Chapter 247: The Murder Bell Appears
The release of Transformers has caused a lot of repercussions among children and even many adult men, and this thing is indeed very attractive to people who like it.
This kind of big attention is actually not popular, and the attention in the circle may earn a lot, but it is still limited to the circle, and what really makes "Transformers" popular is the broadcast of the first season of animation.
The current cartoon broadcast on the entertainment channel is a format of two episodes of animation broadcast every day on Saturday and weekend, one episode of "Robot Cat" on Saturday, followed by one episode of "Transformers", two episodes of simulcast, one episode is mild and interesting of the family carnival type, and the other is a handsome and exciting robot, the former takes years to broadcast to form feelings and be remembered for a long time, and the latter is remembered by everyone in a short period of time and has set off a huge trend.
Toys are just things that can't move, but animation gives life to toys, characters and stories, and toys with these are more than just toys.
The toy was already on sale before the animation began.,Because the story is not clear.,So the sales are relatively average.,But after the animation came out.,Optimus Prime's sales jumped to the first place without surprise.,Then,Not only the people who paid attention to this work before.,The whole society also paid attention to the Transformers cartoon.。
Everyone was amazed by Fan Cheng's whimsy.
Robots that can transform or something can't be considered particularly novel ideas, even if there is no Japan, even if such ideas do not appear in a special system, after entering the 90s, there are still some similar works, but Fan Cheng's works are certainly not so simple.
The biggest surprise was the details revealed in the Transformers anime.
The complete story, almost every moment of the screw has its position deformation, etc., is so complete, Fan Cheng's work, from the first episode of the broadcast, shows amazing integrity.
And Fan Cheng's purpose in doing this, in addition to making money and animation, is of course the big movie of Transformers in the future.
The big movie "Transformers" may have had a lot of criticism since the second part, but there is no doubt that this is a huge IP all over the world, as long as it is operated well, each work can earn hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, which is also rare, created by Japanese ideas, but popular all over the world, and even affects several generations of large-scale works.
Whether it's a talent show or an animated toy, these are all part of Fan Cheng's work, but they are also not so important parts, or to put it another way, these jobs are still the foundation parts of the bigger work in the future, and in the next few years, these jobs may play a role and have an impact, as for now, the three movies that started successively are the most important things.
The filming of "Midnight Bell" has begun, Fan Cheng invited a director named Bai Gang, this is not a director who specializes in shooting horror films in Chinese, Fan Cheng deliberately did not invite a horror film director, horror movies are actually something with more personal characteristics, the same plot, change the director, the rendering of the film may be different, Bai Gang was just a third-rate director who was not very concerned before, before Fan Cheng found him, he had not worked for half a year, speaking of the director's line, Commercial film directors and art film directors usually have their own pursuits, but there is also a type of director called ordinary director.
Literary films? Commercial films? This kind of director is not so pursuing, they may enter this industry for various reasons, their purpose may be just to eat, and their biggest thought may be to occasionally subtly rule an actress while eating.
Bai Gang originally thought that his career as a director would be like this, he had given up his efforts, who knew that at this time, Fan Cheng's invitation came.
is also a director, the difference between Fan Cheng and Bai Gang is very different, Fan Cheng controls the company by himself, invests by himself, controls the shooting by himself, and also makes a red one, Bai Gang does not have this luck and strength, the two films he made before are ordinary commercial films with very low investment, from the plot to the actors, there are no highlights to be desired, as for himself, he has been tempered for many years in this industry.
Fan Cheng's side, in fact, will choose Bai Gang, everyone in companies other than Fan Cheng is also very surprised, Bai Gang is a very ordinary little director, Fan Cheng's side is hot, Bai Gang probably dreams of shooting Fan Cheng's script, but Fan Cheng should have more choices.
As for Fan Cheng's thoughts, it's actually very simple, what he wants is not looking for a talented director but a director who is easy to control, maybe for directors and filmmakers with ambition, the work must be controlled by themselves, if my work is criticized by the screenwriter by the investor, then I would rather not shoot.
Normally, there is nothing wrong with the director's idea, but Fan Cheng's situation is special, he already has his own concept of the movie in his heart, so the director or something, just like his TV series, can shoot what he wants in a proper manner.
As for the person in control of this work, Fan Cheng is the largest in the entire crew, Fan Cheng is the art director, this beauty finger was specially found by him, and even polished with Fan Cheng at the beginning of the script, almost all the shapes of the entire script were made by her and Fan Cheng, she may not understand much about the filming of the movie, but no one knows better than her what kind of picture is needed in the end, what kind of growth performance Bai Gang will have after filming this drama Fan Cheng doesn't know, At least this beautiful finger can definitely be a good director after filming.
Such a crew is non-mainstream and it doesn't sound good to say, and there is no work with high artistic value when filming, but there is no doubt that such a crew will definitely be very obedient, and Bai Gang will not dare to confront Fan Cheng if he has 10,000 guts, so under the leadership of Bai Gang and Mei Zhi, the filming of the film has entered quite well, thanks to them, Fan Cheng also has time to grasp the casting of his "Murder on the Orient Express".
After finalizing Wang Gang as the leading actor, the selection of other characters is much faster than the protagonist.
But no matter what, this is a movie, and it is Fan Cheng's first time serious, he wants to make a word-of-mouth work, and even a movie that wins awards abroad, the degree of care is incomparable to that of TV dramas, so even the supporting roles are selected by him one by one.
The filming period of "Midnight Bell" has passed in a flash, during this time, the animation and variety shows of the variety entertainment channel have developed separately, and the TV series also continue to launch popular works, it is worth mentioning that the schedule at nine o'clock on Monday is finally no longer Fan Cheng's script after about two years, not only the work of Fan Cheng's screenwriting team, but also the "wild" screenwriters outside the company have also provided works to the TV station.
In fact, there are screenwriters who provide works from the beginning of the schedule, but Fan Cheng is not very satisfied with the works provided before, the screenwriters were not used to the style of nine o'clock on Monday, and the script they wrote at that time was simply a shortened version of the traditional Chinese TV drama script, this kind of script is usually very detailed at the beginning, but because the plot is very short, it will end as soon as the plot is rolled out, and it will always give people a feeling of unfinished, after about two years, the screenwriters finally gradually got used to the narrative method of averaging about eleven episodes per quarter, Although these works are still a little sound in Fan Cheng's opinion, he is still very optimistic about Huaxia screenwriters, Japanese TV drama works have their own unique style and he likes it very much, but he doesn't think that the level of Chinese creators is poor, as long as there is a suitable soil, Huaxia screenwriters and creators can also create good enough works.
During this time, the filming of "Midnight Bell" was also known to the outside world.
Because of the high popularity of "Battle Royale", there are more people who pay attention to the film production on Fan Cheng's side, and the way Toho Film and Television Production announces the movie is that the plan for the next movie is announced after the release of each movie, so when the release of "Battle Royale" ends, "Midnight Bell" is also announced.
Along with the general content of the film, there is also a makeup poster of the main character of the movie.
The black set, the woman in white but her face covered by her hair, is shrouded in a terrifying and terrifying atmosphere, it is obvious that this is a more standard horror film than the previous "Battle Royale".
The outside world doesn't know what to do with Fan Cheng's new moves, when he filmed "Battle Royale" before, everyone was not optimistic, and they all felt that Fan Cheng's challenge was very unscrupulous, but after the work came out, everyone shut up, "Battle Royale" has a very deep plot, the shooting technology is also good, the investment is not much, but the box office is also very good, it can be said that although this is not a perfect work that can be recorded in the history of movies and cannot be faulted, but at least in this investment, the results of "Battle Royale" are perfect, Art films do not have such a high box office as it, and the requirements for awards are also higher, while commercial films require a lot of investment, film scheduling, and popular stars.
With such a previous work, when he came up with his own work again, everyone's confidence in him was much higher.
But if you want to say how much you expect, it is not necessarily true that Fan Cheng's new work must be amazing, one of the reasons is that the creation cycle of Fan Cheng's works is too short......
The youth trilogy is very fast, and now the schedule of "Midnight Bell" is faster, and the entire filming period is only four months, this is a movie, although some directors claim to be able to make a movie in ten days, but that is basically caused by the special environment of the special era, the shooting of real movies, especially the shooting of their own investment, who doesn't want to polish it carefully and shoot a perfect work?
Real film shooting, when it is promoted, it is too common to devote yourself to creating for a year, polishing and shooting for two years, and even having a script shooting plan ten years ago.
And Fan Cheng makes movies, one after another is like creating on an assembly line.
Do you think such a work will become a classic?
If this can become a classic, it will be too child's play.
What's more, this is a horror movie, a horror movie or something, it will always be niche, only something that some people watch, and you can't expect this kind of thing to be liked by a large number of audiences.
Therefore, everyone is still intellectually not optimistic about this "Midnight Bell".
This suspicion continued until the film was all filmed, and Fan Cheng sent the first cut of the film for review, and the first batch of private, very small circle evaluations finally came out.
All the comments came from the members of the review team who reviewed the film, and of course, because of the confidentiality agreement, they couldn't say much.
But a simple evaluation of the film came out.
As for the evaluation, these people's statements are actually very simple, and they only have two words to say.
Terrible!
Or a little more complicated: it scared the hell out of me!
Everyone wanted to talk and stopped, and even wanted to talk to Fan Cheng and Uncle Fan, so they said a little more, and they didn't talk about the work but said seriously: "I also participated in the review of "Battle Royale" before, and I thought that Uncle Fan was sick at that time? If he wasn't sick, then this work would be a little worried about the new words, although he did shoot it very well.
But after reading this "Midnight Bell", I don't think there's anything to say, he is just a very simple neurosis, there must be countless dark things in his head, it's terrible, we have been teased by this kind of person countless times before, it's hard to understand, how sunshine and darkness coexist in his mind! ”
Although such a voice came out, everyone was also very skeptical and didn't take it very seriously, and then, another reaction from the review team made people who paid attention to this movie really curious.
The review team said that serious discussions are underway to impose special restrictions on the release of the film.
What are the special restrictions? All viewers must come in a group, and anyone with heart disease or similar conditions is not allowed to watch!
This reaction made everyone care, Fan Cheng's last "Battle Royale" was already very scary, but no one ever mentioned restricting the audience or anything like that, as for the horror movies in Huaxia before, they never said that they had made such a big formation, but now the review department has made such a decision, obviously, the other party feels that this movie needs to make such preparations!
It seems that this movie is really scary!
A small part of the circle of horror movie fanatics is curious.
Everyone is speculating about what kind of work this "Midnight Bell" will be.
In the discussion, the mainstream discussion is mainly inclined to the fact that this work is likely to be an American-style horror film, because most horror movie fans have seen Fan Cheng's previous "Battle Royale", which is a movie with a lot of plasma and even horror pictures such as severed heads.
As for the terrible woman on the poster that was released before, it should be just a gimmick, right?