Chapter 11: Not as Expected (1/5)
Lu Xiaoran hasn't received script invitations from other directors for a long time, and it feels a bit novel.
After the cocktail party, I specially talked to Wen Muye on the phone and got a general idea of the characters he played...
Representatives of Swiss pharmaceutical companies, high-end people.
According to the original setting, he is a black-hearted capitalist.
Wen Muye and Han Jianu are both Nortel factions and are left-minded, so they put the villain on the medical representative...
Understandable.
However, when Lu Xiaoran came to act, he added a line: "The cost of a drug is only 5 cents, why should it be sold for 500 dollars? Because it is the second one, and the cost of the first one is 5 billion US dollars." ”
Movies like "The God of Medicine" don't need to deliberately create a villain - "You can't save everyone, can you save it?" There is only one disease in the world, and that is the disease of poverty!"
This sentence is enough to deafen and deaf!
Different people, see different angles.
Some people scolded capital for being unscrupulous and not saving them when they died.
Some people asked: "Don't pharmaceutical companies need money for R&D? If you go to piracy, who will develop drugs for you?"
......
The filming scene of "New World".
On the rooftop, the rooftop that has appeared many times in the scene of "Infernal Affairs", the camera first showed Liang Jiahui standing next to the railing, smoking a cigarette and having a scruffy beard, and then Gu Tianluo was angry and pushed him directly: "What do you mean?"
Liang Jiahui ignored him, his expression remained unchanged: "You came here today, someone who is interested can know it when you check it..."
"What do you mean, I ask you! Why do you have a new mission when you say that this is the last time? Didn't you say that the dragon head was solved and everything was over?"
"The situation has changed again..."
"What changes..."Gu Tianluo gritted his teeth: "Is it my fault that you failed to sue the dragon head? The evidence I provided is insufficient? Is it my fault that the dragon head died suddenly?"
"Don't shout..."
“... Say, "Whose idea?"
Liang Jiahui didn't look at him, his expression remained the same: "It's useless if you know, there are only three people in this world who know your identity..."
"Was it your idea or Lao Gao?"
"Old Gao?"
"Anyway, I can't do it anymore, please keep the agreement and let me take my family away!"
Liang Jiahui took out a pack of cigarettes, lit them, took a puff, and then said, "Yes, then don't do it!"
Gu Tianluo looked at him, and Liang Jiahui continued: "Submit a letter of resignation, I will approve it immediately, anyway, you are very good in the gangsters, and you are getting ten thousand times a day... This bowl of rice from the police is not delicious!"
"Are you talking about human words?"
“... By the way, there's a question, if they know that you used to be a police officer, an undercover agent we sent, you say, how will they deal with you?"
Gu Tianlu was furious, and directly swung his fist, hitting Liang Jiahui's cheek...
"Beat up your boss... You kid is really lawless!"
Liang Jiahui bit off the blood bag in his mouth, and continued: "Hold on a little longer, it will be over in a month at most..."
Bent down to pick up the cigarette that fell on the ground, and took a puff: "Go to the new seat hall and be elected, and you can restore your identity!"
"Your task is very simple, continue to assist your eldest brother Ding Qing, for you, it is a matter of duty. ”
"By the way, after this time, I will personally send your family to Canada..."
Gu Tianluo turned his head and prepared to leave...
"Bring this!"
The camera gives the bag - British baby clothes...
Don't get me wrong, it's a product placement...
"What is this?"
"Didn't you say you're about to give birth, it's a boy?"
Gu Tianluo's eyes changed: "How do you know? You also have eyeliner next to me?"
Liang Jiahui did not deny it: "You can understand it as protection. Turning his head to look at him, "Do you know how much we spent for you?"
Gu Tianluo kicked the bag away, and left without looking back...
"Yes, take a break, and then shoot..."
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Filming in Hong Kong, especially "New World", is very convenient!
You need a few tricks, talk to the production assistant today, and tomorrow, you are guaranteed to be there!
And the performance of the dragon set is in place - thanks to the start of the Hong Kong no data group in the early years, there are a large number of dragon actors.
The trick also requires acting skills, at least a certain amount of reaction ability, and the supporting roles in Hong Kong are very professional!
Lu Xiaoran studied the acting skills of Hong Kong actors before, and then found that most of them are pure expressionists, and the so-called acting skills completely rely on the accumulation and experience of countless bad movies, so that the body imitates the memory, and then releases it instantly.
The most typical is Wu Zhenyu, Brother Kun once showed off his acting skills: holding a medicine bottle, just using the subtle control of his eyes, he can deduce the four levels of joy, sorrow, sorrow, and sadness.
This is the typical expressionist - not distracted!
Experiential schools must be heartfelt.
Of course, experientialism, expressionism or methodology, art itself is a very wonderful thing, and it often leads to the same end!
The most basic requirement is to ensure that the performance flows naturally.
To emphasize again, the crew of "New World" does not have the kind of situation where Hong Kong looks down on mainlanders - they are all working for Lu Xiaoran...
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"Master of Memory" was released, Brother Bo took three days off and ran for three days to promote, and after coming back, he was a little disappointed...
It is understandable, "Master of Memory", Huang Bo + Duan Yihong + Wan Qian (Xu Cainu is cool and stay!)
The box office of the first weekend was 230 million, which did not meet expectations, and it has been pressed by "Wolverine 3"...
Final box office forecast: 480 million.
Even "A Dog's Mission" is better than it!
is a little aggrieved, to be honest, "Master of Memory" is good in terms of quality and content, with a Douban score of 7.8 points, it is definitely not a perfunctory work, it is very sincere!
During this time, domestic films were generally sluggish at the box office, and Zhong Lifang and her sisters attached great importance to "Master of Memory", otherwise they would not have asked Huang Bo and Duan Yihong to take leave to come over to promote...
230 million results in the first weekend...
It's too low!
The box office failure can't be talked about, it can only be said that it did not meet the expected goals of the creators - according to the 400 million box office of "Hypnosis Master" three years ago, "Master of Memory" should be doubled...
The production cost of "Master of Memory" is 80 million, and Huang Bo signed a box office share of 15 million + 8%.
Lu Xiaoran comforted: "It's good to recover the cost, "Wolverine 3", "A Dog's Mission", "Resident Evil Final Chapter", "Beauty and the Beast"... So many blockbuster flanking hits..."
Huang Bo touched a glass with him: "You say, if we change to a better schedule, will it be better?"
"How can there be a good schedule, next week, "King Kong: Skull Island" will be released, and next week, Lao Duan's "Extraordinary Mission" and "Ghost in the Shell" will be released..."
Lu Xiaoran took the schedule in his hand and summed it up: "It's always going to be released, Hollywood is menacing, we can't coax it... However, I really didn't expect that you, Lao Duan and Wan Qian didn't even get a single-day box office champion!"
Huang Bo smiled bitterly: "Look at Lao Duan's "Extraordinary Mission", I heard that the play is also produced by Jindun Film and Television?