China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

"The day before yesterday, the bureau just notified the project "Miracle", which we just announced last month, to prepare a more detailed plot overview or the entire script for review..."

Ning Hao sighed: "You are only caring about your own scenery, and you have caused us all to be miserable."

"Miracle" is a work prepared by Ning Hao for a century, focusing on the experience of young people starting a business in Shenzhen in the new era 13 years later, and praising the story of ordinary people seizing opportunities and embracing happiness in the torrent of the times.

It is a bowl of positive energy chicken soup. Although it is not as good as the Chaozhan tribute film, it is still a project that has been registered in the bureau.

Of course, after being exposed to the gift film, I am naturally affected now.

Chen Jingxing glanced at Ning Hao: "Don't pretend to be a complaint. You are not a movie with the theme of the war, but it's just the above meaning. It's not the first time you're bad monkeys are filming a movie. If you can take out the script, it means there won't be any.

What sensitive content, who would stick to movies with such themes?”

To put it bluntly, the action of the Film Bureau is just a stress response, but it is just a formality, and what it will really affect is a Korean War project.

The competent authorities and the circle have never expected that "King Kongchuan" would trigger such a big public opinion storm. Although there were some clues after the release of "Eight Hundred Revelations", they did not expect such a situation to happen.

After all, there is no clear red line between "resisting historical nihilism" and "film creation", and many things are in the blurred boundaries.

Moreover, "opposing historical nihilism" sometimes looks like a pocket crime, or it is like this when it is executed and promoted. He puts all history in it. As long as you study every film and television work involving history, it will be

One or two will inevitably be violated.

Similarly, now that we are going to make a science fiction blockbuster, the audience is not targeting Hollywood movies, and there will be no filters that support domestic products, and patriotism and enthusiasm are even more useless.

Although "Fatal Identity" is science fiction, its actual focus is still on the suspense and brain-burning label.

It is appropriate to do a good visual wonder. Dreamworks can do it, why can't you do it, and why can't I be tolerant of you?

Moreover, science fiction concepts should be creative and the story should be exciting. Science fiction blockbusters should be like this. Don’t tell the story in a difficult way. Even if it is just not exciting enough, the audience will criticize it mercilessly.

The Hong Kong Island movie "The War of Contradiction" is now looking for funds and guaranteed releases for special effects production, but no one takes over it, and all the early investments are wasted."

When "Comet" and "Fatal Identity" set off a brain-burning low-cost science fiction trend, if a domestic company launches a science fiction project.

But this mature science fiction industrial film is not a flash in the pan, nor is it a few years of hard work, but it is available every year, like a blowout, and even expanded into the animation field.

Hong Kong Island movies are no longer regarded as competitors by several major players in the domestic market. It is very beautiful to occasionally produce a good movie that can get more than 1 billion.

It’s not that he has any opinions on Hong Kong Island movies, but that Hong Kong Island movies are already on the edge in the domestic market.

But Chen Jingxing's rise was too fast, basically taking one step at a time, and even jumping up in three levels.

Various themes, various creativity, almost all the high concepts you can think of, intelligent machinery crisis, alien invasion, space and space, zombie wasteland, time travel, time loop, mecha battle, black technology, etc., are all dreamed of

I played all the factories and I have all played well.

"Why do you care so much?"

Can creativity and plot compare?

I really didn’t expect that science fiction movies are subject to relatively small restrictions now.”

No wonder Huanshi.com and others are busy withdrawing their investments.

But what awaits them in two years are already works like Gravity and Matrix.

There is no shortage of patriotism.

It can be said that the national identity and even national identity of contemporary China were actually established by a war of resistance and a war of North Korea plus the entire history of humiliation in modern times.

Even if you don’t pay attention to the content, the gimmicks are depreciating quickly.

DreamWorks’ creativity and high concepts are more resonant than special effects.

So it is clear which one is the bottom.

Filming was not started until the end of 2017, but in 2018, before the film was finished, Fantasy Network withdrew its investment and no longer invested additionally, and the budget was shortened. Until last year..."

After "Sky Eagle Warrior" was released last year, this title would not be able to be beaten.

Therefore, "The War of Contradiction" still received a lot of money and the production budget has been increasing again and again. It is said that with the subsequent companies and other financing channels, the production cost has soared from HK$200 million to over 500 million.

The answer is that it is not as good as that. DreamWorks' special effects department is known as the number one in Asia, and the special effects studios in other countries such as South Korea are not as good as that in China. If you want to hire Hollywood special effects companies to produce it, the cost-effectiveness will be much lower than DreamWorks.

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This is the tragic ending of several science fiction movies that were invested in while the hot money was still there in recent years left a warning to latecomers.

Not even more comparable.

Ning Hao didn't care about Chen Jingxing's "ignorance" and said with a little sigh: "You should have heard of it. It was a very early project. It was launched in 2015, mainly from Huanya Film and Tianxiayi Investment.

Yes, Fantasy Network and some mainland film and television companies have also invested some money.

How many people's efforts and hundreds of millions of funds can only be wasted.

If "King Kong River" had been released four or five years ago, it would be impossible for such a public opinion storm to occur.

Hundreds or even thousands of film practitioners wanted to shoot "the most large-scale science fiction masterpiece in the history of Chinese films", but after they were shot, they could only be shocked to realize that the level of domestic science fiction movies had been raised.

It was a level that was unimaginable a few years ago.

Think about it, space movies alone filmed "Low Earth Orbit Robinson Drifting", "Alien Survival" and "Exploring the Interstellar". By the way, cool concepts such as black holes, wormholes, and high-dimensional are also integrated into them.

It's right.

It is difficult to teach people politics in political textbooks. Even if one day one has some understanding of some content in the political textbooks, it will only happen after the society has experienced many hardships.

It was said that when the project was launched, it was said that it was going to create the first domestic mecha science fiction film. There was not much money at that time, but since your "Source Code" was released, on the one hand, hot money has been pouring in quickly, and on the other hand, all of this money has been

I am becoming more and more fond of science fiction subjects.

But unfortunately, the saying "One day in the cave is the world, the world has been in a thousand years" is a complete true portrayal of domestic science fiction movies.

Ning Hao looked at Chen Jingxing with a smile: "Until last year, other mainland investors also withdrew their capital and withdrawal of hot money. This project, which was originally considered to be a great potential, was directly stranded.

Although the name has been changed to "The War of Tomorrow", I feel that Universal Asia and the World seem to know that something is not good, and I want to try to get the reputation of "Edge of Tomorrow", it is useless. Science fiction movies of this level can be found now

Who takes over?

Audiences who have watched "Sky Eagle Warrior" come to the theater for the name of the mecha film. Can you continue to watch this thing?

The subsequent "Source Code" even used train explosions and intense action clips touted the first domestic science fiction blockbuster - although according to science fiction standards, the cost of less than 100 million is really not a blockbuster.

If there were no Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks, it would have been a market for a few years to make a well-behaved industrial science fiction movie with a very concise, poor imagination, decent special effects, and no mistakes in narratives.

As for whether it is crooked or not, is the description of our army a bit stupid and inadequate, and there will be no more people who are confused. What other bicycles do you need?

Only when you have a certain degree of immunity to the special effects and large scenes of domestic movies, or if you have the psychological requirements of "it is necessary to do good special effects" and "what war movies can you make it easy to make special effects" will you focus on other things.

On the local area.

The narrative of defending modern history is to defend the national and national identity of contemporary Chinese people.

It will take at least two years to wait for the script to be created, prepared, filmed, and released.

This is a paradox, but this phenomenon is not uncommon.

The political concepts of Chinese people are laid out from history classes, or to be precise, shaped by modern history.

Of course, after "Gravity" was released, it became "the first mecha science fiction movie ever made in Chinese films."

Ning Hao curled his lips: "The story is not only without creativity, it is simply childish, the background is also mediocre and boring, there is no pattern or logic, it's all 2020, the background is still the same meteorite hit the earth, bringing a rapid growth

The tentacle-like alien creatures, while purifying the earth, are also killing all life.

For film and television dramas that interpret ancient feudal history, "opposing historical nihilism" beats one by one, and turn a blind eye to major tribute projects such as "Eight Hundred Revelations" and "King Kong River".

So Chen Jingxing's second theater movie "Signal" was very popular with the label of domestic science fiction at that time.

But the problem is that the young man in front of him did not give other companies or filmmakers the opportunity at all.

Chinese people do not even need to be excellent in their own production. They are very supportive of commercial films with fair shortcomings, just like the military action themes of "Mekong".

Can the special effects be comparable to DreamWorks?

Especially for science fiction works, the preparation and production process is relatively long for the Chinese film industry where the industry is immature.

"Then you can take pictures now."

""Contradiction War"? I think I've heard it..." Chen Jingxing has always been not very concerned about Hong Kong movies, so he just thinks it sounds familiar.

To be honest, if it were four or five years ago, he would definitely be willing to participate in or take over such a project.

Six years ago, domestic audiences still felt very fresh and supportive of domestic science fiction movies.

"Source Code" can break the monopoly of imported movies and set a new box office record. In addition to the novel plot, the name of domestic science fiction blockbusters is also very important.

The themes that can win high box office in China are either their own science fiction movies, military action movies, or comedy movies that mainly focus on the style of domestic comedians. Other themes, such as "The God of Medicine" or animation works, can occasionally win high box offices.

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"Of course you can say sarcastic words here." Ning Hao sighed: "You are all shooting science fiction movies, and DreamWorks mainly produces science fiction works. Most of them talk about the future. Historical nihilism cannot hit you.

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It is precisely because the strike surface is too large and no one comes forward to draw the boundaries that the attack ability is lost.

Because of the spirit of "opposing historical nihilism", it was expanded and attacked heavily on costumes and other types of dramas that domestic audiences prefer, which aroused the audience's disgust.

Because he is a filmmaker, as a commercial director who has prepared and directed industrial films, his perspective is not ordinary audiences, but he can experience the hardships and difficulties of the film company.

Because all viewers will focus on special effects and war scenes, and on the majesty of industrial films.

The aesthetic threshold of Chinese audiences for domestic science fiction themes is no less than that of domestic war action themes, and science fiction themes are no longer rare or rare themes.

Even a director like Ning Hao who is not short of resources, he must first ask himself if he wants to make a science fiction movie.

To be honest, even Chen Jingxing himself was confused. Is this intentional?

"Hasn't this been found by King Hua? Although Andy Lau is not actually in the same circle as them, the Hong Kong Island area is still hard to stand up, so it's hard to find me.

Generally speaking, the germination and growth of a subject takes time.

After hearing this, Chen Jingxing remembered that he did hear Hong Kong Island want to make a Hong Kong science fiction film, and even claimed to create a "most large-scale science fiction masterpiece in Chinese film history", which is far beyond the "Source"

Code》.

If your "Sky Eagle Warrior" is not released, it may make me hesitate for a second. "Sky Eagle Warrior" has been released, can the script audience of this level pay?

The common science fiction types have basically been photographed by DreamWorks, and they have even been photographed in a variety of ways.

In layman's terms, it is just a soft pinch of persimmons.

The funding gap has occurred, and the special effects teams in the United States and South Korea have also terminated post-production. Even if Universal Asia and Tianxiayi promised to share the box office, no truly high-level special effects team took over, and the guaranteed issuance cannot be sold. It was previously more than 380 million yuan.

All investments in Hong Kong dollars have been wasted, it is really miserable..."

Distorting modern history will inevitably arouse audience's disgust.

Even if it can match the middle level of Hollywood blockbusters, domestic audiences are likely to buy it.

Then, in the narrative that really involves modern and modern history, it is amplified and mixed with private goods.

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little jealous: "Actually, I had thought about making a science fiction movie before, but at that time there were not enough professional talents in China, the special effects were not good, the market was not clear, the risks were too high, and I was also worried about the review caliber.

From science fiction sketches to maturity and even being first-class science fiction blockbusters in the world, this process is too rapid, even if the people who follow the trend cannot keep up, they are left far behind.

As for overseas, Hong Kong films have long declined. In fact, in Hong Kong's own film market, Hong Kong films, especially commercial Hong Kong films, are almost marginalized, and are about to gradually fall into the Baodao film industry - if

If it can be called industry, it will be the end.

Therefore, it is precisely because "opposing historical nihilism" does not have a clear boundary and authoritative explanation that it becomes the rule that only cares about the people lighting the lamps and state officials setting fires.

Ning Hao shook his head with emotion: "If it weren't for you, I would certainly be able to shoot it without DreamWorks, but you are a bit too evil. In just a few years, the level of science fiction film and television works has been raised to this level. It seems thankless for others to make science fiction movies.

Although Ning Hao complained in seemingly mercilessly, his expression was extremely sighing.

The story, background, creativity and even the connotation are beaten in all aspects.”

I have always agreed to Brother Hua’s request but will not refuse, but do I dare to take over this project? At least it is a gap of hundreds of millions of dollars, and I also asked for their script. Originally, Tianxiayi didn’t want to give it to the grinding. Jiji took it and took it, haha—”

But it has been different in the past two years.

The project of Universal Asia and Tianxiayi is also paying more and more attention to it. Because of the abundant funds, it overturned the previous scheduled plan, and it seemed that it had rewritten the script and hired the special effects teams from South Korea and Hollywood to be responsible for the special effects work.

This makes the audience and netizens seem disgusted with censorship, and then become supportive of censorship, like a schizophrenia.

"Wow, together with me, I not only blocked the way of the tribute film of the battle, but also blocked your way of fulfilling your science fiction dreams?"

Chen Jingxing wondered: "I am so unforgivable?"

"What do you think?" Ning Hao sighed: "Originally, our Bad Monkey Seventy-Two Changes Plan also has several new directors who have provided science fiction scripts. Of course, it is not the kind of science fiction blockbuster, it is considered a creative project, although my opinion I am more conservative, but I have thought about whether to give them this opportunity.

As a result, after "Suspect Tracking III" was launched, I was busy at that time and didn't have time to finish watching it, but I also watched the last few episodes under Lao Xu's recommendation... After watching it, I threw all those scripts back. .

I told them directly that audiences can see such a high-level science fiction work by spending more than ten yuan on computers and TVs. Please ask yourself first. If you shoot it yourself, you will have to pay dozens of yuan for the audience to watch it in the theater. Can the script be bought?

Alas, it’s all light to say that you are unforgivable. Look, how many dreams have you destroyed?"