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Chapter 465: The Legend of White Snake, filming begins

The Legend of White Snake, a classic bad movie.

Why do you say that.

No extreme rating 5.5.

The Legend of White Snake has Jet Li and a rating of 4.8.

It's bad enough.

At that time, Zhao Wenzhuo's "Green Snake" with Dawei Tianlong had a score of 8.6. The special effects of that era were better than those of "The Legend of White Snake". Fang Yu once thought about what the problem was.

Later, when he met the boss of Juli Group, Huang Shengyi's husband Yang Zi, Fang Yu finally understood.

In addition to the nearly [-] million yuan remuneration given to Li Lianjie, the remaining cost is also around [-] million yuan.

For a group with deep pockets, how to spend 1 million yuan has become a big problem.

Fang Yu met the director of A Chinese Ghost Story, Cheng Xiaodong, and asked him to spend [-] million, which was really a embarrassment to him.

So we can only spend money on embarrassing and cheap special effects, resulting in all the later fights taking place against a fake green screen background. Compared with the feeling of hanging Wia on the water when Dawei Tianlong was strong, it was worse Not even a little bit.

Domestic films at this stage have made the biggest mistake. They abandoned the foundation laid by the original Hong Kong films and adopted the green screen form of Hollywood. As a result, the money is not as much as that of Hollywood, and the special effects team is not as good as that of Hollywood. If there are good dramas, then Ghost.

In addition, the original script was changed a lot by Yangzi, a local boss who didn't understand the script at all. It's not unreasonable that the movie is worse than Wuji.

Now that Huang Shengyi is gone, the heroine has been replaced by Liu Yifei. Fang Yu took the script in hand and immediately killed the monk played by Huaizhai, Jet Li's apprentice in the plot.

"The reason why I can only act in The King of Kung Fu is because the script is inherently bad."

"The Legend of the White Snake stands on the shoulders of giants. Such a classic mythical story. If it is not filmed as everyone knows it, I can only say that it is better not to destroy the stuff of our ancestors."

"You guys have to finish serving the Tao in the next two days. I'm going to overturn the script. Don't worry, it won't be long before the original story of The Legend of White Snake is enough to sustain our movie."

When Fang Yu arrived at the set, he acted vigorously and resolutely. The crew members who had never worked with Hollywood producers were also aroused by Fang Yu, because even though many people here were older than Fang Yu, none of them could reach Fang Yu's level. Such achievements of Yu.

In his early 20s, he became a top producer and screenwriter in Hollywood. To give them guidance in this capacity is like going to the countryside to express condolences and not cooperate?I really don’t want to be in the industry anymore.

"Is the time urgent?" Cheng Xiaodong was a little confused. The leading actor was about to arrive, and Fang Yu had to change the script temporarily.

"The people, actors, and special effects involved behind this"

"Special effects? We don't use special effects, not for one scene."

"No special effects?" Cheng Xiaodong was confused, "How can the effect be presented without special effects?"

"Have you read Ultraman? Oh, Xiangjiang should be reading Ultraman."

"Do you mean it will be in the form of a tokusatsu drama?" Cheng Xiaodong wondered.

"Director Cheng is more familiar with this than me. You used a lot of props in A Chinese Ghost Story."

Some of the most enduring Hong Kong films are made using physical props, which prevents the films from looking too fake.

Because in a few years, even if AI technology is used to complete Blu-ray transcoding, the special effects will not become real. For example, the old Black Mountain demon, the tree spirit grandma, and various monsters in A Chinese Ghost Story will all use props. Real shooting, this kind of treatment is much more realistic than worthless special effects in horror and thriller movies.

"It will take a while to make the props."

"Don't worry, I asked Xu Guanwen to help contact a team three weeks ago. They are in Xiangjiang. They are working overtime every day on the two big snakes I asked them to make, and the other small characters of the monsters that will be involved in the film. , I have also contacted people in Hollywood a long time ago, and the team will be on site the day after tomorrow. You should have heard of this team, they did makeup for Star Wars." Awesome!
Cheng Xiaodong, the two assistant directors and a cameraman on the side were all shocked by Fang Yu's arrangement.

A film that originally seemed like a joke became instantly watchable.

This is much better than at the beginning, when Huang Shengyi and Yangzi were like Yangzi who was joking.

Sino-US co-production, Sino-US co-production again.

Fang Yu had this advantage, so there was no need for him to throw it away.

Compared with the declining Xiangjiang film industry, the Hollywood team is much more reliable. The goblin leather sheath that needs to be refined was handed over to Hollywood, and the two large snakes that only needed to be made were given to Xiangjiang. Fang Yu also It can be considered a good use of everything.

With Fang Yu, the winner of the Oscar and Berlin Silver Bear screenwriting awards, joining the team, the three original screenwriters now dare not say a word.

The three of them really couldn't say a word, because no one here could communicate with Fang Yu about how to design the plot to make it interesting.

In fact, Fang Yu didn't intend to have a complicated design.

The profit of this film lies abroad, and the domestic box office prospects are very worrying. This is also because the adaptation is not a random editing. It is strange that everyone is willing to buy it after seeing a less white snake in the Legend of White Snake.

Fang Yu knows what kind of movies domestic audiences want to watch, and he also understands what kind of domestic movies foreigners like.

The mysterious color of the East cannot solely rely on special effects technology inferior to that of the West.

Following the original path, making a special effects film that hits the mark but doesn't hit the mark and is neither good nor bad would be a disgrace to Chinese-language films and to all Chinese filmmakers.

If you want to win in this environment, you have to use the format of old Hong Kong films, and you have to be close to Fang Yu's films like "Painted Skin" and "A Chinese Ghost Story IV: The Road to Rebirth."

Fang Yu first set the tone of the story.

Eight characters.

Horror thriller, love story.

After Fang Yu started writing the script, he found that many screenwriters did not understand the most basic beginnings, transitions, and transitions, and the story was very flat in a straight line.

Why is A Chinese Ghost Story so classic and attractive?

The story background at the beginning of the story is very weird and strange. The scene presented in the movie seems to be a world where people can eat people. In such a world, everyone is worried about the kind and simple male protagonist.

Later, when we went to Lanruo Temple, the story officially began, and the audience's hearts did not fall to the ground. On the contrary, they became more suspenseful.

Until the audience discovered that ghosts are sometimes kinder than people, and then to the thrilling battle of wits and heart-stopping love, it’s no wonder that the movie’s ratings were poor.

Before the script was written, Fang Yu asked the entire crew to carefully watch the 93 classic movie "Green Snake" twice.

Xu Ke, Zhang Manyu, Wang Zuxian, Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Xinguo.

If we really talk about this lineup, it is really not as luxurious as the current "Legend of White Snake".

Cheng Xiaodong, Fang Yu, Jet Li, Liu Yifei, and Cai Zhuoyan are a bit behind in terms of actress acting skills, but they can make up for it from Jet Li and Fang Yu.

The investment is more than that of Green Snake, and the lineup is stronger than Green Snake.

If they can't produce a movie that surpasses Green Snake, these filmmakers should think carefully about whether the industry they are engaged in has taken a detour.

(End of this chapter)