117 [Sensation in Taiwan 1]
The main creative staff came to the stage, from the director to the actors, except for Wang Zijun himself, only Deng Guangrong was a star, and all the others were newcomers who had never heard of it.
Many insiders in the audience laughed secretly, and at the same time they were looking forward to the upcoming movie: they wanted to see what kind of freaks such a group of newcomers spent NT$10 million.
If it weren't for the presence of Jiang Jingguo and other bigwigs, I'm afraid everyone below would have laughed.
"Next, I would like to invite Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo, Vice Minister of Defense of the Kuomintang of the Republic of China and President of the Executive Yuan, to deliver a speech for the premiere!"
"Papapapa......" applause thundered.
Chiang Ching-kuo has not made many political achievements in Taiwan now, and most of these applause are aimed at his post.
"I won't delay everyone to watch the movie, here I just want to say one thing: the Republic of China is full of hope, Taiwan is promising, please look forward to it. Thank you! ”
After Chiang Ching-kuo finished speaking, he put down the microphone and stepped down, and this categorical remark made many people in the audience realize that Chiang Ching-kuo had just been transferred from vice president of administration to president (the status of the premier of the State Council on the mainland) last month, and became the number one administrative leader in Taiwan.
In fact, Wang Zijun has a lot of things about the film industry that he wants to say at the premiere, but forget it when he thinks about it, this kind of question is discussed privately with other peers, and there is no need to throw it out in public.
As the big screen pulled down, all the lights in the hall went out, and everyone invariably quieted down, staring at the big screen.
The screen lights up, a full page of blue appears, and a roll of film rolls from the right side of the screen to the center. Suddenly, a roar was heard, and a colorful tiger leaped out of thin air, its front paws holding down the rolling film. The tiger turned his head to look at the audience, and suddenly froze, the word "Wang" on his forehead suddenly enlarged, and a sharp stroke of the word "Shi" jumped out, one left and one right were lined up next to the tiger.
"Wang's Film Company?" Qiong Yao looked at the logo of Wang Zijun's company, couldn't help laughing, and said to Ping Xintao beside her, "Zijun is very ambitious, the logo of that company is to dominate the film industry." ”
At this time, there were no computer special effects, and Wang Zijun's entire logo appeared in the form of ink animation, but Li Feimeng's deep painting still gave people a shocking feeling.
Several party-run film companies still don't have any ideas, but the bosses of other private film companies are a little disdainful, and they are all sneering in their hearts.
In the past, the logo of Wang's Film Company passed, and the screen was black, and five big characters appeared - Wang Zijun's works.
Seeing these five words, those professionals smiled even more, an actor who had only filmed one love scene as a director for the first time, actually dared to type out his personal work without shame, which is really unbelievable.
"In the winter of the 32nd year of the Republic of China, the Yue Army dispatched more than 160,000 troops, including 5 divisions of the 11th Army and four puppet army divisions, and about 210,000 people from 16 armies and 42 divisions of the 6th and 9th theaters of our party, to carry out a bloody battle of Changde with Changde as the core......"
Lines of subtitles came over, for a full thirty seconds, clearly explaining the background of the entire battle and Changde's key surname for the whole battle.
But the dogmatic subtitles almost made people fall asleep, and the ridicule of the professionals became even more intense.
Just as everyone was asleep, the roar ......of the huge engine and the sound of the plane breaking through the air suddenly came out of the screening hall, pulling back everyone's concentration.
I saw several planes with military symbols passing in front of the nose, and papers kept falling from the planes, and the camera descended with the fluttering pieces of paper in the air, and a huge completed city appeared on the screen.
"Shhh The pure audience who watched the film was fine, but the film professionals gasped, they finally knew how the 10 million was spent. For this one shot in front of me, the set will take several months, what a luxurious show!
As the paper fell, the camera moved down, and it was the shot of the Changde defenders organizing the evacuation of the people.
This, how many extras do you have to have! At least 10,000 people!
These scenes were added by Wang Zijun temporarily, in order to make the entire Changde defense battle more real and complete, and the extras just asked the locals to change their clothes in the ancient county town where they were filmed.
The pieces of paper continued to float and finally stuck on the wall, and people saw that it was a letter of surrender dropped by the army. The melodious Changde silk strings sounded, and the camera pulled into the attic with the sound, and a beautiful woman wearing a white cheongsam and a classical and dignified woman was holding the pipa and singing:
"The water is clear, the water is long, Changde is a good place, the rice wine of the Taoyuan, the dripping sugar of the city, the dripping sugar of the city, the dripping of the river of the dripping fritters, a long row. Shuixi dripping tofu is like a city wall, walking to Deshan, looking back and touching the purse, but I saw two tickets and couldn't go back to my hometown, I couldn't see my father and mother, I couldn't go back to my hometown, I couldn't see my father's eyes, my eyes were tearful, and I was tearful......
These people, who were still savoring the film footage just now, were quickly attracted by Zhao Yazhi's play of Di Wanqing, thinking to themselves which company this actor is, and it will be a good candidate to shoot costume dramas in the future.
"This woman is so beautiful!" The ordinary audience in the back even began to discuss directly.
The people in the music industry who were present thought that this string tune was very good, and they had never heard it before, so they didn't know if it was a new work.
These distracting thoughts in the audience's hearts were quickly forgotten as the plot progressed, and when they saw the rows of artillery bombardment of the Yue army and the shells falling on the Deshan position, everyone was stunned - did they use real shells when making movies?
The director who has stayed in Europe and the United States understands a little bit in his heart, but he is also shocked by the big scene in front of him and is speechless, even Hollywood doesn't have such fun!
Especially when she saw a shell falling, the body of the [***] soldier in a trench was blown apart, blood clots were splashed everywhere, and only one arm could be found on the ground after the smoke passed, a timid female audience member behind her was directly frightened and cried, she thought that the person was really killed!
In fact, what was blown up was just a prop stuffed with pork!
Truth is Wang Zijun's movie concept, and it is something he insisted on in his last life! So this movie is far more shocking than "Bloody Lonely City" in that life.
Jiang Jingguo didn't expect Wang Zijun to be filmed like this, he hadn't seen it before he came, but he only heard that the person in charge of the audit kept touting it, which made him look forward to it. But at this time, the bloody scenes that appeared from time to time in the movie made him a little frightened when he watched it, is this kind of movie suitable for political propaganda films?
The most deeply touched are the veterans who have been on the battlefield, and they can't help but think of the brothers who died back then.
When they saw the commander of Tokuyama's defense running away with his henchmen at the critical moment when his brothers were blocking the enemy, the professionals and officials in front could still hold back, but those veterans and ordinary spectators scolded loudly.
In the later film, the process of escaping here is directly omitted, it looks dry, and there is no feeling at all. At this time, Wang Zijun used a tragic battle to render it first, which immediately aroused the emotions of the audience, until the admonished company commander in the back blew himself up and died in the country, and many people were already moved to moisten their eyes.
As the plot develops little by little, when Yokoyama Yong organizes a death squad to storm the city gate, the two sides first shoot at each other, and after the hand-to-hand combat, it turns into a tragic hand-to-hand combat.
Punching, mouth biting, headbutting...... One by one, the soldiers and the soldiers died together, and the bodies of both sides were still tightly hugged after death.
There are major changes in the film here, that is, Deng Guangrong, who plays the head of Rong, and Wang Zijun, who plays the commander of Feng's company, show their might in hand-to-hand combat, and finally pay a heavy price and finally annihilate the enemy's death squad.
"Good, good fight!" The most enthusiastic response was still the ordinary audience and veterans, cheering with tears in their eyes. In front of the bloody footage that was so cruel that it was almost documentary, watching the [***] soldiers fall one by one, even those in the film industry were moved, their throats seemed to be stuck by something, and they spoke with a whimper.
The prestige of Wang Zijun and Deng Guangrong aroused a sense of national pride, giving people a feeling that China cannot be bullied and the Chinese people are invincible.
"Kill!" As Wang Zijun brandished a bayonet on the screen, a veteran suddenly stood up and yelled, and then a row of veterans all stood up.
Now in northern Taiwan, ten old people are pulled out at random, and eight of them are veterans. But these veterans who were invited by Wang Zijun to watch the movie all have identities, and some of them are even related to Lao Jiang.
Seeing that they stood up in unison, Chiang Ching-kuo suddenly laughed, it seems that this film can be used as a patriotic propaganda film to promote it.
The corpses all over the ground and the wounded soldiers were in a panic when the audience was in a panic, until Yu Chengwan went to comfort the injured soldiers and shook hands with the soldiers one by one. He walked up to a young warrior who hesitated for a moment before finally extending his right hand, but only a bare wrist and a palm had been sawed off. Yu Chengwan took off the glove of his left hand again, and the soldier also raised his left hand, still a bare wrist.
The scene suddenly fell silent, not even a little music could be heard, and the camera kept switching to the general's facial expressions. Seeing this, the grief in the hearts of the audience finally reached a breaking point, and some people couldn't help but sob, until Yu Chengwan hugged the soldier, and everyone began to applaud.
Later, the plot of Wang Zijun and Zhao Yazhi's marriage finally alleviated the depression in everyone's hearts. However, this rare warmth was quickly broken, and the female No. 2 played by Lin Fengjiao was killed by the Yue Army, and even the protagonist of the film, Wang Zijun, was killed when he blew up the enemy's machine gun point...... The audience suddenly despaired, what could be more desperate than the death of the main character?
Those professional directors and screenwriters were directly stunned, how could they kill the protagonist in the film? Is the movie over?
The movie isn't over yet, the battle continues!
Wang Zijun's film lasted for two and a half hours, but it didn't let the audience rest at all. How many seconds are small**, how many seconds are big**, where to be comfortable, where to be tight, are all strictly calculated.
The mood of the audience has been completely controlled by him.
Seeing this, those professional filmmakers no longer have the intention of underestimating, and have even given up the professional angle, and enjoy the film from the perspective of an ordinary audience, feeling the tragedy and enthusiasm in it.
(To be continued)