Chapter 208: This Is It Over?
The online drama "Detective Chinatown" has been decided, because it is produced by his own studio, Hong Chen is still more concerned.
Hong Chen did not participate in the casting work at all, as for Zheng Xu, Hong Chen just gave him a chance to audition, and whether he succeeds or not has nothing to do with Hong Chen.
Hong Chen read the script, the script contains three stories "Dance of the Mandala", "The Name of the Rose", and "Ghost Invitational Competition", the first two stories Hong Chen watched with relish, the design of the plot is very compact, and the quality is not even inferior to the movie.
It's just the last story, Hong Chen frowned slightly.
"This story is a bit pompous, and if the characters are not well chosen, it will be difficult to shoot the previous effect. Hong Chen suggested to Yan Chi.
Yan Chi nodded and said, "Yes, I'm just a producer of the last story, and I don't even bother to direct it." ”
Hearing this, Hong Chen was a little surprised, "What's the situation?"
"You don't know how annoying those investors are, you know that I want to shoot the online drama "Detective Chinatown", and they insist on stuffing money and actors into me, and there is no shortage of investment, but every day I have to be annoyed by their phone calls. ”
"So ......."
"So simply, I met all their requirements, anyway, the three story units are independent, and the last story is the one they find the director by themselves, I provide the script, and I am only responsible for the producer. What kind of effect they shoot in the end is also their own business. ”
Hearing this, Hong Chen gave Yan Chi a thumbs up.
Yan Chi's approach is very simple, that is, with the money invested by the investor, he can shoot the first two stories with his heart, and the actors who are shoehorned in by the investor simply let these actors shoot another story.
In this way, the requirements of the investor are met, and sufficient investment is obtained.
As for what the final result will be, that's also a matter for the investor.
Investors don't care too much about these, to put it bluntly, investors care about whether they can make money, and never care about the market's opinion.
For example, "Zhuxian I" or other big-budget bad movies, this is the case.
They spend money just to let their artists rub the IP of "Detective Chinatown" and increase their popularity.
Just take what you need.
After understanding the situation in Kyoto City, "Infernal Affairs" is about to start filming, and Hong Chen will come to HK again.
It is worth mentioning that the final starring role of the "Detective Chinatown" web series is really Zheng Xu, which makes Hong Chen also feel a little emotional.
Ge Chen reported to him that if Zheng Xu performed really well on the set, the company also had plans to sign Zheng Xu.
In this industry, opportunities are too important. Of course, whether you can grasp the opportunity or not requires the efforts and strength of the actors.
When he came to HK again, Hong Chen only felt very familiar.
Hong Chen is very famous here now, and the people of HK like him very much.
Hong Chen felt that after the crew, the crew had already started, and the crew here was already familiar with filming, like an assembly line, very efficient.
After all, in the past, HK had the reputation of "Oriental Hollywood", because at that time, HK was famous for its high-efficiency and high-quality films.
It doesn't take long for a film to be completed, and the quality is very high.
Therefore, a number of Hong Kong stars swept across Asia that year, and several actors even had a high reputation all over the world.
Even now, in places like the Cold Country and the Japanese Country, the old Hong Kong stars are still very well-known there. Some big awards parties will invite veteran Hong Kong stars as award guests, which is full of weight.
This time I filmed "Infernal Affairs", and the speed was even faster than Hong Chen imagined.
During the day, we shoot together, and at night we call it a day.
Surprisingly efficient every day.
In fact, both directors were confused.
They made a shooting plan, which is expected to be completed in about two months.
There are no big scenes in this movie, it is more about digging into the relationship between the characters, and it is about the conflict of the characters, so the shooting will be faster.
As a result, the filming process was even faster than they expected.
often finishes filming a day's scenes in one morning.
The cooperation between the actors is too tacit, and when they perform, they give people the feeling that the characters in the script are talking.
In fact, this kind of police and gangster film, HK is already very mature, what is the style, these Hong Kong stars are already familiar with the road.
And many people are basically police professionals, who play the director, the younger brother, the trick, and often sacrifice, just those few people.
For example, Liu Qingyun, as soon as he appeared on the stage, the audience knew that it was either anti-drug or anti-corruption.
Principal Gu looks at the situation, because there are too many films, playing a decent person is a righteous person, and playing a villain is definitely a big pervert.
Zhang Jiahui is basically Liu Qingyun's subordinate, sometimes the protagonist must have a brother, either the second male or the villain.
Liu Dehua has also acted in many movies of this type, similar to "Sweeping Drugs 2" and so on.
However, the most surprising thing for the crew was Hong Chen, he was able to quickly integrate into the crew, and the filming was very smooth and there was no jerky feeling.
Therefore, it is often a morning to finish filming a day's scenes.
The director saw that there was still time and couldn't start work in vain, and then he filmed the next day's scene, but it was almost five or six o'clock in the afternoon.
Liu Weiqiang and Mak Zhaohui still wondered if there was something wrong, could it be that the quality of their shots was not high enough?
At night, the two of them carefully looked at the video taken during the day, and found that the shooting effect was very good, and the quality was completely fine.
If it really follows this speed, it will take more than a month to finish the filming.
This is a cause for concern, as the length of the shoot can also reflect the quality of a film.
As a simple example, Xing Ye is a box office myth, but his movie "The New King of Comedy" really only took more than a month to finish.
The ending speaks for itself.
His "Mermaid" two years ago was still the champion of the Spring Festival, and "The King of New Comedy" suffered Waterloo, and the reputation completely declined.
Maybe some sentimental parties will continue to advocate that they want to dig deep into this movie, and only a few people can understand it.
However, if it doesn't look good, it doesn't look good.
Now, Infernal Affairs is also facing this situation.
Shoot so fast!
If it is filmed in more than a month, the director will put a question mark on this movie.
What they don't know, of course, is that in a parallel world, Infernal Affairs was filmed for a shorter time.
The protagonist of the parallel world is Liang Chaowei, his wife Liu Jialin once broke the news on the show that this movie was filmed for more than 20 days, and Liang Chaowei only went to work for more than three hours a day.
Therefore, the quality of the movie does not depend on the shooting time, but on the degree of care.
After discussing with Mak Siu-fai, Lau Wai-keung felt that there was no problem with their shooting, so they still shot at this pace.
The film tells the story of two undercover agents, and the whole scene is used to render the showdown between the two undercover agents with a depressing tone, and both sides are in action.
Later, the plot becomes even more exciting.
That is, Liu Dehua was no longer willing to be a little brother, and in the process of arresting Han Chen again, Liu Dehua found an opportunity and shot and killed Han Chen with his own hands.
The only person who knew that Liu Dehua was an undercover agent died.
He prefers his current police life to being someone else's younger brother.
After that, he was discovered by Hong Chen, but what no one expected was that there was another person who was also undercover, and Hong Chen caught Liu Dehua in the scene on the rooftop, and then, Hong Chen was shot dead by the new undercover agent, and Liu Dehua killed the undercover agent again.
At the end of the story, Liu Dehua came out of the elevator with a gun in his hand, and in the elevator were the bodies of Hong Chen and the new undercover agent.
This is the end of the story, whether the bad guys win or not, this is left to the audience as suspense.
However, when Hong Chen fell in the elevator in the last scene, the scene was very sad.
Because in the whole play, only Hong Chen is a good person through and through, but his ending is not good.
He was shot in the head by an undercover agent, and the camera froze his twinkling eyes, messy hair, and confused expression, and then his body just fell.
The atmosphere was sad.
At this point, Hong Chen's role is completely over, or the filming of "Infernal Affairs" is completely over.
Now, it's only mid-July.
This movie was only filmed for a little over a month.
When eating the finale banquet, Hong Chen felt that all this was a bit dreamy.
That's it?