"Director Li, do you plan to keep making TV series in the future?" Ling Shizhe asked, filming TV dramas in Hollywood is not as barbaric as Hong Kong, although they are all broadcast while filming, but Hong Kong broadcasts one or two episodes a day, and the crew is as tired as dogs; And Hollywood airs one episode a week. ∈ ↗ top novel,

The content of the comic "God of Cooking" is very long, and the story plot is far more than ten times that of "Da Chang Jin" in the previous life, even if it is made into a TV series, no matter how much the content of the comic is cut, it will take more than 160 episodes to finish the story, and more than 160 episodes will be filmed at the rate of one episode per week in Hollywood, 52 weeks a year, and it will take two and a half years to complete the filming.

During this period, you also have to take into account the time of the crew members on vacation, visiting relatives, and getting sick; This is not counting, Canada's ** law stipulates that workers still have a statutory system of 45 days of paid leave every year, even if Li Hanxiang, Lin Qingxia and others are from Hong Kong and Taiwan, they can not follow the laws of Canada, but the Canadian employees in the company, you can't do things in accordance with Canadian laws, right? When the time comes, the whole crew can't even take a holiday.

Moreover, Hollywood TV series are all produced on a seasonal basis, so it will take at least 4 years for "God of Kitchen" to be filmed. Has Li Hanxiang been filming TV series for so long?

"Of course I don't make TV series all the time, I still know the TV production model of Hollywood." Li Hanxiang explained with a smile: "I plan to shoot only this season this year, and by next year's 76, I will start shooting my second film"

"You leave next year, who will shoot "God of Cooking"?"

"I have discussed with my wife that the filming of "God of Kitchen" will not be delayed at all, and my disciple Li Ke will be the director of "God of Kitchen" in the second season next year, she has been serving as an assistant director in the director team of "God of Kitchen", and she is very familiar with the style and rhythm of the TV series, and every member of the crew also knows very well, so letting her take over my class will not affect the overall style of "God of Kitchen".

Ling Shizhe turned his head to look at Zhao Xiaoyun, who said: "I have met Li Ke, a very good director, in fact, "God of Kitchen" was planned and arranged by her from beginning to end, and she can rest assured that she will be handed it over." ”

"I just heard you say "she", is this a female director? ”

Zhao Xiaoyun nodded and said, "It's Director Li's niece and his disciple." ”

Ling Shizhe stopped talking, he had never heard of Li Ke in his previous life, and he was also a woman, in the film and television industry, female directors have always belonged to a rare species, so once the director of that film and television drama is a woman, the media will publicize it, and everyone can't know if they want to, and male directors, unless you are a big bowl, no one will report it, it seems that this director named Li Ke should be regarded as one of the talents buried in the previous life, I hope she can shine in this time and space.

Seeing that they had already arranged things, Ling Shizhe didn't say much, and changed the topic: "Director Li, you just said that next year, you are going to make a new movie, what kind of film?" ”

Li Hanxiang took out two books from his briefcase, put them in front of Ling Shizhe, and said with a smile: "People say that I, Li Hanxiang, will only make some Fengyue films that can't be put on the stage, don't you know that what I like and am best at is making historical dramas, and this is the movie I will make next year." ”

Ling Shizhe didn't answer, knowing that this sentence was obviously satirizing Run Run Shaw's inability to use people, Li Hanxiang is so talented, what kind of third/level/film did you ask him to make, Ling Shizhe Whenever he thought of this, he wanted to put up a middle finger in his heart, and he despised it fiercely. Filming a wind and moon film? You can figure it out, Run Run Shaw, you don't treat talent as dry food, look at how much this talented man resents you.

"What, you're going to shoot this?" Ling Shizhe said in surprise.

This book is nothing else, but the "Di Gong Case", which swept the whole of Europe and the United States in the 50s, but the author of this book is not Chinese, but the Dutch sinologist Gao Luopei. With Di Renjie, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty of China, as the protagonist, it describes the legendary experience of Di Gong in the state, county and Kyoto to judge cases for officials and eliminate harm with the people.

Ling Shizhe learned about this book by accident in his previous life, and the Di Gong in the book is very different from the traditional Chinese public case novel "Qingtian Old Man", he has a unique style of handling cases: emphasizing efficiency and lightness, stressing ethics and flexibility, emphasizing investigation and reasoning, rather than subjective judgment. Di Renjie is like a god in judging cases, and is known as the Sherlock Holmes of ancient China by Western readers.

After being reborn, Ling Shizhe read the book again and again, thinking that he had already published a Chinese comic of "The God of Cooking" and a modern detective comic of "Young Detective Conan", why not make persistent efforts to publish a detective story about the ancient Chinese case.

So he sent someone to contact the family of Gao Luopei, the author of "Di Gong's Case", and bought out the comic and film and television copyrights of the novel and the publishing rights in Southeast Asia at the cost of a 5% dividend.

I chose this book because "Di Gong Case" is very different from traditional Chinese detective novels, written by Chinese, it is simply illogical, and the story structure of "Di Gong Case" is very rigorous, the Chinese characters in the book are vivid and interesting, and the Tang Dynasty society written is full of vitality, foreigners, profiteers, beautiful women, and even monks and nuns, Shamen people gather in one city; The landscapes, houses, clothing, and daily necessities depicted have been carefully researched, and it seems to read vividly.

Because it caused a sensation in Europe and the United States in the fifties and sixties, it became China's Sherlock Holmes by Westerners; Therefore, publishing comics is not only acceptable to Westerners, but also to Chinese in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

The story framework novel has already been built, and there is no need to make major revisions, the only thing to pay attention to is how to truly show the people, scenes, and objects of the Tang Dynasty in China in the comics. To put it simply, as soon as the reader opens the comic, he can feel a strong atmosphere of ancient China.

To do this is difficult, unimaginably difficult, Ling Shizhe's method is to make a background, to show the ancient Chinese background in the comics, such as what houses, flowers, Tang Dynasty people wear costumes, etc., must be truly depicted, for this reason he recruited the artists from the mainland who fled from Hong Kong from the mainland and the calligraphy artists from Taiwan/Bay in the rainbow and art department of the Ambrera Ceramics Company to study this problem together.

I heard that Ling Shizhe's purpose in making Chinese comics was to promote Chinese culture to Western countries, and without saying a word, he fully supported it, even if he was not paid, and he also called friends to find someone to help.

In the end, the number of people in the entire comic creation team exceeded 300 people, which was twice as many as the creative team of "God of Cooking". Due to the experience of creating "God of Cooking", the whole team was automatically divided into various creative groups according to their respective specialties.

They were the best artists in China, and after thoroughly studying the novel, Ling Shizhe's proposal was to use the technique of Chinese villain books, that is, comic books, to make comics, that is, to use line drawings, and at the same time incorporate Chinese ink and wash techniques.

Ling Shizhe, who was talking about the comic strip, knew that it was an ancient Han traditional art that finally took shape after the popularization of printing in the Song Dynasty. It is very different from the comic works of other countries and has its own unique artistic expression.

There are many ways to draw comic strips, such as ink, gouache, watercolor, woodcut, drawing, comics, photography, and even oil and acrylic, but the most common and traditional is still line drawing.

Most of the line drawings are made with brushes, but there are also pen and pencil line drawings, and the most brilliant of them is the fine brush painting.

These methods are good, and they can definitely highlight the connotation of Chinese art, and I believe that they can also give Westerners a great shock, because they have never seen this art form of painting, but this form of artistic expression has a huge flaw, that is, it cannot adapt to the assembly line production mode of modern comic creation.

Chinese comic strips have always been created by hand, which is time-consuming and laborious, costly, and inefficient. And what about comics? It is completely a product of modern industry, as long as the various roles and backgrounds of the characters and costumes and props are set, and the rest are all made according to the production method of the assembly line.

This is also the fundamental reason why Chinese comic strips, although the artistic level is very high, eventually declined, while the comic art level is low, but it is booming.

Do you want to abandon the comic production method and use the traditional painting method to produce "Di Gong's Case"?