Chapter 677: Culture
Among Guo Dalu's younger brothers and sisters, Guo Chunyang's personal image is a little better, with a square face and a slender figure, although he is not handsome, but because of his martial arts, there is a sense of masculinity all over his body, and in terms of temperament alone, Pang Bao and Chen Long can't compare to him.
It's just that he is not as funny as Pang Bao, nor is he witty and funny as Long Chen, and his personal style has not yet been shown, so he has never become popular. In fact, it is mainly because he is not open enough, in action movies, he is not very comfortable with some funny and exaggerated body language and expressions, so he has not yet formed his own style.
In this case, in fact, to put it bluntly, the acting skills are not up to par, and they still need to be polished. Guo Dalu has the heart to cultivate himself as a junior brother, so when filming Resident Evil, he thought about praising Guo Chunyang.
When he heard that Guo Dalu was making a blockbuster, he called Guo Chunyang over, and Pang Bao and Chen Long were both very greedy, and they also wanted to play a role in Guo Dalu's play, but Guo Dalu refused.
These two guys are now thriving in the film and television industry, even if Guo Dalu doesn't care about them, they can still live a very nourishing life.
It's just that if the two of them want to rush out of the country and enter the world, they still need Guo Dalu to push them, but this is not a rush to succeed, and it is not a bad thing to let the two of them work hard in China for a few years to accumulate some experience and contacts.
The second part of Resident Evil, compared to the first part, actually has a little more traces of performance, far less exciting than the first part, but the logic is okay throughout, and the overall feeling is very good.
In the original version, the main character Alice, along with a female police officer and a female reporter, ran to the church to escape the catastrophe, and the priest in the church pointed out the theme of this second part, which is the origin of the apocalypse.
There is a very interesting phenomenon in these sci-fi horror films in the West, many times they have the flavor of religious culture, such as the Terminator series of films, which often have words such as "Judgment Day" and "Genesis", and these are all words in the Bible, like Resident Evil Part II, "Apocalypse" and "Punishment" are basically words that often appear in the Bible.
Western religion has penetrated into all aspects of Western people's lives, and then these film and television directors have consciously added to their film and television works, which has a subtle impact on the audience.
Now that it is Guo Dalu's turn to shoot a movie, he naturally wants to cut out these lines and shots with strong Western elements, and transform them into oriental cultural symbols.
Therefore, he moved this scene to an ancient temple in the film and television city, the Hades Palace, and deliberately rendered and filmed the eighteen layers of hell in the Hades Palace, and the temple Zhu inside said in front of the camera "The bitter sea is boundless, and the six paths are sinking", especially the three words "Hungry Ghost Road" are highlighted, and then the camera turns to the mural about the Hungry Ghost Road in the big temple, and the image of the hungry ghost in this mural is strikingly similar to the image of today's zombies.
In particular, the description of hungry ghosts, saying that they are eternally hungry and never have enough to eat, is very consistent with zombies, and it is appropriate to call these zombies hungry ghosts.
Therefore, the second part of Resident Evil was named "Sinking" by Guo Dalu, not "Apocalypse".
What is cultural export? This is cultural export!
When Guo Dalu is filming a movie, if possible, he will show the customs and characteristic buildings of China in the movie, such as this shooting, he deliberately showed the unique temples of China.
The eaves and arches of the Chinese temple, the glazed tiles of the blue bricks, and the mud statues in the temples are very different from the religious places in the West.
In particular, the blue-faced and fanged imps in the Hades Palace, the bull-headed horse-faced, the eighteen-layer hell, the king of Yama, and so on, are completely different from the images of gods in Western religions.
In order to show the unique culture of China, Guo Dalu specially arranged a big fight in the Hades Palace, the actors ran while fighting, and the eighteen layers of hell along the way kept changing in front of the camera.
In order to shoot this scene, Guo Dalu deliberately asked people to build a Hades Hall in advance, although many of the statues in it are made of plastic, but in terms of shape and color depiction, it is enough to be fake and real, and even more amazing than some real temple buildings.
After Guo Dalu built this Hades Palace, he simply built several temples in one go, such as Sanqingguan, Guandi Temple, Baishen Temple, Mawang Temple, etc., all of which were made by him.
Later, when some film and television crews started filming here, the first thing they did was to come to these temples to offer incense and worship, and they really regarded this as a temple.
However, this is all a matter of the future, at this time, Guo Dalu built the Hades Palace, mainly for shooting, not for memorials.
By the time the second drama was about to be filmed, the large-scale costume drama "Bao Qingtian" jointly filmed by Tianxi Film and Television Company and Tianxi TV had already begun to select actors.
The director of this drama is a new director recruited by Tianxi Film and Television, his name is Hua Youwen, this person has filmed several costume dramas, his costume dramas are very distinctive, looking at his works, people feel that they are watching a play, his works The stage atmosphere is too strong, a little too dramatic.
His expression technique, if he shoots a modern drama, it will definitely end up starving to death, but when he shoots ancient myths and legends, he has it and is very tasteful.
When Ma Cheng got the script of "Bao Qingtian", he came to Guo Dalu to ask about finding a director, and the first thing Guo Dalu pointed out was Hua Youwen.
At this time, Hua Youwen was still only a third-rate TV drama director, and the costume dramas he filmed were not well publicized because of the scripts, props, actors and investors, even if he worked very hard, the quality of the final product was still not good, and the market response could only be regarded as barely qualified.
This makes Hua Youwen extremely depressed, but he is not famous, and his strength in speaking is naturally light, and if someone has a work that can be directed by him, it is considered good, and there is no room for him to intervene in other things, which makes him very unhappy and depressed all day long.
Then he received a call from Ma Cheng.
When he heard that the caller was Ma Cheng, Hua Youwen didn't believe it at first, you must know that Ma Cheng is now the general manager of Tianxi Film and Television, and he is a well-deserved boss in the entire Chinese entertainment industry, which is a figure as famous as Guo Dalu, and even in the entertainment industry, he has more influence than Guo Dalu.
Because in the eyes of the vast majority of artists, no matter how powerful Guo Dalu is, he is just a director and actor, but Ma Cheng is the general manager of Tianxi Film and Television, holding the power of life and death of a star, and in terms of influence, he naturally surpasses Guo Dalu.
And now Ma Cheng actually took the initiative to call Hua Youwen, which made Hua Youwen excited, and when he heard that Ma Cheng invited him to shoot a TV series, he almost didn't even think about it, and nodded and agreed.
Later, when I met Ma Cheng, I learned that it was because of Guo Dalu's recommendation that Ma Cheng was directly valued, and Hua Youwen was very grateful to Guo Dalu, so before the filming of "Bao Qingtian" started, he deliberately ran to Guo Dalu's crew to express his gratitude, and at the same time asked him for some questions about filming.
Hua Youwen is mediocre, thin and small, ******, and a little restrained when sitting in front of Guo Dalu.
"You shoot the way you shoot. ”
At this time, the two were sitting in a simple restaurant in the film and television city, this restaurant was specially opened by Guo Dalu to facilitate the crew to make a tooth sacrifice, and now that Hua Youwen is here, the two will communicate with Miss Jin in this restaurant.
Guo Dalu looked at the thin middle-aged man in front of him and said with a smile: "You can shoot this drama well, I can't provide you with other actors, but I can provide you with an actor who can play." ”
When he said this, he called Guo Chunyang, who was not far away, and smiled at Hua Youwen: "This is my junior brother Guo Chunyang, you let him play the role of Zhanzhao." ”
Hua Youwen was overjoyed, "I'm worried about finding a fighting actor." ”
Guo Dalu said with a smile: "My junior brother, you must make good use of it, seize the opportunity to practice hard, his salary is not high now, but in a few months, the salary will definitely rise wildly." Hehe, you guys are using him now, and you're definitely earning it!"