"Grant, that's how it happened at the Terracotta Warriors excavation site. [Reading Network]"

In the small screening room of Concord Film Company, Wang Xiaohu, Wang Jiaxin, Sammo Hung, Zhang Yuan, Grant, Yuan Heping and all the crew members of "Mythology" watched the film shot by Li Hanwei from the mainland.

Wang Xiaohu took out a rough special effects drawing to Grant. McQueen said: "We have to build this style of model according to the layout of the terracotta warriors and horses on the spot, of course, it is not the kind of earthy yellow that we just saw, but it is required to be rich in color, generally black and black, and the carriage and weapons must maintain the color of the original bronze."

Wang Xiaohu held the special effects drawings while using a pencil to write in circles on the drawings. McQueen's special effects plan is clearly listed, but Wang Xiaohu feels that it is still very necessary to re-explain, after all, Grant is a Westerner, and his understanding of Chinese culture, especially the terracotta warriors, is zero.

"These models do not need to be made according to the data provided by the two mainland consultants, after all, we are using these as sets, and they can be appropriately enlarged or reduced according to the requirements of the lens, but these chariots and horses in the main lens must be made vividly."

Grant McQueen nodded, it can be seen from his serious expression that the work assigned to him this time is far more responsible than "Star Wars", and he feels that the burden on his shoulders is much heavier, in fact, this is easy to explain, during the production of "Star Wars" special effects, he followed Lucas's ass the whole time, and many special effects shots were discussed by him and Lucas.

But unlike working with Wang Xiaohu, he has already taken into account all the model specifications, sizes, and colors, and what Grant has to do is to use his own understanding to combine these models with the shooting scene seamlessly.

It may seem like an easy one, but God knows if the young boss will be satisfied with his work. Grant knew he had to get up to the top of his game, and it was a chance for him to improve.

"Okay, boss, you let me think about it, how about giving me three days, oh no, two days is enough, I'll make a small interior site model for you first." Trant picked up a pencil and dotted around on the drawing: "I'll try to put these things you ask for inside the model." ”

"Okay, I just like your work attitude." Wang Xiaohu snapped his fingers, and then said to Wang Jiaxin: "Old Wang, I think you are not only responsible for dealing with blasting in Industrial Light & Magic, right?" ”

Wang Jiaxin grinned and said: "Blasting is just my specialty, in fact, my old profession has not fallen behind." ”

"That's good, take your apprentice Zhang Yuan, and with the help of the two mainland advisors, go and choose all kinds of props, and prepare them before Grant completes his task." Wang Xiaohu patted Wang Jiaxin's shoulder and said.

"Roger." Wang Jiaxin saluted, then picked up his things, dragged Zhang Yuan, and followed Grant out of the screening room.

After the three of them left, Wang Xiaohu showed a serious look on his face, clapped his hands and said to the rest of the people: "Okay, Avi, don't have a gloating expression, their work is not easy, and our workload is not simple. ”

"While they were preparing various special effects sets, we were going to come up with a Weiya combination plan in the next few days."

Wang Xiaohu said this, scratching his head with a headache, the original version of "Myth" was filmed in a wide and dark room, they mainly need to complete the action shooting, and the rest of the work will be handed over to the special effects team to complete the combination, this special effect requires a lot of computer technology to assist in completion.

But it was the late 70s, and the technical application of computers in movies was still in the experimental stage, so the shooting was very difficult, and Wang Xiaohu had to draw on the work experience of the special effects team of "Star Wars" to complete it.

This kind of shooting special effects is quite troublesome, requiring actors to move on the model, and more than a dozen cameras to follow up and shoot, trying not to make too many goofs in the picture, which requires several more shots, and finally proceeds to Grant's side to use industrial light and magic synthesis equipment for special effects synthesis.

Wang Xiaohu roughly speculated that it often takes more than two days to shoot such a set of shots, which requires the WIA team to formulate the equipment according to the line in advance, so as to avoid being in a hurry or frequent when we get it.

Although Wang Xiaohu is the authoritative group in Hong Kong and even the world, the authority cannot be taken lightly when encountering new challenges.

Wang Xiaohu reviewed the filming requirements again, and asked everyone to go back and come up with a more detailed and feasible plan, at this time, we have to carry forward the collective wisdom and efforts, and whoever has a good plan will use whomever it is.

"I'll come here every night at 9 p.m. for a meeting to report on the progress of your work. If you don't have anything else to do, you'll be busy. ”

After Wang Xiaohu finished the meeting, he pinched his temples that were a little swollen, and he was under the greatest pressure in the entire crew, not only to be responsible for the script, actors, but also to be responsible for all aspects, and even to deal with the mainland.

"Maybe I'll have to find a few assistants, hey, let's wait until the film is filmed before I think about it, new people will have to be recruited and retrained." Wang Xiaohu sighed, grabbed his clothes and drove home.

Since the meeting, Concord Film and Television City has entered a busy scene, the cloning project of Shaolin Temple has been fully launched, Li Hanwei will develop the film taken in Shaolin Temple into a picture, and then with the help of Wang Xiaohu made a large template, those photos are pasted on the template, and then handed over to Grant and others to make a model, a week later, a miniature version of the Shaolin Temple model in front of everyone, so that Wang Xiaohu is full of praise.

"Grant is good, it would be even better if the model of our levitating heavenly palace was so beautiful!"

Grant patted the model crumbs on his body, sighed, and said, "Boss, I'll try my best to rework that model." But you'd better do it with me this time. ”

Grant built the model of the "Suspended Heavenly Palace" two days ago, but unfortunately, it did not pass Wang Xiaohu's review, compared to the Shaolin Temple with photo assistance can make Grant have a reference surname, and the "Suspended Heavenly Palace" only has a few drawings and text descriptions, in short, Grant has been busy for two days.

"Okay." Wang Xiaohu nodded, this is also a matter of no way, Grant has too little understanding of Chinese culture, even if there are models of terracotta warriors and chariots, this uncle always subconsciously Westernizes them, and the things created are rich in ancient Roman atmosphere.

So when Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung, and Wang Jiaxin began to make every effort to build the "Qin Emperor's Mausoleum Underground Labyrinth" mechanism and other scenes, Wang Xiaohu and Grant Cat focused on the "Suspended Heavenly Palace" in the model room.

As the days passed, it entered August in a blink of an eye, and Hong Kong films also ushered in the annual summer prime time, and major film and television companies began to compete for their ambitious works on the box office list.

Without Jackie Chan, Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung and others joining the battle, other film companies felt very relaxed, after all, the movies of these masters are too combative, if they squeeze in, no one will want to eat a bite of meat.

Xu Guanwen, Wu Siyuan, Luo Wei and others are all grateful to Wang Xiaohu for investing heavily in production, so during the "rest" of the Seven Little Blessings, they prepared several movies ruthlessly.

For example, this year's masterpiece "Deed of Sale" by Xu's Film Company was released on August 3 to August 23, and it took 21 days to obtain a box office score of 7.82 million Hong Kong dollars, steadily occupying the position of the box office leader.

Shaw Brothers Lau Kar-leung and Lau Ka-fai's "Shaolin Scaffolding Master" followed closely behind, picking up HK$6.56 million in 17 days, becoming the second at the box office this year, which greatly encouraged Lau Kar-leung, after all, this is the first time he has achieved such a high result in the film for so many years.

And Luo Wei didn't know where to get the script of "Boxing Essence", and he also got 1.3 million Hong Kong dollars, which is worthy of being thirteenth at the box office.

In this regard, Wu Siyuan's company seems to have a lot of scenes, "The Seven Million Robbery" continues to cooperate with the Independent Commission Against Corruption, taken from the actual story in Hong Kong, it is very realistic after filming, and it took 1.51 million in 7 days after its release, which looks like it is very popular, but Siyuan Company's other "South Fist and North Leg" directed by Tsui Hark won 2.06 million in 13 days after its release, which cannot but be said to be a surprise, for which Wu Siyuan gave Tsui Hark a big red envelope to encourage him to continue to develop his talent and make money for the company.

When interviewed by the media, Wu Siyuan fully affirmed Tsui Hark and told media reporters that he had negotiated with Mr. Gu Long and was ready to let Tsui Hark shoot "Golden Knife Lover".

"Film Fortnightly" summarized the summer file of 1978, and the editor-in-chief Yu Yongjian wrote in the article: "This year, in addition to the Xu brothers who made a film that dominated the box office, the other four satellite companies, including Wang Xiaohu, all handed in blank rolls, and the Xinyicheng Company a few years ago did not come up with any works in the past few years, which makes people think that they are short-lived." ”

"There is no Wang Xiaohu's works this year, the film market is not lonely, Liu Jialiang brothers' "Shaolin Scaffolding Master" shows us a new kind of kung fu plot after "Shaolin Thirty-six Rooms": in terms of action design, Liu Jiahui defeats the kung fu skills of strong muscles with a few bundles of bamboo, which makes people have an ordinary and great Zen artistic conception, saying that regular work has become the enlightenment of kung fu, and I have to say that the kung fu film market is full of flowers."

The implication is that he is not only full of resentment that Qi Xiaofu led by Wang Xiaohu did not make a good-looking movie this year, but also made a pertinent analysis of the current Hong Kong films.

When the crew of "Mythology" studied all kinds of models and schemes, it was already mid-August, under the command of Wang Xiaohu, hundreds of construction workers, under the leadership of more than a dozen props masters and artists, began to lay out the scenes of "underground labyrinth", "mechanism", "trap" and "suspended heavenly palace", and at the same time, Wang Jiaxin, Zhang Yuan and others were also preparing various terracotta warriors and horses and chariot model processing with the help of two terracotta warriors and horses consultant experts.

Due to the wide variety of props that the mainland is responsible for, the representatives of the props teams of the three film companies almost soaked in the homes of several history professors, flipped through the "Historical Records" to investigate the history of the wilderness, and even went back and forth between the company and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Archaeology, and when the construction of special effects sets began in Hong Kong, they decided on the plans for various costumes, weapons, and chariots.

Then it was a busier job, finding a garment factory to customize various costumes, contacting a model processing factory to make weapons, chariots and other props, which was really a very troublesome and busy job, which kept the people of the three film companies busy, but they also learned more things in the process.

"Whew, I'm tired." After Wang Xiaohu returned home, he didn't change his clothes and lay directly on the sofa.

Xiao Jiaen walked into the living room with a bowl of red bean soup in his hand, "Daddy, drink red bean soup." ”

Wang Xiaohu sat up from the sofa, took the red bean soup and patted his son's head and said, "Little prince, are you naughty today?" ”

"No, I'm very well-behaved, I learned to recite Tang poems today." Wang Jiaen put his hands behind his back and smiled sweetly.

Wang Xiaohu was shocked, his son actually learned to recite Tang poems, and sure enough, Niu Fork is worthy of his own species! smiled at the moment and said, "Ha, quickly recite it to me, if you recite it well, Daddy will buy you something delicious." ”

"Yes, yes." Wang Jiaen clapped his little hands, then raised his head and thought for a long time, and then recited in a milky voice: "Hoe He said that in the afternoon, sweat drops into the soil, and when the rice grains are leaked, I eat rattan noodles." ”

"Poof!" Wang Xiaohu just drank two sips of red bean soup and squirted out, he looked at his son with a strange expression, coughed twice and said, "Son, this, who taught you Tang poems!" It's a mistake. ”

"Mommy taught you, he said that you were very hard when you were a child, and if you missed a grain of rice in your meal, you were invited by Master to eat rattan noodles." Wang Jiaen blinked innocently: "Daddy, rattan noodles are not better than rice, Mommy said that you loved to eat them when you were a child." ”

"Ahem, rattan noodles aren't delicious at all." Wang Xiaohu sighed, held his son in his arms and said: "Your butt will hurt very much when you eat rattan noodles, so son, you have to be good in the future, we won't memorize this kind of Tang poem in the future, otherwise you will have to eat rattan noodles." ”

"Oh." Little Jain nodded.

In the corridor of the living room, Zhao Yazhi hugged her shoulders and looked at her embarrassed husband with a smile, wrinkled her nose and snorted coldly, and said dissatisfied: I don't care about my family when I'm busy with work, hum!

No wonder Zhao Yazhi is angry, who let Wang Xiaohu forget to sleep and eat when she is busy in the film and television city, and she has lived on the scene for more than a week

(To be continued)