Chapter 50: A New Play

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At the end of the song, people scattered empty and sorrowful, and the water in front of the pavilion was injected.

Liang Jiahui was summoned by his master Li Hanxiang to go to the imperial capital to make up for some of the remaining scenes of "Fire Dragon", and his girlfriend Jiang Jiahua was also pulled north by him, saying that he was traveling to relax and feel the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

However, Wu Xiaozu speculated that Liang Xiaojiao was afraid that he would go to his house to find Jiang Jiahua while he was not at home--eating and drinking is true! With his temperament, it is not impossible to have such a possibility!

Wu Xiaozu also stayed upstairs in the Longcheng Ice Room to revise the script of his new play.

From "The Butcher on a Rainy Night", he saw the rigid demand of the Hong Kong Island horror film market.

He doesn't care whether he likes it or not, he just thinks that horror movies can make money.

Of course, he can see this, and so can others. And faster and more crazy than he imagined.

In recent days, the bosses of several film companies have found his contact information out of nowhere, and opened and closed their mouths to push him to start playing. Just start a play like "Butcher on a Rainy Night"! Everyone treats Wu Xiaozu as a fortune boy!

I don't know how many people are greedy at the box office.

With a small and broad, I am afraid there is no more suitable genre than horror films. Countless small companies have seen the opportunity to make a big profit, and they are eager to try!

Movies based on real cases like "The Butcher on a Rainy Night" are especially favored and sought after by film companies.

It is foreseeable that movies dressed as thrillers will appear frequently in theaters in the near future. After all, there is "Butcher on a Rainy Night" as a demonstration, and there is no reason not to follow along!

In this case, Wu Xiaozu could only shake his head and smile bitterly. I won't lead the Hong Kong Island film industry and accelerate the "evolution" process, right?

According to what he heard, the murders in the sixties and seventies became the target of the film company. What's more, go directly to the police station to turn over the case, it has already turned over to the fifties!

I can only admire the executive ability of the Hong Kong people! If you do serious things, you can't do it, and if you talk about opportunism, it's just a top trick!

Horror films seem to have become a sweet spot in the eyes of major companies overnight, and Xinyicheng and Debao have been involved in it, which can be seen.

Strange cases are unbeatable for a while!

The style of the strange case itself is not original to Wu Xiaozu.

In the early 70s, the Television and Entertainment Authority and the Police Force relaxed the restrictions on location of television stations, which led to the rise of realistic dramas. This is the main reason for the rise of fantasy cases and reality-themed TV dramas.

At this time, Li's took advantage of the situation and created the "Top Ten Strange Cases" series of TV series, which became a sensation.

But no one has tried the movie, and the emergence of "The Butcher on a Rainy Night", a horror murder movie dressed in the style of a strange case, has allowed Hong Kong Island filmmakers to see a new direction for thrillers.

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Dragon City Ice Room, 3rd floor.

A pair of long legs rested on the wooden table, straight and slender. Leaning back in his chair, a drawing plate covering his face, only the rustling of pencils could be heard.

"Brother Zu, coffee. Su Liyao put the coffee on the table, watched Wu Xiaozu concentrate on doing things, didn't say much, and went downstairs to help.

Putting away the pencil, Wu Xiaozu stretched his waist, twisted his neck, and rattled.

The new play emphasizes a sense of space and a sense of picture, and Wu Xiaozu needs to show some of the pictures in his mind in the form of a storyboard.

Storyboards are more intuitive and visually appealing than scripts.

During the filming, the director can use a storyboard to convey the footage he wants to express.

The storyboard of the afterlife is very simple and can be made directly from the computer. But at this moment, it is up to the director to paint one stroke at a time. Each director's art skills are different, and they also create their own different hand-drawn drafts.

The great director Alfred Hitchcock has super drawing skills, and his hand-drawn sketches can be read as horror and suspense comics like his films. Needless to say, Cameron's driver is from him, the nude picture that Jack painted for Ruth when he was filming the big ship was from him.

Of course, not every director in Hollywood knows how to draw, and Hollywood already has a special storyboard manuscript painter at this time, and the industrialization of the film is not just talking.

In Hong Kong Island, there are very few directors who are truly professional. Xu Yu should be regarded as one of the few directors who likes to draw story versions.

Xu Yu is from a film class and he has liked comics since he was a child, so his storyboard has a strong comic style. It completely belongs to the cartoonists who were delayed by the film. Don't be surprised if he suddenly switches careers to become a comic book author.

Words such as storyboard scripts and hand-drawn sketches are fantastical in the Hong Kong Island film industry. When Xu Yi told the New Art City Seven-member Group to listen to it, Zeng Zhiwei was stupid, and he didn't understand until Xu Yi explained.

It is precisely in the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry that filmmakers like Zeng Zhiwei who were born in the wild way account for a large part. This has led to a very strange phenomenon in the Hong Kong Island film industry - a weak foundation. This is true for directors and producers, and even more so for actors.

The room was full of rustling and drawing sounds, Wu Xiaozu put down his pen from time to time, picked up the coffee on the windowsill, and looked out the window with empty eyes. I have the plot of the new drama in my mind.

On the storyboard, there is a portrait of two women, one large and one small, hugging each other, and it can be clearly seen that they are tied hand and foot, and their expressions are panicked and frightened.

Turning the next page, a man stands in an open street with a gun, pointing his gun at another man, forming a confrontation. Flipping down, there are four group pictures, close-ups of two men's feet, and the top is fastened with chain locks.

Flipping down, a panoramic composition, in an empty room, two men collapsed on either side in pain and despair. In the midst of them, a corpse fell to the ground, blood streaming profusely.

In the white space next to the picture, there are four big characters: "Fear Fighting Room".

"Life or death, in your own hands!"

"Many people live without being grateful......"

There are a lot of confessions next to the pictures, and if future generations see this sentence, they will definitely know that these are all from "Saw Horror"!

That's right, Wu Xiaozu's new drama is a movie based on "Chainsaw". He called it "The Dread Room."

The name is very frustrating, but there is no way, the name of Hong Kong Island films has always been like this, for the sake of the box office, he can only take this Hong Kong comic style name.

Like the first film, this "Fear Room", Wu Xiaozu also intends to refine the core elements of "Chainsaw", and the story shaping will be innovated and adapted.

Although Wen Tsairen is Chinese, the values of his films are completely Western-style cultural core. This concept was not fully integrated into the East in later generations, let alone Hong Kong Island in the 80s.

Jumping out of the limitations of the film, Wu Xiaozu simply chose to use the more acceptable "fatalism" and "cause and effect" on Hong Kong Island or Southeast Asia to interpret the tone of the film. This kind of coincidence in the dark, evil will be punished by oneself and oneself!

Karma, karma and other things are very prevalent on Hong Kong Island. If you watch ghost movies and zombie movies produced on Hong Kong Island, most of them have this element. It seems that in the hearts of Chinese, they prefer to believe in causal reincarnation over "salvation".

Therefore, in the storyboard, the dark night, the rain, the dark streets, the dim lighting, the teahouse and the tea restaurant have become the things that often appear when Wu Xiaozu interprets this black plot of the cycle of cause and effect. "Dread Room" is extremely Hong Kong Island. In the film, Wu Xiaozu chose the iconic image of "Guan Gong" to appear in the composition to express his intentions.

But then again, which movie isn't adventurous?

Before any film is made, there is no way to predict whether the film will actually be accepted by the audience. Even if Wu Xiaozu is asked to plagiarize "The True Colors of Heroes", he cannot be exactly the same as Wu Yusen's version.

The design of the lighting, the use of the lens, the cutting of the picture, the narration of the characters, and the feeling that the director gives to the film will make a huge difference.

If you turn the time back and let Wu Yusen reshoot, maybe "The True Color of Heroes" will be another story.

Because at the time of filming, in fact, Zhang Guolu's Ajie is the first actor in the real sense! His relationship with Zhu Baoyi runs through the whole movie. It's just that when the final editing was made, Wu Yusen cut out these scenes.

Zhu Baoyi also became the female number one with the least appearances. Of course, Zhu Baoyi is stronger than the female No. 2, at least there is a camera. The answer is yes, Big Brother Di Hui actually has emotional dramas......

Little Pony is just a temporary cameo. Neither he nor Di Hui is the reason why investors actually pay for the film studio to make this high-budget film. It wasn't until Zhang Guolu was found that investors were willing to pay for it......

No two leaves are exactly the same.

In later generations, Hollywood director Ridley Scott's epic masterpiece "Heavenly Dynasty" theatrical version and his director's cut version are simply two movies. The same movie by the same director is so far from the same, let alone the so-called copying?

"The orange is orange in the south of Huai, and the orange is orange in the north of Huai. ”

Those mechanical copies of movies think that they are box office hits, which is simply a joke.

Copying is never a panacea, if you think that copying equals success, then you can only congratulate you, indicating that you are really young, in the prime of life, and your IQ is as slow as your breasts.

Even if there is a successful precedent in a previous life, the film is not a copy and paste. If the movie is really a copy and paste, then it will lose its most attractive charm, and not so many people will like it.

Artistic creation itself varies from person to person. Except, of course, the built-in bugs.

"Wolf Warrior 2" is very good and great, but do you think that after changing the time and place, after copying the past, it will definitely be replicated successfully, and it will still be so popular?

The answer is a question mark.

So every movie released is a gamble on the market. It just so happened that Wu Xiaozu thought he was a good gambler.

Because he cherishes every hand.

Whether it's a good card or a bad one, he can play his own style! This is true of "Butcher on a Rainy Night", and this is still true of "Dreadchamber". He never plays by other people's rules. Every gamble will take the initiative into your own hands.

Then, before he could grasp his initiative, he was spilled blood by Qiu Litao, and he couldn't wipe it off.

His eyes shifted to a brand-new script on the table. Wu Xiaozu smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth.