Entertaining Children

  Chapter 1018 Movie Plot

   After all the auditions in the afternoon, Xiao Yao, Mu Ying and Zhao Rui bid farewell to Kate McCann and Zhou Jingyi. Although Zhou Jingyi has confirmed that she will appear in this movie, she does not live with Xiao Yao and the others. Mu Ying wants to send Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui back to the apartment, so naturally they will be separated.

   "Old Mu, did you premeditate?" Xiao Yao couldn't help asking Mu Yingdao on the way back to the apartment.

  It can be seen that Xiao Yao did not oppose Mu Yingla’s advertising placement and sponsorship, that this film is a purely commercial film. At the early stage of preparation, Xiao Yao planned to release the film globally, and naturally he would also consider market factors. Taking the film in the United States and setting the scene in the United States, using American staff is a manifestation of this consideration. Another more important manifestation is the choice of film actors.

   In the choice of film actors, Xiao Yao wants to fully reflect the internationalization. This kind of internationalization is not just about foreigners in the supporting role, but also in the protagonist. The protagonist of this movie is a seven-person parkour team. The three Chinese male characters of Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei are the three most important protagonists in the movie. This has long been determined.

Generally speaking, movies with Chinese characters as the protagonist, especially commercial movies, are not particularly popular in European and American countries, but because the three of them are the founding team of parkour, they are in the hearts of parkour enthusiasts around the world. Different status, and the target audience of this movie is mainly parkour enthusiasts, so the setting of these three characters was excluded by Xiao Yao from the scope of this international consideration.

   starring in the seven-person team, in addition to Xiao Yao and the three roles, there are four remaining roles. For these four roles, Xiao Yao and the others set them as four young people with different skin colors when they wrote the script. In addition, parkour is not a sport exclusively for boys, girls can also play, so one of the remaining four characters is a girl.

  Four young people with different skin colors, namely white, black, yellow Asian and Latino. When setting up the role in the early stage of script writing, Mu Ying suggested that the female role in it should be set as Asian and yellow. He said that besides the three of them, the female role is the most attractive. Setting this role as Asian should be The most suitable, because after all, they are all Chinese. This reason sounded very reasonable at the time. Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and others had no objection at the time, so they settled on it. Thinking about it now, maybe Mu Ying had already saved Zhou Jingyi's role at that time.

"Really not," Mu Ying knew what Xiao Yao meant, and explained with a smile, "When the role was set, although I already knew Jin, she hadn't noticed that we were preparing the film and writing the script together. I was just I simply feel that this female character should be an Asian face. We are all Chinese, and you are the male character in the movie, so the most important female character must be Chinese!"

"If you only say the last sentence, I might still believe you," Xiao Yao said with a curled lips, "but you specifically emphasized that when you set the role, Jin hadn't discovered that we were preparing the movie and writing the script together, so I wouldn't believe it. Maybe that. At the time, she really didn't know what we were preparing for the movie together, but you must have planned to bring her to act, maybe she was deliberately letting her discover that we were discussing the script on the video!

"You~" Mu Ying glanced at Xiao Yao in surprise, then smiled, "Okay! What if it is? I am her acting teacher, and I help my students get a role in my play. Is there anything wrong? If there is a mistake, it is also your fault, because you let me be her acting teacher!"

  "This~" Xiao Yao was speechless, leaning on the back of the chair and waved his hand weakly, "Yes, you're right, don't say anything!"

  Mu Ying did not leave immediately after sending Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui back to the apartment. Instead, he followed Xiao Yao into his apartment room and watched the audition videos of several actors in the afternoon and discussed their performance. When they were about to discuss it, it was time for dinner.

  At dinner, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting also got up and came to Xiao Yao's room. Instead of going out for dinner, everyone ordered a takeaway.

  These people are investors. After having dinner together, Mu Ying gave them a detailed introduction to the preparations of the crew. The formation of the crew has been completed, some of the actors and all the behind-the-scenes staff have been determined, and contracts have been signed, and all the shooting locations have been contacted. It is only waiting to determine the cast members for the last few roles.

  After introducing the crew, Mu Ying discussed the filming plan with everyone, and stayed until almost late at night before leaving.

According to the previous plan, Xiao Yao was going to let Mu Ying conduct the preliminary selection of casting auditions. After he came, he would conduct a re-selection and make a decision with Mu Ying. However, due to the release of "Wali" and Zhao Rui Xiao Yao and his entourage came to the United States later than Xiao Yao expected. In order to save time, Xiao Yao left Mu Ying to decide most of the supporting actors, and only a few of them were left. The protagonist and some of the more heavy supporting roles will wait until he arrives before deciding.

  There are not many roles for actors, and there are not many actors who need to audition. After spending another morning the next day, Xiao Yao, Mu Ying, and Kate McCann auditioned all candidates who had not yet determined the roles of actors.

  Miken is just a representative sent by the actors' union to supervise the audition process and ensure the legitimate rights and interests of actors. When all the actors on the shortlist meet the conditions on the surface, she will have little influence and say on the final result. Xiao Yao and Mu Ying spent another afternoon discussing all the actors who auditioned for the second time, and finally selected a list of actors for all roles.

  After the names of all the actors were confirmed, Mu Ying asked the assistant director of the crew to notify the newly determined actors to sign contracts with the crew, and then waited for the film to start shooting.

  Before the official launch of the film, Mu Ying also called up all the behind-the-scenes staff and the main actors of the crew to meet, so that everyone could get acquainted with each other.

  Xiao Yao is well-known in the United States. Most of the crew and actors behind the scenes know Xiao Yao as a person. Although Xiao Yao is very young and it is the first time he has directed a live-action feature film, everyone has heard a lot of Xiao Yao's various deeds and has a lot of curiosity about this "Hua Tiancai", but there is no despising performance. Basically, chatting is quite enjoyable.

  In a pleasant atmosphere, the film officially started.

  The inspiration for Xiao Yao to shoot this parkour movie came from the French film "Corporate Warrior" in his previous life. The seven-person parkour team was set up from that movie. However, Xiao Yao not only added female roles to the protagonist team, but the main story of the movie is not such a story.

  The main plot of the previous life "Corporate Warrior" is that the parkour team went to the rich man's house to steal in order to treat a child with a heart attack. Xiao Yao is worried that such a movie that promotes "criminal violations" may not pass the trial in China. Although Xiao Yao's film is aimed at the international market, he doesn't want this film to be released in China, so in addition to borrowing some character settings and action scenes, this film actually tells a completely different story.

  In the opening part of the movie, this movie is similar to the previous "Corporate Warrior", basically showing the skills of the seven-person parkour team first. In the early morning, the seven people gathered to discuss and select the target building. At dawn, they climbed to the top of the building to watch the sunrise with their bare hands. Then the residents called the police, the police surrounded them, and the seven fled in all directions.

However, because the main plot is not to help children with heart disease to raise surgery fees by theft, there are no two children who sneak out of the house and watch them climbing the stairs with their bare hands in excitement, so as not to "teaching the children". .

  After the opening of the stairs and the chase show, the film introduced the seven members of the team through the introduction of a certain police officer. In this way, each member of the team has a separate display.

  This separate plot is different from the previous "Corporate Warrior". Each character’s identity, occupation, family environment, skill characteristics, and the way of presentation in the movie are not the same as the previous "Corporate Warrior", but under the guidance of Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others follow their respective rules. Reconstructed based on my own characteristics.

  The only thing that Xiao Yao keeps is that there was also a police detective in the police station who knew a member of the team privately, and had a relatively close relationship, which also laid a foreshadowing for the subsequent plot.

The real theatrical conflict of the movie is not a child with heart disease who accidentally fell from a tree to imitate the protagonists, but the seven-person parkour team in a "flying over the wall" activity, three members accidentally witnessed one. Murder.

  At that time, the seven people were playing parkour on the roof of a building. The character played by Xu Fei unexpectedly saw in the window of a building next to him. Several people seemed to be arguing about something. For a moment of curiosity, Xu Fei jumped directly to the balcony railing outside that window, and then the characters played by Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui discovered Xu Fei's abnormality and jumped over.

Since the movements of the three are relatively light and the windows are closed, the three of them did not attract the attention of the arguing people in the house. The three of them did not turn to the balcony, so they grabbed the iron railing of the balcony and looked through the window. .

  In the room, two men were beating another man, and another man was sitting and watching. When the three of them saw the man who was beaten had a bruise, swollen nose and bleeding in his mouth and nose, and they were discussing whether to call the police, the man sitting next to him took out a pistol and shot the beaten man directly with a headshot.

   Xiao Yao and the other three characters were taken aback. When he was about to run away from the police, the man who killed someone with a gun occasionally looked back out of the window and saw the three of them. The three people in the room and the three people outside were facing each other. They all saw their faces clearly. The man with the gun immediately pointed his gun at the three people outside the window.

  The parkour trio outside the house saw it, and immediately let go and landed on the balcony on the first floor below, and then quickly escaped.

  The three are parkour masters, and separated by a window, they successfully escaped from the chase of the three murderers in the house and ran to the police station to report the crime.

  However, due to the previous series of actions of "disturbing the people" and "mocking the police", the seven members of this team are all unpopular figures in the police station, so naturally they are not convincing. Not only did the three fail to report to the police, they were almost arrested by the police for making trouble in the police station.

  After the three people left the police station, the other four members of the team found them. The three of them talked to the other four members about what they saw. After discussing them, they finally decided to go private to find the detective who grew up in their community and was closely related to the role played by Xiao Yao.

  At the police detective’s house, they recognized the murderer from a magazine, who turned out to be a well-known entrepreneur. This entrepreneur is a celebrity in the city and has a good reputation. The police detective followed the seven people to the scene of the crime suspiciously, but found that there was no murder scene at all. Under investigation, police detectives discovered that the owner of the room at the so-called "crisis scene" was just a construction worker who had no permanent job and was a casual worker. According to neighbors, he had recently received a payment and disappeared. He probably didn't know where to go. Where did you squander?

  After this investigation, the detectives naturally couldn't believe the testimony of the three, and instead persuaded the seven to work decently and stop playing parkour that “disturbed the people”.

  The police reported the case to no avail, and the seven people had no choice but to go home. Unexpectedly, the entrepreneur had so many magical powers that he found out the identities of the three of them and secretly sent someone to ambush the three of them on their way home.

  The three people escaped the capture of the minions sent by the entrepreneurs with their superb parkour skills, and then gathered the other four people together, and then decided to use the power of seven people to launch a counterattack.

  The entrepreneur was a builder, and the homeowner who was killed was a builder. The intersection is more obvious. Through a private investigation by seven people, it was discovered that the last job of the construction worker happened to be on the entrepreneur's construction site. It is very likely that the construction worker got the entrepreneur's handle. Judging from the scene when the entrepreneur killed someone, the murderer probably hasn't found the handle yet.

  Seven people, relying on parkour’s stair-climbing technique, directly climbed the wall and turned the window into the victim’s home. After searching through them, they found a video recording from the ceiling that was difficult to reach.

  The content of the video is some violations on the construction site, shoddy, impurity in the materials, bribery of quality inspectors, etc. It is possible that the builder accidentally discovered it and recorded it, in order to threaten the builder, which led to the killing.

  Getting this video can only prove that there is a problem with the quality of the construction of the builder, which is probably a fine, and the builder is just some property damage. Since the body of the builder has not been found, and there is no direct evidence of the builder's murder, the murder case may not be filed, and the danger of the three members cannot be eliminated.

  Later, the seven people set up a bureau and took the initiative to get in touch with the entrepreneur, claiming that the evidence was in their hands, and leading the entrepreneur to negotiate. Of course, entrepreneurs who have killed people will not obediently submit to them. They secretly arranged manpower at the meeting place to prepare to kill people. However, the seven people who were prepared for a long time not only succeeded in getting rid of the pursuit of the entrepreneurs through clever plans and superb parkour skills, but also photographed evidence of their attempts to kill people and successfully brought down the black businessman.

Because the black businessman’s construction project is in the community where the seven people live, their behavior also solves a potential big threat for the people in the community. Therefore, after the truth is revealed, the people in the community also acted on the seven people. In the end, it was a happy ending for everyone.

  The plot of the movie is not particularly brilliant, but the highlight of this action movie is not in the plot, but in the action scenes. In terms of literary and opera, as long as the story is told clearly, there are no too obvious logical loopholes. The main point of this movie is to shoot the action scenes inside.

  (End of this chapter)