1905 Film Network News On October 17, at the 2019 Pingyao International Film Festival Xie Fei Master Class, the famous director and representative of the "fourth generation" Xie Fei provided young directors with a lot of pertinent suggestions, such as "The debut should try to save costs ", "Be sure to hurry up and shoot when you reach 30." etc.
Xie Fei believes that young directors don’t need to worry in their 20s, they can slowly accumulate their abilities, but when they reach 30, they must act immediately, launch their works, and continue to shoot. "Directors generally meet until they are 40. Reach the pinnacle of creation". In addition, regarding the "debut" that is of great significance to each director, Xie Fei said: "Most of the debuts are expressing themselves, such as the memories of teenagers, autobiography...This is no market in today's entertainment market, so I suggest you Try to be as low-cost as possible. Why spend 8 million or even tens of millions if there is no market? It doesn’t make sense to make it back. I often say that there is no essential difference between a film made of one million shots and a film made of 100 million shots. Both are about 90 minutes. Fei Xie used the award-winning work "Knight" at the first Pingyao Film Festival as an example. Director Zhao Ting only spent 85,000 US dollars to shoot and won the highest award in the Cannes "Director's Fortnight" unit. "You should be sincere and express yourself in your debut, but the cost should be kept as low as possible, so that you can get practice without carrying a lot of burdens." Xie Fei said.
In the master class that day, Xie Fei also mentioned Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke, saying that they are the two geniuses of Beijing Film Academy-Zhang Yimou's perception of color, audiovisual and Jia Zhangke's understanding of humanistic care are all at the level of genius.
