong direction.

After not seeing it for ten years, does it mean that no one is making 3D movies anymore?

(End of this chapter)