Jia Zhangke said that it was a remarkable achievement for him to sit in this position in just two years after entering the circle, but Du An was really not happy. After all, there were so many people sitting in front of him. And when he came here just now, he saw that there was a famous brand in the second row that was written by Er Dongsheng, which is also an opponent he had fought twice in his career as a director. In the two battles, Er Dongsheng's films were not as high as him. Why is Er Dongsheng a first-line director, and the director who defeated Er Dongsheng twice is only a second-line director?

He changed the question and said it in another way: "How to judge whether it is a first-tier or a second-tier?"

Jia Zhangke touched his nose and explained: "The directors' union has its own scoring system, with many reference scoring items. The combined score is the valuation of a director's influence. However, these reference scoring items focus more on the technical level and the box office occupies a relatively small weight. In other words, it is more advantageous to shoot more art films."

Du An suddenly realized: So that's the same thing as the Huabiao Award.

However, judging from the several commercial directors sitting in front, the director's union's self-rating and valuation system is more comprehensive than that of the Huabiao Awards. However, if a commercial director like him wants to climb higher, he still has to make more efforts and achieve greater results.

“Also, qualifications are also very important.”

After taking a breath, Jia Zhangke continued, "The longer you stay in this circle, the higher the evaluation scores. After all, no matter what you do, practice makes perfect. After you have been doing it for a long time, your skills will never be too bad. Experience is also part of your ability, and it is still a very important part. Geniuses like director Zhang Yi and director Du are always a few people. Most directors are slowly honed through movies one by one, so qualifications are a very important reference project."

"Director Du, you suffer in these two aspects, one is qualifications and the other is the type of film. These two items are very serious for you. If you have all the films like "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" and have entered this line with me for another year, you must have sat in the front row now."

Du An didn't expect that the director's union's influence valuation system was so abnormal. He even counted his qualifications. This time he really gained a vision.

At the same time, I have a new understanding of "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum", which I filmed on a whim: Although "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" is not very outstanding, among the films he has filmed, it is only higher than "Saw". However, the benefits brought by "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" are really quite good. Not only did Han Sanping come to him and ask him to make a movie, but he also improved his influence and status in the professional field. He can sit here now. Listening to Jia Zhangke, many of the credits are attributed to "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum".

From this incident, we can also see that commercial films and art films have their own advantages and disadvantages: commercial films make money, but they really can't make anything except money. Art films don't make money, but they can gain a lot of things besides money. No wonder there are never fewer directors who make art films.

And Du An himself also deeply understands that commercial films are made for the audience, while art films are often made for themselves. If you say what you think, the audience may be very narrow, but the director himself makes it very good, which is another effect that commercial films cannot achieve.

One is to make others happy, and the other is to make yourself happy.

As the two chatted, Du An gradually turned the topic to the process of the industry summit and threw out the news that he was going to speak at the closing ceremony. He took the opportunity to ask the question that has been bothering him in the past few days.

"You spoke at the closing ceremony?"

He saw Jia Zhangke confused, "It's not reasonable. Generally speaking, the people who spoke at the closing ceremony were the people sitting in the front."

Du An said, "I heard that this is the case, so I don't know what happened." He thought for a while, and then threw out a message, "Zhang Yi has been in contact with me these two days and said that he is going to join the assistant director for my new film. I went up to speak up, and it seems that he was urging me to do it."

"My son volunteered to be an assistant director for you?!"

This one after another was full of explosive news. Jia Zhangke's expression was even more strange, and he was completely confused in capital. After a long time of slowing down, he calmed down and thought for a long time, then slowly said, "You are going to fly!" There was envy in his eyes.

Du An raised his eyebrows and dropped the bag of verses, "I hope to hear it carefully."

Jia Zhangke stretched out his hand and went to the front row and pointed, "Look at that side."

Du An looked at his fingers and saw that these directors were really unreliable. They both said things for a long time, and there were only three or four people sitting in the front row, including Chen Kaige, Xu Ke, Wang Jiawei, etc., and Jia Zhangke's words came from his ears.

"There are not many top directors. Some people retire after a few years, but after a few years, there are not necessarily those who are behind the scenes who are qualified to make up for it, so the number has always remained at less than ten. Among these people now, three are from our mainland, four are from Hong Kong, and one from Taiwan does not."

"In terms of number of people, our mainland is slightly disadvantageous, but our quality is high. Overall, it is still evenly matched."

Jia Zhang pulled his hand and pointed to the second row again, "The first-line directors are in a bad mood. There are eight now, only one of them is from our mainland, five from Hong Kong, and two from Taiwan."

This is the first time Duane has learned about the distribution of power within the directors' union, and is a little surprised: the media always says that the decline of the Hong Kong movies, but judging from the distribution of the internal power within the directors' union, the Hong Kong movies are in full swing.

As for Taiwanese movies, there is nothing to say, they have been weak for a long time.

Jia Zhangke took his hand back and walked around himself and Du An, "The second-tier director is back again. There are a lot of people and it changes every year. I don't remember the specific numbers anymore. Anyway, the mainland director and the Xiangjiang director were half-to-half last year, and there were fewer ones in Taiwan, three or four."

Hearing this, Du An couldn't help but ask the question he had just said: "Don't it all say that Xiangjiang movies have fallen? Why do I see that Xiangjiang movies are still very strong in the current director circle?"

Jia Zhangke said at this time: "This is what I will say next," he pointed his hand back and said: "If you go further, you will not be divided. Unified is the third-tier director. Most of this is from our mainland, and there are very few from Hong Kong and Taiwan."

"In other words, the reserve force of Xiangjiang and Taiwan is very insufficient, far from comparable to that of our mainland. If this continues, in a dozen or twenty years, when Director Zhang and his group retire, the film industry will basically be full of the faces of our mainland directors."

Duane then understood.

Jia Zhangke continued: "And the decline of a regional film is not just about directors and actors, but about the overall film industry in the region. Although Xiangjiang has many good actors and directors, their overall ecology is not good, the industrial chain is very incomplete, and the top-heavy ones are not. There are many problems here, so I won't explain it in detail."

Du An nodded and expressed his understanding. Now that he understood the ecological relationship in the industry, he also vaguely guessed what Zhang Yi meant.

Jia Zhangke pursed his lips, looked at him, and said, "You know the inside story of our circle now, right? We, the top and bottom of the mainland directors, are not short of the top, but in the middle and high-level power, they are still very weak, just Jiang Wen is holding on. I see that Lao Mouzi's actions are to pull you up and fill in the weakness of this area."

Du An was silent when he heard this.

What Jia Zhangke said was what he guessed.

Now Chinese movies are popular all over the world, but what you need to see is that the four words "Chinese movies" are composed of three parts: Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The mainland part does not have this force to sweep all. What Zhang Yi and others want to do is to change the popular Chinese movies into mainland movies sweep the world.

Thinking of this, Du An couldn't help but shook his head secretly: In his opinion, Xiangjiang has returned, so whether it is the mainland or Xiangjiang, it is China. What should I do if I have to distinguish it so clearly?

Jia Zhangke looked at him and broke another message, "Actually, Lao Mouzi has been doing this. Before, Jiang Wen went to help Lu Chuan film "Looking for Gun", which was instigated by him and Han Sanping. Now his goal has increased to you again."

Du An sighed, "Old Master Zhang is really working hard."

He is still racking his brains for his own movies, and Zhang Yi has already begun to make arrangements for industrial planning, which is really not on the same level as him.

However, Duane is sure that he can't do such things: he is just a plain person. He wanted to make money when he first made movies and lived a good life. Now this goal has not changed. He has never thought about industrial layout.

Jia Zhangke chuckled and joked: "Who said no? But now Director Du, you are the new hope for our mainland movies. I can't make it as a brother in the future. Please leave me some food for you."

Du An looked embarrassed and smiled bitterly, "Brother Jia, don't joke with me." As he said that, he changed his words and turned around to Jia Zhangke, "By the way, Brother Jia, hasn't Zhang Yi ever found you?"

In Du An's opinion, Jia Zhangke's level is quite good. Judging from the existing videos alone, he is more mature than Lu Chuan. Why did Zhang Yi only look for Lu Chuan but not Jia Zhangke?

Jia Zhangke's expression remained unchanged, but a trace of obscurity in his eyes was captured by Du An. He smiled and said, "Who knows, I can't guess what a big shot like Laozi thinks, otherwise I should have sat in that position."

Duane nodded and stopped talking.
Chapter completed!