Chapter 33: Kung Fu Movie
Sun Cun Zhou has been very anxious lately, and after living for nearly thirty years, he learned from scratch like an idiot for the first time.
As soon as he stood in front of the camera, he felt uncomfortable.
As a result, Zhou Zhen arranged a photographer to carry the camera, and he didn't turn it on, and followed him all day and night.
Eat, sleep, practice martial arts, train acting skills, and even go to the toilet to follow.
But this effect is very good, and after half a month, he got used to the presence of the camera.
Sun Lutang invited nearly 100 martial artists to the magic capital, and Zhou Zhen also generously bore the travel expenses and food expenses, he was not afraid of many people, but he was afraid that there would be no suitable actors.
During Zhou Zhen's inspection in Hebei and Beijing, these martial artists were arranged for acting training.
They don't need to have clever acting skills, at least let people see them on the screen and be able to have a clear positioning.
The few actors in the company acted as teachers, and they were always taught their respective postures, from the expression of speech to the posture of walking, all from scratch.
When Zhou Zhen returned to the Demon Capital, their training also came to an end.
It took Zhou Zhen three days, leaving behind the forty people who touched the threshold, and the others gave subsidies to let them go home.
Most of these people are uneducated and belong to the category of people who have elm bumps that cannot be carved.
Don't say standing in front of the camera, just ask them to make a few different expressions, and they can't do it well.
Of course, Zhou Zhen pays the most attention to Sun Cun Zhou, he is a veritable actor, and he is also the shortcoming of the whole movie.
But this is a martial arts film, his kung fu is very good, and this advantage is not comparable to the movie stars of later generations.
In later generations, those who don't know how to act can be adjusted, and it looks like that, not to mention that the audience is now less demanding.
And he has another advantage, that is, he is handsome and handsome.
In terms of kung fu, he is higher than the kung fu superstars of later generations; In terms of appearance, he is also more handsome than the two Dragon Brothers, as well as Brother Jie, and they are bullets.
With thick eyebrows and big eyes, a lofty spirit, and excellent kung fu, acting skills are not so important in this action-oriented movie.
However, the literary drama of the whole drama is the most difficult, and most of the literary dramas are indoors, and Zhou Zhen shoots them in the studio of the magic capital world.
Zhou Zhen incarnated as the Great Demon King at this time, and tossed Sun Cun Zhou back to life.
If it weren't for the old man Sun Lutang pressing the formation next to him, his wife and children would be here, and he would have absconded.
In this process, Zhou Zhen also discovered a good seedling, that is, his eight-year-old son.
The little guy is still young and has a bit of spirituality, teach him to act, and he finishes it faster than adults.
And he has also practiced martial arts since he was a child, and it was just right to play the protagonist when he was a child.
Zhou Zhen felt a little sorry for him, he remembered after reading Sun Lutang's history that this little guy was a battalion commander during the Peninsula War and died on the battlefield.
There are not many indoor dramas in the magic capital, mainly in the capital and Hebei, but mainly outdoor dramas.
In half a month, Sun Cun Zhou finished filming these scenes with difficulty.
Zhou Zhen chartered a train and pulled everyone in the crew to Hebei together.
When she set off, because of Sun Cimei, the heroine, she was with her, Bai Xiuzhu was not worried about Zhou Zhen, so she asked Xiao Lian to follow and serve.
However, Xiao Lian is a paper tiger, and within a few days of arriving in Hebei, she was curried favor by Sun Cimei.
When she was about to go to the capital, Sun Cimei lived in Zhou Zhen's room, which made everyone in the crew envious.
To Zhou Zhen's surprise, the filming in Hebei went very smoothly, and the little guy performed well, vividly playing his grandfather's short experience when he was a child.
The old man followed the shooting all the way, and he couldn't add much love to this grandson.
As for his son, he has a bit of a hatred for iron not being made of steel. Usually, when the shooting is not going well, he scolds and behaves well, and only nods lightly.
After the filming of Hebei, the main filming location was in Beijing.
The plot has been changed here, and Zhou Zhen was originally going to end the plot of the first play in Baoding.
But when he came to the capital later, he wanted to promote oriental culture and introduce the Forbidden City to foreigners, so he finally changed the plot to Sun Lutang opening a martial arts hall in the capital.
When he was in Hebei, there were not many martial artists used, mainly to play Sun Lutang's brother and master in the process of learning martial arts.
When you arrive in the capital, there will be two big battles, and all the martial artists will participate, and some people will be found to be group performers.
And when he arrived in the capital, Zhou Zhen had more entertainment.
Although he gave 300,000 yuan to the army, other yamen also came to fight the autumn wind.
Now the whole country knows that the road angels have sold more than five million dollars at the box office abroad, and Zhou Zhenneng can divide more than two million, that is, six million silver dollars.
The domestic box office has now exceeded 7 million silver dollars, and he can divide it into 3.5 million.
This is the income of nearly 10 million silver dollars, even if part of the expenses are spent, Zhou Zhen has millions of income in his hands.
If he hadn't been the prime minister's son, I'm afraid he would have been cut leeks a long time ago.
Now that all departments are poor and can't open the pot, Zhou Zhen has no choice but to take three million to his father and let him arrange it.
If you have mastered the distribution of resources, you will also have power, and now Jinquan is really in full swing.
Many studios are now releasing their films, most of which are still shoddy.
The audience is not stupid, they are not willing to pay after being fooled a few times.
However, the market in Huaxia is very large, even if the box office in the cinema is not high, they will buy a few broadcast-level broadcasts and go to the county and countryside to screen them, and they can also return to their capital.
In short, today's Chinese movies are developing much faster than in real history.
It's just that there is no movie that is as popular as the Angel of the Road.
Zhou Zhen is also doubting that his "Kung Fu", which has put more effort into and is more well-made, may not be as good as the results of the road angels.
After all, the first part has attracted the most attention.
Putting aside the trifles, the shooting continued.
The filming location of the Beijing Martial Arts Museum is in the hutongs near Jingshan, the back wall of the Forbidden City, and the scenery of the hutongs in Houhai, which have been repeatedly photographed.
After the simple training of the martial artists, after the official start of filming, they repeatedly made mistakes.
Zhou Zhen's scheduling ability is okay when there are few people, and when there are many people, he is a little uncontrollable, so the shooting is particularly unsmooth.
Often, because one person makes a mistake, the whole shot has to be reshot.
Zhou Zhen is now making a lot of money, and he strives for excellence at any cost.
It wasn't until mid-June that the last shot was completed.
The last big scene was when Sun Lutang opened a martial arts hall in the capital, and then contradicted the local martial artists, who only had three people to deal with dozens of people on the other side.
Zhou Zhen directly arranged for this scene to be filmed at the Jinshui Bridge at the gate of the Forbidden City.
Nowadays, the Forbidden City has been opened to the outside world, and in order not to affect the visit of tourists, the time for filming is used in the morning and evening.
Not to mention, when the sun comes out in the morning, when the sunset shines on the castle tower in the evening, the momentum is even more magnificent.
This scene chased all the way and fought all the way, and it took half a month to complete the shooting.
When Zhou Zhen announced that all the shots were filmed, all the crew cheered.
Zhou Zhen also invited everyone to have a big meal on the Tianfu as a finale banquet.
Tianfu has been open for 200 years, famous for sauce elbows, people in this era lack oil and water, people like roast duck, definitely not as many as like to eat pork.
Some people didn't want to continue making movies, ate and drank enough, and went home handsomely.
For others, who have cultivation value and are willing to continue making movies, Zhou Zhen stayed.
Now he can't afford to raise dozens of martial artists, even hundreds, thousands.
After the movie was filmed, he couldn't leave the capital. Because the big names didn't let him go, [Shuquge] asked him to edit and produce in the capital, and they wanted to watch Zhou Zhen's painstaking movie for the first time.
Zhou Zhen felt more and more the depression of the capital, these old guys are all human spirits, and they always have a reason to convince you and interfere with his decision.
You talk to him about rules, and he talks to you about morality; You talk to him about morality, and he talks to you about feelings; You talk to him about your feelings, and he pretends to be pitiful to you.
After a rough calculation, Zhou Zhen was coaxed away almost three million during this period of time in addition to the three million that he handed over to his father.
Among them, the navy alone coaxed away 2.6 million.
The Navy purchased warships, with a budget of only five million, which was only enough to buy two German destroyers.
They had another million from Jin Quan's hands to buy weapons and ammunition on the warship, but it was still a lot worse.
While being loyal to Jin Quan, the officials of the Admiralty sent people to pester Zhou Zhen all day long and cry poor.
Zhou Zhen settled the accounts, indeed, it was not enough to buy warships, and the ammunition for one base was too small, so he had to donate another 2.6 million yuan to let the navy build the fleet.
Zhou Zhen was reluctant to stay in the capital, and because he arrived in the capital, he couldn't live with Sun Cimei.
Although Sun Cimei went to Zhou Zhen's bed, it is still difficult to enter the door of the Jin family.
Zhou Zhen could only place her outside, rented her a yard, and sent two old mothers to serve her.
At the end of June, Zhou Zhen finally finished editing and copying the movie.
The total length of the movie is 92 minutes, which is a very long movie in the current era.
A film is only 25 minutes at most, and it can't be jammed at critical times, so all four are between 20 and 25 minutes.
On June 1, the premiere of the film was held in Beijing, and on that day, all sectors of the government were very face-saving and attended the premiere ceremony.
And this movie is also the first martial arts film, in which the fight of hard bridges and hard horses did not disappoint everyone, which made people's blood boil.
In addition to fighting, the film also shows a very profound picture from the misery of the late Qing Dynasty to the happiness of the Republic of China.
In particular, the film was shot in April and May, with spring flowers blooming everywhere, and the shots are very beautiful, showing the majesty of the Forbidden City to the fullest.
Hearing the exclamations that rang out from time to time in the cinema, Zhou Zhen knew that his film was at least more successful in terms of artistic expression.
As for market performance, it's up to fate now.
At the end of the show, countless people watched the blood boiling and the excitement was irrepressible.
Jin Quan patted him on the shoulder with relief. "Xiao Qi, you did a good job."
For an old-fashioned father, it is rare to be able to praise his son like this.