Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Great Ming River and Lake (3/5)
Lu Xiaoran forced him to modify the ending, and it must be Shen Lian who takes the initiative to take revenge!
You can keep your mind on your own, but you have to compromise with business to a certain extent!
In fact, over the years of making movies, what Mr. Lu is most afraid of is the so-called: the film positioning of commercial films and literary films.
It is clear that Lao Tzu wants both box office and awards!
Why?
The positioning of "Embroidered Spring Knife" is martial arts, with an investment of nearly 30 million, and it is impossible to make a movie that reflects human nature.
You've got to have a scene!
Lu Yang thought about it for a while, and then changed the ending to like this: Shen Lian and Ding Xiu ran thousands of miles, vowing to kill Zhao Jingzhong...
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In fact, when making martial arts movies, the most troublesome thing is the tricks.
The literary part is very simple, for Xiao Luzi, a role like Ding Xiu can be caught...
His identity is that of the prodigal son.
And he is the only one in the whole play!
He and 'Jin Yichuan' were brothers from birth to death at first, and later, Ding Xian killed a brocade guard, replaced his identity, and changed his name to Jin Yichuan...
He felt that his junior brother had betrayed him...
As for asking for money, anyway, Lu Xiaoran read the script for a long time, and I didn't see where this product needs to spend money...
It's a big bun, and I don't even go to a brothel...
Probably enjoying the process of torturing the junior brother!
"Embroidered Spring Knife" ranks in terms of force value, Ding Xiu is definitely NO1!
won against Zhao Jingzhong, who forced Shen Lian into a desperate situation, and also singled out many cavalry on foot to win.
What's even more terrifying is that he hasn't used all his strength...
Lu Xiaoran plays this kind of role, it's easy to say in literary drama, but it's a little difficult to play!
"Embroidered Spring Knife" is a realistic martial arts!
It's very troublesome to shoot this kind of realistic martial arts film, you can't use bullet time, you can't use all kinds of lighting effects, you have to do it all by yourself.
So, during the twenty days that Lu Xiaoran was in the crew, most of the time he practiced with martial arts instructors.
Damn, Lu Yang, this pervert, designed him with a thief-long Royal Forest Saber, also known as the Miao Knife, with a length of 1.4 meters, which is very difficult to play!
It's not Lu Yang's pot, it's recorded in the history books, and most of the rangers at that stage used Miao knives...
Of course, the training was done with a wooden knife ...
On this day, Lu Xiaoran finished filming, returned to the room, took out a wooden knife, and was playing happily, when someone knocked on the door.
It's Lu Yang...
Lu Xiaoran didn't let him in, and asked directly: "... What's wrong?"
"Something..."
"You wait downstairs for me, I'll change my clothes!"
“... Oh!"
Teacher Lu is clean and self-conscious, the actress is not allowed to enter the room, and the male director is not allowed to enter!
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Five minutes later, Lu Xiaoran came downstairs, and Lu Yang ordered two cups of coffee.
“... I'm going to sleep right away, and you're still drinking this thing!"
Having said that, Lu Xiaoran still took the coffee and took a sip: "What's the matter?
"Xiaoran, do you think we can make this movie?"
“... Of course it can be done, otherwise I would have spent more than twenty days playing a role?"
"But the recent performance of the costume film market is generally not very good..."
"That's because they're all so bad..."
It is understandable that Lu Yang is a novice director after all, and when he gets started with a big project of 30 million, it is inevitable that there will be some gains and losses...
And in the recent period of National Day, two costume films have been released, and the box office performance is like that.
"Painted Wall" and "The Legend of the White Snake" are all kinds of torment, open and secret battles, and ask each other to smear each other!
Boss Yang, the producer of "The Legend of the White Snake", was directly angry, and publicly launched Weibo to scold Guangguang Media, and even said, "From now on, I will stop all film projects that have not been established, stop investing in all films, and see that the noble cultural cause is so dirty, I admit defeat! I admit the fiasco!"
In short, can't afford to play...
In fact, these two movies are bad movies!
What is there to argue?
For Orange Images, the biggest advantage is that "Witness to the Whole People" was released early, and the word of mouth has already been hit, and many viewers would rather choose to watch "Witness to the Whole People" again than watch a bad movie!
And because it is about to be listed, the 30-day quiet period has avoided the big quagmire of the National Day file...
Lu Yang was still a little uneasy, Lu Xiaoran simply said: "That's it, you finish filming first, let's go to the Berlin Film Festival next year, foreigners like movies like "Embroidered Spring Knife"!"
"Declare the main competition unit?"
“... You're thinking about fart, it's the screening unit!"
Lu Yang was a little disappointed, and Lu Xiaoran continued: "Actually, the story of "Embroidered Spring Knife" can be expanded, do you think that "Embroidered Spring Knife" can be linked to "Dragon Gate Inn"?"
“... Huh?"
"It's all the last years of the Ming Dynasty, why can't they be linked?"
But "Dragon Gate Inn" tells the story of Yixing and Feifei, happy and revenge, and "Embroidered Spring Knife" is a real life full of devastation and sad tears. ”
“... You should really look at Marvel's plan, we can completely reconstruct "Dragon Gate Inn", let Shen Lian and Zhou Huai'an get to know each other first, and then slowly deduce the Daming rivers and lakes..."
"There are court disputes in this river and lake, and there are also knights far away from the rivers and lakes..."
Lu Yang was shocked by Lu Xiaoran's thoughts...
"Don't be in a hurry, you finish filming "Embroidered Spring Knife" first, and then a few of us will discuss it again and collide ideas. ”
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How to say it, every Chinese director has a martial arts plot!
In fact, this is not a characteristic of Chinese directors.
Don't worry about food and clothing, be happy with enmity, regard money as dung, and turn the tide with your own strength!
This is a dream that most men on this planet have had.
This dream is called "samurai" in Japan, "cowboy" in the United States, "knight" in Europe, and "martial arts" in China.
Even Hou Xiaoxian filmed "Assassin Nie Yinniang"...
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the apex of martial arts films, which also means that it begins to decline after the climax, so there are no excellent martial arts films after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Even "Embroidered Spring Knife" and "Sword Rain", in the Hong Kong film industry in the 90s, were at most mid-stream ...
Martial arts films have always been a major feature of Hong Kong films, and in 93 years, more than 50 martial arts films were released, and even films like "Heaven and Dragon Slayer: The Demon Sect Leader" have no good fruit to eat.
The highlight of martial arts films has always been the romance of flying eaves and the refreshment of happiness and hatred!
Anything that doesn't have these two points can't be counted as a martial arts movie!
Why is it declining?
The main reason is aesthetic fatigue, because the plot routine of martial arts films is too familiar to people, and it is difficult to attract people in the plot.
Routines: Martial arts cheats, revenge for killing father, peerless treasure, dominating martial arts, love and hatred, poisoning and detoxification, Jin Yong is a little awesome, and the righteousness of multiple families and countries!
Although the era of martial arts movies has passed, it can be completely saved!
According to Disney's theory: each generation of products, a cycle of 7 years, that is, the market cannot never accept martial arts!
"Embroidered Spring Knife" can still be done, if the box office of this movie is not bad, maybe it can really be done "Daming Jianghu"...
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