My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1284
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The executive meeting room of the White Swan Hotel is full of smoke and laughter, and many people are also old friends who have a rare reunion.

"Brother Xian, you have a long way to go this time."

You Naihai smiled and joked to the burly Luo Lichen, "This movie is a road movie in the true sense of Hong Kong Island. There must be a lot of vehicle stunts, and it's still set in the Western Regions Protectorate's environment. It's definitely not as good as "Dragon Inn" easy."

"Brother Hui has a long way to go."

Luo Licheng smiled and waved his hand, pointing to Ke Shoulang next to him, "Besides, there is Xiao Hei to help."

Both of them are excellent stunt directors in Hong Kong.

This "No Man's Land" is also a challenge for them.

"Brother Hui...haha..." Mai Zhaohui couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard this, "Brother Hui should be on the train now, right?"

The others couldn't help laughing.

It can be regarded as having fun while suffering.

Because he wants to experience life, Liang Jiahui has to go to Hami and KLMY in advance to adapt to the environment.

Wu Xiaozu's request to him is: to make people feel the desolation of Gobi without speaking lines.

The role played by Liang Jiahui was based on the role of 'Huang Bo'... Even Wu Xiaozu didn't plan to design lines for this character.

This requires the actor playing this role to have strong physical expression and appeal.It is also an extremely difficult challenge for Liang Jiahui.

"No Man's Land" can be regarded as a road movie of good quality among Chinese movies... Just as several people have said, it can be regarded as the pioneering work of road movies on Hong Kong Island.

The concept of road film first appeared in North America.

After all...there really is no basis for road movies in Europe.

One of the originators of road movies, "Easy Rider" was born around 1969, and thus opened the prelude to the quasi-genre of road movies.

As for Chinese-speaking movies, there hasn't been a real road movie yet.It was not until 2007 that Uncle Benshan's "Falling Leaves Return to Roots" truly made road movies officially fall in China.

And several road comedies appeared in a short time.

Wu Xiaozu's breakthrough this time may not be considered as exaggerated as the establishment of a school, but it is definitely an attempt to break through the boundaries of Chinese-language film genres.

This is also in line with his current status.

Strange cases, chainsaw horror, fatalism, non-linear narrative, violent aesthetics, new martial arts... along the way, the reason why Director Wu is known as the new master of Chinese-language films is precisely because he has indeed brought countless talents to Chinese-language films. breakthrough, and directly brought this type of film to the world's top level.

You think Hollywood values ​​him because he is handsome?

Handsome will be on the one hand.

The most important thing is that he did it to an amazing degree.

"Are they all here?"

At this moment, Wu Xiaozu pushed the door open and entered.

"Grandpa!"

Everyone stood up immediately.

"Okay, I heard in the corridor that you were all chatting happily. Then I feel relieved. This time I went to the Western Regions to shoot, and the living conditions are difficult to guarantee. So everyone's mentality is very important."

Wu Xiaozu was vaccinated first when he came up, "Everyone knows that Brother Hui's child was just a few months old, and I sent him to eat yellow sand a month before the filming started. Brother Fa is now experiencing life in the law firm while losing weight painfully. He wants to lose at least 20 catties of weight in a month.

Director Wu Tianming has already taken his staff to KLMY to do advance work for us.

This is a work that is both new and old-fashioned.

The novelty is reflected in the work itself.

The old school lies in the seriousness of the work attitude.

I hope that everyone can throw away all their wild thoughts and put all their thoughts on filming. "

As soon as these words came out, the dozen or so core members of the production crew all became serious.

"Brother Zu, don't worry, everyone will definitely not slow you down by following you." As the first-generation disciple, Luo Lichen, of course, would not let him stand up and make a guarantee.

"it is good."

Wu Xiaozu looked around at the crowd and nodded silently, "It will take 2-3 days for each department to pre-design the script for the shot and come up with a preliminary plan.

About five days or so, after gathering everyone, first fly to Beiping, then fly to Lanzhou, and then take the train together..."

Compared with the traffic environment of later generations, traffic in this era is really difficult.

Entering Xinjiang also needs to be reversed by a plane and a train, and the train is reversed by a car.

Half a month ago, director Wu Tianming went to the Western Regions to arrange local board and lodging. At the same time, he had to dispatch cars, cranes, forklifts and a large number of staff.

There are more than a hundred people preparing for this early stage.

From chefs and restaurants to electricians and drivers to medical insurance, each part needs to mobilize a lot of manpower and material resources to ensure that 200 people live and work in the filming location for more than three months.

This is also the reason for the 5700 million investment.

Of course, the investment in this film has just arrived, and the film has basically recovered part of the cost.

Relying on Wu Xiaozu's appeal.

And the gimmick of Sino-US co-production.

The sponsorship of cars, clothing, food and beverages exceeded tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

These are not counting the positive impact of this movie on the stock price.

If it is counted, it can be said that the moment Wu Xiaozu announced the new movie, the movie was already profitable.

The stock price of Locomotive Pictures has risen by several times or even ten times more than the production cost of the movie.

This is the power of capital.

Of course, capital is also displayed in another aspect-for example, the heroine.

...

In the dead of night, the lights are bright.

The agent and the assistant led a tall, slender, long-legged girl towards the innermost room.

"Mosquito, this time the company's senior executives managed to win the role for you, you must work hard to cooperate with the filming.

You don't know how rare such an opportunity is. I don't know how many actresses outside have been looking forward to such an opportunity but it is not available.For this reason, the company also paid a high price. "

The manager babbled and told Wan Qiwen next to her, "You must not lose your temper when you are on the set."

"I know, Miss Jenny." Wan Qiwen also nodded nervously.

She herself did not expect to be able to get the role of the heroine of "No Man's Land".

When her agent informed her to participate in the casting interview, she thought it was just a formality.

After all, how many people are staring at this role.

It is said that Li Jiaxin, Zhou Huimin and others also want to get it very much.

Compared with her, an ATV employee, her chances are undoubtedly greater.After all, they belong to the company.

But I didn't expect that it would actually fall on me in the end.

"Director Wu's room is in front." The manager nodded without reason.

"Yeah." Wan Qiwen lowered her head, feeling agitated.

She understood what the agent meant.

But I was very entangled and didn't know whether to face what was going to happen next.

Make her give up?

She really hated such an opportunity.

If it wasn't for ATV's strong support for her, such an opportunity would really not be her turn.With such apprehension, she knocked on the door of Director Wu's room.

(End of this chapter)