Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 480 Supporting "Tiny Times"? (23)

"Hitchcock?"

"Yes, I've done film analysis before... and I've found that modern movies are simply more refined in their production and have better sound and visual effects. If you strip away the fancy surface, it's all stuff that the masters of previous generations have already done..."

He Ping interjected: "So, the fact that the age range of Chinese audiences is decreasing is actually due to the immaturity of the Chinese film market. The age range of audiences in North America and Europe is much wider than ours... The fact that a film like 'Switch' can be a box office success shows that the market and the audience are immature!"

He also cited Spielberg and other directors who still made classic films in their later years as examples, pointing out that in film history, almost all the classic works of masters were created after the age of 50, or even between 55 and 70.

Shen Yan waved his hand: "The 'Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains' is just an isolated case. There are also many bad movies that sell well in North America. The most typical example is the 'Twilight' series... We don't need to praise them. As for Spielberg, which you mentioned... I think you should take Martin Scorsese as an example. Spielberg hasn't had any classic works in recent years!"

The topic then shifted to the explosive growth that the film market suddenly experienced in 2013.

Du Jiayi, the director of "Turning the Mountain," complained that the idealism of young directors is worthless in the face of money: "When I show a script to a production company, the first thing they ask is, is this directed by Xu Zheng? Or they ask me, is this film produced by Shen Yan?"
I said, "This is the film I wanted to direct..." and then there was silence! Sigh, we used to talk about the story when we met, now it's all about the box office!

He Ping looked at Shen Yan: "Shen Yan is an investor, what do you think?"

Shen Yan thought for a moment, then said, "Right now, hot money is pouring into the film industry like crazy. Capital is profit-driven. If they don't talk to you about money, are they going to talk about ideals? Investors aren't fools. They want to make money. Of course, there are also some investors who want to make good films, and they don't care if they lose money... But you can't keep putting on a show of self-righteousness and repeatedly test investors' patience with so-called idealism..."

"The most typical example is Wei Te-sheng's film 'Seediq Bale.' I haven't seen the movie, but I remember the publicity about it: 'Wei Te-sheng was so short of funds when filming 'Seediq Bale' that he sometimes didn't even have money to buy bullets.' The final budget for 'Seediq Bale' announced by the media was 700 million NT dollars, which was equivalent to 150 million RMB at the time... 150 million RMB, that's a huge investment! You can't treat investors' money like trash! Investors have already supported you countless times, and you keep adding to the investment. Why should investors use their entire fortune to play with you?"

Has Shen Yan ever done any large investment projects?

"The Martian we're currently working on is a big-budget sci-fi film... I personally invested 200 million... and several other investors followed suit, investing another 200 million each!"

"Is it expensive?"

"Yes, the props, set construction, and filming equipment are all quite expensive... that's only if we have NASA's support; otherwise, the costs would be even higher!"

Guo Jingming immediately asked, "What about the actors' salaries?"

Shen Yan smiled and said, "Most of the actors are just lending their support as a favor, knowing that I want to create a benchmark work..."

"May I ask... why did you turn down the invitation to star in 'Tiny Times'?"

Without even thinking, Shen Yan replied directly, "I'm not available!"

"Have you read the original novel of 'Tiny Times'?"

“I’ve read it… but not finished it. I even considered submitting my work to *The Smallest Novel* back then… I read several of your works, and also Annie Baby… and then I felt I couldn’t write that kind of work,” Shen Yan shrugged, “and then I wrote *Lotus Pavilion*…”

Guo Jingming was a little excited: "You've seen 'Tiny Times'?"

“Hmm,” Shen Yan nodded, then said, “I don’t feel any resonance, I don’t understand, and I don’t have any deep feelings about it… Maybe it’s too far removed from my own experience!”

"Thank you!"

"...I'm not praising you, I'm just stating an objective fact."

Guo Jingming, with tears in his eyes, said, "For me, this is already very good!"

Shen Yan was speechless. Was it really necessary to put on an act?

……

Guo Jingming…

After the novel "Tiny Times" was published, a lot of people criticized it.

Han Han, in particular, said, "I've read a few chapters of *Tiny Times* online, and I think it's written for people in prefecture-level cities, county-level cities, or rural-urban fringe areas—a tutorial on the glamour and luxury of Shanghai." He also said, "It promotes a very despicable set of values!"

However, later, during the promotion of "The Continent," Han Han said, "The outside world may have various interpretations of our relationship. If there's a chance, we can actually sit down and talk it over; maybe we can become good friends."

However, Guo Jingming responded, "I have very few friends, and I don't like making friends."

Why do so many people dislike him? Is it because of plagiarism?

There are countless cases of plagiarism, and Han Han has even been accused of using a ghostwriter!

To put it bluntly, Guo Jingming is not a likable person.

So pretentious!

The route taken was incorrect.

A writer who insists on packaging himself as a magazine star and a fashion darling, trying to gain widespread public attention...

The goal is simply to make money!

It's not that making money is wrong, but we can't be without principles!

Physically short, intellectually dwarfed!

However, Shen Yan really felt that there was no need for such widespread ridicule of the movie "Tiny Times," from social media to official media, to definitively label it a "bad movie" and to say that "the emergence of 'Tiny Times 2' and 'Tiny Times 3' should not be unconditionally tolerated."

It's just a movie.

Oh, by the way, the Daily News initially wrote, "Tiny Times' huge success shows that teen films have been 'starved' for too long," but later it wrote, "We cannot unconditionally tolerate the emergence of Tiny Times 2 and Tiny Times 3..."

I really don't know what their attitude is!

However, Shen Yan's attitude was clear: ignore...

But the media was different. After the forum, Shen Yan went to the premiere of "Tiny Times" and saw several articles with headlines like, "Shen Yan strongly supports 'Tiny Times,' Guo Jingming moved to tears!"

? ?
My mind is foggy...

I'm going all out to support "Tiny Times"!
I do not know how?
Never mind, let's watch a movie first...

……

"Fame and Fortune" is actually a mystery/suspense film using the "locked room mystery" formula...

The so-called "locked room mystery" was first created by Agatha Christie, the Queen of British mystery novels, in her novel "And Then There Were None".

It refers to a group of people gathered in a closed environment, such as a mansion, a secret room, an isolated island, or a ship isolated by a blizzard (rain), where they are unable to contact the outside world and external forces are (temporarily) unable to intervene.

Then, strange things began to happen to this group of reclusive people, and some of them died. Most importantly, the murderer was among them.

Everyone must clear their name while protecting themselves, whether by forming cliques, plotting and deceiving, protecting themselves, confusing the public, or revealing the truth.

Generally, in the "locked room mystery" mode, the protagonist is set as a detective or mystery solver, and they engage in a thrilling process of deduction within the locked room.

The "detective" mentioned here refers to a type of role rather than a profession, such as police officers, prosecutors, investigators, and journalists. Anyone with an investigative or exploratory nature can be a "detective." In the movie "Fame and Fortune," this role was given to a screenwriter.

That's Li Jiahui, played by Deng Chao.

However, "Fame and Fortune" is not a suspense film. Huang Xiaoming, who plays the murderer Qi Leshan, reveals his identity from the very beginning!

Therefore, the plot does not focus on the murderer harming others, but rather on uncovering the truth behind the crimes the murderer committed.

The movie itself is very interesting. The mystery process is a cycle of "digging a hole - filling the hole - reversal". The plot sets up deadlock-like problems many times, which are solved and reversed many times.

Including the final twist in the movie…

(End of this chapter)