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December 31, night.

The company had already closed get off work, but the lights were on in the magazine's small meeting room. Xu Fei, Yu Jiajia, all editors, and Xigua Studio all participated.

How to add, delete, and improve the research on the word-by-word of the What is the main theme. There was a pile of documents on the desk, and the two of them buried their heads in it, specially responsible for aligning with the official documents.

As mentioned earlier, this ideological tone must conform to the spirit of the Central Committee. You can't just slap your head and write casually, you have to conform to what kind of speech and what kind of law, this is called reasoning and evidence.

You can't create it yourself!

When the central government puts forward a new idea, it has to go through many people and many times of demonstration and research before it can be announced at an appropriate time. If the central government didn't mention it, what the hell do you want to do if you are a bastard here, with eight honors and eight disgraces?

The order cannot be reversed!

Therefore, there must be a basis for writing articles, and the current basis is the phrase promote the main theme, advocate diversity, and vigorously advocate the four everythings.

At this moment, Yu Jiajia read the article again and said, I think it's almost there.

Comprehensive enough, I can't think of more.

...

Xu Fei also read it again, and said, Change 'the main theme can also be commercialized' to 'the main theme can also be beautiful'.

In the future, we must pay attention, even if we think so in our hearts, we should not say that the main theme is commercialized, which will cause trouble.

good!

So it was revised again.

After tossing until after nine o'clock, I finally settled on a few articles. One of them was published in New Film and Television, and the others are reserved for refutation or in-depth discussion.

Come here first.

Xu Fei looked at the time and said, Old Yu, you take them to a gathering, and the company pays for it. These two days have been hard work.

Then I will go to the Great Wall Hotel?

Okay, there is no problem in heaven and earth.

Wow! Heaven and earth!

Seven Watermelons is probably the first generation of otaku, very excited to hear, even more excited to participate in this kind of thing.

President Xu, who do you think was the first to speak up?

I don't know, I'll watch it after New Year's Day.

Hey, my blood boils for no reason!

Me too!

Okay, I'll go back first, happy new year everyone.

Mr. Xu, Happy New Year!

He put on his overcoat and hurried downstairs. The north wind was howling on a winter night, and the ground was covered with snow.

Back in the community, the lights inside are bright. Because there are many foreigners living there, the atmosphere of Christmas and New Year is very strong. There are still colorful lights on the trees, and Happy New Year is posted everywhere.

Xu Fei went to his girlfriends' house, the room was warm, and Zhang Li had already prepared meals.

The three of them attach great importance to the sense of ritual, and if they can be together at important moments, try to spend them together as much as possible.

Maybe the atmosphere was decent, and Xiao Xu started crying again after drinking a lot of wine. Instead, the line from Party A and Party B: I said a lot of sincere words to each other, it was really an unforgettable night.

In the end, they hugged each other and fell asleep, honestly... 1995 has passed, and I miss it very much.

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The time has come to 1996.

People look forward to the Spring Festival as always, and they only vent and cry at the wine table at the end of the year, and nothing happens the next day.

Times, Tianxia, ​​Xinghe, Elaine, and Longda all closed their accounts and calculated their assets. It is said that some changes will take place. The employees are as stable as Mount Tai. Anyway, they belong to their own family, and the changes are for the better.

In the busyness, Xu Fei has been waiting.

The film industry in 1996 started from a document:

The central government decided to put the film studios belonging to the local propaganda and cultural outlets under the leadership of radio and television. The entire production industry is classified under the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television.

This is also one of the reforms proposed by Leader Tian and Wu Mengchen. Fortunately, it was approved and implemented.

Two days after the release, the discussion finally came. The latest issue of China Film Weekly published an article, authored by Zhao Baohua.

In March 1987, I was transferred from Changying Studio to Beijing to help Director Teng design a slogan at the National Film Conference: highlight the main theme and insist on diversity.

This is the first time it has been explicitly stated.

Another slogan adopted at the same time is the unity of three natures, that is, artistic, ideological, and ornamental.

Now, these two slogans have become the guiding ideology of the entire film industry.

It coincides with the end of the 8th Five-Year Plan and the beginning of the Ninth Five-Year Plan; it coincides with the opening of a new chapter in Chinese movies, so I would like to share some personal opinions on the main theme.

The main theme, originally referring to the concept of music, is extended to the main spirit in literary works.

In my personal opinion, the main theme is to carry forward the spirit of the times, which is a social responsibility.

It changes with the spirit of the times, and there have been many definitions, but whoever wants to give it a scientific definition, I think there is no...

A film master like Zhao Baohua is very capable, turning the concept of the main theme into promoting the spirit of the times. Since it is the spirit of the times, it must be different in each period.

He did not make a specific definition, or dare not.

This article is like throwing a stone into a calm lake, causing countless ripples. All of a sudden, filmmakers from all walks of life issued articles one after another, mainly targeting three propositions:

What is the main theme?

What movies does the main theme include?

How to understand the main theme and diversity?

Not only conservatives, but also some filmmakers from the reformers speak out without fear.

If the main theme refers to the content, and the diversification refers to the content, it is very contradictory. Therefore, it must be the main theme of the content and the variety of forms.

We should correct our narrow understanding of the main theme, especially the argument that 'only revolutionary themes are the main theme'.

Carrying out the main theme must conform to the laws of art. One of the mistakes we used to make was weak storytelling, weak characters, overemphasis on spirit, and ignoring the most basic creative elements.

On the other hand, the main theme of Hollywood is very clever, melting the so-called American spirit into the stories and characters. For example, The Lion King, yes, it is an entertainment film, but its core is a real American theme.

As soon as this remark came out, the crowd rose up and attacked it.

A leader of the Bayi Factory retorted: We can't make the main theme entertaining.

Can you choose not to save yourself? Can you choose a coward as the main character? Can you make nature triumph over man? Can you choose a tricky subject?

Looking at the characters again, in the face of a catastrophe, can you love your children and make the best of it? Can you moan without illness?

To play a revolutionary leader, you must be similar in spirit and appearance. Can you say that whoever has the box office can play it? !

The debate between the two sides is in full swing, and it has always been too extreme.

It seems that acknowledging the diversity of forms is tantamount to acknowledging that the main theme can be entertained.

Conservatives accounted for the majority, and some of them were the most narrow, thinking that the main theme was the subject of revolution and biographies.

...

Boom boom boom!

Come in!

Radio and Television, Leader Tian walked into the office, Old Sun, are you looking for me?

Sit down.

Leader Sun was very unnatural, with a trace of surprise and embarrassment, he mulled for a moment and said: That's right, I just received the notification. The organization will soon send a new comrade to serve as the deputy director in charge of the film.

The surname is Zhao, who has been trained at the grassroots level. He used to be the assistant director of Changying Film Studio. As for you, you will be in charge of personnel and party affairs in the future.

Uh, to be honest, I didn't hear the wind at all, it was really sudden...

It doesn't matter.

Leader Tian was not surprised by his arrangement, I'm going to get ready to hand over the work.

He knew that this person was a lesbian who came from a studio and had worked as a ministerial-level official. He didn't expect to be transferred to manage movies. But it's okay, it's better than layman.

There are several deputy directors of radio and television, and the one in charge of film and television is undoubtedly the most important, so I have been left idle.

And when he left, Leader Sun also sighed, it was hard to do the work just after taking over such a big matter.

Boom boom boom!

Not long after, someone knocked on the door again, and the secretary came in and said, Leader, the latest newspaper is here, and I'll put it here for you.

Oh, I see.

Leader Sun didn't look up, and approved some documents before taking a magazine.

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about the main theme, and there are relatively few valuable points of view, and many of them have been debated before. Like the proposition whether entertainment is contradictory to the main theme.

He knew in his heart that there was no contradiction, but he couldn't verify it because no one would shoot it.

well!

Leader Sun turned to the first page, only to realize that he was holding New Film and Television.

New Film and Television has a circulation of more than 700,000, and almost every film and television unit is subscribing. He searched with some expectation, and sure enough, he found a headline:

What is the main theme.

(Thanks to the cute master, and...)