Chapter 12 Boot Shooting
On March 16, 1981, Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, Jiang Ran's "Ghost Horse Smart Multi Stars" was launched here today, there were no reporters to take photos and interviews at the scene, and there were no fans and fans to watch and support, only dozens of people in the crew chatted about topics of interest to each other.
In the entire crew of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars", the most famous one now is Lin Zixiang, who just became popular last year with "In the Middle of the Water" and "I Need You Every Minute", followed by Dai Yue'e, the 1980 Miss Hong Kong champion, and the other actors, whether it is Teddy Robin or Chen Baixiang, have only recently made a comeback, and there is not much popularity.
Before the start of every movie in Hong Kong, a start-up ceremony must be held on an auspicious day to worship God. At the start-up ceremony, the table will be covered with red flannel, and then the shrine will be enshrined on the table, and the incense burner and the roast suckling pig and delicious fruits will be placed, and the camera will usually be covered with a red cloth, and then the main creator of the crew will worship the gods in turn to pray for the smooth shooting of the movie and the box office hit, and finally lift the red cloth of the machine and announce the start-up.
At the opening ceremony, Jiang Ran put Tsui Hark in the first place, and he and Shi Nansheng stood behind Tsui Hark to highlight Tsui Hark's status in the crew. Although Jiang Ran is an investor in the entire crew, his main job in the crew is scene recording and assistant director. Of course, because Jiang Ran is completely novice in making movies, there is also a full-time scene reporter on the scene, and his responsibility is to teach Jiang Ran to do a good job of scene recording and assistant director, and he basically does not need to do everything himself.
After worshipping God, the movie was officially launched, Jiang Ran began to be busy assisting Tsui Hark, coordinating and recording the set, makeup, actors, camera, lighting and other aspects of work, Jiang Ran and Tsui Hark completed the script of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars", which is more complete and logical than the original movie, and the script has removed some of the original movies that have nothing to do with the main plot, only for the sake of being funny, and the jokes are more funny from Jiang Ran's vision in the future. The overall style of the whole movie is full of cartoons and comics under the promotion of Jiang Ran, and the development of the plot is promoted in cuteness and funny.
The first scene of today's shooting was the filming of Inspector Robin's appearance, and after all the personnel were in place, Tsui Hark shouted loudly: "Action!"
Jiang Ran immediately walked to the camera with the clapperboard, "The first scene of "Ghost Horse Zhiduoxing", the first shot, the first one, start!"
With the sound of "click", Jiang Ran withdrew from the filming area, and the camera of the crew of "Ghost Horse Smart Multi-Star" began to operate, and the movie officially started.
In the filming area, after Jiang Ran exited the filming area, Teddy Robin led several roles, walked to a door very pretendedly, knocked on the door, "knock-knock-knock" With the knock on the door, a small door opened on the door.
"Stop! Tsui Hark's voice suddenly rang out.
Time passed in Jiang Ran's constant busyness with the crew, before the start of filming this day, Jiang Ran was doing Chen Baixiang's work, this was Chen Baixiang's first time working in the crew, his character Kabang played Mecca in the original movie, and Kabang's bald appearance was a highlight of the movie, so although it was now replaced by Chen Baixiang, Jiang Ran still retained the joke of bald head appearance in the script, and now Chen Baixiang is a little resistant to shaving his head.
"Brother Lak, you see that the appearance of Kabang's bald head in the whole script is a good highlight, and it also points out the strong position of the characters, Brother Lak, help, even if it is a sacrifice for art, and a beautiful boy like Brother Lak, even if he is bald, it will not affect your phenomenon. Jiang Ran patted Chen Baixiang's sycophants and said.
"Ah Ran, what you said is right, a beautiful boy like me, no matter what the release will not affect my appearance, but I'm afraid that beautiful girls don't know how to appreciate the bald head. Chen Baixiang half-jokingly stinky fart.
Jiang Ran listened to Chen Baixiang's half-truths and half-truths, and his tone of voice softened his disgust at the bald head shape. But think about it, now this is the first time to shoot a movie after Chen Baixiang's business failed, and it is a very important role, he will definitely not give up this performance because of this bald head problem, so he just uses the noisy mood as a means to increase his sense of existence, so that the director and producer feel that he Chen Baixiang has made sacrifices for the movie.
After Jiang Ran figured it out, he didn't dislike Chen Baixiang's scheming, after all, everyone will fight for their own interests, as long as they know the degree, so Jiang Ran also smiled and said to Chen Baixiang: "Brother Lak, it's not right for you to think like this, think about it, in the crowd of tens of millions, your bright head shape is like a high-altitude searchlight, and the beautiful girl will definitely be attracted to you at first sight, and then fall into your invincible face and can't extricate herself." β
The more Jiang Ran spoke, the more he felt it, and he changed his tone and continued: "I heard that Brother Lak is known as the smartest person in the entertainment industry in Hong Kong, and Brother Lak must have heard the word "extremely smart", and how can such a smart person as Brother Lak not be overwhelming? Therefore, in order to reflect your connotation and let more people know that you not only have a peerless appearance, but also your wisdom has overflowed your brain, so you need an image of a bald head, just like the light of the Buddha's wisdom, which can guide the light to the world. β
After Jiang Ran finished speaking, he looked at the few people in the dressing room who were dumbfounded, and asked Dai Yue'e: "Beautiful girl, do you also think that Brother Lak's current hairstyle can't reflect his beauty and wisdom at all?"
Dai Yue'e nodded stupidly and said, "Yes! Yes!"
Jiang Ran turned his head to Chen Baixiang and said, "Brother Lak, you see I'm not wrong, even the Miss Hong Kong champion said so." β
Chen Baixiang finally came back to his senses and gave Jiang Ran a thumbs up, "Ah Ran is still amazing, all my advantages have been discovered by you, okay, let me use my bald head to guide the eyes of beautiful girls." β
After getting Chen Baixiang, the crew continued to shoot in an orderly manner, and everything went relatively smoothly, but Dai Yue'e is not losing the title of Hong Kong sister who can't act the most, and the number of NG times in the whole crew is almost half of the total number of NG times of others, Tsui Hark even moved the idea of changing actors, and later dispelled this idea under the persuasion of Jiang Ran and Shi Nansheng, fortunately, Dai Yue'e's role does not need too much acting skills, more only needs to show her beauty, and this is what Dai Yue'e is good at, after all, the title of the most photogenic Hong Kong sister in 80 years is not for nothingγ
During the orderly filming process of the crew, Jiang Ran was also silently absorbing nutrients and learning every step of making a movie. Usually during the day, Jiang Ran learns all kinds of movie-related knowledge with Tsui Hark and other people in the crew, and after Jiang Ran goes back at night, he will carefully record what he sees and hears during the day, and if he doesn't understand, he will humbly ask others in his spare time, because of the identity of the investor, others will not sweep his face, as long as there are questions, he will patiently answer him.
When Jiang Ran didn't listen to the things outside the window, and was wholeheartedly assisting Tsui Hark in filming "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars" and working hard to learn filmmaking knowledge, the time quietly came to April 13, 1981, and today the filming of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars" has entered the closing stage, and most of the people's scenes have been completed, and they are now filming the last scene.
"This is the last scene of the movie, let's fight for one, Ah Ran has already booked a hotel. Tsui Hark said to everyone as he stood behind the monitor.
Jiang Ran nodded with a smile, walked to the camera, closed the clipstick with a "click" and quickly exited the filming area, Guan Haishan (Old Man Hu) raised the champagne and asked Lin Zixiang with a smile: "I want to know, what use value do you have?"
Lin Zixiang also raised the champagne and said slowly: "I can help you cast another net and lure another group of big fish in." β
Guan Haishan said eagerly: "What big fish?"
Lin Zixiang said firmly: "Four families!"
Guan Haishan laughed and clinked glasses with Lin Zixiang and said, "Okay!"
"Stop! Now I announce that the filming of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Multi-Star" is complete, and the crew is finished!" Tsui Hark stood up and said loudly.