Chapter 488: What are you doing here?
After the excitement, Feng Xiaogang turned up the lens and watched it again, it was indeed perfect, from Wang Bo peeling the egg shell to eating the eggs, it was very well presented, but at this time he began to struggle again, this shot is a bit long, if he puts it all in, he is worried about affecting the effect.
The reason is very simple, "No Thieves in the World" is a commercial film, and all the movie shots are mainly short shots, and even switch quickly, and rashly putting a long shot into it may have an impact on the rhythm of the movie, which is a problem that Feng Xiaogang has to consider.
From the perspective of the domestic industry, a good-looking commercial movie, the average number of movie shots in an hour should be about 700-800, which is converted to a 90-minute movie, and the number of shots is between 1050 and 1200, and this number is actually much less than that of Hollywood.
For example, "Spy Shadow", the average shot time of the first film released in 02 is about 4 seconds, and the length of the film is 119 minutes, with the specifications of this more typical commercial movie, through simple conversion, we know that the number of shots should be about 1800, compared to "Spy Shadows", the rhythm of "No Thieves in the World" is not so fast, but even so, in order to maintain the rhythm, it is difficult to put a shot that is dozens of seconds long and close to a minute.
Someone has specially calculated that the average shot length of the classic epic film "Ben Hur" in 1959 is 8 seconds, which means that Hollywood in the late fifties to the early sixties, a ninety minute movie, the number of shots is about 675, this rhythm has increased a lot compared with the thirties and forties.
For example, the average shot length of "Madame Bovary" in 1933 is 22.8 seconds, which translates to a standard duration of 90 minutes, and the whole film is only less than 240 shots, which is absolutely torture for modern audiences.
Someone has done special statistics, and the result is that the average shot length of Hollywood movies in the thirties and forties was about 10 seconds, and this value dropped to less than 4 seconds after 2000! Generally speaking, the length of Hollywood commercial movie shots before the eighties and nineties was between 5 and 8 seconds, and the number of 90-minute movie shots was between 600 and 1,000, so audiences who are accustomed to the length of modern movie shots are difficult to see the kind of lengthy shots.
"No matter, keep it for now, shoot other close-ups together, cut it in if you can, and switch it if you can't. Feng Xiaogang gritted his teeth and decided to ignore the post-editing arrangement and no longer spend time dwelling on this matter.
"Lao Bai, the shot just now has passed, let's take a few more shots, Zhang Li, give a close-up of our male protagonist, I want to use it. Feng Xiaogang commanded the crew to get up and running and started filming again.
Soon, at Feng Xiaogang's request, Zhou Bai quickly reset and continued to shoot, most of the next shots were close-ups, such as close-ups of eggs spinning in cups, close-ups of Zhou Bai's eyes, close-ups of expressions, etc., and it took more than ten minutes to toss down.
Zhou Bai has no objection to the director's requirements, there is no doubt that director Feng Xiaogang has the final say on how to shoot, Zhou Bai never dictates to film shooting, at most he discusses with the director how to move next and how to act during the performance, and most of the time he will not easily express his opinion.
No director likes to be criticized, filming a "Looking for a Gun" can make Lu Chuan and Jiang Wen turn against each other, mainly because Jiang Wen suppressed Lu Chuan too badly on the set, and made director Lu Chuan the executive director on the set, and when the movie came out, everyone immediately found that almost all of them were Jiang Wen's shadow.
No way, Jiang Wen is too strong, a big domestic director, he is better at filming than 99% of domestic directors, where is the fledgling Lu Chuan Jiang Wen's opponent, if it weren't for Lu Chuan having a powerful father, maybe it would be even worse, after filming "Looking for a Gun", Lu Chuan said in the circle that he would never cooperate with Jiang Wen again, in fact, this is a helpless approach.
Zhou Bai will never interfere with the director's creation when filming, even if he has different opinions, he will not easily express his opinions, especially for films where he is a producer and producer, even if even if even the script is written by him, he will not easily interfere with the director's creation.
"Da, da, da!" "Da, da, da!" Uncle Ge, who stepped on the floor, wore gold wire glasses, wore a plaid suit, and was dressed in a shiny oily style, walked over with a glass of beer in his hand, nodded slightly, and the camera moved from the panorama to the middle and then to the close-up.
"Get to know me, surnamed Hu Mingli, Hu Li! Thanks to the wrong love of my brothers on the road, they all call me Uncle Li, dare to ask my brother which way of the immortal?" Ge Wei stopped at the dining table where Zhou Bai was sitting, sat down, and asked with a smile, his eyes looking at Zhou Bai, full of inquiry.
Ge Wei's lines are very good, the rhythm is not fast, not slow, not slow, but he shows Uncle Li's old Jianghu taste to the fullest, a simple line, which shows his skill.
"Immortals don't dare to be, I'm just a passerby who doesn't recognize my six relatives. Zhou Bai's eyelids lifted slightly, and he didn't smile, indifferent.
Zhang Li, who was in charge of the camera, was highly concentrated, watching the two actors with profound acting skills playing, and the simple words of one person and one line made his scalp tingle.
Ge Wei is confident, calm, and relaxed, it seems that everything is under control, he looks very elegant, but as soon as he opens his mouth, the taste of the old fox comes out at once, the lines, expressions, and limbs are integrated and impeccable.
Zhou Bai did not lose Ge Wei, the performance just now did not fall behind at all, with a simple look, the appearance of smiling flesh without smiling, directly reflected the ruthlessness on Wang Bo's body very perfectly.
The performances of the two actors are distinct and comparable, forming a very subtle contrast, this is the ability of a good actor, even if it is a simple line, a look, an action, the chemical reaction formed is like a powder keg explosion, which is pleasing to the eye, and can no longer take their eyes off.
Both Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Li are extremely satisfied with this scene, it can be said that Zhou Bai and Ge Wei written in the script are performing, and even the parts that are not there are also performed.
The next camera switched, Zhou Bai and Ge Wei's positions did not move, while Li Bingbing came on the field with a raw egg, sat down on the seat next to him, and handed the egg to Ge Wei.
Zhang Li frowned immediately, Li Bingbing, who appeared in the picture, was like a passerby who rashly broke into the scene of the duel between two peerless masters, and his slightly youthful performance made the camera look top-heavy, and suddenly became the most dazzling existence.
What are you doing here, Zhang Li thought helplessly, if it was another shot, there would be no problem with a decent performance, but in this kind of situation where even every micro-expression will be examined, Li Bingbing is really unqualified.
"Click! This one doesn't work, let's do it again later, Bingbing, you have to grasp the heart of your character, as Uncle Li's subordinate, your feelings about Wang Bo who suddenly appeared in front of you to provoke are complicated, not only disdain, but also curiosity, schadenfreude, and so on. Feng Xiaogang's fiery eyes also immediately discovered Li Bingbing's problem, and shook his head secretly, compared to Ge Wei and Zhou Bai, Li Bingbing's performance was too shallow.
Li Bingbing is also very aggrieved, in front of these two first-class domestic first-class actors, it is really difficult for her to hold up her little ability, but among the young actresses in China, few can hold on, it's not that her acting skills are poor, it's that these two are too good, people have to die compared to others, and goods have to be thrown away, she is the one who is compared.