Chapter 51: Non-mainstream directors

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The success of "Butcher on a Rainy Night" naturally inspired Qiu Litao's ambition. gave him the idea of preparing to make his first feature film.

Before serving as an assistant director for Wu Xiaozu, Qiu Litao also experimented with making some small films, documentaries, and experimental short films. He is also from a professional class, and there is no shortage of basic theories. The only thing missing is the opportunity to practice. And Wu Xiaozu's support and Jiang Zhiqiang's commitment to the big water hose allowed him to find this opportunity.

In a short period of time, he and his friend "Big Eye" worked together to drum up a script.

For Qiu Litao to be able to come up with the script perfectly, Wu Xiaozu was quite relieved. At least he didn't really just take a few pieces of paper and ask Wu Xiaozu to "survey the school". Whether the script is good or bad, this attitude is very positive. It is also obvious that everyone belongs to the type of hexagram.

The film industry on Hong Kong Island is extremely impetuous at the moment. Scripts only exist in big-budget films. More crews are directors and screenwriters who rushed to produce a thin page of "airplane boy" on the set, and then showed it to the actors. Many times celebrities are involved in dramas, and they don't know what they want to shoot that day until they arrive at the crew.

There's no denying that the kind of situation where the scene is made will burst out with excellent creativity and artistic inspiration. But for a mature film work, a complete and detailed script and shooting outline should be the right way. Moreover, this does not limit the director's on-site performance.

Qiu Litao's script is very thin, but the story is told very clearly.

The script is about two young ladies who have a good relationship, let's call them Little Sister A and Little Sister B. Both were photographed by the director and participated in a small movie at the same time. At this time, he fell in love with the same man at the same time, and he turned against each other!

When Wu Xiaozu saw this, he only felt that dog blood was sprinkled all over his face.

Immediately afterwards, the young lady A was unspoken during the filming, and the film was released, and she became famous but quit the entertainment industry without any nostalgia.

Little sister B starred in the movie instead of her, and since then she has been prosperous. Later, when the two girls met, Little Sister B learned that Little Sister A was pregnant, and the black-hearted director came to the door to pester and persecute .......

At this time, the dog died, and the dog's blood was obviously insufficient.

If it weren't for the fact that Qiu Litao could still be rescued, Wu Xiaozu would have really thrown the script into the toilet as toilet paper.

Then the sisters laughed and hated each other, and joined hands to fight against the black-hearted director......

The whole script contains: sisters tearing, unspoken rules of the entertainment industry, problem girls, rock youth, unmarried childbearing, elopement, and other permanent elements of bloody youth films in later generations, which can be called the small era of the 80s.

Fortunately, Wu Xiaozu insisted on reading it.

At first, he just thought the story was very bloody and familiar.

But when I turned to the script description at the back, I suddenly realized. I'm glad I didn't give up halfway, and I made up for it by myself, otherwise my face would have hurt a lot.

Let's substitute the script, if the young sister A is called Lin Biqi, the young sister B is set to be Wen Bixia, and the starring film is called "Pretty Girl". Unfold the story -

I~艹屮艸芔茻......

This time, do you still feel bloody?

Wu Xiaozu suddenly understood that Qiu Litao had saved up for a long time, and he really didn't fart well. The small body contains ~ big dreams, a comedy face, and it is going to make Guo Xiaosi's shock.

After reading the explanation, I knew that Qiu Litao was inspired by the popularity of "The Butcher on a Rainy Night". The originally written script was "hissed" and thrown away, and the scale was re-opened to criticize-attack-society-society!

The name of this drama is "The True Story of Pretty Girls".

Although the story is still a bit artistically processed, it is basically alluding to a generation of "legendary" actress Lin Biqi, China's Yamaguchi Baihui.

The great director Li Hanxiang once put down his words: "Many people say that Lin Biqi is China's Yamaguchi Baihui. I think in the future, people will call Yamaguchi Momoe RB's Lin Biqi!"

The evaluation is very high! Director Li is loud! A mouthful of poisonous milk is squirting clearly.

Bang Bang Bang!

Then, in a word, this Chinese Yamaguchi Baihui is like RB's real body, and he chose to retreat bravely as soon as his career reached its peak, and directly bid farewell to the entertainment industry.

At that time, many film companies waved a lot of money to "borrow" from Mak Dangxiong to open a new play, and Mak Dangxiong also thought that he had a pair of "ghost" bombs. However, he didn't know that the table was playing 21 and a bomb was useless......

Lin Biqi didn't even go to get the golden statue, so he announced his retirement from the entertainment industry in a high-profile manner. Then he turned around and eloped with his sister's boyfriend, and he had a baby to hide from the demons......

Mai Dangxiong was almost broken off by Shan's waist, staring dryly but there was nothing he could do.

There are a lot of satirical depictions of the dirty and dirty in the entertainment industry in the script. There is even a suspicion of insinuating that Mai Jiexiong, the director of the Golden Horse. When he saw this, Wu Xiaozu was very sure that Qiu Litao was obviously going to do something.

In the previous life, Qiu Litao was supported by director Mai Dangxiong, and the script mainly focused on Lin Biqi's personal feelings, and the film was very gentle.

In this life, it's hard to say!

Wu Xiaozu's popularity and gimmick-seeking atmosphere had a great impact on Qiu Litao, and the first film was biased, and Qiu Litao's image style was sharper and more exciting than in his previous life......

Thinking of this, Wu Xiaozu secretly gave Qiu Litao a thumbs up.

Evil guide, sharp enough!

The first debut ~ female film is a hard anal director, isn't this courage?

"Tuk-tuk—"

Just when Wu Xiaozu was thinking wildly, footsteps came from the stairs, and Jiang Zhiqiang and Qiu Litao came hand in hand with a smile on their faces.

Two days ago, after Qiu Litao and Wu Xiaozu discussed the script, clarified the theme of the movie and polished the script, they began to attract investment and prepare to shoot the first movie in their lives.

Jiang Zhiqiang seems to have tasted the sweetness of being small and broad. He himself is extremely optimistic about this new drama with the idea of "revealing the secret of the entertainment industry and angry directors".

Antai Pictures very simply invested 450,000 yuan in Qiu Litao for the filming of the new drama. became the largest investor in the movie "The True Story of the Pretty Girl".

In order to show his support, Wu Xiaozu also invested 150,000 yuan in 1024 Locomotive Studio. Qiu Litao scraped together another 100,000 yuan, with a total investment budget of 700,000 yuan to shoot his debut ~ female work - "The True Story of Pretty Girls".

For such a debut ~ female film, the investment of 700,000 yuan is very considerable. At least much luckier than Wu Xiaozu.

Equipment, venues, labor, props, costumes, plus post-editing, soundtrack, and copy films, this money is enough to cope. Of course, big stars don't have to think about it. All the investments together can't invite a single A-list star. Like Wu Xiaozu's first film, it is a B-grade production film through and through.

Originally, Qiu Litao wanted to invite Wu Xiaozu to be the producer of the drama "The True Story of Beautiful Girls", but Wu Xiaozu politely refused on the grounds of preparing a new film.

On Hong Kong Island at this time, the power of the producer is amazing.

Many people believe that TVB was the first to establish the producer responsibility system. Not really. Although there are many TVB gold medal producers and they are famous now, the biggest culprit who really puts the producer's right to the top is Mai Jiexiong, who was still in Li.

After that, whether it was ATV or TVB, he really entered the production center system.

Wu Xiaozu didn't want to wade into troubled waters. I didn't think about interfering with the shooting.

Since there have been producers in the film industry, producers and directors have rarely urinated in the same pot, especially when two people who both understand movies get together.

Xu Yu and Wu Yusen are the most typical examples. The "True Colors of Heroes 2", which is being prepared, began to grow into each other, and the two gradually drifted apart on the road of tearing up, and they were angry all the way, and they still didn't get along with each other until they parted ways. It wasn't until Xu Yu and Mr. Shi Nansheng divorced in later generations that Wu Yusen smiled and reconciled with him......

Both of them have artistic pursuits, and the power of the producer is amazing, it must be a very unremarkable thing to be a producer easily.

Xu Yu later found Cheng Xiaodong and did the right thing. Except for Cheng Xiaodong, no one thinks that influences such as "A Chinese Ghost Story" are his style masterpieces, right? Cheng Xiaodong's work in the crew is actually the work of an action director.

Wu Xiaozu refused the invitation, and Jiang Zhiqiang took the position of producer, producer and producer. As for Jiang Ershao's thoughts, Wu Xiaozu didn't care.

Individuals have personal ideas, and if they want to keep the cooperative relationship going, it is more appropriate to seek common ground while reserving differences!

"Look at the two of you who are full of joy and smug in the spring breeze, do you want to exaggerate like this?" Wu Xiaozu took out two cans of cold beer from the refrigerator and threw them to the two.

Jiang Zhiqiang collapsed on the sofa very unimpressively, got up to open the beer, and poured it comfortably, "Ah Tao specially invited Lin Biqi's husband and a group of friends from the entertainment industry to participate. ”

Wu Xiaozu glanced at Qiu Litao in surprise, this guy plays bands, writes columns, writes film reviews, publishes books, and plays photography, he is simply an all-rounder.

At the beginning, he recorded the songs "Senior Animals" and "Junkyard", which were the soundtracks of the rock musicians he brought in. This guy has a lot of non-mainstream friends who mess around. No wonder later generations are also non-mainstream directors.

Wait, Wu Xiaozu touched the newly emerging slag on his chin, and was secretly stunned, did he also define himself as non-mainstream. Dig deeper, if Qiu Litao says: Director Wu gave me inspiration, then Wu Xiaozu is the leader of the B-grade film gang.

The eighteenth-line director felt that he was in danger.

"Brother Zu, are you ready for your new play?" Qiu Litao said, picking up the draft and drawing paper on the coffee table, "Huh?"

Sketches drawn in pencil on drawing paper, two women in the room hugging their heads in horror and crying. Turn the next page, four frames of image. Next, a headless corpse. Flipping again, the two men looked at each other in despair.

Then turn -

Call!

Qiu Litao exhaled a breath of turbidity, his eyes excited. This movie, just looking at Wu Xiaozu's simple sketch, it is a very three-dimensional image. At the same time, I also have to sigh that Wu Xiaozu really has art skills that are rare among directors in Hong Kong.

If a director's own aesthetic is problematic, then the movie must be bad.

The aesthetic here is not just a matter of art, it encompasses a lot. For example, Guo Xiaosi's "Little Times" not only has aesthetic problems, but also has problems with three views.