003 【Heavenly Mission】
Xia waved his hand and said sincerely, "Brother Bing, look at the current situation, you are a knife warrior, I am a fish and meat, am I so bold to play tricks on you?"
"Then what do you mean?" Bucktooth Bing looked at Xia Xia with an unkind face, if this stinky boy couldn't give a satisfactory answer, he would definitely let him go around today.
"Brother Bing, have you forgotten what my dad does?" Xia smiled slightly, ignoring the murderous intent on Bucktooth Bing's face.
Being reminded by him like this, Bucktooth Bing's eyes suddenly lit up.
Xia Shuliang was a smash hit "million-dollar director" back then, and he made more than a dozen well-received and popular movies. As the saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the son of a mouse will make holes. If the summer is half the level of his father, it will be more than enough to make a C-grade movie.
"But can you really do it? don't bluff me, right?" said Luo Yabing, a little worried, if his father didn't even learn anything about it in the summer, then he wouldn't be at ease to hand over the movie to him.
After all, he invested 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in this movie (boasting of 150,000 Hong Kong dollars), and among the low-cost C-grade films, this film can be regarded as a blockbuster.
"Of course I did. I've been playing on Shaw Brothers sets since I was two years old. Since I was a child, I have been exposed to it, and my father has taught me orally, it's not that I boast to you, even if my father's skills are not learned, at least seven or eight percent. Summer said confidently.
Hearing him boast so much, Xia Xue and Chen Yixin beside him suddenly had strange expressions on their faces. They know that although Xia is the son of the great director Xia Shuliang, he has not inherited his father's skills.
Because Summer's volunteer since childhood was not to be a director, but to be a chivalrous hero. So he learned boxing and foot kung fu from Tang Jia, a well-known martial artist of the Shaw Brothers, at a very young age, and he didn't learn how to direct movies from his father at all.
Of course, they won't pierce the summer diorama, and if they can bluff for a while, it's better to let the buckteeth shine a lot.
"But if I just pay lip service, of course you don't believe it. We are mules and horses, pulled out for a walk. If I can do it, you will be kind enough to give me this film, and if not, I will have no complaints. Summer patted her chest again and said.
Seeing that he was so confident, Luo Yabing nodded, instead of worrying about not being able to find a successor, it was better to let him try it first, and then use it as a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
"Alright then, I'll give it a try. But if you really can't, then don't blame me for being rude. Bucktooth said coldly, and at the same time glanced at Xia Xue's still green body, and the threat was obvious.
Although Xia Xia was very uncomfortable, saving people at this moment was the best, so he could only swallow his anger first, "Okay, Brother Bing, just look at my ability." ”
"Ah Hua, bring him the camera," Bucktooth Bing ordered.
The pale-faced man named Ah Hua nodded, turned away, and walked over a moment with a hand-held camera.
In order to save costs, C-grade film shooting is usually equipped with only one camera. The man who had just been crippled by a steel pipe in the summer was the part-time director of photography of the crew.
"Here, on!" Ah Hua shouted, flicking the camera hard and throwing it towards the summer.
Summer's expression was grim, knowing that this was his deliberate attempt to give himself a dismount.
You must know that an empty portable camera weighs seven or eight kilograms, and if you add the weight of film, it will weigh at least ten kilograms. Now that he has been thrown so hard, the quality plus the speed can be described as extremely strong.
In addition, the camera is a delicate and fragile machine, and if one of them is not properly connected and falls to the ground, it is really a matter of time.
For a while, not only did the summer face a difficult test, but everyone present was also taken aback by Ah Hua's reckless behavior. In particular, Luo Yabing jumped up directly.
Although this portable camera is second-hand, it is worth 90,000 Hong Kong dollars. What's more, the machine still contains the film taken today, in case it is not caught in the summer, and the machine is broken all of a sudden, and the film is exposed, then the loss will be great.
Thinking of this, Luo Yabing was anxious and angry, and glanced at Ah Hua fiercely, wishing to kick him to death. This guy is really underachieved, more than defeated, and his brain is stuffed with.
Ah Hua was glared at by the boss, and he also knew that he had done it recklessly, and he suddenly regretted it in his heart, knowing why he was playing such a trick. But the big mistake has been made, and now I have to hope that this precious machine can be caught in the summer.
It's too late, it's too soon, and just when everyone is worried, the camera has already flown in front of Summer's eyes.
I saw that he was not in a hurry, and grabbed the handle of the machine as soon as he reached out, and then followed its trajectory to his arms, and easily dissolved its impact with the help of the muscles of his lower abdomen.
"Be careful, Brother Hua! This machine is Sony's F25 the year before last, worth more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. In case it is broken, Brother Bing's loss will be great. ”
Summer fiddled with this camera first, and recognized that this was a model launched by Sony in '82, but fortunately he had used it before, so he couldn't help but feel relieved, and knocked Ahua Dao without pain.
Seeing that he was skillfully manipulating this machine, the confidence in him in his heart couldn't help but increase a point. Hearing his words of beating Ah Hua again, a thorn was suddenly pierced in his heart.
"Even outsiders know to protect my interests, and you have been with me for so long, so you know to cause trouble for me. Thinking of this, Luo Yabing glanced at Ah Hua fiercely.
Ah Hua was glared at by the boss twice, he didn't understand that the boss was already angry with himself, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly took two steps back, lowered his head with a frown, and didn't dare to toss anymore.
"Okay, since you're going to fiddle with this machine, let's stop delaying it and start filming as soon as possible. Bucktooth Bing urged.
His "Midnight Manwolf" will be released in three days, and after removing the day of post-production, there are only two days left. Now that the movie is less than halfway through, we have to speed it up.
"Good. Summer nodded, "However, let's let my sister and my friend go back first, and leave me here." He added.
"Huh?!" Bucktooth Bing's face sank, his heart was full of suspicions, and his eyes looked at the summer unkindly.
"Brother Bing, my sister doesn't know how to make movies, so it's useless to keep her here. Besides, I'm still here, and you're afraid I'll run away with so many people watching?" Summer looked at Bucktooth Bing without dodging and said sincerely.
Bucktooth Bing was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Boy, don't play tricks on me." You must know that if you run away, a monk can't run away from the temple, but Hong Kong is very small. ”
"Of course. Xia smiled slightly, and a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, "Thank you, Brother Bing!" Then he turned around and said to Chen Yixin, "Yixin, you can take Ah Xue to your house to hide for a few days." ”
"What about you, big brother?" Xia Xue hurriedly asked.
"I'll go back to you guys after I'm done with this film. Summer smiled slightly, "Yixin, remember to help me ask my master for two days off." ”
"Brother Tian, do you really want to stay and film?" Chen Yixin asked in a low voice, "Don't be kidding, where do you know how to film." ”
"Don't worry, I haven't eaten pork, haven't I seen a pig run? I've been on the Shaw Brothers set for so many years, and I understand it every day. You don't have to worry about me, there will be more opportunities to show your skills in the future. ”
Xia smiled and said, I really don't know how to film in this time and space, but I am a top student who graduated from the directing department of Beijing Film in another time and space. In terms of professional knowledge, it is no worse than these famous Hong Kong directors now.
Seeing that he was so confident, Chen Yixin couldn't help but be infected, "Okay, then I'll send my little sister home first, and I'll come over to help you later." ”
Summer knows that Chen Yixin is working as a lighting assistant on the Shaw Brothers studio, although he has not officially become an apprentice yet, he actually has the ability to take charge of himself.
To put it bluntly, the movie is the art of light and shadow, and the importance of the lighting engineer can be imagined, and there is even the honorific title of "Lord Lamp" in the crew, no matter how big the horn is, he will not dare to offend them.
If he has the assistance of his good brother this time, then he will be more sure of making this movie.
"Good. Summer patted Chen Yixin's shoulder and nodded vigorously.
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After Chen Yixin escorted Xia Xue away, Xia first began to familiarize himself with this movie.
A few random 16-carat blank sheets of paper are the so-called scripts.
Summer flipped through it carefully, and immediately frowned.
This movie called "Midnight Man Wolf" has a really simple and outrageous plot.
It tells the story of a wolf who is unusually strong, and specializes in raping women who return home at midnight. But after walking too much at night, he always encounters ghosts, and eventually he falls into a trap designed by the victim's family, and is then chopped into meat sauce by angry people.
This story doesn't even take ten minutes to tell clearly, so the remaining eighty minutes of the film are all filled with sex X and murder scenes. It is a typical C-level film shooting mode of "not enough drama, meat to make up".
Summer rubbed her temples depressedly, she really didn't expect that the first movie she made when she traveled back would be this kind of garbage and disgusting film. This is very different from what he had envisioned.
"Anyway, I'm also a traverser, how could I be so depressed, I haven't seen any benefits so far. He said to himself in his heart.
"Forget it, just think of it as a training given to me by God. There is a way that the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they are motivated to endure and gain what they cannot. After a while, he explained to himself, "Even if it's a C-grade movie, it's still a movie, so let's use it to practice first." ”
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