Chapter 617: A Movie of One Man

The publicity point of the entire "Saint of Gambling" lies in Jiang Xia's works, Jiang Xia's starring role, and the sequel to "God of Gamblers".

Except for these three propaganda points, there are really no propaganda points.

Other movies can promote and invest in promoting actors, but when it comes to "The Saint of Gambling", the biggest name is Jiangxia, and there is a group of fourth- and fifth-tier actors left, who have no value in interviewing and publicizing at all, and investing funds, the 50 million that was said to be good has been cut by 20 million, and the 10 million publicity costs are removed, and there are only 20 million production funds, which is worse than "God of Gamblers".

is not as high as the same company's "King of Sparrows", "King of Sparrows" still has a production budget of 40 million, why is it that "The Saint of Gambling" is only 30 million?

The media are well-informed and have known about this for a long time, so they came here to see if they can have any inside information, why Jiangxia's "God of Gamblers" only gave 30 million shooting funds for the second movie after winning more than 1 billion box office, which is simply unscientific.

Hundreds of multimedia reporters surrounded the selected location where "The Saint of Gambling" was launched, pointing long guns and short guns at this side, looking around for actors, who still don't know the cast.

The promotion of "The Saint of Gambling" did not reveal the cast in advance.

"God of Gamblers" announced the cast, that is, the cast is enough, the leading actor is a first-line celebrity, and one person can support the cast. If the cast of "The Saint of Gambling" is revealed, it will bring nothing but doubts.

At eight o'clock in the morning, all the people of Hengying arrived.

Jiang Xia is naturally there, he is the director and starring, if he doesn't come, this scene has to be filmed.

The click-clicked flash stared at him to take pictures, and Jiang Xia was not as if he had just debuted, he wanted to live or die to tell them who the portrait right was. He walked calmly under the flashlight, and his eyes under his sunglasses were peaceful and peaceful.

After the routine start-up worship, there is an interview activity, in which the main creators answer some questions and doubts from reporters, which is said in advance, otherwise how can it fool hundreds of media?

Before the interview began, Jiang Xia had disappeared.

Cheng Xin, as a producer and producer, was interviewed with Chu Zhijun.

"Teacher Chu, Teacher Chu, over here, what made you take this play?" a reporter shouted and asked.

Chu Zhijun said: "The reason for taking over the play, the first is Director Jiang, I cooperated with Director Jiang last year, Director Jiang is a very responsible person for movies, whether it is a screenwriter, director or starring, he is a very responsible and serious person, and the key is also very talented, so I am very happy to join his films." The second is that when I am older, in order to delay aging every year, I have to take a play to carry out activities. ”

"Mr. Chu, you read the script, which one do you think is better than this movie and the God of Gamblers?"

Chu Zhijun said: "It's different, it can't be compared together." The God of Gambling is a tall and mighty image, but the Gambling Saint is not, he is more down-to-earth, which will make many people see that this is a person like the big boy next door. So can't be compared. ”

"Mr. Cheng, I heard that the investment of the gambling saint is only 30 million, is it true?"

Cheng Xin nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Why? God of Gamblers is a big seller, Hengying should have enough funds, why not take out more funds to make the sequel to God of Gamblers and make it more exciting?

Cheng Xin replied: "Director Jiang said that 30 million is enough, then it is enough." ”

In a word, many questions behind the reporter were blocked, regardless of whether there was an inside story or not, Jiang Xia said that 30 million is enough, if you want to know more things, ask Jiang Xia, it would be strange to ask. I have to admit that Cheng Xin is very good at answering reporters' questions now, anyway, it is impossible for Jiang Xia to answer reporters' questions, if there is anything bad to answer, just push it to Jiang Xia, he is an excellent backbiter.

The reporters were not so easy to fight, and they continued to ask: "Mr. Cheng, is there a huge problem with the casting of the gambling saint this time? The whole cast is a little weak, is it because of the shortage of funds?"

Cheng Xin replied: "No, Director Jiang said that the actors are all very good, and they are all the actors he needs, so we selected them, they are all very good actors, and you will see them perform." ”

"It's just, saying that the cast is weak, where did you put me. Chu Zhijun came at the right time to relieve the siege.

With Chu Zhijun's liberation, the reporter's problem has also been solved.

A few more questions were asked, and the reporters dispersed. It has always been difficult to interview Jiang Xia's crew, Jiang Xia, the main creator who has mastered the core things, you will never be able to interview, and the actors, either the kind of big names, charge for interviews, or they are very unfamous, and the interviews are worthless.

However, it is precisely because it is difficult to interview and report that so many reporters flock to it.

After the two of them were interviewed, Chu Zhijun took the car back first, and there was no him in the recent scenes.

Jiang Xia's first filming scene was in the room rented by Uncle Dada, who finished filming this small content first, and then went to change the scene and go to other places to shoot other scenes.

Before filming, Jiang Xia also found Uncle Da's actor He Xin and asked him if he wanted to change his name to Black Boy Da, and Uncle Da didn't call Uncle Da to change to Uncle Xin or something. He Xin said that it doesn't matter, anyway, if you play a role, you can follow the play.

He Xin said that it didn't matter, Jiang Xia didn't change it again, he didn't change his name in the script, he was still called Zuo Songxing, not like Stephen Chow, he was called Ah Xing in every movie, and the script was tailor-made for him, so the work was very good, and he has been consolidating his name as "Star Master".

Jiang Xia doesn't care, he believes that with his own resources, he doesn't need to give himself a label for fixed words, and when he reaches a certain level, someone will give him a label, and he will have his own special name.

"The scene filmed today is the scene of the two of us, the scene of the audition, no problem, right?" Jiang Xia asked He Xindao.

He Xin shook his head and said, "No problem." ”

"Okay, get ready, I'll go see what the other places are preparing. Jiangxia said.

Then Jiang Xia went to look at the camera position, looked at the lighting effects, looked at the lens effects in the monitor, and confirmed that there was no problem, Jiang Xia went to change clothes and makeup.

The disadvantage of self-directing and self-acting is this, many times you have to take care of a lot of things, you have to cut back and forth, one moment is the state of the actor, and the other time is the state of the director, so I am very tired and tired.

When Jiang Xia filmed "The Saint of Gambling", he was still in good shape, a comedy, and a comedy of Xingye, he liked Stephen Chow's previous works in "Yangtze River No. 7", and he had watched each one many times. And after "Yangtze River No. 7", Xing Ye completely turned behind the scenes and no longer performed in front of the camera, his movies have a lot of highlights, his movies are still good movies, as long as you find a good actor, you can perform the feeling you should have, but if the actor's acting skills are wrong, the movie gives people a little different feeling.

Jiang Xia, who had changed his clothes and put on makeup, held up a loudspeaker and said: "Pay attention to all aspects, we are making comedies, when the actors are not laughing, give me a quiet place, whoever laughs, don't blame me for cleaning him up." ”

Someone shouted: "Director Jiang, how do you clean it up?"

"How do you clean it up? Hmph, I don't give chicken legs for lunch at lunch. Jiang Xia threatened with a smile.

The crowd laughed.

Jiang Xia said: "Okay, let's be serious, don't give me a laugh after the board starts shooting." All units are ready, well, I just shouted, Director Liu came to shout and hit the board. ”

The crowd laughed again.

Jiang Xia turned around and took the loudspeaker to the assistant director Director Liu, and after a little instruction, he ran to the right lines with He Xin.

Director Liu took the loudspeaker and said: "Now I can also command Director Jiang once, a rare opportunity, so I decided not to shout the card later, let him play for a while, what do you think?"

"You dare. Jiang Xia smiled at him.

Director Liu waved his hand and said: "Okay, don't make trouble, all aspects of preparation, the first shot of the start-up, you have to get it right." ”

Jiang Xia prepared for a while, and then made an OK gesture with He Xin, only to hear Director Liu's "start shooting", and the two entered the state.

The play is a very familiar play, and He Xin tried this scene when he auditioned for the second round of auditions, but last time it was a non-physical performance, and now it is a physical performance.

For magic cards, after he got the role, he was thrown over by Jiang Xia, playing gambling movies, and he didn't understand anything else, so he should know some fancy cards. So he is an uncle in his forties, who has been busy playing magic cards at home for almost half a month, and now he is not very good at practice, but he can also take it out.

Jiang Xia's performance is even more capable, but his performance method is a little unacceptable.

"Cards. Director Liu shouted, "Director Jiang, isn't your performance a bit exaggerated?"

Jiang Xia shook his head and said: "No, if you don't shout card, I have to shout, Teacher He, your performance is quiet, don't be affected by my facial expressions, and then the occasional expression can be exaggerated, but not too exaggerated, like this...... Suddenly, then suddenly, you try. ”

He Xin made an exaggerated expression and asked, "Is that so?"

"Yes, that's it, when we talked about it before, I said that the way this movie is acted, it's going to be a little exaggerated at some point, that's it. Also, don't be affected by my performance, you can cooperate with my performance, but don't be consistent with my performance, okay, okay, okay, let's try it again. ”

Jiang Xia spoke very carefully, and he also went to demonstrate in person. His performance method is consistent with Xing Ye's nonsensical performance, when there is no nonsensical performance, all the people in the whole movie don't understand his performance, but he doesn't need others to understand, as long as he can cooperate with him.

Just as the media wrote a headline on the launch report of "The Saint of Gambling" the next day, "The Saint of Gambling - Jiang Xia's Movie by One Man!"