Chapter 229: Going Backwards
From the opening reception of the (Red Flower Society) to the exposure of "The Birth of a Word", all kinds of discussions and speculations in the outside world have not affected the mood of Chen Jialuo and others, who are now working hard for the first movie of the Red Flower Society, and they have no time to care about these reports.
"The Birth of a Word" is different from other movies, the context and line need to be clarified, and the filming narrative technique cannot be confused, so as not to make the audience dizzy.
Chen Jialuo this time the producer and director directly shoulder-to-shoulder, while You Dazhi served as the executive director, Wu Huo served as the assistant director, the camera crew was led by Liu Haitang and Du Kefeng, and the art direction and art design were all handed over to Zhang Shuping to be personally responsible.
In terms of actors, Liang Jiahui and Zhang Xueyou have both been finalized to serve as the male number one and male number two, corresponding to Zhang Meng and Qiu Shuzhen. In addition, most of the main supporting characters, such as Ah Gou's subordinates, Sheng Gong and others, are directly selected in Yongsheng Company.
Judging from the cast alone, this is definitely a small investment movie. But in fact, if you shoot according to Chen Jialuo's requirements this time, the funds required will not be less than that of some big cast lineups.
All the preparatory work on the side of the Red Flower Club has been arranged, and the filming of "The Birth of a Word" has naturally been excavated by these omnipotent reporters in Hong Kong.
As soon as the news came out, the whole city was in an uproar!
"The pioneering work of the Red Flower Society - Liang Jiahui takes the lead. 》
"Liang Jiahui, Zhang Xueyou, Can Two Green Leaves Afford the Box Office?"
Is Chen Jialuo overconfident, or is it because no one invests?
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This time, the outside media's reports on this matter are not all one-sided, although Liang Jiahui and Zhang Xueyou are not convincing at all, but gangster-themed movies are indeed a hot theme in the Hong Kong film market now.
And the "A Chinese Ghost Story" series and "Prison Storm" are in front of them, who dares to question Chen Jialuo rashly, and therefore, many media have maintained a wait-and-see attitude, and many fans who recognize Chen Jialuo's brand are looking forward to this movie.
Compared with the wait-and-see from the outside world, insiders and many film critics are very optimistic about Chen Jialuo. They don't need to use the box office to measure whether a movie is Waterloo, but simply feel that Liang Jiahui's acting skills have a lot of room for improvement, Zhang Xueyou is not bad, and with Chen Jialuo, they can come up with an excellent work.
The youngest Academy Award actor and the youngest Academy Award Best Director teamed up, maybe they could concoct a classic work?
There are countless examples of this kind of not being favored and turning into a dark horse, and Chen Jialuo himself is like this.
In "A Chinese Ghost Story" that year, Leslie Cheung was not favored like Wang Guxian, and later swept the box office, and both of them became first-line superstars in the film industry.
Another example is "The True Color of Heroes", which opened the gangster film dynasty, a street director who returned from exile in Taiwan, with a box office poison, an outdated martial arts star and a little king in the music world, unexpectedly created a legend.
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However, Chen Jialuo didn't care about many doubts or comments from the outside world, and those various reports with mixed reviews were often taken out by him as stories to share with You Azhi and others.
The movie "The Birth of a Word", in fact, the structure of the film imitates Kieterovsky's "Blind Mistake", the gangster character A Dog faces two choices at the intersection of his 32-year-old life, one is to continue to mess around, and the other is to do a vigorous job, and the film develops into two assumptions.
The theme of the film is absurd, and the design of the characters is also very funny, under the shooting of the ultra-wide-angle lens swinging back and forth, it seems to be a portrait in a haha mirror, with obvious anti-trend emotions, extremely satirical and sarcastic about the popular old boy and the underworld phenomenon, and also highlights the unpredictable fate in the changing times.
The idea of the film comes from "Blind Hit", and the theme is that character determines destiny and people win the day. An individual's personality can affect not only oneself but also the fate of others. If you have courage, you will be in position, and if you have no backbone, you will die like mud.
In this way, although the film has the form of the former, it does not have the artistic conception of the former. Purely commercial films, the creator uses interesting film language to lay out an ordinary story, the lens language, especially the handheld photography creates a shaky, real image style, and the wide-angle lens brings exaggerated and deformed effects to the characters, which plays a role in the cold atmosphere and impact of the film.
The movement of the camera is basically detached from the audience and the scene, with an authorial style. The lines are also interesting. It can be said that the theme is expressed with creativity and style, and the ideas are conveyed through images and structures.
The movie "Blind Collision", Chen Jialuo has watched it many times, and "The Birth of a Word" is just a way to do it, and the actual shooting will be shaped into a more successful commercial film.
In fact, this time Chen Jialuo's pressure is quite large.
In his current form, it is difficult to invite box office appeal superstars, but on the other hand, once Liang Jiahui, Zhang Xueyou and others are successful, and "The Birth of a Word" is successful, then the most successful person is Chen Jialuo.
Whether it is said that he relies on Golden Princess Entertainment Co., Ltd., Xu Xian Film Studio, the puppet director of paper airplanes, or the superb performance of Zhou Yunfa, Leslie Cheung, Wang Guxian and others, or good luck, etc., will be swept away.
Similarly, in addition to the pressure of behind-the-scenes filmmakers such as Chen Jialuo, Liang Jiahui and Zhang Xueyou are also fully committed to studying the script.
Now the outside world has not yet exposed that Liang Jiahui and Zhang Xueyou will play the starring roles, once this matter is exposed, then the pressure they are under can be imagined.
If the movie succeeds, then they succeed. If the movie fails, in fact, they will suffer a major blow in their careers.
Chen Jialuo has proven himself, so why did he fail this time? Because he used them as the starring role! Zhang Xueyou is okay, he should really be a singer in his own job. And Liang Jiahui, after all, is the youngest actor at the Academy Awards, although he has been banned for a while, if he fails in movie performance, he will become a laughing stock, and his pressure can be imagined.
Almost the entire company of the Red Flower Club is now operating for "The Birth of a Word", and everyone is working overtime around this movie, all kinds of preliminary preparations, and the pressure is also imaginable.
In such a situation, Chen Jialuo was wrapped in the glory of the summer box office champion, opened the Red Flower Club, and ushered in the opening ceremony of the pioneering work - "The Birth of a Word".