China News Network, April 4 (Reporter Zhu Yanjing) "Good production must be supported by the market", from the "golden age" of Hong Kong films all the way, from Jackie Chan's assistant to the best director of the Hong Kong Film Awards, Chen Desen looked back at the drama life, and gradually realized what a good movie is and where is a good market...

Chen Desen. Photo courtesy of interviewee

Starting with the "golden age" of Hong Kong cinema

In the 80s and 90s of the last century, Hong Kong film industry good films frequently, martial arts films, comedy films, horror films bloomed in a hundred flowers, not only in Southeast Asia to make a reputation, but also to open the market to the world, at the same time a group of powerful actors gradually emerged, on the stage of the world film industry, people used to call this period the "golden age" of Hong Kong films.

Chen Desen is a filmmaker who grew up here.

He started as Jackie Chan's personal assistant, and then became a scene reporter, screenwriter, assistant director, director, producer, film festival jury... Along the way, you can get all kinds of tastes.

The actors are very hard working and the producers are very knowledgeable about film, which is two important factors that Chen believes have achieved the "golden age" of Hong Kong films.

"Everyone just needs my name on the screen, even if I start with the scene, this movie is my share, I want to do it well." So the film is for groups. ”

The secret to creating the "golden age" of Chinese cinema

As for the concept of Chinese-language films, Chen felt that there was no need to divide them into mainland films, Hong Kong films or Taiwanese films, "You can say that Hong Kong makes this kind of film, and all three places are Chinese." What the whole world shares is feelings."

Chen Desen's autobiography "Leave Sadness to the Movie"

"I have a lot of regrets with my father..." is the first sentence of the chapter about fathers in Chen's new book, "Leave Sorrow to the Movie." Perhaps because of this, many of his films such as "Child's Dream" and "October Siege" are inseparable from family and father-son relationship. As Anderson said, "Great movies are first and foremost about moving the audience."

But in addition to impressing the audience with feelings, how can Chinese films better go to the world? The key word given by Chen Desen is: unity.

Chen Desen said, "We always beat ourselves" "In the past, when movies were very popular, your movie was released on the 1st, his movie was going to hit you on the 30th, his movie was going to hit you on the 20th, Hollywood blockbusters came to hide all of them, if our several powerful teams and companies can be combined, Chinese films will be strong."

For the current new generation of actors, Chen Desen suggested, "Don't rub the traffic, it's useless." It depends on the strength, whether it will be acted. Less variety shows, good filming."

"The whole world knows that China's market is the largest"

On July 1997, 7, Hong Kong returned to the motherland. For Hong Kong filmmakers, the mainland's larger market is slowly opening up to them...

Chen Desen said that with the reform and opening up, the film market has also been liberalized, Hong Kong and the mainland have begun to co-produce films, and the mainland has more talents and actors. On the other hand, if Hong Kong wants to continue to make good movies, it must be supported by the market, so many people return to the mainland to film.

Infographic: People watch movies in cinemas. Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Pin

At present, the number of Chinese film screens has exceeded 8,67, ranking first in the world. This year's Spring Festival, the box office of movies exceeded 1.100 billion, and on the last day of January, it exceeded 1 billion, breaking the record of the fastest annual breakthrough of 29 billion in the Chinese film market, especially the 7 million moviegoers, which means that nearly 1 million viewers walked into the cinema to watch movies during the seven-day holiday.

"The whole world sees that the Chinese market is the largest and wants to come in. How many people wanted to enter Hollywood to make movies before, and now Hollywood wants to come in, this is an undeniable fact. Chen Desen expressed his observations.

In recent years, "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" has gradually become a hot word, "I think it is a good thing, because in fact, there are many Hong Kong producers who do not understand this situation, and most people in the Greater Bay Area speak Cantonese, so there is still a market for some Hong Kong-style comedies and police films."

"Dialect is also a very important thing," Chen also noted, noting that many theaters in Beijing and Shanghai now show some original Cantonese and Hong Kong films, "Now many things have slowly opened up, which is a good direction." I think the future will be better, really getting better," Chen said. (End)