Chapter 178, The Dream of Chinese Films
In addition to the male and female protagonists Bruce Willis and Zhong Chuhong, there is another actor in "Die Hard" that Mo Fei attaches more importance to, he is Alan Rickman, who plays the negative role of Hans as the second male lead.
This guy graduated from the Royal College of Art and Drama in the United Kingdom, although he did not have any serious film acting experience before, but he has a lot of experience in drama and stage plays, as well as musical theater performance, and is a good actor with a lot of skills.
It may not be obvious how good he is now, but he knows that this is a promising actor, and he will be nominated for more than 30 awards in related art categories, and will win more than a third of them, and his performance will add a lot of points to the film.
In his previous life, Hans in "Die Hard" was played by him, and in this movie, he may not have left too much impression on all audiences, but when it comes to the other role he played, he is afraid that he will become famous all over the world, and it is the Professor Snape in the "Harry Potter" series.
Rickman is a very dedicated actor, and when he shot Hans falling from a building, he was asked to fall from a model more than six meters high onto an air cushion prepared underground. Like the previous life of "Die Hard", Wu Yusen asked Wu Yusen to let the stuntmen let go when he was counted to two, in order to shoot the most realistic effect, and afterwards this guy not only did not get angry and angry, but also praised Mo Fei's idea is quite good.
I think it was because of his temperament that he was willing to cooperate and would not cause too many problems, which ushered in more opportunities for him to act, and finally pushed him to the position of Best Actor at the British Academy Film Awards. And Mo Fei is also more sure that he can cooperate more with this dude, who is known as one of the "best villains in the film industry", in the future, such actors are becoming more and more difficult to find.
The filming process of the film has been smooth, and many departments in Singapore have arrived in advance, and the film was filmed in Singapore, so they did not give too much difficulty. Wu Yusen's work did not encounter any major obstacles at all, but this movie still caused a lot of trouble.
I remember that in my previous life, when the filming of "Die Hard" was filmed, almost an entire floor of the building was blown up because of the explosion scene, and this time he specially rented a half-demolished building in Singapore as a filming location for the explosion shot.
I thought it should be safer, how do I know that Wu Yusen's courage is not ordinary, in order to pursue a more realistic effect, he asked the engineer, he actually buried enough explosives in the building to blow up a crack in the building, the explosion on the day of the shooting directly shook all the people within almost ten kilometers nearby, many citizens thought that they had encountered an earthquake or tsunami, and hurriedly ran out of the bed to prepare for escape.
According to incomplete statistics, the explosion disturbed at least 30 percent of the local citizens, and some improvised engineering facilities had problems because of the explosion. If it weren't for Mo Fei's timely handling, and the local political axe wanted to win over Mo Fei, a "big man" in the Hong Kong film industry, to shoot more Singapore-related movies, the crew would have to compensate at least about 500,000 US dollars to solve this matter.
Mo Fei really can't figure out how big a heart Wu Yusen's body is not tall or fat, so that he can turn violence into an aesthetic, and filming explosion scenes is even crazier than those crazy Hollywood directors.
There is a "beast director" in Hong Kong, Mai Danxiong, who dared to throw the "dead body" onto the railroad tracks during filming, so scared that the train driver almost derailed the train and overturned. But compared to Wu Yusen, it is estimated that it is a little worse, and Lao Wu has woken up more than thirty percent of Singaporeans.
As a result, Mo Fei also has a deeper understanding of Wu Yusen, dares to play big scenes, and is not afraid of the scene getting out of control, and can send and receive freely at critical moments, this guy is a blockbuster material, no wonder he mixed well in Hollywood in his previous life, presumably he will be even more powerful in this history.
Although this incident added some thrills to the filming of the movie, it was also a good opportunity for publicity, so that the 500,000 US dollars saved and not used for compensation should be taken out of 100,000 yuan, and people should contact all the big newspapers that could be contacted, whether it was accusation or surprise, in short, to blow this matter to the big side.
Wu Yusen felt that he was crazy enough, but he didn't expect that Mo Fei was crazier than him, and directly spent money to publicize this matter, as if he was afraid that others would be too welcome if Phoenix Culture made a film in the future. Using this method to promote movies is really not something that ordinary people can do.
The two madmen admired each other in their hearts, and while they sympathized with each other, they both felt that they had found a confidant, Wu Yusen was even more determined to follow Mo Fei, and Mo Fei also put Wu Yusen in a higher position in the company.
After the filming of Honggu's scene in Singapore was completed, Mo Fei stopped staying and returned to Hong Kong with Honggu, there are still a lot of scenes waiting for Honggu to shoot in "Taiping Mountain", this is the first movie in the summer.
The film "Taiping Mountain" is basically adapted from the original movie, which is completely in line with the aesthetics of Westerners for romance films, and there is no age restriction for such a film, so Mo Fei does not have too many worries about this film.
Just because of respect for these films, he will deliberately retain some of the style of the original film, or what are interesting aspects of the original film during the filming process, he will try to leave it as it is.
For example, in "Taiping Mountain", the blue door in "Notting Hill" is followed, including the mother and son who appeared on the road outside the bookstore three times in the same costume and posture in the original version, but they were all deliberately added. In the original version, the bald-headed Omid Gia Lili made a cameo as the cashier of the coffee shop, and the similarly bald-headed Mecca was also invited to make a cameo.
and Anna was asked how much she earned in her last movie at the birthday party, and Anna replied that the fifteen million was the salary of the heroine of "Notting Hill", so she also arranged this paragraph, and also mentioned Honggu's salary of 15 million. In other words, with Honggu's current box office influence in the European and American markets, she is indeed worthy of such a salary, and she should also be the highest-grossing star in Hong Kong movies.
And Anna's boyfriend in the film, who is about to leave, is also made a cameo by Mo Fei himself, this is not because there are any bad scenes, anyway, there is only a little bit of the role of this role, and it is more troublesome to find actors, and the surname Suo can go into battle in person.
There is a part in the film where Anna meets her boyfriend in the hotel, and in excitement, she rushes over and hangs on her boyfriend, who treats Gao Liang as a waiter in the hotel and asks him to get ice water, saying that his girlfriend likes that, and only ice water can satisfy her.
Mo Fei didn't expect it now, it was because of the scandal between him and Honggu, after the release of the film, this paragraph was considered by many people to be the routine that Mo Fei and Honggu used to playing, which further confirmed the scandal between the two.
After watching the movie, many fans began to study why women like ice water and what they would do with ice water.
And after filming "Taiping Mountain", the finals of "Miss Asia" ended, and Honggu had to go north to the mainland to Yanjing to shoot many scenes of "Farewell My Concubine".
Compared with the relaxation of "Taiping Mountain", in the film "Farewell My Concubine", it is necessary to put a lot of effort into it, otherwise it will not ruin the film if it will not get the award it deserves.
In the previous life, "Farewell My Concubine" was the only Chinese-language film to win the Cannes Palme d'Or, if it weren't for Chen Kaige's false account in dubbing, it is estimated that he would not even be able to get the Palme d'Or this only time.
At that time, this film was co-produced by the mainland and Hong Kong, and Zhang Guorong had practiced Peking Opera and Mandarin for a long time in order to make this film, and there was no problem with chatting and farting, but in post-production, he still couldn't coordinate because of accent problems, so he had to use dubbing to complete it. As a result, except for the clip of Cheng Dieyi's voice when his voice was in a "distorted state", the rest of the dubbing was completed by mainland actor Yang Lixin, and it reached the level of being fake.
The top film competitions will have requirements, and all participating films must be completed by the actors themselves to complete all the voice effects, otherwise they will not be rejected. So in order to compete for the award, after the film was completed, Yang Lixin's name did not appear in the behind-the-scenes list.
Mo Fei has the experience of his previous life, and when he was preparing for this film at the earliest, he took into account related and similar issues, especially when selecting the actors of Cheng Dieyi and Duan Xiaolou in his childhood, he specially proposed the two items of "trying to blur the pronunciation of Mandarin as much as possible" and "partial Cantonese Mandarin" to match Zhang Guorong's accent. As for Zhang Fengyi, the actor of Duan Xiaolou, Mo Fei is also ready to let him use the local Mandarin of his hometown to talk as much as possible, and the other characters in the film are the same. In fact, this is also more in line with the characteristics of the Republic of China period, when the official dialect was far from being so popular, and people with various dialects were everywhere, even in the capital, the language was impossible to be uniform.
In terms of Cheng Dieyi's singing segment, Li Hanxiang also considered it very thoughtfully, and specially invited Fan Juhua, the head of the Fan family's class, to sit in person and prepare to teach Zhang Guorong sentence by sentence, and then pick up the film sentence by sentence, that is, it took a little effort in post-production.
This is the advantage of using a veteran director like Li Hanxiang, who has a considerable understanding of the things of the old era, and can also have ways to deal with the problems that arise in the production process of various films.
"Farewell My Concubine" is ruthless, and he will do everything possible to get a grand prize back, otherwise he will be so sorry for the more than 30 years of history. And in Mo Fei's plan, this film is also his first step into the Cannes Film Festival, and whether he can use the Cannes Film Festival as a springboard on the road to soaring, the role of this film is crucial.
Beginning in the sixties, and before Fahrenheit 911 in two thousand and four years, the Cannes Film Festival was at its most relaxed. With the continuous development and progress of the international film industry in a more liberal and commercial direction, the Cannes Film Festival has also launched a number of competition units such as Director's Fortnight, Kaleido, The Taste of Time, Compound Past Tense, and A Kind of Attention in addition to the main competition unit.
And after 04 years, Cannes will once again be tied to the chariot of France's national interests from time to time, either to oppose the United States' Iraq policy, or to cooperate with the promotion of its own Iran policy, in short, the Cannes Film Festival is not so clean again.
Therefore, during the period from the 80s to the early 21st century, the Cannes Film Festival almost completely downplayed the "national surname", and this period was a good time to show its strength at the Cannes Film Festival.
Mo Fei understands very well that if you want to realize your dream in the world film circle, you must seize these opportunities one by one to prove that you are incomparably strong in this industry, and only in this way can you make the voice of Chinese films that make the world tremble. (To be continued.) )