Chapter 196: The Original Taste
During the filming in Japan, Su Changqing called back almost every day to guide Huang Yang to change the script, and the new drama "All the Way Crazy" was tailor-made for Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang, and it has been almost polished.
Huang Bo was very satisfied with the script and was eager to start the film: "I have been thinking about the characters these days, designing a lot of expressions and movements, and I have acted this play several times in my heart." ”
Wang Baoqiang was not very satisfied with the role: "What does this make me play, I am a fool!"
That's right, his role in the new film keeps causing trouble, and such a person is interesting in the movie, and if there is really one around him, he will be annoyed to death.
Actors consider that the roles are different from the audience, and the sense of substitution is much stronger, and the younger they are, the more they like to play tall characters, not to mention people like Wang Baoqiang who have devoted themselves to Shaolin for six years for their heroic dreams.
He prefers to make a martial arts film: "Can we make "Shaolin Temple 2"? There must be many people who love to watch it." ”
The appeal of "Shaolin Temple" was unmatched back then, the average ticket price was less than a dime but it created a box office of more than 100 million, Su Changqing was still in junior high school and watched it six times.
At that time, there was no habit of making sequels for movies, and it was a waste of a theme, not to mention extending the drama of Jet Li Jueyuan, many characters in the film were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people at that time, and there was also a big market for taking out other characters to shoot derivative stories.
Su Changqing teased him: "Jet Li plays the monk Jueyuan, who are you playing?"
Huang Bo accosted on the side: "He can play the son of the monk Jueyuan, I don't think it's far." ”
"Nonsense, where did the monk come from?"
"And shepherdess. ”
"Nonsense, isn't that a violation of the precept?!"
"So Jueyuan was locked in the cellar by the Shaolin Temple, and three top masters were sent to guard it, and in a few years, the monk Jueyuan grew a shawl and long hair, because he was worried about your orphans and widows were suffocated into gold. ”
"The Golden Lion King?!"
Wang Baoqiang's eyes rolled: "This story is good, try to shoot it, I fought Shaolin in order to save my father, and I fought all the way from the mountain gate to the stele forest in the back mountain, and I was invincible." ”
"Virtue, I think you will become a Shaolin traitor sooner or later. ”
This is from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, but there was really a Shaolin monk in Zhang Wuji's era who was also called Jueyuan, who was Zhang Sanfeng's master and the librarian of the Shaolin Scripture Pavilion.
Fourteen years later, Xu Zheng's version of "People in Embarrassment" and the current Huang Bo's version of "All the Way Crazy" have two things in common, one is that they both partner Wang Baoqiang, and the other is that they are both remakes of Hollywood's 87-year movie "Planes, Trains and Cars".
It's okay to say that "All the Way Crazy" can be translated into "People in Embarrassment", anyway, the plots of the three movies are basically the same.
Later, someone on the Internet translated the name of the strange Hollywood drama as "All the Way Crazy", and Su Changqing used it when he thought it was appropriate.
The name "People in Embarrassment" is also very good, but the word embarrassment was only widely used after the rise of the Internet, and it is obviously inappropriate to use it now.
"Airplanes, Trains and Cars" is a very pure road comedy, about a white-collar worker who rushed home to see his wife on Thanksgiving, but the original two-hour road was blocked all the way, and a stupid troublemaker took planes, trains, and cars successively, causing all kinds of troubles, and finally it took three days and two nights to get home.
"People in Embarrassment" basically copied the characters and most of the jokes of "Planes, Trains and Cars", and even copied the facial expressions, the biggest change is to add a junior to the male protagonist, and then change the evil and return to the right.
The wife of the male protagonist in the original play died a few years ago, but his love remained unswerving until death, and he still insisted on rushing back to his empty home during the holidays.
I'm afraid this modification is a failure, especially arranging for Xiao San to find a family to play with his wife, which is simply creepy and uncomfortable.
It's obviously a bit of a hilarious comedy, so there's really no need to pull this kind of inexplicable depth.
Su Changqing modified the character design slightly, and the plot basically did not move.
It's still the Spring Festival, but the starring roles are two young people, not middle-aged uncles more than ten years later.
Wang Baoqiang in "People in Embarrassment" is thirty years old, and he has to pretend to be tender in order to play a fledgling milkman, and now he is only seventeen years old, which is basically in line with the age of the character.
In fact, this drama has little to do with the age setting of the characters, you can act in your forties, and you can act in your twenties, given that the plot is more noisy, it is better for the leading actors to be younger.
Huang Bo is only in his twenties, and he is too busy to have a wife and children and cheat on the junior, and it is impossible for his wife to die for several years, so he can simply set it as a white-collar worker in a prestigious school and rush home to reunite with his parents and family.
The essence of this film is partly on the road, rather than educating people with an allegorical ending when they return home.
Shoot comedy seriously, don't learn the Spring Festival Gala sketches, after the funny, it will suddenly be sensational, forcing the audience to cry and laugh with tears in laughter.
Su Changqing has high expectations for this drama, but it is already mid-September, and now the filming may have to be completed in February or March next year, and it is obviously not possible to catch up with the release before the Spring Festival.
But there is no need to join in the Spring Festival excitement, the so-called year-end schedule is created by Director Han for Feng Gangpao's "Party A and Party B" next year, which does not exist this year, and the audience has not been guided out of the habit of watching movies during the New Year.
Even next year, Su Changqing does not plan to fight in the ring at the same time as "Party A and Party B", which is unwise.
After the project was established after "All the Way Crazy", regardless of whether the resources can be tilted or not, the mentality of deliberately putting together comparisons must be unacceptable, thinking that it is fair competition, but others will understand it as a provocation and stirring up the situation, and there are rules in the circle, and films of the same type usually avoid collisions.
In fact, it is indeed a provocation, Su Changqing participated in the "Party A and Party B" demonstration meeting, this name was given by him, and even agreed with the suggestion of Director Han on the spot for the New Year, after knowing the roots, he turned his head and made a movie with a more Spring Festival atmosphere to grab the box office at the same time, and he would think it was intentional, and it was hostile.
Money can be made at any time, people watch good movies whenever they are released, and there are also movies that hit the streets during the Chinese New Year.
There is no need to delay when the script is mature, Su Changqing asked Huang Yang to start preparing the crew immediately.
The next day, Du Keke went to Hong Kong, and in order to increase his persuasiveness, in addition to the DVDs of Siwei's previous works, he also brought Hu Jun and Wu Jing.
In addition, Su Changqing handwrote a sincere letter for her to bring, and the old literati ate it.
Jin is very old, and there has been less serious information about the mainland in Hong Kong, and he may not know who Su Changqing is, he has to honestly prove that he can shoot those works well, so he wrote a lot of key adaptation concepts.
One of the most important is the original taste.
Jin Yong is a screenwriter, and his works have a strong sense of stage, and not blindly changing it is the greatest respect.
In addition to a few self-righteous changes in the previous version, most of the plot changes were due to cost considerations, the Hong Kong and Taiwan versions had limited investment, and grand narratives must be avoided.
Su Changqing promised to invest heavily in big productions, and future TV series will be filmed according to Jin Lao's brushstrokes and readers' memories.
Du Keke later said that these words moved Jin Yong.