My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 359 The name of the new play is: "God of Gamblers" (please subscribe!)
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1024 Locomotive (Shatin) studio and post-production base.

In the movie viewing room, there is smog. From time to time, someone stubs out a cigarette butt, takes a sip of steaming strong tea, shakes his head, and then immerses himself in writing in a rustle. Paper balls are randomly thrown on the table and on the ground, thick manuscript paper Proof of their workload.

There are screenwriters, artists, and main personnel from various departments of the crew in the house.

Wu Xiaozu habitually let the main crew members participate in the creation of the film.He regards the creation of movies as a very sacred and painstaking thing.

Especially this movie.

It can be regarded as another attempt and release of Wu Xiaozu's self-style after finishing a "Suspect".

The film has a wide range of scenes, involving Hong Kong Island, Omen, Japan, Korea and the United States.The main reason is not that Wu Xiaozu needs the vast Liaoyuan to release hormones.

Rather, this movie is to promote gambling... and the He family's casino.

This play is Wu Xiaozu's first "proposition composition".

The subject matter is limited to: Gambling films!

This kind of self-limitation and drawing circles is a very depressing nature for film creation and creators.

"Building X" and "Tangshan Earthquake" can be regarded as high-quality and qualified commercial works among Chinese propositional compositions.But compared to Feng Pants' independent "Assembly Number", it is still a little bit behind.Not to mention the Western-themed movie "Dunkirk" that also beautifies Churchill and the British.

"The style of the movie is dark, but I don't need the character creation to be too depressing and tragic. Under the overall style, the characters need to be more distinct and have more dramatic tension, otherwise it is easy to depress the atmosphere of this movie below freezing point .”

With a cigar in his hand, Wu Xiaozu explained the creative concept and core of his new play to everyone with a serious expression, and at the same time began to assign work to various departments.

"The value of the character will depend on the childhood experience, so this requires all of you to go back to the growth experience of the character virtually. Therefore, in the art department, you and the screenwriter must re-present and re-draw the new extended character based on my drawing to finalize."

"Alin—your lighting team should cooperate with the set team, screenwriter team, art team, and camera team. Let's work together to determine the color tone of the visual effects, the color of the set and the coordination of the overall production to fully reflect the spectacle effect."

"Brother Tai, Brother Sheng, both of you, please study the retro style together with Jiaamine."

Wu Xiaozu politely instructed Huang Yuetai and Pan Hengsheng, the two videographers, and the art director Yu Jiaamine next to him.

The preparation meeting in the early stage of the film will occupy a very important position in the film creation.

At that time, the seven-member team of New Art City was good at holding meetings on film creation.During this period, the film's tone, style, story, bridge and even lens specifications will be determined.

Why are directors in New Art City worthless?Tsui Hark wants to get out of everything?The main reason is that as a director in New Art City, the freedom is really very narrow, and even the lines cannot be easily changed.

This style comes from the creative attitude brought back from Hollywood by Mecca, Ishida, Tsui Hark and others. In essence, New Art City followed the pseudo-producer responsibility system in the early stage.Directors have to get used to dancing in handcuffs.

Therefore, if you look at the many directors and film workers trained by New Arts City, they are very adaptable to the rules of Hollywood.

It was only after New Art City fell apart in the later period that it returned to the film creation system on Hong Kong Island.

The creative attitude of 1024 Locomotive Film Company is different.Wu Xiaozu himself likes to let the creators participate in his artistic creation.Many directors in later generations liked this method, and many so-called queen film crews were cultivated.

The chunky and ordinary tea worker Yang Lianrong came in and out, carrying a large teapot, helping to refill the tea at the right time. She gently brought the door, which did not affect everyone's work.

On the wall, a black and white picture with a slightly dark style hangs on it, which is very eye-catching.

In the composition of the picture, there are margins left at the upper and lower ends, and the central part is framed by virtual viewfinder lines to frame the key points of the picture, making people feel as if they are watching a movie in a theater.

With just a few strokes, there is a steel bridge across the waves, and the scene in the distance is blurred, but it can make people feel the afterglow of the setting sun.The ship was billowing with black smoke.

In the foreground, a man in a trench coat is isolated on the Golden Gate Bridge.

The shadows in the picture are handled very carefully. The man stands sideways. Yu Hui lengthens his figure while hiding his face in the shadows, and his expression is simplified.

The overall dark wind is very strong.

In the lower left corner of the picture, two bold and unrestrained small characters are outlined—God of Gamblers!
That's right.

The title of the new film is tentatively set as "God of Gamblers".

The title of the film is the same as in the previous life, but the story line, character setting, and film style, Wu Xiaozu all overturned the "God of Gamblers" in the previous life.

He naturally wants to shoot "God of Gamblers" with his own style.

Wang Jing's version of "God of Gamblers", judging by the quality of the film, the whole film is difficult to stand up to scrutiny and pondering in terms of structure, style, story line, and even characterization.

Especially the amnesia scene, a typical Wang Jing-style spoof.It directly lowered the faint epic atmosphere that was finally created in the early stage.

In that episode, besides supporting Brother Chu's acting skills and Wang Zuzhen's prosperous beauty, is it just to let the audience see the plot where the fiancee of the God of Gamblers is hit by the second and fifth boy?

Eye-catching is eye-catching enough, but for the whole movie, it is not outstanding.

In the previous life, the reason why "God of Gamblers" was criticized by many people was that Wang Jing used bad BGM and nowhere to place slow motion to set it off...Wang Jing is a good shooter for commercial films, but he is really not a good film director .

"Chasing the Dragon"... is actually not as good as imagined.Especially when there are already pearls and jades among the seniors.

Even so, it is the saddest thing that Wang Jing's talent, film requirements, and emphasis on the audience have far surpassed most of the mainland film directors of later generations.

The lucky stone Wang Jing of "God of Gamblers" met Zhou Runfa!
Many people in later generations use Fa Ge's acting skills between amnesia and God of Gamblers in "God of Gamblers" to prove his acting skills.

Wu Xiaozu only thought that those people might be high-end black fans.

In the movie "God of Gamblers", Zhou Runfa's biggest sharpness should not be limited to the acting skills of a certain scene.The most terrifying thing about him is that he actually controls the rhythm of the whole movie, and crushes the audience like a "bully".

Relying on self-cultivation, Wang Jing's "God of Gamblers" was forcibly broken into an epic sense, and contributed an epic movie character in the Chinese film industry-God of Gamblers!
If Fa Ge's contribution to the film is excluded, "God of Gamblers" can be regarded as a barely qualified commercial film at best, and it is absolutely impossible to have such a high status.In fact, Wang Jing himself has no intention of pursuing classics.

Unfortunately, Fa Ge did not escape Wang Jing's clutches in the end. In the "Macau Money" series, Wang Jing's obscene style and feces and farts fill the entire screen.The existence of Fa Ge... In fact, if you change to Zhang San Li Si Wang Wu it will not affect the quality of the film, at most it will affect the box office!
Before the preparations for the new film "God of Gamblers" began, the funds invested by the He family, Jiang Ershao, and Cai Songlin had already been transferred to a special film account.

For each movie, Xiaozu Wu will set up a separate management account to facilitate account expenditure and management.At the same time, it is also important and convenient for future listing.

The movie budget is 2800 million Hong Kong dollars.

The overall investment method is 2800 million Hong Kong dollars + 400 million Hong Kong dollars to calculate.

贺超琼的天机（娱乐）公司投入超1000万。蔡松淋的学者电影公司投入500万。蒋志强的安泰影业投资500万。1024火车头电影公司投入800万港币。

A total of 3200 million.

among them.

Wu Xiaozu's director's remuneration is exchanged for 400 million investment share.This ratio is also an effective way to reduce the upfront investment.

He will not give himself in vain, will he?Wu Xiaozu feels at ease when he pays himself 400 million yuan.

At this time, Brother Cheng Long... when the two-handed director filmed "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother", he even offered himself 200 million director's remuneration and 500 million actor's remuneration, which were converted into the later box office share.

In the Hong Kong Island film circle at this time, many filmmakers with great box office appeal such as Cheng Long, Sammo Hung, and Hui Guanwen would also convert part of their film remuneration into the post-film box office share.

After "The True Colors of Heroes 2", Wu Baige and Mr. Xu parted ways, not only because of disagreement of ideas.Maybe there is no reason for the uneven distribution of benefits. "The True Colors of a Hero" was successful, but Wu Baige himself really didn't earn much.Logically speaking, Tsui Hark would always give Wu Yusen a big red envelope or a high salary for such a movie sequel, but it's a pity...

Some things are really out of literary style when they are said.So the two have always claimed that they have different ideas.

This is why after the success of "Young and Dangerous 2" and before the preparation of the third part, Wu Xiaozu took the lead in increasing the remuneration of the main actors, and at the same time increased the remuneration of Liu Weizhen.

If you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse more fodder.

This is the reality of the entertainment industry.From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with Uncle Li and Qian Wenqi leaving the 1024 Locomotive Film Company.

During the filming, sometimes the remuneration and remuneration are directly increased, but it is better to convert his remuneration into a percentage of the box office.This is especially true for non-sequel movies and movies adapted from hit IPs!

Not only Hong Kong Island likes to use it, Hollywood also often uses this method to operate.It is one of the effective ways to reduce financial pressure, reduce risks, and share risks.

Once the film funds were in place, Wu Xiaozu had already started the preparatory work for the film.

When a film really enters the preparatory stage, the preliminary work is very cumbersome.The investment in this film has reached the level of the cast of Hong Kong Island's top-tier films.Naturally, Wu Xiaozu did not dare to take the preliminary planning work lightly.

In terms of actors, Zhou Runfa was considered not only because he is suitable for the role of "God of Gamblers".More importantly, Zhou Runfa can reduce the risk of this movie "hitting the street".This is what Wu Xiaozu and investors value most.

Wu Xiaozu's design for "God of Gamblers", the overall style of this movie is dark and epic.This requires actors to have solid acting skills and box office appeal to retain audiences.

In later generations, if the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" did not have brother Shan Zheng, the quality of the movie might not be reduced much.But the appeal and attractiveness in the early stage will undoubtedly be reduced a lot.It is not impossible to be reduced to selling well but not selling well!
In other words... If the movie "Hidden Man" did not have Xu Da Niu, Peng Yuyan, Jiang Wen, Liao Fan and Zhou Yun, how many fans would rush to the plot of this movie?Probably only loyal book fans and movie fans will go.

"God of Gamblers" is the same.

During this period of time, Zhou Runfa comes with a guaranteed red buff of 1000 million+ million box office!His salary is at most several million!

Under the circumstances that if you choose him, you can make a sure profit, Wu Xiaozu will naturally not give up.

"Brother Zu, Brother Fa is on the phone—" At this moment, Luo Lizhen walked in quickly, whispering, "Brother Fa invites you to have supper together!"

Wu Xiaozu nodded slightly.

As a last resort, it is impossible for him to give up 1000 million... Bah, give up Zhou Runfa, who is both virtuous and artistic.

　The new play "God of Gamblers" is not Wang Jing's version, try a new story.I thought of another name, and then I felt that the name "God of Gamblers" was really domineering...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)