Feng Xiaogang called on China filmmakers to pay attention to technical learning and not just rely on their own exploration

On October 2, local time in South Korea, the 20th Busan International Film Festival held a dialogue event between Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Digui, two major directors of China and South Korea. During the event, Feng Xiaogang did not change his "cannon" nature and bluntly said that in China, everyone wants to be a star, but does not pay attention to technical learning. He called on Chinese filmmakers to go to Hollywood to learn more industrial technology and not just explore it on their own.

Original title Feng Xiaogang: In China, everyone wants to be a star and doesn't pay attention to technical learning.

On October 2, local time in South Korea, the 20th Busan International Film Festival held a dialogue between Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Digui, two major directors of China and South Korea, to promote the two of them with their co-produced film "The Bad Guy Must Die", which was shortlisted for the "Window of Asian Films" unit of the Busan Film Festival.

During the event, Feng Xiaogang did not change his true character as a "cannon" and bluntly said that in China, everyone wants to be a star, but does not attach importance to technical learning. He called on China filmmakers to go to Hollywood to learn more industrial technology and not just rely on their own to explore. He also revealed that with the closer cooperation between China and South Korea, he recently invited Yang Yushuo, director of the popular South Korean film "The Defender" the year before last, to help him write a script,"It's very well written!"

Feng Xiaogang talks about his expectations for film talents

Feng Xiaogang: In China, everyone wants to be a star and does not pay attention to technical learning

. At the beginning of the conversation, Feng Xiaogang praised Busan for its beautiful scenery, its very close proximity to Beijing, and its a city closely related to movies. "I really want Director Jiang to take me to see the residential area here. This is a suitable place to buy a house and live in. Jiang Digui also regrets it. When "Tai Chi Flag Flying" was filmed, the house price in Busan was not expensive, and it is very expensive now. I say if you buy it now, it will increase in value in the future."

He introduced the origin of the movie "Bad Guys Must Die". Director Sun Hao had previously recorded 10 of his films and was a professional who graduated from the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy. "He wrote a very interesting script. When I was filming" If You Are the One "in Hokkaido, Japan, he wanted to write this script. The plot originally took place in Japan, but he was worried about the tension between China and Japan, so he changed the background to South Korea. I was thinking that if I came to South Korea to shoot, I would definitely ask my good friend Kang Dikyu to do this. He found good Korean actors like Sun Ye-jin and Shin Hyun-jun to join us, and also helped coordinate the Korean film crew. This is a practical experience in China-South Korea cooperation. In particular, Jeju Island has a tax refund policy, where you can get subsidies for filming, which is also very important to the crew."

Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Digui met because of their collaboration on the special effects part of "Assembly". When talking about special effects in China, Feng Xiaogang believes that progress is relatively slow."Although the production of films in China is very large nowadays, most of them are given to stars, and not many are actually used for production. There are many young filmmakers in South Korea who go to Hollywood to study and then return to China to set up companies to do makeup, special effects production and other work. However, in China, everyone wants to be a star, and few people learn basic business and industrial technology. Movies still need an industrial system. From an industrial perspective, Hollywood is very worth learning. I hope that people in China who are interested in making movies want to go to Hollywood to study, and it is not enough to find out on their own."

"Bad guys must die" is a crime comedy. Producer Jiang Digui and director Sun Hao both raised a question, that is, China and South Korea have different jokes. Some languages are very funny, but translated into subtitles will be discounted. As a successful comedy director, Feng Xiaogang believes that there are two types of comedy. One is that the language is full of comedy effects, and the other is that the story and behavior themselves have comedy effects. More of the comedy effects of "The Bad Guy Must Die" come from the story and behavior. When screened abroad, although the language part will suffer losses after translation, it will not affect the entire movie."If it is a comedy by Woody Allen, it will be more troublesome. He relies heavily on the sense of humor of New York-style language. Comedy that is good at language will have problems being screened abroad."

When talking about China-South Korea film cooperation, Feng Xiaogang said that China and South Korea are close and have a lot of film and television penetration. Many South Korean stars are familiar to China audiences and have a large market in China. There will be more and more cooperation in the future. "There are many film companies in China who want to invite Director Jiang to shoot films in China. This is definitely a good thing. I also just asked Mr. Yang Yusuo, the director of "The Defender", to help me write a script, which is very well written."

Producer Jiang Digui

Jiang Digui: "The Bad Guy Must Die" is a watershed in cooperation between China and South Korea.

Jiang Digui introduced the process of becoming acquainted with Feng Xiaogang because of "Assembly"."In the past, China's special effects strength was not strong. Director Feng Xiaogang asked me to assist in special effects work for" Assembly ", and now China's special effects work has made great progress compared with seven or eight years ago." He said that he went to China some time ago to serve as a short film judge and found that digital technology in China is developing rapidly."Those new directors have made a lot of short films, and their level is so high that I am surprised. Different from now and in the past, I think that China may be able to help South Korea make movies in the future."

Jiang Digui said that in South Korea in the 1980s, local films accounted for 20% of the market share, while Hong Kong films and Taiwanese films accounted for 25%. Although the China market now has restrictions on the share of imported films, the proportion of China films in South Korea is not high, and it may change in five years. I believe more China films will be exported to South Korea. He believes that "Bad Guys Must Die" is a watershed. In the past, cooperation between China and South Korea in films was an option, but starting from this film, cooperation between China and South Korea will become a necessity. He called on South Korean audiences to come to theaters to watch the film in December.

Sun Hao: It is costly to communicate with South Korean actors.

Sun Hao, the director of "The Bad Guy Must Die" whose long scene of Sun Yizhen's drowning was cut, also participated in the dialogue. He had just attended the post-screening meeting of the film, and the feedback from the audience surprised him."I was worried that the Korean audience wouldn't understand some of the jokes at first, but I didn't expect them to accept it." He introduced that during the filming process, due to the language barrier between the two countries, the cost of communicating with Korean actors was double or even triple, which was the biggest difficulty during filming.

Sun Hao revealed that during the filming process, South Korean actor Shin Hyun-joon had an accident."There was a scene where a wine bottle hit him on the back of the head. Because five or six shots were filmed, the residue in his hair was not completely removed. When taking the seventh shot, Shin Hyun-joon was injured and the blood he shed was real. But after only going to the hospital for a simple treatment, he said he could continue filming." When filming the long shot of Sun Yizhen drowning, he hoped that Sun Yizhen could perform in the water for 15 seconds, but Sun Yizhen gave him 40 seconds, which made him very moved."It's a pity that I didn't cut this shot in the end. Don't tell Miss Sun."

Editor: vian