1993 My China Entertainment Age

Chapter 27 A director who is too particular!
From the start to the present, after nearly a month of filming literary dramas, Jiang Wen was so confident that he decided to start filming the scene of "Ma Xiaojun sending his father off".

In the script of "Sunny Day", there are only six short lines of words for this scene. In actual filming, Jiang Wen used 20 tanks, more than 10 planes, and thousands of people.

It took a week of tossing back and forth, which cost a lot.

During this period, Jiang Wen thought that the color of the plane was wrong, so he asked someone to repaint the color of the plane.

After the whole scene, the samples were shot for nearly four hours, and the ones used in the movie only lasted more than three minutes. (That's the opening scene in "Sunny Day")
Gu Changwei felt that Jiang Wen was too extravagant, and felt sorry for the film being ruined so much, so he said to him: "You shoot so much, and you have to cut it out in the end."

Jiang Wen didn't care so much, because as soon as he closed his eyes, he knew what kind of picture and sound he wanted, and he must restore the image in his mind to reality, exactly.

For example, there was no one in Yanjing Hutong in the 70s. He could see the other side at a glance from one end, and there was no garbage on the ground, so he had to find an equally clean alley.

Let’s talk about the actor Wang Xueqi who plays Ma Xiaojun’s father, Ma Wenzhong. After filming all the scenes, he bought a bundle of Chinese toon at the Yanjing vegetable market and went to Guangzhou to visit his friends. Everyone had already walked to the airport, and he was called back by a phone call to reshoot. , The color of the clothes is wrong.

In Jiang Wen's memory, in that era, it was three years old, three years old, and three years for sewing and mending. Clothes needed to be made old.

Wang Xueqi asked Jiang Wen dissatisfied: "I bought so many toons, what if they rot?"

Jiang Wen immediately replied: "That's very easy to handle, we have so many field affairs, let them go to the vegetable market to do it!"

In the scene where Ma Xiaojun jumped the chimney, Jiang Wen felt that the color of the chimney was wrong, and he did not escape the fate of being painted.

Everyone finds it very strange, and thinks this is too much work and waste of money.

However, Director Jiang is still human. To save money, the chimney was only half painted.

So, until many years later, this big chimney in Prince Gong's Mansion was still two-colored, half gray and half red.

In the face of everyone's doubts, Jiang Wen gave an explanation like this - "I think everything is right, but the color of something is wrong, which means that I have a picture in my mind."

The most ruthless thing was a photo hanging in Milan's house, Ma Xiaojun lost his soul when he saw it.

In the original book, this is where Wang Shuo's pen and ink are sharpest: "It is because of the photos that I fell into the infinitely beautiful imagination and obsession with Milan."

In Jiang Wen's opinion, this photo is so beautiful and so important, but no matter how he took it, he couldn't get that taste.

Therefore, in order to take the heart-stirring photo of Milan in the original book, Jiang Wen spent a total of 4 films (about 40 minutes) to shoot, which is equivalent to taking a total of 23040 photos, and then selected one of them. The film ratio is as high as 23040:1!

In the eyes of the main creators of the film crew, Jiang Wen, the director, is too particular, and it can even be said that he is too particular.

Every sentence, every frame, every color, every sound, from the design of the lens to the cut-off of the soundtrack, Jiang Wen has to exhaust everything and make it perfect.

Jiang Wen's particularity is due to his personality, and since his debut, he has worked with some of the best directors in China, such as Xie Jin and Xie Fei, and knows what is the best. In the 80s, China's literature and art trend, the attitude of keeping everything in line with the highest point of art had a profound influence on it.

The reason why Jiang Xiaofeng joined the crew of "Sunny Day" was not only to earn the 5000 yuan salary, but also because he really wanted to learn some skills from Jiang Wen, even if it was learning acting or directing.

But a month after joining the production team, Jiang Xiaofeng realized belatedly that Jiang Wen is really a very paranoid and particular filmmaker, and a perfectionist who pursues the ultimate. If he doesn't have that patience and determination, It's really not that easy to learn, and most people can't learn it at all.

Of course, in the two months since he came to the crew of "Sunny Day", Jiang Xiaofeng has not gained anything at all, and he has indeed learned a lot of acting skills and experience.

However, as the lead actor in the movie "Sunny Day", Jiang Xiaofeng spent most of the time waiting for the scene on the set, which was very boring and boring.

From the secret training in the army car regiment to the start of the machine for more than a month now, the script has been turned upside down by Jiang Xiaofeng, and the lines are even memorized backwards.

Boring and boring, in fact, Jiang Xiaofeng can bear it, the most unacceptable thing for him is wasting time, especially after the show, there is often nothing to do.

Of course, the main thing was that Taohong didn't do it. If Taohong did, then Jiang Xiaofeng wouldn't feel that the time on the set of "Sunny Day" was too wasted.

Jiang Xiaofeng felt that going on like this was not an option, so he made a special trip back to the Asian Games Village in an afternoon when there was no play, took the guitar back to the crew hotel, and prepared to continue practicing the piano and creating.

this evening.

"Sunny Day" stayed at the hotel.

As usual, Taohong waited in the room for Jiang Xiaofeng to come and have a tryst with her.

In the end, at 10 o'clock in the evening, Taohong still didn't wait for the news of Jiang Xiaofeng, so she went to find him by herself.

After arriving at Jiang Xiaofeng's room, Tao Hong discovered that Jiang Xiaofeng was writing songs on the bed with a guitar in his arms and a pen and paper.

What Taohong didn't know was that Jiang Xiaofeng deliberately didn't go to her tonight, because they had been together for more than a month, and Jiang Xiaofeng and Taohong had been in the stage of hugging and kissing all the time, and they didn't go any further, even touching their buttocks , will be called by Tao Hong as a hooligan.

Jiang Xiaofeng felt that the development speed of himself and Taohong was too slow, so he decided to take the countermeasure of "retreating to advance" and deliberately used the excuse of creating songs to snub Taohong.

Seeing that Jiang Xiaofeng was creating, Taohong was not angry, but took the initiative to sit beside Jiang Xiaofeng and asked in a low voice, "Didn't the director not allow you to bring a guitar to the set?"

Jiang Xiaofeng sighed helplessly: "It doesn't matter, anyway, there is nothing to do when you are idle, so you can't keep wasting time like this." As he spoke, he continued to fiddle with the strings.

After staying in Jiang Xiaofeng's room for a few minutes, seeing that Jiang Xiaofeng was still working on his creation with such seriousness and concentration, Tao Hong couldn't bear to disturb her, so she curled her lips and said to Jiang Xiaofeng: "I'm going back, you should rest early, tomorrow I still have to film." After speaking, he got up and prepared to leave.

Hearing Tao Hong's words, Jiang Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, but soon came back to his senses, put down the guitar, and quickly grabbed Tao Hong, saying: "Don't go, it's still early!"

Being pulled by Jiang Xiaofeng in this way, Tao Hong also turned around tacitly, and then took advantage of the trend and sat down on Jiang Xiaofeng's lap.

Jiang Xiaofeng put his arms around Tao Hong, kissed her on the cheek, and asked with a smile, "Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

Tao Hong was silent for a moment, and then said aggrievedly: "I don't want to disturb you."

Jiang Xiaofeng said softly: "You think too much, I'm too happy that you can come to me, why bother me?"

"Who knows you, you didn't come to see me tonight."

"Aren't I writing a song? I forgot the time while I was writing it... I had planned to go find you right away after I finished writing this song..."

Under Jiang Xiaofeng's patient guidance, Taohong's mood also began to turn from cloudy to sunny.

Tao Hong asked Jiang Xiaofeng: "Writing songs is more interesting, or is it more interesting to be with me?"

Jiang Xiaofeng didn't even think about it, so he replied: "Is there a need to ask? It must be interesting to be with you,"

"It's almost there!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)