2023 is the year when Wu Ershan’s dream comes true. After ten years of sharpening his sword, "Fengshen Part 1: Chaoge Fengyun" directed by him was successfully released and became the top 23 box office in Chinese film history with a box office of 2.634 billion yuan. It started brewing in 2014, officially started filming in 2018, and will be launched in 2023 On the screen, he almost dedicated his golden creative period from the age of 40 to 50 to "The Trilogy of the Gods".
The legend of "Feng Shen" has been passed down for thousands of years and is a dream shared by all Chinese people. How to create a dream? There are many problems facing the director: technology, production and actor management, everything down to the smallest detail. How to solve the problem? Wu Ershan gave his own answer: use mature and standardized production processes to create an industrialized management system for Chinese epic films.
Since the early filming of "Painted Skin 2" and "Search for the Dragon", Wu Ershan has been exploring and establishing scientific working methods. He has learned experience from the mature Western film industry system and brought these methods back to his own studio. In "The Trilogy of the Gods", Wu Ershan began to try to establish an industrial process for Chinese films. "Standardization" is the key. From the shooting process to the selection of actors, everything is planned and even quantified in advance.
In the team composition, he innovatively introduced the concept artist as a job 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 post-production, Wu Ershan established a special visual effects company, using an execution model of director and visual effects director and global subcontracting, and remote collaboration through the Internet to complete the film's huge post-production volume.
At the same time, he also cleverly used the perspective of young people to fully explore the contemporary significance of the story of the gods, allowing the current audience to resonate with the protagonist's spiritual growth. Many topics arising from the characters and plots frequently "came out of the circle", It sparked new thinking on Chinese mythology. It will take 6 months to create the "Proton Training Camp" course, and the actors selected for the camp will undergo standardized and modeled training so that they can fit the roles. Carry out immersive training for newcomers and release materials in an "appetizing" way for external publicity. "Proton Group"'s youthful spirit and passionate masculine beauty are different from the feminine beauty of mainstream domestic entertainment aesthetics, which makes the audience shine, and then captures the traffic password, making its related topics frequently searched.
With the help of the exploration of China's film industrialization, Wuershan achieved a win-win situation of film reputation and box office, and also won major awards. Not only did he win the domestic "Golden Rooster Award" and "Golden Deer Award", he also won an award at the Venice International Film Festival. , telling Chinese stories to the world... "The Trilogy of the Fengshen" is to be continued. We look forward to Wu Ershan breaking through tradition and leading Chinese mythology to start a new journey.
2023 report card
directed "Fengshen Part 1: Chaoge Fengyun" with a box office of 2.634 billion yuan, ranking top in Chinese film history23
The 36th China Golden Rooster Award for "Best Feature Film", "Best Supporting Actor" and "Best Cinematography" "
The 18th Changchun Film Festival "Golden Deer Award" "Best Editing Award"
The 80th Venice International Film Festival Best Genre Film "Art Film Contribution Award"
Producer: Rong Mingchang Liu Jiangtao
Planning: He Bei
Coordinator : Peng Simin
Coordinating editor: Liu Fang
Written by: Nandu reporter Wu Fengsi intern Chen Shaofan
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