Heading into mid-March, the weather in Southern California wasn't good, but at least it didn't rain much.

This is exactly in line with Yin Jun's heart.

Because in "The Shawshank Redemption", there is no sunshine in prison, even when you are active outside, it is cloudy.

It's a symbol that the oppression here is like the weather, there is no light.

As Zhou Yunfa and the cast continue to get acquainted, the progress of filming is also accelerating.

Originally, the movie that was driven by the plot would not be too slow to shoot, and Yin Jun left two and a half months to shoot, and now it seems that it may not take that long.

After the murder of young Tommy by the warden and the captain of the guard, what seemed a little inspirational and a little heartwarming in front of him suddenly turned into a kind of irritability under the dark current.

It was only at this time that Andy clearly understood what a sinister heart was hidden under the warden's well-dressed appearance.

In the past, when he helped the prison director to make false accounts, and when he watched the prison director collude with others to solicit municipal projects to make money, he did not have much resistance, and he was only thinking about how to escape.

But now it's different, and seeing the warden so contemptuous of life, some thoughts burst into Andy's heart.

This kind of thought directly led to Andy's final clever change of day, replacing the ledger and data, and also replacing the warden's checks with his own forged identity by the means of consistent accounting.

Ironically, all this was done under the nose of the warden.

As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains, and Andy's consistent honesty made the warden even unaware of it.

It wasn't until that morning, when Andy suddenly disappeared, that the warden realized that this kid was not as honest as he appeared.

Looking at the black hole dug behind the beautiful female statue, the warden and the guards were dumbfounded, but Rhett, who turned his head, smiled happily.

He didn't expect that this good friend would be so patient and persevering, and it would take less than 20 years to dig such a big hole in the wall of the prison and escape from Ascension.

But what made everyone even more unexpected was that Andy not only took all the money that the prison director had embezzled, but also actually sent the real ledger and data to the newspaper, and after the newspaper revealed such a scandal, the prison director and the captain of the guard immediately collapsed in front of the people who came to arrest them.

The captain of the guard, who has always been ruthless, cried like a girl who was caught in a police car.

The warden opened the ledger in the safe, but it turned out to be a Bible, and Andy wrote him a line after opening it.

"Warden, you're right, the way to salvation is there. ”

And this Bible has a groove in it with a small hammer, which is the cover that Andy used to stealthily release the hammer that chiseled through the wall.

The ashamed and desperate prison warden finally ended his life of crime with a pistol in a drawer.

During the filming of this section, how Andy escaped from Shawshank Prison is a key point, and the key point is the scene of Andy's bright smile when he stood in the rain with his hands open and looked up at the sky after swimming ashore from the river.

For this shot, the crew deliberately chose another river section to shoot, and it happened to be rainy for a few days.

Zhou Yanfa's filming of this section cannot be said to be very smooth, but it is not too difficult.

The outburst after this forbearance, this hearty and comfortable escape from the cage, is exactly the transformation of expression and mood that Zhou Yanfa is good at.

However, due to various reasons, Zhou Yunfa filmed five times in a row and took three days to shoot the escape scene.

The effect of the shooting, Yin Jun meditated on the original version for a while, and felt that Zhou Runfa was far better than the protagonist of the original in terms of emotional expression, and the smile that was as happy as a child was just like Zhou Runfa's performance in "God of Gamblers", which was very eye-catching.

The warden and his minions are punished, Andy escapes, but the story doesn't end there.

Rhett, who has not been successful in parole for 40 years, actually ushered in parole after 40 years of giving up.

He lived in the same inn as the dead Brecx, did the same job, had the same depression, had the same negative thoughts of danger.

It wasn't until Red remembered the promise he had made with Andy and found a letter left by Andy next to the stone embankment, as well as the travel expenses, that he finally mustered up the courage to embark on the road to find Andy.

In the last scene, on the wide seaside, the two old friends met for a long time, and the two hugged each other tightly, but at the same time they hugged not each other, but something called "freedom".

"Good!"

Yin Jun, who was standing on the beach, shouted with a loudspeaker.

Zhou Yunfa and Morgan Freeman separated.

At this time, Yin Juncai smiled and said loudly: "Now I announce that "The Shawshank Redemption" is officially finished!!"

"Oh......"

The staff around him happily threw everything in their hands into the sky and cheered.

Sensei suspects that all the crews at home and abroad are the same.

After such a difficult nearly two months of shooting, the movie is finally completed, and everyone can be regarded as having a smooth end to their work, why not be happy?

All that's left is some reshoots in the later stages, and the final cut of the film.

These jobs have nothing to do with most people, even Morgan Freeman, who only comes here when he needs to make up for the shots, and the rest of the time, he can already go on vacation and do other work.

"Director, thank you so much for choosing me to shoot this film. Thank you for your attention and support to our black actors, and I hope we will have the opportunity to work together again next time!" Morgan Freeman said with emotion as he left.

"We'll work together a lot if we have the chance!" Yin Jun replied with a smile.

Yin Jun knows that he is not only talking about himself, but also Eddie Murphy, who has also been very popular in the United States recently.

Yin Jun only made two movies in total, and the second male lead in both movies was black, which made the black community in Hollywood have a good impression of Yin Jun.

Not to mention Yin Jun's "Beverly Hills Detective", Eddie Murphy directly played the leading role, and it was so successful that he seemed to have a new black star.

You know, it's not 2020, it's either that you don't have black positive characters in your play, or it's a manifestation of incorrect politics, and black people are still struggling in the glory of white dads.

Even Daniel Washington, their future leader, is still struggling now, and he is far from ushering in his own spring.

So when I met such a director who obviously has a good impression of black people, the key is that he is still the boss of Disney and United Arts Films, and the black community in Hollywood is immediately a little excited.

Therefore, Morgan Freeman's words represent not only himself, but also the goodwill of the entire black community in Hollywood.

But for Yin Jun, he doesn't have any affection for black people, but purely for the needs of the role.

The people that teenagers are most willing to support are, of course, Chinese...... Well, Zunlong, a Chinese who has been completely westernized, is not in this ranks.

But if all the Chinese are used in a movie, it is destined to not be able to open up the situation in the world.

So you have to match black or white.

In fact, Yin Jun turned the protagonist of the white man into a Chinese, and then the original black or white supporting role, he also judged the situation and was not so rigid.

For example, he has Eddie Murphy in his hand, and he wants Eddie Murphy to make a name for himself, so Yin Jun turned the original white male number two in "Life and Death" into the role of Eddie Murphy.

This version of "Shawshank Prison" is because the supporting characters around him, such as the warden, the captain of the guard, Brooks, etc., are all white, and Morgan Freeman's performance is too exciting, so Morgan Freeman was chosen, which has little to do with whether he is black or not.

But Yin Jun has long understood that in the American film market, black brothers will always be a box office force that you cannot ignore.

If you look at all the movies that are made against the black community, such as "Halloween of the Black Crazy Woman", and the movies about black hip-hop, the box office is very good, isn't that the black brothers holding up half the sky?

Later, the Hollywood giants frequently used black movie stars and promoted black movie stars, on the one hand, because of the need for political and unity, and on the other hand, it did not mean to make money from the black community.

On the day of filming, the teenager also set up a sumptuous buffet in the manor to comfort the actors and crew who had worked hard for nearly two months.

The people behind the scenes have not only worked hard for two months, but they have been working hard for almost four or five months with the addition of setting up the filming and so on.

In addition to the buffet, Yin Jun also gave a red envelope to each person according to the rules of Xiangjiang, which was not much, about $1,000 per person.

These red envelopes other than salary make this group of American and Chinese guys very happy, and they feel that the boss is very interesting, not to mention the amount of money, and the key people are very enthusiastic and generous!

When I got up the next day, the crew had all been disbanded, and the people who should have left were almost gone, and Yin Jun also returned to Los Angeles with his team.

In the post-editing room of United Arts Film Company, Yin Jun and the editors will continue to be busy, editing fragmented shooting clips into smooth stories.

Usually the shooting time of a movie will be about 50 to 100 hours, and if you are more particular, it may exceed 150 hours. - Except for the king of sunglasses, two or three hundred hours of material is simply a matter of sprinkling water for his old man.

But usually, 100 hours for a big production is pretty good, after all, you get what you pay for, especially now that you're shooting on film, not digital, and if you shoot an extra hour of footage, that's thousands of dollars.

Yin Jun knew what he wanted, he also knew what the effect of the finished film was, and the feature film did not have such harsh action requirements, so he filmed "The Shawshank Redemption" more economically, and only shot more than 60 hours of material.

And the first time he filmed "The Speed of Life and Death", Yin Jun filmed for more than 130 hours, and there was a lot of waste.

It can also be seen from this that the teenager has also improved a lot.

But this post-editing is not a simple matter, as a director and producer, Yin Jun has to stay in the editing room, instruct the editor how to edit, and it is normal to work more than ten hours a day.

It's just that Yin Jun has too many things to deal with, and when he returns to Los Angeles, he needs to take care of Deng Lijun, a pregnant mother-in-law, and he is not in a hurry for the release time, so he also deliberately slowed down the pace, and he only edited for about 8 hours a day, but it was a combination of work and rest, and he didn't seem so tired.