China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 327 This Is He Fang's Clever Method
In addition to "A Date with Lu Yu", He Fang also accepted the interview of "China Film Report" by Yang Liu, and "Qiang Qiang Threesome" hosted by Dou Wentao, and of course the invitation of "Art Life", but he will go to the capital to record , I didn’t go for a while.

He Fang was busy with interviews in Changsha for a few days, but it was not all interviews. The reason why he did not go to other places to record programs was because he could continue to prepare for the film after recording the programs in Changsha.

Now the preparation of "Alita: Battle Angel" has reached a critical stage. Basically, I am reading the script every day. All the model building and 3D modeling have been completed. The setting with a strong comic flavor, and Various industrial-style mechanical human body devices, many actors are adapting while reading the script.

Let me briefly introduce the story background and actors of "Alita: Battle Angel" so that everyone can understand the movie more intuitively.

Let me talk about the background first:
The background of the story is set after the end of the world. Humans re-established civilization and began to colonize the universe. They rebuilt cities, political systems, industrial bases, and space bases (which were later abandoned, which is the main scene in the movie-Scrap Iron Town ).

Later, due to the exploitation and uneven distribution of resources, a war broke out between Venus and Jupiter, the largest colonial planet in the solar system, and then involved all the colonial planets in the entire solar system.Venus not only developed the berserker cells, but also recruited Mars colonies to send mecha fighters (that is, Alita's martial arts) to ravage the colonies of various planets.

The war then turned to peace, but the supreme ruler of mankind decided to disconnect the earth from the alien colonies.

In the next 200 years, the story of Alita, the protagonist of our movie, will unfold on the earth.

As for Alita's martial art - mecha, it is said that it is a fusion of many martial arts such as Wing Chun, Muay Thai and karate of the early civilization of the earth.It belongs to the small-scale close combat art, because not long after colonizing Mars, humans developed the technology of using machines to replace human organs, which is the so-called disguised longevity method. Injury, so melee combat is almost lost.

Then, a mysterious martial arts master sweeps Mars with his martial arts, and no (mechanical) human is his match.But the man didn't make a name for his genre the way Bruce Lee did.This incident happened 300 years before the story of the movie "Alita: Battle Angel".

Afterwards, the man's apprentice named this martial art as Jijiashu and carried it forward. Jijiashu began to spread on Mars. During this period, Jijiashu produced many famous people and made many famous things.And the Mecha Valley was established.

In the ensuing cosmic war, due to the shameless behavior of Mechashu in the war, it was betrayed to the hostile government by the ruler of Mars after the war, and then strangled one by one by the revenge organization Orders, and Mechashu was almost lost.

Alita's life experience has always been a mystery, and there are few descriptions in comics. At present, Alita may be the Martian royal family. She suffered from a disease when she was young. She preserved the upper part of her brain and torso through surgery, and the other parts were removed. replaced by machinery.

Then Alita was sent to Mecha Valley to learn mecha art and participated in the ensuing war.But for unknown reasons, Alita's body was broken and abandoned in the scrap iron town on the earth. Then she was picked up by a doctor named Wang De who specialized in scavenging waste in abandoned machinery and started the story described in the movie. story.

"Alita: Battle Angel" is the first part of the original "Gunmeng". It mainly talks about the rebirth of the heroine Alita in the scrap iron town, recovering part of the battle memory, meeting several enemies and friends, and then looking for herself His life experience, participation in the Sky City iron ball competition and other plots.

And the actors of the movie have already been confirmed. Needless to say, the heroine is Pan Zhilin, why use her?
He Fang thinks that Pan Zhilin is similar to the cartoon image of Alita. First of all, she is beautiful and cute, and then she has a pair of big eyes. These big eyes are very important.

The key is that Pan Zhilin's acting skills are good. Of course, the most important reason is that He Fang feels that she must be given the heroine of a big movie. Otherwise, if she is so kind to her, wouldn't it be too disappointing for her?

Does "Alita: Battle Angel" have a leading actor?In fact, from the point of view of the role, there is no such thing, but from the point of view of identity, the boy Alita knows seems to be the leading actor.

This boy is called Yang Guo in He Fang's movie. He is a street boy and a looter who specializes in targeting reinvented people. He never thought that one day he would fall in love with a reinvented person.In order to be able to go to the Kunlun Ruins of his dreams, he worked hard, but this also brought him into contact with the dark side of society.

The actor who plays Yang Guo is called Cheng Yi, who graduated from Chinese opera. He Fang thinks it's okay, both in terms of image and acting skills.

When they first competed for this role, many people broke their heads, but after the final screening, He Fang still felt that Cheng Yi was suitable.Although Cheng Yi is not well-known, but this is He Fang's movie, do I need to care about the actor's reputation?Even if He Fang uses a brand new lineup, it won't be affected too much.

Another character who is very important to the heroine is Dr. Wang De, or Dr. Wang De, who picked Alita out of the discarded garbage, and then rescued her and assembled her. It can be said that Wang De De is Alita's other reborn father.

And who is Wang De?
Wang De was originally from the upper class of Kunhua Ruins, but was exiled to Waste Iron Town.In the town he became a synth doctor, providing professional assistance to many synths.But Dr. Wang De also has his secret hobby, which is to satisfy the bloodthirsty pleasure of being a bounty hunter.

Wang De is played by Li Xuejian, mainly because Li Xuejian has the spirit of a scholar and the inner spirit of being well-read in poetry and books. It is absolutely convincing for him to play a doctor and a doctor.But it's more interesting to make him a little more bloodthirsty and turn into a bounty hunter.

Where there is decency in a movie, there must be villains. One of the villains is the black intermediary boss who controls the market in Waste Iron Town. His name is Zhang Xiaobing.And through all kinds of coercion and temptation to play with others.

Who is the best person to play a role like this black boss?I believe that a person pops up in many people's minds, yes, it is Sun Honglei, so the actor of Zhang Xiaobing is Sun Honglei.

The second villain is Bai Lian. She is a doctor and is proficient in various internal and surgical operations for human transformation. Bai Lian, like Dr. Wang De, comes from Kunlun Xu, and both have superb restoration skills.She was employed by Zhang Xiaobing, but besides that, she also had a mysterious relationship with Wang De.

The actor of Bailian, Xu Qing, also has a good image and temperament, so there is absolutely no problem in letting her play this role.

The third villain is Brute Ball. In the original work, Brute Ball is Alita's first enemy, and it plays a very important role in the story.

He is not a simple muscular and brainless villain. He had a very tragic childhood. He was thrown into the sewer by his mother when he was born. Since then, he can only live in the sewer.His body was on the verge of decay, all of which made him have a very distorted personality. After Dr. Bailian repaired him, he became a synthetic human. In order to relieve pain, he lived by sucking brains.

Before meeting Alita, his life seemed like a walking dead.The arrival of Alita made him realize the meaning of life he expected.

The actor of Manqiu is Lu Zhishen's actor Jin Song. Jin Song has strong muscles and a rough face, which is quite suitable for this role.

The last starring role is a handsome and proud bounty hunter named Pan Wu. He refuses to cooperate with other bounty hunters. He looks cruel on the surface, but in his heart he feels that the face is more important than everything else. He has been with the heroine Alita many times conflict.

The actor of this role is Xie Miao, this must use a star player, to play wonderfully, and Xie Miao happens to be a very good star player.

The story background and characters of the entire "Alita: Battle Angel" are roughly like this. As for the so-called Kunhua Ruins, it is a more advanced world, which is different from the orderly, well-established, and more civilized earth in the abandoned land. place of control.

The story is almost the background, and then the characters are almost these characters, and the shooting scene is an abandoned scrap iron town, and then the story takes place in this town.

After straightening out these backgrounds, characters, and scenery, many things become simple, and making a movie does not seem so complicated.

It is nothing more than how to design the scenery, how to design the props, how to design the mirror, how to adjust the performance, how to set the makeup of the actors...etc. These specific contents need to be determined after the division of labor.

Pan Zhilin now wears Alita's clothes every day, and keeps looking for feelings.

"Director, do I want to be cute? I've been vacillating at this level." Pan Zhilin said to He Fang after reading the script, and then blinked her eyes.

"What's the speed? Cough, that... How about it, you wait for my call." He Fang said something and left.

Why is he leaving in such a hurry?It’s not that he doesn’t want to avoid suspicion, but that he is not free, and the 3D modeling is still unfinished, so he has to keep an eye on it. Many things in filming are not complicated, but there are many trivial things.

It's just trivial things. The creator has several departments. If something happens in each department, he has to find the director. Can the director be too busy?
The key is the creation, which cannot be replaced by others.

At this time, in the teahouse downstairs of the crew hotel, Li Xuejian and Xu Qing were drinking tea together, and they were still holding the script in their hands. They were reading the script and chatting while drinking tea.

"Teacher Xuejian, what do you think of us as China's number one director?" Xu Qing asked.

"What do you think of He Fang? How else can you look at this? He is the number one director in China, the number one director in Asia, any award is beyond the reach of other directors in his lifetime. The box office of any movie is beyond the reach of Chinese directors." There are almost no Asian directors who can reach his level, how can I see it? I just learn.

Besides, he is the director who is best at cultivating movie stars. What if one day he has a script suitable for us middle-aged and elderly people, and he just has a chance, maybe he can win an international movie star when he gets old? "

"Haha..." Not only Xu Qing laughed, but Li Xue also laughed when she saw herself.

"I'm afraid this is going to be difficult. What I'm asking is actually not what you said." Xu Qing said.

"I understand. Do you find it strange that this number one director in China reads scripts differently from other directors? The script seminars of the fifth and sixth generations of old directors are all about the art of opening and closing their mouths, and even the readings of drama performances. It's the same with scripts.

But our director, He Fang, is honest. I just ask what is your understanding of the role, and how should you act in this scene?Roughly perform it, and then put forward his ideas and requirements, and let you think of a few alternative performance plans, and then pass.

For him, there is no art in performance, it is all technique. "

After Li Xuejian finished speaking, Xu Qing nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, it's the feeling you mentioned, so I feel a little...that..."

Xu Qing couldn't express it for a while, Li Xue laughed, and then poured Xu Qing a cup of tea.

"Do you want to say that those who don't talk about art will win awards, and those who talk about art every day will compete for several broken awards in China?"

"Haha... Teacher Li hit the nail on the head." Xu Qing laughed.

"Hey, what hit the nail on the head, how many people with artistic ideas scolded He Fang's movies. As a result, the people they scolded got honors that they couldn't even imagine. Anyway, I'm here to learn, to see if I can put a How does a director who holds the actor's throne as an actor adjust the actors."

Li Xuejian said as she picked up the teacup and drank a cup of tea.

"Do you think he will train us at our age? If we go to other crew directors, we don't dare to say it. Who would you say?" Xu Qing asked.

"I'm not sure about that. I guess he'll say it if he doesn't meet his requirements. I heard that in his movies, seniority is never considered, only strength. Don't think so much, drink tea, study the script carefully, and act well. "Li Xuejian continued to pick up the teacup and said.

"Isn't this the first time I've acted in a film directed by an Oscar. I'm looking forward to it but also afraid that he won't give us face." Xu Qing, a woman, thought a little too much.

"What does it matter? Isn't it normal for me to be scolded by the director when I joined the group for the first time?"

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Who knew that the two veteran actors were still discussing the day before, and He Fang corrected the roles played by Li Xuejian and Xu Qing during the final reading of the script the next day.

"Teacher Li Xuejian, Teacher Xu Qing, I personally feel that you did not sublimate the characters in the end. Teacher Li Xuejian played Wang De, who is a good doctor who provides free or low-cost mechanical medical services to people at the lowest level, and then He also has the heart of a bounty hunter, which seems a bit mysterious.

And Bai Lian, played by teacher Xu Qing, is obviously cooperating with the biggest villain boss. She seems to be a villain, but she also has connections with Wang De.They all come from the world of Kunlun Ruins.Although these two settings are mysterious, they are too formal, like two routine characters, and they won't shine.

However, I hope that the two teachers can make a point. " He Fang said.

Li Xue cheered up suddenly, and asked politely, "How does the director want us to shine?"

"It's very simple, what I need is not just the mystery of your identities, so that the audience can only see the routines of these two characters. I need the mystery of your characters more, so that the audience thinks that you two characters are like this, this, this, The mysterious people who came down from above thought that they were under the control of the audience, but suddenly, the audience felt that they couldn't see who you were, and they were curious about the reason why you came down.

To achieve this effect, it is necessary to make the character of Wang De burst into a kind of good guy impression that is contrary to the audience's impression of the whole film. Can the audience be given a few crazy, evil, and twisted performances at the end of the film?

Teacher Xu Qing, your role is the same. You have always been a collaborator of the villain. Everyone thinks you are a bad person. If you suddenly show compassion for the world and deeply worry about human beings, you will perform like this.In this way, the audience will suddenly have a sense of reversal, and wonder why your two characters are suddenly opposite?This creates suspense and the urge to watch the next one.

And the roles of the two of you will suddenly be sublimated. They are no longer just supporting roles. You have to give your characters a layered performance.How about you two go back and think about it carefully, and then give everyone a little surprise during the shooting? What do you think? "

Li Xue smiled satisfied, then glanced at Xu Qing, who also nodded with complicated eyes.

He Fang doesn't have any artistic long stories, just a few technical requirements, and then the whole character is sublimated immediately. If ordinary actors can't find out how He Fang made his performance immediately sublime, it feels like He Fang is just a small request. That's all.

Both of them felt it, this is He Fang's brilliant method.He Fang is to capture the unexpectedness of the key points of the character, and then sublimate the character.

"Okay, since the director has a request, we will try our best to meet it."

(End of this chapter)