Chapter 517: A Stone's Tale
Song Zheng suddenly became so enthusiastic, although Lin Xinru was surprised, but more happy, and after listening to Song Zheng's analysis of this play, Lin Xinru was even more happy, although Song Zheng said a lot, she didn't see it when she got the script, but at least it proves that she is still very discerning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In terms of actors, Song Zheng didn't want to change too much, and chose actors according to the original version as much as possible, in a TV series with this theme, handsome men and beauties of Yishui get together, which can attract the audience's attention even more.
Just imagine, if Huang Bo is dressed in a suit and leather shoes, and affectionately confides in a beautiful woman, who can not dance the scene in an instant.
The two discussed for a long time, and finally decided to choose a newcomer, firstly, an actor who has already spelled out his fame, may not be willing to deign to join a small-scale urban romantic drama to support the two of them, and secondly, the newcomer is better controlled, and once this drama becomes popular, it can also be branded as a star-making machine.
is like "Meteor Garden" on the Treasure Island, the main characters in the whole play, except for the big S who plays the heroine Shancai, are all newcomers, what is the result, and now they are all very popular.
Song Zheng circled the main roles according to his memory, and some of the ones that he couldn't remember were handed over to Su Wenwen when the time came, and she was asked to go to the public casting.
Speaking of which, the 1+1 studio is not so obscure when it first opened, and has successively launched two high-rated TV series "Life and Death" and "My Leader, My Group", and "Nightclub" won the box office championship in the first half of this year's domestic box office market.
Now, the 1+1 studio is going to open a new play, which can naturally attract a lot of small coffee who are still in the second and third lines of the circle to try their luck.
The candidate for the director, Song Zheng originally planned to invite You Xiaogang, don't look at You Xiaogang's age, and the more famous works are costume dramas, but he also has a lot of experience in filming this kind of urban theme TV series, the most famous is the "Kyoto Chronicle".
But after contacting him, You Xiaogang directly refused, he was now busy with the second part of his secret history, and he didn't have time to be distracted by anything else.
In the end, the two discussed for a long time and decided that Lin Xinru would invite a director from the treasure island.
Although Song Zheng doesn't look down on the film and television dramas on the treasure island, the directors on the island are obviously more powerful in the film and television dramas with the theme of urban love.
Since Lin Xinru said it, Song Zheng also nodded and agreed.
In the end, what Lin Xinru proposed was that she would be the chief producer of this TV series.
Lin Xinru wants to go out in person, and Song Zheng can't stop her, although Lin Xinru has no experience now, but Song Zheng knows that in her previous life, Lin Xinru started from scratch, and she was stunned to take care of a film and television production company, and constantly launched good works.
If Lin Xin is busy, Song Zheng is not idle, Li Yang is responsible for the post-production of "Blind Well", but "Blood Romance" has delayed the filming cycle, and now Teng Wenyi can't spare time to be responsible for the post-production, so Song Zheng can only stare at it.
Staring at the later stage, this is not the first time that Song Zheng has directed and acted in "Life and Death" and "My Leader, My Group", all of which were directed and acted by him, and Song Zheng is responsible for the post-production, and the final ratings of these two TV series prove that although Song Zheng is a wild man and has not studied film production seriously, his works are still very guaranteed in terms of quality.
Lin Xinru is going to be in charge of the pre-construction work of "Talented Men and Women", and Song Zheng is also busy with his feet not touching the ground, but some people think that he is too idle and has to find something to do for him.
"Are you serious!?"
Song Zheng spoke, picked up the script that Ning Hao put in front of him, today he was going to find Zhang Chu, the soundtrack of "Blood Romance", he planned to hand it over to Zhang Chu to do, but before he could go out, he received a call from Ning Hao.
This guy disappeared when he came back from Berlin, and suddenly appeared at this time, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said that he wanted to invite Song Zheng to drink, Song Zheng thought, anyway, this piece is not in a hurry in the later stage, so he came out.
As a result, as soon as they met, before the wine was drunk, Ning Hao first threw over a script, and on the cover, there were five big characters written on it, and one by one crazy stones.
Ning Hao had a serious expression on his face and said, "Xiao Song, you said before, if I write out the book, I will agree to vote for this play!"
Song Zheng smiled helplessly, he did say such a thing, but the problem is that he didn't think that this drama would be filmed so early, it's not that he can't believe Ning Hao, Ning Hao's previous "Nightclub" has proven his ability, the key is that there are several main actors in the play, and now the heat has not arrived, Song Zheng's heart is bottomless, in case he can't play the kind of flavor in the original version, it will ruin the story.
But now Ning Hao even brought the script, obviously he couldn't stop filming, Song Zheng had no choice, so he could only say: "I'll take a look at the book first, if the book works, I'll vote for you!"
Song Zheng opened the script and read it seriously, like the original, the story takes place in the mountain city, a handicraft factory on the verge of bankruptcy found a piece of priceless jade when renovating a public toilet, in order to alleviate the embarrassment of the factory for eight consecutive months without expenditure, Director Xie withstood the pressure of the building developer Feng Dong and his assistant Manager Qin, decided to hold a jade exhibition, the location was selected in the Guandi Temple near the handicraft factory, in order to prepare for the exhibition, the only security chief Bao Shihong who had gone to the police academy in the whole factory undertook the security work of the exhibition.
Just when Bao Shihong was carefully deploying security precautions, the TV news broadcast the news that there were a number of burglaries in the mountain city, and the thieves used the moving company as a cover to swagger through the market and repeatedly succeeded.
The main culprit of the burglary is called Brother Dao, when Brother Dao took his two little brothers Heipi and Xiaojun to make a fortune by burglary, but because he was afraid that it would be difficult to get his hands on it, a mysterious man who flew from Hong Kong was targeted by Brother Dao, and then, Brother Dao and Heipi used a little trick to carry away the suitcase of the mysterious man who had just walked out of the airport.
The mysterious man's name is Mike, and he is a master invited by real estate developer Feng Dong at the behest of Manager Qin, in order to get the jadeite found in the handicraft factory.
Opening the suitcase in his hand, Brother Dao found that the comer was a peer, combined with the news on newspapers and TV about the discovery of jadeite in the handicraft factory, Brother Dao deduced from his years of experience in walking the rivers and lakes that the comer came for the jadeite.
Soon, Brother Dao and his brother lived in the night Paris guest house near the exhibition held by the arts and crafts factory, and coincidentally, Brother Dao's room was only separated by a thin wall from Bao Shihong, who was ready to be "condescending and in control".
From this day on, Bao Shihong was studying how to prevent it with Sanbao on this side of the wall, and Brother Dao and his two brothers were thinking about how to break through on the other side of the wall. At the same time, Mike is also secretly stepping on the investigation, and Xie Xiaomeng, the son of Director Xie, a young man who claims to be engaged in body art research, but does idle errands and sticks to flowers and grass, also started the idea of Jade in order to please those beautiful girls.
The prevention and breakthrough around jadeite have happened to the stories of coincidental adventures such as "stealing beams and changing pillars", "getting it without effort", "exchanging truth for fake", and "returning to Zhao completely".
At the end of the story, unexpectedly, Feng Dong and his manager Qin, who were exhausted, both died in the use and being used, and after Mike found out that the person who hired him had been killed by his own secret weapon, he finally fell into the hands of Bao Shihong.
Bao Shihong was commended for his bravery in capturing international thieves, and Dao Ge and his brother fled for their lives on the circular viaduct in the mountain city like rats crossing the street.
In general, there is not much difference between this script and the original version, just for this book, Song Zheng has nothing to say, he knows that Ning Hao is ready, so he wants to show his talents, if he doesn't agree to invest, I'm afraid it will cold Ning Hao's little heart.
Song Zheng thought about it, couldn't help laughing, and said, "Okay! You're all ready, if I don't give you a helping hand, you will definitely not give up today!"
When Ning Hao heard this, he finally laughed, he asked Song Zheng to come out today, and he was really afraid that Song Zheng would not agree, at this time, he heard Song Zheng promise in person, and was willing to invest, and finally let go of his hanging heart.
"Xiao Song, don't worry, I promise to shoot this scene well!"
Of course, Song Zheng believes that Ning Hao can shoot this scene well, and Song Zheng even thinks that among these domestic directors, only Ning Hao can shoot this scene well, and shoot this scene with endless aftertaste.
Song Zheng thinks so not because Ning Hao can really overshadow a director like Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, but because Ning Hao's use of the lens, his grasp of the rhythm, and the combination of the lens and the soundtrack can be found in China, and there is really no other director who can do the same.
In short, when Ning Hao made movies, that kind of weirdness no domestic director could learn.
The reason why the original "Crazy Stone" was a great success and became a dark horse in the domestic box office market that year was mainly because of Ning Hao's strange filming, he used a simple story to show a complex and ingenious non-linear narrative structure, which inevitably made people see Guy Ritchie's shadow, it can be said that the narrative structure of "Crazy Stone" is the same as Guy Ritchie's "Two Big Smoking Guns", but it has its own characteristics, and Ning Hao's unique style is revealed everywhere.
For example, in the original movie, a shot that impressed Song Zheng was particularly impressive, when Lao Bao found that the stone was dropped, the camera first gave Lao Bao a close-up, and then the crowd in the background became slow motion, followed by a close-up of Lao Bao's eyes, the picture began to blur, the sound of Peking Opera sounded, the background suddenly froze, and then began to change rapidly, and then changed the background transition, and the next shot Lao Bao was lying on the bed, this shot looks unruly, but uses a clever way to express Lao Bao's inner chaos at that time, which is easier to highlight the psychological state of the characters。
In addition, the film is a multi-clue cross-narrative, Ning Hao has a good grasp of the rhythm, and suddenly stops when it is so intense that it is about to explode, such as the sudden power outage in the fierce chase of the Luohan Temple, the tense atmosphere is relaxed, which makes people breathe a sigh of relief;
Moreover, Ning Hao's original version of "Crazy Stone" is also quite interesting in the use of montage techniques, the film as a whole uses cross montage to tell the story, the three clues are sometimes connected, sometimes disconnected, and a piece of time and space is divided into three angles, which greatly increases the capacity of the film and makes the details richer, especially in the second half of the film, the three clues continue to collide, and the camera is quickly edited between the three perspectives, so that people dare not miss any detail, this kind of tension cannot be done by continuous montage.
and Ning Hao's comparison montage is more interesting, at the beginning of the film, on one side is a white-collar worker in a BMW suit, and on the other side is a bankrupt factory director who is demolishing the toilet.
At the end, Lao Bao was urinating heartily in the toilet, but the background was shouting for him to come to the stage to accept the award, using sound and picture counterpoint to express Lao Bao's happiness about his prostate recovery, and regarded the honor of catching thieves as a trivial matter.
As for the re-enactment montage, the constant appearance of stones reinforces the theme over and over again, always reminding the audience of the importance of stones to the story, so that the clue of stones runs throughout.
In addition, the use of music and sound is definitely a highlight of the original "Crazy Stone", dialect is a wonderful catalyst for the dramatic color of this film, Brother Dao's Hebei dialect, Mike's Cantonese, Heiskin's Qingdao dialect, plus the local Sichuan dialect, various dialects are stewed in a pot, cross-greeting the audience's auditory nerves, and it has the effect of strengthening the character's character.
For example, Mike's "I'll top your lungs" and Huang Bo's "Fu Niang", if they are both changed to Mandarin "unlucky", the characters are obviously not three-dimensional enough.
In the use of music, Ning Hao is also very bold, Tchaikovsky's "Four Little Swans" and "The Nutcracker" have been changed to electric guitar version and erhu version respectively, classical and pop coexist, very creative, and the cheerful rhythm plays a great role in promoting the rhythm of the film.
When Brother Dao caught the traitor, the music was "Forget the Love Water", the sad tune was taking advantage of Brother Dao's sadness, but also intensified Brother Dao's emotions, the most bright spot is the song "I love Beijing Tian'anmen" when Sanbao was alone in front of Tiananmen, this Cultural Revolution song appeared in the film does not seem abrupt, the cheerful tune and Sanbao's depressed mood contrast, the strong contrast creates a great comedy effect.
It can be said that the original "Crazy Stone" is not because the story is interesting and exciting, it is the rich audio-visual language that makes it flesh and blood, but if it is just like this, it can only be a successful comedy.
Thinking of these, Song Zheng is looking forward to Ning Hao being able to shoot this classic of domestic comedy as soon as possible.
Song Zheng thinks that this is a classic, but it is not an exaggeration, the original version of "Crazy Stone" Ning Hao shuttled among the social crowd, showing the audience the various states of life, as well as what he wanted to say, and wanted to tell the audience the stories and truths, through his lens, they were all presented scene by scene, scene after scene.
It can be said that among domestic comedies, "Crazy Stone" is the only movie that makes him still enjoy watching it 10 times, and compared with other domestic comedies, he feels that "Crazy Stone" can be described as the pinnacle.
In short, the drama "Crazy Stone", whether it is from the perspective of the soundtrack, the technique of camera shooting, and the editing, have done enough work.
Now that Ning Hao wants to shoot, and depending on what he means, he has already made enough preparations, Song Zheng naturally can't find an excuse to delay it anymore, even if he agrees to invest in him.
However, there is one thing that Song Zheng is not worried about: "Brother Hao, I don't care about anything else in this scene, but which role chooses which actor, after all, with my consent!"
When Ning Hao heard this, he couldn't help frowning, Song Zheng's condition, he actually thought of it before, when he filmed "Nightclub" before, most of the roles were actually circled by Song Zheng, but "Nightclub" is just his practice, to put it bluntly, making that movie, he just wanted Song Zheng to know his ability, and he didn't pay much attention to that movie, he couldn't say how much he liked that movie, Song Zheng wanted to intervene, but he was happy and leisurely.
But "Crazy Stone" is different, although this story is provided by Song Zheng, but the script writing and storyboard scripts are all completed by him with great effort.
It can be said that this movie is his hard work, and he wants to make this movie completely and independently from beginning to end, of course, including the selection of actors.
Ning Hao was worried that if there was a conflict with Song Zheng during casting, it would be difficult to handle it at that time.
Seeing Ning Hao's embarrassed expression, Song Zheng immediately guessed what he was worried about, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I only provide advice, if you are not satisfied, let's discuss!"
Ning Hao listened to it and knew that Song Zheng was already giving in, and he didn't want to insist too much, once he got into a stiff fight, it would be bad for no one of them, so he nodded vigorously and said, "Okay! Just do as you say!"
Song Zheng saw that Ning Hao agreed, and he was also a lot more relieved, he was really afraid that Ning Hao would find a group of actors who were not the original version, although it was an actor to create the role, but he lost the charm of the original version, and he was worried that the filming would not be the "Crazy Stone" he was looking forward to.