Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 105 Niche Movies
For Cao Yang, the graduation thesis is easier to write. What is the thing that is being spread everywhere outside?
Cao Yang is good at training actors!

What's there to hesitate about? You should definitely choose this one.

"A brief discussion on how actors can quickly get into a role"?
It sounds like preaching, and because of their different identities, it is easy for others to imitate. Don't lead others into a ditch.

"A brief talk about a few things actors should know when getting into a role"?
This is good. It doesn't have any preaching flavor, and it's just a "superficial talk". If you can't learn it, you can't blame me, and I won't lead you into trouble.

In fact, when written down, it is nothing more than those same tricks, gathering all the male and female protagonists, explaining the play to them every day, telling them the theme of the movie, what the movie wants to express, and how they should perform.

Every day, I also asked the actors to express their opinions and whether they understood the scenes. I also took time to answer their questions. Finally, I used different methods to guide different people into the scenes when filming started.

Take these contents as the main theme, and then expand the word count around them.

The paper also discusses how Li Xiaoran, Yu Feihong and Gao Yuanyuan were guided into the roles when filming three movies.

With these actresses who have won the three major European film awards as examples, the value of this paper is suddenly raised to a level that does not belong to it.

Even if some directors refer to the methods in the paper in the future, it will only be beneficial. As long as these can be achieved, the actors will at least have a general idea in their minds and will no longer be performing in a formulaic manner.

It depends on whether the director and actors have the patience.

After reading Cao Yang's paper, Old Situ praised it highly.

"Your paper is well written and meaningful. The three examples you cited are all based on facts. They all won the Best Actress award, which is very convincing."

Then the old Situ sighed: "In the past, directors could still take filming seriously. For example, in order to make the Dream of Red Mansions well, two training classes for actors of Red Opera were specially held in Yuanmingyuan in 84, allowing them to study the original works, analyze the roles, and learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting to cultivate their own interests."

Shaking his head, Old Situ continued, "Today's directors are too eager for quick success, how can they be willing to put in the effort?"

Teacher, you don’t know that today’s directors are actually pretty good. At least many of them are willing to explain the play to the actors, and the actors are also willing to learn.

After a few years, with the continuous invasion of capital, not only directors but even actors are unwilling to study scripts. Time is money, and this is absolutely true for them.

Overlapping scenes, lines 1234567, face-changing with cutouts...

Who has the patience to study what the script is about?

"In fact, I also learned the methods from the older generation, combined with my own understanding and summary, and the actors were obedient and could calm down and learn. The only problem was that the actors didn't know how to adjust after getting into the role, and it took some time for them to get out of the role."

Old Situ waved his hands. "The method is correct. What does it have to do with you if the actors can't get out of the role? It's because they don't know how to adjust themselves. Isn't it normal for actors to get into the role?"

Teacher, you don’t know that their immersion in the play is really related to me.

But these are not the topic of discussion.

Since Mr. Situ thinks there is no problem with the thesis, then let's just leave it at that and wait for the final defense.

The directing department had a graduation short film assignment, and Cao Yang directly used "Secret Sunshine", a film that won the Best Director and Best Actress awards. It felt a bit bullying to use it as a graduation work.

In the following time, Cao Yang began to prepare his first movie script for Hollywood.

When he was in Cannes, Cao Yang actually had an idea. There was an American movie that was depressing to the core and never reconciled with him from beginning to end. It had won him an Oscar for Best Actor.

This was the movie Cao Yang wanted to shoot at the beginning. The title of the movie looks very romantic, it is called "Manchester by the Sea".

Manchester by the Sea is the name of a small American city. People call it this way. It is not Manchester by the Sea in the UK.

But after careful consideration during this period, he had just entered Hollywood and was unfamiliar with the place. His only connections were Sony Classics and Behrman. To be honest, even if the actors performed very well, better than the original, could Behrman and Sony Classics make it a success at the Oscars?
As long as the quality of the movie reaches a certain standard, what matters is no longer the movie itself, but the connections and operations.

Cao Yang estimated that it might not be difficult to get an Oscar nomination, but there was too much uncertainty about winning the award.

To increase the probability of winning, we still have to find ways in other aspects.

For example, political correctness, and biographical films that are easy to win awards.

The current version of political correctness in the United States is still in the primary stage and has not evolved to the crazy level it has become. Women, homosexuality, and satirizing politicians are all considered politically correct.

As for biographical films, as long as the person is well-known, especially a controversial one, the chances of winning an award are particularly high.

Is there any biographical film that is both politically correct and based on a real person?

There really is such a movie, and Cao Yang thought of one.

But the making of this movie is somewhat unfair to Li An.

If this movie participates in the Oscars and wins an award, then Brokeback Mountain, a movie of the same type that was released two years later, will have a hard time winning an Oscar.

After all, it’s been so close, the Oscars are unlikely to give the award to a niche film of the same type again.

Well, maybe Oscar will break the rules, too, who knows.

Since he had decided to make a biographical film, Cao Yang did not understand American law and did not know whether he needed authorization from the person involved or his descendants, so he called Berman, who should know about this.

"Bellman, I already have an idea for a movie. I want to make a biographical movie."

Cao Yang went straight to the point.

"A biographical movie? That's not easy to make. It's easy to get into trouble."

Behrman had some concerns. If a biographical film was well made, it would easily win awards, but if it was not made well, it would firstly cause controversy, and secondly, the author himself or his descendants would sue him in court, and this kind of lawsuit would never end.

"I understand. What I want to know now is, what are the regulations for biographical films in the United States? Do we need authorization from the person involved or his descendants?"

Cao Yang asked. This was the purpose of his call today. Only by understanding these and the troubles that need to be dealt with can he decide whether to start this project.

Bellman obviously knows about this problem, and he explained: "In the United States, there is no clear legal requirement to obtain authorization from the parties involved in making biographical films. This is based on the principles of freedom of expression and reflecting historical truth.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech and publication. Film art creation is regarded as a form of expression of freedom of speech. As long as it can be faithful to the facts, biographical films will be protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. "

Cao Yang understood Berman's explanation, which means that when shooting a biographical film in the United States, it is not necessary to obtain authorization from the person involved or his descendants.

Making a movie about you is also exercising my freedom of speech, which is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

What does it have to do with you if you are made into a movie?

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