2023 is a year of dreams coming true for Wuershan. After ten years of sharpening a sword, he directed "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun" was successfully released, with 26The box office performance of 3.4 billion yuan has become the top 23 box office in Chinese film history. began to brew in 2014, officially started filming in 2018, and will be on the screen in 2023, and he almost dedicated the ** creative period from 40 to 50 years old to "Fengshen Trilogy".
The legend of "Fengshen" has been passed down for thousands of years and is a dream shared by all Chinese. How to dream?There are a lot of problems in front of the director: technology, production, and cast management, no matter how big or small. How to solve the problem?Wu Ershan gave his own answer: to use a mature and standardized production process to create an industrialized management system that belongs to China's epic films.
Since the early years of filming "Painted Skin 2" and "Looking for the Dragon", Wu Ershan has been exploring the establishment of scientific working methods, he has learned from the mature Western film industry system, and brought these methods back to his own set. In "Fengshen Trilogy", Wu Ershan began to try to establish an industrial process that belonged to Chinese films. "Standardization" is the key to this. From the filming process to the selection of actors, everything is planned and even quantified in advance.
In the composition of the team, he innovatively introduced the work of conceptual artist to determine the entire aesthetic principles of the film and the basic direction of visual presentation, ensuring the consistency of the visual style of the film from beginning to end. In the post-production, Wu Ershan set up a visual effects company, using the execution mode of director and visual effects director and global subcontracting, and completed the huge post-production volume of the film through remote collaboration through the network.
At the same time, he also skillfully used the perspective of young people to fully explore the contemporary significance of the story of the gods, so that the current audience can resonate from the spiritual growth of the protagonist. It took 6 months to create a "proton training camp" course, and the actors selected into the camp were trained in a standardized and patterned manner, so that they could fit into the role. Carry out immersive cultivation of newcomers and publicize them externally, and adopt the "hanging appetite" type of release materials. The youthful spirit and masculine beauty of the "Proton Troupe" are different from the feminine beauty of the mainstream of internal entertainment aesthetics, which makes the audience's eyes shine, and then captures the traffic password, so that its related topics are frequently searched.
With the help of the exploration of China's film industrialization, Wuershan has achieved a win-win situation for film reputation and box office, and the major awards have also been soft, not only winning the domestic "Golden Rooster Award" and "Golden Deer Award" awards, but also winning awards at the Venice International Film Festival, telling Chinese stories to the world to listen to ......"Fengshen Trilogy" is not finished to be continued, and it is expected that Wu Ershan will break through the tradition and lead Chinese mythology to welcome the new year and start again.
Report card for 2023
directed "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun" box office 263.4 billion yuan, ranking among the top 23 box office in Chinese film history
The 36th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards "Best Feature Film", "Best Supporting Actor" and "Best Cinematography".
The 18th Changchun Film Festival "Golden Deer Award" and "Best Editing Award".
The 80th Venice International Film Festival Best Genre Film "Art Film Contribution Award".
Producer: Rong Mingchang, Liu Jiangtao
Curator: He Bei
Co-ordinator: Peng Simin
Co-ordinating editor: Liu Fang
Written by: Nandu reporter Wu Fengsi intern Chen Shaofan
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