[Watching Entertainment at the Two Sessions] Han Sanping: Comprehensively strengthen the training of film talents

Movies are an art that requires imagination. However, in reality, many works are the same, have no imagination, lack appeal, and even have the phenomenon of plagiarism and imitation. According to Wang Xingdong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the China Film and Literature Society, the root cause of "screenwriters 'failure and paralysis of the industry" lies in the lack of originality in China's films.

Representatives of the original title Two Sessions talked about the development of China's film industry: How to move towards a film power

of 13.115 billion yuan, 17.073 billion yuan, 21.769 billion yuan, 29.639 billion yuan, and 44.069 billion yuan... In the past five years, the box office of China's films has been booming, and it has become the second best in the world film market. However, from 2011 to 2015, the overseas sales revenue of domestic films was 2.046 billion yuan, 1.063 billion yuan, 1.414 billion yuan, 1.87 billion yuan, and 2.77 billion yuan respectively, which highlighted the shortcomings of China's films-domestic films have insufficient international influence, and my country is a big film country rather than a movie power.

How to make up for the shortcomings and how to move from a big film country to a powerful film country is a question that China filmmakers need to face and think about.

Comprehensively strengthen the training of film talents

"The gap between my country's films and Hollywood is not only a gap in technical means, but also a gap in talents. For example, there is a gap in some professional and technical talents in the film shooting process." Feng Xiaogang, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and film director, said.

Han Sanping, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former chairman of China Film Group, pointed out that most colleges and universities now only pay attention to the cultivation of editors, directors and acting talents, and do not pay enough attention to the cultivation of other film talents. To achieve the comprehensive development of the film industry, photography, makeup, props and other talents should also be taken into account. To this end, Commissioner Feng Xiaogang said that he would work with Jackie Chan, Zhang Guoli and others to establish a film and television technical school to specialize in training basic staff such as makeup, clothing, and props.

Even in the training of film editors, directors and actors, there is still much room for improvement. Chen Kaige, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and film director, believes that the most important thing for movies is to obtain details through decomposition and filtering of life, but young people who lack life experience do not yet have this ability. Regarding the training of film talents in universities, he suggested that when entering the school, regardless of majors. In the first two years, we should focus on major courses to comprehensively learn film knowledge, and gradually carry out departmental education in the next two years.

Making up for the shortcomings of originality

is an art that requires imagination. However, in reality, many works are the same, have no imagination, lack appeal, and even have the phenomenon of plagiarism and imitation. According to Wang Xingdong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the China Film and Literature Society, the root cause of "screenwriters 'failure and paralysis of the industry" lies in the lack of originality in China's films.

In order to strengthen originality, Commissioner Wang Xingdong called for the restoration of the legal status of screenwriters in films, that is, the primary position of the original creator in films. He believes that the copyright of the script gave birth to the copyright of the film, so the screenwriter is the highest authorizer of the film and must be reflected in various forms such as subtitles in accordance with the law. He hopes that respecting originality and copyright can become a nation's civilization and consciousness, and incubating originality requires the concern of the whole society. "A good movie certainly requires a good script first." Aikebel Migiti, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Film, Television and Literature Committee of the China Writers Association, believes that there must be a complete intellectual property protection mechanism to protect the creative enthusiasm of literary and artistic workers.

"To be original, you must go deep into the front line and life." Gao Mantang, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and screenwriter, called on the majority of film and television workers to find inspiration for creation in their lives. In response to complaints from some young screenwriters that "they have gone to the grassroots and have low pay for screenwriters", Commissioner Gao Mantang said: "We all came from that state, and I once slept in the basement. If you want to produce original works, how can you not suffer at all?"

Improving policies and regulations to protect films

There are also some chaos behind the activity of the film market and the prosperity of film creation, such as problems such as false screenings of individual films and some cinemas and water injection into the box office. In this regard, Zhang Pimin, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former deputy director of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, believes that the root cause is profit-seeking. In addition, the market is not standardized, leaving profit-seeking people free to explore. An imperfect and irregular market is an obstacle to industrial development. Although the government has introduced some measures in a timely manner, without legal support, sometimes it will be offside. Therefore, we must call for the introduction of the Film Law as soon as possible.

At present, the Film Industry Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China (draft) is in the stage of review and public solicitation of opinions from the public. Fu Ying, spokesperson for the Fourth Session of the 12th National People's Congress, pointed out that the purpose of formulating the draft Film Industry Promotion Law is to better improve the legal environment for films and "keep the services and management of the film industry up with the pace of social development."

In addition to improving laws and regulations, Guo Jianhua, a representative of the National People's Congress and secretary of the Party branch and manager of the Film Screening Company in Xiangfu District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, believes that the country should further tilt towards rural areas in terms of film policy. For example, during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, cultural projects such as digital cinemas should continue to extend to the grassroots, advocating the further construction of digital cinemas in some towns and suburban parks with good conditions, so that farmers 'friends can shift from watching outdoors to watching indoors, and from watching from standing to sitting, to meet their spiritual and cultural needs.

Editor: kong