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Chapter 475

There must be some differences between the film Zhao Hai made and the original version.

After all, he is not like Gao Shuang, who can copy one by one for the camera.

With the same script, different directors will incorporate their own thoughts and expressions when shooting.

Therefore, the editing process must not be completely reproduced according to the original film.

This film is not only an editing training for Zhao Hai, but also a major assessment of Gao Shuang's personal director skills.

The two of them thought about editing the last bit of the plot.

Because it is the sound of the same period, there are many noises, so Zhao Hai needs to go back to the capital for the soundtrack and dubbing, and find all the actors to go through it again.

Among them, the most famous "Sister, You Go Boldly" and "Divine Comedy" were re-recorded with the protagonist Lu Jianhui appearing in person.

The only track that can be finalized now is "Jiu Er", which is used as the ending song and the background sound in the middle.

This "Jiuer" is a song that Zhao Yinger has sung a long time ago, and it can be used when it is used.

In fact, this song itself is a track from the TV series version, and Gao Shuang used it to put it in the movie version as an adaptation.

However, this movie has been processed by Zhao Hai, and it has long been far from the original version. Gao Shuang is not planning to make a TV series version, so there is nothing to dispute about this musical change.

It was already two or three o'clock in the morning after everything was smoothed out. Gao Shuang stretched his waist and asked casually, "How do you plan to arrange this movie?"

"I arrange?"

Looking at the video played on the editor, Zhao Hai, who was rubbing his hands excitedly, blinked blankly, and asked, "What do I arrange?"

"You..."

Gao Shuang can't wait to slap Zhao Hai twice, this guy has really become the kind of artist who devotes himself to creation and doesn't care about world affairs?
He rubbed his temples and asked, "Isn't your movie going to be released after it's made?"

Zhao Hai looked at Gao Shuang, and asked seriously: "Is this something I should worry about?"

Gao Shuang was taken aback when he heard the words, and found that Zhao Hai didn't mean to be joking at all, and he understood it in an instant.

It's not that Zhao Hai didn't think about the following operations, but he didn't want to think about these arrangements because of his trust in Gao Shuang.

Distribution, promotion, even film scheduling, and release have nothing to do with the work of the director.

Many directors participated in it as a last resort!
But Zhao Hai doesn't need it!

Behind him is Zhongxing Entertainment and Gao Shuang. These forces are trustworthy and can be completely entrusted without reservation.

At this stage, he only needs to adjust his position, work hard to improve his director skills, and go all out to make the movie well.

That's it!

Only by doing a good job as a director can he truly live up to Gao Shuang's training and expectations.

Gao Shuang suddenly smiled sassyly, nodded and said, "Well said...I'm speechless!"

Zhao Hai also laughed along with Gao Shuang, a little silly, but very sincere!
Gao Shuang raised his hand and punched him on the hollow of the shoulder, and suggested: "If you want me to say, there is no rush for the release. You can take this movie to participate in overseas film festivals first, and you should gain something."

"An overseas film festival?"

Zhao Hai did not expect that Gao Shuang would let him go this way.

In his opinion, the movie "Red Sorghum" is too rustic, and there is a high probability that it will not adapt to the environment abroad.

Gao Shuang felt a little confident, and comforted him: "Movies with this kind of theme are very suitable for winning awards abroad."

Although the Chinese film circle has entered the era of commercial films, foreign awards have also begun to favor commercial films.

But the criteria for judging movies and literature are similar.

They all pay more attention to the spiritual connotation of the film and breakthroughs in artistic techniques!

If it can bring a little hidden physical liberation, it will be perfect!
These points are precisely the strengths of "Red Sorghum"...

Back then, "Red Sorghum" went to the Berlin Film Festival on Earth, and Zhang Guoshi's "Old Well" was in a similar situation, and they were both ordered in the face of danger.

Director Chen's "King of the Kid" was originally a domestic entry for the 38th Berlin Film Festival, but it was temporarily withdrawn to improve the Cannes Film Festival, and "Red Sorghum" "emergency" entered the Berlin Film Festival as a substitute.

The fledgling Zhang Guoshi won the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture and became the first director in the history of Chinese film to win a category A international film festival award.

For a while, the news of Zhang Guoshi's award was as exciting as the women's volleyball championship.

Perhaps not many people knew about the Berlin Film Festival at that time, but Zhang Guoshi's glory for the country was well known.

Gao Shuang continued: "We are now different from when we first started working on "Blue Star" and "Stone". We are not in a hurry to use this film to sell money."

"I will follow your arrangement in this regard!"

Zhao Hai waved his hands indifferently, but turned around and asked with some trepidation: "Shuangzi, how much box office do you think I can earn when this movie is released? Will I pay for it?"

"Hard to say……"

Gao Shuang thought for a while, and said with uncertainty.

When Zhao Hai heard Gao Shuang's tone, the hair all over his body exploded.

He knew that Gao Shuang was full of confidence every time he made a shot, and he had high expectations for the box office.

How come it's hard to tell him?
Zhao Hai looked at the video that was still playing, and asked in a low voice with anxiety: "Is there any problem with my filming?"

People who engage in creation are always prone to fall into "knowledge barrier".

This is also one of the reasons why many directors with professional background and strong professional skills will make bad movies.

Some viewers may feel that these directors are idiots, and they don't even have the level to distinguish the quality of a work!
It's not fair to say that, they must have the ability to distinguish good and bad films.

These directors have been in college for four years, and some even have two or three years of postgraduate studies. This is what they major in. If they are asked to review other people's movies, even the directors with the worst professional grades can easily pick out a lot of faults.

Then why do they become blind when they go to their own movies?
This is the cognitive barrier of cognitive bias!
Especially for works done by oneself, it is more prone to cognitive bias.

A lot of hard work and energy have been invested, even if the final product is a pile of shit, his creator will feel very fragrant.

To get rid of this kind of knowledge barrier, you need to be extremely talented, be able to firmly hold your own artistic style, and be consistent.

Or there must be an outsider to remind him all the time to keep him awake!
Gao Shuang told Zhao Hai the common sense in this area very early on, so Zhao Hai immediately had self-doubt.

His mood is quite complicated now.

On the one hand, he is very satisfied with his "first work", but on the other hand, he lacks confidence in his own level.

That's why she is very sensitive to Gao Shuang's attitude!

Gao Shuang shook his head and said, "It has nothing to do with whether the filming is good or not. To be honest, your performance is much better than my best expectations."

Zhao Hai was a little confused and said: "Then you still say that?"

Gao Shuang bumped Zhao Hai with his shoulder with a smile: "Are you too superstitious about the script I presented?"

Zhao Hai scratched his scalp and said inexplicably: "I see nothing wrong with this script!"

"The problem with the script is not that big, but the main problem is the subject matter."

Gao Shuang thought for a while and said: "A few decades ago, when China's domestic film and television industry was not so developed, the release of "Red Sorghum" would definitely have good box office revenue, but the times are different now."

As one of the classic works of Xi'an Film Studio, "Red Sorghum" was filmed in the 80s.

It is not only Zhang Guoshi's pioneering work, but also the culmination of his literary and artistic film works. It is also the first "world-shaking work" in Chinese film history to win the awards of the four major European film festivals.

If you want to rank the top ten films in Chinese film history, "Red Sorghum" must be among them.

Directed by Zhang Guoshi, starring Gong Li and Jiang Wen, adapted from a script by Mo Yan, photographed by Gu Changwei, composed by Zhao Jiping...

Such a main creative lineup can be described as a super combination that cannot be replicated in the current Chinese film industry.

According to statistics, "Red Sorghum" has won a total of eleven international and domestic awards!
This is the affirmation of the classics of that era, and the situation of winning many awards at home and abroad at the same time has become one of the few in the history of Chinese films after 2000.

What is even more surprising is that according to historical statistics, the total box office of "Red Sorghum" reached 4000 million yuan after it was released in China! ! !

You know, at the domestic consumption level at that time, one yuan could live a day, and a month's salary was generally no more than one hundred.

Such a result would be at the level of "Wolf Warrior 2" today.

However, it can have such a high box office because it broke through the constraints of the social environment at that time in terms of content.

Zhang Guoshi later said in an exclusive interview that when Chinese people fell in love at that time, it was considered a deal with Freud, which shows the closed mind.

In that environment, the plot of "Red Sorghum" seemed too "exciting"!

At that time, it was screened in a school for training senior cadres. As a result, more than 70.00% of the crowd attacked it, and they went to the supervision department to ask: "How to make such a film?"

Those who criticize "Red Sorghum" are mostly older people, such as professors who are around 60 or [-] years old.

They believed that "Red Sorghum" catered to the vulgar tastes of certain audiences, such as skinning people, urinating in wine vats, men and women "wild sex" in sorghum fields and other vulgar scenes. It is a "big poisonous weed".

There were even farmers in Gaomi County, where the filming took place, petitioned to protest against the "skinning" in the film, saying that the plot vilified the Chinese people.

Just like the topic of "sky-high priced drugs" in "I'm Not the God of Medicine" more than [-] years later, it touched the sensitive nerves of certain groups. It was once rumored that it would be banned, but the support of young moviegoers has not decreased but increased.

The situation was the same more than 30 years ago. The pioneers who supported the film and promoted change were always young people.

Walking on the road, I can always hear the young man at work yelling "Sister, you go forward boldly".

If there were such things as new song charts on music platforms in China at that time, this song "Sister, Go Boldly Going Forward" would have [-]% been able to sit at the top of the chart for seven or eight months without changing it.

In the end, the balance was in favor of young people.

The official representative of the Film Bureau did not pursue the matter, and the "Guardian" even published an article in support of "Red Sorghum".

It is mentioned in the article that if "Red Sorghum" shows the ignorance, backwardness and wildness of the Chinese people, it would be a loss of self-esteem.

So, should Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q" be considered a poisonous weed?

The writer Wang Dehou described this phenomenon and said that the Chinese are not willing to reform, and it is not easy to get through a dark room with a window open. Only when a person stands up and says that he wants to tear down the roof, then everyone will be trembling. After a discussion, they finally reluctantly agreed to open a window.

And "Red Sorghum" is the window that opened after the roof was lifted.

It was also in this year that Hong Kong Province, which has not yet returned to China, issued the "Film Censorship Regulations", which implements a three-level classification system for management of objectionable content in movies.

China's first heavy metal rock band, Tang Dynasty, came out, opening the heyday of rock music.

Body art, which was once labeled as "vulgar and vulgar", justifiably appeared on the stage. The first "Oil Painting Body Art Exhibition" opened at the National Art Museum, and people queuing up to see the exhibition were two stops away.

It's just that these things that belonged to the category of avant-garde art in that era are not exciting enough in the current Blue Star.

Although "Red Sorghum" is still worth seeing as a pure feature film, it also lost the leading effect brought by its pioneering status.

The final result may not be as good as "This Man is from Blue Star"!

"It is difficult for a pure feature film to be compatible with the audience of commercial blockbusters on the market."

Gao Shuang vaccinated Zhao Hai in advance, lest his confidence be destroyed due to poor results at the box office.

Seeing that Zhao Hai's face was still ugly, he didn't intend to continue to attack him, and finally added: "But... who can say for sure? I'm not a god, and the final result depends on the market!"

Zhao Hai grinned, but the smile was somewhat forced: "What you said made me feel very nervous."

"Forget about the box office, even if you lose it, you won't be able to pay it."

Gao Shuang said: "How many awards the first independently directed film can win is far more important than the box office."

Zhao Hai heard the words, his eyes lit up: "Is it the same as your "Blue Star"?"

"Basically, the road is taken step by step. As a director, if you want to be one-sided in the crew and not be restricted by various aspects, you must first establish your reputation."

Gao Shuang recalled the situation last year, and said: "When I was filming "Stone", if I didn't have the record of "Blue Star" as a base, I am afraid that I would not even be able to raise the crew, let alone other things."

Zhao Hai was silent for a while, scratched his scalp fiercely, let go of the burden in his heart, raised his head and said sincerely to Gao Shuang: "...Thank you."

Zhao Hai knew that it was thanks to Gao Shuang that he was able to independently direct a film and lead an excellent creative team.

Without the support of Gao Shuang, he would have to struggle for another 20 years to get to this point!

"It's meaningless to say that!"

Gao Shuang got up and turned around his old waist, which was already sitting stiff, and said, "After I finish shooting this film, I have a good job for you later."

(End of this chapter)