Film Shooting and Genre Film Creation: Xu Haofeng's Dialogue on the New Force of Chinese Film

1905 movie news On May 23rd, French local time, China's face-to-face theme activity "New Force of China Film: Master Class of Blue Project" hosted by Movie Watching Media was held in the China Pavilion of Cannes International Village.

In this blue project master class, famous French photographers, directors, screenwriters, martial arts novelists and four directors of "New Force of China Film" were invited from the aspects of film shooting and genre film creation: (Crossing Zhaoguan), Tang (The Road Not Taken), Xu Zhanxiong (Buckwheat Growing Wild) and Zhou Quan (West). At the same time, Wen Juan, a famous filmmaker and former chairman of the Hong Kong Academy Awards, served as the dialogue host of the Xu Haofeng Master Class.

Bruno Delbonnel took the lead in sharing the first master class. After ten years of experience, he has become the mirror of many internationally renowned directors, including Tim Burton, Joe Wright, jeanpierre Youth and Cohen Brothers. Representative works include Dark Hours, Drunk Hometown Folk Songs, Angels Love Beauty, etc. It is worth mentioning that Bruno is also the winner of this year's Cannes International Film Festival official important award "Pierre Angénieux Excellent Photography Achievement Award".

Talking about the cooperation with the director, Bruno said that it is very important for photographers to handle the relationship with the director well. For example, in cooperation with tim burton, the communication time with him is only ten minutes every day, and it needs to be clearly expressed in a limited time. The Cohen brothers are different. They can discuss and communicate at any time. Every director has his own rules. He is a person who likes to have enough time to make preparations. Therefore, he thinks that the most important thing for photographers is to find directors with similar ideas and thinking expressions to cooperate with.

For a photographer, light may be a lifelong friend or an enemy, but Bruno thinks light is his friend, not an enemy. At the shooting scene, how to use light to serve the story told by the film is one of the problems he needs to solve most. When shooting "Angels Love Beauty", audrey tautou, the heroine, asked not to shoot herself from a certain angle in advance, so in order to respect the hero, he made some explorations and did not make the camera parallel to Audrey's eyes, thus making her face more attractive and powerful. In addition, Bruno also specifically mentioned that the key to becoming a photographer is to find his own visual language expression system. The master is doing his own art, and only your own thoughts are the most important.

Bruno has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Photography five times. Facing the young director Xu Zhanxiong's question about how to choose a film project, he revealed that under normal circumstances, it is impossible to refuse the invitation of a famous director, and whether the story content can attract him is equally important. He mentioned that Iron Lady had asked herself to be a photography director before, and she wanted to cooperate with Meryl Streep very much, but because she didn't like Margaret Thatcher, she didn't take the film project.

Meng Huo, a young director, asked Bruno about the regional photography style of China's films. Bruno said that every region has its own language system. Although he hasn't seen many China films, he was deeply impressed by the works of directors such as Bing Wang and Wong Kar-wai. These works touched him, not because they were stories about China, but because of the emotions expressed by the directors.

Tang, Xu Zhanxiong, Zhou Quan

The speaker of the second master class is Xu Haofeng, and the master class is presided over by Wen Juan. Martial arts film is an earlier genre film that originated in China. After several twists and turns, now it seems to be in a dilemma, with the audience being tired of aesthetics and the Wushu talents dying ... At this node, Xu Haofeng created a new Wushu style with its profound Wushu cultural heritage and unique aesthetic style. Xu Haofeng said in the master class that he defined his films as martial arts films because in his view, martial arts is actually a very real industry, just like police and lawyers, which has its own rules. Even though the times have changed, martial artists still retain their previous spirit and demeanor.

Xu Haofeng

When talking about whether the movie needs to consider the audience and the market, Xu Haofeng takes his first movie "The Enemy's Trail" as an example. The film investment is only 4 million, and the probability of final profit is very small. So at that time, he actually felt that it was better to gamble on this film and shoot it in a different way, which was different from the Hong Kong martial arts film, in order to find a way to develop his own.

Facing the problem of how to treat the relationship between literature and influence by young directors. Xu Haofeng is very frank. In his view, people are easily corrupted in the film industry. At first, he wrote novels and plays for his family. Unexpectedly, he spent more than ten years as a novelist, and then it took a long time from novelist to director to make movies.

Director Gao Peng Tang asked him if he integrated his thoughts on the world of martial arts into the film when he was creating. Xu Haofeng said that martial arts films will not die out, and it will provide an important reference for modern people, that is, it is very important for modern people to have love and benevolence in their hearts.

In the master class, Xu Haofeng also specifically mentioned his experience with Wong Kar-wai in the creation of The Grandmaster, and joked that it might be difficult to cooperate with him again, because a movie is equivalent to writing five or six scripts, and several different versions are required for the same situation. Besides, Wong Kar-wai is like an agent. When he has just been tortured out of inspiration, he will stimulate himself with the information being investigated.