Chapter 63: Black Humor, Postmodernism
The crew finally came to a big beauty, and these grandsons were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
"Director, please take care of me." Li Meiren elegantly stretched out her jade hand.
Happy shook half of her palm and let it go, and said, "You take care of me." You see, as soon as you came, these guys were even diligent in running errands. ”
Li Jiaxin turned her head to look, and sure enough, there was a sneak peek, her eyes swept over and she couldn't help pretending to be inadvertent, and couldn't help but sneer. asked: "Director, how should I play my role?" ”
"I'm going to give you some styling first, didn't you bring your clothes? I remember informing you ......"
Li Jiaxin joked: "With such a big crew, the actors even have to bring their own costumes to appear on the scene, so it's so embarrassing." ”
shrugged happily, "If you can save it, you can save it, and if you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are not at home." Our costume stylist, Mr. Zhang Shuping, has prepared a lot of clothes, but they are all men's. Your outfit is not easy to make, and in the end, it seems that your own clothes will fit better. ”
Li Jiaxin nodded, "I brought it, but I don't know which set is suitable." Director, please help me take a look. ”
"Okay." Happy followed her gaze to look into the carriage, and was suddenly a little dumbfounded, "You shouldn't empty the wardrobe." "The assistant has already moved down three large boxes and are still dragging them out. With such a little scene, people are so well prepared, it's really happy and embarrassing.
Li Jiaxin was slightly embarrassed, "No, according to your requirements, they are all home clothes." This box is pants, this box is skirts, this box is tops, and the two boxes here are all shoes. ”
Happy: "......"
Then it was fitting time, and there was really no research on women's clothing. He couldn't see the reason for such a display, so he called Zhang Shuping to work with him, "Jiaxin, don't talk about the director like this, even I am dazzled." Just wear it and give it a try. See it at a glance. ”
Happy applause and smiled: "This is a good idea, but I can enjoy a model show for free." ”
I finally chose a set of decadent fan, jeans and suspender shirts, which still look amazing. She went to put on makeup, and happily found Huang Qiusheng, Zhang Yaoyang, Aloe Veraguang, and Fang Gang from the drug dealer quartet. It looks very different from the original characters - a few sissy, skinny hemp rods, and a pair of suckers-poisoners who haven't seen the sun for a long time, but, who said they had to be copied. These "big villains" should also have another wonderful performance.
Soon, all parties were ready and entered the shooting again. The room was silent for a moment, except for the subtle sounds of the camera running. Happily approach a monitor and get a close-up look at the results. In the monitor, an iron door with steel bars welded appeared, Zhang Yaoyang held a fertilizer bag in one hand and dragged the drunk Li Jiaxin into the camera with the other, but was stopped by Huang Qiusheng, who walked down from the upper floor, and said, "Qiao, why do we have to install an iron door?" ”
“…… To be on the safe side. ”
"That's right, that's right, for safety." Huang Qiusheng said with suppressed anger on his face.
“cut!” Happy yelling, frowning. Less than ten seconds after the shot began, it was stopped.
Zhao Xiaoding turned off the camera, and the actors all stopped moving, and they all looked at him. happily walked over and said to Huang Qiusheng: "Huang Sheng, your performance is too much. Huang Qiusheng didn't understand, "Aren't you angry that your subordinates have done something wrong?" ”
"Yes, but step by step, you still have a long line in this paragraph, and you can't act after you are angry at the beginning, do you still have fists and kicks." Happy explained: "You can be expressionless at first, and gradually you can talk louder and louder, you have to find a balance. You can say some dirty words, but the anger is suppressed. Finally, you can end up with a tap on the other person's cheek. ”
"Okay, I'll try again." The director's power is supreme, not to mention that he is still a financier, Huang Qiusheng knows this very well, he just closed his eyes and thought about it, and then prepared to start the challenge again. The happy guidance was not over, and he said to Zhang Yaoyang again: "Zhang Sheng, your performance stage spirit is over." Although it can be forgiven to hug a big beauty, this one should be a bit decadent, and it would be better to have a little more resigned expression in the face of the eldest brother's reprimand. ”
“OK。”
"What about me?" Li Jiaxin said suddenly.
happily glanced at her, "Miss Li, you continue to perform and get drunk." ”
With such a big beauty, but you have to play a drunk from beginning to end and get drunk and not wake up, I'm afraid you can only do it happily. Even the king of sunglasses asked her to play the scene of masturbation by a custom woman, and she had to talk about it a lot.
The second shot was much better, but I was still not satisfied, so I continued to reshoot.
Filming is like that, you can't ask for one-take every time. There were a few times in the middle that the lines were wrapped around my mouth, and I continued to reshoot until the sixth time.
Li Jiaxin realized that it is not easy to play a "dead corpse", especially this kind of drunk character, because he can't completely press his body weight on other people to really be a "drunk dead corpse", this is still a little conscious, at least he can walk, but he is just dizzy from drug overdose. After a few times, her bones were about to loosen.
It's not easy to finish, and I can't help but stretch a lot.
Then there was a scene for other people, so she just sat and waited.
Lunch is a boxed lunch ordered by a nearby restaurant, with a quota of 20 yuan, and the food is not bad. Announcing that he could rest for an hour after lunch, he twisted his waist happily, and he was not lightly tired. took the lunch box handed over by Luo Kedi, and sat down with Zhao Xiaoding and Zhang Shuping to take a few bites. His boxed lunch is also a quota, no different from ordinary drama staff.
Li Jiaxin took the lunch box and found that she was really the only woman in the whole crew. (Actually, she came late, the Mountain and Sea Company moved in the past few days, and Bai Xiaoya went back early.) I didn't know which table to go to with my lunch box, but finally walked to the director team and sat down.
Happy nodded to her, moved some chairs, and made way for her.
In the past few days of shooting, photographer Zhao Xiaoding and art consultant Zhang Shuping have gradually formed a tacit understanding, understanding what Happy wants. Thin colors, serious atmosphere, and a style full of allegorical and rational political thinking, I really didn't expect it to be a comedy.
It's about the story, but it's actually about the plot, and to borrow a famous saying, it's "a ring on a circle".
In terms of shooting, the camera must be changed smoothly, and dozens of segments will be sprinkled to present a complex event containing multiple branches to the audience clearly and coherently. In terms of rhythm, it can be said that it is slow and urgent. At the beginning, the background and location of the characters in the story are introduced like a military parade, and a bird's-eye view is drawn to us unhurriedly.
Just when the audience wants to slow down their thinking, suddenly a famous character is active one after another, one by one until it continues to boil, just feel a boom, and the changes and development are overwhelming, just like a thriller and suspense film with layers of camouflage and naked fruit, but you feel more nervous and curious. In addition to these, humorous lines and occasional funny actions are also desirable everywhere.
In fact, films with this kind of structure are not rare, but there are still fairy-like characters among the masters, and there are still lonely and lonely heroes above the supernatural powers.
Even Zhang Shuping sighed, chatting while biting a chicken leg: "I have been in the industry for so many years, and it is the first time I have seen such an exquisite script." The so-called fate is all coincidence, and it must be accidental. The beauty of this movie lies in the coincidental collision again and again, and the montage is full of techniques. ”
Happy smiled: "Thank you, in fact, I prefer to call this type black humor." ”
"Black humor?"
Zhang Shuping asked curiously: "How do you understand black humor?" The nonsense of Stephen Chow's movie seems to be boiled down to black humor. ”
"Yes, not exactly. There are so many of his works, depending on the movie. ”
happily swallowed the rice, tapped the lunch box with chopsticks, and said seriously: "Xing Ye's movie is nonsensical, everyone knows it." In fact, nonsense is just a name for Hong Kong, and according to the type of film, it should belong to postmodernist expression. No depth, no center, no basis, self-reflection, playful. Suspicion of a single system, the style of the grand narrative technique, is just a manifestation of the modern commodity society. In fact, there has never been a standard for the definition of black humor films, and I think black humor movies are not comedies that only make people laugh. Some of Xingye's movies are still very expressive. ”
Huang Qiusheng on the table next to him listened to it interestingly, couldn't help laughing, and interjected: "It's the first time I've heard someone praise Stephen Chow's movies for their depth." Zhang Yaoyang also echoed him and smiled: "A bunch of spoofs, but they are right for the taste of Hong Kong audiences." Fang Gang didn't like to hear this, and reprimanded: "These sour pulls, people are so popular that half the sky is red, you are still a supporting role, this is the truth." It doesn't matter if it has connotation or depth. ”
I don't mind if I'm happy, Stephen Chow has been popular for so many years, but in fact, Hong Kong audiences still think that his movies can't be put on the stage. Perhaps it is for this reason that Xing Ye's later works have also begun to be conventional. smiled and said, "I'm a little more academic, and everyone shouldn't take it to heart." In fact, no matter what connotation is not connotative, as long as you make something that the audience likes and can sell at the box office, it is a good movie. I heard that Xing Ye is preparing to make a new film called "The King of Comedy" recently, and that movie should be different. ”
Huang Qiusheng waved his hand and said: "I won't pull it, director, don't take it seriously, a few of us rough people are also chatting casually." ”