Chapter 796: It's That Simple
"How did you convince investors to invest in such a movie, Mr. Wu?" Billy Crystal asked.
"Not convinced." Wu Yusen shook his head.
"Unconvinced? Is it possible for investors to invest directly in such a film that has been heavily influenced by other films, and without a script?" Billy Crystal didn't pretend to be shocked at this moment, he was really shocked.
"Not really." Wu Yusen thought for a while and said: "When I had this idea, because I wanted to make such a movie in Hong Kong, it was difficult to talk to investors and bosses about such a concept.
I'm going to shoot a story about a police detective and a killer, this is because this detective wants to catch this killer, he must first understand this killer, he must first enter this world, you know him, you can catch him, and the result is that because of this understanding, it has become a kind of sympathy.
If you tell an investor such a story, he can't understand it, and it's hard to imagine what kind of movie this story is.
But fortunately, I have a "True Colors of Heroes", and at that time the boss thought that I would make a movie like the third episode of "The True Colors of Heroes", and then it was okay, my producer partner Tsui Hark understood very well.
So far, I have been the most tacit partner with him, and he is very supportive of me, but at that time, there was only such an idea, and there was no script.
Moreover, when I was filming at that time, another problem arose, with a theme like this, I originally wanted to use newcomers, new actors, and actors who were not so popular, because this movie is more personal and not so commercial.
At that time, I was already the first big director to break the box office record in Hong Kong, and the environment at that time was even more popular because of Zhou Yunfa's performance in "The True Color of Heroes".
Later, Zhou Yunfa was a very righteous person. Without him, I couldn't shoot the whole year, so I told him that the boss asked you to act, in fact, I thought about him in my heart, he was so popular at that time, two or three sets of scenes were filming every day, and he was very popular. Later, he told his boss that he promised to perform my play, plus Li Xiuxian and Xu Ke, and then he had the opportunity to film this scene.
When I was going to shoot this scene, I didn't have a script, and I didn't know how the story would develop, because of a creator, I think romance is the most painful, and romance is often not so easy to understand.
One of the interesting things is that I was halfway through the filming, and all the staff didn't know what the style of the play was, what the play was about, and that was the afterword.
Before the script, I encouraged everyone to come out to make a movie, when you want to create, it is best to have a creative partner, at that time Xu Ke was my producer, I just told him my idea, I said that between this detective and this killer, in addition to a sympathy between them, but there is also a kind of mutual respect for sportsmanship, there is also a kind of competition, I said that if you can design a scene, in a very lively sports form, to carry out the assassination scene, I believe the atmosphere will be very shocking, and there is also the feeling of two people competing against each otherγ
Before there was a script, there happened to be a dragon boat competition, I immediately invited two photographers, first to shoot a documentary, no matter what the future development of the story is, I had this degree of freedom at that time, the whole dragon boat race process, first filmed, fast and slow shots, in the future, considering the use of editing montage, after the dragon boat was filmed, then I thought about the story, and then I started to write the outline, until a few months later, I started shooting. So when we were creating this film, it was like that. β
Hearing this, Billy Crystal couldn't help but interrupt Wu Yusen and said, "Mr. Wu, you mean, you let two photographers shoot the dragon boat race, but in fact, you don't know if the content of this shooting can be used, right?"
Wu Yusen nodded: "Yes."
"God, I don't know if I can use you and let people shoot it, do you have so much autonomy? If you can't use it, won't the boss and the producer accuse you of wasting your investment?" Billy Crystal was shocked and began to shout God.
"Our boss won't blame because he believes in me." Wu Yusen said confidently and gratefully: "Our boss, Mr. Qiao Fengqiao, told me from the beginning when I joined the company, let me rest assured and do it boldly, as long as it is what I want to do, he will fully support it."
Wu Yusen first buried Qiao Feng and said that the concept of the bloody double hero was to tell Qiao Feng that Qiao Feng didn't understand, and dissed Qiao Feng, the Oscar best screenwriter.
It's over, and now I'm very good at seizing the opportunity to slap Qiao Feng on the back.
After taking the opportunity to shoot the fart, Wu Yusen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said in his heart, boss, you can't blame me now, before I said that you don't understand how to attract attention according to what you taught, and now that I have filmed my fart, you can't hold a grudge.
Billy Christo didn't know Wu Yusen's inner activities, he just wanted to satisfy his curiosity now, but he asked curiously: "Mr. Wu, let me insert a sentence, how long is the consumption ratio of "Bloody Heroes"?
Wu Yusen shook his head with a sneer, and said with a weak heart: "I'm sorry for this, I never counted it, I didn't dare to ask, and the producer didn't dare to mention it to me." It seems to be hundreds of thousands of feet, 40 tens of thousands of feet.
But "Bloody Heroes" was filmed for more than 90 days, and when filming in Hong Kong, usually when the staff signs a contract with the actors, it starts from 45 days to 60 days, and 60 days is the most, but the number of days I filmed and the money I spent were twice as much as that of ordinary movies, and I filmed that scene for more than 90 days, and in Hong Kong, that was also a record.
I estimate that 2 million square feet were used for the negatives. Because of the way I filmed, I didn't have the same way as many directors filmed, because I didn't have a split-shot.
I only have an edited storyboard, I'm in Hong Kong, and when we're filming, shoot the shot he needs, the first shot you look at me, then jump to the third shot you nod your head, and the sixth shot shoots you speak the whole sentence and shoot it over.
I'm not at every angle, from far, medium, close. Then I split the shot while I was editing.
What about my filming, when I was filming "Bloody Heroes", my work team had never been exposed to such a theme, and I didn't know what I thought, and it was difficult for me to explain in words what the meaning of this picture was, and what the style of this scene was.
I just told them that I wanted Chow Yun-fat to be shot and covered in blood, and that's what I thought. β
"I had an idea and then I shot it, and it was so classic and good-looking, it's that simple?" Billy Crystal asked.
"Well, it's as simple as that." ()
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