China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 500 A long shot, a movie

"I have "Matrix III" not finished filming, and there is "Interstellar". The film has begun to be prepared. Is it a bit too early to discuss this?"

Chen Jingxing was a little puzzled.

"Interstellar" also has investments in Chinese films, similar to "Central of Earth" and "Mars". Both of them hired experts from the aerospace department as consultants, and the script has long been reported to the competent department.

For all tribute film authorities, the script must be reviewed first.

Of course, the advantage is that it can obtain reports and publicity from official media resources, and will be considered for preferential treatment at the discretion of the schedule.

Therefore, major studios also hope to stuff their projects into the tribute video sequence.

DreamWorks is a relatively cheaper one.

Although "Interstellar" and "The Wandering Earth" are not closely related to the theme or the actual subject, they are also listed as tribute films.

Mainly, DreamWorks has produced many main theme movies before, which has also earned DreamWorks special treatment.

In the Korean War, historical nihilism must not be carried out.

The selected angle of this movie should be quite good, and I also thought of telling the story of our army building bridges and crossing the river from three perspectives through three directors.

The main thing that makes people criticize is that they did not photograph our army's soul.

Chen Jingxing has had years of experience in making heavy industry movies, coupled with the industrial level and screenwriter team established by DreamWorks itself, there is no big problem in publishing a "movie".

If the task of the Jincheng Battle is handed over to Chen Jingxing, he and Chairman Luo Changqing will definitely be relieved.

Chen Jingxing was not surprised after listening to it, but he politely rejected the topic essay given by Guoying.

"But...don't tell me it's science fiction?"

To be honest, as the helmsman of DreamWorks and still holding the title of science fiction master, Chen Jingxing's "idol baggage" is still very heavy.

When it comes to Jiang Ruoping, he is not sleepy. This is why he came to invite Chen Jingxing today.

War movies are not easy to shoot.

"Red Sea" and "Wolf Tooth II" also have personal heroic parts.

In order to coordinate the schedule, Jiang Ruoping must coordinate the release dates for the tribute films in recent years, especially the heavyweight tribute films, so as to make every film achieve good box office results.

To be honest, if Chen Jingxing was asked to choose, he would likely choose the filming angle of the filming instead of showing the brilliant victory of the Jincheng Battle.

But the Chaozhan tribute film is not a subject suitable for imagination, which will eliminate its own seriousness.

The "King Kong River" in the previous plane talks about the defense of the King Kong Bridge on the eve of the Battle of Jincheng, which should be a propositional essay explained by the National Film Academy.

Works like "Li Yannian, Li Yannian" are special cases.

For a commercial film, it is necessary to put it into specific individuals as much as possible in order to make paintings.

Although this world is a little different from the previous life, there are only a few famous battles in the Korean War, including the Battle of King Kongchuan (Kincheng) and the Battle of Changjin Lake.

Since Guoying is here to urge him now, he tells him.

In addition to several planned projects, the Battle of Jincheng, as the final battle, is also an important historical node event, but the project has not yet found a suitable director and screenwriter, which has always made Guoying more trouble.

"To be honest, I have a project here, which is Mr. Luo's idea. The theme is the last battle of the Korean War, the Battle of Jincheng. The victory of this battle is of great significance, but I have never found a suitable helm..."

The camera replaces the audience's eyes and bodies, inviting every viewer to participate in this Crossfire.

Jiang Ruoping and others naturally felt that the scripts currently completed by these existing projects were not good enough.

However, from the perspective of commercial films, "Changjin Lake" has achieved a pretty excellent level.

The entire film uses a "following long lens" and spliced ​​into a 2-hour shot to the end.

This will also disappoint many movie fans and audiences who have expectations for him.

Chen Jingxing was not crazy again: "Of course not. I want to update the audience's strange viewing experience. I want to shoot a Korean War movie with a long lens."

When Chen Jingxing watched "The Eight Hundred" and "Changjin Lake" in his previous life, he really didn't feel the essential difference between these two armies.

Jiang Ruoping is still a little cautious about this. Although Chen Jingxing's science fiction movies have always been good, it is not good to have science fiction elements in the Chaozhan tribute films.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. In recent years, domestic films have now produced many fine works from military to science fiction, from comedy suspense to realistic themes, and even animation themes.

Humans like heroes. Hollywood has comics heroes, and China also has its own heroes. Sun Wukong and Nezha are all heroes.

This is not so much the influence of Hollywood, but the direction of the commercial market.

He thought of a very special war movie in the plane of his previous life - "1917".

Jiang Ruoping is not a movie layman, and he has even been engaged in film and television work, but Chen Jingxing's words still make him a little difficult to understand.

Therefore, Chen Jingxing came up with a special angle, which must be innovative and can give the audience a novel audio-visual experience.

But this is actually the general level in the literary and artistic circles, not to mention that you can ask the directors of Hong Kong and Taiwan to direct them.

More than half of the tribute film missions are overwhelmingly over the national film, striving to show the Korean War in a panoramic way and multi-level manner.

"no the same?"

In the plane of previous life, although "Changjin Lake" is not very good, it is definitely not bad, and it is even a movie above the level in war movies all over the world.

Of course, this cannot explain why KMT's troops can transform into a war with the world's number one superpower army when they arrive at our army.

Chen Jingxing wanted to make something different. For the Chaozhou War tribute film, he, the veritable number one commercial director in China, could not shy away from it.

But what does it mean to shoot a movie with a long shot?

Chen Jingxing smiled: "It's literal meaning, a long shot, a movie."

Perhaps the actors are different and the directors are slightly different, but the production level is definitely top-notch, so the effect presented may not be much different.

He knew that as a type of film shooting technique, he had always had some kind of striking meaning.

He was not afraid that the box office of the tribute film he filmed was not satisfactory, and DreamWorks did not lack the box office of these or two tribute films.

And it is different from the expectations of other directors.

Then he must master the situation of DreamWorks tribute films.

"A...long shot...shot a movie?"

Jiang Ruoping wanted to know Chen Jingxing's idea, what kind of movie he wanted to make, what the story was, what the shooting cost and size were about, so that he could have a clear idea.

Being trapped in the gang-style brotherly loyalty.

The President Luo in Jiang Ruoping's mouth is Luo Changqing, chairman of Guoying.

No, it's not possible at all.

The propaganda and cultural department means to produce a batch of gift films that are popular among the people. If the box office is not good at that time, the effect of the gift will be poor.

As for military action movies, "Red Sea" and "Wolf Tooth II" have reached relatively high standards.

Of course, I thought of DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing at the first time.

Moreover, DreamWorks has always been very good at main theme movies, and the military action trilogy produced or participated in the production is almost a benchmark for such topics in China.

Even if the script of "The Past of Earth" adapted by Chen Jingxing needs to raise the perspective from the male protagonist, it is also a reference to Nolan's "Dunkirk" in his previous life, using three time lines to narrate the story, thus making the imaged story even more thrilling.

It turns out that due to the tribute films in the next few years, the schedule will be relatively tight, especially during the popular schedules. The competent authorities and Guo Film should coordinate the release of the tribute films.

Isn’t Chen Jingxing the most famous of his imagination? He is known as the most imaginative director.

However, even if the production level of such war blockbusters is high, many of them will definitely cause aesthetic fatigue after being released in a few years.

The grand battle just sounds like a thrilling feeling when you imagine it, but the anchor points that the audience will be substituted in the movie will be lacking in the movie, and it is not suitable for commercial blockbusters that want to win the box office.

This is true for "Matrix", "Central of Earth", "Mars" and even "Interstellar" that Chen Jingxing will film in the future. The movie is narrated around the creation of individual heroes, or the creation of a small team of heroes.

I won’t talk about the first wave of tribute films. DreamWorks has been preparing to produce them, and there is no movement in the second wave of tribute films.

The story of the movie is very simple, leading the audience across the Western Front in 1917 from the perspective of two messengers.

But the shooting technique is unprecedented.

The protagonist is not only the two messengers in the movie, but each audience is the third member of the team.

After all, tribute films are not as simple as lively, and the box office must be available.

There are too many movies about World War I, but "1917" is one of the weirdest flowers, a technical adventure that amazes both the audience and the industry.

Secondly, science fiction themes have now become a business card of the Chinese film industry, and there are also the prelude of "Central of Earth" and "Mars". "Interstellar" and "Wandering" are both main theme space movies, so they naturally become representatives of science fiction themes and space themes, and have been included in the tribute film.

Especially in today's era of anti-major narratives, portraying small characters or individual heroes.

A straightforward narrative of grand battle perspectives is a flaw in commercial films.

But he still couldn't accept the ending that was completely lost on everyone.

But the shooting was indeed a bit bad, which has a lot to do with the tight time and the production cycle being too short.

Although Chen Jingxing has never directed a war movie, "Mekong", "Red Sea" and "Wolf Tooth II" were all shot by Guo Fan and Wu Jing, if he wanted to shoot military action movies related to the Korean War, fans, audiences, and even the media would definitely have expectations.

Jiang Ruoping waved his hand: "Didn't you ask you to take out the script now and shoot it immediately..."

It’s not that there are currently no ready-made major directors in China, but that there were scripts from several projects that made the senior executives of the National Film Academy feel a little bad enough. To put it bluntly, the two major leaders of the National Film Academy are a bit picky.

He has also been thinking about which story to choose and what method to shoot in his mind, but it has not yet reached the stage of script creation.

The whole movie is a long shot of "pseudo-shot to the end".

This made "1917" bring an immersive audio-visual experience to the audience - a sense of participation.

The audience not only faces the battlefield, but even takes the initiative to participate, it is like opening a first-person game, personally taking part in it, completing a dangerous mission.

Chen Jingxing wanted to use such a unique film shooting method and presentation to create a tribute film for the Korean War.

(End of this chapter)