"His films have always been known for their quick-cut, flashing style, which is very different from James's kind of director who is looking for perfection in detail, and you can see what I mean when you think back to how this film was made."

Li Haitao didn't say it, Chen Feng didn't think it himself, but after he reminded him like this, Chen Feng suddenly woke up, he had watched a few fight scenes that had been edited. The most typical is the PK battle between "Bumblebee" and "Barricade", when filming, the director's camera has always been aimed at him, and "Bumblebee PK Barricade", which should have been one of the highlights, has completely become the background of his performance.

Considering that there may be large, complex dynamic scenes, as well as spectacular slow motion where Bumblebee fires a "boom cannon" and a barricade dances a "spinning scoring wheel", this is not a two-point savings in VFX costs.

In addition to not performing at all, even for those battle scenes that are being performed, Michael Bay will use his hand-held camera method to "miss" some large dynamic scenes that seem to be immersive, but in fact are lazy. For example, in the big battle at the end of the film, "Vertigo" shows the scene of the "Rotor Crusher" sweeping the streets, and the scene of the "Destroyer" showing his might in the middle of the street, frantically dumping bullets, shells, and rockets.

Although the whole movie looks lively, there are few really impressive scenes. But you really can't blame Michael Bay, because he at least showed the process of fighting, just not sufficiently. Within the budget of the film, it is very good to be able to shoot to this extent. Thinking about the masterpiece that James may have been filming in secret, Chen Feng suddenly felt that Michael Bay's shooting budget was indeed a little cold.

Michael Bay's glorious image in Chen Feng's heart has also faded a lot with the piercing of this layer of window paper, at least he no longer blindly "worships" the other party as before. Judging from the general trend, Chen Feng's trend of moving closer from an actor to a director has become very obvious, and Li Haitao said this to Chen Feng, the original intention was to remind Chen Feng to pay more attention to Michael Bay's filming skills. Because the other party's set is very practical in commercial movies.

But what Li Haitao often didn't expect was that Chen Feng embarked on a completely different path in the future because of his "reminder". Of course, that's a story for later. At this time, Li Haitao went all the way to Los Angeles, so naturally there were more important things.

"Long Cheng, the co-chairman of Long's Pictures, called me yesterday."

"Rong Rong's problem?" As soon as Li Haitao mentioned Long's company, Chen Feng didn't know why. The first reaction was to think of Ye Rong who was filming there.

"So you still know that you are the executive producer of "The Mummy 3"?" Li Haitao said jokingly.

"But my task has been completed, the filming of the film is something that the producer should worry about" Chen Feng thought about it and felt that it was wrong, he only spoke with Kai Yerong on the phone yesterday, if there was anything wrong in the crew, he should receive the news as soon as possible. ”

Li Haitao didn't sell Guan Zi anymore, "This matter has nothing to do with Yerong, they called me, in fact, they wanted to find you to make a new film." ”

"Another commercial blockbuster?" Chen Feng instinctively frowned. With the recognition of Mei Sinuo's Best Actor, Chen Feng completely took off the title of idol star and became a new generation of powerful actors. He has higher requirements for picking his own film roles.

With the rapid development of Huayu, the amount of wealth owned by Chen Feng is getting bigger and bigger. Now that he is famous, he is not short of money, and his salary is no longer his criterion for choosing roles. If it weren't for Sberg's kind invitation, it is estimated that he would not even be willing to take over this "Transformers". …,

"The script tells the story of a group of killers. Luc has left DreamWorks, and besides him, there shouldn't be many directors who can make this theme into a literary film, right? Li Haitao thought he had humorously told a bad joke, but the effect was not very obvious.

"I wish the director was Luc, so maybe I would still be a little interested in the film."

Hearing the resistance in Chen Feng's words, Li Haitao's tone became cautious. "You said you had a killer complex before, I thought..."

"But I don't want to amuse the audience by killing people" Chen Feng's attitude is very arduous.

"So you don't want to take this film?" Li Haitao asked in a strange tone. Normally, he wouldn't ask such a sentence more, but today he was a little strange.

Chen Feng asked curiously: "Do you think that I shouldn't give up, refusing will cause huge losses?" ”

"That's not it," Li Haitao shook his head, "There is no loss for you if you don't act, but I think you may have regrets"

"Regrets?" The puzzled look in Li Haitao's eyes became more and more intense.

"I heard that the heroine of this film is Li Qingya, according to the original intention of the producer, they want you to partner with Li Qingya to reproduce the look of the prequel "Sister and Brother Agent" of this movie, I mean, you know."

After speaking, Li Haitao pretended to shake his head regretfully, "It seems that the producer is destined to be disappointed this time." ”

Li Haitao's "killer move" really worked, and after learning that Li Qingya joined that film, Chen Feng's attitude immediately took a 180-degree turn. Previously, he also declared that he was not interested in this kind of subject, but now he has shown a strong "interest" in the film.

"You really have a leg with Li Qingya" Li Haitao's "treacherous plan" succeeded, and he couldn't help but show a smug smile on his face.

Seeing that the expression on Chen Feng's face was a little unnatural, Li Haitao stopped his joke at the right time. This world society is very open to the issue of gender relations, but after marriage, both husband and wife must abide by loyalty, because marriage is a contract, and Western capitalist civilization is built on the basis of contract society.

And before marriage, as long as they are not devout Catholics, everyone is very "tolerant" in sexual relations, especially between two tacit men.

The speculation about Chen Feng's girlfriend has always been a topic of great interest to the media, but no one can say how many women he has a relationship with, and there are too many female celebrities who have scandals with him, and it is difficult for everyone to distinguish the true from the fake. As his partner, Li Haitao is actually not very clear in his heart.

"During the period from 2003 to 2004, the comic book publishing house released 6 issues of the comic "Wanted", and the story content is a bit similar to the popular movie "The Matrix" a few years ago, and it is also the framework of an ordinary white-collar worker who is suddenly brought into a virtual world and begins to stimulate life."

The appearance of "The Matrix" is a milestone in the history of DreamWorks films, this film has created a new field in terms of shooting techniques and subject matter, and has also profoundly influenced many later films, of course, including the comic that Li Haitao is now mentioning.

The assassins created by the comic "Wanted" are, of course, on the mission of killing, but they do not kill for the sake of creating a new society, nor for the so-called national righteousness, and have nothing to do with all moral things. The reason why they kill people is for only one purpose, and that is profit. The comic shows the story of a group of superbad guys, which is completely contrary to the superhero mode commonly found in the original comics.

This comic was favored by Long Cheng, the chairman of Long's Pictures. Jeff was looking for a subject that would make a 'hard R' movie, and this "Wanted", which was quite dark in style and tone, met his needs. They bought the film rights to the comics, and both authors were happy that their comics would be made into a movie, but the screenwriter they hired adapted the script to make Jeff very unhappy. ”…,

Long Cheng mentioned this incident in yesterday's call, Li Haitao deliberately imitated the tone of the other party's speech, and relayed his original words: "I expect to see that this movie is best the exact opposite of the "Spider-Man" movie, "Wanted" should tell such a story, a person suddenly gets some kind of magical power, with the help of which he can do whatever he wants, and in the end he chooses to go down the so-called crooked path, not the right path." I think this version of the script is still too mild, and the taste of Mi Guo-style heroism still remains in it. ”

Because Long Cheng has always been dissatisfied with the script, the filming schedule of this film has been repeatedly postponed. But at the beginning of this year, because of the determination of the director, this problem was finally resolved.

Long Cheng needs a filmmaker with enough innovation ability to direct the film, and producer Pratt also believes that after "Wanted" is adapted into a movie, what is needed is a helmsman with the courage and talent to break the conventional limitations.

This candidate, who came to the fore immediately after Pratt saw "The Night Watch," naturally assumed that with a meagre budget like "The Night Watch," Timo Beckmanbetov could create action movies full of gorgeous visual pleasures, and that he would certainly be more comfortable with his dynamic perspective as a filmmaker and his unique sense of darkness when he had more budget at his disposal.

Russian director Tim Beckmanbetov was hired to be the director of this film, after he achieved high box office and good reputation with two small-budget magic dramas "Night Watch" and "Day Watchman", and his fame spread from Russia to the world, becoming the object of competition from many film companies around the world. Long Tian, a producer of Long's company, went to Tim with the story of "Wanted", and the story successfully aroused the interest of the Russian director, which led him to decide to come to China to make his first Chinese film. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )