When I just rewatched this film, I just read a commentary on Hollywood movies that Zhang Yimou wrote on the Chinese website of The New York Times , and I just finished watching Reed's "Secrets of a Movie Screenwriter". The objective evaluation of Zhang Yimou's films and his admiration for the success of Hollywood genre films are particularly impressive. Reed is probably the representative of what Zhang Wenzhong said, "Whether they are young screenwriters or senior film critics, many people in the Chinese film industry are familiar with Hollywood's theatrical structure and advocate Hollywood's expressive techniques and skills". The Chinese film adaptation is exactly what Zhang worries about, but it does not lose "the inheritance of Chinese film tradition...the potential risk of losing unique values and aesthetics" ("Farewell My Concubine", "Alive", etc.) . Therefore, in fact, the integration of industrialized and standardized Hollywood manufacturing methods with China's unique values and aesthetics is not necessarily inconsistent. What we should be worried about is that we have not mastered the "industrialized and standardized Hollywood manufacturing methods", and think that we use our own The set can be a secondary and pulmonary product that, like Quentin, can embody "unique values and aesthetics".
Criticisms of industry insiders on a set of mature industry practices should be based on the fact that we have tried this method proficiently. However, although the result of the trial has been successful, it has not been able to meet the unique needs of internal continuous improvement. , seek strain. But at present, we haven't even grasped the essentials of other people's fur, so we say that this set is not suitable for us, and we need to find another way. I don't have a good grasp of the ordinary working methods and attitudes, so I just use Idea and three-page PPT to find investors for financing. Most people in this society are not geniuses like Quentin who do not take the usual path, but ordinary people who need to diligently make films according to the routine, and then make more thoughtful and style films after they are familiar with standardized operations. You see, how many standardized Fast and Furious films Justin Lin has directed, and James Wan is still continuing his Hollywood-style horror sketches. The director of this film also directed the Chic flick of "Second Love".
Before we had the dizzying variety of 3D, green screen technologies a decade ago, Hollywood was popping up this successful adventure popcorn commercial. Ten years later, I don't have any sense of disobedience at all, and even the texture of the picture is almost no different from the so-called domestic blockbuster that we have been bragging about in the past year or two, not to mention the writer's thoughts on the plot, the director's opinion The choreography of one scene after another, the coordination of soundtracks, props, makeup, etc., does not feel like watching an old movie at all. It's really not that good, and many people report that there are no surprises in the first one, but you have to admit that it's doing a pretty good job of presenting a complete adventure feature film. So why does an average Hollywood commercial in 2007, I watched (and watched it for the second time) in 2017 still find it more interesting and interesting than most of our recent films of the same type (not to mention I can read the first two films of the Mummy (both around 2000) and so-called brainless Hollywood blockbusters, which I can read many times a year.
I am a Chinese audience that Zhang Yiwen mentioned "whose taste and viewing habits are developed by Hollywood movies and American dramas", but the older I get, the more I can identify the "worldview with an American filter and a focus on the United States". We emphasize that the power of Hollywood movies and American dramas does not lie in their values and worldview. After all, how can a commercial and industrialized movie that is a "national treasure" be compared with a movie like "Alive" that permeates China's historical pattern every minute and every second? But from the general standard, we haven't been able to make another "Alive" for more than 20 years, but people can release more refined versions of "National Treasure" commercial blockbusters every year, how can they be so embarrassed to go? Attributing failure to "What is learned in one setting often cannot be easily applied to another setting. Efforts to make improvements often end up in bigger trouble." Look at the Koreans' practice on genre films next to them , Li Xiaoyao also needs to use his usual skills to fight monsters and level up slowly in order to become Mei Changsu.
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