Chapter 16: The Struggle of Ideas

Leaving the Ming Pao Industrial Building, Chen Yongren rushed to the subway station, it has been three days since the last time he came here, Chen Yongren has been staying at home these times and desperately coding words, three days to catch up with more than 70,000 words, in fact, not much at all, known as China's most written Ni Kuang can write more than 20,000 words a day in his novels, and he is constantly inspired; He just plagiarized according to the memory in his mind every day, and his arm was sore when he wrote 20,000 words, I don't know how Ni Kuang came over! Coupled with more than 10,000 words last time, he signed a contract with Shen Baoxin, Chen Yongren got a remuneration of 3,600 Hong Kong dollars, and now the monthly income of most people in Hong Kong is no more than this, he just copied the novel for four days to get this amount.

As for participating in Wang Jing's movie, he is only a cameo appearance, and the specific time will have to wait for Wang Jing's notice, the producer of this movie is Fang Yihua, who is famous for his careful budgeting, and the places that can save expenses will never be wasted, even if it is a box lunch money.

Chen Yongren is now going to the "Long River", last night he received a call from Jiang Sheng, the latter said that Zhang Che was going to start filming another movie, this time to Chen Yongren as the scene reporter, in the afternoon the company held a meeting to announce that Chen Yongren needed to go in time.

Chen Yongren entered the "Long River", Jiang Sheng had already seen the former, greeted him, and brought him to an old man, Zhang Che was wearing a pair of glasses, his eyes were peaceful, but Chen Yongren felt that it was like his own movie, Zhang Che had a fierce momentum, but it would not make people feel uncomfortable.

"Hello Mr. Zhang, I'm Chen Yongren." Chen Yongren's attitude is very respectful.

"Hmmm! Xun Qi entrusted you to me, and I sent you to Taiwan first without saying a word, you won't mind, right? Zhang Che said in a loud voice.

"You're joking, I've learned a lot from Brother Jiang!"

Zhang Che nodded: "I heard from them, you work hard over there, I heard that your goal is to be a director?" Seeing Chen Yongren nodding yes, Zhang Che praised: "Be ambitious, work hard, and come to me if you have any questions in the future!" ”。

Chen Yongren thanked him happily, and then Jiang Sheng reminded him, and everyone came to the conference room; The movie filmed this time is a monster martial arts film "Nine Sons of Heavenly Demons", and the actors are also several disciples of Zhang Che; After a brief introduction to the plot of the movie, Zhang Che began to assign work, all of them are the "Changhe" team, only Chen Yongren is a newcomer, but he does not violate the harmony, he looks familiar, and it didn't take long for him to mingle with everyone.

After the meeting ended, Chen Yongren found Jiang Sheng and asked, "Brother Jiang, does the company have a place to live?" ”。

"What?".

"As you know, my family is in Yuen Long, and it will take too much time to rush to work every day in the future, so I want to live here during the filming of the movie."

Jiang Sheng nodded and said: "You don't have to worry about this, our movie was filmed in Shaw Brothers Cinemas in Clear Water Bay, and there are many people who work there all night every day, and the rest of the crew is almost the same situation as you, just be with everyone when the time comes!" ”。

Chen Yongren and his parents called Guò to tell them about their recent situation, so that the two of them were reassured, and the next day they came to the Shaw Brothers Cinema in Clear Water Bay with everyone to start the filming of the movie, this time Chen Yongren stood alone, and he had to participate in the pre-preparation and post-production, so he was more attentive, and she did not forget to study, "Nine Sons of Heavenly Demons" is a monster martial arts film, which uses a lot of stunt shooting, before the special effects were not prevalent, the usefulness of stunts is very great, he works every day in addition to work, study, will still squeeze out a little time to write 10,000 words and send it to "Ming Pao", his novels have begun to be serialized, and the market has not reacted for the time being.

On this day, when the crew was resting, Chen Yongren was sorting out the shooting materials, Zhang Che and the movie star, also his godson Cheng Tianci, came over, the former saw Chen Yongren's attentive appearance, and said with concern: "Ah Ren, have you gained anything recently?" ”。

Chen Yongren looked up, hurriedly got up and replied, "Oh...... The technical aspects of stunt shooting are more rewarding. ”。

"Well, what do you think of this movie?".

Chen Yongren groaned for a moment and said in an astonishing voice: "Frankly speaking, I have no doubts about Director Zhang's ability, but I am not optimistic about the prospects of this movie!" ”,

The faces of the two changed when they heard this, and Cheng Tianci scolded angrily: "What do you mean by this? His voice was very high, and everyone around him looked at him curiously.

Zhang Che waved his hand at Cheng Tianci and said solemnly: "Can you tell me why do you have such thoughts?" ”。

Chen Yongren didn't take Cheng Tianci's reaction to heart, after all, this movie is starring him and serving as a martial arts instructor, and he said that Zhang Che's ability is no problem, and the latter must be the wrong thing; He cleared his mind and asked Zhang Che rhetorically: "I don't know what the director thinks of martial arts films and kung fu films in the current film market?" ”。

Zhang Che was stunned for a moment, but then replied: "The future is worrying!" ”。

"That's right, whether people change their thoughts or other aspects with time, it is impossible to eat only one dish for a lifetime, the audience has watched kung fu movies and martial arts films for decades, in fact, they have begun to get bored, I am not optimistic about this movie is not a question of the script or the people involved in the production of zuò here, but the taste of the audience and the film market itself, this movie is still an outdated concept and shooting method in my opinion, and the audience may not buy it." Chen Yongren explained.

Zhang Che sighed and said: "I have already realized the problem you said, now people like to watch those urban comedies of Xinyicheng and Golden Harvest, kung fu movies and martial arts films are indeed in decline!" I've been looking for breakthroughs in these two genres, but I've never had a clue! ”。 The disciples next to them also looked lost, most of them were born in kung fu movies and martial arts films, and their acting skills were not very good, if they didn't even use their good kung fu, it would mean that they were on the verge of unemployment.

"You said that the current shooting methods and concepts of martial arts films and kung fu films are too old, so do you have new ideas?" Although Cheng Tianci did not object to Chen Yongren's words in his heart, he did not let it go, after all, Chen Yongren was just a small scene.

Chen Yongren was stunned, he knew how to shoot it, but his current professional knowledge is still at the level of half-ass, and it is really difficult for him to say why, but what he is best at is to play profoundly, 30 years ahead of these people's thoughts, "Lost Trace Boxing" is his specialty, he organized the language, and said under the surprised eyes of everyone: "In fact, neither martial arts nor kung fu can be separated from fighting, I think the first thing is that the fighting style should be changed, can't be too rigid like now, you punch me with one kick and one move, followed by the core idea of the movie, such as the development process of martial arts novels, at the beginning of the chivalrous righteousness, the pursuit of personal heroism, but the new school of martial arts novels pay attention to chivalrous tenderness and the world of the family and the country, such as this year's movie "Life and Death" directed by Cheng Xiaodong, the use of lenses, picture composition, character modeling, editing and action design are very special, the style is outstanding, the image is extremely sharp, and it can be regarded as a benchmark, and "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" directed by Tsui Hark added special effects, which is also an exploration.

Zhang Che was surprised in his heart, in his eyes, Chen Yongren had just entered the industry, but he didn't look like a newcomer at all when he saw his understanding of movies, but at this time, he heard Cheng Tianci retort: "Cheng Xiaodong's movie "Life and Death" is not high at the box office, and "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" invested by Golden Harvest is known to be a loss-making business, and the way out you said is not very smooth. ”。

Chen Yongren explained: "That's because the concept is still immature, and I believe that after a period of exploration, it will not be long before the ...... can be realized."

"Ah Ren is right, I have also studied these two movies, they are very distinctive, these ** trendy directors are still very thoughtful, but unfortunately I am old and have no time to study new things!" Zhang Che's voice was lonely, and he continued with a sense of amazement: "Don't argue about this, what we want now is to make this movie and start work!" ”。

Seeing Cheng Tianci walking away with a cold face, Jiang Sheng and Lu Feng walked over, and the former spoke: "You said how did you provoke Senior Brother Cheng, he is very stubborn and arrogant!" ”。

"Yes! We don't usually dare to fight him or anything! I'll take you to make a compensatory deal for him sometime, and this matter will be over. Lu Feng also opened his mouth to persuade.

"Isn't it a loss? I didn't provoke him, I just said some of my thoughts according to the director's intentions, right? Chen Yongren was strange.

"Alas! You don't understand, Senior Brother Cheng is actually no problem, but there are two reverse scales, one is that no one can say that the master is not at all, and the other is that he values respect humility very much, you are just a scene now, but it caused a storm, and the two reverse scales were touched, he will not hate you, but he must not treat you, and let you apologize just to show him an attitude. Jiang Sheng explained slowly.

Chen Yongren was speechless, he didn't expect that there would be this kind of "good disciple of the Jianghu sect" now, he first thanked the two of them, and then said: "I won't apologize if I didn't do anything wrong, of course, I don't care how Brother Cheng treats me, I still like people with character, don't worry about the two brothers!" With that, he stepped aside and got to work.

Jiang Sheng and Lu Feng glanced at each other, and sighed in unison: "Another person with character!" ”。

On the other side, Chen Yongren sighed: "It seems that I am going to change places......."