The road to becoming a movie star from the villain

Chapter 208 Is this the end of filming?
The online drama "Detective Chinatown" has already been decided, because it is produced by his own studio, Hong Chen is still more concerned.

Hong Chen didn't participate in the casting work at all. As for Zheng Xu, Hong Chen just gave him a chance to audition, whether he succeeds or not has nothing to do with Hong Chen.

Hong Chen read the script. The script included three stories "Dance of Mandala", "The Name of the Rose", and "Ghost Invitational Tournament". Hong Chen read the first two stories with great interest. Not inferior to the movie.

It was just the last story, Hong Chen frowned slightly.

"This story is a bit exaggerated. If the characters are not chosen well, it will be difficult to achieve the previous effects." Hong Chen suggested to Yan Chi.

Yan Chi nodded, and said, "That's right, I'm just the producer of the last story, and I'm too lazy to direct."

Hearing this, Hong Chen was somewhat surprised, "What's going on?"

"You don't know how annoying those investors are. Knowing that I'm going to make a web drama "Detective Chinatown", they insist on feeding me money and actors. There is no shortage of investment, but I am annoyed to death by their calls every day. .”

"so."

"So simply, I satisfied all their requirements. Anyway, the three story units are independent, and they find a director for the last story. I provide the script and I am only responsible for the production. What kind of effect will be produced in the end is also their own business."

Hearing this, Hong Chen gave Yan Chi a thumbs up.

Yan Chi's approach is very simple, that is, with the money invested by the investor, he can use his heart to film the first two stories, and for the actors forced in by the investor, he can simply let these actors film another story.

In this way, not only the requirements of the investors are met, but also enough investment is obtained.

As for the final result, that is also the investor's business.

Investors don't care too much about these. To be honest, investors care about whether they can make money, and never care about the market's opinion.

This is true for "Zhu Xian I" or other big-budget bad movies.

They spend money just to let their artists rub the IP of "Detective Chinatown" and increase their popularity.

Just get what you need.

After learning about the situation in Kyoto City, Hong Chen came to HK again as the filming of "Infernal Affairs" was about to begin.

It is worth mentioning that Zheng Xu was finally finalized for the web drama "Detective Chinatown", which made Hong Chen feel a little bit emotional.

Ge Chen had reported to him that if Zheng Xu performed really well on the set, the company also planned to sign Zheng Xu.

In this line of work, opportunities are too important.Of course, whether you can seize the opportunity still requires the efforts and strength of the actors.

Coming to HK again, Hong Chen felt very familiar.

Hong Chen is very famous here now, HK people like him very much.

After Hong Chen felt that the crew had already started work, the crew here was already familiar with making movies, like an assembly line, very efficient.

After all, HK used to have the reputation of "Oriental Hollywood", because at that time, HK was famous all over the world for its high-efficiency and high-quality films.

It doesn't take long for a film to be finished, and the quality is particularly high.

Therefore, many Hong Kong stars swept across Asia back then, and several actors were even well-known all over the world.

Even now, in places like Cold Country and Japan, veteran Hong Kong stars are still well-known there.Some big award shows will invite veteran Hong Kong stars as award presenters, which is full of weight.

The filming of "Infernal Affairs" this time was even faster than Hong Chen imagined.

During the day everyone shoots together, and at night they call it a day.

Surprisingly efficient every day.

In fact, both directors were dumbfounded.

They made a shooting plan and expected to finish shooting in about two months.

There are no big scenes in this movie, and it is more about exploring the relationship between the characters, and the conflict between the characters is to be shown, so the shooting will be faster.

As a result, the shooting process went faster than they expected.

Often in one morning, the filming of the day's scenes is finished.

The cooperation between the actors is too tacit. When they perform, it feels like the characters in the script are talking.

In fact, Hong Kong is already very mature for this kind of gangster film, and these Hong Kong stars are already familiar with the style.

And many people are basically professional police officers, those who play the role of the chief, the younger brother, the tricks, and those who often sacrifice, just those few people.

For example, Liu Qingyun, as soon as he appeared on the stage, the audience knew that it was either anti-drug or anti-corruption.

Principal Gu depends on the situation, because he has received too many films, so playing a decent guy means being upright, and playing a villain is definitely a pervert.

Zhang Jiahui is basically Liu Qingyun's subordinate, and sometimes the protagonist must have a brother, either the second male or the villain.

Liu Dehua has also acted in many films of this type, similar to "Sweeping Drugs 2".

But it was Hong Chen who surprised the crew the most. He was able to integrate into the crew very quickly, and the filming was very smooth, without any jerky feeling.

Therefore, the filming of a day's scenes is often completed in one morning.

The director saw that there was still time, so he couldn't start work in vain, and then filmed the next day's scenes, but the filming was finished around five or six in the afternoon.

Liu Weiqiang and Mak Siu Fai were still wondering if there was something wrong, could it be that the quality of their shots was not high enough?

At night, the two of them carefully watched the videos taken during the day, and found that the results were very good, and the quality was no problem at all.

If this speed is really followed, the filming of the movie will be finished in about a month.

This makes people have to worry, because the length of shooting can also reflect the quality of a movie.

To give a simple example, Master Xing is a myth at the box office, but his film "The New King of Comedy" really took just over a month to finish filming.

The ending speaks for itself.

His "Mermaid" in the past two years was still the champion of the Spring Festival show, and "The New King of Comedy" suffered from Waterloo, and his reputation completely declined.

Perhaps some sentimental parties will continue to advocate that only a few people can understand this movie if they want to dig deep into it.

However, not good-looking is not good-looking.

Now, "Infernal Affairs" is also facing this situation.

It was too fast!
If the filming is finished in more than a month, the director will put a question mark on the film.

Of course, what they don't know is that in the parallel world, the filming time of "Infernal Affairs" is shorter.

The protagonist of the parallel world is Liang Chaowei. His wife Liu Jialin once broke the news on the show. The film was shot for a total of [-] days, and Liang Chaowei only went to work for more than three hours a day.

Therefore, the quality of a movie depends not on the shooting time, but on the degree of intention.

After discussing with Mak Siu Fai, Lau Wai Keung and Mak Siu Fai felt that there was nothing wrong with their filming, so they still filmed according to this schedule.

This movie tells the story of two undercover agents, and the whole scene uses a depressive tone to render the duel between the two undercover agents, and both sides are acting.

Later, the plot becomes more exciting.

That is, Liu Dehua was no longer willing to be a younger brother. During the process of arresting Han Chen again, Liu Dehua found an opportunity to shoot and kill Han Chen himself.

The only person who knew that Liu Dehua was an undercover agent died.

Compared with being someone else's younger brother, he prefers the current police life.

After that, he was discovered by Hong Chen again, but what no one could have imagined was that there was another person who was also an undercover agent. In the scene on the rooftop, Hong Chen captured Liu Dehua. die.

The ending of the story is that Liu Dehua came out of the elevator with a gun in his hand, and the bodies of Hong Chen and the new undercover agent were in the elevator.

The story ends here. Whether the villains won or not is left to the audience as suspense.

However, when Hong Chen fell in the elevator in the last scene, the scene was very sad.

Because Hong Chen is the only good guy in the whole play, but his ending is not good.

He was shot in the head by an undercover agent, and the camera fixed his twinkling eyes, messy hair, and confused expression, and then his body just fell down.

The atmosphere is very sad.

At this point, Hong Chen's role is completely over, or the filming of "Infernal Affairs" is completely over.

It's only mid-July now.

This film only took a little over a month to shoot.

When eating the wrap-up banquet, Hong Chen felt that all this was a bit dreamy.

This is the end?
(End of this chapter)