I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 597: Too Old-Fashioned ()

Northeastern restaurant...

Shen Liang opened the door, greeted Wu Jing, Li Chen, Jiang Qiming and Han Dongdong, and then sat down.

Wu Jing asked directly: "Why are you so slow?"

"Traffic jam..."

"Find a better excuse. This is Changchun, not BJ!"

Shen Liang picked up the wine glass: "I'm wrong, drink one first..."

He drank it all in one gulp, then explained, "There's something I need to take care of."

"What's the matter?"

"I have a legitimate reason anyway!"

"A valid reason?"

Jiang Qiming suddenly asked: "What's wrong with your neck?"

"neck?"

Shen Liang raised his chin in confusion: "Are you okay?"

Li Chen glanced at Wu Jing and smiled: "...I know where you were going!"

Shen Liang said stubbornly: "Well, I made an appointment with the judges to discuss the prize results."

"Stop talking!" Han Dongjun was speechless: "You have been planted with strawberries... and there are teeth marks..."

"Depend on!"

Hard to guard against…

When fireworks go off in Naza's mind, she tends to bite things...

This must be the mark left at that time...

Wu Jing was curious: "Are you in a relationship? Who is it with?"

"I don't have time for a relationship... just talk occasionally..."

"Is she single? Does she have a boyfriend?"

"Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who doesn't know shame..." Shen Liang waved his hand: "Where are we talking about?"

Brother Liang does have a bottom line. Even though they are idols, he did not take any action before the divorce was officially announced!
"Talking about Watergate..."

"Didn't they say they would just reshoot in Hengdian?"

Li Chen: “…You heard about it too?”

Han Dongjun was speechless: "He is the male lead, what do you think?"

"I guess there aren't many reshoots?"

"I heard from them that it will take about ten days...after all, it will be released during the Spring Festival next year."

"Do you think Watergate can surpass The Battle at Lake Changjin?"

Shen Liang glanced at Wu Jing, who was also staring at him, so Shen Liang pondered for a moment: "It's hard to say, it's unlikely that..."

"Why? It's the Spring Festival!"

"I've been live streaming every day recently, and the reviews for 'Changjin Lake'... aren't that high actually. I guess a lot of people who watched 'Changjin Lake' don't want to watch 'Watergate Bridge' anymore!"

Not only the quality, but also the changes in public opinion and environment are also an important reason - I found that these filmmakers just treat the audience as leeks...

No respect for the audience.

Not only filmmakers, but also many media...

The story of "Young Lion" is a typical example - many of our artists are too "dad-like".

To be honest, these people should all be sent to the Americans next door to learn for ten or eight years and see how they do things.

Art is for art, and business is for business. Although the distinction is not clear, practitioners basically have their own lines. Usually, you can't want to be the audience's father and expect the audience to give you money obediently...

If you want high box office, you have to "kneel down" and face the audience.

Our "artists" are different. On the contrary, they want the audience to kneel down for them.

From time to time, I’ll give you some “art”, “depth”, “culture” and “aesthetics” tricks.

And they do it with a condescending attitude: You viewers know nothing, I will teach you. Take the portraits of the characters in "Young Lion", with squinting eyes, wide-set eyes, and slanted eyes, which are obviously ugly, but they insist that art should be inclusive and aesthetics should be diverse, and even say that you should open your phone and remove the beauty filter, implying that ordinary people like us look like this.

Finally, ugly people are not worthy of being the protagonist?

Bullying the audience's aesthetics...

Why do this?

Maybe the film environment in the past two years has made them mistakenly believe that they have returned to the 1970s and 1980s. You can watch whatever we can shoot!
Where does all the nonsense come from?
Dissatisfied? So what if you are dissatisfied?
Take a look at the producers of Young Lion.

In the past, when a movie was criticized like this by the audience, the creative team had to apologize, but now... the audience knows nothing!
It must be the internet trolls who are leading the smear campaign!

"The Lion Boy" is really ugly. What I can't understand is that these characters have to look like this in animations?
It doesn't contribute to the plot or setting...

The design looks good and the audience likes it, so why is that not okay?

The director has also repeatedly said that he has no regrets and is proud of it.

It gives people the feeling that I can draw beautifully, but if I don’t, I have to draw squinty eyes. Hey, it feels like I’m having fun!
However, "Young Lion" saved "Deep Sea" - "Young Lion" caused the whole network to curse, and the original character modeling of "Deep Sea" was almost the same as that of "Young Lion", so it was hurriedly sent back and revised...

Back to the dinner...

"Xiao Shen's schedule is full, right?"

"Hmm..." Shen Liang nodded: "There are still four movies and two TV series to be filmed!"

Wu Jing interrupted: "Why are you still filming TV series?"

Wu Jing is a typical person who looks down on TV dramas...

In his era, TV dramas were really bad, most of them were soap operas!

Shen Liang strongly disagreed with this view: "Brother Jing, how many years have you not made a TV series? Nowadays, the equipment, technology and investment of TV series are no worse than those of movies. With a good script, the influence of TV series is no worse than that of movies!"

"Okay, I can't argue with you..." Wu Jing changed the subject: "I might have to join the crew of The Wandering Earth 2 and shoot for a few months!"

"Guo Fan is going to shoot both top and bottom?"

"Correct!"

“Shooting this way really saves time!”

Hearing this, Li Chen looked at Shen Liang in surprise: "You are not in The Wandering Earth 2?"

Shen Liang explained: "Prequel... Liu Qi wasn't born yet."

"So do you have any sci-fi project plans?"

Shen Liang shook his head: "I wanted to make "Glory and Dreams" before, but the higher-ups didn't allow it... I wanted to make "Full-Band Blocking Interference"... but couldn't find a suitable director..."

"So? Not doing it anymore?"

“Pause for now…”

"Glory and Dream"...too direct!
It directly describes the American hegemonic invasion.

The gentlemen are worried that there will be protests and that normal relationships will be affected.

No, it’s already this time, are you still worrying about this?

After being beeped once, Shen Liang had no more ideas...

The purpose of making a movie is to sell tickets and make money, but if the emphasis is always on publicity, there will be certain problems with both the initial creation and the final film. The result will be that either it will not pass the review, or if it passes the review, it will not sell tickets.

The publicity department in charge of the film doesn’t care about this kind of thing!

Just like the National Day box office in 2022 in the original time and space, the box office was sparse, but the mainstream media reported that "main theme movies contributed more than 80%!"

It's useless. Movies are cultural commodities. Since they have commodity attributes, don't think of using force to make people accept them!
After all, even if you pay me to watch a movie, I still have to calculate the time cost...

Li Chen nodded to show his understanding, and then asked, "You don't want to take The Interpreter? It's Rao Xiaozhi's movie!"

Oh, The Interpreter is The Journey Home…

Shen Liang shook his head; "I'm not old enough..."

This is because the hard conditions are not met. Another point is that Shen Liang feels that the script of "The Journey Home" is quite old-fashioned - diplomats evacuate overseas Chinese...

In recent years, I have seen several works of similar type and subject matter.

Let Zhang Yi play the role, since he has already retreated once in Operation Red Sea, so he is familiar with the role...

(End of this chapter)