Chinese entertainment for engineering students

"Director Han." Wang Xu smiled and spoke to the short-haired middle-aged man in front of him, Han Sanjue, the deputy director of Emei Film Studio.

Of course, he is still studying in the directing department of the Imperial Film Academy, but this schooling is just a formality, nothing more than gold plating. Everyone knows that he will be promoted to the deputy director of the Imperial Film Studio.

"No, no, I haven't taken office yet." Han Sanjue said modestly.

"It's a matter of time, aren't you still the director of the Emei Factory?" The person who spoke was Jiang Wen. Although he was extremely arrogant, he was not weak in human relations at all, otherwise he would have had such a bad temper. It's pretty good if you don't know how to be popular.

"I resigned and am now a student. Please call me Brother Han." Han Sanjue still declined modestly. These mixed systems are really watertight.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, Brother Han." Having said this, Wang Xu didn't think there was anything wrong with calling him "Brother".

"That's right, I'll call you Xiao Wang, and I'll call you Xiao Fei, no problem." Han Sanjue answered with a smile, turned around and greeted Wang Fei with a polite smile.

"No problem, you can call me Erzi." This is the way of greeting people in the imperial capital. It's not so formal. If you have a good relationship, you can call me Erzi. When you are older, you can call me Erzi. This is a bit casual, but you still have to do it. He said it with kindness.

"No, just sit down, sit down." Wang Xu came early today. When Han Sanjue came in, the room was full and everyone stood up to greet him.

"I didn't expect you to be familiar with this place. This roast duck restaurant is good." Jiang Wu greeted everyone and sat down again. Today's game was planned by him. Although Wang Xu was seeking Jiang Wen, Jiang Wu suggested meeting the future factory director first.

It is said that the county magistrate is not as good as the current one. Everyone knows who will be the new helmsman of the Imperial City Film Studio in the future. Wang Xu's films are still in preparation. When they are really waiting for filming, it will be next year and he will take office.

Of course, the current leader should have been invited first, but who asked him to take a medical leave? Otherwise, Han Sanjue would not have been appointed, and now everyone would know about it.

"I've been here once before. The taste is pretty good, no worse than Biasianfang." Wang Xu responded and pulled Wang Fei to sit down.

Today he is treating guests, but he is not the host. According to the rules, he should sit outside. Wang Xu actually doesn't know much about this kind of table etiquette. Fortunately, most people in the imperial capital don't care much about it.

There were no special arrangements for seating except the guest of honor. Knowing that Wang Xu wanted to discuss something with Han Sanjue, he let him sit inside and take the second seat.

"Come, let me give you a toast first. It's our first time meeting you. I also wish you all the best." Wang Xu raised his glass and toasted, and continued with the procedure.

"Fuck." Han Sanjue was really bold and did it after just one touch.

The wine was Wuliangye brought by Wang Xu, and the eight-dollar cup could only hold a few glasses. In fact, Wang Xu didn't really mind what kind of wine he drank, but now that he was rich, the quality of the wine was naturally raised, not to mention it was a treat.

Anyway, Wang Xu usually goes out to treat guests to two kinds of drinks, either Wuliangye or Erguotou. This is also the habit of most people in the imperial capital. When showing cards, he drinks Wuliangye, but usually prefers Erguotou.

Several people are quite good drinkers, not to mention Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu, who have drank with Wang Xu many times. And today Gu Changwei is also here. This is the first time Wang Xu drinks with him.

He is an employee of a film studio, and his rank is not high. After all, he is still young. But his skills are awesome, he can be regarded as outstanding, and he has won awards. Not to mention the present, even Han Sanjue in the future will have some respect for him.

"Brother Han has a good drinker. This is the first time I have a drink with you, and it is also the first time I have had Viagra. I will give you one more toast." After eating his food, he continued to drink. Wang Xu continued to toast and clinked glasses with several people.

After two glasses of wine, everyone started eating. The rest was casual, as there weren't many rules in the imperial capital.

Although Han Sanjue has not yet taken up the post of deputy director of the Imperial City Factory, he has actually been the deputy director of the Emei Film Factory in Yizhou for several years, so he will naturally be interested in various projects.

The Emei Factory at the moment is actually full of talented people, and they are a bit daring to be the first in the world. As early as ten years ago, they co-produced the movie "Heroes Are Young" with Xiangjiang Film Company.

Later, many distinctive films were released, such as the detective martial arts film "The Thieves of Emei", which can be regarded as opening up a new type of film.

Han Sanjue is also a very daring person. He was transferred from Emei Chang to the Imperial Capital. It is probably for this reason, that is, don't just mess with Yizhou, come to the Imperial Capital and mess with him.

This person has received mixed reviews from later generations. The biggest problem may be that he trusts Hong Kong filmmakers too much and invests in many bad movies.

However, he strongly advocated the introduction of overseas films and disturbed the stagnant Chinese film industry. He cooperated everywhere, sent people to study abroad, learned from Hollywood film experience, etc., and still did a lot for Chinese films.

It’s just that people have limitations. It’s actually unfair to judge this person from the perspective of future generations. At that time, the entire mainland film industry was almost in mourning. Except for literary and artistic films, almost no one knew how to make commercial films.

Moreover, Xiangjiang has just passed its most glorious period, and many directors are killing everyone in Hollywood. It is understandable that he thinks highly of Xiangjiang directors.

Today’s topic is movies, and everyone here is related to movies, so naturally today’s topic is movies.

A few people were chatting about movies. Wang Xu was also very interested today. He really liked watching movies in his previous life, especially when he was a child, that is, in the 1980s, when movie tickets were very popular. It’s only 5 cents to a dime a popsicle, and you can watch a movie for the price of a popsicle. It’s really cheap.

At that time, children in the imperial capital didn't have that many extracurricular tutoring classes or anything like that, and they didn't have much homework. After school was over at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, it was considered to be completely herding sheep.

Sneaking to watch a movie is the best entertainment activity. Anyway, Wang Xu secretly went to watch it after class. Usually there will be one at five o'clock in the evening and another at seven o'clock in the evening. Wang Xu always watched the five o'clock one. , I went home at seven o'clock before it got dark.

Children often sneak in when the ticket checkers are not paying attention, and they don't need to pay. The gatekeepers are usually neighbors. Children who sneak in will usually not chase people away as long as they don't cause trouble.

At that time, the cinema was always full when there was no quiet time. Wang Xu sat on the steps in the aisle and watched, which was quite enjoyable.

But it’s also quite strange. According to legend, from the 1980s to the early 1990s, when Wang Xu was young, there were still many good-looking movies in China, but they were not called commercial films, but feature films. Not all of them are co-produced with Hong Kong.

"On the Field of Hope", "Xiyingmen" and "Our Cows Are 100 Years Old" which talk about rural themes

"Early Spring in February", "Nostalgic Love" and "Little Flower" which tell love stories

Talking about that special era, "Legend of Tianyun Mountain", "Furong Town", "Sunny Days", suspense films "Black Cannon Incident" and "Snake Case", war films "Garland Under the Mountain", "Iron Armor 008" and "The Final Battle" ", shootout movie "Codename Jaguar"

Action films "Shaolin Temple" and "Kapok Kasaya", children's films "Thunderbolt Beibei" and "Battle", comedy films "I have a day off today", "Look at this family", "Little De Yue Lou", "Two Sons Open a Shop\

,"There are even science fiction films such as "Death Light on Coral Island" and "The Atmosphere". Anyway, there are quite a lot of films in various genres.

No matter how good the quality of these movies is, at least the stories are very complete and they can tell a story completely, with ups and downs from beginning to end, so that people will not want to leave after watching it.

Most of the film's lens language is simple and clear, and there is nothing mysterious or mysterious. It is either entertaining or exciting. Although it does not share the box office, this is not a commercial film.

Anyway, all the feelings are quite normal. There are no so-called self-breakthroughs, showing humanity, etc. in the impression of later generations. It just tells an interesting story honestly.

Although they may not be as novel and exciting as the Xiangjiang movies, they are still quite good to watch. In the 1980s, when men and women fell in love and went to the movies, they often couldn't buy tickets.

But when those directors grew old and passed into the hands of future generations of directors, they could no longer produce serious feature films. This has been the case since the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In fact, the stories of award-winning films such as "Old Well", "Red Sorghum", "Yellow Earth", "Ju Dou", "Raise the Red Lantern", "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "Farewell My Concubine" directed by fifth generation directors are also very complete. of.

There is nothing pretentious about photography or editing. Instead, it is very plain and natural. It can be said that it goes smoothly and the story is told naturally.

Moreover, the lens language, composition, colors and storytelling methods of these award-winning films are all remarkable, and they have a much more artistic feel than the pure feature films mentioned before.

However, the success of these films has inexplicably distorted the entire Chinese film culture. Since these films won some international awards, even the directors of these films themselves are not very good at making movies.

It seems that the mentality of making movies for the common people has completely disappeared, and those who followed followed the same example and expressed themselves more vigorously.

It wouldn't be a movie if the various stories didn't have some depth. As for the era of blockbusters, it was simply a mess, without even a serious script.

Wang Xu always feels strange when he thinks about it. During the mid-to-late 1990s, due to rampant piracy and the prevalence of video players,

It is true that the film market is sluggish, the operating rates of various film studios are insufficient, and the number of moviegoers has dropped significantly, but at most it means that they are not making any money. At this time, the major film studios still have subsidies.

But how did it affect the quality of these people’s filmmaking? The level of each film has dropped so drastically that even those great award-winning directors seem to suddenly stop filming.

Wang Xu thought about his past and started chatting with the people in the industry. He really wanted to know how the mentality of these people changed and how they made those bad movies.

"The movies you mentioned are actually some of the best. Not all movies can be released." Han Sanjue was obviously very happy with the conversation. As the most senior movie person present, he took the responsibility to serve the younger generations. Literacy work.

“In the past, competition for movies was quite fierce, and it was not easy to have them released nationwide.

Not all movies have the ability to be picked up by China Film Group Corporation and distributed across the country.

In fact, every place has its own film studio. In addition to the low cost of making movies, everyone is still very careful.

This is actually a kind of competition, but it is not very efficient.

Nowadays, they are talking about reform, but in the final analysis, it is still about money. The state can no longer allocate funds to make movies, so those who make movies have to bear the responsibility for their own profits and losses, which is not a troublesome thing.

In the past, if you wanted to take pictures, you could report them, and if the leader approved, you could take pictures.

As for whether the film is good or bad, the impact is actually very small. Selling a few more copies will not cost much, but if you make a film that can be screened nationwide and become famous, you will earn dozens of dollars more in bonuses.

At that time, everyone had no money, and you could still eat a meal with a few dozen dollars more. If you balance it, it didn’t matter. As long as everyone could eat enough.

But with the opening up, people's hearts will naturally be insufficient. If you break away from the big pot, you will naturally hope to earn more if you shoot well, and the conflicts will naturally become fierce. Then, just as the top government is tightening expenditures, just in time, it will be served in one pot.

So, reform actually means that the state doesn't care and you figure it out on your own. "Han Sanjue is also a little helpless. He is an industry insider and a leader. He is also a sensible person and can be regarded as an enlightened leader.

So while complaining to Wang Xu, he explained the background of the film studio's reform.

"Then what are the directors of those movies doing? Why haven't there been any good movies recently?" Wang Xu was a little confused.

"There have been some recently. Last year, Feng Gong's "Stand Down, Don't Get Down" was quite funny. It was directed by Huang Jianxin. I thought it was quite good. Didn't you watch it?" The person who answered was Jiang Wu, who obviously did the same. Someone who loves to watch movies, well, it's a bit nonsense, people are in this business.

"I really haven't watched it yet." Wang Xu suddenly felt a little sentimental. It seemed that he hadn't watched a movie for a long time. He turned back to look at Wang Fei, only to see her looking over.

"Go back and watch." Wang Fei held Wang Xu's hand. She understood that Wang Xu wanted to watch a movie.

Wang Xu knows that the current Chinese film market is not sluggish, and the real trough will not come for a few years. There are no VCDs and DVDs at the moment, so although there is piracy of video recorders, it will not become a phenomenon.

Film companies can still make some money by selling copies, but they have to wait until next year to really introduce blockbuster movies to China, so that Chinese filmmakers can really see how profitable movies are, and then they can crack down on piracy.

The entire film market was completely depressed, and Chinese film directors were completely dizzy and didn't know what to do. Now, everything is actually fine.

No one could understand Wang Xu's sentimentality at the moment. Wang Xu quickly laughed, changed the topic, and returned to his project.

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(See you tomorrow)