Chapter 174: Adaptation of the plot of the Peace Hotel
He Weixiang decided to shoot in an international hotel in Jinghua City.
After all, Jinghuacheng is still an international trade port city, and in terms of system, there is a more tolerant space for film production.
Therefore, Cork also needs to make a certain adaptation of the movie script.
Peace Hotel. It's the title of the movie that Cork is going to use now.
The actual prototype is the Peace Hotel.
In the original world of cork, there is also a historical prototype.
It was in 1935 that the city of Northeast Harbin fell, and patriots tracked down a group of non-smoking people to settle in the Peace Hotel. Then he and the returned female overseas Chinese played the role of husband and wife to track down the Japanese army's test of bacteriological weapons and fight with the enemy in the Peace Hotel.
In addition, the owner of the Peace Hotel was the richest man in Harbin at that time, and the youngest son of the richest man was kidnapped and torn up his ticket, and one of the four major kidnapping cases that were famous in the world at that time occurred.
These stories have been made into TV series.
However, what Huang Bai wants to shoot is the story starring Fa Ge.
This movie starring Fa Ge, the background of the story is set in the magic capital, it is the murderous king Ah Ping played by Fa Ge who killed 200 horse gangs in one night, and then drew the land as a boundary and opened a peace hotel. It is stipulated that no matter who causes any trouble, as long as they step into the Peace Hotel, no gang can enter the store to seek revenge and kill.
The singer Shao Xiaoman fled into the Peace Hotel, triggering a series of stories that attracted a large number of enemies and broke the rule.
After the final fight, the murder king Ah Ping died.
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This movie was made in 1995 in the last century, and it received about 24 million at the box office in Jinghua City, ranking among the top five of the year.
Having said that, Huang Bai feels that this movie is actually really average, not a particularly good kind. If it weren't for the heroes and heroines supporting them, it would be impossible to have such box office results.
In the movie, the acting skills of the hero and heroine are indeed impeccable, and the acting is really good. The overall pathetic atmosphere is also rendered in place. The problem is that some of the details of the film are too complicated and messy.
Huang Bai believes that there are many places in the movie that can be explored deeply, especially many characters can also be shot more distinctly and impressively, making the movie a classic movie. But in the original version, it was indeed not filmed well, so this movie did not have such a great influence in the history of film, and I am afraid that no one will remember such a movie later.
But in fact, the story is really good.
Therefore, Cork will definitely not be filmed according to the original version, and the background and story of the entire movie must be adapted. It is necessary to improve the pattern of the entire movie.
Huang Bai set the story in the chaotic Jinghua City in 1935 of the last century.
It was the period before the Japanese invasion of China.
During this period, social unrest, gangs were rampant, and people had a hard time surviving.
At the same time, this port city of the Dragon Kingdom was part of the British Concession at that time, but the British governance was weak. This has also become the place where some special missions are carried out most frequently by some agents from all over the world.
He Ping (the killer Ah Ping in the original movie).
Ten years ago, in order to avoid the war, He Ping's family moved from the mainland to Jinghuacheng to make a living.
When I first arrived in your place, I stayed at an international hotel. (Here, the title of the movie is the Peace Hotel, but the Peace Hotel refers to the purpose of the International Hotel, not the name of the hotel.) This is a setting made to help He Weixiang International Hotel advertise. After all, He Weixiang saw the explosion of the Wufuxing movie, and this influence spread all over the country at once, so his confidence in Huang Bai's movie increased greatly, and he decided to give Huang Bai 100 million in addition to 100 million advertising expenses, and also invest 100 million yuan in Huang Bai to make a movie in the name of sponsorship, which is just a sponsorship, regardless of the box office. For such a good thing, Cork will definitely not refuse. )
The chaotic Jinghua City is full of forces and killings everywhere.
At night, a gang of thieves entered the International Hotel to loot, and even killed everyone in the International Hotel, including the original owner of the International Hotel, and looted a lot of money.
He Ping has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his skills are extremely powerful.
That night, because his son was sick, he went out to buy medicine for his son. As a result, when I came back, what I saw was a hell on earth where a group of demons danced wildly.
His parents, wife, and children were all killed.
He Ping was extremely sad and angry in an instant, and all thoughts were lost, and he fell into a demon on the spot.
More than 200 gang thieves who broke into and killed people were all killed by him.
In the end, he wanted to kill a teenage young thief, chased to the rooftop, and was about to raise the knife to fall, when he suddenly alarmed a group of white pigeons, and a white pigeon flew to the side, looking at him quietly. The behavior of the white dove awakened He Ping's reason, he put down the knife and said to the young thief: I let you go now, I hope you can change your ways.
This young thief became the only survivor of more than 200 thieves.
But I didn't want to, a moment of good thoughts, did not eliminate the evil, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but He Ping's death laid the root of the curse.
He Ping buried the family members who were killed by the thieves, as well as the owners and guests of the International Hotel, in the back flower courtyard behind the International Hotel. And the corpses of more than 200 thieves were dragged together by him and burned to ashes and sprinkled in the back flower courtyard, so that they would atone for the innocent and tragic death of their families, hotel owners and guests after they died.
Here, Huang Bai added a little bit, the hotel owner was not dead, there was still a breath, he was very remorseful and annoyed when he died, very sad, the family was gone, and so many guests staying in the hotel were involved. Speaking of this troubled world, there is no peaceful place where people can live in peace, he just didn't have so much money to pay enough protection money, so they slaughtered the hotel. In the end, he gave the hotel to He Ping.
At this time, He Ping was already alone, and he didn't know where to go, and his family also died in this international hotel.
His heart was sad, and the memories of his beautiful and virtuous wife, and his wise and lovely children, and his charitable parents were vivid, and it was really difficult to get out of such a deep mourning for a while.
So he decided to reopen the international hotel.
Before his death, he couldn't give his parents, wife and children a place to live in peace. Then he wants to create a place for his parents, wife and children after death where their souls can be at peace.
Therefore, he decided to change the name of the hotel to the Peace Hotel, but in order to commemorate the friendship of the boss to send the hotel, he did not remove the signboard of the original International Hotel, but added four more words of the Peace Hotel on the International Hotel.
And set the unique rules of the Peace Hotel.
"No matter who it is, no matter what kind of trouble it is, as long as you step into the Peace Hotel, then you will be protected by him, and no one can enter the store to seek revenge and kill. Those who violate the precepts, he will not hesitate to hunt down and kill them for thousands of miles, and he will take his life! ”
He inserted a machete in front of the hotel door and stood up as a police officer.
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One of the points, in order to echo the promotion of this movie, He Weixiang also decided to set a rule for his international hotel chain. He decided to post a conspicuous post in the lobby of each of his international hotels: "As long as guests enter the international hotel, they will be protected by the international hotel, including the personal safety and property of the guests." ”
This means that the situation that Huang Bai encountered in their hotel will not be allowed to happen again, and the hotel guests will not be taken away by some unscrupulous guys in some hooligan way.
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Back to the plot of this movie.
He Ping's killing of more than 200 thieves alone also shocked the entire Jinghua City overnight, and also earned him the title of a murderous king.
At that time, naturally no one would take care of it, even the British patrol police would only be afraid of this and did not dare to mention the arrest of He Ping, a murderer.
He Ping's prestige also greatly deterred those thieves, and there were really no thieves who dared to enter the Peace Hotel to kill people and make trouble.
Ten years have passed.
In the past ten years, there have indeed been many characters of all shapes and kinds who have stayed in the Peace Hotel to avoid disaster.
There are killers, thieves, gamblers who are being chased for debts, deserters, and even some agents of various countries who are being hunted down.
In order to reflect the peace of the Peace Hotel, Huang Bai specially arranged several plots of He Ping in order to protect the Peace Hotel. portrays the image of the murderous king who is strong and powerful in his martial arts in order to ensure the safety of the people who fled into the Peace Hotel in order to ensure the safety of other forces.
In addition, people who stay in hotels must also have to charge, and this fee is more expensive than other hotels.
He Ping, who turned out to be just a lonely person, has successively accepted some people who stayed in the Peace Hotel because they didn't have money and didn't dare to leave the hotel, so they became hotel staff.
For example, a ferocious-looking fat woman who was in charge of accounts, she used to be the housekeeper of a landlord, but she was framed by the owner's family, saying that she was greedy for a lot of money from the owner's family, and as a result, she was ruthless, killed the landlord, and then was sought revenge by the landlord's son, and fled all the way to the Peace Hotel.
Another example is a cook with a meaty face, who was once adopted by a chef, but was often treated inhumanely by the chef, and almost killed him once, only to be killed by mistake by his backhand. He panicked and feared that he would be found out that he had killed someone, so he chopped up the cook and made it into a dish......
There is also a guy who is responsible for collecting firewood and chopping firewood in the firewood room, and he is a deserter.
A guy was a killer.
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Huang Bai believes that the Peace Hotel should highlight the situation of this hotel and its special features. Therefore, in addition to the boss He Ping, there is also a need for another supporting role as a foil.
The boss is very powerful, but there should be someone who is a little more powerful with a low hand.
And these people, from fleeing to the Peace Hotel, to being taken in, to they were slowly infected by He Ping, accepted He Ping's business philosophy of the Peace Hotel, and slowly regarded themselves as a part of the Peace Hotel.
Huang Bai really thinks that these original murderers, no matter how unbearable, bad and bad their nature is, but under the infection of the owner of the Peace Hotel, they can also shine with their humanity.
Especially after Shao Xiaoman, who played the singer, fled to the Peace Hotel.
Huang Bai believes that in the original version, the shaping of those supporting characters is too thick. Instead, he put too many scenes on the heroine, and it seemed that he wanted to work hard to highlight the uniqueness of the heroine, and wanted to shoot the heroine better, but in many places, Huang Bai felt that it was too cumbersome, and in some places, he deliberately wanted to be funny, but he didn't grasp it well, so it became a bit nondescript.
Therefore, Huang Bai plans to shorten some female roles.
A movie needs to be more three-dimensional, and it can't just have the role of the heroine.
In this, Cork's setting for the heroine has also changed a lot. She's still a dancer, but she's still a dancer.
A person from our party stole an important document from the Japanese office in Jinghuacheng, which was exposed when he was communicating with someone in a nightclub, and after being shot, he grabbed the dancer Shao Xiaoman, handed her the intelligence document, and asked her to help deliver it to someone. When she died, she told her to go to the Peace Hotel to find someone.
She was discovered by Rite and chased all the way to the Peace Hotel.
It has not yet been a large-scale invasion of the Dragon Kingdom. I didn't dare to mess too much in Jinghua City, so I didn't dare to break into the Peace Hotel to arrest people.
But they paid some thieves to harass them constantly, and tried to break in by force several times.
On the other hand, they also secretly sent people to infiltrate and wanted to retrieve the intelligence documents from Shao Xiaoman's body.
In addition, there are agents from other countries, who also want to get their hands on that important document.
The plot of the movie adapted by Cork is linked one by one, and there will be a lot of funny jokes in the Peace Hotel.
Shao Xiaoman found someone, but before the intelligence documents were handed over, he was killed by Rite who sneaked in. Before someone died, he begged Shao Xiaoman to help send the intelligence documents to Baihuacheng in Nanzhou, and handed over the documents to the Baihuacheng government at that time.
Someone was killed in the Peace Hotel, which offended He Ping's scales.
Under Shao Xiaoman's intentional guidance, He Ping locked up the Japanese agency in Jinghuacheng.
He Ping bloodbathed the Japanese institution in Jinghuacheng to maintain the business philosophy of the Peace Hotel and protect the peace and tranquility of the Peace Hotel.
And Shao Xiaoman took advantage of He Ping's bloody Japanese institution in Jinghua City to escape from the Peace Hotel.
And He Ping's behavior really stabbed the hornet's nest.
Because of the existence of the Peace Hotel, it has indeed seriously hindered the development of Japanese espionage in Jinghuacheng, and also affected the development of intelligence work in other countries.
So, they think that they can affect their overall situation in order to make one person's hotel, one person's rules. So it was decided to unite and get rid of He Ping.
Unable to mobilize a large number of troops to deal with it, they sent a large number of ronin samurai and ninjas. In addition, other countries have also sent their best agents.
He Ping also realized that the peace and tranquility of the Peace Hotel could no longer be maintained.
He took out the ashes of his parents, wife and children, and after loading them, he asked the staff in the store, and took out a large amount of money and property looted by those thieves back then, distributed them to them, and let them flee for their lives, and helped him send the ashes of his parents, wives and children back to his hometown to be buried, so that his parents, wives and children could return to their roots.
A big war ensued.
When He Ping was outnumbered, the staff in the Peace Hotel, as well as some of the guests, turned out that they did not leave, but stayed to fight side by side with He Ping.
The fat woman who was in charge of the accounts died.
The cook also died.
The deserter also died.
The killer guy is also dead.
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Everyone died a tragic death and a well-deserved death.
He Ping also fell down in the middle of the robbery.
Shao Xiaoman brought people back, but saw a river of blood.
She found He Ping, found the boy who was adopted by He Ping who did not die, and found some people who were still angry.
The group left the Peace Hotel before the police arrived.
She used a flatbed truck to pull He Ping away......
Huang Bai did not explain whether He Ping was dead or not.
But the picture turned, years later.
It turned out that the document was a detailed document on the Japanese attack plan for attacking the Dragon Kingdom and discussing with the Western powers to divide the Dragon Kingdom. It is an important evidence that the Dragon Kingdom is holding them accountable.
And Shao Xiaoman joined the ranks of our party.
On a battlefield, there was a person holding a big knife, killing people among the enemy, looking at his back, looking at his knife skills, and He Ping's outstanding.
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This is the general plot of Huang Bai's peace hotel, and the detailed sub-shot part was handed over to the company's screenwriting department to do.
To be honest, there have been too many adaptations, and Huang Bai feels that this is already a new movie.
But Huang Bai believes that as long as it is filmed well, it will definitely be better than the original.
The theme pattern, as well as the setting of each character, are more distinct.
In terms of details, this is a matter of the director's directing ability.
Huang Bai will run back and forth between the crews of the two films, executive produce, and will participate in some small roles.
Of course, more energy will be focused on this peace hotel.
Because Huang Bai thinks that the artistic component of this movie is higher.
Especially in terms of the protagonist, you really need better acting skills to play it well. Because there is too much inner activity.
In the process of a person's family being killed to becoming a murderer, how does he need to show the change in a person's feelings and thoughts. These are really a test of acting skills.
Fa Ge in the original world naturally has no problem, but now Fa Ge, he is really just an ordinary person. Never acted.
In the original world, the play was nominated for several film awards. But in the end, it was only the music awards that won the awards. Huang Bai hopes that Fa Ge can win a newcomer award in this play.
At the same time, Lin Qingya, who plays Shao Xiaoman, Huang Bai also has expectations for her, hoping that she can also win a newcomer award.
Even if Huang Bai has reduced some of the heroine's roles, it still accounts for a large proportion.
It can be said that this movie is actually a heroine movie, and there is really a lot of room for the heroine to play.
After tasting the sweetness of the live-action shooting of Wufuxing, this peace hotel is also a live-action shooting method.
However, in order to reflect the urban appearance of Jinghua City in the thirties of the last century. This is where some digital effects come in.
It is estimated that the production of computer special effects at that time will definitely cost a lot of money.
It's just that now Huang Bai is really not afraid of spending money, because He Weixiang's 200 million has already arrived.
And He Weixiang attaches great importance to the movie that Huang Bai specially shot for his International Hotel this time, basically, he will follow Huang Bai every day and watch how Huang Bai made this movie.
He also watched the plot of Huang Bai's movie and thought it was very good.
As for why Ah Ping is called He Ping, this is also his suggestion.
Because of his ancestors, his family did move from the mainland to Jinghua City. It was also around that time that his family opened an international hotel.