Director’s Legend

() "I don't know. Go back to the capital and see if you can find something to do." Yue Xiaojun is a little confused. He is a graduate of Chinese opera. "I'm the only one", but the income of screenwriters in this era is very small, and it's enough for a year, and sometimes they don't even have enough food.

Not everyone can write "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" and then resell it for a high price of 150,000 yuan. Before Yue Xiaojun, 80% of the scripts he wrote were not wanted by anyone.

"How about this, I have an idea here, can you help me write a script?"

"That's a good idea, director, what do you think?"

"This is a story about a race car driver..." Shao Shuaijun immediately expressed his thoughts. This idea is "Crazy Racing", the second Guy Ritchie-style comedy film created by the original stone crew. Compared with the shabby release and box office of the first film, Racer stood on the shoulders of stones and won more than 100 million box office.

Shao Shuaijun didn't plan to make this movie himself, it was prepared for Ning Hao. As a director he admired very much, Shao Shuaijun snatched his famous work, and he felt a little bit sorry for it, and planned to hand over this movie to Ning Hao. And he invests.

After hearing this idea, Yue Xiaojun immediately praised the script: "Don't worry about the director, I will finish the script as soon as possible. By the way, what is the name of this script?"

""Crazy Racing", the script is not in a hurry. You have to wait until "Crazy Stone" is released before you can prepare for the filming. You have plenty of time to polish. If you are not in a hurry to go back during this time, stay on the set and help me do something. Well, there is a salary to get it."

"become!"

"Xiaojun, you're not leaving, so I can't go back alone?" Huang Bo was very depressed.

"If you don't want a wife, you can stay and make a living in the crew. It just so happens that I will let you act as the protagonist in "Crazy Racing"."

"real?"

"certainly."

"Hey, what else do you want to eat? Go back, Xiaojun, hurry up and write the script, I'm waiting to be the lead actor."

A few people were not in the mood to drink any farewell wine, ordered food and ate, and hurried back to the set. Right now, Yue Xiaojun and Huang Bo are helping out with odd jobs in the crew, busy with the crew. Time passed quickly, and it was June 12th in a blink of an eye, and it was time for the film festival awards.

The Shanghai Metropolis Film Festival started in 1993 and is one of the nine international A-level film festivals. It was closed last year due to SARS. This year, 578 films from more than 51 countries and regions signed up for the exhibition. The main competition unit is to compete for the Golden Goblet Award, with a total of 16 films participating.

This has nothing to do with Shao Shuaijun, his film participated in the Asian Newcomer Award competition. Compared with the grand live broadcast of the Golden Goblet Awards, the Newcomer Award was much shabby. It was held in a side hall on the second floor of the International Convention and Exhibition Center. The venue was not big, and there were no live cameras. There are not many films participating this time, only more than 40 films.

"Buried Alive" was shortlisted for Best Picture and Best Director. In fact, there are only these two newcomer awards. At nine o'clock in the morning, the Asian Newcomer Awards began. There were three judges, female director Huang Shuqin, film theorist David Baldwell and Japanese film critic Tadao Sato. The hosts are two hostesses from Modu TV who don't know each other. The male has a round face and the female has beautiful legs.

As a newcomer award, the Asian Newcomer Award can be called a film forum, and all film directors or producers who are shortlisted for the award must come to the stage to make a speech. Shao Shuaijun is no exception.

Liu Junyi, the director of "One Million", talked about the future of movies, Liang Zhiqiang, the director of "Running Children", talked about theories, and Long Yi, the director of "The Man Who Watched the Video Tape" in South Korea, was babbling. Shao Shuaijun was in the audience, but he chatted with Zhu Wen, the director of "South of the Clouds".

Until he was invited to the stage by the judges and began to deliver his speech.

When he came here, he was unprepared, so Shao Shuaijun just said a few words: "I'm very happy to be able to participate in the Asian Newcomer Award at the Shanghai Film Festival, and I thank the three judges for their kindness. As a newcomer who has just come into contact with movies, I can't say yes In terms of movies, let me just say a few words. Movies are becoming more and more innovative, and I am more optimistic about the development of film technology. This year, digital movies have already started shooting. From 3D movies to digital movies, many of them need to be learned and explored by our directors. .Hollywood movies have already started to spend money on special effects, while in China, movies are still stuck on the simple TV show, limited to a few blockbusters, special effects are also produced by the West, which will inevitably lead to Chinese movies competing in the entire movie circle We are at a disadvantage in the middle, we can't just focus on literary films... It cannot be said that blockbusters with special effects are the way out for movies, but blockbusters with special effects must be the cornerstone to support the film market..."

The speech was very short, just advocating blockbusters. As a director, I am afraid that no one does not hope to make a visual blockbuster like "Avatar" one day. But as far as the entire Chinese-language film is concerned, after another ten years of development, it will still remain in the Wia era. Those so-called special effects blockbusters are all gimmicks, or they are Western technologies five or six years ago.

There are many reasons why Chinese filmmakers are reluctant to invest in special effects. One is that they have no money to invest; For example, "Lost in Thailand" made a raging 1.2 billion box office, which shocked many eyes. It is precisely these factors that restrict the development of film technology, which has led to the fact that there are not many Chinese-language films, not to mention blockbusters, even science fiction films.

"Hello Director Shao Shuaijun, I am your fan. I really like your film "Buried Alive". Its production cost is very small, but it gives me the feeling of a blockbuster movie. I would like to ask Director Shao, have you considered it?" What about filming special effects blockbusters?"

Since it is a movie forum, interaction on stage and off stage is indispensable. A girl wearing glasses asked a question.

Shao Shuaijun nodded: "Of course, my dream is to shoot blockbuster movies. But I'm still a rookie now, and I don't have many good results. It's a bit early for me to make blockbuster movies. Of course, if someone is willing to invest, I am very willing I accepted the filming invitation." As an assistant director in his previous life, he has never made a movie with a cost of 30 million yuan, and he has been longing for blockbuster movies for a long time.

Now he can only accumulate directing skills and money through low-cost movies to realize his dream.

"I want to ask Director Shao, will you maintain the standard of "Buried Alive" in your next film "Crazy Stone"?" a boy asked.

"Well, "Buried Alive" is an experiment, and the response is so good that I didn't expect it. "Crazy Stone" is a comedy, and it is definitely not as deep as "Buried Alive", but I am confident that this is definitely a classic comedy. We can wait and see."

After asking questions, it was eleven o'clock soon, and the award-winning works began to be announced. Everyone stood on the stage, waiting for the three judges to announce.

"I'm very excited and gratified. Seeing so many young filmmakers, future films depend on you to continue and develop. Well, the winner of the Asian Newcomer Award at the 7th Shanghai Metropolis Film Festival is..."

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