Chapter 938

In his previous life, Song Zheng never understood why Ning Hao had to shoot "The Great Gold Robbery" when he was obviously not fully ready, although after the release of this movie, the box office was good, but the evaluation from the outside world was not very good.

Song Zheng always felt that Ning Hao failed to shoot "The Great Gold Robbery", mainly because "No Man's Land" was continuously sent for trial and killed at that time, which affected Ning Hao's state.

At present, these big directors in China, in addition to Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, of course, Song Zheng is also one, in addition to them, I am afraid that it is Ning Hao.

He is the fourth director in China with a box office of over 100 million, and he is also a director who has only two well-known works that have become famous, even if "No Man's Land" was difficult to give birth to, but after its release, it did not hinder everyone's enthusiasm, so this situation represents Ning Hao's status in the minds of the audience.

Although, when "The Great Gold Robbery" was released in the previous life, "No Man's Land" was still banned, but with the reputation accumulated before, people were full of expectations for "The Great Gold Robbery" from the beginning.

Officially, because of this expectation, people take it for granted that "The Great Gold Robbery" will be a movie that must be better than "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", and even better than "No Man's Land", which most people had not seen at the time.

Obviously, it's hard.

If it is better than "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing", I am afraid that Ning Hao can still do it, but if it is better than "No Man's Land", which has been banned again and again, most people have become fanatical, "The Great Gold Robbery" obviously has no chance of winning.

What's more, this is a movie that is no longer a multi-line narrative, no longer crazy, and no longer a contemporary background, Ning Hao gave up what the audience is familiar with, and made something new that he had not tried before, the pseudo-Manchurian country, the main theme of the anti-Japanese resistance, and the love of the hero and heroine.

When Song Zheng was in the cinema, when he saw Xiao Dongbei playing Jesus in the first half of the movie, which caused the audience to burst into laughter and applause, he knew that the audience at this time was still expecting the crazy Ning Hao to continue to be crazy, but when the second half began to sacrifice non-stop, when Xiao Dongbei said "Some things are more important than life", the audience's silence made Song Zheng realize that Ning Hao was obviously a little difficult to overcome this catastrophe.

Overall, "The Great Gold Robbery" is a story that seems to be quite lively, the bewitching actress of the puppet Manchurian country, the revolutionary party of Wei Guangzheng, the second-rate revolutionary party, the gangsters, the old man of the Manchu Dynasty, the second forced crew, and the vicious Japanese officer, there are too many things that can be said, but the story that was very tense in the script was not reflected in the movie.

Song Zheng had already read the script that Ning Hao gave him, and he remembered that the first scene in the script was written on a black screen, and then a few big words popped out "Civilized movie, please don't make noise", followed by a political propaganda film of the puppet Manchurian country, and then the camera gradually zoomed out, showing a scene of Huang Bo and Sun Chun exchanging intelligence.

Song Zheng likes this beginning very much, first, it is fun, it uses an electric theater, and closely links the puppet Manchurian country 80 years ago with modern times, and secondly, there is a metaphor, the film became a propaganda tool for Japan during the puppet Manchurian period, and before the official film begins, there is always a bullshit short film of the big East and Asia.

However, Song Zheng remembered the version he had seen in his previous life, this paragraph was no longer the beginning, but Chef Fan's fat face was the first to come out, Song Zheng still remembered that when he was in the cinema, when he saw Chef Fan come out, everyone knew who he was, and they immediately started laughing.

Now it seems that the comedy effect is indeed stronger, but this scene in the movie theater has been greatly weakened, and Song Zheng is very puzzled, Ning Hao really needs to use this kind of monkey rush to prove to the audience: Am I still making comedy?

If he hadn't read the script, Song Zheng might not have regretted it, but he had read it, knew the excitement of the original story, and then connected with the version he had seen in his previous life, he couldn't help but regret it.

The most regrettable point for Song Zheng is that in the movie theater, a large number of monologues by Toriyama were arranged in the original script, which has the same role as "Inglourious Basterds", in the grinding and chirping of the Na Cui officer at the beginning, highlighting the insidious and vicious nature of this person, but it seems that in a hurry, the villain began to be ruthless in a few words, and the foreshadowing was not enough, and the effect was not good.

This situation also appeared on many occasions in the future, and every scene seemed to be in a hurry, as if Ning Hao just wanted to finish the story in 108 minutes.

But the question is, why does a story that can be told in 120 minutes have to be condensed into 108 minutes?

Isn't it okay to shoot a 120-minute scene?

With 12 more minutes and more films every day, does it really make sense?

Because of the hurry, the director, producer, tea, photography, and screenwriter scenes in the crew with different personalities and shapes have been greatly reduced, and because of the hurry, the conflict created by the daughter's forced marriage has been weakened, and because of the hurry, the love between Xiao Dongbei and the daughter's daughter seems abrupt and unconvincing.

Song Zheng still remembers what an audience member said to his friend at the end of the movie after watching the movie in his last life: It turns out that giving two big mouths can make people fall in love!?

If these cuts make the characters not shine, at most they can't achieve the icing on the cake, or they can't make people remember a male No. 8 Huang Bo like "Crazy Stone", then there are many problems with the gold robbery, the highlight of the whole movie.

Similar to this kind of theme that sets the goal from the title of the movie and wants to do a big thing in the movie, it is usually indispensable to "you come and go" on both sides of the movie.

In "The Great Gold Robbery", the positive side is obviously the crew team led by the actress Fang Die, plus a small Tohoku who keeps doing bad things, and the opposite side is Konosuke Toriyama and his Japanese army.

A movie about how gold was robbed, and in the middle of the movie, the gold was already in Fangdie's hands.

SO EASY！

This surprising approach is good, but the second half fails to maintain the relatively tight narrative of the first half, and begins to move towards sensationalism and deliberately creating dramatic conflict.

The gold was taken away by Xiao Northeast in a grand manner, and the gold bars with stamps were taken by Xiao Northeast to pay the rent.

Song Zheng watched it in his last life, and he couldn't wait to jump up and point at the ruffian on the big screen and shout: Isn't it stupid?

No matter how many years of rent that gold bar can pay, ordinary people still know how to use the serial banknotes separately after robbing the bank, doesn't Xiao Dongbei know that he has to find a black market gold shop to melt the gold first?

A broadcast can lead the entire crew to rush into the ambush circle undisguised and unprepared, shouldn't common sense be to sneak to the place where the gold is kept, and then go in?

Without any clear tactics, breaking through the heavily guarded minister's signing site with makeup alone is a fluke, then the next is stupidity.

Fang Die said everyone be careful, and began to draw guns and shoot indiscriminately, without any rules, the result was of course unexpected, the entire crew was wiped out, if the IQ of the Salvation Association was so low, then it is no wonder that the Northeast has been occupied by the Japanese for so long.

Song Zheng felt that according to Ning Hao's original thoughts, this should be a drama, at least a drama with a very positive aura, interspersed with humor full of wisdom.

However, in this way, this supposed drama has become the most distressing copycat drama.

Writing the 1930 puppet Manchukuo advertising signboard in a font that only existed in 1983 is nothing, perhaps most people don't know, but the clean streets, the sparse crowds, and the same street that keeps turning over and over, all the big things are solved in the church, in the governor's house, in the bank hall.

The dignified pseudo-Manchurian and Chau countries, are these only the only places where you can film?

It's not that it's not okay to use a scene over and over again, but who can stand up and explain, how did the eldest lady save Xiao Dongbei?

How did she meet Gogo-san?

It's also quite inexplicable.

The most unbearable thing is that the place where the small northeast finally settled is actually TM Church!

How did she know that the church was the base of Little Northeast and could let him hide, who told her?

Why did the well-behaved Japanese let the fifth brother be executed?

In the scripts that Song Zheng had read before, there were answers, Xiao Taohong did not die at the governor's house, and then was shot on the execution ground with Sun Chun.

In addition, the emotional scenes between Tao Hong and Sun Chun in the script were also completely deleted in the movies Song Zheng had seen in his previous life.

And on the execution ground, Xiao Dongbei saw the corpses of the two little actors he had deceived at the beginning, and the scene of imitating "Schindler's List" was gone, only in the flashback of Xiao Dongbei in the coma, a shot that would not be noticed at all.

Left and right, fragmented plots, unconvincing characters, coupled with the reduction of scenes and the rhythmless narrative of the whole movie, made "The Great Gold Robbery" finally become Ning Hao's own catastrophe.

At least in Song Zheng's opinion, the "Gold Robbery" he watched in his previous life is obviously not a satisfactory work.

Of course, maybe this is just the labor pain of Ning Hao in the process of trying new things, and maybe there will be more labor pains in the future. But Song Zheng still hopes that Ning Hao will be able to shoot this story, which should be very exciting, well and wonderfully.

Therefore, when Ning Hao vaguely expressed to Song Zheng on the phone that he was ready to start a new drama immediately, Song Zheng was still looking forward to it, but in addition to looking forward to it, Song Zheng was a little worried.

As for his previous life, why Ning Hao reopened the pit and filmed "The Great Gold Robbery" when "No Man's Land" was still banned and rumors were rampant, of course Song Zheng had no way of knowing.

But now "No Man's Land" has been released, although it was deleted and changed, but it was finally released, and the current box office results are not bad, and there are no competitors in the first half of the year, so that "No Man's Land" is now unbeatable on the box office list.

However, Ning Hao is not satisfied, so why is it necessary to shoot "The Great Gold Robbery" immediately in this state, which is worth pondering.

Anger?

Want to make another movie, and fully express a lot of ideas that were not expressed in "No Man's Land", and some shooting techniques, in the new movie?

Ning Hao may not have planned to do so.

"Aren't you going to take a break!?"

Rest!?

Ning Hao really needs to rest now, a "No Man's Land" has been tossed for more than a year, and he has already been exhausted, not to mention Ning Hao, a director who needs brain-burning filming for filming, even if it is a take-it-it-or-leave-it doctrine like Song Zheng, after filming a film, he also needs to adjust it before he can continue to work.

But~~~~~~~

"No, I want to work now, really, Zhengzi, just start working immediately, I really can't stand being asked about "No Man's Land" as soon as I go out!"

Song Zheng couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, "No Man's Land" was banned before, but after the release of "No Man's Land", it has indeed become the most attractive part of this movie.

As for the media who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, they will not let go of such a good opportunity, I am afraid that from the day of the release of "No Man's Land", some media have been preparing to dig deeper, and then sorted out a "Ning Hao's "No Man's Land" and a certain bureau have to say two or three things".

was originally forced to revise, and in order not to irritate some people, he had to say against his will that the revision was his own idea, and at the moment in the face of the media and people's discussions, no wonder Ning Hao would be annoyed.

Song Zheng can understand, but, Ning Hao's current state, can he shoot that story well!?

Of course, Song Zheng was thinking of the wonderful "Gold Robbery" in the script, not the messy story he had seen in the cinema in his previous life.

The first half of the original "The Great Gold Robbery" can still tell the story according to the script, but in the back, it is completely disjointed, and even except for the names of the characters, the content and the script basically have little to do with it.

"Shoot now!?"

Ning Hao was originally going to talk to Song Zheng about his thoughts, but who knew that when he suddenly heard Song Zheng say this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said, "Zhengzi, what do you mean by ~~~~~~ this!?

How can it be!

If you only stay at the script stage, Song Zheng even thinks that "The Great Gold Robbery" is the most exciting story among all the scripts given to him by Ning Hao, but the problem now is ~~~~~

"Brother Hao! your story is very good, but I have a question, can you be sure that such a big story will be told within two hours, and it will be told well!?"