Chapter 360: Action Design, Let Me Come
Of course, the script must be very mature, after all, it is a series that has been recognized by the market, which is very helpful for continuing to develop France.
In particular, the screenwriter is the famous Luc Besson, the world-famous French director with his many years of directing career, has created many popular masterpieces, and also wrote and supervised many simple and bright action movies.
All the movies he participates in will at least ensure the corresponding viewing effect, which belongs to the kind of movies that the market needs.
From the "Nikita" and "This Killer is Not Too Cold" directed that year, to the "Extraordinary Human Trafficker" series and the "Taxi Express" series produced by the screenwriter and producer, the drag racing action film has been successfully carried forward.
At the same time, "Green Mustard Detective", "Space One", and "Hurricane Rescue" are also remarkable, and even the super-visual documentary "Home" was also filmed by this product.
"In the previous film, Cyrull was also a master of action, David was solely responsible for parkour, while he was a gunfight, fighting, and parkour in one, more like a jack-of-all-trades character. ”
"This time the role is changed to you, I have seen a lot of your works, I plan to completely make the division of labor between the two protagonists clear, David is dedicated to parkour, you are in charge of gunfights and drag racing, and the role distribution is more in line with the role setting of contemporary films. ”
"For example, in the opening scene, David no longer relies on parkour alone to avoid the pursuit of gangsters, but uses parkour plus fighting, relying on a large number of terrain and props to fight his way out......"
"All handheld photography and editing are faster-paced, and heavy metal and hip-pop are used in the background, which increases the expressiveness of details and perception while ensuring the originality......"
"The characters have also been readjusted, the identity of the heroine has changed from sister to girlfriend, and the villain invited RZA, the lead singer from the Wudang Rap Band, to play the role, and flip it again in the second half to make the plot richer......"
Ding Cheng listened to the director talk about the creative concept, he is Luc Besson's royal editor, it is estimated that this kind of rookie director is not required to be very brilliant in the narrative, just need to play according to the outline of the old version.
The main task is to use his years of editing experience to make the film tight-paced, sharp-edited, and more eye-catching.
To put it bluntly, it is fried cold rice, and for fans who have not watched the first two films, it must be amazing to watch it directly. For veteran movie fans, the new version is just an upgraded version, which is equivalent to a repackaged product, but it is not lost, and it can be savored.
sent the director away, and now he basically understands the urine of the French audience, or it is a grinding literary film, all kinds of romantic and sadistic games.
or it's a commercial blockbuster, with fists to the flesh, flying cars full of screens, and artillery fire......
It's best to add some fragrant car beauties, such as specially looking for a one-meter-eight international supermodel as a vase.
After the cooperation of several countries, each place of literary and artistic films has its own merits, and the audience's aesthetics are very different. But for commercial films, after decades of brainwashing by Hollywood, it is basically a routine.
Hot-blooded, fierce battles, handsome men and beautiful women......
As long as the plot is passable, the characters are handsome and cool enough, and you can eat it everywhere!
The first city hunter got off to a good start, which can be regarded as opening a door for himself, since the road of literary films is not easy to walk, why just use action movies to be tough, and by the way, see where the European special effects are?
A few days later, on the set, I met David, a cow who made parkour popular all over the world.
"Hi, I've seen your work, especially Extreme Escape, it's great!"
As soon as they met, they hugged directly, chatting with Ding Cheng very enthusiastically, the French are indeed very enthusiastic, but it is definitely three minutes of heat, liking the new and hating the old has been engraved in the bones.
"No, that's how it should be punched!"
"Hit here hard!"
"The hand is like this!"
At the beginning of the first scene, it was the scene where David escaped from the pursuit, and Ding Cheng couldn't help but go into battle in person when he watched the so-called action director grinding and chirping.
I'm afraid that the French won't understand, and after demonstrating it a few times in person, the audience was completely shocked, and the action director knelt down directly!
Camille is very excited, it must be a challenge to the director's authority if someone else does this, but Ding Cheng is different, sweeping the strongest actor in Southeast Asia, proficient in kung fu or martial arts, casually designing a few moves, and blowing up others.
Even David listened honestly, and he wished that the action would be more exciting, even if it was the third part of the series, he would let the audience see the novelty, right?
Idle is also idle, since others are willing to listen, Ding Cheng is also willing to share, after all, everyone's good works are better.
More than a dozen action movies have been made, and the experience is very good, especially in various genres. Parkour ...... MMA…… Boxing...... Wing Chun ...... Eight poles...... Judo...... Wrestling...... Weapons......
Not to mention actors, even professionals like Liu Wei really have to be on firepower, and they can't go through five moves!
My current self,
After seven or eight years of torture in the system,
It's a humanoid weapon!
It's the same with city hunters, foreigners are good at this, whoever has reason to listen to whom, as long as everyone thinks it's better, 100% pass your advice, but respect you more.
The logic is very simple, there is no so-called face and sophistication in China, is, whoever is more powerful will be on it.
This is not very good in China and South Korea, because of the sophistication of people in China, even if there is any disagreement with the director, you must listen to it first, and even after filming a few times, you can slowly guide each other, hoping to accept opinions.
South Korea is better, but it is also necessary to pay attention to the ways and means, especially on the set, and the majesty of the director must be maintained.
To put it bluntly, it is still a matter of the director-centered system, as long as he is on the set, the director will be full of his word and have the absolute right to speak.
Europe and the United States are different, all revolve around the producer, as long as the director is not satisfied, you can get out of the middle of the filming, like the employment relationship between the chairman and the CEO.
In Hollywood, the top superstars are even tougher than directors, with a salary of 20 million US dollars, plus a global overseas box office share, Robert Downey Jr. was simply poor before he played Iron Man, and he turned over in the first part, and now he is a billion-dollar billionaire.
It is also because of this that I can let go, without thinking about the so-called face, I am no longer satisfied with being just an action actor, and I hope to fight for more voice in action design.
Looking at David, who is willing to accept his suggestions, Ding Cheng is also very respectful, it is indeed not easy to maintain his skills in his forties, all the actions are done in person, and he is very dedicated.
In this case, then help each other more, your own role is responsible for gunfights and drag racing, then parkour and fights will be left to the old man to show off, anyway, it won't be able to fight for a few years.
In fact, the director also wants to analyze some social evils, such as why there are dirty and messy gathering places like violent neighborhoods?
Don't slums really exist?
The most fundamental reason is the gap between the rich and the poor, I once saw a paragraph, a tour guide in the United States said to tourists: their city, a community just started to live in Americans. After that the Americans moved away, and the Asians came. After that, the Asians also moved away, and came to Latin America and Africa.
After a few years, the place where the Americans moved became a gathering area for the rich, and the place where Lao Hei lived naturally became a slum, and the Asians in the middle were all middle-class people engaged in scientific research, the so-called middle class.
On the top of a hill in some cities, point to a place near the mountains and rivers in the distance and say, "Hey, it's all where celebrities and rich people live." ”
Then he pointed to the other end of the city and warned: "It's very chaotic there, you better not go!"