My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 47 New Play
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At the end of the song, people are scattered and worry about the evening, and the water in front of the pavilion is humiliated.

Liang Gahui was summoned by Master Li Hanxiang to go to the imperial capital to make up some of the remaining scenes of "Fire Dragon". His girlfriend Jiang Jiahua was also dragged north by him, saying that it was a trip to relax and experience the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.

However, Wu Xiaozu speculated that Liang Xiaoxiao was afraid that he would go to his house to find Jiang Jiahua while he was not at home - eating and drinking is the real thing!With his nature, it is not impossible!

Wu Xiaozu also stayed upstairs in the ice room of Longcheng to revise the script of his new play.

From "The Butcher in the Rainy Night", he saw the rigid demand in the Hong Kong Island horror film market.

He doesn't care whether he likes it or not, he only thinks that horror movies can make money.

Of course, he can see this, and other people can also see this.And faster and more frantic than he imagined.

In recent days, the bosses of several film companies did not know where to find his contact information, and opened their mouths to help him start the show.Just play "The Butcher in the Rainy Night"!Everyone regards Wu Xiaozu as a lucky boy!
I don't know how many people are jealous at the box office.

With a small size, I am afraid there is no more suitable genre than horror movies.Countless small companies have seen the opportunity to make a big profit and are eager to try!
Movies based on real cases like "The Butcher in the Rain" are especially favored and sought after by film companies.

It is foreseeable that movies in the guise of thrillers will appear frequently in theaters in the near future.After all, there is "The Butcher in the Rainy Night" as a demonstration, there is no reason not to follow and learn!

In this case, Wu Xiaozu could only shake his head and smile bitterly.Wouldn't he have accelerated the "evolution" process while leading the Hong Kong Island film circle?

According to what he heard, murder cases in the 70s and 50s had become the targets of film companies' projects.What's more, if you go directly to the police station to reverse the case, it has already been turned to the [-]s!
I can only admire the execution ability of the Hong Kong people!It's not good at doing serious things, and it's one of the top two when it comes to opportunism!
Horror movies seem to have become a favorite in the eyes of major companies overnight.

The strange case wind is always there!
The style of the strange case itself is not original by Wu Xiaozu.

In the early 70s, the Film and Television Entertainment Administration and the police force relaxed the restrictions on the location of TV stations, which led to the rise of realistic dramas.This is the main reason for the rise of strange cases and realistic TV dramas.

At this time, Li Di took advantage of the situation and created a series of TV series "Top Ten Strange Cases", which became a sensation.

However, no one has tried the movie. The emergence of the horror and murder movie "The Butcher in the Rainy Night" with the style of strange cases has allowed Hong Kong Island filmmakers to see a new direction for thrillers.

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Dragon City Ice Room, third floor.

A pair of long legs rested on the wooden table, straight and slender.He leaned back on the chair, a drawing plate covered his face, and only the sound of rustling pencils could be heard.

"Brother Zu, coffee." Zu Liyao put the coffee on the table and watched Wu Xiaozu concentrate on his work. He didn't talk much, and went downstairs to help.

Putting away the pencil, Wu Xiaozu stretched and twisted his neck, making a rattling sound.

The new play emphasizes the sense of space and picture, and Wu Xiaozu needs to show some pictures in his mind in the form of storyboards.

Storyboards are more intuitive and visual than scripts.

During the shooting process, the director can use the storyboard to convey the footage he wants to express.

The storyboard of the future generations is very simple and can be made directly with the computer.But at this moment, the director needs to paint stroke by stroke.The different artistic skills of each director have also created their own different hand-drawn drafts for split shots.

The great director Hitchcock's drawing skills are super strong, and his hand-painted drafts, like his movies, can be read as horror and suspense comics.The Cameron driver doesn't need to talk about it. When he was shooting the big boat, Jack painted Ruth's nude paintings from him.

Of course, not every director in Hollywood knows how to draw. At this time, Hollywood already has a special scene-splitting manuscript painter. The industrialization of film is not just talk.

On Hong Kong Island, there are very few directors who are really professional.Tsui Hark should be regarded as one of the few directors who likes to draw storyboards.

Tsui Hark was born in a film school and he liked comics since he was a child, so his storyboard script is full of comics style.Totally belongs to the cartoonist who was delayed by the filming.Don't be surprised if he suddenly changes career as a comic book writer.

Words such as split-shot scripts and hand-drawn drafts belong to the fantasy world in the Hong Kong Island film circle.When Tsui Hark told the Xinyicheng Seven, Zeng Zhiwei was dumbfounded, but he didn't understand until Tsui Hark explained it.

It is precisely in the Hong Kong Island entertainment circle that filmmakers from the wild, such as Zeng Zhiwei, account for a large part.This has led to a very strange phenomenon in the Hong Kong Island film industry - the foundation is weak.This is true for directors, producers, and even more so for actors.

The room was filled with the sound of rustling drawings, Wu Xiaozu put down his pen from time to time, picked up the coffee on the windowsill, and looked out the window with empty eyes.The plot of the new play is being conceived in my mind.

On the storyboard, first there is a portrait of two women, one big and one small, hugging each other tightly. It can be clearly seen that their hands and feet are tied, and their expressions are panic and panic.

Turning the page, a man is standing in an empty street with a gun pointed at another man, forming a confrontation.Scrolling down, there are four groups of pictures, close-ups of two men's feet, all of which are fastened with chains.

Turning down, in a panoramic composition, in an empty room, two men fell to each other in pain and despair.Among them, a corpse fell to the ground, blood in a river.

In the white space next to the picture, there are four big characters: "Fear Room".

"Life or death, it's in your own hands!"

"Many people live, but cannot be grateful..."

There are a lot of words next to the picture. If future generations see this sentence, they will know that these are all from "Chainsaw"!
That's right, Wu Xiaozu's new play is a movie based on "The Chainsaw".He called it "The Chamber of Fear."

The name is very frustrating, but there is no way, the name of Hong Kong Island movies has always been like this. For the sake of box office, he can only choose this kind of Hong Kong style name.

Like the first film, Wu Xiaozu also intends to refine the core elements of "The Chainsaw" in this "Fear Room", and the story will be innovated and adapted.

Although Wen Ziren is Chinese, the values ​​of his films are completely Western-style cultural cores.This concept has not been fully integrated into the East in later generations, let alone Hong Kong Island in the 80s.

Jumping out of the limitations of the film, Wu Xiaozu simply chose to use the "fatalism" and "causal theory" that are more acceptable on Hong Kong Island or Southeast Asia to interpret the tone of the film.This kind of coincidence in the dark, evil will be punished by oneself and oneself!

Fate and cause and effect are very popular on Hong Kong Island.If you watch ghost films and zombie films produced by Hong Kong Island, most of them have this element.It seems that Chinese people are more willing to believe in karma than "salvation".

Therefore, in the storyboard, dark night, rain, dark streets, dim lights, teahouses and restaurants have become things that Wu Xiaozu often appears when he interprets this black plot of causal reincarnation. "Fear Room" is extremely Hong Kong Island.In the film, Wu Xiaozu chose the iconic image of "Guan Gong" to appear in the composition to express his intentions.

As for whether it is a bit risky? But then again, which movie is not risky?

Before any film is made, it is impossible to predict whether the film will actually be accepted by the audience.Even if Wu Xiaozu was asked to plagiarize "The True Color of Heroes", he could not be exactly the same as Wu Yusen's version.

The design of the lighting, the use of the lens, the transition of the picture, the speech of the characters and the feeling the director gives the film will all make a huge difference.

If you set the time back and let Wu Yusen re-shoot, maybe "The True Color of Heroes" will be another story.

Because at the time of filming, Ajie played by Zhang Guoxuan was actually the first male protagonist!His relationship with Zhu Baoyi runs through the entire movie.It was only during the final editing that Wu Yusen cut out these scenes.

Zhu Baoyi also became the female lead with the fewest appearances.Of course, Zhu Baoyi is stronger than the female No. [-], at least there is a camera.And the second girl?The answer is yes, brother Di Zhu actually has an emotional scene...

The little brother is just a temporary guest.Neither he nor Di Yuan was the reason why the investors actually paid for the film studio to make this high-investment movie.Investors were not willing to pay until Zhang Guozhen was found...

There are no two identical leaves in the world all over again.

In later generations, the epic "Reign of Heaven" filmed by Hollywood director Ridley Scott and his director's cut are simply two movies.The same film by the same director is so different, not to mention the so-called copying?

"When oranges are born in Huainan, they are oranges, and when oranges are born in Huaibei, they are oranges."

Those mechanically copying movies and thinking that the box office is a big hit is simply a joke.

Copying is never a panacea. If you think copying is equal to success, then you can only congratulate you, it shows that you are really young and full of glory, and your IQ is as slow as your chest.

Even if there are successful precedents in previous lives, the film is not copy-paste.If the movie is really copy and pasted, it will lose its most attractive charm, and not so many people will like it.

The creation of art itself varies from person to person.Of course, with the exception of built-in bugs.

"Wolf Warrior 2" is very good and great, but do you think that if you change the time and place, after copying it, it will definitely be copied successfully. Is it still so popular?

The answer is a question mark.

So every movie released is a gamble on the market.It just so happened that Wu Xiaozu thought he was a good gambler.

Because he treasures every hand.

Whether it's a good hand or a bad hand, he can play his own style! "Rainy Night Butcher" is like this, "Fear Room" is still like this.He never plays by other people's rules.In every game, the initiative will be in your own hands.

Then, before he could take control of his own initiative, Qiu Litao splattered blood on his face, which could not be wiped off.

His eyes shifted to a brand new script on the table.Wu Xiaozu smiled slightly.

(End of this chapter)