China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 359 Mr. Dong Guo

Friday, December 30, 2016.

He Yinglin gasped as she looked at the computer screen. She was so embarrassed that she had terminal cancer.

The roommates surrounding her either covered their mouths or were stunned.

"It's so embarrassing..."

"Fuck, are you really so brave?"

"So handsome, he looks like a domineering president."

He Yinglin rolled her eyes and ignored her nymphomaniac roommate, and continued to stare at the computer screen. Although she was embarrassed that the cancer had struck, there seemed to be a strange magic that prevented her from looking away.

The camera on the screen focused on a handsome young man sitting in the seat, yes, it was Chen Jingxing.

Chen Jingxing swore that he didn't have a performance personality, but when he got angry he really couldn't hold it in.

After more than two months of preparation and a large number of submissions, a total of 35 directors were shortlisted for the main competition. They were divided into groups of five and divided into seven groups to record programs in batches.

The registered short films were also broadcast on the big screen at the recording site before the director appeared, followed closely by "Black Box", which took Fan Cunyan a month to shoot.

"No." Wen Zhian did not hide his nervousness.

Guo Fan and the other three judges were a little at a loss. Apparently they had not expected such a thing to happen, and they did not want to expose it directly.

"Did you make the short film you signed up for before?"

Tian Xinye even rated this short film as being among the top five among the 35 selected applicants.

After Chen Jingxing and Tian Xinye looked at each other, he asked a question in a tentative voice.

He really looks like a domineering president as his roommate said.

The third director to appear is Fan Cunyan. The work he shot is a 20-minute science fiction short film called "Black Box". The story is obviously a tribute to "Fatal Identity" and is about the treatment of schizophrenia.

As a director, did you explain the actors' tricks thoroughly? Did you guide the actors' performances? Did you just pass the performance like this? I always think that the director is the one who decides what level of performance an actor can give on the big screen or on the screen.

the root cause.

[Other judges have also started to be strict and dare to speak up. That’s great, I like to catch horses]

However, this incident not only caught the director and program team off guard, but also naturally shocked the audience.

"Director Xiao Chen speaks well, hits the nail on the head, and is not perfunctory. He is sincere and a serious person. No wonder he has achieved such great achievements at such a young age." Wen Zhian's father said with emotion.

And of course there are the viewers in front of their computer and mobile screens who will watch the first episode aired two days later.

After all seven episodes have passed, three awards of gold, silver and bronze will be selected from a total of 35 works based on live audience and online voting. The awards will be presented in the eighth episode, and Chen Jingxing will announce the selection of 5 directors from 35 directors.

To be responsible for the filming of the five stories of "Black Mirror II".

Wen Zhi'an's mother heard what her wife was saying and said, "You are not a professional, how can you still hear the point?"

If the director has no requirements for the performance, the actors will naturally be perfunctory, and the drama will be polished..."

Since Chen Jingxing's debut, the interviews he has accepted have basically been in a humorous and relaxed style. I have never seen him with full firepower and momentum, calmly asking questions, and giving orders with a sneer.

Moreover, Chen Jingxing and others spent a lot of time and energy to select these 35 directors who were shortlisted for the main competition from so many submitted works. Wouldn’t it be nice for him to spend this time with his wife? Wouldn’t it be nice to perfect the script? Even

Wouldn't it be better to just start filming "The Matrix II"?

Unexpectedly, Chen Jingxing did not receive Guo Fan's comforting look, but directly continued to attack, preparing to expose this liar.

Wen Zhi'an stared at the TV screen and nodded nervously: "Yes, he filmed "Gravity" and "The Matrix" that I took you to the cinema to watch."

The barrage was obviously shocked by this paragraph, setting off a climax of discussion.

Maybe some non-professional audiences at the scene didn't notice it, but the professional audience could still clearly see the huge difference in level. The four judges Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan were also very surprised.

"That's incredible." The middle-aged woman sitting next to her exclaimed: "Last time you told me about this director named Chen Jingxing, I thought he must be at least fifty or sixty years old. So young? He looks similar.

You are almost there, you can be a judge at such a young age..."

Then it became Chen Jingxing's performance. He asked Fan Cunyan several questions about the short film he signed up for, including where it was shot, what the inspiration was, and what a certain shot expressed.

[Director Chen is really awesome. He was very amiable at first, but before I could react, he suddenly started questioning me, and he exposed it in just a few words.]

I didn’t expect this person to be so bold. He thought that by paying homage to Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks in his competition works, he would be able to succeed?

However, Chen Jingxing did not curse directly. Although he wanted to curse in his heart, he just sneered and signaled to the director: "Next!"

[I think several judges, including Director Chen, are quite sincere and candid in their speeches]

Moreover, the time of the short film is fragmented and looks messy, but in fact it is orderly and of a very high level.

[It feels so immersive, it feels like I am in an interview, my heartbeat is speeding up]

Everyone submits their own topic, applies for funding from DreamWorks, and each has one month to shoot his or her work. The length of the work should not be less than 5 minutes and no longer than 30 minutes, and will be introduced in seven episodes.

The story is not a tribute to "Fatal Identity". This is of course allowed. Many of the short films shot by directors are inspired by classic movies, and it only makes people happy to be paid tribute. I am afraid that Fan Cunyan named "Black Box" and paid tribute.

"Fatal Identity" is somewhat intended to please Chen Jingxing.

Each director who shoots a competition work has a production team. At that time, each director's preparation and short film shooting process will be edited into a documentary short film for broadcast, which can also be used as a way for the audience to see how the directors shot the competition works.

A man in his fifties, wearing glasses and slightly bald at the temples, looked at the young man chatting on the TV screen and asked, "Is he Chen Jingxing?"

What surprised Chen Jingxing, Tian Xinye and other judges was that the quality of this short film, which took a month and 1.4 million yuan provided by DreamWorks, was far different from the short film Fan Cunyan signed up for.

This is a variety show, so it's better to just fool around with it.

After Wen Zhian's father finished speaking, he turned to look at his son: "How are you? Are you confident?"

[NC, what kind of status does Director Chen have that he needs to show off for the sake of the number of broadcasts of his program?]

Under Chen Jingxing's offensive, Fan Cunyan still failed to hold on and exposed Mr. Dongguo's true face. The short film he signed up for was a graduation work bought at a high price from someone who had graduated from the Yangtze River Drama Center for a long time.

After He Yinglin survived the embarrassing episode of cancer attack, she said in shock: "I didn't expect that Director Chen still has this side."

Although Fan Cunyan insisted that he took the photo, Chen Jingxing still caught the trace of panic in his eyes.

[Isn’t this more exciting than some idol talent show!?]

[At first glance, it's just a show. We must have discussed this early. This is not a live broadcast but a recording. Why not cut it out if something like this happens?】

The acting of the actors is a major shortcoming. It stands to reason that the three actors are all insiders who have acted in film and television dramas. The level of this performance is too low. I don't want to directly criticize the actors here. I think this is the director's problem.

This is a direct insult to the fruits of his labor. Chen Jingxing, an unknown firebrand, can't suppress it at all, and he doesn't want to suppress it. His rapid rise in status in recent years has also made him lack the patience to endure.

"Hey, what's not obvious about this? It's not like I haven't watched TV shows or movies. You'll understand some of the truth once they say it."

What makes Chen Jingxing angry is not that the name "Black Box" is similar to "Black Mirror" - Fan Cunyan's explanation is that the human brain is a black box, which is very mysterious, so the name is not too far-fetched.

So Chen Jingxing turned to look at the director in the audience and said calmly: "Play his documentary!"

The work that Fan Cunyan signed up for was a very simple short film of less than 10 minutes. It told the story of a woman who lost her child and walked around the city looking for her child. Although the picture was very rough, it looked like it was shot with a mobile phone.

Yes, but the language of the lens can be seen and it can bring people into a woman’s perspective.

The 1.4 million he spent was DreamWorks’ money! Rounded up, it was Chen Jingxing’s money!

The entire program flow was planned by Huanshi.com to be relatively complete, but unexpectedly something unexpected happened in the first episode.

It's not even that the short film was extremely bad, it was a bit insulting to the idea, and Chen Jingxing couldn't even feel the joy of being paid tribute, but it doesn't mean that bad short films cannot be allowed.

In each episode, in addition to playing short films previously submitted by the director, and then playing the works shot over the past month, the director and actors came on stage to receive comments from the judges and questions from the audience. Both professional and non-professional audiences will vote to select the rising stars of this episode.

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[That is, these directors shortlisted for the main competition are basically unknown. They are really real. I feel that this program is really a breath of fresh air]

The skill of the director named Fan Cunyan was even more thoroughly exposed during the filming of the documentary. He had no independent opinion at all, the script was constantly deleted and revised, and even the actors were intolerable to the point that they took over the main role.

“Directors Tian and Director Guo have already discussed other issues with this work, so I’ll add some more.

He had no idea that his original whim would be answered. The DreamWorks staff informed him that he had passed the preliminary round and entered the main competition, which made him ecstatic.

Wen Zhian also resigned from the company directly. After all, he had to spend a month filming the competition work, and with the exposure of the show, even if he did not win the gold medal or be selected by DreamWorks, he would still be far away from his dream of making a movie.

A big step forward.

He was assigned to the seventh group. The competition work had been filmed and the seventh episode had not yet been recorded. Seeing the dramatic plot in the first episode and the subsequent sharp comments and questions from several judges and professional audiences made him even more nervous.

Already.

Wen Zhian's parents also changed their attitude because of this. Not only could their son be on the show and appear in front of hundreds of millions of people, but DreamWorks also directly allocated more than one million yuan for his son to make some kind of competition work.

Did his son’s dream of becoming a director really come true for him?

(End of chapter)