"Guo Ye, why do you have to shoot a black-and-white movie? This kind of old-fashioned black-and-white style film has no market decades ago!"

This is in a famous scenic spot in Rome City, assistant Wang Fengshan asked Guo Dalu very curiously, "Guo Ye, now that movies are becoming popular in 3D production, why did you start to return to the original again?"

Since the advent of the movie, it has experienced silent black-and-white films, sound black-and-white films, color sound films, and then to today's 3D4DD films.

Nowadays, except for the occasional director who is obsessed with black and white films, there are very few people who come to shoot black and white film and television works anymore.

Guo Dalu is now making a love film, and he actually wants to use black and white tones, which makes Wang Fengshan a little incomprehensible, but he is not a professional filmmaker, and the inquiry at this time is only from a commercial point of view, and it is only pure curiosity, in terms of professionalism, there are few people who are qualified to question Guo Dalu.

Of course, no one dared to question.

Guo Cannon's nickname is not for nothing.

Looking at the ruins of the Colosseum in front of him, Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Color is also one of the languages of film, with the advancement of science and technology, shooting techniques have also been improved, resulting in some filmmakers now paying more and more attention to the visual effects of the film and ignoring the film itself. ”

He wore sunglasses and walked slowly through this ancient hole in the wall, "But now many directors who are eager for quick success have forgotten this, and spent a lot of energy to get the stunt sound effects, but there is no complete moving movie story, so the movies they shoot are always rubbish!"

Guo Dalu explained to Wang Fengshan: "Especially my country's commercial films, most of them have entered such a strange circle, only focusing on technology rather than the film itself, so it is difficult for them to succeed." Of course, literary films are a little better. ”

"I just want to tell an adult fairy tale, I focus on the story itself and the acting skills of the actors, as for the color or other film language, I don't need it at all!"

"Because only actors in black-and-white movies have a magic that resists time!"

Wang Fengshan seems to understand whether he understands or not, but since Guo Dalu said so, it can be seen that he has planned it a long time ago, and he doesn't need to worry about it at all, as for the box office or something, it's not something he can ask.

Besides, Guo Ye has already said that he is now shooting this movie as a gift to his new wife Wang Xiaolu, which is not important for the movie to be a commemorative significance, and the box office income or something is completely secondary.

In Wang Fengshan's heart, it is estimated that Guo Dalu didn't even think about using this literary film to make money, anyway, it was only an investment of twenty or thirty million, which was not enough to buy a bigger diamond ring.

Guo Dalu didn't know what Wang Fengshan was thinking, but if he knew, he would have nodded in agreement.

The reason why he himself filmed the movie "Roman Holiday" was really not to make money, on the one hand, he wanted to shoot a commemorative film for Wang Xiaolu, and on the other hand, he had the idea of bringing out the classic stories of another world to share with the people of this world.

It would be a great crime to bury all the excellent works in my memory if I buried them in my mind and didn't carry them out!

As a rare classic romance literary film, "Roman Holiday" is still prosperous many years after it was released in another world, which shows the charm of this movie.

After this movie is made, Guo Dalu will naturally put it on the screen, but he doesn't care about the box office or anything now, whether it is more or less, it is no longer something he is considering, he just wants to shoot a work he wants to shoot now.

But because the city of Rome is now a world-famous tourist attraction, it is really difficult to shoot in this city, but fortunately, there are also related film and television cities in Italy, but you don't have to shoot in this city.

But some scenes still have to be filmed, otherwise there will be less of that natural sense of historical charm.

Guo Dalu came to Rome this time, firstly, for tourism, and secondly, to check first, those scenes need to be integrated into his own lens, and those can be discarded.

After three days of wandering around the city of Rome, Guo Dalu already had a score in his heart, waved his hand, and ordered the crew, "Start preparing!"

The name of the princess in this movie, Guo Dalu has not changed, it is still called Annie, only the name of the male protagonist has been changed and replaced with a middle name, called Qiao Shan, and the rest will not be changed.

Wang Xiaolu has big eyes and a nose, a tall figure, after Guo Dalu's training, her temperament is also elegant and generous, with a little innocence in nobility, if you ignore the skin color and hair color, in fact, there are some similarities with the original heroine's actor Audrey Hepburn.

And Guo Dalu made a black and white movie this time, which minimizes the impact of skin tone and hair color, which is more similar to the original.

For classic works, Guo Dalu just carries them without making any modifications, because any difference in any point may lead to the incongruity of the whole film and make the work flawed.

Guo Dalu attaches great importance to this work, and he deliberately found some old actors with extremely good acting skills in China to play the roles in it, such as Princess Anne's attendants and housekeepers, as well as some imperial officials who accompany the princess, these roles must have a slightly conservative and old-fashioned atmosphere, even if these young actors today have good acting skills, it is difficult to present that charm, because they have not experienced the lifestyle of that era.

Some old actors are different, they have life and experience, although they have never lived in the thirties and forties, but there is no shortage of works in the thirties that they have watched before, and there is not much difference between the behavior of the thirties abroad and the way they behaved thirty years ago in China.

After reading the script and Guo Dalu's explanation, these old actors have fully understood their roles.

"Attention departments, photography preparation, go you!"

Now the first shot of a film was filmed, in which Princess Anne appeared at a large gala arranged for her in Italy by the arrangement of the royal chamberlain.

In order to shoot this movie, Guo Dalu did not look for extras, just for the first scene today, he found more than 100 foreign actors with good temperament, and specially rented the costumes provided by Italian film and television companies, and at the same time arranged the venue according to Guo Dalu's ideas, and the preliminary preparations alone took almost a week.

Now everything is ready and the shooting begins.

The music sounded, and in the attention of the officials in the hall, Wang Xiaolu wore a princess dress and a beautiful crown, accompanied by the actor who played the earl, and slowly walked to the venue.

The crew at the scene had also followed Guo Dalu to shoot a movie about Wang Xiaolu before, and it can be said that they were very familiar with Wang Xiaolu, but now after seeing Wang Xiaolu slowly appear, everyone was amazed!

Wang Xiaolu in front of him was noble, elegant, and nodded slightly between walks and motions, and the movements were just right, giving people the feeling of really being a princess.

Originally, some of the extras at the scene were a little funny when they learned that Guo Dalu, a Chinese man, was actually filming the story of a Western princess in Rome.

Now Guo Dalu's name is well-known all over the world, and these group actors also know him, but Guo Dalu shoots all action movies, and has never shown his talent for love films in front of the world, so not only Chinese people, but even these Italian group actors don't think Guo Dalu can really shoot this kind of story well.

But after Wang Xiaolu slowly walked out, the group performers at the scene were all taken aback, and their expressions, which were originally a little loose, became solemn at this time, as if a princess really appeared in front of them.

This European, from the bottom of his bones, yearns for the life of the upper class, has a natural respect for the royal family, and even envy the behavior of the children of the royal family.

Now Wang Xiaolu's appearance is the standard royal etiquette, and even because of her personal figure and temperament, she is more like a princess than a real princess.

This appearance conquered the hearts of the live group performances, and there was no need to specifically ask them, the faces of these people naturally showed expressions of surprise and admiration, which was an expression of real emotions, much more real than exaggerated performances.

Just when Princess Anne slowly walked to the reserved main seat and elegantly lifted her long skirt to take her seat, the earl next to her hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop her, and looked very vaguely ahead, signaling that the princess could not sit down at this time, and there were people in front of her to visit.

Princess Anne glanced at the Count in astonishment, and hurriedly stopped herself, and then slowly stood up again, looking at the crowd in front of her.

It's very difficult to act in this scene, and it's not like that if it's too invisible, it won't highlight the princess's immaturity in social situations.

If a princess is comfortable in diplomatic situations and can control any situation, she will never sneak out of the embassy at night, nor will she be naïve enough to be deceived by a reporter and thus develop a fiery love for a mature man.

Therefore, after this movie has such a small action, it will give people a feeling of "the princess is very young and her behavior is still very immature". In this way, the princess's subsequent actions will not seem so abrupt.

Young girls are not too impulsive to do anything, because they are immature.

For this action, Guo Dalu deliberately explained to the actor who played the earl, and Wang Xiaolu also specially instructed that the performance of the two in front of the camera at this time really did not go wrong, and the earl's obstruction and the princess's slight surprise seemed extremely natural.

In this way, this drama is off to a good start, and the first scene that Guo Dalu is most worried about has just passed.