Chapter 66: I will stain their lair with blood
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I went shopping with the beautiful woman for a day, bought a few clothes, ate two meals, and sent them home...... But there was no more romantic affair.
The next day, life went on, and the movie was waiting for him to shoot.
is approaching the end, and Yu Dong and Jiang Zhiqiang often appear in the crew.
The filming of "Crazy Smoking Gun" went smoothly, and the happy filming speed amazed Jiang Zhiqiang, who was accustomed to seeing the golden speed of Hong Kong, and he could often feel that this young man had already made sufficient preparations between filming as if all scenes and shots had been imprinted in his mind, not at all like many directors who have to constantly readjust according to new problems that arise during filming. He doesn't act like a new director who has only made one film before, and his rich experience is not much worse than that of some veteran directors who have made multiple films.
At this point, photographer Zhao Xiaoding is the most deeply touched.
He also discovered a feature, happy shooting rarely discarded footage. Which plots require what shots, basically the actors will not be repeatedly asked to try, and he can be regarded as the type that is the same. It stands to reason that this kind of shooting should be very time-saving, but Happy is a person who strives to do his best no matter what the plot. A simple scene plot, but he strives for perfection and strives to capture the most perfect picture. The acting skills of the actors are also very demanding. In the days that followed, there was never a single one.
So is happiness as simple as they think?
Because before the start of filming, there is already a complete set of movies in the head that can be used as a reference. "Crazy Smoking Gun" was filmed very quickly under his direction, and many scenes of the plot were basically like an assembly line. But there is a classic as a contrast, which saves effort and greatly limits the changes he makes to the film.
The original film was made in London, England, and now the film has moved to Macau, China. The actors are different, the language is different, the costumes are different, and the scenes are different. Obviously, this is already a completely different film. If you can make a good movie by copying the copy, Happy will not go to great lengths to make the movie fit perfectly into the current environment. Many times, it is not difficult to innovate, but it is difficult to break the routine and break the classics. He is thinking so much about it now, all in order to better integrate the story into this new environment, and to improve some flaws in the original work as much as possible, and strive to achieve a higher level.
In the previous life, the appearance of this film amazed many people, and also made Guy Ritchie, as a director, famous all over the world with only two films of the same genre. However, the film has attracted attention and has also attracted the research of many professional film critics. The more you watch, some of its shortcomings and deficiencies are exposed. For example, because the director directed for the first time and did not have such a plug-in as happiness, his skills were not enough after all, resulting in the lack of clarity in the personalities of several plot characters. And in the short more than an hour of the movie, too many off-screen monologues are used to make up for this shortcoming. In order for the dominoes of the big wheel to be able to spin down, several plot turns seem a little stiff and deliberate, which is also another hard flaw.
The happiness of rebirth can be regarded as having God's vision, although he is now a person in the mirror, he once jumped out of the mirror to see the performance of the characters in the mirror, and naturally strives to perfect to fill some of the hard wounds in the original play.
He not only pursued smoothness during filming, but also deliberately avoided too many monologues that were easy to make people play. And he also paid great attention to the layout of the scene, including the placement of props, how the two big smoking guns can be transferred to the hands of many people, and they can also appear in the hands of those who need them.
This is a rather complicated filming job, not only is it happy and tiring, but the whole crew is tossed by him. Fortunately, most of the crew members came from the inside, and everyone already had experience working together in the last drama "Central Station". The last drama was a big hit, but I was happy to make up a lot of red envelopes for everyone, even if it was for the sake of money, I didn't dare to slack off.
Because the complexity of "Crazy Smoking Gun" is completely different from "Grand Central Station". Happy has never filmed such a complicated scene before, and the expressions and psychological changes of countless actors, as well as countless serial sets of sequences that connect the past and the future, must be shown in one or two sets of shots. In the entire Chinese-speaking world, there are only a few directors who can control the overall situation in this way.
Knowing your own shortcomings, you are becoming more and more strict with yourself. He has higher quality requirements for his second film, from the leading actor to the crew.
By now that the filming is now, the plot is nearing the end.
But the further you go, the more big scenes that collide with all parties, in other words, the more big scenes that require more preparation.
Strict synchronization and precise cohesion, this is the most difficult, multiple columns of dominoes often have to converge at the same time or trigger the cards of the next stage, several story lines in the movie develop in parallel, but always selectively combine at the right time, through one of the conditions to push the plot to the next climax.
This is also the most amazing place, you must draw a flowchart in your mind in advance, the process of multi-line development, conditions, and trigger points are summarized together, and it is clear at a glance when you see it, and when you don't see it, you feel like walking on thin ice, fascinating, and finally the process is summarized to one point, the protagonists participated in such a melee throughout the whole process, and they can actually not stick to the leaves, and nothing happens. That's where the hell comes in. When the movie is released, whether there will be fans applauding the movie will mostly depend on the plot in the second half.
For example, the picture taken at this time: The happy four people originally got the money, and they were ready to return the two million to the fourth master. The bad luck seems to have completely passed, and they have completed the robbery without much effort, and they have made a lot of money. A few thugs have lived all their lives, and they have never done such a big thing, so they naturally want to celebrate. So in Uncle Ade's bar, he played a lot of tricks: drinking tricks, dancing, farting and trying to light it with a lighter, turning his heels, and sticking a cigarette in his ears...... A drunken nightlife.
However, on the other hand, there are three parties who are very angry about this. When the gang boss Wu Zhenyu was teaching his younger brother, he accidentally crashed into the wall next door, and then found the eavesdropping device of the four people, and found money and poison from their rooms, and the expression on his face was suddenly wonderful, "I let me grow so big, it's the first time someone dares to rob my things." Dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, prepare the gun, and shoot when they enter the door. ”
“cut。”
happily looked at Wu Zhenyu and smiled lightly, "It's over, everyone is fortunate to work hard, stay where you are, don't move your position." Let's move on to the next one. ”
The three bigwigs all hit the road together and converged to the house of the four thugs. The weapon is loaded, the trench coat swings with the pace, and all kinds of situations seem to be indispensable to a big battle to understand this unresolvable grudge.
"No problem, so many days have passed, and I don't care about this moment, and it's not bothersome to squat!" Wu Zhenyu made an "OK" gesture.
nodded happily, and Long Fang, who played the big drug lord on the other side, and the others did not delay, and quickly stood in their seats and waited for the filming to start. With an "action", he suddenly walked into the camera. There are not too many superfluous actions, for him, who has played a villain all his life, even if he just tidies up the collar of his trench coat, it shows the domineering of the big guy. He also led his younger brother Huang Qiusheng and others, with a cold face, and personally carried a gun into the car.
"We're going to do a good job this time, and we're going to turn Macau upside down."
Long Fang moved his neck and made a clicking sound, "Give me some spirit and be more vigilant, these guys still have a lot of arms in their hands, and they won't hesitate to start." Everyone knows their mission...... Departure, I will stain their lair with blood. ”
The car even simply hit the door of the house and kicked it open with a "bang".
The room was quiet, and the people who came in sensed that something was wrong. The people in ambush inside were also wrong, under the bed, behind the sofa, and several people in the attic unconsciously shrank back. I thought it was just a few unsuspecting thugs, but who would have expected that it was a bunch of guys with weapons in their hands.
"What the fuck is going on."
"Bang!" A shot went off, and the gunfire in the house suddenly rang out. The already broken window pane fell on it with a few bullets, and it suddenly became even more cold.
Wu Zhenyu, who was counting the money upstairs, was also startled, and quietly opened the crack in the door to take a look, a bullet floated by the side of his face, and he stared. Then he did not hesitate to reach the door, jumped down from the window with the money, and fled through the window. However, outside the window was the killer Cheng Kuian, who had just stopped the car, so smoothly received two large smoking guns and a bag of money.
"Very good".
The drama bone is the drama bone, so far, Huang Qiusheng, Long Fang, Wu Jinyu, Xu Jinjiang, and Yuan Hua are the least NG in the crew, and I am happy to understand why those directors like to use big stars and old drama bones. This grasp of the plot is difficult for newcomers to grasp accurately with those young people who rely on their faces.
This scene uses a lot of metaphors and cool shots, and a lot of technical processing is done after the filming is completed.
On the other side of the photography, Zhao Xiaoding didn't blink his eyes, and kept moving the camera to record this scene as wonderful as possible. For this scene, two more cameras have been installed on the scene. Happy has already told him all his needs, and even which shot is how to shoot, each other has a deep consensus, so this scene was filmed, and everything was as expected when it was completed.
In a big scene, no one wants to do it over and over again. That would tire the actors, and the producers would watch time and money pass. Fortunately, the words that came out of Xingxing's mouth were: "OK, pass!" ”