Chen Kexin may have never received such attention.
even, has never been so expected.
As soon as the news of him going overseas to raise funds for filming dramas came out, the entire film and television industry was in full swing.
Project: A movie that was stranded a few years ago was converted to film series.
Starring: Ze Ziyi .
Theme: Dismantle of the Republic of China.
The sentence "Sensitive subject matter may lose the mainland market" makes this news add many associations beyond movies.
People are excited sometimes.
After all, the creator can shoot the works he wants to shoot is a healthy creative state.
is sometimes very lonely. The invisible dilemma behind
going to sea probably won't change it.
But today, Uncle Meow wants to say something more.
Perhaps, we don’t need to worry about Chen Kexin.
His sense of smell is sharper than you and me.
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Chen Kexin has a "sharp" sense of touch.
He seems to always feel the signal of "winter is coming".
and put it into the next position.
So for decades.
It is like a migratory bird, constantly detecting the warmth and warmth of the film and television market and constantly migrating.
and constantly "rescue yourself".
first resolutely went to Hollywood .
Christmas 1996.
At that time, Hong Kong movies declined from prosperity and still had their strength.
But when " Sweet Honey " was still released, he dragged a big box at the airport.
He knew that there was no way out to stay here.
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Hong Kong market will shrink with the naked eye.
He decided to go out and try it out.
"Love Letter" set, Chen Kexin's only movie in Hollywood was produced by Spielberg
and then turned his attention to Pan Asia.
Hollywood is not suitable for Hong Kong art film directors.
and Hong Kong movies have indeed fallen into decline. What to do with
?
Chen Kexin thought of the concept of "pan-Asian production".
In 2000, Chen Kexin established a company called Appause Pictures, gathering new directors from all over Asia to try to create more international high-quality film works.
Yes, the same pattern as Changin' Pictures now.
is not without its excellent works.
During this period, he concentrated on launching "Late Mother", "Spring Dead", horror film IPs "Hell", " Third Update ", etc.
The most famous "Three Updates" series has gathered directors from four places:
Japanese Michichi Tsushi (" Hot-blooded College "), China's Chen Guo (" Hong Kong Made "), Thailand's Lens Nimebida (" Ghost Wife "), and South Korea's Kim Chi-yun (" See the Devil ") and Park Chan-wook (" Old Boy ").
"Three Updates 2" participated in Berlin and Venice Film Festival
But at the end, he said that he wanted to join forces with " My Savage Girlfriend " Guo Zairong and "Love Letter" Shunji Iwai , but found that no one invested.
He knew that he was going to find another way.
Finally, he rushed to the mainland without reservation.
In 2003, Zhang Yimou's " Hero " won a box office of 250 million yuan in the mainland.
Chen Kexin sighed: "It turns out that the mainland can be such a big market."
So he came.
moved from Hong Kong to Beijing.
is different from other Hong Kong directors who went north at that time (more were coming to the mainland to raise funds to shoot Hong Kong films). When Chen Kexin came, he had the attitude of taking root - filming mainland themes and telling mainland stories.
went north for 17 years.
From directors " Chinese Partner ", " Dear " to " Winning the Championship ", from producers " July and Ansheng ", " You You, You," " Send You a Little Red Flower " to " Get Home at Oct. ", Chen Kexin's creations have gradually penetrated into the mainland market and then devoted himself to the main theme.
The industry's evaluation of him is, "Among the group of Hong Kong directors going north, is the most thorough and successful in integrating into the mainland."
just, then what?
In the past three years of the epidemic, the domestic film environment has undergone earth-shaking changes.
From 2019 to 2021, the annual production of feature films will be 850, 531, and 175 respectively, with the numbers visible to the naked eye.
The theme is single, and the withdrawals occur frequently. The ending of each movie is unpredictable.
Movies are still very important, but the film industry is becoming less and less important.
And what about his own movie?
From 2014 to the present, only the fragmented works that have been released by his directors are available.
When the "Win the Championship" was released, he said:
"Movies are the art of compromise."
Now, even creators like Chen Kexin who can bend and stretch and have super adaptable ability will understand.
compromise can no longer be fully qualified.
So.
His keen sense of smell worked again.
He turned his attention overseas.
Maybe this will be a way to go.
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went to sea, driving the situation
is actually not just Chen Kexin.
Many movies are testing whether this path can be successful.
can be kept away from constraints on the one hand.
can connect with the world on the one hand.
Overseas market, very large.
is becoming increasingly unavailable for domestic films and is increasingly out of track with the world.
Hollywood is still booming.
Koreans officially conquered the world.
Therefore, looking for possibilities in non-inland regions has become their common choice.
Johnnie.
last year announced a collaboration with Hong Kong streaming media ViuTV to film the drama, a criminal theme.
Zeng Guoxiang .
directed the first episode of "The Three-Body Problem" produced by Netflix. This will be his first time entering the overseas market with his English works.
Wang Kar-wai .
also joined hands with Amazon a few years ago, intending to launch the series "Paradise Hotel".
His overseas film career has also been working non-stop, and he has produced Morrikonne 's biographical movie " Soul Grave " and the Thai movie "A Cup on the Road" (nominated for the Sundance Film Festival , representing Thailand to compete for the Oscar).
Wang Kar-wai
In the behind-the-scenes special "A Cup on the Road", the directors searched out one after another, and the same was true for the actors. The most typical example of
is the Tang Wei , which shines in Korea and Cannes this year.
A few days ago, she just won the "Best Actress in the Buri Film Awards" in South Korea, becoming the first foreign actor to complete the Grand Slam of the South Korean Three Small Awards.
Today, I just won the Best Actress Award nomination for the Big Bell Award.
Tang Wei will also hold a personal representative exhibition of works at the Korean special art film museum, and the Korean film "Dream" she participated in is also released soon.
's career in Korea is booming, and fans have already started to win the Grand Slam of the Three Awards in Korea.
And what about Tony Leung , who has been in the limelight in Busan these days?
Last year, he starred in Marvel's first Asian Super League film "Shang Qi". This year, he was also confirmed to star in Netflix's American drama and entered the English market step by step.
Recently, he revealed that he had dinner and chatted with the director of " Squid Game ", and fans are already imagining the possibility of his cooperation with South Korea.
Huang Donghe (director of "Squid Game") and Tony Leung
The same is true for others.
Some people won the "Outstanding Asian Actor Award" at the Busan Film Festival, some people participated in Korean dramas, Korean films, etc., and film people looked overseas one after another, looking for a broader space for development.
Chen Kexin is even more direct.
He shouted out his next migration with the biggest voice.
directly established a company.
develops high-quality dramas and sells them to streaming media platforms, trying to create a virtuous cycle of film and television creation.
and call it the "Pan Asia" streaming plan. At the company's founding ceremony, Chen Kexin was full of confidence. was the filmmakers of China, Japan and South Korea, including Yuka Koreya, Song Kanghao, , Gigi Leung, , and other Chinese, Japanese and Korean filmmakers attended to congratulate him.
seems to indicate a bright beginning.
So some netizens called it:
"A cultural breakthrough battle".
Image source Weibo
That's right.
This time it was a "breakout" rather than a "compromise".
One of the keywords of Chen Kexin's project this time is independence.
Chen Kexin invested in his own investment + raised funds from Hong Kong, Singapore and other regions, and found high-quality teams in Asia to shoot dramas and sell them to overseas markets.
has five first episodes. Most of the themes of
are basically unavailable before.
has horror movies.
originated from the horror IP of "The Hell" produced by Chen Kexin in 2002.
has the theme of campus bullying.
"ONE: High School Heroes", adapted from a Korean drama in popular comics, focuses on a young hero who fights against the school dominance.
has BL theme.
"Li Xishu, Class 2", is a comic adaptation and a love story starring two Korean idols.
and science fiction action movies.
Donnie Yen will be the producer, starring, martial arts sci-fi action drama "Outright Loser: Hidden Master" ("Outright Loser, Hidden Master") telling the story of an Asian-American martial artist.
The most important thing is the crime drama "The Murderer" directed by Chen Kexin himself and starring Zhang Ziyi.
is adapted from a real murder case in Shanghai in the 1940s. Zhang Ziyi plays a woman accused of dismembering her husband.
Independence means - there is room for creation.
For example, the theme that was previously suspended is restored.
"The Murderer" is actually the "Sauce Garden Murderer" that Chen Kexin had filed the project as early as 2016, but has not started filming for a long time.
The ambition of this drama can be seen from the introduction given by Changin' Pictures:
English cut from Variety
For example, the authorship of the director may be retained to a greater extent.
Chen Kexin mentioned the issue of editing rights at the Busan Film Festival, unlike his previous filming, who had to face heavy scissors.
He emphasized that this project "even if we still have to face the market, investors, and box office, the director is still responsible for editing this film." (The report content comes from the official account @voiceover "Busan International Film ACFM: Filmmaker Talk - Dialogue with Chen Kexin" exclusive live content)
Chen Kexin's previous migrations were seeking the market.
And this time it's not only that, what he wants to return is.
As a creator's right to speak.
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"The most important thing is to stand on the ring"
Then the question is: Can Chen Kexin succeed?
picked up the plan from more than 20 years ago again, obviously seeing the prosperity of Korean film and television in recent years.
The era of streaming media has arrived.
Koreans prove that non-English dramas can also pass the world.
From " Kingdom " in 2019 to "Squid Game" last year, the successful output of Korean drama to the global market naturally allowed Chen Kexin to see the possibility of Chinese dramas.
When talking about this project, he was ambitious and wanted to film Chinese dramas that the whole world watched.
I really don't think that people all over the world only read English
Korea has proven that
Korean dramas are now also watched throughout the world, not only Asia
If you watch Korean dramas, why not watch Chinese dramas?
Chen Kexin's actions also made domestic entertainment audiences see hope.
Image source Weibo
But is the Korean route easy to copy?
is hard to say.
The development of Korean dramas and Korean movies is extremely dependent on local support.
Chen Kexin couldn't not know about this.
Now he rushed into the battlefield alone, and Uncle Meat felt that it was a kind of helplessness and a kind of determination.
has no choice but to have no other way to go.
is definitely necessary to be hard even if the road ahead is slim.
is a pessimist who is forced to be optimistic.
is another kind of desperate bet after being dead.
but.
So what if it is not successful?
As long as you try it according to your own wishes.
A vigorous failure is always better than a complaint of not daring to act in a lifetime.
takes the initiative to attack.
instead of self-pity.
What's more.
There will be no failure for these actors participating in the performance.
An experience of connecting with the world.
Experience of fighting with the best actors at the moment.
Sometimes it is better than being touted day after day in a comfortable environment.
keep up with this world.
will not be a frog in the well.
Tang Wei took a photo with her movie poster in Cannes
Last year, Chen Kexin talked about his first half of his life in an interview with Yilijing .
from Hong Kong, the United States, Pan Asia, and back to the mainland.
He said that this is actually "a forced migration."
Yilijing was a little reluctant:
doesn't sound happy.
Ke Chen Kexin replied:
is actually happy, because making movies itself is a very happy thing.
Are you happy?
can create freely and unrestrictedly.
for him.
is the greatest happiness even for all filmmakers.
However, the reality is.
When Chen Kexin began to go to the world.
We can only applaud him.
Watch him lively, watch him entertain guests, and watch him find even a little hope.
suddenly remembered.
Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of Hu Bo , the director of "Elephant Sitting on the Field".
5 years ago.
With pessimism about this world, Hu Bo hangs himself.
Five years later.
But we still remember Hu Bo's words in "The Great Rift":
"The world will get worse and worse, and this is uncontrollable. For example, a train rushed into a cliff and fell in sequence from beginning to end. This train has been two hundred years."
We hope.
At least, this train can be slower and slower.
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