In addition to "Luyu has an appointment", He Fang also accepted an interview with Yang Liu's "China Film Report", as well as "Qiang Qiang Threesome" hosted by Dou Wentao, and of course the invitation of "Art Life", but he wanted to go to Beijing to record, so he didn't go for the time being.

He Fang was busy in Changsha for a few days of interviews, but it was not all interviews, the reason why he didn't go to other places to record the show was because he could continue to prepare for the movie after recording the show in Changsha.

Now the preparation of "Alita: Battle Angel" has reached a critical stage, basically every day to engage in script reading, all the model construction and 3D modeling have been completed, the strong comic flavor of the setting, as well as a variety of industrial-style mechanical human devices, many actors are reading the script while adapting.

Let's briefly introduce the story background and actors of "Alita: Battle Angel", so that everyone can understand this movie more intuitively.

First, a little background:

The story is set in the post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has re-established civilization and begun to colonize the universe, rebuilding cities, political systems, industrial bases, and space bases (which were later abandoned, which is the main scene in the movie - Scrap Iron Town).

Later, due to the exploitation and uneven distribution of resources, a war broke out between Venus and Jupiter, the largest colonization planets in the solar system, and then the colonized planets of the entire solar system were involved. Venus not only developed berserker cells, but also co-opted the Martian colonies to send mecha warriors (that is, Alita's martial arts) to abuse the planetary colonies.

The war then went to peace, but the supreme ruler of mankind decided to disconnect Earth from the alien colonies.

More than 200 years later, the story of Alita, the protagonist of our movie, unfolded on Earth.

Alita's martial arts, Mecha, are said to be a fusion of many martial arts such as Wing Chun, Muay Thai, and Karate, which were used by early civilizations on Earth. It belongs to small hand-to-hand combat, because not long after colonizing Mars, humans have developed the technology of using machinery to replace human organs, which is the so-called disguised means of immortality, in terms of fighting, primitive martial arts can not cause damage to the transformation of mechas, so hand-to-hand combat skills are almost lost.

Subsequently, a mysterious martial arts master, his martial arts swept Mars, and no (mechanical) man was his opponent. But this man didn't name his genre like Bruce Lee. This happened 300 years before the story of the movie "Alita: Battle Angel" began.

After that, the man's disciples named this martial art mecha and carried it forward, and mecha began to spread on Mars, during which many celebrities and many famous things were done. And the Valley of Mecha was established.

In the ensuing Space War, due to the shameless behavior of mecha in the war, he was betrayed to a hostile government by the Martian ruler after the war, and then strangled one by one by the revenge organization Orders, and the mecha was almost lost.

Alita's origins have always been a mystery and are rarely depicted in the comics, but for now, Alita may be a Martian royal who suffered from a disease as a child, and the upper part of her brain and torso was surgically preserved, and the rest of the body was replaced by machinery.

Alita was then sent to the Valley of Mecha to learn mecha and participate in the ensuing war. But for unknown reasons, Alita's body was shattered and abandoned in the scrap iron town on Earth, and was later picked up by a doctor named Wang De, who specializes in digging for things in abandoned mechanical garbage, and began the story described in the movie.

"Alita: Battle Angel", as the first part of the original "Gun Dream", mainly tells the story of the heroine Alita's rebirth in Scrap Iron Town, recovering part of her battle memory, meeting several enemies and friends, and then finding her own life experience, participating in the Sky City Iron Ball Race and other plots.

And the actors of the movie have already been determined, needless to say, the heroine is Pan Zhilin, why use her?

He Fang thinks that Pan Zhilin is close to Alita's cartoon image, first of all, she is beautiful and cute, and then she has a pair of big eyes, which are very important.

The key is that Pan Zhilin's acting skills are okay, of course, the most important reason is why he feels that he must give her the heroine of a big movie, otherwise people are so good to him, wouldn't it be too disappointing to her?

Does Alita: Battle Angel have a male lead? In fact, there is no scene in terms of role, but from the perspective of identity, the boy Alita knows seems to be the male lead.

This boy is called Yang Guo in the movie, he is a street boy, a raider who specializes in reforming people, and he never thought that one day he would fall in love with a reformer. He worked hard to be able to go to the Kunlun Ruins of his dreams, but it also exposed him to the dark side of society.

And the actor who plays Yang Guo is called Cheng Yi, who graduated from Chinese opera, He Fang thinks it's okay, and his image and acting skills are okay.

At the beginning of the competition, many people broke their heads, but after the final screening, He Fang still felt that Cheng Yi was suitable. Although Cheng Yi is not very famous, what kind of movie is this, and do you need to care about the fame of the actors? Even if he uses a new lineup, it won't be affected too much.

Another character that is very important to the heroine, that is Dr. Wang De, or Doctor Wang De, is the one who picked Alita out of the abandoned garbage, then saved her and assembled her, so it can be said that Wang De is Alita's other reborn father.

And who is Wang De?

Wang De was originally an upper-class man from Kunhua Ruins, but he was exiled to Scrap Iron Town. In town, he became a synth doctor and provided professional assistance to many synths. But Dr. Wang also has a secret hobby, which is to satisfy the pleasure of bloodlust as a bounty hunter.

Wang De's actor is Li Xuejian, mainly because Li Xuejian has the spirit of a scholar and the internal atmosphere of reading poetry and books, so letting him play a doctor and a doctor is definitely convincing. But it's even more interesting to make him a little more bloodthirsty and turn into a bounty hunter.

If there is decency in the movie, there must be a villain, and one of the villains is the black intermediary boss who controls the market in Scrap Iron Town on the ground, his name is Zhang Xiaobing, and he has extremely high power in the mixed place of Scrap Iron Town. And through all kinds of coercion and temptation, he plays with others in the palm of his hand.

Who is the most suitable to play the role of a black boss like this? I believe that a person popped up in many people's minds, that's right, it is Sun Honglei, so Zhang Xiaobing's actor is Sun Honglei.

The second villain is Bai Lian, she is a doctor, proficient in all kinds of modified internal and surgical operations, Bai Lian is from Kunlun Ruins like Dr. Wang De, and both have superb repair skills. She is employed by Zhang Xiaobing, but she also has a mysterious relationship with Wang De.

Xu Qing, the actor of White Lotus, also has a good image and temperament, so there is absolutely no problem for her to play this role.

The third villain is Bruteball, a character who is Alita's first enemy in the original and plays an important role in the story.

He is not a simple muscular brainless villain, he had a very tragic childhood, he was thrown into the sewers by his mother as soon as he was born, and since then he has to survive in the sewers. His body was on the verge of decay, which gave him a very twisted personality, and after Dr. White Lotus repaired him, he became a synth, and he lived by sucking brain pulp to relieve his pain.

Before meeting Alita, his life was like the walking dead. Alita's arrival allowed him to achieve the meaning of life he had hoped for.

The actor of the brute ball is Jin Song, the actor of Lu Zhishen, Jin Song has strong muscles and a rough face, which is quite suitable for playing this kind of role.

The last starring role is a handsome and arrogant bounty hunter, his name is Pan Wu, he refuses to cooperate with other bounty hunters, he looks ruthless on the surface, but in his heart he feels that his face is more important than everything, and he has clashed with the heroine Alita many times.

The actor of this role is Semyon, who must use a star to play wonderfully and beautifully, and Semyon happens to be a very good star.

The story background and characters of the entire "Alita: Battle Angel" are roughly like this, as for the so-called Kunhua Ruins, it is a more advanced world, different from the orderly, well-organized, and more civilized earth-controlled land of the abandoned land.

The story is pretty much the setting, and then the characters are pretty much these characters, and the shooting scene is an abandoned scrap metal town, and then the story takes place in this town.

After all these backgrounds, characters and locations are straightened out, so many things are simpler, and making a movie seems less complicated.

It's nothing more than how to design the scenery, how to design the props, how to design the mirrors, how to adjust the performance, and how to set the makeup of the actors...... and so on, what needs to be determined after the specific division of labor.

Pan Zhilin is now wearing Alita's costume every day, and then she keeps looking for feelings.

"Director, do I want to be cute? I've been wavering at this level. Pan Zhilin found He Fang after reading the script and said, and then his eyes blinked.

"This degree? Ahem, that ...... Well, you wait for me to call. He Fang said a word and left.

Why was he in such a hurry to leave? It's not that he doesn't avoid suspicion, but he doesn't have time, 3D modeling and modifications have not been completed, he has to keep an eye on it, and many things in making movies are not complicated, but there are many trivial things.

It's just a few bits and pieces, the creator has several departments, and if something happens in each department, you have to find a director, and the director must not be busy?

The key is the creative thing, and no one else can replace it.

At this time, in the teahouse downstairs of the crew hotel, Li Xuejian and Xu Qing were drinking tea together, and then the two were still holding the script in their hands, they were watching the script while drinking tea, and chatting.

"Teacher Xuejian, what do you think of our first director in China?" Xu Qing asked.

"What do you think about it? What else can you think of this? He is the No. 1 director in China and the No. 1 director in Asia, and any award is unattainable for other directors to struggle for a lifetime. The box office of any movie is beyond the reach of Chinese directors, and even there are almost no Asian directors who can reach his level, what else can I think? That's what I learned.

Besides, he is the director who is best at cultivating actors, in case one day he has a script suitable for us middle-aged and elderly people, and there is a good opportunity, maybe he can still get an international actor when he is old? ”

"Haha......" Not only Xu Qing smiled, but even Li Xue smiled when she saw herself.

"I'm afraid it's difficult, I'm not asking about what you said." Xu Qing said.

"I understand, don't you think it's strange that this No. 1 director in China is different from other directors who read scripts? The script workshops of the old directors of the fifth and sixth generations are all open-mouth art and closed-mouth art, even when reading the script during drama performances.

But who is the director of our department, but it is real, so I asked you what is your understanding of the role, and how should you act in this scene? Perform it roughly, then put forward his ideas and requirements, and then ask you to think of a few alternative performance plans, and then it's over.

I feel that in his place, there is no art in acting, it is all technology. ”

Li Xue saw that Xu Qing nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, yes, that's what you said, so I think it's a little ...... That ......"

Xu Qing couldn't express it for a while, Li Xue smiled, and then poured Xu Qing a cup of tea.

"Do you want to say that people who don't talk about art win awards, and people who talk about art every day compete for a few domestic awards?"

"Haha...... Or Mr. Li hit the nail on the head. Xu Qing said with a smile.

"Hey, what hit the nail on the head, how many people who had artistic ideas were scolding the movie. As a result, the people they scolded got honors that they couldn't even think of. Anyway, I'm here to learn and see how directors who can put actors on the throne of actor adjust actors. ”

Li Xue saw that she picked up the teacup and drank a cup of tea.

"Do you think he's going to train us at our age? We don't dare to say it to other crew directors, where do you say it? Xu Qing asked.

"It's not clear about this, I guess I won't meet his requirements, I heard that his movies never talk about qualifications, only about strength. Don't think about it so much, drink tea, study the script well, and act well. Li Xuejian continued to pick up the teacup and said.

"This is not the first time I have acted in a play that won an Oscar, and I am both looking forward to it and afraid that he will not give us face." Xu Qing is a woman who thinks a little more.

"What does it matter, just when it's the first time I've joined the group, isn't it normal to be scolded by the director?"

……

Who knows that the two old actors still discussed the day before, and in the last reading of the script the next day, He Fang corrected the roles played by Li Xuejian and Xu Qing.

"Teacher Li Xuejian, Teacher Xu Qing, I personally think that you didn't sublimate your role in the end. Wang De, played by Li Xuejian, is a good doctor who provides free or low-cost mechanical medical services to people at the bottom, and then has the heart of a bounty hunter, which seems a bit mysterious.

And the white lotus played by Teacher Xu Qing is working with the biggest villain boss on the surface, and she seems to be a villain, but she is also connected with Wang De. They are all from the world of Kunlun Ruins. Although the settings of these two are mysterious, they are too formal, like two routine characters, and they will not be brilliant.

However, I hope that the two teachers can make a difference. He Fang said.

Li Xue suddenly cheered up, and then asked politely: "How does the director want us to be brilliant?" ”

"Quite simply, I need more than just the mystery of your identities, so that the audience can only see the routines of these two characters. I need the mystery of your characters even more, so that the audience thinks that the two of you characters are like this, like this, like this, and the mysterious people up and down think that they are all in the audience's hands, but suddenly, the audience feels that they can't see who you are, and they are curious about what reason you came down.

If you want to achieve this effect, that is, to make the character of Wang De burst out with a good impression that is contrary to the whole film to the audience, can you give the audience a few crazy, evil, and distorted performances at the end of the movie?

Teacher Xu Qing, your role is the same, you have always been a collaborator of the villain, everyone thinks you are a bad person, if you suddenly show a sad and compassionate performance in the end, and you are deeply worried about mankind. So the audience will suddenly have a sense of reversal and wonder why your two characters are suddenly diametrically opposed? This has suspense and the urge to watch the next one.

And the roles of the two of you will be sublimated suddenly, no longer a supporting role with soy sauce, you have to layer the role. Why don't you two go back and think about it, and then surprise everyone a little while you're shooting, what do you think? ”

Li Xue smiled with satisfaction, and then glanced at Xu Qing, who also nodded with complicated eyes.

He Fang doesn't have any artistic tiren, just a few technical requirements, and then the whole character is immediately sublimated, if the average actor can't find out how He Fang sublimates his performance immediately, I feel that He Fang is just a small request.

Both of them felt it, this is what kind of clever means they are. He Fang is to grasp the sense of surprise at the key points of the role, and then sublimate the role.

"Okay, since the director has a request, let's try to achieve it."

(End of chapter)