Millennium director

The so-called "sketch", of course, does not refer to the one that Zhao Benshan performs on the Spring Festival Gala every year. That is a comedy sketch, just a type of sketch.

Sketch generally refers to short art of speaking and acting. Generally speaking, it is a short dramatic performance.

In fact, students in the performance departments of major universities rehearse a large number of sketches in school every year, either excerpts from various dramas or excerpts of plots from some classic film and television dramas. This is what they are doing. The main homework in school.

Let them perform a skit, and then let the four instructors choose their favorite players to join the team. For these players, it is no different from ordinary classroom homework.

That is to say, those players who come from wild backgrounds may not have experience in this area, but they have more "actual combat" experience, which is another advantage.

However, Wu Yuan had no time to pay attention to the recording situation of "Actors Please Take Their Place".

After packing up and sending Liu Yifei to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for recording, Wu Yuan got busy with the post-editing and production of "Love Letter".

However, before he had been busy for a few days, a strange phone call startled him.

The Spring Festival Gala wants to invite him to be the director

Perhaps it was the benefit of being directed by Zhang Yimou in the 2008 Olympic Games. CCTV also feels that its reputation has declined sharply in recent years and has been increasingly criticized by the public. It seems that "Spring Festival Gala" is no longer the most anticipated program during the Spring Festival. It needs Some innovations have been made.

First of all, we need to find a director who understands today's young people and can keep up with the times.

Obviously Wu Yuan is the best choice.

It's just that Wu Yuan is really not interested at all in directing the Spring Festival Gala.

Although the director of the Spring Festival Gala is also a director, the directing of this kind of TV program is actually very different from making a movie. He is not so much a director, but more of a chief planner.

90% of the skills and techniques of film directors are not used in this. The director is responsible for formulating the program schedule and then doing some stage creativity and so on.

Wu Yuan has never been interested in this aspect of things.

He even avoided selecting directors for the Olympic Games back then, let alone the Spring Festival Gala.

After a lot of effort and talk, Wu Yuan declined CCTV's invitation and put things right and recommended host Li Yong's wife Ha Wen.

For the Spring Festival Gala, let Ha Wen do it.

At least the several Spring Festival Galas and Lantern Festival Galas she held had a pretty good reputation.

After dealing with the invitation to the Spring Festival Gala, another thing came to the door non-stop.

Even this time, he couldn't even refuse, so he had to stop what he was doing and go to a set in the suburbs of Yanzhou.

The first movie "One Thought of Heaven" prepared by Happy Mahua has officially started filming.

As one of the investors, the most important thing is that Wu Yuan himself is a very professional director, so Happy Mahua, who was making a movie for the first time, strongly invited him to come to the set to have a look and give advice.

It was also because he was indeed one of the investors, and now Happy Mahua was a partner. Wu Yuan had no choice but to accept the invitation, and found a cloudless day to come to the crew of "One Thought in Heaven" .

"Hey, Director Wu, I've been waiting for you!"

Zhang Chen, the chairman of Happy Twist and the producer of "One Thought in Heaven", came to greet Wu Yuan in person with a smile and held his hand and wouldn't let go.

Facing the overly enthusiastic Zhang Chen, Wu Yuan felt helpless, "Mr. Zhang, didn't Light and Shadow Times support you with a group of experienced crew members?"

"Even the assistant director arranged one for you."

"I believe they can successfully complete the preparation and filming of the project "One Thought in Heaven", right?"

"One Thought in Heaven" is not a big production, nor does it pursue the most cutting-edge shooting technology. It is just a very ordinary 2D feature film.

Light and Shadow Times sent a group of industry insiders with rich experience to help, and everything can be easily done.

It can only be said that Zhang Chen attached too much importance to this project, which caused his mentality to be somewhat unbalanced.

These days are not the chaos that followed 2015. There is still a sense of "sacredness" in making movies, which makes people who are making movies for the first time very nervous.

Wu Yuan came here today not really with the intention of "guiding", but mainly to cheer up Zhang Chen and the others and stabilize their mentality.

"Come on, let's go check out the situation."

Pulling Zhang Chen, Wu Yuan went directly to the set.

Zhang Chen also nervously introduced: "Director Wu, the director of this movie is director Zhang Cheng. He is one of the screenwriters of "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing"."

"The book "One Thought in Heaven" was also written by Zhang Cheng himself."

"Although he has participated in the shooting of many movies, this is also his first time as a director. He has shortcomings in many aspects. I hope you can give me more advice, Director Wu."

In fact, Wu Yuan and Zhang Cheng, the directors of "One Thought in Heaven", had known about it for a long time. Zhang Chen told him about it when they were reading the script.

It's just that Zhang Chen, who is nervous and stressed now, is inevitably a little nagging.

"Actually, I don't know much about comedy." Wu Yuan shook his head and explained: "Ning Hao is much more professional in comedy than me. Director Zhang has made several comedies with Ning Hao, so he should learn everything he needs to learn. Here we are, there’s nothing I can give you any advice on.”

Wu Yuan is not being modest about himself.

In his two lifetimes combined, he has never had much contact with comedy films, so he has never made any comedy projects in the Light and Shadow Era, preferring pure investment.

It's because he really doesn't understand comedy.

Even though he may be able to roughly reproduce the scripts of blockbuster comedy movies such as "囧" and "Charlotte", he himself has no experience in "making people laugh". When making a comedy movie, the final film effect may only be 50% to 60% of the original version.

Doing comedy is really something that requires talent.

If you keep it tight, you might not make the audience laugh. If it's too wild, it will turn from a comedy to a vulgar movie. How to control this degree depends on the talents of the actors and directors.

How else would "comedian" be singled out among the vast number of actor types?

Otherwise, why would comedy movies become a separate movie category?

Wu Yuan knows very well that he has no sense of humor, and he is not a comedy person. In this regard, Wu Yuan is very self-aware and very humble.

"It's okay!" Zhang Chen didn't care at all and said with a smile: "Director Wu, just come and give us some professional tips on filming."

"When it comes to comedy, we, Happy Mahua, are professional enough!"

When it comes to his areas of expertise, Zhang Chen also showed a somewhat confident air.

They may not have much experience in making movies, but they are very professional in making comedies. It was only because of their outstanding level in the field of comedy that Zhang Chen had the ambition to collaborate with Wu Yuan in making comedy films.

"Well, it's a good thing to have this confidence." Wu Yuan also nodded with satisfaction, "Keep this confidence, I believe that Happy Twist will become a major pillar of mainland comedy movies in the future!" (End of Chapter)