tearjerker director

Chapter 600 "Dumb"

Of course, well-known directors like Li Yi are very busy, and it is impossible to really watch all of the more than 300 movies.

Instead, it will be screened by the people in charge of other secondary units, and in the end there will probably only be [-] to [-] relatively reliable movies left.

The opening time of the Xichuan Youth Film Festival is December [-].

However, it takes time for the screening of selected films and the secondary creation of films in the secondary creation unit.

Therefore, it is now the end of October, and the final screening has officially begun.

Of course, Li Yi and the others don’t need to go to Xichuan. The film festival will send the screened works to Li Yi and the others, and let them choose works that they think can be used for secondary creation to turn decay into magic. You can contact the original author to guide him in the secondary creation of the film.

To be honest, even after the big waves have washed the sand, these movies, uh, it can even be said that many of them are still not even called movies, they are really experimental works.

Of course, this is also the purpose of the Xichuan Youth Film Festival. The original intention of the Xichuan Youth Film Festival itself is to encourage young directors to create, and a large part of these directors are not really professional directors. It can be said to be the kind that generates electricity for love.

Many young directors, unlike Li Yi, have funds and connections for their first film, and invite so many professional actors to join.

Many of the entries, the shots they took, were very unpretentious, literally.

And often I am the director, the lighting engineer, the cameraman, the prop artist, and even the editor and so on.

So the quality can be imagined.

The first thing Li Yi read was the scripts of the films of the selected secondary creation units.

Then look at the works, and you will find that many scripts are written as a story, and you can’t even see any connection with the script at all.

Of course, there are also some good works, and the authors of these relatively good works are mostly second-generation children with backgrounds, or directors who graduated from majors.

Therefore, it can be said that the threshold of directors is really much higher than that of actors.

Take a look at the selected works of this second creative unit, except for a very small number of directors who really have no background, almost all of them are more or less either the second generation of directors, the second generation of stars, or graduates of majors Yes, or they are engaged in work related to the film and television industry, such as a photographer turning to a director.

And their works are generally much better than those of real amateur directors.

Suddenly, a work called "Dumb" made Li Yi feel inexplicably familiar.

This is a movie adapted from a true story. The story tells the story of a mentally handicapped orphan.

The story is actually a pretty good one, and what's interesting is that the leading actor in this movie, the role of Dumb, is actually played by the original character!
Yes, it is the protagonist of the prototype character, the mentally handicapped orphan Dumb.

The other actors in it were not professional actors, but to Li Yi's surprise, they all performed well.

And this movie coincided with a movie in Li Yi's memory by coincidence.

Li Yi took a look and found that director Wang Bai's original occupation was a reporter.

And the story of this movie was unearthed when he was a reporter.

Li Yi compared the movie in his memory with this "Dumb".

The gap between the two movies is still relatively large. Although in my memory, that movie is not a theater movie, but just a TV movie, but the story line is very clear, unlike this movie shot by Wang Bai. Call it a movie, the story line is not clear, and there are a lot of useless shots and plots in it. The whole movie seems to be more than 130 minutes, but there are a lot of redundant and useless shots.

But after all, it's a reporter who turned to become a director, so it's considered pretty good to be able to shoot like this.

Li Yi touched his nose, and without any hesitation, he directly ordered the movie.

He revised the script again. Of course, there are still some discrepancies between the movie in Li Yi's memory and this story, but the overall theme and direction of the story are almost the same.

There is even no need to make up shots, because this "Dumb" has enough material, but the editing and color correction are very amateurish.

It is also conceivable that Li Yi took a look at the list of creators of this film. Although it does not mean that this reporter named Wang Bai holds multiple positions, it is obvious that none of them are real professionals.

If you want to operate on this movie, it is relatively simple. You only need to re-edit the movie, adjust the color, etc., delete and add some content according to the revised story script by Li Yi, and you can make this movie, "Dumb" "Become a real and relatively complete movie.

Li Yi also breathed a sigh of relief.

If he is really asked to direct some unfinished movies out of thin air, he doesn't mean that he can't do it, but it will take a lot of time and energy.

Moreover, the results may not be as expected.

Wang Bai is not a rookie director without foundation, at least compared to some other rookie directors, Wang Bai's filming of "Dumb" has received a lot of support.

It's just a pity, after all, he was only a director who became a monk halfway through the filming process, so after he finished filming "Dumb", he made a lot of connections and showed some professionals in the industry, but without exception, there was no result.

Not to mention the theater chain, if there is no accident, the biggest possibility of this "Dumb" is that he will publish it on his personal self-media platform, but how many people can watch it?

And this time at the Xichuan Youth Film Festival, "Dumb" was shortlisted for the final secondary creative unit after two rounds of screening, which also cost a lot of contacts.

Don't talk about fairness and justice. Where is there so much fairness and justice in this world?
However, even so, Wang Bai still didn't have too much expectation.

He has a bit of a foundation, but compared to those who were shortlisted for the final film list in the same secondary creation unit, he is really not comparable.

Because most of the films shortlisted for the secondary creation unit are directors who have graduated from a major, or second-generation children in the film and television industry, or are already engaged in other positions in this industry, such as photographers, assistants, etc. director and so on.

It can be said that compared to his connections, he is not enough to see.

It's just that he didn't expect that his debut film would be picked up by the famous director Li Yi.

When he received the notification, Wang Bai was in a daze, and immediately wondered if he was daydreaming.

Because it's incredible.

Although he didn't know what the movies shortlisted in the same period were like, those people were at least semi-professionals. As a reporter, how could he compare with them?

(End of this chapter)