China News Service, Beijing, May 22 (Ren Siyu) The movie was withdrawn and the theater closed. After nearly four months of suspension, the movie industry finally pressed the "restart button". What did the filmmakers experience during the 100-day shutdown? Where will Chinese movies go?
Recently, Director Ning Hao and several directors under the "72 Change Film Project" of Bad Monkey Pictures expressed their views on the prospects of the film industry for the first time.
Director of Ning Hao and Bad Monkey Pictures' "72 Change Film Project".
Bad Monkey Pictures has produced "Crazy Stone", "Crazy Racing", "No Man's Land", "Heart Blossom Road", "Crazy Alien" and many other famous works. In 2016, Bad Monkey Pictures started "72 "Change Film Project", gather young aspiring filmmakers, and discover the new power of film. In early 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic affected many directors' creative plans.
Last year, the director who impressed the audience with the feature film debut "Beneficiary" bid for the Olympic Games, the original overseas exploration plan of the new work was forced to be postponed; Wang Zhizhao, the director of the short film such as "Bad" and "Fearless", had directed the preparations for the new film Due to the suspension of the epidemic, the filming schedule is also planned to be postponed to the end of the year; Xia Peng, director of the animated short film "Dragon and Tiger Egg Yolk School", also had to reorganize the actors and backstage of the new project according to the epidemic situation.
Talking about the current state, Ning Hao said: "The films we have finished before cannot be released. The unfinished films cannot be prepared and promoted because they cannot be gathered before. At this time, as a company's operating experience, there are many Pressures, and concerns about the future market will also make the funds more tight. "
Director Ning Hao.
But the epidemic did not stop the creative footsteps of these directors. Ning Hao started to prepare his new film "My Hometown" from the end of last year, perfected the script during the shutdown, and is expected to officially start shooting in June. The film continues the multi-section short film mode of "My Motherland", and Ning Hao also acts as the film's chief director.
In the view of "I am not a drug god" director Wen Muye. The impact of the epidemic on him is "not great". His next movie is in the stage of script creation. "The meeting time has become longer, but everyone has quickly adapted." 》 Has entered the final stage of post-production, director Wen Shipei said that the epidemic has given him "more time to make each link more refined."
The epidemic has dealt a heavy blow to the movie industry. Where will Chinese movies go? Director Wang Lifan, who directed the short films "Heroes of the Day" and "New Year's Plan", believes that film workers experienced a tragic elimination during the epidemic. "There are a lot fewer practitioners in this industry, but there are people who really love movies. Zhou Difei, the director who created the short film "Both Ends of the World", said that the industry bubble has gradually burst, and Chinese films have slowly returned to rationality.
Ning Hao believes that the film industry is now on the watershed. "Where does it go? Now no one can make it clear, or the next accurate conclusion." He said that some subtle changes are taking place in this era, and now he is also "Finding your relationship with today's era" is also a brand-new issue faced by all film directors under Bad Monkey Pictures.
No matter how the environment changes, Ning Hao always believes. "As long as human beings exist, stories will exist, and movies are the best way to tell stories. As long as people need stories, movies will continue to exist." (End)