Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 76 Cool

Five days later.

The John Wick crew is already running smoothly.

Except for the fact that the actors needed some time to adapt at the beginning, the crew entered a rapid shooting process within just a few days.

In the villa.

Zhou Mo is arranging the positions of the actors.

Today's scene is about the protagonist Zhang Zhi facing the killer sent by Fangzhu Daisuke for the first time and going on a killing spree in the dark night.

This is also the first real gunfight and action scene in this movie.

After everyone was in place, Zhou Mo asked Zhang Jin in the room about his status and saw him make an "ok" gesture towards the camera.

"start."

The next second, a fully armed team of killers slowly walked into the villa.

Night vision goggles, bulletproof vests, silencers.

Well-equipped and tough.

It’s a pity that even the most elite team is useless in front of “King of Hell” Zhang Zhi.

in the dark.

Zhang Zhi, wearing a black suit and with his hair combed like an adult, slowly opened his eyes.

one person.

One shot.

"boom!"

"He's here!"

"boom!"

"I've been shot!"

In the dark space, Zhang Zhi was like a silent god of death, constantly swinging his deadly scythe at the enemies who invaded his house.

Reload.

Disarm.

Shooting through the wall.

Finally, when the last killer lost his life, sirens sounded outside Zhang Zhi's villa.

I opened the door and saw a patrolman standing outside.

The patrol officers came because they received a report of noise nearby at night.

Through the glass, the patrolman saw a figure lying in the villa and corpses all over the ground.

He did not immediately take out his gun, but took off his hat and asked in a serious tone.

"Zhang Zhi, have you returned to your old job?"

"No." Zhang Zhi replied.

Hearing this reply, the patrolman breathed a sigh of relief, then gave a few more instructions and turned away.

It was obvious that the patrolman knew Zhang Zhi's identity.

From another perspective, this also reflects the huge power of the InterContinental Hotel. Even the government's violent agencies have to live in peace with the members of this organization.

It may even be said that the violent agencies have been infiltrated by the InterContinental Hotel.

……

"Very good, pass!"

Zhou Mo looked at Zhang Jin in the camera and became so excited that he couldn't control himself.

The smoothness of filming this scene was beyond his imagination.

On the side, Master Yuan Ba ​​saw Zhou Mo's excitement and said with a little complacency: "How is it, Director Zhou, is everything going well?"

"It went very smoothly."

Zhou Mo turned around and gave praise: "As expected of the children of the Yuan family, each of them is an elite in action scenes."

All the killers in this scene are basically members of the Yuan family.

In order to ensure a smooth filming, Zhou Mo signed a contract with Mr. Yuan Baye directly after meeting him.

As they were talking, Zhang Jin came over, greeted Zhou Mo and his master, and asked, "Director Zhou, was my performance just now okay?"

Before Zhou Mo could say anything, Cai Shaofen couldn't help but praise him: "You were really amazing just now."

Her eyes were full of Zhang Jin's image during the battle just now.

He is worthy of being my husband.

So handsome!
Zhang Jin shook his head at his wife, signaling her not to speak before the director.

Cai Shaofen quietly covered her mouth.

Zhou Mo waved his hands to show that he didn't care.

"It's okay. Sister Fen is right."

He watched the footage again.

One word:

Cool!
Zhang Jin's performance was better than he expected. If we look at it from Zhou Mo's personal perspective, Zhang Jin's performance just now has surpassed Keanu Reeves in the original movie.

The original John Wick was known for its fast action and smooth combat, but this was more about the gunfight scenes. As for the hand-to-hand combat scenes outside of the gunfights, they were not top-notch, but excellent at best.

After all, Keanu Reeves is not an action actor. Although he has experience in action movies and has received combat training before filming "John Wick", he still feels dull when performing combat roles.

This kind of dullness would be fine if there was no contrast, but once there is a contrast, it will be particularly obvious.

A typical example is the fight between John and the blind man in the previous life "John Wick 4", where it is obvious that even the frame rates are different.

As for some fans who think Keanu's action scenes are world-class...

Just listen to this kind of speech of extremely pure purity.

When discussing action scenes, let’s not talk about the older generation of action actors in China who make a living from this.

Let’s just talk about foreign action movies.

The Mission: Impossible series and the Kingsman series have bold and exaggerated action sequences.

The real-life types, with realistic fighting features, include Matt Damon's "The Bourne Supremacy" trilogy, Liam Neeson's "Taken" series, and Denzel Washington's "The Equalizer" series.

The above series are all quite powerful in terms of action design.

Compared to these, "John Wick" is still a little lacking.

At this moment, Zhou Mo watched Zhang Jin's actions repeatedly, feeling emotional.

He is worthy of being the warden who can fight with Wu Jing and Tony Jia and suppress them so much that they can't raise their heads.

Every move he made was done with swiftness and resolution.

Flowing clouds and flowing water, all in one go.

"Okay, let's stop here for today's show."

Zhou Mo asked Zhang Jin to wash up first. They would finish work for tonight and give chicken legs to all the crew members at noon tomorrow.

As soon as the words fell, a group of people around began to cheer.

Zhou Mo put away his equipment and called out to Master Yuan Baye, saying that he had something to discuss.

A moment later, Zhou Mo's room.

Master Yuan was a little surprised: "Director Zhou, are you saying you want to establish a long-term cooperation with my team?"

"OK."

In front of Mr. Yuan was a contract.

The general content is that Shanhe Company, which is backed by Zhou Mo, wants to sign a long-term cooperation agreement with Yuan Jiaban and hire the other party to be the action director of their films for a long time.

Looking at the price on the contract, Mr. Yuan was pleasantly surprised.

"Director Zhou, are you serious?"

"of course."

Zhou Mo nodded: "I wonder what Master Ba thinks?"

"Of course I am willing to do so. It's about making money." Mr. Yuan seemed very free and easy.

After signing the contract, Zhou Mo packed up his things, only to find that Yuan Heping had a confused look on her face.

"Why, is there something wrong, Master Ba?"

Mr. Yuan Ba ​​spoke frankly: "It's not a problem. After all, signing a contract is a real benefit to us. It's just... I'm a little confused. Isn't it too much to sign so many film cooperations at once?"

"Not much, how can it be more?"

Zhou Mo smiled and shook his head.

The idea of ​​establishing a long-term cooperative relationship with Mr. Yuan Baye was something he had only recently come up with.

Before filming "John Wick", Zhou Mo discovered a situation -

Even domestic action movies are more concentrated in the fields of "police, gangs, and history", but there are not many companies in China that shoot and research one large area of ​​action movies: spy movies.

The ones who really made contributions to the development of spy movies were Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing.

But the spy movies that were made in that era were made decades ago.

There is only one "From Beijing with Love" starring Stephen Chow.

In addition, as far as I can remember, domestic spy-themed film and television works in the past life only began to make breakthroughs in the scope of online dramas before Zhou Mo traveled through time.

Without a doubt, during this period of time in 2011.

The spy movie genre is a huge blue ocean.

When Zhou Mo discovered this situation, he was excited on the spot.

Just based on the movies in his mind, he could definitely open up a new field of spy movies in the country.

From "John Wick", to "The Dark Knight", to "The Equalizer", "The Continental", "Jack Reign", etc...

Anyway, there is this extremely useful background area that can be used to save money.

Zhou Mo doesn't even need to consider the release issue.

He can completely build a huge agent universe around the killer organization "High Table".

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