This is a four-storey building in the French style during the Republic of China, and the original granite façade has become yellow and black with the baptism of time. www.biquge.info The small building has a large wooden staircase, but when you walk up, you will squeeze out a low creak and scattered dust from the wide gap.

It was dark in the building, except for a woman wrapped in a red nightgown, holding a silver candlestick, slowly ascending the stairs. But halfway through, a sharp flash swiped through the window, and a thin figure was cast on the tall floor-to-ceiling glass, as if it were printed on the glass, reflecting a blue-gray light for a moment.

At that moment, a cold wind violently pushed open the small window next to the staircase, and after a brief contact with the wall, the small window glass shattered and smashed to the ground. The woman screamed and used her hand to block the candle flame, but it was still too late, and four or five white waxes were extinguished in unison.

After a short silence, the woman ran upstairs in panic, but behind her, a heavy footstep sounded at the staircase, step by step, up the stairs, the rhythm did not change in the slightest, completely enveloping the woman's messy footsteps, which seemed to be slow, but in fact it was gradually shortening the distance with the woman.

The woman's footsteps were noticeably quick, but it seemed that at the staircase on the second floor, she tripped over the steps, and there was another scream, followed by the sound of the woman falling to the ground.

"Stop, stop, lights, lights. A hurried voice sounded in the hall of the small building.

As soon as the words fell, the hall was lit up like a torch, and the projection of high-wattage spotlights made people blind for a moment.

"Xiao Ye, your character is a woman with a strong heart, do you take a good look at the book? Your cry is too miserable, like losing your soul, you have to express a state of panic and nervousness, but you haven't lost your mind, and you're constantly thinking about solutions. In this long shot, as soon as the candle is extinguished, it is all dark, and the audience can't see anything, but you must let them still feel your thoughts, your state, otherwise, in the fifteen-second black shot, the audience will think that the movie is broken. "A middle-aged man with a big beard, a waistcoat with a pocket, and a beret leaning on it, with a folder in his hand, walked up the stairs.

"Xiao Ye, you are also a well-known old actor, what we want is that deep sense of fear, you see that we try to use as little props and post-effects as possible, that is, to put the actor's inner expression first. You must wait for the footsteps behind you to sound a few times, and then you can run up, don't you? You should rest first, go back to the hotel in the evening, and I will give you a good lecture. The bearded man walked up to the woman in red and patted her on the shoulder.

"Director, you know I'm in the play very quickly, but when the candle goes out, I really feel like there's someone next to me staring at me, just around the corner of the stairs. Xiao Ye looked twenty-six or seventeen years old, her face was pale, her forehead was full of beads of sweat, I don't know whether she was running or scared, she wiped her sweat, and said: "Director Liang, this building is too weird, as soon as I came in, I got goosebumps all over my body, I couldn't sleep at night, I was covered in cold sweat, you know me, Director Liang, I'm not a particularly timid person, I, I'm still..."

"Xiao Ye, don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people, I also know you, I believe you can play well. Back to the hotel, we'll talk about it in detail. The bearded man interrupted the woman in red, turned around and shouted downstairs: "Props group, Jia is very bright, what are you doing to eat, do you want to do it?" I didn't tell you, the window opened, after a few seconds, blow out the candle in a few seconds, I want the candle flame to shake a few more times, you come up and extinguish it, how can I shoot the feeling, this is not your original grass stage team, we are a Sino-foreign joint venture production, can you do it?"

"Director He, I really didn't kill it, before I blew it, a gust of wind came and blew out the candle, don't be angry with me, it should be enough to add a close-up when you cut it later." A bald man in his thirties downstairs, holding a large blower, answered with a face full of grievances.

"Jia is very bright, are you the director or my director? I can't get out, there are many people who want to join the crew, and you got this nightgown, and you got it, right?......?

I sat behind a large number of prop boxes on the first floor of the small building, and the crew was not bad, so I got a beach chair for me, and I just drank tea while watching them make trouble. This is the fifth day I've been here, and I can see from a layman that at this pace, the film will be filmed, and it is estimated that it will take half a year.

At the end of 1995, I received a big deal, and if it went well, I could earn the income of the past year in one month. You must be wondering about the nature of my work and the source of my income. Actually, I have a stable salary, but I never have to go to work, and since the Beijing subway incident in the 70s, I have been considered a member of the system. When there is nothing to do, there will be people who come to me, begging to see a feng shui, do some rituals or something, and there will be some irregular carriage and horse expenses.

But in the past two years, there have been more and more businessmen from Hong Kong and Guangdong, who believe more in feng shui ghosts and gods, and they have a lot of hands. This time, it was under the introduction of a friend that the producer of the crew found me.

The producer, surnamed Lin, works for a well-known film company in Hong Kong, and previously co-produced a martial arts drama with a mainland film company, which achieved a good box office and gave him confidence in entering the domestic market. This time I am going to make a horror film, the screenwriter and director of the film are all Hong Kongers, and the male and female protagonists are also quasi-first-line actors in Hong Kong, but they don't have much time to go to the set, and the main plot will be filmed in one to two weeks. Da Beard is an executive director sent by the mainland co-producer, surnamed He, who is the tail of the sixth generation of directors, and has made a lot of films, but there is nothing that can impress me, he is in charge of everything on the set except for money.

When Producer Lin approached me, I thought it was to start the film, do a magic thing or something, but after chatting, I found that it was completely different from what I thought before.

Producer Lin has been in Beijing for more than half a year, from finding a filming location, to coordinating two film companies, to determining the crew members, basically he did the preliminary work single-handedly, a very capable and humble person, very different from the Hong Kong businessmen I met before.

He invited me to the café at the Great Wall Hotel, where I didn't look very good, probably due to lack of sleep and overwork. He doesn't speak in circles, although he doesn't speak Cantonese fluently, but the wording is very elegant, and it is easy to make people feel good.

He told me that he made this movie very awkwardly. The script of the movie was written by a writer in the mainland, writing a thriller story that happened in an old house in the Republic of China, the two sisters returned to China and recovered their ancestral home, but from the first day they moved in, strange things continued, and there seemed to be an invisible person watching them. And in the process of constantly searching for the truth, they found a sister hidden in the dark, and this sister could not show up because of a family secret that had been entangled for a hundred years. The story itself is not complicated, but the portrayal of the characters, the emotional entanglement between the three sisters, and a cause and effect that has been destined in a previous life make the book very full and exciting.

But when he got this book, a friend in the mainland recommended it to him, saying that the writer had been writing it for five years before he had this script. After reading the outline of the book, the boss of the film company decided to buy the book and invest in shooting. Producer Lin rushed to Shaanxi to discuss the purchase of the copyright with the writer, but unexpectedly, when he arrived in Shaanxi, he learned that the writer committed suicide a month ago. The writer's family told Producer Lin that since the writer wrote the script, he had some mental problems, insomnia, mania, and even later became a little crazy.

Later, he didn't leave the study for a few days, and often shouted the names of the characters in the book, and every day when he ate in the study, he had to prepare three more pairs of dishes and chopsticks. About half a year ago, he finished writing the script and began to fall asleep all day. The family thought that maybe it would be better if they slept enough, but they didn't expect him to stop talking, and he was silent and in a daze every day, and finally committed suicide by taking a bottle of sleeping pills more than a month ago.

The writer left a will, saying that whoever was the first to talk about the filming of the script did not want a penny of copyright fees, and the script was given away for free, just asking for the film to be filmed. The writer's family really gave all the script to Producer Lin, and Producer Lin said that he would sign a contract with his family, but the author's family said they didn't need it, and gave the author's notebook to Producer Lin. got the book, and Producer Lin didn't have a trace of joy in his heart, but felt that there was something wrong with this matter.

The boss of the Hong Kong film company didn't think so much, the more cheap the better, and it was luck and the merit of the ancestors to get it. The film company immediately arranged investment, for the overall shooting effect, and in order to further expand the mainland market, it was decided to shoot in Beijing, and the crew also took the domestic cooperative film studio as the team, but arranged their own people in the production, director, and main roles. Producer Lin took command and rushed to Beijing non-stop.

Everything went incredibly smoothly, from the approval of the film to the negotiation of cooperation, from the formation of the crew to the contact of the actors, everything was greenlit all the way, and the funds were quickly available, and Producer Lin began to find a suitable shooting location while arranging for the screenwriting team to revise the original work and do the storyboard. originally thought it would be a very difficult thing, after all, the script is fictional, and it is very lucky to be able to find a similar building, and even Lin Producer has done a good job, and if he can't find a suitable small building, he will invest in building a set by himself, after all, he has enough shooting funds in his hand.

But something unexpected happened again.

(The heart is obsessed with the Fahua, and the mind is turned into the Fahua; the recitation is unknown for a long time, and the righteousness is the enemy.) No thought is right, there is a thought into evil; --"The Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs") (to be continued.) )