Before answering this question, let's take a look at an interview with Chen Kexin in the 44th issue of this year's "Sanlian Life Weekly". He said: "...I don't want to make a movie and can only record it on DVD. I want my movie to be seen in theaters, even in film festival theaters. But the fact is, if I want to make a 300 million yuan movie Movies, money will come, but I want to make a 20 million yuan movie, and no one votes. 20 million yuan is not voted, and 300 million yuan is voted.” This probably reflects the current situation of my country’s film market. Money can rule everything. Honestly, in a society like this, nothing really compares to the effects of money.
If we don't know who the director is in advance, it's really hard to tell if the director of "If • Love" made a movie like "The Name", and we can't find anything similar between the two movies. The delicacy in "If • Love" was vanished in "Putting the Name". To a certain extent, the "Putting in the Name" still considers how to spend these 300 million yuan. The most effective way can only be a strict set of business operation model, star, big-name production team, and so on. Finally know that these seem to have nothing to do with film art, but the film industry. After considering these, it seems a little unreasonable to blame the director of the film in the face of the Chinese blockbuster in recent years. What the director faces is not only the film he wants to present, but an industry, the industry's strong inertia, and the rules within the industry. This is the kind of helplessness and grievance conveyed by Director Chen Kexin in the above paragraph.
Fortunately, Chen Kexin also consciously confronted this helplessness and grievance in "The Name Casting". For example, in this film, as we all know, he stubbornly asked the action director Chen Xiaodong to give up his best hanging wire and pursue the style of the film. some kind of purity. Perhaps it is this pursuit and perseverance that keeps the film's most basic logic, complete, at least without flaws. However, Chen Kexin has 300 million in his hands after all. I think he is still trembling. He can't break through. After all, the effect of money is too great, and he can't break through many things. The paradox is that this seems to coincide with the fate of the characters in "Famous Name". Everyone in the movie can't control their own destiny. No matter how strong they are or how well thought out they are, there is always a force that pulls them into a place of doom. .
People always have ideals, and ideals need to be realized on a platform. Pang Qingyun has his own ideals. I believe his ideal is that the three brothers can live a beautiful and decent life. However, the reality will gradually make his ideals deviate from what he set at the beginning. That's what happened, so the ideal gradually depreciated, and the result of the devaluation was moral chaos, and the ideal seemed to become ugly. The most terrible thing is that the original ideal finally collapsed, and the earth was white and clean. Chen Keqin's ideal seems to be simpler, just "I hope my movie can be seen in the theater", but the reality is that you have to spend 300 million yuan to shoot it, and it seems that only the grievances and grievances between the three brothers can't be filmed. The money couldn't be used up, so war appeared. Shooting war scenes was the most effective way to spend money. Chen Kexin inevitably fell into such a trap. This time I want to ask the director Chen Kexin: Which is more important to make a good movie or to let the audience go to the cinema to watch their own movie? Which is the ultimate value?
In the past, I couldn't understand how the director who made such films as "Raise the Red Lantern", "Farewell My Concubine", "Mobile Phone", etc. could have made "The Golden Armor in the City", "The Promise", After watching a movie like "Night Banquet", I seem to understand a little bit.
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