Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 181 Annual Meeting of the Company
After the American team was finished, the crew continued to shoot, and the next step was Liam Neeson going deep into the tiger's den to show off his power.

The success of "Taken" is due to the high-tension suspense, high-tech tracking and anti-espionage technology, the neat life-and-death struggle, and the intense and exciting car chase scenes.

In order to be different from the previous Hollywood fighting style, Chen Hao specially asked Alan Finoz to be the action director, seeking a fighting style that fits the hero's identity as an agent.

As an agent, what you want is not to fight with the enemy's target, and what you want is to kill with one blow, so the style of "Taken" is naturally based on swiftness, fierceness and deadly moves.

When post-editing is added, the rapid switching of shots will highlight the "rapid" characteristics, which will make the audience feel tense and exciting, with climaxes and climaxes, and they can't stop!

For this reason, Chen Hao also asked Liam Neeson to exercise and learn certain fighting skills, so that the filming will undoubtedly be much smoother.

Of course, if an action scene is to be enjoyed by the audience, in addition to the protagonist having to play beautifully and naturally, the actors must also cooperate in place, so as not to appear too fake.

However, the action scenes of "Taken" are more dangerous, because there are often shots of hitting the throat and other vital organs, which is not a small challenge for safety.

Therefore, before each action scene is shot, Chen Hao and Alan will negotiate repeatedly, and let the actors cooperate to see the effect. After many rehearsals, Chen Hao will shoot.

Everyone is also cooperating attentively, hoping to pass it at one time, after all, one more NG is more dangerous.

Fortunately, Huaxia's martial arts substitutes performed well, and even Munissen was very careful. Although it was inevitable to be NG during the shooting, overall it was not bad.

However, injuries are unavoidable when shooting action scenes. In addition, Liam Neeson participated in all action scenes in person, so his palms and legs suffered certain minor injuries.

The most serious is that Liam Neeson is caught, and then his hands are handcuffed to the ventilation duct. His counterattack requires him to pull up and then use his legs to fight back the enemy in front of him.

As a result, the ventilation duct was not strong enough. Liam Neeson had just borrowed his strength to get into the air, and then the duct fell down, directly hurting his shoulder.

Fortunately, the situation is not serious, but it still takes a few days.

Chen Hao could only put down the role of Liam Neeson first, and start filming the role of Little Fox instead.

However, the latter part of "Taken" is basically the climax of Liam Neeson going to the meeting alone, so there are very few other characters.

The remaining part of Little Fox's scene was filmed in half a day. Fortunately, Downey joined the crew on time, and the filming progress of the crew was not delayed too much.

"Donnie, you're here." Chen Hao smiled when he saw Donnie.

"Haha, director, I'm not late!" Downey gave Chen Hao another big hug.

"It's a good thing you're here, otherwise the crew would have to rest." Chen Hao shook his head.

"What's wrong?" Donnie asked in confusion.

"Neson is injured and needs to rest for a few days." Chen Hao said helplessly.

"Filming is inevitable." Downey comforted, "It just so happens that I will be filming me these few days."

"That's right, you will be the protagonist in the next few days." Chen Hao smiled, "By the way, how are you doing recently?"

"I've received a new job." Downey said with a smile.

"Oh? What movie?" Chen Hao asked.

"It's not a movie, it's an Elton John song MV." Downey replied.

"MV?" Chen Hao was taken aback when he heard the words, "The box office of "Saw" is good, it shouldn't be!"

Downey was quite appreciative, "At least this is a good sign, and someone has remembered who Downey is!"

It seems that many companies are still worried about Downey's drug use, worrying that the movie will be affected.

Chen Hao looked at Downey who was smiling relaxed, and couldn't help but nodded, "Everything will be fine, and I just have a new idea, and we will cooperate again at that time."

"Hahaha...I admire you, director!" Donnie laughed happily when he heard the words, "I don't know what to say, it seems, only, thank you!"

Chen Hao patted Downey on the shoulder and said, "Playing a good role is the best reward for me."

"Then look at me!" Donnie said with a smile.

The past experience made Downey taste the warmth and coldness of human relations, and the coldness of the world. Now that the prodigal son has turned back, and the success of "Saw", his mentality is calm enough.

Then, shooting continued.

Downey plays a government security officer. He used to be the same agent as Liam Neeson, but in his words, he is now an office worker.

However, Liam Neeson, who is eager to save his daughter, obviously doesn't care about this. He just wants enough information to save his beloved daughter, and even shot Downey's wife.

The original version of "Taken" was filmed in the United States and France, but Chen Hao changed the filming location to the United States and China this time.

The human traffickers group in the original version were from Eastern Europe, so Chen Hao would not be so stupid as to say that the human traffickers were all Chinese, but was adapted into a Vietnamese who came to China.

Otherwise, Chen Hao is afraid that the film will not pass the review!

Downey's role is not too much, but Chen Hao still slows down, waiting for Liam Neeson's return.

Because he is the absolute protagonist in the second half of the movie, almost all the shots revolve around him.

After Downey's solo scenes were filmed, Chen Hao filmed the only scenes without Liam Neeson.

So, after 4 days, Liam Neeson finally returned to the crew.

Then, the filming of the crew accelerated, because the time has come to the end of January, and the Spring Festival in China will soon be here.

Westerners naturally don't feel much about this, but Chinese people must rest and go home for reunion.

So Liam Neeson had to work hard, first finish filming his scenes with Xiaohu and Downey, and let the two finish filming one after another and leave.

However, the filming of the film still could not be completed before the year, so Chen Hao simply gave everyone a 5-day vacation, and the crew reunited on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year before filming.

The crew disbanded on January 2003, 1, the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month.

And on the next day, January 1, Chen Hao held his first company annual meeting in his life.

At this time, there are less than 80 people in Haotian Film and Television, Qidian Chinese Website, and Haotian Copyright Operation Company, and the entire office building is still very empty.

Chen Hao had set up another copyright operation company before, and put all the copyrights he bought before under the name of this company, instead of merging into Haotian Film and Television. After all, Haotian Film and Television does not belong to Chen Hao alone.

Of course, there must be cooperation between each other, but the shareholders of Haotian Film and Television may increase in the future, and Chen Hao does not want others to take advantage of it.

After all, there are only tens of thousands, 10,000+ IP copyrights, which can be multiplied tenfold or a hundredfold in the future!

(End of this chapter)