Duane sat on the chair, staring at the screen without making a sound, stunned.

A voice came from beside him, "Have you sorted out your ideas?"

Looking in the sound, you can see that this is a woman in green clothes. The woman has a fresh and beautiful face, but she is old. The years leave subtle marks on her face, indicating that she is no longer old and her figure is still well maintained. It can be seen that she must have been a charming woman when she was young.

Du An slowly turned his head, looked at her, and said, "It's almost done." Then he turned his eyes back and stared at the screen again.

This is DreamWorks' editing room - with the rapid growth of funds, Shu Yu, who is already very ambitious, has basically created everything he can do, including recording studios, music rooms, editing rooms, etc. needed for post-production, in DreamWorks, and all subsequent production work can be completed without leaving home.

At the same time, with the development of scale, DreamWorks naturally cannot rely solely on director Duane like in the past when financially tight. At this stage, DreamWorks has three projects starting at the same time, which are the projects of three young directors who graduated from Central Academy of Drama and Beijing Film Academy last year. However, their works are either still being filmed or have been completed, and they are scheduled to be released. However, no one comes to compete with him for this editing room, and can be edited slowly.

As for the woman next to Duane, she is named Zhou Ying, who is an editor.

This editor has rich experience in his career and has worked with many well-known directors such as Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige. He has served as the editor of many well-known films such as "Party A and Party B" and "Along with You". He has also won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Editing, which is well-known in the industry. Duane will ask her to be the editor of his movie this time, because her experience is reassuring, and on the other hand, he also needs a female editor.

When he was in the late stage of "Saw", he partnered with a male editor. He was not very famous but very big. He looked like he was the best in the world all day long. If Duane had not forced the director's power to suppress him. "Saw" didn't give him a chance to play. "Saw" didn't know what to cut - of course, it turned out that some of the editor's words were still audible. However, that collaboration experience was really unpleasant.

Later, when he was working as a late-stage for "The Pretty Beauty", Du An partnered with Kong Jinglei, a female editor. Although Du An still stubbornly held his own opinion in some places this time, he still listened to Kong Jinglei's opinions, which was very different from his complete tendency to do so in "Saw". The reason for this is, on the one hand, because after the production of "Saw", Du An realized that he really needed to listen to some editors' opinions, and another important reason is that female editors are gentler and easier to communicate than male editors.

The meticulous women seem to be more suitable for this job than men. At the same time, the famous saying of men and women not being tired of working together probably also played a certain role. Duane has begun to rely on female editors, so this time he found a female editor to edit "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum".

After pondering for a while, he spoke and said slowly: "Overall, the focus of this film should be on showing Wang Ming's struggle and victory, just like the so-called commercial films..."

How to edit is a big problem - the same movie has different core themes and focus, which leads to different editing. After the final cut, it can even become two completely different movies. The power of the editing is evident.

Just now, Duane was wondering what kind of movie "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" he wanted.

He dreamed of the scenes about "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" that he once dreamed of. He is still vivid in his mind and engraved in his heart, but he thinks that it is not the "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" he wants - the scenes he saw in his dreams, the early rhythm was too slow. Just like "Saw", the rhythm in some places was so slow that he wanted to sleep.·?h??

If "Flying Over the Crazy Asylum" wants to meet his expectations at the box office, you have to speed up the pace and move, and cut the excess parts as you can.

After listening to his request, Zhou Ying looked at him. "Are you sure you want to cut this?" In response, she gave her own opinions: "I think it's better to follow the characters and show them as much as possible."

After taking over this job, Zhou Ying did related work and roughly went through the materials to know what kind of film it is - in her opinion, this film is for the Huabiao Awards, and other awards and markets are not necessary to consider. In this case, then you should work hard on the depth of the film instead of making it into a commercial type thing, which will increase a lot of meaningless things, which will only weaken the depth of the film and waste these good materials.

“No, no, no,”

Duane shook his head repeatedly, "Just do what I said."

Zhou Ying still stubbornly disagreed, "From my personal technical level, with a responsible attitude, I think it's better to follow the characters. You may not accept it, but I still have to say that if you cut it like that, it's a problem to win the award."

Duane was helpless.

He also understood a little why this woman could achieve what she has achieved today. Technology is on the one hand, and on the other hand, probably because of her serious and persistent attitude towards art.

If you have this serious attitude, you still worry about what job you can't do well?

In the end, he had no choice but to say, "Have you ever thought about how many people would be willing to buy tickets to go to the cinema to watch this movie? It's just another "Easy and West Poisons".

Zhou Ying disagrees: "Some people like to feel the baptism of their thoughts after watching the movie, some people like the sensory enjoyment during the movie, everyone's pursuits are different, and even the same person's pursuits are different during different periods. No one can make everyone like a movie. If you have to do this, it's just like the four-dimensional ones. It's better to concentrate on doing one thing well and do it to the extreme."

"I see,"

Duane nodded, agreed with her opinion, and said, "But have you ever thought about why you have to do it to the extreme? Why is it definitely not good to be like the four-way person?"

Zhou Ying was stunned for a moment.

The word "Sibuli" has always been derogatory. She has never seen anyone want to show it in the direction of "Sibuli".

Du An continued, "For example, Video A has five points in depth, five points in entertainment, and Video B has eight points in depth, and two points in entertainment. Because of entertainment, their audiences are also different, you can't deny this, right?" Du An said, looking at Zhou Ying.

Zhou Ying nodded and admitted his assumption.

"So let's assume that there are five million die-hard fans in Video A and two million die-hard fans in Video B. This is consistent with the actual situation, right?"

Zhou Ying nodded again.

"Then the question arises. How should we characterize which of these two movies is the best?"

Du An raised this question and continued without waiting for Zhou Ying to return, "According to the current mainstream aesthetic standards, it must be that the film B is good. The film B will even win some messy awards such as the Golden Rooster Award, the Hundred Flower Award, the Huabiao Award, etc."

When Zhou Ying heard Duane attribute the three major awards to "scrambled awards", he chuckled unconsciously.

"But Video A can't get anything, he only has more audiences, but this is what I want."

Du An said this, paused, raised his eyes, and looked at Zhou Ying, "Do you understand what I mean?"

Zhou Ying understood a little, but she didn't seem to understand it very much, and looked at Du An with complicated eyes.

This young director doesn't seem to know some commercial routines and is very enthusiastic as the outside world says. He seems to have his own clear artistic pursuits, and his mind is clearer than most directors she has ever come into contact with.

No wonder such a person broke the global box office record of 2 billion at such a young age.

Du An threw out his ideas - or tricks - out of it. "How many years have the nine-year compulsory education been popularized? Our Chinese textbooks from childhood to adulthood are all kinds of principles. From Confucius to Mencius, from Lao Tzu to Han Feizi, I have been listening to the principles for more than ten years. Isn't it enough? But our art films are still doing such annoying things, and they are facing the audience. Who is the lowest box office?"

"The reasoning is divided into different ways. Here, I agree with the Confucian idea of ​​meanness."

"I would rather tell a story that is more professional than telling a story that is more professional than two people who are willing to listen to, and I don't care about it."

Zhou Ying felt that at this moment, the young director in front of her, there was a vague sense of ancient sages sighing that the world was foolishly swearing to universalize the loneliness of the world, which made her feel awe-inspiring.

Du An talked for a long time, and when he saw Zhou Ying's expression, he seemed to be in the role, so he quickly asked, "Can you start cutting it now?"

After seeing Zhou Ying nodding, he couldn't help but sigh: Although he was a little bored in normal times, he still didn't lose his chain at critical moments, and fooled him one by one.

Thanks to the university teacher. (To be continued.)

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