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Chapter 563

"To Live" was finally released, and Nan Ke really felt like weeping with joy.

In fact, it is not so easy to mix business circles and art circles to make movies.

In the business circle, the box office is king, and if you make a mistake, you may lose a lot of money. In the literary and art circle, although the investment is small, it is not aimed at the box office.

The current status quo of domestic literary and artistic films is that they are the first to win awards, and then win a few awards, sell a little money, and return some money.

And different from commercial blockbusters, literary films, because many of them involve sensitive themes, are most likely to be killed by the censorship barrier.

In the early years, some directors dared to take risks, regardless of domestic review, directly shoot, and then won awards abroad, but it is definitely not feasible now.

Literary and artistic films usually have a long shooting cycle, especially when encountering some neurotic directors, one year, two years, three years, or even a lifetime of filming.

"To Live" is okay, but there are many problems encountered. At the beginning of filming, Nan Ke always felt that it was not good enough, so he kept filming over and over again, and finally finished the filming. As a result, the review was stuck.

Changed and changed, changed and changed, and met people from Linjiang District who made trouble for it. Fortunately, "Peppa Pig" was recognized in England, otherwise, it would be really difficult for "To Live" to be released.

The schedule of "Alive" has been arranged. The goal of this movie is not the box office, but for any director, the movie he made hopes to be seen by more people.

For the premiere of "Alive", this time Lin Xiao waved his hand and treated it as a commercial blockbuster!

Nan Ke was naturally very happy, but he was also very worried. After all, it was not a strong wind that brought money to anyone.

In fact, many literary and artistic films do not hold premieres, because it is too extravagant.

"Lin Xiao, if the premiere ceremony is not enough, to be honest, I'm a little worried that "Alive" won't even be able to recover the cost, and the company will pay a large sum of money instead." Nan Ke said worriedly.

Nan Ke is no longer the Nan Ke he used to be. Since the failure of commercial films, he has truly realized that filming should not be too selfish or too idealistic.

The script was given by Lin Xiao, who asked for money or someone to give. He never said anything, and he never interfered with the filming.

The original production budget of "To Live" was only more than 1000 million, and it was added repeatedly, and finally reached the cost of 2500 million.

This is not a commercial film. Although "To Live" is a work that Nan Ke is quite satisfied with, he also knows that it is difficult for such a film to make any achievements at the box office.

Because the whole film is too depressing. Although the theme inside is not so sad, but has a glimmer of hope, but it is just a hidden theme, and ordinary people don't expect the other party to be able to distinguish it.

However, Lin Xiao didn't care too much about it.

"Just think of it as celebrating the birth of my family's great treasure. Don't worry, I wrote the script of "To Live". Of course I know what the real potential of this movie is." Lin Xiao said with a smile.

Nanke's contacts in the circle are still very good.

On the day of the premiere of "Alive", because of the relationship with Ling Xiaoge and Nan Ke's own network, there were quite a few media, film critics, and big stars present.

It's just that for this film, although Nan Ke's filming is really good, even Lin Xiao himself can't stand it, it's too depressing.

This is completely different from reading a script story.

This is probably the charm of light and shadow.

But Nan Ke's "To Live" has won unanimous praise from most professional film critics.

To Lin Xiao's surprise, "Alive" was also praised by many audiences at the premiere.

"With the script written by Lin Xiao himself, Nan Ke returned to the literary film again, and "To Live" is the best film I have seen in recent years!"——Film Weekly.

"Man is a kind of tough creature. "To Live" explains that a person is still alive strong after experiencing all kinds of sufferings. Maybe there are too many misfortunes in life, but this is not a reason for us to give up life!"— — Weekly Film Critic.

"The film is full of depression, but there is always a little light. This is a film that runs through the whole film with tragedy, but it is also a film full of hope." ——Big movie!

"There used to be people who were so strong and endured countless pains just to live. Today, too many people are dying because of some small setbacks. Does the development of society make people more and more lacking in life? Is it respect? This is really a kind of irony.” ——Famous film critic Fang Yuan.

And to the audience.

"Shocking, really shocking, I seldom watch literary films, because most of them always like to play tricks, I don't understand, is it so-called art? But "To Live" is different, although watching The process was full of despair, but after watching it, I found that "To Live" is just as its title suggests, just to live, and that's enough!"

"There is no preaching, no worrying about writing new words, no so-called art of making mysteries, some are just plain narration, although various life tragedies have been staged in it, but he has not been knocked down, despite the pain, despite the despair , but always live tenaciously, live, live only for the sake of living, we often say that life must be meaningful, but why must it be meaningful? Isn’t living itself a very meaningful thing?”

"It's sad and deplorable, but at the same time, it's horrifying to find that the story of this movie is hopeless, but the theme is hope! It's an amazing movie!"

Of course, there are more bad reviews.

"I don't understand what's the point of making such a movie? I can't watch it at all, all kinds of tragedies, all kinds of despair, life is so beautiful, why do you want to make it so desperate?"

"I can't read it at all. Maybe I'm only suitable for reading online novels, because in online novels, you rarely see tragedies."

"It's ridiculous, how unlucky a person must be to be like the hero, who has experienced tragedies and despair all his life."

"It is said that the script was written by Lin Xiao, but the result is too disappointing. Lin Xiao, your uncle, you are so lucky to write such an unlucky person."

The number of screens in "To Live" is not many, and neither Lin Xiao nor Nan Ke have high hopes for the box office.

However, the goal of "To Live" has been achieved. Not only many domestic awards have invited "To Live" to participate in the selection, but some foreign film awards have also sent invitations to Nan Ke.

This film is also highly rated in the literary and art circles.

The only thing that gave Lin Xiao a headache was that after Nan Ke filmed "To Live", he expressed to Lin Xiao that he did not want to make commercial films again.

This made Lin Xiao a little depressed. There are not many directors in Ling Xiao Pavilion. Originally, Lin Xiao planned to let Nan Ke take the lead. In the end, because of "To Live", Nan Ke felt that he still liked it more and was more suitable for filming. Literary film.

(End of this chapter)