Chapter Fifty-Eight: Green Sorghum
This is a sorghum field with a width of more than 3,000 acres, and there is almost no edge visible at a glance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Late August, late summer and early autumn.
Li Qian held the viewfinder in his hand, stood on the temporary wooden tower, and looked around slowly, unwilling to miss every inch of land and every piece of sorghum.
After looking at it for a long time, until the soles of his feet were a little sore, and the hand that had been holding the viewfinder gradually felt weak, he put down the viewfinder, inspected the sorghum fields near and far, sighed and praised with satisfaction.
"That's great!"
Good is of course good, the Li family is a local, Sanxiang and ten miles are related to the family, plus a lot of money is thrown down, just to subsidize the planting losses of these two or three nearby villages, the crew will spend nearly two million, sorghum seeds are also selected and uniformly deployed, this kind of sorghum is naturally spectacular.
It's not uncommon to make movies these years that people are willing to spend money, but it's rare to be willing to throw two million into a piece of sorghum land, just to pursue that kind of magnificent and continuous visual effects.
Li Qian carefully got down from the wooden tower, handed the viewfinder to Lu Lingxi, and said with a smile: "You all have a look." ”
In fact, among the main creators of the crew, he was the last to come, and everyone had already seen it before him.
Li Qian walked over there with a smile, greeted his grandfather, grandma, father, second uncle, and those villagers who were not very loud about grandpa or uncle, beckoned to Sun Yuting and asked for two packs of cigarettes, and said with a smile: "We have to shoot here for two or three months, and in these two or three months, it will be more troublesome for everyone!"
Li Qian's grandfather is only in his sixties this year, not yet seventy, his waist was originally a little bent, but today he is very worthwhile, and his speech is even more neutral, "Eldest grandson, don't worry about your business, this is all our own family, if you have anything, just say!"
"Okay!" Li Qian agreed briskly.
After finishing speaking, he said to the big guy: "The wine and food are all ordered from the city, and people bring people and materials to make them, today at noon, our village covers the pot and comes to eat, I invited the big guy!"
Grandpa nodded, his face flushed, and his voice was even louder than Li Qian's, "Yes, they all come to eat! No one is allowed to cook! Not only our village, but also Zhao Zhuang and Shi Yong have gone to inform them, let them all come to eat!"
The big guy responded, "Go, go!"
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Today's meal was paid for by Li Qian personally, not counting the crew's expenses.
Wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes at night. Although he grew up in Jinan Mansion since he was a child, he actually didn't have much contact with the villagers here, but he knew that his father grew up here, not to mention, his grandparents are still alive, and the second uncle is still living here!
This meal, as soon as you invite three villages, plus more than 4,000 or nearly 5,000 people, every family does not cook, they all come to eat, this flowing feast, from the county town invited a dozen restaurants and thirty or fifty chefs, in order to reluctantly accept it - but, there must be!
is not only for the crew to be able to film smoothly in the future, but also for his father.
The so-called rich and noble return to their hometown, in fact, the person who returned to his hometown is not himself, but him.
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The flowing water feast began at 11 o'clock at noon on the day Li Qian arrived and ended at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, talking about the three nearby villages that participated in the planning of sorghum planting, but in fact, no less than 5,000 people came to eat.
Fortunately, everything here is relatively generous, and the supply is sufficient, and by three o'clock, this scene has finally survived - Li Qian's grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, all of them all have a red face, and in the middle, Li Dad also pulled Li Qian and walked around to a few key tables to toast a few glasses of wine.
In fact, such a meal is less than 200,000 yuan.
When this scene was over, Li Qian asked Huang Wenjuan to stay with someone to be responsible for the aftermath, and he pulled the behind-the-scenes staff of the crew and returned to the county with a few key actors to hold a closed-door meeting.
This drama is too important for Li Qian and Minghu culture!
It is a drama in which Li Qian and Minghu Culture expand their own performance territory for the first time.
You don't have to make money, you don't have to win awards, but you must shoot well, and you must shoot without any regrets in your heart!
To put it bluntly, "My Sassy Girlfriend", "Huang Feihong", and many commercial productions that will appear in the future, that is the foundation of Minghu culture, and now, it has initially gained a firm foothold, but since "On the Road", the signboard of Minghu culture in the sense of "culture" has never been able to stand!
Li Qian has high hopes for the "Peacock" that Jin Han is about to film, he feels that after all these years of grinding so many dramas, and encountering such a simple good story, it should have reached the time for Jin Han to excel, but he will never pin his hopes on Jin Han!
So, he wants to shoot "Red Sorghum"!
This movie has a great reputation in another time and space, on the one hand, it is really good itself, and on the other hand, it is related to the fact that it won an award in the West at that time, which can easily arouse the worship thinking of the Chinese people who had just changed it at that time.
But even if you put aside all the external additions, if you simply analyze the movie itself, it is indeed a movie worth making and making will be very good!
You talk about romanticism, but it's full of fine life everywhere, real and thorough, you say realism, but its heavy red and yellow almost cover the entire picture of the movie, it's just a big hand!
That's what makes it unique!
Of course, when filming "My Sassy Girlfriend" and "Once Upon a Time", he will try his best to maintain the rhythm and charm of the original version, in order to ensure that it is different from its commerciality and best-selling ability.
The difference is just because Li Qian already has Zhang Guoshi's model for reference and reference!
But Li Qian will definitely not be like the two previous movies, everything is to preserve the original version to the greatest extent as the primary goal!
"Color! That's the first thing I'm going to emphasize!"
"Originally, I wanted red, and yellow, just those two colors!"
"The wine is red, the bride's clothes are red, the palanquin of the palanquin is red, the character Xi is red, the fire is red, the sunset is red, and the blood of men is red......!
"But now, I originally wanted to dilute a color, and I'm going to pull it out in a strong way, forming the third important color of the whole movie, that is, our sorghum. Green sorghum!"
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I couldn't sleep all night last night.
Huang Shi through the ages!