Chapter 9 "Ghost Horse Double Star" is launched
With Zhao Yazhi signing a contract and officially joining the crew, after all the actors were in place, the filming of "Ghost Horse Double Star" officially began.
To Xu Guanwu's great surprise, the director of this movie turned out to be John Woo. Yes, it is a generation of fierce people who will make classic films such as "The True Color of Heroes" and "Bloody Heroes" in the future, and create "violent aesthetics" and successfully enter Hollywood.
"Doesn't he like to make hero movies and gunfight movies? Why are you making comedies now? Xu Guanwu frowned, and then he remembered the information he had read on the Internet in his previous life, and his heart suddenly dawned on him.
It turned out that in the seventies and eighties, John Woo did start by making comedies, such as "Ghost Horse Double Star", "Money Cold", "Money is Strange" and so on, and the opening work of New Art City "Funny Times" was also filmed by him under the pseudonym Wu Shangfei and for this group of old friends.
It's just that later he failed at the box office when he filmed the big-budget "Colorful Lin Yazhen", and then when he was filming the shootout of "Heroes Without Tears" in Thailand, he accidentally injured the actors of the crew because of the use of real guns and live ammunition.
Therefore, when he returned to Hong Kong after filming the movie, he was directly fired by his old club Golden Harvest. After defecting to Xinyi City, he was thrown to Taiwan, where he stayed up for two or three years and made a few mediocre comedies.
Fortunately, at that time, Tsui Hark set up a film studio, and for the sake of his previous friendship, he funded him to shoot "The True Color of Heroes", and the result was out of control.
Brother Pony has a classic line in the film, "I have waited for three years, just to wait for an opportunity, I want to fight for a breath, I don't want to prove that I am amazing, I just want to tell people that what I lost must be taken back." It is a true portrayal of John Woo's state of mind at that time.
Of course, Director Wu is not so sulking at all now, he has just joined Golden Harvest now. previously filmed a kung fu movie "Passerby", and the action director behind the scenes was Jackie Chan, who would become popular all over Asia in the future. It's just that both of them are juniors now, so the box office of this kung fu movie is not ideal.
In Hong Kong, the box office is everything. A director who can't make a blockbuster movie doesn't have the right to speak at all.
Therefore, directing "Ghost Horse Double Stars" this time is an opportunity for him to zuihou, so he cherishes it very much, and he is more nervous than anyone in the crew.
Xu Guanwen is as nervous as Xu Guanjie's brothers, because this drama was filmed with borrowed money. If the shooting is not good, the box office is not high, and the two brothers will sell themselves directly to Golden Harvest.
Therefore, on the set, you can see that director John Woo is nitpicking, the protagonist Xu Guanwen is meticulous, and Xu Guanjie is strict, which makes the whole studio tremble.
The only one who is easy is Xu Guanwu.
Because Xu Guanwen attaches great importance to this open-door work and doesn't want to make any mistakes, he originally planned to send his second brother to be in charge of the backstage, but after thinking about it, he also removed his position, and only let him be responsible for ordering boxed lunches, tea and other small things.
This kind of thing is simple, but it is full of oil and water, and it is not safe to hand it over to outsiders Xu Guanwen, so it is just handed over to the second brother to be in charge.
After Xu Guanwu ordered a boxed lunch every day, he stayed in the studio to watch them film. However, although his position is very relaxed, Xu Guanwu has found something to do for himself, and he is also very busy.
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Since he saw John Woo that day and almost forgot that this person had ever made a comedy, Xu Guanwu was a little worried about his poor memory, for fear that his memory would be even worse in another ten or eight years, so he specially bought a notebook and copied all the memories of his previous life whenever he had free time.
Of course, because these memories are too rebellious, once they are transmitted, they will be earth-shattering, such as the collapse of the Soviet Union in 91...... Therefore, Xu Guanwu carefully wrote and collected, some like being a spy.
People's memories are very loose, and Xu Guanwu divided them into categories and wrote down what he thought was more important.
For example, the reform and opening up of the mainland in the 80s, the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90s, the return of Hong Kong in the 97th, the Asian financial crisis, the rapid development of electronic jishu, the rise of the Internet and so on.
Each message contains unlimited business opportunities, which makes Xu Guanwu excited.
"With these memories, it's hard not to get rich in the future." He thought triumphantly.
Because he liked to watch Hong Kong films very much in his previous life, Xu Guanwu also remembered many Hong Kong films, such as "The True Color of Heroes", "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", "Police Story", etc., and he also took advantage of the fact that his memory was still there, and quickly wrote them all.
Although he didn't completely record some details, lines, etc., he has a complete outline of the story, and he just needs to find someone to polish it again in the future.
So it can be seen that every day, Xu Guanwu sits on the set, writing wildly.
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"Okay, let's shoot here first, call it a day, and start eating!" Director John Woo shouted, and the entire crew let out a cheer together.
The two leading actors, Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie, came to the director together, "How is the filming progress today?" Are there any big mistakes? The eldest brother Xu Guanwen asked nervously.
He is the producer of this film and the starring actor of this film, so he is naturally very worried about the filming of the movie.
"It's okay, Mike, it's a good job. Even Miss Zhao Yazhi has made rapid progress. Wu Yusen nodded.
He thought he was strict enough, but he didn't expect the two actors, especially Xu Guanjie, to be even more meticulous. He also admired such a dedicated actor.
"That's good, then eat. After eating and resting for half an hour, we continued to work. Xu Guanwen shouted.
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"Miss Zhao, call it a day? Come and get a box lunch. Xu Guanwu put down the pen and paper in his hand and handed over the specially prepared lunch.
"Mr. Xiexie Xu!" Zhao Yazhi hurriedly took it, opened the lunch box and took a look, but saw that there were two chicken legs inside.
"Wow, Ah Zhi, your meal is so good. There are two chicken thighs, look at my box. Ding Pei on the side said with a smile.
"Sister Pei, don't make fun of me, I'll give you this chicken leg." Zhao Yazhi hurriedly said.
"Excuse me, this chicken leg was specially prepared for you by Stanley, I don't want to insert a foot in the middle." Ding Pei smiled and stepped aside.
"This ......" Zhao Yazhi's face turned red when Ding Pei said a word, and she couldn't say anything more, so she had to swallow the words back from her mouth and silently find a place to eat.
"You just sit and eat here, and the rest of the place is occupied." Xu Guanwu hurriedly stood up, handed over the chair under his buttocks and said.
The studio is not large, and dozens of tables and chairs are not specially prepared for people to eat. Therefore, when it is time to eat, except for the director, the leading actor and others who have a place to sit and eat, everyone else basically sits on the ground.
Zhao Yazhi looked around, and sure enough, she saw that the place where she could sit was full of people, and there was really nothing to go, so she had to agree and sit on the chair handed over by Xu Guanwu.
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As soon as she joined the crew, she knew that Xu Guanwu liked herself very much, and specially prepared a boxed lunch for herself every day, and often brought soup to her from outside.
But Xu Guanwu's enthusiasm made Zhao Yazhi embarrassed.
First, Xu Guanwu is already thirty years old, and Zhao Yazhi herself is only twenty years old, which is not the same age difference of ten years; Second, Xu Guanwu treated himself differently, which also made the crew look at him differently, as if she had some adultery with Xu Guanwu, which made Zhao Yazhi very aggrieved.