Chapter 265: Dongying's scene is finished
This scene is played by Sun Daolin, where Guo Yishan comes to Dongying to find his son and encounters various encounters in the black market. In order to shoot this scene, the crew spent four months building a street in an abandoned sand and gravel factory outside Jiangnan Village in Saitama Prefecture.
Now I want to shoot the scene where Guo Yishan is robbed in the black market, Guo Yishan is walking on the street, and a prostitute with flowers comes to entangle, and Guo Yishan pushes her away in disgust. Suddenly, two middle-aged men caught up from behind, attacked him with wooden sticks, knocked him unconscious, and snatched his wallet.
In order to make this scene realistic, Sun Daolin couldn't help but ask the Japanese action director Koichi Ito for advice, and rehearsed repeatedly. Sun Daolin is close to his sixtieth year, but he is not ambiguous at all during rehearsals, and he falls again and again. So much so that Junya Sato couldn't help but worry: "Don't fall and get hurt." Sun Daolin said nonchalantly: "This is nothing." ”
was rehearsing, Fang Zhenwu walked over from outside the set. He had just returned from China, and when he went to the hotel to drop off his luggage, he rushed directly to the set. Xu Wangqiu came to Dongying in October last year, and it has been almost five months now. Although the daily affairs of the art center are managed by Yang Liuqing, the deputy director, there will be no chaos, but the script review still needs the nod of him, the director. Fang Zhenwu returned to China to select the art center and take it to Dongying for Xu Wangqiu to review.
Xu Wangqiu saw Fang Zhenwu coming over, and asked with a smile, "Old Fang, why did you go back for so long?"
Fang Zhenwu said with a smile: "You don't know, after the release of "Shaolin Temple" filmed by Yindu in Xiangjiang, it caused a sensation and achieved a box office of 19.37 million. The success of "Shaolin Temple" in Xiangjiang has made the Xiangjiang Film Company greedy, and in the past half month, the company has received dozens of scripts! The reason why I only came back today is to wait for our center to review those scripts. ”
Xu Wangqiu is not surprised by this, after the box office explosion of "Shaolin Temple" in Xiangjiang in the previous life, many Xiangjiang filmmakers realized that the mainland has a vast market and rich shooting resources, coupled with the fact that costume kung fu films in Xiangjiang have been defeated by urban comedy, and the directors who are good at costume kung fu films have a very difficult time in Xiangjiang, so they began to pour into the mainland and cooperate with the mainland. In addition, now that cooperation with the mainland can get a share of the box office and can obtain many times the profit of Xiangjiang, it is naturally more active.
Xu Wangqiu was looking forward to these new scripts, and couldn't help asking, "How many scripts have been selected by the center?"
Fang Zhenwu said with a smile: "Only five were selected. As he spoke, he opened his briefcase, took out the script, and handed it to Xu Wangqiu.
Xu Wangqiu took the script and looked at the cover, in addition to "Dang Kou Zhi" and "Wulin Zhi", the other three scripts are "Kapok Robe", "Heroes from Ancient Times" and "Life and Death". "Kapok Robe" and "Heroes from Ancient Times" are very famous co-productions in memory, while "Life and Death" have not been heard at all.
In the following days, Xu Wangqiu took the time to carefully read the five scripts. "Dangkou Zhi" is the original "Dragon Ninja", which has been changed from "Wulin Zhi" for more than half a year, and has changed several drafts, and it is already very mature. Xu Wangqiu directly approved the "passed". Next, as long as these two scripts pass the review of the company's senior management, they can be officially approved.
"Kapok Robe", "Heroes from Ancient Times" and "Life and Death" can have all the themes and stories, but they have the usual problems of Xiangjiang kung fu films in this era, and the plot is very rough and does not pay attention to details. In other film companies or studios, these scripts will definitely be able to easily pass the review and start filming smoothly. However, Xu Wangqiu did not let go, and sent back "Kapok Robe" and "Life and Death", and sent the revision opinions back to China through a fax machine.
"Heroes from Ancient Times" is the script of Xia Meng's Blue Bird Company, "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" will return to China to shoot after completing Dongying's role, and Xia Meng will come over to make a cameo. Xu Wangqiu felt that it was better to talk directly with Xia Meng, and it would be easier to explain the problem clearly.
In the days that followed, the filming of "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" was carried out in an intense and orderly manner, and the whole shooting went very smoothly. Sun Daolin and Sankuni Rentaro are both artists who have been in the industry for many years, and their acting skills are superb, basically passing by two or three. When the time entered mid-April, the filming of the Dongying part of "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" came to an end.
On the afternoon of April 12th, "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" started the filming of Dongying's finale scene in the studio of Daying Company. Before filming, Tokuma Yasu rushed over and told everyone the good news, in order to celebrate the completion of the Dongying scene, he specially prepared a dinner, not only to celebrate the completion of the Dongying scene, but also to see off the Chinese members of the crew.
The scene to be filmed today is the scene where Matsuba and Shinobu pick her up from prison after Ba goes crazy.
The content after Ba went crazy has been filmed before, and Akina Nakamori has experience in playing a madman, but because she thought that her role was about to be completed, and she was about to say goodbye to the crew, she couldn't devote herself to it when she performed, and she ate NG five times in a row.
Xu Wangqiu called Akina Nakamori aside and told her about the play: "Akina, I know that your play is about to be completed, and I am very excited, but as long as a really good actor stands in front of the camera, he should put everything else aside and be distracted." As I told you, madmen should not act crazy, but should try to understand their hearts and the logic of their actions. The behavior of madmen is very strange and illogical in the eyes of normal people, but in fact, there are, and many madmen are actually stimulated and immersed in their own world and can't get out. Ba is because Amin is dead, the whole world has collapsed, she can't accept this fact, there is only one thought in her mind Amin is not dead, she only cares about Amin, and nothing else cares. You didn't act right just now, you acted like a lovelorn girl. ”
Akina Nakamori smiled embarrassedly: "Got it, director." I'm going to do a good job this time. ”
The crew quickly finished preparing, Xu Wangqiu sat behind the monitor, and Junya Sato stood behind the camera. As Junya Sato's password sounded, filming began again.
Rentaro Mikuni and Yoshiko Yamada were standing in the dark corridor of Shimizu, and two actors who played the role of military police held Akina Nakamori hostage and walked towards them. A look of pain flashed in the eyes of the three countries, and he shouted in a trembling voice: "Ba ......"
Akina Nakamori broke free from the hands of the gendarmes and staggered closer to Rentaro Mikuni. Her hair was unkempt, her face was pale, she was holding the fan with "Fenfei" written on it, and said in a dry voice: "Where is Amin? Where are you? Amin, Amin......
Xu Wangqiu sat behind the monitor, staring closely at Akina Nakamori's face and staring into her eyes. The most important thing in playing a madman is the eyes, because the characters are immersed in their own world and do not pay attention to the world around them, so the eyes are unfocused and scattered. Generally, actors play this kind of scene as much as possible to let their eyes be empty and let their eyes wander, so that they look very close to the state of a madman. However, Akina Nakamori really let herself enter the situation, thinking in her heart "Armin is not dead, I want to find Ami", so that she can focus on this, so as to empty her eyes, so that her eyes are chaotic and there is no light.
Xu Wangqiu stared at the empty eyes of Akina Nakamori, and sighed in his heart, this girl has a high talent for acting, she is a natural experiential actor, if she was born in Europe, it is possible to become an actor like Juliette Binoche, but in Dongying, where the expressionist school dominates the world, it is more difficult for an actor like her to come out.
Junya Sato was very satisfied with Akina Nakamori's performance and quickly shouted "stop". This one was perfect, the performances of the actors were excellent, and there were no problems with the recording and cinematography. However, for the sake of insurance, Junya Sato still kept one.
After Paul's pass, Junya Sato stood on an apple box, holding a loudspeaker in his right hand, and said excitedly: "This shot has passed! The Dongying part of "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Finished" has been officially completed! Thank you for your hard work in the past few months, and thank you for your support in the past few months!"
After a second of silence, cheers and applause erupted like an erupting volcano, and the entire studio shook violently.
Junya Sato said with a smile: ""A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" is a co-production, with Dongying actors and crew, as well as Chinese actors and crew, there are certain obstacles in communication, but with the joint efforts of Japan and China, the whole filming went very smoothly, and next, we will move to China to shoot the Chinese part, and the Chinese part will be in charge of director Xu Wangqiu." ”
Crackling applause rang out, and the Chinese actors and staff present applauded very hard.
Junya Sato looked at Xu Wangqiu and said with a smile: "Director Xu Wangqiu, I'll leave it to you next!"
Xu Wangqiu laughed: "How can you say that you have to leave it alone, and then we will cooperate." He turned his head to look at the actors and staff on the scene, raised his voice and said: "Girls, gentlemen, the Dongying part of "A Game of Chess That Has Not Been Played" has officially been completed, and then we will soon enter the filming of the Chinese part." Please don't slacken, continue to work hard, and shoot the Chinese part well. In order to celebrate the completion of the Toei part, Mr. Tokuma specially prepared a finale banquet, we are going to get drunk tonight, don't save Mr. Tokuma!"
Tokuma Yasushi laughed when he heard this, and everyone present also laughed.
But after laughing, many people started crying. Many of the cast and crew will not travel to China with the crew, and for them the film is really finished. After a whole month, the whole movie finally came to the last moment. During this period, they made progress together, had joys and quarrels, but in the last moment, all emotions turned into reluctance.
Zhang Yimou put down the camera, hugged the Japanese members of the camera crew hard, and kept saying that they must cooperate again in the future; Sun Daolin shook hands with the actor who played Entian; Fang Zhenwu pulled the members of the Dongying production team to tell all kinds of feelings about cooperation; and the female staff of the crew cried when they met their heads.
Akina Nakamori was like a child about to be given away, hugging Tang Yuqiang and crying. Tang Yuqiang played a couple with Akina Nakamori in the movie, but in reality, he regarded Akina Nakamori as a cute little sister. Thinking that it would be difficult for everyone to have the opportunity to meet again in the future, he was also sour in his heart, and comforted her softly, saying that he would definitely cooperate in the future.
Xu Wangqiu knew that it would be difficult for him to cooperate with these Dongying actors and staff in the future, and he was quite reluctant. He walked into the crowd and couldn't stop shaking hands with the Dongying cast and staff, thanking them, and saying that he would definitely cooperate again if he had the opportunity in the future.
When Xu Wangqiu walked in front of Akina Nakamori, he saw that she was still wiping her tears, and said with a smile: "Such a beautiful girl, crying, how ugly! Don't cry! Akina, although this is your first movie, you act very well! You are talented! Continue to work hard in the future! If there is a chance, we will cooperate in the future." ”
Akina Nakamori wiped her tears, and just wanted to speak, but she didn't control her emotions and started crying again.