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Chapter 1285 What kind of crooked melon is this!

It's really not easy to find that kind of ugly and outstanding actor. Fortunately, there is makeup, one of the four major magic arts in Asia, so it saves a lot of trouble.

Speaking of it, it is not unreasonable that Hong Kong movies in the 90s were popular in Asia.

"A Chinese Ghost Story" may not be comparable to modern special effects in terms of special effects, but the details and core of the movie can really beat many movies of this era.

Movies still have to tell stories. For this reason, even though the Hong Kong movies of the 90s and [-]s seem to be much worse than this era in terms of texture and other aspects, many old movies can still be viewed from the perspective of this era. People are amazed.

Public opinion about Dong Binger, who plays Nie Xiaoqian, is still raging.

It's just that this time Li Yi didn't pay attention to it at all, and instead made those people with ulterior motives very depressed.

If you really follow the public opinion, then make a chicken movie?
Besides, isn't the current public opinion promoting the movie?Questioning now, when the time comes for the real debut, everyone will understand how outrageously wrong it is.

You will understand that Li Yi is a professional in choosing actors.

All is ready except for the opportunity!

"A Chinese Ghost Story" is officially launched.

In the first scene, Li Yi did not choose Lanruo Temple, mainly because the filming was concentrated behind there.

Therefore, the first scene started when Ning Caichen was on his way to Guobei County to collect the bill.

This first scene is actually very interesting, and of course, it is also a test of Jiang Qinghe's acting skills. Li Yi has no plans to change the scene here, and it still has a sense of nonsensical and funny Hong Kong movies.

"Every department is in its place!"

"The camera crew is in place!"

"The lights are in place!"

"Blower in place!"

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"The first scene of "A Chinese Ghost Story", the first scene, the first time, ACTION!"

Li Yi sat behind the monitor, looking at the screen inside the monitor.

In the mountains, among the weeds, Ning Caichen, played by Jiang Qinghe, sat down on the floor with a book frame on his back, wearing a washed-out white book long shirt, and a square scarf on his head.

Wiping the sweat off his forehead, he took out a cloth bag and opened it, revealing a blackened steamed bun.

He looked extremely hungry, picked it up and gnawed it.

But the next moment, he almost broke his teeth.

"CUT!" Li Yi shouted to stop without waiting for the shot to finish.

There was no way, because Jiang Qinghe didn't perform the effect Li Yi wanted in this scene.In other words, although he has acted before, he is obviously still a little unfamiliar with this style.

"The hard-cracked steamed bun, the reaction at the first moment is wrong, the expression, what I want is the expression to freeze in an instant." Li Yi still said patiently.

"Attention, the movements should be more natural, and the expressions can be exaggerated!"

Do it all over again!
"OK!" Jiang Qinghe made an OK gesture.

It's not that Li Yi's requirements are too strict. In fact, the shot itself doesn't have much other meaning. It seems that even if it is not shot well, it will have little impact. But in Li Yi's view, the quality of a movie often determines the upper limit. It is those important shots, but it is often those shots that do not seem to be so important that determine the lower limit.

Let's do it again, Jiang Qinghe's performance is much better this time.

Li Yi nodded.

Of course, it's too early to tell.

This is a coherent shot, although he has no lines, but the action is sometimes more difficult.

Because in this shot, it is necessary to use his movements and expressions to let the audience understand at once how he feels at this moment.

The dry food was so hard that I couldn't even bite it, and my teeth were almost knocked out.

And he originally had a smile on his face, but this scene was meant to show it, what is meant by a smile suddenly froze.

Then, his expression froze at that moment, and then he continued to react, covering his mouth with his hand, looking at the dry food in his hand with a painful and disbelieving expression.

Then the camera starts to follow his hand.

He reached out and smashed the hard steamed bun on the stone, but the steamed bun was fine, but the stone was smashed in half.

Jiang Qinghe is indeed very spiritual, and he played this scene very well.

He looked at the steamed bun in his hand in astonishment, rolled his eyeballs, and squinted at the broken stones on the ground. Although he didn't make a sound, he made a mouth shape!

Then, he kicked the steamed bun away as a ball.

But something even more outrageous happened. His shoe was kicked and his toes were exposed.

It was still excruciatingly painful, my fingers were drenched in saliva, and I kept rubbing my toes.

Then get up and continue on your way!

"OK, this one is good, keep one!" Li Yi smiled and nodded, but still asked for another one.

In fact, filming is really not as interesting as many people imagine, and sometimes it is really boring.

Especially when it comes to shooting over and over again, it's torture for the actors, for the people behind the scenes, for the director, etc.

However, this time, although the first scene didn't get off to a good start, it was only filmed three or four times, but it was already considered a success.

Of course, this is also because the opening scenes are actually relatively simple scenes, not only because there are few characters, but the most important thing is that the environment is very simple.

The next scene will be much more difficult.

This is especially true for the plays at the market, because there are many actors involved, as well as the background environment, etc., there can be no problems with these, even if there is a slight flaw in something, it will not work.

Maybe some flaws are found in the filming of TV series, which can be modified technically later, but for filming, Li Yi doesn't know how others do it, but as long as he himself finds a problem, he will reshoot as soon as possible.

Because there are not many shots in the movie itself, if there is a problem with any shot, once it is discovered, it will inevitably be re-shot.

After all, the effects of natural and modified ones are definitely different.

Time flies, and the shooting of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is not fast, but it is not a delay.

Li Yiben expected that this movie is different from other movies. It is a costume movie first, and it is also a supernatural genre. In addition, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is a relatively old drama, and it is also a classic. For Li Yi In terms of Yi, it is also a big challenge.

In addition, Dong Binger and Jiang Qinghe are not the kind of actors with top acting skills, so Li Yi naturally has to pay more attention.

In fact, Jiang Qinghe is better. After all, his scenes run through the whole film, and he can slowly polish the previous plots, but Nie Xiaoqian played by Dong Binger is hard to say. After all, almost all of Nie Xiaoqian's scenes are in Lanruo Temple. .

Another thing is that most of the scenes in "A Chinese Ghost Story" are night scenes. For filming, night scenes are definitely not as good as daytime scenes.

Later, when it came to Lanruo Temple's relationship scenes, there were indeed some problems. Many scenes had to be filmed several times, or even more than a dozen times.

It greatly slowed down the progress. If it were another director, he would have become a tyrant on the set. After all, if you shoot one more film, you will spend more money. If you delay for one more day, the cost of the entire crew is not small. Venues, props, etc. all cost money.

It's true that movies are the art of dream-making, but the same kind of dream-making requires money.

Of course, Li Yi must be much better. He doesn't need to be under too much pressure, but he is also a human being, and he will be irritable if he shoots a scene too many times.

Li Yi doesn't know how long it took for the original "A Chinese Ghost Story" to be filmed, but his version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" took nearly [-] million.

For Li Yi, this is definitely not a short time.

Fortunately, the filming was finally completed.

Sometimes, it may not be a good thing to have the original version as a reference. After all, the actors and environments are different. How can it be so easy to shoot the original version?
Moreover, with preconceived ideas, even a little bit, it is difficult to accept.

After all, you've seen better ones, so naturally you can't accept worse ones.

Fortunately, it was finally finished. However, post-production, "A Chinese Ghost Story" also took a lot more time than Li Yi's other films before.

After all, there are quite a few special effects shots in "A Chinese Ghost Story". Although they are not as special effects as those blockbusters, it still takes a lot of time.

It's just that what makes many media feel extremely depressed is that the secrecy work of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has been done very well so far.

In particular, Nie Xiaoqian's makeup photos were not leaked.

And the more this is the case, the more curious and unbearable it is for many people.

It's a pity that for the filming of "A Chinese Ghost Story", except for the drama in Guobei County, which was filmed in the film and television city, the other dramas were all studios or photography bases built by themselves.

However, Nie Xiaoqian did not appear in the Guobei County scene filmed in the film and television city, which made them very helpless.

"A Chinese Ghost Story" has not revealed Nie Xiaoqian's appearance until the end of the film, which makes people speechless.

Of course, no matter what Li Yi did, he would never think that his movie didn't need promotion.

However, this time his propaganda was very speechless.

A character will be announced almost every once in a while, including posters, styling, etc.

This seems to be a very normal and routine propaganda routine.

But when it comes to the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story", it makes people feel completely deviated.

Why do you say that?

Take a look at the first official character photos of "A Chinese Ghost Story"!
The first character photo is actually not bad, because it is the character of Xia Hou. As I said before, there are countless clowns in the whole film of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

Almost except for the male and female protagonists and individual characters, one counts as one, and they are all ugly, and the ugly ones are very characteristic.

Of course, Xia Hou only said that the appearance of this character is quite normal, but in terms of dressing, at the earliest time, Li Yi also considered whether to change it, at least to keep pace with the times, but then he discovered that he didn't know whether it was It wasn't because of the original version. Although the changed clothes and image looked much better, it always made him feel a little less interesting.

After making several versions, Li Yi decisively changed to the original one.

And what style is the original?
Perhaps it is related to the limitations of Hong Kong Island movies in that era, and the image design of many characters is rough and outrageous.

But Li Yi looked at it again, but felt that although it looked rough, the overall feeling was very harmonious.

Therefore, he simply followed the original character shapes.

The effect came out all at once.

For example, Xiahou, as we all know, the profession of swordsman, in any film and television works, has always given the impression that it is very clean and neat.

But in "A Chinese Ghost Story", even Xia Hou, who wants to become the number one swordsman in the world, looks a bit normal, but his clothes are just as ugly!
So, when the first publicity photo was issued.

"Fuck, what the hell kind of image design is this?"

"I always feel that the crew is short of money? Can't afford a costume designer?"

"Is this the second best swordsman in the world? It must be fake, right?"

"Why does this movie always feel weird?"

Immediately, many movie fans and netizens complained, and there was no way not to complain.

It's really that Xiahou's appearance and swordsman's profession can't catch up at all!

There are also many netizens who compare the swordsman in other film and television works with the swordsman named Xiahou in "A Chinese Ghost Story".

Then it is clear at a glance.

In other film and television works, even if the swordsman is ugly, he is definitely very particular about his clothes, how handsome he is, how cool he is, how immortal he is.

But when it came to Li Yi's place, it was really a hell.

However, Li Yi quickly told them that it was so rare and strange that Xia Hou complained about it, so what about the others?
So even more outrageous, uglier character photos began to appear.

For example, the head of the one-eyed dragon, or the ugly trickster.

This time, netizens were completely dumbfounded.

"What the hell is this? Can anyone tell me why all the characters in this movie are so crooked?"

"Suddenly realized that the previous Xiahou was almost a human character!"

"It's too much, why is the old-fashioned appearance of putting plaster on the face still in use?"

"Doesn't anyone think that the appearance of the one-eyed dragon is a bit too nonsense, too fake? God damn the one-eyed glasses made of bamboo chips."

"It's really ugly beyond the sky!"

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If it was a movie by other directors, it might have been abandoned at this time, but this movie is Li Yi, the famous first director of Chinese movies, can he mess around a little bit?
No one will believe it.

But what is the situation of these crooked melons and dates that have been announced?
Then, there are some pictures of ghosts in Lanruo Temple.

However, this does not have such a big contrast effect. After all, even people are so ugly that they look like ghosts, so it is not so unusual for these monsters or ghosts to be ugly. Kind of funny.

Of course, it's impossible for Li Yi to make all these ugly things, so the town building map came out, and that was Ning Caichen!

Although the clothing and image design are similarly crude, but after all, Li Yi has described Ning Caichen's outfit before, so although it is a bit crude, everyone can accept it, not to mention that Ning Caichen played by Jiang Qinghe It is true that among this group of ugly ghosts, there is a feeling of being untouched by mud.

All of a sudden, countless netizens shouted: "Wash your eyes!"

(End of this chapter)