Chapter 115: Easter Eggs
The term "Easter egg" is derived from the Western Easter egg hunting game, which means "surprise".
The official name of the easter egg in the movie is stinger in English, which originally meant the thorn on the tail of a bee, later the machine gun on the tail of a bomber, and finally extended to the "little tail" at the end of the movie subtitles.
Because Western movies will always have a humorous short film related to the plot of the film or related to the sequel after the end of the plot of the film and the broadcast credits.
Hollywood studios are very keen on adding "little tails" at the end of the movie, and audiences have long been accustomed to it, and they can even spend a lot of time just watching an easter egg.
This kind of propaganda method of using the easter eggs at the end of the film to lead to a new episode of the plot and whet the audience's appetite can be described as very clever. It wasn't until this method was introduced to the mainland that many domestic movies began to add easter eggs.
Li Xuan, who came from later generations, of course, has also seen a lot of movie easter eggs. For example, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, the "Fast and Furious" series, and Marvel Studios' superhero movie series, there will basically be unexpected surprises at the end of these blockbusters. Later, easter eggs were popularized from movies to cartoons, and most of the Hollywood animated films produced by Disney, Pixar and other companies also had wonderful easter eggs at the end of the play.
After Li Xuan crossed over and entered the movie industry, he realized that easter eggs had existed in the movie for a long time, but no one called it that.
The world's first movie Easter egg, dating back to 1903. At that time, Edison's film company made the world's first western, "The Great Train Robbery", and this film was also the world's first cop film. At the end of the film, the director added an easter egg where the robber shoots at the camera.
However, because the plot and the easter egg are not separated by the broadcast credit, but directly connected to the plot, it is not a real easter egg.
And for a long time afterward, easter eggs were only made of subtitles, such as in the 1963 007 series of movies "007: Love from Russia", after the cast was screened, the sentence "James? Bond will be ...... appeared", which whetted the audience's appetite.
But last year, the Hollywood movie "The Muppet Movie" began to really use images as easter eggs, and after a long subtitle, a puppet suddenly yelled at the audience: "It's time to go home!" It's time to go home! byebye! "Very pleasing.
And what Li Xuan wants to do is not easter eggs related to the plot, but to learn from those Hollywood series of movies and make easter eggs related to sequels.
The movie "Black Man", Li Xuan fully believes that it can be made into a series and make a superhero movie of the Chinese. And in later generations, Li Xuan heard that "Black Man" was filmed several times in a row, but because most of the protagonists had been replaced, Li Xuan didn't bother to watch it.
And now Ren Huahua and Yuan Dart have just made a few movies, and it is the time of their youth, Li Xuan is not afraid that they will not have time to act in a sequel by then.
"Hey, Ah Xuan, tell me, what easter eggs? What are you doing? I said that there is still a big drama to be filmed at night, and it will be announced in the afternoon. Zeng Zhiwei continued to follow Li Xuan's side and asked persistently.
"The Buddha said: Don't say it, don't say it!"
Li Xuan shook his head as he continued to walk forward until he entered a large garage through the side door.
"Bang-bang-bang-"
A series of boxing sounds were heard, and a large group of people in camouflage uniforms were forming a large circle to watch the wonderful two-person fight inside. The crowd was also mixed with a number of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, including Blanton.
"Left hook, ha, what a ghost brother!"
"Crow, don't lose our people if you don't understand, where did Muay Thai come from? It's called an uppercut. ”
"! I said it's called a left hook, it's called a left hook, black dog, do you have an opinion? ”
"What if there is, at least labor and management won't know how to pretend to understand!"
"Ahh......h
"Smack-"
With a soft thud, a red boxing glove fell to the ground, and the crowd fell silent in an instant.
"You two are capable, aren't you?" Li Yutian's voice came out of the crowd: "Do you really think that you are a Hong Kong boss when you wear a fake military uniform?" Why don't you hand over Tsim Sha Tsui to the crows? ”
"Aha, don't dare, don't dare." The pheasant immediately picked up the glove that smashed his head from the ground, handed it to Li Yutian flatteringly, and said with a shy smile: "This position, only the ghost brother can do it, and I don't accept anyone else." ”
Li Yutian glared at the pheasant, and then looked at the black dog next to him.
"I only serve Brother Ghost, others want to go up, beat me first!" The black dog immediately patted his chest and reassured.
"Behold your virtues." Li Yutian pursed his lips and asked, "Have you practiced running in unison?" Black dog, take the brothers to continue practicing. ”
"Huh? Brother Ghost, I've been practicing for more than an hour, and it's okay to run like one. The crow said with a bitter face: "What else are you practicing, it's just a movie." ”
"Smack-"
Li Yutian smashed the crow with his gloves, and said impatiently: "It's too troublesome for you to make money, don't make money." ”
The crow who was beaten again was honest now, and quickly bent down and began to apologize: "I practice, I practice, I practice!" ”
"Everyone come here, continue to practice and run in unison." The clever black dog was already on the other side of the garage and shouted.
The bustling crowd slowly dispersed, and the figures in the center of the crowd who were originally surrounded were also revealed, but they were two shirtless and strong men. The bronzed upper bodies of the two are covered with strong muscles, which are extremely explosive. Especially since the two have just finished a warm-up match, their muscles are more contoured, and there is no doubt that as long as they take a punch, they will lose half their lives.
Of these two strong men, one of them is Li Yutian. As for the other person, his name is Zhou Bili, nicknamed "Tiger". Of course, Zhou Bili also has an identity that he doesn't know about, that is, the villain of the future "Jingwu Heroes", the taekwondo general in "The King of Destruction", and the leader of the Yue army who fought with Zhou Xingchi in "Shanghai Beach Gambling Saint". In short, this guy is a gold medal green leaf in future Hong Kong movies.
At this time, he was just a professional fighter in the United States.
He returned to Hong Kong to visit relatives on Easter this time, and when Li Xuan was looking for a muscular strong man to run a trick, he was recommended by Li Yutian, who had studied Muay Thai together.
"Yu Tian, I seem to have missed a good show?" Li Xuan said with a smile as he walked towards the two.
Li Yutian wiped his sweat with a towel before laughing and replied: "It doesn't matter if you miss it, do you want to try it yourself?" ”
"No, no, no!" Li Xuan hurriedly waved his hands: "I can't stand your punch." ”
"Haha, man, it's okay to have less muscles." Li Yutian teased Li Xuan for a while, and continued to ask, "Ah Xuan, when will the filming start?" After filming, I went out with the tiger to be happy, but we two brothers haven't seen each other for a long time. ”
"Soon, it's actually only five or six shots." Li Xuan paused, pointed to the office on the side and said, "I'll go and see if they have put on their makeup, and they can start filming immediately after they have put on their makeup." ”
"Okay, but Ah Xuan, it's better to hurry up and ......" Li Yutian nodded in response.
In fact, there was only one person in the unusually quiet dressing room who was putting on makeup, but it was Yuan Kui of the Hong family's class. At this time, Yuan Kui's hair and eyebrows have been dyed white, and even a few fake wrinkles have been glued to his face with makeup glue, and the whole person looks a lot older.
"Hey, Ah Xuan, you turned me into this, you have to tell me what role you play, right?" Yuan Kui asked as he stood in front of the mirror and carefully pressed the "wrinkles" on his face.
"Don't press it, it's going to fall off when you press it." Li Xuan shook his head and took out a large plastic bag from under the desk in his office.
Yuan Kui and Zeng Zhiwei, who had been following Li Xuan, hurriedly buried their heads and looked, but saw Li Xuan take out a white coat worn by a doctor from the bag, as well as a pair of extremely old-fashioned black-framed glasses.
"Let's put it on, and I'll tell you how to play it when filming starts." Li Xuan handed the two things in his hand to Yuan Kui.
Li Xuan took great pains to keep this easter egg secret.
Not only did he not write it in the script, but he also did not tell the rest of the crew about it, and he didn't start preparing everything until before filming began. In the next shooting, Li Xuan also plans to shoot a little more waste footage to interfere with the sight of "some people". And at the midnight test screening, Li Xuan also plans to pinch off the easter eggs first, and then release them when it is officially released.
This time, it is to make the audience feel a sense of surprise when they watch it! (To be continued.) )