Chapter 554: Plan Ahead

Some women use sex as a tool of trade, some women see sex as a benevolent gift, and some women use sex as a fun game.

And Lin Xiaoguang's treatment of Li Xiaoran is more of a kind of giving between husband and wife, mixed with kindness and family affection.

It's not that Lin Xiaoguang has completely lost his sexual interest in Li Xiaoran now, there must still be sexual interest, it's just that years of married life have gradually worn out the passion for each other's physical collisions.

This feeling is the same as Lin Xiaoguang who is tired of making romance movies and wants to seek transformation, in fact, Lin Xiaoguang has not lost interest in making movies, but in addition to romance films, he wants to try a variety of movies with different themes, so that he can always maintain his love and freshness for movies.

This is also one of the reasons why Lin Xiaoguang is willing to sign Xu Zheng and invest in the thriller and suspense film of the hypnosis master.

July 5th.

Light and Shadow Film and Television Company held a press conference in Shaojing, and officially released the concept poster of the movie hypnosis master with Lin Xiaoguang as the producer, mainland actor Xu Zheng directed and acted, and Xu Zheng and Charmaine She.

At present, the film has entered the post-production stage and is expected to be released in December this year.

The so-called "soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first", investing in a movie is actually the same as leading troops to fight, even if the movie has not yet been released, it is necessary to do a good job of publicity and distribution in advance.

Therefore, at the movie poster press conference, producer Lin Xiaoguang and director Xu Zheng were interviewed by on-site reporters and successively answered some questions from media reporters about the film hypnosis master.

After all, many people guessed from the starring pairing of Xu Zheng and Charmaine Sheh at the beginning: "This hypnotist master may be a comedy." ”

But when they arrived at the scene, everyone was dumbfounded: they didn't expect this to be a thriller and suspense film.

Especially Charmaine Sheh, everyone thinks of her when they talk about the "goddess of Hong Kong dramas", but Lin Xiaoguang thinks of her when he is looking for "female neurosis".

"Hello Lin Dong, why did you choose to find a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine of the movie this time?"

Lin Xiaoguang said with a smile: "Because the heroine is a patient who lives in Hong Kong all the year round, and I am a Cantonese myself, I have always liked to watch Hong Kong dramas, and I myself am also a fan of Ah She. ”

"In this Hong Kong drama, her performance is really outstanding. Later, I sent her the hypnotist script to read, and she liked it too, so it was a smooth collaboration. ”

As for why he chose Xu Zheng to be the director, Lin Xiaoguang said solemnly: "In fact, before filming people, I knew that Lao Xu had the ability to be a film director. After Thailand's success, I told him that I wanted to ask him to be the director of a suspense film, and I was afraid that he would not accept a suspense film, but I didn't expect him to agree very happily!"

Shaojing Evening News reporter: "Hello Xu Zheng, what kind of chance will make you give up your most advantageous comedy and choose to invest in a suspense film? Is it because of the success of Far Cry in the film market?"

Xu Zheng thought about it, shook his head and denied: "Of course not, if it's just for the market, for the box office, why don't we continue to make a comedy?"

After a pause, Xu Zheng continued: "However, being able to direct the movie Hypnosis Master is first of all because of Xiaoguang's trust and encouragement, and then after reading the script, I think the profession of hypnosis master is interesting......

"It's really fun and challenging, and the profession of hypnotist is very appealing to me. ”

Xu Zheng also revealed to reporters that in order to make this movie and play this role well, he carefully studied the work of hypnotists.

"As soon as I received the script from Xiaoguang, I read a lot of books and movies about hypnotists. Hypnotists are actually a branch of psychology, and hypnotists have a very good therapeutic effect on some patients with psychological disorders. I think this work of hypnotists is really amazing. ”

After the movie was completed, Xu Zheng also found that he was a little crazy.

"Because I was too involved in filming and the plot was very complicated, the hypnotist I played encountered a lot of things, which led to a week after the finalization, I was still in the role and couldn't extricate myself, and I often fell into thinking, and after the finalization, it took me about a month to get out of this state. ”

Seeing that Xu Zheng was getting more and more chattering, as if he had an urge to spoil it, Lin Xiaoguang quickly took over the conversation and said confidently: "There is another very important reason, that is, Lao Xu and I both want to use sincerity to prove one thing: censorship cannot be used as a reason for you to tell a bad story." ”

As the saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility!

Lin Xiaoguang, like Xu Zheng, are both Chinese filmmakers with pursuits and dreams, in addition to pursuing monetary gains, after they become famous, they also hope to contribute their meager strength to the development of Chinese films through their own efforts!

After all, in the context of the increasingly turbulent trend of globalization and the increasingly stringent requirements of marketization, the development of genre films has become one of the unavoidable problems of Chinese films.

The thriller and suspense film is an important genre of genre films, it is often confused with robber films and horror films, but its most prominent feature is suspense, relying on complex plots to affect the audience's psychology, keen to map people's subconscious complexes and psychological disorders voyeurism, sexual repression, sadomasochism, etc.

When it comes to thrillers and suspense films, everyone may think of foreign works, but domestic thrillers can't bring us too much expectation, and many people even think that domestic thrillers are equivalent to bad movies.

is like the Far Island Horror filmed by Yang Mi and Chen Xiaochun, although the investment is only 20 or 30 million, it has gained hundreds of millions of box office, but it cannot deny the fact that it is a bad movie.

To put it bluntly, the success of Far Cry in the film market is at least half of the credit for Yang Mi's big breasts.

If it weren't for Yang Mi's big-breasted stills circulating on the Internet, this movie would definitely not have received so much attention.

In my personal film classification, thriller and suspense films and domestic thriller and suspense films are definitely two completely different concepts, and the latter is a bone surprise in its own right.

For example, ancient houses, lovers, mental illness......

Domestic thrillers always seem to leave people with such an inherent impression, such as exaggerated sound effects, stiff shouts, looming nude shots of sexy heroines, and the coexistence of the final judge and the confessor, which constitute all the characteristics of domestic thrillers, and the innovation and highlights of this type of film are completely invisible.

Of course, thrillers are not without precedent for success in China.

As early as 1937, the midnight singing, directed by Ma Xu Weibang, really added a touch of thriller to Chinese films, the film's profound themes, vivid characters, smooth plot and wonderful thriller rendering techniques are not inferior to similar works in Hollywood and Europe at the same time, and it deservedly became a classic of domestic thriller and suspense films.

However, today, more than 70 years later, thriller and suspense films have become a weak link in Chinese film creation.

Due to the deep-rooted traditional thinking and policy impermissibility, the horror and thriller genre in China is restricted.

It was not until the late 90s of the 20th century that the number of domestic horror and thriller movies gradually showed an upward trend, and movies such as the Chinese domestic film Deserted Village Inn Saving Me have "joined forces" to besiege the city.

In April this year, the thriller movie embroidered shoes were released, redefining Chinese-style thriller with classic thriller elements, and approaching the top of the thriller and suspense movie list.

may be because of the success of Far Cry with a small and broad success, which has made domestic thriller and suspense films mushroom after rain, and one after another has sprung up.

In the first half of 2012, more than 15 Chinese-language thriller and suspense films were released in mainland China, accounting for about 110 of the films released in mainland China throughout the year, and it has become a film genre that cannot be ignored.

Although the creators of these films strive for artistic effects with plot twists, thrillers, and suspense, most of them have shortcomings such as the lack of deep psychology of the characters, the far-fetched story, and the satisfaction of creating audio-visual "thrillers".

For this reason, before filming the hypnosis master, Lin Xiaoguang and Xu Zheng had already re-reflected on the original meaning of "suspense", re-understood the true source of "thriller", and then reconstructed the meaning of the thriller.