Chapter 224: A one-sentence script
There were a lot of congratulatory phone calls, but Huo Yunting was too busy, and most of them just hung up after a few hasty words.
However, old friends like Liu Dehua and Huang Bo must have to say a few more words.
After about an hour and a half, I was bitten by mosquitoes and several large bags on my body, and I finally dealt with all my friends.
When I stood up, my legs were a little numb, and I didn't take two steps when another phone call came in.
Huo Yunting saw that the caller was also a rare guest, Wang Jiawei.
"Master Huo, congratulations, the first movie starring in my life to break 100 million yuan, and also broke the Guinness World Record, double happiness is coming."
"Lao Wang, don't. You don't know what I'm capable of. ”
The other end of the phone was silent for a long time, and Cai answered, "Hey, Master Huo, I really haven't seen through your ability, and I just want to communicate more with you, the Wing Chun Grandmaster." ”
"Don't, I'm not a grandmaster, I'm just a kid."
"Master Huo, if you are too modest, you are a little proud, you are not a grandmaster, who dares to say that you are a grandmaster?"
Huo Yunting was happy, "Lao Wang, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and coming here today is definitely not just as simple as Daoxi." ”
If he remembers correctly, Wang Jiawei has been preparing a film about martial arts before, and it happens to be about Wing Chun, so he called him today, I'm afraid I want to ask him to be a martial artist?
"Master Huo, I like to deal with smart people like you." Wang Jiawei got straight to the point, "I want to ask you to be the starring role of my new film, which is the previous Wing Chun film about martial arts, tentatively named "The Grandmaster". ”
Huo Yunting was stunned for a moment, and then gasped.
Well, he could think that Wang Jiawei had a good job to call him, but he didn't expect that he would be the starring actor.
Without waiting for him to speak, Wang Jiawei on the other end of the phone said to himself, "What about the heroine, I want to invite Zhang Ziyi." The only problem is that she doesn't know Baguazhang and has to practice from scratch. So the boot time may have to be leaned back. ”
At the end, he sighed, "Now it is easy to find actors who can fight martial arts in this circle, but actresses are really rare." ”
When Huo Yunting saw him say this, he slapped his thigh, "Isn't this a coincidence?" Liu Yifei will. ”
"Yo, Miss Liu still gossips?"
"I also have a reputation for passing on martial arts, Baguazhang doesn't dare to say that she is perfect, but she can also be called proficient, she has been learning with me for almost half a year."
There was a thoughtful muttering on the other end of the phone, "I took the time to do an interview another day, but I was still able to match the image." ”
"This must be public, public and private are private, I can distinguish this kind of thing." Huo Yunting nodded, and then asked, "Lao Wang, when can you show me the script?" ”
The voice on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and Wang Qiaowei's voice rang, and Huo Yunting almost thought that the signal in the mountains was too poor and the connection was disconnected.
"Tell the story of how you carried Wing Chun forward."
Huo Yunting was stunned for a moment, "What is this?" ”
"Script."
?
His eyelids couldn't help jumping, and it took a long time for Huo Yunting to speak, "Lao Wang, the synopsis of the story is still one or two hundred words, and you brought a sentence to tell me that this is your script?" ”
"Oh, it's finely crafted, slow work is meticulous."
Huo Yunting's words were blocked in his chest, and he wanted to spray his brain on his face, but finally endured it, "I'm pondering." ”
"Master Huo, believe me, you will definitely not lose anything by shooting with me."
hung up the phone with a painful face, Liu Yifei jumped over, "What's wrong?" Who's calling, it's like Sichuan Opera changing faces. “
"A director just came to me for an appointment."
"Isn't that good, why, the script sucks?"
He said a word.
"And then?"
"He told me it was his script."
Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted, "You can't be talking about Wang Jiawei, right?" ”
Huo Yunting was shocked, "Is his reputation already so stinky?" ”
"Almost- oh no, just fame. After all, there are directors in the circle who can do this kind of thing now, and I feel that there is no one else except Wang Jiawei. ”
Huo Yunting rubbed his eyebrows, "There is one more thing, he still wants to interview you as the heroine." ”
Liu Yifei pointed at himself with some surprise, "Me?" ”
He said that the heroine wanted to invite Zhang Ziyi, but she had to learn Baguazhang. Didn't I teach you before, after practicing for half a year, filming must be enough, so I recommended you. ”
"Ah, that's not a coincidence, let's play a couple again."
Liu Yifei looked a little happy, this is good, and he is playing a couple again.
Looking at her smiling expression, Huo Yunting suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, because he saw his own shadow in Sissi.
At the beginning, he signed a three-year contract with Huayi, except for "Qinghong" and "Crazy Stone", the rest were all jobs he took on his own, or people took the initiative to find him.
When he signed Huayi, he still used two of Huayi's resources, but Sissi was outrageous than him, and one was not used.
Speaking of which, she has been signing with Huayi for a while, and she always feels like she is going to follow his back path.
Damn, it's really not okay to let Sissi jump ship, they can start a company.
When his mind was flying, Li Guoli popped up behind him out of nowhere and slapped him on the shoulder.
"You kid haven't finished talking yet, why are you staying here in a daze? It's time for your play. ”
"I said Lao Li, are you familiar with Wang Jiawei?"
"Huh? You also hooked up with Wang Jiawei? Li Guoli glanced at him quite strangely, "Let me tell you, Wang Jiawei and Huang Baiming don't deal with each other very much." ”
"Oh? How so? "Huo Yunting is interested, there is a little gossip here?
"When Wang Jiawei first entered the film industry, he was a screenwriter in Xinyi City under Huang Baiming, and you knew it at that time, just one requirement, fast. Like the script of "Taking the Wrong Car", Huang Baiming wrote it in two days. ”
"As a result, Wang Jiawei couldn't pay a decent script for a few months, and was finally fired by Huang Baiming."
Huo Yunting thought about it, a screenwriter was fired, it was a very embarrassing thing, which showed that his ability was not up to standard. As soon as this squid is fried, it will not be able to get work in the future.
"If you say that, it makes me feel like these two people are competing on the same stage when they engage in Wing Chun."
"It's probably a coincidence." Li Guoli shrugged, "Why are you asking him why?" Looking for you to make an appointment? ”
"Told me a word and told me it was his script."
Li Guoli didn't seem to be much surprised, and sighed twice, telling a story about Wang Jiawei's past.
When filming "2046", Wang Jiawei told Takuya Kimura, "You are waiting for someone".
And then there was no stubble.
Takuya Kimura looked confused when he heard this, "Who am I waiting for?"
"You're not waiting for someone, you're waiting for someone."
Then filming began, and Takuya Kimura was full of question marks.
"Is this "2046" or "Waiting for Godot", so abstract?" Liu Yifei's mind was full of question marks, and Wang Jiawei's stream of consciousness was obviously more serious than what she had heard.
Huo Yunting pondered for a long time, and he didn't even have a script, let alone a storyboard.
Regardless of the speed or speed, the ability of the old Hong Kong film director to play on the spot can be regarded as a thorough learning for Wang Jiawei.
Li Guoli smacked his lips with his hands behind his back, "If you want to say that the filming is up to standard, and the acting does not meet the requirements, then no one knows, even Wang Jiawei himself can't figure it out." ”
"But no matter how foolish he is, people can make some awesome films." Speaking of this, Li Guoli lit a cigarette with emotion, "This is God feeding you, you were born to be a director." ”
"By the way, also, if you talk to him about the play, you have to ask him carefully, and he understands everything. Who will play the male and female protagonists, and what is the identity of the male and female protagonists - did you kid listen to me? ”
Looking at Huo Yunting's distracted appearance, Li Guoli closed his mouth angrily.
Working with Him has times when you suffer.
Wang Jiawei's invitation was put aside for the time being, and after returning to Beiping, he discussed with Lao Zhang, and now the most important thing is to hurry up and finish the filming of Xianjian San.
Xianjian San now has the last scene left, which is the heavy snow that Xu Changqing laid for Zixuan.
Looking for a good scene from Jiuzhaigou, Liu Yifei put on a waist-length white wig, and four huge snow spray racks were on the four corners, and with Li Guoli's "action", the shooting officially started.
There are no lines in this paragraph, and according to Li Guoli's meaning, there will be a theme song behind it, but what this theme song is has not yet been said.
The role of Xianjian San is actually very difficult to play, three lives and three lives, a person has to play three different roles The image is indeed a test of acting skills, and Zixuan played by Liu Yifei is no exception.
Several snow blowers were running at full power, and the sky was full of goose feathers for a while, Liu Yifei looked at the snowy sky, and substituted himself and Huo Yunting in his heart, and a sad touch slowly swept through his body.
There are multiple endings in the original game of Sword and Fairy III, but the TV series can't be rolled back, and among these many endings, it is quite difficult to choose the most suitable one.
After choosing among the game's many endings, the writers settled on an ending that everyone felt was quite suitable.
Nightshade casts a sword with his body, and dies with his body; Mao Mao cut the meat for food, and the flesh was destroyed; He Biping was choked off his neck by the evil sword fairy and thrown off the cliff; Xu Changqing and Zixuan finally forgot about each other.
The only thing that can warm people's hearts is that Sedum and Yukimi are finally together. It's just that Sedum resurrects others at the cost of Yangshou, and his own time is short.
How happy the beginning of Sword and Fairy III is, then how miserable the ending is. As Lu Xun said, tragedy is to tear up beautiful things for people to see.
After the official launch of Xianjian III, such an ending will definitely make the audience "unforgettable".
In this last scene, Liu Yifei's emotions are very well substituted, and he has passed. Soon the crew heard the sound of breaking through the sky, and the birds scattered in the dense forest.
"It's done!"
Although the film is finished, the crew's work is not over yet, this blockbuster is all fake snow, and they have to clean it up before leaving.
This kind of prop used in filming fake snow is sodium polyacrylate polymer, which can be melted by sprinkling salt, and the crew bought dozens of catties of salt.
Cai Yinong originally wanted to do something hastily, but he almost got it. It's just that Huo Yunting grasped it tightly and took the lead to sprinkle salt in person.
When others saw it, the biggest names in our crew were on the stage in person, can they be idle from here?
They also carried a bag of salt to work, until the land was not a little white, and Huo Yunting gave up.
After the work of sprinkling salt was over, the crew also moved equipment to prepare for evacuation. Li Guoli called Huo Yunting the balance of the salary and the salary of Wu Zhi, and also wrapped a red envelope of four eights by the way.
I was about to say a few heart-wrenching words to Huo Yunting, and by the way, I would summarize the testimonials of Pat Xian Jian San in the past few months, but as soon as the words came to my throat, I was interrupted by Huo Yunting.
"That's not right, Director Li, I haven't calculated the money for the director's assistant yet."
Li Guoli was stunned for a moment.
"Oh, by the way, and the money I paid for the editor."
Li Guoli took several deep breaths, and finally these words broke out, "Fuck you kid can really defeat the atmosphere." ”
The total of these two jobs was no more than 10,000 yuan, and Li Guoli simply wrapped a big bag for him.
When the gang was about to disperse, Huo Yunting told him that his nominal editor should be placed last
After all, this is the result of the labor of the entire editorial team, and the reason why he wants this nominal editor is just to have fun with Li Guoli.
He, Huo Yunting, couldn't do this kind of stinky and shameless plagiarism.
After a casual meal, Huo Yunting and Liu Yifei returned to Beiping overnight.
The next afternoon, Huo Yunting met with Zhang Debang in the studio and discussed with him about Wang Jiawei's invitation to him to star in "The Grandmaster".
As soon as he heard Wang Jiawei's three words, Lao Zhang was so excited that he almost didn't pee on the spot, "Promise!" Brother Huo, what are you hesitating about? I definitely have to say yes! ”
Just hearing the three words Wang Jiawei, Zhang Debang seemed to have seen countless awards and beckoned to them.
If Hong Kong films are compared to a scale, then the two ends of the scale are commercial films and art films.
There is a high probability that Wang Jing will sit on the business side, but Wang Jiawei is definitely well-deserved on the art side.
But unlike Zhang Debang's excitement, Huo Yunting seemed very calm, and even a little resistant.
Looking at Huo Yunting, who was speechless, Zhang Debang also calmed down a little, "Brother Huo, what's the matter, do you have an opinion on Wang Jiawei?" ”
Huo Yunting shook his head.
It's not that I have any opinions about him personally, but mainly because I have some doubts about him as a director.
Lao Wang, this person, strange.
It can be described as an alternative among directors.
You see, you dare to shoot without even a script, which is why others can't even get investment.
ability, Huo Yunting is sure.
But this filming progress, Huo Yunting felt that it was really a pug chasing a rabbit - but it was hard to grind.
Let's just say that "2046" was filmed for five years, from April 1999 to July 2004; and "East Evil and West Poison", which was also filmed for three years.
Zhang Debang retorted, "That "Chongqing Forest" has only been filmed for a total of 6 weeks, and he is not without fast films. ”
"How many years has he been preparing for this "Grandmaster"? Do you think he might finish filming in a few months? ”
Zhang Debang held back for a long time, "Brother Huo, but Wang Jiawei's film has been filmed, and it will not lose money for a few years." ”
Huo Yunting sighed and didn't speak.
He can afford to wait, but can he afford his illness?
(End of chapter)