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Chapter 146: Coming to an end

Chapter 146: Coming to an end

Full of heroism but lack of courage, martyrdom but fear of death, is indeed the best interpretation of A Yi, as a major from an officer's special training class, he is eager to be as strong and fierce as his ancestors, but for people who have not been on the battlefield, this sentence can often only be used as a slogan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info In this scene, Ah Yi's image will be fully brought into play, so Jacky Cheung was a little difficult for a while, but after thinking about it for a while, he had a feeling that he did it in one go, and he picked Duan Yihong very embarrassedly: "Do you know what it means to do it in one go?" Learn from my brother. ”

"Don't be scared, go back and rest, you'll be tired tomorrow." Liang Xiaolong asked the crew to disband, leaving the props team to pack up their things, pat their butts and leave, obviously he was very satisfied with today's filming progress. It is true that he was going to finish today's scene in two days, but the crew went through a month of running-in and rehearsal before filming, and the speed of filming will naturally be faster.

As time went on, the filming process became smoother and smoother, and Dead Dead took his cannon fodder across the river to cooperate with the guerrillas to save Meng Fan's parents. In this scene, tranquility has undoubtedly become the biggest highlight of the film, being captured by the enemy in front of the battle, she is fearless and sings the Whampoa military song. For the selection of this song, Liang Xiaolong was very painful, in terms of the environment of the Anti-Japanese War at that time, ** and the communist army could rarely reach an agreement, but **'s influence was relatively large, and the influence of the Whampoa military song was indeed relatively strong, and it was sung far away.

The flag is fluttering, Ma Zheng Xiao Xiao, a good man, a good man, a good man, serving the country in the present day, unite and don't be an old and sick man, and don't stand up and laugh at the sand...... In the midst of the high and fierce tune, a military dog named Dog Rou rushed up and bit at the devil. This military dog was borrowed from the army, and the devils were all soldiers who trained military dogs in the army, and only they could guarantee that they would not really be bitten by military dogs. But after all, a dog is a dog, and it is impossible to act like a human, Liang Xiaolong can only let the military dog bite wildly, and then collect a lot of shots, and finally select useful shots.

In this way, it is a waste of time, and by the time the scene of the dog rou is finished, it is already afternoon... Duo, Liang Xiaolong shouted: "Finish the last shot, and shoot the blasting shot tomorrow." ”

The filming is going better and smoother day by day, and there is good news from the United States, the box office of "Hip-hop Boy" has come out, with $94 million in the United States, $124 million overseas, and $218 million worldwide. This result greatly exceeded Liang Xiaolong's expectations, and it was much better than the results in his previous life. However, it is normal for Liang Xiaolong to think about it, and now that song and dance films have not been revived, "Street Dance Boy", as the leader of the revival of song and dance films, has certain historical significance, and it is normal for the box office to be higher. And the level of Annie's choreography is indeed outstanding, and after integrating kung fu, it is loved by the audience, which also makes the film more appealing at the box office.

"The box office is a lot, but the biggest revenue is the release of the soundtrack, which sold 3.2 million copies in just over a month." Carl seemed extremely excited and a little regretful, because Yanhuang Film Company had not yet acquired the audio and video company, and was still cooperating with Paramount, and this part of the profits would be divided. Liang Xiaolong was also quite surprised, but he didn't feel strange, in his previous life, "Youth Musical" released more than 10 million original soundtracks, and "Street Dance Boy" is no worse than "Youth Musical" in terms of music production, and it is a film that leads the revival of song and dance films, and it is the most normal for the original soundtrack to be a big hit.

In addition, Carl also mentioned that "Speed and Leakage" has also completed post-production and will be released two days after the Oscars. This is also the news that Liang Xiaolong is most willing to hear, in his previous life, he watched "Speed and Leakage" not because of its plot, but because of the famous cars of various brands, just like watching a famous car show. However, there is also a little regret, that is, the technical treatment of drag racing, like its name, focuses on speed rather than technology, and it is the same as a regular race, which is obviously not attractive enough.

In terms of drag racing, John Woo is a well-deserved master, and "Mission Impossible 2" is the best proof of this, so Liang Xiaolong also firmly believes that he can shoot a more exciting "Speed and Leakage".

Liang Xiaolong looked at the time, it was already March, and he stepped up the filming process, until 3.22, he announced a holiday, and he himself was going to the United States to attend the 69th Academy Awards. This year's Oscars ceremony was held one day earlier than last year, on 3.24, and the venue was not at the Los Angeles Music Center, but at the Los Angeles Temple Grand Theater, and Liang Xiaolong first rushed over to attend a rehearsal.

3.24, Liang Xiaolong put on a suit and went to the Shrine Grand Theater, the reason why he changed his suit instead of passing on the Tang costume was because he did not come to accept the award, if he came to receive the award, he would not hesitate to put on the Tang costume, and then tell the world that the Oscar golden man fell into the hands of the Chinese again. During the wandering, Liang Xiaolong accepted an interview with a TV reporter: "Hello captain, you have a total of six films released this year, but the box office is extraordinary but you have not been nominated, do you feel a little regretful?" Liang Xiaolong smiled: "Of course, I believe that all those who are not nominated will have some regrets, but this is normal, there are so many outstanding screenwriters in Hollywood, why do you have to nominate me?" The reporter interviewed Harley next to Liang Xiaolong: "Harley, please describe your current mood." ”

"I feel like my heart is going to jump out." Hallie was indeed a little excited that a small role that was unintentionally chosen was finally nominated. The reporter asked again: "Then do you have the confidence to take the little golden man?" Hallie shook her head: "I never thought about this person, and for me, being nominated is already the biggest honor." ”

Basically, everyone is this set of words, even if they are full of confidence, they will not shout loudly that they can take the little golden man.

"Captain, it's really not easy to find you." Mark walked over, and there was a middle-aged man next to him, who came over and shook hands with Liang Xiaolong: "Captain, hello, I'm Wayne. Stan. ”

"Hello, Mr. Stan." Liang Xiaolong smiled and shook hands with him, but he felt a little awkward in his heart, he remembered that after the script came out, the first thing he did was to go to McMillage Company to sell, who wanted to be stopped by a front desk lady. However, Liang Xiaolong naturally did not mention this, and now the development of Yanhuang Film Company is much better than that of McMillage: "Mr. Stan, you are the protagonists of tonight's awards ceremony." Wayne smiled: "More nominations don't mean you can win the statuette, many films in history have a lot of nominations, and it often happens that they fail in the end." Liang Xiaolong smiled: "But "The English Patient" will never be. ”

"The English Patient" is indeed the protagonist of tonight, with eleven nominations, and finally won nine awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Film Score, Best Music, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design. And what makes Liang Xiaolong regret is that Hallie did not beat the supporting actress of "The English Patient", but in this competition, Hallie is indeed at a disadvantage, and the supporting role she played Erin is a small supporting role, and she has only appeared in three shots, adding up to less than three minutes, which invisibly weakens the competitiveness.

"Man, don't be discouraged, with your acting skills, just start over next year." Liang Xiaolong comforted. Harley didn't care: "To be honest, although it's a little sad, it's also expected, and I'm very happy to be nominated." Liang Xiaolong smiled: "Then I won't comfort you, have you had a recent appointment?" Hallie smiled: "Of course, "Of course, I am filming "Pretty Woman in Clouds", the heroine." ”

The 69th Academy Awards is over, and Bruce Leung remains in the United States to attend the premiere of "Speed and Leakage". Liang Xiaolong has high expectations for this film, he remembers that in his previous life, this film has taken many names, "Unnamed Racer", "Safe Driving", "Street War", etc., but in the end, none of the names can be satisfied, so why is it named "Speed and Leakage"?

First of all, drag racing pursues speed, so the word speed is in the name. Secondly, the car is also an art for Americans, since it is art, it needs to leak * points, so the word "missing * points" was intercepted, and finally named "Speed and Leakage * Points".

However, as soon as the film was released, it did not receive rave reviews, but there were many negative reviews, and the Los Angeles Times, which has a good relationship with Yanhuang Film Company, did not give Liang Xiaolong any face this time, and commented sharply: A single element, a simple plot, a famous car and a beautiful girl, there is no art at all, it's a mess. After watching the whole film, I even wondered if the captain was going to change his creative thinking and focus on business instead of art. However, I have to say a good word about John Woo, the director of "Speed and Leakage", he can shoot hot and exciting scenes with such a simple script, which is enough to prove his directing ability.

The Chicago Sun said the opposite this time: it is beyond reproach that the arrogant and passionate soundtrack in the film strongly sets off the exciting racing aura, and the perfect combination of the two is dedicated to fans and car lovers an incomparable luxury feast. All kinds of splendid and dazzling beautiful cars are dizzying, and under the perfect scheduling of photographers, they burst out with an unparalleled sense of xing. Turn off your brain, turn on the motor, slam on the throttle, and enjoy the thrill of high-speed driving. Of course, there are weaknesses in the plot, but as an eye-catching drag racing blockbuster, the weaknesses in its plot can be ignored.

There was also a heated discussion about the film on the Internet, and the most popular topic was art and business, and the reason why this topic was led was related to Liang Xiaolong's development path. Because since his debut, "The Sun Is Like Me" and "Never Compromise" are artistically perfect, so fans are more critical of Liang Xiaolong, and they hope that he can write films with strong artistic xing. And this time, Liang Xiaolong obviously angered a group of people, and it is also a commercial blockbuster, but "Speed and Leakage" is also a mess compared to films such as "Peerless Tribulation" and "Terracotta Warriors".

One of the fans even made a fuss about the word missing *point, writing: The missing point is inseparable from the car, because the car often contains xing hints. The so-called "car is like a wife" in modern times is an example. The roar of the motor is easily reminiscent of a bird fluttering in a man's crotch, boiling hormones. As a result, Xiangche BMW has become a big reason for flowers. Of course, car manufacturers are good at figuring out consumer psychology, so at major auto shows, masculine cars and first-class car models are indispensable. The car model ladies, the upper body is small suspenders, the lower body is small handkerchiefs, the small waist is thin, the small mouth is tight, the eyes are like silk, and the milk is shining. I don't know how many people have paid for this, and then the girl next to you smiled in the car you started: "Master, you are so powerful~" In fact, her real thoughts are that the master's car is really powerful. When you think that the girls really love you, you are suddenly downgraded from being powerful to being stupid*.

Hooking up with a girl is the first step, and the following is naturally how to get on her. Let's not talk about the traditional way here, let's talk about something related to cars. If you do it outside the car*, find a place where no one is around, you can choose to rely on the hood, as for who gets up and who gets off, it depends on personal preference. Remember to turn off the car unless you want to burn your butt. If you do it in the car*, there will be a lot of fun to do. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said: "The first xing. experience was gained in the back seat of a Fiat sedan. In Hong Kong dramas such as TVB, men and women with cars often like to "swim in the car river" when they are filming and dragging, and "swim" and "swim" to the forgotten corners of the mountains......

Looking at it this way, it is clear that the car can be used as a leak point scene or even a color qing scene. In contemporary society, this perfect blend of speed and leakage is not uncommon in the world of F1 racing. There's such an ambiguity between the driver and the race girl that when Patton and Raikkonen overtake in successive corners, you have to endure a race broadcast of a guy popping into a driver's girlfriend or even a guy in the pits. A race car girl may not know the engine model of a driver's car, but she often knows the size of a certain thing in the driver's hand.

Let's talk about speed again. Englishman James. Ballard's 1973 Crash described it this way that colliding when a car is driving at top speed can bring "comparisons. Love also has wonderful pleasure". It can be seen that in addition to using a car to pick up girls, men can also use the original function of the car, that is, speed, to obtain the leakage points other than xing.

Obviously, the captain was letting us see the car at the same time, but also the leakage caused by the car.

After reading this post, Liang Xiaolong was speechless for a long time, and finally could only sigh: "Strongman, anything can be pulled in any direction." But what the other party said is right, the car is linked to a certain extent, but this is not bad, if in the 21st century, the RV will not only become a part of that aspect, but even become the most important part of marriage, otherwise how can serials such as "Snail House" and "Naked Marriage Era" be sought after by so many people? Because they depict the naked reality.

In addition, another educator stood up and said: ""Speed and Leakage" made me not see the shadow of the captain, I don't know if the captain has gone bad, or if he has begun to think purely about business, the whole film sells the image of American youth culture: speeding sports cars, crazy car races, agitated muscles, hot girls in tight skirts...... All of this represents a rebellious spirit and hedonism, and if the majority of teenagers learn like the people in the movie, then the future is worrying. ”

But as soon as his words came out, a die-hard fan of Liang Xiaolong immediately stood up and said: "Commercial films are not art films, and when it comes to commercial films, you can't ask him to handle all aspects perfectly, you can only pick and watch them and pay attention to the two points in the film." "Speed and Leakage" is such a film, crazy drag racing is obviously the pinnacle of director John Woo, whether it is a car, a motorcycle or even a train, all kinds of chase scenes can be called the pinnacle of this era. But I think the two biggest points of this film should be the sound processing, it is said that during the shooting, director John Woo will ask the crew to install the tape recorder in various parts of the car, clearly record the sound of each part of the car at high speed, so that our eyes can see the same accessories, devices, instruments, joysticks At the same time, the ears can also hear the real clutch start, gear turning, braking and acceleration sounds, which is exactly the same as the feeling of driving yourself, which is extremely exciting.

Some fans also said: "I didn't enter the cinema because I was a script written by the captain, nor because the director was John Woo, the purpose of my entry into the cinema was very simple, I just wanted to see handsome guys and beauties, and I just wanted to see the dazzling drag racing scenes." ”

"It's more lively than the response to the blockbuster release." Carl also likes to see the reaction of the film after its release, but even if there are a flood of bad reviews, he is still happy, to paraphrase his words, he is not afraid of being scolded, he is afraid that no one will scold, someone will scold, that proves that someone is watching, and it proves that there is box office income.

"But the reason why I was scolded so badly is mainly because everyone's expectations are too high." Carl quickly found the reason for being scolded from the scolding, if the script of "Speed and Leakage" was not written by Liang Xiaolong, but by an unfamous editor, everyone would have no expectations, but would face the shortcomings of the film calmly. But the script is from the hand of Bruce Leung, so the meaning is completely different, because Bruce Leung is recognized as the No. 1 screenwriter in Hollywood, he has produced more than a dozen scripts in two years, with a box office of billions of dollars, and took away a bottle of goldenrod, everyone's expectations are naturally higher. But when there is a gap between the truth and the imagination, I am naturally a little unhappy in my heart, and I naturally want to scold a few words.

However, for the producer, there is no difference between praise and scolding, and the producer will always value only money. As long as the box office goes up, you can scold if you want to, anyway, it's not that you haven't been scolded, and you get used to it when you listen to it, that's why Carl can face all kinds of comments from the media and the Internet so calmly.

However, on the crew, there is one person who has never been scolded from beginning to end, and he is director John Woo. It stands to reason that the plot of the film is not good, and the director is the most responsible, why doesn't everyone scold him? First of all, everyone has already blamed Liang Xiaolong for the bad plot, so naturally Liang Xiaolong can't be blamed. Secondly, John Woo does show super directing ability in this film, the friendship between the police and the bandits in the film, the super dazzling drag racing technology, and the crazy sound effect system show a super sense of realism under his processing, what do fans have to be picky?

Therefore, John Woo was not only not scolded, but was praised by others, and the media unanimously recognized that John Woo definitely has the strength of a first-line director and will go further and further in Hollywood. In fact, John Woo also mixed well in Hollywood in his previous life, especially "Mission Impossible 2", which won him a star on the Walk of Fame. It's a pity that "The Wind Whisperer" failed at the box office and kicked the soon-to-be-broken MGM Pictures into the abyss, so he had to leave Hollywood and return to China for development. Since then, John Woo has entered a strange circle, and the films he has shot are either not popular or not popular, such as "Red Cliff", which has a good box office and a flood of bad reviews, such as "Rain of Swords", which has been well received and not high at the box office, anyway, it can't make a film that is popular and popular.

Time passed day by day, "Speed and Leakage" was scolded every day, but the box office went up every day, and in the first five days of its release, it won 53 million and topped the weekly box office list, I don't know how many people fell through the glasses. Even Carl, who knew that it would become popular at the box office, was also a little dumbfounded, with a premiere of 53 million, such box office results can catch up with the results of blockbusters. In addition to being delighted, Carl couldn't help laughing wildly: "It's still Xiaolong, that guy can see the market trend better, and he is stunned to exchange a bad script for a large amount of income." ”

However, Liang Xiaolong has long stopped paying attention to these, after the release of "Speed and Leakage", he returned to Yunnan to continue the filming of "My Captain, My Group", and the third phase of filming has also come to an end, and there are two more top Hollywood superstars in the crew, Bruce and Ben, who will play Arthur respectively. McLuhan and Alger. Collins. Thinking of the image of the two of them, Liang Xiaolong felt a little funny, because the round-faced Bruce and the square-faced Ben are really similar to the actors in the series.

"Captain, according to what you Chinese say, there are friends from afar, good wine and good food are served, right?" Ben began to play treasure as soon as he came, he did not hear that the Chinese are very particular about eating, eight generations of cuisine thousands of dishes, the ancient emperor had to eat hundreds of dishes, rare to have this opportunity to come to China, must enjoy it.

"Cheng, I'll finish filming the third phase first, and then I'll ask people to invite the chef in the background, and a table full of people will welcome you and Bruce." Liang Xiaolong said with a smile, Yibruce and Ben only symbolized 2 million US dollars in this shooting, Liang Xiaolong has to greet people well, a table full of Han is nothing at all. Of course, this matter has to be stolen, and if he is bumped into by the media, he will have to be charged with a series of crimes such as luxury and luxury.

"That's settled." Bruce also smiled happily, he had already heard that the Manchu and Han banquets were only eaten by emperors in ancient times, but he didn't expect to enjoy an emperor-level enjoyment this time.

Bruce and Ben will stay on the crew until the film is finished, but it won't take long, because there are not many big counteroffensive scenes in the final stage of the film, and this also means that "My Captain, My Regiment" is about to be completed. However, this shooting speed is not fast, from 10.31 last year to April this year, it took more than five months to complete, and there are more than two months of special effects production after the completion, which is already very long.

ps: Today's head is a mess, I really don't feel it, I send 6,000 words first, and tomorrow it will be 10,000 words.