Movie tycoon

Chapter 796 "Havoc in Heaven" Starts Filming

Inside the Peking Courtyard.

Chen Xiaotang and his group left.

Yu Hong, the lover of the six little soul boys, was relieved. To be honest, when the movie "Journey to the West" became popular, she didn't know how many crew invitations she had to turn down for her lover one day, but with the popularity of Monkey King, After the fever of the Six Little Soul Boys passed, there were no production crews visiting the house anymore, except for some opera production crews and some fundraising activities, they had already been neglected.

Sighing, Yu Hong turned around to sort out the script that the other party had put down, and inadvertently, the check fell out.

Yu Hong didn't take it seriously, picked it up and looked at it, but was stunned, she couldn't believe her eyes.

100? !
How can it be? !
Yu Hong's eyes widened.

She pinched her cheek hard.

One word, pain! ! !

Yes, not dreaming!

It was indeed a check for a million!
When my lover was filming "Journey to the West", the daily subsidy was only more than [-] yuan, and the money earned from filming a movie was not as good as a fraction of the check in front of me!
She couldn't believe what she saw.

Is this check genuine? !
Yu Hong, who has never had high demands on her lover, suddenly felt hot in her heart at that moment.

At the same time, a Beijing opera club in Peking.

The six little soul boys wiped off the ink on their faces, behind them were a group of peers who were changing costumes.Not long ago, they just finished performing a song "Monkey King Three Heroes Banana Fan".

"Xiao Zhang, this is your labor fee for tonight, a total of 38 yuan!" The head of the Peking Opera Club put the money on the table of the six little soul boys, "Oh, it seems that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, but there are more and more people watching the opera. We are working poorly on the stage, but we can’t earn a lot.” The head of the team bit the spout and complained while drinking tea, “Nowadays, people who are rich buy TV sets, and then they are comfortable Sitting comfortably at home watching TV, watching a movie and constantly tuning the channels, our live performances can only be supported by those old fanciers!"

"Things will be fine." The six little soul boys comforted, "After all, Peking Opera is our national quintessence, as long as we do well, there will be people cheering!"

"I hope so, let's not talk about it, do you want to go out for a drink or two later? I'm treating you. A new mutton dumpling restaurant has opened nearby. The dumplings are just wine. The more you drink, the more delicious you are!"

"No, I promise our family will go back earlier."

"A model husband, alas, I really don't know what a man does when he gets married so early, when he is tied up by a woman and can't do anything!"

"Who is like you, who likes to be an old bachelor for a lifetime!" The six little soul boy joked, "To be honest, aren't you lonely? Do you want me to ask my lover to help you find one?"

"Don't worry, I'm pretty free. I can eat enough for myself and the whole family won't be hungry. If I marry a wife and can't support the family, wouldn't that be a big crime!"

"Then you start a second career, the more jobs you do, the more wages you will earn"

"Yes, I'm going to scrape together some money to contract a small restaurant and eat my own food. I can make money and save money. Maybe in two or three years, I'll become a millionaire!" The team leader said, "How about it? This idea is not bad, are you interested in doing it together?"

"I can't do restaurants, but I'm pretty good at eating. When you open a restaurant, I'll go to Cengfan."

"Think good, I think you'd better go home and let your wife cook for you. My restaurant is not suitable for you!"

"Hehe, you just dragged me into the gang just now, you don't want to see me now, you've changed really fast!"

"No way, this is the socialist market economy, this person, you have to focus on money, or you will starve to death sooner or later!"

The sixth little soul boy shook his head, "If money is really the only thing left in our eyes, then those of us who are engaged in art will probably never be able to get on the stage!"

"What are you afraid of? At worst, set up a grass-roots team, like those swindlers, and make money by twisting their buttocks!"

While joking, the six little soul boys had finished removing their make-up, and said to the group leader: "Okay, I won't talk nonsense with you anymore, see you tomorrow!"

"See you tomorrow! By the way, go back and discuss it with your lover, and open a restaurant to make money!"

"Understood!" The six little spirit boys waved at him.

.......
Back in the alley where they lived and entered the courtyard, the six little soul boys immediately felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

The little nanny was humming a ditty in the corner, picking up a big carp, while the stew pot was bubbling aside, and the smell of chicken soup wafted out.

In such cold weather, it is definitely a pleasure to drink delicious chicken soup and eat delicious carp.

"Hey, what kind of happy day is today? It's both chicken and fish!" the six little spirit boy asked, taking off his scarf and handing it to his lover Yu Hong.

"Of course it's a happy day." Yu Hong smiled all over her face, looking very happy.

"Is there a happy event?"

"Well, there is a happy event."

"You got a raise?"

"Better than this."

"That means you were raptured?"

"It's even better."

"Okay, don't go around in circles, tell me, what's going on?"

"What do you think this is?" Yu Hong handed the check to Liu Xiaolingtong.

The six little soul boys who were drinking tea thought it was something, but when they saw it, it was 100 million!Laughed, "Are you kidding, is this a prop from your crew? It looks real!"

"It's not a prop, it's a check! It's really a million check!"

Puchi!The tea from the sixth little spirit boy's mouth sprayed out, "What did you say?"

"this is for you!"

"For me?"

"Well, a Hong Kong film company invited you to make a film, this is the deposit!"

"Deposit, 100 million?!" The six little spirit boys were dumbfounded.

You know, being a ten thousand yuan household is already very remarkable, and a millionaire is even unthinkable.

"What you said...but is it true?"

"Of course it's true. Nuo, this is the script and contract given to you..." Yu Hong handed over the script and the contract.

The six little soul boys looked at the title of the script --- "Havoc in Heaven", is it a monkey play? !He opened it and glanced at it, and it was indeed an adaptation of "Journey to the West".

However, for unknown reasons, some places have been changed too much in the adaptation. From the point of view of the six little soul boys, it is not allowed to spoil "Journey to the West" like this.

So he immediately put down the script and said, "I won't accept this drama!"

"You're crazy, 100 million, you won't take it?!" Yu Hong, her lover, said angrily.

"Look at the script, it's clearly disrespecting the original, how do you want me to shoot it?!"

"For the sake of the money, just take it!" My lover said, "One million, even if we earn so much money, we will never be able to earn it for a lifetime!"

"The money issue is small, but the principles of our Monkey King family must be followed!"

"Principles can't be eaten!"

"Unreasonable!"

"Art art, you will be poor for the rest of your life!"

.......
A cold war is necessary.

No one would have guessed that what was supposed to be a good thing would make the Six Little Lingtong's family unhappy.

Early the next morning, Chen Xiaotang and Fatty visited again.

This time they didn't fail.In other words, the six little soul boys and their lovers have been waiting for them.

"Hello, I am Teacher Zhang." Chen Xiaotang called out respectfully.

The six little spirit boys looked at Chen Xiaotang, feeling familiar.

The lover interjected: "This is Mr. Chen from Hong Kong, he is the one who invited you to film."

The sixth little spirit boy didn't think much about it, "I'm sorry, Mr. Chen, I can't take over the filming of this movie."

Chen Xiaotang was taken aback, "Why? But because the salary is not satisfactory?"

"This has nothing to do with the salary, but because you have changed the script too much."

"Big changes?" Chen Xiaotang froze for a moment. To be honest, he put a lot of effort into this script.

Especially Fatty Wang next to him was even more depressed and said: "Is there a mistake? I have worked hard and carefully revised it. Isn't it to your liking?"

It's really hard to serve this one well and not serve that one well!
Chen Xiaotang seemed to understand something, and laughed: "Actually, I understand what you mean, Mr. Zhang..."

"You understand what I mean?" The six little spirit boys were startled.

"You have always taken it as your duty to protect classics like "Journey to the West", and you don't like people to change them arbitrarily. But this time we have to change some parts for a purpose, because this film is not just for filming. We Chinese see it, and let foreigners understand it!"

One sentence stunned the six little soul boys.

Chen Xiaotang winked at the fat man, "Ah Jing, let's talk about it!"

Wang Jing boasted unceremoniously, "This is a super blockbuster movie! You don't know how much Moying Entertainment plans to invest in this movie..."

Before Fatty could finish speaking, "What, you guys are from Moying Entertainment?" the six little spirit boy asked in surprise.

"Yeah, didn't you read the contract?" The fat man blinked.

"Sorry, I just read the script." The six little spirit boys blushed slightly, "Then I guess you are the big star Mr. Chen Xiaotang?" It's time to confirm.

Chen Xiaotang nodded with a smile.

The six little soul boys were excited.

"Really you?!"

Even his lover was excited, "You are the big star Rafi Chen?!"

Chen Xiaotang had no choice but to nod again.

It seems that his name is indeed resounding enough.

"I saw you on the news broadcast! You are much more handsome than on TV!" Yu Hong said excitedly. "Didn't expect you to come to our house in person, I couldn't be happier!"

"Ahem!" The six little spirit boys coughed a few times when they saw their lover was so excited, and said to themselves, be reserved, be reserved!What kind of crazy women look like.

"I never thought it would be you, Mr. Chen. If you had revealed your identity earlier, I wouldn't be so dead-headed. Everyone knows that you have made a lot of efforts for Chinese-language movies...I won't say much else , I took over the filming of this movie!"

Chen Xiaotang didn't expect that his identity would be so effective, but he was a little embarrassed and said: "Since this is the case, then I don't know if Mr. Zhang has any good suggestions for the shooting location, especially Huaguo Mountain, which is the key scene in the play..."

"This is easy to handle. I don't know what happened to the scene when we filmed the TV series?" The six little soul boy laughed.

His lover Yu Hong hurried to get the videotape, and then fast-forwarded the recorded Journey to the West to the Huaguoshan scene.

Chen Xiaotang and Fatty were also polite, looking carefully at the above camera.

"Well, it's very good. This site has beautiful mountains and rivers, and the Water Curtain Cave is also lifelike..." Chen Xiaotang said to himself.

The fat man nodded and said, "Yes, the scenery is pretty good. You can't find such a scene in Hong Kong. Why don't you decide to shoot here?"

Chen Xiaotang looked at the six little soul boys, "Where is this filming location?"

The six little soul boys said: "It's in a mountain in a province in the interior. If you want, I can contact you to take pictures..."

"This is naturally good. We must know that the scene is very important in the play, and we must do our best!"

Fatty: "In this case, why don't we start the machine in three days?"

Six Little Soul Boys: 'Start up in three days?Impossible, so far! "

Chen Xiaotang smiled slightly: "I wonder if Mr. Zhang has ever made a private jet? From today on, fat man, you will be Mr. Zhang's private pilot!"

"Ah?" The fat man and the six little soul boys opened their mouths wide at the same time.

...........
This is a beautiful mountain, primitive, simple and full of ancient charm.

The crew of "Havoc in Heaven" from Hong Kong has been filming here for a week.

At the end of this week, almost all the crew, food and lodging were in this unfathomable mountain.This place is far away from the city, and the nearest village is hundreds of miles away.

In such an isolated place, the staff from Hong Kong have suffered a lot.

The scenery here is beautiful and boundless, but it is painful to live in. Not to mention the bites of those unknown mosquitoes, but the cold and humid climate makes people very uncomfortable.

The entire production crew brought extra actors and set up tents, with a total of fifty or sixty seats, vaguely forming a primitive tribe in the depths of the forest, and Chen Xiaotang was the chief of this tribe——giving orders and maintaining work order.

Chen Xiaotang had worked as a director before, and he knew that being a director would be very hard. When filming "The End of the World" in Spain, he suffered a lot, but those hardships are nothing compared to now.

At least there you can still sleep on a soft bed, eat fried eggs with sausage for breakfast, and drink a glass of whiskey to refresh you when you are tired from filming. But here, you sleep in a sleeping bag and eat instant noodles. Refreshing is the cold waterfall water.

Yes, the waterfall water here is very cold.As the waterfall in the water curtain cave in the play, it hangs upside down from the sky and rushes down.

From the first moment he saw it, Chen Xiaotang believed that it was a beautiful elf. If he could record it realistically in the camera, it would definitely shock people enough.

This is deep in the forest. I wanted to use the boom to shoot, but I couldn't bring the boom in. The car was blocked outside when it drove to the edge.

Chen Xiaotang asked the Six Little Spirit Boys, how did you shoot high-altitude shots before, and the Six Little Spirit Boys replied that Chen Xiaotang was very surprised.

The six little soul boys said that they used tree trunks instead of booms to shoot such shots, and everyone worked together to lift up the director to shoot.

Many people are powerful, and the poor have their own solutions!
Chen Xiaotang has to admire the working attitude of mainland filmmakers. If you have the conditions, you have to create conditions if you don't have the conditions!

In that case, why are you still struggling?
Cut down trees!Make jibs!

With an order, everyone got busy.

In a short while, a resembling earthen boom was announced to be completed.

Fatty Wang Jing and the wise man erected the boom, while Chen Xiaotang tied a chair to the top and sat on it with the camera on his shoulders.

"Get up—" Chen Xiaotang yelled loudly, and then the big guys worked hard together, and the boom rose up.

To shoot a shot like the Water Curtain Cave, you have to shoot from top to bottom along the flow of the water. The waterfall slopes down, and then falls into the deep pool.

On this side, the Monkey King played by the Six Little Spirit Boys hangs Via and passes through the Water Curtain Cave.

Don't underestimate this shot. You must know that the waterfall is extremely powerful. If Via can't support the impact of the waterfall, people will be washed down.

Fortunately, Chen Xiaotang had made all the preparations in advance. It was not only people who hung Wia, but also a boulder. Put Via on a pulley and tie one end to the boulder. According to the principle of the pulley, the three elders could easily Control Via's meta up close.

The six little soul boys on Via's side, the pouring waterfall, and the camera, the Holy Trinity, there must be no mistakes in the shooting, which is very particular about the director's ability to control.

As a director, Chen Xiaotang is also familiar with the road in the early morning. At this moment, he is sitting on a simple homemade crane, controlling the camera and following the six little soul boys hanging from Via, and shooting the beautiful and illusory scene of the Monkey King passing through the Water Curtain Cave.

The actors who played the role of the monkey and the grandson crawled around in the camera, and their performances were also very good. This made Chen Xiaotang only need to work hard once to finish shooting this unanalyzed scene.

"OK! This one is over!" Chen Xiaotang said loudly.

Huh, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, especially the six little soul boys who played the role of the Monkey King, he was even more relieved, and was slowly let down from Via.

When the makeup artist saw him coming down, he hurried down to take care of his expensive "monkey hair".You know, for the filming of "Havoc in Heaven", Chen Xiaotang invited the best make-up team in Hong Kong. This team once accompanied him in the north and south, and has also gained fame in Hollywood. This time he filmed the monkey scene, and even ordered a golden glow Monkey King costume.Not to mention anything else about this outfit, only that the monkey hairs were artificially planted one by one.

The six little soul boys didn't know it before, and thought it was the same as the props they wore when filming "Journey to the West", but they didn't expect that a single monkey hair was worth ten yuan, and so many monkey hairs were worth a million dollars, so they put them on immediately. The six little spirit boys were startled, this is not monkey hair, it is simply a gold bar!

But having said that, this monkey hair is definitely worth the money. When I was filming "Journey to the West", the costume was not breathable at all. After wearing it for a long time, my whole body was sweaty and sticky, not to mention how uncomfortable it was .But this monkey skin has an elegant breath, loose and breathable, soft and delicate to the touch, completely top-notch production.Wearing it is like wearing a fur coat that feels so comfortable, not to mention how energetic it is.

Of course, it is very difficult to take care of such a good prop costume, especially like this, you can’t often get in the water. Just now, when you were filming the scene where the Monkey King crossed the water curtain cave, the costume was wet by the waterfall water. The makeup artist used a hair dryer to dry the wet monkey hair vigorously.

(End of this chapter)