rising director

The Rising Great Director Author: White is a Realm

I think of running under the sunset that afternoon, that is my lost youth.

The advertising director was reborn in 2000, won awards for filming movies, and taught students to give speeches!

Live comfortably and unrestrainedly!

0001【Return to 2000】

"where am I?"

Wan Xiaohu looked in the mirror, his pink face, his sparse beard, and the three-seven hair that looked like a traitor's head, he was at a loss.

Quite simply, he was electrocuted to death by a high-voltage wire hanging from the side of the road, but instead of going to hell, he returned to his student days.In the stinky dormitory, all kinds of quilts, socks, video discs, lunch boxes are piled up in a mess, and the calendar on the wall is clearly displayed.

Today is January 2000, 2.

After going through the initial shock, Wan Xiaohu had to accept that in his current situation, he returned to 14 years ago.

This year, Mr. Chen's camera has not been famous yet, and Mr. Cang is still...

Cough!

This year was Wan Xiaohu's third year at Beijing Film Academy, the second semester of his second semester. In 1998, he went through layers of selection and finally entered the director department of Nortel's 98 class with excellent results.With a dream of being a great director, he spent four years at Nortel, and then graduated sadly.

After graduating, he was unemployed, and because of bad opportunities, he ran through many tricks, but he was still unable to get a position.

In fact, the entire class of Nortel students in class 98 was the class with the bleakest stars, and none of them did well.There are no big stars, and there are no big directors.Among his classmates, the most famous one is Nursery, which has never become popular.

Opportunities are not good, classmates are not good, for children from ordinary working-class families, Wan Xiaohu's road to directing is particularly bumpy.He first made scene notes, props, lighting, and then worked as an assistant director for several TV dramas.Later, he planned to do it by himself, but he couldn't get investment, and no one was willing to give him a chance to be a director.

After a few years of neglect, Wan Xiaohu no longer dreamed of being a great director unrealistically, but chose to direct commercials and MVs, and play micro-movies in his spare time.

It's time to remember my dream of being a director.

Until he was reborn, he had never made a TV series or a movie seriously.

Basically, these 14 years of life have been in vain.There is no drama, no twists and turns, no one is interested in telling it, and it is not earth-shattering when it is done.Like a pool of stagnant water, gradually blackened and smelly, decaying in despair.

until one day.

He bought the latest edition of the entertainment newspaper and saw that the entertainment report "Where Are We Going, Dad" has already reached 6.8 million yuan, and he thought to himself, the world is really unfair that a crap movie adapted from a crap program can be so successful.Then I began to look forward to it, if he could live again, with memories and countless good movies...

Then the high-voltage electricity was touched, and the year 2000 came.

"I'm actually reborn!"

Wan Xiaohu, who was muttering to himself in the mirror, suddenly swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "I'll wipe it! I'm reborn! Then, let me start the coquettish life!"

Smile.

What was buried deep in my heart by the years began to take root again.

Once upon a time, Wan Xiaohu could only remember his lost wish in the dead of night.Or complain about your own life, which is so boring and desolate.In the most coquettish student days, I looked down on ordinary girls. When I left the society, I always wanted to get ahead, but I ignored the relationship. When I recognized the reality, I was already old.

In the past ten years, he has been in a few love relationships, but in the end they all failed, and he has always been a loner.

It's different now, he's going to be a great director!

He wants to pick up everything he didn't get in the previous track!

"Wan Xiaohu, what are you waiting for? Make a movie!"

Looking at himself in the mirror, Wan Xiaohu made up his mind.However, it is not an easy task to make a movie. At least on one track, he has been thinking about it for more than ten years, but he has not done it.Now it is true that there are good movies with one brain, the key is to find the investment and make the movie!

"First of all, a script must be determined!"

In the empty, dirty dormitory, Wan Xiaohu frowned and died bitterly.With 14 years of memory, he has too many good movies in his mind, but it is hard to find ones that are suitable for shooting now.

First, he is not well-known yet, so he cannot attract large investment, and many high-cost movies cannot be realized.Second, he hasn't made a serious movie yet, he's just a theoretically talented director, and he can't make difficult movies well.Third, he can't shoot many movies that rely on the performance of good actors to support the framework of a movie. Which star will meet a student.

Combining these three reasons, Wan Xiaohu suddenly found that there were not many choices for him.

"Now I have no way to do distribution, and I have no connections to attract investment. Even if I happen to attract some investment and make a movie, how can I make money? It is now 2000, and the domestic market has not yet started the reform of the theater system. , I can go to theaters one by one and let them show my movies. But this is not a cure for the symptoms. In the past few years, pirated DVDs have been rampant, and almost no one goes to the movie theaters. What kind of low-budget movies do I make to attract audiences? ?”

""Crazy Stone"? There is no one that can't be shot with 400 million, and I still can't control the multi-line mirroring and mountain dialect. "People on the Journey"? Wang Baoqiang and Xu Zhen supported it, and the comedy effect was not good. Is this really a problem? Or, change the way of thinking?"

Wan Xiaohu rubbed his chin. To make a movie in the mainland, you don't have to make a commercial movie, and make it a blockbuster in order to make money.Of course, making blockbuster movies is what Wan Xiaohu will definitely do in the future. As for now, what needs to be done is to solve the problem of food and clothing.

In this period of time in the mainland, commercial films have just sprouted. Feng Xiaogang, the director of the Five Dynasties, is developing a Lunar New Year file. "Party A and Party B" in 97, "Be There or Be Square" in 98, and "Endless" last year can be said to be the commercial films in the mainland. The first of its kind.Even the famous director Zhang Yimou is still wandering on the road of art films.

It can be said that in this period, art films are the mainstream films.How do so many directors make art films that don't make money, how do they get enough to eat?It's very simple, someone is raising it!

The films made by famous directors are basically paid by the state-owned film studios, and then they are planned to be released in their theaters, so that no one will watch the films they make.

At worst, there are two other paths.

The first thing is to win awards. The Bureau of Radio, Film and Television has an unruly rule. All films that have won international awards will receive subsidies ranging from 50 to 200 million from the Film Bureau after they come back.Compared with winning an award, which is something that can be encountered but not sought after, the second is simple, which is to sell the film to the central government.

Central is a movie channel, and when buying movies, they all have a unified price of 100 million.

"Sell it to the movie channel! That's the decision!"

After making the decision, Wan Xiaohu relaxed. The frame of the film has already been positioned. First, the cost is small, guaranteed to be less than 100 million; , suitable for his current situation.

After some searching, Wan Xiaohu confirmed the movie he was about to prepare.

0002【Do it with me】

"Chen, I dropped out of college after two years. I opened an antique shop 'Xianrenju' with my friends. I eat, drink and have fun every day, or write horror novels. I don’t know when, the brothers got together, I started worrying about helping him find a girlfriend. Especially after I met Liu Rong, the matter about Chen became a key topic when the brothers got together..."

Wan Xiaohu found a pen and paper, and on the white paper, outlined the plot of the movie.

Then write the name of the movie in a big way - "Waiting Alone".

This is not a famous movie, but it is a domestic movie, a rare classic low-budget movie.It is the debut work of Wu Shixian, a Chinese-American director, in 2005. It tells about the emotional life of urban young men and women, about the miss and waiting for love.This is a youth comedy movie with human care.

Wan Xiaohu didn't know if this movie was released in theaters at that time, and what the box office was. He had seen this movie and it was on the Central Movie Channel.To put it bluntly, regardless of whether it will hit the box office or not, at least this movie was successfully sold to the movie channel.It is said that the word-of-mouth and DVD sales at the time were very good, and it even won the Best First Film Award at the Beijing College Student Film Festival.

The movie is simple, has a good reputation, and is not difficult to shoot. It is simply a movie tailor-made for Wan Xiaohu.

As a graduate of the Directing Department of Nortel, he has been working as a small director for several years, and he has watched the original movie. Writing a script is very simple for Wan Xiaohu.Not only does he write scripts, he also writes shot scripts, and his first-hand sketches are no worse than professional art students.

The camera in "Waiting Alone" is simple, but there are more dialogues. Wan Xiaohu only remembers a general story, and he has to add the specific lines and scenes one by one.In the last track, I have been mixed for 14 years, watched countless movies, and experienced the ups and downs of life, so adding some lines should not be too easy.

Bang!

Just as Wan Xiaohu was conceiving, the door of the dormitory was kicked open.

Then two young men in fur coats walked in, one of them was tall and thin with two parts, he looked more like a little girl than a student, and yelled as soon as he entered the door: "Tiger, I have an appointment with Ma Xia, and I will go to Jiehe tonight." Discodi Hall hppy (happy), are you going?"