Chapter 22: The First Scene
After appeasing Zou Huimin.
Li Xingchen, together with Luo Song and Wu Yusen, began to organize various departments to shoot the first scene of the day.
"First scene, first shot."
"Song Zihao and Mark, see you in the parking lot."
Chow Yun-fat had already put on his makeup and limped back and forth in the set, looking for that feeling of loneliness.
And Dillon sat quietly on the folding chair next to him, containing the complex emotions in his heart.
Since the coordinators of the crew have arranged the content to be filmed today, including lines and positions, to the actors, Li Xingchen is also happy.
In this scene, the focus is on Chow Yun-fat's emotional outburst and Dillon's inner struggle.
The plot and scenes are simple.
But it is a great test of the actor's professional level.
Whether it can pass the test depends on the emotional tension between Dillon and Zou Yun-fat, and whether it can reach the level of the original.
"Camera!"
Li Xingchen stood behind the monitor and shouted at Duke Feng, who raised his hand to indicate that he was ready.
"Lights, props, costumes, ......"
Every time he called a department, the person in charge would raise his hand.
Li Xingchen glanced around, like a general about to go to battle.
This is not the first time he has directed.
When he was in college, he also made several small movies that loved to move.
However, this is the first time he has directed a serious theatrical film.
To say not to be nervous, that is false.
But the pieces in his mind gave him great confidence.
βActionοΌβ
He controlled his excitement and yelled.
Inside the studio, there was no extra sound.
You can only hear the subtle sound of the machine when it is running.
Li Xingchen left the monitor, walked to a camera position, and stood quietly in this position, observing the close-up facial expression of Zou Yunfa in the performance area.
The scene reporter followed Li Xingchen closely, and he was responsible for recording the specific shooting situation.
Everything is well organized.
In the 80s, the practitioners of Xiangjiang film were very professional, and they didn't need Li Xingchen to say anything, they could correctly implement the director's intention in the storyboard.
At this time, Zou Yun-fat's expression began to change, lonely, sad, unwilling and unruly, various expressions appeared on his face in turn according to the requirements of the storyboard script.
I have to say that Zou Yun-fat's acting skills are indeed perfect.
Especially the time when he entered the play, it was very fast.
Li Xingchen made a gesture, and the rest of the cameras immediately began to move, according to the previous arrangement, followed Zou Yunfa, from the entrance of the parking lot, to the corner of his nest.
Everything went well, Li Xingchen nodded with satisfaction.
The poison hair becomes the hair of the gods, which is the time of a "True Colors of Heroes".
It turned out that in time and space, this scene was actually filmed for two whole days, and the two leading actors, especially Zou Yun-fat, couldn't find the feeling of being in the play.
In the end, it was Zou Yun-fat who found inspiration for filming when the crew was eating a boxed lunch.
That is to use the leftover box lunch eaten by the crew as their own lunch, and slump on the tattered leather sofa.
pushed the embarrassment of Brother Pony when he was down directly to the highest point of emotional conflict!
Combine the plot before and after.
From the chic appearance of the rain of bullets, black coat and white scarf and sunglasses in the Fenglin Pavilion to the down-and-out appearance of being lame, eating a boxed lunch, living in the parking lot, and wearing ragged clothes.
It can mobilize the emotions of the audience in front of the screen to the greatest extent.
However, with Li Xingchen here, it was directly saved in the past two days, and all the shooting steps were set up according to the finished film.
"Cards!"
Suddenly, Li Xingchen, who was sitting in the director's chair, raised his hand and signaled all departments to pause.
He walked up to Zou Yun-fat and took the lunch box in the other party's hand.
He beckoned and called the props manager over: "What did I say at yesterday's meeting?" β
"In this lunchbox, you should add a longer shredded meat, or a long and thin fish bone, which is the kind that can get stuck in your teeth!"
In this way, Mark can behave more embarrassed in front of Brother Hao, whom he regards as his biological big brother! It can stimulate the emotional collision between the two. β
"Look at this boxed lunch, there are only short shredded meat, or the kind that is easy to eat!"
"Make a new boxed lunch! Delay everyone's time again and deduct the bonuses of your entire department! β
Usually Li Xingchen's temper in the company has always been very good.
Everyone also thinks that this boss is very kind.
Compared to the Roscht, who actually manages the company, he is simply a good person.
But now the good guy is directly incarnated as a tyrant on the set.
Facing Li Xingchen, who has the dual identity of the boss and director, the props team manager immediately admitted his mistake and hurried to prepare a new box lunch.
Twenty minutes later, a new boxed lunch was delivered to Chow Yun-fat.
The plot progresses back to the place where the teeth are stuck.
"Cards!"
Li Xingchen shouted a timeout again.
"Lighting group, the brightness is wrong, the left half of Fa Ge's face should be in the dark, and the right half of his face should be in strong light, readjust!"
According to the original work, the light on Zou Yunfa's face should have become very dim at this time, and only half of his face was exposed under the light, which further highlighted the tragedy of the character of Little Ma.
But the lighting engineer obviously did not understand the essence of the scene, the lights were dim, but not dark enough, and he could still see Zou Yunfa's entire face.
This subtle difference was also discovered by Wu Yusen after looking at the monitor.
Unexpectedly, Li Xingchen felt this subtle difference with the naked eye!
"Li Sheng's feeling is absolutely amazing!"
Wu Yusen, who was standing beside him, gave a thumbs up directly.
"You don't write my letters, are you talking about them?" (That's not what you wrote to me)
The plot enters a close-up of Dillon's face.
is worthy of being a veteran kung fu star, and Cheng Gangsheng was called "Dad" every day by Cheng Gangsheng when he was a teenager.
Under the pressure of Zou Yun's expression-like acting skills.
Dillon's emotions actually caught the pressure from the other party very well.
Especially the eyes.
The heartache for a good brother is vividly reflected.
The old drama bones are the old drama bones!
As soon as he appeared, he was the king of the bomb!
Li Xingchen and Wu Yusen in front of the monitor glanced at each other and smiled.
What you want is this kind of life-and-death friendship between men and men!
Wu Yusen couldn't help but admire Li Xingchen even more.
He has always thought that in addition to his mentor Zhang Che, in the entire Xiangjiang, I am afraid that only he understands this kind of passionate friendship between men, how to shoot.
But seeing Li Sheng's emotional scheduling of this scene is simply unfathomable.
Compared with his mentor Zhang Che, it is not much worse.
At least, better than yourself!
Every picture in the monitor is what Wu Yusen wants to express, but he hasn't thought of how to express it for the time being!
And Li Sheng actually showed these pictures easily!
It's so sharp!
"I'll wait for you for three years...... Card! β
The plot in the monitor has come to the place where the brother's feelings are most intense.
But this time it was Zou Yun-fat who called a timeout.
After saying the first line, he put down his excited waving right hand and signaled Li Xingchen to pause.
This is already the ninth shot of the first scene since the start of filming.
"Li Sheng, I'm sorry, my emotions are not in place, why don't you shoot other shows first, give me an hour, and I'll think about it again."
Zou Yun-fat walked over with an apologetic look on his face.
"Fa Zai, is it because my emotions haven't kept up?"
Dillon followed behind him and walked over as well, smiling and asking.
"Brother Long, it's my own problem, I can't find that point, the emotional flashpoint that has made me suppress for three years!"
Li Xingchen patted Zou Yunfa on the shoulder: "Brother Fa, don't worry, I'll give you three hours, and you'll ponder here!" β
Then he turned to Wu Yusen and said, "Brother Sen, shoot the first shot of today's second scene, is the infield of the studio over there set up?" β
Wu Yusen nodded.
Li Xingchen waved his hand at the rest of the crew: "All departments have it, the second scene is the first shot!" β
When you bring someone to the scene.
Wu Yusen walked to Li Xingchen's side and said softly: "Li Sheng, you can't do this. β
"Huh?"
Wu Yusen looked around, the staff were a little far away, and whispered: "You have to learn to be a dictator and tyrant on the set, everything has the final say, even if what Zou Yun-fat said just now is right, you can't agree to his request, otherwise it will be difficult to control other colleagues." β
Li Xingchen smiled: "Brother Sen, if every actor loses his creativity and only acts according to the will of our director, that is the saddest thing." β
"As long as he makes sense, I'm willing to give him a chance, here, I'm the boss and director, whoever wants to disobey, just get out of here."
Only then did John Woo remember that the young man in front of him was not just a novice director.
Or the owner of this company!