tearjerker director

Chapter 1185 What about the opposite story?
After listening to the story of "Warm Spring" told by Li Yi, Zhou Changqing and others had different reactions.

"The simple, warm story is still the same as your previous style, Director Li! This filming is another tearjerker!" Zhou Changqing couldn't help jokingly said.

In fact, this story is not so fresh or exciting, but all of you here are directors, and they still have their own standards for commercial and artistic films.

Obviously, "Warm Spring" is completely contrary to those award-winning films in the past.

Most of the movies that hit the awards are to expose the dark side or contradictory side of society, but the story of "Warm Spring" can be said that in the whole story, although Li Yi only briefly described it, it can be said that none of them are real. There is nothing dark and complicated about "bad guys", but more of a tribute to "truth, goodness and beauty"!
Some people may think that a little girl like Xiaohua in it, such a sensible and distressed little girl, really exists?

But at least many people are more willing to believe that she exists.

It's like the short film "Trade" made by Li Yi before. The same can be said. The little girl in it who wants to sell herself is really distressing. Is there such a child?
Maybe there is, maybe not, but even if there is, it is definitely a very small number, but even so, people are still willing to believe in beautiful things.

Therefore, it can be said that the story of "Warm Spring" is actually based on the countryside as the background, and it is also a relatively conventional commercial drama template.

But this does not prevent them from being optimistic about the prospects of adapting this story into a movie.

Maybe this kind of movie will not have a high box office, but the cost of such a movie will not be high, but the box office will definitely not be bad.

However, not all directors will like such movies and stories.

For example, the same is Li Yi's brother, the winner of the Berlin Golden Bear Award, Cao Shujun shook his head and said: "The image of Xiaohua here is worth discussing. Just imagine how many people can make Xiaohua like Xiaohua in Xiaohua's situation." Behavior? I don’t think many people have seen a character like Xiaohua! Of course, it is not ruled out that someone can find one or two people like Xiaohua in the whole country, but that is only a rare case, worthy of recognition, but unlike most It has little to do with people. Since it has nothing to do with the mainstream reality, it can’t be said that it has much positive effect in reflecting reality and criticizing reality.”

"Brother Cao, I don't agree with what you said. If you say that it has nothing to do with the mainstream reality, you can't talk about the positive effect of reflecting reality and criticizing reality. I wonder why it is necessary to reflect reality. Criticize reality? According to you, how many of the films you made are the mainstream reality in this society? Most of them are typical or special cases, right? Moreover, this is definitely a commercial drama, not a literary film Piece!" Zhou Changqing couldn't help curling his lips.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Zhou Changqing is a literary director, but in fact, he has also made commercial films. However, compared with Cao Shujun, who won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, he is indeed inferior in terms of awards.

But because of this, Cao Shujun often likes to talk to people in a "teaching" way, which makes Zhou Changqing very upset.

If it was normal, he might not open his mouth. After all, he is indeed a director who has won an international award, but he has not.

But on today's occasion, Zhou Changqing didn't even bother to hide it. After all, no matter how awesome you Cao Shujun is, can you surpass Li Yi's grand slam?
Li Yi was noncommittal about this.

He is not a gold bar, everyone likes it.

Moreover, he has heard and read this kind of words not once or twice, and he has been immune to it for a long time.

In fact, many literary and art directors always feel that if a movie does not criticize reality and make some sense, then it is not worthy of making a movie.

There are not one or two people who have such an idea.

In this regard, everyone has their own views, ideas, and criteria for judging, and Li Yi does not make evaluations.

In fact, what is the meaning of a movie like "Warm Spring"?Criticize reality?Or disconnect from reality?

Also everyone can have their own interpretation.

In Li Yi's view, if a movie rises to the point where people have to rack their brains to think about what the movie wants to express, then it will be too tiring. How many people can watch it?
"Warm Spring" is also a commercial film, a commercial film, if you watch it, move it, or feel it, that's enough. How can there be so much meaning?
The plot of the movie is simple and corny.But sometimes the simplest and most direct feelings will always touch people more.

Zhou Changqing's words made Cao Shujun's face turn ugly, but he looked at Tang Lu and then at Li Yi, opened his mouth but said nothing.

At this time, Tang Lu smiled and said, "Didn't you say that there is an opposite story? This story tells a heart-warming story, so there is another story."

Everyone's eyes lit up and looked at Li Yi when they heard the words.

Li Yi couldn't help wondering secretly, and he didn't know why. Domestic directors of literary and artistic films seem to like those dark movies. Of course, not only in China, but also in the whole world. Many directors of literary and artistic films like them. The so-called exposing the dark side of society, criticizing reality, etc., and so on.

When movies are in their hands, they are no longer an entertainment project, not for entertaining the public, but for expressing their own ideas through movies.

This is understandable, but looking at those literary and artistic films, not to mention 100%, but at least half of them are all kinds of dark side things.

Zhou Changqing seemed to like a story like "Warm Spring", but in fact, they would not like such a movie at all.

For one thing, it is definitely impossible to count on such movies, awards, art, etc.

There may still be some opportunities for some domestic awards. After all, a movie like "Warm Spring" can be said to be a kind of "main theme" to a certain extent.

Full of positive energy, it is a movie that promotes truth, goodness and beauty.

But forget about the artistry, at least for those who prefer literary films, if you make this film, they may directly say that it is a "demonstrative" film.

In fact, as long as it is "positive energy", many times, it is positive energy for ordinary people, but for these people, it is "preaching" in their eyes!
"The other story, in my opinion, is somewhat similar to the one just now. Of course, it mainly depends on what angle you look at it from." Li Yi thought for a while and smiled.

The other movie he wants to talk about is the highly controversial movie "Hidden Into the Dust". This movie, in Li Yi's memory, once created a box office of over [-] million at a small cost, but suddenly suffered off the shelf.

The key is the reason for the removal this time, but there are different opinions. Some people say that it was officially removed from the shelves, but before that, the official media endorsed and praised the movie.

Some people also said that it was a cake that moved capital, so it was taken off the shelf.

Li Yi briefly watched this movie twice. As he said, watching a movie mainly depends on the angle you look at it from.

In Li Yi's opinion, "Into the Dust" is a very strange movie.

Some people say that it is the director who pieced together the tragedy to form a bigger tragedy, which does not represent reality.

Others say this is reality.

Others say that this is a rural movie for people in the city.

But Li Yi couldn't help shaking his head at this point. The countryside and the city seem to be very different, but in fact, how many people in the city today live in the city?

Many people are at least post-[-]s and post-[-]s, and many of them lived in the countryside when they were young.

So how can it be said that it is a rural movie for people in the city?
Closer to home, in Li Yi's view, a story is a story, a movie is a movie, don't talk so much, everyone has their own point of view.

What do you think the countryside is like?
Is it like in "Warm Spring"?
Or is it like in "Into the Dust and Smoke"?
Different people live in different environments. Some people have experienced rural life like in "Warm Spring", while others have seen people like those in "Into the Dust".

Different people will have different views on an egg, let alone a movie.

"Cao Guiying has been living a disliked life at the home of her elder brother and sister-in-law all year round. She lives in a wooden shed exposed to wind and rain. Urinary incontinence occurs at all times and occasions. Because she is not fertile, she is at the bottom of the food chain in the rural marriage and love market." The beginning of Li Yi's "Into the Dust and Smoke" made the eyes of directors Cao Shujun and Tang Lu involuntarily brighten.

To be honest, sometimes Li Yi feels that these directors who are dedicated to digging out the dark side of people's hearts and the dark side of society are all mentally ill?
Otherwise, how can normal people like these things?
Are there many people like Cao Guiying in the countryside?
In fact, there will not be too many, but there must be, and it is not an exception.

"In order to get rid of her burden, my sister-in-law entrusted a matchmaker to take her on a blind date. Halfway through the match, she urged her to go to the toilet. Because she was afraid that she would be disgusted by peeing her pants, Cao Guiying was introduced to Ma Youtie, an older bachelor from a neighboring village.

Ma Youtie is the fourth eldest, and his older brothers, Ma Youjin and Ma Youyin, have both passed away. Although the third brother, Ma Youtong, lives a good life, he can only live in an abandoned vacant house in the village, guarding a donkey. People in the village joked that "there is no one poorer than you". "

Then Cao Shujun couldn't help but said: "A woman who will be incontinent at any time, a man who is disliked by her brother and treats her like a cow? Interesting!"

Li Yi glanced at Cao Shujun rather strangely. To be honest, Cao Shujun summed it up well, but what the hell is "interesting"?

He put aside these and continued: "Ma Youtie also turned his head and went to the yard, where he fed corn to the donkeys in the yard while eating. At that time, Cao Guiying thought that he must have missed her, and felt that the donkey was happier than herself. Hello.

However, Ma Youtie later told her that it was because Cao Guiying was staring at him blankly at that time, which made him at a loss.

Two poor people who were abandoned by their families made a couple.

On the first night of their wedding, Cao Guiying wet the bed, lying on the edge of the kang in the middle of the night, and roasting her buttocks on the stove all night.

Cao Guiying suffered from urinary incontinence since she was a child, so she peed her pants almost every day.

Everyone laughed at her and pointed at her behind her back.

After Ma Youtie married her, he bought her a long coat.

The first is to keep her from catching cold after peeing her pants, and the second is to cover her butt so that everyone will not see her and laugh at her.

Once two people went to buy wheat seeds, and Cao Guiying peed her pants again, and everyone pointed and watched and gossiped.

Ma Youtie turned a deaf ear and picked up Guiying and put him on the donkey cart.It caused other women to be envious, jealous and hated, saying that You Tie really loves their own woman.

Yes, her own woman hurts herself.

Since marrying Ma Youtie, Guiying has tasted the pain of being loved.The chicken raised at home laid the first egg, and Ma Youtie let her eat it.

Gui Ying loves to watch TV, and if she has iron, she will accompany her to watch outside other people's houses. Gui Ying peed her pants again and soiled the chairs of other people's houses.

You Tie quickly picked up the paper and carefully wiped it for others.Seeing the disgust in other people's eyes, he promised to buy Guiying a color TV and watch it at home when the grain was harvested in autumn.He also said that he would take Guiying to the city to see a doctor.Guiying's heart is warm, love is distressed, distressed about your experience, distressed about your suffering, and wants to give you what you have and what you want.

Ma Youtie's third brother's son got married and asked him to drive the donkey cart to pull the furniture.

He set off without any refusal, and before leaving, he steamed a pot of white and fat steamed buns for Guiying, and told her to eat them warm, so that he would come back after dark.

But the speed of the donkey cart is not as fast as that of horses and iron, so it is estimated to be fast.Because the donkey was already skinny, and the cart was full of furniture, Ma Youtie felt sorry for the donkey, so he followed the cart and couldn't bear to sit on it, adding to the donkey's burden.After arriving, Ma Youtie's elder brother not only didn't say a word of gratitude, but complained that he was too slow.

Ma Youtie seemed to have gotten used to his brother's complaints, so he drove the donkey cart home without saying a word.

It was already past midnight, and it was almost dawn.

As he was walking, he saw a light flickering in front of him, and when he walked in, he realized that it was Cao Guiying looking at him in front of the door.

After seeing him, Cao Guiying handed him the hot water in a canned bottle in her arms and told him to warm his hands.

He also said, "It's been cold for several times. I'll fill it with hot water when it's cold. If you don't come back when it's cold, I'll fill it again. Finally, I'll wait for you to come back."

If you don't come back, I'll just wait. When the water gets cold, I'll fill it with heat, just to keep you warm. .”

Li Yi told this story from another angle, but Cao Shujun couldn't help frowning at this moment.

"Isn't it right? How did it become a romance film?" Cao Shujun muttered.

Everyone else looked at Li Yi with the same puzzled expression. After the two poor people met, they started to live a happy life?
So what's the point of this movie?
They even feel that this kind of story is more depressing than the story of "Warm Spring", which is exactly the opposite of "Warm Spring"?
(End of this chapter)