Rebirth of the Director in Korea

“As a movie hobbyist, and now as a film and television practitioner, I have watched a lot of domestic and foreign movies of various genres before, and it seems that there are many Directors like to explore the relationship between dreams and reality in their films.”

Speaking of this, Jung Hyuk-jae paused deliberately, and the students and juniors who came to the stage slowed down. After that, I continued: “Before I have heard many people say in front of me,’I am going to pursue my ideals, I am going to pursue my dreams’! Sorry, it is difficult for me to understand the thinking of such people.

Many times, in our own thoughts, it seems that we have already regarded reality as a poor appendage of our dreams. For our own dreams, reality can be completely forgotten. Is your dream really what you want?”

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Jung Hyuk-jae’s speech is still going on. It seems that the various tutors who came to Yonsei University to give speeches have never discussed the issue of’reality’ directly like him, and this is also the audience. The sitting college students never thought about it.

University students who have not yet entered the society, their ideas are naturally free and unconstrained. Although their dreams are different, they all regard their dreams as their highest during school. Goal, everything is working hard with this dream.

Jung Hyuk-jae’s speech on’reality’ was like a slap from reality, and it slammed into the faces of everyone in front of them, making them feel their goals Some doubts, maybe your previous ideas were wrong?

Jung Hyuk-jae gave a speech on stage. His eyes naturally scanned the expressions on the faces of the people in the audience. There were some looking thoughtful and some disapproving, all beings were in it. In fact, this speech on “reality” was not about his whim, or deliberately to attract everyone’s attention, but Jung Hyuk-jae really wanted to tell the Junior Brother junior sisters present an experience and truth.

“Reality is not an accessory of dreams, but a necessity of dreams. Our dreams, our virtual reality, and even these abstract things that we love and talk about all day, they are actually A subset of reality.”

“If a person has no dreams, it is terrifying, but if a person has no reality, that’s a more terrifying thing.”

At this point, Jung Hyuk-jae is also ready to end. Thirty minutes is actually not too short. In it, he also talked about some of his personal experiences. The Junior Brother junior sisters in the audience listened better than each other. carefully.

“Sunbae, can you tell me whether you are pursuing reality or pursuing your dreams?”

Jung Hyuk-jae is ready to leave after speaking After leaving the stage, I heard a lesbian holding up her right hand and shouting at herself.

Since someone asked a question, Jung Hyuk-jae thought about it and decided to answer the question before leaving. In fact, it’s not that complicated to answer, “I’m still on the road to reality, but I know that as long as I keep going, I will get closer and closer to my dream!”

The voice fell to the ground, and the scene was silent for a long time, and then there was a burst of warm applause, and many more people I got up from my seat and clapped my palms. It seemed that I felt very emotional after listening to Jung Hyuk-jae’s performance.

In the warm applause of the students, Jung Hyuk-jae walked off the stage and came to the backstage of the small auditorium, where Bong Joon-woo was already here waiting for him to come.

“The speech just now was very good!” When we met, Bong Joon-woo praised.

Jung Hyuk-jae waved his hand in embarrassment, and said modestly: “In fact, they all think about what to say, didn’t expect these Junior Brother junior sisters under the stage to give face.”

“In fact, you have played a good role model for them, and they will recognize you from the bottom of their hearts.” At this time, it was a director of the school introduced by Bong Joon-woo. Hearing that he had such a high evaluation of himself, Jung Hyuk-jae hurriedly turned around and said thank you.

This speech is actually part of Bong Joon-woo’s plan. It is a college student film event that I prepared for myself to create momentum in advance. Although neither of them are stars, they are paying attention to movies and TV series. In the eyes of the students, Jung Hyuk-jae and Bong Joon-woo are undoubtedly a role model for their study and hard work, or their own Senior. They can achieve the achievements they are today. Why can’t they?

The school’s activities here are over. It’s almost 12 o’clock at noon. I heard from Bong Joon-woo that several school leaders had already set up a banquet in a hotel near the school. , Just wait for it to be over here!

When Bong Joon-woo said this, Jung Hyuk-jae didn’t hesitate either. He had a meal on the left and right. It was nothing more than saying compliments at the dinner table, talking about the mountains, or going there. It can also be regarded as expanding your network for yourself.

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“How is it, how is the food?” After coming out of the restaurant, Bong Joon-woo asked Jung Hyuk-jae to sit in a cafe here , It can be regarded as alleviating the smell of alcohol on their respective bodies.

The big masters at a table at the dinner table, how can you get less wine if you have meat and talent? This is not a group of eight or nine people who started eating vegetables and drinking wine. After a bottle of wine, you won’t get dizzy if you drink it like this!

Quiet music, fragrant coffee, sitting in this coffee shop, my head does not seem to be as drowsy as it was just now, the drinking spirit has finally passed a little, Jung Hyuk-jae sits up straight , Took a sip of coffee and looked at Bong Joon-woo in front of him. Although neither of them spoke, Jung Hyuk-jae knew that Bong Joon-woo came here not only for his college student movie activities, but there must be something else. Did not tell myself.

Just now at the wine table, the two of them were chatting endlessly. There should be too many outsiders. He can’t say it. Now, except for the waiter in one of the bars in the cafe, There are no other guests. Now Bong Joon-woo should tell his ultimate goal.

Bong Joon-woo took a sip of the coffee on the table, pressed the rush of alcohol, then looked up at Jung Hyuk-jae in front of him, speaking of which:” Hyuk-jae -ssi, didn’t you set up a film production company before?”

I heard Bong Joon-woo in front of me asking like that, Jung Hyuk-jae nodded, and then said modestly: ” It’s a movie-related company, but it’s just a small company and can’t make it to the table!”

“The success of “Welcome to Dongmakgol” shows that your company is not a small company!” Bong Joon-woo smiled hehe and said, “If you say what you just said, I don’t know how many people in this circle want to kill you!”

Bong Joon- Woo’s words are based on reality. Before the release of “Welcome to Dongmakgol”, not many people took seriously. For a Small Accomplishment film that has no big stars to join, these all are not a concern, but it’s not something to worry about. Expect Yes, it is this kind of movie that is not distinguishable in their eyes, and it eventually received tens of millions of viewers and became another milestone in South Korea’s movie history.

This has made many film production companies jealous. They only hate themselves for why they didn’t seize the script and seize the opportunity?

It’s just that it’s too late to regret now. I regret it’s a little late, but it’s not too late for the cooperation. Since the screening of “Welcome to Dongmakgol” and the final number of viewers came out, many film production companies have come to the door in person, one for the sake of mixing up. Familiar faces, secondly, to see if there is any possibility of cooperation between the two parties.

Naturally needless to say about film production companies, and many Screenwriter directors in the Screenwriter circle have also invested their project plans to the company. In these project plans, Jung Hyuk-jae roughly I flipped through some of them, some were directly removed, and some were temporarily saved. Although the name of the movie Jung Hyuk-jae is not particularly familiar, it may be that previous life did not have a chance to be made into a movie. But the project plan is still very good and it is worth discussing in detail.

Today, Bong Joon-woo also made this kind of similar rhetoric. When I heard this, Jung Hyuk-jae’s drinking spirit had already woke up, and his eyes were clear and enlightened, staring at Bong in front of him. Joon-woo, Jung Hyuk-jae’s mind flashed a little thought.

“Hyuk-jae -ssi, it’s actually like this…” Now that’s the end of the story, Bong Joon-woo didn’t intend to continue to bend and obliterate any more. It was him who went straight. “Does your company have any plans for film production recently?”

“Yes, but I need to read the script and project plan.”

Although the person in front of me is my own The big Sunbae, but in business, since he is here, Jung Hyuk-jae has no plans to give him a back door, unless the movie is “The Host”.

If it is said that the movie circle of South Korea in 2005 was maxed out by “Welcome to Dongmakgol”, then at the end of 2005, it will be screened again by “The King and The Clown”. and then? A turned out “The Host” once again blasted the entire movie circle. The record of the number of viewers set by “The King and The Clown” in the first half of the year was broken by the rare beast film “The Host”.

If there is no turning point and some small errors in history, then the film work of Bong Joon-woo has already been prepared three years ago, which is why Jung Hyuk- Jae has never played the reason for the idea of ​​this movie, but it seems that he didn’t have the idea of ​​playing this movie, but he took the initiative to find the door.

“I have a script on hand now, it has been polished for almost three years…”

Speaking of which, Jung Hyuk-jae Already understood in his heart, this script should be “The Host” did not run.

Here, Jung Hyuk-jae did not continue to speak, but Bong Joon-woo started to explain why he came here.

Disaster films are actually produced in European and American countries, especially Hollywood. No one has ever done such a type of film in South Korea, and the idea of ​​Bong Joon-woo’s script also originated from him. 18 years ago, he really saw Unknown Creature on the side of Han River, so he was shocked. From that time on, he wanted to be a director in the future, and must transfer this experience. On the screen.

The script has been polished by Bong Joon-woo for three years, and it can be said to be perfect, but when he got investors, many domestic film production companies hesitated. Because this is after all to use a monster as a protagonist, whether the current CG level can produce the monster perfectly, everyone is still skeptical about this, and this alone has already made many movies. The production company retreated.

In addition, according to Bong Joon-woo’s own script, there is also a plan for this project, which also contains the production cost of the film, which is also a very amazing number, 121 Korean Won!

This is great. There were a few interested film production companies who ran away, although this script was written by Bong Joon-woo, although Bong Joon-woo once directed it. A “Memories of Murder” has achieved good box office results, but none of this is enough to make these film production companies make a decision to invest. It is not only who the director of the film is, but what about the script. ! More importantly, the reaction of the film market and the appetite of the audience are the decisive factors for the film.

Although monster movies are a type of movie, there has never been a movie of this type in South Korea. Whether local movie audiences will like it or not is the focus of their consideration. Otherwise, a hundred and 2 billion would be lost, no wonder they would be so cautious.

Bong Joon-woo found a number of well-known domestic film production companies with strong capital. Although they are very interested in this script, once it involves the investment of 100 2 billion Korean Won , They all claimed that they would consider it carefully, and then there was no more text.

This is also one of the reasons why he came to Jung Hyuk-jae. Whether it is a blind cat or a dead mouse, it is impossible to cast a net widely.

Jung Hyuk-jae is listening to Bong Joon-woo in front of him while sipping coffee, expounding his true thoughts on this rare beast movie and his description of the blank domestic rare beast movie market. In a word, that means making this movie will definitely make money!

Let’s not say whether Bong Joon-woo’s this remark was created to fool investors. When I heard Bong Joon-woo’s “The Host”, Jung Hyuk -jae already took the umbrella and immediately agreed. Fortunately, his urge was stopped by reason. Sometimes he can’t be too proactive. Anyway, it is not Jung Hyuk-jae who is flustered now, but the one who wants to put himself in mind. The movie was brought to Bong Joon-woo on the big screen.

Thinking of this, Jung Hyuk-jae said, “Bong Joon-woo -ssi, how much is the production cost of this movie?”

“What?”

Hearing Jung Hyuk-jae’s question, Bong Joon-woo was a little stunned on the spot, but he didn’t react for a while.