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After the broadcast of the director's competitive variety show "Director Please Advise", it has aroused widespread heated discussion, and the works of 16 directors can bring various controversies after the release, and directors such as Bi Zhifei, Bao Bell, Xiang Guoqiang, and Wang Xuan have become the center of the topic. With the advancement of the show, the competition of the first stage came to an end, 12 directors and 4 producers signed a successful contract, and the eliminated Channing Huang also got the resurrection quota.
The second stage of "Director Please Advise" has been fully upgraded, and the 4 major producer studios will launch a 1V1 duel by drawing lots, and the directors need to complete the creation of short films with the themes of real adaptation, brain opening, and the king of comedy.
Unfortunately, Guan Jinpeng, the only director who can support the façade of "Director Please Advise", chose to quit the show in the second stage, and the reason he gave himself was to give more young people the opportunity. Compared with Wu Zhongtian, who retired halfway because of the plagiarism style, director Guan Jinpeng's departure is obviously more decent.
The first showdown in the second stage was full of gunpowder, and Zeng Zhi, who was also from the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy, and Degna had a strong dialogue, and the final result was somewhat unexpected, Degna's "Badma" received unanimous praise, while the "Garden of the Bright Moon" was mixed, and finally Degna won the zeng gift.
If the first competition is Mars hitting the earth, then the second duel is "rookie pecking each other", by the cross-border director Of Han Xue against Huayi EXECUTIVE WANG Zhonglei's daughter Wang Wenye, the theme of the duel is also a true story adaptation.
Coincidentally, the works of the two people in the first stage are not very ideal, but the way of promotion is very consistent, and the other directors choose Fang Li, which also allows the two people to advance to the second stage without a fight, Han Xue joined the Wang Jing team, and Wang Wen also joined the Chen Zhixi team.
Han Xue overturned the car in the last stage very seriously, claiming to be Han Hong's soundtrack plus Zhang Yimou's photography, and the final short film presented was a day when the takeaway brother was running the account, in addition to forced sensationalism, the short film could not find anything to see, and the result was also a wave of doubt.
The work brought by Han Xue in the second stage is "Half Mirror", which is a story about "scars". Shen Qiu, played by Han Xue, met Lin Xia, played by Fan Chengcheng, and the two people had a spark of love, and finally Shen Qiu plucked up the courage to reveal her imperfections to Lin Xia, who originally suffered from breast cancer and had postoperative scars on her body.
After the release of "Half Mirror", it became the "collective performance" time for the review guests. Chen Zhixi praised Han Xue for being much better than in the previous stage, Hao Lei praised the actor Fan Chengcheng for being clean and natural, and Fang Li also said that he saw his seventeen-year-old dream in the film. Sirui even raised the height of the film, saying that this is a very pure female film, the whole perspective is very feminine, and the mood is also very good.
After watching the embarrassing exaggeration of so many people, someone in the crowd finally dared to tell the truth, this person is the teacher Meng Zhong, who has always been very upright, and he has no scruples to point out the hard wounds of the short film.
The first is that there are a lot of logical errors in the film, and the whole theme of the film is explained by the subtitles at the end of the film, which is not so much a live-action story adaptation as a brain-opening film. If the subtitles can present the theme of the film, then the audience does not have to go to the cinema to see the movie.
Secondly, the narrative logic of the film is also problematic, the story line of the male protagonist is very pale, what makes the male protagonist like the female protagonist is not explained clearly, there is no unprovoked love in this world, and there is no unprovoked hate. At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist uses a lot of narration language, and too much use of voiceover is not advisable.
Although Mr. Meng Zhong's words sound very harsh, he also said the voice of many audiences, compared with those film critics and producers who think it is embarrassing, they must give him a thumbs up.
For these questions raised by Meng Zhong, producer Wang Jing did not accept them, and he also refuted them on the spot. Wang Jing believes that her logic will not be like Teacher Meng Zhong, there is still a lot of content in the film that has not been finished, but it will be very disconnected to continue, and the film is not only one shooting method. As for the question of narration, Wang Jing believes that it is a kind of montage technique, no skill is the absolute distinction between high and low level, and he also directly threw out a sentence: It is estimated that when I made the film, you had not yet entered the Beijing Film Academy.
The positive battle between Meng Zhong and Wang Jing is very exciting, obviously Meng Zhong taught Wang Jing a lesson, Wang Jing's refutation views in the whole process are untenable, and the last sentence is very ungratural.
The two were full of gunpowder, and Fang Li on the side came out to play the round field: I am a relatively rough producer, I don't care about so many details, this movie moves me is impressed, not impressed, is 100 theories have a fart. For the director, you have to figure out what moves the audience, it is the communication between people, you have done it, so I want to encourage you.
For Fang Li's remarks, Hao Lei, who was sitting on the stage, could not sit still, and she directly refuted Fang Li's views. Hao Lei believes that this show is looking forward to the emergence of a good professional director, if only with "I just feel that she is very good" as the evaluation criterion, then there is some "mother's taste". The so-called "taste of mother" is that I don't care if you are a Michelin star, whether you are a full table, it is not as good as my mother's food, and we must be fair and just to all the directors.
From the perspective of a general audience, Han Xue's "Half Mirror" has indeed made significant progress compared to the previous stage, at least the content is not so awkward and empty, and the suspense color of the film even has a little bit of an element that attracts the audience. Han Xue self-directed and self-acting, as an actor, she does perform very well, well interpreting the inner world of this role, the performance of newcomer Fan Chengcheng can also be remarkable, Fan Chengcheng under the film lens is very textured, the voice is also very magnetic, the acting skills can not say how perfect, at least qualified.
The biggest problem with this short film is that the narrative is too jumpy, and the final ending is forced to go up to a high level, the audience is confused, and it seems that they have not seen anything after watching the film, and finally they can only find what the director wants to express through subtitles. Overall, this short film is more like a public service advertisement, the end of the forced elevation but did not make people very moved, do not know how the judges were moved, the author really can not empathize after watching.
Wang Wenye's work is called "Matching", which tells the story of two young people who met in the Network, and after finding that each other's interests and hobbies were very compatible, they turned from virtual online to reality, and the two who had missed once again harvested a beautiful love.
As a female audience member said on the spot, there is nothing new in the content of the short film "Match", the story content is very old-fashioned, basically watching the beginning will know what the end is, even if it is played at 3 times the speed, it will still feel long, and half of it will not want to continue to watch.
Zhang Xueying and Li Yunrui's performances are more natural, if it were not for their hard support, I believe that this film would not be played at all. Wang Wen is also obviously not good as a director, the entire film shot is not professional, the picture is not beautiful enough, and many dialogues are also very awkward, more like an extended version of a dating software promotional film.
Wang Wen also said in an interview that the movie is meant to be shown to the audience, and if the movie is just made for yourself, if you lock yourself in a small room to enjoy yourself, it is not a movie. Unfortunately, this film is not suitable for the big screen, the film is long and boring, and even the popcorn film is not called. The final comparison is also obvious, Han Xue received a high number of votes of 216 votes, and Wang Wen only received 144 votes.
Do you have anything to say about the two short films "Half Mirror" and "Match"?