When "Home Alone" is released, if they are the kind of top movie fans, they will definitely find a problem, that is, when the protagonist is chased by the police, the rhythm of the skating crowd on the river is very regular. If someone tells them that these group performers are people who have never been on camera, they won't believe it.

But this is a fact, because the director who made this drama is called Huo Que.

The filming of the location scene was very smooth, and the protagonist actor Abel who worried Huo Que the most became the person who made him the most relieved, he could quickly understand any word Huo Que said, he had the acting skills that Huo Que, who had been a group actor for five years and had two years of experience in graduating from the directing department, was amazed.

And the acting skills of the two heavyweight supporting roles he personally recruited Bridge and Daniel really surprised him, just like their appearance at the audition, it was very natural, what they acted like.

It's been two weeks since I came to this town, and the filming process is almost the same as Huo Que imagined, most of the location scenes have been filmed, if nothing else, in the remaining week, the location scenes of "Home Alone" will be all filmed.

March 9th.

Yesterday there was a heavy snowfall here, and according to the weather forecast, this should be the last snow in this place, and then the weather started to warm up and the snow began to melt slowly.

Also yesterday, Huo Que finished filming all the night scenes.

Today's shift ended a little late, and Huo Que came to his room after eating. After reading the script of "Death is Coming" that had been written from the drawer, Huo Que called Laurie and Alice, ready to ask them to see what they thought of the script and their understanding of the script.

The job of directing is not easy to do, and it is not as simple as letting you shoot a story. Among them, there is a very important point, and it is also the most important point for Huo Que, that is, the cognition of the script.

When it comes to scripts, we have to mention the importance of movie scripts.

For example, Ang Lee, the director who is known as the most expensive director of Chinese descent on the earth, is actually born as a screenwriter. He was able to embark on the road of directing, and because he is a good screenwriter, in 1990 he completed the script of the movie "Pusher", which not only brought him a bonus of 400,000 yuan, but also the opportunity to direct independently.

In 1992, he put his screenwriting debut "Pushing Hands" on the big screen, and then began his journey as a director.

And Quentin. Tarantino, the young man who worked as a salesperson in a video store, began to write scripts. In 1991, he used the $50,000 he earned from writing the script for "Deadly Romance" to shoot his third screenplay, "Reservoir Dogs"

His path is somewhat similar to Huo Que, and he also took his work "Reservoir Dogs" to the Sundance Film Festival, which received a great response immediately after its premiere. He then received an eight-million investment and then made his next screenplay, Pulp Fiction, which was nominated for eight Oscars.

Of course, I have to mention James. Cameron, "Alien", "Terminator", "Titanic" and other movies were all written and directed by him, which shows the importance of a script for the director. If you are given a vulgar script, no matter how strong your directing ability is, you will not be able to make a good movie.

The script is the key to the director, and the reason why many great directors can become great directors is because they can write scripts and select scripts.

And Huo Que understood this matter in the years when he was a group actor in his previous life, of course, what prompted him to see through this matter was the bad movies and bad TV series in his previous life.

All investors think that as long as they can hire a famous director or a group of big-name stars, they think they will make money.

They don't care about the actor's acting skills, and they don't care if they are suitable for the role, all they want is a gimmick, and the purpose is just to make money.

For a movie, half of the money for hiring actors is spent, and another third is spent on publicity, and the post-production zuò is like an animated film in the nineties. And if the screenwriter is not famous, maybe his script can't even reach one-ten-thousandth of all the expenses of the crew, so he makes a movie with such an attitude and shoots the movie with such a mentality, and the final result is a mess with a poor reputation, and the audience scolds them in the theater.

However, the fans who were hit by this reality, in that bombardment propaganda mode, repeatedly walked into the theater with the idea that maybe this movie would be better, and then scolded and walked out of the theater, and then the result was that domestic films will never be the opponent of imported films, whether it is at the box office or word of mouth.

Then there will be many people who say some cool things on the Internet, saying that Chinese people should support domestic movies and not worship foreigners.

But does it work?

It's definitely useless, because there are too many bad movies in domestic movies.

And the biggest problem with this problem is the script.

The Hong Kong films of Huo Que's previous life are the best examples, before the 90s, it was the heyday of Hong Kong films, with novel themes and interesting stories. In the 90s, Hong Kong films focused too much on plot stacking and star packaging, so the film genre was one-way, let alone author. Some people believe that the films of this period created stars, stifled the creation of directors and screenwriters, and made Hong Kong films go into decline.

After the 21st century, the sky of Hong Kong movies is already a haze.

The main culprit of this qiē is the neglect of the script.

Hong Kong directors have a characteristic of filming, that is, they only have a story outline before filming, and after the start of filming, they can only wait for the screenwriter to pass the script to be filmed that day before filming. Although there have also been some masterpieces, such as Cheng Xiaodong's "A Chinese Ghost Story" and Liu Weiqiang's "Crazy Boy", these are all individual cases.

Although Huo Que is not worried about a good script, he will still pay attention to this problem, and he can sink the luxury cruise ship "Oriental Hollywood".

Alice's place of residence is closest to Huo Que, Huo Que called her and came over, although it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, she was still dressed neatly, probably at work or doing something else.

"Is it for tomorrow?" Alice always had that expressionless expression.

"It's not." Huo Que pointed to the seat in front of his desk: "Let's wait for Laurie." ”

Alice sat opposite Huo Que, and she didn't feel unhappy about being called to work so late, in just half a month of working for Huo Que, her perception of Huo Que from the beginning had a qualitative change.

When I first came into contact with Huo Que, I felt that he had some talent, but he was as conceited as Alice, and he was still a little unconvinced in his heart, after all, the two of them graduated in one year and studied in the film directing department of the same level in the United States. She just wanted to gain some experience with herself, and the so-called learning was just a polite way to say it.

But after she followed Huo Que for a while, her mind changed, this young director is very skillful in controlling the set, no matter what age the staff can get along with them very well, his words are like orders when he is working, and no one has ever disobeyed.

There are also some of his techniques when filming are also very special, many of which cannot be learned in school, just like the scene on the river that day, maybe only he can think of the idea of using music to control the group performance.

"Bang bang!"

There was a knock on the door, Huo Que said "Please come in", and Laurie walked in in a panic.

"Director Huo, are you looking for me?" Laurie glanced at Alice's presence and couldn't help but feel a little strange, this woman didn't seem to have seen her except for filming at night, why did she come too.

Huo Que nodded and motioned for Laurie to sit down, and then said, "I wrote a script, how about you take a look at this script?" ”

With that, Huo Que handed the two printed scripts to Alice and Laurie.

The two didn't understand Huo Que's intentions, but they still took the script and read it carefully.

The script is different from the novel, there are not as many descriptions in the novel, so it looks fast, and in about half an hour, both of them finished reading the script.

"Alice, tell me what you think." Huo Que put away the script and said to Alice.

Alice frowned and thought for a while and said: "The ingenious combination of horror films and drama films is very novel from the script alone, if I am asked to shoot it, I will focus on the plot, and the description of horror will be lighter...... Of course, I don't make horror films, it's not my area of expertise. ”

Huo Que shrugged, he was used to Alice's confessional speech: "Laurie, you can talk about it." ”

"It's a good script, Director Huo is really a genius, I said on the plane that day I thought of an idea, but I didn't have a clue for a while, but in just ten days, you wrote the entire script." Laurie's face was serious, and Huo Que couldn't see that he was the slightest suspicion of sycophancy. He paused and said: "What I love the most and what I want to make the most is horror movies, but I am thinking about another question, that is, are horror movies made scary?" ”

Huo Que's eyes lit up, and Laurie's thoughts fit his thoughts very well.

Comedy is meant to please the audience, in other words, to make the audience laugh, whether you are humorous or nonsensical, the plot is developed to be funny.

And what about horror films? According to the reasoning, is it just to scare the audience and make them afraid?

Apparently not!

The Silence of the Lambs series, the Grim Reaper series, the Saw series, and so on are not. They are not only terrifying and thrilling, but also have a wonderful plot.

Laurie didn't want anyone to answer him, he took a breath and said, "I think the most attractive thing about horror movies is the anticipation of the plot extension in addition to the scare. Just like this script, the protagonist predicted that the plane would explode, and then took a group of people off the plane for his reasons, they thought they were lucky enough to escape, but they didn't expect death to follow, the plot is compact, suspenseful, if some horror and horror elements are added when filming, such as the bloody appearance of the deceased when he died, I think this film will definitely be a blockbuster. ”