Chapter 29: Filming is underway
"I hate your naΓ―ve idea of the protagonist of the novel as the author, and the thoughts and feelings of the protagonist of the novel as the author." Shen Zhenghui blinked, "In this way, how do you let others create literature?" He spread his hands.
"What do you mean by that?" Mitsumi Fukuda looked at Liu Xin, "Don't explain, explanation is ......"
"To explain is to cover up, and to cover up is to do something." Liu Xin picked it up.
"Yes, what's more, who hasn't experienced this hazy love when you're young?" Mitsumi Fukuda nodded, "It's not a stain if you admit it." β
"In the face of such questioning with ulterior motives, we must resolutely deny it."
"Is denial useful?" Mitsumi Fukuda narrowed her eyes, "There is only one truth!" β
"Hey, are you enough, people still have to film in the afternoon! The feelings are all messed up. Shen Zhenghui held his forehead, "While I am concentrating on filming, I will leave other things to you." β
"Concentrate on filming? Do you still have to film at night? Mitsumi Fukuda was dissatisfied, "There are so many things, and there are still a lot of things to communicate with China." β
"Find the young lady next to you, and leave all these things to her." Shen Zhenghui pointed at Liu Xin.
Mitsumi Fukuda glanced at Liu Xin, who was gritting her teeth, "You are really, leave everything to ...... Women do it! β
"Women can hold up half the sky," Shen replied, "Of course, you Japanese people have a poor understanding of this sentence." β
Mitsumi Fukuda grimaced and sneered, "Then who should write the Sino-Japanese cultural exchange and cooperation plan submitted to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi?" β
"Huh? Won't he have to wait until next year to visit China? Why is it in such a hurry? β
Mitsumi Fukuda was almost annoyed, "Your own plan, aren't you clear?" How many times does it take for the proposal to be finalized? Is it possible to wait until before the Prime Minister's visit to submit it? It's getting late now, and I'm going to go to Yuko Obuchi to coordinate, have you taken your work to heart? What are you doing at night? β
Liu Xin watched in surprise at the way the two partners communicated.
Shen Zhenghui looked embarrassed, "We've been exercising in the gym these past few nights, aren't I going to show my chest muscles and abs in this film?" Finally, nunchucks are played. β
"So you mean to say that filming is the number one priority right now?"
Don't you agree that I will play the leading role? At this time, you women turned their faces, you women are really ...... Shen Zhenghui didn't know what to say, "Uh, okay, I'll take the time to write." He sighed, "I don't know if your speed can keep up, can "Battle Fairy Snow Wind" come out in 1999?" β
"After you finish filming, take care of it." Mitsumi Fukuda pouted.
Shen Zhenghui set his eyes on Liu Xin.
Liu Xin hurriedly waved his hand, "I can't do this." β
"You need to communicate and coordinate more with President Murahama Shoji," Shen Zhenghui looked at Mitsumi Fukuda again, "You still need to pay more attention to this matter." β
"I'm a woman too!" Mitsumi Fukuda rolled her eyes, "And it's Japanese." β
"Ah, okay." Shen Zhenghui sighed, "I'm just tired," and then he looked around, "What about Xiao Ze?" Didn't come with you? β
"She's starting school......"
"Nani? Is she still a student? Shen Zhenghui's eyes widened, "Can't you find a full-time secretary?" β
Mitsumi Fukuda didn't speak.
"Recruit people! We are about to experience a big leap forward development. He sighed again, "Aren't you going to sign Director Shimizu Chong?" β
"It's difficult," Mitsumi Fukuda said, "You also know what kind of personality and temper these directors have, not to mention Akira Kurosawa Kitano Takeshi, even directors who have not yet become famous almost all believe in what will happen one day, not to mention that director Shimizu has shown excellent potential." β
"Okay, let's recruit a few graduates and put up the shelves." Shen Zhenghui said, the corners of Fukuda Mitsumi's mouth twitched, and Liu Xin was a little unclear on the side.
"Are you talking about starting a film company?"
"Aren't we already doing it? You see, you've already started making movies. β
"I thought it was just fun," Liu Xin exclaimed, "so the focus is no longer on anime?" β
Shen Zhenghui was weak for a while, "Who said that?" It's just that the needs of industrial development need to have a department that produces films, even if it is just to shoot commercials in the future. He pouted, "When I was in China, I wanted to have such a department......."
"We also have an advertising agency," Ms. Liu said, "but it's small, and it's kind of left to fend for itself." She was a little embarrassed, "I never pay attention either." β
Shen Zhenghui looked at the director over there and had already started to shout, so he turned his head and said, "Okay, you have to start filming, with my role, you should go back early." As he spoke, he waved his hand and turned to run towards the place where the camera was, and Tomoaki Aonuma greeted him; The two of them began to walk side by side, talking as they went.
Mitsumi Fukuda and Liu Xin looked at the backs of the two people, and they didn't know what the love was.
"Making a movie might be a really interesting thing." Liu Xin said.
"Well," Mitsumi Fukuda nodded thoughtfully, "If you're really interested, we can try it too." β
"Huh?"
"What do you think of the live-action version of Sailor Moon?" Mitsumi Fukuda turned around, took Liu Xin's hand and began to leave.
Liu Xin turned his head back to look at Shen Zhenghui's back as he walked, and couldn't help but sigh after listening to Fukuda Mitsumi's words.
"Or a live-action version of EVA."
"Ahh Is this really possible? β
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This movie, written by Shen Zhenghui, is a very simple story, a teenager named Makoto Miyazawa transfers to a very bad high school, where the teachers are rough and the students have no intention of studying. Makoto Miyazawa, the only student who hopes to be able to study well and get into university, meets and befriends one of the school's bosses, Koichi Okagawa (played by Masahiro Nakai). The two met and fell in love with a female classmate, Tomoaki Aonuma, at the same time, but Makoto Miyazawa's personality made him repeatedly back down in expressing his love, and finally had to watch his good friend and the person he liked together, but then Koichi Okagawa was defeated and humiliated in a school fight, so he dropped out of school and disappeared, and then Tomoaki Aonuma also disappeared. In this oppressive environment, Miyazawa practiced Jeet Kune Do hard, and finally defeated all the underworld forces on campus.
The structure and content of the whole story are not much different from the Korean movie "The Cruel History of Ma Congee Street", but the Korean film has its own unique historical background and is considered to imply the shadow of patriarchal violence of the military regime. In order to transplant the whole story into the historical environment of Japan, it is necessary to make heavy adjustments to the form and content. Shen Zhenghui is not Japanese after all, he conceived this story according to Chinese ideas, so his script went to the hands of Shimizu Chong and went through the Japanese re-experience. At the same time, the two of them had a long discussion on the technique of the table, and decided to abandon the natural Japanese method of insufficient and exaggerated expression, and strive to shoot with cruel and realistic techniques, so as to help Shen Zhenghui make a choice in the martial arts performance department or practice first.
I have to say that although Shimizu Chong is a master of horror in the future, he is not without talent in other themes. The combination of the two aspects of the campus film, the beautiful and the cruel, is well expressed in his hands. The beauty of Tomoaki Aonuma, the youth and vigor of young people, the hazy and beautiful love, and the depression, cruelty and darkness of the campus are intertwined together, making the style of the whole film very attractive.
Judging from Shen Zhenghui's shallow understanding of Japan, there are two extreme expressions of Japanese film and television dramas, one is the exaggeration of the stage drama, and the style of the whole film is pretentious and unrealistic, which makes people clearly realize that this is acting at a glance - they can hardly see normal characters, and the other is that they are not strong enough to show the pattern and momentum of the table, but they can't show the strength, so the characters appear shallow. The combination of these two extremes makes Japanese cinema always lack a sense of power, which is probably related to the national character of the Japanese and their history, but those who can express a true sense of power have become masters - such as Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, etc.
The Japanese film that Shen Zhenghui watched in his last life and felt shocked was "Battle Royale 1", and the whole film has a crisp and neat feeling, not pretentious, and powerful. This style is clearly expressed in Shimizu Chong's hands, and the sweet love and bitter unrequited love on campus are all tried to be expressed with bright or depressing camera images, and expressions and movements are the most important, not exaggerated lines; On the other hand, the cruelty of the campus is the same, the bullying of the campus bully to the classmates is also the actual fist and kick, straight to the flesh, straight to the flesh, in the moment of being beaten and beaten, Shen Zhenghui almost had an epiphany about the so-called aesthetics of violence - this is not a philosophy of performance, but a kind of expressive force, to use the power of the content of the story to show the sharp surface.
This cooperation with Shimizu Chong made Shen Zhenghui feel that he benefited a lot and got a glimpse of the way to get started with movies.
On the other hand, Shimizu Chong also gained a lot from Shen Zhenghui's performance. Originally, he came to work as a director with the psychology of investing in the movie version of "The Grudge", and originally thought that this was the rich second generation who had more money to burn, and he just needed to be a good executive director, but after the contact with the investor, screenwriter and star, many of the other party's ideas had a certain impact on himself, and sometimes the layman's words can be regarded as a slap in the face for the insider, especially when the layman still has the right to speak. How to make a simple story come out is the core of this film, and it may be the core of all movies in the future.
Shen Zhenghui's various requirements were realized one by one through Qing Shui Chong's professional techniques, and after Qing Shui Chong saw Shen Zhenghui's request on the monitor and master tape, the style he designed was gradually formed and formed with great strength, and his excitement was not slightly lower than Shen Zhenghui's. Qing Shui Chong clearly realized his skills and potential in horror films, but he also realized that directors who can only make horror films are definitely not great enough, the market for horror films is too small after all, but he still thinks about the achievements on this road now, and has not yet considered the transformation, and now, the completion of this youth campus film has allowed him to accumulate a lot of things in advance.
This campus chapter titled "The Cruel History of Peking High School" was completed after just two months of shooting, Shen Zhenghui had a one-on-eight fight scene in the final part, which was a vent for all the depression of the protagonist of the whole film, of course, the filming was also painful, because considering the style of realistic combat, I invited many masters of Jeet Kune Do and Karate to consult, NG countless times and finally got a passable ** fight scene.
Shen Zhenghui's two-month fitness and martial arts training was not in vain, even if his face was covered with blood after the final shooting.
This is almost the last scene, and when the filming is finally finished, Shen Zhenghui is almost exhausted and collapsed on the ground. A few minutes of burning the endocrine body completely burned dry. The rest of the cast and crew can rest, he and the director have to edit and do post-production, Nakai Masahiro has already finished filming his own scenes and is busy with other work, but he still came to the celebration banquet for the finale, and the future Japanese superstar also realized that this film may be very powerful.