This is Chen Mengxi’s true thought.

Should the road to the revival of Chinese films cater to overseas markets?

This question is really stupid!

It’s just that some old people cannot innovate and put the blame on others.

If you first take photos of what you like and improve the quality, then abroad is naturally not a problem.

"What specific gaps do you think China has with Hollywood in film production, from system to system?"

"There is a country where their film industry is just beginning to start, and the domestic market is occupied by foreign films. People are very tolerant of films in other countries, even bad movies, but they are very harsh about their films. In order to support their film industry, the government has to legislate to restrict foreign films and encourage domestic filmmakers to produce more and better works. However, they set up various censorship committees, and in order to ensure the box office of the movie and the 'pure' movie scenes, they began to delete and ban the films they thought were bad."

Speaking of this, Chen Mengxi smiled and asked Zhang Han: "Guess which country I'm talking about?"

Zhang Han was stunned for a moment: "...I don't know."

"It's the United States! It's the United States in the first half of the last century."

Chen Mengxi then added: "In 1915, state and local governments in the United States began to establish review committees to delete and ban movies they thought were bad. In 1922, in order to ensure box office revenue, the film review committee began to be established. This institution was led by Will Hayes. In 1930, Catholic priest Daniel Lauder publicly claimed that films were corrupting people's moral values ​​and drafted a film review code, which was soon accepted by the giants of the film industry and handed over to Will Hayes, chairman of the American Producers and Publishers Association, to implement it, so it is known in history as the "Hays Code."

"The entire code has 12 bans, including crime, sex, religion, and even kissing scenes. Of course, whether it violates it depends on the attitude of the examiners of the committee. If you have watched "The Aviator", the details of the difficulties suffered by Howard Hughes in the films filmed by Howard Hughes are all real."

"But, the times are different and the standards are different. Now we should be more free!"

"I agree with this, I completely agree that imagination can fly higher without any constraints! The ones that Hays Code prohibited at the time are everywhere in Hollywood movies today, and the deeper the offense, the more box office it will be."

"But I am not going to say this with the example of the Hays Code. What I want to say is that the Hays Code has ruled Hollywood for nearly 40 years from its official issuance to its end. In these 40 years, "The Soul-Broken Blue Bridge", "Wuthering Heights", "Casablanca", "Roman Holiday", and "Gone with the Wind" were born, and there are many works that can be called classics! I believe that this will be true even if you watch these movies in a few decades."

"My question is, where are our Soul-Broken Blue Bridge, Wuthering Heights, Casablanca, Roman Holiday, Gone with the Wind?"

"If a person cannot make the most basic movement of relaxing his wings under unharsh rules, why should I believe that you can fly higher and farther after being free from the constraints of the rules?"

"Now, the biggest obstacle to Chinese films is the Chinese filmmakers themselves!"

"Don't always complain about the system. Now it's really too much to be reviewed. It's nothing more than pure blue with too much point, or super bloody or nauseous scenes that can directly cause psychological discomfort, and too sensitive political topics."

"These subjects are not mainstream in the world!"

Zhang Han asked directly: "What do you say about "Blind Well" and "Blind Mountain"?"

"Even if these two movies can be released, can they have a market effect besides praising the director's conscience?"

"The core of Chinese film weakness is not the other, it lies in the mentality and style of a large number of filmmakers. Film is an art, but it is also an industry. Now many domestic films are mixed with too many directors' personal feelings and ignore the audience's experience. I can only say: Those who ignore the audience will inevitably be abandoned by the audience!"

...

This interview was launched in June and then sparked discussions from many people.

Some six generations of directors protested, believing that some of the rhetoric was suspected of being insulted, but unfortunately no one cared.

Because Chen Mengxi won the best director of Cannes!

He is qualified to say this!

Now, who dares to say, "Chen Mengxi is just a businessman, he doesn't understand movies?" Believe it or not, he made a movie "Moonlight Boy" and got an Oscar?

Just the mainland directors questioned Chen Mengxi, who was not qualified.

Moreover, most netizens recognize his saying, "If you win an award abroad, you can become famous in the era of becoming famous."

Chen Mengxi doesn't care much about these things himself.

Moreover, the birth of the Hays Code was abolished, and it was completely decided by the eight major studios themselves, and the relationship is different from ours...

Why is it established?

In order to maintain the rights of local films;

Why abolish it?

Because they found that the Hays Code was useless, the audience loved watching adult movies.

One of the important magic weapons that Hollywood has survived is the positive interaction between Hollywood films and social atmosphere and social thoughts. The Code hinders this interaction, which has a much greater negative impact on Hollywood than banning some stimulating shots.

So, it will be abolished!

Of course, the abolition of the Code led to the birth of the hierarchy system and laid the institutional foundation for Hollywood. This is another story.

...

Shanghai, the hotel where the crew of "My Black Dress" stayed.

Zhao Shan recommends Gu Li to "Tiny Times" by Yang Xiaomi:

"Baidu's "Guli Bar" ranks 11th among more than 4,000 literary figures, and is the top female literary figures. More than 20,000 fans imitate Guli's words in the post bar and create fan works for her."

"This character will make you..."

Yang Xiaomi looked up: "What can I do?"

Zhao Shan was stunned for a moment. What could she do?

Yang Xiaomi is now the actress born in the 1985s and second only to Liu Yifei…

Zhao Shan took out a bunch of data: "In the past five years, 24437,000 people have read the "Tiny Times" books. This is the number of genuine editions. If pirated versions are added, this data will have to be expanded ten times!"

"What is this data concept? Compare horizontally, the four books in Twilight together sold about 20 million copies, the global sales of "The Hunger Games" was 15 million copies, while the sales of "Tiny Times" exceeded 24 million copies..."

"We have calculated that it is a bit difficult for all of these readers to convert into movie fans, but as long as we can mobilize more than 10 million, our box office will be more than 400 million."

"You played Gu Li's representative role!"

Only then did Yang Xiaomi look at "Tiny Times" and then raised an objection: "This Lin Xiao is the heroine!"

"The crew is contacting Liu Yifei!"

"Yi Fei?" Yang Xiaomi became interested and was about to continue asking, Zhao Shan said: "The four heroines in "Tiny Times" are the easiest to be outstanding in Gu Li!"

"Are you sure you won't be able to star in it?"

“…I don’t know, but the film company is inviting!”

The film company is indeed inviting, but Liu Yifei has a very tight schedule, and she obviously has no interest in the series, so she directly refused: "...I have a two-movie appointment next year, so..."
Chapter completed!