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"One Day" is actually a documentary, and there is not much post-production work, because there is no sensitive content, and it has successfully obtained the dragon label.

In the end, at the request of Lan Sheng, the day when "One Day" was registered in the National Federation of Arts was set on the 2016 Lantern Festival, February 2.This is a special line film of the Arts Union, and it is only distributed on the special line of the Arts Union.

Since New Year's Eve, the promotion of "One Day" has spread in various media, such as:

[xx.com, February 2th (Reporter Wang Shishi) It is reported that Xie Lansheng's new work "One Day" will be screened on the special line of the Arts Federation, and "One Day" is also the first domestic film to be screened on the National Arts Federation.

"One Day" is two hours long and records the "one day" that 8 people do not want to forget no matter what.Xie Lansheng told xx.com that he shed tears several times during the stage of collecting materials...

When answering why he chose the special line of the National Federation of Arts, Xie Lansheng said that he hoped to use "One Day" to promote the promotion of the National Federation of Arts, so that more directors of literary and artistic films that cannot be screened nationwide can gain more exposure and higher income. At the box office, the cost is recovered, and the movie dream is realized.

The National Federation of Arts has been established in 31 provinces last year, and 100 movie theaters have signed contracts to join. Each theater will have a movie hall, showing at least three literary films every day, and at least 10 golden shows every week...Art The original leader of the alliance was the China Film Archive, but it united Broadway Film Center, the distribution company Huaxia Film, the largest theater chain Qingchen Group, and the Perfect Film Company to participate in this project. The Perfect Film Company is Xie Lansheng's film. The company, he has contributed a lot of energy to the preparation of the Art Union...]

Because of the popularity of "To Yueyang", the new work "One Day" has attracted a lot of attention, and many viewers have noticed the "National Arts Federation" for the first time.

In fact, Yilian was established by Zhang Jiuchuan as early as a year ago, but its popularity is not too high. The total box office of the six films it released is also relatively poor. Therefore, the support of the director is necessary.

Lan Sheng is the leader.Because of the promotion of "One Day", the National Art Federation was seen.

Xie Lansheng is looking forward to the final effect in his heart.

Because the Federation of Arts has only 100 screens in China, Xie Lansheng knows that the highest daily box office is 108 million—assuming three screenings a day, the average ticket price is 36 yuan, and it must often be sold out.However, Yilian takes a long-term screening process, and each film is released for four months. His "One Day" may not be very dismal at the box office in the end.

If the results of "One Day" are good, it means that the long-term screening of literary and artistic films is feasible, and future literary and artistic directors will have one more choice-it can be screened nationwide or distributed by the Federation of Arts.Even if they can be screened nationwide, at most 0.5% of the literary and artistic films have a one-week schedule. It may not be a bad choice to choose the Art Federation, let alone 80% of the literary and artistic films that cannot enter the cinema at all.

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The release date is approaching.

It was February 2st, the day before the movie was released.

But Lan Sheng was not busy with the screening of "One Day". Early in the morning, he first met with the person in charge of the Beijing International Film Festival to be held in April, and used his two golden bears, one golden lion and one silver lion The identity will talk about how the big film festival works, and give some suggestions to the other party.This meeting was first proposed by the person in charge.

"Well," Xie Lansheng poured tea for himself in a private room of a certain teahouse, and said, "I think we must firmly remember the original intention of the film festival, and don't regard attracting attention as the biggest purpose of the film festival. It should be a grand event for film lovers. With red carpets and stars invited, the influence of such a film festival will not be great.”

"Director Xie means...?"

"If the Beijing Film Festival wants to compete with Tokyo, Busan, etc., it must pay attention to the young directors it has discovered from all over the world, and introduce them to the world, and even set up a fund to allow filmmakers to go to China; it must allow filmmakers to communicate with each other , communication, the current Beijing Film Festival doesn’t even have a place for directors to meet socially. Also, I received a lot of meal coupons on the first day I arrived in Turin in 1991, which made me understand and like the place. Through these, directors from other countries can enter the field of vision of Chinese audiences, and in the future, Chinese films can also be spread through 'potential stocks'."

"Hmm..." The other party took out his mobile phone to record.

"Also," Xie Lansheng said again, "the film festival is a good opportunity to educate local film audiences. Everyone can only see big-name stars, and they still have movies to watch. In France, a very small film festival We will also organize middle school and high school students to participate in the activities at the film festival, and we will also make a bridge, let the students interview the director, let everyone love movies, and even engage in movies in the future.”

"Mmmmmmm..."

"Also, since it is called an 'International Film Festival', it must have an international perspective. We must have a clear positioning, whether it is Berlin, Cannes, Venice, or Toronto? What kind of movies? There can’t be only celebrities, nor can commercial films and art films be piled together. The Beijing and Shanghai film festivals can actually be distinguished.” We reporters often just ask 'what's your favorite Chinese food' and so on, which is a bit embarrassing, and I have seen volunteers leave their posts to ask for autographs, which is very unprofessional."

"Uh-huh……"

Xie Lansheng said: "In short, Beijing International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival have great achievements in terms of the clear positioning of the film festival, the exchange of Chinese and foreign films, the education and training of the public, the introduction and promotion of directors, etc. There is room for improvement, and without addressing these things you will never have an impact.”

The person in charge sighed after hearing this: "Director Xie, I have met many directors, and what you are talking about is the hardest one."

"Haha, it's good to be able to help."

"You really..."

"Ok?"

"It's okay." The person in charge just remembered a rumor in the circle: Everyone loves Dao Xie, and everyone who has met him has been tamed by him.Although he has always been controversial among the audience, some people say his films are good while others say his films are bad, some say he has positive energy and some say he has negative energy.

After that, Xie Lansheng asked the other party some questions.

In fact, Lan Sheng also wants to establish an independent film festival, which can be called a youth film festival.At present, only the film festival in Xining is in full swing, and it is getting better and better, but Xie Lansheng wants to hold a film with a different positioning from it.Because the Beijing Film Festival was suspended in 2014, and the protesters were still detained. This time, he walked around and asked questions in several remote provinces. Some of them supported him, but all of them made it clear that the participating films must pass He also said that the provincial government can cooperate and quickly review the films before the film festival, so that the film festival can go on as scheduled, Xie Lansheng is quite helpless.

He still felt that the scale of censorship was too tight.

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Farewell to the person in charge of the Beijing International Film Festival, Xie Lansheng met with the deputy director of the Film Bureau "Sichuan Bureau" again.

Facing the Sichuan Bureau, he once again expressed his suggestion on the review: he hoped that the review committee could reduce the number of managers and increase the number of practitioners. Practitioners here include directors, producers, film critics, curators, Journalists also include scholars of cultural sociology and children's education experts. They can even refer to Europe and the United States, as well as ordinary people, especially ordinary people with children.That is to say, reduce the elements of administrative management, increase the elements of industry autonomy, and at the same time promote the rejuvenation and "innocent" of reviewers. Don't always settle accounts after the autumn. It's not tall enough."Under such a mechanism, practitioners interpret films from a professional perspective to persuade others and strive for more industry autonomy, rather than administrative management.

He still feels that the current standard is too strict.For example, the "negative phenomena" in commercial films must have been resolved and no longer exist, and the "current problems" should not be taken seriously.The second director with the "Big Three in Europe" once appealed for classification, and the Film Bureau replied that "all films represent China."

People often say that directors "make bad movies and blame the censors" "How can xx make good movies, but you can't?" Lan Sheng felt very speechless.Under normal circumstances, there are always some people who want to shoot or are good at this subject, and some people want to shoot or are good at that subject. The logic of "A is good at shooting a certain subject, then BCDE should be good at shooting the same subject, if they can't make it, they are bad directors" logic is complete bullshit.

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In the afternoon, Xie Lansheng chatted with a director of the film academy, and also a tenured professor at the University of California, who studies entertainment law.

Xie Lansheng wanted to say that if censorship must exist, its future development direction should be less "rule of man" and more "rule of law". However, China's entertainment law and film law are blank.There are no talents and teaching materials, the relevant regulations are in chaos, and the market size of the entertainment industry and the construction of the legal system do not match.The research on entertainment law and film law in the United States is very active. The law major of the University of California has always included related courses and also provides a master’s degree. Therefore, Xie Lansheng asked the leaders of the film school whether the University of Political Science and Law and the film school can open Courses, training talents, and promoting the advancement of review from the legal system, for example, improving the administrative litigation process of film companies.

China began drafting the "Film Industry Promotion Law" in 2004. Come out [Note].

A few of them wanted to have a good talk.It can be seen that the leader of the film academy is also new to the addition of "law".At present, the investment and financing and copyright protection of the film industry also require lawyers.

When he came out again, Xie Lansheng continued to chat with the professor naturally.

"Ratings are not realistic at present, and there is a lot of preparation work." The professor said, "First of all, if movies are rated, how can each movie theater ensure that children cannot enter? Can it be done? The implementation of the "Minors Protection Law" The strength has been very soft. This part cannot be implemented without promoting movie classification.” “Second, Chinese movie piracy is still rampant and rampant. It is still unrealistic to solve this problem without movie classification. Third…”

"Well, yes, there is also the market and the audience." Xie Lansheng said, "In the distant future, censorship and grading may be two-pronged. Censorship will take care of some factors, and grading will be responsible for other factors, such as violence, one for official control, one for private control, and so on. The content can be uploaded. However, Chinese films do not have the mature mechanism of Hollywood for decades. The major Hollywood studios can guarantee that they will not lose money if they produce 10 films, but we... Now, if we add ratings and other things on the basis of censorship , the market for each film is smaller, and it is more difficult for film companies to make profits. Preparations also include these.”

"Yes……"

Lan Sheng actually does not think that movies can be truly free.On the contrary, he realized one thing soberly and pessimistically: it is always in politics, unable to break free, struggling to survive.

There is no censorship in the United States, Britain, France, etc., but people can find that although they do not have external censorship, they have internal censorship, or market censorship and self-censorship.

Take the United States as an example. Around 1900, nickel theaters played YH movies every day, targeting lower-class American audiences, so the mayor of New York closed the theaters during Christmas in 1908, and then, "The Birth of a Nation" was forcibly banned by half of the states, and the entire state unified standards at this time on the agenda.At the same time, YH movies are rampant in the market, and the anti-film forces in the United States are very extensive and powerful, and the studios urgently need a settlement. The filmmakers and the government negotiated for release, and issued a "Hays Code", which stipulated what could not be filmed, in order to please the state governments and those anti-film factions.The eight major Hollywood studios jointly support the "Hayes Code", and because the eight major studios monopolize theaters, small and medium-sized filmmakers have to follow, that is to say, "industry self-discipline" is mandatory.In 1948, the Paramount case broke the monopoly, and the "Big Eight" spun off its theaters, and resistance to the "Hayes Code" became a possibility.Then, "Miracle" won the lawsuit in 1953. In 1960, television impacted the film industry. Hollywood's industrial system burst into energy in order to survive, bringing "new value" into films, and no longer complied with the Hays Code. By 1968, "Film Resource Classification System" was formally implemented.But then, big studios have been monopolizing Hollywood's blockbuster movies, "new values" such as liberalism and the American dream have been established, the industry and the market are very tacit, and there are very few audiences for "rebel movies".So, can this be called complete freedom?Xie Lansheng didn't know much about it either.

In short, at present, the more realistic approach is to win more seats on the review committee and achieve more industry autonomy; one is to standardize the entire process within the legal framework to achieve more rule of law management; and the third is to achieve more legal management in all aspects Make some preparations for the two-pronged approach of review + grading. The last one is to fully promote the conversion of review to grading when the time comes, although it seems very ethereal.

Before breaking up, Xie Lansheng talked about capital issues with the other professor.

Both of them believed that maturation mechanisms were necessary.Hollywood's "movie budget = pre-sale amount x3", "investment banks invest one by one, not one by one, eat the market but not the project, because they always earn 20% in the end", "insurance is responsible for the overrun" and other models are not acceptable. OK, because that's Hollywood, which monopolizes 80% of the global box office.However, the current "gambling agreements" and "guaranteed distribution" in the Chinese market have made film companies really anxious...

Farewell is six o'clock.

Lan Sheng received a call from Xin Ye.The other party came back through the receiver with a magnetic voice: "Aren't you back yet? "One Day" will be released tomorrow afternoon."

"I'm back." Xie Lansheng smiled, "That's it."

On this day, talking with the person in charge of the film festival, talking with the deputy director of the film bureau, talking with the big leaders of the film academy, talking with the professor of film distribution, Xie Lansheng did not feel tired.

Quite inexplicably, he remembered the last sentence of the last paragraph of "The Count of Monte Cristo":

[All human wisdom is contained in four words: 'waiting' and 'hope'. "]

The author has something to say: Finally, let’s talk about the possible development direction of film censorship. It is rather boring, but it is also the most common topic of this article...

[Note]: In 2017, the "Film Industry Promotion Law" finally came out... This is a bit more rule of law than before, but it is still a mess... Only two or three of them are legally specified, orz.

However, although we say 'wait' and 'hope', from 2003 to now, 17 years, it seems that the scale has not changed...if not stricter...

In terms of capital, let's make up someday.