What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 155 The official start of filming

Encouraged by the Japanese market, Luo Xue specially called to add "Love Letter from Heaven" as one of the most popular love movies in Asia, of course not for the sake of Bo Yangshu's smile.

"I've read a lot of film reviews in Japan. I'm more enthusiastic about the analysis from aesthetic value to commercial value than in China, and the evaluation is also very high. It can be said that "Love Letter from Heaven" is highly respected. I believe you have seen some of it."

Having known each other for more than a year, Yang Shu and his sister-in-law have also gotten to know each other well, with a playful smile on his face: "The Japanese are two-faced and three-faced. I don't believe a word they say."

Luo Xue turned a deaf ear to his unruly artist demeanor: "So we should expand the scope of distribution and promote this work to as many regions as possible, starting with South Korea and Southeast Asia, and if the situation is good, we will enter the European and American markets."

Except for the accident in the middle of Tianjun's investment, which caused the delay of the construction period and the disconnection of funds, Luo Xue is still more cautious in doing things, and only prepares for a large-scale issuance when the Japanese market is successful.

Compared with commercial films, the release cycle of literary and artistic films is much longer. They can be released in places all over the world. Good films can be sold for two or three years. This is also an important reason why art films have always been filmed. to make money.

There is nothing wrong with multiple releases. The success of "Heavenly Love Letter" is more and more emboldened to copy. It is nothing more than investing some promotional expenses, which is not a problem at all for the excess profits already earned.

"Let's entrust this matter to my sister-in-law. You can publish it wherever you want, and all the wonderful studios are authorized to sign contracts."

On the phone, Luo Xue seemed to hesitate for a moment, and finally said: "Recently, there are some negative public opinions on the Internet, about you starting to shoot war-themed works, have you noticed?"

Although Yang Shu hasn't made an official announcement yet, as "Warrior" was sent for trial, the news spread to the Internet from nowhere, and there was a bit of trouble.

Many people questioned his motivation and ability for sudden transformation, and summed it up in one sentence: "A young director who rose to the top by relying on love, warmth, short dramas with sharp turns, and pure love "Love Letter from Heaven", what's wrong with his brain? Want to make a war movie?"

"This is too damaging to the pure image he created in "Love Letter from Heaven". It is inevitable that people will doubt the sincerity of making this film. How could an artist with tenderness be willing to touch such a dirty subject as war."

Yang Shu didn't have time to go online, and didn't see that the world would be peaceful, but Jiang Shiyu told him, and said that Doubanjiang had the most scolding people.

"I didn't expect to praise you to the sky a few days ago, and then turned around and scolded you for cheating your name and deceiving your feelings."

It is a bit of a misnomer to say that deceiving feelings is a bit too much.

Regarding Luo Xue's reminder, Yang Shu tried to be as sincere as possible: "I know that some enthusiastic audiences have expectations for me, maybe they hope that I will continue to make movies like "Love Letter from Heaven" and continue on the road of innocence.

But I can't do it now. If I disappoint these people, I can only say sorry. "

Luo Xue was always not optimistic about the subject of war, but Yang Shu was so persistent that he couldn't persuade him much.

"I know it may be a bit late to remind you. Your work has already started. However, at the end of April, China Film Group released a trailer for the movie "War of Mine" to resist US aggression and aid Korea. , the situation is not optimistic, and many respondents do not like it."

Although the current atmosphere of online public opinion is relatively chaotic, which is not conducive to the theme of "My War", Yang Shu does not believe in evil.

He raised a bunch of opinions in one breath: "I watched the trailer, and I don't think anyone with a little brain will like it. The protagonists have long hair strangely, and their temples can't be covered by military caps." , Many shots look a bit disorganized, this is not the image of a soldier back then.

Liu Ye is obviously getting fat, not only him, many characters are fat, and the military uniforms are all new, the holes look like they were made by himself, and they are all too clean, and even the styles are a bit wrong.

The most uncomfortable thing to see is that there are too many female soldiers on the front line of the battlefield, which is seriously inconsistent with history. You must know that there were only a dozen female soldiers in the army in the early days, and more logistics soldiers and medical soldiers gradually increased in the later period. We only had one female soldier captured. How could there be so many female soldiers running around on the front line? "

Luo Xue interrupted him: "You are looking at the problem from a professional perspective. Ordinary viewers may not be able to see this from a 2-minute short film. After all, the content and style of the extras and the finished film are very different."

"I don't think so. Some things don't feel right at first glance. The audience is not much more stupid than the experts. "War of Mine" was filmed by an amateur. Such things cannot be expected."

In comparison, "Changjin Lake" is much better in many aspects. Soldiers are all bald or short-haired. So many stars participating in the show cannot all shave their heads, so many people wrap their heads tightly in cotton hats from beginning to end. Strictly, no hair is exposed.

Yi Xiangqianxi's hair grew long when he was at Shuimen Bridge, and it was also disheveled. It looked like he had been fighting continuously and had no time for a haircut.

In addition, our army has always had a tradition of wearing leggings. It has been fighting for more than 20 years since the founding of the army, and it was only abandoned during the Korean War.

The main reason is that the U.S. military uses gasoline bombs, and the flames after the explosion are very difficult to extinguish. The leggings affect the quick removal of clothes, so they all gave up.

Watch "Changjin Lake" carefully. In the film, soldiers wear leggings before and at the beginning of their entry into the dynasty. Wu Jing's military uniform is meticulous.

But after entering the imperial court, the clothes were not cleaned, and the leggings were not worn afterwards, and at the end of the performance, it seemed that he crawled out of the coal pile, which completely matched the appearance of the gunsmoke on the battlefield.

The details determine success or failure. The audience may not know the specifics of the soldiers on the battlefield at that time, but they can feel something wrong at a glance, so the movie is basically useless.

"War of Mine", as a rare movie about the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea in recent years, is of course remarkable. The director Peng Shun is the husband of Malay-Chinese actress Li Xinjie, and he really loves the theme of war. Although "War of Me" invested 1.5 million , the box office was a complete loss of 3500 million yuan, but later he still made another film "Fighting the Yangtze River", and the box office was only a few million yuan left.

I have to say that Director Peng is passionate about this, but he had previously made horror films such as "Ghost Debt" and "Damn", and he and his wife directed and acted together, so it is really not good for war films.

Moreover, as a Hong Kong director, it is difficult to avoid the problem of acclimatization when directing special themes such as "War of Mine", and failure is inevitable.

Yang Shu also has no experience in making war movies, but he grew up under the influence of a specific cultural atmosphere in two lifetimes, and he can still grasp certain spiritual connotations accurately.

Later, although "War of Mine" was boycotted in publicity for some reason, the atmosphere of public opinion was not the main reason for the failure. It should be admitted that the main failure of this film was in the level of director and production quality. "Fighting the Yangtze River" is a full proof up to this point.

Half a month after "War of Mine" was released, "Operation Mekong" was released, which is also a very main theme movie, with a box office of more than 12 billion, which can also prove many problems.

Luo Xue was a little helpless: "You are a stubborn person, it is difficult to listen to other people's opinions."

"Sick? Are you a doctor's diagnosis?"

"more or less."

"There is nothing to do if you are sick, and now you can't care about treatment."

Yang Shu really couldn't take care of it. He just inspected Wuxi Film and Television City today, and finally decided that both the Crossing the River and the Han River drama will be filmed in Pinghu Film and Television City, where the conditions are better.

Then he took people to fly directly to the Daliao Kingdom, went to Tieling Diaobingshan to see the only remaining Japanese-style steam locomotive in the country, and discussed cooperation with the Steam Locomotive Expo Park on the spot, and decided to build a Japanese-style railway station and supporting facilities.

Poplar is very generous and promises to build it into a sustainable scene facility, which will be left to the local development of tourism in the future.

This statement is a win-win situation, which is in line with the straightforward taste of the local people, so the Expo Park made a big promise to win the relevant approval work, and complete the relevant construction procedures within half a month.

The construction was in time. "Warrior" started filming in July. When the temperature was right, I first filmed the scenes of crossing the river, then Meng Lianggu's, and after autumn when the weather was cold, I filmed the scenes of the Flying Tigers and the Han River. So it took five months. There is enough time to build the required scene.

It was already June 6th when Yang Shu returned to the capital, and he began to outsource the special effects work of the film without stopping.

At present, special effects companies already have a mature model for docking with film and television projects. After a week of negotiations, finally 52 special effects companies jointly signed the "Warrior" project, and recommended a special effects director to follow up the crew. In the future, they will divide labor and cooperate.

At the end of June, "Warrior" obtained the filming license. On July 6, the production crew was fully assembled. More than 7 people from all over the country gathered in Pinghu Film and Television City. The filming officially started on July 2.

(End of this chapter)