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1024 Locomotive Film Company, Conference Room.

Smoky and slightly choking.

Zhang Guolu folded his legs, put a cigarette in his hand on his chest, and stared indifferently at the movie sketch he held in his other hand. Tata was also smoking a cigarette, and his eyes glanced at the circle of people surrounding Ulala.

It was also the first time she had seen a director "waste time" to chat with.

This feeling gave her a novelty.

The reason why he starred in the movie "Suspect" this time. Naturally, it's because of my brother's favor, but I didn't have the urge to break through and try it. Especially a work of the hottest first-line director on Hong Kong Island today.

On Mei Yan's left-hand side, Huang Qiusheng's body was slightly restrained and leaned on the table, carefully looking at the dazzling scripts, copying manuscripts, and drawings.

Next to him.

The directors of photography, Pan Hengsheng and Ao Zhijun, frowned and looked at the sketches on the white clipboard in front of them, and looked down from time to time at the story sketches that were copied from each copy, and the cigarette butts in their hands burned quickly.

Dozens of sketches of the main scenes, the two of them looked at the big head.

The good cooperation of "Two Heroes" contributed to this collaboration.

Thinking of Wu Xiaozu's harshness to the camera and strictness of the scene, the two first-line photographers on Hong Kong Island couldn't help but sigh.

Wu Xiaozu is the director who has asked for the most since they cooperated. To use the words that Liang Jiahui learned from the imperial capital, this is commonly known: Things B!

Zou Lin, the royal lighting engineer, Yu Jiayuan, art director, costume director, and Ye Weixin, the person in charge of props, data collection, and scenery, were also around. From time to time, someone picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea.

A crowd of people swallowed cigarettes and smoked tea, film creation even included music creation, and singers who wanted to record an album tailored to their needs - chat.

Someone drank a little wine and talked slowly. For example, in later generations, he was short and tight, so he used to brag about B while drinking with singers, blowing for a month, and blowing out an album.

Wu Xiaozu is the same as Xu Yi's habits, he is just chatting together in a smoky manner. Bring all the main creators together, communicate with each other, and understand each other.

In later generations, Xu Yu, a Hong Kong Islander, filmed "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", and many people were very unoptimistic. Xu Yu gathered the main creators together and kept chatting. Although this movie is still criticized by many people, it can be regarded as a good commercial main theme movie.

Jiang Wen also likes to chat. Touching your breasts while talking.

A good director is not necessarily a good orator, but he must be a good visionary. Even if he is not good at words like Lao Jia, he slowly learned to brag B.

The story of the play "Suspect" itself "borrows" from the book "The Devotion of Suspect X" written by Keigo Higashino in later generations.

"The Devotion of Suspect X" is regarded by many people as one of the best Japanese ontological reasoning.

Of course, there are quite a few people who think that this is entry-level reasoning.

Wu Xiaozu agrees.

This one is a classical suspenseful opening in itself. Come up and solve the mystery and tell you who the murderer is. And then fall into the trap of being in your self-righteousness.

In the previous life, China, Japan and South Korea all remade this story.

Fans are divided, and the only thing that can be unified is that the Five Elder Brothers version has the lowest rating among the three versions, and it deserves its name.

When Lin Xinru knelt down and cried at the end of the film, there was always a kind of crape myrtle shouting: "Huang Ama! It's not Xiaoyanzi's fault, if you want to blame Ziwei, blame Ziwei!"

Completely out of play.

Of course, with the support of the story framework of "The Devotion of Suspect X", it can basically be regarded as a category that can be watched.

In the three editions, many fans of the original book prefer the Japanese version, however, the Japanese version has a big limitation, the film itself is a theatrical version of the "Galileo" TV series.

The audience can understand his awesomeness, and there is no need to exaggerate the character's personality and practices too much, and the basic film development is a matter of course.

If there is no foundation, such as the ULI Kaikai version, it is very abrupt and difficult to complete the foreshadowing.

The Korean version is the only one that changes the ending, and the whole film is more commercial and depicts more love scenes, although this adaptation is also mixed.

Wu Xiaozu himself doesn't like it very much, or rather, readers who have read the work don't like this adaptation very much.

Fortunately, there is no original manuscript of "Suspect" in this life, and Wu Xiaozu will be more enjoyable to shoot. He has always felt that this work does not need too much subjective emotion at all, because human beings, especially Chinese, will always have their own subjective emotional outbursts for this kind of silent "dedication".

In fact, the reason why Wu Xiaozu filmed this story. On the one hand, there is a change of thinking and an interpretation of a new story.

On the other hand, I saw a gap in the mystery and suspense movies in the Hong Kong Island market.

But if you come up and play with high difficulty, I'm afraid it will be really difficult for the Hong Kong Island audience to accept it for a while.

Movies that play IQ are generally not as high at the box office as family movies.

No way, not everyone likes to bring their brains when watching movies.

If he can't wait to play a brain-burning game for the Hong Kong Island audience at this time, Wu Xiaozu does not doubt that he will definitely pounce very badly.

Even if he just filmed a wanton "Two Heroes".

What he has to do now is to forge his "godhead" step by step, and his biggest advantage compared with Jiang Zhiqiang, Cai Songlin, Chen Rongmei, Feng Bingzhong and others is his box office appeal.

At this time, the story of "Suspect" alleviates this contradiction.

The theme of love is the most commonly used theme in movies.

Nowadays, his identity is constantly changing, and Wu Xiaozu has broken away from the status quo of the eighteenth-tier small director struggling to survive in the lowest marginal area, but what he is facing is that the mind of the movie is divided by countless things.

Actors need to experience life, and directors also need to accumulate experience and create.

Luckily, he was in the 80s, and he had countless opportunities to accumulate.

Jiang Zhiqiang told him that he wanted him to continue filming a big production like "Two Heroes". This is undoubtedly in everyone's interest.

But this is not in the interests of Wu Xiaozu.

If he confines himself to it, it is possible that he will become another Wu Yusen who has insufficient accumulation, even if he has brilliance, he will be limited by his own brilliance, and finally he will be unknown to everyone... One way or another, it's a sadness.

In this regard, Clint Eastwood, an old cowboy, and Woody Allen, an old rascal, are good role models.

The most important thing a director needs is to maintain the motivation to create and the breadth of the story.

Therefore, when Li An filmed "Youth Pi" and "Billy Lynn's Midfield", Wu Xiaozu was very able to understand.

Although Lao Mouzi's filming of "Three Guns" is very bad, it is not simply bad that can be explained. Lao Mouzi himself is an extremely stylized director, and his rendering of style is greater than his ability to tell stories.

The storytelling ability itself is weak, Zhang Weiping is eager to make money and consume the fame of the national teacher, a story that obviously needs the acting skills of actors, and he is stunned to match a group of "two-person turns", which can be imagined!

"I need to personally scout these scenes to decide. ”

Wu Xiaozu took a cigar in his mouth, took a sip, and spit out a thick fog, "There is a tube building in the script, and I require that this tube building must conform to the design of the "double road", that is, there are both stairs and independent platforms.

"This kind of building design is an old design, and I found a building that meets this kind of requirement in Kowloon Walled City. Qiu Litao distributed the photos to everyone.

"Kowloon Walled City?"

Chen Shufen, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly spoke.

"Mrs. Chen—"

Zhang Guoxuan rushed up and glanced at it, but Chen Shufen was silent. She now has a feeling that her own artists have gone crazy.

"Well, if conditions allow, the crew will start preparing over there this week. Wu Xiaozu didn't care about Zhang Guoxuan's agent's thoughts, and turned his face to look at Jiang Jiahua, "Sister Hua, I want to trouble you to be a producer." ”

"The film, the machines, the personnel, the accommodation, and the preparations. The rest can be done in two days. Jiang Jiahua resolutely promised.

The play "Suspect" has invested more than five million.

But there are also a lot of places to spend money.

The price of Mei Yan's friendship is also more than 500,000. Her popularity on Hong Kong Island is now not far behind among female stars. One of the few stars in the music world who can harden male singers.

Salaries of other supporting cast and crew members.

Money for shooting equipment and equipment, venue rental, props, sets, food and accommodation. Finally, there is the money for film, the money for copying......

The dense shooting expenditure will definitely make people see horror.

This also shows how important it is for a film to have a good producer?

At this moment, Wu Xiaozu is especially grateful to Liang Xiaokou for having a useful daughter-in-law - Jiang Jiahua.

Ahem.

Everyone in the conference room talked to each other very quickly, and even Mei Yanwei and Zhang Guoxuan couldn't help but talk about some shooting things.

"Wu Sheng, someone is looking for ...... outside," a clerk pushed open the door and said to Wu Xiaozu.

……

1024 Locomotive Film Company Reception Area.

One tall and one short and one fat sat next to each other on the sofa, holding paper cups in their hands.

"Did he really say he supported you to start the show??" The short and fat man glanced at Miss Clerk's ass, twisting and twisting.

Wang Jiawei glanced at the waist of Miss Clerk, graceful and graceful, like a swaying moonlight.

Wang Jiawei clutched a stack of scripts tightly, and his throat was dry, "The last time "Love in the Dust" premiered, Wu Sheng told me that if you really like your own works so much, it is better to be your own director. I want to ......"

"Hey, King Tall Legs, when you mention "Love in the Dust", I think of Boss Deng's black face all day long. In the first week of its release, the box office was only one million, which is simply ~~ tsk, I can only hope that the box office of Wanwan will return to its original cost. ”

Liu Zhenwei filmed Wang Jiawei and sighed: "You must pay attention to the first time you start a play, don't block your own way." I heard that Hou Xiaoyuan has returned to Wanwan. Nowadays, bosses are very realistic, and it is difficult to get money if you lose money......"

"Director Wu has a good balance between art and business. Wang Jiawei thought about it, shook his head, and said without much confidence: "I shouldn't be a director like Hou Xiaoyuan......

Wang Jiawei's face had an ignorant confidence.

At this moment, he, including Liu Zhenwei, doesn't understand what filming is at all.

Therefore, some people later lamented that Hong Kong Island movies in the 80s were very tolerant of many people.

"I'm going to the bathroom. ”

As soon as Liu Zhenwei left, Wu Xiaozu walked out of the conference room.

"Director Wu!" Wang Jiawei.

"Sit down......"

Wu Xiaozu smiled and pressed Wang Jiawei's shoulder, and clicked on the script he was holding tightly in his hand, "This is the story?" took the story from Wang Jiawei's hand.

"Got it thought through?"

"Well......" Wang Jiawei was a little restrained.

"Boss Wu, he thought it through. Thank you for giving the tall ...... He had this chance. ”

As soon as Liu Zhenwei came back, he saw his friend standing there with an embarrassed face, hurriedly walked over with three steps and two steps, and introduced himself at the same time, "Boss Wu, my name is Liu Zhenwei." Wang Jiawei's friend is also a screenwriter. ”

"Come on, come on, please take a seat, Mary has good tea-"

Wu Xiaozu stared at Liu Zhenwei with a smile, and his attitude was instantly enthusiastic.

"I don't have to read this script in a hurry, I can tell that this is a good story when he says a few words. ”

Wu Xiaozu put down the script of "Mong Kok Carmen" and stared at Liu Zhenwei with a smile, "Ah Wei, since you are a friend of Jiawei and a screenwriter, you should also have works, right? If there are works, I can also invest in ...... here."

"Huh?"

Liu Zhenwei hurriedly stood up and thanked: "Thank you Boss Wu for taking care of you." However, my drama Boss Deng has already stayed, and if it goes well, he should be able to start filming his first drama. ”

“……”

Wu Xiaozu's smile stiffened, and he nodded with a smile, "It's not related...... Have a seat. ”

At this moment, Wu Xiaozu felt a burst of MMP in his heart!

What do I want Wang Jiawei to do?

What are you telling me to do??

If you Liu Zhenwei don't come, what am I doing with a mallet?

Fortunately, the drama "Mong Kok Carmen" is really good, otherwise Wu Xiaozu really wants to scold.

"Jiawei is a newcomer...... Wu Xiaozu looked at Wang Jiawei, who was nervous, and then looked at Liu Zhenwei, and said heartbrokenly: "I am going to open a new drama recently, and Jiawei will come to my crew to help first." ”

"Okay!!" Wang Jiawei responded happily.

My heart hurts even more!

Forget it, Wang Jiawei can be regarded as a free laborer, let's use it!