"The Wind" is a very different drama from the original book, in the original book, Li Ningyu is the Communist Party + undercover identity, Gu Xiaomeng is a military commander spy + undercover identity, but what about the movie? Li Ningyu has become the head of the translation and telecommunications team of the puppet army bandit suppression headquarters. This is the reason why the drama "The Wind" was scolded by readers who had watched the original book at the place where it was released, because Zhou Xun's protagonist halo was too heavy, and the character of "Old Gun", which did not exist in the original text, became Wu Zhiguo, which made people who had read the original book hate it.

Yes, it's just annoying!

Don't think this word is used ruthlessly, the main reason is that there are too many plots in the movie that can't stand scrutiny, and readers who have read this novel see that when they watch the movie, what they see is that several actors are working hard to conquer the audience with their acting skills, in fact, as a suspense film, the identity of the protagonist and the big change in the plot have caused a lot of boredom to the audience.

If someone remembers 2004's "Ambush on All Sides", then the suspense movie Fengsheng must have made more than one mistake in the plot deduction, even if it is a plot adapted by Shao Yingying. In suspense films, the last murderer or the person who hides his identity is not the main actor, and the biggest mistake made by "The Wind" lies here.

But why do you have to adapt it like this?

The reason is very simple, you can't have a picture of the military commander's spies surviving in such a play, after all, in the original book, only Li Ningyu survived these people, and Li Ningyu is not a positive role in the movie "The Wind", which is related to the problem of review; The second point is that movies don't have that much time to explain too many things, and the complexity of suspense dramas has become a disadvantage of suspense films because they can't be fully elaborated in the time-limited medium of movies. There are very few movies that can make a suspense film seamless, and the audience feels that it is reasonable and unexpected.

Therefore, changing the crew can only simplify the plot, so that the audience can see the plot at a glance. It can tell the whole story very clearly. In fact, the only suspense point left in the movie "The Wind" is when Takeda will be able to find out the 'old ghost and old gun', at least for the audience watching the movie.

In this way, the fun of the movie is reduced, and the coolness has completely become how the two characters Bai Xiaonian and Jin Shenghuo died after performing the annoying point.

The issue of time limits and censorship changed the film, so that the best ingredients in the film became acting and some sadistic shots. There's no way around it. Unless, the movie can be made according to the time limit of the TV series, otherwise what is written in the novel cannot be expressed at all.

It's like a pretty wonderful passage in the novel: "Someone said. They are a mysterious group of people who come and go without a trace, and go without a trace. Everywhere; It is also said. They are a group of speechless people, who cannot be proclaimed when they are victorious, who cannot explain their defeats, who are silent in their oaths and who are speechless in heroes; It is also said that they are true lies, forever wearing a thick veil, even for relatives who have been with them for decades. In the end, they don't know their real faces; It is also said that they are buried truths. It's like a root rooted in the soil, invisible, but invisible...... Yes, they don't have names, only code names; There is no voice, only action; There is no everyday, only very; There are no biographies, only legends. Even they don't even have the right to tears, seeing their comrades fall in front of their eyes, they can't cry, they can't shed tears, they can only grieve silently, silently remember. There are also many comrades among them, who are proud of the people, who have learned both Chinese and Western, and have unique skills, and their rare and charming talents and wisdom could have made them the darlings of Vanity Fair, but by July 01, they had to stay away from fame and fortune and live an incognito life. It's a few decades, it's a lifetime, and until death it's obscurity, no one knows, no one knows. There are also some comrades among them, who have no name in life and no place in death, and perhaps only the wind knows and the rain knows, where their bones are buried. Yes, the wind knows, the rain knows, and they are willing to take everything they have done and everything they know to their graves. But the Republic knows, and the people of the Republic know how the masters in the tomb rewrote history in an instant, and how they used their wisdom and faith to create history and create this vast ......."

If you want to put this passage into the movie and shoot the artistic conception according to the plot, or even completely accommodate the 'east wind', 'west wind' and 'quiet wind' in the whole novel, not to mention two hours, five hours is not enough, and it is completely impossible to do it without ten hours of foreshadowing and continuation, plus the explosion of enough emotions accumulated in the end. "Latent" interprets a few of these points, but it's a TV series!

What Shao Yingying can do is to make the movie look more reasonable, under the existing plot that can be adapted.

Before the crew of "The Wind" started, Shao Yingying saw the cost of important scenes in the movie on the books, and in order to create the transformation process of Qiu Zhuang from rich, luxurious and gloomy, the crew spent nearly two million on the design and production of props and scenes. For example, the main scene of the "mansion" includes the decorations, the 13-metre-long dining table, all the utensils, the fireplace, and the ornate giant chandelier...... Seeing this, he immediately had an extra heart, and when he called a translator to ask how much it would cost to create these things with special effects, he smiled!

Scene construction in Hollywood is not a place to spend a lot of money, where people's special effects burn money is the constantly changing effect rendering of the picture, as a fixed decorative scene does not cost much at all, "Blood and Sand" is a very good proof, so many scenes If you build a real scene, Hollywood must at least build a "Colosseum Studio" or something like that, but Hollywood does not have this kind of place, because "Blood and Sand" is completely a scene made of special effects. There are not as many scenes in the play "The Wind" as "Blood and Sand", and it can even be said that compared with "Blood and Sand", the scenes of "The Wind" are very monotonous. In this case, is there any point in investing two million to build the scene? This scene is not suitable for long-term use, and it is completely a waste. Considering this, Shao Yingying directly denied the funds for building the set.

Gao Qunshu saw that his movie was about to start. Unexpectedly, the big boss regretted that he had eliminated the money for building the scene, and he was a little unhappy to find the office of the hero Hua Yi Shao Hero, and when he entered the room, he asked angrily: "Boss Shao." You've been in this circle for so many years, why can't you even give up this amount of money now? ”

This is not a question sentence, but an angry sarcasm.

Shao Yingying in the office of course knows why Gao Qunshu is angry, many domestic directors at this time still think that special effects technology is the kind of production that can be seen at a glance and is very fake, the key is that this movie is not a thing that requires a lot of special effects to produce, what are you reluctant to pay?

Shao Yingying naturally chose to appease: "Director Gao, we still have a while before we can turn it on." You wait a few days, and in a few days Hollywood will be able to make what we ask for, and when it is done, you still can't think of it. I'll give you the money anyway, how about it? ”

With Shao Yingying's promise, Gao Qunshu left his office, and Shao Yingying was sure that it was. Gao Qunshu will never ask for money to build the set again. Because he knew that this set of special effects would definitely satisfy Gao Qunshu.

Ten days later, when Gao Qunshu appeared in Shao Yingying's office again, the two of them had diametrically opposite emotions.

"Gao Dao, look at this."

Shao Yingying turned on a picture of the computer, the picture shows Wang Zhiwen in a black uniform with a cigarette in his hand in a palatial villa, behind him is a dining table that completely conforms to Gao Qunshu's fantasy, the table is surrounded by a white tablecloth, and the candlestick is lit on the table. Fruits, vegetables, jams, and other items are slowed down in the middle, and there are even old-fashioned Oriental wine jars and old-fashioned Western-style wine bottles on the table. In Gao Qunshu's impression. This is the 'mansion during the Republic of China' he wants, but isn't this scene not built? What made Gao Qunshu feel even more satisfied was that in such an environment, Wang Zhiwen was holding a filterless cigarette between his fingers, holding his elbows and leaning on the table with his hips, and he couldn't see any falsehood at all.

The key is that he knows Wang Zhiwen's photo too well, this is a makeup photo he took for Wang Zhiwen himself, but this photo should have been taken in the studio, Wang Zhiwen relied on a chair in the studio at that time, and the background at that time happened to be a large green cloth.

Can Gao Qunshu be dissatisfied? When he wanted to build the set, he participated in the design of the set, and Shao Yingying took this drawing to the Hollywood special effects company to make the scene, that is to say, this is what Gao Qunshu wants, the only difference is that the color and light and shadow effects in some details are not the same, that's all.

"This ......" couldn't see it at all, and Gao Qunshu was surprised by the fusion of fake scenes and photos, and his eyes looked at the computer and couldn't say a word at all!

"This is an effect made by a very small special effects company in Hollywood, not only this one, but also the underground cells in the entire Qiu Fu villa, you see." Shao Yingying opened another photo, and the photo was still exactly the same Wang Zhiwen, but the position he was leaning on became the handle on the electric torture chair, the same posture, the same elbow, and the same cigarette in his hand...... Elsewhere in the cell, there were various torture detentions, whips, handcuffs, and a blazing stove with several soldering irons on the stove; In the next picture, it is an old-fashioned sliding door elevator and an extremely black corridor, and everything in the photo was designed by Gao Qunshu himself, but these things have become real photos and have been placed on the computer without his participation.

Gao Qunshu originally thought that Shao Yingying was going to use the set he learned in Hollywood to experiment with the movie "The Wind", which was annoying, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"Boss Shao, can the light and shadow effects of these photos be adjusted?" Gao Qunshu asked a very professional question as a filmmaker, the light and shadow effect represents the concept of time in the movie, for example, if the sunlight in the room is a little more red, it should be dusk, if there is a little more blue, it should be early morning, which has a very clear hint of time for the audience.

SHAO YINGYING EXPLAINED IN DETAIL: "THESE ARE VERY SIMPLE FOR THEM, AS SIMPLE AS USING PHOTOSHOP TO MODIFY COLORS, NO MATTER WHAT YOU WANT, I GUARANTEE THAT THEY CAN SATISFY YOU." ”

"Director Gao, now what we see is only a sample film, do you guess that after we finish the film, we will send the green set footage shot in the studio to Hollywood, how much will they quote for our production costs?" When Gao Qunshu looked at him with an inquiring gaze, Shao Yingying stretched out two fingers and said, "Two hundred thousand dollars, with two hundred thousand dollars, we can let our actors appear in such a scene, and we can save a lot of money." "The $200,000 is already a high price, and the fact that there are fewer scenes in the whole movie of "The Wind" has caused this price to appear, in fact, there are not many scenes that people need to make by special effects companies, and the scenes of Li Ningyu working in the factory at the end of the movie and the shots outside Qiu Fu are still more cost-effective for live shooting, only the most useful Qiu Mansion interior shots use green sets.

When Gao Qunshu heard this price, his whole face said 'Unbelievable'!

"After the film was finished, I would go over and tell them where to put each one in which scene according to the plot we had filmed...... You can also go with me, after all, you are the director of this play. ”

When Shao Yingying said this, Gao Qunshu was speechless, he is a director who has been shooting with live scenes for a long time, and the sudden change made him feel unaccustomed, and what is even more unaccustomed is that Xiao Shao in front of him was promoted by himself to return to this industry, but now people know more than you.

"Can an actor get used to shooting on a green set?"

After listening to Gao Qunshu's last question, Shao Yingying also thought of this question, our actors can shoot opponents without partners, but they don't even have scenes, which is too big a test of acting skills: "If you don't get used to it, you have to get used to it, in the future, the general trend of this matter, we can't continue to use real scenes and special effects to fight, Hollywood has begun to give up live shooting in the studio on a large scale, and we are still using the studio as a live shooting location and tourist spot." If we continue like this, we will never be able to keep up with the changes of the times. ”

In the next step, Shao Yingying's plan is to set up the first special effects studio in China, and create his own special effects 'studio area' with the introduction of advanced Hollywood equipment and talents. In the future, if you still make a movie like "The City is Full of Golden Armor", you don't need to spend a lot of money to set up the scene, you just need to tell the technician what kind of scene you want, and the artist will draw the scene and hand it over to the technician to make.

Of course, when filming a TV series with a small investment, you can use real scenes, after all, you can't compare $200,000 with a building that can be rented for only two or three thousand dollars a month. (To be continued......)