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Chapter 644 Everyone Wants to Squeeze Li Yi's Wool

In fact, there are many strange "rules" when filming, such as a good start, which is difficult to figure out. Some people say it is superstitious, and some people think it is very reasonable.

Like worshiping gods at the start of the film, this is almost always a must-have ceremony when a movie starts shooting. Burning incense, usually the producer and director take the lead in burning incense, praying for a smooth shooting, and covering the camera with a red cloth.Sometimes it is necessary to have pork head meat, fruit, tobacco and wine.

In fact, these rituals are not superstitious, because many unknowns will be encountered during the shooting process. In most cases, they are just for peace of mind, and a culture has gradually formed.Of course, the formation of this culture is also due to some inexplicable things. For example, some people say that when they often encounter scenes such as temples captured by cameras, they look back and see nothing, and nothing is captured.

Of course, Li Yi has been filming for so long, and it is relatively rare to encounter such a "wonderful" situation.

But Li Yi has a deep understanding of the good start. During the previous filming, there were indeed problems in the first scene of filming, and as a result, there were problems one after another in the follow-up.

Therefore, in many cases, he would rather believe in what he has than believe in what he has not!
Everyone came here like this, so naturally he wouldn't go out of his way.

The filming of "Infernal Affairs" went much smoother than he expected.

Especially the performance of the two leading actors and the main supporting actors made Li Yi feel very relieved. In many cases, he didn't even need to speak, they would find out the problem by themselves and correct it.

When Li Yi was filming "Infernal Affairs", Xingman was not idle.

The first draft of the script of "Nezha" was made very quickly.

Sent it to Li Yi.

Li Yi is actually looking forward to Starman's screenwriter team.

However, after reading the script of "Nezha", Li Yi couldn't help shaking his head.

The main reason is that the script of "Nezha", I don't know if it was influenced by "The Return of the Great Sage".

Deliberately say that the script of "Nezha" is almost a replica of "The Return of the Great Sage".

However, The Return of the Great Sage can be written and filmed in such a way because of the experience of Monkey King, Monkey King.

He has indeed gone from crushing the sky, being reckless and rebellious, to being suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years. Therefore, the plot of this original work provides the background logic for "The Return of the Great Sage".

But what about Nezha?
Nezha is back?

It's a bit nonsense!

Nezha is different from Monkey King. There are many versions of Nezha's background story.

Nezha in Fengshen and Nezha in Journey to the West are completely different.

At the same time, although Nezha's popularity is not low, he is still far behind Monkey King.

Therefore, you can write "The Return of the Great Sage", but you cannot write "The Return of Nezha".

"What do you think?" Li Yi asked Zhang Haiyang on the phone.

"This..." Zhang Haiyang felt a little guilty.

"How about this? I have two script outlines here. You can fill them in and then show me!" Li Yi also knew that if Xingman was really asked to write the script by himself, it didn't mean that it couldn't be done, but, this It takes too long, too long!

For this reason, Li Yi simply sent Zhang Haiyang the outlines of the two stories of "Nezha's Trouble in the Sea" and "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World".

He wanted to see how they would fill the content.

Time passes day by day.

The filming of "Infernal Affairs" is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Filming gangster films on Hong Kong Island was really smooth.

This also made Li Yi feel more and more that his idea was really right, because this is where the advantages of Hong Kong movies lie.

It can be said that the right time, place and people are all fully equipped to shoot Hong Kong Island police and gangster films on Hong Kong Island.

It's really a multiplier to make a film like this.

"Infernal Affairs" is the most intuitive embodiment.

In fact, Hong Kong Island police and gangster films have always been filmed, and there are quite a few of them every year, but most of them are due to cost or other reasons. Most of the time, they are relatively old-fashioned films.

They are all police and gangster movies that can clearly feel the routines of old Hong Kong movies.

This time, Hong Kong films are revived, and Hong Kong island gangster films are expected to continue the brilliant topic of Hong Kong films, which became popular because of Li Yi's "Infernal Affairs".

But "Infernal Affairs" has just started shooting after all, and I still have to wait to see this film.

Chen Keming is a veteran director on Hong Kong Island. He used to export many Hong Kong films that are still talked about in the 80s to 90s.

It is a pity that Hong Kong films have declined in the new century.

At first, it can be said that there were no real commercial film directors in China, so Chen Keming's batch of Hong Kong Island commercial film directors became popular.

In fact, many times, people's problems are caused by habit.

Domestic funds found directors like Chen Keming on Hong Kong Island to invest.

In the beginning, Chen Keming was better. Although the films he made were old-fashioned, at least they were serious.

But soon he discovered that those investors in the mainland didn't understand movies at all and were only responsible for investing money.

When Chen Keming found out that he was serious about making movies, but in the mainland market, the audience didn't seem to buy it. He worked so hard to make the movie, but after it was released, he could only drink some soup.

So, he began to deceive those mainland investors, and manipulated every aspect of filming. At the beginning, he was just trying to find out, but soon he found that those investors didn't seem to understand these things, and it was almost what he said. .

This also made him bolder. Human greed is endless.

Soon, Chen Keming began to be bold, and there were outrageous and weird things like a prop straw hat with [-] yuan and the shipping cost.

It would be fine if it was just cheating money like this, but if the money was cheated and the movie was not made well, halfway through the shoot, they began to ask for additional investment. What can investors do?
So much has been invested, and the cost is too high to continue to invest, but if we don’t continue to invest, all the money spent before will be wasted.

So they could only continue to invest more money, but the resulting movie turned out to be a mess. Chen Keming made a lot of money, but the investors lost money and lost their underwear.

Of course, this crooked way cannot last for long. Therefore, after doing this kind of thing a few times, Chen Keming soon discovered that no investors were willing to invest money.

His reputation is also bad in the movie investment circle in the mainland!

Because of this, Chen Keming was silent for a long time.

However, with the explosion of the mainland film market, how can Chen Keming not be tempted by the hundreds of millions or even billions of box office?

But he found that the mainland audience really didn't like his way, so he began to change his routine and sell his feelings.

All kinds of movies he has made have been taken out by him to make sequels. Although the final word of mouth is as bad as ever, he can always cheat some box office.

But if you do too much of anything, the audience will also become immune.

So he had no choice but to find that this trick was no longer working!
In fact, Chen Keming, as an old Hong Kong director who was once very active, is he really incompetent?
It's really not, but it's a pity that the current Chen Keming has long been used to making crooked money.

(End of this chapter)