Chapter 624: .4 hours of documentary

"Diary of Weight Loss" is a documentary after all. Although the director Chen Yan has some ideas and added some other plots, the documentary is too long.
There is too much weight loss daily.
At first glance, it was okay, but after a long time, many spectators left early. Four hours is too long.
It is best to limit a movie to 90 minutes to 120 minutes, which is the normal length.
Generally speaking, the vast majority of domestic movies are 90 minutes to 100 minutes, and there are very few theater-line movies that exceed 120 minutes.
In the past life, the most powerful movie in the world was the "Antidote to Insomnia" in the United States in 1987. The length of the movie is 5220 minutes, which means more than 80 hours. It will take you three days to watch this movie. , This film is definitely a good medicine for you to treat insomnia, provided that you really watch it patiently!
Some people may also wonder whether the length of the movie is actually determined by human physiological factors, that is to say, the length of time people hold urine and the length of time we can concentrate. Many people will say that from 90 minutes to 120 minutes. Minutes are the longest holding time, in fact, this is all nonsense.
To put it bluntly, whether it is a director or a movie theater, he doesn't care when you go to the bathroom at all!
Because most theater operators and film copyright holders are not in favor of making a feature film of more than 100 minutes. Because the movie is longer, the number of screenings per day will be reduced by one, in other words, the operating income of one less. So 90 minutes is considered the optimal length.
And pay attention to it carefully. The duration of the movie, from the first 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, to 120 minutes, is a multiple of 15 minutes. Of course, this is a film in the film age. Duration, because film was used to shoot movies in the past, and the longest time to shoot a roll of film is 15 minutes.
Of course, in fact, the duration of movies now is 90-120 minutes. In fact, it is not all because of the theater chain and the copyright owner.
The film is a gradual process. The film has been developed for more than 100 years. After the director and everyone's joint exploration, everyone finally discovered that from 90 minutes to 120 minutes, this length of time can guarantee the narrative of a director and the arranging of the theater. , And even the audience’s experience can reach an optimal balance.
This is similar to a song that lasts for about 3 minutes, but it's the same truth!
Closer to home, a movie lasts as long as 4 hours. It is basically doomed in the current domestic market. It is impossible to be released at all. Even if it is released, there will be no schedule.
What's more, this is still a documentary.
Therefore, some of the film companies who came in to find out because of Wang Yifan and others have completely given up. This kind of film has no value in their eyes.
But for Wang Yifan, he felt that this movie was actually quite good, but he didn't understand why he kept so many unnecessary shots?
Reluctant?
Also a possibility.
For many director-edited movies, especially in Hollywood, you will find that if the film is edited by the producer, the duration is usually relatively normal, but if it is edited by the director, it is often very long.
Although there is a certain reason because the director expresses his own ideas and the producer is different, but more often, it is because, for many directors, every shot is their painstaking effort, and often out of commercial needs. Those shots that the director himself particularly likes have to be cut out, but if they are replaced by the director himself, they will probably keep it because they are reluctant to discard such shots.
But here comes the problem. When the audience watches the movie, they actually watch the whole thing. They watch the smoothness of the movie. If there are more unnecessary shots, the logic and compactness of the movie will change.
Chen Yan's mood can be said to be twists and turns.
At first, he just took the documentary to participate in the screening with a curious mentality of giving it a try, but then suddenly, famous directors such as Lan Jie and Wang Yifan came to join him, making the whole theater full of people.
This made him start to have some ambitions for his movie.
But soon, he was beaten back to his original form. At first, many audiences left the stage, and many others cursed, saying that the director was a stupid fork, making the movie smelly and long like a footcloth.
This made Chen Yan's ambitions that had begun to swell, like a punctured balloon, directly wilting.
Wang Yifan and the others paid attention to this movie, which made some filmmakers think about it, but now they are completely disinterested.
In fact, Ranjie also shook his head frequently. This movie is really too long, and there are still many unconnected places in it. At first glance, you know that the director is a novice and the editing methods are not very good.
In addition, many people left early, which made Ranjie feel a bit embarrassed.
In fact, Ranjie did watch the clips of this movie before. He thought it was quite interesting, but when he really watched it from the beginning, he realized that this movie is really too long. , And the content is not compact at all, it is easy to feel boring.
To be honest, if it is from the standpoint of an ordinary audience, then this movie is really boring, but at this moment, Wang Yifan is watching this movie from another standpoint.
In general, this movie is indeed too long and does not seem to be of any value, because it is impossible for the theater to arrange this kind of movie.
But it is not without value.
Wang Yifan cut the movie in his mind, and finally he found that if the movie could be re-edited, it would be a very interesting movie.
This time I came to the Beichuan Film Festival, Wang Yifan naturally wanted to give the Beichuan Film Festival some benefits, so he bought a few movies and went back to run it. If it can sell, it will be a contribution to the Beichuan Film Festival.
Why do so many people like to go to the antique market to buy things, don't they know that there are not many genuine products in the antique market now? In fact, I just want to pick up the leaks.
It is one aspect to use small and broad, and if the other is really missed, then it will be spread out, it will be a name for the wisdom of the eye.
The same is true in the movie market.
If you miss it at the Beichuan Film Festival, then for the Beichuan Film Festival, there will be a big book. They are not afraid of you missing it, they are afraid that there is no missing.
In Wang Yifan's view, this "Diary of Weight Loss" is a big leak disguised by time.
Of course, it is unrealistic to expect a high box office for such a movie, but it is certainly not too bad. It is possible to have a box office of several million or even tens of millions.