When Xia Tian heard Chen Kaige advised him not to shoot commercial films without depth, he was stunned, thinking that he would really give him some sunshine. Which onion or garlic he had come to give this opinion to him? He would take himself too seriously.

To be honest, with Xia Tian's current status in the world film industry, not to mention that Chen Kaige is only one of the fifth generation of directors in the mainland, even if he is an international director, at the same level as Francis Coppola and Stanley Kubrick, he is not qualified to say this to Xia Tian.

Let’s talk about what’s wrong with making commercial films? Commercial films are the foundation of the film industry.

The reason why Hollywood movies are so popular in the world is because its film industry is the most profitable, with annual profits of more than $50 billion, directly or indirectly supporting nearly one million people.

It can make money, so there is so much money invested in it, so many talents contribute to it, and so many masterpieces are constantly being produced.

In comparison, the reason why Hong Kong movies fell into a low point in the late 1990s was because there was competition from European and American blockbusters outside and the rampant movie discs inside, which made it no longer make money, so the financial owners were unwilling to invest.

The movies produced in Hong Kong each year have dropped from more than 200 movies at its peak to 20 or 30 movies, causing tens of thousands of practitioners to be unemployed, which is a terrible sight.

Europe, especially France, has the highest attainments in the world in art films, and is the most important thing to pay attention to the artistic nature of films.

The reason why Hong Kong director Wang Jiawei has such a poor box office and can continue to get investment in filming is because his movies are very popular in the European market, so it is not difficult to recover the cost.

However, after so many years of development, the European art film market has collapsed. Even the French domestic film market has been captured by Hollywood blockbusters and half of the market has been stolen.

This is also why Wang Jiawei's filming speed has become slower and slower after entering the new century, and even began to produce "Ferryman" such as "Ferryman".

Because the European art film market is not as good as before, and his movies are shot, he has nowhere to be released, so in order to survive, he can only give up his moral integrity.

Therefore, if the film industry wants to develop, it is necessary to make money. Only talking about art and not business are all hooligans.

However, Chen Kaige doesn't understand this principle, and he doesn't need to understand it either.

Because he doesn't need to pay attention to box office when filming. Anyway, he is the best among the fifth generation of directors. Even if he shoots Yituoxiang, someone will still invest in him.

For example, he filmed "Fengyue", "Jing Ke Assassination of the King of Qin", "Wuji", "Mei Lanfang", etc., none of them are profitable. But because he is the best among the fifth generation of directors, he is one of the first major directors in China to become famous internationally, and has the highest quality, so there are always people who are willing to pay for him.

But summer is different. His subordinates don’t say much. At least 50,000 people are pointing to the movies. If they don’t shoot commercial films or just art films, then these people will starve to death.

At that time, if you are hungry and talk about art in vain, you can talk about something.

...

As the saying goes, if you don’t say anything more than half a sentence, Xia Tian ignored Chen Kaige.

If you are not a member of the same place, why bother talking more?

However, Chen Kaige did not notice Xia Tian’s disgust, but instead spoke more and more excitedly, "Mr. Xia, I think your movie is very talented, and it is really too inexpensive to make commercial films.

You see, those who can leave behind a single point in the history of film are those directors who make art films, such as D.W. Griffith, Sergey Essenstein, John Ford, Akira Kurosawa...

You can only earn temporary benefits when shooting commercial films, and you can only keep your name in history when shooting artistic films, so that your younger generations can respect your talents!”

I heard my ears buzzing in summer, and I thought it would be really unlucky for you to give these examples.

Griffith lost the box office of the film "The Party's Joint Counterfeiting" and died in poverty in the end; although Kurosawa Akira was known as the Emperor of Fuso movies, he ended up in a situation where there was no film to film; Sergey Esenstein was accused of making formalist mistakes and died of depression at the age of 50; John Ford, a westerner, died of cancer...

Chen Kaige asked Xia Tian to be these people. Although he knew that he was not a bad intention, Xia Tian still felt uncomfortable after hearing this.

At this moment, he noticed the two people standing behind Chen Kaige, and was stunned, then asked with a smile, "Director Chen, these two people behind you are..."

"Oh, let me introduce you~" Chen Kaige heard Xia Tian's question, and stopped his long speech, flashed to the side, and gave up the two behind him, "Mr. Xia, let me introduce you to the male lead of our "Singing While Walking", Huang Lei, and the female lead Xu Qing."

"It's them both." Xia Tian nodded with a smile when he heard this.

He is naturally familiar with Huang Lei and Xu Qing.

Huang Lei is a well-known talent in the mainland entertainment industry. He has acting skills, teaching, singing, screenwriter, and writer. He can be regarded as a rare all-rounder. Especially when he is handsome, he is simply unreasonable.

But there is a saying that time is a killing of a pig. Twenty years later, the literary young man Huang Lei also fell into a greasy middle-aged teacher Huang.

In his previous life, in Xia Tian, ​​Teacher Huang, who was trying hard to show his children in front of the camera for the sake of announcement fees, couldn't help but sigh.

Xu Qing is a famous beauty in the mainland. She has been beautiful since childhood, from young to old age. When she starred in "Flowers and Boys", she was already forty-five years old, but in terms of appearance, temperament, and charm, she is far better than young actresses in the same group.

But she is not the only advantage of beauty, but her acting skills are also very good. Xu Qing graduated from Peking University Film Academy and is a professional, and is a senior sister of Xia Tian.

She has performed well in "Sunrise in the East and Rain in the West", "The Smiling and Proud Wanderer", "The Imperial City", "Chinese Woman Under the Gun of the Gestapo", etc., especially her performance in "Old Cannon", which won her Best Actress Award at the Hundred Flowers Award.

It can be said that these two are the best among the mainland Mesozoic actors, and they were famous figures in the domestic entertainment industry in their previous lives. They are definitely not comparable to those of the young director Xia Tian.

Therefore, when Xia Tian saw the two of them, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.

These two are his seniors in the same school, especially Huang Lei has taught him to perform.

"Mr. Huang, Miss Xu, they are all young heroes!" Xia Tian smiled and walked up to shake hands, "As soon as he saw them, he knew that the mainland entertainment industry was full of talents!"

"Thank you, Mr. Xia." Huang Lei, Xu Qing couldn't help but feel excited when she heard Xia Tian praise them like this.

Both of them are still fresh graduates and are not well-known in the entertainment industry.

But Xia Tian is an internationally renowned director. Compared with them, his status is so high.

So it is really an honor for them to be praised by others.
Chapter completed!