Chapter 129: Preparing for Shooting
Sign the contract, pay the money.
Lawyers from Japan and Hong Kong reviewed the transaction contract for Penguin's shares, and Fukuda Mitsumi purchased 2o% of Penguin's shares in the name of Kasuga Investment Co., Ltd. from the villain's Yingke for $18oo. When the news spread, Yingke's stock price rose slightly.
Kasuga Investment Co., Ltd. is not a nobody in the Internet industry, and several Japanese Internet companies that have not been online long but have become famous have its investments. It is one of the big players who have continued to burn money on the Internet in Japan in recent years. The villain's 220,000 investment has only been a year later, and the profit has reached nearly eight times, which has suddenly become a booster for the villain's fame. This year, he was full of glory, because Yingke's market value once jumped to the fourth place in the list of Hong Kong's richest people.
The villain has always been the focus of media gossip magazines, so even the company and people who signed a contract with him this time have received attention. Shen Zhenghui was also picked up by the media because of this, but most of the media mentioned in passing that he was the director of Kasuga Pictures and was shooting new movies, and his old movies were also pulled out. Even the news of the new movie crew haunting Andygo's house was also published, but all the news got Shen Zhenghui's name wrong, and it was written as Shen Yu according to the name of the movie subtitle staff. For a while, he helped Shen Zhenghui promote the new movie.
But that's not what Shen Zhenghui cares about. After signing the contract, he was busy building the crew, first gathering several directors and leading actors to write the script together, and making a lot of changes on the basis of the outline. After absorbing the opinions of several actors, I made the most conducive to the action performance of the plot, and it took about two weeks for the final script to be finalized. During this time, the leading actors have become very familiar with each other, and after they compete with each other, the fighting skills of Wu Jin, Tony Jia and Billy Zhou stand out among all of them. In contrast, both Daniel Wu and Yugari Oshima lack combat skills and lack the ability to resist strikes.
Wu Jin is agile and agile. But Tony Ja and Billy Chow are really proficient in actual combat skills. At the same time, they have a strong ability to resist attacks, even if these two suffer losses on the field and are beaten more, as long as they eat the attack. If the counterattack is successful. The other party will have almost no combat effectiveness. This is one of the key points that Jet Lee deliberately wanted to show in "Jingwu Heroes". For that matter. Wu Jin is a cut below them. However, Wu Jin is from a professional martial arts team after all, and his martial arts movements and postures are very beautiful, which is especially suitable for performing on the screen.
But it still failed to meet Shen Zhenghui's requirements. During this time, a group of people nested together, gathered together during the day, kept posing, and tried to fight; In the evening, these people have to get together, write scripts and lines, and try out the play. During the day, everyone is physically tired, and at night they are mentally tortured. 6 Yang finally played the role of an academic director, and at night while writing scripts and auditions, 6 Yang acted as a teacher, explaining to everyone how to use language and movement to perform. The big 6 people are the best at adapting to this kind of course, the Japanese and Hong Kong people are okay, the two Thais feel the most difficult with the help of the translator, and all the contracted actors feel that they have not been tortured like this, but they are very contract spirit and continue to endure silently.
The Thai directly expressed his confusion, "Do we spend too much time on acting and scripting?" Pa Na asked, "Aren't we making kung fu movies?" Isn't it okay to shoot the kung fu well? ”
The daytime fighting connection with the Thai is the most brilliant, and from a combat point of view, no one can beat him. Billy Zhou is too old, his body can't keep up, Wu Jin is too soft, the Thai people's ability to resist beatings is too strong, and they can fight hard against each other after a few hits of Wu Jin, not to mention the woman's attack power, and the other action directors are just good-looking in the eyes of the Thais.
"A good kung fu movie is not just about fighting, the plot and performance are equally important." 6 Yang responded, "The most important thing is to show the concept of action, not just show that you can play very well." ”
"That's all I have for this film," Shen Zhenghui chimed in, "The tastes of moviegoers are compound, so you can't just pursue yourself to do well in one aspect, and the most important thing is to make your film complex and able to satisfy all kinds of preferences." ”
"Someone for every taste?" The Thai people are not dissatisfied, probably because they have spent too much energy on the script and performance, but the table is not as good as others, and they are a little anxious.
"Of course, in order to cater to a large female audience, we can even arrange for the male number one and the male number two to kiss."
"Huh? Is that okay too? ”
"Of course, rotten girls will find it very loving, other women will find it funny, and men will find it funny, you see, how many people's tastes are met?"
"The problem is that men kiss?" Pa Na showed a puzzled expression, he was completely stunned by Shen Zhenghui.
"Of course, you can also arrange shemales, so that the reality of Thailand is exposed, which is also a subject of interest."
"Huh?"
"Learn more now, and you can use it when you become a director in the future." Shen Zhenghui said.
The Thais were bluffed.
Another person who benefited from the crew was Andy Liu, in order to play the role of his boxer in "A Tiger", Andy Brother gave himself a vacation to stay at home during this time to watch the practice of the "Black Fist" crew, Wu Jin and Tony Jia's performances made him breathtaking, and he felt as if he had seen Jet Lee and Jack Cheng, especially Tony Jia's performance of 72o degree whirlwind legs and amazing bounces, it seems that this kid is not an earthling. Billy Chow, Oshima Yugali, and Goofy showed better fighting ability than their counterparts on the screen, and Daniel was not so dazzling in comparison. Andy went along with him and trained together, but he couldn't beat any of them.
After two weeks of practice, Shen Zhenghui felt that he could make a formal request, and he felt that the new generation of martial arts he wanted should prominently practice strength, degree and coherence, and the best template was as expressed in "Jingwu Heroes", which is known as the benchmark of action movies. The level of that film is almost the pinnacle of action movies. It's hard enough to get close, let alone overstep. There is such a long run-in time for the actors before filming, just to achieve a tacit understanding during filming, so that various styles of martial arts can be balanced in one film.
Shen Zhenghui had to wait until his effect was achieved before starting the official shooting. Just when the two weeks of running-in were over, Shen Zhenghui received a call from Nazumi Horiguchi.
"President, are you done running in as an actor in Hong Kong? Otherwise, I'll let Tsurumai and Asakura come to Hong Kong to find you, and the female artists you just signed for you and were declared by you to be used in the new movie, you can't turn around and forget about them, right? ”
"Sent to Hong Kong? Why? Shen Zhenghui was very strange, "They are now at most a plot where they appear for five minutes and then get killed!" We'll be able to wait until we go back to Japan to shoot. You can't just let them wait for the right action movie without arranging their studies, right? Shen Zhenghui's attitude is very clear. It's not the protagonist, just use it, and you still want to train?
"That's not what I said," Nazumi Horiguchi sighed. "After all, it's our signed artist. Besides, Akitsu Shinji always inquired about the situation. The two girls can't calm down, so let's send them to Hong Kong to study in the crew as soon as possible! ”
Shen Zhenghui couldn't ask if this was Mitsumi Fukuda who wanted to borrow the resources of the crew to train his own female star, he pursed his lips. Just as he was about to say yes, he heard Nazumi Horiguchi continue, "By the way, do you want to care about the box office results of "World Air Battle Story"? I have the latest box office stats here. ”
"Isn't it coming out in July?"
"It was the time of the North American release," said Nazumi Horiguchi, "and the Japanese version has been in Japan for more than two weeks, and so far, the box office results have been ......"
"How much?" Shen Zhenghui was stunned and realized that he was actually a little nervous.
"5.2 billion yen," the irrepressible excitement and excitement in Natsumi Horiguchi's tone, "It is estimated that at least the release time will be extended, and the box office should be able to exceed 1oo billion by the end of the large-scale screening, so that the cost will be recovered, and the overseas box office and DVD will be earned in the future." ”
Shen Zhenghui breathed a long sigh of relief, although Mitsumi Fukuda and he have repeatedly said that whether the box office is high or low, Haruga is the winner, and the box office failure is a good time for Kasuga to acquire Gonzo, but obviously a thriving Gonzo is more in line with Kasuga's interests.
Shen Zhenhui snorted, "Neither Murahama Shoji nor Liu Xin contacted me, how did they react to the box office?" ”
"Miss Liu is busy producing "Rebellious Lelouch", and this film will be released in October." Nazumi Horiguchi replied, "President Murahama held a celebration party, but then he devoted all his energy to the production of Battle Fairy Yukikaze. ”
"What an amazing anime person." Shen Zhenghui said with emotion.
"Also," Horiguchi said, "'World Air Battle Story' (Japanese version) has also been released in Hong Kong, haven't you noticed it in Hong Kong?" ”
"Huh?" Shen Zhenghui's eyes widened, "It seems that I've focused too much." ”
"It's been in theaters for a week," she said, "and it's said to be eight million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, which I think is pretty good." After a pause, Natsumi Horiguchi continued, "Taiwan's box office results are okay, and there are NT$80 million a week. ”
Japanese films are really easy to cheat money in Taiwan. Shen Zhenghui said to himself in his heart, listening to Nazumi Horiguchi continue to report, "...... The airplane model in the movie is very popular, and the figure factory is already fully operational, and Gonzo is expected to make quite a lot of money. ”
"Okay, I got it." Shen Zhenghui nodded, and didn't care if Natsumi Horiguchi could see it, "Is there anything else?" If not, I'll hang up. ”
"Oh, there's one more thing," Nazumi Horiguchi said, "Iwayama Moto called to ask Huang Yuxin that she had re-strengthened her taekwondo ties for a few weeks, and asked when you wanted her and he could send it to you." ”
"Uh......"
"This girl is also a contracted artist of the company, I hope you can take care of it." Nazumi Horiguchi said on the other side of the phone, "I'll let the three of them come over together." ”
Shen Zhenghui couldn't find a reason to refuse, and he didn't feel the need to refuse. "Okay," he said, "I'm going to stay in Hong Kong for two weeks at most, and by the way, I'll shoot the Hong Kong scenes, so you can let them come over and study with the crew." ”
Nazumi Horiguchi put down the phone and breathed a sigh of relief, turning her head to look at Ayaka Kuroishi, "Satisfied now?" ”
Kuroishi Ayaka nodded, "Now those girls can settle down and practice seriously." Then she rolled her eyes, "It's really annoying to be the parent of a group of girls. ”
"Wait until they touch you."
"Oh. That is said to be more annoying. Busy and annoying, not only to manage them, but also to keep talking to the TV station. The production system and the program team deal with each other, but fortunately, they will have their own agents at that time. It's not entirely my business. ”
"Really?" Natsumi Horiguchi raised the corners of her mouth. "Do you like your job. Colored incense? ”
Ayaka Kuroishi showed a thoughtful expression, "Speaking of which, this job is very good. She moved her gaze to Nazumi Horiguchi's face. How are you? I've heard that your dream is to be a film actor, do you still think so? ”
"Ever since I've seen first-hand how they treat movie actors, I'm full of regrets about what I thought before."
"You don't want to be a movie actor anymore?"
"Not really," replied Nazumi Horiguchi, "I want to be a very famous film actress." ”
Shen Zhenghui called Zhu Xinghe to inquire about the release of "World Air Battle Story" in Hong Kong.
Zhu Xinghe was also very nervous, "I'm sorry, president, I've been busy with this matter during this time, and I forgot to report it to you." ”
"It's okay, I'm also busy with my movie, I forgot to ask you."
"Yesterday's box office statistics just came out, 1oo in a single day, and it is estimated that it will continue to be the box office champion this week, we talked to the theater chain, if the box office table is good, they are interested in releasing the Chinese version and the American version simultaneously with the big 6."
"Simultaneous release?"
"There is no way to do this, the American version can be released a week in advance, and the Chinese version can be postponed by a week, and the names can be used "World Air Battle Story" 2 and 3 respectively, which should arouse everyone's interest in watching the movie."
"I don't think it's necessary for them to get tired of watching it."
"I think it's still worth being optimistic, after all, there are a lot of military enthusiasts who like this kind of film very much, and it's the same in Japan."
"Shoji Murahama is really good at making money." Shen Zhenghui sighed.
"I think it's just luck to have such a result." Zhu Xinghe also said on the phone, "In addition, Taiwan will only release the American version later." Speaking of Taiwan, Mr. Iwayama also called me and said that he was going to send a female star over and let me ask you. ”
"Okay, I know, send it over." Shen Zhenghui responded, "Another thing for you, help me book a few movie tickets for "World Air Battle Story" in a better movie theater, I want to ask everyone in the crew to take a look." ”
"There's no problem with this, I'll arrange the pick-up car."
"Don't bother so much, give them the tickets and let them see it for themselves, it's all adults." Shen Zhenghui responded, "The main thing is to trouble you to come over," Shen Zhenghui lowered his voice, "The film "Ah Hu" will take care of Andy, and the conditions will be a little better. ”
"Okay, I got it." Zhu Xinghe also understood, "Are you interested in the new company that Mr. Andy is planning?" ”
"I'm personally interested, but this is just to thank him for his help during this time, our contacts don't directly touch the boss, and it is very necessary to expand to the depths of the Hong Kong entertainment industry."
"The filming site here in Pengcheng has been completed," Zhu Xinghe continued to report, "Your father's crew has finished filming, and he means that it is better for us to use it sooner." ”
"Okay, you can arrange it, and in two weeks at the latest, we will go to Pengcheng." Shen Zhenghui patted his forehead, "In addition, you have to help the two Japanese girls go through the customs clearance procedures, you can call and ask Miss Ayaka Kuroishi for specific information." ”
"Okay." Zhu Xinghe also put down the phone, and Shen Zhenghui breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did he know that everything was complicated.
Shen Zhenghui stood in the corner for a while, and after a while, he saw 6 Yang walking towards him.
"What's the matter?" It's still morning, and everyone is still discussing the effects of the action in the boxing ring.
"Mr. Yuan has choreographed several sets of movements, please go and take a look."
"Orchestrated?"
"In fact, let Wu Jin and Tony fight a real battle, according to your requirements, try to show the continuity and logic of strength, agility and action, and then on the basis of their actual combat, summarize some routines that are biased towards actual combat."
Shen Zhenghui's high requirements for action drove Yuan Xiangren crazy.
"Did you play well?"
"Billy Zhou, Yugali Oshima, and Goofy all said that the design was good, and after the existing kung fu films, it depends on the effect of shooting."
Shen Zhenghui nodded and strode towards the boxing room.
When I arrived at the boxing room, Liu Tianwang was also there, watching the monitor on the side, and his eyebrows were dancing, and some hands were dancing. Shen Zhenghui's arrival made everyone present a little excited.
"Director Shen, come and see," Yuan Xiangren stood up from behind the monitor, "I think this section is quite good, and we can follow this style when designing." ”
The footage shown behind the monitor is not very exciting because it has not been edited and retouched, but judging from the footage that has been filmed, the performance of the two people fighting is both realistic and performative, and every movement of the whole body looks like it is to knock each other down.
"Wu Jin's movements carry the routine of Bajiquan, and Tony is the fierce way of authentic Muay Thai," Yuan Xiangren explained, "A half-truth fight, two people fight for five minutes and are too tired." ”
At this moment, the two of them are barely standing and panting! (To be continued!)
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