1o8【Preparing for the construction of the cinema】

After the "Double Ten", Wang Zijun devoted his mind to the preliminary preparation of "Bloody Lonely City".

First of all, there was the problem of the shooting point, Wang Zijun took Chiang Ching-kuo's handwritten letter all the way unimpeded, and went to the land administration and other departments to collect information on the ancient city of Taiwan.

After getting the information, he personally took the train to go around one by one, and the famous Taichung Fucheng and Tainan Fucheng were not available, and could only be used for filming in some places. It took more than half a month to set the main filming locations in the two ancient county towns of Chiayi and Yunlin, and several mountains in the suburbs of Taipei County.

It's just that the architectural styles of these ancient cities are very different from Changde City, so they can only be temporarily renovated by a set master. However, in this way, these places can only be shot with large shots, and the flaws will be easily visible in the close-up.

Thinking of the end, Wang Zijun still decided to spend his own money to build a city himself. It's just that now the funds are not enough, and only the main city gate and a few sections of the city wall can be built, as well as some of the dwellings inside, and it is expected that 3 is enough. Then it was to buy land, he didn't just buy a piece of land to build a city, but was going to buy a large piece of land, and then slowly expand it when he had the funds in the future, and finally build a movie theater.

Due to the large amount of money to be invested in filming, the Guolian studio has no way to compete with Golden Harvest. If Wang Zijun wants to build his own film kingdom, then he must have his own studio, he can't repair it in a year, let's buy the land and repair it slowly, ten years should always be a bit large!

The location of the studio Wang Zijun was finally locked in Linkou Township, Taipei, which is where the future Taipei Ah Rong studio is located, and it is the same as the triple high school in Xinzhuang when Wang Zijun was studying.

The Linkou area is sparsely populated and the traffic is inconvenient, and the opening rate at this time is very high, and buying land is basically equal to giving it away for free, and 42% of the area here is flat terrace, which is very suitable for building a cinema. The other area is a large area of beautiful forest, which is a good place to shoot myths and films.

Wang Zijun first went to register a "Wang's" film company, and then applied to buy land to build a cinema, which was naturally quickly approved. He bought more than 2,000 acres of land for 5o years in one go, including terraces and part of the forest, and the cost was only more than one million yuan. However, these lands can only be used for building movie theaters and films, and the trees on the mountains cannot be cut down to sell timber.

These steps ran down, and I was busy for more than half a month.

In the past half a month, the bad news came that the Republic of China had withdrawn from the United Nations and had become a poor "orphan of Asia."

When Wang Zijun returned to Taipei, people's mood was a little depressed, and when he took a car around Taipei City, he would see several intellectuals sitting in silence.

Newspapers and magazines were full of anger and sadness, college students began to discuss the issue of going abroad, and many wealthy people were preparing to transfer their property abroad.

The atmosphere on the island suddenly became serious, in contrast to Li Long's "Tangshan Brother", which was finally introduced by Taiwanese filmmakers after being screened in Hong Kong. In the week since its release, it has been almost full, and it seems that people are deliberately escaping reality and turning their attention to the movie. Whenever Zheng Chao'an, a Chinese played by Li Long, violently beats a Thai monkey, the theater is frantically applauded, and some pessimistic people cry and make trouble.

The Taiwan authorities seem to be very calm, and they only protest against the UN decision with diplomatic rhetoric.

Wang Zijun now has little money left in his hand except for the money to build the city, and he wanted to hold a few more concerts to make money. Who knew that Jiang Jingguo actually sent someone to urge him to start filming quickly, Wang Zijun reported that he had no money, but the next day the bank came over with a loan of 10 million......

Suddenly, with this 10 million, Wang Zijun made a generous move, expanded the construction scale of Changde City to 5 million again, went to Tsinghua University and National Taiwan University to find experts and famous architects who studied ancient architecture, and designed the city according to the appearance of the original Changde City, until November, the studio finally started construction.

The matter of the studio came to an end for the time being, and Wang Zijun went to the army non-stop to find professional demolition personnel, and finally pulled up a team of more than ten people.

After applying for explosives and related devices, Wang Zijun and them worked all day and night in the mountains to conduct research.

You don't have to be able to play explosives to become a movie pyrotechnician, even in the mainland of later generations, there are mountains of movies and more than 100,000 minutes of TV series to be made every year, but there are only more than ten real licensed pyrotechnicians. A large number of second-knives that became halfway monks have become the mainstream of cost film and television works, so much so that accidents have occurred from time to time, the most famous being Selena and Yu Haoming who were shot were burned due to the mistakes of the pyrotechnician. ,

Wang Zijun only knows a little about the work of pyrotechnicians, and most of them stay on the final picture effect. And these professionals usually pursue lethality and stability, accuracy, and energy, and will not study how to burst out and look good.

As a result, Wang Zijun became the person who came up with the problem, and after making a request, a group of blasting experts began to study how to solve the problem.

For three months, Wang Zijun stayed with these people in the deep mountains and old forests, experimenting with the explosion effect again and again. The explosives spent in the past few months alone are more than 500,000 yuan, which can make a budget movie.

Wang Zijun, who had a stubble on his face and his head was full of mud and sand, was like a primitive person at the moment, lying more than ten meters away waiting to watch the effect of the explosion.

In the distance, there are dozens of scarecrows in the tunnels that imitate the trenches, while dozens of explosion points are made around them, ready to imitate the scene of Japanese artillery salvos.

This experiment has been repeated more than ten times, and each time it is either inaccurate in time, or the explosives are too powerful, shaking the scarecrow in the tunnel away. You know, these scarecrows are real actors when they are filming.

"Brother, there won't be a problem this time." Wang Zijun asked Chen Guanshui beside him in a loud voice.

Chen Guanshui is in his forties, he was a lieutenant colonel before he was discharged from the army, and he is one of the best demolition masters in the army. He had nothing to do at home every day, and when he heard his comrades-in-arms in the army say that Wang Zijun wanted to recruit someone to play with explosives, he immediately ran over to sign up.

In the past few months, after experiencing several tests of life and death, Wang Zijun has become so familiar with him that he can't be more familiar.

Chen Guanshui leaned there and smoked, and the detonation was naturally done by others, and he spat out the smoke before saying, "If there is another problem, Lao Tzu will not do it!" You are also very demanding, and you still want to get some kind of stone made of foam, which was blown up by explosives and smashed people, is it necessary? ”

Wang Zijun said: "Don't think it's difficult, the pyrotechnicians in the United States are professional, and they can control the flames of the explosion and rush to the actor's eyes one meter." ”

"You just brag." Chen Guanshui said disdainfully, "It took a few months for Lao Tzu to control it within one meter, and one meter is simply death!" ”

"Brother Chen, how about you come to my company to be a professional pyrotechnician? The monthly salary is 2,000, and the allowance is taken out during shooting. Wang Zijun took the opportunity to say.

Chen Guanshui glanced at him and asked, "Can you play with explosives every day?" ”

"It's not good to play every day, the work of the pyrotechnician is not only explosion, but also smoke, flames, snowflakes and other scenes, there are many fun, and it is definitely not less difficult than blasting." Wang Zijun instigated.

"Let me think about it." Chen Guanshui looked at his watch and beckoned into the distance.

"Boom, boom, boom......" Soon, dozens of explosion points detonated in succession, and from a distance it looked like a scene of cannon salvo. The dirt from the explosion continued to hit the scarecrow's body, but it did not hurt him in the slightest.

"We made it!" The demolition crews over there raised their hands and cheered.

Chen Guanshui finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Brother Chen, how are you thinking about it?" Wang Zijun asked.

"Okay, let's try it first." Chen Guanshui nodded and said.

Wang Zijun said happily: "Then you are the assistant director of my movie, specializing in the work of pyrotechnics." ”

If Chen Guanshui can join the company, then more than half of these people in front of him will stay. In the absence of professional pyrotechnicians in the whole of Asia, these people are definitely first-class talents.

It's just that after my movie becomes popular, I'm afraid that I will face the danger of digging into the wall, and I must sign a contract to trap them.

After three months of explosion experiments, these sturdy men were suffocated, and Wang Zijun invited everyone to a nightclub in Taipei to relax for a while, and these guys screamed. Those are all top sisters, where have they enjoyed these big-headed soldiers.

There was a team of sixteen people, and eleven were left in the end. Most of these eleven people are veterans, they are engaged in explosives in the army, and they can't be used at all when they come back from the army, and they only earn two or three hundred yuan a month when they work part-time.

Wang Zijun directly raised their salary to 1,000 per month, plus the allowance during filming, which greatly moved these veterans. They want to support a family, and a salary of only 1,000 is enough for them to work hard for Wang Zijun.

Originally, Wang Zijun was ready to be kind, and only signed their three-year contract once, but in the end, he signed it for five years.

Wang Zijun thought to himself: This is not my black heart, you brought it up yourself. ,

Seeing that the festival was about to be celebrated, Wang Zijun first went to the cinema in Linkou to take a look, where the main body of the city wall has been basically completed, and some private houses have been built, and it will be put into use in another month.

Buying a bag of things and bringing them home, Wang Ziyun looked at her younger brother with a tired look, and blamed him distressedly: "What have you been busy with in the past few months, no one can see it." ”

"Busy!" Wang Zijun smiled, "Is our food company okay?" ”

Wang Ziyun nodded and said, "Well, Cheng Sen's ability is very strong, and he manages the company in an orderly manner. There are now nearly 20 instant noodle companies on the island, and the competition is fierce. ”

Wang Zijun stared at his sister for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "You Cheng Sen just now, when did you call so affectionately, it won't be ......"

"What are you talking about?" Wang Ziyun's ears turned red, punched her younger brother, and turned around and went back to the house.

Wang Zijun scratched the back of his head and thought: My sister won't really fall in love with Qingxia's eldest brother, right......

The monthly ticket competition during the National Day is so ferocious, and the aunts are so fierce.